where has my mind gone?!?

so, we went to jodi and richard's yesterday for christmas. it was a lot of fun and entirely too much food. today, i was supposed to be at work at 8:45. well, i didn't fall asleep until 2am so the 7am alarm wakeup was REALLY early. i was at work on time and busy ALL FREAKING DAY. i had about 15 minutes to sit down (on my lunch break) between 8:45 and 7pm. my boss had previously asked if i could work 10-7 tomorrow but the enormous amounts of crazy led her to ask me to come in at 8:45 again tomorrow. of course i said sure. it's a ton of fun once i get there. it's the getting up that is hard. i'm extremely sore after a lot of lifting heavy stuff today and using the band saw! anyway, i hope to fall asleep early tonight. tomorrow is going to come all too soon. geez. i love advil.

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yesterday sucked. we lost power at 12:30am on thursday night/friday morning. power was restored at approximately 1:30am friday night/saturday morning. during the power outage, we lit candles. well, the candles wound up setting off the smoke detector because of they were lit for so long and because of the quantity. soooooooo, we had to crack the windows which made the apartment FREEZING cold. oh well. at least it eventually vented out and we could close the windows again. work was actually closed yesterday, so neither of us was able to go somewhere warmer with electricity. fred meyer and qfc were open with basically emergency lighting and cash registers up. they were nuts, but we were able to get some crackers and chili. THANK YOU TO MY PARENTS for buying us a gas grill with a side gas burner. we'd never used it, but it worked flawlessly for heating up the chili. other than that, we sat around and played games on my nintendo ds and listened an AM station on the radio to get power updates. i've also never been happier to have a smartphone since we were still receiving email. toward the end, we had to plug the phones into my laptop to get the phones recharged (thereby draining my laptop battery). since we didn't have wi-fi anyway, i figured the phones were more important than the laptop.

as for today... now that power has been restored, we were able to do a few errands including getting cat litter and new carriers (since we had a minor panic attack when we thought at first that the fire alarm was for a building evacuation not just us and we were frantically trying to put the cat carriers together). i've always liked the sherpa pet carriers but not their prices. oh well, they are nice carriers. power is back on at work as well, so i will work my shift as scheduled and attend the store meeting in the morning. my teeth are still really bothering me so i keep chowing down on the advil. i hope that wednesday comes quickly. we also went to mcdonalds this morning for lunch only to learn AFTER getting our food that they were out of fries and giving people hashbrowns instead. YUCK :( oh well, at least we complained that we were not told and we asked for a coupon for something free. we can go back sometime in the nearish future and get a free value meal. adam's thrilled that he can play his video games and do homework again.

Posted by at 2:09 PM | Permalink

i've been pretty busy over the last week or so. i've done some reorganization in our closets to make better use of the space (including putting additional shelving into the hall closet thereby making it more of a pantry!). i've also been able to finish christmas shopping (not that there was much to do to begin with). the box going to my parents will be dropped off at the post office tomorrow morning so that takes care of that! i've also been doing lots of laundry and running some errands for adam. today we went up to wienerschnitzel. we haven't been to one since we moved up here, so it was a tasty trip. i don't think that it is really worth the drive to everett, but it was nice to do it this time.

hopefully we'll be able to hook up with jodi and richard soon since she felt crappy over her birthday weekend. :( other than the normal work stuff, i think that this will be a pretty low-key week.

Posted by at 9:44 PM | Permalink

well, the snow/ice has come and gone. i ran up to the woodinville target to get adam's christmas present and the parking lot still had a lot of slushy stuff. my trip to old navy was fruitful. i picked up a couple of scarves that were on sale. my scarf collection is growing. i need to figure out a better way to store them today. i also got a pair of gloves that has a small hole, so i need to exchange them today. i also need to take a trip to best buy or someplace so that we can pick up a non-sucky hd dvd. i'm off to work soonish. i'm sleepy so i hope the evening goes by quickly. that's really about it. tomorrow is jodi's b-day but i think she blogged that it was gonna be low-key (but that could be my old memory failing me).

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