Just My Rambling

2 more days and it will be the end of 2011. It is just unbelievable! Then it will be January 2012 and I am pretty sure that before I realize it, summer 2012 will be here. That means camping season will be here before I know it. This week I will have to get started booking campsites for our summer camping. Those popular campsites are usually booked up at least 6 months ahead. This year I am eying a few campsites that we were not able to get campsites because we booked too late. Hopefully I am not too late this year again. I will also have to start looking for good deals on camping equipments. There are a few that needs replacing. I am even thinking of getting a welding gloves for DH so that his hand does not get too hot from the campfire. We will also need to replace our tent since our old one has started leaking. I am really looking forward to another fun camping season this summer.

Ugh! I do not like spam. No, not Spam as in the food but spam as in the unwanted soliciting mails that floods my email every day. Lately I have been receiving a lot of mail about free online dating sites and other things that I am not interested in. Sometimes I wonder where the sender gets their mailing lists. Luckily I have separate emails for different purpose and the spam usually floods those emails that I set up for fun. So when I get start getting too many unwanted mails, I will just delete those email account.

What is your least favorite household chore? For me, it’s cleaning the house especially the bathroom. I don’t mind cooking or doing laundry but cleaning, that’s a different story. If I ever go back to work, the first thing I would do is to hire a cleaning company to clean my house every week. For now, that is a luxury that I can’t afford. Maybe I should make everyone clean their own bathroom and maybe I should get a new hair loss shampoo because there seems to be hair everywhere especially in the bathroom! Sigh… time to stop whining and get back to cleaning.

I love free kids meals especially now that Lil’ C has started ordering her own meals. For the entire month of August, you will receive one free kids meal with the purchase of one adult entree. The deal is only valid from 4pm to 10 pm.

One more day before summer vacation starts! Yay!!! That means camping season is here. So far we have booked a couple of campsites and a log cabin for this summer. Even though the log cabin was a little more expensive than we had hoped for, I just couldn’t give it up. I love log cabins and all its rustic furniture. If I have a choice, I would love to live in a log cabin instead of a house but I don’t think that’s ever going to happen unless we move out to the country. So I guess I will have to rely on my summer vacations to enjoy my log cabins for now.

Can you believe that summer is almost here? School will be over in just over a month. I am in the middle of planning our summer activities. I have decided that I am not going to send Lil’ C to camps. Instead we will do Vacation Bible School and lots of camping. I have booked a couple of camping sites already and hopefully a couple more bookings next week. I have also been secretly checking out rv for sale because I really want an RV! Unfortunately we won’t be able to afford one right now. So it will be tent camping for now. I can’t wait for summer to start. It will probably zoom by just like this past year.

It’s done! Finally the school auction is over. We had a great time at the school auction and raised a lot of money for the school but I was exhausted from the preparation. Somehow I got involved in the making of the centerpieces for all the tables at the auction. Since it was a carnival theme, it was right up my alley with my obsession for all things cutesy. I ended up with a popcorn box centerpiece which turned out really cute but I had to spend the entire week making chocolate balloons and chocolate party hats for 25 tables. There were many long nights spend in the kitchen. I look so tired after the whole ordeal and probably need some prototype 37c and lots of sleep to get me back into shape again. Would I do it again next year? I think I will have to think twice as hard before I say yes again.

On this vacation, I noticed that cars here are very expensive, especially imported cars. I really don’t know how people pay for their cars here. Even a simple Toyota costs more than $100K. Granted that if I convert that to USD, it is not that expensive but if a person is earning local currency, it is definitely very expensive. I wonder if car parts are expensive too. I won’t be surprised if Ferrari parts cost as much as a car here. After this trip, I am so appreciative of my car and not complain about it again.

That’s what I feel these few days. Eveyone is rushing here and there. The roads have been so jammed with cars these 2 days. I am sure that everyone is out there trying to finish shopping for the holidays. I know that everyone is trying to get to their destination as soon as possible but I really wish that some people would drive more carefully. Yesterday I saw a car almost hit some construction worker because they were driving too fast. Luckily the construction workers were wearing safety vests, so the driver saw the bright colored vests and managed to stop at the nick of time. It is such a crazy time out on the roads. I think I will just stick to online shopping this year.

It looks like we are back to the normal Pacific Northwest weather this week. Wet and cold! Last week was an unusual week because it was freezing cold and no rain. I remember one day the temperature even dropped down to 13 degrees. While that might be normal for some states, it is definitely not normal for this area to be that cold. It was so cold that my outdoor cushions got frozen. I think it might be good idea to bring in my outdoor furniture just in case this freeze decides to visit us again.