I tried to use Skype to go to call Pato in Mexico, using my cell phone and the number they gave me, but it would never connect. So, I ordered this –
It’s the Philips Travel phone. Cheap. LOL I found it on New Egg for $20. But then today, I find it on Amazon for $13. Downloaded the driver for Vista off of Philips’ website, plugged it in to my computer, found Pato’s number in Mexico and I was on the phone with him in a minute. Yippie! No more calls to Mexico on my cell phone. I hate that on my bill. It’s high enough as it is and the minutes to Mexico push it up quickly. Especially when I have a 4 year old here every day who says, mom, can I call daddy – at least 4 times. She now knows how to call him on my cell phone and I’ve caught her doing it herself. I’ll have to teach her how to call daddy on Skype so she doesn’t pick up my cell anymore. LOL
Yesterday I got a free gas grill on ReUseIt – like Freecyle, but not. Our area switched over to ReUseIt because the mods felt that Freecycle was getting to corporation like and they like the choices they are able to keep making with ReUseIt. Anyways, someone was offering up a gas grill and we had never gotten one. We want one, but we are waiting until we buy a house to get a nice new one. I asked for it, and she chose me. (I was shocked because our group has over 1000 members, it’s getting hard to be chosen for anything. LOL) We went and got it and I was shocked with how good of condition it was in. Brand new rack, has a cover. YAY!
So, we got home with it, then I forgot that I had gotten it. It was in the back of my van. I think I lose a few memory cells with each child I have had. Katiana reminded me last night. (I think she just wanted to go out and play.) I went out and unloaded it from the van. Then looked at the porch. Ugh. I cleaned everything, reorganized all the kids toys, moved Jordan’s bike (he’s got a chopper, it takes up a lot of room) to a better location. And made a nice little spot for it away from the wood of the deck. Through all the garbage away that people have been throwing down off the top floors that lands in the rocks off of my porch, but still, my porch. All the kids toys had hidden the garbage. I was ticked when I moved all the toys and saw it. We keep a garbage can on my porch just because of it. And it was filled from the stuff that had fallen in my view. Emptied that, picked up some more beer cans, bubble containers, cigarette butts. People are so rude. Now my porch is nice and clean and if the kids put their toys back where I have them, I’ll be able to see anything falling from the top and toss it before it gets rained on, soggy, and gross. Blech. I moved our chairs around because the barn swallows built a new nest in my rafters right over where one of my chairs was sitting. I never get there before one of the birds lay eggs. I don’t want to knock the nests down while there are little birdie eggs in them. So, I have to wait until they hatch and the little poopers fly away to get rid of the nests. They poop on EVERYTHING! Last year in the middle of the night they completely covered Jordan’s bike seat in poop. And so the reason why I rearranged my chairs. It’s funny, cuz the robins will build nests in the posts of the deck, like the support for the wood that goes around my porch. And they don’t poop all over everything. I don’t mind the robins. But I wish the swallows would find another place to lay their eggs. They are messy little things.
My neighbor told me she knocks hers down whether there are eggs in it or not. I just can’t bring myself to do that.
Did anyone watch Craig Ferguson last night? I watch House, but I’ve never seen Hugh Laurie outside of house, right? Is he losing his hair or was that just the way the light was reflecting. He’s now going to google his name, find my blog and be devastated that I think he’s going bald on top and in the back badly. I never noticed that before. Every time they got a shot of his head it looked like it was almost gone in those areas. You know what else threw me? I know he’s got an English accent, so, I must have seen him on something else before. But how different his voice and speech are on House versus how he speaks in real life. I was ROLLING listening to him and Craig banter back and forth. Both 2 very funny men with those delicious accents.
Still time to grab my Bundle O’ Scraps! You don’t want to miss it! Scroll down to yesterday’s post to see what all was in the bag.
I forgot to email you Kristine, but I had to tell you, that is Pato’s smile. ROFL He says Mexican men don’t smile in pictures. He says it looks stupid. Macho men for you. He’s right though. I’ve never seen a picture of a man from Mexico where he is smiling big for the camera. I can’t get him to smile to save my life for a picture. Kinda stinks for family pictures when the rest of us look like we are happy to be there and Pato thinks what he puts on is a smile. OH! I told him about the layout ya’all. ROFL He’s going to go look at it. Can’t wait to hear what he says.
Have a great day!
I think I’ll play the blog train and take the girls for a walk.
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