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12:22 PM - 12/04/2011

The topic: Did I mention I can’t sing since the surgery?

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Something happened to my vocal chords when they put the tubes down my throat. I'm hoping they get better.

It's very frustrating to listen to a song in the car and start to sing and my voice just isn't there. The high notes sound rancid. On the way back from WalMart, I started to cry because I miss singing at the top of my lungs.

Both of my parents came from families with good pipes. I was blessed with good pipes.

This sucks.


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otherstuff
11:52 AM - 12/04/2011

The topic: Procrastination? What’s that?

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You know how I wanted to redo all the cords in the office?  Still haven’t done it.

See, I’m working on it all the time. In my mind. *lol*

Well, last week I lost Little Bit (she wasn’t actually “lost”, more like “invisible”).

Then, during the week, it was too hot.

Today, it’s too cold (so cold my nose is dripping, okay, okay, it’s not all that cold when compared to cold in Alaska or New England, but for Southern California, it’s cold!  It’s noon and not even 60° outside).  Besides, I was thrown off my stride because I had to make two trips to WalMart.

Part of the working on it in my mind thing.

A few years back, we bought a battery back up.  By the time I got around to setting it up, it was way too late to return it when it didn’t power up out of the box.  A few months ago, we bought another one.  I vowed to get this one up before the return time had passed.  And, as part of redoing the cables and cords, I checked it out. It powers up.  I’m not planning on running all the computers on it, just Brian’s computer and his monitor.  Oh, and the modem and the two routers.  (See, the more I think about this stuff, the more it comes together.)  I handed Brian the back up unit earlier this week. He plugged it in on his side of the desk. Now I have to find the power cords for his computer and monitor and plug them into it.

The modem and two routers are on my side of the desk. To get power to them via the back up, I need an extension cord.  Since I want to run them under the desk, not on top (way too many cords and cables along the wall behind the equipment, it would be so much nicer to have it all run under, it’s doable, but time consuming), I need at least twenty feet of extension.  I needed to get to WalMart, since Brian didn’t have anything long enough back in his shop.

WalMart only had fifteen footers, so I bought two of them for $2.47 each. I also bought a tiny bottle of Dawn dishwashing detergent for the clubhouse (the trailer up in Ranchita). I bought some more wrapping paper, I bought ribbon and bows.  I bought a couple of Christmas cards. I bought more Mrs. Dash (less than three bucks at WalMart, over four bucks at the grocery store) and some frozen vegetables (not impressed with the selection, but we needed something, stupid CostCo usually only has mixed veggies, stir fry veggies, corn or cut green beans; note to self - next time they’ve got broccoli and peas, pick up about a million bags of each).

My total came to $48.75 (I gave a shout of glee when the total came up; earlier this year we had a presentation for solar here in our house - no way could we qualify for it, but we did get a fifty dollar gift card, an American Express gift card. I found out earlier this week that the Disney Gift Card program declined my purchase, which I was planning on using to renew our annual passes next week), and the card was accepted at WalMart. I had my fingers crossed that it would work and it did.

Anyway, I get home, open up the house a little and start putting the stuff away.  I’m missing something.  I search all the bags, go back out to the car and see if I’ve left one in the car.  Nope. No extension cords. I call the store, they check, the cords are still at the checkout counter in the bag. They’ll hold them for me.  I go back, pick them up, come home and it’s almost eleven o’clock.

I’ve lost my will to work today. Oh, well, there’s always tomorrow….


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