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Taping a Rizzoli & Isles Marathon

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It’s a rainy weekend and I’m staying indoors getting some things done around the house and catching up on a TV show that I’ve only just become interested in. Superchannel is having a Rizzoli & Isles Marathon this weekend and I’ve managed to DVR all of season 2 or at least by tomorrow I’ll have all of season two DVR’ed.

I didn’t watch the show at all last year or during it’s first season but I’ve been watching it today as I’ve been doing other work and I’m really enjoying it so you can be that I’m going to watch Season three when it starts next week.

I’m also using my DVR to tape three movies tonight. Yeah … I’m taping a lot of stuff. One of them is a scary movie, ones a comedy and the other I can’t remember quite what it is .. something about a cpa raleigh nc in vegas I think … I can’t remember. Hopefully I don’t get too busy and end up not watching all of these shows that I’m taping!

Getting the patio ready for summer

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It’s been raining the last couple of days but if the weather clears up tomorrow I want to get out my patio furniture and start putting it together and setting up my patio for summer. We’ve had some warm weather in the last two weeks or so, so I’m behind in getting my patio ready for summer.

I also found this great site to order some lights for my patio umbrella. They are brown wire christmas lights and they’ll blend into the color of the umbrella very nicely so you’ll only see the lights when they are turned on. I think that will work fantastically! I have to order some.

Do you have your patio or backyard ready for summer?

Building a staircase wall

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There’s been a lot of work done on our house in the last few weeks. The current project that my husband and I are finishing up is a living room wall. It’s one that we knocked down a few years ago between the upper and lower stairway. Yes that’s right .. we’ve had a big opening between the basement stairs and the main floor!

So we’re building a wall now, but not a full wall like it was before because we enjoy the light that comes down from the upper floor that we didn’t get when there was a full wall in the past.

I think tomorrow we’re going to do the wiring for the light switch to the basement stairs and an electrical outlet in the wall. We had been using a cable raceway to hide the electrical cords going to the area in the past but now that the wall is going up we won’t have to do that.

It’s going to be so nice once the wall is up and I can finally look at the wall and the staircase as complete. Believe me it’s been years since I’ve sen the area looking finished! Next is the living room dining room ceiling and then a whole lot of painting throughout the house.

Time to call my brother

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I was thinking about one of my brothers earlier today. It’s been a long time since I heard from him .. Christmas … almost five months ago. Wow … time sure has gone by fast, but that’s too long to not hear from someone. I think I’d better give him a call this weekend and make sure everything is ok.

He’s been busy getting his business up and running so I’m hoping that’s the main reason why I haven’t heard from him. When he had his old business he used to occasionally call me and a couple of other members of my family using his teleconferencing service to connect all of together at once. That was pretty cool because we could all talk together. Hm ..I wonder if he has that service in his new office. Probably.

Do you have family members that you don’t hear from on a regular basis? I shouldn’t talk I suppose. I should have called him before now as well.

A gift for a musician

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It’s time to put on my thinking cap and come up with a fantastic birthday gift for one of my friends. It’s his birthday in two weeks and I want to get him a gift that he’ll really enjoy.

Think think think … Hmmmm well I know my friend is a musician. So is my husband, and my husband is aware of most of the musical instruments and equipment that he has but it seems that he might need a digital recorder. I was looking at various types and I’ve almost settled on getting him a marantz brand. My husband says they’re very good.

Other than that … hmmm I don’t think he needs anything else musical instrument wise. I’ll have to keep thinking. Any suggestions?

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