Sunday night
May. 5th, 2002 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
same_skyWe're watching the NBC 75th anniversary special. It's pretty neat. Lots and lots and lots of famous people from NBC's history. And NBC is my favorite channel, too. At the moment they're going through clips of famous/important news moments throughout the past 75 years.
Today has been long and windy. We took a ride up to Aunt Rita's with Mom and picked her up in the convertible. Took a trip out to the high school parking lot so I could drive around and try to learn to drive a standard. So frustrating. My mind knows exactly what to do but my hands and feet don't always cooperate. Maybe it really is too late to teach an old dog new tricks...
Anyway. We went to Elliott County with the lid up mainly (was still a little too cool, and my ears were hurting from the wind). We had spaghetti and played Scattergories. And did dishes, naturally. Don't get me started on that. It was a pretty quiet day, actually. Rae and Jo weren't there, or their respective families. The kids were relatively good, too. Of course, it helped that Devon was asleep most of the afternoon. :)
We came home with the top down as it was quite a bit warmer, and that was fun. And windy. :) We did a bit of straightening up, which was not. M cleaned the fishtank, I did the straightening. We got it looking a little better.. good enough that I can handle working on it tomorrow. The fishtank looks so nice now, too! Too bad he didn't do the dishes.... *giggle* j/k Couldn't decide what to have for dinner (haven't done the grocery shopping thing in a week now) so we had Wendy's, and it was really good.
So.. I guess the big news of the day concerns the car. Although I feel tremendously guilty about it, I fear that the nice little convertible isn't the car for us. It has a lot of issues.. perhaps the biggest one is that I don't like it. :) I also have a problem with the standard thing.. though I'm sure I could learn to live with it if I had to. I just don't really want to. :) It feels unsafe and stuff, and I don't like the fishbowl feeling. Too vulnerable feeling with the top down.. and what's the point if you don't have the lid off? But my baby really loves it, you can tell. He had a non-convertible, non-turbo Saab that's similar to this one, and he gets animated and excited about it. Soo.. hence the guilt, which he insists that I shouldn't feel, as it's my car. But still, I kind of do. As much as it pains me to admit that I'm so boring I refuse a red convertible.. yes, that's it exactly.
My parents broke into our hours earlier (ahem, with a key) and left some onions and peppers in the fridge from yesterday. All cut up and stuff, ready to be used. That was nice. Oooh, maybe I'll have philly steak and swiss tomorrow for lunch. I'm somewhat sick of my typical quick lunch things by now.
Hopefully I'll have time to get stuff done tomorrow. I've been busy running about not getting things done last week. :) Or, getting other things than planned done. Tomorrow, I'm hoping for productivity.
My mommy is still having arm/chest pains, which still worries me. I think she's finally realized that she needs to have it checked out, at least. Maybe this week we'll find out what's causing it. And let's hope that it's an ingrown toenail causing all the problems, or something equally harmless.
Our trip to Sweden begins two weeks from today. I might as well worry about that too while I'm at it.
Today has been long and windy. We took a ride up to Aunt Rita's with Mom and picked her up in the convertible. Took a trip out to the high school parking lot so I could drive around and try to learn to drive a standard. So frustrating. My mind knows exactly what to do but my hands and feet don't always cooperate. Maybe it really is too late to teach an old dog new tricks...
Anyway. We went to Elliott County with the lid up mainly (was still a little too cool, and my ears were hurting from the wind). We had spaghetti and played Scattergories. And did dishes, naturally. Don't get me started on that. It was a pretty quiet day, actually. Rae and Jo weren't there, or their respective families. The kids were relatively good, too. Of course, it helped that Devon was asleep most of the afternoon. :)
We came home with the top down as it was quite a bit warmer, and that was fun. And windy. :) We did a bit of straightening up, which was not. M cleaned the fishtank, I did the straightening. We got it looking a little better.. good enough that I can handle working on it tomorrow. The fishtank looks so nice now, too! Too bad he didn't do the dishes.... *giggle* j/k Couldn't decide what to have for dinner (haven't done the grocery shopping thing in a week now) so we had Wendy's, and it was really good.
So.. I guess the big news of the day concerns the car. Although I feel tremendously guilty about it, I fear that the nice little convertible isn't the car for us. It has a lot of issues.. perhaps the biggest one is that I don't like it. :) I also have a problem with the standard thing.. though I'm sure I could learn to live with it if I had to. I just don't really want to. :) It feels unsafe and stuff, and I don't like the fishbowl feeling. Too vulnerable feeling with the top down.. and what's the point if you don't have the lid off? But my baby really loves it, you can tell. He had a non-convertible, non-turbo Saab that's similar to this one, and he gets animated and excited about it. Soo.. hence the guilt, which he insists that I shouldn't feel, as it's my car. But still, I kind of do. As much as it pains me to admit that I'm so boring I refuse a red convertible.. yes, that's it exactly.
My parents broke into our hours earlier (ahem, with a key) and left some onions and peppers in the fridge from yesterday. All cut up and stuff, ready to be used. That was nice. Oooh, maybe I'll have philly steak and swiss tomorrow for lunch. I'm somewhat sick of my typical quick lunch things by now.
Hopefully I'll have time to get stuff done tomorrow. I've been busy running about not getting things done last week. :) Or, getting other things than planned done. Tomorrow, I'm hoping for productivity.
My mommy is still having arm/chest pains, which still worries me. I think she's finally realized that she needs to have it checked out, at least. Maybe this week we'll find out what's causing it. And let's hope that it's an ingrown toenail causing all the problems, or something equally harmless.
Our trip to Sweden begins two weeks from today. I might as well worry about that too while I'm at it.
