Month: May 2005

Well, Mike will be coming home sometime today. He went to Burnsville for a fishing trip with some of the KatMasters.com members. I hope he got a nice size catfish.

We went ahead and reserved the hotel for Mike’s cousin’s ,Ben, Wedding. Last time we went and visited them in Carlisle Pennsylvania it was in 2003 and we stayed at the Comfort Inn in Carlisle. Across the road from the hotel we was staying in was a really nice Holiday Inn (we have had really good experiences with Holiday Inns) and wished we would have booked that hotel. Well, that’s the hotel we are staying in for this trip. It looks like a lodge or some sorta cabin on the outside.

Raven isn’t coming with us. She is going to stay the weekend with my mom and Nan. She is really looking forward to it. We are going to leave the morning of Friday June 17, the wedding is Saturday June 18 and come home sometime Sunday June 19. Mike is really excited about going out there and seeing his cousin Steven.

I am trying to find something to wear to the wedding. I don’t really have any nice clothing. I have what I call my funeral/wedding suit which I really like but I don’t want to wear it. So I have been looking for a nice girly dress, preferably black and pink. I am really starting to love pink know. I found this dress on ebay that I really like:

It ends in like 3 days so I am going to have Mike take me shopping Monday and look to see if I can find anything around here I like and if not then I will just get this dress. I also need to buy shoes!

Are we ever gonna get a break? The guy installing our neighbors gas line told us that the gas line running from the meter to the house has to be above ground now. One of the many things the gas company decided to change. The guy gave us an estimate of what it is going to cost to have it done $875! And we have to come up with that in less then 10 days. I really don’t know what we are going to do. We where gonna get new windows for the house and the truck needs new tires but if we don’t get the gas line done in 10 days then they will shut off our gas! We have never been late with a payment to the gas company and it’s not our fault that the gas company decided to change the way the lines are but we have to pay for it. If this is how they treat there loyal paying on time costumers God knows how they treat there other ones. Now our phone is messing up and a phone line outside our home is down, lying on the ground. So I talked to the phone company and they said they would send someone out today to look at it and he said hopefully they won’t bill me for the maintenance charge. In the first place, the line that is down is not even from our house. It’s in front of the big abandoned gray building beside our house and I will be damned if I am paying for that!
And now our computer is fucking up. It’s not even 2 years old yet and it shuts off by itself after about 15 – 20 minutes. I am typing this hoping that it won’t shut off in the middle. I feel like crying and screaming!

Nothing really exciting going on. Friday the gas company came over. Our neighbors and us share a gas line and the gas company said that’s not allowed anymore so we have to have someone who is certified to install gas pipes to come in and do it. They said the homeowners are not allowed to do it anymore. So we have to find and pay out of our own pockets someone to come in and install the gas pipes in ten days or they will shut off our gas. I don’t see why we are getting punished cause they gas company decided two different houses can’t share a main gas line. They are the ones who put it in to begin with!

Nan’s (my grandmother) had her 80th birthday party yesterday. Everyone seemed to have a good time.

Mike is probably going to be gone for this weekend. He is going to meet some of his buddies at Burnsville for some catfishing.

Been really busy lately trying to get SPIRIT (Society for Paranormal Investigation Research and Informational Training) out and knowing. Get some members. And I have started a message board for it but he doesn’t really matter when I’m the only member right now. God!

A little background on SPIRIT : I am the owner and lead investigator of SPIRIT (Society for Paranormal Investigation, Research and Informational Training). SPIRIT was founded a couple of years ago by a man named Isaac Merkle when he owned SPIRIT I was a Chapter Leader. In the fall of 2004 Isaac decided he didn’t have the time to continue on with SPIRIT so, with his permission, I took over. I am still getting things in order. And need to get some members so I can get an investigation under way. There was so many members of SPIRIT from all over the USA when Isaac owned it and then he took it offline for months and I finally contacted him asking what was going on and that’s when I got permission to take over for him but none of the old members came back! What bullshit! This is what I have been waiting for! I haven’t been studying the paranormal (with my main background being ghosts) for 16 years (since I was 9) reading everything I could get a hold of for nothing!
On another note, Mike’s cousin Ben is getting married on June 18. And we got the invitation in the other day. Ben lives in PA so we will have to get a hotel room. I think we are going to leave Friday morning and then come home Sunday. Raven is just going to stay with my mom that weekend. I will post more info about it later.

Well, Raven didn’t go to school toady. Friday when she came home we took her to the doctors cause we thought she had pink eye. Yep, she does. The doctor gave her a prescription and said that she will be able to go to school on Monday. Well, this morning she woke up and had pink eye in the other eye. So we just kept her home from school today. She has to get 2 eye drops in each eye 4 times a day for 7 days. The doctor also gave her an antibiotic cause she said her throat and ears where a little read. She has to take it once a day for 10 days. The antibiotic cost $100 cause they don’t have a generic version of it yet but our insurance paid all but $5 of it and the eye drops didn’t cost us a thing. Thank God for that!

Nothing else really going on. The weather has been sucky lately. Cold and wet! Can’t wait until it gets warm and dry so I can paint the damn shutters.

Mike has been having all kinds of problems with his board. I will post about it later. Don’t feel like typing it all out right now. But I will say that it is worse then a fucking soap opera!

Sorry I haven’t posted in a few days, just been busy with other things. Yesterday was mother’s day and Mike and Raven got me an Azalea bush and grass seed and some miscellaneous flowers and Saturday all 3 of us where out there planting. Mike also made me dinner for mother’s day.

I am assuming the gas company will be here sometime today. They came Thursday and marked off a box with white paint in our yard and the neighbors and across the little gravel road that runs in front of our yards. They also placed a little white gas installation flag up so we will see what they do and if they try to get us to pay for it.

Since school will be out soon, Raven has all kinds of activities and events that are happening. She has 2 field trips coming up (May 19 and 20) that she is looking forward too. The first one, they are going to shop and save and a pet store in the mall. When I heard that was where they where going on a field trip I couldn’t believe it. I remember when I was young we went to hell of a lot better places then Shop and Save for a field trip.

The second one isn’t even really a field trip, it is an RSP Reward. If you don’t have more then 2 Oops slips then you get to go. They give out oops slips if you forget your homework. Raven has no Oops slip so she gets to go to Valley Worlds of Fun. They have bowling, lazer tag, go carts and some of other things.

“Three tomatoes are walking down the street, a poppa tomato, a momma tomato, and a little baby tomato. The baby tomato is lagging behind the poppa and momma tomato. The poppa tomato gets mad, goes over to the baby tomato and smooshes him… and says, Catch up.”

Raven’s first soccer game for the spring 2005 season was today and Raven got her first goal! And the coach was wrong, their colors are black and yellow not black and pink. They didn’t win 2 – 1 was the score with Raven making the only goal for her team. She came close to making 3 or 4 more. Way to go Raven!

Raven (in the yellow shirt) making her first goal!

Well, Mike got home late Saturday/early Sunday about 12:30 am. He didn’t catch anything big. But he did get to catch a blue catfish, bullhead catfish and a gar. He also won a door prize which was a pink azalea bush so we are going to have to find a place to plant it. I am glad Mike is home. Me, Raven and London all missed him very much.

Well, it looks like another gloomy day. And it seems to be rather cold outside. I can not wait for this weather to get sunny and back up to the 70’s and 80’s.

I know, I don’t really have anything interesting to say today. Sorry.

Mike with the Bullhead Catfish

Mike with the Gar