well the furnace was finally fixed, but by the time I went to bed the bedroom was like a sauna, so I shut off the heat and went to bed. Ive been having trouble sleeping in the bedroom lately and lo and behold a few hours later I was all stuffed up and sporting one horribly soar throat, so I came out and slept on the couch for a while... till jack and ollie decided to play chase, which always involves going over the couch. I smacked jack a few times, but they kept doing it, Then I got a hold of ollie. that put a stop to it. I decided to go back to bed anyway.. and surprisingly fell asleep. But the hubby got up and realized the heat wasn't on and thought it was the furnace acting up again so he called my dad to come over. I woke up and heard noise downstairs so I turned the heat back on (via the thermostat an easy thing to over look if someone turns it off that way and doesn't say anything) I called to him to come upstairs cause I was still half asleep, hair standing up on end, and in my jammies. I thought he was alone, but when I got instant that he come up NOW, I heard my dad's voice saying not to be so demanding.. so I explained what I did, and it took him 10 minutes to comprehend what I was saying. he went back down stairs and I threw some clothes on and went to say hi. Turns out there was a lot of air in the line anyway, and the valve that shuts off half the house was off, so it was a good thing he came over anyway, and even better since I got him out of going shopping.. lol.. and now its working.. :)
So then dad left and we decided to have lunch. Hubby was going to have left over pizza, and he heats it up in the toaster oven. And doing so caught the toaster oven on fire. yes.. fire. he was out in the kitchen making oh-no noises. We had just had an oh no discussion saying that saying oh no was never good, that time he had popped open a container of food in the freezer, no big deal, this time he said, "the toaster is on fire" I said "WhAT???" he replied "the toaster is on fire" he just stood there looking at it, unsure what to do. I got up and walked out into the kitchen and reminded him we had just bought a fire extinquisher. A lightbulb seemed to go off over his head and he reached for it. Kinda glad it wasn't a major fire. He didn't think to move ANYTHING out of the way when the fire started, the knives that are right under it in a wooden block, or the beans in a plastic bag.. *rolls eyes* mr eletrical dude himself didn't even unplug the stupid thing. Turns out that the toaster particals at the bottom of the oven caught fire. He never cleaned them out. (he does the cleaning) Its understandable as it isn't something you think of a whole heck of a lot.. but come on.. *rolls eyes again*. I asked if the extinquisher should be thrown out, and he started reading it, and they recommend you do and empty it before you do. He asked if we should throw it out. My reply.. "do you really want to risk it?" Then a few minutes later he asked "Do you think we should buy a new toaster oven" .. yup.. you guessed it.. my reply was "do you really want to risk it?!" He such a.... well anyway.. no serious damage.. we could PROBABLY re use the toaster, but it now has extinquisher chemicals all over it, and you never know what a fire will do to components.
We needed to go out and get a few things anyway, now we just need to get a few more.
We also have plans to get the christmas tree today too. His idea. Seems a little early for me, but then for the last couple of years I have been fighting myself to get into the christmas sprirt anyway, so I figured what the heck. We still have those tickets for treasure planet too. Maybe tomorrow.. *shrugs*
11.29.2002
that's it. I am NEVER leaving this chair again. Well maybe to go to bed.. but THATS IT... well.. and to go pee.. cause if I don't it could get messy. And well maybe to get something to eat.. but THAT IS IT!!..
yup.. rough day. Started out at 5am. Stupidly I decided to go sale-ing. I didn't get a wal-mart flyer so I decided to get there at 6am and go see what they had for sale. There was a line from the door out to the main road. I kid you not. This asinine thing they are doing the 6-11am deals with limited stock and no rain checks. BAD IDEA! and just totally wrong. By the time we got up to the door though they were letting people in, so we snuck in. I was just getting a flyer and not getting in anyones way so I figured I wasn't being that bad. (although the shoppers who snuck in before those who had been waiting in line since 5am pissed off the people who had been waiting there since 5am and they weren't afraid to say how pissed off they were.) I grabbed a flyer, and wasn't impressed with the deals, so I left. Walked right out the out door with nothing in my hands. Totally shocked the clerk standing there.. lol. We went to circut city and stood in line for an hour. yes. an hour. Yes.. 30 degrees out. Yes.. im insane. But It saved me big $ and I was already awake, so it wasn't THAT big a deal.. well I did loose feeling in my feet. the woman behind me was from away. She was staying with her sister in law, and decided to come to the store to get the playstation that her son wanted. As we all stood in line we got to talking, cause if you didn't your lips would freeze together. the people behind her were trying to tell her what a deal she wasn't getting. I wanted to tell them to hush up. They tried to tell us that the $50 13-inch tv we were getting wasn't that big of a deal either.. that she had seen them for that price all the time. I don't know where she was shopping to find them, but I have been looking for weeks, and the best I saw before that was 64$.. even the clearance ones at Ames when they were going out of business were 70-80$. I don't think she was trying to get us out of line.. I just think she was baked.
So we got in there, got what we wanted. was second in line, when the clerk started waiting on someone else after they delt with the person in front of us. I wasn't there when he started, or he would have gotten a piece of my mind. We got one 13-in tv, two DVD players, a zoom 35 mm camera and a dvd (monsters inc) for $222. not to bad. and all of our christmas shopping except for each other.. well and one of my friends.. is done. You know.. this not having to buy presents for my family is working out to be a good thing. *grumble grumble grumble*
anyway. went to IHOP afterwards. I must say this went really rather well. Got in there, sat right down, had a very friendly waitress, got pumpkin pancakes.. YUM.. and a greek omelette (feta, onions, spinach, tomatos, and black olives) which was also a yum! but they didn't put enough feta in it, and there were too many black olives. the waitress was attentive, friendly, came at the right times. I gave her a nice hefty tip. Good help is so hard to get these days. I pay dearly when I find it and do so happily. Im not keen on the whole tipping process as a whole, very few people have the nerve to leave no tip, and so crummy help gets by. There have been a number of times I have told my husband to leave no tip because the waiter/waitress was horrid, and he refuses not to. My thought is, how will these people learn if not by the honest feedback of the tipping system??
Anyway. Got home, THEN I was cold. VERY VERY cold. warm jammies, and cuddled into bed I was freezing. I tried to sleep, not sure if I did or not. it wasn't fun. Sooner or later though time pasted and the cable guy showed up. We forgot all about him and almost didn't open the door.. lol. The same guy who was out here before was out here again. I don't like him. He is totally anti boosting the signal, and totally well its your wiring job ma'am. although.. they replaced the cable that went from the line to the house (and I got connected after that and had a nice speedy connection, so it wasn't the house wiring, it was their sucky wiring to the house.. so there :P) anyway.. they rewired in the house too, and finally I have a connection worthy of being called cable!.
I went out, had to bring a kitten to the vet. On the way down there some van from NH with the license plate mission or something to that effect CUT ME OFF. hello! my plate says PLRBEAR, that in no way says "cut in front of me, I don't mind". *rolls eyes* I saw him coming and had to back up to let him in .. I was beeping and flashing him the entire time. He totally didn't care. so I continued to flash him for a few more miles. When he had the opportunity to pull over and get out of my way he didn't, so I pulled into the right lane, went around him, cut in front of him and slammed on my breaks. probably not the smartest thing to do, but it felt good. I hope he doesn't do it again, but I have the feeling he totally doesn't care. Did the vet thing (see the kitten blog) drove home, and SOMEONE ELSE CUT IN FRONT OF ME. a ME license plate this time of write. *rolls eyes* HELLO PEOPLE! holiday weekend. there ain't no where you have to be that bad that you have to drive that badly!! there was a bad accident near by over the holiday, an entire family lost their lives driving home because they hit a tree. Man.. fill some people up with turkey and they just stop caring about the rules of society.
Got home. Hubby and doug came back from moving a big piece of furniture sarah had bought, and went down to play pool. I went down a little while after and was watching. I noticed the furnace was dripping. I asked the hubby about it, and he said "it does that".. well that's not a good answer for me, and he knew it, so he went to tighten up the valve, which only made it worse, now doug and I and he are all trying to keep the water up off the floor, and stop the leak. Must have been water from the furnace cause it was HORRIBLY musty and was slightly off color. Still not sure what is wrong with it, and it is currently leaking, but doug had to go, and so the hubby called my dad, who fortunately has the part they think they need to fix it, so off he went to the 'rents house to get the part and its still dripping down there. He better hurry up.
yup.. rough day. Started out at 5am. Stupidly I decided to go sale-ing. I didn't get a wal-mart flyer so I decided to get there at 6am and go see what they had for sale. There was a line from the door out to the main road. I kid you not. This asinine thing they are doing the 6-11am deals with limited stock and no rain checks. BAD IDEA! and just totally wrong. By the time we got up to the door though they were letting people in, so we snuck in. I was just getting a flyer and not getting in anyones way so I figured I wasn't being that bad. (although the shoppers who snuck in before those who had been waiting in line since 5am pissed off the people who had been waiting there since 5am and they weren't afraid to say how pissed off they were.) I grabbed a flyer, and wasn't impressed with the deals, so I left. Walked right out the out door with nothing in my hands. Totally shocked the clerk standing there.. lol. We went to circut city and stood in line for an hour. yes. an hour. Yes.. 30 degrees out. Yes.. im insane. But It saved me big $ and I was already awake, so it wasn't THAT big a deal.. well I did loose feeling in my feet. the woman behind me was from away. She was staying with her sister in law, and decided to come to the store to get the playstation that her son wanted. As we all stood in line we got to talking, cause if you didn't your lips would freeze together. the people behind her were trying to tell her what a deal she wasn't getting. I wanted to tell them to hush up. They tried to tell us that the $50 13-inch tv we were getting wasn't that big of a deal either.. that she had seen them for that price all the time. I don't know where she was shopping to find them, but I have been looking for weeks, and the best I saw before that was 64$.. even the clearance ones at Ames when they were going out of business were 70-80$. I don't think she was trying to get us out of line.. I just think she was baked.
So we got in there, got what we wanted. was second in line, when the clerk started waiting on someone else after they delt with the person in front of us. I wasn't there when he started, or he would have gotten a piece of my mind. We got one 13-in tv, two DVD players, a zoom 35 mm camera and a dvd (monsters inc) for $222. not to bad. and all of our christmas shopping except for each other.. well and one of my friends.. is done. You know.. this not having to buy presents for my family is working out to be a good thing. *grumble grumble grumble*
anyway. went to IHOP afterwards. I must say this went really rather well. Got in there, sat right down, had a very friendly waitress, got pumpkin pancakes.. YUM.. and a greek omelette (feta, onions, spinach, tomatos, and black olives) which was also a yum! but they didn't put enough feta in it, and there were too many black olives. the waitress was attentive, friendly, came at the right times. I gave her a nice hefty tip. Good help is so hard to get these days. I pay dearly when I find it and do so happily. Im not keen on the whole tipping process as a whole, very few people have the nerve to leave no tip, and so crummy help gets by. There have been a number of times I have told my husband to leave no tip because the waiter/waitress was horrid, and he refuses not to. My thought is, how will these people learn if not by the honest feedback of the tipping system??
Anyway. Got home, THEN I was cold. VERY VERY cold. warm jammies, and cuddled into bed I was freezing. I tried to sleep, not sure if I did or not. it wasn't fun. Sooner or later though time pasted and the cable guy showed up. We forgot all about him and almost didn't open the door.. lol. The same guy who was out here before was out here again. I don't like him. He is totally anti boosting the signal, and totally well its your wiring job ma'am. although.. they replaced the cable that went from the line to the house (and I got connected after that and had a nice speedy connection, so it wasn't the house wiring, it was their sucky wiring to the house.. so there :P) anyway.. they rewired in the house too, and finally I have a connection worthy of being called cable!.
I went out, had to bring a kitten to the vet. On the way down there some van from NH with the license plate mission or something to that effect CUT ME OFF. hello! my plate says PLRBEAR, that in no way says "cut in front of me, I don't mind". *rolls eyes* I saw him coming and had to back up to let him in .. I was beeping and flashing him the entire time. He totally didn't care. so I continued to flash him for a few more miles. When he had the opportunity to pull over and get out of my way he didn't, so I pulled into the right lane, went around him, cut in front of him and slammed on my breaks. probably not the smartest thing to do, but it felt good. I hope he doesn't do it again, but I have the feeling he totally doesn't care. Did the vet thing (see the kitten blog) drove home, and SOMEONE ELSE CUT IN FRONT OF ME. a ME license plate this time of write. *rolls eyes* HELLO PEOPLE! holiday weekend. there ain't no where you have to be that bad that you have to drive that badly!! there was a bad accident near by over the holiday, an entire family lost their lives driving home because they hit a tree. Man.. fill some people up with turkey and they just stop caring about the rules of society.
Got home. Hubby and doug came back from moving a big piece of furniture sarah had bought, and went down to play pool. I went down a little while after and was watching. I noticed the furnace was dripping. I asked the hubby about it, and he said "it does that".. well that's not a good answer for me, and he knew it, so he went to tighten up the valve, which only made it worse, now doug and I and he are all trying to keep the water up off the floor, and stop the leak. Must have been water from the furnace cause it was HORRIBLY musty and was slightly off color. Still not sure what is wrong with it, and it is currently leaking, but doug had to go, and so the hubby called my dad, who fortunately has the part they think they need to fix it, so off he went to the 'rents house to get the part and its still dripping down there. He better hurry up.
11.28.2002
sigh. I am full of turkey. no no no.. the bird kind that you stuff and eat on thanksgiving you silly.. :) It came out pretty good. If you haven't heard me ranting lately, we had thanksgiving dinner HERE. no small little thing for us.. nope. 14 people. although by the inlaw standards that is an intimate occasion.
ugh. i have to take my contacts out.. brb.
aaah.. much better. contacts out, dress off, jammies on, socks on.. much more my style at the moment.. lol
anyway. Having company is nice cause you get motivated to clean the house, only problem is this time instead of cleaning 100%, we cleaned 80% and please don't look in the back room or at the bedroom too closely.. lol. Gonna have to put all that stuff back at some point.
oops just remembered we'll probably have more company tonight. Oh well.. no biggie to get out of the jammies.
Anyway. there has been a few days of cleaning, or should I say staying out of the way of his cleaning. This was 100% his show..
lol.. sorry.. we interupt this post to tell you a really cute cat story. There is cat food up off the floor so jack and ollie can get to it, but emmy who is on a restricted diet can not. There is a table in front of where this food is right now, so she's jumping up on the coffee table, reaching up into the bowl, taking a mouth full of kibble, and then jumping down, throwing it on the floor and then eating it. Its just too cute to stop her.. lol. Currently Jack has found a belled ball and has shoved it under the radiator and is trying desprately to get it out. he's making quite a racket.
Ok. so.. where was I? oh yea.. cleaning. 100% his show. which was nice, I got a clean house and turkey left overs with out any of the hastle. Well that's not completely true. but Im going to tell myself that... lets see.. what else is new. I gave my speech on monday.. there were people missing from the class who hadn't given their speech.. so didn't that just piss me off cause i know he's not going to fail them. he so better. *grumble grumble grumble* *looks back to see if this needs explaining - nope. blogged about it on the 21st* I think it went over well. I missed one line.. I have no idea, it was one of my favorite lines.. but it wasn't a big deal. If you want to read it, Click Here the class really liked it. When he asked me if I had any questions about the class feedback, I said no, because the class really liked it, he had the nerve to reply something to the effect of he "didn't hate it" <- those were exact words. I so wanted to go up and smack him. He didn't think I emphisized my thesis statement enough, that my unrelated intro was distracting. Yea.. well ya *bleep bleep* ya got to explain your life before you can talk about your life.. and I ... you know what. I don't care. I'll probably get a b on it, and a b is a decent enough grade. Not one I deserve mind you.. but I'll accept it over going and ranting to him about what a jerk he is. But trust me, come review time, he is getting one highly negitive review, with details, and probably a nice thesis statement too. *considers printing out reply email from him and submitting that as well... talk about my dead kittens as a speech to entertain my.. grumble grumble grumble*
I have the week off in spreadsheets. Next week is chapter 8, then my final assignment is due where i have to come up with my own problem, my own set of conditions, then my own solution... SAY WHAT!?!? Im not too happy about this one Jim.. but Im hoping we get a bit more direction on it. *considers rescuing the ball for Jack*
Well the neighbors put up their christmas lights. There are seven houses on this street besides mine, and three of them have them up and light them at night. the fourth already have them up, but have the decency to not turn them on... and they are the drug dealers.. go figure.
Hey.. I don't think Ive told you about the house up the street. They built this nice house up the street from me.two story, very pretty. Then they went and put this cement slab standing upright in front of it. We couldn't figure out for the life of us what they were going to do with the slab. It almost seemed like a mote or protection wall. It was very strange. About six months later they put a deck up on it... attached from the house to this upright slab. In the mean time, the owners demonstrated they are kinda weird in a funky sort of way. They parked a beat up old car next to their house. Then they proceeded to beat it up even more. they drove it around the field, and I don't know if they brought in another car to smash it, or if they did it with hammers, but for the next few weeks the car got worse and worse looking. Then the car disappeared, and they built huge dirt piles in their yard and proceeded to use them to go dirt biking... or atv-ing. lol. I couldn't help but wonder if they had some sort of connection with the drugdealer neighbors... who moved in next door to us a while ago, a little bitty thing of a house, then put up a huge pool, a HUGE shed, and parked a jag in front of it. They also have people coming and going all hours of the day, most just stop by for a second or two, then leave again. Anyway.. the other day we are driving behind this beat up ol truck carrying a couple of atvs. I thought they were going to turn into the new house, and poof they did.. i couldn't help but laugh.
man this is going to be one long post. My applogies.
I was watching animal planet the other night, they have this new show animal cops. the camera drives around with animal rescue workers. This episode they went to a house of an "animal collector". the neighbors complained that he had a lot of cats. they found the guy living in the garage. He was aware of the problem, but obviously not fully aware cause when the ACO told him that there was a dead cat in his yard he was surprised. The guy agreed after a while to let them trap and take the cats out of his house. He took home one unneutered cat, and poof. When the first day was done they weren't even half way through capturing all the cats. They had to come back a second day. They also had to wear protective clothing not only from the cats, but from the fleas, and from the stench of urine and feces. When all was said and done, they had captured over 250 cats. 250. I can't even fathom that. I see the number, but man.. I even saw the truck loads of carriers of cats and I still don't get it. sadly they all had to be put down because he had lost control and all of the cats were feral. My heart goes out to those workers. I currently own three cats. One of the fosters that I currently have my husband wants to keep, a second one I really want to keep, but I really am in a tizzy about it, the logistics and all... sadly though since they could be ill and might need to be put to sleep I really don't want to start loving them yet... Im keeping a part of my heart closed off. Its hard, and Im sure its hard on them. Sigh. Although I did give them some turkey.. more info will be in the kitten blog.. :)
a calm has come over the house. Jack and ollie are grooming, Em is looking regal, hubby is sleeping, Im typing - and making the most noise.. lol. Man.. having large gatherings like that really makes you appreciate the quite all that much more. Although I still want to watch the parade.. and read the paper.. and plan for tomorrows day of shopping :)
Happy Thanksgiving! May you find a quite moment to reflect and savor all that you have to be thankful for. (and you know.. even the negitive stuff is stuff to be thankful for, cause it helps you cherrish the stuff that is good. or something like that)
ugh. i have to take my contacts out.. brb.
aaah.. much better. contacts out, dress off, jammies on, socks on.. much more my style at the moment.. lol
anyway. Having company is nice cause you get motivated to clean the house, only problem is this time instead of cleaning 100%, we cleaned 80% and please don't look in the back room or at the bedroom too closely.. lol. Gonna have to put all that stuff back at some point.
oops just remembered we'll probably have more company tonight. Oh well.. no biggie to get out of the jammies.
Anyway. there has been a few days of cleaning, or should I say staying out of the way of his cleaning. This was 100% his show..
lol.. sorry.. we interupt this post to tell you a really cute cat story. There is cat food up off the floor so jack and ollie can get to it, but emmy who is on a restricted diet can not. There is a table in front of where this food is right now, so she's jumping up on the coffee table, reaching up into the bowl, taking a mouth full of kibble, and then jumping down, throwing it on the floor and then eating it. Its just too cute to stop her.. lol. Currently Jack has found a belled ball and has shoved it under the radiator and is trying desprately to get it out. he's making quite a racket.
Ok. so.. where was I? oh yea.. cleaning. 100% his show. which was nice, I got a clean house and turkey left overs with out any of the hastle. Well that's not completely true. but Im going to tell myself that... lets see.. what else is new. I gave my speech on monday.. there were people missing from the class who hadn't given their speech.. so didn't that just piss me off cause i know he's not going to fail them. he so better. *grumble grumble grumble* *looks back to see if this needs explaining - nope. blogged about it on the 21st* I think it went over well. I missed one line.. I have no idea, it was one of my favorite lines.. but it wasn't a big deal. If you want to read it, Click Here the class really liked it. When he asked me if I had any questions about the class feedback, I said no, because the class really liked it, he had the nerve to reply something to the effect of he "didn't hate it" <- those were exact words. I so wanted to go up and smack him. He didn't think I emphisized my thesis statement enough, that my unrelated intro was distracting. Yea.. well ya *bleep bleep* ya got to explain your life before you can talk about your life.. and I ... you know what. I don't care. I'll probably get a b on it, and a b is a decent enough grade. Not one I deserve mind you.. but I'll accept it over going and ranting to him about what a jerk he is. But trust me, come review time, he is getting one highly negitive review, with details, and probably a nice thesis statement too. *considers printing out reply email from him and submitting that as well... talk about my dead kittens as a speech to entertain my.. grumble grumble grumble*
I have the week off in spreadsheets. Next week is chapter 8, then my final assignment is due where i have to come up with my own problem, my own set of conditions, then my own solution... SAY WHAT!?!? Im not too happy about this one Jim.. but Im hoping we get a bit more direction on it. *considers rescuing the ball for Jack*
Well the neighbors put up their christmas lights. There are seven houses on this street besides mine, and three of them have them up and light them at night. the fourth already have them up, but have the decency to not turn them on... and they are the drug dealers.. go figure.
Hey.. I don't think Ive told you about the house up the street. They built this nice house up the street from me.two story, very pretty. Then they went and put this cement slab standing upright in front of it. We couldn't figure out for the life of us what they were going to do with the slab. It almost seemed like a mote or protection wall. It was very strange. About six months later they put a deck up on it... attached from the house to this upright slab. In the mean time, the owners demonstrated they are kinda weird in a funky sort of way. They parked a beat up old car next to their house. Then they proceeded to beat it up even more. they drove it around the field, and I don't know if they brought in another car to smash it, or if they did it with hammers, but for the next few weeks the car got worse and worse looking. Then the car disappeared, and they built huge dirt piles in their yard and proceeded to use them to go dirt biking... or atv-ing. lol. I couldn't help but wonder if they had some sort of connection with the drugdealer neighbors... who moved in next door to us a while ago, a little bitty thing of a house, then put up a huge pool, a HUGE shed, and parked a jag in front of it. They also have people coming and going all hours of the day, most just stop by for a second or two, then leave again. Anyway.. the other day we are driving behind this beat up ol truck carrying a couple of atvs. I thought they were going to turn into the new house, and poof they did.. i couldn't help but laugh.
man this is going to be one long post. My applogies.
I was watching animal planet the other night, they have this new show animal cops. the camera drives around with animal rescue workers. This episode they went to a house of an "animal collector". the neighbors complained that he had a lot of cats. they found the guy living in the garage. He was aware of the problem, but obviously not fully aware cause when the ACO told him that there was a dead cat in his yard he was surprised. The guy agreed after a while to let them trap and take the cats out of his house. He took home one unneutered cat, and poof. When the first day was done they weren't even half way through capturing all the cats. They had to come back a second day. They also had to wear protective clothing not only from the cats, but from the fleas, and from the stench of urine and feces. When all was said and done, they had captured over 250 cats. 250. I can't even fathom that. I see the number, but man.. I even saw the truck loads of carriers of cats and I still don't get it. sadly they all had to be put down because he had lost control and all of the cats were feral. My heart goes out to those workers. I currently own three cats. One of the fosters that I currently have my husband wants to keep, a second one I really want to keep, but I really am in a tizzy about it, the logistics and all... sadly though since they could be ill and might need to be put to sleep I really don't want to start loving them yet... Im keeping a part of my heart closed off. Its hard, and Im sure its hard on them. Sigh. Although I did give them some turkey.. more info will be in the kitten blog.. :)
a calm has come over the house. Jack and ollie are grooming, Em is looking regal, hubby is sleeping, Im typing - and making the most noise.. lol. Man.. having large gatherings like that really makes you appreciate the quite all that much more. Although I still want to watch the parade.. and read the paper.. and plan for tomorrows day of shopping :)
Happy Thanksgiving! May you find a quite moment to reflect and savor all that you have to be thankful for. (and you know.. even the negitive stuff is stuff to be thankful for, cause it helps you cherrish the stuff that is good. or something like that)
11.25.2002
11.23.2002
well.. this was one heck of a day, that's for certian. Jack woke me up way before I had to get up, then slightly before I had to get up, then right before I had to get up. Wasn't that nice of him to make sure I made it to my test on time. and I did. I fed the kitties and got there with time to spare. In fact the door was still locked to the room. We filled out our course evaluations, and did a little discussion, then proceeded to take the test. I was about 3/8ths of the way through when the power went out. The teacher had incouraged us save all of our work to the desktop on the school computer, which clears all saved stuff when the power goes out. we tried to log back in, and we were going to start over, but the server apparently went down and we were stuck on the blue screen of death. So we got to take the test home and we have till tuesday to finish it up and get it back in. She gave us our final project too, which has me at a complete loss, since I have to come up with my own problem to solve. So now I have to call the hubby and have him come get me even earlier.. which I don't mind, but it left me waiting a bit. We made it to a few fairs. Bought some home made beans, and a purse made out of kitty fabric, and a strawberry shortcake friend pin. Ran into my parents too.
Got to the shower a little late. it was interesting. Have I mentioned that my in-laws are generally very rude people? After 15 years Ive gotten kinda used to it, but it still is not my favorite activity to spend time with them. the hubby's older brother's wife (the mother of the woman for who the shower was being thrown) is kinda nice... actually in direct comparison she's a down right saint.
We had plans to go out with the future mom and dad. Was talked about since thursday I think. I was actually looking forward to it. Were going to see the movie "the santa clause 2".. at 7pm they called, sarah went out with her friends instead. This is like the 7th time out of 10 they have made plans with us and ditched at the very last moment. Guess sarah has gotten the rude genes from her dad's side of the family.
So now its practice the hell out of my speech, and do my quiz, and pray for some guidence in my final project.
Got to the shower a little late. it was interesting. Have I mentioned that my in-laws are generally very rude people? After 15 years Ive gotten kinda used to it, but it still is not my favorite activity to spend time with them. the hubby's older brother's wife (the mother of the woman for who the shower was being thrown) is kinda nice... actually in direct comparison she's a down right saint.
We had plans to go out with the future mom and dad. Was talked about since thursday I think. I was actually looking forward to it. Were going to see the movie "the santa clause 2".. at 7pm they called, sarah went out with her friends instead. This is like the 7th time out of 10 they have made plans with us and ditched at the very last moment. Guess sarah has gotten the rude genes from her dad's side of the family.
So now its practice the hell out of my speech, and do my quiz, and pray for some guidence in my final project.
11.22.2002
sigh. Im coping.. I think. It would be a heck of a lot easier if I didn't have all of my social and school obligations this week. its like they were all waiting and BOOM!.. I was looking forward to this weekend because of a number of large christmas fairs are on saturday. Then I realized I had a baby shower. I figured that was ok, cause I could do the fairs in the morning and get to the shower later. THEN I remembered I have a major spreadsheeting test in the morning. so now the fairs are out.. sigh. I LOVE the fairs. then I remembered that I wanted to make a baby quilt for the baby shower.. ok so I knew that before, but it slipped out of my brain.. must remember to get that fixed... but now I have 24 hours till the shower, that's just not going to get done. *considers giving them an IOU*
I haven't even looked at my spreadsheeting homework.. and my speech really bites, and all I really want to do is go to sleep.
sigh
I haven't even looked at my spreadsheeting homework.. and my speech really bites, and all I really want to do is go to sleep.
sigh
11.21.2002
have I mentioned what an ass my speech teacher is? Why yes.. I have... well this time I really want to strangle him. I wrote to him yesterday and explained what happened and asked if I could possibly do my speech the week after cause this upcoming speech is supposed to be "to entertain". and he wrote back saying no. I couldn't. because HE has to video tape it and play the tape back to give me feedback and that just wouldn't work the next week.. (yea.. right.. you lazy fuck).. yup.. Im mad.. how freakin insensitve, he even suggests I give my speech about the cats.. HELLO! they just DIED!! He and my mother are so cut from the same mold.
I got a phone call when I was out buying more colored pencils cause I was just too frustrated to keep looking for the ones I had. I decided to make christmas cards for the card swap Im taking part in with an online group I belong to. I figured today was a very good day to do this as its a great way to keep my mind busy. I spent about an hour trying to find all the things I knew I had and needed. See the kitten room used to be the craft room, so when I rearranged it to be the kitten room, my craft stuff ended up either in that room, in the downstairs bedroom (where the remaining kittens are now) or who knows where. One piece at a time I found the stamp, the stamp pad, the paints, the card stock, the other stamp, etc. By the time I realized I hadn't run into the pencils I gave up and decided I was going to go out and buy new ones. Figured it would do me good to get out of the house, and buying things was always good for the economy (btw.. who the heck says we are in a recession?? every time I go to the store the parking lot is PACKED!) and frankly I couldn't face going back into the kitten rooms. So I figured since I was out I was going to get the biggest pack of pencils avalible. Not sure why, I only used six of them. To boot I bought an additional set of metalics. Well anyway... It was a good thing I went out cause while I was gone we got a phone call.
We found the phone message at 9:30 this evening. Had the hubby listen to it, and it was a woman from his past. She started out with I don't know if your the right person, but Im so and so and we knew each other in Saugus. Im starting to think its an old girlfriend, or maybe someone who had a crush on him looking to get lucky till she said something to the effect that my maiden name is so and so, and Im Tony's cousin. I just KNEW.. Tony is a old friend of my hubsband. They grew up together and he was a part of our wedding. He was a ... well Im digressing here.. I told my hubby to call her back now. He was recluctant as it was late, but again I knew, and pressed him to call her. As I feared, Tony had died a few weeks earlier. No one was sure how to reach him, and had just now found some information to reach him. (Tony had an unknown
heart condition and sleep apnia, he died in his sleep. he was 33yrs old). The service was a few weeks ago, so there isn't a funeral to go to, but there is still all the emotions... which is even harder on him because frankly he's not a very emotional guy... yes yes.. he's the polar opposite of me in that department (:P@those. of you who
thought that). Tony was a great guy. Lots of fun. I first met him right before the wedding, and I invited him up here for the hubby's birthday once, and we went down to see him another time... no wait.. We went down and saw him before the wedding.. Probably to ask him to be in the wedding.. I don't really remember, and it really isn't important. What is important is he made me laugh. I liked him. The world is.. well I want to say not the same with out him in it, but that seems kinda hypocritical seeing as I haven't seen him in 8 years.. Of course, when my husband confirmed the fact that he was dead, I couldn't help but think how much can I handle. First the kittens and now this.. I hate to say this, but Im glad there isn't a funeral to go to... That might sound mean, but it isn't intended that way.
*seriously considers standing up on monday and giving a speech on death, and how you should take a moment to appreciate those around you.*
I got a phone call when I was out buying more colored pencils cause I was just too frustrated to keep looking for the ones I had. I decided to make christmas cards for the card swap Im taking part in with an online group I belong to. I figured today was a very good day to do this as its a great way to keep my mind busy. I spent about an hour trying to find all the things I knew I had and needed. See the kitten room used to be the craft room, so when I rearranged it to be the kitten room, my craft stuff ended up either in that room, in the downstairs bedroom (where the remaining kittens are now) or who knows where. One piece at a time I found the stamp, the stamp pad, the paints, the card stock, the other stamp, etc. By the time I realized I hadn't run into the pencils I gave up and decided I was going to go out and buy new ones. Figured it would do me good to get out of the house, and buying things was always good for the economy (btw.. who the heck says we are in a recession?? every time I go to the store the parking lot is PACKED!) and frankly I couldn't face going back into the kitten rooms. So I figured since I was out I was going to get the biggest pack of pencils avalible. Not sure why, I only used six of them. To boot I bought an additional set of metalics. Well anyway... It was a good thing I went out cause while I was gone we got a phone call.
We found the phone message at 9:30 this evening. Had the hubby listen to it, and it was a woman from his past. She started out with I don't know if your the right person, but Im so and so and we knew each other in Saugus. Im starting to think its an old girlfriend, or maybe someone who had a crush on him looking to get lucky till she said something to the effect that my maiden name is so and so, and Im Tony's cousin. I just KNEW.. Tony is a old friend of my hubsband. They grew up together and he was a part of our wedding. He was a ... well Im digressing here.. I told my hubby to call her back now. He was recluctant as it was late, but again I knew, and pressed him to call her. As I feared, Tony had died a few weeks earlier. No one was sure how to reach him, and had just now found some information to reach him. (Tony had an unknown
heart condition and sleep apnia, he died in his sleep. he was 33yrs old). The service was a few weeks ago, so there isn't a funeral to go to, but there is still all the emotions... which is even harder on him because frankly he's not a very emotional guy... yes yes.. he's the polar opposite of me in that department (:P@those. of you who
thought that). Tony was a great guy. Lots of fun. I first met him right before the wedding, and I invited him up here for the hubby's birthday once, and we went down to see him another time... no wait.. We went down and saw him before the wedding.. Probably to ask him to be in the wedding.. I don't really remember, and it really isn't important. What is important is he made me laugh. I liked him. The world is.. well I want to say not the same with out him in it, but that seems kinda hypocritical seeing as I haven't seen him in 8 years.. Of course, when my husband confirmed the fact that he was dead, I couldn't help but think how much can I handle. First the kittens and now this.. I hate to say this, but Im glad there isn't a funeral to go to... That might sound mean, but it isn't intended that way.
*seriously considers standing up on monday and giving a speech on death, and how you should take a moment to appreciate those around you.*
11.19.2002
11.18.2002
I heard about this a while back on the today show. I ment to comment on it then, but forgot all about it. I want to promote A.C. Green Jr. He is a basketball player who holds the title of the most consective games played. He also was a virgin when he got married at age 38
SEE!! it can be done.
SEE!! it can be done.
11.17.2002
*looks at the date* well.. at least its November this time. We've got snow, we've got ice, we have one wintery day out there. they were talking nor-easter, but I don't think that happened.. at least not here. I forgot all about the fact that it was going to get icky last night, and the plow truck woke me up at 3am. He wasn't making the annoying beeping noise they usually make by my house.. I thought someone was moving out in the middle of the night, or someone was moving them out.. so I got up to peek. Was kinda relieved when I found out it was only a plow truck.
I have quite a headache this morning, so I think Im going to go lay back down for a while, then maybe read the paper.
I have quite a headache this morning, so I think Im going to go lay back down for a while, then maybe read the paper.
11.15.2002
it is not wise for me to watch the news.. it gives me such things to rant about.
first there is this. A preacher wanted to hold a book burning of the harry potter books. a book burning!! can you believe it? the town wouldn't give him a perment, so they had a book "cutting" instead. You know.. the only thing they are succeeding at is looking silly. Come on.. someone had to pay for those books. I don't thinkJ.K. Rowling cares if you cut them up after you buy them..
Then there was this Can we just say ..... you know. I don't have anything.. a total blank. No words to discribe the moronic morons in this instance.
Then there was the high school team that offered to let its arch rivals score a touch down. Why? because there was a boy on the team that was mentally challenged. He suited up for every practice and every game. The only thing he ever got to do was do a knee down to end the play. His team was loosing badly, so the winning team's coach went to the other coach and offered to let him score. I can't tell you how much this warms my heart. The boy was a little confused.. the guys were all cheering him on, so then he started running. A few guys ran after him to make it look good, and to congratulate him when he made it. Those guys will have that memory for the rest of their lives. It is a life lesson that will effect hopefully everything they do.
lastly I just took a phone call from the Press Herald trying to sell me more news papers. I have told them and told them not to call me any more. The last time they called to offer to give me the thursday paper free (cause I get the sunday paper). They have done this before.. its free for a month, then they charge you for it. Well this time I said NO!. but they sent it anyway. When we called and complained they said they immediately subscribe everyone the call is just a curtisy. SAY WHAT!?! *rolls eyes* so they just called me again. And according to dateline, once you ask to be put on the do not call list and they call you can sue them for thousands of dollars. So my new stratigy is to ask them once, then next time tell them they owe me $1000. This time it scared the guy who originally called me. he passed me on to his manager. I told her that they broke the law and they can just cut me a check now for $1000. she passed me on to Vicky. Vicky tried to tell me I couldn't. Yea.. Right. Ive got the law on my side woman. Now its on the web. If these morons call me again, Im so suing them.
first there is this. A preacher wanted to hold a book burning of the harry potter books. a book burning!! can you believe it? the town wouldn't give him a perment, so they had a book "cutting" instead. You know.. the only thing they are succeeding at is looking silly. Come on.. someone had to pay for those books. I don't thinkJ.K. Rowling cares if you cut them up after you buy them..
Then there was this Can we just say ..... you know. I don't have anything.. a total blank. No words to discribe the moronic morons in this instance.
Then there was the high school team that offered to let its arch rivals score a touch down. Why? because there was a boy on the team that was mentally challenged. He suited up for every practice and every game. The only thing he ever got to do was do a knee down to end the play. His team was loosing badly, so the winning team's coach went to the other coach and offered to let him score. I can't tell you how much this warms my heart. The boy was a little confused.. the guys were all cheering him on, so then he started running. A few guys ran after him to make it look good, and to congratulate him when he made it. Those guys will have that memory for the rest of their lives. It is a life lesson that will effect hopefully everything they do.
lastly I just took a phone call from the Press Herald trying to sell me more news papers. I have told them and told them not to call me any more. The last time they called to offer to give me the thursday paper free (cause I get the sunday paper). They have done this before.. its free for a month, then they charge you for it. Well this time I said NO!. but they sent it anyway. When we called and complained they said they immediately subscribe everyone the call is just a curtisy. SAY WHAT!?! *rolls eyes* so they just called me again. And according to dateline, once you ask to be put on the do not call list and they call you can sue them for thousands of dollars. So my new stratigy is to ask them once, then next time tell them they owe me $1000. This time it scared the guy who originally called me. he passed me on to his manager. I told her that they broke the law and they can just cut me a check now for $1000. she passed me on to Vicky. Vicky tried to tell me I couldn't. Yea.. Right. Ive got the law on my side woman. Now its on the web. If these morons call me again, Im so suing them.
The heaviest element known to science is Managerium.
This element has no protons or electrons, but has a nucleus
made up of 1 neutron, 2 vice-neutrons, 5 junior vice-neutrons,
25 assistant vice-neutrons, and 125 junior assistant vice-
neutrons all going round in circles.
Managerium has a half-life of three years, at which time it
does not decay but institutes a series of reviews leading to
reorganization.
Its molecules are held together by means of the exchange of
tiny particles known as morons.
This element has no protons or electrons, but has a nucleus
made up of 1 neutron, 2 vice-neutrons, 5 junior vice-neutrons,
25 assistant vice-neutrons, and 125 junior assistant vice-
neutrons all going round in circles.
Managerium has a half-life of three years, at which time it
does not decay but institutes a series of reviews leading to
reorganization.
Its molecules are held together by means of the exchange of
tiny particles known as morons.
11.12.2002
ugh.. I have so much I want to do, and no motivation to do it. I need to do my homework before thursday night. I need to restore my house to some semblance of order. rearranging furniture to address the new room and the kittens wreaking havoc with my school papers and a couple of days worth of dishes really makes this house look like a bomb hit it. sigh. I also have shopping I need to do to get a few things mailed out.. and for some reason that's further down on my todo list than homework, so I feel I can't do that till I do that, and I don't wanna.. (am I making sence?) So im trying to play on line and watch alias, and Im not succeeding in either. Guess I'll go give my attention to the TV.
11.10.2002
yesterday.... Slow start to the morning. I had plans to go out and visit the fairs in the area.. they start the Christmas fairs early. Hubby went to help a friend move a fish tank, and by the time I was ready to leave the house he was almost home, so I finished up a few things around the house, and waited for him. But then by the time we got out of the house most of them were mostly over. We went to one, and the crafter's fair at the middle school, and decided to just go home. Got home, had lunch, then went out and planted tulips. Wasn't sure where to plant them, and decided at the end of the driveway (the place where I planted my tomato plants when we first moved in here). It was warm all day, but half way through the wind started picking up. The ground was cold too, and the worms weren't all too happy about us ripping up their dirt. We gave up before they were all in. Might try to put some more in today. I was covered in dirt so i went in through the basement. I saw Tobin, and though I would check him out. (tobin is my bunny incase you didn't know) He had some problems with poop caking on his behind, and YEA! there was none!! But his nails needed to be clipped. So I took him upstairs and cuddled up with him on the bed. he did really well, except jack kept getting in the way. I don't think he has found the rabbit yet. Tobin is sheding, so there was a small pile of white fur on the bed by the time jack got up there. first thing he did was get in it, I told him to stop, and he just looked at me with a pile of fur hanging out of his mouth like a little white beard. I called him santa jack and took it away. He then decided the bunny was more interesting anyway, so he started getting in the way of my seeing where I was clipping on tobin's claw... So I stopped, and let jack sniff the bunny, but then jack decided to taste the bunny. Not to hurt him, just a little taste. I put a stop to it, but he just came back and tried again. I shooed jack away and finished clipping, and then checked tobin's teeth (yea! no problem there either) and put him down, and jack was back at that time. I tried to explain to jack that he shouldn't attack anything with a head bigger than his, but he wasn't convinced... but he wasn't going to do it while I was watching. But he thought about smacking him with his paw. He slowly lifted it up and headed tward the rabbit, and I called out jack's name in a way to convince him not to do that, and he looked at me with a nice innocent look as if to say "What?!" a moment later he tried with his paw again. again I said "JACK!", and again he looked at me as if to say "WHAT!?!" I shooed him away again and returned the rabbit to his little corner of the world, and the rabbit was oh so happy.
went out to the store afterwards. Sears had a 13 inch tv on sale for 65$... the cheepest I saw. I was planning on waiting to see what went on sale the day after thanksgiving, so I bought it and its sitting in the basement till then. Every year Wal-mart has a tv on major sale the day after thanksgiving. the last two years I was there, and I felt an almost overwhelming urge to get a tv since EVERYONE had one.. and i didn't. Its always a great deal.. but Ive never needed one. I still don't REALLY need one, but Im sick of the tv in the kitten room. Ive had it since I was in highschool.. it only has 36 channels and the remote doesn't work thanks to a kitten throwing up on it... and a number of channels come in fuzzy. Then went to Shaw's and got a few pints of Ben and Jerry's. They are on sale for 1.99.. and are normally 2.99. I also had a 50 cent coupon, and shaws doubles coupons... so I was happy to get a pint for a buck. but when I got in the store, I couldn't find the coupon. I assumed it fell out of my coupon holder, and just gave up on it. assumed Id find it and Id probably send the hubby back to get another pint at some point. as we left, I found the coupon on the ground next to the car... so I ran back in the store and redeamed it then. :)
Came home. and watched jurassic park and cuddled with kittens. Went to bed with the boy and bugsy. The boy didn't want to sit still, so he went back rather quickly, but we left bugsy out all night.. and at 5am he decided he needed me to pat him NOW. NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW.. darn it.. purrrrr purrrr purrr.. nudge nudge nudge.. I threw him on the floor twice, and on to the hubby a couple of times, but nooooo it had to be me.. and he sneezed in my face.. I put him back on my husband again, and he started laughing.... So I got up and threw bugsy back in the kitten room. It was awful cute, and if I didn't have such a hard time falling asleep I wouldn't have minded in the least. well ok.. the 5am bit wasn't too kosher.. but hey.. at least it wasn't 4am. So I fell asleep for a couple more hours, then got up and sat down at the computer and the sun was shinning right through the window into my eye
and worst of all, I found out that time warner is now blocking bigfoot.com as well. I HATE spam filters!! they do not block spam. they do not block spam... do you get this? they do NOT block spam. they find a way. They only really proceed in blocking emails you want, and ticking you off. and for the life of me I can't get a real live person to do anything for me on this one. But I am so going to fight this. If nothing else Im going to get a reduction in my bill since I can't use the email they provide any more. not to mention that they are so not providing the service they promise. Email doesn't work, speed isn't there.. Time warner SUCKS!! (I don't care what their stupid JD Power's commercial says!!)
went out to the store afterwards. Sears had a 13 inch tv on sale for 65$... the cheepest I saw. I was planning on waiting to see what went on sale the day after thanksgiving, so I bought it and its sitting in the basement till then. Every year Wal-mart has a tv on major sale the day after thanksgiving. the last two years I was there, and I felt an almost overwhelming urge to get a tv since EVERYONE had one.. and i didn't. Its always a great deal.. but Ive never needed one. I still don't REALLY need one, but Im sick of the tv in the kitten room. Ive had it since I was in highschool.. it only has 36 channels and the remote doesn't work thanks to a kitten throwing up on it... and a number of channels come in fuzzy. Then went to Shaw's and got a few pints of Ben and Jerry's. They are on sale for 1.99.. and are normally 2.99. I also had a 50 cent coupon, and shaws doubles coupons... so I was happy to get a pint for a buck. but when I got in the store, I couldn't find the coupon. I assumed it fell out of my coupon holder, and just gave up on it. assumed Id find it and Id probably send the hubby back to get another pint at some point. as we left, I found the coupon on the ground next to the car... so I ran back in the store and redeamed it then. :)
Came home. and watched jurassic park and cuddled with kittens. Went to bed with the boy and bugsy. The boy didn't want to sit still, so he went back rather quickly, but we left bugsy out all night.. and at 5am he decided he needed me to pat him NOW. NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW.. darn it.. purrrrr purrrr purrr.. nudge nudge nudge.. I threw him on the floor twice, and on to the hubby a couple of times, but nooooo it had to be me.. and he sneezed in my face.. I put him back on my husband again, and he started laughing.... So I got up and threw bugsy back in the kitten room. It was awful cute, and if I didn't have such a hard time falling asleep I wouldn't have minded in the least. well ok.. the 5am bit wasn't too kosher.. but hey.. at least it wasn't 4am. So I fell asleep for a couple more hours, then got up and sat down at the computer and the sun was shinning right through the window into my eye
and worst of all, I found out that time warner is now blocking bigfoot.com as well. I HATE spam filters!! they do not block spam. they do not block spam... do you get this? they do NOT block spam. they find a way. They only really proceed in blocking emails you want, and ticking you off. and for the life of me I can't get a real live person to do anything for me on this one. But I am so going to fight this. If nothing else Im going to get a reduction in my bill since I can't use the email they provide any more. not to mention that they are so not providing the service they promise. Email doesn't work, speed isn't there.. Time warner SUCKS!! (I don't care what their stupid JD Power's commercial says!!)
11.07.2002
Went to the shelter this morning. Pretty uneventful. They are working on putting binders together with shelter policies and what not for the board members. for some reason they have been working on this for quite a while. but its finally finished. Saw a pair of dogs there. little ones. they look like cat sized dobermans. Someone gave them up because they are going through a divorse. I so want to smack people like that. but at least I know they will find good homes, we are constantly getting people looking for little dogs.
I headed home and on the way I saw a guy standing beside his VW bus on the side of the highway... he was making prayer then phone gestures. I pulled over then started backing up to him , I started honking my horn to get him to come to me, but apparently he's slightly deaf or something. I was out of my car and practically on top of him before he realized I was there. He wanted me to call AAA.. but I don't know the number, so I let him use my phone to call. He got inside his van, and was trying to hold back his very large dog and call, so I offered to hold his dog. Im standing on the side of the highway, next to a van, with the door open, and I started thinking this probably wasn't the best idea in the world. the dog decided to stop trying to get out of the van and went to the back to sit down. It was a male dog. I know cause he sat there with his penis out and showing very predominately. again the thought went through my head that this probably wasn't the best idea till I heard the guy tell the AAA agent that a really nice woman let him use a phone... and he'd already give them his name. He thanked me, and said no one ever stops. I wished him well and left. that's rescue #7.. (or is it #8?) :)
I headed home and on the way I saw a guy standing beside his VW bus on the side of the highway... he was making prayer then phone gestures. I pulled over then started backing up to him , I started honking my horn to get him to come to me, but apparently he's slightly deaf or something. I was out of my car and practically on top of him before he realized I was there. He wanted me to call AAA.. but I don't know the number, so I let him use my phone to call. He got inside his van, and was trying to hold back his very large dog and call, so I offered to hold his dog. Im standing on the side of the highway, next to a van, with the door open, and I started thinking this probably wasn't the best idea in the world. the dog decided to stop trying to get out of the van and went to the back to sit down. It was a male dog. I know cause he sat there with his penis out and showing very predominately. again the thought went through my head that this probably wasn't the best idea till I heard the guy tell the AAA agent that a really nice woman let him use a phone... and he'd already give them his name. He thanked me, and said no one ever stops. I wished him well and left. that's rescue #7.. (or is it #8?) :)
11.05.2002
Recently my hubby got a new truck from work. He gets a company car, and he decided he wanted a truck. a big freakin truck.. three door, silverado. so we took said truck to the mall tonight. He drives cause its his truck, the gas is paid for, and I don't like to drive at night due to my sensitive eyes. Anyway. we have to drive down a tree lined street, through the woods, there are a number of houses on the street, but it is still quite dark, and you still have the feeling of driving through the woods.
I should stop here and tell you that for years I have been telling the hubster to turn his high beams on when there is no one coming. He laughed at me for a couple of years. I would tell him to turn his high beams on so he'd see any deer in the road. Well one time I told him to put them on and poof, there was a deer, he stopped laughing then. If it weren't for the high beams we would have hit it.
so again with the truck, I have to tell him to put the high beams on. Mostly cause its new and he's not used to it. We laughed about the deer reason, and he had just turned his high beams off because a car was coming at him, and at the very last second we both realized there was a deer in the road. Fortunately it wasn't in any postion to be hit by us, but if he had turned and bolted we would have. Got to love deer season. scare those deer right into the road to be smacked by cars and trucks..
I should stop here and tell you that for years I have been telling the hubster to turn his high beams on when there is no one coming. He laughed at me for a couple of years. I would tell him to turn his high beams on so he'd see any deer in the road. Well one time I told him to put them on and poof, there was a deer, he stopped laughing then. If it weren't for the high beams we would have hit it.
so again with the truck, I have to tell him to put the high beams on. Mostly cause its new and he's not used to it. We laughed about the deer reason, and he had just turned his high beams off because a car was coming at him, and at the very last second we both realized there was a deer in the road. Fortunately it wasn't in any postion to be hit by us, but if he had turned and bolted we would have. Got to love deer season. scare those deer right into the road to be smacked by cars and trucks..
man oh man my sinuses are going haywire. I wish I knew if it was allergies or a cold. I think its a cold. but hey.. at least that annoying eye twitch is gone for now. I need to get up off this chair and call the shelter and bring in my elder set. will be so nice to be down to one set of kittens, even if that set includes numb as a hake goldie. man I hope she learns to eat soon. although I think I will need to continue to supplement them for a while longer. I don't think there is enough nutrition in the canned cat food they are getting. but this is the wrong blog for this topic :) I'll be back after lunch time, and I have some homework to do (why on earth did I want to go back to school?? all this freakin homework is annoying!) so I'll be on line most of the afternoon.
11.04.2002
pretty uneventful weekend. I was still feeling under the weather. I wish this eye twitch would go away. I had to run errands this morning, but I stupidly put some covers over me to warm up a little and ended up falling asleep till just before I had to leave. Im sitting here avoiding doing something that should have been done this morning, cause when ever I start concentrating on reading, my eye twitches more.
but.. I have to do this.. I have to feed and medicate the kitties and ... and... why do I think there is something else I have to do tonight? arrgh.. If I forgot something important and it involves you, My appologies.
btw.. if your a woman reading this... don't forget to do your monthly self examination of your breasts. If your a man who loves a woman.. don't forget to examine hers ;)
but.. I have to do this.. I have to feed and medicate the kitties and ... and... why do I think there is something else I have to do tonight? arrgh.. If I forgot something important and it involves you, My appologies.
btw.. if your a woman reading this... don't forget to do your monthly self examination of your breasts. If your a man who loves a woman.. don't forget to examine hers ;)
11.02.2002
lets see.. what's new? hum. goodness.. not a lot. Went to the parents house for halloween. They had WAY too many kids, and some came back for seconds. They live in a development, so a lot of the town drive out of their way to bring their kids there. That's just wrong. My parents spent way too much on candy. WAY too much.
I haven't been sleeping well lately. Well that's not completely true. Im sleeping just fine when Im asleep, its getting there that's the battle. 1, 2, and even 3 o clock in the morning.. and you know.. there just ain't nuffin on tv at that time. I actually woke up this morning (thanks to miss emmy stepping through my hair) to a dream where I was very late for a test or homework or something. This getting my work done early in the week is apparently having an effect on me :)
had a power glitch this morning. its why the kitty cam is out at the moment. and Im afraid to go in there and turn it back on. Those kittens.. Im telling you.. adorably evil!
I haven't been sleeping well lately. Well that's not completely true. Im sleeping just fine when Im asleep, its getting there that's the battle. 1, 2, and even 3 o clock in the morning.. and you know.. there just ain't nuffin on tv at that time. I actually woke up this morning (thanks to miss emmy stepping through my hair) to a dream where I was very late for a test or homework or something. This getting my work done early in the week is apparently having an effect on me :)
had a power glitch this morning. its why the kitty cam is out at the moment. and Im afraid to go in there and turn it back on. Those kittens.. Im telling you.. adorably evil!
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