Taking Vacation to Clean House and......

While Grant is away to the romantic city of San Francisco for a conference, I decided that it would be a good time to use some vacation time to clean the house. Clearly, a decision that I didn't think through. Vacation......to clean the house? WTH was I thinking??

When I'm not cleaning, I'm looking at videos on YouTube ABOUT cleaning. I think the diagnosis here is BOREDOM.

I do think that this girl in the video has the right idea though......




Okay....how bored am I? I have been taking pictures of my yarn!

See?



Oh...and this one has clam shells smashed INTO the yarn apparently....

Can you imagine the grip I'll have on my coworkers when I return to work and give them the blow by blow details of what I did on my vacation?

Daytona 500 Eve - Lessons Learned

Remember this situation that happened on Super Bowl Sunday when Grant:

"....failed however to answer the question "what would you like to snack on and eat on Super Bowl Sunday?" resulting in the early morning realization that on this rainy, windy, cold day he was going to have to drive me to Costco to get provisions. Or starve."

Today when Grant woke up this morning the first thing uttered from him was "I need you to pick up a few things at the grocery store today, for tomorrow".....

Me: "Good morning, why?"

Grant: "Tomorrow is the Daytona 500 and I don't want to have to go run around picking stuff up before the race."

Me: (with my hand in the air to fend him off as he is starting to rattle off his list) "write a list otherwise I will forget something."

Grant looks at me like I have three eyes and walks away muttering.

Later I look at the list he gave to me and everything is recognizable as "necessary man snacks" for your typical Sunday sport day in front of the TV with the exception of one thing...the last item. "AMP Energy Drink".

Me: "What the hell is this?"

Grant: "Oh, that is some energy sport drink of some kind."

Me: "You don't know what it is? Have you had it before?"

Grant: "No, but it is the drink that is sponsoring Dale Earnhart Jr., so I have to have it."

Me: "YOU HAVE TO HAVE IT?"

Grant: "Yes, I want to drink it during the race."

Okay, I stop there because I don't understand it, don't need to understand it....perhaps it is like a new type of cashmere/merino blend of yarn or new knit book that has just been released or something. I know how a good yarn sale triggers an irrational response from me, so perhaps this drink/race/sponsorship stuff triggers Grant that way. Not entirely unsympathetic to uncontrollable urges, I can understand that.....I guess.

If it is anything like my love of yarn, then it could be a can of piss and it simply won't matter. The man HAS to have it.

So....for tomorrow, Daytona 500 Race Day, Grant has his provisions lined up and another 500 miles will be put on the couch. When he signals his PIT CREW (aka ME) for team Husband, the unchallenged champion spectator of race day Sunday. I will happily drop my yarn, run for the refrigerator and grab him his can of AMP Energy Drink before Earnhart's Pit Crew has the lug nuts off the first tire!

Go EARNHART!

Earnhart is one of those race car drivers, right?

Confessions - Part 1

I suspect that this will be an ongoing series of random posts confessing little lapses in critical thinking or on the use of manipulative tactics to getting what I want. Because I'm a married woman....

Have you ever wanted something REALLY COOL, but if you just went out to buy it without any discussion with your significant other, you'd risk the dishes getting rattled in the cupboards? Or if you were shopping with your significant other and was thinking about picking up something that you wanted, you'd get talked out of it? Or worse get "Hon, we'd better wait on that".

Christmas 2007
For months I have been eyeballing digital cameras. The "old" camera an Olympus C-700 still works pretty good but it has taken a beating the last three years in Grant's man-bag while on Geocaching hunts.

So on Thanksgiving weekend I got an email from Circuit City advertising an online holiday sale which included some fantastic pricing on some digital cameras. I got a fantastic deal on the Canon Powershot A570IS and so I ordered it. It has great features and was on sale at a more than reasonable price. (this is called, justifying an impulse)

About two weeks before Christmas and pretty much done with the Christmas shopping, I got another email from Circuit City. This time the sale included digital video cameras. We had been discussing getting one so that we could take videos and send them to family. (more justification) I saw the Panasonic PV-GS85, and I bought it. We have some events coming up this spring and summer so I'm really excited that we are now well equipped. (CLASSIC justification statement)

Grant, who has not fully grasped the American concept of "impulse buying" and "retail therapy" would most likely have preferred my exercising some self control. (Back peddling)

So in a very smooth and brilliant move I made those cameras, PRESENTS for Grant.

Here is Grant after opening them up on Christmas morning......



Ahhhhh, look how happy he is!!!
(NOW, he just doesn't understand why he always finds them in my bag when he wants to use them)

For out anniversary I am getting him 10 skeins of a soft Alpaca Yarn in teal green!! 8-)