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Friday, 21 November 2008

  • Bad Car Day

    My car done broke and need fixin'.

    I'm really thankful I didn't end up stranded at school... leaving class on Tuesday (at 8 o'clock, in a cold, dark parking lot) it took my car a minute to start. I thought I just needed to fill up, and I planned to do so the next morning before work. But poor Belinda wouldn't start at all Wednesday morning. Her battery was fixin' to die, see. Jason came home and gave me jump (I've never been so glad that he only works a mile away!) and off to work I went.

    I started Belinda up about an hour before I got off and she coughed a bit, but finally rumbled (or maybe moaned?) to life. Unfortunately she didn't have it in her to start again when it was time to leave. So Kirk gave me a jump and I drove to the hospital.

    Jason met me there and we waited with MeeMaw while Stacy, my father-in-law, had knee surgery. Everything went well, and Belinda even got me to my in-laws' house (where we made sure Stacy had some soup and a cheeseburger) and then home.

    Yesterday morning we got a new battery and all was fine and dandy until I was almost to school and Belinda kept hiccupping when she tried to shift gears. Eeeeeek! But I made it home safely that night after class and thought maybe we'd get her checked out this weekend.

    Anyway, the brand new battery was completely kaput this morning. Suzanne told me not to worry about coming in to work and Jason said he would drive me to school later tonight. Sooooo I'm at home writing thank-you notes (prayers worked, Adrienne!) and getting a head-start on weekend chores.

    Jason's going to replace the alternator over the weekend. Hopefully that's all my poor baby needs. Otherwise it might be time to shop for a... replacement. *tear*

    Belinda, morosely stranded in the garage.

    In other news, last weekend the girls and I hit up the new outlet mall for the first time together. We found some cool hats.

    Later we got together with all of our husbands for dinner. Check out the hat I bought. :D


Thursday, 06 November 2008

  • Currently Reading
    Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections between Sexuality and Spirituality
    By Rob Bell
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    Entry # Whatever

    We're back at home doing fine and dandy. All we got out of Ike were:

      1: Five inches of leaves (give or take) all over the yard
    2: A lower electricity bill for the month
    And 3: Messed up syllabi for the rest of the semester

      I'm pleased to report progress on behalf of Adrian (the dog). We finally gave in and took her to the vet (for the second time in 4 months). We left with $150 worth of medicine and flea treatments. :P BUT her scratching no longer keeps us up at night, and we've been diligently re-training her that outside is the place to relieve herself. No new tricks yet, but we might try "Stop digging used tissues out of the trash can." Good girl!

      I'm learning that becoming a sign language interpreter is one of the most fun, challenging, and rewarding things I could possibly do. Jason and I attended a pre-Thanksgiving feast at a Deaf church in the area and had a great time. A visiting church from Arkansas entertained us with some deaf "singing."

                                                                     


     


      We're finally making progress in our upstairs half bath! The hideous wallpaper and laminate are gone. In their place: beautiful tile and a decent paint color. (You can check out pictures of our home projects here.)

      Well I'm off to pack... Jason's coming to work with me for the weekend while the parents are off in Mexico for a wedding. I predict great fun, and if we're lucky: Jason's first diaper change! ;D

Friday, 19 September 2008

  • Currently Listening
    Dance or Die
    By Family Force 5
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    Rip it Up

    Friday, September 19, 2008

    Rip it Up

    I won't lie - I was expecting another Rita. After Edouard and Gustav and all the other piddly little rainstorms failed to bring us any rain, let alone a hurricane worth preparing for, I figured Ike would probably go chase his tail down the gulf and maybe sneeze in our direction.

    No major damage on our part, which I'm very thankful for. (Jason was hoping a tree would crash through our sliding glass door so we could replace it.)

    Friday before the storm we decided to come stay with our friends April and Jason in Tomball so that when our power went out, we'd have somebody to be bored with. They're super and will always be welcome to have a sleepover at our house! ;) So we've been here a week - they got power back last Monday and our house is supposed to be back online this coming Monday. Sooo... in the meantime, I think I'll stay here where the refrigerator works!

    We've spent a lot of time cooking meat from everybody's freezers and driving around to mooch off various people. April's sister and brother-in-law got power back first so we were all over there over the weekend to watch TV. Matt and Melissa, who live one street over, got power next, so we made Melissa cook pizza for us while we watched movies. (Nah, she's been awesome and voluntarily fed us. I think.)

    Everybody went back to work today (except me). So I'm eating Oatmeal Crisp and listening to the new Family Force 5 CD (!!). The end. (Pictures here.)

Monday, 25 August 2008

  • The Dog

    I told Granny I would blog about the dog and why she's been the cause of most of the dissension at our house. ;)

    First of all, she's really cute. She's a beagle. She's 3 years old. None of these things are bad. (In fact, I love beagles.)

    But Adrian has not been trained very well. 

    She knows how to:
    -sit
    -get down 

    She does not know how to:
    -come
    -stay
    Or
    -lay down

     We are working on those.

    Oh, and she also does not understand that the carpet is not her toilet.

    I can't leave her out while I run an errand down the street or take a shower or go to work because there will be a mess to clean up later.

    We like Spot Shot at our house!
    See Spot Shot work.
    See Spot Shot make the pee stains disappear.
    See Jess and Jason pick up Adrian's poop.
    See Adrian look on in amusement.

    Also, just before Jason moved into our house, Adrian developed some sort of skin allergy. And now she has fleas too.
    She scratches a lot.
    (Jason can't sleep when she scratches.)
    We give her baths with special shampoo and try flea treatments.

     So these are the troubles we are having with our animal. (I've had many people recommend The Dog Whisperer - does he travel?) It's taking patience on our part but hopefully one day, we will have an itch-and-flea-free, well-behaved, house-trained dog. Maybe.

Friday, 15 August 2008

  • Ew to the Max

    We have roaches. Which, by the way, in Texas means a disgustingly bloated beast of a creature, almost as big as a cat, with a shell as hard as steel and antennae like foot-long needles.

    That's a little exaggerated. Maybe.

    But they're still gross and they're still IN MY HOUSE!! Make them go away!

    Also, I paid my tuition today. I'm poor. :P I wonder if I can afford some roach motels.