I'm still alive, barely

The title refers to the weather yesterday and how I was 1.5 miles from home and then the storm hit. I was pretty close to a hook echo which is not cool. The radio guy said wind shear was near 100 mph and I'm just hanging out in my car along side the highway because I couldn't see crap due to the golf ball size hail pounding my car and the rain. Needless to say, my car has some damage, but I think it's pretty minimal. It wasn't raining at the 2 mile mark from home and then suddenly it was. It was not a good feeling. The weirdest part was suddenly the rain stopped, the sun was out and there wasn't a bit of wind. This weather continued on and off all night so I'm lacking in the sleep department.

D.C. was fantastic, I loved it!It seems like it was so long ago I was there.

not too much going on . . .

The weather cannot make up its mind if it wants to be cold or hot. It is going to be in the 70 & 80s for the next week or so, which is fantastic!

Greg went home for a week and made my Christmas present. He made a coat rack/hall tree out of horseshoes for me. It still needs to be painted but it is pretty awesome!

I had Bunco Thursday and Friday last week. I'm now in two groups. Hopefully they won't be back to back every month!

I'm heading to DC this weekend with our friend Ann. I'm really excited about the trip, but worried about my office. If someone takes a day off around here, your office is going to be terrorized. I don't really participate anymore for fear of retaliation, but I'm about the only one who hasn't been hit severely. I'm really worried, so I'm trying to lay low this week! We leave Friday and fly back on Monday. I've never been to DC so it will be fun!

I was suppose to show this weekend in an adult showmanship class, but it got cancelled. I was disappointed, but not really because it was really cold outside.

Weekly Update

The tornados did head to Stillwater. The sirens sounded and we spent some quality time in the basement of the Student Union. Fortuantely, none touched down near Stillwater, although a funnel was spotted in the sky.

I have read the Twilight series now. I finished book 4 on Monday night. It was good and now we can talk freely in the office since I have read them. The tornado allowed me to read quite a bit.

I went to the musical Footloose on Friday night at the Community Center with some girls from work. It was a good time, not a high class production, but still fun. Greg went to Carthage, Missouri with some friends that night to look at some horses.

Saturday night we went to a wedding in Guthrie. It was fun and the best part was they had a photo booth like you see in a mall. They had props and everything. You took 4 pictures and them it printed two copies. You kept one and put the other one in a scrapbook and wrote a message for the couple. It would have been fun to do that at our wedding, but I'm not sure all the pictures would be appropriate!

Sunday we went to the PBR finals in OKC with Bruce, Ann, Steve and Vicki, DeRon and his boys. We ate at Abuelo's and then headed over. It was a good time!

Greg bought me a beautifual bouquet of carnations for Valentine's Day. It is a beautiful arrangement and I hope to post a picture when I remember to bring my camera to work.

Greg saddled Henry and wanted to jump on him this weekend, but felt he should wait until another person with some horse experience was around to help, i.e. not me.

Recruiting season has started, yippee!

TORNADOS......

.....are headed to Stillwater today.

A few have touched down in OKC and rapidly approaching the Stillwater area.

Another fun day at work. :)

The weather was beautiful too! Damn.

Publications

I'm getting closer and closer to submitting a couple of journal articles for publication. I met with my committee chair this morning to discuss the progress. I'm hoping to get them submitted by the end of the month.

I think we are going to an estate auction tomorrow. I'm hoping to find another dresser draw chest so I can rearrange a few things in the house.

The weather is BEAUTIFUL, but windy. I was hoping to walk at Boomer tonight, but no one is available for a walk. :( I might still go, but I'm afraid it might be getting dark by the time I got around.

I got my Girl Scout cookies!!!!

I might clean my car this weekend. It is really dirty after all the ice we had last week.

Have a great weekend!

I'm still here

just really busy and no time to post. Well, I would have had time if I had internet at home, but we don't.

I had two snow/ice days last week. Monday I left work at lunch to make it home, and then campus closed at 2:00. Tuesday and Wednesday campus was shut down, but I came to work on Wednesday because Thursday was our career fair. Friday kicked off our first day of interviews. By Friday night, all I wanted to do was sleep!

Greg spent the night on the interstate in the car trying to make it home last week. There was an accident and/or I-40 was shut down, so it wasn't good. He finally made it home at 9:00 am on Wednesday, he needed to sleep, so that was another reason I went to work.

We finally named the horse that is here. His name is O'Henry.

I'll try to post more often, but work is going to be hectic for a little while.

Did anyone watch Cheers?

We have an "assignment" for work. We were assigned a character from the show Cheers and we have to take something from their character and share it with the group. BUT - it has to be something customer oriented related or something we can implement as a team to improve our service to employers.

I drew Sam Malone. Can anyone help me out here????

Please???