Author: The Jody

When did my to-do list become so long and my time so short? I have piles of laundry, including bedding, the bathroom to clean, dusting and vacuuming to do, flowers to buy and plant, the deck to clean and stain, etc. etc. etc. Oh, and I have to go return something to Linens N Things. I *did* get all the upcoming birthday presents purchased last night, but will need to buy or make cards and wrapping paper. Whew.

And that list doesn’t even include work-related stuff. Or fun stuff. Junior wants to play with one of the neighbors after his swim lesson, but that requires me to just hang around while they play and not get ANYTHING done.

I am so tired of watching crappy cartoons. Between Nickelodeon, Toon Disney, Boomerang and the Cartoon Network, I’m overflowing with the danged things. Luckily Junior is reaching the age where live people on the television does not equal grown-up shows anymore. Of course, that means we’re watching old reruns of ABC family sitcoms like Sister, Sister and Boy Meets World on the Disney Channel, or the Amanda Show on Nick.

Someday….someday…

Feel free to visit the Guest Blogger’s website. He’s a friend from way back, and he took time out of his busy theater schedule to entertain YOU!

Someone on an Anthony vs. Greg chat board found my earlier posts about Anthony getting married and linked to me. I’ve gotten quite a bit of traffic from that chat board today, so I just want to say to those folks “Blue Rules, you silly Yellows.”

There, now I don’t have to bother signing up for a membership to that board.

More on my lawn (are you tired of hearing about it yet?) Funny thing happened on the way to finishing it. Turns out that the problem wasn’t me forgetting to recharge the mower, or the mower being “broken” (my 2nd thought); the outlet I was using blew a fuse. And the other outlet I tried to use ALSO blew a fuse. My dad and I could NOT find anything in the fusebox that connected to those two outside outlets, so I’m kind of stuck. The interesting (not) thing I found out while looking for a support phone number on the Black & Decker site (while I still thought the problem was with the mower) is that this model has a recall on it. So maybe the fuse blowing was God’s way of making me find the recall notice so I don’t set anything on fire. Of course, it’s very rainy and the grass is practically growing while you watch it, so having to drive a billion miles to leave my mower off for a week to be fixed is NOT SOMETHING I AM HAPPY ABOUT.

Normally when I’m this ticked I would spend some money on something and feel better, but there’s a distinct lack of money in my house. So I’ve just added items to my Amazon Wish List and pretended I was shopping. It has pretty much the same calming effect.

I’m posting this map of the resort link so that I can show it to someone tomorrow, but I figure you guys wouldn’t mind seeing. This is the Caribbean Beach Resort at Walt Disney World. We were in Aruba building 55. Actually, if you look at the little picture of the building, we were in the part that faces the empty area, which is actually dense with trees, etc. So we faced the woods, and it was VERY quiet. It was a 10 minute walk (approx) from that room south to the bridges and island that cross the lake over to the Old Port Royale Center. That’s where the theme pool, bar, gift shop, boat and bike rentals and restaurants were. Or it was only 2 minutes by car.