Garrulousness in the Extreme

Bad news everyone......

2009-07-26T19:56:00.000-07:00

made a deal with the White Witch. Oopsy. By the way, it was years before I realized turkish delight was candy. I thought he wanted some really awesome Thanksgiving turkey. I haven't tried them yet, but they so don't look like they were worth it.

New Pictures

2009-07-07T00:05:00.000-07:00

I got gerbils and then extra pictures of all three boys. In the first one of Sam he is doing his "cute smile." I took the gerbils off their previous owner's hands so they could get another cat. In exchange I got an awesome litter box. You can't say I don't know how to bargain. I love the litter box and highly recommend it to anyone with a cat. I also like the gerbils. Scooter loves the litter box as well but the gerbils, not so much.

Sooooo.........

2009-07-04T16:51:00.001-07:00

Palin resigned? That's.....bizarre. The crazy is strong in that one. Why did she resign? Let me break it down.

1. Family reasons. She has five oddly named children, one who is special needs. Her oldest daughter is raising her oddly named child alone. Maybe she needs to take a break and focus on her family. Sounds plausible right? Except she worked through her last pregnancy and even continued worked through early labor with Trig. She was campaigning all through Bristol's pregnancy. She has worked through all of this so I don't think that's it. But let's say it is. Then her speech should have been confident and calm. It shouldn't have been her rambling on for twelve minutes, gasping for air between comments, and prattling on like someone was holding a gun to her head.

2. She is campaigning for 2012. Another reason people have been giving is that she is going to focus on her 2012 run for presidency. Okay, but she's doing that by not even lasting one term as governor? What? This is a terrible move and pretty much kills any hope of her winning in 2012. If she wanted to run she could have finished her term, which ends next year, not run again, and started campaigning hard for 2012. This doesn't make any sense.

3. Scandal. In the next few weeks some huge scandal will come to light. This makes the most sense. I do have to say it would have to be a huge scandal. Mark Sanford hasn't even bothered stepping down yet. Palin has been involved in several scandals and still campaigned for VP. It would have to be something pretty bad. It also fits in with that weirdo speech she gave. She always gave polished, rousing speeches during the campaign. None of this rambling on about dead fish and basketball at break neck speed.

Whatever it is, I'll be very interested to see who will end up running in 2012. I would love to see a third party candidate come out with a strong platform.

Newsy Stuff

2009-06-03T13:46:00.001-07:00

Jon got bumped up to TSR 1 so he got a 3% raise so time to par-tay like it's 1999.

The good, the bad, and the ugly.

2009-05-28T21:37:00.000-07:00

The Good: I have signed up to volunteer at a free clothing bank in Radford. Needy families can come shop for free three times a week and they needed volunteers to help people find clothes and record what they get. I e-mailed in so I'm hoping they get back to me soon. I'm so excited.

The Bad: Mom pointed out that I probably can't sleep because I stopped drinking Dr. Pepper and cream soda. I used to drink them every day but I wasn't losing any more weight so I gave them up. I've been so grumpy and on edge and it's probably my lack of caffeine.

The Ugly: We have ants. I'm spraying them all the time but they seem to come from nowhere. Scooter will do nothing about the ants. They can walk over his paws and he just looks at me and meows like I'm suppose to do something about it. They already wiped out one bag of cat food.

I haven't been sleeping

2009-05-27T00:59:00.000-07:00

"When you have insomnia you're never really awake and you're never really asleep."

Season Finale Week

2009-05-21T01:32:00.001-07:00

I had a long post ranting about all the season finales this week but instead here is what I learned from this television season. Valuable life lessons. Take note!

1. FBI Agents who have notorious serial killers wanting to kill them don't really bother will any kind of extra security.

2. Gigantic slow guys who can barely talk can totally kill 89 people and do medical experiments on them with only the help of their quadriplegic brother.

3. When people get engaged they will probably get married within the next two weeks after that. Huge weddings can be put together in that amount of time.

4. If a bride decides to go to the courthouse and get married and let her friend wear her wedding dress at the last moment it will fit her friend. Also none of the people that showed up for her wedding will be upset they are at someone else's wedding.

5. Two employees at the same hospital will flat line at the same time.

6. People don't ever notice when other people are talking to hallucinations.

7. It's not lupus or MS. Trust me, it really isn't. You may have all the symptoms but it's really some crazy obscure disease you caught from your brother's friend's uncle's house where there was weird mold from when the nanny visited Australia and brought back some crud.

8. People can die for several minutes and come back and be fine.

9. When doctors find out they have horrible diseases they don't want to try to treat themselves.

10. If you are a doctor your patient's persona drama will always parallel your own so you should learn from it.

One Year

2009-05-17T12:45:00.000-07:00

It's my first anniversary. I can't remember what time we got married. Um, 5 maybe? or 4? That seems about right. I just remember wishing the preacher would shut up and get to it. I was *this close* to saying "MAN AND WIFE! SAY MAN AND WIFE!" Princess Bride style. Anyway I hope next year at this time I'm on vacation.

I Am Officially My Grandmother

2009-05-10T23:11:00.000-07:00

Jon says that in 40 years I am going to be exactly like my Grandma.

I think it's more like it's already happened. I became aware of that this week when he came home in the middle of Grey's Anatomy and I was like "Shhhhhhhhhhhh! My show's on!" and then I had to raise the volume because he was making noises by walking through the house.

That's right. No one is allowed to disturb me, talk to me, look at me, or breathe heavy when my show is on. I am my Grandmother. The sad part is that I have DVR. I can rewind and watch it again.

Normally I watch it before he gets home so he didn't understand why I was sobbing hysterically. I sob hysterically every Thursday at 10 while yelling at the characters to live, please, live/die already then!/stop being stupid. That's the only noise allowed.

Cartoons These Days

2009-05-05T12:15:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I went over and watched Sam and Addy while Jaclyn went to the doctor. They were watching cartoons and I was seriously annoyed. The first one was "Sid the Science Kid." Sid is super annoying and all the kids on the show have creepy old men voices except the teacher who sounds like she's on drugs. They all put emphasis on weird words too. It's like "Now we WILL do a science PROJECT AND it will BE fun."

Here's a clip. Watch at your own risk. That one is a charming segment about charts.

The second was some Super Word Power Team something or another. They have to solve the big mystery of whether or not Princess P should eat popcorn when her stomach hurts. It takes a team of kids to figure that one out? And these are suppose to be the bright kids? Not to mention why would she want to eat popcorn if her stomach hurts? Is she faking? Is she trying to get out of school? Does she have a test she didn't study for?

I much prefer Tom and Jerry. There's a cat, a mouse, and hardly any talking. That's my kind of cartoon.

It's a Sleepy Day

2009-05-03T16:40:00.000-07:00

The day is dark and cold and dreary. The rain makes me want to snuggle up in bed and read. I'm feeling very sleepy. I have new books which I am stoked about. I'm listening to my Taylor Swift CDs which are my favorite CDs ever. This song reminds me of my mom and grandma.

*Removed song so it doesn't play every time anyone opens the page.

The Final Bill

2009-04-30T18:12:00.000-07:00

Last month I checked to make sure I didn't owe anything on Time Warner Cable for NC. I paid everyone a month ahead so I assumed I wouldn't owe. Sure enough, it popped up and said "current payment due: 0.00". I went about my business and haven't thought of it since. Today I received an e-mail saying my new statement was available to pay. I pulled it back up and it still says "current payment due: 0.00" but now it also says "current statement balance: 0.08."

They want 8 cents? For reals? I fully intend on paying them the eight cents, but not until I can get Jon to show me how to do a screen shot to save the bill for prosperity.

The Grass Chronicles: Part Dos

2009-04-28T12:56:00.000-07:00

Grass Before it was cut:

Grass Mid-Cut:

Grass afterward. Notice the long pieces peeking over the hill. I just couldn't get the lawnmower up that part of the hill. I will attempt to finish tomorrow.

The Grass Chronicles: The Beginning

2009-04-26T20:39:00.000-07:00

We haven't mowed our grass yet. That's right, I've lived here two months and haven't touched it. Excuse: I didn't have a lawnmower. Excuse taken care of: we bought one.

So today Jason and Jennifer were up and I took advantage of this by getting them to put together my lawnmower. I don't put things together. It never ends well so I just don't do it. Jon's been working 55-60 hours a week so he hasn't had time. Thanks Jason! And Jennifer! And Jaclyn who gave advice! And Scooter who annoyed Jaclyn while she was giving advice!

Tomorrow I will attempt to tackle the grass and report back. I use to mow Gramma's all the time.

In other news I just had an hour long battle with some sort of large stingy thing. This makes me very nervous because I'm allergic to stingy things. It was in the window and Scooter oh so helpfully made a running leap for it. He ended up enraging it and knocking over all my photos.

Then I sat on the edge of the couch watching the thing fly around whilst yelling nasty things at Scooter who was trying to catch it. He knocked over more things. My next plan of action was trying to get it to fly outside. This resulted in it flying back to the window and Scooter trying to go outside. And more yelling. Finally it landed on the bookcase. I got my Radford phone book and snuck up on it. Scooter followed suit. More yelling. A swing. It's DOWN! It shivers. Maybe it's still alive? I began wildly beating at it until it moved no more.

Victory was mine. Hopefully tomorrow will be the same.

The most memorable job ever

2009-04-21T00:14:00.000-07:00

Apparently working a video store makes a person completely memorable. Forever. I mean, Jon and I couldn't go out in public in Gastonia without someone being all "YOU WORKED AT THE VIDEO STORE!!!ELEVENTY!!!" Um, yeah. Three years ago.

When I worked in Forest City I would randomly go to Walmart or the gas station to get change. Everyone there would know I worked at the video store. I never told them, they just knew. Weirdos!

Tonight Makala texted me. She is in Wake Forest with her family because her dad is having specialized heart surgery there. She was sitting in the waiting room and a guy walked in and immediately said "YOU WORK AT THE VIDEO STORE IN GASTONIA!"

What are the odds? Then he went on to ask if she also works at the Wake Forest Hospital. Yeah, that sounds like the typical dim bulb who argues about late fees and wants free movies cause he didn't like the one he rented.

Seven AM musings on reality television

2009-04-19T03:55:00.000-07:00

Since I can't go to sleep I'm sitting here pondering how much I don't like Coach from Survivor. I watch a lot of reality television so I see a lot of self-absorbed idiots. Coach tops them all. I mean, first of all he refers to himself as "Coach". Annoying!

This past week he told his tribe this crazy story about how he got lost in the Amazon with a friend who then tried to turn on him and kill him. He escaped but was then captured by a tribe of pygmies who were going to boil him alive. They tied him up and took turns beating him with a large stick. He narrowly escaped that and had to row down the amazon with a canoe as his get-away vehicle. Then he explained to Probst (host of Survivor) that he toned down this story to make it more believable. Um, really? Did you now? Furthermore, he said that this was the seventh or eighth time he had encountered a life or death situation.

Did I mention he thinks he is a samurai?

I think I am going to go around and quote Coach all the time. Hilarity will ensue. Direct quotes I can use in conversations:

"I am the dragon slayer."
"The Wizard is coming into The Man of the Mountain"
"Be the Wizard!"
"If you do a google search you won't find it. It's only passed down orally."
"Let me bury myself in sand, get eaten by tarantulas and bitten by snakes."
"You have to cut off the head of the dragon."

Dude is a whackadoodle. That's all I'm saying.

I have covered all the territory

2009-04-10T22:46:00.000-07:00

This past week I think I have had every general sick symptom possible.

Monday-fever, aches, joint pain, headache
Tuesday-nausea, diarrhea, fever, aches
Wednesday-sore throat, fever, aches, rash
Thurday-sore throat, stuffy nose, sneezing,coughing, rash
Friday-vomiting, stuffed up runny nose, sinus pressure, coughing, rash

I am pretty tired of not feeling so hot. Jaclyn brought me lemon tea and apple cider. I have been drinking them hot and mixing the lemon tea with honey. If not for that I think I wouldn't have been able to swallow at all. Yesterday I was feeling like I wanted to eat. I got a jr hamburger and small frosty from Wendy's but when I ate it I felt like I was choking. I guess my throat was clogged up or something. I'm really not sure.

Hopefully I will be better on Monday so I can stock up on cheap Easter candy.

Finally.......drumroll please.....

2009-03-26T13:58:00.000-07:00

Pictures of my house with my stuff in it. Which means....as you all know......it's messy. If I showed you pictures of a pristine house with everything in place you would not believe I actually resided there. So more of Emily's House as it actually looks than you really wanted to see:

The Outside (notice old school on the house black mail box)

View when you walk in the door. To the left (right? No left..I get them confused) are two bedrooms with a bathroom in between. You will not see these. They are full of boxes mostly and a treadmill, computer desk, spare bed, extra television, etc. In between these bedrooms is a bathroom with walls that look like veins. I may have to show off those at some point because it takes a special kind of person to pick out tile that actually looks like blood vessels.

Living room:

Dining room:

Stairway with rocking chair:

View off back porch with blooming trees:

And that's all folks. You are not seeing the kitchen (too messy) or the loft (too hard to photograph). BUT we have a bonus Sam picture:

WAIT!! Bonus Caleb and Jack too:

New House

2009-02-25T16:35:00.000-08:00

Jaclyn sent me this pictures that she had taken of our house in Virginia. There were more online at the realtor's website but they have been removed since we rented it.

Valentine's Day. Woot.

2009-02-14T13:31:00.000-08:00

So Jon left for Virginia this morning and I promptly fell back asleep since I still feel very sick. I can't breath and I have this death rattle cough. Oh and my ear hurts. So I got up at 3:30.

I'm bored. It's just me and my cat til March 6th. I guess I am an official temporary Cat Lady until I can move to Virginia too.

Ever wondered what it's like to be a cat lady? I'm one hour in and it's boring. Maybe I need to get additional cats and start yelling crazy things at the neighbors.

I will now go to the grocery store. Then I will return home and eat supper and watch whatever's on the DVR. I think it's Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice because it was a gigantic enormous fabulous OUT OF THIS WORLD cross-over event!!1!!1!!! Like for realz you totally have to watch!!1!!!!

Which means: the ratings on this one show were really bad so we are making everyone who watches the first show watch this one to find out what happens to boost ratings. Boooooring. I don't want to watch Private Practice. I've never watched it. I don't know what it's about. I think it's about wherever Addison went when she left Grey's Anatomy (Side bar: can she please do a PSA telling everyone it is no longer necessary to name their daughter Addison?? It's soooo 4 years ago and now they are going to cr8tive spelling)

So grocery store. food. DVR. Fun. Not.

More names I Love to Hate

2009-01-13T18:28:00.000-08:00

Here's hoping they get jobs like Bruce said. Unfortunately I don't call people in for interviews if I can even began to pronounce their names.

"What was their momma smoking?" names:

Indica Dawnshell

Dene't Ociyah

Raylei Giana

Emory Maupin

Cosmo Joseph

"Is that a baby or a hotel chain" names:

Oak Anderson

Chase Weston

Bentley Lake

Karma Sentell

"This isn't scrabble so no points for the extra letters" names:

Kymbree Alexus

Blaiz Foxx

Jaylyn Ilizabeth

Kynlli Ellissa

Kloe Ravyn

Izach Shane

"I'm SURE you picked that out before a celebrity used it!" names:

Suri Grace

Maddox Shane

Jennifer Lopez (um.......this has got to be my favorite ever. "My mom really liked J. Lo's music!!!" No, Lopez is not the last name.)

2009-01-06T16:43:00.000-08:00

Straight from the Gaston Gazette.

I don't care who you are or what you were thinking, these are horrible names and I will not change my mind on that:

Misty Blue Starr- well her country album can now be self-titled, I guess.

Ryker Blain- really? Ryker? What is that other than a prison?

Xanthe Jaela- How am I suppose to pronounce it?

Brooklyn Elizabeth- what's wrong with this? Nothing. It's great. A little cutesy for me but overall fine. She has a twin. Genesis Nereida. Yes. One is Brooklyn. One is Genesis. One is going to ask why they got the bad name. Hmmmm. Which one will that be????

Nevaeh- quite a few of these. Aw, you named your kid heaven backwards. How sweet. Not. It's stupid and over done. What's worse is when they spell it "Neveah" which is....heaven spelled wrong backwards I guess.

Jojo Tran- having a cute nickname like "JoJo" for a given name is so not cool. Is a 35 year old lawyer really going to want to be "JoJo" or is she going to want Josephine or Jody or Jocelyn to put on those business cards?

Honor. Paxton. Pax. Bronx. All of these are first names on different children. Someone's parents have been reading US Weekly!! These are all celebrity's children's names or variations of them. That doesn't make them good names. Not at all.

Jazzlynn Unique AND Unique Marie. When everyone is naming their kid "Unique" it makes it very.......opposite of unique. Also: Unique is not a name. Also Also: Jazzlynn??

Klowhee Layne Hayleigh- you had to go and give her a halfway decent, even if very trendy, name huh? And then just completely go bozonkers on the spelling huh?

Yakotus ShaVonOdae- First off- what is WITH the random capitalization? Second, he appeared as a jr which means his father had this horrible name and passed it on. Cruel Cruel. Third, if you mess up the capitals does that count as having spelled it wrong??

My two favorite I leave for last:

One girl: Heaven Leigh Starr. Starr was NOT her last name. She needs to drop the first one and go by Leigh Starr or something. I bet her sister is Nevaeh.

And a boy: Zane Zander Air. Once againce this does not include last name. The thing about this name is....
Zane is fine. I like it a lot. Zander is a bit off but whatever. Air...is just not even a name. But together they are hilarious and ridiculous and honey you can legally change your name later on, k?

Raaaaaaandom.

2009-01-02T16:46:00.000-08:00

Scooter: "What the duece?"

Stockings courtesy of mom. Only 14 ornaments courtesy of me forgetting to buy the hangy things.

Need an Eggers to represent you? Then pick from Eggers....Eggers...Eggers....or Eggers. (Attorneys at law.)

Thanksgiving Day

2008-11-28T11:32:00.001-08:00

Jon and our nephew Aiden.

Aiden was sleepy.......on Uncle Ben's shoulder.

Lucy right after birth.

Why I am off-the-hook awesome!!!

2008-11-09T12:25:00.000-08:00

Because this is in my living room right now:

People who don't need to bother asking for anything because it's bought, wrapped, and labeled:

Dad, Reid, Tracie, Sheena, Aiden, Lilly, Lucy, Caleb, and Jack.

People who can still request gifts (Please tell me something!!) Mom, Claudia, Ben, Sam, Grandma, and Jon's Grandpa. We haven't drawn names yet for either family so also whoever's names we pull. So that plus 4.

People who Scooter tried to eat, drool on, or carry off their gifts: Dad, Aiden, Jack, Reid, and Caleb. Apparently he prefers the taste of men's gifts.

Fall Festival at Random Church

2008-11-08T12:27:00.000-08:00

Kate's Skating

2008-11-08T12:24:00.000-08:00

Reid's Birthday

2008-11-08T12:10:00.000-08:00

A very ghetto pumpkin

2008-10-13T10:55:00.001-07:00

A pumpkin. Five dollars from Lowes Foods.

I don't have a carving kit so so knives will have to do.

"Can I eat that?"

"Maybe"

"Checking........"

"No thanks"

Finished product. It's so sad looking!!

I think I'll buy a kit and try again.

Drinking time.......

2008-10-08T06:40:00.001-07:00

Scooter!!!!

Who me? What? ummmmmmmmmm. I was just checking the......plumbing for you......

The Fair 2008

2008-10-06T11:27:00.000-07:00

Pictures from the fair. We went with Tracie, Reid, Sheena, Aiden, McKenna, Madison, Ben, Rachel, Jimmy, and Lilly. Then while there I saw a ton of people I know. Apparently the fair was the place to be on Friday night.

Me trying to take a picture whilst Jon tries to watch tv beforehand.
Jon's cousin Mckenna on the way there. We rode with her and Ben.
Me and Lilly on the bear ride.
Rachel and Lilly on the Merry-Go-Round.
The ferris wheel. McKenna and I rode this right before we left.
Lilly with a stuffed something or another that Sheena won for her.
Jon's nephew Aiden with the most. annoying. toy. ever.
The highlight of Lilly's fair experience: cotton candy.

Brooding: not a past time for those who move on

2008-10-05T17:21:00.000-07:00

I sit around and think about thing over and over and over and brood and just never get over them.

Today's subject: dude who lives in apartment complex where I work.

We've had tons of problems with his apartment. Every imaginable thing that could go wrong seems to have done just that. Brand new AC unit goes out, hot water heater breaks, pipes in the bathroom rust through and start leaking, etc etc etc. I'm pretty shock the place hasn't just burned down yet.

{side bar: why does blog spot not recognize "hasn't" as a word. It's so a word. It's call a contraction people. Contractions are my friend.}

So anyhow I gave them half off their rent which I feel is pretty reasonable and fix everything in as timely a manner as possible.

Friday he comes in the office very upset because his car has been towed. He said it had a tag but it was taped in the window. He's furious and called the police. I called the wrecker company and Rude Woman Who is Always Hateful to Me doesn't want to talk to me about it.

Grrrrrrr.

So I have him call and he calls and tells them there is a tag on it.

I feel TERRIBLE about this. I've been thinking about it all weekend. Then today I find out that the tag that was on the car was a temporary thirty day New York tag from.........May.

That's just not legal in so many ways. I can't believe he hasn't been pulled over yet.

But I still feel terrible about it since he seems to think I'm personally responsible for his many sorrows.

And that's the end of that for today. I'll go ponder it more whilst I download old-school Green Day for Jon. They were way much better before they became all Deep. Profound. And Politically Aware. or whatever it is they are going for these days.