Class of 1999

I have never fancied myself to be very internet savvy...I am great with office programs (word, excel, outlook, etc), but when it comes to things online I am really behind the times. I know myspace and facebook have been around for a while, but I just recently discovered them (recently: in the past year). On Friday, I went to Andy & Cammie's house to "babysit" with Amanda...I put Lily to bed there, and Amanda and started cruising the internet (she is savvy). I created the beginnings of a myspace page a while ago b/c I wanted to look at Stephen McCloud's profile; but I never added any pictures, etc. Well, while I was with Amanda I started searching for people from my class in high school. I found several. It was strange to me, to see them "all grown up". For some reason, in my mind I still pictured them the age we were when we graduated. Its hard to believe that these "friends" of mine are now just as "grown up" as me, and many of them have kids of their own too. I don't know why my mind thinks time is standing still for everyone else, while I continue to get older. Just really strange to me...makes me wonder if we'll have a 10 year reunion. I hope we do, I would love to see everyone from the class of 1999.

On another note: There is a guy outside my office blowing off cut grass from the sidewalk. It is sooo irritating. I'm glad I'm not working on anything that require immense concentration (like applying an Alcoa payment, or sorting out a BASF spreadsheet). Hey, I don't have to do that stuff anymore! Yay me! No, I do have to concentrate some of the time...thank you EMMA (email marketing my a$$...hehehehe).

Seeing my old friends' profiles makes me wish that I could get together with all of them, let our kids play together and talk about "that time in high school". It would be really something.

Ok...better get back to work now!

WTF

I never knew anything about abbreviating things with letters...other than LOL, and some others. But Andy's introduced me to WTF: what the F&$@. I love it. I feel like its the slogan of my life, it could also be why the F&$@, which works too; especially for my life. Like WhyTF and I living in freakin Bay St. Louis??? WhyTF do I miss people I'm not supposed to miss???? I like that it can be WhyTF, instead of WhatTF...that works a lot better for me, why instead of what.

I wonder about so many things...wonder why about them. I guess it will always be like that.

Cammie's been in Fairhope, AL (aka Heaven) pretty much this whole week. I was supposed to join her, but Ben didn't send the entire amount of money he was supposed to. WTF!? So, tonight I'm "babysitting" Kate; while Andy is somewhere. My lagniappe for allowing my boss to party is a half a bottle of pinot grigio (which is weird b/c Cammie likes chardonnay...chilled), and the use of their dishwasher. Yes, I am that lazy. I would rather cart my enumerable dirty dishes to someone else's house and use their dishwasher, than wash them myself. WTF??? :)
But someday, I'll have a house with a dishwasher, a yard, a pool, and a great husband to mow it. Or maybe my great husband could wash the dishes for me, then I wouldn't need a dishwasher.
I put 3 red gummy bears in my pinot grigio...wonder if it will make it taste better. Probably not...WTF?

Well "Medium" is on, and thankfully its one of those shows that you don't have to religiously follow to understand. So, I'm going to watch it.

Stephens out.....

Flat Tire, Bridge Fest & Mother's Day

Mother's Day has come and gone...Lily was in TN with her Dad, so I hung out with Haley and Joe. We went to Slidell and ate at the worst restaurant in the world. This place gives you a 12oz NY Strip if its your birthday. Yuck...why can't they give you free drinks, or cake? It was right around the corner from Copeland's (the best), but it was packed and we thought that O'Henry's would be good. It wasn't. There wasn't anything wrong with it really, the food was just shitty; and so was the service; and it was just yucky.
Joe really wanted to go to Hobby Lobby (HobLob), because he'd never been there (still hasn't). I wanted to go too, to check out their yarn selection. It has to be better than Michael's!! We didn't go. Joe fell asleep, and Haley and I left him in the car while we shopped at Target (we left the car running, of course). He slept the whole way home, he was like a big floppy bear in the backseat. He's a doll. I got a new pair of shorts, and a new shirt...Haley bought some shirts, a skirt, and a dress. I love the shorts, its been so long since I've had shorts that weren't cut-off sweat pants! Yay! I am going to wear them to work tomorrow.
After that, Haley and Joe went home and took at nap...I watched the E!THS of Britney Spears, and then Hip Hop Wives. I went to Haley's house around 5:00, and on the way thereI heard this sound...I thought the back window might be cracked, and when it wasn't I knew I had a flat tire. That sucks...I got to Haley's started getting all the junk out of the back of my car, got the jack, and the other tools (I don't know what they're called) out. Looked up the "procedure" in my owner's manual...by that time Joe was there, and he kinda took over. The spare was under the car, in the back. "We" got it changed, and then went inside and had a beer. Once they started watching "Shawn of the Dead" I left...I don't/ didn't get it. Mom does get that stuff either.

Today is Bridge Fest. The Bay Bridge is opening, finally...nearly 2 years after Katrina. It seems rediculous that its taken this long...but I guess that's the government for you. I asked Andy what we were going to do, and he said drink. So, I guess I'll be having a beer or two. Haley is having a cookout at her house tonight (Club Suebe), and Mom actually tried to make me promise that I'd go. I will go, but I have to leave and watch Grey's Anatomy. I just wonder how many people will be there. She might cancel it...we'll see.

Lily isn't coming home until Sunday. I miss her so much, I don't even know what to do with myself. I can't wait to see her, and I don't see how I'm going to make it a month without her this summer.

I guess I better get back to work...I started this blog on Monday, and I was waiting on Haley to send me a picture she took of me jacking up my car. I never got it, probably was rejected as spam.
Oh well...adios

Surfs Up!

This picture was taken from the third story balcony of St Stanislaus College located next door to Our Lady of the Gulf church in Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi on the morning of August 29th, 2005. This is believed to be the initial tidal wave from Hurricane Katrina. The tidal wave was approximately 35 to 40 feet high. When it slammed into the beach front communities of Bay Saint Louis and Waveland Mississippi to completely destroy 99% of every structure along the beach for 9 miles and over ? of a mile inland. The destruction only started there. The flooding that continued inland destr oyed the contents of all but 35 homes in these two communities of approximately 14,000 people.


Isn't this creepy??? I can't imagine being the person that took this picture. I wonder what they were thinking? I haven't ever really seen anything regarding Katrina like this, it gave me chills.

I was going to copy and post the picture and me, Cammie, and Susan at Pat O'Brien's on Satruday; but I haven't gotten a copy yet. Cammie said she posted a better one on her blog...I looked at it, and I have the fattest head in the world! Thanks Cam!