June 2, 1999 - Wednesday Evening

I was playing with Kenny's Furby today.  I know that sounds bad but really it was perfectly
innocent.  Until the darn thing decided to die on me.  Let me explain first what one is, in case
you don't know.  A Furby is a computerized-like stuffed animal that looks like Gizmo from the
Gremlins.  Hmmmm... does that explain it enough?  Well, click HERE to see what they are all
about.

Anyways, I was playing nicely with him, his name is Cocoa, when he decided to get jammed.
Now, he could have gotten jammed while ANYONE was holding him.  But he just so happened
to wait until I was holding him.  Jennifer said I over-stimulated him.  So now everyone in the
office is calling me a Furby killer.  I'm not happy about this!  Kenny isn't even heart broken
over the jamming death of Cocoa!  He's just afraid his wife is going to divorce him.

I will never live this down.

Now, listen to what Little Buck did.  One time when we were all talking about driving and
accidents and things like that, Buck told us about the time he ran into a police cruiser.  He
didn't think we believed him so he brought in the newspaper clipping...

The headline reads...

Police Cruiser Damaged
"...said ****** (Buck) had been looking for deer and hadn't realized his vehicle had veered
into the oncoming lane of the narrow dirt road.  Both drivers attempted to avoid a collision,
but were unsuccessful, according to ***** (the police officer).  Both ***** and *******  were
wearing seat belts and neither was injured, according to *****.  Damage was estimated at
$5,000 each to the 1998 Ford Crown Victoria cruiser, and the Toyota, he said.  ****** (Buck)
was charged with failure to keep right as a result of the accident."

Now THAT is funny.

I feel so disoriented today.  The weather has been so hot and humid.  Today was a bad day.  I
came home and made meatloaf and Dwayne and I started to watch "Saving Private Ryan".
Wow, that movie is something else.  You don't realize the horror of war until you see
something like that.  It's so amazing how we take our freedom and our country for granted.
And how ungrateful we are to people in the armed forces who have fought and will fight for
us.

Gosh I feel like singing the National Anthem!  I know I sound very corny but I just can't help
it.  There are times when I'm ashamed of what our country has become because we have let
things get pretty bad.  Yet I still love this country, and I can't help but feel admiration for
the people who are still willing to fight for it.

And then I start thinking about all the police officers who put their lives on the line every
single day to keep us safe.  I can not fathom being that brave and strong.  It soooooooooooo
totally amazes me.  They deserve so much more respect than we give them.

Wow, okay.  So I have alot of time on my hands to ponder the state of affairs of our country.
I'm sorry, but I'm not a shallow person.

I need some watermelon.  I think I'm having withdrawals.  Can anyone tell me how they grow
it without seeds?  Like, they shouldn't even call it seedless watermelon because it still has
the little white seeds, but those you can just swallow.  You can't swallow the black ones, and
I'm too polite to spit them out, so you kind of have to pick them out as you eat and by the
time you finish doing all that... well, it just doesn't taste good anymore.  Fruit amazes me.
Hmmmm, nevermind... I'll spare you the deep and meaningful discussion about the creation of
fruit.  ( I know you are all thanking God right about now!)

So I got a slight sunburn on my right arm from hanging it out the window while riding in the
car.  I inherited about 59 more freckles.  In a couple of days the burn will be gone, instead
of turning into a tan it will go back to my very pale skin, but hey, I get to keep the freckles.
Yay.  I'm so excited, someone hold me back.  So now my right arm has 59 more freckles than
my left arm.  I HATE being uneven!
 

June 4, 1999 - Friday Evening

So tonight I was reminded about something funny that happened last year during haying
season.  We live in an apartment on a farm.  There are actually about 9 or 10 apartments here
and the landlord boards horses here as well.  So he's always hanging around taking care of
the horses, playing on his tractor, just doing stuff around the farm.  Well, Dwayne likes to
hang around the farm with him.  He actually loves having access to all the toys my landlord
keeps here on the farm.

Dwayne reminds me of Tim "the tool man" Taylor from "Home Improvement".  He is always
rigging up something or building something and getting into trouble.

Well, this one particular day my landlord was out in the field haying for the horses and
Dwayne was out there helping him.  I was in here doing something (probably on the computer!)
and all of the sudden Dwayne bursts through the door, runs into the kitchen and starts
shuffling through everything on the shelves.  I'm watching him wondering what the heck he is
doing and waiting for him to ask me where whatever he is looking for, is.  But instead he grabs
my small box of baking soda and starts heading for the door...

Well, I'm a typical woman, somewhat, so of course I demand to know where he is going with
my baking soda!!!  So he says, as he runs out the door, "the tractor is on fire!"

Okay... baking soda may be able to put out small burner fires or even oven fires... but a whole
tractor is on fire and he thinks that a half of a cup of baking soda is going to help???  I didn't
see the humor in it at that point, because 10 minutes later he comes running back in, this time
goes into my bedroom, grabs my laundry bucket, dumps all the dirty clothes all over the floor
and runs back outside.  Obviously, just like I thought, the baking soda didn't work!  First of
all I'm upset that he decides to make a mess in my bedroom, but then I become curious as to
what he is up to now.  So I follow him outside and there he is, standing over my laundry
bucket with a hose that is barely dribbling water in the bucket.  He stands there for several
minutes, we look down, and there is only a couple inches of water in the bucket.  Okay, this is
going well.  By this time the whole field must be on fire.

So I say, "Well, why don't you call the fire department?  I hear they are pretty good at
putting out fires."  Why do I need to suggest this? you ask.  Because men think they can do
everything on their own.  They don't believe in calling fire departments, they don't believe in
asking for directions, they don't believe in READING directions even if they are right there
in front of their eyes, and they don't believe in calling tow trucks.

Which brings me to another story...

One day our car had broken down at a store.  The whole tire had come off, the whole wheel
actually.  I'm not a mechanic so I have no clue how to explain it, but I knew it was serious.
There was a garage maybe 5 blocks away so, again I decide to make a suggestion... "why
don't we call a tow truck and have it fixed at the garage?"  Dwayne looks at me as if I just
stepped on his pride, "I can fix it!"  So he calls his father who comes down and the two of
them spend about 2 hours working on this wheel.  Now, I know what Dwayne's limitations are,
why doesn't he??

He and his father get the wheel back on the car and we begin to drive away with his father
following us.  We get one block down the road and all of the sudden the wheel comes flying
off the car and PASSES us!  This is down town on a Sunday afternoon and we are riding down
Central Ave on three tires and an axle, sparks flying everywhere.  Guess what?  We ended
up calling the tow truck and after 2 hours worth of working on the car and getting one block
closer to the garage we ended up saving about $1.00 on the tow.

Men, why don't you listen to your wives more often?
 

June 5, 1999 - Saturday Evening

I rented the movie "Simon Birch" tonight.  Okay, I bawled my eyes out!!!  That was such a sad
movie.  I love movies like that!

I had a good day today.  We got to sleep in and I actually slept until 9:00 am!  I was so
surprised because lately I just can't stay sleeping past 6:00 which is pretty bad considering
most nights I go to bed no earlier than 1:00 am!  Usually I require alot more than 5 hours of
sleep.  Maybe that is why I keep getting sick.  Hmmmm

So anyways, after we got up and got dressed and everything we went to get some lunch and
brought it to the park and ate on the picnic table.  That was really nice because the weather
was perfect.  Except a caterpiller was crawling across my foot and I screamed.  I'm such a
sissy!  But I don't like bugs on me!  Oh talk about a sissy... I saw a little tiny snake the other
day and screamed then too.  Ewww snakes bother me!

Then I took Dwayne to work, cleaned the house... even cleaned out the fridge... there were
some unrecognizable leftovers in there.  I hate it when that happens.

Oh that reminds me of a story... one time Dwayne was doing the dishes and there were alot to
do.  As he was finishing up I started cleaning out the fridge little by little.  Now, when this
happens it creates alot of extra dishes.  I have a MILLION pieces of Tupperware.  So I
start throwing stuff out and placing the empty dishes up on the counter just one at a time.
He didn't notice at first... But slowly he realized what I was doing and started looking at me.
I just kinda looked back and shrugged and very innocently said, "What?  I have to clean out
the fridge!"  He wasn't happy.  And I just laughed my head off!  hehehehehehehehe  I'm so
mean sometimes!

So anyways... I got alot done today.  I even baked up a bunch of chicken for lunches this
week.  Yum!  I love chicken!  You know what I hate though?  Cutting up the raw chicken.  That
can be nasty.  I'm so picky too about my chicken that half of it ends up getting thrown out.
This is why I should always let Dwayne cut the chicken.  Dwayne used to be a meat cutter so
he knows how to cut it the correct way.  What's really cool about having a husband who is a
meat cutter is we can buy chicken with bones in it and he can cut it all up so that it's
boneless!  See?  I'm so easy to please!  =o)  (Whoever said that youngest children are spoiled
rotten?!)

They are playing "Real World" marathons on Mtv this weekend.  Wow I have to be careful
when they do that because I could literally sit in front of the tv the whole entire time to
watch that show.  That show is so addicting!

Wow, I hope I can keep up with this journal this month.  June is the busiest month for
birthdays.  There are nine birthdays, plus Father's Day.  Looks like I'll be a busy girl!

Okay I'm tired!  I'm going to bed now!  Nite nite!
 

June 6, 1999 - Sunday Evening

We went to see "Star Wars" today.  What an AWESOME movie!!!  I LOVED it!  And you
HAVE to see it on the big screen.  The video is not going to be good enough!  But this is me
during the movie:

"Oh NO, Look out!" - when they were driving under water and that huge ugly fish type
monster was behind them.

 "Oh gosh don't do that!" - when that little racing guy that walked on his hands broke
something on the boy's racing thingy.

"Eww gross!" - when that ugly guy with the red face took off his hood to reveal his horns,
nasty!

"Oh my gosh!" - when OB1 is hanging over that huge hole that goes who knows where!

I can't shut up when I'm watching a movie.  I get so totally into it that I forget there is a
room full of people!  I hold my breath, I grit my teeth, I grab my husband's hand... Can you
say GEEK?  That would be me.

George Lucas is a total genius, what an incredible mind he must have to come up with all that
stuff.

Today was a really nice day.  Church was good, then we came home and Dwayne now has
Sunday's off so we got to sit down together and share a meal - which never happens.  And we
hung around the house watching tv or whatever, then went to the movies.  Very nice day!  I
love it when that happens!

I saw a tick today.  I do not like them.

Hehehehe... I just reminded myself of Sam I Am... when I say I do not like something, it
reminds me of "Green Eggs And Ham"

I am Sam..... Sam I am... Do you like green eggs and ham?
I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them Sam I am.
Would you eat them with a fox?  Could you in them in a box?
I would not eat them with a fox.  I could not eat them in a box.
I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them Sam I am.

That is my all time favorite children's book.  Hmmm, I don't even have a copy of it!  I'll have
to buy one some time!  But with all due respect, Dr. Seuss makes no sense whatsoever to me.

When Dwayne and I were dating we used to go to the rest stop in the town where I lived, in
the middle of the night, and read to eachother.  He would read childrens books to me, and I
would read more serious stuff.  He was much better at changing his voice for the different
characters.  It sounds strange but it was actually very romantic and sweet; one of the
reasons I fell in love with him.
 

June 7, 1999 - Monday Evening

So I forgot to tell you what Steven did...  After he found out about what happened to Kenny's
Furby, he took the picture of me from my website, made bars going across it and put a
"Wanted" sign underneath.  It was kinda funny, I'll admit, but he decided to send it to
everyone at our company.  And now there are printed copies of it hanging up in a couple
different places around the office.  Nice.  Thanks Steven.  Calling me Grammy just wasn't
enough for you huh??!!  You're lucky I forgive easily!   =oÞ

Today was 97 degrees.  That is just not right.  It isn't even technically summer yet!  And
they have been promising thunder storms which Jennifer and I have been looking forward
to... and they haven't come yet!  =o(   We want our money back!  Oh, nevermind, we didn't pay
for it.

So I'm growing my nails again.  I just can't decide what I want to do.  I grow them, then I
try to play my guitar and can't so I get frustrated and cut them all and then I want them
long again.  Oh the joys of being a woman!  It's just so much FUN!  (Not - but I'd rather be a
woman than a man - no offense guys, just how I feel!)  And I STILL have not decided what to
do with my hair.  Something MUST be done soon.  Before I get really frustrated with it and
let Dwayne cut it again!  That would be an act of desperation though.  I don't think I'll go
there again!  hehehehe
 

June 8, 1999 - Tuesday Evening

The Fed-ex guy came today!!!  He mentioned something about Jennifer liking his legs.  I
started laughing really loud because we have mentioned his legs.  Debbie happened to be
standing next to my desk to ask me a question and she said, "So is that okay?"  And I'm like,
"I don't know"  and then we started giggling because I wasn't paying any attention to her.  I
was listening to the Fed-ex guy.  He's quite funny.  I said, "Oh God" and he says to me, "Oh
you don't have to call me that!"  hehehehehe

So listen to this... the other day A Fed-ex guy came in.  Not the same one.  And Buck says
right out loud, "Oh look, it's a fed-ex guy!"  And this fed-ex guy says, "No, I'm THE fed-ex
guy."  And Buck had the nerve to correct him by saying, "Oh no, you are just A fed-ex guy."  I
almost died!!!  It was so funny!  That poor man must have a complex now.  Oh well, it's true,
there is only one THE FED-EX GUY.  There can only be one.  I sound like Highlander!

You know what I don't understand about the Highlander guy?  Always in the shows he would
introduce himself this way, "I am Duncan Macloud of the clan Macloud."  Well, hello, your last
name is Macloud, we kinda figured out the rest.  My gosh, Dwayne used to watch that show
faithfully every night, when he didn't work at night!  That was until "Xena Warrior Princess".

I don't like any of those shows.  I hardly ever watch tv.  BUT... TONIGHT IS A BIG
NIGHT!!!  It's a new season of "Real World".  I'm SO excited!!

Oh, freckle update... I do have a couple on my face.  What is up with that?!

I have new neighbors upstairs.  It's always hard getting new neighbors because you don't
know what you can get away with and what you can't.  My old neighbors didn't seem to mind
me playing my guitar and singing at the top of my lungs.  At least they never said they
minded.  I hope these neighbors are cool like that.  They seem very nice.  I love nice people!

Ahhhh.... (listening to my favorite song)

Ummm, I think it is totally unnecessary for it to be so hot.

Okay, I'm leaving for now... I ran out of things to say!  (No comment from you Little Buck!)

Nite!!!
 

June 17, 1999 - Thursday Evening

I know, I know... I haven't written in forever!  Wow, I have been so busy!  And even being
busy I have felt like I don't have much to say...

Today is my best friend's birthday.  So we went out to eat and visited for a while.  We had a
good time and laughed which is what we usually do.  =o)  I won't give away her age but I will
say one time we went to the store and we bought wine coolers ( Mom, I didn't drink any of
them! =oÞ ).  She got carded and I didn't - and she's older than me!  It was totally unfair!

Actually, I don't remember if I drank them.  I might have drank one.  I can not acquire a
taste for alcohol.  I have tried to taste different drinks to see if there was something I
could drink in a social situation but I just can't stand the taste of it!  Which is okay because I
don't really need it to be silly and have fun.  I can do that even drinking water.  And actually
it's much better if I don't drink anything.  That way there is no danger of peeing my pants!!
hahahahaha

I really haven't been online much because I have been doing other things at night.  I had to
work on something for a friend of mine for his birthday which is done now so maybe I will be
adding more entries!

Okay, I was a little mad at myself because on Tuesday I missed the first 45 minutes of
"Real World"!  I have been waiting forever for the new one to start and it figures I missed
it!  But they are going to show it again Saturday morning so maybe I'll watch it then.  It looks
like it's going to be really good this season.  I can't explain why I like that show so much.  I
think because the kids are all hanging out together and dealing with alot of emotional things
and having fun and I just love that kind of stuff!!!

My new neighbors are nice.  The man kinda makes me laugh because he always seems like he
is in WAY too good of a mood.  In the morning he'll say something like "Good wonderful
Friday morning to you, and how are you today?"  At any moment I'm expecting him to pull a
sweater and sneakers out of a closet and start singing "It's A Wonderful Day In The
Neighborhood".  But I like them very much!  =o)  Heck, if he did start singing that song I'd
probably join right in!

I was driving Buck and Jennifer crazy yesterday because I was singing "If You're Happy
And You Know It".  They are grumps!  Well, Buck was singing and he did clap his hands and
stomp his feet, but he said I went too far with the "shout horray!" part.

Maybe tomorrow I'll honor them with my rendition of "I'm Just A Little Black Rain Cloud" by
Winnie The Pooh...

"I'm just a little black rain cloud hovering over the honey tree.  I'm only a little black rain
cloud, pay no attention to little me.  Everyone knows that a rain cloud doesn't like honey no,
not a bit..."   See, Pooh disguises himself as a rain cloud so that when he goes to get the honey
out of the tree the bees won't suspect anything.  But his balloon ends up popping or
something, and he doesn't really get the honey.

Hey, I'm the boss... they have no choice but to put up with me!!!
 

June 21, 1999 - Monday

Today is my mother's, sister's, and nephew's birthday!  This is the weird thing... My mom had
two boys first and her third child was my sister Debbie and was born on my mom's birthday.
Debbie had two girls first and her third child was my nephew Alex who was born on my
mom's and sister's birthday.  Cool huh?  (Just a little family history.)

There are only a few more birthdays in June.  Good thing cause it's almost the end of the
month.  But I warned you June was crazy!  Here's a recap:

9th - Rhonda's birthday  (Sister)
11th - Mom's birthday  (Dwayne's Mom)
17th - Shari's birthday  (Friend)
20th - Father's Day
21st - Mom's birthday  (My Mom)
21st - Debbie's birthday  (Sister)
21st - Alex's birthday  (Nephew)
23rd - The Giggler's birthday  (Friend)
23rd - Jon's birthday  (Brother-in-law)
24th - Gordon's birthday  (Brother-in-law)  (I think it's the 24th)  (Terry, am I right?)

And I believe that is everyone in June.  That's alot to think about!

 Okay, I am the sappiest person in the world... I taped a movie the other night.  Just the
regular old Sunday night movies that they show at 9.  Well, it was called "The Love Note" or
something like that.  Very far fetched, poorly acted movie, yet I cried my eyes out at the
end, and several times in the middle.  Even though it was totally unrealistic it was so cool.

See, this girl writes a love note to no one, just the man she thinks up in her own mind, and
keeps it in a secret compartment in her desk, this is back in the 1860's.  Then back in the
present time this guy buys the desk from an antique place, ends up finding the secret
compartment and the letter.  He is so moved by the letter that he writes back even though
he knows obviously she will never get the letter because she's dead.  But he puts the letter
in a mailbox anyways and then it jumps back to the 1860's, one day the girl goes to open the
secret compartment and miraculously finds the letter the guy wrote.  And they write back
and forth like that for a while, falling in love with eachother even though they have never and
will never meet.

Okay, it's obvious that would never happen in real life, but it just seemed so old fashioned
and romantic.  I love those kind of movies where in the present time someone will find a
woman's diary or love letters from the 1800's.  I have no idea why but I am fascinated by
that era.  I think because of the romance of courtship and the lacy, frilly clothes the women
wore.  It was very dramatic.

Anyways... this movie was sad, so I HAD to cry.  There was no other choice.  Because these
two people loved eachother yet they lived over a century apart and couldn't be together.  Oh
gosh, I have to stop thinking about it otherwise I'm going to start crying all over again!  I
don't know about me sometimes.

Tonight is the first night of "Road Rules"!!!  It's 9:30 pm right now... please remind me at
10:00 to leave so I won't miss my show!  I'm counting on you!  (Wink!)

I was very irritated at work today.  My ICQ kept cutting in and out and I was trying to have
a conversation!  (Course, I was working at the same time - very diligently I might add!!!)

I just have a feeling this is going to be a long week.  What a bummer, cause I had such a
great weekend.  Saturday I spent all day shopping and on Sunday we went to visit our
fathers (mine and Dwayne's) and then we went to see the movie "Notting Hill".  That was a
funny movie!  Julia Roberts has to be one of the most beautiful women!

Okay, I'm going to get going now!  Gotta get ready to watch my show!  Need to make some
iced tea to sip during my show!  Yummy!  =o)

Nite nite!
 

June 22, 1999 - Tuesday Evening

I have seen two ants on my counter.  Why does every season have to bring a new insect
breed with it?  And they aren't the little tiny ants either.  They were the big ones that squish
when you kill them.  The kind that when you see them you grab 15 paper towels off the roll,
bunch them all up, and grab the ant with the wad of paper.  Course, you know what happens
next right?  Because there was so much paper towel you didn't grab the ant you just kind of
swept him somewhere that you can't see anymore and you realize he's probably crawling on
you somewhere right now.  Now there's a nice thought.

Oh, to be like Dwayne in these circumstances.  He just squishes bugs with his bare hands.
Course then I start gagging the next time he reaches to touch me, switch to my mother
mode, and demand to know, "Did you wash your hands?!?"

If Zach were still around I could've just swept the ant onto the floor and he would have
eaten it!  He so enjoyed the thrill of hunting wild insects and devouring them limb from limb.
Keisha takes after me, she won't go near them.

So Jennifer and I ... I mean Jennifer is wondering where the heck THE Fed-ex guy is.  We
have had several substitutions come into the office in the past week or so and haven't seen
him.  Do I need to start making some phone calls?  =oÞ

Okay... Kenny decided he needed to wear a tie today because his shirt was tight and when he
sat down the spaces between the buttons gaped open.  He is way too funny!  I called him
Honey today by accident.  I am so used to calling Dwayne "Honey" that alot of times when I
talk to people I say, "Honey...".  It was kind of funny.  Especially when Kenny started to
explain to us that that happens to him alot; he says girls just can't help themselves.
hehehehehe

Oh tonight "Real World" is on.  Don't let me forget!!!
 

June 23, 1999 - Wednesday Evening

There are 10,000 trillion ants on the earth.  I heard it just now on National Geographic.
Thought that was an important statistic in view of yesterday's entry.  All I can say is the
other 9,998 trillion ants better not even think of showing up on my counter.  I WON'T be
kind!!!

Hehehehe... I crack myself up.  It's a good thing too because I have not been in a good mood
AT ALL today.  I had all I could do to remain kind to the customers on the phone!  Took all my
energy!...  Not really, I actually had a customer tell me how pleasant I was on the phone.  If
only he knew how frustrated I was!!!  I suppose that's a good thing he didn't!  =o)

I am way too emotional this week.  I knew it was going to be a long week.  Oh well, I'll get
over it!

I talked to an old friend today.  It has been so long since I talked to him... but it was so nice
to hear from him again!  =o)

Hmmmm, I don't have alot to say tonight.  Guess I'll go to bed now...
 

June 29, 1999 - Tuesday Evening

Ummmm, okay, my sister is worse with bugs than I am!  Get this... she and her babies (13
months and 2 months old) are visiting here for a while.  Today before I left work I called
here to see if she needed me to pick up anything at the store.  While we were on the phone
she screamed because she saw a huge bumble bee crawling around on the floor.  So she killed
it and we went on with our conversation.  About an hour later after I return from getting a
few groceries at the store I walk in and there in the middle of the floor is a "present" as she
called it.  I had a bag full of old files laying around and she had thrown it down onto the
bumble bee but couldn't bring herself to lift it and get rid of the bee.  So I did what any
BRAVE girl would do... I grabbed about 15 paper towels, bunched them up and got rid of it
for her.  =o)

Dwayne is reading a book called "How To Survive In The Wilderness".  He is telling me things
a woman never wants to hear.  Things that involve eating the same bugs I can barely even
bring myself to squish, and the many conveniences of tree bark.  It is totally nasty and let me
just say now, the wilderness and I would not get along very well.

Hmmmm... I can't think of much else to write right now.  I'm so tired and I can't think
straight!

Nite!