What a weekend. Where do I start? I guess from where the last blog left off would make the most sense. LOL! Saturday, due to sleeping until 7:30 at night, I didn't even start the housework until midnight Sunday morning. Talk about being off schedule! I cleaned the bathroom mirror, then thought about the dresser mirror. You see, when we moved into this house, the dresser mirror that came with our dresser didn't fit into the dresser alcove that was in our bedroom. Rather than try to store it somewhere when we didn't even have room, or throw it away, I gave it away to someone who said they needed one. Well, when Kyle's dresser completely fell apart on him, I kept the mirror since it was still mint. I measured & it would fit perfectly on top of our dresser in the little dresser alcove. It sat, upside down, leaning against a filing cabinet in our bedroom for a year. I've stubbed my toe on it countless times. The plan was to attach it to our dresser someday when I had the time & energy to pull the dresser out & screw the rails into the back of the dresser & then put it back into its little alcove. SO ... here we are, a year later & I stop, look at the mirror, look at the dresser & think "DUH!!! You dumbass! The dresser is up against a wall ... you don't NEED to pull it all the way out & attach the rails with screws. You just slide the dresser away from the wall about an inch, pick up the mirror, slide the rails down between the wall & the dresser, & push the dresser back against the wall. TADA!" In minutes the mirror was on the dresser & doesn't weeble, wobble, or move at ALL & it looks GREAT! It took me a YEAR to think of something that simple. God, my life has been too hectic if it took a year to come up with the "simple" solution. I get a "DUH!" award for that one. Anyway, then I fed the cats & dogs, dusted the dining room wall decor, bleached & whitened the kitchen counters (they USED to be white ... they are again), dusted & cleaned the living room theater screen (it's just a TV, but damn it's huge), hosed off the front porch, & blew the dust out of my knitting machine.
I finally decided what to put in front of my office window since I had cleared out the large shrubs that used to be in front of it. A wishing well fountain that stands over 3½' high. I'll put down red mulch & then put this wishing well there. It has a fountain, so it will sound beautiful in the spring & fall when I have my office window open. Running water means no mosquitoes, too. Lucky me, it was on sale too! I ordered it & it will be here soon! I've always wanted a wish well in the front yard. When I say always, I mean for years & years ... longer than I've lived here in Lowry Crossing & I'm SO excited about this! Anyway, last but not least I swept the bathroom & was done with Saturday's housework on Sunday morning. I did get a little machine knitting in, but wasn't able to finish the panel before bedtime. Yes, I did go to bed before 11:30a which is when I would have normally been tired finally. Thanks to a little help from a sleeping pill I was able to at least get semi-back on schedule ... sorta. Sunday was run all over creation day. I woke up, went through the Sunday paper, & then had to go out to run errands, take Kyle to purchase his new laptop, & drive Josh to work. Of course, as Murphy's Law usually works, we got toned out in the middle of all this & I missed a tree fire. After all the running around, Pete offered me a meal out so we went to Denny's & I tried their pot roast. I very rarely buy anything other than breakfast at Denny's, but I decided to try something different & it was very good! Thank you Pete! I came home & did Sunday's housework which consisted of dusting the bathroom lights, dusting the bedroom lights, feeding the cats & dogs, dusting the dining room shelves & decor, cleaned out a shelf in the freezer, checked the Brinks system, mopped the dining room, de-cobwebbed my office, couldn't trim the trees ...even though Pete was here with the chainsaw finally, it was too wet & rainy to use an electric chainsaw outside, & swept the bathroom. We watched part 1 of 3 of Mildred Pierce & then it was back out the door for more errands & to pick Josh up from work. Guess what? Yep, the tones went off again. This time a public assist & I was out near Frisco again. I'm starting to think my GPS sends out a signal when I get near Frisco & sets our tones off. There's coincidence & then there's "EVERY SINGLE TIME?!" We got home with groceries & 4 pre-cooked roasted chickens that were marked down to .99c because the store was imminently closing in a few minutes & they would end up in the trash. Being one of the last customers in the store for the night, one of the employees begged us to take not just the 1 we picked up, but all 4 or they would be thrown out. Thou shalt not waste food! We grabbed all 4 & the 4 of us had a midnight snack of 1 whole roasted chicken each. Talk about looking like a pack of wild wolves ... it was a funny sight & we were all stuffed & ready to crawl into our separate corners & go into a food coma for the night. We didn't though, Pete had some stuff to finish up, so I came in & watched a little YouTube ...
Robin Williams on boarding an airline (very funny) & then a Sims 3 video on building a California Mansion that I downloaded after watching the video, installed into my game, & added to my list of games to play. After watching this house get built & decorated from scratch, I know how beautiful it is! I also learned something about how to make everything match once you create a style for say, a sofa. You can use that same style (fabric & colors) & make everything in the room match. I've seen it, but I didn't know a quick & easy way to DO it. Thanks to the creator of this home who described HOW to do it as he did it in the video, I now know. Thanks!! :) Before bed I finished up the panel I had started the day before & got to bed at a semi-decent hour considering how messed up my sleep schedule had gotten. I went to bed at 3:30a. Which brings us to the here & now. I know it's Monday, but just remember ... you're alive & well & all is good no matter what day of the week it is. If you're bummed about going back to work, look at the bright side ... you HAVE a job to go to & a paycheck to pay the bills with & maybe even treat yourself to a little something extra. Life is GOOD. I know it's easier said than done to always look at the bright side, but if you try, you'll be a much happier person in general. LCFD business meeting tomorrow.
1 lesson we learned from you is that nothing says "__________" like __________.
Don't expect the nanny to work limitless hours minding the kids while you bask in the sun or hit the ski slopes. Child-care providers should have reasonable time to themselves, so work out a vacation schedule just as you do your home child-care schedule.
During a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, people who graduated from college reported earning $20k more per year as a result. The fact is that you're your best investment. Get a degree. Finish college.
Fiber optic cable is made out of what?
A. Copper
B. Crystal
C. Glass
D. Titanium
Answer: C. Glass
On this day in 1993, Frasier, a spin-off of the long-running mega-hit sitcom Cheers, makes its debut on NBC; it will go on to air for 11 seasons and win multiple Emmy Awards. Frasier
starred Kelsey Grammer as the erudite, snobbish Dr. Frasier Crane, a
radio psychiatrist who relocates from Boston to his hometown of Seattle
following the breakup of his marriage. The main characters in Frasier’s
life are his father Martin (John Mahoney), a down-to-earth retired cop;
his younger brother, Niles (David Hyde Pierce), a psychiatrist who
shares Frasier’s taste for the finer things in life; his father’s kooky
caretaker, Daphne Moon (Jane Leeves); his radio show producer, Roz Doyle
(Peri Gilpin) and his father’s dog, Eddie.
Kelsey Grammer, who was born on February 21, 1955, studied drama at New York City’s Juilliard School and began his professional acting career in theater. In 1984, he made his first appearance on Cheers
as the fiance of one of the main characters, Diane (Shelley Long).
Although Frasier Crane was originally only supposed to appear on Cheers for
a few episodes, the popular character became a permanent member of the
show. Set in a Boston-based bar called Cheers, the show debuted
on September 30, 1982. Dr. Frasier Crane was one of the regulars who,
along with Norm Peterson (George Wendt) and Cliff Clavin (John
Ratzenberger) drank at Cheers, which was run by Sam Malone (Ted Danson).
When the final episode of Cheers aired on May 20, 1993, more than 80 million viewers tuned in, making it one of the most-watched last episodes in TV history.
Grammer went on to star in Frasier from September 1993 to May 13, 2004. After making an Emmy Award-nominated guest appearance as Crane on the 1990s sitcom Wings, Grammer became the only actor in TV history to earn Emmy nominations for playing the same character on three separate shows.
Grammer’s other acting credits include a recurring role as the voice of Sideshow Bob on Fox’s hit animated series The Simpsons. More recently, he and Patricia Heaton (Everybody Loves Raymond) co-starred as a pair of news anchors at a Pittsburgh TV station on the short-lived sitcom Back to You, which aired from 2007 to 2008 and was directed by Cheers co-creator James Burrows.
Give each person in the house a basket to store their keys, hats, cell phone, etc in the entryway. Each person will have the items they need when leaving the house. This prevents items from being lost or misplaced by other members of the household.
How many European capitals are located on the Danube River?
Kvell:
To be extraordinarily proud : rejoice.
Critics kvelled over the violinist's triumphant return to the stage where she had made her debut many years ago.
We're pleased to inform you that the word "kvell" is derived from Yiddish kveln, meaning "to be delighted," which, in turn, comes from the Middle High German word quellen, meaning "to well, gush, or swell." Yiddish has been a wellspring of creativity for the English language, from "meister" ("1 who is knowledgeable about something") & "maven" ("expert") to "Shtick" ("one's special activity"), just to name a few. The earliest printed evidence for "kvell" in an English source is found in a 1952 handbook of Jewish words & expressions, but actual usage before that date remains unknown.
Numerically speaking, what year on the Jewish calendar begins at sundown tonight (Sunday) at the start of Rosh Hashanah holiday?
5773.
On this day in 1996, daytime talk show host Oprah Winfrey
launches a television book club and announces "The Deep End of the
Ocean" by Jacquelyn Mitchard as her first selection. Oprah’s Book Club
quickly became a hugely influential force in the publishing world, with
the popular TV host’s endorsement capable of catapulting a previously
little-known book onto best-seller lists.
When Oprah’s Book Club first launched, some in the publishing world were skeptical about its chances for success. As The New York Times noted: "Winfrey's project—recommending books, even challenging literary novels, for viewers to read in advance of discussions on her talk show—initially provoked considerable skepticism in the literary world, where many associated daytime television with lowbrow entertainments like soap operas and game shows.” However, the club proved to be a hit with Winfrey’s legions of fans, and many of her picks sold over 1 million copies. (She earned no money from book sales.) Winfrey’s ability to turn not just books but almost any product or person she recommended into a phenomenon came to be known as the "Oprah Effect.”
When Oprah’s Book Club first launched, some in the publishing world were skeptical about its chances for success. As The New York Times noted: "Winfrey's project—recommending books, even challenging literary novels, for viewers to read in advance of discussions on her talk show—initially provoked considerable skepticism in the literary world, where many associated daytime television with lowbrow entertainments like soap operas and game shows.” However, the club proved to be a hit with Winfrey’s legions of fans, and many of her picks sold over 1 million copies. (She earned no money from book sales.) Winfrey’s ability to turn not just books but almost any product or person she recommended into a phenomenon came to be known as the "Oprah Effect.”
Winfrey gave her stamp of approval to books by first-time novelists,
including Mitchard, Wally Lamb ("She’s Come Undone”) and David
Wroblewski ("The Story of Edgar Sawtelle”), as well as established
authors, such as Maeve Binchy ("Tara Road”), Cormac McCarthy ("The
Road”) and Jeffrey Eugenides ("Middlesex”). Toni Morrison had four works
selected for the club—"The Bluest Eye,” "Paradise,” "The Song of
Solomon, and "Sula”—more than any other author.
In 2001, after Winfrey chose novelist Jonathan Franzen’s "The
Corrections,” he famously offended her by publicly suggesting that some
of her selections were "schmaltzy” and that being picked for the club
might alienate a book’s potential male readership. Franzen’s invitation
to appear on Winfrey’s TV show to discuss his work was rescinded;
however, he got a second chance nine years later, when his best-selling
novel "Freedom” was selected for Oprah’s Book Club. In December 2010, he
went on her show to talk about his novel, which Winfrey called "a
masterpiece.”
In 2003, Winfrey switched her recommendations from contemporary titles to classic tomes, including "The Good Earth” by Pearl S. Buck, "East of Eden” by John Steinbeck and "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” by Carson McCullers. In 2004, when Winfrey chose "Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy, the novel’s publisher printed an additional 800,000 copies.
In 2005, Winfrey reversed her nothing-but-the-classics policy, in part so she could have in-person discussions with the authors whose work she endorsed. Her first contemporary title was James Frey’s "A Million Little Pieces,” a 2003 memoir about addiction and recovery. After appearing on Winfrey’s show to promote the book, Frey was later forced to admit that parts of the story were fiction. He appeared on the show again in early 2006 and faced tough questioning from Winfrey. Frey’s fabrications sparked a national debate over the definition of memoir.
By the final season of Winfrey’s TV show,” in 2011, more than 60 titles had been chosen for Oprah’s Book Club.
In 2003, Winfrey switched her recommendations from contemporary titles to classic tomes, including "The Good Earth” by Pearl S. Buck, "East of Eden” by John Steinbeck and "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” by Carson McCullers. In 2004, when Winfrey chose "Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy, the novel’s publisher printed an additional 800,000 copies.
In 2005, Winfrey reversed her nothing-but-the-classics policy, in part so she could have in-person discussions with the authors whose work she endorsed. Her first contemporary title was James Frey’s "A Million Little Pieces,” a 2003 memoir about addiction and recovery. After appearing on Winfrey’s show to promote the book, Frey was later forced to admit that parts of the story were fiction. He appeared on the show again in early 2006 and faced tough questioning from Winfrey. Frey’s fabrications sparked a national debate over the definition of memoir.
By the final season of Winfrey’s TV show,” in 2011, more than 60 titles had been chosen for Oprah’s Book Club.
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Have you ever just fallen in love with a pair of earrings? Can your
remember where you where? There's nothing like beautiful earrings that
make you feel like a million bucks. These are the type because they make
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What creature do experts believe Venetian adventurer Marco Polo mistook for a unicorn during his Asian travels?
A rhinoceros.
Which of these is not based on a British television show?
A. The Office
B. Life on Mars
C. Dexter
D. All in the Family
Which order of letters is the abbreviation used for the best player on a team?
A. V
B. P
C. M
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