Monday, March 21, 2005
turning the wheel
Let's get into the list I like to call "things I (unfortunately) accomplished this weekend":
1) I mailed a swap package to Utah instead of Arizona, where it was supposed to go (transposed some numbers in the zip code somehow)
2) I blew up the element in our stove (it was just twenty years old, really, I didn't break it. for once.) I turned it on to bake the salmon, and five minutes later, POP! I thought the element was ON FIRE, but luckily they just glow and LOOK LIKE fire when they snap. However, this means no oven for at least two weeks until Ben gets his next paycheck. (I have no money this month because of medical bills, so it's all up to him. No pressure. Just no cookies.)
3) I placed a Pocky-related order at AsianFoodGrocer.com and the Paypal cart screwed up and it didn't go through. So the next day I placed a new order. Then today I checked my e-mail, and there are two receipts from AFG.com, both of them saying that the bill was payed with Paypal. I have no idea what's going on there. I have to say, I have been having tons of difficulties with Paypal carts lately.
It actually wasn't as bad of a weekend as I thought, if I can only list three effed-up things.
We bought some seeds -- had to settle for the local farm supply place instead of an online organic shop due to time and budget constraints -- and all that stuff. I accidentally grabbed potting soil instead of seed-starting mix, but hopefully it will work anyway. I'm just waiting for Ben to install the shop light in the laundry room/closet. If it stays warm like this, though, I won't have to worry about that.
We have a little fire-circle thing out in the woods that we got started on. Ben cleared it out and Friday we got the outdoor fireplace out there and he chopped up some wood. Right now the only seating is a few pieces of lumber on some cinderblocks, though. Very white trash. I think I'm going to try to make a border of shade-loving plants just for kicks. It's all very exciting; we've never been able to do any of this stuff before. When I was a kid, I'd spend hours out in the woods in front of our house, raking leaves and setting up little "rooms" with big rocks and such. This is my adult version of that, I think. I need to fireproof it a little more, though.
I got some stuff for my Spring Swap package, which will unfortunately not be too crafty because my swap person does crafty stuff, and my stuff would suck compared to theirs. It's hard putting together a package like that for a "popular" poster -- someone I don't know but almost everyone else on the board does. I like this person's style, though, so hopefully it will all go okay.
1) I mailed a swap package to Utah instead of Arizona, where it was supposed to go (transposed some numbers in the zip code somehow)
2) I blew up the element in our stove (it was just twenty years old, really, I didn't break it. for once.) I turned it on to bake the salmon, and five minutes later, POP! I thought the element was ON FIRE, but luckily they just glow and LOOK LIKE fire when they snap. However, this means no oven for at least two weeks until Ben gets his next paycheck. (I have no money this month because of medical bills, so it's all up to him. No pressure. Just no cookies.)
3) I placed a Pocky-related order at AsianFoodGrocer.com and the Paypal cart screwed up and it didn't go through. So the next day I placed a new order. Then today I checked my e-mail, and there are two receipts from AFG.com, both of them saying that the bill was payed with Paypal. I have no idea what's going on there. I have to say, I have been having tons of difficulties with Paypal carts lately.
It actually wasn't as bad of a weekend as I thought, if I can only list three effed-up things.
We bought some seeds -- had to settle for the local farm supply place instead of an online organic shop due to time and budget constraints -- and all that stuff. I accidentally grabbed potting soil instead of seed-starting mix, but hopefully it will work anyway. I'm just waiting for Ben to install the shop light in the laundry room/closet. If it stays warm like this, though, I won't have to worry about that.
We have a little fire-circle thing out in the woods that we got started on. Ben cleared it out and Friday we got the outdoor fireplace out there and he chopped up some wood. Right now the only seating is a few pieces of lumber on some cinderblocks, though. Very white trash. I think I'm going to try to make a border of shade-loving plants just for kicks. It's all very exciting; we've never been able to do any of this stuff before. When I was a kid, I'd spend hours out in the woods in front of our house, raking leaves and setting up little "rooms" with big rocks and such. This is my adult version of that, I think. I need to fireproof it a little more, though.
I got some stuff for my Spring Swap package, which will unfortunately not be too crafty because my swap person does crafty stuff, and my stuff would suck compared to theirs. It's hard putting together a package like that for a "popular" poster -- someone I don't know but almost everyone else on the board does. I like this person's style, though, so hopefully it will all go okay.
