My Birthday

Your Birthdate: July 24

Born on the 24th, you have a greater capacity for responsibility and helping others than your may have realized. You may also become the mediator and peacemaker in inharmonious situations. Devoted to family, you tend to manage and protect. This birth date adds to the emotional nature and perhaps to the sensitivities. Affections are important to you; both the giving and the receiving.

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HP and the chocolate factory

Friday evening J and I went to B&N to pick up the wristband we needed to get our pre ordered Harry Potter and the half blood Prince. It was very busy but there was a lot going on. As we entered the shop we were given HP specs then we got the wristbands with the date and an owl on it. As we explored the shop we had our photo taken and made a wand!! J got some tattoos and I got a HP poster. It was still early as the books were not to be handed out until one minute after midnight. so J and I decided that we would go see Charlie and the chocolate factory. The show that we wanted to see was sold out so we had to see the 10:45 show. This is the latest I've ever been to the movies!! It was very good. I had'nt seen any reviews, only really went as Johnny Depp was in it and he was very good. Made me think of Micheal Jackson!! The Oompa Loompas were much the best part of the movie, very cleverly done as they were all the same person!! The movie finished at 12:50 so we went straight over to B&N to get our books, not much of a line now, so we soon had HP & the HBP tightly in our grasp! As we walked over to the car a passerby jokenly said we should be careful that our books would not be snatched from us as people were so desperate to get copies, which had been a thought going through my mind too!

busy

S is back from his work trip to Oregon. So now he is fixing J's alternator belt on the Volvo. Getting in a right tizzy as the stupid Kragan guy gave him the wrong belt, which ofcourse he did not realise until he was blue in the face trying to get it to fit.
Next he is rebuilding the column on the front porch, which is a major job. lots of wood working, sawing and 45* angles to do. It looks grand now. Just needs a coat of paint and it'll be as good as new.

knickers

Just before going to get dh from the airport I asked ds to vacunm the floor. when we got back he had started but had not finished as the Dyson had stopped working. Dd's friend Stan offered to help fix it. Much to our amusement and A's embarrissment. Stan unravelled a pair of J's very skimpy knickers from the rollers!!

freezer

Just filling up the freezer with the weeks shopping when I realised it did'nt feel very cold. At first I thought it had blown a fuse and then I remembered that ds had a friend round the night before who needed to charge up his battery with our battery charger. Ah Ha I thought, did those idiots unplug my freezer?. I called down A and asked if he had unplugged anything when helping out his friend. Noooooooo says he, but I'll just go check. Surprise. He came back from the garage saying it was all fixed now. good thing it was the end of the week and only had bread and a few now soggy chips in it! Boys!

airports

Had to wake up at 4:00am this morning to take S to the airport.

porch saga continues

J took our van to work today. S worked on the porch. A sat at his computer all day and played world of warcraft. I did a pile of ironing and got S's clothes ready for his business trip, fed everyone at fairly regular intervals and did some scrapbooking.

J's car broke down on the way to work this afternoon. The traffic to the fair was so bad it had taken her nearly 3 hours to do the 10 mile drive and that was mostley in the last 2 miles!! Luckily she managed to pull in to a garage before the car stopped altogether, one more set of lights and she would have made it to work!! But instead she had to call out AAA to tow her home. S is being stubbon and refuses to look at the car insisting that the porch column is more important.

Termites

S discovered a damp spot on the column supporting our front porch, thinking it was just damp from over spray from the lawn irrigation, he pulled back a slat and found termites. so that was the end of any ideas that we might do any geocaching this w/e.

Where the surf meets the turf

We went to the Del Mar fair this evening and saw Bill Engvall. The kids have seen him on blue coller comedy. It wa OK, typical American humour.
We had fish and chips from one of the stands before the show and looked around the exhibits afterwards.