Baby it's cold outside

Monday, January 18, 2010

It's cold inside, for that matter.  I really need to get my PC out of the basement or get some damn heat down here.  I don't mind the snow unless I have somewhere I NEED to be - or my wife has somewhere she needs to be.  She had to work this morning so that's a bitch.  It also ruins my plans for heading to Bed Bath and Beyond to get her a replacement Christmas present.

I got her a set of four of those really large, deep merlot wine glasses for Christmas - you know, the one's you could probably put half a bottle in?  She loves those.  Well anyway, as of this morning, this set of four now consists of ONE.

Glass 1:   This one I partly blame myself for.  I meant to tell my wife that these glasses, being an inexpensive variety (she would have killed me for buying expensive ones) are fragile, and I didn't think they would survive the dishwasher (and didn't want to risk it).  Well this glass didn't get the chance to find out as she broke it just trying to get it in the dishwasher.  I met her for dinner the day I reminded myself to tell her "don't put that in the dishwasher" only to find it was too late by two hours.

Glass 2:  My dog is a bitch.  I have to take some blame for this as well. As frequent readers may know, we loves us some buffalo chicken pizza.  I had made one a couple of weeks ago, and like many buffalo chicken pizza nights, the entire pizza was gone once we were done eating.  I had left the pizza peel (the largewooden paddle you use to pull it out of the oven) on the living room coffee table, where we had dined/had a glass of wine.  My little bitch dog had climbed partially on the table to lick the crumbs off the pizza peel I forgot to move to the counter the night before and pushed a glass onto the floor.

Glass 3:  Once again, shame on me for not moving this.  My eldest son was making breakfast and wanted cinnamon for his toast.  He does what I used to do which is jump up on the counter instead of getting a chair for out-of-reach items.  The glasses happened to be in the corner he was opening a cabinet in.  He escaped without injury, however the 3rd glass shattered between counter and refrigerator.

So yes, I'm kind of bummed that her present has been shattered.  I want to go get another set but I also don't want to be one of those assholes who is out in the snow for no real reason. :)

In other news, I just installed Pinnacle Studio 12 on my oldest's netbook, which ran it surprisingly well.  He got a point and shoot flip video camera for Christmas, and I've spent the last hour or so showing him how to connect the camera, pull the video off it, open it in Pinnacle and edit/save a movie.  With any luck he'll hone his skills and work for his old man in a few years so I don't have tobe at every wedding :)