Nice app. Let’s me put in a whole mess of photos. Hope it resized them.

Test.

He looks sick don’t you think? Went to school anyway. Cutie girl!

Sent from my iPhone

Well, the time has come to stop pussy footin’ around and get me an iphone. I took part of the day off and I’m not going home without one. Unfortunately, getting up at 5.30am got me to Tyson’s Corner mall (the only place on the apple availability checker* that still had 16G phones) at about 7am, and shortly after I arrived, the nice Apple guy came out and said they have plenty of 8G phones, but only a handful of 16G. Not enough to get to where I was in line. He also said they expected a shipment today but who knows when, how many, what, etc. I sat in line for a while longer, but then I got to thinking that as long as I was waiting around for a shipment anyway, I might as well head down to Fair Oaks and wait for *their* shipment. Fair Oaks is more accessible (Vienna is a mess to drive around in, so much traffic) and whenever I do get my hands on a few 16G iphones, James is going to have to meet me, and Fair Oaks would be easier for him.

*Just a note on this apple availability checker: The real one, on apple’s site, is only accessibly after 9pm. One night while I was sitting waiting for it to be 9pm so I could check it, I thought, “what if i just turn my clock forward?” Which I did. And it showed me the availability. Someone else noticed the same thing and put it in the page I linked to above, so you can check the availability anytime, not just after 9pm. I have double checked it’s accuracy by calling stores which the checker said had phones in stock, and it checked out, so this checker is pulling actual store inventory, and not estimated shipping or anything like that. Good stuff!

So I left and zipped down to Fair Oaks and am currently lounging in one of the loungey areas, right in front of the apple store. Nobody else is here in line, even though the availability thingee says they have the 8G in stock. Guess everyone wants the 16G! (Whoops, my bad, that is Pentagon City that has some 8G. This store is completely sold out.) I’m going to be hanging out here until they either receive some, or I see in the availability thingee that another store has gotten some in, in which case, I’ll be zipping on over.

In anticipation of getting the iphone, I’ve been reading up on it, downloaded a few iphone podcasts, etc. which has only served to make my iphone fervor reach MANIA level.

Wish me luck, because I AM GETTING AN IPHONE TODAY!

James and I did a drive by our local AT&T store this morning and saw there was a decent sized line, about 40 folks. We kept on driving to work, hoping to go out later today and avoid the lines.

BUT I WANT ONE NOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW!

I’ve been using james’ old Treo 700w since my phone got ruined (and it still doesn’t work, after many man MANY days of drying out) and I have to say 2 things. The damn thing never rings EXCEPT WHEN I’M TESTING WHETHER OR NOT IT WILL RING, and solitaire is way too addictive. At least when I was addicted to sudoku I can rationalize it away because it’s good for your brain. Solitaire probably KILLS brain cells with it’s mindlessness. AND YET I CANNOT STOP PLAYING IT.

WANT. I. PHONE.

I already downloaded a crapload of applications already! Last night in fact, at 1:30am, because I could not sleep! Because I was too excited! ABOUT THE IPHONE!

OK, that isn’t true. I couldn’t sleep, but it wasn’t because of the iphone. HOwever, when I was laying there trying to sleep and trying not to look at the clock to calculate how many hours of sleep I could get before my alarm went off BUT ONLY IF I FELL ASLEEP AT THAT MOMENT, the iphone played a recurring theme in the brain that is me.

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WANTY!

IMG_1213, originally uploaded by crazymokes.

MARS!!

OK, not mars. Ethan’s kindergarten class went to Skyline caverns at the end of the year. I went with them as a parent helper. This is a shallow pool where the ceiling is reflected on the surface of the water.

As you may or may not know, I stash things in my bra from time to time.

Yesterday I worked from home, and when quittin’ time came ’round, I made up some PBJs, tossed some grapes in a tupperware, filled up some water bottles, and stuffed all the various swimming paraphenalia into a bag. I went upstairs and got my swimming suit on, went downstairs grabbed all the stuff, stuck my keys and my phone in the top of my swimming suit and took off to get the kids. They were very excited to go to the pool.

And of course, I forgot about my phone, in my suit, until after I was in the pool.

It’s dead now. Completely defunct.

I am eligible to get a new phone but they’d probably try to lock me down to a 2 yr contract and James and I are eyeing the new i-phone. I know we shouldn’t get them, because aside from the $400 bucks for 2 phones, the monthly bill would be a lot more than we’re paying now because we’d have to add a data plan for each of us. I get mad at our cell phone bill NOW and if we got iphones it would be $60 BIGGER.. Grr.

But with no phone now, and the new i-phone coming out in 2 weeks for only $199… Well, I’m making no promises.

The saddest part? Whenever I got a new phone, I was going to keep this one to be my bedside sudoku game phone. Hmph.

-amy

I’m working from home today.

It’s nice that I can save on gas now and then.

Our basement furnace/ac has water pooling underneath it. Not happy. They should be out here soon. Hopefully the drain is just clogged up or something.

I’d rather use the gas then have HVAC woes. I don’t like HVAC woes. They are woeful.

Whenever I work at home I turn on the TV, plop myself on the couch to work on my laptop while I watch reruns of sit-coms I’ve seen a bajazillion times. It’s like background noise. A year or so ago, I was all about Friends, but lately I’ve been on a Scrubs kick.

Well, I’ve gone through all the Scrubses (it’s top of the list lately).

All the Sexes in the Cities have been watched and deleted too.

I went looking for other old shows that I love to put on the Tivo’s Season Pass. Did you know that Clean Sweep is no longer running on TLC? What is that about?? I hope it’s just because it’s on a break or something because that’s a great show. What if it’s cancelled? I know google could answer these questions for me, but that would be too easy. Much better to wonder aloud on your blog to the internet.

Luckily I’m saved from no-background-noise-in-the-form-of-old-tv-shows-while-working from an old saved Sound of Music. The hills are alive, yo.

Anyone else love to watch old shows they’ve already seen a thousand times?

(I also love to re-read books I’ve read a thousand times. I’ve gone through many many copies of the Anne of Green Gables series.)

-amy goes to get her nuked food out of the microwave. AND THEN SHE EATS IT. RAWRM-NUM-NUM!

(I’M SORRY PETER WALSH! IT’S ALL MY FAULT FOR TAKING YOU OFF THE TIVO! FORGIVE ME! IF YOU PUT HIM BACK ON TLC, I’LL WATCH EVERY DAY I PINKIE SWEAR!!)

Ethan has a book called the “Train of States.” Each page is dedicated to each state with pictures of notable things about that state. Each page has the state flower, tree, bird, motto, nickname, capital etc. along with anything else interesting about that state.

Along the top of the Pennsylvania page is a row of notable folks from Pennsylvania from early american history, one of which was Benjamin Franklin.

Ethan: Who’s that?
me: Benjamin Franklin.
Ethan: What’d he do?
me: Well, he did a LOT of very cool things. He was the man who invented the light bulb! (and yes, as soon as I uttered these words I suspected I was totally wrong and of course I was, sorry Thomas Edison!)
Ethan: WOW!
me: Well, actually [backpedaling] I don’t think he invented the lightbulb. But he WAS the man who discovered ELECTRICITY!
Ethan: Mommy! He was the one that turned the OLDEN DAYS into the NOW DAYS!

That one totally floored me. The olden days = days before electricity! He’s kind of right 🙂

About a week and a half ago now, a very strong, though brief, storm came barreling across the DC area. I listened to the radio as I was driving home, and it was a doozy, but passed through the area pretty quickly. It only took about 10 minutes to go over my office, and by 20 minutes, the skies were bright again.

But in that 10 minutes, much havoc was wreaked – all OVER the place.

On my way home a tree was blocking an entire lane on Lee Highway in Merrifield:

An old building on Prosperity had the roof completely blown off:

That white wall behind the wreckage? That’s the building it blew off of.