Third Grade - Day 5

and nina's home with a temperature of 102 and a massive headache...

playing mommy

i know that i've been missing in action this past week. nina started school on monday and has had half days every day until today...

3rd grade.

i really think it makes them more argumentative. we had a 2 hour disagreement on monday over book covers. she wanted the cool stretchy ones that cost money. i wanted her to use the free ones that come with my groceries. i won. it's cool to be the mom...

late last nite we got a call from one of the other moms looking for information on how to get cheetah girl tickets. which means nina had them first. nina's on the cutting edge for once. the envy of her friends. since that never happens - we think it's super cool....

:-D

family shot in hannibal

this is a picture of the three of us in hannibal last week just before our ride on the mark twain riverboat. aren't we so cute?

bet you'll never guess what my shirt says....

i'm so lame - i'm pretty sure this post is about me...

virtual props to the person who can identify my costume for trivia night last weekend! that's erin - my coworker. i publicly humiliate myself for very few people - so she better feel honored!

dear ameren ue,

i would like to take this moment to publicly apologise for any comments that have been posted in my blog during the past month which may have seemed slightly derogatory. i'd also like to apologise for my inability to properly spell derogatory - in case i spelled it wrong.

any comments made have been made out of constant frustration for our interuption of power and the potential of constantly having to restock our refridgerator and freezer.

i understand the latest outage that occured between 1 pm and 5:30 pm today was officially due to "wire damage". although we did find it interesting that it was no longer raining when the power went out this time.

so consider this a public apology.

karen

ps. now that i've publicly apologised and taken it all back - will you PLEASE stop turing off our power? i'm tired of resetting the clocks already!! and i missed gilmore girls again today...

now - i mean it. this ISN'T funny!

who did we piss off at the electric company? i'm serious. what did we do? we pay our bill. we don't complain about ourtragous prices. we don't even criticize over that whole dam break thing out at johnson shut ins last year...

this just isn't amusing anymore!!!

sitting in my living room around 4:30. minding my own business. watching the gilmore girls. i love the gilmore girls. and it's actually an episode i've never seen - which is about as rare as a 90210 episode that i haven't seen. it was the first one with sebastian bach. and sookie having her first baby. and the town doing living statues of works of art like the last supper with kirk as jesus...

sorry - i babbled...

anyway. so i'm watching gilmore girls. i start to order pizza. jeff goes in the bathroom to take his shower. it's raining out. a little thunder. nothing bad. no wind. not even raining super hard.

the power goes. right in the middle of my pizza order. then comes back. then goes. then comes back. then goes again. out for 20 minutes. wasting no time - i call ameren - they say it will be back on by 11 pm. yeah. it comes back. it threatens to go back out several times. jeff takes his shower. the pizza gets here. we start to eat. the power goes out again. out for another 45 or so minutes before coming back. we waited at least an hour before we started resetting clocks this time - just to make sure it was staying on...

ameren's webpage reports tree contact as the reason...

i just think someone there doesn't like me and is following me around and flipping major switches. i know it seems crazy - but how else do you explain a power outage in HANNIBAL??? and a week after we got our power back it went off for about 5 minutes in the middle of the night - totally randomly. so my theory can't be THAT far off. i mean - we've lost power 4 times in the last 3 weeks!!

and why don't they like me? i'm a fun girl?!?!?!?

vacation - day 2

jeff and i spent last night in the biggest 4 room suite at harrahs. six head shower, jaccuzzi tub, 4 tvs - including one by the jacuzzi tub, bose radio system, two potties, king size bed...

i'll spare you most of the details.

i had lobster for dinner though. and chocolate martinis. martini's and lobster totally rock.

the slots weren't as cool though. neither was the video poker...

nina didn't join us.

however - she found her cheetah girls tickets this morning and all i've heard since we picked her up is cheetah and hannah from montana. it's driving me bonkers and the concert isn't until october 1!

blog change

i made a change that forces you all to do a word verification step when you comment in hopes that who ever keeps spamming my blog will knock it off...

sorry for the inconvience...

it's so not funny...

jeff and i are out on vacation this week. staying at the lovely casa de meyer for most of it. doing some st. louis stuff and hangin by the casa's pool if we can.

yesterday we drove up to hannibal and did all of the typical hannibal things. the cave, house, and riverboat. we stayed the nite at a hotel - the quality inn and suites. hung out there last night watching a movie on our portable dvd player that we hooked to the tv.

about 11 storms started rolling through hannibal.

around 2 am - the hotel lost power. it was out until around 3 or so. so not long. but just long enough for us to think that the joke wasn't funny...

movie review: the devil wears prada

i went to see the devil wears prada with a friend from work friday nite.  it's been awhile since i've seen a movie without talking animals or animation.  it was kinda weird.

anyway.  you all know i was a big fan of the book the devil wears prada.  i just finished the author's second effort - everyone worth knowing.  equally good (except i really could do with less references to eating disorders and open prescription drug abuse).

as for the movie.  i still enjoyed it.  the ending was somewhat altered which bugged me a little.  it still worked and all.  but i like the book ending better.  

meryl streep was wonderful.
anne hathaway was wonderful.
stanley tucci was EXCELLENT.  
and man - the guy who played nate has a gorgeous set of eyes.  

i don't recommend seeing the movie at a theater attached to a mall.  you leave with serious shoe and clothing envy.  and it kinda makes you want to shop.  and be skinny.  and be rich.  cause the clothes in the movie only look good on skinny people.  that cute little chanel dress would only look frumpy on me.

did anyone else know that the theater at the galleria serves beer???