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Thursday, November 20, 2003

up early, long day ahead

I have a fun filled day in the valley today -- shopping for Thanksgiving dinner, getting a few more presents, and taking the car by the dealership to get a new keyless entry transmitter tag thingie since when my keys were lost they got wet and the one we have is almost ruined and only works very intermittently (so that one becomes T's, and I get the new one, grin). It's not that we're some kind of snobs who can't bear to actually use a key -- sheesh, for the first five years of our marriage we never drove ANYTHING manufactured after 1972 -- it's just that I keep remembering this one time I was in Fresno at night and this drugged out person was following me pestering me to give him money (of which I had none on my person) and that keyless entry thing allowed me to get in my car just in time before he actually reached me. Plus we had already ordered the thing before my keys were turned in.


Anyway. I woke up from a nightmare at 7 am, after having been awake reading The Princess Bride (I LOVE THIS BOOK, and does anyone still believe that S. Morgenstern was real?) until *ahem* 2:30 a.m. I couldn't get back to sleep, so for once in my life I am awake and both the kids are asleep. I feel like I should commemorate this moment in some way. A pester-free shower maybe? except I took one last night. Gonna go wake them up before I decide it's my duty to use this time to wash dishes or something horrid like that...

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