| December 28 , 2005 - Christmas Time Once Again |
 *sigh*
How can Christmas (or whatever winter holiday you celebrate...I'm
not even Christian but I still stick with the moniker) not be
your favorite holiday? I just love getting together with
all of my small family and spending the few days each year
we get to see each other together. This was a hard Christmas
in many ways, but also a very good one overall. For one I
got a new computer! yay! So now I don't have to worry about
hooking up my Frankenstein powerbook to a TV to operate.
:D
Pictured are my Uncle Martin and his dashingly handsome
bird Bud posing in front of my mom's Christmas tree. |
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| December 19 , 2005 - Don't Ever Say It Can't
Get Worse |
 Not
that I did say that...I'd never be that stupid. But
fuck it feels like I'm paying for something I did wrong.
So just a few days before I'm supposed to go home for Christmas
my apartment floods (a neighbor's pipe burst in her floor).
This displaces me, my roomate, and my three traumatized cats
into an unfurnished apartment of boring doom. Seen in the
snap for this week is said apartment (that my apartment complex
almost didn't offer me, bastards) with Doodle posing on top
of my box springs and Matt rolling around watching him.
EDIT 12.28.05 Two days after this my ass landed
in the Norman ER with a 103 degree fever. Yah, there's
nothing like coming home to complete chaos and becoming
deathly ill. |
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| December 11 , 2005 - Holiday Party in the House! |
 For
the first time in ages everyone got together and hung out.
Things have been rough since the break up, and friends have
scattered out a bit. It was wonderful having everyone in
one place laughing and messing around and generally just
hanging out and stuffing our faces with sugar together.
Pictuered are Kari laughing in the arms of her husband
Ross. Rachel can (mostly) be seen toting a Dr. Pepper in
the background. :) The sweets on the front row were lovingly
baked by The Autumn: Queen of the Yeast. |
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| October 29 , 2005 - Rar! Happy Halloween |
 For
Halloween this year I let my inner-ness shine through. I
went as half Devil half Angel. :) Actually I went a little
strong on the Devil side as I had a tail and horns but no
halo (b/c the damn thing didn't fit on my head).
Here I am getting ready with Matt to go hit Bricktown in our
costumes. The eyelashes (which you can't see well in this pic)
itched like a bitch but totally made the outfit bitchin'. I
got hit on a few times, which was a nice ego boost.
Rawr!
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| October 10 , 2005 - Kitty the Unnamed |
 I
am bound and determined to grow up and be the crazy cat lady.
I already have Frodo & Sebastian, and now I have Kitty
the Unnamed! He was a stray born on Bionic Matt's farm in
Meeker, OK. His two different colored eyes and bob tail won
me over when I first saw him weeks after he was born. I oscilated
during recent trips to the farm whether to take him home
or not, and this past one finally did me in. Kitty the Unnamed
now resides with me and he makes me happy.
I've had talks with Frodo & Sebastian to try and convince
them they're still #1 kitties and the new comer is nothing
to worry about. Frodo seems to believe me but Sebastian
isn't being so quick to accept him. There haven't been
any fights yet, but I assume the claws will come out at
some point.
Now Kitty just needs a name... |
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| September 13 , 2005 - Sarruquin 0wnz as a Guardian |
 So
I started playing this neat little flash RPG called Adventure
Quest a week or so ago. My friend Alex turned me on to
it, and since it's turn based I can play it at work without
worrying that when a patient comes to the window I'll get
my ass beat down by whatever I'm fighting. Well, you can
play for free but the server only allows for 5000 or so free
players to be on at one time. If I miss my window right around
8a to log in, then I won't get in all day. :(
Luckily there's this really nice guy I know named Matt
who secretly payed to upgrade my account. (((hugs))) So
now I can log in whenever I want!
This image is specifically of Sarruquin cutting down a big
meanie on the Leeory Jenkins (I kid you not) quest. The only
way to get my pretty Nightmare mount I'm riding is to have
an upgraded account. :D I kicked this Dragon's ASS, but because
I had to steal potions from my friends to do it I had to
fight them afterwards...and they killed me dead. :( |
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| September 6 , 2005 - Hurricane Katrina |
 I
have no words to adequately describe the devistation that
was left behind by Katrina. Thousands of people have perished,
and countless of those that are still struggling can still
be saved. If you aren't close enough to offer help by the
way of your arms, or beds in your house then help by opening
your wallet.
If you think a pizza is more important than donating then
take a good look at who the hell you are and what you value. |
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| July 31st, 2005 - Caleb checks in on Bionic
Matt |
 Matt
came home from the hospital and curled up on my bed with
Patches (the aptly named ear-less teddy bear in the background).
Caleb was over joyed to see him and simply couldn't contain
himself. :P
Nice guy pose! |
|
April 19th, 2005 - Pope Palpatine Benedict
XVI checks in |
 The
newest Pope has been elected (so sayeth the white smoke and
tolling bells), but what will this old guy from Germany do
with his new found power?
Lets hope it's awesome, though I fear it won't be. The
man is 78, so he doesn't have much Pope in him to give,
plus he tried to retire 3 times while he was a Cardinal.
A month or something ago he remarked he was looking forward
to his retirement so he could focus on his literary studies,
the true passion of his life (beyond that whole "god" thing
I assume). Doesn't sound like someone who's overjoyed to
be the pope-meister to me.
Did I mention this guy is also an arch-conservative who
strongly believes there should never be female priests? Well
damn, I guess he and Bush might get along better than John
Paul and our idiot President did. |
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| April 2nd, 2005 - To the Pope-mobile in the Sky! |
 While
I may have been taking
bets on when da Pope would kick it, that didn't mean
I didn't respect then man and his life. For a religious leader
he was pretty coolio. Let's not mash signals, I disagreed
with many of his sticking points (abortion, birth control,
gay marriage, the list goes on la la la la), but the man
had balls. He never seemed to take one side or the other
based on any ulterior motives, and once he took a stance
he didn't flip around on it when it wasn't the popular thing
to say.
Hey, he lectured Bush (both Bushies actually) on why he
shouldn't go to war. All Hail to the Pope for that!
He was the moral leader for one of the largest cults...er...religions
on the planet. All praise the teachings of Cathol! Rock on
in whatever afterlife you've found Pope-meister. Props. |
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| March 8th, 2005 - Eric Feeling Molested |
 Sandra
Kent had her retirement party today though she isn't leaving
until March 18th. Eric was convinced to get into the "island
vacation" theme of the party. Well, that is to say I
challenged him to wear a grass skirt and he accepted (thinking
that no one would actually come up with one for him to wear!)
I passed this on to other more resourceful people, and
lo and behold not one but three skirts showed up
in the PT dept today! lol At first it seemed Eric might
*gasp* chicken out as he refused to wear the grassy reeds.
He snuck away to work on charts, but not far enough to
be out of our reach! We forced the skirt on him thinking
it might be the only time we'd see it on him.
Click the pic to see more snaps from that day (and Eric
actually wearing the skirt and little else). |
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| February 27th, 2005 - Burn Baby |
 Ever
heard a car backfire? Well, I woke up to that sound @ 7:50a
Sunday morning. I don't know why I found it odd, but I decided
to peel apart the blinds and take a look outside to make sure
everything was alright. What I saw convinced me that everything
was in fact not alright, and that dialing 9-1-1 would probably
be a logical thing to do. At first I couldn't tell what the
hell clouds would be doing moving so quickly directly outside
of my window, and my first irrational thought was "Tornado!" as
I am utterly afraid of them. I fumbled around until I succeeded
in putting my glasses on right and realized those weren't clouds
I saw outside my window, it was smoke! I believe the exact
phrase that passed my lips was "Holy shit!" Needless
to say that woke Brandon the rest of the way out of his sleep.
As I craned my head to the right the smoke turned from gray
to black, and that's why I knew something was terribly wrong.
My first impulse at that point was to think an apartment had
caught fire, but thank the gods that wasn't the case!
Instead there was a flaming ball of orange flames engulfing
a parked van. I shit you not. I ran around the house searching
for the cordless phone, but soon gave up and ran for the phone
in the game room. I called 9-1-1 and said something incoherrant
like "There's a car on fire outside my apartment. I think
it blew up!" Their response was "We know", and
after a few moments I said "Oh, okay" and hung up.
lol The car was so totally engulfed that if there had been
anyone inside, there was nothing I could do for them now. So,
I and a few of my neighbors/friends shuffled out onto our porch
to watch the carnage. Surprisingly there were very few gawkers,
I guess it was a quiet little fireball of doom. Funny thing
is my friend (Anthony) who lives downstairs was awake and reading
a book the entire time and remained oblivious of the incident
until Brandon told him about it later that evening. (And of
course he didn't believe him, who would? But he couldn't argue
with it once I showed him the picture.)
Not much to say after that. The firefighters came and with
much shuffling hooked their mighty hose up and quenched the
wrath. The van had obviously caught on fire from the inside
cab, so it must have been arson. Either that or there's a very
sad smoker somewhere who lost alot more than a lit and forgotten
about cigarette. No ambulance came, so I'm assuming there wasn't
anyone inside. The annoying thing is I can't find any mention
of the story freakin' anywhere. :( I only snapped one pic in
my haste. Enjoy the inferno |
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| January 1st, 2005 - Happy New Year! |
 Not
much to say really. ^_^ Happy 2005 everyone!
(pictured are Brandon and myself celebrating Christmas
at my mom's house in Midland, TX) |
