It's been a while, I've been meaning to type an entry for about a week, so here goes:
I headed out to the Koinonia reunion/poor man's Christmas, and had a blast. I am the proud new owner of glitter paint, a build a pumpkin pirate set and waterproof matches! On the way there, I got to call 911 for the first time. I got off of the turnpike at route 30 and saw a deer bolt across the road from behind a sign and get creamed by a car (although at first, but how it was running, I thought it was a dog). The deer went spinning into the air, completing a lot of flips and finally landing in the next lane. No one in the car seemed to be hurt, but I called 911 regardless, the deer was blocking an entire lane in a spot that is prone to being backed up anyway. The connection to 911 was crackly, but when they transfered me to the local police, it was fine. And when asked if the deer was alive, I got to reply, "When I passed it, it was still twitching."
McDonald's has a new chicken ranch BLT, that actually looks pretty good. At some point, I may finally have to use my gift certificates and check it out.
There is a house up the street with a lot of Christmas decorations (I decorated outside, and it doesn't look too bad, but kinda white trashy, but is still festive), and one of them is a white, lace seal balancing a ball on its nose. I've never really associated seals with the holiday season, but maybe I'm missing something.
My neighborhood has been having all kinds of water problems recently. The fire hydrant up the street started gushing uncontrollably the same day a water main broke behind my neighbor's house (the back hoe used our driveway!). And yesterday, a water main broke on old route 22. So far nothing has affected our house's water (knock on wood).
I couldn't make it up for Food for Thought, but I'd like to try to come up next semester to perform chicken nugget theater. And even though it's a bit late, here's the traditional finals week link: Kitty Cannon!
It was on Family Guy, and I've talked about it every now and then since, but did you know that when you combine iced tea and lemonade, it's called an Arnold Palmer? I never knew that, nor do I think I would ever go into a restaurant and order an Arnold Palmer.
The Army has a new commercial and aside from the new pixilated camo they're using, the last shot shows the nametag on a soldier's shirt…Salazar. I wonder if anyone has told them…
I've been looking for a Rolling Rock Santa hat for a while now (we sold out of them at G. Thanks and never got any more), so I headed to Jo-Ann Fabrics and picked up green and white fur and mom and I made one. It came out really well, we have a few kinks to work out, but it looks really cool.
Cat and I went geocaching yesterday. We had all kinds of problems with the GPSr, it wouldn't updated which way we were pointing (but would update our location occasionally) so we ended up doubling back, climbing a lot more than we needed to, and generally bushwhacking when it wasn't needed. I saw on the news this morning that there was a major eruption on the sun and the radiation sent to earth is affecting cell phone reception, power grids, satellite television and yes…GPS devices. But after we found the cache (near an odd sort of furniture graveyard featuring a bedroom set as well as various kitchen appliances), we did the typical reading of logs and swapping of swag, and I also released a travel bug. The United Nations sent them out to raise awareness for Diabetes, and it's on its way to Pakistan (the UN set the goals, not me, I was thinking, maybe it could go to NYC…but apparently, the UN had other ideas). The lesson we did learn though was that whenever Cat or I would tell the other to "make sure you don't die," the other would promptly fall over or injure themselves in some way.
Ok, I think that's all. I'm going to an ordination tonight at my church (first one I've ever been able to go to), so I will catch everyone later!
