Inane Whimperings

Sleet and ice came on Monday night, and part of yesterday, then turned into snow. Behind the cut are some pics.

( It's that time of year )

This is Victor Borge's famous, 'Phonetic Punctuation', and behind the cut is his adaption of this method to music on The Dean Martin Show. This man is a riot. His 100th birthday is this month. This is in honor of that and this wonderfully funny man.





( More Victor and poor Dean )

And that's not excitement. That's me being facetious.

We had a 2.8 earthquake in the area this morning at 2:47 a.m. I was asleep, as were most, and those that weren't just thought it was the storm that had rumbled through the area because the thunder from the storm had been rattling houses and windows.

These dang things are getting closer. Ugh. Now the USGS is going to be keeping an eye on things to make sure this isn't a foreshock for a more serious quake which can follow minutes, hours, or days after (as my CA friends know).

Pfft. You CA friends can keep your quakes! I love y'uns, but seriously!

 The meme:  When you see this, post an excerpt from as many random works-in-progress stories as you like. Who knows? Maybe inspiration will burst forth and do something, um, inspiration-y.

 

Eh, why not?  I just got home from work, am sitting here gagging down some yogurt and granola, so I might as well do this meme to help take my mind off the nastiness that is yogurt (the pomegranate and blueberry juice I’m drinking is excellent though).

 

 

( And away we go )

 

 

Now everyone that reads my stories understands why it takes me so long to get a chapter done.  I have too many stories going at once!  Although I must admit, a few of these I don’t work on at all anymore, they’re just waiting for me to finish others so I can work on, and finish, them.

I've been C'd!

Went to the funeral, which was hard, but the day ended well when I turned around to see Keelie behind me in Wal-Mart!

She's gotten so big, and her hair is getting almost long enough to put in a ponytail now. Sniff. I miss her so much. This is the first time I've seen her since a few days before Christmas.

It's now covered with a dusting of snow since light flurries have started, but you can still see the ice. I left the pics big so that you could click on them and see the details better. They're a bit dark...but it's not bright outside LOL

A view of one of the trees and the parking lot of the apartments next door to mine:



A view of the house on the other side of my building as well as the power lines:



And a view of the sidewalk and ground out the back door of my building:




Lovely, isn't it? And we're supposed to get more of this on Friday. Ugh.

spending my Sunday at work.  Most of the people that have come in today have been nothing short of bitches.  I don't know what it is, but I'm getting rather sick of the attitudes these women come in here with.

And...

It's damned cold outside! 

Why am I busier than I was last week?  

Makes no sense.

Sigh.

March can't get here fast enough.  Then I'll not have to work every frelling Sunday!

The only good thing...I now have access to wireless internet at work so I can bring my laptop with me and surf the net while I'm sitting here with no customers.

freezing! This weather is so crazy. It dumped about four inches of snow on us yesterday and got cold, cold, cold.

But...

It's supposed to be nearly 70F (19C) Monday. We're all thinking, "Great...more storms, specifically tornadoes."

This weather is crazy.

And so are the people in this stupid town.

A woman came in today wearing a long skirt, winter boots, a sleeveless top...and no coat.

Brilliant, huh?

On another note...

I'm going to visit one of our stores tomorrow with the Reginonal Manager. She asked me today if I had anything planned for tomorrow (amazingly enough I'm off on a Sat. again...that's two in a row after not having one off since Sept. last year) and then asked if I wanted to go since I've only seen our store and the one I helped set up in 2006. I said sure, and she made the trip even better by telling me she'd take me to Lambert's afterward. Oh yeah.

I've not ever been there. Was supposed to go a few years ago for my b-day, but my brother never took me.

And the best part...

It's on the company so I can have whatever I want LOL

And...some day I'm going to Ireland. It's the land of half of my ancestors and it's beautiful. And they're are places that are so quiet and peaceful that it's like a small part of heaven here on earth. I have dreamed of going since I was a little girl. I think out of all the dreams I've ever had, going to Ireland and Scotland are the two I want most.

I love this song, although I don't like this guy's version. It's so sad, but beautiful and relaxing at the same time.



Yes, I'm in a strange mood. A very close friend died on Thursday, and the woman who became my second mother while I was watching my mother die from cancer lost her mother on Thursday as well. So, it's put me in this strange mood.

strikes again.

I was supposed to make seventy-two cupcakes as you all know. Well...my sister wasn't clued in, nor was her oldest daughter, so the oldest daughter made over one hundred cupcakes. Which means...

My cupcakes weren't needed.

But I didn't find this out until I'd already mixed up two cake mixes.

So, we now have forty-eight extra cupcakes.

Sigh.

Why can't my family be more organized and stop doing things at the last danged minute?

Ugh.

Drives my one sister in law and I crazy.

This all just goes to prove even more than if I ever get married, I'm eloping.