hide-n-(sensory)-seeking

I spent two and a half hours on the phone yesterday evening with an incredibly skilled and patient customer service representative, fixing the problems on my computer that I have been struggling with for several months now, and spent $80 to have only partially fixed elsewhere. The problems themselves were caused by a different and abhorrently unskilled and impatient cutomer service representative, who failed to really investigate and troubleshoot a minor error, and instead felt the best way to kill a spider was to blow up the house. Well after blowing up my computer, the error was still there! Because, of course, the problem wasn't the house, it was the spider, which happened to be in the yard! After hours, litteraly of searching, looking up technical terms, and scouring forums, I not only identified the problem, but also solved it. Great. I now had only one thing on my computer working, while everything else was either missing, not not working. I attempted several methods to ...

Scene: Victor is is the recliner. Zak is sitting with him, mostly on the arm of the recliner. They are playing games together on Victor's phone. Victor: Is that a patch in your jeans? Zak: Yeah. Victor: Huh...did your mom put that on? Zak: (sort of snorts) No! Mommy never puts patches on! She just buys new pants. Well, not new pants, but Goodwill.  These are hand-me-downs. He made me laugh at the spot on truth of his statement. Yup. I've yet to meet a pair of pants that can last longer than two months on that boy without wearing clean through the knees. That's too often to be hauling out the iron just to fix something he's going to shred again by the time I turn around. Almost all we have ever gotten with patches already there he managed to tear through around the edges of the patch anyway.  We keep a couple good pairs for when we go out and holes are innapropriate, but at home, he can wear the ones with holes. At $3-4 per pair, that's letting a boy be a boy wi...

Grace wanted an art project to do. Something different. Don't ask me how this popped into my head, but it turned out be the different she was looking for. Supplies are easy and mostly things everyone has on hand with one exception. The colored cellophane sheets were something I had ordered from Amazon not to long ago, we don't always just have these in the house. I suppose craft stores might also sell it. Supplies: Two sheets of paper (Any color, but we chose printer paper because it is a bit thinner which makes some of the cuts easier.) Good scissors. Crayons, markers, or paint. (Grace wanted to use crayons) Tape or glue. (Grace wanted to use tape) Colored cellophane sheets cut into various sizes in select colors. 1. Decide ahead of time how big you want your hanging "window" to be. 2. Place the two sheets of paper together and fold them in half together short-ways. 3. Outline the outer edge of your "window"...

There once was a baby, who planted some seeds. She watered the soil, and sunlight it needs. When little spouts popped up she jumped, overjoyed. Then dumped out the soil and the greens, she destroyed. True story. :)