Photos, videos and text from the OKC area.
Tomorrow’s Christmas! I still have to get Ashleigh another gift today. I’m always procrastinating…
Today, we’re heading back to the city to have Christmas with my dad’s mom and her husband. We’re playing ‘dirty santa’ and hanging out with family. I plan on swinging by the CompUSA by my grandma’s house to see the big liquidation.
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Christmas! I usually don’t get excited for Christmas until it’s right on top of me, and this year is no exception. Ashleigh gets ready for Christmas before Halloween. Weird.
Ashleigh and I got back from Texas late Tuesday night. We stopped and saw Kabrina & Travis, then Aaron & Michelle. It was good seeing long-lost friends.
Ashleigh, Clancy, and I arrived at Ashleigh’s parents’ house late last night, and it rained the whole trip. We’re going out on the town today, getting some Christmas presents and going to see I Am Legend with Donna and Austin.
Tonight we’re celebrating Donna and Jeff’s 25th wedding anniversary. Champagne, anyone?
What an eventful few days! Oklahoma was hit hard by an ice storm that knocked out power to over 600,000 homes in the area and killed over a dozen people. We’re still feeling the effects, 2 days later, as the power has not been fully restored and most cable communications have been turned off. That means that just after our apartment’s power was turned on, Cox turned the cable off. The customer service reps I talked to knew nothing about why or when it would be resolved.
Ashleigh and I took Clancy with us to her grandparents’ house to stay warm. They had power when we got there, but a broken branch eventually cut that too, so we all huddled around the fire and told stories. Ashleigh and her grandma had made enough cookies for us to stave off hunger, and with a roaring fire and a cat at our feet, we stayed warm in the roll-out sofa bed.
Since the cable’s turned off, I’m in the school’s library trying to start finish my last final, a 4-8 page paper for English. This paper is the worst one out of the 4 I’ve written. My professor wants me to read a novel and analyze how the novel deals with an event that was current when the book was written. What makes this difficult? It’s a novel. As in fiction. My book is The Walking Drum by Louis L’Amour. Drum was written in 1983-4 and is set in 12th-century Europe. I’m sweating this one, for sure.
Update: I’m back at the library, doing some more Internet work. I’m done with my finals / papers, finally. It’s so cold outside that I don’t want to walk the 100M from the parking garage to the library. Time to go home.
