Gobble Gobble. Happy Turkey Day!

I am thankful for my friends, my family, my Vic, Nancy & Carson & Puppy La Pue, my house, my health, my finally graduating this year, and GWB being president.

So Bob, Kay, William, and Abby were supposed to come tomorrow. Vic and I started cleaning Monday around noon. Around 5 pm they called and said "We are not coming on Wed. We are coming on Tue." Holy Dust Bunnies! We cleaned straight from noon Monday til about 9 pm. Then up at 7 am this morning and cleaned all the way until 11:30 pm. We did break for dinner and a quick trip to Target to get some stuff like a shower curtain for upstairs and some more soft scrub (I love soft scrub lemon). This house is so damn clean it hurts. I even polished the silver. Ok, so it was only a silver ring and a little 2 in by 2 in pineapple thing, but still. I busted out the silver polish! Anywho, I'm so pooped that I can't even drag my ass to bed.

Oh, and by the way. I found a turkey that had never been frozen. Therefore we need not defrost. But the 19.3 lb bastard is taking up my whole refrigerator.

Have I mentioned that Thanksgiving is my second favorite holiday? I really and truly do love it. No presents, just a good home cooked meal w/ people you love and giving thanks for so many wonderful things. It's a very happy holiday. My favorite is Easter. It's so cute, and pink, and bunnyish. Not to mention that I (unlike the strange CofC clan) believe that it's the celebration of Christ rising from the dead. Which is awesome, because he died on the cross for us all. :). Oh, and it's the only time of year you can get Cadbury Crème Eggs. Too bad you can't get Cadbury Crème Turkeys...

I'm going to buy a turkey. My mom says that it takes 5 days in the frig to thaw if I buy a frozen one. But I am SO not in the mood to go to the store. But I don't really have a choice. I have to buy laundry stuff too. I'm all out. Then maybe a quick trip to Sonic.

Just got back from another 40 minute walk. That's twice this week. Wowzers!

Vic played Civilization for 8.5 hours yesterday. That is really how long. I went to bed mad. Something I should not have done, but it was midnight and I was alone and he was busy building Denver or some shit. This morning he told me he uninstalled it (again, he did that 2 weeks ago!) but he won't find it this time should he want to reinstall it. It gone. Never to be unearthed again. And you know the worst part? I know exactly how he feels. I used to play the Sims and I had to stop. It was an addiction. It gave me a god complex. I *loved* controlling all those little peeps. So I quit cold turkey. I've been clean for 2 years next month. Now he too can work towards sobriety.

Don't think that I didn't get up at 6 a.m. Mandy and Vic went to get coffee and I tried my damndest to go back to sleep after Mandy came to wake Vic up. I couldn't. So I got out of bed about 7. Watched TV. Then went for a 40 minute walk with Vic and the Big Doo. We walked around the neighborhood and then through the wooded walking park behind the house. Nancy was in heaven. She is a hunting poodle, ya know. I am shocked and amazed at me. Awake before 9 am and exercise! Whoa!

Cecil?

Floyd?

Emerson?

I got a puppy! I got a puppy! I got a puppy! My new baby gets to come home next week. He'll be 7 weeks old and he's a brown poodle just like in that website, it's those puppies brother! What to name him? What to name him? I like....

Frank...to go with Nancy as in Sinatra :)

or

Herbert and call him Bert...Bert and Nancy...cute

Suggestions???

So what if I take showers with my poodle? She needed a bath and so did I. Misti bathes with her weines. All 3 of them!

Speaking of Poos...I want one of these *really* bad. This lady and I emailed back and fourth back in Sept and today she emailed me and said she had a litter new babies! I have always needed a brown std. poo!

http://windancerpoodle.tripod.com/windancerstandardpoodles/id16.html

Sheesh. It's only been two days Moe!

We went to 2 banks and 1 credit union to gather information so that I may open a new account. Didn't like any of them. Vic says we should open our own bank, he had a whole ludicrous plan has to how to pull that off. I'm thinking of going with Uncle Eddy's (from National Lampoon) way of banking and just burying it in coffee cans and whatnot.

I've been trying to get myself in the holiday spirit but I'm feeling more and more Ebonezerish every day. Did anyone else notice that they replaced the horrid election TV commercials with Christmas ones? For Pete's Sake (ask Misti who Pete is if you are curious)!!! I'm trying to figure out my Thanksgiving plans and they want me to think about figgie pudding and Mr. Claus and stuff! But just in case anyone is wondering...*I* am cooking a turkey and all the fixins at *MY* house for the parents this year, just like last year. And I have begun shopping for Christmas.

Banks and Insurance companies bite my ass. I can't do much about the insurance co., but I stomped into my bank today and closed my account. They have been hasslin' me about changing my name since I began trying a month ago. Finally I thought we had it all taken care of 2 weeks ago when the chick said "Call and report your Check Card lost/stolen and they will send you a new one reflecting your new name, but wait until tomorrow...it won't go into the system until Midnight!" So I waited 3 days to let it get good and into their system. I called and told them, they verified my name and info (and it was my new name!) and I cut up my card. I've been without my card for a good 10 days. And today, Alas! The new one was glimmering in the mailbox. I open the envelope addressed to my new name only to find a card with my OLD name. WTF!?!?! So rather than bickering on the phone with some bitter person that hates their job, I went to the nearest branch and chewed on everyone I came in contact with. SO now I have cash and tomorrow I'm going to a local credit union and opening an account, and everyone at the Vista Ridge Compass Bank Branch knows so! Rather empowering if I do say so myself. Chalk one up for the little people.

Why is 8 Mile the best movie I've seen in a good while? Either there is a whooole lota crapola out there, or Mr. Melts-in-your-Mouth actually made something interesting. I mean, he was playing himself...but since he's kind of a joke. Idaknow, just a little disturbing that I truly enjoyed it.

Went to Gainsville to the outlet mall today. The Lenox store is closing and Moms wanted some more of her silverware since everything in there was 30% off. It was fun, Vic and I were like the only ones there. Wished I had more than $13 in my bank account.

If there was ever any doubt that we weren’t avid (read: pathetic) blog readers...it should be abolished. In less than 4 hours we all knew she was back. She's been gone for a month. Have we really all been checking? Yes. Sad to say, I have. Several times a day I check. Even after a month of silence. Anyway, thanks Andra for the song. I would tell a friend but I don't have anyone to tell that reads blogs. But I sang it aloud.

We had a busy day today. We started with lunch at On the Border. They opened one in Denton, pretty close to the house about a week ago. It’s one of my very favorite places to eat…taco salad…yummy! They also opened a Texas Roadhouse (blah) and soon Olive Garden's doors will swing wide open. Denton is movin' up in the world.

Next we went to get Vic a hair cut at "Quick Cuts and Fast Tans." I like to go with him to get a hair cut because the last time he went alone to this place he came home with "blonde" (more like orange) highlights. It took me a week to tell him he looked HORRIBLE, he liked it. We also went to Target to find a Mary-Kate and Ashley movie for Kelsi. I had a list of what she already had, and the two that she wanted most. Target only had ONE MK&A movie, so we left and went to Hastings. Let me tell you, they had quite the selection. Hastings built a brand spankin new building right next to their old one and they are all moved in. Coffee shop and all! They had at least a dozen MK&A movies to choose from, including the 2 that she wanted the most. And for only 7.99, I splurged and got her two!

Next it was time for the neurologist. A couple of weeks ago Vic was having some strange symptoms and I thought they were related to his brain surgeries. But with the way insurance is in this day and times; you must have a fucking referral to get into the doc that actually knows what is wrong. So I called the family practitioner that got me into my allergy doc and he saw Vic and referred him to this neurologist. All in all, I thought we had good news. It seems his muscle spasms are basically seizures. Or strokes. We aren't sure. But the MRI taken on 10/31/02 showed a pretty significant stroke spot, but only one and he has spasms several times a day. (and BTW: I know exactly when he had it. It was last Feb when we were sitting in our marriage class at UNT. I told him right then and there that he was having a stoke and he refused to go to the ER and told me I was being irrational. So I told the Dr. exactly what I saw and he said that was I was describing would have been a stroke in the exact part of his brain that the MRI showed. I don't claim to ALWAYS be right, but pretty damn close!) SO he started him on a drug that is commonly used for epilepsy. It's one that has been around for a good 20 years and is in the Zero-Zero category which is nice. That's what we need. I really liked this man, he seemed to know what he was talking about AND he seemed interested in Vic as a whole person, not just as a customer. The other things we saw in the MRI included a smaller AVM (which was the original reason for brain surgery...started the size of a golf ball, now it's barely visible...YEAH) and a GIANT cyst. He's had this cyst all his life but this Dr. wanted some old films to compare size, he thought it looked a little too big to be as sweet and innocent as Vic claims it to be. SO tomorrow I am taking the Dr. a set of MRI's from 1995 to compare. We should know more soon. SO you ask "Why is all this good news?" Because the AVM is much smaller than it was in 10/01 when he had the latest gamma knife to shrink it, so that was a success. We know, or at least have a path to, why he is having all of these strange symptoms. If this drug doesn't work, we can try some more aggressive drug therapies. And the cyst, well, that could potentially be bad news...but two out of three is good. So I'm just going to go with what Vic said and he thinks it's still the same size as it always was, therefore it's still A-OK!

Next to Allen. It takes about 45 minutes to get to Lance & Lori's house from Denton, but since we were supposed to be there no later than 5:30...we left at 4 to beat traffic. We were there early and Lori had to do some running around...so Vic and I stayed with Reagan for about a half hour. He is damn funny. We talked all about Bob the Builder, he wanted to know why he wasn't INVITED to our wedding, and if Vic was my Dad. We watched part of Fox and the Hound...so cute.

Once Lori returned, we all headed out to Autumn's soccer game. It was the 3rd game in a 4 game tournament. Autumn was the smallest girl out of both teams, but she had the ball A LOT! She is so small she just kind of runs circles around the other girls. Her team, the Yellow Jackets, won 1 to 0.

Next to dinner. We went to Two Rows. It was like a micro brewery w/out the brewery. I ordered cheeseburger pizza...everything that would be on a cheeseburger, but on a pizza minus the tomato sauce. I wish I had told then no large shards of plastic because I sure did get on in about my second bite! It was about the size of a nickel, but with a big sharp point. I spit it out, dried it off on my napkin, and handed it to the waitress. I got a new pizza, free. I can bite plastic in my pizza if it's free. Came in handy since we are broke ;).

Now we are home. Vic is watching the stupid football game. Seems it’s the 500th monday night football or something like that. I'm not exactly sure why that's cool, but he, Lance, and the TV are making a big deal about it. Whatever. So anyway, that was my busy day. It's just about bed time. Nice lizard by the way. Had you not put the penny next to it, and maybe placed it before some west TX landscaping...you could have told us it was a dinosaur you found in Andrews or something. Really time for bed.

Peace in the Middle East.

I think I'm getting bed sores from sitting on my ass. I have done NOTHING all week. I did leave the house last night to take Vic his medicine at work cause he forgot to take it before he left. While I was out I went ahead and took the 2-day late movies back. Nancy rode with me. But today I haven't done much. Did load and unload the dishwasher. Ok, back to SNL.

I totally thought that maybe the internet was broken because noone seemed to be blogging but I didn't think that could possibly be true. But it was. Really now. We must all try to do better. Including me.

Kelsi has to have surgery in the morning to pin her arm back together. Ouch. I'm off to the bank and post office. This is the first time I'm going to leave the house since um...Monday I think. I've been asleep.

I haven't been feeling good, I was posta go to the Dr. today but they called yesterday and cancelled it. Seems the Doc has a "family emergency." Um like, what's that all about. I go to her for my emergency. You mean to tell me the world doesn't revolve around me? Well, I never...

It's totally been a weekend o' movies.

Jackass is great. I mean, a lot of times movies like that are only kinda funny. Like I thought they would include some stuff that was prolly funny to those who were there, but not to anyone else...but this one is just damn funny. The only part I had a hard time with was the self inflicted paper cuts between the toes and fingers. Couldn't watch that. I think that I may be sick and twisted though, because I had tears in my eyes from laughing to hard several times. Those guys are just straight dumbasses. Hence the name, I suppose.

I've also watched: Mr. Deeds (still betty betty sneaky); Forest Gump (still hate it); Pulp Fiction x2 (still rocks "I had to crash that Honda."); The Craft (never seen it all the way through and now I remember why); Almost Famous (so cute!) Tribulation Force-Left Behind 2 (the book was MUCH better); Frailty (enjoyed it as much as you can a movie like that...cool idea thou); and now I must go watch Insomnia.

Punch Drunk Love. Weird. I love weird movies, but when I'm watching and it's not making sense--a line has been crossed. There are these scenes of color. Just lots of pretty colors swirling and frolicking around the screen with music for uncomfortable periods of time. And a gang of Deliverance looking brothers. Weird. I knew that I had to go see it, so I can't say that I wasted my money...but I wish that it hadn't looked so appealing to me.

In other news. Nathan is here, Vic's BF that's almost a Dr. Vic's been working and sleeping so it's just been Me and Nathan. Haven't done much because there isn't much to do.

Kelsi dislocated and broke her elbow. Lance called Wed night and told me. She was racing some boy at church and she swooped down to pick something up and ended up in the floor. Sadness! I had thought that I might get over there Thur or Fri...but I haven't. I'm about to call over there and see what they are doing today. I would bet that some sympathetic grandparents are in town though, so we shall see. If not this weekend, then next week!

I have to start researching how to make Nancy stop barking at the passers-by. She is driving me insane.