HomeWork: Week 27
Which are your preferences? What do you actually have?
Carpet or hardwood floors? I prefer hardwood floors – I’d love to have nothing but hardwood through the entire house – but we have a mix. In the foyer and dining room (which we use as a library/catchall room) are hardwooded floors, in the kitchen and bathrooms are tiled floors, and everywhere else is carpeted.
Blinds or curtains? We have blinds throughout the house, and that’s what I prefer.
Tiles or sheet linoleum? Tiles. Ugh. I hate it.
Paint or wallpaper? We have paint throughout the house, but I think I’d prefer wallpaper in at least the bathrooms. Ah well – maybe in the next house!
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Is it wrong that
this made me laugh until I cried? Been there, done that!
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From my comments:
Hey, have you seen this site? It’s page after page of really creepy pictures!
AGH! Damn you! My eyes! MY EYES!
Could the Spud have her own cell phone? Just in case? Even though the bus thing is all figured out…
She could, but I’m resisting the idea of getting her her own phone at this point, because the idea of a 15 year-old with her own cell phone just screams PRINCESS to me. I know I’m going to have to get her her own phone when she gets her license and a job just so I can keep track of her, but we’ll cross THAT bridge when we get to it.
I’m getting a new computer in a few months…..and I’m sure since Fred is building one for you it will be the greatest(because.. well..You Are The Greatest!). So what all did he get for yours?
He got… something that will make it really fast and… something else that will make it fast… and something else that he swears will make it so fast my eyes will bleed! But most importantly, I got cool new speakers, an awesome yellow case, AND a yellow keyboard and mouse. I’ll slap up a picture of the whole setup once the new computer’s in place. New computer! Whoo!
You know, here in Hell, the school bus costs money, so most of the kids the spud’s age end up getting restricted drivers licenses. Add in the 70,000 college students, and you have a city where the majority of drivers are under 21. DON’T COME BITCHING TO ME ABOUT TRAFFIC.
Yeah, yeah, cry me a river. Hee! Actually, that reminds me of the first day of school when I was driving the spud to school, and she said “This will be better when I get my license and can drive myself to school every day!” and I said “Oh HELLO PRINCESS, just because you have your license doesn’t mean we’re going to run out and buy you a car, and you’re not using MY car every day!” I mean, please. Does she think she’s Paris Hilton? Have our discussions about getting a job and saving up for a car (which, of COURSE we’ll help her buy) gone in one ear and out the other, or what?
Of course, we’re talking about the child who’s more concerned with what the color schemes in her first apartment will be, than how she’s going to pay for that first apartment.
Sony… nice. They’re all I’ll buy. Here’s your camera…and here’s my camera, in case you care. How big a memory stick do you use?
When we were looking at buying the camera we have now, we actually thought about buying the camera you got, but size is an issue for us, since we like to carry the camera around when we’re on vacation.
We have a 256 MB memory stick, and it holds a pretty good number of pictures and short movies. It’s working well for us now, but god knows in five years we’ll be wondering how on earth we could have thought our camera took clear, crisp pictures, and what a big, bulky dinosaur it is, the way we talk about the pictures our very first camera took!
When I was growing up in the Northeast, we had 10 weeks for summer vacation (unless all the snow days got used up – then it was 9 weeks), and we also had one more week of vacation during the year than kids seem to have here in Ohio – we had a week off in February and a week off in April, but here they just get the one week in April. (I think their summer vacation is longer, though – mid-May to late August).
Yeah, my nephew has a week off in February and one in April, but here they only have a week off in March. In the last few years, they’ve added another week off in the middle of October (it’s called “Fall Vacation”. I wonder how hard they had to think to come up with THAT one?), and they always get at LEAST two weeks off for Christmas. I swear they spend more time on vacation than they do actually in school!
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So, I’ve gotta ask – you people in the UK, what’s the deal with the really REALLY short seasons of
Coupling? I’m currently watching Season 3, and there are only 7 episodes! Is that how long all of your series are? This is the first Britist series I’ve ever watched, so I had no clue there’d be so few shows in each season. What the hell do you watch when you’re waiting for the next season to start?
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“Just.. can’t… keep… my… eyes… open…”]]>