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My hubby made me a new icon for my journal. The one I am using right now is from Vonnaleigh my SUPER COOL level 68 Unholy Death Knight!!!

I cant believe so much time has passed since my last post. I should write about things that have transpired but I am too tired for that at the moment. My legs are literally throbbing! It has been a busy day here in prep for Thanksgiving Day.I have been cleaning, cooking and just overall not sitting down all day long and doing it all on 4 hours sleep. Yippie! So far today, I baked 2 pecan pies, 2 pumpkin pies and 1 chocolate pudding pie (all homemade). I made fruit salad, fresh cranberry sauce, prepped the scalloped potatoe cassarole and one of the 2 mashed potatoes I am making. I am making 2 because dad just likes plan potatoes, I also prepped the turkey that will be going in to the oven around 4:30 am. So tomorrow, I should only have to heat the potatoes, cook the corn and green beans and eat! Hopefully that will happen like that.

I am going to have a house full here. For Lunch it will me 1. Mark, 2. me, 3. britt, 4.Christopher, 5. my mom, 6. my dad, 7. mark's mom, 8. mark's dad, 9 my aunt Debbie and 10. my brother jeff. then I have a few who are going to stop by for dessert. 1. my grandmother, 2. my aunt bev, 3. my friend Joyce, 4. Our friend Brian. I think that is everyone....

Well, Iam going to sleep fr a bit until the turkey has to go in to the oven.

We are about to be leaving for a brief road trip to Austin. Why? Because we are dorks! It is the release party of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King! There are not going to be enough Collector's Editions to go around in Houston due to Hurricane Ike, so we are going to Austin. I don't know what to expect. There maybe tons of people. I just hope we can get our 2 CE copies and 1 regular. It should be fun though. Britt doubled up on school this week so she could take today and tomorrow off.

I am starving and I need coffee!

It has been raining on and off all day today. It has been nice except for when I need to be out in the rain but the sky seemed to not that and let up just long enough for me to do what I need to get done. I have had the windows open so I could hear the soft pitter patter of falling drops. A bit ago I was sewing machine quilting my Christmas Tree skirt. It is taking a while to do but I find it relaxing. While I was sewing Britt took a shower and blow dried her hair. Something about the open windows, the bright "hollywood" lights over the vanity,the buzz of the hair dryer, and the smell of shampoo made me think of Summer Camp. Odd how that happened, but it did. For a moment I felt as if I was 12 and at camp in the early morning hours as the girls got up to shower and blow dry their hair. It was so vivid. I felt barely awake and could hear the hushed whispers of girls trying not to wake the others and the soft hum of hair dryers. I could smell the combination of different brands and scents of shampoos. It is not something I have thought about in years. I find if funny how the brain works that way.

We had something odd happen here today. We kept have electrical brown outs. We thought it was because of the rain and that everyone was having them but turns out it was just us. One of the fuses popped so mark went out in the rain and reset it. A few moment later it did it again but the pop sound was coming over from the T.V. area. mark checked it out and the power strip had gone bad. It smelt of electrical burns. It was kind of bothersome. What if that had happened while we were gone? What if it didn't pop the fuse and was still getting power? Thank God it did neither of those things and the worrisome plug has been disposed of.

I am so tired. It has been a long day. I was a volunteer at the Clear Lake Families with Down Syndrome Children Seminar. It was amazing to see who a group of people whom 25 years ago would have been cast away and thought of as unproductive are breaking bearers ad proving the masses wrong. It breaks my heart that there are those who think if DS is found in pregnancy that it should be terminated. Yes DS is a hard life but this kids are proving that with the right guidance they can succeed. The keynote speaker herself got a high school diploma with 3.0 GPA and went on to get her associate's degree ad has become a marathon swimmer. It was inspiring and I was glad to be a part of it. I know there are those that don't fit this but with the right instruction most can do well.
Anyhow, I am not sure any of what I wrote made any sense. I am just too tired to think. I may need to edit this later.....

Last night we had to run some errands. Mark met with a client and since we were on that side of town we all, Jeff included, went ot the Galleria. It was a short trip. We had 3 places we wanted to go to and that is what we did. Mark wanted to go to the Apple Store. I went to The Disney Store and to Teavana. After that we went to Ikea. We walked a lot! My legs and back had already been bothering me thanks to being old and my weather gauge now being the level of aches in my body, by the time we left Ikea it was awful! We went to Cafe Adobe to eat. I was not really hungry even though I should have been but I hurt too much to be hungry, so I got the Adobe Sundae and 3 margaritas. I think the combo of empty stomach, strong margaritas, not having drank anything in a while and intense pain made those things get me a wee bit tipsy! I really thought about calling Steph to come get me so I could jut go to sleep but that would have been silly. "Hey I know it is 10 pm and I have 3 other people with me but can you come get me because I can't drink 3 margaritas on an empty stomach?" The reason I did not call was not so much the stupidity of such an action would be but the fact that I know she would have come. She is a good friend but one day I MAY NEED to make that call and I don't want there to have been a history of stupid calls to make her dread doing it again. Besides don't want to take advantage of the friend who kept my hair back while I was being sick from way to much drinking in the past.

I went to the Disney Store for a new Winnie the Pooh coffee mug. Mark likes to drink out of my Tigger mug and my other Pooh mug is more a soup mug and it a bit too huge for my coffee needs. Britt got a plush Eeyore and I another Pooh for my collection. They were on sale and were so soft and I just had to have one. I went to Teavana for tea bags but ended up getting The Perfect Teamaker that I have been eyeing up for over a year. I also got a set of 4 glass tea mugs, The Perfect Teamugs. I did good other than that. I did not get any other tea since I have plenty here. I did good, maybe as a reward I should go get some more tea from Teavana???? HAHAHAHAH!

Well, Obama is President-elect. I am thrilled to see the first black man make that office. I wish it was not this particular black man but hey, the ballot box stuffers and re-voters and dead voters have spoken! So, we will deal with it. The sun still came up today and it will continue to do so for the next 4 years. Life goes on. Even if I am not happy about it. God is still in control.

Today I opened all the doors and windows. Not because it was cool outside but just to listen to the soothing sounds of Suburban House dwelling. I can hear the wind rustle the leaves of trees. There is the sounds of the mail delivery and trash pickup. There is the squirrel running across my roof like he is in a marathon of sorts. I can also here the sounds of post-Ike repairs. The steady rhythm of hammers repairing roofs and fences. I can hear some distant wind chimes and spinning whirly birds on peoples roofs. There is also an occasional airplane and the sounds of far off cars. Oddly, all this seems very comforting to me. The house is quiet except for these sounds. I have been able to just sit and relax and watch the clouds as they sail across the sky. I even imagined myself as one of those clouds. Which is entirely impossible given my total fear of heights but still, I guess if I was able to be a cloud I would be able to overcome that overwhelming fear of heights. For this moment I feel content. I wish I could stay in this moment. The quietness is nice.

I am so tired. It has really been a long weekend. So much so that today does not feel like it should be Monday. My Great Uncle died on Saturday morning. My grandmother is not taking it well. This is her last sibling to go. She has seen more than her share of family and friends die. I am worried that she is ready to just give up herself. I a not ready for her to go.

Saturday, I babysat my cousin's 2 month ld baby. She spent the day and night with us here. She really is a great baby. She never cried but I discovered I am too old for babies. It is too much work. Maybe I am selfish but babies take more than I am willing to give at this point in my life. Now grandchildren, when the time comes will be different.

I am going to vote tomorrow. I had planned to do so this weekend but things went haywire. I am voting and NO I AM NOT VOTING FOR OBAMA!! Why is that a problem? Why is free speech free until you utter those words. I am not thrilled with McCain but I don't trust Obama. He is not a democrat! He is a socialist! So there you have it. GET OVER IT!
I am conservative
I am a Republican
I am a Christian
I am PRO LIFE!
I am Pro Family
I don't think the schools should get to decide to teach my kids about homosexuality.
War is never good. But if we didn't fight a war we would either be still under a king/ queen or we would all be German and under the rule of someone in the family line of Hitler. Sometimes war has to happen. I don't like that but I have to deal with it.
I am not a mean, close minded, freak! I don't think President Bush sent us all to Hell in a hand basket. I would nto have wanted these last 8 years in his job for anything in the world. So there are my views.

I am tired. Wake me on Nov 5 please.

My head feels like it might explode. It has been a while since I have had a headache this bad. I have had my normal everyday fairly light ones but this one feels like it might kill me. I am supposed to be taking a nap but the pain is too bad. Nothing is working.

The Mormons came by his morning. Two baby faced young men with he titles of "elders" I really felt old. These kids were about Christopher's age. I was nice and polite but told them I was not interested. Told them I have had Mormon friends but I am committed to my beliefs and did not see the point in having them wasting their time. I also told them to have a good day and thanks for coming by. I also wasn't up for visiting with strangers when my head feels like it weighs a ton.

I think I lost a friend. well, maybe friend is a strong word. More like an acquaintance. Anyhow, we have been talking to him every day on our stupid WoW game for weeks. We voice chat, we text, we have talked to his kid, he told us about asking his girlfriend to marry him all sorts of things. Well, Friday he asked what we were doing this weekend. I told him I was singing at church on Sunday and visiting my grandmother. That was the extent of the conversation. He has since stopped talking to us. I am very confused. I have never pushed my beliefs on anyone. I had not even mentioned religion or anything before. I didn't think I should monitor the mentions of my activities. Would he really stop being my friend because I go to church. I cannot even understand that. I have friends of nearly all beliefs and some with none. I have friends of different orientations. Different political ideals. I just cant imagine not being some ones friends because they said "I am going to church on Sunday". Maybe I am being paranoid or something. I don't know.

All this thinking is not doing my head any good. I will stop now and try to nap.

Tagged by: Steshluna

The Rules:
A) People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blogs and replace any question that they dislike with a new question formulated by them.
B) Tag eight people to do this quiz and those who are tagged cannot refuse (well I'm sure they can, but do you really want to be THAT person?) These people must state by whom they were tagged and cannot tag the person by whom they were tagged. Continue this game by sending it to other people.

1. What are your nicknames?
Jenn

2. What do you do before bedtime?
Play WoW, watch TV

3. What fandom(s) are you most into at the moment?
World of Warcraft

4. What is your favorite scent?
freshly washed laundry and freshly cut grass

5. What's your favorite game ever?
Monopoly

6. What book you are reading now?
Peace Child and Sting Alley. (books for Britts school)

7. Do you trust easily?
Sometimes

8. What was your first big fandom?
Star Trek

9. Is there anything that has made you unhappy these days?
Hurricane Ike

10. What's your pet peeve?
Too many to list

11. What's one childhood item that you still have with you today?
The Children's Bibile my aunt bought for me when I was a baby

12. What websites do you visit daily?
LJ, YouTube

13. Who are currently the most important people to you?
My family, my friends

14. What kind of person do you think the person who tagged you is?
A caring and trusting person.

15. What’s the last song that got stuck in your head?
It’s My Party and I’ll Cry if I Want To (now thanks to you Stesha over there! HAHA)

16. What’s your favorite item of clothing?
my gown with the kitty cats on it

17. You get to spend the day with a fictional character. Who?
Not sure really

18. What turns you on (in the gender/s of your choice, baby, this is the 21st century)?
kindness, gentleness, chilvary

19. What would you like to achieve within the next 3 years?
hmmm......

20. What should you be doing right now?
Cleaning my house

21. What's your favorite daydream?
Spending the day with my family on a quiet beach far away from the rest of the world.

Ok, So I am supposed to tag someone?? Does anyone even read my daily babble? Well, if you do consider yourself tagged. HAHAHA

Finally, we got power! Hurricane Ike has driven me crazy. Yes, I am grateful that I did not lose my house or anything but I am also grateful that my power is back on. When the power came on, I jumped up from the couch, yelling "Power! The Power is on!" It took my brother a moment to figure out what I was screaming about. I was just so thrilled. We lost power sometime Friday night almost Saturday morning and we got power back this afternoon. I was concerned since the update sites said it would be after Monday before we got power. The first things I did, Played about 10 min of WoW, made some soup and then took a hot shower. I feel so much better. I still have the A/C off but the fans are on and the house feels better. I am going to spend some time cleaning this afternoon. My house looks like it will take months to clean but I will get it done.

Money is going to be tight for awhile. Mark was unable to work while the power was out. So he took a gig in Lake Charles for tomorrow night. I am glad I was able to take a shower before then.

And as my dearest friend said I can now have coffee!!! WOO HOO!! Now back to normal living. It is most welcome!

We just lost power here. I am pinging off someone else's internet so I can write this. It is hot and dark and I am not happy. I don't like this at all. I am ready for Ike to go away!!

We are ready for Ike. Well, as ready as I can get. OUr friends Cesear and Racheal are here with their 3 kids. They also brought their pets so we now officially have a zoo.
1 hamster (theirs)
3 birds (theirs)
2 cats (ours)
3 ( guinea pigs)
1 snake (ours)

We should sell tickets to this thing!
Anyhow, I forgot to pay the cell phone bill and by me I do mean Mark!! I can pay it now but it would leave me with no money and I might need money after the storm so I am waiting. I am not sure what the best thing to do. I have been a little more nervous about this storm so I don't know. I even got nervous about my house not being baby proof. Of course the baby is only 6 weeks old so I doubt she will be climbing in the cabinets drinking the Windex but my brain is in overdrive. I am suffering from Restless Body Syndrome. I cannot sit still for long. I think I am going to play some WoW while the power and internet is up. Maybe that will distract me.

Today is my anniversary. Mark and I were married 14 years ago today. It has truly been amazing. Yes, we have had our rough patches, all married couples do. But all in all, it has been the best part of my life. I am thankful every day for Mark. I love him so much. As cheesy as it sounds I do love him more today than I did 14 years ago. It is a deeper love and a stronger commitment. married life is good. Oddly today I was sent a video today called "why women stay single" I of course found it to be very funny and shared it with some others but really for me married life is the way to go!

Today is Tracy's birthday. I realized it as I wrote out a check to pay the guys to cut the grass this morning. She is 37. I have not seen her in so many years yet I know if I saw her tomorrow we would pick up right were we left off. Odd how that is. I miss her terribly and I wonder how she is. I wonder if she has even given a thought to me over the years. I have known her since I was an infant. She was such an important part of my life. There still is a hole there in my heart. A hole that she left. I guess things feel that way since she just disappeared. There was no fight, no hurt feelings that I am of aware of, nothing. She was just there and then she wasn't. I have been thinking about her a lot lately as I drive through the neighborhood that we used to walk around for hours at a time ( mostly late at night when we were supposed to be in bed).

So if by some strange fluke you come by this Tracy, Happy Birthday! I love you! I miss you!

Christopher came over Thursday night and spent the night. It was a very short visit. He called me Wednesday and told me he would come by I was shocked actually. Of course he said he would be here around noon. At 2:30 his grandmother called and wondered if I had heard from him. She was going to be bringing him and would not answer the phone. So I figured he had changed his mind. At nearly 5 he called and was on his way. Apparently he slept through the phone calls. He brought his new kitten with him. She is really cute but super tiny. Of course she got in bed around 3 AM and peed all over my duvet! I was not happy! Neither was Basia. His memaw picked him at 5:30 AM. He spent most of his time with Brittany. They play video games and talked. She was so happy. She misses him a whole lot, sometimes I think even more than I do. I don't understand why when he most often treats her like crap. He is mean to her and bossy maybe it is an older brother thing. I don't know.

He spent the weekend with his girlfriend last weekend. I am not sure how I feel about that. He claims it was at her parents and that nothing happened but they are pretty hot and heavy to have been only going out for a month. The idea of him getting a girl pregnant terrifies me. He is so irresponsible. He has not been paying people that he owes but has spent nearly $500 maybe even more at Game Crazy. It is his money and all that but bringing a child in to the world makes it different. Of course, I am staying out of it. I don't want to push him into making wrong choices. I just worry about him. I am a mom after all.

Cesar and Rachel brought the baby home tonight. She will be having surgery in about 3 months so for now it is still a feeding tube. Poor baby. I can't wait to see her though. Maybe when I wake up, I will go over and see her. Since I live down the road I can do that now YAY!!!!

I wonder if my friend Meredith had her baby, she was scheduled to be induced today. I need to call later and check in on them. She was hoping to have the baby before Crystal left for the Navy which is early this next week.

Then there is Stephanie, I have not heard if she has had her baby which can only mean that she hasn't. Despite my grandmother parading her around mid July carrying on about how she was not going to make it to her due date of Aug 20 it looks like she is going to get pretty close to it though. Grandma as convinced she would not make it to August. That drives me nuts. People and their predictions of gender, weight, due dates, how much pain will be involved. Blah blah blah. Mom thinks I am jealous of all the attention Stephanie is getting....WHAT?!?!?!?!I had my turn.... TWICE! She can have the attention. I know she is scared and I so wish Brenda was here more than ever to be there for her so grandma and Aunt Bev have stepped up to fill those shoes. I would not begrudge her that. She has had such a hard time and I can only imagine what she is thinking and feeling.

I guess Mark is not going to call. I am tired of waiting. Now I need to sleep.

I have not written much in the last few days. Why? I am so busy! When I am not doing something productive like school work with Britt, housework, or dealing with the family,I am playing Warcraft! I am such a dork! I met a guy there though. His name is Jason and he lives in Nevada. He will often play as a part of a group with me and the rest of my clan. He seems nice. Of course how much can you tell about a person playing in a fictional world? I think he just likes the green pig tails my character has! HAHAHA! Who wouldn't? We now have a fairly large group of us playing. Our group is Mark, Britt, Jeff, our friend Cesear and his son Mickey, our friend Dave, Derek is supposed to get on and myself, plus Jason that we meet online at the game and another guy we met there. I know I am missing someone but that is the bulk of us. We are all dorks.

Mark was out of town this weekend. He went to Arkansas. I was going to have a fund weekend and thought of inviting a friend over but I spent this weekend sick. I feel like crap. Of course the rumor around the family is that I am pregnant. While not 100% impossible it is most unlikely. I think I just have a virus or something. Speaking of pregnant though. My dear friend Rachel had her baby last night. A bit early since she was not due to Aug 30. My little "niece" was in a hurry though. She does have a clef lip. I am not sure what all they are going to have to do but she has a feeding tube currently. They are supposed to find out more tomorrow when the specialist gets there. I wanted to go see her but I don't want to risk getting either of them sick in case I am contagious. I will wait a few days.

My cousin Stephanie should be having her baby anytime now. She is a little scared. It is her first baby and since her mother is gone she just has a lot of emotions going on. Grandma doesn't help the matter either. She does not mean to but she is adding stress by her constant comments of "I don think she is going to make it till her due date" and "the baby looks too big I don't think she will be able to have it naturally" and "she is going to have to have a c-section" all that terrifies Stephanie. Grandma and a lot of women from her generation do that though. I guess because people always said those things when they were pregnant but she shouldn't. Of course finding the line between asking her not to say those things and offending her is very fine. The whole respecting your elders thing and all that. It is not like she means to scare her.

Well, Ineed to get ready for church. I am going to try to make it but may leave early. We shall see. I am sure I will play Warcraft when I get home.

I am so sleepy. I woke up sleepy. I even went to bed at a fairly decent hour so not sure why I am just dragging along here this morning. Britt is doing a skills test for math so I know which books to order for the upcoming new school year. I cannot believe that she is going to be an 8th grader. I so vividly remember being an 8th grader myself. Sometimes it feels like it was just last week and sometimes it feels like a lifetime ago. Funny how time does that to you.
The last few days have been busy as usual. Friday we went with my parents. brother and our friends Cesar and Rachel to see The Dark Knight. It was pretty good but I think it could have and should have been better. Really if you take Heath Ledger out of the equation there wasn't much movie. Overall it was good but there were some production things that bothered me.
Saturday Mark had 2 gigs so I was hanging around the house, cleaning the house, visiting with my parents and so forth. Then, Harold called, he was down the street so he came by for a couple of hours.
Sunday, we went to church and we had a great service. I was supposed to just sing in the choir it was not my turn to sing in The Praise Team but someone didn't show so they asked me to fill in. It was fun. After church we went over to my dear friend Joyce's house. She grilled a ton of food and we swam. We were there till after 8. we got home and I noticed my parents were in their pool and since I was still in swimming wear, I went for another swim. Maybe that is why I am so sleepy this morning.
It was a good weekend. Mark has an out of town gig this weekend. I cannot remember where or anything so I guess I should ask him.
Ron is here, Mark's business partner. He brought do-nuts today! YIPPIE!!!!! I made coffee so we had the ultimate breakfast of champions. They are now on a conference call with a potential client. Which is good. I am slowly but surely getting my debts paid off or at least that is the plan. I may never buy a house but I would like to know that it isn't because of my credit.
A nap is in order some time today.

I am tired, cranky, depressed, angry and just plain fed up! I feel stupid and like a terrible person. I am a lousy friend. This sounds like one pathetic pity party. Ok that will be the end of my complaining today. I am going to drown my sorrow in some alcohol and WoW!

One of the songs I had to sing when I was in College as a Music Major was Handel's "Oh Sleep Why Doest Thou Leavest Me?" After feeling that for a couple of nights I did sleep last night. I woke up quite a few times but i did sleep. So that is a good thing. It felt good to get some sleep. However, I dreamed about WoW nearly all night long. Yep! I am done for!

I have been so busy today. So far today, I got up, made coffee, took the trash out, got Brittany up, made oatmeal for her, did the daily Bible lesson, had her do her individual reading, cleaned the living room and dining room, got the chicken on for inner tonight, did History and another reading, I cooked lunch, we did math, I washed and put away 2 loads of clothes and 1 load of dishes, cleaned the kitchen, scrubbed the bathtub and it is only 3:30. At least my house looks fairly clean, cleaner than it has ever been I think. I need to go to the PetSmart and to Walmart at sometime today and I really should look in to getting the forest that is supposed to be my front lawn cut but we shall see. I think a nap may be more in order but I don't want to start the sleepless night cycle again. Maybe a wee bit of a cat nap?