Jason was mostly off from work today, although he got called in to get his yearly evaluation. We were going to try to get some more yard work done, but we never got to it. We a good chunk of the day trying to get our taxes done. Normally we would have done them by now, but since he hasn't had a say off we were stuck.We also took Hannah out to lunch at Girasol, the local Mexican restaurant. We are friends with the family who owns it, and they were extremely happy to see Hannah. She ate a plate of rice and some crackers while eyeballing everyone. She got a little fussy right before we left, but otherwise she did great. She was full enough that by the time we got up to WalMart to do the taxes she went to sleep.Tomorrow is our four year anniversary, so Jason and I went out to dinner tonight since he has to work tomorrow (...go figure). He took me to Edo Hanna and he got some Kobe beef. It was really good. I got the Japanese Fried Chicken and a Cowboy Roll. After eating, we ...
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hmmm…another weekend project
I was working on doing the laundry today when I noticed that it sounds like there is water running under the house again. From the sound of it, the outflow pipe for the washer broke...which isn't too bad since I've been waiting for an excuse to get Jason to replace it anyway. The current pipe is probably almost as old as the house and is too small for the washer. As a result we end up with more water shooting up and onto the floor than what actually goes down the pipe. Also, the way the pipe is run is off the wall crazy, so that also contributes to the problem. I tried getting a hold of Jason earlier in the day to tell him, but didn't get an answer. I hope they don't have him out there watering plants or running a register. His boss can be such a dick sometimes.We also need to try to work on the rain gutters/overhang some more as well. I don't know when that's going to get finished since Jason never has a day off. ...
the super scary bubble blower
Hannah has been having a blast chasing bubbles around lately, so I though I would get one of those cheap battery powered bubble blowers. I figured she would have fun pressing the button, and I wouldn't be getting too out of breath from blowing on a plastic wand. I found a neat looking one for $3 at WalMart (a.k.a. hell), and she was all excited.Once I got it out of the package, I showed it to her while putting the battery in. I then pressed the button so she could see the little foam fan spin. She started giggling and immediately ran over and got her other bottle of bubbles off the table. Once I got that away from her, I filled up the little dipping tray that can with the blower up and sat down of the floor. Hannah walked over with a big grin on her face and started doing her little happy dance, so I pressed the button on the blower.The bubbles had just started coming out when she let out a scream and took off running across the living room crying. I sat there dumbfounded as ...
weekend plans ruined once again
We had been planing on taking Hannah out to the Four Winds Renaissance Fair tomorrow. Some friends of ours has a Celtic band and is playing out there for the duration of the fair. However, Jason found out yesterday that his boss (store manager) is going to make him work the entire day out in the garden center. He said it's a punishment because Jason still hasn't been able to hire enough people. Jason has, it's just that the boss keeps running everyone off or ends up moving them to another area of the store. It's absolutely ridiculous. He's only had two days off in the last four months. I'm praying that something opens up so that he can transfer out or something. ...
walking and running…sort of
Hannah has been getting more and more mobile the last few weeks. Right now, she's able to walk short distances and has been able to go a lot faster in her walker/car/thing. Yet, she's still not satisfied...so now she's trying to run. Watching her try to run is so cute. It look like a bit of a crab walk, followed by flopping onto the floor. She does this repeatedly for a while before she gets fed up and starts crying. All I can tell her is that she'll get there eventually.She's also cutting in her first molars, so she's been very cranky a past few days. ...
crazy few days
The last few days have been crazy. Jason actually got a few of his days off, so we spent much of them running around getting stuff done. Hannah finally figured out how to walk around in her walkie car/ship thing as has been tearing around the kitchen yelling 'zoom, zoom, zoom'. She taken a liking to taking stuff out of the dishwasher imediatly after I put it in the rack.Late last night, the intake pipe to our water heater broke and we came close to having the kitchen and dinning room flooded out. Apparently the pipe has been leaking for quite some time, causing some of the flooring to sink...a lot. It also created a bit of a hole. All the water ended up running under the house. The pipes were fixed this moring, but at some point we are going to have to replace the heater and fix the floor. We'd do it this weekend, but something else has come up, or in this case come down.The rain gutter on the back of the house has finialy decided to fall off, taking what's left of the wood ...