Go forth and fill your libraries with media.
Seriously, thanks to everyone for being so amazing and patient. You are the reason I love Vox.
I was just told that the Amazon Conduit will be fixed by tomorrow. I will post here as soon as I get word that it's back up and running.
I know this has been frustrating and I am sorry there wasn't more I could do to make it less so. I really appreciate your patience though.
Cheers,
Get your free download of this most excellent boppy fun song.
Includes lines like "others try topping us, keep coming up short like Webster Papadopolis"
You can get the "unwashed version" which I think includes Chase Utley's parade F-bomb.
Well, here it is, let's see:
Thanks for the free download and the great song!!
Also, thanks to Arbed for alerting me to this awesomeness from someecards:
Okay, it's anti-cat but it's still funny. I liked the part where he was talking about what would happen if there were seeing-eye-cats.
I know, "Cats for Clunkers" doesn't really make sense for this, but don't give me grief about it, I didn't make it up.
Hello Vox! I've missed the neighborhood feel of Vox over on my WordPress blog, but keeping up with you all in my Google Reader is working quite well. In case you are interested, here's what I've been up to and what you're missing since I'm posting at bookishlyfabulous.wordpress.com now. If you missed my last post about moving over there, add me to your Google Reader (or whatever RSS reader you use) if you miss me. :)
I've started running, and I'm planning to run a 10K on Thanksgiving Day. I ran the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure last Saturday in my grandmother's memory.
I've posted book reviews of:
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
And I gushed about the movie Bright Star.
Bad news. As many of you have probably noticed, the Amazon Conduit was not fixed in the last week's release. Unfortunately, there was an undetected bug that is preventing the conduit from working.
We are working on this bug fix and hope to have the Conduit back up and running this week.
I will keep you posted.
Thank you for being so patient.
What a week this past week has been!! Here's a short recap..
Tuesday I took another PTO mom with me to Sam's Club to do shopping for our Fall Festival. PTO was providing and serving all of the concessions. We were planning on serving Nachos, Hot dogs, Popcorn, Cotton Candy and various drinks as well as having some candy on hand. Since I'm the only one on PTO that has a Sam's Club membership I had to do the bulk of the work. Of course it didn't help that the one PTO mom that offered to go with me is our Raging Alcoholic PTO mom..so I'm not sure she was entirely useful that day. We got what we thought we needed purchased and I took it all home to store it until Saturday.
Thursday I got a call from PTO president that apparently we hadn't purchased enough food. So off she and I went on Friday to Sam's Club again. You ever known someone that you just can't take shopping with you because they want to buy everything in the store? That would be PTO President. We went in there for more Hot Dogs and Buns and came out with Hot dogs, buns, chili, more candy, a coffee machine, and a cash register..LOL.
In all honesty the Cash register wound up being a great purchase..it's small and light and very easy to use. It also makes my job as treasurer easier since the journal feature automatically tallies all of our sales and tells us exactly how much should be in there after it's all over. It was good to have for the Fall Festival and we'll get a LOT of use out of it in the years to come.
Saturday was our Fall Festival. I arrived at the school with all of our food, every crock pot I own, and other various items at 8:30 am sharp. The festival was scheduled to begin promptly at 10 and I knew that if we were using crock pots to heat up the nacho cheese and chili that would take at least an hour. Unfortunately NOBODY was at the school at 9am. I had to call the principal to let me in so that I could start setting up concessions. The other ladies arrived about 30 minutes later.
We had some serious electrical issues with all of our crockpots and one of the PTO ladies had brought two large electric roasters for cooking the hot dogs in. We didn't realize that you couldn't plug all of that into one surge protector. Even after splitting them into two different surge protectors we still blew breakers and melted one of the cords.. Eventually we got it all worked out and going.
Fall Festival was a success. We sold out completely on Nachos an hour before the festival was over. Bart brought the boys and they had a blast.
After I got home from Fall Festival I collapsed into bed to take a power nap. Bart woke me up at 5:30ish and told me that he had just gotten tickets to see Widespread Panic and The Allman Brothers Band at the Woodlands Pavilion.
Initially I was cranky and tired and not prepared to get straight into the car, then I remembered most of the people there would be unwashed hippies so I just ran a comb through my hair, threw on some sweatpants and a tie dye and grabbed my hippie sweater. I fit right in and the show was great.
The funniest part was that when Widespread Panic went off stage and The Allman Brothers came on the cloud of Marijuana Smoke could have been seen from space. I seriously think we all got stoned just from sitting there.
This morning I made a trip to the grocery store, and immediately went back to bed, which is where I still am now. I am literally just wiped out today. I have slept most of the day or dozed or just laid here....Tomorrow begins yet another crazy week... At least I have all of my meals planned for the week....two days this week the Crockpot will be doing all the work. LOVE the fall!!
I'm off to make some dinner and make sure the kids clothes are ready for school tomorrow.
Hope everyone had an awesome weekend!!
I know it's only October, but everytime that dreaded year end listmaking comes up I draw a blank. Every year WXPN asks you to send them their list and then have a drawing for something, usually a bunch of the top CDs, maybe an iPod.
So here are MY FAVORITE (that means no arguing that I'm wrong, because I'm right) of 2009 so far. Subject to change depending on if anything I like better comes out in the next 2.5 months, or if I get into something I hadn't heard that came out before, of course.
They aren't going to be in order excpet the ones I like best and listened to the most will be at the top, lesser listened to toward the bottom. The top 2 are my runaway favorites of the year.
Illinois--The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe
Mexican Institute of Sound--Soy Sauce
Kinky--Barracuda
Empire of the Sun--Walking on a Dream
Art Brut--Art Brut vs. Satan
Gomez--A New Tide
Sondre Lerche--Heartbeat Radio
Andrew Bird--Noble Beast
The Church--Untitled #23
Okay, that's 9. I scrolled back through my music and couldn't find much else. I hate the top 10 of the year because I rarely find albums the year they come out unless it's an artist I already know and love. And sometimes I just put them on the list because even though I don't think it's their best effort (see Kings of Leon Only by the Night and Ryan Adams Cardinology...) I put them on the list because I know it's still better than half the shit out there. Sometimes I just put stuff on the list because I've heard a few songs off the album. Anyway, the only reason I'm doing this is so I have it for later and also because I am procrastinating doing housework.
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Can't wait to read your posts!
~ daisy
