Professional eBay

The NFL draft is like professional eBaying. As the clock counts down, I get sooo nervous!

Welcome home, Chris. Welcome home.

Go RAMS!

April 26th, 2008 Posted by Jessica | Life | no comments

Menu Plan Monday

Monday: Taco Meatloaf with green beans

Tuesday: (late dinner due to Chamber event then meeting at work) Salmon with cranberry salad and croissants

Wednesday: Angel hair pasta with garden vegetables

Thursday: (late dinner due to meeting at work) Lasagna with cheese bread and caesar salad

Sunday: Homemade pizza (make your own pizza night)

April 20th, 2008 Posted by Jessica | Life | 3 comments

So there I was

Lying in bed, asleep, at 4:36 am.

I awoke initially because I heard Coopers crate rattling. I sorta sat up and squinted in his general direction (I wear glasses and am nearly blind without them, plus it was pitch black) to see what was wrong with him. Just as I sat up, I realized the bed was shaking.

I looked for Hubs, but earlier in the night, he had moved into the guest bedroom b/c his allergies had him coughing up a bad storm and he didn’t want to bother me.

I began calling out for Craig.

My thoughts in order of how they entered my head during the 15 seconds of the quake:

1) Thunder (curiosity)

2) A car crashed into our house (fear)

3) (continued shaking) Earthquake? (extreme fear)

4) (continued shaking) Earthquake is going to get much worse.

5) It’s the second coming of Christ (I’m not kidding! That thought seriously crossed my mind) (fear combined with curiosity)

6) (no more shaking) Did that really just happen?

The thoughts flew through my mind faster than I could process them. I had no control over what I thought or felt.

Then it was over.

I seriously, seriously doubted it was an earthquake. We looked out the window down the street at all of the houses fully expecting bedroom lights to come on one-by-one. But no. Not one house lit up.

Then, I started doubting that we even felt anything. I thought we were going crazy.

We walked around the main level, making sure there wasn’t a car temporarily embedded in our home. After that, we made our way upstairs where I asked Hubs if we should call the cops, to which he replied, “no. what are they going to do?”

Then I asked if we should call the local news station to report shaking, to which he replied, “no. what are they going to do?”

Then my cell rang and it was Matt. I answered by saying, “did we just have an earthquake?” I was really excited to be talking to someone b/c until we received confirmation of such, it was an uncomfortable feeling not know what had happened. Matt had called his parents who live about 30 miles south of us and they also felt it. At that moment, I felt the first sign of relief.

I turned on the TV and about 3 minutes later, the local news broke with the story that there was indeed an earthquake. It was about 4:55 am when they confirmed it, so for a solid 15 minutes, I questioned my sanity not knowing if what we felt was real or not. Freaky!

Fortunately, everything is fine. Obviously, it was the talk at the office today. Some people slept right through it. Most didn’t, though. It was interesting hearing the different thoughts people had. Seems most people just laid in bed even after they recognized it was probably an earthquake. They acknowledged it happened (out of assumption) then rolled over and went back to sleep! I couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t sleep after that, so I stayed up watching the news coverage and checking out the blog world to see just how many people felt it.

For a day that started out pretty scarily, it ended up being a pretty cool day.

April 18th, 2008 Posted by Jessica | Life | one comment

Earthquake

At 4:40am, we lived through an earthquake.

It was a 5.4 magnitude and I’m freaked out.

I’m not kidding.

UPDATE: Apparently the center of the quake was around the IL side of the IL/Indiana border. 5.4 preliminary magnitude.

UPDATE: 10:33am 4.5 magnitude aftershock just came through. I was walking in the hallway at work when it happened. I felt something, almost like the Air Conditioner just kicked it and the ground rumbled because of it. Kinda feels like I do after being on a cruise for a week. The first day back on solid ground take some adjusting to, sometimes you feel like you’re still swaying- thats what it feels like now.

Video from an Evansville news station that was on the air when the earthquake happened.

April 18th, 2008 Posted by Jessica | Life | 6 comments

Menu Plan Update

Tuesday: Spaghetti and meatballs Dragon Palace Chinese Food

Oh yea.

April 15th, 2008 Posted by Jessica | Life | one comment

Veggie Quiche

Update: I just informed Hubs that the recipe indicated I could add bacon, but that I chose not to….*insert death stare from hubs here*

Made the Veggie Quiche tonight. It was pretty good, although both hubs and I agreed that it needed a little bit more flavor. I’m not one to cook-on-the-fly, so if you have suggestions to flavor it up, lemme know.

April 14th, 2008 Posted by Jessica | Life | 4 comments

I can’t tell

Is it just me or is anyone else worried by this news story?

Teenagers taking nude pictures and videos of themselves is now part of the dating ritual? WTH?

I can’t tell if this is just a reporter acting on a few isolated incidents or if this is really something thats happening all over the country?

Unbelievable.

What else is to be expected, though, when your role models are Vanessa Hudgens and Jamie Lynn Spears.

April 14th, 2008 Posted by Jessica | Life | 3 comments

Menu Plan Monday

I didn’t stick to much of my menu last week, mostly because I didn’t make it to the grocery at the beginning of the week and therefore, didn’t have what I needed to make each meal. Sunday is usually my grocery day, but with the basement project this weekend, I didn’t make it today either. I’m hoping to get there tomorrow after work, though. If I do make it, here’s the menu I’m planning for the week:

Monday: Vegetable Quiche (compliments of the mother-in-love)

Tuesday: Spaghetti and meatballs

Wednesday: Chicken Kiev (Schwans) with Roasted Ratatouille (didn’t get to make it last week as I originally planned)

Thursday: Krab Kakes with cranberry spinach salad

April 13th, 2008 Posted by Jessica | Life | 3 comments

Dilemma

New TV shows are definitely back! And, I’m SOOOOO excited about Desperate Housewives tonight that I’ll probably pee my pants. I’ve missed DH desperately.

This past week was the return of some other favorites too. My Name is Earl, Scrubs, and The Office all premiered in the last few days. Of course, add that to Big Brother 3 times/week, our DVR/TiVo is going nuts.

Herein lies the problem: We’re getting a new DVR tomorrow. You see, for the past…oh I dunno….18 months, we’ve been “borrowing” the cable company DVR from my parents. When I moved out and into our new home in Nov 2006, my mom graciously offered for me to take the DVR I had been using while at their house since there was a six week waiting list for a new one. Turns out the ‘rents subscribe to EVERY option you can buy through the cable company. Since I’ve been borrowing their DVR, this means Hubs and I have had unlimited access to every movie channel, every HD channel, it’s been great!

But, mom recently decided to create her own TV room at their house (good for her!), so she needs her DVR back. I already felt guilty for keeping it as long as we did, so we’re handing it over to her tomorrow b/c the cable company is bringing us one of our very own.

The problem is that since the new shows started, our DVR is chuck full of shows! And, if it’s going bye-bye tomorrow, we’ll have to spend all night watching shows that have accumulated over the past few days. Which, wouldn’t normally be a problem, but we’re also trying to clean out the basement in anticipation of the big renovation that starts a week from Tuesday. And, several people are coming over tonight to pick up items I offered through Freecycle, so that’ll interrupt our show watching.

We’re going to have a very busy evening.

Had we thought ahead, we would have shifted a majority of the shows to the TiVo upstairs, but we’re not that organized right now. Actually, we’re not that organized ever.

April 13th, 2008 Posted by Jessica | Life | 3 comments