A stroke is a good thing?

Who would have thought? Mother went in for an MRI Tuesday because she's been having a constant headache for the last couple of weeks and started yarking Tuesday morning. Her oncologist immediately ordered an MRI as she's very concerned the cancer will spread to Mother's brain. Turns out, she's had a stroke. This is 'good' because it's still not cancer. And here I thought she was just stoned from her pain pills. As soon as I can bust out of my office (hopefully in the next hour), I'm heading back up to the hospital to be Mother's memory.

We've been tentatively planning a trip to Australia as a last hoorah, but that's looking less likely every day. Maybe we can do a bit of a fling in the big city of Ada OK. Hey, it starts with an A?

And it's finally over!

DeYarmett's Unite!
Not that anyone at the reunion actually has that last name anymore, that's how we're all related. My mother's cousin Dee's daughter Debbie came down with her son Dylan. My Mother's cousin Linda was there with her husband, three sons, daughter and daughter-in-law. My cousin Dena's son and daughter were there, Joe with his two sons and girlfriend and Amy with her husband, three daughters and son. My cousin Sharon's three daughters were there, Kim with her three daughters and one of her sons, Kristen with her husband and daughter and Jenny with her husband and one of her sons. Below, are my nephew Billy, my brother Dannie, my mother Betty, me and my daughter Sabrina. I like the way my mother is trying to be shocked by Sabrina's attire.

A few more skeins are knotted

Camilla's mom told me I'm crocheting all wrong. wtf ever. I may not crochet the way everyone else does, but the stuff I finish looks good, so there. As I was working on this, Brina was telling me how very much she doesn't like the colors. As I was about to finish over the weekend, she warned me that it better keep her warm because it's hers :)

Something from nothing

Okay, so crocheting is not metal. I finally got tired of the huge (HUGE) bin of yarn in my closet. This is the first of my attempts to get it all out of there. This was actually pretty fun as it consists of 35 different "granny" squares. Unfortunately, I wasn't paying the best of attention when making said "grannies" because they didn't go together as seamlessly as they should have. I've got a fuckload more yarn, so I may just make another. But I'll pay attention to what I'm doing :D

Dhoom Again, Baby!

omg, check out the way he moves! Another music (dancing!) video for Michelle Ward's Crusade No 11.

I like it loud, please

My Dead X

Add to My Profile | More Videos
Response to Michelle Ward's latest, Make Some Noise, Crusade No. 11. And with that, I'd like to climb on my soapbox. This video is from an unsigned, local band, My Dead X. These are all great guys, they have a very professional sound and they work and play for love of the music. ORIGINAL MUSIC. It's certainly not for the big bucks. Without support from the community, these guys (and the local bands in YOUR area) end up paying to play. Cover bands have it made because most venue owners "know" that no one wants to hear (or god-forbid, dance) to something they haven't heard 8,562 times on the radio. So with that, I encourage anyone who reads this to check around and see who's playing this weekend, you may be pleasantly surprised \m/

Road Trip

This pretty much sums up our navigational talents :D We drove down to Fort Worth TX for a company picnic.. I know, nutty, but I haven't been out of town in forever. We met at Burger's Lake, which I have to say is my kind of man-made lake. After burning ourselves to crispy goodness, we went off in search of our hotel. My navigator slept the whole way, and it only took me an hour to complete what should have been a 15 minute drive. Check in, shower, change and it's off to find a local Mexican restaurant. Hey, it's Texas, we should be tripping over them. After another hour of driving, during which I visited a number of locales visited whilst searching for the hotel, we ended up at Zeke's fish and chips. OMG, I'm so happy the only "Mexican" place we found was On The Border. I LOVE fish but think tartar sauce is something created by an individual with defective taste buds. But the stuff at Zeke's makes me want to sell all my stamps and move to Fort Worth for the rest of my life. It's just that good. They're in the Ridgelea area if you ever get over that way.
The next day, we debated on how we wanted to spend the day. The zoo, shopping, or possibly the Kimball Art Museum. But no, we decided to go here:
Louis Tussaud's Palace of Wax/Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum in Grand Prairie TX. I noticed some interesting things in the wax museum. Martin Luther King, Jr bears a striking resemblance to Eddie Murphy, James Madison had incredibly tiny feet and Rapunzel was apparently double-jointed, to name just a few.
This guy was a fave as I'm obsessed with the imminent zombie epidemic ;)

Ripley's Believe It or Not did not win quite as much, but these were kinda cool, as were a couple of the miniature paintings. The last supper created with postage stamps.
A painting on a Pringle's chip.
All around, nice little weekend getaway.