By: man from moqui
Ah December. Time to kick off a surfer’s fun old-fashion family Christmas by heading out into the ocean with a trusty ax to embrace the frosty majesty of the winter landscape. Cold? Nah. Invigorating. Yeah baby!
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Oh Christmas tree
Due to technical issues, See photos here.
Our Chirstmas tree -- the first for the Buffalo-Taylor family -- is oddly perfect.
It's just not our thing. We procrastinate, and then we come through in the end with somewhat modified (some would say half-assed) results.
At Halloween, for instance, we bought one small pumpkin, never carved it, bought Cole a pajamas costume and took him trick-or-treating to one house (though really that was his decision, owing to the tantrum he threw over the whole thing).
This time, it almost magically worked out in our favor. It's a Christmas miracle.
Our visit to DC: a slideshow
Dear United: A customer complaint
I am writing in the hopes of finding a sympathetic ear who will agree to reimburse us for the minor out-of-pocket costs we incurred after an unpleasant experience with your airline recently.
The grand total is $20, to repair a car seat broken by United baggage handlers.
Yes, I learned through a lengthy ordeal with numerous inconveniences and multiple trips to the airport (with a baby in tow), that United considers checked car seats “limited release,” not covered by the same damage policies as other baggage.
But the term “limited release” is not anywhere on your web site, which I referenced for information on checking a car seat before we traveled, and was never mentioned to me when I called the airline to ask about the same. Nor was it mentioned by the agents who checked the car seat, either on our trip out to Kalispell or the return, or by the agent to whom we first reported the damage.
I ironed a valance. For real.
Just weeks ago even this is not something I would have foreseen.
I didn’t even know what a valance was, to start. Then we moved into this house and there were these ugly, frilly things hanging over the windows. Simply removing them was not an option, since someone had mauled the walls hanging the things. That would mean spackling and painting and that was not going to happen in this rental.
So I learned that they were called valances and that it’s not uncommon to spend $50 (and probably a stupid lot more) on each one of them.
Well, that wasn’t going to happen either. Thankfully some fairly quick research revealed that Target sells no-frills, solid-colored valances for $10. All right, $30 for a mild, low-cost improvement to the place.
