Do not buy Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie Oreos unless you have greater will power than I do. I used to buy Oreos for a lunch snack for the kids and later just to have a form of dessert in the house that I could resist overdoing. I never cared much for those basic Oreos. Dave would eat a single cookie for a dessert, or maybe a couple if they were homemade. But these PBPOreos are so tempting I should never again buy
I just came across this letter written to Marilyn on her birthday, a while ago. I wonder if the writer ever located her daughter.
...I find this term not only annoying, but aggravating, and for no apparent reason: the word "rising" placed before a student who is about to advance to another level or grade. "The very talented student is a "rising senior" at Happy Valley high." Just reading this makes me shudder.
MTV, the music channel of the day. The older two were in college and Danny, at about 11 years old, really wanted MTV. Finally, to his delight, I subscribed to it.It was in the fall and David had come home from Syracuse for vacation and he brought his small TV with him, connected it, and watched it while he was home, and then packed it up and brought it back to college.
So Danny had the opportunity to watch MTV for only several weeks when it came to an abrupt end. I had driven Danny to a soccer game or practice and when we came back home, the MTV channel was no longer.
The fall weather had gotten rather chilly, and on this day our septic tank had backed up. I think there were 2 parts to the outlet from basement to tank and one of the sections had telescoped into the other. The ground had to be dug up and Dave was the one who had to do it, an unpleasant task by all accounts.
Dave was outside digging on this raw and rather miserable day when a guy from our TV company, Time Warner or whatever it was before Spectrum, pulled up and approached him on the side of the house. Back then things were different, and it seems the customer paid per how many TV's were installed per house. The TV company guy said his sensor detected another tv set in our house, and he would need to go into the basement to inspect the connection. Dave was not about to get involved in that, not at this time. When he said no, the guy said then he would need to get the service (Yikes, that meant MTV) disconnected.
Dave, still involved in the digging process, said, "I'll save you the trouble, and, shovel in hand, smacked the outside box, severing the connection.
We arrived shortly after, and Dave recounted the tale. No MTV. Danny was absolutely horrified at the loss of what he had so recently gained. Horrors!!!
All was not lost though. When I called the provider, right away, I said I wanted to reconnect the service. The person I spoke to said they wanted it just as much as I did. So a happy ending with the moral, "Don't challenge a man with a shovel in his hand, especially if it's full of s**t.
The other day I was playing the Spelling Word game. The letter in the middle was C and there was an H on the outside, so started with chop, change, chock, chunk, chink...The site won't let you use non-words on the site; the words have to be spelled correctly to count. They notify if word is not accepted. But why the site would not accept "chink" is a mystery to me. I'm sure I spelled it correctly.
He responded quickly, I'll grant him that, whether as a member of the online Services Group I'd contacted, or whether he jumped on their site, I don't know. Anyway, he appeared in person: polite, soft-spoken, and knowledgeable about what yard services should be done, and how he, and his staff, would do them, and quickly too, starting the very next day. While he was in the process of preparing an estimate of cost, for which he'd taken detailed notes as he toured the property, he offered some advice:
When I said I'd had some work done previously, by a local advertiser, he said he knew of him, and commented that all that guy does is ride his mower around the lawn for an hour or so and then charge for that. In truth, that was exactly what had happened. I mentioned another local company, a relative of a friend. He advised me not to call them as "they did bad work." Maybe true, as they're no longer in business. His final piece of advice was not to hire his brother Dwight---he'll overcharge you, he warned.
Turns out that the brother, Dwight, who also advertised his services, was the same person as David, who was warning me against him.
I did pay him a rather considerable deposit, as he said he would need to pay expenses for whichever of his employees he sent out for the job. He had a credit card device, so I charged the amount. I had no difficulty later cancelling the charge.
