I'm learning!

Lunch with the ladies today resulted in my learning something new. Obviously, I don't know much about construction or home ownership. One of the ladies is building behind me, so I told her about the tiles cracking in my house. She told me that I should call the builder because there is such a thing as a construction slab warranty. I did that and he said there is indeed such a thing and he will be out next week when the developer gets back in town to take a look. Who knew!!! Well, probably everyone, but ME!

The DRAMA is over...

Animal control came and got the kitty. The kitty came right to the man, so it has been around people. I am convinced someone dropped that kitty off by my house because it is not wild and it is not adventurous. It stayed right here all night. I'm glad it's gone and I hope it gets a nice home and family. I love kittens, but it is just impossible for me to have one.

Damn cat...

That kitten is driving me crazy. It cried most of the night outside my front door, but coming inside is NOT an option. I don't have any cat food, but I took some cream out for the kitten, which it won't touch. I thought maybe it was hungry. Someone had to drop that kitten off close to my house. I can't open the garage door because the cat comes in and tries to get inside. I had to get the garage opener, take the cat outside and hold it until the door was down, then slip around through the back gate and go back inside. I sure don't want that cat in the back yard with its constant crying. I will be calling animal control as soon as they are open.

Damn it again!

I just read on the Dell message board that people who had a 9-12 ship date this morning now have a 9-22 ship date, so I checked mine and YEP there it is.....9-22. There is no way I will get this damn thing before I leave for D.C. Crap!

Seriously, I don't need this!

I was gone for about three hours today and while I was gone there must have been a significant storm. My entire patio is wet and it is a covered patio. When I pulled in the garage and got out of the car, I heard a kitten crying. It was inside the box that houses my hose, then it came in the garage. Of course, I am a sucker for kittens, but I am highly allergic. I got in the car and started to go get some kitten food, but decided against it because I'm afraid all this kitten's homies will come and I will be overcome with cats. I don't know what to do. I picked it up and put it back in the hose keeper box because I think it has fleas. Notice that it doesn't have a tail. I don't know if that is because it is part manx or if something happened to it. If it is around tomorrow, I guess I'll at least put a flea collar on it, but I cannot keep a cat.
Edited to add: Damn cat is getting on my nerves now. I sneaked out the front door with my flashlight to see if the kitten was staying in the hose keeper. Kitty came out and followed me and I could barely get back in the front door without the kitty dashing in. Now it is outside my front door just crying!! I'm glad I can't hear it from my bedroom.

Just as I expected!

My ship date for my new Dell was today, but just as I expected the date changed to the 12th today. Now I am so afraid that it is going to be shipped while I am gone for over two weeks. If that becomes reality, I will have to call them and ask them not to ship until I return. They are so incompetent that getting them to do that will probably fail as well.

Oh..CRAP...here we go again!

Louisiana is notorious for its "good ole boy" politics and here it goes again. Today was the first day of qualifying for Louisiana governor. There should be a lever in the voting booth that just flushes every incumbent. They are all crooks and not looking out for anyone but themselves.If New Orleans was stupid enough to re-elect Ray Nagin, there is no telling what could happen in the governor's race. He may even run for governor. Holy CRAP! I already know who I'm voting for and I dread the long political season of advertisements.

Yeah...it's been crazy!

After retrieving my cousin from the airport on Friday and a late night dinner at a very classy restaurant, we got home after midnight. Her mother is now in rehab and doing better, so we have been out to eat a lot. I am ready to stop eating out and stay home. She is flying back to Virginia on Wednesday and coming back on Monday, so we'll be doing it all over again next week. I am stuffed!

Yeah, I'm cooking now, but the chances are good that next time I try to do this I won't remember how. That's how I roll!

Please disregard...I am playing and learning!

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This has never animated on blogger before, but if I upload it to Google Docs & Spreadsheets and post it from there, it works.

WooHoo...

Edited to add:

I screwed up. This post published on top of an old one because I used the same graphic. I'm learning....it's Google Docs...and I learned something new today. 9-25-07

Sometimes I am just a slug while other days I am a ball of fire. Today was a ball of fire day. I am almost completely packed and that is no easy task considering all the different functions requiring differing requirements of dress. The only one I know I will be dressed properly for is the Sunday bar-b-que after the wedding on Saturday for the out of town guests who are still in town. That's more my style...jeans!

Mom is doing great after her dental procedure yesterday. She and Dad surprised me with a brief visit today. I have purposely not told him that I have a new computer and it was sitting on the counter with all its pinkness gleaming. He never even saw it!

I think it will be fun to update this blog whenever I can while I am on the road. I have read several blogs of people who were on trips and enjoyed them immensely. I'm really hoping to get to see some fall foliage before I get home. While I am at my cousin's house in Virginia, I probably will not get to post because she lives out on the Rappahannock River in the country and only has a dial up connection. Those drive me crazy. That's what my brother has as well....only because it is the only thing available where he lives.

Standing by

Edited to add: She could not get on the next flight. Next one will be around 8:30, so she has one more chance.

I went to the hospital this morning to relieve my cousin who has spent every night there with her mother. Last night they actually put a bed in there for her. Why didn't they do this Monday? She was going to go home today to her home in Shreveport because they were moving her mother to the rehab floor. No one can stay with patients while they are in rehab. I came on home and got a phone call from her other daughter. She lives in Virginia, but she had managed to get to the Dallas airport. She flies free and stand by because her daughter is a flight attendant for American Airlines. Two planes have left Dallas for Shreveport and she couldn't get on either of them. There are still two more flights tonight, so I am standing by to go pick her up at the airport if she does get on one of those flights. She may be stuck there tonight because of the holiday weekend.

Complete waste of skin....

That would be me today. I did absolutely nothing with only one small exception. I sewed the first of many appliques on my tux tails that I am required to wear to all non formal Mardi Gras events...mostly on the floats in parades. I will be riding on our float in two parades. It looks like it is so much fun to throw beads to everyone. The only thing is that we purchase our
own beads and they cost quite a lot because we throw so many of them. My Mardi Gras tails are going to be all junked up with patriotic appliques and a few TEXAS ones. The patriotic beads are expensive so I will probably throw only a few of them to people I recognize in the crowd. Behold my very first applique applied today...........

I have the beginnings of yet another urinary tract infection. That's what made me so sick a couple of months back. I went years never having one and now all of a sudden I get two. I still had some medicine from the last episode so I started taking that today. For that reason, I didn't want to go to the hospital today. My mom and dad went, but I don't believe there was anyone to relieve my cousin so she could go home for a while. I'll try to go tomorrow. I hope she went home tonight. I really think my aunt would be OK to stay alone tonight, but that's not my call.

I hate incompetence!

Once again my Dell laptop was not shipped on 8/28 as I was told. The new ship date is 9/5, but I am losing faith that the deadline will be met. None of the people, according to the message boards, got their computer shipped on 8/28 as promised. This is just one huge mess and those morons are still accepting new orders that they know they can't fill. It's also very annoying that every customer service rep has majorly broken English. I have managed to get a $50 compensation....or at least that's what he said. I'll believe that when I see it as well. If I didn't want that PINK computer so badly, I would cancel. I'm such a DORK!

My shift is over!

I went to the hospital at nine this morning to relieve my cousin that spent the night with her mother. That's tough duty that just makes me so tired, so I am off to take a nap. Looks like I'll do the same thing every day until my aunt is able to be alone. Being a nurse is just not my calling. I am just not cut out for it.

Yet another whirlwind day...

I went to my mom's to help her peel pears this morning. While I was there my cousin in Virginia called and told us that her mother, my aunt, my dad's sister who lives in the assisted living facility right down the road from me, fell last night and broke her hip. She is 91. We had to abandon everything and get to the hospital. Her other daughter, who lives in Shreveport, finally got there after they took her mother to surgery. We left the hospital after my aunt got back in her room because she was just in too much pain for visitors. I hope her daughter stays the night with her, but one can never tell about her. She's a strange one!! If it were my mother, I would have cancelled whatever I had to do and got to that hospital. She, on the otherhand, dawdled around taking her damn sweet time getting to the hospital. I was pissed!

Imax

Ever since I moved here one and a half years ago, I have wanted to go see the Imax film, Hurricane on the Bayou. Today was the day. Every Louisiana citizen should see this documentary. The Weather Channel had started filming it to document lost wetlands 3 months before the storm. Apparently, their cameras were rolling during the storm. I don't know how else they could have gotten such awesome pictures. They had film of baby alligators simply being blown away. After the storm, only one was still with the mother at their nest. I have never seen an Imax film that wasn't just incredible.

Damnit...

I need to stop screwing around with my computer! I have been watching lots of Elvis stuff on TV this month, so tonight I decided to purchase some Elvis songs for my ipod. Big surprise was that when I clicked on itunes, it told me to reinstall it. It had some missing parts. What? I haven't opened itunes in months, but I guess I screwed something up. I have spent the last hour downloading it again and re-installing and hoping all my songs would be there if I ever got it to work again! HOT DAMN! Everything is there and it works. I have to have my ipod. I don't use it nearly like I used to because I don't have a nice fitness center to go like I did in Beaumont. I can't use it mowing the yard because I sweat too much, but I LURVE my ipod!!! It's sweet!

My next read....

My next read will be The Reagan Diaries. I sat in Barnes and Noble one day and started reading this book, but I didn't buy it because it was too expensive. Last week I saw it sitting on a table at a friend's house. She told me to take it with me, but I forgot. Tonight she brought it to me. I am looking forward to kicking back with this book.

Lucky day for me...

At a Krewe meeting tonight, we all put our initials on a dollar bill, wadded it up and threw it in a basket. At the end of the meeting, a dollar is drawn and the winner gets half the pot and the other half is given to the homeless shelter, our charity. I won! I don't even know how much was in the pot. I donated all of it to the shelter, but I immediately went and bought Powerball tickets. They gave me one of the dollars back to buy a ticket for the Krewe....300 million! We would have one kick ass float!!!

I was busy all day and missed my nap. This is a good thing. It helps me sleep better at night. Lunch with the ladies ran right into meeting my folks at the hearing aide place and going to help them get groceries at Wal Mart. In between those activities, I am just trying to keep my grass alive.

Tomorrow I have to go take my parents to a graveside service for my aunt's sister. My aunt just died a couple of months ago and now her only sister is dead. Her body and family is coming from New Jersey. Since I moved here, I have been to 4 funerals and even more funeral homes. I started thinking about those who are left that are related to me. Still quite a few! Yes, it's not a fun thought.