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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:21:42 GMT

Tornados… in January?!

So - this is how I spent my day yesterday, with tornado sirens blaring around me every few minutes, it seemed. The city I live in got hit pretty hard - one of my favorite restaurants got demolished just a few miles down the road! The “county” got hit a little harder, though it looks like.

Some reports say there were 5 tornadoes, some reports say there were only two (only, lol!) different ones that touched down in several different areas.

In Wisconsin, we are all used to hearing the tornado sirens - they go blaring throughout my city every Saturday morning at 10:00am for testing purposes. So, when I was at work yesterday and the sirens went off, I thought briefly to myself, “Oh, it’s just the tornado sirens… THE TORNADO SIRENS?!” I tell you, it stopped me cold. Someone said “Oh, they must have a tornado warning.” Um… no. The tornado sirens go off when there is a tornado, not a warning! It basically means “Get your ass under cover or kiss it goodbye.” Which of course, no one did. We all ran outside to see it. Idiots.

Anyway, no one was hurt by the damage, but alot of people are without power and a few are without houses right now. My family is fine - like clear thinking people they went into the basement.

[EDIT] I guess the restaurant is NOT demolished. A power pole crashed into the roof, apparently. Woot!

Sunday, January 06, 2008

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:59:10 GMT

So Overwhelmed

I am so overwhelmed with my internet responsibilities lately. I own so many communities on Livejournal and I’ve neglected them ALL lately. I seem to start one project and then turn to another one. Right now I’m working on (1)my own website (neglected), (2)a web design for a paying client (high priority), (3)a pro-bono website for a record company (another priority), (4)a myspace design for a client that paid me months ago (should be HIGHEST priority), (5)a myspace design for a pro-bono client and I’m trying to (6)squeeze in downloads for my design studio and (7)get an ebay business and (8)myspace business off the ground.

Did I mention that I also work a full time job that has absolutely nothing to do with web design?

On top of that is the fact that I feel like I’m going crazy lately. This can only lead to Carrie having a blowout eventually. And I really do feel like I’m going crazy - I’m just so emotional about EVERYTHING - I could cry at the drop of a hat. I just don’t know why; I’m not usually like this. I’ve had strange dreams and everything lately. This just started about two weeks ago. Hopefully it’s a stupid girl thing that blows over soon.

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 06:55:19 GMT

Happy New Year

Happy new year, everyone! I hope 2008 holds love, laughter and happiness for you all!

Thursday, December 27, 2007

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:48:00 GMT

New Year’s Eve

Screw New Year’s Eve. That holiday isn’t even here yet and it’s caused me more hurt and grief than any single day has a right to cause.

I tried to plan a party. I started planning this right after Thanksgiving. I just wanted a get-together with a couple of friends, y’know? A kid friendly party with drinks and cards and stuff. Countdown to midnight and all that jazz.

Guess what? None of my friends can see fit to come to my house for New Year’s Eve. Did anyone make plans before they found out about my party? No, not at all. There are just more “important” parties to go to. There are more “important” friends to spend time with. At first I got a bunch of “we’ll see” responses. Then I got a bunch of “well, I actually have this other party to go to” responses - even though I invited people to my party WEEKS ago.

Well, FORGET it. My invitation has been revoked for ALL of you. Don’t bother to come over to my house. Don’t “stop in for a while”. Just don’t BOTHER. I am obviously not as important to any of you as I thought.

Y’know - I try to be there for my friends. I attend thier get-togethers. I’m there when I’m needed. I don’t blow people off. I call people back. If I’m invited somewhere, I either accept the invite and attend or I decline and I don’t. I never ever string people along until the last minute and then say I have something more important to do.

My friends have hurt me more than they will ever know. I don’t feel like I can believe in any one of you. I feel like an afterthought. Someone that you can hang out with if there is no one better around. Thanks so much for that.

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:35:17 GMT

Disney

I need to go back to Disney World. Seriously. I’ve been watching Disney stuff on the “Journey” channel all morning and I could just about cry because I’m not there right now. I WILL go back to Disney World. Soon, I hope.

Monday, December 17, 2007

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:34:27 GMT

Busy girl

Well, my lack of recent updates is due to the fact that I am a very busy person! But for those of you interested in my cooking reviews and meal plans, they are no longer kept here (wherever “here” is - this is crossposted a ton). They have moved to www.carriecooks.com.

I have recently accepted a full time position in my company. Something that will only lead to less free time, not more. Hopefully it also leads to less money problems. We’ll see. You know it’s true: the more you make, the more you buy. I can’t even deny this.

Tasha and I have been working like mad on Idea Tree Studio. We’ve had some honest to goodness clients. It’s pretty awesome so far.

That’s about it for my pathetic little update. Hope everyone is doing well.

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:42:57 GMT

Kenosha Unified School District

Really, KUSD… really?! Today is really NOT a snow day? I’m just wondering if you saw all the snow… there has to be at least five inches out there, and it’s still falling. I guess you must not have noticed, hm? Well, I’m sure if you did notice, you had no idea how completely treacherous the roads are… The fact that I almost slid right into a cop car this morning must come as a complete surprise to you. Well KUSD, there must be a good reason for what you do. At least it’s one less day to make up in June.

Out my front door

Out my back door

My driveway

Monday, December 03, 2007

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:57:44 GMT

I am upset

On November 27th, 2007 I posted a blog entry.

In this blog entry, I pleaded for feedback. I asked my friends to help me choose a name for my cooking site. I have 174 Livejournal friends, 90 myspace friends and more friends on Vox and Xanga. This blog is posted on all of those sites. Out of over 260 people, I got two responses - and one obviously didn’t even read my post.

Out of the ten people or so online that I feel close to, not a single one commented.

Out of the “real life” friends I have, two said they “skimmed it” or “glanced at it”. One apologized for that.

It’s probably silly internet bull to you guys, but this situation really hurt my feelings and made me feel like no one cares at all. So, if any of you give a damn at all, I decided the name for myself. I chose www.carriecooks.com.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:51:51 GMT

(Another) New Website

Hey guys - I’m starting another new website. I am going to get a little more in depth with my cooking adventures - posting recipes, success stories, disasters, and everything else. I think that people may be interested to see what an ordinary non-experienced cook goes through in the learning process.

Anyway…. I need a name. I found a couple domain names that are available, but I don’t know what I want! Please, please help me! The two I found so far are www.carriecooks.com and www.newbiechef.com. There is also www.carrieiscooking.com, but that’s too much when carriecooks is available. Any other suggestions are welcome.

The site is going to be blog style, run off of wordpress. I set it up on a free webhost for the time being, but hopefully I will have to transfer because my site generates too much traffic, lol! You can see the temporary page here, but there isn’t anything to it yet.

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:06:48 GMT

What a baby

I am such a baby. I listen to this song and every time it’s instant tears. My childhood hero Paul Williams (yeah, I was a weird kid) and my grown up hero Jason Mraz singing the Rainbow Connection together.