I have seen the light!

Yes folks, over a week later the rumor is that I finally have power. I was getting tired of going from mom's to my apartment to see what the deal was. I felt really bad for the few folks who were there all week. I called a board member at AEP this morning as I had about had it. It checked into it for me and said they were sending folks to look into it. I'm just happy it's over and I can be in once place again. Of course this week is the Zanesville Walk so I'm out of town most of the rest of this week, but it is the principle behind the whole thing.

Interesting

Kyle & Ashley went through a Hurricane that about took a direct hit on Houston. They got power and water back after 5 days. Danielle gets winds from a hurricane that hit no where near Dublin, is now going on 6 days without power and has been staying at Hotel Mom's House.

Anyone else find this interesting?

Hurricane Update

So.... the reason it has taken awhile for me to post any updates is that Ike came and hit Ohio with Category One Hurricane Force winds. I have had no power myself since Sunday afternoon. Thank goodness mom has as I have been camping out there. :) Here is an email from Kyle. He and Ashley are fine given what could have happened and now it's just more of a pain in the butt. Locally they are saying it may be Sunday before everyone here in Ohio gets power. Nice thing is I haven't had to go to work, just check email from home. It has been a totall bizzare few days.....

"I'm emailing from ashley's cousins house because we still do not have power or water. We are both fine, the house is essentially fine also. We lost power before the storm on Friday because they wanted to bring down the power in an orderly manner because they knew they were going to lose power. We lost the entire fence, part of it hit the house and smashed up the gutter. Lost a few shingles but not too bad of damage of the roof. We basically had all of our landscaping uprooted a little but I think we can replant it decently enough. We got a generator from a coworker of mine that evacuated to Arkansas and he brought one back for us. We have enough water for
probably 3-4 more days and have turned into the neighborhood refrigerator freezer because we have the generator. The storm itself was incredibly loud. People say it sounds like a freight train but I think they say that because they don't know what else to say. It basically was the loudest thing i've ever heard. The wind would gust and you could feel the house shift and creak, I was convinced the roof was gone but the house was rated for a Cat 3 so it held together nicely. We boarded up all the windows but the storm ripped one of them off even though we fastened them with 2" woodscrews. We're both going to work tomorrow and the plant is still shutdown because a nitrogen plant was damaged and none of the plants around here can come up fully without the nitrogen supply. Cell service is terrible and comes in and out. Even though we have the generator our e-mail isn't working. They say we should have water this week but power could be 3-4 weeks but I can't believe that. We have a lot of gas for the generator and we're more or less just camping in the house which really isn't too bad. It sounds like a lot of you ha more damage than we did. A lot of our neighbors lost roofs and the coast line is essentially gone as I'm sure you've seen on tv. I appreciate all the phone calls and e-mails but I just couldn't respond to any of them, and some of them I answered with incredibly brief txt messages to try to get them out. Pretty nuts but the bottom line is we are fine and our lifestyle is
fine too. Just kinda a hassle at this point. I'll try to call and keep touch with everyone but I can't make any promises."

Hurricanes

ARE NOT MY FRIEND. I HATE THEM. As Ike gets closer I am more and more worried about Kyle and Ashley. Talking to them about their plans and what they are doing to get ready make me a nervous wreck. I don't live there, it's not my house or stuff but I am so worried and stressed for them. I told Ashley I needed them to move to South Dakota.

Please pray for the best.......

Random Thoughts...

(Yes I should be working. I had a 7:30 morning meeting and rather than falling asleep right now I thought I would look like I am working - cut me a break)

I'm worried about Hurricane Ike hitting Kyle this weekend. This time he's definately getting it. They are on the wrong side of the hurricane also. It's just going to be a matter of how close the eye is to Houston. I would rather it hit further down in Mexico myself. I hate this Hurricane season thing.

This weekend should prove interesting with the OSU vs. USC game. Last weekend OSU played OU (I went!) and man did OSU look like crap. If they play that bad they are going to be EATEN! I hope for Kyle's sake (mostly his blood pressure) they don't tank, but OSU is NOTORIOUS for that.

I miss Grandmom. She would have been beside herself last weekend not knowing what football team to root for. (Incidentally Mom was pretty much rooting for OSU, I see how it is.....) Grandmom used to love to watch the OSU games and would yell at the TV and get so stressed because she knew how much it would mean to Kyle. There have been many times when I've wanted to call her to tell her something or simply hear her tell me she loved me and it would be ok. She was the one person, regardless of what I called to talk to her about would try and make it better. I miss that. I miss that love of a grandparent and I miss telling her stuff and making her happy.

Those are my random thoughts for today. Now back to work, hopefully I won't fall asleep!

Workout Advice Needed

So I need your suggestions. I have A.D.D when it comes to music during my workout. When I listen to something on my computer I think, "Hey this would be a good song to put on my iPod to have when I workout." Then when I'm working out I seem to flip through songs all the time, listen to only part of them or skip them all together.

So what songs do you listen to when you workout? I need some new ones because I'm starting to falter during workouts due to crappy or old music.

Last Summer Harrah

Kyle was home for the weekend although for shorter than planned due to Hurricane Gustav. (Stupid hurricanes....) We went to the OSU game on Saturday and it was fun. My friend Amy and I got to sit with the "token" grandparents in President Club seats so we actually sat in a seat and they were good ones. We weren't in the blazing sun which come to find out was really nice. When we got home we, Mom, Kyle and I went over the High School to stand in line to go to an Obama rally. It was neat and an experience. John Glenn spoke, what an amazing man. Some of the people were a little scary and some of the speakers were playing right to the crowd, not shocking. It was neat to see / hear him. We also got to see his motorcade leave and he waved from his bus. This is probably the closest I will ever get to a president. Other than that I've been to the pool to relax and grab the last few seconds of summer and amazing weather. The weather here is awesome although no rain due for another week which is not so good. I need it to rain for my allergies and I know the plants and grass need it too.

I hope everyone had nice long weekends. I'm glad Kyle's pretty much out of the picture for the hurricane other than getting some rain and wind. Earlier in the week the picture for him looked much worse. Enjoy the last days of summer!