свети минаFriday 5: Alarming

1. What was your most memorable alarm-clock failure?
I will say this morning’s alarm clock failure because I obviously remember it best right now. Vernon’s alarm kept going off at the wrong time and he was having to reset it, but for some reason it went off 800 times at the wrong time, and of course it didn’t make a peep at the time he actually set (or tried to, anyway) it for!
2. What item recently in the news do you find most alarming?
I read today that 3,000 fish were found dead in a local pond here. Could you imagine?!
3. Of car alarms, burglar alarms, and smoke alarms, which do you consider most effective or useful?
Smoke alarms. I don’t have any experience with burglar alarms so I can’t really speak for that one but some of my coworkers cars were broken into about a year ago, all equipped with car alarms and not one of them went off.
4. If the shoplifting alarm is tripped as you exit a store, what do you do?
I look around to see if anyone is going to tell me to go ahead or if I’m okay to go, if no one acknowledges it, I just keep walking.
5. If you owned some kind of personality alarm to warn you upon first meeting someone of likely trouble in the relationship, what would be five qualities you’d set it to detect?
Lying, no sense of humor, selfishness, sticky fingers, andddd, ummm, a crazy family? HA!

Vernon and I were up late last night, and although it was a really good night I am regretting it today! For some reason his phone kept ringing at 5 o’clock this morning and it woke up Lo, who wouldn’t go back to sleep which of course meant I had to get up, too.

I feel like I’m running on about 3 hours of sleep (give or take) and I don’t know if I’ll be able to stay awake much longer. Lo needs a bath, I still need to get our neighbors some info on 5th wheel insurance (I just love being the only internet savvy person on our street), pick up around the house, do the dishes… I could go on for a while. I don’t know how much, if any, of this stuff I’ll get around to. After all, it’s Friday night and we don’t have to be anywhere until tomorrow evening. I’ll just do it tomorrow.

To top off my tiredness, I have a not only a stomach ache, but a headache as well.

I’m having a great night! As much as I love spending time with Vernon and Lo, having some time to myself to sit on the couch, paint my toenails and watch Jersey Shore is so good for me.

After work I talked to Vernon’s dad and helped him look up some information on his disability insurance, then headed outside to play with my little girl. Like most 2 year olds, she’s crazy about bubbles. When we were at the fair, one of the vendors was selling an awesome bubble gun for $8. That seems like a lot for plastic toy gun, but if you saw Lo in action with this thing you would agree that it was a great purchase! It lights up and makes noise and shoots tons of bubbles. When we bought it at the fair she was walking through the crowd shooting everyone with her bubble gun and it was the cutest thing!

Anyway, I need to get back to my nails! I’m painting them “Dream On” by Sinful Colors. It’s a really vibrant purple/pink. I am really lusting after “Charisma” by Zoya. Zoya is my favorite brand of nail polish, if you haven’t had the joy of painting your nails with it, definitely get on that!

This pretty much goes to show how little Vernon actually listens when I’m talking, because all this yapping about going to the fair? It was the wrong fair! The fair that ends today is the Williamson County fair, which I was confusing with the Wilson County fair that I’ve always been wanting to go to. Vernon looked at me like I was stupid, but it’s like …hello? I’ve only been talking about the WILLIAMSON COUNTY fair for like two weeks now!

Personally, I would’ve loved to go to both, even if he says Williamson County’s fair is piddly.  Anyway, I’ve been browsing around for a new receipt printer for work and I’m almost thinking I’ll get the Epson TM-T88V as a five-year (anniversary?) gift to the office. We opened five years ago this month! It’s hard to believe I’ve been working there my entire adult life, practically! I’m hoping replacing our old crappy receipt machine will butter up my boss for a nice 5 year raise, ha!

Tiaras and rings: How much jewelry do you wear on a typical day?

I typically wear my engagement ring and another ring on my right hand. I always wear big earrings, my nose ring, and some bangles!