Things That Happened Today

Updated 2/10: The video is working now!

Thing 1:
I got another phone call for Dave on our land line. We've had this phone number for five years now, and I'm still getting calls for Dave. When people call, they're not deterred by the fact that I answer "Hello, this is Jenny" (because I'm in work-mode, so it's just habit). They just say, "Hi Jenny, is Dave in?"

The really crazy part is that about half of the callers are really causal about it, like the caller today: "Yeah, is Dave around?" As if he'd just talked with Dave yesterday when clearly he couldn't have talked with Dave via this phone number for at least five years.

Besides the annoying fact that 98% of the calls I get to our home phone are either for Dave or from a fax machine (which begs the question, "Why do you pay for this phone line?!"), it's driving me nuts to know what Dave did that (A) he often had someone else answer his phone for him and (B) people who haven't talked with him in five years don't mind randomly calling up for a chat. Joe's guess is that he was a drug dealer.

Thing 2:
The same solicitor came to my front door twice. If I wasn't such a procrastinator I'd have made a No Solicitation sign a long time ago. I keep thinking that it seems so unwelcoming to have a sign like that on our door, but much like our land line, the vast majority of people who ring our bell aren't ringing it to talk to me personally. And now that the same solicitor came twice in one day--once during the afternoon and again during dinner, like maybe I would have changed my mind or someone more inclined to open their wallet would answer the door--I think I'm finally irritated enough to make the sign.

Thing 3:
I had new music for the gym. I've been using Joe's little iPod because mine is old and big, he's not using it, and a year ago when I needed something new to listen to his was loaded with man-workout music. The man music was great for awhile, but a year later I recognize the songs within the first beat and most of them I didn't like that much to begin with. Instead of being energizing they just remind me of feeling tired at the gym, and more importantly, I've started associating them with the HGTV I always watch while I'm there. I'm not sure there are too many people for whom Rob Zombie's "Living Dead Girl" makes them want to redecorate.

Anyway, I finally had new music and it was AWESOME.The 30 minutes on the elliptical went by so much faster and I wasn't left with Veruca Salt's "Levolor" in my head for the next three hours.


Thing 4:
We've started putting shoes on Harper now that she's pulling up and attempting to walk while holding on to chairs, coffee tables, your pants leg, etc. She doesn't seem to mind or really notice them during the day, but at night when we take them off, her shoes are her new favorite toy. I've never seen her get so excited about anything else. Seconds before this video was taken she was rubbing her eyes and whining because she was so sleepy she couldn't stand the time it was taking me to get her pajamas on. Then I set her on the floor with her shoes and bam, a second wind.