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past me does it again
A week or so ago, right after I got in bed I realized my lips were feeling very dry and scratchy - but I was tired and comfy in my bed and didn't want to get up and deal with it, so I thought anh, I won't notice once I'm asleep, and I'll put something on them if it's still bothering me in the morning. And then I remembered that I had chapstick on my nightstand! Thanks, past me!
A couple of years ago* my mom gave the prince a light-up rattle thing with a mirror at one end and some nubby texture and a silly face at the lighted end, which changes from red to blue to green when you tap it. He liked it very much when he was really little, and of course hasn't played with it much as he's grown out of rattles and lights and into other things - but lately he found it in the box and has incorporated it into some of his pretend play, which pleases me (that old toys can be basically new again, I mean). The light-changing feature wasn't working, though, because the red light (which was first) wasn't staying lit long enough to change to blue, and then by yesterday it wasn't even lighting up at all, because by this point the batteries were well worn out.
So last night I told him I could try to fix it, but I couldn't even try until after he was in bed, and so it wouldn't be fixed until today at the absolute earliest, and it might take a little longer depending on the kind of batteries it needed. And after he'd gone to bed I asked Himself to find me his tiny screwdriver, and I removed the back of the rattle's light-up head, and there were three watch batteries in there, holy carp. So I got on Amazon and found the right size of battery and said Okay, I'm about to order a six-pack of these suckers that should arrive on Wednesday - and then Amazon said "You purchased this item on February 27, 2016."
~blink~
And because I know where we keep spare batteries - you guys, I am pretty much in control of our living space rather than the other way around, and it's awesome - I was able to find the things fifteen seconds later, five of the original six, which I must have bought three and a half years ago to fix one of my stopwatches before I went to Copenhagen for the world junior curling championships. So I bought no batteries from Amazon last night but nevertheless fixed the kid's toy immediately. THANKS, PAST ME!
He was delighted this morning that it works as it used to, and he wanted to bring it to school (= day care, of course) but we talked him out of it - so he stood it on the coffee table and told it he'd see it later when he came home. ♥
* She had her stroke 23.5 months ago, so she must have brought him that present before that - maybe at the last visit before, which was just a month before the stroke, or maybe even a little longer ago than that. But not much longer, because before he was about six months old he'd just have bonked himself in the face with an object like this. So not that it matters, but I'd say we've had the thing at least two years.
A couple of years ago* my mom gave the prince a light-up rattle thing with a mirror at one end and some nubby texture and a silly face at the lighted end, which changes from red to blue to green when you tap it. He liked it very much when he was really little, and of course hasn't played with it much as he's grown out of rattles and lights and into other things - but lately he found it in the box and has incorporated it into some of his pretend play, which pleases me (that old toys can be basically new again, I mean). The light-changing feature wasn't working, though, because the red light (which was first) wasn't staying lit long enough to change to blue, and then by yesterday it wasn't even lighting up at all, because by this point the batteries were well worn out.
So last night I told him I could try to fix it, but I couldn't even try until after he was in bed, and so it wouldn't be fixed until today at the absolute earliest, and it might take a little longer depending on the kind of batteries it needed. And after he'd gone to bed I asked Himself to find me his tiny screwdriver, and I removed the back of the rattle's light-up head, and there were three watch batteries in there, holy carp. So I got on Amazon and found the right size of battery and said Okay, I'm about to order a six-pack of these suckers that should arrive on Wednesday - and then Amazon said "You purchased this item on February 27, 2016."
~blink~
And because I know where we keep spare batteries - you guys, I am pretty much in control of our living space rather than the other way around, and it's awesome - I was able to find the things fifteen seconds later, five of the original six, which I must have bought three and a half years ago to fix one of my stopwatches before I went to Copenhagen for the world junior curling championships. So I bought no batteries from Amazon last night but nevertheless fixed the kid's toy immediately. THANKS, PAST ME!
He was delighted this morning that it works as it used to, and he wanted to bring it to school (= day care, of course) but we talked him out of it - so he stood it on the coffee table and told it he'd see it later when he came home. ♥
* She had her stroke 23.5 months ago, so she must have brought him that present before that - maybe at the last visit before, which was just a month before the stroke, or maybe even a little longer ago than that. But not much longer, because before he was about six months old he'd just have bonked himself in the face with an object like this. So not that it matters, but I'd say we've had the thing at least two years.
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