Christmas Day

I hope the day finds you warm and happy! Here's a run down of today's adventures:

1. Drank Peruvian Christmas Hot Chocolate
2. Opened Presents
3. Read Tales of Beedle the Bard all the way through
4. Made Onion and Leek Tartlets
5. Ate Onion and Leek Tartlets (nom nom nom)
6. Decided to go see Frost Nixon
7. Got the car stuck in the unplowed driveway
8. Dug the car out with a garden spade
9. One of my tires was so flat it fell off the rim
10. Changed flat tire
11. Put car back in parking spot.

Of kicking, scraping and sweeping

I hesitated. I knew snow was coming but honestly I didn't want to pay $20 for a shovel knowing full well I would problably never use it again. The last time it snowed more than 6 inches in Portland was something like 1964. So can you blame me?

This morning when we opened the door and snow fell INTO the house I decided to give up. I called the only hardware store within walking distance:

Guy:"True Value"
Me: "Hey! You're open yay!"
Guy: "yup"
Me:"So do you have any shovels?"
Guy:"::snort:: I wish."
Me:"::despondent sigh::"

Come to find out it's really rather difficult to shovel without a shovel. Mostly I swept off the top layer, kicked off the middle layer and then used my car ice scraper to clear to the pavement. Then my ice scraper broke. I probably should have used it on my car first and the pavement second. ::sigh again::

Radiation shmadriation

For the past year I've been dealing with super crappy cell reception in my house. If I wasn't standing next to my bedroom window at the exactly correct angle I wouldn't get any reception. It was killing my battery as the phone spent all day looking for a signal. But yea! A few days ago I realized that my phone was ringing even though it was in my coat pocket far away from any window. A few days later an explanation appeared in my mailbox as an article on the local weekly the Sellwood Bee. The article was about people complaining about the new cellphone antennas that have been placed on taller telephone poles. Meh...at least my phone works now.