It's hard to believe that it's almost January when you're having thunderstorms! It has been sunny the last couple of days, but the drenching we have gotten has melted our paltry snow (and my parent's snow - they had around a 12" up in the Chicagoland area).
We went to Grandma Kay's house in S.IN over Christmas. My mom's brothers (and my aunt Kathy). It was really great to see them - it'd several years. My uncle Alan is SO funny!! He does a great "Geraldine" impression (Flip Wilson) and he randomly answered the phone as "her" when my brothers' girlfriends called. We ate tons of great food and played Catch Phrase - that's a game that gets better the later at night it is!
We had quite a fiasco with the dogs, though. My grandma is not a dog person and does not want them to come to her house, which is fine, so I made arrangements to board them with a vet. Well, the lady I talked with said anytime between 4-4:45 to drop them off. When we got there a little before 4 everyone was gone!! We waited until 4:30 then finally left and went to my grandma's house. We called around until finally the vet called back and was very rude to her. He insisted that I had been told 1pm! He said he wouldn't do anything to help us, and I called around to try to find other places, but by now it was after 5pm on Christmas Eve! We had exhausted all options and grandma said she'd rather us stay there with the dogs then go home. At least the dogs were really, really good. Poor Bo is afraid of everyone, so he had a pretty miserable time once the Uncles arrived and has been in a coma sleeping it off for the last couple of days! The dogs loved the cows outside my grandma's house, though! Would you write a letter to the vet to complain?
It was nearly 70 there when we left on Saturday. I hate it. I wish it would just stay cold. I think it makes the cold feel so much worse when it does this back and forth. Even worse that it went from 65-ish (here) to 30 overnight. It hurts my bone grafts in my knee. My brothers (Jake and Aaron) have the same aches with the weather.
We are headed up to Winterkamp this week. We haven't gone before, but I'm sure it will be a lot of fun. We'll take our new toy - the guitar we bought so that we can fit in with the rest of Suite V and my cousins! Unfortunately, it probably takes more than OWNING a guitar...we have a long way to go learning on it!
Hope everyone laughed as much as I have during these holidays! :)
Rude vet! ARG! So, you got a guitar? We did too! I feel overwhelmed but excited. We bought a book/dvd set by a nice australian gentleman which will hopefully teach us some basics. My fingers are already sore!
So...do any of you guys sleep walk? I do sometimes (and talk in my sleep). I have trained myself more or less to turn the light on in the room and that snaps me out of it, but every once and awhile that apparently doesn't work. Josh isn't usually here since he works 3rd-shift, but he has caught me standing in the middle of the room thrashing at unseen things. I walked in my sleep at camp this year and apparently TOLD the girls that I was probably just dreaming, but that I was going to turn the light on (which I did). They were cool about it and thought it was funny.
I was really afraid that I would try to walk in my sleep after I hurt my knee and especially after my surgery, but I'm guessing all the drugs helped keep me sedated!
I have never woken up on the couch when I went to bed in my bed, but I have woken up getting BACK into bed. Hmmm, I wonder where I went and what I did? The other morning the door to the bedroom was partially closed when I know it was all the way open when I went to bed.
My migraine meds make it slightly worse (it's actually one of the listed side-effects!), but I've always walked and talked to some extent. A friend of my folks woke up in a field behind his house in his fruit-of-the-looms when he was a kid! Any interesting sleep-walkers out there? :)
I don't sleepwalk, but the thought of sleepwalking scares me. What if you walk out in the middle of the street or get hurt sometime? It is an interesting subject though :)
Never have. My only sleeping side-effect is extreme grouchiness. Sometimes I remember and sometimes I don't. Kaylin used to get upset with me for yelling at her in the middle of the night. Don't remember that.
OH don't get me wrong... I just need closed toed shoes for winter. I don't mean "cold weather" as in snow boots. 30 and 40 degrees doesn't warrant the sherpa lined stuff, but I can't really do my usual high heeled sandals. And high heeled boots are just about the only closed-toed shoe I don't think are horridly ugly.
The first time I ever went to Walmart was a memorable event. We were on vacation in Maine and Dad was very excited to see a Walmart in the North East (there weren't any in RI at that time). While there we ate lunch at their snack bar and I got a Polish sausage that made me all kinds of sick. That night was the only time that I have ever gone sleep walking, and I blame the Walmart Polish sausage. The worst part was that we were in a hotel, and I woke up standing in front of the elevator. I made my way back to our room and was thinking how glad I was that I remembered the room number, but I was blind as a bat without my glasses. I knocked on a door for a while (I was still quite out of it), then finally squinted up at the number on the door and realized that I was at our neighbor's door! So I moved a few feet to the left and started knocking on that door. After a brief moment, my very confused Dad opened the door and let me back in. Apparently, I didn't say a word to him, didn't answer his questions, I just got back into my bed and slept until morning.
also known as Thanksgiving! We had a really good time at Thanksgiving this year...both of them!
We had Thanksgiving with Josh's Bonk-side on the Saturday before Thanksgiving and it was really fun! We went to his mom's parent's house first to visit and "brunch," and then to a saw mill. Josh has been looking for a place with a better selection, better quality, and better prices of wood. It was pretty cool to see the exotic woods - including one called "purple heart" that was an incredibly dark purple! This is a picture: After we went to the sawmill we went to see Josh's little nephew play basketball. It was fun to watch those little guys shoot baskets! They were actually a lot better at dribbling than I had thought (ok...than ME), but they were obviously most excited to run up and down the court during any change of possession. : ) We ate at Sarah's house and the food was really, really good!!
Kraft was shut down for the whole week of Thanksgiving and Josh took management excused so he was off! It was great to have him home at nights for awhile. We went to Aurora on Wednesday. My brother Aaron brought his girl Sonya home for the holiday. We had met her last fall in FL and it was great to hang out with her some more! She's great.
Aaron was pretty bummed since he saw his doc on Friday and they think he has torn his left shoulder in exactly the same way as his right (twice) which means major surgery again. For now, he is back in a sling for awhile.
We spent most of the day Thursday in Kenosha at my aunt and uncle's house. There were around 30 of us! We had so much fun though, and great food! I got to hang out with my new cousin-in-law and my cousin-to-be, which was cool and we had an enormous spades tournament.
We did NOT shop on Friday...or Saturday, and I am more than fine with that. All the craziness and crowds makes me want to poke someone in the eye. Sigh.
Josh got sick in the night Saturday night (bleh) and my mom had to bring me home from services with the same stomach bug. We are over it now, but hear it has swept through in WI. Don't think we brought it from here, though! I'm really hoping it stays away from Aurora...and Indiana...and Tenn...and FL...ick. We had representative germs from WI, two areas of IL, two areas of IN, TN, and FL!! At least it's only a 24hr bug! Hope everyone else had a safe and yummy Thanksgiving!!! : )
When I was working at a cabinet shop recently they had a really nice table, the top of which was made out of purple heart wood. They had a garage sale of sorts to sell stuff that was sitting around in the shop and they were trying to get about 2800$ for the table. They also had a pretty big pile of rough-cut purple heart lumber which they sold for well under its value.
I had so much fun with the spades tournament. I'm sure you and Josh had fun because you guys won! (I'm sure that is only because the two of you never got to experience the expertise of team "Bearded and not bearded.") Your aunt and uncle just had a stroke of luck beating us. :) JK. Anyway, it was fun to see you and share germs. Did you hear all that talk Aaron and Brian were doing about germs? They jinxed everybody into getting sick!
I am so glad that you all had fun over Thanksgiving.Thanks for coming! We had a lot of fun to! Come back and see another game if you all have time. We had the bug this week and I started it. Well I was the first one that got sick. Two still to go with that, but we are hoping for the best.
We are actually having a hard time finding a boxer in our price range plus the distance we have to travel to get it :(. We don't want to spend more than $200. We were planning to adopt one from a shelter or something.
I'm not exactly sure how much, at least 4-6". The roads were really bad today. I spun out and got stuck and had to be pulled out by a tow truck, all before 9:30 this morning
So, what do you call carbonated beverages in your neck of the woods? I thought it was weird to order a coke in Florida and have the waitress ask "What kind?" Up here, if you ask for a coke you'll get...a Coke. They'll even usually ask if Pepsi is okay since even that's NOT COKE. I especially thought it was weird to call non-cola beverages coke, like Sprite or Mountain Dew. I have heard Soda, Soda Pop (and its variant Sodi-pop), and Coke, and they seem to be regionally based. Any other words and descriptions that you find to be regional? These are funny and interesting to me.
Growing up in Ohio, we always called it pop. No one else here calls it that. But since I refuse to use Coke for everything, I just call things by their real name.
Hmmm... it's weird to me that down here some people refer to the interstates as "I-H-10" instead of "I-10" (Interstate Highway)
I'm a "soda" sayer, I think.
So, isn't it weird when Brand names become representative of the product?
Fridge does NOT stand for "refrigerator": It stands for Frigidaire.
Kleenexes should be called "facial tissues."
Tupperware and Rubbermaid tend to be used for plastic containers of all sizes.
I used to think brands should like it when they gain this sort of overwhelming recognition, BUT then again, the dilution can surely hurt them, too. I prefer Puffs (with lotion), but still ask Josh to "hand me a kleenex." Our "fridge" is Kenmore...although our stove is a Frigidaire...hmmmm.
As a side note, I think something similar has happened with our political parties, and that's weird to me. "Democrats," as per their name, should be fighting for increasingly direct representation in our government, while "Republicans" should be pushing for representative government. BUT, if you identify yourself with one or the other you're more likely to be thought of as socially liberal or conservative, in favor or against welfare/other government agencies. Isn't that weird? Or is it just me?
Funny, we were just talking abut this at work today. Most people don't "search" things online anymore; instead they "Google" it. Good for Google, bad for Yahoo and others...
