"Scuse me, while I kiss this guy..."
Friday, March 27th, 2009 10:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
auntbijouIt's been a very busy week.
We bought a new (to us) car. A 2007 Honda Accord. And because we now belong to a credit union, we got a great deal. Made me realize that Washington Mutual's collapse was probably one of the best things that could have happened to us. And I am now much happier that the Husbandly One will now be driving a car that doesn't look like it was built by gnomes and is powered by hamsters on speed. It was just about to lose its trade-in value, so we got it right on the cusp, and we will now be able to pay off the minivan. The payment on the Honda is low enough that it's like getting $200 back in our pocket every month!
-Miss Priss is having soccer tryouts/practices this week. It's a bit of a snafu, really. The junior high and high school shares coaches, and the high school teams have their soccer season first, then the coaches go to the junior high to start the junior high season. Except... the high school girl's varsity team made the playoffs. So an assistant track coach was running the practices... kinda. And there were 24 girls trying out this week, plus nine to follow next week when track season ends. Did I mention their first game is on Thursday? And they still haven't decided if they're going to have a 7th grade team and an 8th grade team... or combine both.
*has a headache*
I've got a lot of writing to do, and... not much gumption to do it, at the moment. I think I would prefer to go back to bed, actually, except I can't, because Mr. Manzie is home with a sore throat, and his stomach's hurting.
He is currently curled up under a blanket on the couch, watching "Love, Hina" on DVD in the living room. We checked them out from the library in San Marcos. Oh, did I mention, we got tired of the utterly sucky library in our town, and went and got a family membership at the San Marcos library. It's nice to have a place where I can do research uninterrupted, and actually find material that I need.
Why does our library suck? I have no idea, but it may be related to the reason why every time someone's tried to open a bookstore in our town, it's failed miserably. Apparently, no one reads here. THO and I once had dreams of opening a bookstore here, because there's actually several storefronts that would work beautifully, but... it wouldn't work.
Oh well, it's probably for the best. I'd spend more time reading the inventory than actually working.
I think we're actually going to be able to manage a garden this year! I had actually planned to work in two of the front beds today, but...*shrugs* We had rain, sort of, yesterday, and THO had planned to cancel soccer practice for his little U8 team, because we figured the fields would be a muddy mess, but to our surprise, even though they got more rain out there than we got here at the house... you could hardly tell it had rained at all. The ground is so dry, it just... soaked it all up! So, the ground here should be just the right mix of moist/dry to work with. We shall see. I need to prep a bed by the back porch to plant moon vine seeds, too.
*is getting eager*
And now to call the doctor about seeing the Impossible Son today... busy, busy, busy...
We bought a new (to us) car. A 2007 Honda Accord. And because we now belong to a credit union, we got a great deal. Made me realize that Washington Mutual's collapse was probably one of the best things that could have happened to us. And I am now much happier that the Husbandly One will now be driving a car that doesn't look like it was built by gnomes and is powered by hamsters on speed. It was just about to lose its trade-in value, so we got it right on the cusp, and we will now be able to pay off the minivan. The payment on the Honda is low enough that it's like getting $200 back in our pocket every month!
-Miss Priss is having soccer tryouts/practices this week. It's a bit of a snafu, really. The junior high and high school shares coaches, and the high school teams have their soccer season first, then the coaches go to the junior high to start the junior high season. Except... the high school girl's varsity team made the playoffs. So an assistant track coach was running the practices... kinda. And there were 24 girls trying out this week, plus nine to follow next week when track season ends. Did I mention their first game is on Thursday? And they still haven't decided if they're going to have a 7th grade team and an 8th grade team... or combine both.
*has a headache*
I've got a lot of writing to do, and... not much gumption to do it, at the moment. I think I would prefer to go back to bed, actually, except I can't, because Mr. Manzie is home with a sore throat, and his stomach's hurting.
He is currently curled up under a blanket on the couch, watching "Love, Hina" on DVD in the living room. We checked them out from the library in San Marcos. Oh, did I mention, we got tired of the utterly sucky library in our town, and went and got a family membership at the San Marcos library. It's nice to have a place where I can do research uninterrupted, and actually find material that I need.
Why does our library suck? I have no idea, but it may be related to the reason why every time someone's tried to open a bookstore in our town, it's failed miserably. Apparently, no one reads here. THO and I once had dreams of opening a bookstore here, because there's actually several storefronts that would work beautifully, but... it wouldn't work.
Oh well, it's probably for the best. I'd spend more time reading the inventory than actually working.
I think we're actually going to be able to manage a garden this year! I had actually planned to work in two of the front beds today, but...*shrugs* We had rain, sort of, yesterday, and THO had planned to cancel soccer practice for his little U8 team, because we figured the fields would be a muddy mess, but to our surprise, even though they got more rain out there than we got here at the house... you could hardly tell it had rained at all. The ground is so dry, it just... soaked it all up! So, the ground here should be just the right mix of moist/dry to work with. We shall see. I need to prep a bed by the back porch to plant moon vine seeds, too.
*is getting eager*
And now to call the doctor about seeing the Impossible Son today... busy, busy, busy...
