Saturday, 30 May 2009
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Bits of Randomness
On Thursday, my husband tells me I will celebrate my 19,000th day on this earth.
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TV Shows I Have Never Seen: Friends. Seinfeld. Monk. Tonight. Saturday Night Live. The Virginian. House. Survivor.....haven't seen one, haven't seen them all. Free, I'm free, I tell you!
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Did you know that putting your children in braces can sometimes cause their gums to recede? It's happening to my daughter. She needs gum surgery, adding over 2K to the cost of correcting her teeth. Anyway, they turned out very well, at least.
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Did you know that you should never take sleeping pills when flying? They cause you to sleep so deeply that you don't move around enough to prevent deep-vein thrombosis.
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Did you know that Navigators founder Dawson Trotman died at age 50 saving a drowning woman's life? He was a strong swimmer, but had tired himself out water skiing earlier in the day.
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I've just been put in charge of making arrangements for a directors' meeting and a benefit dinner for our nonprofit organisation, Global IE. I've never done this before, but I have over a year to learn how. Advice appreciated! It takes place in Denver, so if anyone knows of a magical place in Denver to have a benefit dinner to knock one's sox off, let me know. The more recommends I get, the higher on the list it goes for checking out.
My mother would faint if she knew. I am about the last person on earth to be in charge of something like this, but it was right up her Connecticut society alley. Wish she was alive still. Of course, if she were, she'd be 92, so maybe she deserves a rest.
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It would be nice if it would stop raining long enough to get my begonias in.
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My son's girlfriend Erin is cute. She has red curls-- dyed, but still right for her coloring. Her real color is light brown. I like her, but we need to bring out her inner wackiness a bit more if she sticks around. Advice appreciated.
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Appliance shopping: It's interesting the temptation that occurs in an appliance store to always be upgrading one's appliances to something fancier. Shopping for a clothes washer to replace my 29 yo Maytag that just died, I saw these models that seem to do everything but iron and hang up one's clothes. Buttons everywhere. Colors like 'garnet' and 'diamond dust'. Windows that make them look like deep sea submersibles. In the end, I got a white GE washer that pretty much did exactly what my old one did. It seems pointless to make laundry into a Jaguar-type experience. And I would most likely use only two or three of those buttons anyway....
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Comments (3)
I wonder how many people felt obliged to do the math on your first bit of randomness. I suspect your DH has too much time on his hands. :)
@TobyBo - No, actually, there's a website that calculates it for you!
lol. Maybe I need to find that and let people know what important numbers they are coming up on. :)