1. I found the Skip-Bo game! It was under the couch. And in case you think that should have been a very obvious place to look, let me tell you that our couch is the kind that has only about a half inch of space under it.
2. I don't think I ever showed you the bumper sticker I got back in November:
3. Check out the 11 Most Painfully Obvious Newspaper Articles Ever ("because top 10 lists are for cowards").
4. The other day both of our cordless phones died at once. I knew that it wasn't our phone service, because our old corded phone worked fine. Next day, both were working again. Go figure. Speaking of weird behavior from appliances and electronics, our microwave is now just a giant timer with a spacious storage compartment inside, but our fridge is currently behaving itself again. (And did you hear or read Scott Simon's recent piece about the Technology Vortex? His house sounds like mine.)
5. Trader Joe's strikes again: Now they've discontinued the non-gelatin gel cups (peach-mango and black cherry) that my kids can't live without. Grrrrr
6. Here's a thoughtful gift: one hundred trillion Zimbabwean dollars.
The shower in our master bath keeps leaking into the kitchen below -- we have a hole in the ceiling that gets bigger and bigger every time the plumber comes. He can't figure out why it is leaking. His advice this week: Jsut keep trying it, maybe it will stop leaking. Ok by me. The kids shower, it turns out, is the pits.
Posted by: kate | January 14, 2010 at 10:30 AM
I hate when Trader Joe's discontinues things. I used to buy their special Winter Blend coffee and put it in jars as small gifts for people. It was whole bean coffee with pretty whole spices in it. They only have it in ground now, which kind of defeats the purpose (at least my purpose). Grrr indeed.
Posted by: Gail | January 15, 2010 at 06:19 PM