danipuff

So, still alive and kicking and everything is okay. Life has been busy but on the whole not too bad.

New things:
- won a contest and it was fun. screamed like a fangirl and ran around the house.
- got my mother a dsi:xl for mother's day. she loves it and won't get off internets and stop taking pictures. she named it Jumbo, from Yosuba&! my mom is officially a geek.
- realized the next door neighbors are wizards or weres. looked out the back window and saw their son sitting on tool-shed roof, looked out again few minutes later and saw gray cat in same exact spot. totally never would have guessed it otherwise, since the family seems so normal~ *g*
- bought a pink princess tree, named her Relena. geek, she runs deep in this family.
- going to wedding at end of month, everyone but the bride hates the groom and i get to sit at the "rowdy" table. nothing can go wrong here.
- watching Supernatural, finally. just catching up on season 4, maybe by the time I finish season 5 will be out on dvd
- realized i watch the neighbor's a lot, especially the spies across the street for they are entertaining (really, going to leave that basketball goal up again in the high wind? not like the last 20 times didn't damage the house, gutter, and you car.)
- really thinking the next door neighbors are wizards because it suck to be a werehousecat. no respect from the werewolves at all.

Old things:
- still hate Verizon with the depth that surprises me. Verizon = sucktastic
- ANT WARS have started early this year. I will once again wipe out every last ant that makes it inside the house, on this I swear. YOU WILL NOT WIN ANTS.
- it has now been YEARS since i've owned a cellphone. i'm so uncool.... and happy.

So haven't posted here in a long time, no real reason except that my entires would be very short and full of things from my day that probably are boring. Oh life, when did you get so boring and mundane (not that it's not full of lots of happiness and goodness but still boring).

Of course, now I have something to post that is interesting! I won a radio station contest! YAY ME! I was surprised since I never really win anything, much (curse you sponsor wheel. i will win your sweet, sweet money one day). Of course, I realized right after entering the contest how much of a bad idea it really was (d'oh!). Okay, my mother's birthday is Wednesday and she has off, I'm free, and my sister took off so we (my sister and I) decided a movie and dinner would be a good idea. Well, guess what movie that my mother wants to see is conveniently going to becoming out and shown at one of our local movie theaters just on that day? Transformer blahblahblah (I just call it Transformers 2)! I thought it would be a good idea to enter the radio contest for the tickets because, hey, money saved and now we may be able to afford to buy 3 popcorns and drinks (so pricey!). I didn't realize until I entered that the tickets are for 12 (midnight tonight!?!?!?!). Now, for a lot of people this may not be a problem but for me BIG problem. I am a morning person. I can be up at whenever the sunrises and be happy and fresh and whee, but any time after about 10pm and I'm pretty much out of steam and ready to sleep. So yeah by midnight I'm pretty much a zombie and you should put me to sleep for everyone's safety. Now I not only have to be awake but I'll have to stay up for 2+ hours to watch a movie with people around me. This is going to be an experience.

Besides that only thing I have to worry about is this heat. I swear we, in Illinois, are not built for these temperature extremes. Last week I could go outside and breathe and my grass was growing mold from all the rain and now it's a heat advisory. Yesterday it was in the 90s but with the 50+ humidity and complete and utter lack of breeze it felt like 112°F at times (not making that up, it was all official like and such). Just checking my local weather station it says right now it is 82°F and feels like 102°F and it's just 8:45am. Geez summer I know you started Sunday, but did you really have to start out like this? Hopefully summer starts out hot and gets cooler as it goes along. I know it doesn't really work that way, but I need something to look forward to besides heat, heat, and more heat.

Also, my sister has fallen in love with shoujo manga and also really, really in love with the male/male romance manga genre. We recently got library cards and she has read just about all the manga we have at our local library. Thankfully our library is part of the library exchange and my sister and I can fulfill our growing manga addictions.

Lastly I had this weird dream the other day and I don't really remember the dream but I remember how it ended. Destruction all around the world and with this stupid quote "This is how it ends, This is how it ends. Not with bang, not with a whimper, but with the [Chicago] Cubs winning the World Series." Um, yeah, I have a weird mind, Note: If the Cubs ever start winning then prepare for the apocalypse and remember me as your prophet.

Merry Christmas flist (for those who celebrate, anyway). Hopefully you can spend it peacefully with those you love, and maybe get a gift or two.

Sharing time!
One of my favorite Christmas songs, slightly old, but I always love it. Barenaked Ladies and Sarah McLachlan - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Feel free to share the song if you like it. ^_^

Also a poem that I rather like also a bit old. Cut since it's a little long.
( A Soldier's Christmas )

Stay safe this holiday and if you haven't yet and have a little extra it is never too late to give to a charity. Too many people need help and not just for the holiday. Every little bit helps.

Not much new in my life. Lately just been working, browsing around on lj and not commenting, playing video games (decided to finish the Shadow Hearts games.. gotta decide what to play next), and watching re-runs of CSI (all of them) and NCIS. I also got my mother into the Fruits Basket anime and sorta into the manga. I'm looking for something else like that for her to watch, though she also loved Blood+ and Kyou Kara Maou.

The whole birthday thing was pretty nice. My mother baked me a carrot cake (and as I described it. Yes, with real carrots and everything) that was all types of good and makes me wish I had another birthday coming up. I'm not sure were she got the recipe from, but I'm going to have to be sure and snag it.

Otherwise life has been pretty good to me. Hopefully that keeps up, no?

Thank you to everyone who replied to the last entry. I was just a bit frazzled but it seems to be a bit better now. It was just a little bit of a shock the stroke and unexpected (My mother is only 58 and stroke never entered our mind). We know there is a history of heart disease in the family. So we try to limit the risk factors we can with that but doing that with stroke may be hard. she already has high blood pressure and we can't stop being black so no fixing those much.

Anyway she is home now and doing very well. Very little after affects from the stroke (just a mild one). At the hospital she had some slurring of words but now barely notice any slur at all (not that you can notice it over our southern Illinois accent XD). The doctors think she had the stroke on Sunday and we didn't get any real noticeable symptoms until Monday. She did have a headache on Sunday and was a little bit lethargic, but besides that there weren't any signs until Monday when my sister noticed the right side of her face was "melting" and slurring of words. Sadly by the time we did get her to the hospital it would've been too late for them to give her drugs if it had been serious. The doctors also said it was her first stroke when they gave her the MRI, and we were glad and wondered how weird it would've been if it hadn't been her first.

Nothing else to say, just I'm so happy that she is okay and out of the hospital.

Hahaha so last night was take trash out to curb for tomorrow night. When we, sister and I, finished and were walking back up to the house we saw on of the OHMYHODAMN!giant spiders in the driveway. Sister went to get bug spray, thank god, and I went to step. We I stepped on it lots of little black things ran off of it. Sister saved me from lots of girly screaming by spraying it and them. We convinced ourselves that it was ants and they were fighting the spider. Looked this morning and it wasn't. It was bitty spiders. Ughhhhh~ *shudders* I will not be able to sleep tonight. Baby spiders everywhere. Ughhhh...

Also there has been more on the fight to make verizon let us go front. We got a final bill from verizon and just assumed it was a final bill since it had final bill on it in several places. I know how utterly stupid of us. What were we thinking reading the bill and believing it? We sent them that amount on the bill that claimed to be final. A few weeks later we get a bill for our internet services that we canceled months ago. Come to find out one of those times that verizon randomly decided to turn off our services they started up a whole new account instead of renewing our old one. So we basically had two interent accounts with them for some unknown period of time and had been paying for both. They gave us a refund on the other account that we had no idea about. Sometime later, or what I call last week, we get the check and added into that is the amount we paid to settle the final bill. This week we get a letter from them saying we owe them money, the same amount we paid previously and they refunded us for. Also? They sent it to a creditor since it's taken forever for us to pay it. Of course, it took us forever to pay it! It took you guys forever to give us the amount we had to pay and when we gave you the damn money you sent it back! Not to mention that we called several times to inquire about the same damn bill and you guys said just wait until you get it! We got it! We paid it! YOU sent us the damn money back! EVERY TIME we have sent you guys money to settle ANY of this damn bill, you guys sent it back to us. *sighs* I LOATHE verizon. I'm wondering if it is even worth it to call and say something about them sending the bill so late and refunding the amount we paid then demanding we pay it again? Right now I just want to do anything to not have to deal with verizon again.

I hate when you have a free program and they have all the perks you would have if you had the paid version and they just leave them there. Like they are showing you what you can have if you weren't cheap and/or poor. Not like you have to rub in the whole no extra money thing. I don't need your shiny money perks anyways. My poor, free version suits me just find. Yes, I keep clicking on your shiny perks but that's because they are stupid, and, um, I want to show how stupid they are.. /silly non-perkage person

We found a cute little itty, bitty baby snake in our sump pump hose. I think he was as surprised to find us as we were to find him, especially since we though he was on the other side of the house in Dude's, our ground squirrel(s), old hole next to the tree. Of course, we've not seen him around that side of the house since. Hopefully we didn't scare him off.

Also keep meaning to post here about all types of things and babble my head off, but I keep getting distracted but video games. I have the attention span of a gnat at a picnic~

I was listening to the radio some morning (either yesterday or today) and the weather report called for thunderstorms, with some being severe later in the evening, winds, heavy rain at times, and a possibility of hail and tornadoes. WTF? Possibility of tornadoes?!?!?!

I still think the best weather day so far this year was sometime last month when we had spring (april showers yay!), summer (hot sun okay?), fall (wasn't it just hot and sunny out?), and winter (wtf?!?!  is that ice falling out of the sky?) all in one day.  Oh midwest weather, how I love thee. 

Dear Midwestern United States Region,

I can take the floods.  I can take the thunderstorms.  I can take the tornadoes.  I can take the winds.  I can take the cold.  I can take the occasional "thundersnow".  Hell, I can even take winter going on into April.  I cannot take earthquakes early in the morning when I am sleeping.  Not only does it make me think that I am crazy, but it's just not the best way to wake up.

Definitely awake,
Dani



Dear Sad Life,

So is it not enough that I had to have a sucky day yesterday?  It started out with finding out that the water company turned off our water for no reason at all (someone got turn off happy? has to be since no one else in the neighborhood was supposed to get their water cut off so there was no reason for them to be out here) and ended up with me on the floor.

All I ask for is another day that doesn't end up with me on my face.  Is that too much to ask?

She who kisses floors,
Dani

can we have winter over now? please?

we are getting a pretty nice storm here today and into tomorrow. it's cold with snow blowing and generally all around nasty and cold out. OF COURSE our furnace decides it won't work now. now that it's late and the roads are hell and we are flat out too poor to get it fixed. luckily i washed clothes early today so i have lots of clean clothes to wear and get warm in. sleeping tonight is going to be fun.

hahaha... it's 20 °F and feels -4 °F (i wonder how do they decide how the weather feels like?), or -7 °C and -20 °C. so much fun. ...yeah...