weekend, and other stuff, except not
Jan. 7th, 2008 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mamajoanOur weekend was good. Saturday we did nothing much. Well, we went to a couple of electronics stores to look at digital cameras ;) and the pet store to look at birds and lizards (not to buy, just to look) and so forth. We also checked out a playground we had never been to before, but it was still a bit too snowy/icy for comfort.
Sunday we went to grandma's house and I went to an informal parents' session about the Somerville schools, organized by a School Committee member and hosted at a coffeehouse. There were moms there with kids in the schools, available to talk about the individual schools and the process overall. It was definitely helpful and I learned a lot, but still have a lot of questions. (I shall perhaps write about this in more detail later.) The next step is to visit some schools. They all have open houses on Jan 23-25, so I have to figure out how to make that happen.
Oh, I also did order the camera ;) Actually, I had a moment of pause when I looked at last month's credit card statement (and went "yikes" :( ) and realized that after this month's statement I'll have enough points for a $25 Amazon gift certificate. So then I thought maybe I should wait until I get that, and use it on the camera. But then I thought I wouldn't get the gc for at least two more weeks yet, and couldn't wait that long! ;) So I just ordered it anyway. It's not like I'll have difficulty finding something else to order with the gc. ;) If I'm feeling guilty I can use it to buy diapers or some such. I did manage to restrain myself from shelling out extra $$ for expedited shipping. ;)
I also checked a couple of my online survey places that offer points, and found that between two of them I had enough points for three 1-GB memory cards. (The new camera uses a different kind of memory card than my old one, which is unfortunate since I've spent so much time building up a collection of cards, but ah well.) So I ordered one of them and we'll see whether I feel the need for more. :) I'm so excited! I can't wait till the camera gets here. I ordered it shipped to the office so I won't have to spend every day this week wondering whether it's sitting on my porch. Of course, with my luck that'll mean it arrives on Saturday.... ;)
In other random news I finally got around to packaging up the three "Thomas the Tank Engine" trains that we have that are affected by last year's recall. (Mind you I have not been letting the kids play with them all this time! They've been sitting on my desk, out of reach.) Then I went online to print out the form that you need to mail in with them, and discovered that they also give you a printable mailing label that includes postage! Good thing I checked that out before going to the post office. :)
OK, I was going to go on, but this is getting long so I'll make the other stuff a separate post, coming soon to a flist near you.
Sunday we went to grandma's house and I went to an informal parents' session about the Somerville schools, organized by a School Committee member and hosted at a coffeehouse. There were moms there with kids in the schools, available to talk about the individual schools and the process overall. It was definitely helpful and I learned a lot, but still have a lot of questions. (I shall perhaps write about this in more detail later.) The next step is to visit some schools. They all have open houses on Jan 23-25, so I have to figure out how to make that happen.
Oh, I also did order the camera ;) Actually, I had a moment of pause when I looked at last month's credit card statement (and went "yikes" :( ) and realized that after this month's statement I'll have enough points for a $25 Amazon gift certificate. So then I thought maybe I should wait until I get that, and use it on the camera. But then I thought I wouldn't get the gc for at least two more weeks yet, and couldn't wait that long! ;) So I just ordered it anyway. It's not like I'll have difficulty finding something else to order with the gc. ;) If I'm feeling guilty I can use it to buy diapers or some such. I did manage to restrain myself from shelling out extra $$ for expedited shipping. ;)
I also checked a couple of my online survey places that offer points, and found that between two of them I had enough points for three 1-GB memory cards. (The new camera uses a different kind of memory card than my old one, which is unfortunate since I've spent so much time building up a collection of cards, but ah well.) So I ordered one of them and we'll see whether I feel the need for more. :) I'm so excited! I can't wait till the camera gets here. I ordered it shipped to the office so I won't have to spend every day this week wondering whether it's sitting on my porch. Of course, with my luck that'll mean it arrives on Saturday.... ;)
In other random news I finally got around to packaging up the three "Thomas the Tank Engine" trains that we have that are affected by last year's recall. (Mind you I have not been letting the kids play with them all this time! They've been sitting on my desk, out of reach.) Then I went online to print out the form that you need to mail in with them, and discovered that they also give you a printable mailing label that includes postage! Good thing I checked that out before going to the post office. :)
OK, I was going to go on, but this is getting long so I'll make the other stuff a separate post, coming soon to a flist near you.
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Date: 2008-01-07 10:19 pm (UTC)What kind of survey sites offer points like that? I haven't found any quite like those you're describing, or maybe I have and didn't realize they offered cool things like memory cards?
I forgot all about the recalled trains, I remember you posting something about them. Do they send you replacements or something? I don't know how that works.