Ten Random Things for a Friday

Posted by Lanel on October 9, 2009

Yes, I know, I’ve been MIA for a while. I’ve been busy and my focus has been elsewhere.  Sorry.  All’s good, though.

1. So, since I just noticed that my last post was about my 5k, I guess I should tell you…I finished!    I ran a portion (small by many people’s standards) and finished right at my goal finish time.
2. Wednesday night the annoyances of my upstairs neighbor came to a head, I snapped, he got pissed, I was wrong, I had to apologize.  I don’t hate my upstairs neighbor but sometimes he listens to his music or TV too loud.  He and I have had a number of discussions about it.  Lately it’s been loud again.  Wednesday night my sister was over with Rider, she and I were trying to talk but I could barely hear her.  Rider was complaining about the noise and things on my entertainment center started rattling.  I got pissed and knocked (OK banged) on the floor.  He started stomping (the music didn’t go down) and I got pissed.  Then I noticed he was at my front door and not happy.  Ends up, he didn’t have the music on at all.  He and I talked for quite a bit, I went up and spoke with his wife as well.  I apologized it ended fine.  Except…
3. I have ANOTHER noisy neighbor now.
4. Tomorrow I’m going to a soccer game.  I get to pretend to be a soccer mom for one morning.  LOL  Actually, we have some friends that live here and they don’t have family here so I try to go to their kids’ games when I can so they have “family” there besides mom & dad.  The daughter’s last game (that I can go to) is tomorrow morning and since mom is coaching and dad is coaching her brother’s game they don’t have any pictures or videos of her playing.  So, I get to go be the camera soccer mom for a morning.  It’s fun to watch the kids play and I think they like me showing up.
5. I just moved my e-mail reading from Outlook to Gmail.  I used to use Thunderbird but it didn’t sync with my Blackberry and it was annoying so I moved to Outlook.  However, there’s a reason I wasn’t using Outlook…I don’t like it.  I finally had enough of it and figured out (almost) how to use Gmail instead.  It’s actually nice because I can get my e-mail anywhere I can get on the web.
6. We completely skipped fall this year.  Well, fall temperatures at least.  We went from warm and sunny to cold and cold and icy overnight.  Literally.  It was about 80 one day and 50 the next.  I’m not joking.  This week we’ve barely been in the 40s.  I like the cold but I just don’t feel prepared for winter yet.
7. My niece is in girl scouts.  She just started and it’s super cool.  But, with girl scouts comes fundraisers.  Guess who’s buying candy.  LOL  Of course, I had to buy some from the soccer girl too so I’m going to have more candy than I need sitting around.  Maybe I’ll give some as gifts.
8. One cool thing about winter is that I get to bust out my scarfs and gloves again.  I LOVE my scarfs and gloves and even made sure my hair was cut so I can wear hats this year without looking funny (as in I didn’t cut it short like I was tempted to do).
9. I bought myself a special treat this week.  I’ve been eyeing it since they first came out and have been wanting one since I first heard of them.  The price was a turn-off though, but I got a gift certificate from someone and a rebate that I wasn’t expecting/counting on PLUS the price dropped so the time was right.  Yep, today my brand new Kindle arrives.  I’m so stinking excited that I can’t even breathe.  I already have books sitting in my queu to download to it as soon as it gets here.  I’ve been tracking it since it left the warehouse.  It’s in town, right now, but not at my house yet.  (And, yes, I’ll probably leave work as soon as it arrives to go get it.)
10. The heater just turned off.  I really don’t like baseboard/wall heaters.  They suck.  Anyone who tells you they are efficient is wrong.  Well, except that you can just heat one room if you want/need to.  But, still they suck.

OK…I have a lot of work to do so I need to work.