I want:

A wooden drying rack.  I have two plastic/metelish ones that work fine but don't hold up to a cats weight when they decide to crawl on them.  Some bars are held up with hockey tape.

A new cover for my futon.  a deep burgandy one, easy to clean the cat fur off of.

A shelf above my stove for my frying pans.  The studs don't line up right to have one and I don't want to risk it.

A new stereo.  our current one is a 5 disc cd changer with two tape decks and an ipod line attached to it.  But we've discovered the cd part is busted, as is the tape player.  We can get radio reception but its rough at best.  However, we've looked at a few and we'll be buying a new similar one from Walmart with Seans bonus in July.

Simple things really, but none of them a need.  Just simple, easy wants.  Someday.

In writing a note tonight I had to write a word I usually try and avoid.  I avoid it because I always have issues spelling it.  The word is "necessary", and all its forms.  Very few words cause me to stumble like this one does, but it always makes me have to look up the spelling.  Spelling annoys me.  Proper grammar I can flubb through most of the time, but misspelling irritates me to see and frustrates me to see I've done myself.

So, I pose this:  What word or words cause you issue, if any?  Is it their placement that trips you up, or the spelling itself?

Husband hooked up the blueray/DVD player in the bedroom yesterday.  I have no idea why, I don't tend to lay in bed and watch movies.  The blue rays worked fine, but DVDs wouldn't play.  We trouble shooted off the website, and did the two available updates and still nothing.  I emailed LG and this was their response:

Hello Jo Clarke.

I apologize for the inconvenience this has caused you.

Regretfully this sounds like an issue with the reader for DVD. However due to the high cost of labor the unit is designated as not economical to repair.

At this time I would recommend recycling the unit and purchasing a new unit from your local dealer.

This is unacceptable.  I responded:

Not impressed LG.  I emailed about an issue I was having with my blueray/DVD combo.  DVDs would not play although bluerays would play without issue.  I was told that because the problem is too expensive for you (a multi-million dollar company) to fix, you recommended that we (a barely above minimum wage household) drop more money on a whole new machine.  I can't even say this is bad customer service because its not even service, its money grabbing and shameful.


I doubt all see anything above an apology, but we shall see.

Toby, my plastic loving garbage pit, tore half of one handle off of a plastic bag Thursday night.  Its missing, and presumed eaten.  He's eaten plastic before and is usually passed ina  few days.

This morning, I find a piece of a rubber band on the floor.  Again, the rest is missing, and presumed eaten.  If it had been one or the other, I would likely worry less, but both in less than 2 days has me worried.

He is acting perfectly normal right now, but until things pass...I will worry :(

God I had forgotten how much Sams is so much better than anything else in Pictou County.  Normally I hate green peppers on my pizza, I don't even car when its Sams.

*happy sigh*

 Not a bad day to turn 28 I suppose.

Phone calls from both godaughter (4) and nephew (19 months) to say Happy Birthday,  Hunters wasn't quite clear, but close enough :) 

I ordered my own birthday gift to me from disney rewards, this:
http://www.disneymovierewards.go.com/rewards/laughingtink-6380

She'll go well with my Christmas gift from Robyn:
http://www.disneymovierewards.go.com/rewards/tink-memento-box

Going out to dinner at probably Swiss Chalet, a bit of shopping and home to a new Big Bang theory tonight. 

Thank you all for your wishes, makes a girl feel loved!