1 post tagged “led lights”

And I thought I was getting off easy because it was just our dryer that died. Buy a new dryer this weekend, problem solved, that's that. Well...

1. Saturday night, we ended up going to a surprise dinner party at our friends' house. When I say surprise, I mean they called us at 5:45 Saturday night. "Hi." "Hi" "How are you?" "Fine." "Are you guys still coming over?" Ah crap. Somehow we managed to not remember, and not even put it on our paper calendar on the fridge. So we threw the kids in the car and raced off to a big monthly dinner party with our friends! I love being a moron in front of my friends sometimes. So humbling.
2. Sunday, after playing piano for my father-in-law's church choir (I do it to play piano for them, not because I'm Christian) and making lunch for a cousin from Calgary who was up for a visit, I decide (with much, much prodding from my wife) that it's the perfect afternoon to put up the Christmas lights on the house. Well, what normally takes me an hour or so ended up taking five intensely aggravating hours, the last hour of which I was working in the complete darkness of night. See, much to my pleasure, two of our relatively new strings of LED Christmas lights were dead. A third died when I was putting it on the house. The whole string, dead. And you know what you can do to fix a strand of dead LED lights? Dick all. The whole thing is garbage. But wait - that's not all - our local Canadian Tire is swarming with everyone else in town who decided Sunday was a great day to put up lights, and guess what -- there were no strings left in the store that matched the size and colours of the ones we had which were now dead. So my wife buys entirely new sets, and I have to yank all the ones I had put up to that point down, and start all over again! Yipee! I was spittin' out Christmas carols like you wouldn't believe, I tells ya. Best afternoon of Christmas cheer ever. 

So there went an evening and an afternoon of "just relax and do some writing" time.

So I'm starting off this week with about 22,500 words. Hopefully I can keep churning out the words on the bus this week, as the bus seems to be the most productive writing spot for me so far.