Odds And Ends

Or, The Day Before Kristen Gives Amazon.com The Old What For

Draw it, Kristen: I spent the weekend working on a portrait. It's going to be a wedding gift for my cousin and her husband-to-be. True blue procrastinator that I am, I've been putting off working on it for about two and a half months now. It has to be done by next weekend so I have time to get it all matted and framed up before I head out the following Wednesday for Iowa. But now I'm all motivated to work on it an whatnot. It works for me.

Sing it, Kristen: I've been singing with the worship band at my church for six weeks or so now. No solos or anything, mind you. (I've always said that I'm like Hillary Duff: (what the crap, I know. You'll see.) I can carry a tune, but no one in their right mind would ever give me a recording contract unless I were teeny and blond). So anyway, I just sing along and do a little bit o' that alto harmony that I love so much. I've really missed singing with a small group - that was one of my favorite things about kinship in 'Gusta. So, at church we've been working on a new song here and there for a few weeks and gave it a shot today. Go here and listen to A Better Way if you wanna hear the original.

Bring it, Kristen: In the past five or six years, I've bought untold numbers of books, movies, and CDs at nicely discounted prices from Amazon.com. Well, about a month ago I placed a larger-than-normal order - I was buying three presents plus a Guster CD and a NOVA documentary about Mt. Everest (because I'm just. that. cool.) for myself. About two weeks ago I started wondering where my order was. I checked the site only to see that they claimed it had been delivered on March 1st. It hadn't. I've made phone calls to both delivery carriers with no help from either of them. Tomorrow, we'll see if Amazon customer service will be helpful or if they will be minus one very good customer.

Hi-yah.