Quick Thanksgiving Day Update
Morning folks! Hope everyone is having a fantastic day so far! I wanted to post a few pictures, which we got wit the normal camera, rather than the phone.
This picture basically shows what the weather was like the whole way to California. It was foggy, cool, rainy and windy. At one point, we stopped at a rest stop close to the AZ/CA border and the wind and rain was blowing so hard it was hard to see. To say that we were ill-prepared for the cool weather would be a slight understatement.
I’d always heard about the ‘wind farms’ in California - but I always assumed they were out in the middle of no where. I was wrong. The photo below is a picture of the wind turbines that were sitting scattered around a town we drove through on I-10
This picture is just a ‘gimmie’. The signs, the road and the rain seemed interesting.
The drive was brutal. The rain, traffic and stupidity of drivers made for a very interesting trip out. We underestimated the amount of traffic that would be coming out of LA - and when I mean, coming out of LA, I mean the entire 89 miles between LA and Bakersfield. It was mind-boggling. We went 40-ish miles going no more than 20 miles an hour.
I’m charging the camera now and will update more later 
Birthday Cards - Family is Crazy!
Jerrett and I both have November birthdays. His is the 12th and mine is the 28th. So it’s the time of year when family and friends send us crazy birthday cards and I thought I’d share a couple with you.
The above is a picture of a bunch of clowns - on the inside it says, “You can just tell we’re family” and then my sister Tory added, “I don’t see you and I in this photo, did we miss the call?” She’s a nut and I laughed so hard my sides hurt after reading it. It’s funny because I use a ‘circus freak’ analogy when talking about the hight difference between myself and the rest of my family - I’m over six feet tall - my dad and mom…they do good not to require peddle extensions in their cars.
I remember when I was about 14, I got a card from my mom in the mail that had a picture of a big nose on the front of it - I thought to myself, “What in the heck!?” Then I opened it and I still remember what it said - and it’s words EVERYONE should live by. “You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friends nose” - truer words have never been printed.
Which leads me to this jewel. When I saw it, I got a bit weepy. I don’t think we realize how quickly they grow and change - but it only took this card, personally created by my dad and step mom, for Jerrett’s 14th birthday this year:
See what I mean? Look at him. He is SO adorable! The first thing John said when he saw it was, “Wow, two belts, so this isn’t a new thing?” Jerrett is standing in the living room of my dad and step mom’s house, behind him on the floor is the train he would play with for hours and hours. It had smoke. Real live smoke. He thought it was the coolest thing ever. Of course, as every good ‘ole Texas boy should be, he’s wearing Wrangler jeans and I’d be willing to bet, that’s one of those crazy canvas shirts that were so popular back then. I don’t know. He looks so sweet and innocent
Anyway, so those are some of the cards from this year. I’ll post some more, as they come in I’m sure.
Ouch! My face hurts and Stupid FF3 is still driving me crazy…
I write you tonight from Safari, because Firefox 3 has still not addressed the problem of the spell check on the fly problem with Wordpress. Until yesterday, I was blissfully using FF2 on my desktop machine, but I started getting some random wonkiness from one of my FF Add-Ons and when I went to see if there was a new version, I was instructed that I sucked for using FF2 and that if I wanted to use my really awesome add-on, I had to get FF3. Lame-O me forgot about the Wordpress issue and blindly downloaded FF3 - then came on over to post about my stupid face rash and realized I was not being spellchecked - and those of you who know me (meaning, those of you who talk to me on IM) know exactly how frightening that can be.
So, here we are in Safari - because the on-the-fly spellchecking in Safari actually works. Thank you Safari.
Ok, so a few things first, I have a few new favorite songs to share with you, so open your iTunes now and start downloading them.
- Relentless by Jason Aldean - Side note, this song is not only fantastic, he’s hawt. Married, but still hawt.
- Let It Go by Tim McGraw - This song is pretty deep and hits me right there, with regards to the topic we don’t discuss here.
- Love Story by Taylor Swift - She’s a really talented artist and wow her messages are often pretty deep.
Those are my weekend iTunes purchases - I am in the process of compiling a list of great songs I can listen to while driving to California in a few weeks. Oh, I also got the Blue Oyster Cult song that prompts people far and wide to demand “More Cowbell”.
Alright - now on to the ‘Ouch - My face hurts’ portion of tonight’s program. It seems that I might have gotten ahold of something on Saturday morning that caused a catastrophic allergic reaction - and by that, I mean my face puffed up like a puffer fish and my lips started to split open. Now, as I sit here, it feels like my face is going through that 24-hours-after-a-sunburn phase of healing. It feels dry, gross and it freakin hurts!
I ended up taking Benadryl Saturday night in order to try to curb the pain/swelling - I mean, after all, my anniversary was already shot all the heck. Right?
Anyway, I am doing a bit better today I think. My skin feels real rough around my chin and dry - wow, I am scared to open my mouth for fear it’ll crack something and I’ll have a Joker-like opening in place of my normal Brandy-sized mouth.
By the way, so far so good on the medical front - I have decided to change the tag name of the category that contains most of my medical stuff..:)
(I am listening to Relentless right now…Wow, this song moves me…I’m not sure why, but it does (It might be because he’s hawt tho - I will admit that))
I’ll check in later in the week - surely something will happen between now and then that will be blogworthy…I hope…
(I talked to my dad tonight too - which always makes me a little giddy - I miss my dad a lot)
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