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Archive for January, 2009

You know when you get receipts at stores and restaurants, they sometimes have those surveys that you can fill out within the next 48 hours and you get entered to win a monthly drawing of $1,000?  Well, I ALWAYS fill those out – or call the 800 number if I have to.  One of these days I’m going to be a winner!  So you can send in your self-addressed stamped envelope for a list of winners and it’ll say January 2009 winner: Roni!!!

G used to make fun of me but after doing them pretty religiously and having to listen to me declare, “I’m going to win!” each time, he is half-convinced I really AM going to win.  Ha… persistence actually does pay off.  Who knew?

So for a while, I’ve been keeping a working list of things I’m going to spend my winnings on.  I need to update it frequently  because I list things down that sometimes I need sooner than others, so I get it and have to replace it with something else.  Wanna see my list?  Too bad, I’m posting it anyway:

1. An Amazon Kindle
2. Thermolon green pans
3. Chamois duvet cover from Pottery Barn Kids
4. New black pumps
5. For Baby Mochi: Twin blanket
6. For Big Mochi: Make your own Monster
7. Annual passes to Knott’s, but maybe not since G’s getting Disneyland passes instead

38) It’s not a good idea to eat anything with red sauce when you’re wearing light colors, or drink anything dark.  In fact, just don’t wear light colors if you can help it. 

Yesterday I come home from work and flip through the mail and you’ll never guess what was there!!  A jury duty summons!  For me!  Sooooooo excited!!!

First, let me give you a quick history: I’ve been a licensed driver in So Cal since I was 18, registered voter, etc. so that’s what… over 17 years?  (Do your own math)  Anyway, all this time I have never EVER been asked to appear for jury duty.  There was even that one humiliating time when I had a free day between temp jobs so I drove down to the courthouse to see if I could appear, and they told me, “We are always short, but it just so happens today we don’t need anyone.”  That’s right – not only was I never invited, I volunteered and was REJECTED!  Shunned, denied, eschewed, snubbed, rebuffed, the only kid in class who doesn’t get invited to a party, etc.

So I bounce happily in to work this morning and declare glowingly to my boss that >>>I<<< was asked to appear for jury duty.  I had to go in for my big speech about why I was so excited and after confirming that I really am okay, that I don’t have to be mentally evaluated by a professional, he asks me simply, “When?”

Hmm… then it hits me: I was so excited, dancing around with my invitation, that I never really actually READ the thing.  Huh.  Oh well, something to look forward to tonight.  Ooh ooh ooh!  Maybe I’ll get sequestered!  Holed up in a hotel!  With room service.  No kids!  No work!  I can sleep without having to get up to chaos!  Oh, the possibilities!  And now I don’t feel like so left out! 

Day 3 of the Year of the Ox is turning out to be pret-ty darn good!

On the way to Big Mochi’s school this morning, we drove past 1 of the 2 crossing guards who sits on a corner in a folding beach chair wearing her usual flourescent orange jacket and matching hat, her stop sign leaning against her legs.  Big Mochi asked me why she was just sitting there and I mentioned she was waiting for kids to come by so she could help them cross.  Fascinated by this, she listened as I explained that the crossing guard wore bright colored clothes so drivers could see her easily.  It was her job to hold out the sign signaling cars to stop while she helped kids who were going to school cross the street safely.  And since no kids were around, she deserved to sit down and wait to do her important job.  Then Big Mochi asks me, “Mommy, how come you don’t do this job?” and while I was thinking of an appropriate answer, she said, “Is it because you don’t know sign language?” 

Get it?  SIGN language?  *sigh* Guess you had to be there…