Category Archives: Everyday Stuff

Just an area for what I’m doing on an everyday basis.

Some pics off my phone

Posted on Wednesday May 2nd, 2007 by | Comments Off on Some pics off my phone
Ok, here are some crappy pics I took with my phone, brand new Sprint Katana and the pics look terrible, but I shoot on a Nikon D70s so what exactly am I comparing it to?

The drink I was “tricked” into getting, nothing like getting laughed at by a table full of bull dykes when this was brought to me, sorry for the darkness, no flash on the camera and I tried to PS the lighting some, this is as good as it gets.

Lunch with Eris and DrJeff, no idea what we ate, I’m sure they will tell me, but I actually did enjoy my meal and plan to go back soon.


One Sexay Bitch!

Diesel

Me at Tom’s house and YES, that really is a stripper pole in the BG.

Tom, just too fucking cool of a person.

Jaymeer, a friend of Lincolns who is an amazing artist
http://www.jaymeer.com/

Where we ate, I just like this pic

How Do I Feel?: good good

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Our new neighbors living upstairs.

Posted on Wednesday May 2nd, 2007 by | Comments Off on Our new neighbors living upstairs.

Pauline heard some noises Monday night, and last night I heard what sounded like my attic being torn to hell, but it was above the patio, so I grabbed a flash light and looked and found this.

I called animal control and they said there is nothing they can do, so I called Florida Wildlife Management and they said the same thing, no risk to me then there is nothing they will do.

I’m not going to risk the babies by trying to cage the momma, so I guess I am stuck with them.

Better not poop in my pool again….

How Do I Feel?: good good

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39,007 feet…

Posted on Tuesday May 1st, 2007 by | Comments Off on 39,007 feet…

Give or take a few feet, I just took off about 45 mins ago, so I am 3:15 from ATL, then a nice 2.5 hour layover and another hour in the air and another hour to get my bags (Orlando, if you ever flown in there you know what I am talking about) and another 45 to 60 mins in a car and I WILL BE HOME!

I am EXHAUSTED, I was falling asleep in the terminal, but yet I am still awake, and the main reason I am awake right now and not sleeping is I forgot to plug in my mp3 player so I have a DEAD FUCKING BATTERY… Good thing I have my laptop, so I just plug it in for 30 mins and it will get me home, so I moved the tunes over to the laptop as it charged and I can jam as I write this post. They just brought some snacks, nothing to brag about, but I was hungry and thinking I could grab some food at PDX I didn’t eat before I went to the airport.

Stores/bars close at 7:30PM at a fucking airport????

I did find a store open and got me 2 candy bars and an inflatable “neck pillow” which I’ve used for 30 mins and I think it is the greatest thing ever… and it will remain that until I land.

I was smart this trip, I looked online yesterday and saw my row with my aisle seat was now full but if I went back 8 rows I could have another aisle seat with no one in the middle and to make it even better, the window seat is also empty now, so I have a whole 3 seat row for my fat ass.

Oh good, turbulence….

Wonderful, I am now awake. Figures, my mp3 is now charged so instead of plugging my headset into that, I type away talking to you ‘hoes…. See how much I love you all?

I had a good trip over all, a few bumps in the road but nothing too bad to ruin my trip which is nice. This SHOULD be my last flight until we move to Portland, so that is nice, I am getting tired of airports.

Oh good, the kid in front of me is explaining to his mom that his DVD player battery died in middle of lilo and stich, of course he is using loud screams and sequels… thankfully I have some good sony ear phones that are really good with the sound of planes, they was a good buy.

Life will be much better in Portland, I just know it… once we find a place to live that is.

Ok, I’m tired, I’ll finish this later.

***ATL***

6:02AM EST

I get off the plane, screaming kid made the last 20 mins so enjoyable, I love parents who try to bribe their kids into doing things they MUST do like wear a seat belt, put the table up etc.

So I get off the plane, my boarding pass says gate T02, the screen says T02… I am at A12…

Ok, no biggie, I get on the ATL tram and get to terminal T, as soon as I get off, the train announcer says the train is dead for at least 10 mins for maintenance and from what I saw at least 200 people will have to wait…. HA! LOSERS!

So I walk to T02 which was of course on the very far end and there is a lot of construction going on so they have “carpet” down that feels like I am walking on sand, no biggie I am almost at T02, and while passing T05 I see a monitor and do a quick glance….

A26

Ok, whatever, I confirm it with the gate agent and head back down to a VERY crowded tram, and get on the 2nd tram that comes and it was so packed, 10 people had to get off the tram, to let me off.

So now I sit at my gate, dead tired and a migraine starting which is helped by the courtesy carts that scream “BEEP BEEP” that is sitting 20’ from me so the driver can talk and laugh with some other worker… Which after 3 mins she leaves only to come back about 5 mins later and stays at least 5 mins before the bar tender at the bar yells at her to turn off the damn beeping… golly gee… think she should???

I’ve noticed, ATL has the LOUDEST carts at any airport, I really think its too loud to the point of being dangerous.

Fuckers….

I want to be home.

*MCO

Nothing too bad here, the baggage signs say baggage 32, so I wait and wait and notice baggage 31 is also a Delta flight from ATL… and I notice my bad sitting on the floor over near that… The agent was getting ready to grab it as a unclaimed bag, so I got to it and asked what happen, she said it was on the first flight to MCO, so my bag got there before I did.

Boy that makes sense.

How Do I Feel?: cranky cranky

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Last Travel Day

Posted on Monday April 30th, 2007 by | Comments Off on Last Travel Day

On another airplane.  =) This time on the way back to Florida.  I left beautiful weather in Indiana…..sunny, comfortable temps, the grass was a soft green and flowers were blooming.

But it was time to go.  I miss having my own stuff in its own place. And I miss my crazy furballs, Alexis & Reggie.  Harold gets in tomorrow morning.  So that will be another trip to the airport, hopeful the last one to the Orlando one anyways.  We have no other trips that involve air travel until after we get to Portland.

I used our wireless card out at my folks, sometimes I had okay speed but not overall.  I know I could’ve hooked up to dad’s but I hate putting dad out and then I like the mobility of the cards and my laptop.  So needless to say, with not so reliable connection and family stuff I didn’t get much work done.  I did get some of it caught up at while waiting for my flight.

All I know is that I have a ton of it to do once I get home.

I’m flying NWA, I haven’t flown them since 2001 so I ended up at a different concourse then I am normally use to in Indy.  There is one concourse that we have gone to so many times over the years that I know where I can plug my laptop in and settle in on the floor.  Today I had to really look for it. I think the concourse that NWA uses in Indy is one of the older ones and that is why.

What was good about my visit is that I got to visit with folks that I haven’t seen in years.  My cousins got me linked to there myspace page and helped me find 3 other cousins.  Michelle got me hooked up to hers, Adam should be contacting me for his in the next day or so. We are all so busy that we don’t email, but I can keep up with them on their pages and they on my blog.  I just use my page for former classmates, friends & family to be able to find me.  My one blog entry tells them to got to my actual blog.

Harold had a horrible time crossing the border into Canada yesterday to visit D. He’ll probably write up his own blog about it.  But at least he had no trouble getting back in.  Hopefully our next trip across the border we will have our passports and will prevent issues like that.

I’m going to close this, I’ll post it once I get home.  But this is the perfect time to resize some pics. =)

**Sorry, I got caught up with unpacking and catching up with work stuff.

Space Needle

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Trip So Far

Posted on Sunday April 29th, 2007 by | Comments Off on Trip So Far

The weather is beautiful now. When I got to Indy it was rainy. It finally started to clear up Friday evening, been pretty nice ever since.

The trip had been good. Melinda and I went up to NW Indiana to visit our great aunts, Mary & Evenly. We don’t have many left of that generation so I wanted to see them while they are still around.  Aunt Mary is 95 and the Evenly is about 90/91 area. Had a good visit them, especially with Aunt Eve. Her mind is as sharp as it could be with her age, still living on her own and total frustrated that her body doesn’t allow her to walk very normal. She has always been very active and not being able to go out drives her nuts.

We also stopped and visit Aunt Shelia. She is battling cancer on her head. =( Our cousins Amanda & Elizabeth came over. =) I love visiting with them. =)

I did head up to Merriville and picked me up some Fannie May Candies. I love that stuff and was not happy when they went bankrupt 3 years ago. I went a little over board, but it will last me about 6 months since I love to savre it and take my time.

Saturday I left about 5 hrs before the wedding. Packed up the clothes I was going to wear and headed out.

I needed to pick up my wedding/engagement ring set up from the jewelry. I’ve worn the engagement ring for 12 yrs and the wedding for almost 10yrs, so the prongs needed work. When I had them checked out down in Florida, the jewelry I went to was one of those pretentious one…total snobs, with high sky prices. I’m like I don’t think so, Harold worked at a jewelry store years ago and I know how they up prices. So I don’t trust any of them. There is only one that I trust and that is Vierks in Indiana and if I have to I’ll ship it to them. So I finally got my rings back….they look great….I didn’t have them for just over 24hrs and it drove me nuts!!! You don’t realize how much you miss it and fiddle with it until it was gone.

I wanted to walk Purdue. I love that campus. So I went around and got some shots of the things I used to know so well. Ironically I saw a wedding party out getting pictures by Hovde Hall and I thought of Jessie & Chris’, I took a picture from the distance but didn’t get too close because I didn’t want to intrude…………well I should have, it for the wedding I was here for…….doh!

****My connection is too slow to be able to load up any pics. =(

After walking around Purdue, I headed down to the village so I can blow our money on some Purdue stuff, since I don’t know when I will be back and all of our other stuff is a couple years old and starting to fall apart.

The wedding was beautiful. Between the wedding party (3 members, including the bride Jessie, Mary & Michelle) and some of the guests (Stephanie, Adam & Matt) is was a small reunion from Fannie May. It was great! I had so much fun. One of my girls, who barely use to talk, now talks so much more. One of my troubled kids, is all cleaned up and doing good. I was afraid that I won’t have anyone that I really know to share a table with. I had fun and loved seeing all the my kids grown up.

This morning I had to my oldest niece to get her some elbow and knee pads for a rollerskating party. Everything has been going good until Harold called me about 10am…….Diesel’s wife called, he is not doing very well at all. He has blood clots in his lungs from the treatment he is getting for his tumor. =( All Harold could get is that the doctor told his wife that she needs to prepare. So he jumped into the shower and headed up to Vancouver, BC. I don’t know what is going on. Harold may have to change his flight so he stay up there longer. I’m taking off 3 days next week, which we were going to do our anniversary stuff, well I may have to fly out…………I don’t know. I’m really hoping that I don’t have to. Diesel is too young and has 2 young boys with his wife…..I want to be able to go and visit him when we move out there. =(

***Just heard from Harold.  D had been in the hospital since Friday and Sunday morning was the 1st chance that his wife had a chance to call anyone.  When she called, she was crying and overwhelmed with the info she gave….   He is in the hospital for about 10days, but D doesn’t think it will be that long.  I don’t know, Harold hasn’t been able to talk to him one on one very much since D gets a ton of visitors.

Live Strong

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