This time last year, we were getting ready for this:
But I might not actually get anything posted tomorrow, so I wanted to mention it today. It's amazing how much can happen/change in a year. Otter's gone from being a teenage high school student to about to start her sophmore year of college and she's not a teen any more. 'Scuse me while I go catch my breath!
Froggy, you probably know exactly what I mean.
Otter's off with HP and his family this afternoon, there's a local annual event that is kind of a cross between the fair (strange food and fun displays but without the rides) and an art show. She was excited about the presence of a car from the latest series of Batman movies. Hopefully, she'll get to see it. I saw it the other day, I was on my way back to work and it was being put back in the 18-wheeler that it travels in. My Batman obsession is only topped by my Star Trek obsession, and Otter is very much her mother's daughter on both counts so she was hoping to get to see the car. If you can call it that, it's a strange looking beastie. It's not the car from the 60's tv series or the movies from the 80's/90's. It's also not very big. If she gets to see it, and remembers to take pictures, I'll probably get them posted here. Eventually. This time, she did remember to put sunblock on and she also took it with her to reapply as needed. Red heads and sun exposure don't make a good combination. The last time we went to the State Fair, we forgot the sunblock and she was pink-on-the-way-to-red before we realized it. We wound up buying her a parasol to use to keep the sunshine off of her (very pale) skin.
This is a good example of my day:
I didn't actualy get IN the fridge, but I did stand in front of the open back door while the cool morning breeze was blowing through and then I stood in front of the fan in our bedroom. I saw a cute joke: Global warming is really just mother nature having a hot flash! No, we don't believe in either global warming/climate change or mother nature. But it was funny. (I have been known to stand in front of the open freezer on occasion.)
It's been a warm day today!
Otter and I ran a couple of errands this morning, including taking a trunk load to Goodwill to donate. Of course, we had to shop while we were there. :) Otter found a couple of movies on dvd that she wanted. I didn't find anything, but that was ok with me. I was too warm to really be in a shopping mood.
Bill saw a listing on Craigslist for a pachinko machine at a garage sale. It was literally on the other side of Tulsa from us, we live outside of Tulsa. But it was a nice drive, the traffic on a Friday at 1:15 is not bad. He got the pachinko, and I got another stuffed armadillo for my accidental collection. And the seller was a fellow TEXAN, so it was nice to get to talk to another one of us.
Then we came home and had chili. Always good!
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