So much mischief, so little time

Well, it looks like it will be a three-for-three weekend. Jim, Dan and I (with some other various friends) went out both Thursday and last night, and I think we are going out tonight too...

My, my we just have so much fun, it is ridiculous. Thursday night we went to Players, a pool hall with darts and a bar, and we played darts all night. Dan was just sick because he kept losing (and concurrently getting drunk and a bit belligerent). One of our other friends Chris showed up and we teamed up against Jay and Jim, and proceeded to kick their butts a couple of times. Yours truly won the first game with a double bullseye (sheer luck, since I really don't have a "dart skill set" to speak of). However, in his drunken, belligerent state, Dan did provide me with a couple of Quotes of the day: Dan (in response to Jim being so far ahead of him in points and not being able to close out the game) - "If you lose, it would be like deep-throating an elephant." Dan again (in response to Chris closing out our game against Jay and Dan) - "It's on you dirty pirate-hooker!" Oh that Dan is just a drunken hoot!

Last night, Jim and I met Dan and our other neighbor Josh at Savanna's, a bar in downtown Columbus. Josh was pretty drunk and dancing the two-step with a "cougar" (apparently that is a term in reference to older women that hit on much younger men). He was a hit with the ladies last night... Since the bar was dying aroung midnight, we decided to go back to the apartment complex, grab some beer and break in to the hot tub. Good times, until Dan decided to throw me into the adjacent unheated pool... I thought I was going into cardiac arrest, the pool was colder than the Pacific I tell you...

Before we got back to the apartment complex, Jim stopped to get cigarettes and commented on how badly he had to pee, and playing off of the movie Big Daddy, I said "Could you write my name on the wall?" We laughed a good laugh, then drove home. Well, when Jim got out of the car, he proceeded to pee my name on the sidewalk, and I just about fell over it was so funny. I then rushed to get my camera to take a picture. I felt like the luckiest girl in the world, especially since Jim told me he hasn't done that for anyone else... (Because my blogs have been a bit egocentric lately, I must post it...)

Well, that is about it for now... I am sure that I will have more good stuff to blog about tomorrow...

66H out...

I am also a band from Sweden!

Today on Ask Jeeves I found out that there is a Swedish band named Audrey!! Audrey was formed in Henån, Sweden back in 2001. The band consists of Victoria, Anna, Rebecka and Emelie. I thought that was kind of crazy, but cool to think that four people, not even one of them named Audrey, liked the name so much that they used it to name their band...

Speaking of, a guy that I met today told me that he loved my name... And to think that I hated it growing up, because nothing was ever personalized with it. Oh how I wished to be a Jennifer, or a Heather when I was younger... But it turns out that I have the best name that I could have ever hoped for, so unique and beautiful. Not too many people forget my name when they meet me either (simply because you don't hear it that often and it just seems to stick in peoples brain), so I have the ability to be memorable in some shape or fashion most of the time.

Alright, alright, I'll stop now. One more day of work to go this week, and then it is praise the three-day weekend!! Both Jim and Dan are back from leave, so I am sure there will be much mischieviousness to be had out in Columbus this weekend...

66H (with her own patient-load now!) out...

I was a hurricane in my past life!

So I was cruising around Ask Jeeves to see if there was anything really interesting associated with my name (oh yeah, it is my day off...) and lookie what I found...

Hurricane Audrey (June 1957) is ranked as the sixth deadliest hurricane to hit the United States mainland since accurate record-keeping began in 1900. No storm to hit the US since had caused as many fatalities until Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Audrey remains the earliest storm of any Atlantic hurricane season to reach Category 4 intensity in the recorded history of the basin. (I happen to have held the record for the strongest storm to form before August for almost 50 years, until Hurricane Dennis broke it in 2005. When I meet him, I will give him a good what for...) But I still hold the record for the strongest storm ever to form in June, so there! At right is the NOAA radar image of my Hurricane prior to landfall...

Just like me, she remains one-of-a-kind, because the name Audrey was retired and will never be used for an Atlantic hurricane again.

Hmm, that has inspired me... Maybe I will be egocentric for awhile and post a little interesting fact about my name in each blog for a bit, that was fun!

Hope everyone is doing well!!

66H out...

Great blonde joke I found here on Blogger...

Farm Animals

Three women escaped from prison: A redhead, a brunette, and a blonde. They ran for miles until they came upon an old barn where they decided to hide in the hayloft and rest. When they climbed up, they found three large gunnysacks and decided to climb into them for camouflage.

About an hour later the sheriff and his deputy came into the barn. The sheriff told his deputy to go up and check out the hayloft. When he got up there the sheriff asked him what he saw and the deputy yelled back, "Just three gunnysacks."

The sheriff told him to find out what was in them, so the deputy kicked the first sack, which had the redhead in it. She went, "Bow-wow", so the deputy told the sheriff there was a dog in it.

Then he kicked the sack with the brunette in it. She went, "Meow", so the deputy told the sheriff there was a cat in it.

Then he kicked the one with the blonde in it, and there was no sound at all. So he kicked it again, and finally the blonde said, "Potatoes".

Oh my, I actually laughed out loud when I read this one... Okay, I really am going to get off the internet now...

66H out...

Rain sucks...

Well, I successfully super-glued the "a" key back onto my keyboard, so I consider that to be my triumph of the day...

It was really crappy weather today, giving me no motivation to leave my apartment, so I played on my computer pretty much all day, reaquainting myself with the marvels of the internet that I have been painfully deprived of for the past few months. However, I need to get a cable splitter so that I can watch TV and surf the web at the same time... I am continually finding new and improved ways to rot my brain cells...

I really can't wait for Jim and Dan to get back from leave, things have been pretty boring around here. I have started taking Jim's newspaper in, because one of our neighbors has been helping themselves to the news that Jim is paying for. If I catch the thief, it will be the front-leaning rest for them!!

Ooh, a good song just shuffled onto my playlist... Song of the day: "Sugar, We're Going Down" by Fall Out Boy. "Am I more then you bargined for yet? I've been dying to tell you anything you want to hear, 'cus that's just who I am this week. Lie in the grass next to the mausoleum, I'm just a notch in your bedpost but you're just a line in a song..."

Well, it is now 12:35 am... I am going to go watch my favorite married red-head (Conan O'Brien) and then hit the sack. I am going to try my damnest to get out of this apartment tomorrow and do something... Hmmm, I do need to get that cable splitter, maybe I'll hit Best Buy tomorrow...

66H out...

Will I ever leave my apartment now...

that my computer is back in action?? It will be tough, but I think I can manage... All of us here in the Richert household are happy that the computer is back online, as evidenced by Jinx trying to catch the cursor as I upload my camera software. It is definitely one of her favorite activities when I am on the computer...

So, I guess I can catch every one up on What Jinx destroyed today now that I can upload photos again... And the latest one is in real time, I swear... She literally just stepped on my keyboard and broke the "a" key right off... Time to bust out the super glue I guess. On to what else she has been up to. She has been slowly working on one of the boxes still in my living room... Mind you, her scratching post is right next to it, but why use the scratching post when you can make a huge mess that will clog up the vacuum cleaner?? Lastly, she decided that the air matress that I bought just wasn't comfortable enough for her taste, so she tried to sharpen her claws on that too... To my chagrin, I woke up on the hard floor, surrounded by the remnants of a mostly deflated air matress... I guess since I have been here for three months already, it is time to go shopping for a real bed... Oh the hassle. Notice Jinx lounging by her handiwork...

And now for the last installment of Fun with fortune cookies... Yep, sadly we have come to the end of the fortunes... Well, maybe it will make a special appearance if Chinese take out is ordered. And now, on to the fortunes!

1. You will be proud in a manner, but tolerant and generous...
2. Life is like a good book. The further you get into it, the more it makes sense... Uhh, okay...
3. You have great appreciation for beautiful things...
4. Though ambition itself is a vice, yet it is often the source of virtue...

Well, I am off to check my e-mail from my own apartment for the first time in two months!! Oh the excitement...

66H out...

Code blue! Get the system disks, STAT...

So, I tried to reformat my laptop because it has been jacked for a few months now and I finally got some replacement disks from Dell, and this is how it went...

15 Feb 2006

0930: 1mg McAfee virus software and reboot... computer frozen
0945: 1mg McAfee virus software and reboot... computer still frozen
1005: 1mg McAfee virus software and reboot... some movement
1010: 1mg Microsoft Windows XP and reboot... frozen again
1020: called the code and took it to On Site Computer repair

I guess the good thing about having it done professionally is that I know it will be done right... So, for $160, I will have my computer back on-line by Saturday. I can't wait, this using random computers crap is seriously wearing on my last nerve.

On to other business... Valentine's day sucked. I was awakened against my will by sunlight coming through the broken blinds (thanks Jinx, appreciate that one) at 9 am, and couldn't go back to sleep. So I got up, made some coffee and proceeded to cook... I made spinach dip and cheddar soup. Quite tasty I might add and the folks at work liked it too. After I cooked, I did three loads of laundry, and then got ready for work. Work was slow and the time absolutely dragged on and on. What made things worse is the fact that I can't check my e-mail from work, because Yahoo is a restricted site on our computers (luckily, I can still shop for shoes on Zappos.com).

On the bright side, Jinx didn't get mad at me for not getting her a card or presents... She was a good little Valentine I suppose...

And on an ironic note, maybe it is fitting, I don't know... It is clear that the boy and I have reached the end of the road. It's a good thing I guess... It was a long road and I'm tired, and I believe that he is tired too. Just no future in it, not much else to say.

Well, I am going to go feed the machine, the natives are getting restless...

66H out...

Combien de renards dois-je rencontrer avant de trouver mon prince?

"How many foxes must I meet before I find my prince?"

Simply based on sheer demographics, the majority of the people I have met here are men; Whether it be out on the town, or through the friends I have made here (which are men)... Anyhow, I have come to the realization that they are all silver-tongued little foxes, which oddly enough reminds me of my favorite fable from the French literary master, Jean de la Fontaine... It is aptly titled:

The Crow and the Fox

Master Crow perched on a tree,
Was holding a cheese in his beak.
Master Fox attracted by the smell
Said something like this:
"Well, Hello Mister Crow!
How beautiful you are! how nice you seem to me!
Really, if your voice
Is like your plumage,
You are the phoenix of all the inhabitants of these woods."
At these words, the Crow is overjoyed.
And in order to show off his beautiful voice,
He opens his beak wide, lets his prey fall
The Fox grabs it, and says: "My good man,
Learn that every flatterer
Lives at the expense of the one who listens to him.
This lesson, without doubt, is well worth a cheese."
The Crow, ashamed and embarrassed,
Swore, but a little late, that he would not be taken again.

I met myself one of those earlier in the week and he tricked me into thinking that he was interested... Come to find out he has a little girlfriend in the Mid-west... When I called him on it (because no one gets away with that with me) he swore that he is really interested and that he has just been so confused about the whole situation since he met me... I smiled and said "I am very flattered that you feel that way, so once you figure it all out, give me a call." My goodness I must have put a little hex on him...

Good thing I was watching my cheese...

Hope that gave you all a good little laugh for the week... And ladies, always keep an eye on your cheese, it's a skulk of foxes out there...

66H out...

I have never enjoyed a Friday so much...

So, it's Friday and I have worked six days in a row... I also overslept my alarm by 34 minutes this morning, not the start to the day that I wanted, but I managed...

My ACLS class at the beginning of the week was great; I learned a lot and now feel that I am able to participate in a code on the floor if one ever occurs... I probably would volunteer to take the blood draws down to the lab... Ha-ha. Speaking of work, I only have one more week of my preceptorship to go, then I will be a big-girl nurse all on my own. Quite exciting, a little nerve-wracking, but definitely time...

I guess since I worked all week, I don't have much to write about... And I am anticipating not having too much to write about for a bit since Jim is going back to Seattle for two weeks... I have to say, we have become quite the neighbors-in-crime. However, I met another neighbor of ours last week (a fellow LT and co-worker of Jim's) and he is beginning to take part in our mischievous behavior when we go out...

Well, it's Friday night, gotta go clean my apartment and do laundry... Oh, that's sad.

66H out...

Cheese and Sarah Gilman are not the only good things to come out of Wisconsin...

So I was working out at the gym on post today, and I saw my Ranger-Captain-future-ex-husband working out as well. Let's just say I was so transfixed that I couldn't even watch General Hospital... Not everyone can make those Ranger shorts look good...

Enough said.

66H out...

Forecast for today... Snow flurries

So we had some light snow flurries today down in the South... Not quite what I expected, but okay...

Well kids, it has been quite the interesting week... Namely Tuesday night. Jim and I checked out this bar near our apartment complex to see if it was worth going to, rather than driving all the way to downtown Columbus to go out. As soon as we walked in, I had a deja vu experience... It is very similar to Antonio's Nut House (my favorite bar in Palo Alto). I mean it has the painted ceiling tiles, the pool tables, the random pictures/bumper stickers/novelty items stuck to the mirrors above the bar, the gaudy lit up beer signs, and the same bucket bar stools. The only thing it doesn't have are the peanuts... Needless to say, I felt instantly at home and ordered a bud in a bottle for nostalgic purposes.

Now onto the fun part of the evening... Jim tried to sell me down the river to the some drunk guy that decided he was going to sit down at our table and chat with us. First he asked Jim if he was in the Army, and Jim said "Yes, I am." Then Tony (the drunk dude) looked at me, looked back at Jim and then asked him if we were married...

At this point Jim should have been the pal and at least said, "No, but she's my girlfriend." What does he decide to say instead... "No, she's just my neighbor." Tony then says, "Well, you should marry her;" To which I replied, "Yeah Jim, you should marry me!" Jim then suggested that we get married the next day. I told him that I was working until 3 pm, but that I could call the post Chapel to see if they had any 4 pm openings... It would have been nice, I was going to wear my Nurse Whites and Jim said he would wear his Dress Blues with his Cavalry hat... At that point Tony was laughing so hard at us that he fell out of his bar stool...

At that moment, Aerosmith's "Angel" shuffled on to the jukebox and Tony started singing along (it was so horrible, I can't even describe it). I told Jim that it should be our wedding song and proceed to ask Tony if he would sing it for us... He agreed and told us that he accepted payment for his vocal services in beer... At that point Jim and I gave it up and told Tony that we were not really getting married... You guessed it, after that Tony proceeded to hit on me (after all, I was wearing the infamous black, librarian-look cardigan sweater), but he was so drunk that he missed all over the place...

Later on, while Jim and I were giving him a ride to his friend's house, he wanted to give me his number, but I told him I didn't have a pen (hoping that would solve the problem)... But Tony had a better idea... He made me repeat his name and phone number so that I would remember it and give him a call. So ladies, if you are ever in the Columbus area and want to hang out with a sloppy drunk guy, give Tony Thompson a call at 706-561-1880...

Wow, I didn't realize the power that black cardigan sweater had, that is two weekends in a row that I have been hit on while rocking it! (I will be posting a picture of the magical sweater soon...)

Anyhow, one more day to go, then I get a day off... Blasted, I have to go do my Army mandated HIPPA training now...

66H out...