October 5, 2004

• And the well-laid plans of mice & men....

  
  

  Yesterday I just hurt.  Everystep hurt.  So I went to the midwifes, took the kids through the drive-through at McD's for dinner as the apointment was late.   And came home.  

  
  

  Had contractions last night too.  And feel like I was doing sit-ups all night right now.   Tis the way I always feel after bad ones.   Oh well.  Such is life.

  
  

  Today I have to run to our bank.  An hour away.  Also the town where my grandma is currently living.  I'm hoping to see her.  But I also have several errands to do...and feel rather like crap.   So I have no idea what will actually be accomplished.

  
  

  I had a lot of fun writing on the boards the last couple days.   I feel like I "woke" up a bit and actually was enjoying my character again.  

  
  

  Rainee picked up a new phrase yesterday.  One that left me snickering for several hours.  "Whats up with you?"  she inquired of me.    And hurrah!!!  she slept through the night last night.  That makes one of us. 

  
  

  The mountain.   Well driving it approximately 3.5 hours from us.   As the crow flies...depending on the wind we could really get dumped with ash if the "big" one happens.  The BIG erruption that happened when I was umm 8?   we were supposed to get 2 feet of ash...but at the last second the wind shifted and Eastern Washington got it instead.  We just got a light dusting that covered the furniture etc.    

  
  

  In reality I'm not "terrified" of it...but I'm also well aware how much damage it could cause.  And well aware of the earthquake danger involved.   Oh yes...and Mt. Hood is currently acting up as well.  Although their attempting to down-play it at the moment.    And I have a certain standard of emergency prepardness that I like to just have.  Not much.  LOL   Food I usually have 2 weeks worth...just cause of where I live.   Water 3 days worth.   More then that we'd be hauling from the creek and boiling the life out of it.    Tis the extent of my prepardness.   But I think when you live in the boonys like I do your more prepard anyhow.   You don't have a grocery store next door....its 20 minutes away.   And was 30 minutes away when I was growing up.  So one has to have common sense. 

  
  

  My parents always had a generator as well.  But this was because my dad also uses it on the job for certain mechanical repairs.     We just couldn't justify it.   We always figured it things were truely bad...we'd hike to their house ROFL.  

  
  

  Now over-doing emergency prepardness would be my friends and neighbours up the road.  They have a years worth of emergency supplies, t/ps and feminine products included.  And they have a bomb shelter.      Their awesome people....just have a hang-up in that area.   And fairly periodically a helicopter flies over them...because their quite convinced that their must be para-military hiding up there.

  
  

  There isn't...we're there every day all summer ROFL.   Although I *did* get in a heated debate with one of Rob's co-workers in which she was convinced they were growing drugs in their green-house.  Nope, just tomatoes, and lettuce, and so-on enough to provide the valley with food...for free.  Tis where the zucchini came from this year.  And all the other goodies they kept bringing me.

  
  

  But rumours...are just that.  And hey will let them think their para-military....we'll be safer as their neighbours.  bwahahahahaha!

  
  

  Okies have a great day all. 

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