Month: October 2005

Well, the other day Heather (the long lost friend I tried to find and mailed her a letter) emailed me. We have been talking through Yahoo Messenger. I am so happy to finally be in contact with her again. It’s great! She was the last close female friend I had. It would be nice if she lived closer to me so we could get together and hang out like we use to.

Well, Monday night it started snowing like crazy and we got about 2 inches. Tree limbs where breaking, power, cable & phone lines where going down and schools where closing. We hadn’t even had our first good frost of the year yet. Our flowers still had blooms on them! Trees still had their leaves and the branches couldn’t handle the extra weight of the snow so they just snapped and blocked roads and driveways. There are still over 47,000 people in Harrison County (and other surrounding counties) without power. My mom, Nan, Aunt Lois, Uncle Jerry, Aunt Janie and Uncle Boone are some of the people without power. Originally the power company said the power would be back on by Friday (today) now they are saying it won’t be until Monday. They have been without power since Tuesday evening! Needless to say my Mom is not handling no TV very well. So I charged up the battery for our portable DVD player and took it down to her Wednesday with some DVDs to try to hold her over until the power comes back on.

Well, I have seen the cat that has been getting in our garbage and I would love to hunt down the person that is responsible for this animal and beat them upside their fucking head. This poor cat is so very malnourished. It’s ribs and hip bones are clearly visible and the worst part is this poor animal seems to be wanting nothing more then a loving home. I would love to open my home to this poor creature but when it comes to animals, London comes first. I don’t know if this cat has any type of diseases and I do not want to take the chance of infecting London. I do fill so very sorry for it so last night a took some pepperoni rolls and a bowl of warm milk and set it out on the back porch. I know, I know once you feed it, it will never leave. But this cat has been running around here for about a month now and I just can not knowingly let it starve. But somewhere someone is responsible for this cat. I absolutely hate people who want a pet so bad and then when the “new” wears off they don’t want it anymore and let it run loose annoying the neighborhood and starving to death or getting hit by a vehicle. People like that should not be allowed to have animals.

I really have to give props (look at me sounding so hip and trendy 🙂 ) to my mom and dad. When I was younger I had all kinds of animals and I had to take care of every single one. Yes, they would help me but I was the one responsible for my pets. And they told me from the get go that once the animal got out of the cute baby stage that I still had to take care of it and that I would not “throw” it out for a new one. It taught me a lot of responsibility and to this day I take excellent care of all of my pets.

Yesterday while we where at Nan’s house Raven’s cheeks got beet red and her forehead was burning up so we took her temperature and it was 102.6 ! Nan had some children’s tylenol so we gave Raven a dose and then my mom took us home. She seems to fill better today and her fever has gone down. If her fever comes back then we are going to have to take her to the doctors.

Halloween will be upon us soon so I thought I would go ahead and post some pictures.

Here is Raven and London in their Halloween costumes. Raven is Darth Vader and London is Yoda.

Here is 2 pictures of our little graveyard.

And here is what is in one of our upstairs window. Sorry about the picture. You can only see it at night so the picture quality is really bad but I think you get the idea.

My step brother Alex came out from Ohio last night. He is staying the weekend with us. He will leave sometime tomorrow. Right now him and Mike are out fishing.

Me and Raven went to Johnna’s birthday party today. I will post pictures sometime tomorrow or Monday. Sorry this is a short post but I have some horror movies that I need to watch.

Oh, I mailed out the letter to Heather today. Hopefully I will get a response soon.

For the past week I have been searching on the internet for a girl that use to be my best friend. Before my mom and I moved back to West Virginia in 1995, Heather (that’s her name) was my best friend for years. When we moved from Ohio to West Virginia (the state I was born and raised in and have lived here all my life except for the 6 years I spent in Ohio) we kept in contact for about a year and then life gets in the way, as it as a tendency to do, and there was less letters and less frequent phone calls. And then they just stopped all together. For the past 4 or 5 years I have thought about Heather. Wondering what has become of here over these past 10 years. If she has kids, did she grow up to be a nurse like she wanted to, if she still acts the same crazy way, you know just the normal pondering. I also wonder if she is curious about me. Heather was the last real best friend I had (except for my husband). It seems as you get older you don’t have those same great friendships you had as a child.

Well, all my searching has not been in vane. I think I might have found her address. I just wish I would of gotten off my lazy fat ass and searched sooner. So, I’m going to write her a letter today and probably mail it out tomorrow. Wish me luck.

Friday, when me and Raven where at the movies to see Wallace and Gromit : Cruse of the Were Rabbit the theater was packed full. Not only was it the opening day for Wallace and Gromit but it was also the first showing and there seemed to be only a few empty sets left. Now of course this is a children’s movie so most of the audience was children and there was the expected childhood noises going on during the movie. But unfortunately the children had to bring their parents and that’s where all the problems resided. Raven and I pretty much where sitting smack dab in the middle of the cinema. The women sitting beside me had children that seemed younger then Raven (she is 8 years old) and their children where sitting ,by themselves I might add, in the front row. Now, these women could trust their children to sit, at least 10 rows ahead of them, in this very dark theater where you couldn’t see 2 steps in front of you, but they could not trust them with the care of their drinks. That’s where one of the problems started. Every 10 minutes their kids came up to get a drink and every time they asked their parents if they could take the drink back with them. Of course it was a resounding NO and the Moms had to talk about it to the other moms after each encounter with their child. Not only that but through most of the movie the Mothers talked about getting a new car, if the others would think getting her hair cut short would be cute, Global Warning (rolls eyes) and other chatty nonsense that continued through the whole movie. Then there was the parent in the row behind us that didn’t see a problem with their child going crazy be constantly kicking the back of our sits. Luckily for us, the child’s friend (or sibling I really don’t know) told the kid to stop doing it. This youngster who could not of been over the age of 13 had the hindsight that kicking the back of someones chair was rude and impolite, something that the over 30 parent didn’t seem to understand. But the straw that broke that poor camels back happened to Raven. The guys sitting beside her (actually their was an empty set beside her, I made sure of that by putting our bags on that set, but I digress) kept talking on his cell phone. Now before the movie started right after the dancing popcorn singing “go to the Concession Stand” the screen displayed, in big bold letters, “PLEASE TURN OFF ALL CELL PHONES AND PAGERS“. And right after that the screen showed a little girl standing there with her one finger up to her mouth in the “shhhhh” pose with those big bold letters that read “THANK YOU FOR NOT TALKING“. But those adults must not of seen that or they can not read. Cause they’re Adults, and they would know better then to be rude and impolite, right? Well, you would hope so but you’d be wrong. Some adults think the world starts and stops for them and that yakking about their new hair do is more important then showing some common curiosity. I mean it’s not like they will never get to yak about it but at least wait until after the movie is over. Common! We have to live in and share this world with each other so we might has well make the best of it and be nice and polite to each other. I will be the first one to admit that I have pissed off more people then I have befriended but the type of people that I have pissed off I wouldn’t want to be friends with (I didn’t lose you there did I). Anywho, back to the whole theater story. After about the 7th time that guy picked up his cell phone Raven said, in a pretty loud voice, “Didn’t they say to turn off all cell phones and pagers?” I don’t think that guy picked his phone up again during the rest of the movie. Poor thing is turning out like her mother everyday.