Pink Flamingo on Toast

Feeling better physically. My emotions well..I guess I'm irrational right now. No time for any of that though. Have to clean the house for Jerry's friend Jay and his wife, Sabrina, who are coming over tomorrow night to help bring in the New Year. Pretty much everything is cleaned up. Just need to do the floors and wipe down the bathroom.

Imodium and Diet Sprite, my drink of choice. I really really just want this flu to be over with. I did managed to go out to get laundry soap. Wheeee! I am going to tackle laundry today, no time for the flu. I may nap between loads though.

I have been sick for days. Started Christmas night and today is the first time I've been coherent enough to even sit up. Poor Jerry is on vacation and we spent one of his days off with the flu. I don't think he got it as bad as I did. Which is good, because it was bad. Ok...I'm going back to bed. This made me tired.

A very Merry Christmas!Jerry and I have been up since 4am. Tee hee hee. We got home from his Mom's house last night around 10pm and both just kind of collapsed. (Upset tummies) So at 3:30 when we both got up to use the bathroom we decided that it was time to open our presents. I got lots of wonderful things. My big present from Jerry was a Hamilton Beach Toaster Oven . I love it. I was missing a toaster and this gives me two appliances in one!!We had a nice time last night at Jerry's folks. I even think Jerry's mom liked what we gave her! A first. They of course showered us with too many gifts as usual. It was a nice evening though. I hope they enjoyed it. I wish Mom and Dad could have been here to see Jerry open his Star Wars Revenge of the Sith Ultimate Lightsaber . They got me a wonderful wooden Jewelry box. I had been wanting one for years! Jerry and I are installing games that we got for Christmas. He got Sid Meier's Pirates! and I got a Sim2 Expansion: Nightlife ...

I hope everyone has a Happy Festivus today! I know Jerry and I will be celebrating in style. I couldn't get a pole though. Maybe next year. Have fun airing your grievances with your loved ones!!

I called the place where I thought I was getting a job. She said she had called because the training was moved from January 9th to a different time. I told her I got no such call. I'm wondering now what's going on. Do I really want to work for a company that is so disorganized. Hmm...I do..but only because it will better my career two years down the road. Looks like I won't be starting training January 9th. *shrug* Other news, my computer is still alive. I reformated the drive and reinstalled the OS and it seems to be plugging along. I know that sectors of the hard drive are bad but we'll just let it die a slow death. My toliet decided to start working again. I guess it just needed a day off. I think I have a cold in my back. Can't get comfy at all. Not usual for me. Other people get colds that cause them to cough and sneeze, my back muscles get swollen and sore. I just have to be different. :)

That's right...today is the first day of Winter. . The longest night of the year. I have had an odd luck today. Not odd bad..but just odd. A power transformer blew this morning around 7am which left us without power. I decided to get up and get going. I had several things I needed to get done. First on my list, sell back books. So I head out to campus to the bookstore. It's around 8:30 when I get in there and the clerk tells me they don't do buy backs until 9am. So I find a warm spot in the library and web surfed on my phone for about 30 minutes. Finally at 9am I get my books sold for a whole $10.50. WOO HOO!!! I had to go to Sams to see if they had an item for Jerry for Christmas. I walk up to the door...UGH..they aren't open until 10am for members. Gold Key and Business members can get in earlier. I head back to the car and do some more surfing on my phone. I finally pull out my card around 10am to get it ready. DOH!! I'm a business member. oh well. So I head ins...

Well, the GA Christmas if over. We left our house at 10:15am this morning and got home around 7:30pm. 2 1/2 hours in a car to get to Nashville, GA. Well, actually outside Nashville. I don't think I've ever been to the "city". Three hours of visiting with people I see once a year and have only know for ten years, and then another 2 1/2 hours back home. There are times I wish we lived closer. Would be nice to have relatives to pal around with. Although I don't have much in common with them. I guess family..that's what we have in common. I do have to say that one of the presents was really fun. They made family "team" shirts. It has a big initial and the last name on the front and then "your" name across the back with where you rank in the family. Their "rank" means when you came into the family. Jerry was ..umm..14 because he is the second oldest grandchild. I am 39 because it wasn't until 1996 that I offically became part of t...

I figured after a day like yesterday I might as well go in for my typing test at CSD and see if they'll hire me. I practiced at home before I left. Only 50 wpm and then 55, they required 60+ wpm. I went anyway. Was allowed to do two warm up sessions but only did one. 79 wpm!!! I kicked keyboard butt!!! So afterwards they asked if I could stick around for an interview. Sure, what do I have going on anyway. So by the end of the interview I was being shown the training room and the call center floor. I looked to the interviewer and said "It sounds like I'm pretty much hired". She smiled and said. "Well, we need to check your references but otherwise. Yes." :) I would start Jan 9th, which happens to be the first day of classes too. Training would be Monday through Friday for three weeks. After that I will be going part time and hoping to only work about 20 hours a week. So everyone keep your fingers crossed that all my old employees don't ...

A couple of pictures of the accident. You can check them out here.

My computer's hard drive is damaged. I can't reinstall windows xp on it because there are too many bad sectors. Looks like I'm getting a new hard drive for Christmas. Wheeee.... Last night, while Jerry and I were playing SWG we heard this noise. Sounded like a jackhammer. We get up from our desks and turn the corner into our front room and WHOA! bright lights shining right into our house. I peek out the blinds to find a car on our lawn mangled and about a half dozen firefighters trying to pry someone out of the car. We step onto our porch to that car and look up and down the street. Three fire-rescue trucks and three police patrol cars. And then we noticed what looked like a trailer up on it's side. They finally pulled the man from the car. I didn't want him to die on my front lawn. He was moaning and crying out a lot. Upset me quite a bit. Put him on the gurney and took him away. We watched as the Firefighters checked the car for leaking gas or sparks. They did th...

Finished wrapping some presents that need to be mailed. I'll be heading to the post office tomorrow to send the packages off. I love waiting until the last minute. In other fun news, I'm reinstalling windows on my main computer. It decided not to boot today. We all have days we don't want to go to work. Today the computer decided it wanted a vacation. Thankfully I have a friend who used to do tech support for Gateway . He called and walked me through a few steps. Basically, I'm recovering windows. Oo...hang on..it's done. *clicks next....clicks next...clicks finish* &#!@ Looks like I'm reinstalling windows completely. *sigh* UPDATE: Jerry found an article and we just had to pull a file from the XP cd to get my computer to get past the log in. I might still have to rebuild but at least now I could back up all my goodies

School is officially over for me. I turned in my American Sign Language Video today around 3pm. I think I did pretty good on it. I did a few mistakes but just did the sign for wrong and corrected myself. Three weeks of no classes...eep...what will I do. Actually, I'm going to that relay service company this week to take my typing test. I got an email asking me to come in. It's not great pay but that isn't why I'd be working there. I'd be working there to further my "deaf culture" experience for interpreting.

For months I've been wanting to go to the St. John's Town Center . So today I thought, what the heck. I'll just go. Invited Jerry along but he wasn't up for it. Tried to call ceruleanlobster but I think she was out shopping with her mom. So I went alone. The place is freakin' huge. I was in shopping awe. They had everything. I really only needed to go to one shop. Good thing because it was packed too. (I'm not into crowds) So after 10 minutes of driving around the parking lot I found a parking space and headed to Sephora . I was looking to try some BareMinerals makeup. The lady there was quite helpful. Did a little facial product demonstration which sold me instantly. So I got the proper starter kit and some lip gloss (garden) and headed to the register. I was truely amazed at how well it covered my red toned skin. I think I finally found makeup that won't make me look made up. ♥ After getting my cute little bag of makeup, I headed down ...

I have my last written test in my ASL 1 Class tomorrow. I hate tests. Only because I freak out until I have the paper in front of me. I seem to do pretty well on them, but am a nut case until class time. The semester is almost over. Just have a video tape of me signing due by next Wednesday. Nothing else really going on in my life. Mom and Dad were going to come for Christmas but they decided to come in the spring when it's warmer and we'll have more time to spend together. Kind of a relief for me because the house is a wreck. I'm such a terrible housekeeper. I really need to get better at that.

ChristmasTree2005 , originally uploaded by gknee . It's beginning to be festive around here :)

Just got home from Deaf Club. Had a blast and met TONS of great people. The more I am around the Deaf, the better I'll get at my sign. I wasn't nearly as scared of talking to people as I had been in the past. If I made a mistake..they corrected me. If I didn't know a sign, they spelled it out for me. I'm loving this. Jerry and I did some Christmas Shopping this morning. We also got a tree. We haven't had a big tree in five years. It's nice..still no ornaments on it..but we can do that this week.

Got my hair done today. Was nice that when Jerry got home he even said "Wow..you hair looks nice." Usually he is oblivious for a few days.

Ceruleanlobster and I went to have coffee again tonight. It was chilly and it was packed so we sat outside next to the chimnea. It was so nice! I really like our new coffee shop that we go to. It's locally owned and the woman who runs it is soooo nice. She was smoking a clove cigarette...I love the smell. Nothing else going on really. School is getting busy. I had a project due today, which I did. Next week we'll have another for our final. Means a lot of time infront of a video camera signing. No biggie..I'll just do my best. Come December 12th I'll be off for a month :) Oh....there is this song that Ceruleanlobster and I were talking about tonight by The Supermen Lovers. I just LOVE it. She told me about this place called usendit.com so I uploaded it and you can download it here it's called Starlight. It's ...well...fun. I like it.