Birthday and Car Woes
Apr. 2nd, 2019 10:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouse Shawn's birthday was yesterday, a Monday.
She took the day off, in order to have a three day weekend birthday celebration. We went thrifting, shoe shopping, and out to dinner/lunch numerous times. Shawn loves to go to Taste of India, so that's where we were Sunday night in celebration. On her birthday proper, we stayed in, had a favorite home cooked meal, and watched "Into the Spider-Verse," which you probably already know, is a supremely awesome movie.
Today, I took the car to Dave's to prep it for Mason and my road trip down to Chicago. Dave called a few minutes ago with the bad news. We need new struts, which is actually going to set us back a pretty penny. On the other hand, I'd rather spend the money than have the car brake down somewhere in Wisconsin, or gods forbid on one of those insane by-ways in Chicago. Boo.
Shawn is also thinking very seriously this year about entering one (or two, depending on the categories) of her rugs into the State Fair's competition. Last year, when I went to support Mason's robotics team. their demonstration happened to be in the tail end of the craft barn, so I ended up wandering through all of the exhibits of knitted things, quilts, and all the usual stuff you expect to seen in such a place. I was surprised to see a category for rag rugs and only two place winners, first and second. We found out that that's because only two people entered. If the odd stay like this, Shawn is pretty much guaranteed a third place.... I mean, of course, now the secret is out and they might be flooded in the rag rug division.
We're keeping our eye out for when those applications are due.
The other thing that's going to have to happen this spring, probably even before we fix our bewitched tub, is the front steps. The concrete is finally crumbling beyond our ability to apply patches. Shawn sent me the name of someone to call and give us an estimate for that.
Ah, at least work called today and asked if I could go to work at White Bear on Monday from 10-2. Believe me, with all the bills coming due, I signed the f*ck right up.
She took the day off, in order to have a three day weekend birthday celebration. We went thrifting, shoe shopping, and out to dinner/lunch numerous times. Shawn loves to go to Taste of India, so that's where we were Sunday night in celebration. On her birthday proper, we stayed in, had a favorite home cooked meal, and watched "Into the Spider-Verse," which you probably already know, is a supremely awesome movie.
Today, I took the car to Dave's to prep it for Mason and my road trip down to Chicago. Dave called a few minutes ago with the bad news. We need new struts, which is actually going to set us back a pretty penny. On the other hand, I'd rather spend the money than have the car brake down somewhere in Wisconsin, or gods forbid on one of those insane by-ways in Chicago. Boo.
Shawn is also thinking very seriously this year about entering one (or two, depending on the categories) of her rugs into the State Fair's competition. Last year, when I went to support Mason's robotics team. their demonstration happened to be in the tail end of the craft barn, so I ended up wandering through all of the exhibits of knitted things, quilts, and all the usual stuff you expect to seen in such a place. I was surprised to see a category for rag rugs and only two place winners, first and second. We found out that that's because only two people entered. If the odd stay like this, Shawn is pretty much guaranteed a third place.... I mean, of course, now the secret is out and they might be flooded in the rag rug division.
We're keeping our eye out for when those applications are due.
The other thing that's going to have to happen this spring, probably even before we fix our bewitched tub, is the front steps. The concrete is finally crumbling beyond our ability to apply patches. Shawn sent me the name of someone to call and give us an estimate for that.
Ah, at least work called today and asked if I could go to work at White Bear on Monday from 10-2. Believe me, with all the bills coming due, I signed the f*ck right up.
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Date: 2019-04-04 09:45 pm (UTC)Yeah, struts are not cheap.
Your rag rug state competition secret is safe with me: I live in Wisconsin. Good plan, though.
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Date: 2019-04-05 03:22 am (UTC)