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Sharing Time – gather ’round

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Let’s share morning routines, shall we? It will be less work for me, more fun for you! Trust me.

Wake-up time:
First thing you do:
Shower before or after breakfast?
Shampoo?
Conditioner?
Soap?
Average time in shower?
Toothpaste flavor:
Hair routine:
Breakfast?

I’ll start: (That will keep the above copy-and-paste-able)
Wake-up time: 5:15
First thing you do: Put on my glasses, which is funny because I wear them for three minutes and then take them off again.
Shower before or after breakfast? Before
Shampoo? J.R. Liggett’s herbal bar shampoo
Conditioner? Pantene
Soap? Dove – the white kind
Average time in shower? 10 minutes (the water’s off & on, though)
Toothpaste flavor: Tom’s mint something, paste – not gel
Hair routine: towel, let sit while I eat & check the web, hair dryer, two squirts of hairspray, then sigh that it doesn’t look better.
Breakfast? Cereal – generic Honey Nut Cheerios (from the giant bag).

Ring Fail

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Brad is Mr. Sparkle Cartel, as you know, and I’ve been dying to buy something from there. Lloyd surprised me quite a lot by saying that he thought the dark tungsten rings were pretty cool, and he wouldn’t be opposed to buying one. He would wear it instead of his wedding ring, so I’d have to get one, too. (Woo-hoo! That doesn’t invalidate our marriage, does it?)

Sparkle Cartel is a ‘we have one thing right now in limited supply so hop to it and buy one before it’s gone’ kinda place, so when Lloyd said he liked this style of ring, I had purchased two before he finished speaking. A size 7 and a size 9. Select! Add to cart! Check out now! Confirm my order! Pay! Done!

Do you validate parking? er, marriage?

(then read – ‘Comfort fit bands tend to run 1/2 size large, therefore we recommend ordering a 1/2 size smaller than your regular ring size.’) (Dang.) (Double Dang.)

They are too big. In fact, I’m not actually sure what my ring size is, so this was a major goof.

To make matters worse, before I got home Lloyd checked the website and they had the ring that he really wants.

We will not be buying it.

I figured out how to do a screen shot. Yay for me.

Triple Dang.

To Flix or net to Flix?

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Well, it’s been about a year that we’ve had NetFlix. It started because Lauren found out that she could watch movies on her computer. She happily did that for maybe a month before I wondered why she didn’t get any DVDs. It turns out that she wasn’t interested in getting any DVDs, so I’ve had the NetFlix queue mostly to myself for the better part of a year.

Think of the postage

I like movies, and there are a fair number that I always meant to see, but I never did. Now if someone mentions a movie they like, or I see a reference to one that sounds interesting I just add it to the list (there’s an app for that). My list is about 12 movies long, so it’s about 3 months later that they send me that movie. It’s always a surprise when it arrives. Their turn-around time is amazing. If I put a movie in the mail on Thursday I get a new movie on Saturday.

Click me to see all of the movies Lloyd's rented. It's very voyuristic.

But there are some drawbacks. Since we started we’ve rented 36 movies and spent about $99.00 doing so. Roughly $2.75 a movie. Much cheaper than going to a movie, but maybe not worth it if you compare it to renting movies in Seward (which costs around $2.00). Except we never do.

The other big downer is that I always feel like I should watch the movie right away to that I’m getting my money’s worth. There are no late fees, but if I sit on it too long then I feel like I’m wasting my $8.99 per month.

There are currently 14 movies in the queue, and I don’t know if I’ll keep going after that. Lauren doesn’t use it much on her computer anymore, and my dad is retired from the Post Office, so I don’t have to worry about covering his paycheck.

There’s a neat NetFlix feature where you can see what your friends are watching. So far Kristi is my only friend. If you have NetFlix, will you be my friend?

I shall call it a Foroon.

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So, I ‘had to’ order some stuff on the internet a while ago, and if you’ve never visited The Museum of Useful Things, I highly suggest you do. They don’t have a large inventory, but the things they have are pretty splendiferous. Stuff made of metal and canvas and grommets and such.

I bought some things that I needed, but on impulse I also ordered a combination spoon/fork. It arrived today, but ‘spork’ is a word too lowly for this beautiful, gadget-y thing.

Can you see me?

“Foroon” sounds much better. I christened it by eating ice cream with Grasshopper cookies mashed in.

Take that, Thin Mint Blizzard at Dairy Queen.

Verdict: The bowl of the spoon is a bit too deep for ice cream consumption, but I will totally keep it in my bag in case of an eating emergency.

Terrible Memories With Lauren

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It’s late, we need a post, so how’s this: Terrible Christmas Program Memories. I have two.

First: I was….. 11? 12? and was picked – out of the three other girls my age in our congregation – to sing Mary’s solo. While flattered, this was my first time singing in front of people and I was terrified. I figured it wouldn’t be so bad if I couldn’t see the people, so I took off my glasses. So, here I was – a shaking, myopic Mary – sitting on a hay bale so I wouldn’t tower over the 6-year-old Joseph at my side. Awesome. Just awesome.

Second: I wasn’t actually in the program for this one, and I must have been – 6? 7? Anyway, we sat behind a woman who wore a TON of perfume and apparently I’m allergic. My eyes were swollen and teary, and I later I was too distracted by my constantly runny nose to appreciate the fantastic Barbie kitchen that Santa brought. I couldn’t help it – my head was melting.

Ah, Christmas programs as a child. Full of terror, tears, and “Slow down! You’re talking too fast! Speak up!”