Domestic Geek

I read an article yesterday about Jay Greenberg, a young man studying music at Julliard who a music prodigy being compared to the likes of Mozart. I would love to hear some of his compositions.

OK, the pictures from our Annual Tree Hunting Trip are up in the gallery. Just ignore the pictures of Marcus and Mike playing Call of Duty in the snow. I'll post a picture of the decorated tree just as soon as I get around to decorating it.

Current mood: frustrated
OMG, what a day from hell this was! I should've known things were going to go awry when I got in my car this morning and it started right up. I didn't get all the dough done yesterday because of lack of trays, so I had to go in today. I was done in plenty of time to get home and shower before we had to leave for tree cutting. I try to start the car and nothing...won't start at all. I think the starter went. After 15 minutes of calling his cell over and over and over, Marcus finally answered the phone and came and got me. So, my poor car is still sitting out in front of work and I have absolutely no idea how in the hell I'm going to get it home or even pay to get it fixed. Sad thing is, once again, this is not the original problem and even if I can get a starter, it'll still have issues.

We got down to Woodland Park about an hour later than planned and my head and eyes hurt because I bawled all the way. The last thing I was really in the mood to do at the moment was get a tree. Anway, Marcus' truck has been having some transmission problems. Today is the day they decide to totally jack up. When his truck gets warm, he loses 2nd and 3rd gears. We found out that he also can't put it into 4-wheel drive, either. Of course it was all snowy and icy at the cutting area. *sigh* So, we had to leave and and pack into Mike's jeep. Oh, well. Marcus found us a nice tree and hopefully I'll get it up tomorrow. Dad lent me his car for work tomorrow and maybe, just maybe, I'll get my car home. Regardless, I'll post pics of the adventure tomorrow.

Allright, it's been a long, stupid day. I'm going to bed.

Current mood: accomplished
Allright!!! Operation lamp remplacement was successful without further paper wasp interference! Yaayyy!!!!!!

Wow, I actually slept almost 12 hours last night. I probably would've slept longer had Marcus' alarm not gone off. I thought maybe I had missed the iPod contest on KOSI, but I hadn't. I still didn't win it though. DAMN!

So, tomorrow is the big Christmas Tree Hunt. Should be fun. There are pictures of previous excursions here, here and here! The only bad part is that I have to do two days' worth of dough this afternoon so that I can go. Ugh! Not looking forward to that.

When Marcus and I put up the outside lights last weekend, he accidentally broke the light where I had some of them plugged in. I was looking at it a couple of days ago to see if it could be repaired. It can't because it's really cheap plastic. I had to leave it alone because there were tons of paper wasps hanging around and one even was trying to get into the fixture. I'm really beginning to find these types of wasps to be the bane of my existance. I knew I had to get it repaired so that I could turn my lights on, so yesterday I purchased a replacement light at Home Depost ($3, put it on my HD charge). It was rather cold and windy yesterday, so there were no wasps about. Now I know why. After finding the right breaker in the fuse box and taking the screw out that held the old fixture on, many wasps came pouring out from behind the fixture. I grabbed the wasp spray, but being allergic to wasp stings, I couldn't bring myself to get close enough to spray. So, I asked Marcus to do it before he left for work this morning. Luckily, they hadn't had time to actually build a nest in there yet, so I'm hoping more don't come back before I can get the new one up. That'll be on the agenda when it warms up a little.

OK, I'd better get going. Got to get the house cleaned up and get some of the Christmas stuff up so there'll be room to work on the tree tomorrow. Everybody have a great day!