the good, the bad...and the ugly

we'll start with the ugly and get that out of the way. Stupid Packers.

Ok, I feel better now. The bad? The Bears. Damn they kicked ass today. I hate them.

Whew, that sounds negative, huh? Ok, on to the good!

Volunteered at a benefit today for some area tornado victims (we had a lot of them hit here a month ago.) There was a concert, raffle, and silent auction. Oh, and a dunk tank that a couple co-workers got to participate in. That was fun! I dunked a co-worker. It wasn't legit (i ran up and hit it with my hand) but it felt good anyway! I also bid on 500 square feet of red oak flooring (installed) but I lost out. I had that same co-worker upping my bid after I left, but the person that won bid $1500 right at the end (which is still probably a good deal for that much hard wood flooring installed). My feeling is that I at least helped get the bid up to a good amount, and helped raise money for a great cause.

Other good? Tony Shalhoub won an emmy. I love that guy! "Monk" is hilarious! Yes, predictable. But so dang funny! "Lost" also won some emmy's, including best drama. It starts up again on Wednesday, and Dave and I are so psyched! If you haven't seen it, you can do a catch-up Wednesday at 8e/7c before the season premier!

We did some more handy work this weekend. Had to go to the store for a spline tool. Nope, I didn't know it was called that either. It's the "roller" that's used to put screen on the patio door. So we get there, look for this tool we don't know the name of, and can't find it. The guy in the patio door section called Willard at the paint desk, asked him where they were, and sent us to him. We got there, and some young guy was mixing paint. We said we needed to talk to Willard, he had the spline tool we needed. He said "they're not here, I'll show you where they are" and proceeded to walk us to the aisle we first looked. We said "Willard said they're over here" and he said "do you need to talk to Willard specifically?" and I said "No, but they're supposedly over here, the guy in patio doors called to ask." well, apparently we didn't know what we were talking about, so we continued our walk. We got there, and he said "Oh. They're not here." We walked back to the paint desk and he called Willard. Sure enough, they were in a cart near the paint desk. We finally got our spline tool and proceeded to the checkout. What happened to "the customer is always right"? It's long gone. Anyway, it was a pain-in-the-ass process, putting new screens on our doors. I shouldn't say that, it's a pain in the ass to put the doors back on their track. We ran out of screen about 2 feet from the bottom of the 2nd door, so we have extra screen taped to the bottom. It's temporary though. We're gonna replace the whole screen door. (it did provide some entertainment though. the tape fell on the outside and was hanging down. it was very funny to watch Blu try to get it!)

ok, time to go check the blogs i frequent. thank God (the blog God anyway) for bloglines!!!