My Archives: July 2004
Thursday, July 29, 2004
Just a quick little post to let ya'll know that I'm stil around. I have been super lazy and busy all at the same time lately.
We had a MAJOR! storm and had all sorts of damage..there were at least 3 trees down on the barn, in the front we had 1 apple tree uprooted, and a massive tree snapped like a twig, luckily it fell away from the house instead of on it! we had roof damage on the house and barn..the power went off at like 10 that night and I still don't know what time it actually came back on here, I do know it took like 3 days to get the power on at my mom's in town. We called around hunting a generator and we finally got lucky and called a friend that owns a Kawasaki dealership here and he had 1 left in the store! He said he would hold it until we got there so here we go zooming in to pick it up, let me tell ya I am still miffed over having to fork out that kind of cash! he gave us a great discount because we know him so well, but dangit I could've spent money on so many other things! I guess I should just be glad the vehicles made it thru without any damage. It ended up taking Greg & Waymond like 12 hours or so to get the majority of the clean-up and repairs done, but we still haven't been able to burn all the trees and stuff.Last weekend we went to Knoxville to look for some pants for 'Taye but so far we still haven't had any luck finding anything other than bell-bottoms (boot-cut) or hip huggers, and those are strictly against dress code, hopefully we can find some when we go to PA next week!
While we were in Knoxville Greg surprised me by wanting to go jewelry shopping and he bought me a new diamond! I am tickled pink and on cloud nine with my new ring! I never saw it coming! I'm beginning to like surprises more and more lolWe are leaving Saturday for a cabin in the mountains and some us time, unfortunately we will be coming back on Monday or Tuesday for a few hours to unpack and then repack and then pick up all the kids and head off to PA to see his mom. I soo don't want to go, but it looks like there's no getting out of it now lol
The kids will be missing the first day of school because we will still be gone, but I look at it like this..what could they possibly miss in 2 hours?! I think it's just downright idiotic to be starting school this early! I don't know what is wrong with this town, they start earlier and go longer every blooming year, maybe they plan it that way to annoy people and to try and ruin vacations lolI'm off to do more laundry and maybe wash the dishes, there are only a few so I may let them wait awhile, dishes at 5 am is such a boring thought lol
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Wednesday, July 7, 2004
Just a quick post to let ya'll know we are still alive and kicking. Greg is on vacation this week so I am spending most of my time with him. We were supposed to leave this past Friday heading to PA to visit his mom, but Chantaye came down with chicken pox! I've never had the pox, so we got her ready and she is still with my mom until she is totally over them. I am terrified of catching the pox, and was afraid for Angela to get them this young because of the scratching so sending her to mom seemed like the safest thing to do. We are now planning to go to PA at the end of the month which will end up cutting into mine & Greg's lil get-away vacation, but I'm hoping it goes according to plan and we don't have to totally axe our vacation.
There isn't alot to tell lately here, most of my time is spent reading or doing housework and when I am online I've been hanging out at the Pixel Mall to feed my sig-tag addiction lol
I have managed to draw a little bit lately tho, but only graphics for me so far. I'm still undecided if I will re-open my shoppe or not, it gets a little discouraging when you don't get paid, it might be a bit easier to brush it off, but I have graphics that have been sitting here since March and I don't feel right trying to sell them to others when they were custom orders. maybe that's just me tho..Anyway, Greg and I are planning to take Angela back to Knoxville tomorrow to the mall, if the weather cooperates, to get her a Jojo the clown doll. We went over the weekend to do some shopping and of course eat at OG, but the drinks were wrong, my food was a mess, and Angela and Bradley suddenly declared war on each other and us so we just slipped over to Target to replace Angela's doll that broke, she named him Greg and was terribly upset so I had to tell her he went to the doctor until we could get a new one lol but don't you know half of the lil guys in the box there on the shelf looked like their heads were ready to pop off too!
Well that's the latest here at the asylum, pretty dull and boring I know, but figured I should "check-in" anyway. I'm off to make friends with the couch and heating pad again.
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