Month: October 2001

Boo!
Happy Halloween!

Once in a Blue Moon
Here’s an interesting tidbit I heard on the radio this morning… Halloween this year will have a blue moon! Having two full moons in one month is pretty rare (hence the expression, “once in a blue moon”) but having Halloween fall on a blue moon day, well, that probably only happens once in a blue moon…squared?

You would think with an extra hour this weekend, I could’ve gotten all the household chores done and still have had time to catch up on sleep, right? Nope! The weekend was just totally packed! We went to a birthday party for a 1-year-old (with a magician and everything!) and a Halloween party on Saturday. Sunday was mainly cleaning and stuff – which always takes more time than it should! Today I’m a little nervous – we left Molly uncrated this morning. It could be good or bad…it’d be great if we could ditch the crate – it takes up a lot of room in the family room, and she can’t figure out how to open the door even if it’s partly open. But I’m worried that she’s really not completely past the boredom chewing phase. Of course, that might turn out ok too – we just might have to get new furniture to replace our mismatched hand-me-downs… :D

Go Victor!
OK, I admit it – I’m a field band fanatic. I played bass drum for two years in marching band and it was great. Actually, I was pretty skinny those two years – maybe I should join a drum and bugle corp to lose some weight… Anyway, the NYS field band championship was yesterday, and my brother’s school took first place in their class – woo-hoo! – so we waited up at the school (in the cold!) for all the buses to come back from Syracuse. They had three fire trucks escorting them all the way from the Thruway – sirens and lights going and everything. To anyone who doesn’t know what’s going on, it must be pretty frightening!

All I want for Christmas…
My Christmas wish list has dwindled to two items: Shrek on DVD and the new Apple iPod. I’ve got to get this. Now if only it were about half the price, that might be realistic. Unfortunately, although we’re not poor by any stretch of the imagination, $400 on a new gadget is just plain silly. But I still want it!

I should not be allowed to read on weeknights. I’m reading Lord of the Rings, and last night I didn’t go to sleep until sometime after midnight. I knew it was time to put the book down when I had to re-read a sentence four times just to have it register… As I’m already somewhat sleep-deprived, reading is a very bad habit for me. Maybe I should try to limit it to one chapter at a time – except then I’d never finish the book before the movie comes out! I’m almost done with book one, and the movie covers books one and two. I guess I’ll be able to get some sleep in a couple of weeks…if I don’t find another bad habit to replace reading with…or another book to read…

blog awol
Lisa and Mike’s wedding was great! Aside from a couple of glitches – including one of the bridesmaid’s cars running out of oil and Denis misplacing the bowtie for his tux – everything went swimmingly well. I continue to be amazed at the capacity of our Jetta’s trunk – they got a ton of gifts, and all but the largest managed to fit in the trunk of our car! Of course, Kate’s bad luck (the oil-free bridesmaid) seems to have transferred to Denis – not only did he lose his bowtie, but last night he got pulled over for a dead taillight. Oh, well.

An amazingly strange coincidence happened, too. My brother was in Ohio for a field band competition, and his band visited the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday. As they were leaving, he noticed a large wedding party pull up in a trolley bus. As we were getting out of the trolley bus at the Hall of Fame, I noticed a large group of high school students boarding their bus. It’s really too bad neither of us thought to look for the other – we only realized it when we both got home last night. Weird!

Call me now!
My mom is being stalked by Miss Cleo. A couple of days ago, she got an email from Miss Cleo saying something along the lines of “I don’t normally email people I haven’t spoken to, but I have some very important news for you”. Then yesterday, she got a phone message from Miss Cleo. This message was a bit more urgent, something like “I have some life-changing news I have to tell you, call me as soon as possible”. I think she should call Miss Cleo back and ask her if she knows who’s been leaving threatening messages for her (my mom, that is). Fortunately, my mom is smart enough to realize she’s just being direct-marketed… I wonder who sold her name to that list, and whether they have my name too?

Here comes the bride
I went to see “Legally Blonde” last night with Lisa (who’s getting married Saturday!) and some friends as a pseudo-bachelorette party. It was actually pretty funny. Then we went to Phillip’s. Mmmm. They have every dessert you can think of, as well as french-pressed coffee. Only problem was, I only had 10 minutes at Phillip’s before I had to leave for dance class, so I got dessert to go, and no coffee. :( But I have a lovely dessert waiting in my fridge for tonight! I’m getting very nervous about this wedding. I’ve never been a maid of honor before. Oh, alright, I’m really a matron of honor, but I hate that word – it makes me feel very old, and, well, matronly. :D

I knew it!
I shoudn’t have gotten out of bed this morning. It has been (and will probably continue to be) a very bad day. Next time, I’m going to listen to that little voice which was trying to convince me to sleep in this morning!

Sleepy
This morning was one of those mornings where it’s still dark when the alarm goes off, the outside air is quite chilly, and the bed is very warm and cozy. You know – the kind where you want nothing more in the world then to just stay in bed all day and sleep, and maybe read (I’m trying to read the Lord of the Rings before the movie comes out). Unfortunately, I had to go to work today. I think I need to rearrange my schedule so I can sleep in at least one day a week. I bet I’d be more productive that way…