Ah, Thanksgiving. What a perfect time to give thanks, tell someone you care, and... buy someone's food at McDonald's! Yep, I checked off #22 on Tuesday and bought the meal for the car behind me at McDonald's. You see, I have been quite lazy when it comes to buying groceries and bringing my lunch to work lately and have been forced to eat fast food on multiple occasions. On Tuesday I decided to run through McDonald's and grab a quick bite. Going at 11:30, I did not expect the place to be that busy. Um yeah, I was wrong. It was packed and it was even one of the double lane drive thrus. I ordered my food and started to pull forward towards the window when I remembered my goal. Suddenly I felt nervous! I don't know why, but feels a little odd to buy a strangers food at McDonald's. I approached the window and asked the cashier if I could pay for the car behind me. He gave me a bit of a dumbfounded look but then said sure. I told him just to tell the person behind me "Happy Thanksgiving".
I have no idea who's meal I purchased or if it was for more than one person (the total was $11.11 so I hope it was 2 people!). All I know is that the car was a tan color and they had a handicap tag hanging from the rear view mirror.
Now comes the irony of the story. I got back to the office and hadn't checked my order to see if it was correct. I sit down to eat and find that McDonald's had screwed up my order. First they didn't give my Honey Mustard for my fries and then I opened my sandwich to find that it was fried instead of grilled like I had ordered. Booo! My co-workers thought I should call McDonald's and complain or drive back over there but I didn't want to bother. I just hope that the person's meal I paid for was correct!
Friday, November 27, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
I need help!
First of all my long awaited livingroom furniture is here! Yay!!!
Funny thing is, now that there is furniture in the room, the walls look even more blank! Knowing that my furniture was coming though, I planned ahead! A few weeks ago I used my Pottery Barn rewards to purchase the frames for my little art project. Remember my inspiration? (Courtesy of Pottery Barn of course!)
Instead of doing the metal frames though, I got the wood gallery frames. Also instead of 6 squares, I did 6 rectangles in black... I'll just show you!
The openings in the large frames are 8x10 and the small ones are 5x5. The small ones will be set out from the wall with these nifty frame risers.
Now is where I am at a loss. I don't know what to put in the frames! My original intent was to do pictures of my flowers from my mom's old back yard. She had taken a bunch prior to selling the house. Turns out there aren't as many as I thought and I don't know how well the colors would go with the room. The are more bright and the room is warm colors. Should I do them in black and white? Then I was thinking that they would just be bland. The rug in the room actually has tan, gold, burn orange, light and dark green, and even dark purple (purple is hard to see in the picture).
So I need help as to what to put in the frames! Any (reasonable) suggestions are welcome! Here are some of the pictures I have. I tried to crop some in interesting ways with Picassa but I still have the original versions too.
Funny thing is, now that there is furniture in the room, the walls look even more blank! Knowing that my furniture was coming though, I planned ahead! A few weeks ago I used my Pottery Barn rewards to purchase the frames for my little art project. Remember my inspiration? (Courtesy of Pottery Barn of course!)
Instead of doing the metal frames though, I got the wood gallery frames. Also instead of 6 squares, I did 6 rectangles in black... I'll just show you!
The openings in the large frames are 8x10 and the small ones are 5x5. The small ones will be set out from the wall with these nifty frame risers.
Now is where I am at a loss. I don't know what to put in the frames! My original intent was to do pictures of my flowers from my mom's old back yard. She had taken a bunch prior to selling the house. Turns out there aren't as many as I thought and I don't know how well the colors would go with the room. The are more bright and the room is warm colors. Should I do them in black and white? Then I was thinking that they would just be bland. The rug in the room actually has tan, gold, burn orange, light and dark green, and even dark purple (purple is hard to see in the picture).
So I need help as to what to put in the frames! Any (reasonable) suggestions are welcome! Here are some of the pictures I have. I tried to crop some in interesting ways with Picassa but I still have the original versions too.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Ouch!
So I had to get a shot in the arm yesterday. Why, you ask? Well I will tell you. Dummy that I am, I jabbed a steak knife into my hand and cut it open. Gross, I know. I had decorated sugar cookies on Saturday and didn't have time to clean up all of my piping bags, etc. so I was doing it Sunday. One bag was still full of icing but in a disposable piping bag so I decided to cut the bag away and throw the icing in the trash rather than wash it down the sink to get the plastic piece (called a coupler) inside the bag out. It's the piece that goes in the bag so you can screw the icing tip on the outside. I had cut the bag next to the coupler but I still couldn't get the small piece of the bag off that was still tightly on the coupler. So what did I decide to do? Slide a sharp, serrated steak knife between the plastic and the coupler of course! Wouldn't you?
Yeah, not a good idea. The knife slipped and went into my left hand. Actually didn't hurt that much at first but man did it bleed! I held in under the water for a bit and then took a paper towel and put pressure on it. After a few minutes the bleeding still hadn't stopped so I called my mom. I have never had stitches so I didn't know how bad of a cut would require them. She told me to wait and see if the bleeding stopped and if it didn't, to go in. Problem was, I couldn't drive AND put pressure on the cut at the same time! Lucky for me, the bleeding stopped.
Skip to Monday. Man did my hand hurt. The cut didn't start bleeding again but the skin wouldn't stay closed and my index finger had a numb tingly feeling. I, of course, turned to Google for what to do and then decided to go into the doc and get it closed up. I guess with cuts though, you have to have them closed within a certain period of time so when I got there, they told me to keep it dressed and to use and antibiotic cream that they prescribed. Then they gave me a tetanus shot. Now, I consider myself to have a pretty high pain tolerance, but that shot hurt a little! Not like pain that makes your eyes water but just unexpected pain. The nurse didn't even warn me!
So this brings me (finally) to my point! At least the positive in all of this is that I have one shot done for Mali! I really don't know all of the shots we need and I am sure we will find out on Sunday, but I looked it up online and these are what is recommended:
Hepatitis B
Diphtheria
Tetanus
Measles
Mumps
Rubella
Polio
These are HIGHLY recommended:
Hepatitis A
Meningococcal meningitis
Rabies
Typhoid
This one is REQUIRED:
Yellow Fever
Plus you have to take Malaria pills. Fun stuff! So if I had to do ALL of these, that would mean I would need 12 shots! My arm is pretty sore today so I can't image getting 12! I am sure I would spread them out, but still, that's a lot! I am pretty sure that Diphtheria and Tetanus are one shot though and I am guessing that I won't have to get ALL of these. Watch out guys, I might end up glowing green prior to leaving for Mali!
PS - I apologize for my excessive use of exclamation points. I am really excited about Mali and feel the need to yell it at you. You'll just have to deal with it until February. Thanks! :)
Yeah, not a good idea. The knife slipped and went into my left hand. Actually didn't hurt that much at first but man did it bleed! I held in under the water for a bit and then took a paper towel and put pressure on it. After a few minutes the bleeding still hadn't stopped so I called my mom. I have never had stitches so I didn't know how bad of a cut would require them. She told me to wait and see if the bleeding stopped and if it didn't, to go in. Problem was, I couldn't drive AND put pressure on the cut at the same time! Lucky for me, the bleeding stopped.
Skip to Monday. Man did my hand hurt. The cut didn't start bleeding again but the skin wouldn't stay closed and my index finger had a numb tingly feeling. I, of course, turned to Google for what to do and then decided to go into the doc and get it closed up. I guess with cuts though, you have to have them closed within a certain period of time so when I got there, they told me to keep it dressed and to use and antibiotic cream that they prescribed. Then they gave me a tetanus shot. Now, I consider myself to have a pretty high pain tolerance, but that shot hurt a little! Not like pain that makes your eyes water but just unexpected pain. The nurse didn't even warn me!
So this brings me (finally) to my point! At least the positive in all of this is that I have one shot done for Mali! I really don't know all of the shots we need and I am sure we will find out on Sunday, but I looked it up online and these are what is recommended:
Hepatitis B
Diphtheria
Tetanus
Measles
Mumps
Rubella
Polio
These are HIGHLY recommended:
Hepatitis A
Meningococcal meningitis
Rabies
Typhoid
This one is REQUIRED:
Yellow Fever
Plus you have to take Malaria pills. Fun stuff! So if I had to do ALL of these, that would mean I would need 12 shots! My arm is pretty sore today so I can't image getting 12! I am sure I would spread them out, but still, that's a lot! I am pretty sure that Diphtheria and Tetanus are one shot though and I am guessing that I won't have to get ALL of these. Watch out guys, I might end up glowing green prior to leaving for Mali!
PS - I apologize for my excessive use of exclamation points. I am really excited about Mali and feel the need to yell it at you. You'll just have to deal with it until February. Thanks! :)
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