Friday, August 22, 2008

Your so vain....

Well, I am happy to report that work was closed again today. Bt, at around 5 the shit hit the fan! My supervisor calls and says that I have to account for all of my kids. My work cell phone is broken still and I only have an old emergency list of numbers. So basically I scrambled around looking for my clients' numbers to call. One of my clients has two kids. She only has four diapers left, her car flooded in the storm and her yard has water up to her knees. She dosent have much food left and no way of getting to a store. So, basically, I have to bring her diapers and food tomorrow as well as drive around Jacksonville looking for my people and making sure they are ok. While I was dealing with all this we got a call from a friend saying she got in a car wreak and she needed us to pick up her dogs for her (they wee in the car). Wierd stuff today. Anyways, I am not happy about working tomorrow but I guess it was worth having the past two days off. I might even shop while i am in Jacksonville.
I am so excited Luke comes in tomorrow. I have to pick him up from the airport at 2. I haven't seen him in forever. We were all going to get a hotel in Jacksonville and go out Saturday night but with the weather it might not be worth it. We will see.
I am almost tired of being cooped up in the house all day. Nick got on my nerves earlier. I really hate it when he looks at pictured of himself. All he does is zoom in and out and talks about how hot he is. He stooped to an all time low today. He tried to replace the background desktop picture on our computer. Right now we have a picture of the two of us. He found this other picture with JUST HIM which he feels he looks so hot in and he wanted to put it as our background pic. Don't get me wrong, I think he's hot! But, I yelled at him and told him that it sickens me that he is so vain and I can;t wait until he gets old, fat, and bald. lol These are the things we fight about people! I swear we are so fucked up! :)
This quote can sum up my day today. :)
Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance. ~Author Unknown

Thursday, August 21, 2008

TS Fay










Well, today I slept until 11, Nick brought me breakfast in bed, and I don't have work. What could be better? Nick and I went out to eat at one of our favorite restaurants on the beach. On their sign they wrote, "Don't worry about Fay, Come eat with us today" I thought it was really cute. I wanted to take a picture of it but all the letters had blown off by the time we left. EVERYONE is calling us asking if we are OK. Yes. They had two guys from the Weather channel come in the restaurant and sit by us. Nick was so excited I think I saw him drool a little. He begged me to let him go talk to them and of course I didn't. Then, 2 guys with CNN shirts came in (don't they have real news to report on?) and we saw local news people outside of the restaurant filming. It was kinda funny. Nick was so excited. He wanted to drive around and stalk the news crews. We decided to drive by the beach just to see the waves. The parking lot was full and there were a lot of people out there looking. I have never seen waves so tall in my life. The ocean was so choppy it was pretty eerie. Anyways, I figured I would snap a few pics to commemorate the day. Now we are sitting around staring at each other. Fun stuff.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

a few pics.

I tried to get a picture of his face but he was chowing down on a bone. The next one is a profile shot. He is such a cutie!


Nick looks clueless in this pic!

It's just a tropical storm people!!!!

Today was an interesting day to say the least. I wake up (extra early) because hurricane Faye is coming and we all had to be at work at 8 (who gets to work on time ever? ...not me!) So I wake up late but I was rushing to get ready since out supervisors were actually looking for us and I ran out to my car to grad my work bag. I was taking Nick's car to work because I need all kinds of crap repaired on mine. I walk up to my car and to my horror, my sunroof is open!!!!! Before I went to bed last night, the weather lady said that we would sleep good due to heavy rains all night. Well, needless to say, everything in my car was ruined! I had inches of water on my floor boards an, in my seats, and in my cup holders. My brand new work bag was socked, my beloved planner... ruined (I can;t find it at Barnes and nobles anymore), and all of my paperwork was soaked (thank God I did not bring any files home). Worst of all, my cell phone for work was in the car. The phones are the crappy free ones, but we get charged $100 when we break or lose them, so that sucks!!! And I have many contact numbers in there that are lost. :( I get to work and we had to wrap all of our computers in garbage bags and pick up all of our paperwork with any identifying info. We have this chick that I work with who is in charge of emergency stuff. She was sunning around the office freaking out and updating everyone was too often on the hurricane. She was literally stalking people in the office. Everyone is like panicing about this stupis storm. It isn;t even a real Hurricane!!! It was so funny. She takes her job WAY too seriously! Target had the windows all covered and people were like stocking up on supplies! I don;t even think we have water! So I come home at 1:30, nice after an hour and a half lunch break with the co-workers and I am excited that we don't have to work tomorrow. So nice! Me and Nick were running some errands. The bug man came to our house today. He said that the roach we saved for him was an outside roach so that was good. He asked when we started seeing them and we told him about a month and a half ago. He said that in the past couple months he went from no calls to this area to about 10 calls to these condos. He said that the landscapers are probably doing something different which would explain why everyone is starting to see them around the same time. That was good to hear. So he sprayed and I hope I never see any of those bastards again! I can't wait for Duncan to get home. He is getting his hair cut and Nick went to pick him up. He always looks so handsome. The groomer said that he was bad today though so I am nervous. Apparently, he shit all over the place when they tried to do his nails. Not surprising, he probably did it on purpose! I hope she didn't take and chunks of hair out! When me and Nick were running errands Lindsey, my cousin, called me to chat. She had me laughing so hard! Apparently, she went out this past weekend and slept at a friends house. Her phone went dead but she did not think it was a big deal. When she got home my whole family was waiting on her long with detectives and police. They filed a missing person's report and a stolen car report!! The detective was talking to her like something happened. They didn't believe her when she said that nothing was wrong. She eventually checked and had like 15 messages. My aunt went to all of her friends houses looking for her. She had about 5 calls from the police report saying "if you can please answer the phone, or you can call 911." I think it is nice that they take it seriously. To make matters worse, my other cousin was home announcing her engagement in the midst of all this. Only Lindsey!

Anyways, that was my day. Nick's home, we are gonna cook steaks.

Monday, August 18, 2008

On the road




Home sweet home

I had a great visit home. The flight was good. When I got off the plane and started walking towards Nick Kali waited like 3 minutes and then jumped out and yelled "Happy birthday Jessie". I had to explain to her that it was her birthday. She is so funny! We got to hang out with people I haven't seen in a while. We went to the mall of LA and I was in awe at how nice it is now. I miss that mall. It just feels like home. :) I spent many'a days in there. I have figured out that I got my compulsive shopping habits from my mother who does not thinks twice about dropping hundreds of dollars in one trip. I thought I was bad, but come to find out, she's worse. Kali is a sucker too. I took her "birthday shopping" not knowing that mom had already gotten an obscene amount of themed bday decorations. Well Kali made me re-buy EVERYTHING. I was so pissed when we got back home and her only response was "I forgot". We had fun though. She is growing up way to fast. I also got to see her at Karate. She got in trouble for going off into space and staring at me through the window which was funny. While I was sitting there it was nothing but soccer moms. I don't think I want to be like them. All they did was bitch and whine about how bisy they are and they had their noses buried in their planners as they sat and gulped their starbucks coffees. Who wants to be like that? I wanted to ask them if they had ANYTHING better to do, which I doubt they did. I went to walkons Thursday night to hang out with Nick's co-workers. It was a good time until we got out tab. $93 what the hell? I didn;t even drink!!!! I was so pissed at that point. I should have asked them to give me a print out of the reciept but I didnt. We then went to the funny bone because a friend of mine had "free tickets". When we got there they said that they had given out all of them. We were thinking, why would you give out free tickets if you cant honor them. I was pissed again. And the show SUCKED. It was this old guy who looked like Hannibal ector. He freaked me out and no one on stage was actually hypnotized. They were laughing. I also had to buy a 6 dollar diet coke. I spent Friday in Torbert... Need I say more. It was pretty boring and uneventful. I did get to see my brother and sister-in-law's new house. It made me jealous and I got antsy about what kind of house we will have. We ate boiled crabs that were of the chiz-ain. Saturday was the party. It was really fun. I think dad was happy that we kind of surprised him after he had to work all day. Kali had fun. Sara is kinda bad. She is cute though. Me Jo and Jude took Kali to the mall earlier that day. It was fun. I brought her to Libby Lu and of course she had a ball getting her hair and nails done. The child has some sick obsession with fake hair. I don;t get it. The party did not get awkward this year until the end which makes me laugh. Kali's doctor brought her kids, her husband and her mother to the party two hours late. When they drove up Kali yelled, YOUR LATE! As if it were not obvious enough. It was so funny! We had a little water balloon fight which was fun and Nick burned some hamburgers, he tried! Saturday night I had the brilliant idea of going out to eat. We all went to Outback. Everything was fine until the check came and mom paid for everyone which pissed me off. I would not have gone if I would have known she would pull that shit. I was really angry. I just worry about them. I feel like dad works so hard and for what? Mom just blows money. I went outside because I was mad and Kali sat with me. She asked what was wrong and why we were fighting which really broke my heart. I feel bad because I don't think she understands that when we fight it doesn't mean we don't like each other. We went home and dad was drunk. He was cracking everyone up. He had to write a letter to his insurance company basically to state that he did not hurt himself on the job. He was very candid in it. He was "positioning his leg to wipe his but after a bowel movement". He is so funny it kills me. He had everyone rolling. It reminded me why I like being home. I guess every family is a little crazy at times but deep, sometimes DEEP down we always love each other. Mom cooked us all breakfast on Sunday before Nick and I left. Mom cried, felt bad. The drive home was not bad at all. We got home in about 10 1/2 hours. We played games and did trivia on my crackphone the whole way. We also finally came to the conclusion on what we will name a daughter (if we have one).... Blair. We are thinking Estelle for a middle name or Noel. Whatdayathink? When we got to my friends house to pick up my car the tire was flat. Nick spent all day today fixing everything wrong with my car that has built up since he has been gone. He cooked a really nice dinner tonight and cleaned the whole house... what a sweetie! Work sucked today because I had so much shit piled up to do. I am depressed right now because I hear football. It makes me a little nauseous! I hate the shit!!!!! I am ready for labor day!
Jennifer found out today she is having a boy!!!! The Crosbie curse is broken, no longer can we say we have "all girls". YAY, I am excited for Jenn and can now start to buy boy stuff :).

To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.




-Clara Ortega

Monday, August 11, 2008

Tomarra Tomarra, I'll Love Ya Tomarra!

I can't wait until tomorrow!!!! YAY, I am going home for 5 days!! I can;t wait! I had an ok day today. I don;t think anything unusual really happened. I got a lot of compliments on my hair today which made me feel good. Everyone thought I cut it but no, it is amazing what a little hair dye can do! And.. my face didn't break out in a rash from it, so double yay! I have to stop at Starbucks in the morning to buy my co-worker a slice of cheesecake for letting me park my car at her place and driving me to the airport. I was going to get her a gift card, but all she wants is cheesecake. She is supposed to be on a strict diet so I am kinda bothered by the fact that I must buy her the one thing she loves the most... LOL. She is so crazy, but I love her.
I am loving my iphone all over again. I updated it last night and realized that there are a ton of new things you can download onto it now. It gets better everyday... I wish I would have waited to buy the new and improved cheaper version, but boy was it worth the money. I really need to buy a new hair straightener. My poor thing has been dropped one too many times and one of the ceramic plates keeps falling off. One side is connected and the other just flaps off. Talk about a burn hazard! I will have to take my chances, at least I got soap to shower with now. Life is looking up! :)
Well, my favorite show, Jon and Kate plus 8 is on, I must go!!!