Yikes! Last night a huge storm blew through causing my lights to go out. Now this sounds harmless enough until you realize that I am deathly afraid of pitch blackness in this apartment! When I go to bed I leave like, oh, three to four lights on. But remember this is only about a three to four room apartment!
So, last night I traipse off to bed and start to fall asleep when suddenly the storm comes through causing all kinds of commotion. The lights flickered but they held in there but then they flickered again and all was dark. For a few minutes I'm just stunned because I have never had this place absolutely dark since I've lived here (one year, that's quite a record I'm sure!). Soon, the darkness started pressing in on me so I hopped up and went to get the flashlight. Hmm...flashlights just make things a lot creepier I soon found out so I quickly turned it off. I then went back to bed and huddled under the covers for the next few minutes praying for light to return, but alas it did not.
You are now wondering, Teresa, why are you so scared of this apartment, and I would reply....because it's crazy old! It was built to be a neighborhood grocery store back in....1892!!! Do you know how much this building has seen? Or who knows what has happened here?! Do you people not watch horror movies??
But I digress. Huddling under the covers I soon realize, hey, you could suffocate like this, so I pulled them back and just stared at the wall. Staring at the wall seemed safe so I did that for a while but soon I started falling asleep (thank you God!) and all seemed well. And it was. The lights came back on, my apartment was lit up like a Christmas tree again, and all was right with the world.
Now I'm wondering, in the event that this happens again, if they sell battery powered lamps. I would not have freaked out so badly if my lamps would have been able to stay on. Oh, and battery powered night lights, and battery powered Christmas lights, and battery powered battery chargers...just in case!
March 31, 2007
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March 27, 2007
Galveston Redux
Got back with only a few gray hairs to report. The trip went better than expected (I expected some sort of apocalyptic event to happen) so that means the trip is given 3 1/2 stars. 4 stars would be if a Gilmore Girls/X-Files convention would be going on down there. That would have been sweet.
The trip seemed to have evolved into just a major shopping trip. No NASA, no submarine, no Moody Gardens. Just a lot of shopping...mostly at stores we have in Kansas! We did make it to the beach and the zoo. The beach was rather harrowing with the wind whipping pretty strongly and the surf was very high. We had a cookout there where we fixed hotdogs and smores and boy, I must tell you, you have never had hot dogs and smores until you have them sprinkled with sand! Yes, the wind was so strong that sand blew into all of our food and you really didn't know it until you started eating your hot dog and found it to be quite crunchy!
I got bit by some very aggressive fire ants, I got my foot caught in a baby stroller and fell, and had to sleep in the same hide-a-bad as my little five year old niece who seems to suffer from some very wild dreams. I got hit in the face a few times at night while she flailed her little arms about. Shoving her to the far side of the bed seemed like the best tactic but the little bugger always found her way back to the middle where I would endure more face slapping for the next two nights.
The trip went fast and overall went very well. New York City is in two weeks so I better stay in travel mode. That means I won't unpack from this trip. No I'm not lazy...just prepared!
The trip seemed to have evolved into just a major shopping trip. No NASA, no submarine, no Moody Gardens. Just a lot of shopping...mostly at stores we have in Kansas! We did make it to the beach and the zoo. The beach was rather harrowing with the wind whipping pretty strongly and the surf was very high. We had a cookout there where we fixed hotdogs and smores and boy, I must tell you, you have never had hot dogs and smores until you have them sprinkled with sand! Yes, the wind was so strong that sand blew into all of our food and you really didn't know it until you started eating your hot dog and found it to be quite crunchy!
I got bit by some very aggressive fire ants, I got my foot caught in a baby stroller and fell, and had to sleep in the same hide-a-bad as my little five year old niece who seems to suffer from some very wild dreams. I got hit in the face a few times at night while she flailed her little arms about. Shoving her to the far side of the bed seemed like the best tactic but the little bugger always found her way back to the middle where I would endure more face slapping for the next two nights.
The trip went fast and overall went very well. New York City is in two weeks so I better stay in travel mode. That means I won't unpack from this trip. No I'm not lazy...just prepared!
March 16, 2007
Galveston, oh Galveston...
Vacation time. Off to sunny beaches, warmer weather, and a submarine! Yes, I am heading down to Galveston with my sister and her kids. Two small children, a teenager, and my sister who always asks "so....what's going on with your hair...?". It might be a very very long week.
But we are thinking half glass full here so let's focus on the good stuff. Like I said, the beach and warmer weather are going to be waiting for us and yes, we are going to go visit a WWI submarine. The one other place we'll go for certain is the NASA space museum but besides that I'm at a total loss on how we're going to spend the better half of the week. The temperatures are only supposed to be in the upper 70's so I don't know if swimming will be something we want to do. Most likely just play in the sand and chase seagulls or have seagulls chase us, depends on if they spot us with food!
But we are thinking half glass full here so let's focus on the good stuff. Like I said, the beach and warmer weather are going to be waiting for us and yes, we are going to go visit a WWI submarine. The one other place we'll go for certain is the NASA space museum but besides that I'm at a total loss on how we're going to spend the better half of the week. The temperatures are only supposed to be in the upper 70's so I don't know if swimming will be something we want to do. Most likely just play in the sand and chase seagulls or have seagulls chase us, depends on if they spot us with food!
VICTORY!
UPDATE UPDATE:
The first tennis match of the year, Craig vs. Teresa, came out with Teresa as the victor.
Team Craig blamed his loss on rain spots dotting his eyeglasses due to the sprinkles coming down during the game, but I think Team Teresa's superb handling of a weaker opponent was the real key to her win.
Good show Teresa!
The first tennis match of the year, Craig vs. Teresa, came out with Teresa as the victor.
Team Craig blamed his loss on rain spots dotting his eyeglasses due to the sprinkles coming down during the game, but I think Team Teresa's superb handling of a weaker opponent was the real key to her win.
Good show Teresa!
March 11, 2007
Digital Dunces
Yesterday Mary Lou and I went to a Digital Camera class offered by a camera store where Mary Lou bought her camera. Kind of like an intro class for new digital camera owners. I was actually expecting Mary Lou and I to be the only ones there but I was wrong, there were quite a number of people that showed up. At first we thought it was gonna be this huge spiel on "hey, buy more stuff from us because you really need to protect that camera you already paid big bucks for so why not drop more money on stuff you really don't need?" kind of thing. But the class actually was kind of helpful. The thing I couldn't stand was that half the class had these amazing cameras that they must have been "helped" into buying from the camera store, and they have NO IDEA how to use them. I'm surprised they could turn them on they were that inept!
There was this one lady that I kind of felt sorry for at the beginning of class. She had a super nice camera but knew nothing about it. Now I'm no genius on digital anything, I could be classified as a "digital dunce" but this lady was not only totally unaware of what basic terms such as view finder, cd, and memory card were but she had no idea what a Sharpie was! Yes, a Sharpie marker. No idea. She was totally clueless! At that moment Sympathetic Teresa was gone and was replaced by just plain Exasperated Teresa.
In the end though, I think Mary Lou and I might have graduated to the Semi-competent level of Digital Camera ownership....hmm...that may be pushing it!
There was this one lady that I kind of felt sorry for at the beginning of class. She had a super nice camera but knew nothing about it. Now I'm no genius on digital anything, I could be classified as a "digital dunce" but this lady was not only totally unaware of what basic terms such as view finder, cd, and memory card were but she had no idea what a Sharpie was! Yes, a Sharpie marker. No idea. She was totally clueless! At that moment Sympathetic Teresa was gone and was replaced by just plain Exasperated Teresa.
In the end though, I think Mary Lou and I might have graduated to the Semi-competent level of Digital Camera ownership....hmm...that may be pushing it!
March 9, 2007
R.I.F.
Over the weekend I bought two new books that I had wanted for some time but haven't had the financial means to justify buying them. But alas, Mr. Credit Card came through and so they were purchased. I read the first one in one day (man, the book was great but reading it in one day seemed like such a waste!) and the other I have just finished. It's a good thing that I am a "re-reader" because hardback books are pricey! Knowing that I will most likely read them again somehow makes things a bit better. But I could have had like, fifty Wendy's dollar menu items for the price of those two books!
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