Highlights

Well, I haven't had much of an exciting week but a few noteworthy points were made. (Noteworthy to myself, not to anyone else.)

So, today, a girl panicked when her car started to shake so she ran over a stop sign and my back fence. ...deleted...

My uncle has decided its time to move in with us. This week and probably the weekend will be spent moving furniture around and stuff. He'll be staying in Mom's bedroom and Mom will be staying in Grandmother's old room. The morphine he's taking is beginning to make him hallucinate. It's terrible and funny. He keeps thinking I'm throwing things at him. I don't like that at all.

I've met four new cousins this week. It's great. But now I'm totally back logged on my genealogy. They've sent me so much stuff. I'm related to 75% of the people who lived in Pumpkin Bend, Arkansas. I could possibly be related to more, but 75% is confirmed. That is a mighty lot of people to keep track of.

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Weight: 176lbs

I'm Around...

But I'm busy.

...like super. Talk to ya'll later. ;-D

Weight: 174lbs

Hiccup

I'm annoyed with Dr. Phil.

He keeps saying, "Your self image is not related to your self worth." I say, "YES, IT IS!!!" Some of it, anyways. Whatever. I'd change the channel if only I had batteries in this remote control... and there weren't a sleeping animal in my lap. I really wish the brother would stop coming in here and turning on the TV only to leave three minutes later. SILENCE!!!! PLEASE!!!

It's very distracting to have Dr. Phil jabbering on while I'm trying to decipher census data. There is no scratch paper to write down 1920 (the census year) - 37 (the age of the wife) to come up with her circa birth year. I would do this in my head, except that Dr. Phil won't shut up. *seven leaves three... so that's something three... ah!!! I don't care about how much weight you've lost today! what is this? survivor? oops... where was I?.. something three...*

Weight: 176lbs

A Smelly Guy And Irritating Actors

Long day.

I spent all day in a waiting room watching soap operas on tv. It just about killed me. I CANNOT STAND THOSE SOAPS! It's like the finger nails on the chalk board thing. I don't know why those shows irritate me so much.

Do I attract freaks? This is just happening to me all to often, lately. I was sitting in McDonalds (which is in the hospital) on my own, minding my own business, when some guy sits right up next to me and starts talking about President Kennedy being shot. "Yeah, my momma was here when that happened. Can you believe I'm that old? I was born before then. Can you believe that?" Ah! I don't care! Go away you old smelly freak! But, of course, I wouldn't say that. I sat and nodded only when I had to until he finally left.

Despite me ranting, I'm not in a bad mood. I'm pretty giddy, actually. Chow.

Weight: 177lbs

Life Imitating Art

Cast of Characters:
Girl - Young white girl, approximately seven years old.
Buster - Old black and tan miniature chuahua, approximately eight years old.
Me - Young white woman, approximately twenty-one years old.

Girl: Bicycles past us.
Buster: Barks viciously at girl.
Girl: Turns around and waits.
Me: Shushes Buster.
Buster: Growls.
Girl: "Is that your dog?"
Me: "Yes"
Buster: Strains against leash to attack girl.
Me: Reals in leash until close enough to kick... if needed.
Girl: "She's cute."
Buster: Growls.
Girl: "Where did you get her?"
Me: "From my dad."
Girl: "How old is she?"
Me: "About six."
Girl: "Wow! Is she a girl or a boy?"
Me: "He's a boy."
Buster: Barks and jumps around annoyingly.
Me: Tries to kick but misses.
Girl: "Can I pet him?"
Me: "He'll bite."
Girl: "That's okay. I'm used to bites."
Me: "Um, no."
Girl: Bicycles off.
Me: Thinks about how he's actually eight years old.

Weight: 177lbs

Lots Of Shifting Furniture (lame title, i know)

Tomorrow, my soon to be married cousin is coming over to pick up some of our less than wanted furniture for her new house.

She's taking my great grandmother's piano and mom's old desk among other things.

Then we're going over to the uncle's house to clean and rearrange furniture. We need to make it possible for him to move around his house in his new wheel chair. I so want to get into his coat closet as he has hinted that there are letters in there that grandfather wrote to grandmother while in the war.

I'm loving my homework. It's really interesting. Misty, dear, I want to test my teacher's skills on you sometime. I'll practice on you before I try tackling my brother. Haha.

Weight: 177lbs

My Cat Has A Cold

I have never seen a cat caugh like a person. It's hilarious.

He's looking at me now like he knows what I've just typed. Hahaha!

Weight: 177lbs

A New Blog Before I Go To Bed

I'm done making my new blog. You can check it out at ...deleted....

I stayed up most of the night creating this little site. I'm not going to start posting for real in it until tomorrow, but I stuck some old posts from this blog onto that one. I didn't want "just testing" on there all night.

I should probably go to bed now. Mm Hmmm...

Weight: 178lbs

Bla Bla Bla And Kittens

I'm so excited about the Christ's Ambassadors class. I'll get to go in just a few hours. Yay!

I get way too excited about learning. I really need to go to college or something. ::Nerd!:: Okay.

Um, I've had a busy couple of days. We've had endless doctors appointments for my uncle. No more this week, I think. They're now saying he only has about three months left. We went today to the radiation place to make a final decision on what he'll do. They said that all that radiation will do now is make him sick before he dies and he doesn't want that. So this is it.

The momma cat at his house just had her new litter of kittens. I'll take pictures if she doesn't move them before we go back there. I'm not sure when that will be. Two kittens were dead and three were living. One looked sickly, though. We'll see. She has two black ones and one that is black and white. They are so cute and tiny. Awwww...

Met a new cousin through my genealogical quests. Yay! Can't wait to compare info.

What else? Oh, yeah. I was blog of the day at some site called "M Rated". That's nice. What did I do to deserve that? (Can you hear the hint of sarcasm here?)

Well then. Guess I'll go do some more research. Chow.

Weight: 178lbs

Happy Birthday!

To me.

Where's my cake?

Weight: 177lbs

SLEEPY... Sleepy... sleepy... snoooooor

Cha. I need some sleep. Don't think I've had any in three days.

Well, I had some, but not that good long restful kind. Stupid PBS is asking for money again. I'm missing my brit coms. Oh, yeaaaaah. I've got recorded shows I need to watch. Yay.

Fixin' to go over to the uncle's house and do some chores for him. If we don't smell too bad when we get back, we just might make it to church.

Weight: 177lbs

My Little Get Away

So... what could be said about my behavior on this little retreat? I wasn't a complete idiot.

I'm proud and upset with myself all at the same time. I feel sorry for these people that have to deal with me. They try. They really do. I'm a lost cause. I actually contributed to the conversation on the drive home. It was one sentence, but a contribution, nonetheless. For those of you who are not in the know, I'm more of the silent type. Haha. And that is an understatement.

Our little campout was over in Grapevine. It's a forty minute drive in good traffic which is what we had. Yay! I love Grapevine. All I ever do over there is go to Bass Pro Shop, but it is pretty in most places.

So, anyways, we went to our hotel. It was the Embassy Suites. I think the only thing they have there are suites... hence the name. We were on the second floor. It's not much different up at the top, but I'll get to that later (or not). We checked in and then decided to go out to eat.

We got a recommendation and then a reservation at Ravioli Ristorante in downtown Grapevine. I know I love Italian food, but I could not decipher their menu. I usually just cook Italian food at home. I've never actually been to a restuarant. Then... I couldn't find any of my stupid Lactaid pills. I knew I had some, but they were nowhere to be found. Later, I found them at the bottom of my purse. They're supposed to be in the pocket! And you know Italians love dairy. There was not one thing on the menu (that I could decipher) that didn't have creamy dairy something-or-other on it. I finally decided on their lasagna without the creamy alfredo sauce topping. It was goooooooood. And no, Melissa, I did not choke on the cheese. Haha. Mmmmm... and their bread was WONDERFUL! I loved it. Yep. Me and food. Let's move on.

So, after that we decided to go to Gaylord Texas. I, of course, had no idea what that was, but it was amazing. They had indoor gardens galore. And the trees were real! I know that doesn't sound amazing, but I'm talking indoor, huge, ancient looking trees of perfection. Aaaaah! Heaven. Haha. And there were trails and a river. All indoors. There was a re-creation of the Alamo in there. Life size, I'm talking. It was nice. They had THE biggest TV screens in the TV Room.

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So I went.

I sat in a chair while they froze in a broken jaccuzzi. Yeppers. Then we went to a broken sauna. I kept having to tell myself that I was breathing. I somehow interpret breathing warm moist air as not breathing at all. Just another one of my irrational nerdy fears.

...more deleted... and went to our room where we stayed up most of the night watching American Outlaws. All of a sudden, ol' Tim McGraw is singing in my head.

'Cause I'm an Indian outlaw,
Half Cherokee and Choctaw,
My baby, she's a Chippewa,
She's a' one of a kind!

For such a nice hotel, they sure did have some hard beds. I did not sleep at all.

We had a most wonderful breakfast. Awwww. It was lovely. I had eggs and bacon, some hashbrowns and a buiscuit'w'gravy. Mmmmm. Delish. Orange Juice, too.

Then we went to Bass Pro Shop and took some pictures of us in a tent. That went with our theme of camping out. We had a picture in front of a fireplace in the Gaylord for our camp fire. We had a picture in front of a bison at Bass Pro Shop and in front of a longhorn at Gaylord for our brush with the animal kingdom.

Then we went to Grapevine Mills. ...deleted, haha...

Then, I believe, we headed home... which is when I contributed to the conversation... something about a noisy truck at night... which I should probably recognize that it's night right now... and go to bed. Ya' think?

If you have read down to this far, I salute you.

Weight: Dunno. 200lbs is my guess.

Keep Reading... You'll See The Point

Went to church tonight. Yep. It's springbreak and EVERYONE was there.

There were about four seats left so that was nice. I had to walk all the way accross the room, in front of everybody, to sit in a chair near the teach. I wonder if they noticed.

Daniel and Tommy came in and sat next to me, then Jamie came and sat on the other side of the teacher. Why can't I ever remember his name? Blagh!

Well, after Daniel came in, Jonathan asked him for something. Daniel said sure and tossed a card over to him. Now, Jonathan's all the way across the room. The card went half way across, turned straight down, hit the edge of the table, flipped gracefully through the air, hit the other edge of the table, and shot straight across, inserting itself into the narrow slit between Jonathan and Jennifer's legs. Nice.

What was the card? It was Jonathan's driver license which Daniel had for two days. Who knows?

We read Judges chapter 2. I, as always, kept on reading. I encourage everyone reading this to read Judges chapter 3. It was all I could do not to start laughing hysterically in class.

Class was over and I had to get out of there. Mom got mad at me for not showing up in the auditorium last time. So, I again had to get up and walk across a room full of people. I wonder if they noticed.

After the lesson, we talked with Mae and found out that they had a Christ Ambassador's class tonight, because apparently a few more people had signed up. Um, hello? Thanks for telling us that. Then we talked with Peggy for a while in the foyer. I wonder if anybody noticed.

We drove over to McDonald's for dinner and I guess that was the place to be. Everyone was over there.

Got home. Ate dinner. All that wonderful stuff. I was hovering over the brother as he was playing flash games on the net. I was just showing him my favorite sites.

Well, I had my hands on my bum. Don't know what led to that. I was just tracing my back pockets. Noticed a little tear. Went over to Mom and asked if she could see said little tear.

She exclaimed, "Amanda! Oh my God! Hahahaha!"

Brother asked, "What?"

I turned around so he could see. Laughter followed.

I ran to the bathroom mirror. Wasn't a little tear. It's a five inch rip. Starts above the pocket. Goes straight down. Disappears between the legs. White undies shining through.

You know, I have trained my mother to ask this question every Sunday morning and Wednesday night after class: How did you embarrass yourself this time? There has been some good ones, but usually the answer involves stuttering or tripping or some other minor act of clumsiness.

I actually couldn't think of anything tonight.

Now I know.

Weight: 175lbs

Reptiles

I, again, have nothing but pictures to talk about. Woo hoo.

These guys are my brother's reptiles. He has more, but the others were camera shy. I'd love to show ya'll the red tail boa cuz' that snake is just so beautiful. I love him. He was shedding, though. Yuk!

This guy is a ball python. He's a good starter snake if you ever want to get one. We've had him since he was a baby, less than a foot.


These babies are, um, red eared snappers, I think. I forget. They've grown quite a bit. There are five in all.


Awwwww... He's my favorite. He's a dragon something or other. I've got tons of pictures of him. He loves to pose. His favorite snacks are pears and meal worms.


And that, hopefully, is all the pictures I will force on ya'll for a while. Yeppers. Mm hmmm.

Weight: 176lbs

Boredome And Pictures... An Explosive Mix... Or Not... Whatever.

I guess I don't really need permission to take a picture. Haha.

Here is the brother being somewhat of a butthead, but whatever.

Very green, I think.

And here is Mom kissing Buster.


Yeah, I should probably keep my pics to myself, but I have nothing else to do so... um, yeah. There ya' go. I'm so bored! ::caugh::

Weight: 176lbs

Pictures Say A Thousand Words... Or Not

I finally bought rechargeable batteries for my digital camera, but not one person will let me take their picture. I'm not a photographer or anything, but I love to edit the pieces out of pictures... whatever that means.

See this pic. I did not have a sad face when I took this. I actually looked pretty happy. I love it, though.


I love this one, too. I don't know why.


And this one is fun. I just look so darn cute. Haha. Blegh.


Now, someone has got to let me take their picture. If I can make myself look good, imagine what I can do with ya'll! Come on. Misty, dear? Want your picture taken? We don't have to worry about running out of batteries anymore. Hehe.

Weight: 174lbs

Secretaries Keep Secrets... ?

I failed miserably. Passed out at noon.

I tried to stay awake by reading a massive handbook for secretaries. Not the most stimulating of text. Plus, it was written sometime in the 70's. Outdated typewriter and filing advice. I did learn some cool stuff on the proper way to write multiple sets of numbers. It figures I'd find something like that cool. Ooh, and I learned some new grammar, too. Hehe.

Weight: 175lbs

What?

I believe it is time for some new shoes.


Years in use: 5

Weight: 176lbs

I Just Noticed Something Stupid

Prepare yourself for a revelation!

I was just listening to Malcolm In The Middle's theme music (there at the end... without the words) and noticed that deep under the, um, (?) surface, it sounds exactly like the theme from Buffy: The Vampire Slayer.

Weight: 179lbs

My New Acquisitions

Finally... Some living rocks to call my own.


Hmmm... I dubb thee Fred and Ethel.

Weight: 176lbs

Mommy!!!

I can't stand plain old boring photos.


My dear Mum

I have an itchy edit finger. ???. I no make sense.

Weight: 176lbs