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Hurricane Wilma

Posted on Monday October 24th, 2005 by | Comments Off on Hurricane Wilma

This sucks!

We have Wilma heading our way. We are on the east coast south of Cape Carnveral & Wilma will hit the south west coast and will head back out to the Alantic just south of us. So we aren’t getting the direct hit but the county south of us is under tornado watch and had a few warnings & sightings. Hurricane bands are good for brewing those hated tornados.

Wilma is scheduled to hit the west coast (about Naples) about 7-8am est & she’ll take about 5hrs to get across the state.

Luckly I have tomorrow off so I don’t have to work about it unless they call me. We were open through Jeane & Frances so I expect us to be open though tomorrow as long as we have power.

But on the other hand, unfortunately I have tomorrow off…………lol So our plans for errands is out, I can play catch up here at home while we are still connected.

I haven’t stressed this as much as last year. It helps that I’m working, that has keep my mind off of it, thankfully. But that changes with not working tomorrow……gggrrr

I just hope it goes through quickly so we can get it over with & so I can enjoy the rest of my day off.

Have a good night, lets hope we don’t get blown away. =)

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Waiting on Wilma

Posted on Monday October 24th, 2005 by | Comments Off on Waiting on Wilma

This is actually the worst part of Hurricanes, the damn waiting. We have known for 5 days I think and it just wears on you. We are sticking it out, just like the last 4 we have had since we have been in Florida. This one is coming from the SW which is the same as jean or Ivan or whatever it was… we get so many they all seem the same.

We just ordered a pizza as we wait to die… er, wait for Wilma who is taking her sweet ass time to get here, typical woman, tells you she is on the way and makes you wait. What I am really getting sick of is the cable company giving a warning and have an incredibly loud alarm go off and then a guy “talking” but it’s so distorted it sounds like he’s talking into a tube that’s going into a blow horn.

All day long, every channel and they go right over the tv show, but they stop right before any commercial… real important huh… so important they wont interrupt a paid sponsors commercial….gotta love it.

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I’m Back

Posted on Wednesday September 21st, 2005 by | Comments Off on I’m Back

Wow, after a ton of posts, I just dropped off the face of the earth, didn’t I? =)

I just got busy as heck with work. Today was my day off………yeah right…..lol Our boss stopped by & I had to go in. No big deal, got some things taken care of….but it was on less then 24hrs notice. We weren’t expecting him until Thursday, but the company scheduled a training seminar that I need to go to and so does he. So that is how it happened.

When I finally got home, Harold & I headed to the store, we needed both groceries and paint, cuz that is what our plans were for today & tomorrow. We did get a hallway and one room painted. It is a color called desert echo. It is a sandy type of orange. I’m not a big orange fan, but we really wanted to try something different and that was the color that caught my eye. I think, partly, cuz it seems to fit with being in Florida. We are going to do the living room in a light yellow, again not a big fan, but first we need to paint the ceiling and that will be a project in of itself.

I don’t know if we really want to do the master bed or the office (maybe just one or two of the walls). I do want to do the spare bath, cuz they have a horrible color thing going on and the kitchen.

We’ve been keeping an eye on Rita, luckily we didn’t get the hit of the Keys, but we’ve been getting the outer bands. I’m really hoping that the forecasters aren’t correct about it becoming a category 4, but they probably are correct. I really hope that folks are learning from the New Orleans disaster and don’t repeat it.

I’m exhausted……time for bed.

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The Happenings

Posted on Wednesday September 7th, 2005 by | Comments Off on The Happenings

It has been raining here on and off due to Ophelia off of the coast. They believe that she will become a hurricane in the next few days. =( Lets hope that she doesn’t land.

I actually had a productive day at work. Sometimes I feel as if I’m so busy running around and putting out small fires that I don’t get anything accomplish. On the days that I get something done, I feel good. =)

I have a few things to do for work here tonight. I hope I have the thought process to get it done……lol

I did get all the receipts organized, now I need to do the long process of entering them into quickbooks. I’m hoping to be able to get them done this weekend. Then I won’t be stressing it all by the end of the year to get it done.

I’ve been so busy since I got back from Indiana, that I never finished up about that weekend. There isn’t much to tell except that I really enjoyed being able to see and visit everyone. Mom did surprise me. She gave me a few family things that I didn’t expect. One of them being a picture of my dad taken in ‘Nam. It is a simple black and white picture, but what I really like about it is what it tells me about him. He looks so young, but his eyes shows him getting older (for lack of a better term) with what he has seen & experience there. Just gives me a sense of my dad’s history.

Mom also gave me a costume jewelry penant. She has had it for along as I could remember, but I never knew the story behind it. It was made my great-aunt Maria and my great-uncle Al painted a peacock on it. So I thought that was really cool.

Now I need to get off my ass & do the litter boxes……….lol

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Keeping Busy

Posted on Tuesday September 6th, 2005 by | Comments Off on Keeping Busy

It was my first day off in week. I was going to do the schedule at home, but decided that it could wait until tomorrow night.

I did finally get to looking for doctors and dentist that works with my insurance. I was so not looking forward to that. I would look it up and then paste the info to Word so I would be able to print it out and make my notes as I call around. Well, dang word would never print it…..would say “that word is preparing the background for print”….It was starting to piss me off.

I finally just started calling and tried to take notes. My handwritting sucks so I was hoping I wouldn’t screw it up. Luckily I was able to get a dentist appt. next week and one for a doctor by the end of the month. I really didn’t think I was going to be able to get into the doctor until next month, so I was pleased about that.

Dang, pc has been slow as crap. =( I can’t even surf my news sites without it taking forever.

I got laundry caught up, I really need to do the litters but I’m so burnt out over stressing on getting things done at work that I really don’t want to do crap…….lol

We got moved to new servers & looks like most of the bugs are taking care of. If there is any problem email me so I can see about having that taken care of.

Harold has started to make a bunch of nice for us, since we are heading into the height of hurricane season. He put one of 5 gal. jugs of water in our deep freezer & opened it so it won’t crack when it froze up. Blocks of ice will come in every handy if we lose power. By this time last year we were in the middle of Francis & after seeing what happened in New Orleans……we just want to make sure that we are prepared. We just need to get a battery operated latern. The oil lamp & candles gives off way too much heat.

I just wanted to stop in and say hi. I need to start on the receipts (3-4 months worth) so I can feel as if I’m making head way. I have to work early tomorrow, so I’ll be in bed early tonight. =)

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