Boxes and Bags in the Dining Room

No takers on the wedding DVDs yet? Come on, Nathan did a really good job. The bag of unsold DVDs is sitting on a small table in my dinning room waiting for you to buy its contents.

There are a lost of boxes in my dining room right now. Two large boxes came archival storage companies. One really large box is for my wedding dress, which I finally had cleaned last week. Apparently there is a mystery stain on the back that they could not get out. The stain is not really a different color, it just has a different sheen than the rest of the satin the dress is made out of. Oh well. Who knows if I will wear it again, and if I do I will just make sure the lighting is dim so the stain isn't obvious. The good thing about the stain is that the dry cleaner let me out of my $90 cleaning bill. Sweet ... except part of me wonders if he didn't mess up and then felt bad so didn't charge me. Whatever, can't change anything now.

The other archival boxes are for items I picked up when my grandma Schrag moved to the Salem Home last year. She had some memorabilia from her and my grandpa's younger days. I spent a couple nights last week organizing the bag she gave me and found a bunch of old report cards, special event invitations, diplomas, etc. One of the most interesting pieces was a handmade rainbow themed program from my grandma's Freeman Academy Junior/Senior banquet and a paper cup and tissue paper handmade flower object. It looked like it might have been a pre-dinner treat holder. Cute.

The last box is from our new computer. Jeremy came back this past Thursday from a two-week stint in St. Jo, MO at the ICM pilot scale plant. He brought back another computer. It's really getting out of control in our house now with all the computers! Every time there is a used computer auction at Jeremy's work, he comes home with something new. There is a desktop in the basement, which does not get much use. There is a desktop and a laptop in the office, as well as two monitors. I have a laptop. There is a desktop in the living room. Now we have a sixth computer.

This new computer was built by one of Jeremy's coworkers as a wedding present and it is crazy. It has over 2 TB of memory, a blue-ray player and burner, as well as normal CD and DVD capabilities. It has ports for every type of card and drive out there and a silly, fast, hot processor. It has four of five fans working to keep it cool enough and an LCD display on the front of the CPU that monitors the temperature at different parts within the CPU. That scares me a little. I don't want my house to burn down. Oh, all these computers. Cracks me up.