I'm just resurfacing from a nasty bout with Bronchitis. Not much has been going on other than a lot of coughing and wishing I could stay in bed all day, every day... lol. Thankfully Ben and Bishop have been subbing for me in Seminary, so that helped quite a bit! Unfortunately, now Ben is sick with the same crud... This is one of the times I can honestly say I'm thankful it's just Ben and I because taking care of children and feeling this sick would have made this past week and 1/2 a whoooole lot worse.
Phew... :)
Friday, February 27, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
Ghosts, Migraines, and Tornadoes, Oh My!
Wow, I haven't posted in over a week... what a slacker! Psssh... actually, I've been hecka-busy and just now getting around to regaling you all with this week's highlights. So, here I go...
Last weekend Ben and I were treated to a wonderful night of wining & dining (except for the wining, of course... it was more soda-ing for us!) at a really posh restaurant downtown, courtesy of our job, The Hartford. Ben was one of the Excellency Award winners (yay Ben, good job babe!!!) and they held a dinner to honor them, complete with 5 courses of really yummy food! After all the food and pagentry, we were treated to a night at the Skirvin Hotel, a really old (but recently remodled) and famously "haunted" historic hotel here in OKC. Ben swears he heard the ghost baby crying that night, lol! Anyway, it was a great evening and the hotel was really nice! (Oh and Ben was kind enough to let me watch Twilight on PPV!!!) Here is a picture of us that evening:
Unfortunately for me, I woke up the next day with a horrendous migraine again (yeah, we still haven't been able to get those under control... it's getting really old) which of course lasted all weekend. That made getting all my homework/tests done a real BEAR! I managed, but ugh... not fun.
Then on Tuesday, things got a little crazy. The stinking weather decided to throw a curve ball and all of a sudden we were spending the day trying to survive a ridiculously early tornado outbreak. Five tornadoes on February 10th, that's just not normal! One of them smashed up some businesses down the road from where we work. Fortunately, The Hartford has a concrete reinforced safe room with these huge metal shutters that lock us in, nice and snug. We spent the majority of the afternoon in there until the worst of it had passed and they let us all go home early. There was quite a bit of destruction done to parts of the city and many homes. Fortunately, no one died... in OKC. I'm sure many of you saw on the news that a deadly EF4 tornado struck some small towns down in southern OK and did a lot of damage, and killed quite a few people. *sigh* I hate hearing these things. No one was expecting that many (much less that intense/dangerous) tornadoes this early in the season. Technically, we're not even IN tornado season yet, that's the freaky part!
Anyway, I have this ritual every year at the start of Tornado season, but the dang things beat me to it this time. Uh oh... might that be a bad omen?!?! Hmmm.... anywho, here goes, feel free to sing along everyone!
I looked out the window and what did I see?
An F5 tornado coming to destroy me!
Spring has brought me such a nice surprise!
F5 tornados right before my eyes!
I can go and hide in my "safe" bathroom,
But if it's an F5 I'll be dead soon!
I wish it weren't so,
But there seems to be,
An F5 tornado coming to destroy me!
So there, that was my week in a nutshell. Well, all that and my hectic training and all my schoolwork. Oh and Seminary, that too... You know, it really stinks being an adult sometimes... there is no such thing as a summer break to even look forward to! :/ Thank goodness for small diversions, like good books and blogs to escape to! :)
Last weekend Ben and I were treated to a wonderful night of wining & dining (except for the wining, of course... it was more soda-ing for us!) at a really posh restaurant downtown, courtesy of our job, The Hartford. Ben was one of the Excellency Award winners (yay Ben, good job babe!!!) and they held a dinner to honor them, complete with 5 courses of really yummy food! After all the food and pagentry, we were treated to a night at the Skirvin Hotel, a really old (but recently remodled) and famously "haunted" historic hotel here in OKC. Ben swears he heard the ghost baby crying that night, lol! Anyway, it was a great evening and the hotel was really nice! (Oh and Ben was kind enough to let me watch Twilight on PPV!!!) Here is a picture of us that evening:
Unfortunately for me, I woke up the next day with a horrendous migraine again (yeah, we still haven't been able to get those under control... it's getting really old) which of course lasted all weekend. That made getting all my homework/tests done a real BEAR! I managed, but ugh... not fun.
Then on Tuesday, things got a little crazy. The stinking weather decided to throw a curve ball and all of a sudden we were spending the day trying to survive a ridiculously early tornado outbreak. Five tornadoes on February 10th, that's just not normal! One of them smashed up some businesses down the road from where we work. Fortunately, The Hartford has a concrete reinforced safe room with these huge metal shutters that lock us in, nice and snug. We spent the majority of the afternoon in there until the worst of it had passed and they let us all go home early. There was quite a bit of destruction done to parts of the city and many homes. Fortunately, no one died... in OKC. I'm sure many of you saw on the news that a deadly EF4 tornado struck some small towns down in southern OK and did a lot of damage, and killed quite a few people. *sigh* I hate hearing these things. No one was expecting that many (much less that intense/dangerous) tornadoes this early in the season. Technically, we're not even IN tornado season yet, that's the freaky part!
Anyway, I have this ritual every year at the start of Tornado season, but the dang things beat me to it this time. Uh oh... might that be a bad omen?!?! Hmmm.... anywho, here goes, feel free to sing along everyone!
I looked out the window and what did I see?
An F5 tornado coming to destroy me!
Spring has brought me such a nice surprise!
F5 tornados right before my eyes!
I can go and hide in my "safe" bathroom,
But if it's an F5 I'll be dead soon!
I wish it weren't so,
But there seems to be,
An F5 tornado coming to destroy me!
So there, that was my week in a nutshell. Well, all that and my hectic training and all my schoolwork. Oh and Seminary, that too... You know, it really stinks being an adult sometimes... there is no such thing as a summer break to even look forward to! :/ Thank goodness for small diversions, like good books and blogs to escape to! :)
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Edwards breath = Gasoline?
So I survived my first day (well more like part of the day) on the phones, hooray! Anyway, so Ben and I were having a conversation about names we've been called by our (sometimes kinda deaf) AARP customers and for me it was Alice. That happened to me quite frequently at my last job as well and I used to really not like it, but ever since I became a Twilighter, I find it puts a smile on my face because it makes me think of my favorite vampire!
Ben was surprised to hear that I gave Alice that spot, rather than Edward. I admitted though, that if these characters were real and I could actually meet one of them, I'd actually pick Edward over Alice, even though I find her the most intriguing and likeable of the bunch. Why? Well, simply because I'd be curious to see what his breath smelled like! I think I'd just go up and ask, "Hey, can you just breathe on me? Thanks!" (For those of you that have never read Twilight, this sounds crazy, I know... it's hard to explain, so either go read the books or... well, I guess you'll just have to think I'm insane!) I imagine that it would smell differently to each person, as it's supposed to be whatever they find appealing/attractive? Anyway, so when I told Ben this, he knew right away what Edward's breath would smell like to me...
GASOLINE!
Yes, I'm a freak. I loooooooooooove the smell of gasoline!!! Well, I must clarify, I love the smell of gasoline fumes, not the actual gasoline itself. If you've ever spilled it on yourself, I'm sure you know why... But the fumes? Oh yeah, baby, bring it on. I used to fill up my roommates'/misson comps' cars just so that I could stand by the pump and smell it, LOL. Ben still teases me about it every time we go gas up and I have to roll down the windows and get a good sniff!
So yeah, apparently Edward's breath = gasoline fumes for Alex. What would Edward's breath smell like to YOU? ;)
Ben was surprised to hear that I gave Alice that spot, rather than Edward. I admitted though, that if these characters were real and I could actually meet one of them, I'd actually pick Edward over Alice, even though I find her the most intriguing and likeable of the bunch. Why? Well, simply because I'd be curious to see what his breath smelled like! I think I'd just go up and ask, "Hey, can you just breathe on me? Thanks!" (For those of you that have never read Twilight, this sounds crazy, I know... it's hard to explain, so either go read the books or... well, I guess you'll just have to think I'm insane!) I imagine that it would smell differently to each person, as it's supposed to be whatever they find appealing/attractive? Anyway, so when I told Ben this, he knew right away what Edward's breath would smell like to me...
GASOLINE!
Yes, I'm a freak. I loooooooooooove the smell of gasoline!!! Well, I must clarify, I love the smell of gasoline fumes, not the actual gasoline itself. If you've ever spilled it on yourself, I'm sure you know why... But the fumes? Oh yeah, baby, bring it on. I used to fill up my roommates'/misson comps' cars just so that I could stand by the pump and smell it, LOL. Ben still teases me about it every time we go gas up and I have to roll down the windows and get a good sniff!
So yeah, apparently Edward's breath = gasoline fumes for Alex. What would Edward's breath smell like to YOU? ;)
ByeBye Carrabas :(
Yesterday was my birthday, and so Ben wanted to take me out to dinner at my favorite restaurant, Carrabas. I was sooooo excited, we haven't been there in months (probably closer to a year, actually) since we've been on the Dave Ramsey plan, paying off debt and whatnot. Anyway, so I'm just estatic, right? I was already imagining all the nummies I was going to eat... (their Mezzaluna is just esquisite!)
On our way up there, we stopped by Ben's parents' house and when they asked where we were going to eat and we said, "Carrabas!" thats when my whole day was ruined...
"But they closed down."
............. WHAT?!?!?!
*sigh*
I guess we have no choice but to make the 2 hour trip to Tulsa now, since that's the only place Carrabas still exists here in OK. Back in the day when the OKC location wasn't open, we'd take long weekend trips up there mainly for that. Oh, the lengths I'll go to for some good Italian food... I just hope we can make it up there before the Tulsa one closes down too! :/
Other than that, my b-day was relatively uneventful. We had our first assessment at work and I scored a 96%, woohoo! (Who likes to take tests on their birthday, ugh!) Ben came up for lunch (yay!) and after I got over the shock and grief of no Carrabas, we had a nice dinner at Texas Roadhouse. :)
On our way up there, we stopped by Ben's parents' house and when they asked where we were going to eat and we said, "Carrabas!" thats when my whole day was ruined...
"But they closed down."
............. WHAT?!?!?!
*sigh*
I guess we have no choice but to make the 2 hour trip to Tulsa now, since that's the only place Carrabas still exists here in OK. Back in the day when the OKC location wasn't open, we'd take long weekend trips up there mainly for that. Oh, the lengths I'll go to for some good Italian food... I just hope we can make it up there before the Tulsa one closes down too! :/
Other than that, my b-day was relatively uneventful. We had our first assessment at work and I scored a 96%, woohoo! (Who likes to take tests on their birthday, ugh!) Ben came up for lunch (yay!) and after I got over the shock and grief of no Carrabas, we had a nice dinner at Texas Roadhouse. :)
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