Check out Pandora

If you like music this is a really cool website. www.pandora.com
You put in your favorite artist or song and then it picks music for you and creates your own radio station. And it's FREE! As you hear songs you can thumbs up them or thumbs down them and it will remember that you like or don't like them and pick more music for you. Wonder if you could totally confuse it with too many up's and downs? LOL!

Better than the Kirby Man?

A while back Julie mentioned the Kirby man and I think we've met his twin brother the Water Man - nicknamed Yahoo. We invited in 3 water people to test our water and recommend a system the weekened we moved in. We knew we had sulfer. So we called the person our inspector recommended, Mark called some Yahoo from the phone book and we met the Culligan man at the fair. Yahoo comes first and says we have sulfer and it is creating bugger slime in the toilet tank. No duh. We knew that. Water is hard, etc. Inspector dude comes and says the same thing. Culligan man is actually a lady and she says the same. Of course all three tests are quite different in numbers. So inspector dude and Culligan recommend different chlorination systems with carbon filters to take the chlorine back out. Yahoo recommends some other system that Inspector dude says will plug up right away. Yahoo says chlorinators make your basement moldy. Ever hear of a dehumidifer? Yes, they work amazing I know.
Since Inspector comes highly recommended we go with him. Yahoo is mad we didn't choose him and he calls Friday night to yack my ear off. Very annoying to the point of harrassment. He calls on Mark's cell phone and asks for me! Then Saturday we are in the middle of trying to clean out the office and some new guy shows up. Uninvited may I add! I made Mark answer the door not really knowing who it was. Turns out he's been sent by Yahoo to sell us a $7000 Rainsoft system. Go blow air bubbles buddy! They don't even work for the same company! What the heck? After he introduces himself he heads back to his car to get his kit. At this point I tell Mark I am not dealing with him that I'm ummm... deaf - yes that's it - I can't hear. Awful lie I know, but I can't stand this anymore. I hate water people! Leave us alone - there are many ways to deal with sulfer and ours is really not that bad. It's very mild honestly. So Mark says he will get rid of him if I let him take a nap. DEAL! The guy never made it in the house! YAY! I'm so happy!
And Mark was such a sport - he never took that nap!

random stuff in a box

so.... no I am not done unpacking - not even close. Why is this taking so long? Other than having killed a whole tree to pack our house I am finding random boxes with random items. The last box is the reason for this blog. It could almost be called a party box. Great for being stuck in a hurricane - which we did not get in the end. Just a bunch of rain. Ok, back to the box. It has 4 random bottles of alcohol - one of which I will be cracking open for dinner. Rum punch I believe - looks like Hawaiian Punch so it much be good. It also contains 2 rolls of shelf liner, a set of tools, olive oil sprayer, 2 candles and several kitchen brushes. WTF? Mark says it is probably the leftover box. I found it in the office with boxes of books. Uh huh, weird I know. If only I had my camera! That is still MIA too. We are getting really close to being unpacked actually. The living room, kitchen, dining room and bathrooms are pretty much done. Except for the random boxes I am finding....

Hurricane Hanna

Mark informed me last night that we might have our first hurricane in NY. Huh? You're kidding right? Hanna is expected to hit tonight and tomorrow. Now I still have way too many boxes to unpack so the thought of it raining and us not going to the Army game tomorrow is fine by me. I can also sleep in!!! So this morning Mark calls to tell me it's "busy" at work. That means people are buying lots of groceries. Huh? Oh yes, the hurricane is coming - silly me. I think it's a bit of over kill - I mean how many blizzards and snow storms have I lived through? I did hear that Long Island (over an hour south of here) might get some "winds" on the radio - no mention of how fast those winds will be so that leads me to believe maybe 40 mph or something silly. The DJ's were actually laughing about it. They must not get many real storms around here or something. I'll be sure to take pictures of this one!

TV Time

So we have a new cable provider - Time Warner. Now that I have the remote control figured out we are good to go - I couldn't figure out how to use it so I wasn't watching TV unless Mark turned it on. Finally asked him last night how to work it. Well you push the power button. Duh - but I swear it didn't work for me when I did that. So now I can watch TV and smooth packing papers. Woohoo! So like most of you I'm struggling to find something good to watch - you know there is NOTHING on TV right now. We did some channel surfing last night and low and behold we have two local 24 hour news stations. One is great. NY 1. Live news all the time and it's not just New York, but pretty close. They even have a team at the Republican Nat'l Convention. And with our remote you can do live voting on issues. what fun! Not sure if it works or not, but I pushed B for the heck of it.
The other news station is the Hudson Valley News station and let me tell you it's just like 9 & 10 News out of Northern Michigan, but better. Hilarious! The weather man has the biggest puffiest eyes I've ever seen in real life and his hair is surely not a wig, but should be! It's almost like watching the comedy channel. We ended up watching Wipeout, which I've watched a few times and find funny. It's way better than the RNC. I mean who wants to hear about some crazy pick of a VP when you can watch people get sucker punched in the face and then fall in mud or bounce off the big balls. Crazy people. It was the last 15 minutes where they try to jump on the big rotating wheel and end up in foamy water. I hope it wasn't soapy tastying foam. My guess is those poor suckers are really sore the next day. oh, yes back to unpacking....

We Survived!

and no there are NO pictures just yet as that would show a mess of boxes and papers waiting to be flattened. I was warned they would wrap everything and thank goodness they didn't wrap each piece of silverware individually as what we had to unwrap was more than enough. Spent at least half the unpacking time uncrumpling the paper things were wrapped in or I would have been trapped in a house of crumpled papers! So I would say we are 60% done and actually ate dinner at our dining room table on Monday night. woohoo!
We didn't just work all weekend as there was some play - Mark got his new "toy" delivered Friday and that meant it needed to be tested out. I got to drive the Deere too when I helped put in the mail box post. Mark is becoming more and more handy thanks to the internet. He printed out instructions on how to put in a mail box, installed it and then helped out some poor guy at Lowe's when we went back to pick out a better box. We also went to a football game at West Point Friday night and picked apples, nectarines, and plums on Monday afternoon. Sunday we went to a BBQ at the neighbors - Saturday??? hmmm.... oh yes, dealt with three delivery people at once. They never show up on a time and then they show up all at once. So it's back to work for the week - that's a good break!