Random 5 on 5

1.  I made my first foray into a shop for purposeful Christmas shopping for Himself.  It was one of those stores for men - tools, workshop stuff and general man stuff.  So I was a little out of my depth and wandered about  feeling a bit stunned for a while. Imagine my further confusion when I saw an Old Order Mennonite lady with a cell phone.  Aren't they supposed to have nothing to do with modern technology?  I thought so too but there she was, wandering around talking into this brand new cell phone.

2.  As you may recall, I have been doing some cleaning. When I turned on the vacuum cleaner, it made a weird noise, like something was stuck in it preventing it from spinning around properly.  Oh great, I thought.  That's all I need is a broken hoover.

This is Science Girl's hair.  She had vacuumed her room last week (2 points for that) and claimed she cut it all out.  Um, no you didn't.  It took me 20 minutes to get all this shit out.  And this is what I  was left with:

It looks like I sucked up a small rodent.  I left this lovely pile to show SG when she returned home.  She still maintained that she had in fact cut all her hair out of the machine.

This is a box full of crap found under the furniture:

All of it belongs to Lego Boy.  None of it had been missed or declared lost.  I should have just thrown the whole lot in the garbage.  Maybe I still will.

And then I reflected on a time when we just plugged your tv into the wall and turned the damn thing on.  Remember? We  didn't have all this -

What a mess!  There's the cord for the pvr box, the cord for the dvd, the cord for the wii.  And it doesn't help when there seems to be random cords that serve no purpose like this one:

One end was plugged into the back of the tv, the other just lying on the floor.  At first  I thought I had knocked it out of one of the machines in my vigourous vacuuming.  But nope, after I questioned Himself, it turned out to be just a random cord.  Hell's bells.

3)  Science Girl has applied to her choice of 3 universities plus one out of province.  She's very excited about the next stage of her life and feeling quite grown up.  It's time for her to go but I'm not sure how she'll manage.  For some one who is so smart, she doesn't seem to have much common sense or street sense. 

4) I had to venture into the Next Town to go to the passport office.  I drove around for half an hour looking for a place to park and then drove home.  I hate the Next Town.

5) We were are at Science Girl's Christmas Concert last night.  She plays trumpet in 2 bands and there were several choirs performing as well.  It was thoroughly enjoyable, except for the old lady behind us who talked all the way through and not quietly either.  Jeez Louise, Lego Boy took a book and managed to keep quiet for 2 hours.