May 20, 2006

  • Two things: first, tonight was Brianna's dance recital. This year, seeing as how Don's in Oklahoma, I decided to take my PDA and a book and get there early for a change, so as to snag a decent seat towards the front. Don's more of a "Slip in right as the lights go down" sort, meaning we usually wind up way at the back.

    By golly, not this time! Nossiree, I arrived a few minutes after 6 p.m. for the 7 p.m. start, and wasn't the first, either. Got a nice aisle seat perhaps six or seven rows back.

    Of course, then a family came and plopped themselves down in front of me, which I can hardly complain about, except for the man's (who sat on the aisle, as did I) habit of leaning over to the left when the kids were dancing, thereby obscuring my vision. If the pest of a man would just sit straight in his seat I'd have seen fine! The worst was when some woman down front wanted to get a wonderful video of her dancer, so stood in the aisle. If this had been what I'd seen during Brianna's numbers, there'd have been blood running in that aisle:

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    The dark blob on the left is the back of the head of the man who should have been slightly to my right, the way the rows are angled, and the dark form in the middle was the woman who decided everyone behind her could go hang, so long's she got HER dancer clearly captured on video.

    People can be so dang rude.

    Fortunately, The Blob's dancer wasn't in Brianna's class, so we managed (my leaning up nearly over his left shoulder to take photos probably clued him in as to which dances were important to me); Brianna's second from the right in these:

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    I thought she did quite nicely. It's been fun attending the recitals through the years as it makes it easy to gauge her progress.

    Afterwards her fan base was waiting in the lobby for her, while Jessica and Jason looked anxiously for their poppet to appear....Jason's on the left, holding the video camera aloft, not wanting to let a moment slip past unrecorded:

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    Parents are so darn cute, aren't they? But then, so's their daughter:

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    Actually, that's just one bouquet....she had so many she couldn't hold them all. Hey, my offering was 1 1/2 dozen red roses! ($9.97 at SuperTarget....steal of a deal.) Among other friends and family were Kirstin and Bethie; here's the latter trying on her cousin's tiara:

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    Bethie's recital is June 14th. You may want to make your travel arrangements now.

    So that was the first thing. The second thing is that when I arrived home, the remote control wouldn't get the garage door to go up. Got out to open it by pushing the button inside the doorway, only it wouldn't work, either. Nothing. Dead as a mackerel. Called Don on his cell and he tried to tell me how to get it up manually, but I couldn't manage it.

    Would someone please tell me why, when something goes wrong with the garage door, it's inevitably when Don's out of town? Virtually every single time!

    There's a possibility it might have something to do with fuses, I've discovered, as the living room ceiling fan won't turn on. Went to the garage to check the fuses and they all seem to be in the "On" position, though. Maybe I'll call Jason tomorrow to see if he'll come over and see if he can sort it. He is, after all, a licensed electrician. ;^)

Comments (6)

  • I love recitals and tomorrow I'll show Katherine Brianna's pictures (Katherine always looks at the pictures of your granddaughters and tells me "She's my friend").

    You could have kicked a breaker. We did that all the time when I was growing up (I grew up in an old school house with a shaky electrical system...and my dad was an electrician). Something wouldn't work and we'd trudge to the back of the house and open up the breaker box. Then we'd look for the one that was "sprung", or if it was iffy, we'd just turn all of them off and then back on (this was before the days of having to reset electronic devices, so we didn't muck up anything in the house by doing this), but if you have an electrician handy you can have him fix it in no time Stuff always happens when the handyman...er...hubby is out of town. This trip I got to fix a toilet and the mailbox!

  • I thought about Katherine and her sweet insistance Brianna is her friend, AAMOF.

    We really need to get those two together somehow, don't we? Maybe as they learn to write they can be e-pals.

    Did you have any trouble with Blobs leaning or standing and blocking your view when you were at Katherine's recital?

  • Love the recital pics!  Little girls in dance outfits are as cute as it gets.

    Sometimes the security button on a garage door opener panel gets pushed by mistake.  That prevents the door from being raised and is used if the house is going to be empty for a length of time.  Is there more than one button on your panel?  Do you have the instructions for the opener?  If not, why not?  : )   It happened to us once and we had a dickens of a time figuring out what the problem was.  Now that we know, it'll never happen again, no doubt. 

  • This is a 27 year old garage door opener, so it doesn't have bells and whistles like that. There's just the one button next to the door into the garage...push it and the garage door either lifts or descends. Until now.

    Very strange, unless it's an electrical problem.

  • A 27-year-old automatic garage door opener?   I didn't even know the concept was that old.  I think I see a new opener in your very near future.

  • Oh, yeah, they've been around a long time. I remember my parents having a garage door opener in the house we moved out of when I was 13. That comes to exactly 27 years, but I think we had it for several years.

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