{"id":565,"date":"2011-05-11T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/05\/watch-out.html"},"modified":"2011-05-11T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T21:43:00","slug":"watch-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/05\/watch-out.html","title":{"rendered":"Watch Out!*"},"content":{"rendered":"

*Yes, this is one of the much-less-creative blog post titles.<\/p>\n

I have an awesome watch.  I’ve had this watch since my college graduation in 1995.  It was a gift from my parents…16 years ago this week.  Yep, that’s a now-extinct Nittany Lion<\/a> statue in the middle of the dial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Best. Graduation. Gift. Ever!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Being that it’s a Seiko<\/a>, it has performed incredibly for the past 16 years.  About 2 weeks ago, the watch stopped.  This has happened before, and all that means is a new battery.  I typically have to change the battery out every 18 months.<\/p>\n

I took it to the mall to replace the battery, but the watch didn’t resume working right away.  It played dead for a day or so, then started working.<\/p>\n

I wore it for a couple days and all seemed well; then I wore the watch when I took a run last week and it stopped again.  Probably from my sweaty arms (ewwww!).<\/p>\n

Back to the jewelry kiosk at the mall.  The gentleman there told me that the watch needs to go to a Seiko authorized repair facility to replace some of the contacts that had gone bad.  So it will operate intermittently until I get it dealt with.<\/p>\n

So I will put the watch in the mail (adequately insured, I promise!) this week.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I headed over to Kohl’s today for a replacement watch.  I had my supply of coupons and Kohl’s cash — I figured I could pick up an inexpensive basic digital watch with a stopwatch function (this might have come in handy earlier during the soccer season).  So that’s what I did:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Yeah, it’s gaudy, but I wanted to have a little fun.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Pink.  I was looking for a watch for running and this model had everything I was looking for.  I had a choice between purple, blue, orange and pink.  The blue was a very bright blue, as bold as this pink here.<\/p>\n

Being that I have some AF Reserve drill days next week and chances are my Seiko won’t be done by then, I’ll need to think twice before putting on this new watch with my uniform.  Since it’s supposed to be conservative<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

*Yes, this is one of the much-less-creative blog post titles. I have an awesome watch.  I’ve had this watch since my college graduation in 1995.  It was a gift from my parents…16 years ago this week.  Yep, that’s a now-extinct Nittany Lion statue in the middle of the dial. Best. Graduation. Gift. Ever! Being that it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[13,56,616],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-97","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":444,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2010\/07\/4000-miles-part-3.html","url_meta":{"origin":565,"position":0},"title":"4000 Mile Road Trip: Part 3","date":"27 July 10","format":false,"excerpt":"The next stop on our trip was our alma mater, Penn State University! The Department of Meteorology had a 75th Anniversary celebration weekend, and Dave and I took advantage of our time without the kids to have a good old fashioned party weekend! 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