old.tv

I just watched family feud. I don't watch this on a regular basis, but I do enjoy it every so often. My brand spanking new tivo recorded an episode in the "recommended" category, so I thought I'd zip through it before survivor came on. This was no new episode of family feud. It was on the game show network, and was, I found out, from 1988. Not only were the people funny looking, but the questions were a riot. Who'd have thought that television could be so entertaining?

for.sale.

Brand new baby boy for seal. This is the headline I heard on the radio today. Actually, what I heard was, "brand new baby boy for sale." Hmmm....

elizabeth.w.

I love this company. A few years ago, *ab* got me some of their stuff for christmas, and it smells SO good. I finished the body wash, and the lotion's almost out, so I went online and searched for a retailer. I ended up at their website, and they had the same scent (magnolia) in eau de parfum. I was overjoyed. I ordered it, and got an e-mail from them saying thank you. Here it is:

Dear *ss*,
Thank you so much for your order. As a small perfumery, we greatly value your business.
The order can ship today. Please let me know if I can help you further.
Finally, may I ask how you discovered elizabethW?
With kind regards,
Reymundo

elizabethW, San
Francisco
800 781-6126
www.elizabethW.com

How nice! A real, personalized letter thanking me for my business! What a nice fellow this reymundo is. I wrote back:

Hi Reymundo-
I'm glad to help support your company. It's so nice to receive personalized messages in this day and age!
I received some of your products for Christmas last year (the pack of three
bath pouches, body wash and body cream in the magnolia scent) and loved them!
I'm not sure where my friend purchased them, but I found your site in a web
search. I was very excited to find that you sold the perfume in the magnolia
scent as well. It's my favorite!
Thank you, and happy holidays-
*ss*

His reply:

Dear *ss*,
Thank you so much for the information and the kind words. We really are a small workshop
perfumery and strive to design and handcraft original, quality products in
fabulous fragrances. I hope you continue to enjoy them.
Best wishes, and happy holidays to you as well.
Reymundo

elizabethW San
Francisco
1 800 781-6126
www.elizabethW.com

It just makes me want to order stuff from them again. This is what customer service should be! Maybe I should write back and see if reymundo's married;)

new.order

I re-ordered my blog link list. (I also added a new one- a friend who recently commented on a blog entry who I never even knew had a blog. So he's on there now.) At first I was going to order them from the most frequently updated to the least, but I decided to go with the most recently updated to the least. I'll change it every week or so, but that's how it's going for now. This way, if you want to check another blog, and only have a few minutes, you'll be able to go to the blog that's most likely to have been updated:)

oops.

*ja* took a shower, and had a bottle of nail polish in her overnight kit. Apparently it fell out of the kit, and smashed on the tile floor in the bathroom. We called the front desk to see if they had any nail polish remover to take care of our "nail polish incident" and oscar said not to worry; that it was housekeeping's problem. Bummer.

good.times.at.ab

Yesterday was a busy, busy day. I had the nutcracker performance from 1 to 3 downtown. (It was great- *m* did a very good job as a doll, and her parents picked up the $125 tab for my third row seat.) Then it was out to acton for my grandmother's memorial mass from 5-6. Then over to *ja's* parent's house, and back into boston for our 10 year high school reunion. They'd set up a block of rooms at the hilton down on broad street, so a group of us booked a room. The reunion had been put together at the last minute (everyone assumed the folks who had organized the 5 year reunion would put this one together, and it wasn't until two months before that it became apparent they weren't. Luckily, *mg* was good enough to get stuff together at the last minute) so it was at a bar in fanueil hall instead of in some fancy hotel with catering. The good news is that this worked out much better for most people. Some people didn't find out about it until a few hours before the thing started, and they were still able to just show up. We grabbed some indian food before heading over to the bar, and got there around 9. There were a lot of people there. Our class was about 325, and there were probably 120ish at the reunion. There were a bunch of people who were there who weren't at the 5 year, so that was great too. I like reunions, because everyone is pretty much over the whole social groupings of high school. Not completely I guess, but we all had gone through school together, so we had a bond to begin with. I'm really glad I went. After we left the bar, we stopped at a store 24 and got a couple pints of ben and jerry's. We all hung out in the room eating ice cream and chatting. The funny thing was that I had walked around the bar by myself catching up with people, and felt like I'd seen pretty much everyone there. (Although I didn't take nearly any pictures which I'm very mad about now.) Then when we were talking later, someone would mention seeing someone I hadn't seen. I guess there really were a lot of people there! Good times....good times.

black.friday

Sweet mary. My sister *j* and I tackled the mall today. It was a last minute decision, since she had recently been hinting that she wanted to sleep in today. She came back from thanksgiving dinner with me last night since I'd finally convinced someone to donate platelets with me. Go *j*!!! You're a star! When I set up the appointments, her main question was, "what time does that mean I have to get up?" We finally set them for 11am, thinking that would give us enough time to sleep a little late, but not waste the whole day watching movies from a reclining chair while our plasma was sucked out of our veins. Around 9pm on thursday, *j* decided that we should get up early to do some shopping. Not for other people mind you, but for ourselves. She had seen some adds, and some of the deals had interested her. The cambridge side galleria opened at 7am, and they have a best buy, sears, clothing stores, etc, so we decided to get up at 6am to make it there for opening. Then we checked out the website, and realized that some stores were opening at 5am. *j* decided that we needed to be there earlier, so we agreed to get up at 5am, and leave asap. After tossing in bed for a while, I finally fell asleep around 1am, only to be woken by my alarm, a very short four hours later. We got there a bit before six, and stopped by dunkin donuts for some bagels and coffee. We saw a line from best buy running the entire length of the mall. The metal screens were still down, so we assumed it wasn't yet open. (Later, we find out that it had opened at 5am, but there were so many people that they only let in some at a time. It was a riot.) We went to a few stores before tackling the best buy line, and by the time we get there, the line's only about a third the length of the mall. Once we're let in, we become part of the chaos. *j* wanted portable speakers for her iPod that were down to $40, so we headed straight for that section. After finding none left on the shelf, we lucked out and spotted a stash on a back shelf. She grabbed one of those, along with a $15 1 gig memory card, and we went upstairs to get in line. I made an impulse buy and grabbed a tivo. It was free (after rebate), and even though going with the comcast dvr makes more sense financially, this will be easier in the long run. The cable bill's not in my name, so I'd have to deal with paying *a* back instead of just paying the tivo subscription myself. After waiting in line for about an hour to pay, we went down to cvs to get some water. The apple store was right next door, and since *j's* nano was giving her problems, we stopped in to see if they could fix it. The guy ran some sort of test on it, and couldn't find a problem, but did see what she was talking about, so he gave her a new one. I tried to get him to give her one of the new colored ones, but he said no. Anyway...she was excited to get a brand new nano, so we were in good spirits despite our sleep deprivation. We hit several more stores (picking up a few presents for others too!) and then split a wrap from d'angelo's for "lunch" around 9:30. We got to children's a little early, but since *j* had never been there, she had to read through all the info first. I got hooked up first, and while they were working on her, my access pressure kept dropping (which just means the draw line couldn't get a strong enough blood flow) they messed around with the needle for a bit, without much luck- the alarm kept going off. Finally, one of the techs took all the tape off the needle to move it, and got great access pressure...for about a second. Since it wasn't taped down, once the pressure shot up, the needle shot out of my arm along with a bunch of blood. The blanket was all bloody, and there was a pool of blood on the hot pack. Nice. So I got to hang out with *j* while she donated. They were happy that I brought her, and even got a double product out of her since her platelet count is also high.
This blog entry is getting a little rambly I think, so I'll sum up the rest of our day. We got home, had a sandwich, went to target, *j* left, I went to best buy again, stopped by gap outlet and went home to set up my tivo. The fact that you have to hook the tivo up to either a wireless/wired internet connection or a phone jack kind of stunk, but I'm excited to be able to transfer tivod shows to my laptop and then burn them to dvd. Yippee!

target.eye

As I've mentioned before, weird eyes bother me. So...have any of you seen that target commercial with david blaine? The one where he's suspended in the air over nyc? At the beginning, it starts with a close-up on his eye, and instead of the normal iris, pupil, etc.- they have a target circle in there. Vomit.

four.days

Ahhhh....it's the end of the week already. I was thinking about holidays today, and realized that thanksgiving is the best. Along with thursday, almost everyone (unless you work retail in which case you're screwed) has the friday after turkey day off too. This beats out all other holidays- even christmas. Sometimes christmas is on a weekend, and then you're really out of luck, although I suppose there's a monday holiday to make up for it. This is interesting since I actually don't like thanksgiving. I mean, I like hanging out with family, but I don't really like turkey, and always feel ill after eating the bowl of mashed potatoes. At least I have three days to recuperate.

chirp.chirp

This little guy was hanging out on my windowsill this morning. He had pals on the other window, but this one was literally right next to my bed. I didn't want to move the shade because I knew it would scare him off. He was chirping and hopping back and forth across the sill. All I could think in my groggy state was, "haven't all the birds left for florida already?"