Monthly Archive for December, 2006

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Rosewood Stinks

Written on December 4, 2006.

I’ve heard that when rosewood is cut, it smells like roses.  Well, when I took it out of the package, I noticed it smelled like dirt. Ma thought it smelled like burnt wood. I was eating lunch and the wood was nearby. (which I forgot that it was there) So, I was there eating and I started thinking about Wilder Ranch. . . Particularly the area with the cows and horses. (The dungy area) I thought, “gee! All of the sudden I’m thinking of Wilder! I wonder why?” Then I started to notice the scent around me. I was smelling the salad I was eating and the rosewood that apperantly (according to my nose) smelled like dung.

Hmm . . . Well, I’m sure it’ll smell better when I cut it.

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Rosewood Arrived

Written on December 4, 2006.

The Fedex truck pulled up today and I heard this thud on the front porch. That meant of course, that the rosewood arrived!

So, I brought it upstairs, cut off the wrapping and inpected the new wood. I tried to be friends with the wood but it gave a splinter! Well, we’ll learn to like each other. If that doesn’t work out, I’ve got chisels.

I’m not really sure why I said that but it made sense in my head

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Black Friday Shopping – Part 2

Written on December 2, 2006.

After that, we drove to Circuit City to see what was left of the deals. There was still a line outside so we had to wait out there.

When we got in, we saw a huge line at the cashier. Last year, there was a huge line but that time, the credit card machines were down so it was to a standstill. We looked around for the things on our list. We scoped out a 20″ monitor (getting monitors seems to be a black friday tradition). As we were looking, we found . . . another monitor! So we got two monitors and an MP3 player for Ma. So, we spent quite a while in line. 45 minutes later, we got near to the front. This lady (who was behind us) asked us to save her place. I don’t think I said yes. . . but I don’t think I said no either. I don’t recall really looking at her anyway. I managed to spot her as she was walking away. 15 minutes later, she came back!

As we were checking out, this couple behind us (somehow the lady who was first behind us left) asked us if this DVD player on the floor was ours. We said no. They looked at each other happily saying “wow honey! This is just what we came here for! It was meant to be!” (since it was right in front of the checkout) The hubby said, “I don’t know, it’s taped up. You think it might be broken?” She said, “No! It can’t be! Let’s get it.” I have a feeling that if it was right by the checkout taped up poorly, there must’ve been something funny with it. But, who knows.

After that, we went to our final destination, Officemax. Things were a little slow there. We found a monitor so we got our third monitor that day (we ended up returning two of them a few days later).

Afterwards, we decided to eat at the nearby bakery since a nice bear claw and cocoa would hit the spot. At the Gigi’s Bakery, we ordered our bear claws and drinks. It costed $8.30 and I had eight dollars and a quarter and a dime (35 cents to be exact) so I said, “keep the 5 cents.” Apperantly, it was akward so Luke threw in a bunch of change in the tip jar. I wasn’t trying to be akward. I just thought, you know, I didn’t want the five cents and I thought I’d spare here the trouble of opening the till to look for a nickel.

When we got home, we started filling out the rebates.

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Black Friday Shopping – Part 1

Written on December 2, 2006.

As you may not know, we have our yearly tradition (started about two years ago when we saw hoards of people inside OfficeMax) of getting up at 5:30 and quietly driving away to look for things on the cheap.

Our first year was the best because there was so much free stuff. We aquired $300 worth of free stuff (and a $100 LCD monitor. Not quite free, but a good price). Our first year, we went shopping at 8:00 so most of the good stuff was gone so we decided to get up early next year.

So, on our second year, we got some more free stuff. Not as much as before, but still free. Pa got a 19″ LCD monitor that year. So now, everybody in the family had LCDs . . . except Luke, he still had the clunky 19″ CRT.

This year, after we were stuffed from Thanksgiving dinner, we all piled on the couch, turned on the laptop and cruised the Black Friday ads. We checked out the ads from Circuit City, Staples, Officemax and Costco and assembled a shopping list from them. I was rather dissapointed from the lack of free stuff. I mean sure, there was a $100 computer, but I mean come on! Where’s the free shredders!? Anyway, I saw a $20 Wireless mouse which caught my eye (since I’ve been wanting to go wireless for a long time)

So, next day (Friday) at 5:30, we got up, put on sweatshirts, jackets, warm clothes and huddled in the car and drove off to Staples. There was still a line and people had yet to open the doors so we waited in the car ’till they opened. Unfortunately, they had people come in the store in orderly sections rather than the giant human stampede (which is half of the fun). We were at the end of the line waiting. Some friends of ours came up behind us so we talked. The Staples guys had a box of doughnuts out. We thought we’d wait ’till we’d get up to the front of the line where the doughnuts were but we saw cheaters in back (where we were) who walked forward, got doughnuts and went to the back! Well, if they could do it, we sure could. So we did.

When we finally got in, I dove for the very last wireless mouse. Unfortunately, somebody beat me to it! He said, “hands off fluffy!” (I had a puffy vest on) I retorted with “right back atcha!” Then he spit on me! Well, we were rolling around the room with the mouse between us. Fortunately, I was in the electroncs section and beat him off with a surge protector. Than there was a huge cheer! (’cause the other guy was rather ugly and therefor was the bad guy) Just then, the bad guy was just about to throw a $40-off Western Digital Hard Drive at me but I hid behind the monitors. By that time, he was winded and I hid under the cashier.

In all honesty, I went to the electronics section and found a bunch of mice there. I took one. We also got a pack of blank DVDs and a $7 1.0GB flash drive.

Part 2 will be posted up later.

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