I still have to take apart Patty’s television and fix the part where the cable plugs in. Patty did something and that part is bent, so when the cable is plugged in the screen has a lot of static on it. It’s really terrible and I don’t have all the materials needed in order to accomplish the task myself. I believe Jo might have volunteered.
Eddy’s hand me down television, which was older than him, finally died, and we had to get a new television. I ran up to Wal-Mart, found the television that I needed for cheap, and got it. I found The Bourne Identity, but it was in full screen, so I am still looking for it in wide screen.
I was carrying the television with both hands and the employee at the door started yelling that she needed to see my receipt, so I did what I always do… I kept walking. She kept screaming and hollering like a mad woman. It would have been humorous, but I was too busy carrying a rather awkward television. Stores don’t have the right to treat me like a thief.
I grinded in making waffles last night, because I was up and had nothing else to do, and I got it. The problem was pretty simple, and it was part stupid and part something that comes with experience I guess.
The stupid part was I wasn’t really following the directions well enough. I was making the batter too runny and that was causing not only a mess for me to clean up, but also the waffles didn’t come out right at all.
The second part was just timing. I just needed to really get a feel for when I should pull them out. I nailed it. Grandma and Patty already had them, and Eddy would have surely been invited down if I could pull him away from the cartoons for five minutes, and they said they were excellent.
I dinged.
My Grandmother and I are now on the Family Plan with AT&T and we have phones being shipped to us. The cost of the equipment if we had gone through the AT&T website, which is cheaper than over the phone, would have been over $300, and instead I got it all for $77 going through Amazon.com.
My Grandmother, for whatever reason, really wanted the pink Sony Ericsson Walkman phone. That seems really trendy and what not, but she really wanted this phone. I don’t know. Maybe when she’s at church in the morning all the other old ladies and gentlemen pull out their cell phones and they are cooler than my Grandma’s, so she needed to upgrade to something flashy.
I on the other hand have gone way over and beyond any phone that I’ve ever owned and purchased the AT&T Tilt. This phone has all the buzzwords that you could possibly have heard in the past year. Touchscreen, full Qwerty keyboard, wifi, bluetooth, GPS, Windows Mobile 6.1, and probably some other things that I am not aware of right now. To be honest I don’t even know to what extent I will be able to take advantage of all these features. I just wanted them. I was going to get a phone with GPS anyway, and my choices were pretty slim, so why not go for the gusto and get all the features I could ever want or desire.
I am so glad that the phone issue is finally resolved.
I have been trying to make waffles with some advice from Rick’s mom. Not Rick, like Rombus, but Rick who we usually call Private Rick, so we can keep them apart. We have three or four Tim’s so that gets more complicated.
Back to trying to cook waffles. I got myself a waffle iron from Target, because Wal-Mart doesn’t sell waffle irons that would be worth it, and every other place is ridiculously expensive, so I got that. Then Rick’s mom told me to get pancake mix from the grocery store, but you have to get the one with waffle mix recipe. I got a generic box, because while I’m practicing I don’t want to ruin anything expensive. I have everything I need, but I keep managing to screw it up.
Some day I want to get good enough that I can make blueberry waffles and maybe ones with apples. I think you can use muffin mix as well, but I think that’s too sweet. Plus it feels like cheating.
Speaking of cooking…
Renee can cook. She made chicken and shrimp burritos. They were fantastic. There was also a fried rice and cheese side. She even bought all the ingredients. I have been able to give her a hard time and tease her about being able to cook, but now she actually did and it was awesome. Even better? There are leftovers in the fridge so I can have another one tomorrow.