Conversations with Isaac Part II

I: Your car won't start. How do you start your car?
S: You turn the key. (confused because all cars start the same) Are you sure the battery isn't dead? You probably should call AAA.
I:You're a lot of help. (sarcastically)

In the moment it wasn't very funny (for either of us) but looking back it totally makes me crack up every time I think about it. I love it, how do you start your car. Classic.

I like his sense of humor.

William Fitzsimmons is amazing. Go listen.

Sheesh. I'm so driven by music it's sad.

Disappointment

So still no A/C unit. Hrm. Isaac forwarded me this email he got from Amazon this morning. I guess we'll just have to make a plan to go to Lowes/Home Depot next spring. At least we ended up 5 dollars richer! I love how they also include the link to follow them on twitter. That's hilarious.

Hi,
First allow me to thank you for the order you placed with Amazon.com. I apologize for the inconvenience, however your order has not shipped because we have discovered that refurbished models were shipped to us by mistake. Since our warehouse manager found the items to be in less than the perfect, new condition they should have been, we refuse to sell them. We have returned the units as we cannot in good conscience sell anything that does not meet described expectations. I assure you that we did everything possible to try and obtain more within a reasonable time frame, but we are unable to acquire more units at this time.

As compensation for this unfortunate error, we would like issue a $5 Amazon gift card for you to enjoy, and use at any Amazon store. We are serious about our customer service, and we appreciate your understanding in this matter. We hope you will consider us again in the future.

Please watch for an email from Amazon containing a gift code to enter at checkout. Please note that your card has not been billed, and we have no choice but to cancel the order at this time.

We deeply apologize for the error, and assure you we have taken steps to ensure this does not happen again. We appreciate your understanding.


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Thank you
Sincerely,
Ashley

Astronaut Food

So I've fallen in love with Trader Joe's freeze dried fruit. I was looking for an alternative to fresh fruit because lately I've gotten a lot that is over ripe. So I'd toss the over ripe fruit and have nothing to replace it. That meant fewer calories for me and therefore I was hungrier by the end of the day.
I remember the freeze dried ice cream and such from when I was a kid. It was always so fun to eat it because it was something out of the ordinary. I think that's part of my affinity for it. I also watched a show on the Food Network lately that showed how freeze dried food was made. It helped me understand that there was nothing fake about the food that was freeze dried and made me more willing to eat more of it. I'm still supporting my local farmers markets but now I always have a guarantee of fruit every day no matter what.
It's really cool though because Trader Joe's doesn't just do blueberries, bananas and strawberries. They also do mangoes, rambutan, and mangosteens. I'm excited to try the mangosteens as they are supposed to be citrusy and peachy all at the same time.

First one in a long time

I am turning
I am finding dappled sunlight breaking into my soul
Time is preciously intangible
And shifting away from me

I feel erratic in my visibility
And wonder how much of me is being seen
When I walk out of doors

The heat is radiating
My spiral is spinning
And I am finding pebbles in the sand

Nature breams my soul
And walks find my inner self
Uncorrupt
Unashamed, unabashed

The end of the road,
Where my cadence stops
Crashes me into the real world
And my soul redivided
Ideal and real
My profusion is becoming my own
Thanks to belief that has come from outside of myself
It has embedded and created its own off shoot in me
I am beginning too late

I am beginning none the less

Air Conditioning

Okay yes I know two posts in one day. I normally try to pace myself to one a day but this is BIG. We're getting a portable air conditioner! I know we'll only use it like three days a year and we'll hole up in our bedroom but seriously we need relief in our house. I'm not complaining! Where we live is gorgeous and we're very lucky but the place circulates air like a vault. I'm kinda dreading going home today as I know our living room will be in the 90's as it's supposed to be 98 today and our living room was 82 when I left this morning. It came down from 85 last night. Three flippin' degrees.
My only concern about the AC is that Isaac will try to talk me into running it year round. For example I see the conversation going like this in December:"come on baby, you can wear four sweaters and six pairs of socks to bed, you'll be fine". I mean the boy already wants a window open and AT LEAST one fan on even when it's snowing out. I limit him to the fan.
We were calling around last night, but we knew everyone would be sold out. Then I had the brilliant idea of why don't we order it online? Let's go through Amazon. So Isaac got on this morning and ordered it and paid for over night shipping so it will be here tomorrow! So exciting!

Conversations with Isaac

Last night:
Isaac: Hey the lamps in our room don't work.
Sari: Yes they do.
I: They're not coming on.
S: Did you flip the switch?
I: Yes.
S: Then you must have turned the lamps themselves off.
I: No I didn't.
S: Really? You always do. (Goes in flips the switch, lights don't come on. Turns the individual switches on on each lamp and flips the wall switch on. Both lamps turn on.)
I: Oh.