Posts Tagged "September"
I need a large Sony Walkman case
Any ideas? We got Malachai a present today, a new Sony Walkman 8 Gig MP3 player. Why? He has done awesome at school this year, homework getting done (not immediately and not without a fight but no where near the fight it took last year or the year before) so I wanted to reward his good work. Why a new MP3 player? I am fairly certain that his old one is in the undercarriage of the car. Yep. He left it somewhere it shouldn’t have gotten lost (his headphones were still in the car, mp3 player no where to be found) and I will not fault him on that one. If it had gotten lost in the house or out, then no way would I have replaced it. So, we got one on clearance today and I am filling it as I type. Back to the question at hand.
It’s a pretty small device. I’d like something a bit larger for him to keep it in so it doesn’t disappear again. Ideas? I was tempted to knit a cord around his headphone cord (big over the ear types, not tiny in the ear types) and put a little bag on the end so as long as the headphones are plugged in, the mp3 played would just sit in it’s case, attached to the headphones.
That is more work than I want to do today. Knitting a tube around a headphone word just isn’t on my list of “fun” for things to do today.
So… ideas? I can’t exactly superglue it to his arm ;)
Read Morerandom memories
Yah – I grew up on those lanes. Mom stopped working two weeks before I was born and started back two weeks after. No joke. I think I spent more time sleeping behind the counter there than I did at home lol
I had my first crush in that bowling alley. I had my first lots of things in there lol
When I turned… 10 or 11 mom got transferred to another alley in Randallstown (the one on my arm is the Pikesville alley) which I also spent a ridiculous amount of time in. However, the one on my arm is duckpins, not tenpins. I played a lot of pool in them too.
Because you all had to know that.
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I remember the indoor “flea” market they had on bowling nights and the junk I had to have. They used to let me pick the winning 50/50 raffle ticket.
My first real job was as a short order cook at Timonium FairLanes.
Aunt Jackie used to tell me how when I was a baby in the stroller… she remembered one time I was playing with something on one side of the stroller – a nail or something holding it together. I turned to the other side to see if there was one on that side too. She used to tell me she knew I’d be a smartie from that alone. One time Erin’s chair flipped backwards (the Maclarren stroller – it used to do that a lot – unsafe thing!) and she remembered running down from the other end of the alley, mom right behind her, to pick her back up.
Funny things that pop up into mind sometimes.
Read MoreSurreal morning, or just bizarre?
Started the morning by dropping the kids off – nothing new. Then we went to the Mazda dealership to get a new decal for the stick shift. I think ours fell into the bottom of the car (the same place I have a nasty suspicion Malachai’s MP3 player went *sigh*). I knew it would be stupid-expensive. It was even more stupidly expensive than I expected.
Let’s back up. I walk in, and tell the guy what I need and give him the make/model and lo and behold he actually has one in stock. Really? Then he goes on to comment about how expensive it is. Something like, even more surprising is the cost. I said I wasn’t surprised, I expected it to be stupid expensive. I was low.
That freaking decal was 30.06$ after tax.
If it wasn’t so uncomfortable to drive without it in there (it’s an inlay) or if I could have found something aesthetically pleasing to put in there I could have done it cheaper. Oh well.
So we leave the dealership 30$ poorer. Then on the way home we are headed down Wiles. We go through a school zone at 15 MPH. Nothing unusual. We get out of it and speed up. Suddenly we’re stopped again. There is a dog running down the middle of the road. Of course no one wants to hit the cute dog. It turns off down a side street (going home?) and another car turns off with it (to rescue it?) and we go on our merry way.
Just a weird morning.
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