Nothing About Nothing

I didn’t realize it’s been four days since I’ve been here. I guess time’s just been flying by without me noticing. Eh, it happens. Besides, nothing much as been happening lately. I went to Ty’s school on Thursday to watch him give his biography presentation. His class decided to present it to the parents. I was there, as was Paul, and about eight other parents. There were 22 kids giving reports. It was longer than I expected; but entertaining. Listening to some of the kids try to pronounce some of the words in their report was amusing. Did you know that George Washington was assigned to head up the maliteeya? That’s militia for those of you thinking about it. J It was cute.

Now Ty’s got a personal timeline project due this week. We finished his yesterday. It required pictures. My printer isn’t working, nor is my CD burner. I was at a loss as to how to get photos for him. We picked 12 different photos and all we needed was a wallet-sized print of each. I signed up for Snapfish to get some printed at the local Walgreens but that was a no-go. I get 20 prints for free but they have to be 4x6. I didn’t want 4x6.

So I called CVS, which is around the corner from me. The girl I spoke with said that I couldn’t order wallets on the Internet but I could bring them in on a disk and print them in minutes at minimal cost. Since my burner isn’t working I couldn’t do that either. To order wallets from the Internet I had to order each photo as a wallet bundle – four prints of each photo. I didn’t need four of each. Besides, each wallet sheet cost $1.00 and I wasn’t paying $12.00 just for this project.

I called the CVS girl back and asked if I could order the 4x6s and have her adjust the size in the store. She said they weren’t allowed to change an online order. I was stuck. I was even getting annoyed and angry. This was a school project; how was I going to get the photos? Could I email them to myself and print them at the library? Could I put them all on one 8x10 sheet and upload them to CVS and just get one large print of all of them together? Then it hit me. DUH!! Since there were only 12 photos, and a page of wallets is a 4x6 sheet, I made three collages of four prints each. I saved each collage as a single print and uploaded them to CVS only having to order three 4x6 prints. It worked and it only cost me $2.00. Plus they were ready in an hour. I’m so proud of me. Ty got to finish his project and it looks fantastic.

Anyway, I know I’m just rambling so I’m going for now. I’m having too much fun watching TV with the kids. I really only get to watch grown-up TV during the day; at night it’s either Nick At Nite or Disney Channel. I actually enjoy watching some of the shows: “Wizards of Waverly Place”, “Good Luck, Charlie”, “Suite Life on Deck”, “Big Time Rush”, and “iCarly” are the shows we watch most. They’re not really good, although I do like “Wizards” a lot, but they allow me to escape from the real world and enjoy being with the kids, and relax. Gotta get back to “iCarly” now because Sam is cat-napping the petographers’ cat, Harmoo. I’m not explaining it, though; you’ll have to catch it yourselves.

Until next time…peace to all.