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Monday, June 11, 2007

The Post wherein Stef talks about the Comedy of Errors her weekend turned out to be

or, "How an innocent trip to the Redhawks game went horribly wrong".

Granted, it didn't go horribly wrong until after we got home, but still and all, it was quite an interesting weekend.

Dean had won an auction at Marc and Amalia's school for a block of tickets, in a box, no less, so all ten of us in the family, plus people that work for the medical group that Dean practises with to the Oklahoma Redhawks game last Saturday night.

We were in a corporate box, where food and snacks and sodas were provided, and we watched the Redhawks get beat by the Round Rock Express (the Redhawks left their pitcher in much too long, IMHO, and he got tired). It was pretty fun, even if Dean, Scott and Marc left in the third inning to meet up with a group of Boy Scouts to go camping in Colorado.

Scott got his learners permit, and he has this habit of not smiling in pictures (he got it from Jeff), and he looks more and more like his father every year. It's almost scary.

He's also getting a job this summer, so he's one of the throng of teenagers looking for work, but not until after he gets back from Colorado next Sunday (Father's Day).

It took us forever to get out of Bricktown after the game, and Daniel took me, Jeff and Mom home to Mom's house, and he went to Tori's because she had to go pick up Dean's Yukon from wherever it was parked. When Daniel got to Tori's, he somehow slammed the car door on his thumb, and the nail was getting black. Tori didn't think it was broken, but it hurt like hell.

Daniel ended up calling in to work, explaining that he may have broken his thumb and was going to have it looked at. Then he went back to my sister's to get his medical insurance papers. On the way there, he lost control of his car because his thumb was swollen by this time, and hit another car.

He eventually got to Tori's and she took him to the emergency room, where he found out that his thumb was not broken, and that his insurance only covered injuries suffered at work. The ER doc poked a small hole in Daniel's thumbnail to let the blood collected behind the nail drain out (which is why it was so sore and swollen). He was given a prescription for pain meds, and took one at Tori's and fell asleep.

Meanwhile, I had no way to get back to my apartment, so Mom said I could borrow the van if I stayed over, then drive back to my apartment to take a shower, change my clothes (because I was still wearing the clothes I'd worn to the ball game), and go to school. I have to return the van this afternoon, and Daniel, hopefully, will take me home this evening so I can go to school on Tuesday.

I have a test in math, so I have to be there.

So, that was my Comedy of Errors weekend. I should have read my horrorscope first, ya think?

miss you cowboy

That's all from where I sit.

--MorelaterZ--

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Thursday, May 24, 2007

Nothing to say

I haven't felt like writing anything, and it's been like hell pulling something out of my head to write about.

So why not write about not having anything to say?

Cuz I don't wanna.

I'll be myself again in a couple of days. Maybe I'll have something to talk about then. Or not.




That's all from where I sit.

--MorelaterZ--

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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Eye of the Tiger



I'm strong (tigers), sensitive (flower, heart), bright (stars), and loyal (fleur de lys)...

So there.

Want to make your own? Go to abovetheinfluence.com or click on the flag above.

Thanks for peeking, cowboy. talk soon

That's all from where I sit.

--MorelaterZ--

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Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Waiting for the bug man

When I left for school this morning, there was a note hanging in the clip outside my door saying that my apartment was scheduled for pest control today.

So after I got home, it didn't appear that anyone had been here. Not yet, anyway.

I don't have any creepy crawlies, so there's not really anything here to control. I like the fact that this is a regularly scheduled event. This ensures that there aren't any bugs here.

I think this is the first apartment complex that I've lived in where there was regular pest control services.

How reassuring...



That's all from where I sit.

--MorelaterZ--

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Sunday, April 15, 2007

Drama on a Saturday Night

I saw the Del City fire department drive up late Saturday night, so I went outside to see what was up.

The gal who lives in the apartment next door had a fire in her kitchen. All of the apartments here have sprinklers, and they went off. She had been cooking and her baby started crying and distracted her, and the next thing she knew, the pan was on fire.


She was outside sitting on the curb holding the baby (who slept thru the whole thing). She doesn't have a phone, so I offered to call her husband but she didn't know how to reach him. She tried a couple of different numbers with no results. The fire captain offered to have her and her baby to sit in one of the fire trucks to get out of the cold.








(all three) Fire trucks at night

When I looked into her apartment, I realized that her kitchen and mine shared a common wall. I went inside and my kitchen floor has a good quarter inch of water on it, and the rug just outside the kitchen is soaked.


Wet rug (left); Water on kitchen floor (right).

The property manager was out and he said that they're trying to get someone to clean up the water in both apartments. The water on the kitchen floor will probably be dry by morning. It's the water in the rug that concerns me. Mold could grow under there. That would not be a good thing.
There will be more to this, I'm sure. Stay tuned.


That's all from where I sit.

--MorelaterZ--

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Monday, April 09, 2007

This post has no title, just words and a tune

Well, it's Monday. Again. It's still quite un-Spring like out there. At least it didn't snow.

I think I know what's been bothering me lately. Hopefully, it will pass soon and I can get the hell on with it already!

I'm not perfect. I never claimed to be. I have issues and concerns and other things going on in my life like everyone else. Sometimes, I just need to get it out in the open and talk about it. I don't think that MVL is the appropriate forum to do that, however. I think this is a little more than crabbing about school and homework and my kids and my car.

I feel bad about something that I can't even put my finger on, and that bugs me!


Thanx 4 peeking. Can we get together soon? I'd love to see you!



That's all from where I sit.

--MorelaterZ--

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Friday, April 06, 2007

Oh that noise!

It's been so noisy here lately. This morning for what seemed like forever, but in reality lasted about an hour, there was a van out in the parking lot making the loudest noise! It was from a drain cleaning service, and the machines they used were almost deafening. I almost wished I had earplugs!

Great, my one day every two weeks I get to stay home and this is what I have to deal with.

I have to get out of this cranky/crabby/moody deep blue funk... or else I'll be impossible to live with. And since it's just me... well, you get the idea.

And, spending Easter with the family... I gotta be in a good mood for that! I'm going over to Mom's sometime tomorrow (whenever Daniel gets his butt outta the bed, that is). I'll probably have to run errands for her. I don't mind, though. After all, it's my mom...

The only thing that bugs me is that it might snow Sunday. I've heard of a white Christmas, but never a white Easter...

Go fig...



That's all from where I sit.

--MorelaterZ--

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Sunday, April 01, 2007

The Post wherein Stef declares that she's not into all that April Fool's crap

Why restrict it to April 1st? People become fools, or are made fools of, on any one of the other 364 days of the year.

So don't even start the April Fool's crap with me.

The only thing I ever did on April 1st (in 1986) was sign Jeff's birth certificate. And that was only after we went round and round with the Orange County, California vital statisics folks about giving Jeff a middle name. Apparently, at that time (and maybe now for all I know), California requires that all children born in the state must have a middle name. I wasn't planning on giving Jeff one because Jon and I couldn't agree on one. But, since he HAD to have one, I gave him my name --or rather, the masculine version of it-- as a middle name. So, this is how my second son became Jeffrey Stephen instead of Jeffrey NMN (no middle name).

And that's no April Fool's joke... and, NO, I'm not posting Jeff's birth certificate as proof. You'll just have to take my word for it.


That's all from where I sit.

--MorelaterZ--

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Saturday, March 31, 2007

Essay's done, but I still didn't get the answer to my question

My essay that is due Monday is done. It's probably not the best piece of work I've ever produced, but I still hope it gets a decent grade.

Except for one small problem...

My English Comp class requires essays to have in-text citations and a "works cited" page. The works cited page was no problem. The problem lies in how to cite two articles with the same title (no author listed). I found nothing in my textbook and nothing on a website my professor gave us in class that addresses this. So, I sent her an email to ask.

She writes back that she didn't know the answer, but would look it up and get back to me. As of tonight, she hasn't. Our class is the third of three English Comp I classes she teaches, and she had a lot of previous essays to grade. I'll turn it in as is, and hope what I did to differentiate between the two articles is enough.

But I'd still like to know the correct way to do it, if there is one.


That's all from where I sit.

--MorelaterZ--

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