So, my quiet weekend I planned? Wasn’t so quiet.
My darling friend Kristen called me Friday afternoon asking if we’d attend a party with her. In Missouri City. Full of people none of us knew. She met a guy she likes hanging out with and he was hosting this soiree. But she didn’t know anyone so [...]
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Nights and Rodanthe delivered. It was exactly like the book and exactly how I envisioned it. For the third time, Hollywood has nailed a Nicholas Sparks book. This one just happens to be my favorite. I hated the movie version of Message in a Bottle, but A Walk to Remember and The Notebook were fantastic.
The [...]
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We have power. Sweet, happy, bright electric power.
*JOY*
I bet the entire office – all 80,000 square feet or whatever – heard me squeal when I called my house and got the answering machine. I called Mike and he was all “I’m coming get you RIGHT NOW.”
We spent the evening watching TV, dancing in our air [...]
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I know that me bitching about my life post-Ike isn’t the most fun to read, but I don’t really have much else to talk about. I can’t even watch all of the super awesome fantastic new TV that’s on right now. GOT DAMN IT.
Anyway.
Centerpoint has released a new restoration map with estimates for restoration dates. [...]
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A quick update before I get kicked out of this ice-cream shop with free wi-fi.
Seriously, I flipped the fuck out today in my front yard.
I’m at my brother’s house, working from there instead of driving back to a dark house and going in the office. No problem. Got to spend the weekend at a fully [...]
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Fuck off, Ike. I’m so over you.
I’m currently at my brother’s house in Porter, better known as “South Dallas”. It’s just outside the most northern part of Houston and feels like we are a million miles from the city. We are only about 30 miles away or so, but still. We are in bumfuck nowhere. [...]
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It’s been an interesting week, I can say that. Learning to live without power has been fun. Lucky for me, the office is up and running and I’ve got power and my beloved internet. Oh, internet. How I missed you so!
Honestly- it hasn’t been that bad. The weather is beautiful and cool so living with [...]
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Ike is gone but he’s like an asshole ex-husband: You can tell every place that motherfucker has been because he left all kinds of shit behind.
Most of the city of Houston was left without power- something like 97%. Downtown has a lot of it back and so does some of our neighborhood. Our street is [...]
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Just so everyone knows, I have a degree in Radio/TV/Film. And I feel I’m rather intelligent. I know a lot of news people in Houston and I feel they are rather intelligent, too.
I also realize that reporting 24/7 on a hurricane is tedius and trying.
However.
How are you honestly going to tell us the most moronic [...]
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Y’all. We fixin’ to get Tina Turner’d up in this bitch. Ike’s on his way. He gonna slap-a-ho all over Houston.
Our company is closed tomorrow and people are heading out. I think they finally got a decent evac procedure working now. The Mayor and county disaster officials are all on the same page this time. [...]
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