March 10th, 2006
Happy Birthday to ME
Happy Birthday to ME
This is a great birthday: it's not MY birthday, it's Gena's birthday, but it's happy birthday to ME because my new friend who is also the friend of my other most excellent friend (who is currently jet setting around the country like a glamour girl) is trading her Rainbow Vacuum cleaner to ME. Gena is |
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on March 10th, 2006 at 11:09 pm
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Uhh…what’s a Rainbow Vacuum Cleaner? I’m kind of out of the domestication loop when it comes to cleaning things. Sounds like a super, dee-duper cleaner. 🙂
Jennie von Eggers
on March 10th, 2006 at 11:31 pm
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How providential!
I’ve just stopped by to let you know that I have a video of my baby goats in my side bar. You may or may not care to view it.
I loved looking at the new store! Where are the new HSB t-shirts?
Abiding in the Vine!
on March 11th, 2006 at 12:54 am
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whether or not it’s your birthday, it’s always good to give yourself a gift. glad you’re getting what you want on your sister’s birthday.
on March 11th, 2006 at 7:01 am
aren't they …
aren’t Rainbow the vacuums that you can only acquire (new) by trading away hours of your time for a “free demonstration” and, therefore, should never ever ever let the salesmen into your home? Of course, we found the same was true of Omni Windows. I’m still wary of them.
Now I bought a new over-the-counter (ha) vacuum from Sears that has a “dirt sensor” light that supposedly flashes red when it’s sensing/cleaning dirt, and turns off when you get it all. Turns out what that REALLY means is that you have to vacuum and vacuum and vacuum over the same spots forever, hoping and praying the light goes off and you can move on. I used to like to just make the floor look nice, but now I am enslaved to the idea that someday the light will go off and stay off, over the whole floor … vacuuming, vacuuming …not done yet.
on March 11th, 2006 at 9:29 am
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WHAT?! Are you serious?!!!! OK, you MUST let me borrow it at least once. You can come over and watch if you want; I know how weird you are about me borrowing anything electrical from you on account that I have blown up various items-on-loan in the past. BUT – You have NO idea how much I want to use a Rainbow again!! No idea! So if you are TRULY my sister who did NOT get me a smiley goat for my birthday, you will actually give it to me today and let me try it out first. I’ll expect you no later than noon, because we have to leave to see the Austins then (another HSB friend). So hurry up! I can’t wait to own/borrow it with you!!!!
on March 11th, 2006 at 9:51 am
Wow
That is just great. I bet your new friend is the nicest sweetest person in the whole wide world….
on March 11th, 2006 at 9:53 am
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Congrats on the vacuum cleaner! We had nasty green avocado carpet in the living room until about a year ago. Now if we could just get rid of the nasty orange carpet that someone put in the house back in the seventies that is currently in my kids rooms! I am about to rip it up and I don’t even care what’s under it! LOL
on March 11th, 2006 at 10:03 am
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YIPPPEEE! I love vacuum cleaners…
Ok, so why do people put colored carpets in? Our last 5 homes have all had colored carpet. Our landlord put in hunter green right before we moved in (he changed out the neutral to green). I wanted to say: do you not realize that green shows more dirt than beige. When grass dries, it’s brown…it shows. when dirt makes its way in, it’s brown…it shows. when macaroni falls on the carpet, it’s not green! it doesn’t blend. Of course, the only thing worse is my WHITE carpet in our new place and that shows no dirt, but lots of spills. Even my vacuum cleaner can’t pick up chocolate milk!
on March 11th, 2006 at 3:17 pm
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Congrats on the vacuum. I need a new one, I can’t find the bags and I keep empting the one and duck taping it closed. Maggie Hogan told me to come here and introduce myself. I am not sure of the correct way to introduce one self in cyber space. I just started my own blog. Hmm Hello I am a homeschooling mom to 4, 3 boys and 1 princess. I work for Maggie but my job is top secert. My husband today is praying about us getting a goat, which means he is leaning more and more towards the idea. I will keep you posted on the goat saga at our house.
on March 11th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
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Hi. Please drop by Crystal’s blog at
http://crystalstarrs.blogspot.com/
She is really feeling down and needs prayer for herself and Emily.
Candace also needs continued prayer. Her website is http://www.candacejoy.org
Thanks.
Blessings,
Ai Boon
on March 11th, 2006 at 7:10 pm
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Jen, I think Gena’s right…you shouldn’t trust her with that super-dee-duper vacuum cleaner…she might steal it like that Holly Hobby lamp or even bust it out of sheer jealousy. But since it was her b-day and you didn’t get her the smiley goat (and I did), I think you’re just going to have to go over to her house with your Rainbow Cleaner and vacuum FOR her.
Problem solved. Disaster averted.
No need to thank me right now.
Love,
Marshie
on March 11th, 2006 at 7:48 pm
Who says practical gifts aren't fun?
I like getting practical gifts… like vaccuums… especially when it is NOT my birthday! Have fun cleaning the avacado green carpets!
on March 12th, 2006 at 10:42 pm
IDEAR
I had to stop by because I saw you write the word “IDEAR” on Jammie’s blog. When I was younger and living in NY I always heard people adding Rs to words and subtracting them from R-ending words like wadda=water.
My point IS growing up I always thought IDEAR was a word. Idea, ideal and now idear. I just figured it was something like an idea. Finally I realized it was just the way people tawked. You think I would have figured it out sooner when everyone one called my mom Lenar. Oh well, I can’t complain too much, if I didn’t live in NY I may have never got an A+ in Drama (living in MO) or better yet, met my DH. You know I knew him since I was 4yo– who would have thunk.
Sorry for rambling on, but I couldn’t help it when I saw you say that.
0:) Amber
PS~ You reminded me that I have to call my MIL and tawk to hir. (She talks similar to Mike Meyers in Coffee Talk–I kid you not!)
on March 13th, 2006 at 12:20 pm
Hmm…
“Happy happy joy joy” …. sounds like an old Ren and Stimpy phrase. But of course, none of us would know what that was… ; )
I have a lovely and powerful cyclone-style vaccuum called a Clear Trac. I’d love to sell one to each one of you because they’re so wonderful, but the company stopped making them three years ago. Why do they always do that? Just when I find one I like … But I do remember my mom having a Rainbow when I was a kid. Do they still have the water tank on the bottom? We loved putting balls and marbles in there.
So I guess we owe you a “very happy un-birthday?” Alice’s “friends” were such odd characters… what was she smoking before she fell down that rabbit hole?!
on March 13th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
how totally COOL!
Who knew? Dawn was hiding a Rainbow vaccume! I am sooooo glad and how neat of GOd to give you a rainbow vaccume, that is almost incomprehensible.
~Annemarie who is looking ANYTHING but glamorous!