I have been listing a few things on eBay in the last few weeks. I use to hang an assortment of flags and then the pole just would not stay in the house’s stucco wall. I know, I was wondering why we didn’t find wood to screw it into. So I decided to list the flags I had because they were in such good shape. I opened up my eBay summary this morning and there was a question from a flag bidder-did you go to Penncrest and graduate in 1977? I was flabbergasted, as I told this lady in my second note to her. I completely missed her name in the first message. I also added, what’s the chance of someone (about 480 in our class) who doesn’t live in PA anymore, bidding on your auction? Now this is going to sound weird, but I swear I was thinking of this lady not that long ago, less than a few weeks. You see, I have a tear out from a book/brochure that they give you when you visit one of the beach resorts and her husband is a photographer, so she and her three kids are in the ad! I have it in my yearbook along with a few wedding announcements from other people.
I can think about not seeing people who go to our church and they show up the next week. Is that ESP? ; )
~Update~My old high school classmate did not win the flag. I didn’t hear back from her, but I hope if she reads this she’ll leave a comment here or on eBay. Sorry you didn’t win.

I was so happy to see that my birthday twin Meg Ryan (the actress) adopted a little Chinese girl about a week ago. She has a teenage son by Dennis Quaid. This is something I would have loved to do. Sean didn’t want to share the spotlight. We didn’t have the money either. I always love to see the little Asian girls who I know are adopted. They are usually totally Americanized. Is that a good thing?

I was checking out some of the blogs on the side bar and went to visit Kate’s. Now she ran across a list of top songs of the 90s and she was talking about them. Heck she’s only in her mid 20s and I didn’t recognize some of the songs. Now here’s part of a list that I could relate to:
+1. Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin
2. Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen
*3. Hotel California – The Eagles
4. What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye
+5. Imagine – John Lennon
6. Layla – Derek and the Dominos
*7. Superstition – Stevie Wonder
*8. Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon and Garfunkel
9. Let’s Stay Together – Al Green
+10. Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
*11. Maggie May – Rod Stewart
+12. Won’t Get Fooled Again – The Who
*13. Stayin’ Alive – The Bee Gees
+14. Brown Sugar – The Rolling Stones
+15. Free Bird – Lynyrd Skynyrd
*16. American Pie – Don McLean
+17. Let It Be – The Beatles
18. Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone – The Temptations
*19. Go Your Own Way – Fleetwood Mac
20. Family Affair – Sly and the Family Stone
21. London Calling – The Clash
22. Anarchy in the UK – The Sex Pistols
*23. Your Song – Elton John
24. No Woman, No Cry – Bob Marley and the Wailers
+25. Tangled Up in Blue – Bob Dylan
*I had the album or 45
+someone in the family had it.
What about you? Are you humming right now?

This is all happening so quickly. The contractor called last night when I was down at my mom’s house. I have never had a contractor here before-just the Amish roofer. I know what cabinets I want, but I haven’t chosen the countertop, the flooring or the lighting. I sure hope this guy can help me with the lighting. I will probably have under the cabinet lighting. We only have four outlets in the entire kitchen! And if I have two appliciances in the same general area, I trip a fuse. Guess he’ll suggest an electrician. I sure hope these guys are good. I have seen several designers on tv use The Home Depot and rave about how fast they got in and out. That’s my aim.
My sofa is going to the repair shop. It was worse than I thought. It is sagging along almost the entire bottom. The man who was suppose to look at it and fix it can’t come until the 14th of Feb. I decided I couldn’t sit on a busted sofa for 3 long weeks. I called and complained. They are taking it on Saturday and will hopefully get it back to me in a week-and hopefully good as new. If not, they better give me a new sofa and a different make. What a hassle!

Just a quick post as I may have to get off the computer. About 10 minutes ago it started to thunder and lightning. Now that is weird for January. My resident meteorology student then ran in an said we were having a thunder snow event! It’s was snowing sideways! It was a front coming through.

I swear, I have the worst luck! When I first starting blogging, I was redoing my family room. I had purchased a second bookcase. We were in the furniture store and I saw a ultrasuede red sofa. I didn’t order it until the next day and on the phone. I had to wait for it until the end of Sept. 04. A few days I ago, I felt something ‘move’ under the cushion. As the days wore on, I know I was sitting lower. This morning I looked underneath, and the springs were all sagging to the floor! I had to go through tons of papers until I found the receipt and I called the furniture store right up. They have some guy coming here the middle of next month to check it out. I don’t know what he’s going to do, disassemble my sofa and fix the springs? I don’t think so. I am going to raise a stink if they give me a hassle. A sofa that is only a little over a year old should not have broken.
My sister-in-law has had problems with her sofa (and she has kids) and they even replaced the cushions. And we didn’t purchase them from the same place. What’s up with craftsmanship these days? I am sick about this. My last new sofa was 12 yrs ago when I did have a little boy.
So I went down to mom’s and we had some Macy’s gift cards to play with. We bought pretty hats (I got two Liz Claiborne’s and yes I will photograph myself in them soon), undies, makeup and a pretty crushed velvet like jacket in a wine color. I treated mom to dinner in Carrabarras…it was good.

I was reading a post over at Tribe and the guy mentioned Yahoo widgets. I was curious and went to look. They are little ‘extras’ that you can put on your desktop. I decided to try them out. I have a weather forecast widget up for my in house weatherman Sean. I labeled it ‘Sean Hurricane C’ after our local weatherman Glenn ‘Hurricane Schwartz, whom we have met. There’s a little photo album, notepad, stick-up notes, etc.
Below are the memory button, the weather forecast and a clock that chimes every half hour. You get a bunch of them free in a little folder that’s stored in your documents area.

Yeah! It was a long two hour process at the Home Depot (Sean went along too). I got everything I really needed in the plan. It was the same man who initially helped us a few weeks back. He didn’t do something right and had to rechart the design (on the computer), so we had to sit even longer. When he quoted us the price ‘just for the cabinets’, Brian looked like he did when we were looking at engagement rings. Actually he got off way back then a lot cheaper! LOL. The guy forgot a few details, but I am sure the contractor will point out that I need a shelf for my microwave (no more wobbly table) and someplace for the trashbins (a pull out contraption for under the sink). The Home Depot guy printed me off the design, but two of the one wall, he forgot the range wall. I will try and photograph it. Anyway, I have a pantry closet, a separate food prep area (storage underneath) with two wall cabinets-one with a plate rack and the other for ‘some’ of my cookbooks.In that same area there are two pull out cabinets for spices, etc. I have a corner cabinet for pots and pans and the top will hold the toaster oven and coffee maker. And I requested some pretty glass doors with little stain glass panels for my drinking glass cabinet. I figure it will cost a grand for every year we lived here. I’ll probably get blue marble counters and laminated wood floors. I have to have a boat load of people go through here. It will probably take six weeks total, like 3 days just to install the cabinets. We may do the floor ourselves. We did the last one when Sean was into Sesame Street so we were a lot younger too! And don’t get me started on how much demolition and installation cost. I guess I won’t be getting any fancy range. : (
In the long run, we will have people compliment our kitchen and I won’t be ashamed of it. BTW, the guy who measured did take photos and man the old cabinets sure looked ugly. Wish us luck with the financing part. I see a desk job for me in the future. Of course this has to be the time when Brian’s work is on his back (and the other ad people) about acquiring more clients. They are telling them to contact 10-15 people ‘in person’ a day! I told him to open the phone book and at least find a few new ones along with older clients. Good luck to him. He was irritable all weekend. Maybe the kitchen financing will give him the incentive to work harder.

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