Monthly Archives: November 2007

I went for a walk today, even though we barely hit 40 and it was sprinkling/trying to snow.  It was more rain, but you could see it trying to snow with a spit here and there, nothing to stick but it was cool to see.  It was refreshing and it smelled good.  I hope that it isn’t raining too hard tomorrow so I can do it again.

It did actually snow today.  It was great to see even if it all melted.  I guess it is suppose to snow this weekend, but that reminds me, I need to see what elevation we are at.   When they talk about the weather and snow it determined by that.  Since we are going to become “natives” here I need to get my lingo correct.  =)

Wow, that is a weird concept……….being from any one area…..that is not normal for me.  Harold grew up in Indiana, so he is from there.  I grew up moving around, claimed Alaska because I felt the most home there even though I was in Indiana for almost 15yrs afterwards, they weren’t my formative ones.  So give me a couple of years to become knowledgeable and settled and then I can actually claim that I’m from Oregon.  =)
Then it was another day of a few errands.  Along as it is not a bunch that take forever, I’m now seeing it as a way to get out of the house and get some fresh air.

Throw in some laundry washing and attacking some online prep work.  It was pretty productive day.

Harold got his passport!  Hot damn!  Now can someone explain that after all that security on verifying who he is and they sent it priority mail?!?!  Why was it not register mail and required his signature?!?!  That is pretty oxymoron on their part.   But at least he has it and it is locked in the firebox.

Now if I could get my birth certificate stuff from the State Department……….ggrrrr  I’m going to get supplemental/substitute stuff that they are asking for from my mother (my parents birth & marriage certificates), just in case my birth certificate is not here when I get back so I can get it sent out.

Well, it is about time for me to attack my bi-monthly work project.  =)

My 1st project of the day was to get the Oregon tags for our truck. It went much easier then I thought it would. Unfortunately, Oregon is a 2 tag state. =( I had to remove our Purdue tag from front. We needed a new one anyway, it was a 2001 Rose Bowl one, but it was our Purdue. So that was the sucky part about it.

Harold talked to a friend the other day and found out in some areas you are required to have chains in your vehicle. Of course, I hadn’t had things like that since I was living outside of the Chicago area with all that lake effect snow. So I saw a Napa Parts store and stopped to get some info. They carry our size and you get them in sets of 2. And I asked if this area required them and they said yes, so when I get back from Indiana I’ll have to see about getting them and teaching myself how to get them on again……doh It has been a long while.

Called State Department to find out the status of my birth certificate and that was completely useless. I called about 2pm their time and no one answered. I let it ring for over 5 minutes! What a bunch of morons……….gggrrrrr

I took the truck for an oil change the other day. Ended up with a little more work then planned. But since I don’t remember the last time we had the radiator fluid flushed out since it was watery looking and with much colder weather coming, it was the best thing to do.

I got all of my cards mailed off today. I had to bag them up to carry them……….lol

I had to pick up some cat food and wandered around for a little bit looking at the xmas stuff. It is my favorite time of year, but I’m of 2 minds this year. I really want to get into the spirit of it and just enjoy myself. I have so many happy memories of it. But I really don’t have an outlet for having the holiday spirit. When I visit my family I’ll have it. I want to start listening to my xmas music, but won’t until the 1st………starting it too early ruins it and keeps it from being special. I don’t know what my mind is thinking…..it just keeps going round and round.

When I got home from my errands I got quite a bit of online work that I was putting off. So far I’m caught up. Some how I need to get the motivation to finish up a few receipts that I have left to put into quickbooks. Just want to get it done before I leave for my trip.

It has been cold and rainy, sometimes the sunny peeks out. I’m really waiting for it to snow some……..you can almost smell it in the air. I want to go walking around the neighborhood at night to see the xmas lights I saw folks putting up the Friday after Thanksgiving, but I want it see it in the snow. For the last 3 holidays, there wasn’t a chance of seeing that in Florida so I would love to see it here………even though you almost never saw it in Indiana. It was just very, very cold and windy for the holiday. =)