helooooo

hope all had a great Thanksgiving weekend. I'm currently in Pennsylvania, and it's cold and it's raining and it's supposed to turn to snow any minute. yuck.

Gearing up to go hunting in the morning. PRE buttcrack of dawn. I've already bonked myself in the head with the scope of my rifle, but I hit the bullseye on the target so I guess it's worth it. Don't think I'll have a ton of computer time again, but I'll try to check email before the end of the week. I'll be home Saturday afternoon.

pics of the car

car update and miscellany

Well our deductible is 500 bucks. Good thing I have enough in the savings to cover that. I keep reminding myself it could have been worse. Initial estimate on my car is 1,654 in damages. Don't know about the other vehicle, it wasn't badly damaged at all. After talking to Boss1 about the ticket, we requested a continuance on the court date, instead of our usual procedure of requesting a jury trial. He'll go to the new date and negotiate a lesser fine for us. If he can knock about half of it off I'll be happy, well not as upset.

My rental car is pretty sweet. A 2009 Chevy Impala. It's like a gunmetal blue/grey. The seat is a bit uncomfortable and I already miss my Caliber. Hoping to have it back by the end of the week. I keep forgetting to take camera to work, but once I do I'll upload pics of the damage, because of course I took some. Boss2 wants to borrow my camera so I'm supposed to take it in tomorrow.

Hanging at the station for a BobFM remote. Do any of y'all have BobFM? I love it. An example of the play list, and this is just from what is coming up in the next half hour:

Stone Temple Pilots
Fleetwood Mac
Scorpions
Pink

Had some Aerosmith and Eagles before that. As far as I know, these BOB remotes will be the majority of my hours now that NASCAR is over. At least one more football game this Friday. If they lose it's over, and if they win, I won't be around for the following weeks game. I am getting a voicetrack shift for this Sunday, which I'm not sure when I'll tape. I'll either have to come in early to do it before the football game, or stay late and do it after. I could also just come in on Saturday and Sunday to do it, but that would kinda ruin the first full weekend off I've had in forever.

Hoping to finish off Christmas shopping before we go up to PA. If not, I'll have time during my week to myself to try to get some done. That's probably when I'll get some Bubba stuff done, plus search for some new clothes for me. I'm still in need of warm weather stuff, it's gotten so damn cold here.

Well, almost time to do the last break, then head home.

Oh yeah, Bubba and I have been playing Guitar Hero a bit this week. He lost Wii privileges for some unimportant issues, not sure it makes much sense to allow Playstation, but we're doing it. He's getting a little better, but still doesn't do great. He has a lot of fun though. I, however, amaze myself with how well I do, even though my fingers HURT when I'm done. I'm playing on easy, and my career is about half done. I battled Slash of Guns 'n' Roses last night and then played Welcome to the Jungle with him, it was kinda awesome. May try to advance to medium, if we keep up playing. We haven't played in forever, and once the Wii is back, we'll most likely stick with it. I finally bowled a perfect game on the Wii. Took me long enough, but I'm glad I finally did it.

Okay, I'm really done now. Talk to y'all later.

Missy, you ok? You've been a bit quiet.

p.s. haahhahah, my blogger ad right now if about traffic tickets!!! hahahahahaha.

My husband is totally in the doghouse

Why you ask? Cause I know y'all are dying to find out the latest reason why I'm ticked off at the man. Well, it's simple really. HE WRECKED MY CAR!!!!!!!

He was driving to my mom's to finish up the installation of my anniversary present, a remote starter contraption, and drifted into the other lane and caught the back bumper of another vehicle. That vehicle isn't too messed up. My front quarterpanel and headlight are all smashed up. Luckily, noone was hurt, Bubba was in the car with him at the time, I had just pulled into the station in the truck, which I NEVER get to drive. He got a warning, because we couldn't seem to find the registration for the Caliber, and a ticket for unlawful lane usage. I have no clue what our deductible is, but needless to say it's going to drain the savings account to pay it. The ticket will cost us 150 bucks, but if we go to court they'll drop the fine a bit. I'll talk to Boss1 about it and see if it's worth his involvement, I'm not sure the Trooper would drop it to a 0-point violation, he even said as much, that they'd just drop the fine if he went to court. However, the court date is when we'll be in Pittsburgh.....I'm willing to just eat the fine most likely, don't wanna make too many waves, considering the Trooper could have done worse. The downside of working at the firm and doing traffic tickets is knowing all the what-if's.

I missed about an hour of work, cause I left once someone came to cover the race. But I'm back now, and W has the unenviable task of calling the insurance company, plus he'll have to go and get me a new registration card. Now that I think about it, I'd rather the Trooper would have written the registration violation, so we could have tried to make a deal to dismiss the other one and pay the fine on the other. But whatever, it could have been much worse.

Must go voicetrack and then watch the last race of the season. And the last race for the radio station. Blah.

The in law visit

It went well...we pulled off the surprise amazingly. W insists he had no clue, but I was starting to think maybe he did, but who knows. Bubba was so shocked. The party went off great, a bunch of the neighbor girls came over, my mom and Aidan showed and Bubba got spoiled rotten. Tons of new toys and clothes.

We are planning a trip to PA the week after Thanksgiving, for hunting. For the first time since I was a kid, I'll be hunting this year. Look out deer in Greene County, Beachgal is gunning for ya, hoping to fill my freezer. Also, since I can only stay a week, and W likes to spend two weeks, we shopped around and booked me a plane ticket back for 75 bucks. It's flying into Charleston, which isn't too far, and my mom will be able to pick me up. The best part is that I only have to endure the drive UP to PA instead of up and back. That is totally worth the 75 bucks, I tell ya. Bubba will spend the extra week with Grammy and the rest of W's family, and I will have a week home alone, which will be glorious!!!

Watched a fabulous episode of Crossroads on CMT, featuring Def Leppard and Taylor Swift. First, Joe Elliott is still hot, second he sounds fantastic singing country music. Since it was on the DVR, I plan on watching it again, it was that good. Missy, I highly recommend that you catch it if you haven't already.

Ok, well, I'm at the station, for the second to last race of the year, and I'm also flipping over and watching the Steelers game. As of now, it's halftime and they are winning.

Last but not least, HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUBBA. We've told you all day that it's your LAST day ever as a four year old and you are so excited for tomorrow. We love you very much and I look forward to what life with a five year old brings.

So glad all that's over

Wow, is pretty much all I have to say. I'm not sure I really thought Obama would win, but I certainly expected it to be a closer race. My husband is all doom and gloom, however I am cautiously optimistic that things may just change for the better. Noone knows for sure. And no, I won't tell you who I voted for. (bubba keeps asking me and it's annoying.)

GO VOTE

Not that I'm such an influential blogger that people will read this and run out and vote or anything. But really, if you're reading and haven't voted, please do so. I waited in line for about an hour after registering. Wasn't so bad. I couldn't go after work because I have to be at the station, and have to have time for dinner and such. W will try to go after his doc appointment, depending on Bubba's behavior. I did find out that he can get curbside assistance, since he cannot wait in line that long. Hopefully that works out.

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween, y'all. I didn't get to go trick or treating with Bubba....I'm at the radio station. But I've been told he had a fantastic time down with my mom, and W gave out candy for a while at her house. Then Bubba gave out candy, and after having a treat from his stash, he fell asleep on the couch snuggling with my dad. How awesome is that?

Life is about the same. W still miserable, he hurts so bad all of the time. I see him going further and further downhill and it scares me. Still haven't gotten any settlement paperwork from workers comp but it's supposed to be in the works. We started the process for filing for disability, but haven't got anything finished yet. W is dragging his feet, but we have to get it in so we can get the process going, since they always deny, then we have to appeal, then wait after the second denial for a hearing. Then hopefully we win the hearing and can start getting the disability. Meanwhile, we have to keep our heads about water the whole time. Blah.

Not much else going on. Since I don't think W ever reads this, I can say that the in-laws are coming for a surprise visit next weekend for Bubba's birthday. My child will be FIVE YEARS OLD!!!!! Holy hell how did that happen?

We have a date night tomorrow night, so Bubba is sleeping over at G-ma's tonite and tomorrow. W and I are going to see Larry the Cable Guy, courtesy of the radio station. No meet and greet tho, which I'm a little bummed about. JW, the boss, is going to try to get Bubba's tshirt signed, which will be cool. Haven't run out of room on it yet, but it is starting to fill up.

K, I'm gonna sign off. Got a quarter plus left of this damn football game, then I can go to the grocery store. Planning on doing some heavy cleaning tomorrow, in advance of the inlaw invasion, which I can't tell W about, just have to pretend it's overdue (which it really really is.) Then our big night out. Got a smashing outfit for it, courtesy of Carmen at the office. She's been giving me a bunch of clothes she doesn't wear anymore, which is awesome, she has great taste in clothes and they all fit me well, too.

I scored a pair of brown dress boots at the mall today, for twenty bucks. And since I still had a gift card to the mall, I didn't technically spend any money! Woo!

Happy Haunting, catch ya later.

Something for all.

Something I think is completely awesome.

I've always loved this song, this just blew me away.

(yes i'm too lazy to do the linking stuff)
http://www.greatdanepromilitary.com/Battle%20Hymn/index.htm

Ho Hum

Hey y'all. How are you doing? About the same here. Hasn't been much to talk about so I've kinda just avoided this place. Still reading every body, commenting here and there, but I'm just lying low I guess.

W's back is still bad.....waiting on settlement paperwork from worker's comp because they say there's nothing else they can do. We started to process for filing for disability, which is going to be long, drawn out and not easy. I know they'll deny him, which we'll then appeal, and then they'll deny again and we'll have to get a hearing which takes forever to get.

Bubba still isn't in preschool. I've heard they are working on the waiting list and getting kids in, but so far, no word for him. He has until March.

I've been working way too much. Between the office and the extra shifts I'm pulling at the station, it seems like that is all I do. Then of course I have endless amounts of chores at home.

We are still addicted to the Wii. Bubba has so much fun with it and honestly, I do too. We love to do the fitness challenge every day and see how our age changes. I also got W and Bubba both hooked on Monopoly on Pogo. Such a fun filled life we lead....playing video games and watching TV is pretty much what we do at home.

Ok, the office work all piled up is calling to me, I just don't wanna answer it (but I have to.) Hope to hear from y'all.

Happy Halloween, since I don't know if I'll be back by then. Bubba will be going to G-ma's with W because I'll be working at the station.

Something NOT written by me.

I swiped this from one of my Yahoo Groups. No clue the real author, and I've put the link to the yahoo group post below....this really makes you think. I know it would never happen, but wouldn't it be nice? Again, I'm not big into politics but this really makes sense. And I cannot wait for all the damn ads to be done with on the radio and tv for this election. Blah


"
....this was sent to me by a creative mind that is a single parent struggling not to go into foreclosure. I thought that it had its merits so I'm passing it on; If nothing it would give the big money people that put us in this mess something to PONDER; while we the average citizen can only wonder WHY? Perhaps it's time to take back OUR AMERICA!!!.

To All My Friends Who Think "Outside the Box"....I'm against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG.Instead, I'm in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a We Deserve It Dividend.

To make the math simple, let's assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+.Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up..So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billon that equals $425,000.00.My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a We Deserve It Dividend.

Of course, it would NOT be tax free. So let's assume a tax rate of 30%.Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes. That sends $25,500,000,0 00 right back to Uncle Sam.But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket. A Husband and wife has $595,000.00.What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family?

Pay off your mortgage - housing crisis solved.
Repay college loans - what a great boost to new grads
Put away money for college - it'll be there
Save in a bank - create money to loan to entrepreneurs.
Buy a new car - create jobs
Invest in the market - capital drives growth
Pay for your parent's medical insurance - health care improves
Enable Deadbeat Dads to come clean - or else
Reset the Welfare and Medicare/Medicaid Systems to weed out the fraud.

Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18+ including the folks who lost their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company that is cutting back, as well as those that lost everything in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas after the hurricanes. And of course, for those serving in our Armed Forces.If we're going to re-distribute wealth let's really do it...instead of trickling out a puny $1000.00 ( "vote buy" ) economic incentive that is being proposed by one of our candidates for President.If we're going to do an $85 billion bailout, let's bail out every adult U S Citizen 18+!As for AIG - liquidate it.Sell off its parts.Let American General go back to being American General. Sell off the real estate.Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up.Here's my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesn't.Sure it's a crazy idea but it is extremely LOGICAL!How do you spell Economic Boom? Talk about an American moral booster! This plan is about all Americans and is not based on race, gender, or socio-economic status.I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85 Billion We Deserve It Dividend more than I do the geniuses at AIG or in Washington DC.And remember, The Family plan only really costs $59.5 Billion because $25.5 Billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam.Ahhh...I feel so much better getting that off my chest.

Kindest personal regards, A Creative Guy & Citizen.Perhaps a few more creative minds in Washington and a few managers who can manage would serve the American people from getting into such direPositions. Make your vote count in placing some new blood in Congress.Time to turn over the controlling party politicians and elect those thatCan act in the interest of all Americans. Thought this is a creativeIdea to help Americans."

full post here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MBFNeighbors/message/14304

Uninspired

That's me lately. Not much to talk about because just about every day is the same.

I have started exercising again, hoping to tone up a little, I've gotten a bit flabby since I haven't exercised regularly in about a year.

W found a Wii cheap on Ebay, so we've been Wii-ing quite a bit. Should I be concerned that my toddler bowls better than me sometimes? He's also beaten me at baseball. I seem to be the best at the tennis. It's a lot of fun and W is getting some exercise. THAT alone is worth the price. We've not encountered any issues with a used game system, so yippee.

Already talked to Missy a little about this on Myspace...one half of the morning show was fired last week, completely out of the blue. The new guy started on Wednesday and he seems ok. I googled him, and to my surprise, the dude has a CMA award. For best radio personality, medium or large market...that seems like a huge thing to me. One of the other part timers was also fired THIS week, for being a complete dumbass and not turning off his mike before telling a joke with an inappropriate punchline. That has led to more hours for me, including having to work Tuesday night, and I'll have to work a fairly long day on Sunday, which is normally my only day off. It will only be a temporary thing, they plan on hiring at least one person to do what he did. I'm actually off tomorrow, performing another wedding, this for a friend of W's. Nowhere near as fancy as the last one, we'll be changing out of our dress clothes right after the ceremony and then gonna PARTY!!!!! Football is slowly winding down for the night, I'm ready to go home and watch the finale of Gone Country II.

Hope everyone out there in the internet land is doing well. Haven't heard from my mud chicks in a while, but I know how busy we all get, and besides, I haven't been posting much.

Happy Fall, I am so ready for some cooler weather and smaller electric bills.

in an unrelated note

In another cosmically unfair turn, I can't find my hairdresser friend. She's done my hair for like two years, the last few times at her house instead of at the salon, obviously to save money. Well, I am in desperate need of a perm and trim, and gave her a call to get it scheduled....yeah....her cell phone doesn't work anymore. And she isn't at that salon, anymore, either. They don't know where she went. I SUPPOSE I could stop by the house, but I don't wanna freak her out, especially if she moved or something. We have a wedding next weekend, which I am performing, and was really hoping to have my hair under control by then. Now, if I can't track her down (I've been trying since Monday) I'll either have nasty hair or I'll have to pay twice as much somewhere else. By the way, this is the second time I've lost track of my hairdresser....the last time I saw my other favorite one, I was six months pregnant....went back to the salon for a trim when Bubba was a few months old, GONE. Noone could tell me where she went. SO yeah, don't have the best of luck with hairdressers.....

Also, one of my mom's cats died Monday night. She was 16. had been going downhill for a while, and she called me to meet me at the vet for the euth, and before they got her out the door she was just gone. Honestly, mama shouldn't have waited so long, but she just couldn't bear to lose her. She had been eating/drinking up until the very end, which is why mom never called the vet. Farewell Baby, Littlefoot, Miss Priss. We'll miss you.

Oh, yeah, 16 years ago tonite was the first time I laid eyes on W. We've been a couple ever since. Life hasn't been too kind to us lately, babe, but I love you very much. Here's to another sixteen years, hopefully a little easier. Mwah.

Look...

...I normally keep out of politics, but this election is driving me mad. I hate politicians, I think they are all crooks and scum and promise whatever to get elected and then do whatever they want. I do NOT want to start a political discussion about the current candidates, I just wanted to say, that either way it goes, it scares the crap outta me. I don't know enough about either to make a judgment and I have no clue yet how I'm voting. I DO know that Ms. Palin scares the hell out of me, as a woman who wants to overturn Roe v. Wade. Potentially having a VP with that mission is scary, at least to me. Again, I do NOT want to start a great debate, this is just something that has bothered me for a while and wanted to throw it out there.

Woah. Edited, AGAIN,

The link no longer goes where I meant it, but I found a picture I was able to save and then upload. It's a picture of a place near Galveston, an entire subdivision wiped out, except for one house left standing, appearing totally untouched. I took the link out, since it didn't work.

This picture scares the hell out of me on one hand, and then totally amazes me on the other.



God Bless all of y'all in Texas and elsewhere dealing with Ike. I'm sorry anyone ever has to go through this kind of devastation.

all is well

Hanna was a sissy, if you ask me, at least for us. Had some heavy rain, some wind and the lights flickered twice but never went out. We've spent the day indoors, because somehow my child has come down with a cold. I'm hoping to avoid catching it, but that's not likely.

Catch y'all later.

rain rain rain

It's about 1045 pm. Boys are in bed. I'm on the laptop that keeps crashing on me. It's been raining hard for a while. Front yard is pretty flooded, too dark to see into the back yard. I'm sure it's pretty flooded, too. Since it's so dark, I can't really see how windy it is, but every once in a while we hear a good gust that kinda rattles the house a bit.

The poor dogs want to go out and pee, but I won't let them. I'm hoping for a small break in the rain so my house doesn't smell like wet dog. But eventually I'm gonna have to bite the bullet and let them go out. Another reason why cats are so much easier.

Okay, I'm gonna try to pogo for a bit, if the computer cooperates.

Oh yeah. NASCAR postponed tonites race and even tomorrow nites and they will run back to back on Sunday, with the Cup race first. However, JW at the station basically took me off the schedule, since the other guy was scheduled for Sunday anyway, and they are only going to broadcast the Cup race. I don't even have to go in to voicetrack. Two weekends in a row off, I don't know what to do with myself. I believe I'll still have to go in Monday nite to run the football game, and that will suck, but you do what you gotta do for a paycheck.

Catch y'all later.

4:30 Edited 4:45

Cloudy again but not raining. This is my last update since I have a ton to finish before leaving for the weekend....I'm picking as much up off my floor as possible so if it floods the damage will be minimal. I kinda hope my actual desk gets damaged so I can ask for a new one. hahahahaha.

Stay safe everyone, everywhere.

Ok, came back quick enough to mention that it's now POURING again. Heavy heavy downpour...guess how many stops I have to make on the way home. At least TWO! DAMMIT.
They've also added a tornado watch in effect until tomorrow sometime, in addition to the tropical storm warning and hurricane watch. Wonder how many more we can add? ahahhahah.

See ya.

3:05 PM

Bright and sunny outside. Newest update wasn't much different. Hanna is coming, but they can't positively predict where. Anywhere from about 4o miles south of us, to 40 miles north of us, with us in the middle. She's almost a Hurricane last I looked. She isn't expected to get much stronger than a MINIMAL hurricane.

1:30 pm.

Okay it's now pouring down rain. One of the outer bands is coming ashore far north of the main system. They keep changing landfall, so I don't really know what to believe...anywhere from 40 miles south of us to RIGHT ON US.

Still don't know if I have to work tonite or not. Landfall is predicted between midnite and 2 am, but conditions deteriorate well before then. Left a message for the boss, haven't heard back.

I'll try to post before leaving the office.

Just talked to boss at station. No race tonite...they'll be having folks in live to keep doing reports. and a live shift in the morning for aftermath, but I don't have to go in until tomorrow nite for the Cup race, which will probably get rained out as the stupid storm heads north. grrrrr.