Turkey Day Round-Up

I'm in Louisville (LOOH-ah-vooOOl) at my aunt & uncle's great house. The news in on and they're now telling a story about a woman jockey that was busted for making crystal meth. Earlier, when my dad and I were having coffee, they announced the lead in for the first time and I said "well, yeah. I guess that's no surprise. I mean it would make them beat the horse faster, wouldn't it?" Hell. With the horses all strung out on cocaine, why not give the jockey some meth? you git one hell of a duo truckin ass around the track and I'm SURE it's one hell of a ride! It could be called "track action" simular to, but not the same as football's "play action".

It's pretty early in the morning here and since most of my family is much more active at night (vampires) they're all still asleep. I found my Uncle's computer and decided to see how much better life would be with a laptop with wire-less access to update da'blog. Typing on this thing is weird, it keeps putting the curser all over the place. I'm using a PC AGAIN.

Two of my little cousins, Timmy and Nickolas just woke up and I'm going to fix them some gourmet breakfast- "you guys want some cereal?"


The funniest thing about this for me is that my Aunt has perfectly nice dishes- but the bowls were like plates with a rim (which makes for a real shotty cereal bowl) so when I placed the ones you see here on the counter and started to pour the cereal into them, they both looked at me like "??OOHkaay?"

My mom just got up and now I think I better make a run for the shower because with 23 people all staying in the same place, you have to get in there before the hot water tank implodes. I'll allow myself time for one more person to wake up before I run for the hot water.

Thanksgiving dinner was wonderful and seeing the whole family is one of my favorite things espically as I get older. We're all here- we even have two small babies added to the clan little Launa and Maurice Jr. although I'm not much of a baby oogler I cooed at them a bit.

Today I think we will go into the city and explore a bit. I don't care what the heck, because everywhere you look here in Louisville there's HORSES. We will go to Churchill Downs, the holy grail of horse racing on Saturday and I hope maybe to go out with the cousins. Always a good time. The Sun is beaming through the windows here and it's supposed to be 67 degrees today! I LOVE LOUISVILLE. There's something about it.

I dressed up as Holly Golightly for Halloween.

Here's a picture of my Halloween costume, I know it's pretty late, but it's SO in DEMAND. ha. It went over pretty well except that I was met with a lot of questionable faces at work. One of the servers asked me if I was supposed to be someone particular from that era or if I was a certain character...I think I over-did the eyebrows but in the photos I saw, they were pretty outrageous.

Caller: "Where are you?"
Me: "At the barn..."
Caller: "At the bar? What bar are you at?"
Me:"BARRRN. I'm at the BARN. Riding."
Caller:"OH. HAAAAAAh."

Everyone thinks I say "bar" when I say "barn" on the phone and it's funny because even they know that I am often at the barn, it's the first thought.

I have to start getting ready to go to work (dressing up for halloween!) but first I thought I would update. It's old news, but it's still news.

The police found my wallet. It was about four days after it got stolen. A "good samaritan" turned it in after finding it on the road or something. Just a few blocks from the barn.



The better news is that my driver's license was still in it and most of my other cards too - my social security card!

So after traveling through hell-and-back six times with getting a new license, I am now in possession of all the needed paper work to have an Ohio license but haven't found a time when I look less barn-d out to go get it. Did you know that they, yeah THEY, won't except the ACTUAL larger card that your social security card came on for ss id?! Those women told me that I had to have the ACTUAL business sized card that was ripped off the card I was showing. I'm here to tell you. THAT'S SOME BULLSHIT. I looked at it, I LOOKED at it real close. THERE IS NO SECURITY MARKINGS anywhere on it. Hell, I could Photoshop it in 15 mins flat.

AND if this all isn't too much good news for you to handle, how about this? my sticker AND the cigar wrapper were intact! (although the sticker was placed inside the wallet...haaaaa)



My wallet felt like a stranger when I got it back but I'm happy to say it is now in perfect working condition again.


Look at the art on this wrapper! I covet it.

This photo of Melanie, Beckee and Neal makes me laugh out loud. Thanks for all the laughs guys!