Stupid Airports

Chris was supposed to be coming home tonight after TWO very long weeks and his flight was late making him miss his other flight, which was the last flight into Bakersfield.. He also tried to run to make a flight to Burbank, but also missed that.. So now he's stuck in Phoenix for the night. He did get ahold of Casey and Gorden and is going to spend the night with them.. so at least there's that. It will be nice for them to visit and for Chris to see there place.

Hopefully this is the end of the upsets and he can come home tomorrow..

At a loss

My camera broke and we are going camping next week and I just want to cry!!! oh and I am outraged that my one personal (outside of my clothes for now) possession would break on me the absolute nerve of cannon.

Fire Alarms

This morning at work, the fire alarm went off.

All of us went outside to the designated "safe" area. It was sprinkling. Luckily I had my umbrella.

Less than five minutes later, we were told via bullhorn we could go back in.

Less than five minutes after returning to my desk, the alarm went off again. And its been on now for over twenty minutes because they can't get it to turn off.

Its the most annoying, obnoxious fire alarm sound I've ever heard as well.

What an awesome way to start the morning. With a growing headache.

Black Widows

A damn black widow spider moved into our mail box.....
Why could it not have chosen one of the other, oh 30 other boxes to build its web so I told Ian and he said why I have not killed it yet. Well as I am leaving the house to run my errands. ect.... the last thing I think of grabbing is the spider spray. Grrrr I hate getting my mail while keeping one eye on the black widow. And as the Leah exclaimed today, "Its getting so big, pretty soon it is not going to be scared of your hand"
Yeah so I think I am going to put the spider spray in my car right now that I am thinking of it.

My Cell- Gone

So, I went to the Movies today with my friend and our kids. I lost my phone somewhere from the movie and the car.. My guess is that someone cleaning the movies found it, pocketed it and scored a new Centro Phone. While looking for my phone with a flash light and someone helping me, the someone told me that there are times when the employees find things and just keep them. "HE" would never do that, but he's known people to do that. Yes, I know this. Which is why they better hope I never find them or I WILL kick their ass into next week..

So I share the info about the employees stealing with the manager. "oh, no, not possible, our employees would NEVER do that. they would turn it in to me".. "really cause I just had a conversation about how they just keep cool stuff. They would never steal it in front of YOU, but when was the last time you supervised a cleaning after a showing??" "yeah, that's what I thought"..

Anyway, my cell is gone.. I now acknowledge that I have an ADDICTION to my phone.. I was twitching on the way home cause it wasn't with me.. I do have insurance, I did call Verizon, they did suspend my number, I can get a new phone for free, and I do have my old phone to turn on in the mean time... But none of this is the point.. I think Chris is the only one that truly knows how much this is driving me crazy. Not so much the phone itself, but the fact that I can't find something.. It's literally driving me crazy.. I simply CAN NOT rest until I either find it or get another.

It's made me tired. As soon as the kids wake up, we're going to Verizon.. Hey, both of my kids are sleeping.. How amazing.. Maybe I'll lay down.. what a foreign thought..

Ray

Ray has a broken back. The doctor who took X rays before they left said he had some inflammation and would be fine to go on the cruise. He was WRONG. Ray has suffered for 6 weeks with a broken back because of a doctor's ...what...laziness?...incompetence?

Poor Ray.

Vet's bill !@?@#!

So Hawthorne had a three legged gait yesterday and this morning the paw in question was noticeably swollen so off to the vets we go....
Well after answering their questions about Hawthorne's living environment and if there is a chance that he could have snuck outside and been exposed to any wild animals or snakes, we left him and awaited their phone call to let us know what is going on. Well at two today I got the call to say that Hawthorne is ready to come home. No wound marks (bites,) no broken bones and after you pay your bill of 220.00 we will go get him for you. I just sat down on the chair dazed and exclaimed out loud 220 dollars.
Leah asked, "Where is Hawthorne?"
"Oh I just have to pay our bill first and then they will bring him to us."
With tears welling up in her eyes she exclaimed, "They won't give us our beloved dog back until we pay them?!?"

So all in all, Sam said that he will not ask to go to mcdonalds (cause I always listen to him anyway) and he will not eat anything cause that costs money, Leah said that we will not go grocery shopping until she has eaten every last thing in the pantry even all those crumbs on the cereal shelf (what crumbs on what shelf) and Emma is going to be a good listener cause Hawthorne is her goood boys. And Ian and I apparently have no beer money for the rest of the summer.
Stupid vet bill and all to tell us that he strained his paw and that Hawthorne needs to be in a crate for a week (hmmmm) and for all those wondering Hawthorne weighs 94 pounds.

Alex Newkirk Here

So we're at Target this weekend.  Me, my mom, dad and little sister Lauren.  I kept telling them I wanted something, but they weren't listening to me.  I think they must be stupid or something.  I was yelling...  

Cop Porn Cop Porn Cop Porn!!!  

They kept looking at me strangely and they just started laughing.. I really didn't appreciate their amusement. When I want "popcorn" I really mean it.. I'm not just kidding around!!!  

Low Quality Video

This isn't quite as outrageous as Lacey's recent outrage about Alton Sassoux, but still pretty maddening...

Yesterday, Lacey made a short movie of our adorable children being adorable and cute and funny. She used our little point-and-shoot digital camera to take the video, and, as a result, the video quality is pretty poor.

See what I mean? This is the lowest resolution that Youtube is capable of displaying and it's still too high for this video.

So I got to thinking, "this can't be the best the camera can do, can it?" And I started playing around with the settings and took some sample videos.

As it turns out, the camera can do much better... But only if you set it to. The default setting is crappy low resolution video even though the camera can do much better if you let it.

Just think of all the great videos we could've had all this time.