Revamp

I'm in the middle of revamping the look of my blog. I changed the lay-out to one more condusive of customization... I've just got to familiarize myself with this one now... My next step will be adding a background image... as soon as I figure out how...

Huzzah!

University housing isn't making us move! Yippee! We get to stay!

Evicted, maybe?

So, we might be getting kicked out of our apartment… something about the board of trustees isn’t too thrilled when people who aren’t registered students live in university housing. I came home yesterday to a letter on our door. We might be able to still live there once Chase registers for his continuing his thesis credit hour whatever type thing… or they might kick us out for not being a full-time student. Either way will be good. I'm sort of amused by the ordeal.

Under the Sea

So, this morning as I was passing this nursing home in Marion on my way to work, I saw a hitchhiker. It was an elderly man, and he was standing on Route 13 in front of the nursing home with thumb stuck out and everything. Hrmmm… did this man escape from the nursing home?

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Last night I dreamed that I was a mermaid. It was great! I was all swimming in the ocean singing and laughing and doing the things that sea creatures do. Then I saw these nets. At first they seemed harmless, but then they started moving. I thought that they were fishermen trying to catch some fish. So, I’d swim out of the way (it was quite amusing at first), but after a while, I realized that they were trying to catch me! I panicked and swam as hard as I could, but I got worn out and was eventually caught. I started screaming, but it wasn’t like a normal scream; it was sort of like a beautiful song in scream form (if that makes any sense at all). It was pretty loud under the water, but when I was brought up to the surface, it was blood-curdling (yet still beautiful).

There were two scraggly-looking men on jet-skis reeling me in. As I got closer to them, I got more panicked and louder. I was looking around expecting someone, anyone, to show up and save me. Then I saw my merman father. (He wasn’t like my real-life dad; in fact, he greatly resembled King Triton from Disney’s The Little Mermaid.) I stopped sing-screaming and was so relieved knowing that he was there to save me from these men.

But when he approached, the men gave him gold coins. My merman dad looked at me as if he was going to say something but didn’t, and then he turned around and went back into the ocean. The men started laughing; I started screaming louder than ever. They immediately stopped laughing and covered their ears which had started to bleed from my screams. They were fuming mad and pulled out this syringe filled with some kind of sedative. I had thought that I was at maximum pitch and volume, but I did scream louder and higher. It was the most beautiful and most terrible sound at the same time. One of the scraggly men on a jet-ski injected the sedative into my left shoulder and my screams slowly subsided until I was out. That’s the end of my dream. I woke up to go to the bathroom feeling betrayed. It was an awful feeling.

Occasionally I’ll go through a spell of nightmares where I’m being chased or attacked. I’m thinking that I’m in the middle of one of those spells. These dreams are always extremely colorful, exciting, scary, vivid, and realistic. Also, I remember them as soon as I wake up. So far in this spell, I haven’t been chased or attacked by any monsters yet; just people and tropical bugs.

Week in Review... Mad Lib Style!

Per request of Jon Darron, another Mad Lib. Instead of this being my day at work, it will be my week in review. Enjoy!

VERB ending in –ing ____________
NOUN ____________
Same VERB ending in –ing ____________
VERB past tense ____________
NUMBER ____________
NAME ____________
ADJECTIVE ____________
Same NAME ____________
Same NAME ____________
VERB past tense ____________
ADJECTIVE ____________
SPAN OF TIME ending in –ly ____________
PROFESSION ____________
ADJECTIVE ____________
VERB ____________
VERB present tense ____________
NOUN ____________
VERB past tense ____________
ADJECTIVE ____________
ARTICLE OF CLOTHING ____________
Same ARTICLE OF CLOTHING ____________
VERB ending in –ing ____________


Let’s see, let’s see… Saturday, I went (VERB ending in –ing)_______ with Keli; more specifically, (NOUN)_______ (same VERB ending in –ing)_______. It’s always fun hanging out with her. Sunday, Chase and I (VERB past tense)_______ the apartment in preparation of a guest who would be staying with us for (NUMBER)_______ nights. It turned out that (NAME)_______, our guest, would not be coming Sunday night and would only be staying with us Monday night. So we had a (ADJECTIVE)_______ apartment. Yippee!

Monday I went to work. Chase and I went out to dinner with Caleb, Keli and (same NAME)_______ to Applebee’s. Afterwards, (same NAME)_______ followed us back to our apartment. We (VERB past tense)_______ for a little while and then our guest went to our spare room and called home. Chase and I watched part of a documentary on these boys from Eastern Kentucky and went to David School (which I had done an informational video for as an independent study while I was at Morehead). It was quite (ADJECTIVE)_______.

Tuesday I had my (SPAN OF TIME ending in –ly)_______ check-up at the (PROFESSION)_______’s office. I should get the results of this check-up sometime next week. From there I went on to the international lunch at the BCM. Foreign students are (ADJECTIVE)_______, and I enjoy them. Afterwards I went to the bank to (VERB)_______ my paycheck. I talked to our friend John who (VERB present tense)_______ at the bank. Then I went home and laid on the (NOUN)_______. I was sore from my check-up for pretty much the rest of the day. Chase and I (VERB past tense)_______ the second part of that documentary.

Wednesday I was back to work. I did some designing of graphics for a concert we’re putting on in March. I think this will be the most (ADJECTIVE)_______ concert yet… for me, anyway. That evening, Chase and I watched the end of the documentary.

Thursday was more work. I finished the newsletter and worked on a logo to be embroidered on a (ARTICLE OF CLOTHING)_______. Apparently some guy owns a place that does embroidery and is doing (same ARTICLE OF CLOTHING)_______s for all of us here at the station for free. I’m down. Chase and I went to our accountability groups that evening and then hung out for a while.

And today I am (VERB ending in –ing)_______ here writing this Mad Lib so that Jon Darron and his office mate have something to do on a slow Friday.

Mad Lib

Remember Mad Libs? I sure do. Those are those stories with random nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, numbers, and occasional body parts taken out and replaced with blanks. The reader must fill in the blanks before reading the story. Miranda and I loved doing them when we were little. Our favorite noun was probably toilet and our exclamations usually involved poop. I’ve decided to make my day at work a Mad Lib for you to fill in.

NOUN ____________________
PLACE ____________________
NUMBER ____________________
VERB ____________________
NUMBER ____________________
NOUN ____________________
EXCLAMATION ____________________
ADJECTIVE ____________________
NOUN ____________________
PERSON ____________________
VERB ____________________
NOUN ____________________
ADJECTIVE ____________________
NOUN ____________________
ADJECTIVE ____________________
PLACE ____________________
NOUN ____________________
ADJECTIVE ____________________
NOUN ____________________
NOUN ____________________
SAME NOUN ____________________
ADJECTIVE ____________________
NOUN ____________________
ADJECTIVE ____________________
NOUN ____________________
VERB ENDING IN –ING ____________________
NOUN ____________________
PLURAL NOUN ____________________
ADJECTIVE ____________________
GAME ____________________
NAME ____________________
VERB ____________________
NAME ____________________

ALISHA'S DAY AT WORK

This morning I got into my (NOUN)_________ and left for my job at the (PLACE)_________. I was (NUMBER)_________ minutes late, but that’s not too bad considering I have to (VERB)_________ (NUMBER)_________ minutes to get to work. I walked in the (NOUN) and my boss said, “(EXCLAMATION)________________.”

Things seemed to be just (ADJECTIVE)_________, and I was checking the (NOUN)_________ when (PERSON)_________ came into my office to (VERB)_________ me some (NOUN)_________ to do. Nothing too (ADJECTIVE)_________ happened before lunch.

At lunchtime I had some leftover (NOUN)_________ that Chase and I had last night. It was still pretty (ADJECTIVE)_________. I had to go back to the (PLACE)_________ to operate the (NOUN)_________ during the noon-hour. That’s when things got (ADJECTIVE)_________. One of the programs got hung up and the (NOUN)_________ wouldn’t play anything. I had to pop in a (NOUN)_________ and broadcast from the (SAME NOUN)_________-player and go get my boss. He came back and couldn’t figure out what was (ADJECTIVE)_________ with the (NOUN)_________, so we continued to broadcast from the player while we rebooted.

After the reboot, things worked just (ADJECTIVE)_________. I went on to do some other (NOUN)_________ for a while. Now I am (VERB ENDING IN -ING)_________ here making this (NOUN)_________ in hopes that some (PLURAL NOUN)_________ are entertained for a short while. All in all, this day has been pretty (ADJECTIVE)_________ so far. Hopefully I’ll get to play some (GAME)_________ with (NAME)_________ tonight while Chase is (VERB)_________ with (NAME)_________ for praise band for church on Sunday.

And there you have it, my Mad Lib. Feel free to insert your own words and post the story as a comment (or not). Or make up your own! I’m sure it’ll turn out more interesting than what actually happened (unless, that is, something really crazy goes on).

Just Another Day...

Amy was saying my name on the radio. The on-air people do that sometimes. Usually they do when they’re talking about the web site and how people should visit it because we have monthly online give-aways or I’ve updated the web site and blah blah blah.

I’ve spent the majority of my day installing Norton Systemworks and then updating the anti-virus, running anti-virus, optimizing, and whatever else is in Systemworks. I did this on two of the three computers in my office. There’s no need to do it on the third since it’s not connected to the Internet. These tasks weren’t particularly interesting nor were they a chore. They were just things that needed to be done and caused me not to do much other work (not that I had much other work, but if I did, I wouldn’t be able to do much of it).

So, basically, this is another uninteresting post that needs some snazzing up. In honor of the game on eBay on which Chase is currently bidding, I will include zombies.

Amy was screaming my name on the radio. The on-air people do that sometimes. Usually they do when zombies are attacking them and they need me to rescue them and blah blah blah.

I’ve spent the majority of my day installing Norton Zombieworks and then updating the anti-zombie, running the anti-zombie, optimizing and whatever else is in Zombieworks. I did this on six of the seven doors in the station. There was no need to do it on the seventh since it’s the bathroom door. These tasks were slightly interesting and only slightly a chore. They were things that needed to be done and caused me not to do much other work (not that I had much other work, but if I did, I wouldn’t be able to do much of it).

So, basically, after I did all that, the zombie that was already in the building could not get out and was trying to eat Amy’s brains. When she screamed my name on air, I immediately ran to the studio with the chainsaw I keep in my desk and hacked the zombie to bits. I then bagged the bits up and disposed of them. It was just another day here at the station.