Yes, I’m filled with dread… I just hope this time tomorrow that I feel better. 24 hours and counting…
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We’ve had a busy weekend, here’s a few tidbits:
* Had a nice visit with Tim’s family yesterday, and my dad came up also. We went by the cafe for both breakfast and lunch, and boy, they stay busy there! Zack played both offense and defense in his game, but his team lost by one touchdown. Still good to see him in action!
* I actually worked on a chicken house! I helped with the wiring/netting stuff and rehanging the curtain on one of the houses. Even Terry made a joke about getting a camera, “look, Stacy is working on the chicken house and not off drinking tea or something” 🙂 Haha, they’re all comedians in that family! 😀
* The Saints won today – yeah! Sundays are always happier and brighter around here when Tim’s beloved Saints win
We’re heading out in a minute, and will be gone all day. First, we’re going to the cafe in Raleigh to have breakfast with Tim’s mom, then over to Zack’s football game. Then, we’ll go to Tim’s parents house for the day. He wants to go help his dad with the chicken houses. He says I can help too, but I have no idea about how to put sheet metal up and things like that! 🙂 We’ll see! I will take my book along, just in case! I’m really enjoying my book, and I want to read more on it anyway.
Not a lot going on to blog about… Tim had to work late last night, but got a good meal out of it. 🙂 He got in right before 9:00, and I was totally engrossed in Lost. We watched Invasion, then I watched Lost again with him on the tape. The bigwigs were still there today, so he’s been in meetings all day.
It’s cooler here today, in the mid 70’s right now, and I have most of the windows open. So nice to have some fresh air in the house. And even nicer not to have to run the AC, that bill is going to be killer. It’s supposed to be in the low 50’s tonight, which will be great. Fall can’t get here soon enough for me. 
Of course, this is just a temporary thing, it’s supposed to get back in to the 80’s and 90’s starting tomorrow. Oh well, I’ll take what I can get!
Looking forward to another good night of TV (yes, I have my priorities straight!) – tonight is Survivor, CSI and Without a Trace. I think I’ll record Alias, which moved from Wednesdays to Thursdays. Not sure I’ll like this season with her pregnant on the show, but we may give it a try. We still have lots of shows taped from earlier this week that we haven’t watched yet. 🙂
Today’s going to be a long day for me, but even longer for Tim. They have some bigwigs flying in today, and have meetings all day today and tomorrow. Plus, he has to go out to eat dinner with the out of town execs tonight, so he won’t be home till about 9 or after. So, today will really be a long day for him, and me too. The good news is that I won’t cook supper tonight though! I’ll just fix myself something quick, like fried rice and an eggroll or something like that. I’m afraid I’m not that devoted of a wife though – I will tape Lost for him, but I plan to watch it too and not wait on him! 🙂
I was sitting here at the computer, minding my own business, typing up the blog entry below about Monday and Tuesday. Next thing I know, I hear a key in the door and in walks Tim! He needed some disks he had brought home, so he ran home to get them. He offered to take me to lunch, so me being me, I jumped up and went with him! 🙂 We tried out a new place near our house. It used to be Woods restaurant, which we’d been to before, they serve “country cooking” – meat, veggies, rolls, cornbread, etc. It’s in the same building and same type food, but owned by the people that have Fannin Mart out in Fannin. Really good, down-home cooking. We both had fried chicken (that’s the first time in months, maybe a year or more that I’ve had fried chicken!), mashed potatoes and veggies from the buffet. Had to splurge because they had caramel pie on the buffet, so we had dessert too! It was good, and we really enjoyed it, but I thought it was pretty pricey. Lunch buffet (food, dessert, bread, tea) was 8.99 plus tax, which I thought was high for lunch. But, it was nice to go out to lunch for a change, during the week, with Tim – on a surprise, so it was worth it! 🙂
I just realized I never sat down yesterday and blogged about my day. I stayed so busy, I didn’t spend a lot of time on the computer. Which is rare for me! 😆
Tim and I have been going up to St Joseph’s every fall for years now, to their Gluckstadt Germanfest. We go for the food, needless to say! We were afraid with all the wind and rain that they would postpone it, but drove up to check it out just in case, and were happy to find that they were selling the food, and the country store was open in one of their buildings. Everything else had to be cancelled, all the bands, games for the kids, hayrides, pony rides, etc, but the stuff we were interested in was still available! It was pouring rain, and we both got soaked going in and out of the two places for our booty, but we got everything we wanted. Enough bratwurst for lunch and supper, plus a shish-ke-bob for Tim, an apple strudel for me (my first!), extra jars of sauerkraut that the parishioners make themselves, starting in June or July, plus some German mustard. I always get a T-shirt too, I love their logos and shirts. We got home in time for the Saints game, which once again was most painful to watch. I told Tim he will have extra DVD’s before long — I can’t see him keeping these games for his library, so I expect he will start recording over them again soon. I can barely watch them play so pitifully the first time, with all the interceptions, fumbles and penalties, much less watch it again on the DVD we record.
It’s been raining off and on all day, so we’re going to stay here the rest of the afternoon. Watch more football and finish our books. Tim is nearly through with the one he’s been reading (I will have to find him another one soon), and I started one from the library yesterday and read most of the day on it, and now have just 11 pages left. Yeah for me!
Well, I’m a big enough person to admit when I’m wrong. And this time, I’m really glad I was wrong. When we got up this morning, I looked at the radar and the track of the storm, and thought we wouldn’t get any rain. I was wrong – it’s been raining off and on all afternoon. My grass, flowers and shrubs are getting a nice constant showering of rain, and I’m profoundly happy and grateful for that. Also glad that this storm, bad though it was, wasn’t worse and wasn’t as bad as Katrina.
Don and Gail went with a group from their church down to the MS Gulf Coast on Thursday to help with disaster recovery efforts. They originally intended to stay through Saturday, but with Hurricane Rita bringing lots of rain to the coast, they suspended a lot of the work they were doing. So, they headed north on Friday afternoon late, and called to ask to stay here. Which of course, was great! They got here a little after dark, and we got some Papa Johns pizza for supper. We talked about what they had seen down there, and how they were helping out, and also got to see some pictures of what they had seen. We hooked up our Dazzle to our old DVD recorder and were able to view the pictures from Gail’s camera card on our big TV in the den. 🙂 We also watched some of the news on Hurricane Rita, before everyone got tired last night and went to bed. Elizabeth came over this morning, and they all left a little while ago to go shopping. Elizabeth just moved into her new apartment, and needs a few things, so her parents were going to take her shopping to see what they could find to help her out. Aren’t they sweet?! 🙂
We haven’t gotten a single drop of rain from Hurricane Rita yet, and I’m doubtful that we will. We’re too far east. It is very windy and cloudy here though, so we’re not sure what we’ll do today. So far, I think we’re both content to hang around the house a bit. We’ll see how long that holds – Tim gets cabin fever quickly and we may have to venture out later today. 🙂
I’ve had a busy day today. Spent most of the morning either on the telephone or watching the coverage of Hurricane Rita. I decided I was getting a little obsessive about it, as I always do. So, I headed out this afternoon and ran errands all afternoon. I went to the library and got more books (more on that tomorrow), then to Michaels, where I used this week’s coupon on a fall welcome sign to hang by our front door. Then, I headed to Bed, Bath and Beyond and picked up a Yankee Candle on clearance. After that was the biggie – a huge run to Sam’s. I filled up most of the back of my new Explorer with stuff I bought 🙂
We had supper (soup and sandwiches) and then watched Survivor, the season premiere of CSI and the series premiere of Criminal Minds. Good shows. I’m having a good TV week – Lost last night, Survivor tonight and the season finale of Battlestar tomorrow night. Yippee!
I talked to Gail earlier – she and Don are on the coast with a group from their church, helping out with recovery efforts. They’re trying to decide whether to stay and help, or get out of the way of Hurricane Rita. She heard from Trent and Shanna that they got to her parents ok, so that was a big relief. 🙂
Well, I had hoped we wouldn’t have another major hurricane to deal with this year, especially after what we’ve been through here and in Louisiana in the last 3 weeks since Katrina hit. Now, there’s another monster storm in the gulf, hurricane Rita. She grew to a category 5 late yesterday and although they think she will weaken slightly, a cat 3 or cat 4 hurricane hitting TX or southwest Louisiana is more than enough to worry about.
I’ve been really worried about Trent, Shanna and the kids. I finally talked to Shanna this morning and they’re going to try to go to her parents, who live out from Tomball. I’m afraid they may still lose power there, but Shanna’s dad has a generator, so that will help. I hope this one fizzles out and is not as bad as they are predicting, but we’ve learned a valuable lesson with Katrina. It’s best to be prepared and get everyone out and hope for the best. It could be bad, but we just have to hope. I will feel better when I know that Trent and Shanna have gotten to her parents and are safe, with the kids.
OK, my calendar says that tomorrow is the beginning of fall. Now, granted, I realize we don’t get a lot of fall here, and certainly not all that early. But — STILL — people, the high today is supposed to be 97º, yes, that’s NINETY SEVEN DEGREES. Geesh, I’d take 88 or 90 in a heartbeat. 75 would be nice, but I know I’m dreaming.
On a related note, we’ve lost most, if not all, of the flowers I planted in the spring. I don’t even feel like getting outside in the heat and the continuing swarms of love bugs, to go dig them up, or water the stragglers that are still hanging on. Same goes for the tree we planted in April. I know the poor thing needs water, but I don’t want to fight the bugs and the heat to water it. Sigh. When is fall REALLY going to get here? 🙂
Vegging out today after a long, but productive day yesterday. Went down and helped Dad in his yard. Took some pictures but haven’t transferred and loaded them yet. Gail and Don went down too, and between the five of us, I bet we bagged 25 or 35 bags of leaves. Tim and I are feeling it today, we’re both pretty sore. Went to the USM game with Mark, Amanda, Ethan and Abby. Was pretty humid, but the Eagles won, so it’s all good. Got home late and are vegging today, watching football, munching on game-day food. And doing a little reading in commercial breaks. Tim started a new book, yeah! Having a terrible week with my fantasy football team, oh well. Always next week!
Tim got called by the Operations Center in Dallas about 5:30 this morning. So early, so very very early. Especially considering we sat up late last night 🙁 They had a problem and he had to get up and work for a couple of hours to fix it. I tried to go back to sleep, and did a little, but it was very fitful and not very restful. Poor Tim didn’t get any rest at all after that. He said he couldn’t go back to sleep.
We’re headed down to Hattiesburg for the day. Dad may need some help in his yard, and then we’re going to the game tonight. Mark, Amanda, Ethan and Abby want to go, so we’re all going to go together. We’re anxious to see what the campus and area looks like, even though it’s nearly 3 weeks since the storm. From everything we’ve read, it may still look pretty rough.