Shana’s Mindless Mumbling

Twitter Updates for 2008-08-26

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 | Tweets! | No Comments

• Waiting for the bus http://twitpic.com/934d #
• Cinnabon… mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Richelle’s fault that I caved to it #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-25

Monday, August 25th, 2008 | Tweets! | No Comments

• @comcastcares everyone at comcast has seemingly abandoned me, including you. Guess it’s time to call around for new service. #
• it’s killing me to leave!!! http://twitpic.com/8zpp #
• Comcast sucks. Have I mentioned that? Lying, cheating, bastards. Don’t fall for the fact that this @comcastcares claims to want to help. #
• @comcastcares I emailed your team and nothing has happened. Comcast keeps on charging, never fixes my problem, actually damaged my new home. #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-24

Sunday, August 24th, 2008 | Tweets! | No Comments

• Holy giant bed, batman!! http://twitpic.com/8u4d #
• Heckuva way to fall asleep http://twitpic.com/8uc3 #
• Is it weird that I get butterflies about tomorrow being my kid’s first day of school? #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-22

Friday, August 22nd, 2008 | Tweets! | No Comments

• @comcastcares Who are you and do you really care about me and my interweb struggles? If so, I’m kind of doubting you’re from comcast. :o) #
• I feel her pain: http://tinyurl.com/2vk37z #
• Gettin my harr did #
• @jgmacfarlane I feel your pain, friend! #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-21

Thursday, August 21st, 2008 | Tweets! | No Comments

• Nikki straightened my hair. Poorchild didn’t know what she was getting into http://twitpic.com/8ftw #
• Comcast is fucking CRAPTASTIC!!! I hate them! I’m on the internet, but they managed to royally screw up the TV and phone. #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-20

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 | Tweets! | No Comments

• Ahhhhhhh on Friday me, johnny and sheep number 29 are gonna be sleeping like babies http://twitpic.com/8b8o #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-19

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 | Tweets! | No Comments

• Look at me! I’m on the internet! Oh damn, time to go. Bye bye, sweet internet. See you at work tomorrow. #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-17

Sunday, August 17th, 2008 | Tweets! | No Comments

• @amandaadnama check it out… She found it on the parking lot LOL http://twitpic.com/7zkw #
• Days off are tougher than days I work. #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-15

Friday, August 15th, 2008 | Tweets! | No Comments

• Wow they are really serious about “no early birds” (and you should have seen the scene I made taking this pic LOL http://twitpic.com/7u4a #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-14

Thursday, August 14th, 2008 | Tweets! | No Comments

• 8 days until the bastards hook up my cable. Don’t they realize how this hurts my heart? The probably get a kick out of it. #
• You know Jessie McCartney us talking about his macintosh g5 in that song, right? LOL #
• I just love this magical machine that washes my dishes for me. #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-13

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 | Tweets! | No Comments

• Having high speed Internet withdawls. I shoulda bought the 3g for myself… For horrible interweb emergencies such as this move. LOL #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-12

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 | Tweets! | No Comments

• Anyone have a faucet like this? We can’t figure out how to turn on the flippin shower! http://twitpic.com/7euh #
• My mommy came over and figured out the shower LOL I think it’s what @wawap was expaining. Thank you !! I’m dumb :p #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-11

Monday, August 11th, 2008 | Tweets! | No Comments

• Wishes husband would just do the heavy lifting and let me do the thinkin’ #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-10

Sunday, August 10th, 2008 | Tweets! | No Comments

• just found an ex-boyfriend on facebook who works for Microsoft!! LMAO!! #
• GAH! It shouldn’t be this difficult to get new internet service. I should have started this process before the first box was packed! #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-09

Saturday, August 9th, 2008 | Tweets! | No Comments

• I work at work, then I work at home, then I work at the soon to be home. I’m finally done… till I do it all over again tomorrow. #

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Work in progress

Saturday, July 26th, 2008 | I rock., Julie, My Parents, My kids, Nana, Photos, Working like a dawg, migraines!! | 1 Comment

Next week, we’re getting a little garage thing built in the new backyard and then we begin the official move!!

This weekend, I’m trying to get as much done at the house as possible, because I have some really fun plans with friends next weekend that I don’t want to miss!

So this is going to be my children’s bedroom in a week or two:

Cozy, huh? LOL

All of those cabinets and shelves were full of stuff this morning. Lots of stuff! My parents came over and helped me box it up and move it to the attic and the patio. It’s out of the way and I can go through it after we’re all moved in. Now I can start priming and painting the cabinets and shelves. Then we’re gonna paint the floor with that speckle stuff, close in the other door, put A/C in, make some kind of closet, etc etc etc… It’s gonna be pretty neat when it’s done. We’re going to have no use for our current couches and big screen TV, so we might put it in there. They are going to have the coolest room evah! Check out all of those plugs on the wall. I’m thinking computers & video games all the way down!! The downside is that they’ll all have to share the same room, but I’m trying to make it where they can have their own little spaces in there.

Mom and I also primed the outside wall. I can’t figure out what color to paint it. The original color of the house trim is faded so nothing’s really going to match. I’m going to have to paint it all the way around to make it the same color. I thought about a contrasting color for those walls, but there’s already some contrasting colors in other places and I can’t match that, either! UGH. Oh well. I love to paint. Maybe I can save that project for the fall when it’s cooler.

Before:

After:

We’re gonna get F#%*ed!

Monday, July 21st, 2008 | Julie, Trouble | 1 Comment

…cause there’s a giant TROPICAL PENIS headed right for us!! 

HUNKER DOWN!! (or not  )

Still Alive!

Sunday, July 20th, 2008 | Hallelujah (or not), I rock., Julie, Mommy observations, Obsessions, Softball, migraines!! | No Comments

That’s me:

Why are the things that I love so much probably going to be the things that kill me?

Today, I rode the scooter around the ‘hood on the wet streets and later on, I played ball (fastpitch). I’m still here after both of them!! 

I get overheaded and get some serious migraines from playing softball. I love to play, but my body doesn’t love me when I play. I signed up for another season, but told them I’d only be able to play the late games.

Tonight started out pretty good. On my first at bat, I hit it in the grass behind the second baseman, she overthrew it to first, and I ran to second. Double! Woo hoo! I can’t remember how I made it home - seems like I stole third and then went home on a hit. I also think it was the only run we made the entire game. Most of the game is a blur because after all of that base running, the blood left my head, I stopped sweating, and I got a little LOOPY!! 

Next time at bat (2 innings later because we weren’t doing too hot), I was just hoping my legs would take me all the way to first base. I had a serious case of noodle-legs! She pitched one low and waaaay inside and I barely jumped back in time to avoid it. I did the sign of the cross, a couple of hail Marys, got back in the box, and got to walk to first. Hell yeah! It’s still a blur - I think I got to second on a hit, and then tried to steal third after the catcher threw to first to try to pick her off. She got both of us, dammit! I felt like Snoopy when he does that thing where his legs move 90 mph, but he doesn’t go anywhere. 

I played second and nothing exciting happened out there other than me not making it fast enough to catch balls that I should have had. I also kept running behind the base when covering for some reason. I kept doing it even after I said outloud to myself, “in front of the base, stupid!” Ugh!!

I hate Texas heat. I am amazed that I didn’t get a migraine. I took the vicodin anyway, cause it’s just fun. I can kind of feel the throbbing breaking through every few minutes, so I’m glad I took it.

Anyways, I’m trying to ride the scooter every day now. As soon as I get more confident with turning I am going to take the trip all the way to work. I am doing really well, but I’m trying to be smart about this since I do have 3 children to think about. I haven’t been to highway speeds yet, but I’m much less scared of going fast and in a straight line than I am of loosing control in a turn. So more practice until I can do it without the white knuckles!!

I read some advice today that I LOVE:

“Fear of death doesn’t prevent you from dying… it prevents you from living.”

Born to ride…

Thursday, April 17th, 2008 | Hallelujah (or not), Julie, My Man, Trouble | No Comments

…or fly. I’m not sure which just yet. I tried one of each the other day. 

Johnny got me a motorcycle while I was working in California last week. We’d been talking about getting one for me so that I could learn to ride, too. I used to go nuts on this little dirt bike that he had when we first got together. I’d ride that thing for hours.

Cheryl got to try it out my new bike when I was still in California. Johnny and Doug (Cheryl’s husband) took it out to the soccer fields by my house. She rode it around for a little while, and then wrecked it into a parking hump. She was trying to stop and she hit the gas instead of the brake, couldn’t make the turn, and it fell on her leg. She got a bruise on her leg and bent something on the handlebar a little. 

My second day back home was my turn!! Same thing as Cheryl - Johnny and I were at the soccer fields by our house and I was going round and round. I got the hang of taking off, stopping, getting into second gear, etc. So Johnny says, “OK, see you at the house, and the shithead starts walking home!!” 

We’re only a couple of blocks from the house and I’m thinking, “I got this.” I waited for the street to clear completely in case I stalled out, drove down the street, turned the corner, and then panicked a little when I realized that I was going to have to drive it into the yard. The driveway was a much sharper turn than I’d taken so far. I make the turn, HORRAY!! I give it a little gas to get up the driveway, got ready to stop, and I did the SAME THING that Cheryl did - I gave it gas when I went to reach for the brake!!!

 Everything is in slow motion at this point. I’m barreling up the driveway, through the yard and either I’m going to hit the brick wall of the house, or I’m gonna hit Johnny’s shiny motorcycle sitting “safely” on the porch. Neither one sound fun. So at the last possible second, I hit the brakes… front and back… HARD!!! I have a full-face helmet, but I had the visor up so that I could hear what Johnny was saying to me. The bike comes to a complete stop, my chin hits the handlebars, the back tire slides sideways in the grass, and I lay the bike down in the yard just a foot away from the brick wall… on my foot!! Just like Cheryl!!! Only I’m thinking that mine was much more dramatic

Johnny came running up the street and got the bike off of me. I thought I’d either knocked out my teeth or broken my leg, but neither one, thank goodness. I just laid down in the middle of the front yard laughing at my stupid self, thankful to be alive. That probably would have hurt pretty badly if I’d have hit the house, and I think Johnny would have murdered me if I would have hit his bike. I’m bruised on my leg, the inside of my lip, my ego, and I got a boo boo on my thumb. I’m not sure when the next riding attempt will be. Johnny doesn’t seem nearly as excited as he was at first. Wonder why? LOL

Come to momma

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 | Hallelujah (or not), Julie, Obsessions, Working like a dawg | No Comments

Behold.

It will be mine today or tomorrow.You may ask yourself, “Why the hell does Shana need another computer?” That’s one of those questions like, “Why is there air?” or “Why is there life?” Well there just is, and Shana just does, OK?

I’ve wanted another laptop since I killed my last one with a glass of water about 6 years ago. I haven’t been brave enough to get one since that traumatic event. It was only recently that I was able to let go of the dead one and give it to a coworker and as soon as I did that, the following series of fortunate events occured one after the other:

I’m gonna “share” it with Johnny, which will be hard, I know. I’m going to go check the FedEx tracking thingey one more time before bed and get a little tingle. he he he he he he he he o o o o o o o o