We survived the alien encounter (of the third kind!) Well, for some
\nreason a couple weeks ago our garage door remotes stopped working unless
\nyou were right up on the garage door. Thinking it was the batteries, I
\nmade a late run to Meijer to pick up a couple… it wasn’t the batteries.
\nAs the week went on, we saw everyone on the block was having troubles with
\ntheir garage door remotes. I went to the township building… they had
\nnever heard of anything like this and sent me over to the police station.
\nAfter talking with the officer, apparently across the river, people were
\nhaving problems with their doors opening and closing at random about two
\nyears ago… but he hadn’t heard of anything like this. He said I should
\ntalk with a garage door installer, which I did. He gave me directions to
\nreset the unit and remotes, which I didn’t think would do anything, but
\nstill I tried… and sure enough, it didn’t work. Dealing with the very
\nshort range of our remotes, one day they started working like normal
\nagain… do dee doo dee doo dee doo…
\nOur local feline friend had a vet appointment not too long ago, and
\nshe’s a little overweight. We bought some special kitty diet food and
\nScout seems to really like it. So much in fact she started putting bite
\nmarks in the bag. We decided to also feed her twice a day instead of
\nleaving one big pile (recommended serving) in the morning. She doesn’t
\nlike this at all. She use to beg for food, now she kind of squawks, and
\nshe knows when it’s feeding time! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
We’ve made a couple of home improvements since the last time I’ve
\nposted… We have a beautiful new bedroom set, that is really friggin’
\nheavy (glad the movers brought it upstairs!) I was the one their when they
\nshowed up and had “some” instructions of how it should be arranged…
\nwe’re still missing the mirror and a dresser, but we wanted what we had to
\nlook nice and be ready for when the rest of it comes. After the mover-guys
\nleft, I set it up to what I thought was right, but once Susan got home, I
\nhad to move the stuff around again. The next day, I ended up moving it one
\nmore time, and the furniture wasn’t getting any lighter! I really like the
\nway we’ve got it now, it’s a little difference, but edgy and looks pretty
\nsweet (I might even get pictures up sometime!).<\/p>\n
The other home improvement we did this past weekend, was getting some
\ncurtains for our living room, and man that was fun (ok, not really…)
\nHaving gone to Linens ‘N Things and Bed, Bath, and Beyond and some other
\nstores I can’t think of, we ended up at JCPenney where they were having a
\nmassive sale on window treatments, yay! After picking out some curtains we
\nboth liked, we waited, and waited, and waited for someone to help us (they
\ndidn’t have the acutal curtain in the store). Finally, we ordered two
\npanels of the heavy curtains and two panels of the lighter ones. We didn’t
\nexactly like the hardware they had at Penney’s so on the way home we
\nstopped at Linens ‘N Things. We found some hardware that we both really
\nliked and thought it would fit our window… when we got home we realized
\nwe needed the longer rod, so back to the store I went while Susan ironed
\nthe lighter panels. I get home only to start installation when the drywall
\nanchors arn’t working out so hot. Off to Pat’s we went, and found some
\nnifty anchors that fold out with a special tool. Well, after tapping the
\ntool a few times, it broke and the anchors weren’t doing so well either.
\nWhat do we need… more power! I ended up making the holes slightly bigger
\nand was able to use the original anchors. I got everything installed and
\nwe put the curtains up… and… one was longer then the other. I was like
\naw crap! I installed the curtains crooked… time to get my trusty level
\nand darn it, it couldn’t be any more level if I tried, whew!! But yeah,
\nthe curtains still didn’t match… We ended up going back to Penney’s the
\nnext day with the goal of getting four panels that all matched in length.
\nIt only took a little more time waiting (it is a sale afterall…) and
\nopening seven more packs of curtains to find a set of four… easy isn’t
\nit? We’re really hoping the curtains we ordered all match once they get
\nhere…<\/p>\n
Oh, and the new job is awesome!!! I’m doing lots of cool programming,
\nand my boss says I’m doing a really good job!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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