Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 
shopping

farewell, costco

We have been members of Costco for more than a few years, but I am afraid we must part for now, if only temporarily. We made our last trip there yesterday. I still love the store, but since it’s in the Pittsburgh area, a trip there takes up a good part of a day and I just don’t have time for that right now. Not that we go that often, but it seems like there’s always something going on.

I’ve been hoping that they would open a store a little closer (even an hour away wouldn’t be bad), but that hasn’t happened, nor is it on the schedule. So, I’m going to cancel our membership this month. For now, anyway. I just need a little break, I think. I’ll probably rejoin down the road. It’s not you, Costco, it’s me. I hope we can still be friends.

household stuff

timing is everything

I’ve been running the house a/c recently due to the excessively hot weather. While I was grilling supper today, I noticed that the fan on the air conditioner was not running. Instead, the unit was making a humming noise. I guess we’ll be calling our heating & cooling guy to take a look at it. Hopefully it can be fixed as I don’t really want to absorb the cost of having a new a/c unit installed (and I’m certainly not going to live without air conditioning at this point). Anyway, at least this is the last hot day on the forecast, so we won’t have to suffer for long.

I do want to get this fixed now, though. At least twice now, I’ve tried to turn the a/c on during the first heat wave of the year and it didn’t work. If today would have been cooler, we would have been experiencing that scenario again next spring.

small business ownership

pillar project

Prime Design Solutions took part in the Bottle Works Pillar Project, which is located under the Kernville viaduct. The painting portion of the project took place over the course of a week.

The previous Saturday, Brian, Jake and I painted the light blue base coat. And, last Thursday, the office closed for the day and we did the detail work.

The whole process is documented here.

motorcycles, out and about

labor day

It was a quiet weekend with nothing on the schedule. Friday night, we made our yearly trek to the Ethnic Festival for some delicious pierogies at St. Mary’s Church. We ran into a couple people we knew down there, and talked to them, but we weren’t there very long beyond dinner.

We fit in two motorcycle rides over the long weekend. Time for that is running short. Various hobbies and house/yard work were also accomplished. It was pretty relaxing and now I’m ready to attack the short work week that is ahead.

movies

the hammer

Brian, being a big fan of Adam Carolla, wanted to see this movie, so we watched it last night. He thought it was hilarious. I, on the other hand, am not what you would call a fan and found the movie to be so-so. There wasn’t anything intrinsically wrong with it (the acting and plot were fine)–I just didn’t find it particularly funny.

My rating: 2.5/5