Month: April 2005

Well, nothing really going on today. Just me and London for the rest of the night. Raven is staying the night with my mom and Nan. My Nan (grandmother) loves Locke from the TV show Lost. She thinks he is very sexy. So, last night I printed out 3 photos of him and put them in frames and this morning when I went down there I arraigned them on her night stand. Well, needless to say when she went to take her nap she was very surprised and happy to find that on her night stand. “Wouldn’t that be nice to crawl into bed with!?” Nan exclaimed while pointing to the framed pictures of Locke. It’s always funny to hear a 79 year old women talk dirty about a man.

Last night me and Raven watched Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Raven fell asleep about 45 minutes into the movie. But what she did see of it she liked. I liked it to. Especially Violets clothing in that movie. Very beautiful clothing.

I am still missing Mike very much. I haven’t talked to him today but he did call me last night at about 10:30. I hope he is having fun and I hope he catches a nice size blue catfish.

He is suppose to be home sometime tomorrow.

Well, Mike left last night at about 7:00 pm. He stayed the night up at his grandpa’s cabin with his grandpa and his dad. They are going to trout fish today. Then tonight he is going to meet up with one of his friends (who lives only about 1/2 hour away from the cabin) and go to Virginia for the Catfish tournament. Mike will be home sometime Sunday. God, I already really miss him. Last night I couldn’t get to sleep. I am not use to Mike either not sleeping by me or not being on the computer while I sleep. It sucks. So, I layed in bed tossing and turning, listening to Raven make nosies in her sleep and London snore. I fianlly decided to just watch some tv so I watched Young Guns and at about 3:30 am. I finally feel asleep. I had to get up at 6:30 to get Raven off to school. After she left I layed back down and finally got a couple more hours of sleep.

Anyway, tonight me and Raven are going to have taco in a bag for dinner and watch Lemony Snicket’s a Series of Unfortunate Events. And then tomorrow night Raven is spending the night with my Mom so it will just be me and London.

Ok, now for something completely different. If you all support our brave men and women who are risking their lives all in the name of freedom please take a moment and visit A Million Thanks.org The whole concept is simple, write a letter to one of our brave soliders and send it to the address listed on their site. They will then deliver it to 1 soldier. They are trying to reach a goal of 1,400,000 which is the number of our troops currently serving in Iraq. So, please put your politically views aside and wether or not you agree with this war please take a moment and write these heroes a letter to let them know that you support them all.

I have come to a realization that Hank Hill (from the tv show King of the Hill) might just be the perfect man. I am sure you all are thinking “She’s either crazy or stupid!”. Well, a little of both. But before you poo poo on my realization hear me out on this. Ok? Ok.

Let’s start with the fact that Hank Hill loves his job. And I mean LOVES his job. He cares so much for propane and propane accessories that he has made it is goal in life to get everyone to start using the cleanest burning fuel around. You will never hear him bitch or complain about his job and he is happy to work overtime. Not only does he enjoy his job more then one person can imagine, he is also very good at it. And he is not merely an employee at Strickland Propane he is the Assistant Manager AND employee of the month practically every month.

Next, Hank Hill enjoys mowing the yard. Hell, it’s one of his hobbies. He takes great pride in the way his lawn is presented and makes sure that it is always looking it’s best. You will never have to use a hatch to get through the jungle growing in your yard with Hank Hill around. Plus he enjoys grilling (a form of cooking).

And probably the most compelling argument is that Hank Hill does not like looking at any other women but his wife! That’s right! Can you believe that? Well, it’s true. He doesn’t look at any nudie magazines, pornos, or anything of the kind. One time when he was looking for his father in a strip club he kept his eyes closed the whole time cause he didn’t want to see any naked women but Peggy.

So far Hank Hill is in the lead for the perfect man. Now if I can only get Mike to start enjoying yard work he just might be tied with Hank for first place.

It is snowing here, can you believe that! We where having 70 and 80 degree weather just a couple of days ago and now it is snowing! I want it to go back to the 70-80 degree weather 🙁

This coming weekend Mike might go down to Virginia with one of his fishing buddies to fish in a tournament. He would leave at like 9:30 pm Friday night and come home sometimes Sunday. And Raven is suppose to stay the night with my mom this Saturday night. So me and raven (and London) will be here by ourselves Friday and then it will just be me and London Saturday night. Since A Series of Unfortunate Events is coming out Tuesday. I will pick it up at Walmart and me and Raven will have something to watch Friday night while Mike is gone. And then since Mike won’t be here Saturday night I can have the computer all to myself!

For dinner today Mike decided he was going to cook pork chops (to give me a break from cooking). So he fixes 6 pork chops (2 for himself, 2 for me and 2 for Raven) and some broccoli. While he was fixing the food, I was watching Raven play a game on the XBox and periodically yelling at her to “Run to the Right, Jump, Run Run Run!”. Mike called to us that it was ready and I brought Raven her plate and then went back into the kitchen and picked up one of the pork chops and flopped it down on my plate and went back into the living room to eat the delicious meal. After an undetermined amount of time I finished my first pork chop and went back into the kitchen to get my 2nd one. Same as before, but this time after about the second bite I noticed a little brown looking thing on the other end of the pork chop. I proceeded to bring it up towards my face for closer inspection. After a second or two the horror of what it was sunk in. I can only imagine the expression on my face. It was a SPIDER! I thought for sure the first pork chop I ate was going to end up all over the floor but I held it back and showed Mike and Raven. Mike throw the rest of my pork chop away and offered me the rest of his. I thankfully declined. I did not want anymore pork chops for today. The only thing we could figure was that the spider had either crawled into the pan before cooking or fallen into it after. If it was any other insect it wouldn’t have been that bad. But not a spider, I hate spiders!

We decided to go ahead and give Raven her two birthday presents when she came home today. A wireless controller for the XBox and a “Family 10 game center”. Then we took her to the mall to let her pick out the Sonic The Hedgehog t-shirt that they had at Hot Topic (she likes Sonic). While we where there I was looking at the clothing and the clearance. Nothing on clearance that I could fit into and I started to feel a little depressed. No, XL shirts or size 13 or 15 pants. It seems like they never have those sizes on clearances. Always sizes x-small and size 0, 1, 5 pants. But then I started thinking. What do they put on clearance? The left over clothing that they are trying to get rid of. So if they don’t have the sizes that I fit in too and only have the smaller sizes then that would lead one to believe that the sizes I wear fly off the shelves more then the size 0’s. That made me feel a little better. But then I looked at the cute little lingerie things they have at Hot Topic and so wished I could have some. I wish I had the money to get some. I also wish I could fit into them. Well actually I can fit into them but I don’t look good in them and what’s the sense of wasting money on something that you look disgusting in? 🙁

Well, I posted my site on a few review sites and have gotten a better response then what I though I would get. It seems my side bar movies all the way down the page in any other browser besides IE. So I am trying to fix that problem so no matter what browser you use everything should look fine.

Ok, now on too non website stuff. Mike called Lowes yesterday morning to get the break down on the estimate of the fence. The Materials will cost $1,525.51 and the Labor would be $1,801.49. None of us thought it would be that much for labor and materials so I am not sure what we are going to do.

Today I think me and Mike are going to go to Walmart to get Raven’s birthday cake and her presents since we are going to celebrate her birthday tomorrow. Mike was going to take Raven fishing tomorrow for her birthday but it looks as if it is going to be cold and wet.

Ok, well we took Raven out to eat for her birthday and when we came home (at about 6:30 pm) We seen that Lowes had left a voice mail. They gave us the quote on the fencing. It was for $3,325. WOW! None of us where expecting it to be that much. Tomorrow we are going to call Lowes and find out all the details. I called my Dad and told him. We are looking into some other options. Like doing it ourselves. We will just have to wait and see.

Well, today is Raven’s 8th birthday, For school instead of bring cupcakes for all the kids she wanted to bring cosmic brownies (there made by little debbie). So Mike got her 4 boxes so she can take them to school. We are going to wait to celebrate her birthday on Saturday. It’s just so much easier to do it if she doesn’t have school the next day.

Mike went fishing last night by himself, cause he couldn’t get any of his so called friends to go and I couldn’t go cause Raven had school today (he stays out late catfishing).

I really need to go out back and clean up all the crap that the previous owners threw back there. There is glass and rusted metal things and all kinds of other crap back there. We don’t let Raven go down there. But I need to get it done before we get the fence installed cause I don’t want London going back there and cutting his little paws.

Well, the fence guy came about an hour ago to get the measurements. We thought he would be here sometime before 1pm but he didn’t get her until 4pm and he didn’t even have any paper or a writing utensil to keep track of the measurements of our yard. Very professional. He just guesstimated, he did not measure. It took him at most 10 minutes. We’ll see how much he estimates it’s going to cost.