mdoogie

Finally finishes watching the rest of K-ON! season 2. I'm going to miss this show. All those girls are just too adorable.

One of my co-workers recommended Sherlock. I wasn't going to watch it because I already watch too much t.v., but the broadcast season has ended so my summer viewing will be thin. The only thing I'm going to be watching on a regular basis will be True Blood. Game of Thrones will be over soon (the show is soooo good), so I probably will end up watching it. I think British series tend to be short like 6 episodes? The It Crowd is short like that so I assume most others are the same. I just need to find it online.

I hurt my back while I was walking on Friday. I'm not sure how it happened since I wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary, but it definitely happened. I'm fine when I sit, but when I get up and straighten my back, I get a sharp pain. Not cool! Hopefully it'll heal on its own, and I won't have to go to a doctor or chiropractor. I'm too poor for that. :(

Hey! Haven't updated in a while. Not that my life has been quiet, just that I forget to do this. I mostly just read my friends page even if I don't comment.

Two events:

My dog Cutiepie lost a good amount of weight before we figured out that he'd eaten a towel that had wrapped around his intestines. We suspected that was it because he'll eat anything, and there had been little pieces of ripped up purple towel outside the week before. We had to get a referral to the Gulf Coast Veterinary Hospital (President Bush (yuck!) brings his dog there), so as you can expect it was insanely expensive. It was worth it though. He came back three days later like that last week hadn't happened. He's 11 years old now, but still acts like a puppy. My other dog, Pimpom, was pretty lonely as they had grown up together -- from the same litter.

The other happening isn't as big but after being away for a while, I've gotten back into CreepyPasta! I stopped reading it last year because I spook easily, but I decided to try it again earlier this month. Now I'm having trouble sleeping. Closets creep me out and the dark gives me the willies. I'm too old to be this affected. I should really stop, but I can't. It kind of reminds me when I use to read Scary stories to tell in the dark. Too old to read them, but they still freaked me out. Especially the pictures:

It's snowing! In Houston! That never happens! It snowed a little last year in late December, but it was very light, almost invisible, and lasted all of 10 minutes. This is actual snow. You can see it! And it has been coming down all morning. It actually feels like winter and like Christmas season. Yay.

What the hell did LJ do to the user info?! It's awful. I can honestly say I hate everything about it. Boo!

Gah! Another hurricane is heading toward the Texas coast. The last one I went through was in 2005 when Hurricane Rita struck. We were lucky then as we ended up on the clean side of the storm, but that doesn't look like it's the case for this storm. The forecasters expect that we should have 80 mph hurricane force wind in my area. It's a hell of a lot more than what occured during Rita, but this time the hurricane is so huge -- covering most of the Texas coast -- no matter where it lands, you're gonna feel it. I'm definitely worried, more so for my three dogs than for me. Well, I am a little worried as my father has decided not to board up the windows and mine is directly in front of a huge tree. Of course not just the wind is a concern but the rain as well. Any type of flooding is a cause for concern. My area does tend to flood when extended rainfall is introduced. One good thing in our favor is that we've had a bit of a drought, so the ground is dry and can probably take a good amount of rain before saturation kicks in -- hopefully the storm moves quickly out of our area. I get the feeling power is going to get knocked out, so I won't be updating till Monday at the earliest, unless something were to happen. Godwilling nothing will. I'll come back soon!

Gah, always forget to update. I love reading my friends' entries, but when it come to my own, I can never find the time to update. Stuff does happen though -- case in point, over Labor Day while I was walking at the park, I do this every morning, this fatty on his bike ran me over. I couldn't walk for a week -- my knee was pretty banged up. What's even worse, before I could confront him and his father (he was some brat kid), they had already taken off, bastards!

I finally managed to e-mail some of the pictures I had in my phone. It wasn't working for a while, and today I finally got it to work. Yay!

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We're actually going back this November, so hopefully, more pictures. I want to go on a tour of one the haunted houses.

I hate doing my taxes. HATE! I can never get it right the first time. I'm getting two different amounts for the refund, and I can't figure out why. I'm very tempted to file the return with the largest amount, but I don't want to get rejected or have to pay it back in the future. I think I'm going to try it with another electronic filer like Turbo Tax and which ever amount I get is what I'm going to file. I just hate how as you get older things just get more complicated. :(

I found these hiding in a drawer. I would've used a camera phone and taken new pictures but since I don't have one and the dogs haven't changed at all since these were taken, I decided to scan these instead. I should really update my phone, but I find myself resistant to change. ;)

Doogie

This one and the pitbull are the two oldest. He's older by a couple of months though. Both dogs are around 10-11 years old. We got him in '95 during my freshman year. My username is derived from his actually. The first letter of my name - Monica + Doogie = mdoogie.



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My sister woke me up this morning at 6 am to tell me that our street was flooded. Somehow without me realizing, it had rained all night. There was even thunder and lightening which had escaped my notice. Most of the bayous overflowed their banks, and Southwest Houston like always got hit the hardest.



I live in North Houston which didn't get hit too hard, but there was enough water on the streets that I couldn't go into work today. That pisses me off because now I have to make up those hours. On top of that my left hand hurts something fierce. I think I have arthritis. It's a dull ache that spread from my wrist to my thumb. It's difficult to open and close it. I'm a shelver so I need the hand to work. That's the only good thing about me not going to work; hopefully the rest will give my hand time to get better.

Now from the depressing to the pathetically sad. I never watched this show as I avoid mostly all cable news programs, but I saw this on youtube. Connie Chung and Maury Pauvich have (or rather they had as they were recently canceled) a program together, you know when he's not busy cheating on her or so it's alleged. Well, they just aired the last show and for some unknown reason Connie, who up till now and will never be again was a serious newscaster, decided to act a fool. I get the feeling that her co-workers must hate her. Why else would they let her make a fool out of herself. It's almost too painful to watch -- painful but funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcozKfpbmaA