Greetings From Hell...

I bring greetings from the warm, sunny (beaches?) of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. It was nice and warm today... and driving down on Beach Boulevard and Washington Avenue today, you really might have thought you were in Hell. At least, it looks like it. I drove down by the old house today, and it is still an ugly sight. It is very sad to drive around down there by the water. I'm so glad that my parents aren't living there in the trailer anymore. It is very depressing to just drive by and look at it for a minute, much less live there and look at it all day every day. They got moved (I guess you'd call it moved... although they really didn't have anything to "move") into this house at Thanksgiving. It is a rental house located closer to Highway 90 that was only flooded with a couple feet of water. Thanks to lots of help from various church groups, it was fixed up for them to "move" into. It is much, much better than the fifth wheel camper trailer that they lived in from September till Thanksgiving. But they are very lucky to be living in a house already. Most people (in this neighborhood and everywhere else) are still living in their FEMA trailers. (About 90% of structures in Pascagoula were either damaged or destroyed.) So anyway, I'm here until the morning when I'll be headed back to Jackson. I just wish I could take them with me and get them out of this Hellhole!

Merry Christmas to All...

And to all a good night!

I hope everybody has a wonderful Christmas and is able to spend it with those closest to you. I am here with my family in Pascagoula, MS, in the midst of Katrina destruction, yet everywhere we look, God's blessings are all around us.

Be thankful for all that God has given you, and may the joy of the season fill your hearts this night as we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

I Felt Him Move

Yesterday, I saw my very good friend, Birdie, and she's only about 5 or 6 weeks away from meeting her new little boy, Tristan. I can't wait to meet him, too! I got to feel him move yesterday, and it was so cool! I can only imagine how it must feel to her, and I know it is so exciting. She is only about 2 weeks ahead of my other very good friend, Linds, and I know how excited she is waiting for baby Ali to come. I just can't wait to see what it's all about for myself because I know it's just so wonderful and exciting. Right now, I know at least 6 people that are pregnant or have just had a baby. What was in the water 9 months ago? It's a good thing my Brita pitcher filtered it out of mine! I want one, but I'm still waiting on the right man to come along to be Daddy.

It's Finally Here!

It came this morning! And it looks so good!










Now I just want a bigger house to go with it...









Yes... that is Sex and the City on the TV!




This is what I did tonight. I was worried about how they would do. I'm glad they turned out OK! Tomorrow night I will finish the batch (it makes a LOT of cookies!).

Almost done

Tonight I made a big trip to Walmart (it was crazy there) and actually finished my Christmas shopping! Yay! Then when I finally made it home, I took advantage of my wide open living room floor and did some wrapping. The tree looks so much better with presents underneath!


I also picked this up at Walmart tonight... This is going to be my next attempt at being "crafty." We'll see! (Sarah I wish you were closer so you could teach me how to knit!)

Here is my bare, naked living room as it awaits the arrival of my new furniture tomorrow morning!! (Note the pile of things in front of the TV that I still have yet to wrap.)

And ere's a thought to leave you with... In the words of Pamela Anderson on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno tonight: "If you cover your nipples, then you're clothed." Hm.

The Sound of Music

While I watched The Sound of Music for my very first time ever, I finally finished decorating my tree! Now.. on to vacuuming. I'll be moving my furniture out tomorrow night because my new furniture is coming on Tuesday!

Christmastime

I'm still in the process of decorating for Christmas. Here are some pics of what I've done so far...

So far, all I've got on the tree is lights, but the plan is to finish decorating it tonight so I can at least have a week to enjoy it before Christmas.
This is my house from the outside. It's a little pitiful, I know, but the pre-lit wreath is all I have time to put up outside. Maybe someday when I have a man around to help me, I can do more lights or something. That's wishful thinking...

This was tonight's sunset. I just thought it was pretty, so I threw it in here.

And finally... The picture you've all been waiting for!
(I can't seem to make it home from work these days before the sun goes down, so I took one picture with flash and one without. That's why they look different.) It may be a "soccer mom" car, but I am absolutely loving it!

Yes, Virginia...

There really is a Santa Claus! ...And he works at Grey-Daniels Nissan. Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas, Taylor! :D

I Want my DH!

So apparently, a 2-hour "holiday special" of Extreme Home Makeover is a substitute for Desperate Housewives? I think not!! Don't get me wrong, I like Extreme Home Makeover, but NOT in the place of my Desperate Housewives! They should've started it at 6:00 if they wanted to do a 2-hour special. What were they thinking?? I guess I'll just watch Days of Our Lives on SoapNet till 9:00 instead...

Dear Santa...

Cold and Cozy Night...

It's a really cold night tonight (in Mississippi terms).... Here is everybody being lazy and enjoying the firelog burning in the fireplace.

From Bert to Bertha

Well, my cat, Bert, has been in the vet hospital for over a week and a half now. He's had problem with urinary tract blockage, and he hasn't been able to pee, so he's had to stay at the vet with a catheter in. He's had this problem before and it took some time, but he eventually got better on his own. But this time, after a week and a halft it had not resolved on its own, so Bert had surgery today... Basically he had a sex change to try to help fix his problem. Poor thing... I miss him so much, and I hate that he's had to go through all this. But Dr. Adams felt like the surgery went really well, and thinks that he (or she? or it?) should recover nicely. I guess technically Bert would not be a "she" because he lacks the female parts, but he is definitely not male because he is now lacking the male parts. Poor baby. Hopefully, as long as he keeps doing well, he'll be able to come home on Saturday.

Happy Birthday and Goodbye to Xterra

Well, today is my Xterra's birthday... It was my first new car purchase, and I bought it on December 7, 2002. It's so sad that it has to be all alone on it's special day. :( And then on top of that, yesterday they declared it a total loss.... poor thing. Today I went to get all of my stuff out of it, and I said goodbye. :'( Now I have to get something new. I was thinking of getting a new Xterra, but after going by the dealership today, I fell in love with something else...


That's right ladies... a new Nissan Pathfinder. :) Maybe this won't turn out to be such a bad deal after all.

I Wish All my Ex-es Were in Texas

Today I found out that my ex-boyfriend is getting married.... I'm over him, but why does it bother me so much? Maybe because not even a year ago we were talking about getting married? In January, he told me that he wanted to get married and that he saw us being engaged by May. But in March we broke up. Fine. It was tough, but I knew it was for the best, and part of me was actually relieved. Then he started seeing his high-school girlfriend again, and today I found out that they are living together and getting married in April. I guess there's something about me that makes guys want to get married.... to the next girl, not me. This is the third serious boyfriend in a row who has married the next girl they've dated. And I've only had three serious boyfriends! But this one bothers me more than the other ones for some reason. My first ex to get married was my high school boyfriend that I dated forever. But his getting married didn't bother me at all... maybe because it had been so long after we broke up. The next ex married the girl after he knocked her up, and I was already fed up with his crap anyway so I didn't care what the hell they did. It was no surprise to me that she got pregnant.... She'd already dropped out of high school and gotten kicked out of her parents' house (she was 17, he was 24). But the most current serious ex was I guess the one I thought most seriously about marrying. It's not like I want him back or wish I were in her shoes, but I don't know what it is. It's just plain weird.