Music At The Moment and VERY loud: Kierra Sheard - "You Don't Know"
Okay, quick summary as I'm in no mood to blog and have too many other things to do. We're back obviously. We were without power for about a week. Cable came up a couple days later. Water is now drinkable.
Damage:
Fence pretty much gone.
Part siding/insulation on tallest eave of roof gone; tarped and awaiting repair.
Punctures in siding of house rear.
Exterior pane of storm window shattered. Interior intact. Thank you!
Trees, trees and more trees down.
Piles of debris prepared for the eternal cleaning.
We got away very lucky. Scenic highway is a once beautiful route along the bay reduced to something from a stage production in a local theatre...Houses look fine from the front for the most part, but lack insides or backs like prop scenery or painted scrims. It's rather surreal.
Music At The Moment: The Killers - "Somebody Told Me"
Thank You:
Bless you power workers from various states and Canada. You deserve that 1,000 dollars a day. Hell, I'd give you 5K a day if I were running it.
Neighbors for coming together for the most part. At least our immediate next doors and a couple others like the marine God two doors down with the big blue eyes, incredible smile and body by greek deities.
The Military for the comfort stations, ice, water, and yummy MREs. Those things are really good.
My dad and Uncle randy for bringing us food and water when we were running low. They'd been working non-stop on the beachevery day since they're the law, but they came to make sure we were good.
For our family and friends that helped us or checked on us: Heather for a place to stay during evac. Lisa and Sam for worrying about us. We miss you two so much! My northern italian blood for trying to constantly keep in touch with me to make sure we were all safe. I love yous guys! My Mom and Grandmother for weathering the storm and making despite deciding to stay. Grrr. Pete, Josh, Rita, Ron - You guys are real friends and I cherish you deeply. Thank you for having one face.
Kittums for being so wonderful on the evacuation trip. You really impressed me you behemoth.
The Bill/Credit Card companies for being understanding and bending over backward to help everyone in this area out.
My hubby for staying safe and loving me.
Fuck You:
Generator Mongers and their price-gouging asses.
Firestone on Davis Highway in front of the mall. Return day from evac - 175 dollars for a "car battery that was hard to get because even walmart was out of them." Went to walmart right after, they had 8 batteries for our car. I've already spoken to Firestone corporate and they'll be investigating for potential gouging and we might just sue.
Rude white trash that cuts in front of people in the very long comfort station lines.
Rude Rougenecks® (Those are the local vermin that are simply white trash with money) that feel they deserve power before other people or quicker service because their manure business took off and they swim in that green paper with those alien number things printed on the corners.
Julio for being such a little penis head on the evacuation trip. Why do you emulate everything else Kitty does except behave???
Ivan for ruining our trip to Seattle in which we could have: Visited Rita, gone to neat places, seen Scissor Sisters live and attended a Clive Barker book signing. Bitch storm.
Music At The Moment: Toby Lightman - "Devils & Angels"
Wow. I guess I did have some desire to blog. Maybe it's more of as trance-like state and just spills from my fingertips like those channelers spouting woes and demands from beyond the grave. Later.
Friday, October 01, 2004
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
We're a' movin' on up...
But not to the east side. Actually, we're running from the east side...of the eye, that is. Being the worst part of the storm to be in, it's advisable we head out before it makes landfall. Animals, Art and Photos are coming with. The rest is left to fend for itself. Let's hope we have a home when we come back. The worst part of it all is John still being on the boat. It's currently heading to Texas to wait out the storm which means he and I won't see each other until after all of this is over. This makes my heart ache.
So to all our friends that have to leave too, be careful and we'll see you when all is said and done. To those friends that are safe, we'll let you know how everything turns out after the fact. To those "friends" that are giddy over Ivan's path, you'd best be careful. Karma is a good friend of mine and she's a fucking bitch when crossed. We have so much in common.
So to all our friends that have to leave too, be careful and we'll see you when all is said and done. To those friends that are safe, we'll let you know how everything turns out after the fact. To those "friends" that are giddy over Ivan's path, you'd best be careful. Karma is a good friend of mine and she's a fucking bitch when crossed. We have so much in common.
Sunday, September 12, 2004
Saturday, September 04, 2004
She's on fiyah!
Almost forgot to welcome Fuego to my set of blog links! Oopsie on me. Yay for Miss Red and her beau, the priest-like one! Long distance hugs from Phlorida!
Blog Shui
Music At The Moment: Reactor - "Feeling The Love"
Yay! New blog setup complete. At least I hope so. Redesigning the whole site wasn't as time-consuming as I'd expected but I did actually discover broken links to sites, missing links to other blogs and various other errors that probably happened during regular updating and the like. With any luck I've caught everything and fixed it all. If not, it will eventually make itself known.
Begin Quick Rant Here I appreciate the concerns. I really do. But Frances is not here. She is not on our doorstep. We are not wading up to our knees in flood water. It is currently 88 degrees here and it feels like 90. The sun looms down oppressively above us, not some eager tsunami. I'm sure we'll get some weather eventually, but not that much. There is always the chance she will make it over here and if so we'll deal with it then and you will all receive yawn-filled phone calls letting you know we've left for the hills of Tennessee. Those of you worried about us, it's okay. We're on the other side of the peninsula and not in the projected path. For those of you worried she will miss us, get a real hobby. End Quick Rant
Song switch: Sarah Brightman - "Harem"
Picked up much fun and childhood glee yesterday at Best Buy! The Season One DVD set of Challenge of the Super Friends. Now I get to watch all the terribly written, cheese-filled episodes completely devoid or truly evil villains or the least bit of continuity. I'm so excited!!! On the subject of DVD viewing, I'll be sitting down this weekend to make sure Bryan watches "Kalifornia" which he still hasn't seen. I mean come on! One is not complete without watching Brad Pitt and Juliette Lewis play some of the most sublime white trash ever placed on screen. (Juliette really deserved an Oscar for this). And, of course, his archive of quotes is most incomplete without such great hits as "Put your titty up, Adele"
Song Switch: Rick James - "You and I"
Did I blog about our camping trip? I don't recall doing so and I'm too lazy to go back and look in the archives. I'll talk about it soon and maybe post some pics. It was pretty groovy.
Yay! New blog setup complete. At least I hope so. Redesigning the whole site wasn't as time-consuming as I'd expected but I did actually discover broken links to sites, missing links to other blogs and various other errors that probably happened during regular updating and the like. With any luck I've caught everything and fixed it all. If not, it will eventually make itself known.
Begin Quick Rant Here I appreciate the concerns. I really do. But Frances is not here. She is not on our doorstep. We are not wading up to our knees in flood water. It is currently 88 degrees here and it feels like 90. The sun looms down oppressively above us, not some eager tsunami. I'm sure we'll get some weather eventually, but not that much. There is always the chance she will make it over here and if so we'll deal with it then and you will all receive yawn-filled phone calls letting you know we've left for the hills of Tennessee. Those of you worried about us, it's okay. We're on the other side of the peninsula and not in the projected path. For those of you worried she will miss us, get a real hobby. End Quick Rant
Song switch: Sarah Brightman - "Harem"
Picked up much fun and childhood glee yesterday at Best Buy! The Season One DVD set of Challenge of the Super Friends. Now I get to watch all the terribly written, cheese-filled episodes completely devoid or truly evil villains or the least bit of continuity. I'm so excited!!! On the subject of DVD viewing, I'll be sitting down this weekend to make sure Bryan watches "Kalifornia" which he still hasn't seen. I mean come on! One is not complete without watching Brad Pitt and Juliette Lewis play some of the most sublime white trash ever placed on screen. (Juliette really deserved an Oscar for this). And, of course, his archive of quotes is most incomplete without such great hits as "Put your titty up, Adele"
Song Switch: Rick James - "You and I"
Did I blog about our camping trip? I don't recall doing so and I'm too lazy to go back and look in the archives. I'll talk about it soon and maybe post some pics. It was pretty groovy.
Thursday, September 02, 2004
Just..stuff...
Music at the moment: Scissor Sisters - [Self Titled] Current track - "Better Luck"
I'm on "parade of demons" overload at the moment. I couldn't be sicker of politicians, political supporters, political agendas, political back-stabbing and the like. I feel like I'm in an EQ guild again. I'm certainly ready for it to all be over and for the media to go back to spotlighting Michael Jackson and that Peterson guy. Those were easier to escape.
The next couple of week’s schedules are sort of hectic. (Contrary to what some people think, my days are sometimes filled with work and frenzy. There is validity to the housewife/husband life being a fulltime job and let no one tell you any different. If they do they're probably just bitter because they don't get to stay home.) The ongoing project of organizing all my art and writing is still in full swing while Saturday and Myshe's brother's engagement party approaches.
Song switch - "Laura" (This is one of the best songs on this CD.)
Family arrives on the 7th for 5 days of family antics. It's looking more and more like I will be spared any involvement as the schedule is rigidly packed with stuff to do with other family members every day. Mixed feelings on this, ones of relief and resentment. Oh well. I'll certainly move past it. It's become steadily more apparent over the years that the word family has evolved to include very few of the actual blood members and more of the people I love around me.
Song switch - "Lovers in the Backseat"
And speaking of those I love, John will arrive on the 16th (I hope) and we'll frantically make sure we haven't missed anything before we leave to New Orleans the next day. Off on the 17th from the NO Airport to Seattle to visit our dear friend Ritahead. Lots planned there while we visit. The Science Fiction and Music Museums, The tourist-mandatory Space Needle, Trader Joe's, some restaurants that Rita swears by and John's birthday on the 20th! Robert (Rita's youngest gay son) will be taking us out for fun on the town and we'll see what Seattle has to offer in the way of "gayness". I doubt it will beat our trip to San Fran on a sheer scale of homonicity. (Come on...you stay with 2 lesbians, you walk the Castro, you eat fruit at a lesbian outdoor café and get hooked on Chai lattes? You CAN'T get a higher homonicity rating than that. Well...maybe if everyone was wearing tutus.)
Song switch - "Take your Mama" (This track is hardcore oldschool Elton)
On school...
The closer it comes to the spring term the more excited I get. I'm sure that will change once I'm in the swing of actual school, but for now I'm jazzed. Unfortunately though, it looks like I'll have to take Spanish as my first language course. At the moment it's the only beginning language class offered in the spring. The rest all begin fall. Now, if I was feeling brave I could always do as the college suggests and skip the straight to French II since I've had 2 years of previous French. That would allow me to start Fr4ench in the spring like I wanted. I think I'd rather start fresh though since, without an outlet for practice, my French has all but completely atrophied. Of course, I still remember all the swearing, but that's only because I use them frequently.
Music at the moment: Basement Jaxx ft. Michelle Ndgdgggegdegggggdgdgegdgegd'ocello
"Right Here's the Spot"
I'm excited about Halloween this year. John will actually be home! We're trying (we being John, me, Myshe, Bryan, and the Georgiffer) to take a trip to Atlanta to meet Pete and Frank for a rip-roaring good time. I hope it works out.
Oh and on a more serious update note...John came out to one of his co-workers. Jim is the guy he rides with back and forth from Pensacola each crew change. He’s a nice guy and I think he's John's only real friend out there. John downplays their friendship but I can see he really enjoys the things they talk about and do. I just worry about loose lips. I can't bear to think that he may have troubles on the boat resulting from this. I guess we'll see.
I'm on "parade of demons" overload at the moment. I couldn't be sicker of politicians, political supporters, political agendas, political back-stabbing and the like. I feel like I'm in an EQ guild again. I'm certainly ready for it to all be over and for the media to go back to spotlighting Michael Jackson and that Peterson guy. Those were easier to escape.
The next couple of week’s schedules are sort of hectic. (Contrary to what some people think, my days are sometimes filled with work and frenzy. There is validity to the housewife/husband life being a fulltime job and let no one tell you any different. If they do they're probably just bitter because they don't get to stay home.) The ongoing project of organizing all my art and writing is still in full swing while Saturday and Myshe's brother's engagement party approaches.
Song switch - "Laura" (This is one of the best songs on this CD.)
Family arrives on the 7th for 5 days of family antics. It's looking more and more like I will be spared any involvement as the schedule is rigidly packed with stuff to do with other family members every day. Mixed feelings on this, ones of relief and resentment. Oh well. I'll certainly move past it. It's become steadily more apparent over the years that the word family has evolved to include very few of the actual blood members and more of the people I love around me.
Song switch - "Lovers in the Backseat"
And speaking of those I love, John will arrive on the 16th (I hope) and we'll frantically make sure we haven't missed anything before we leave to New Orleans the next day. Off on the 17th from the NO Airport to Seattle to visit our dear friend Ritahead. Lots planned there while we visit. The Science Fiction and Music Museums, The tourist-mandatory Space Needle, Trader Joe's, some restaurants that Rita swears by and John's birthday on the 20th! Robert (Rita's youngest gay son) will be taking us out for fun on the town and we'll see what Seattle has to offer in the way of "gayness". I doubt it will beat our trip to San Fran on a sheer scale of homonicity. (Come on...you stay with 2 lesbians, you walk the Castro, you eat fruit at a lesbian outdoor café and get hooked on Chai lattes? You CAN'T get a higher homonicity rating than that. Well...maybe if everyone was wearing tutus.)
Song switch - "Take your Mama" (This track is hardcore oldschool Elton)
On school...
The closer it comes to the spring term the more excited I get. I'm sure that will change once I'm in the swing of actual school, but for now I'm jazzed. Unfortunately though, it looks like I'll have to take Spanish as my first language course. At the moment it's the only beginning language class offered in the spring. The rest all begin fall. Now, if I was feeling brave I could always do as the college suggests and skip the straight to French II since I've had 2 years of previous French. That would allow me to start Fr4ench in the spring like I wanted. I think I'd rather start fresh though since, without an outlet for practice, my French has all but completely atrophied. Of course, I still remember all the swearing, but that's only because I use them frequently.
Music at the moment: Basement Jaxx ft. Michelle Ndgdgggegdegggggdgdgegdgegd'ocello
"Right Here's the Spot"
I'm excited about Halloween this year. John will actually be home! We're trying (we being John, me, Myshe, Bryan, and the Georgiffer) to take a trip to Atlanta to meet Pete and Frank for a rip-roaring good time. I hope it works out.
Oh and on a more serious update note...John came out to one of his co-workers. Jim is the guy he rides with back and forth from Pensacola each crew change. He’s a nice guy and I think he's John's only real friend out there. John downplays their friendship but I can see he really enjoys the things they talk about and do. I just worry about loose lips. I can't bear to think that he may have troubles on the boat resulting from this. I guess we'll see.
Thursday, August 26, 2004
Wednesday, August 04, 2004
Direction
Music today: "Good Luck", Basement Jaxx
Registered for school a couple mondays ago. Interesting. I even took my CPT. More interesting. I never thought I'd make it into English Comp I Honors. This is good as it's required for my degree in Computer Graphic Design and onward into Video game Design. Who knows, maybe one day I'll actually work on these MMORPGs. Then maybe I can design a tool to get rid of backstabbing online "friends" in these games. Wouldn't that be nice? Then again, there wouldn't be that many players after that. Ah well...I'll be pursuing japanese too. Certainly they're more entertaining on these games than most.
I'm excited about school and meeting real people. I've come to find that most people you meet online are liars in one way or another or require more than one monitor to accommodate each of their faces. A shout out now to those exceptions: Pete & Rita, love you guys!
Welcome a new blogger on the links menu, Miss Sarah. Now I can return the favor of pestering her about blogging. Also Miss S, congratulations to you on your upcoming wedding!
Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live. - Dorothy parker
Registered for school a couple mondays ago. Interesting. I even took my CPT. More interesting. I never thought I'd make it into English Comp I Honors. This is good as it's required for my degree in Computer Graphic Design and onward into Video game Design. Who knows, maybe one day I'll actually work on these MMORPGs. Then maybe I can design a tool to get rid of backstabbing online "friends" in these games. Wouldn't that be nice? Then again, there wouldn't be that many players after that. Ah well...I'll be pursuing japanese too. Certainly they're more entertaining on these games than most.
I'm excited about school and meeting real people. I've come to find that most people you meet online are liars in one way or another or require more than one monitor to accommodate each of their faces. A shout out now to those exceptions: Pete & Rita, love you guys!
Welcome a new blogger on the links menu, Miss Sarah. Now I can return the favor of pestering her about blogging. Also Miss S, congratulations to you on your upcoming wedding!
Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live. - Dorothy parker
Tuesday, July 06, 2004
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