musings of Mother Hood

Thursday September 29, 2005

i seriously need a digital camera. i went to the drive-thru wilderness safari in gentry with andrew and devon yesterday. i hadn't been since freshman year... devon and andrew are regulars... i took all the pictures on today's post with my camera-phone. the llama pictures are for llaura

we brought andrew's weenie dog , toby, with us. toby is the 3rd cutest dog i know. (after ace and chip)

that one is toby in the front seat with devon. the next one is andrew holding toby while he barks at either an ostrich or a llama, i can't remember.

there was a cage with some baby tigers in it. the guy at the front gate told us we could go in and play with the tigers and if they got too "playful" to just "tap them on the nose to make them mind". these are TIGERS. so we go in the fence, the only security for the tigers being that the latch on the fence was about 5 feet off the ground and there was a sign saying 'no one allowed under age 13'. anyone who could reach the latch on the gate could go in and snatch a tiger. not to mention these are wild animals that could scratch/bite/maul you at anytime-- we didn't sign anything or talk to anybody about "safe ways to play with baby tigers" we just opened the gate and went in. they were SOOOOOOO cute.

that one is of me trying to convince the tiger not to pounce on toby. the next one is of the tiger attacking my legs.

here is devon and andrew and toby and a giraffe. andrew thinks the giraffes are toby's cousins.

and i thought this alligator was cool. we only saw him on our second drive thru. that's right, we drove around twice...

 

 

after we spent far too much time at the safari, we went to the little debbie store, which is also in gentry, and got some very yummy nutty bars.

 

Tuesday September 27, 2005

i'm in the computer lab at school.  there's a guy in front of me playing a game called "kitten cannon". yep, it's what you think it is.

Friday September 23, 2005

So, i can post pictures again! here's some pictures of my mom. the first one is of her and a friend of hers, and the one at the bottom is just her.

don't forget to visit her at http://cmartinw4.blogspot.com/

i've been working a lot... tuesday was my 12th day in a row. had wednesday off and went to eat and hang out with my new friend jana. she works at outback with me and she's really sweet.

oh! i had a cabot encounter the other night. i waited on josh barnett and his now-wife janelle. it was wierd. they were jodi dodgen's age and were always at the dodgen's when we were hanging out over there and josh was in debate with jeremy adams and nathan mccarroll and whatnot. anyway. small world of cabot...

haircut today! i need it SO bad.

Thursday September 22, 2005

Top O' the Muffin to You!

Tuesday September 20, 2005

apparently my 'pictures' function is not working properly today so i will post the new pictures i have of my mom and my parents' house at a later date... till then

Sunday September 18, 2005

mom, i heard our song on the radio yesterday and thought of you. and i got your package today.  thank you.

everybody visit my mom at http://www.cmartinw4.blogspot.com/ ! leave her a note, she'd like that!

Sunday September 18, 2005

so thursday night i was mislead to believe that brooks & dunn were going to have a concert after the Springdale/Jenks football game Friday night.  needless to say, it never happened and i was very disappointed... though i had to work anyway and i'm not a big fan of high school football-- or football for that matter...

i thought i found morgan nick tonight, but it was a false alarm.

work was long today.  and the hogs are losing.  <the name of that smiley is "bummed"> i miss my dog.

Friday September 16, 2005

If you think you're beaten, you are; If you think you dare not, you don't; If you'd like to win, but think, you can't It's almost a cinch you won't. If you think you will lose, you're lost; For out in the world we find, Success begins with a fellow's will, It's all in the state of mind. If you think you're outclassed, you are; You've got to think high to rise. You've got to hustle before You can ever win a prize. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man, But sooner or later the man who wins Is the one who thinks he can. Walter D. Wintle, "The Man Who Thinks He Can"

Thursday September 15, 2005

mmmm waffle fries. chic-fil-a waffle fries are easily in my top 10 favorite things of all time.  you know, raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and waffle fries...

so i have this unfortunately long-running problem with Chartwell's and straws.  drinking straws.  today was just a minor incident, but it's been worse in the past. today i spent a good 2-4 minutes of my time in the food court trying to figure out why every drink station was out of drinking straws. so by the time i gave up and got in line to pay for my waffle fries i had to wait behind all the people who don't have issues with straws, it's not fair. i asked the cashier where the straws were to which he rudely pointed (through a wall, i might add) to the napkin/plasticware/paper bag station on the other side. if only i could force myself to drink out of the side of a glass that i didn't personally wash... oddly enough, the seinfeld last night had a similar theme. jerry's girlfriend (kristin davis of SATC fame) tells him she put something in his apartment in the toilet but she doesn't tell him what. so he throws out nearly everything in his apartment because he can't take the chance.  she did this to get back at him for dropping her toothbrush in the toilet and then not telling her before she could use it-- 

 the straw battle started last summer when i would join the orientation ADs in the quad/brough for lunch.  now, i have been eating in brough since summer/fall 2000 and had never had a problem acquiring a straw.  last summer, upon request, i was told that brough does not have straws and has never had straws available. this is simply not true.  if they want to tell new freshmen that there are no straws because they get stuck in the dishwasher, that's fine, but don't insult me by telling me that there have never been straws in brough. i know better. and now with moving the straws from beside the pop machine and cup/lid display to 20+feet away.... it's ridicurous.

Thursday September 15, 2005

so i was at a stop light near campus earlier yesterday and looked over to see a guy about my age practically making out with the bloodhound sharing the bench seat of the antique-looking pick-up truck he was driving. it was gross. make out with your dog in the privacy of your own home.