I was in Wal-Mart last night and saw the new Krispy Kreme 'fresh shop' that opened today. It really broke my heart to see it. Really it is nothing like a Krispy Kreme. Instead of having a display of doughnuts for sale they now have a store front to buy them from. It's not even like a mini store with seats and stuff. Nope really just a line you walk through.. while hearing the constant ringing of the cash registers, the bright lights, the blue smocks. They aren't even hot and fresh. What kinda Krispy Kreme experience is this. I would recommend boycotting. To get a real Krispy Kreme doughnut we will still willingly sacrifice over an hour of our time to drive to Roanoke!
FYI: Special Doughnut of the Month: Pumpkin Spice Cake
Stop by between October 13 and December 28 for a taste!
wireless 'wireless' FINALLY!!
Posted in on 10:07 AM by Jilian
Yes you read correctly. I put the D-LINK PCI card into my PC last night and it worked like a charm. Took about 5 minutes. Restored my hope in computers :) Now we just need to get one in Brenna's computer and we will no longer have to hurdles wire's in our hallway!! Now if I can just get this fan into my PC I can close the box be done with it :) I can see the light!
igloo status
Posted in on 4:49 PM by Jilian
Oh yeah.. I forgot to mention. Gas people came by friday. Turns out the pilot light on the furnace was out, one of our theories. Monica asked the guy where it was so if it happened again we could light it. His response... just call us.. it's way under hte house in the crawl space. Hmm.. cool with us.. we don't mind being damsel's in distress. So we have heat now! WOOHOO!! (not be confused with wahoo)
catch up time...
Posted in on 4:36 PM by Jilian
hmm.. I guess I'm supposed to do this everyday... so it's not so much to write at once. I will work on that :) This will be the abridged version of the weekend.
Thursday night - blond moment of the weekend. So I head down the road to Wytheville and get to Applebee's right on time.... 6:30. Go inside and wait for Jill. About 6:45 it's gettin more crowded so I go ahead and get a table and order us some water's. Thinking she went shopping beforehand and is running a bit late. Then I start thinking so this is how people feel when they have to sit around waiting for me when I'm late. As it gets closer to 7 I start worrying she was in an accident. Yes in a normal situation like this one would call the friends cell phone.. problem.. Jill doesn't have a cell phone!! About 7 I get a phone call.. it's Jill calling from a pay phone...
Jill - where are you?
Jil - I'm here
Jill - You're here??
Jil - Yeah I'm at Applebee's
Jill - Applebee's?? We're supposed to meet at Ruby Tuesdays!
OOOOOPPPPS!! Yep.. totally my fault :) But still.. the moral of the story.. JILL needs a cell phone :) HAHA!!
Friday morning.. house now at 55 degrees!! Yeah we live in an igloo. I got on the road an hour later then planned... which is pretty good for me :) Stopped in harrisonburg and ate lunch at Mrs T's Bagel Shop (I think) with Jessie. It was fun to catch up and hear all about college life! Hit up Khol's to spend a gift card and picked up some new pillows. You know you are gettin old when you spend birthday money on common household needs! Then stopped by to see Carly and Kenzie on my way into town.
The 'family' weekend was great. My dad parents were down from WI. My grandma is doing awesome and recovering will from her stroke last month. Josh, Chrissy and Cris all got to town saturday afternoon. Alta (the original) and Olive (great aunts) came to dinner saturday night. Paul, Brenda, Carly, and Kenzie came by for dessert. (not yo mama's banana puddin) Watched DC United play to tie against Columbus. Cris loves watchin soccer :) haha. Spent some time in the hot tub sat night... mom broke out the tripod. Mom diving into the hot tub before the picture takes was a great tripod initiation experience for Cris! haha. My unlce Mikey stopped by for a bit on sunday. Brats and Sauercraut for lunch.. mmmmmm! Cris and I took Carly to Frontline (church) sunday then to Outback for dinner. She mentioned us adopting her :) haha. She is always entertaining! Next trip home is going to include some quality time with Kenzie.
Came back to an ID payday lunch at Shakers this afternoon. Always entertaining :) Solving the worlds problems.. one at a time! You all know this already.. but I'll remind you.. (ID) ROCKS!! :)
Thursday night - blond moment of the weekend. So I head down the road to Wytheville and get to Applebee's right on time.... 6:30. Go inside and wait for Jill. About 6:45 it's gettin more crowded so I go ahead and get a table and order us some water's. Thinking she went shopping beforehand and is running a bit late. Then I start thinking so this is how people feel when they have to sit around waiting for me when I'm late. As it gets closer to 7 I start worrying she was in an accident. Yes in a normal situation like this one would call the friends cell phone.. problem.. Jill doesn't have a cell phone!! About 7 I get a phone call.. it's Jill calling from a pay phone...
Jill - where are you?
Jil - I'm here
Jill - You're here??
Jil - Yeah I'm at Applebee's
Jill - Applebee's?? We're supposed to meet at Ruby Tuesdays!
OOOOOPPPPS!! Yep.. totally my fault :) But still.. the moral of the story.. JILL needs a cell phone :) HAHA!!
Friday morning.. house now at 55 degrees!! Yeah we live in an igloo. I got on the road an hour later then planned... which is pretty good for me :) Stopped in harrisonburg and ate lunch at Mrs T's Bagel Shop (I think) with Jessie. It was fun to catch up and hear all about college life! Hit up Khol's to spend a gift card and picked up some new pillows. You know you are gettin old when you spend birthday money on common household needs! Then stopped by to see Carly and Kenzie on my way into town.
The 'family' weekend was great. My dad parents were down from WI. My grandma is doing awesome and recovering will from her stroke last month. Josh, Chrissy and Cris all got to town saturday afternoon. Alta (the original) and Olive (great aunts) came to dinner saturday night. Paul, Brenda, Carly, and Kenzie came by for dessert. (not yo mama's banana puddin) Watched DC United play to tie against Columbus. Cris loves watchin soccer :) haha. Spent some time in the hot tub sat night... mom broke out the tripod. Mom diving into the hot tub before the picture takes was a great tripod initiation experience for Cris! haha. My unlce Mikey stopped by for a bit on sunday. Brats and Sauercraut for lunch.. mmmmmm! Cris and I took Carly to Frontline (church) sunday then to Outback for dinner. She mentioned us adopting her :) haha. She is always entertaining! Next trip home is going to include some quality time with Kenzie.
Came back to an ID payday lunch at Shakers this afternoon. Always entertaining :) Solving the worlds problems.. one at a time! You all know this already.. but I'll remind you.. (ID) ROCKS!! :)
thursday :)
Posted in on 5:33 PM by Jilian
Thanks REX (joey) for inspiring me to set up a blog page!! Obviously I wasn't doing real well with my altajilian site updates :)
So I have 22 minutes til I am out of work for the weekend! I am heading down to Wytheville to meet up with Jill C for some dinner, shopping, and catching up. It's been too long!! Tomorrow morning I am heading up to Fairfax for some quality family time with a pit stop for lunch scheduled in Harrisonburg to catch up with Jessie (a Hardee's Party grad). The grandparents are in town from WI so all us kids are heading home to hang out. I can't wait. It will be the first time we have all been together since my VT graduation two and a half years ago! I am sure there will be some good stories told :)
Hmm.. so my story for the day. I woke up again to a 64 degree house.. even though the thermostat is set to a toasty 74! We decided there is definitely an issue with the heat... I called RAINE'S and they sent someone to look at it. Apparently our thermostat needs to be recalibrated... which isn't going to happen today. Hopefully tomorrow. My plan is to crank it up to 90... then maybe it will be 70!! haha. Unfortunately another night of going to sleep dressed like I am ready to go play in the snow!
So I have 22 minutes til I am out of work for the weekend! I am heading down to Wytheville to meet up with Jill C for some dinner, shopping, and catching up. It's been too long!! Tomorrow morning I am heading up to Fairfax for some quality family time with a pit stop for lunch scheduled in Harrisonburg to catch up with Jessie (a Hardee's Party grad). The grandparents are in town from WI so all us kids are heading home to hang out. I can't wait. It will be the first time we have all been together since my VT graduation two and a half years ago! I am sure there will be some good stories told :)
Hmm.. so my story for the day. I woke up again to a 64 degree house.. even though the thermostat is set to a toasty 74! We decided there is definitely an issue with the heat... I called RAINE'S and they sent someone to look at it. Apparently our thermostat needs to be recalibrated... which isn't going to happen today. Hopefully tomorrow. My plan is to crank it up to 90... then maybe it will be 70!! haha. Unfortunately another night of going to sleep dressed like I am ready to go play in the snow!
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Posted in on 4:53 PM by Jilian
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