A few years ago our youngest son had a problem that our doctor down in Texas told us was sleep walking. This weekend we found out different. On Thursday our son had one of these episodes while in school and unlike when it happened down in Texas where that school didn’t contact us till several hours after the problem was noticed this school tried calling us and when no one answered the phone here they sent a police officer to track down my mother-in-law while they took my son to the ER. I’m grateful for that. I was down in Salt Lake at the time and my husband was out in the yard when they tried to call. He did call the school when he came back inside and immediately went up to the hospital after hanging up. The doctor in the ER had a suspicion of what was going on with our son but he did not have the equipment to make a proper diagnosis at our tiny hospital so he decided to send our son down to Primary Childrens Hospital in Salt Lake post haste. My husband called me then to tell me what was going on and that they would be driving down ASAP. I met them at the ER of Primary Childrens around 4:30 pm and at 6 pm we had a new diagnosis and a treatment plan. It turns out my son has been having Atypical Absence Seizures. I am relieved to have a diagnosis that I can do something about. We can treat this.

After spending the night in the hospital for observation we spent the rest of the weekend at a friends house so we could attend some social gatherings going on in town. Friday night was spent at The Greenhouse Effect in Salt Lake for Stealth Coffee. This is something that takes place every Friday night at that location and it is a blast every time I get the opportunity to attend. Saturday we went to Liberty Park for the first Mountain Shadows Clan of the Toteg Tribe meeting. Then Sunday we went to Fairmont Park for a Meetup Picnic where I got my picture taken by a member of the Church of the Sacred Circle (who were also having a meetup in the park) every time I visited the public restroom. I laughed that off but I got pretty peeved when another member of that organization decided to take video of my son when he was near the restroom. There is something seriously wrong with those people!!

Posted: August 28th, 2007 under family, kids, teh st00pid.
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Lewis Falls
Yellowstone National Park

Some of my family came up from Texas to visit me for a few days. This includes my grandmother, mother, niece Sharon, nephew Charlie, and favorite cousin Mike. While my grandmother opted to stay here with my two year old nephew the rest of us decided to embark on a day trip up to Yellowstone National Park. This is a trip I’ve made a few times but it’s never dull and always a beautifully scenic drive. I’ve never really had a wildlife encounter while up in Yellowstone till this trip though and thus comes the tale of the asshat humans…

It’s going on sunset and we’re still in the park as the speed limit is 45 at the most but usually more like 35. Why? Because they don’t want you to hit the wildlife and the roads are mountainous, curvy, and lined with trees. There are also few passing zones within the park for the same reasons. Does that matter to an asshat in a pickup truck though? Nope. We were driving along doing the speed limit when about fifty feet in front of us crossing the road is a baby bear. We stop, leaving plenty of room between us and the bear. I almost got a picture of it too… till the asshat in the pickup decided that we were just stopping in the middle of the road in a no passing zone for no particular reason at all and zooms around us… that is till he sees the bear and decides to slam on his breaks taking up both lanes while his buddy in the passenger seat rolls down his window (yeah you read that right, fucking idiot) to hang out of it so he can get a picture of the bear. What I thought to myself at that time was, “these are the kind of idiots you see on those When Animals Attack videos…” They were real damn lucky that momma bear didn’t come out of the woods.

Posted: August 2nd, 2007 under family, teh st00pid.
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I thought it was time to upgrade the camera. We had an old Fuji Finepix 2650 that still works beautifully but doesn’t quite do everything I want in a camera so I just purchased a Fuji Finepix S5700 and gave the old camera to my daughter Christi.

I spent a good deal of time yesterday annoying most everyone by taking various pictures and videos. If you go to my myspace you can see a video I took of our fire bowl last night. To see some of the pictures I took you can visit my flickr.

I also took this picture of my new ring. I lost my wedding ring which was sterling silver with celtic designs engraved on it. This is what Parker got me in replacement. *smiles* Yes I do love that man!

Posted: May 18th, 2007 under family, parker.
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This is my newly engaged daughter Christi and her fiance Mike…

…and the rock. Man does that thing sparkle!

Posted: May 1st, 2007 under family, kids.
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Yesterday I wrote the owner of the site and heard back from him today. He was cordial and expressed regret that my trouble ticket was treated as it was. He also expressed that the reason my daughter was banned was not what I stated but he didn’t know what exactly the reason was and would be investigating the matter further. I did write him back to give him more information.

Parker decided to call him to discuss the situation after I spent a couple of hours figuring out that we were all perm banned because of “problem ticket abuse”, in other words anyone who uses our ISP was deemed by one 19 year old girl called “FoxGrin” to be my daughter aka bunnylover. She wasn’t answering the tickets she was making notes on the tickets to say, “this is bunnylover.” My daughter is only responsible for two trouble tickets and she isn’t even the first person who submitted a ticket, not even the first person in our home who did so. My son is actually the first one who submitted a ticket. I read his, it was very well written IMNSHO. He ended a ticket by stating, “that’s ignorant and retarded” in reference to the fact that the ban was put in place while the kids were in school. Apparently they were checking IP logs and saw that our IP had logged on earlier that day, it was my 18 year old daughter but naturally it had to be bunnylover. In this case I think my son’s statement is true, at least half true anyway, it is ignorant.

FoxGrin made a reference to that in her response to one of the tickets my daughter actually did write and it seems that FoxGrin has limited reading comprehension because she claimed it was bunnylover insulting the admins rather than what was written.

The owner told Parker that the original ban was because bunnylover had a disagreement with an admin but he still doesn’t know what it was about and the admin in question (not FoxGrin) denies the jealousy story. Well duh, why would she admit to abusing her power? He did seem to agree about the trouble ticket issue though and lifted the perm ban that was put in place because FoxGrin assumed everyone was bunnylover.

So, the problem is resolved but my opinion about the immaturity of the staff hasn’t changed. It’s sadly been reaffirmed.

Posted: April 19th, 2007 under family, friends, kids, parker, teh internets, teh st00pid.
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Yesterday I signed up for an account on wolfhome.com and promptly found myself banned within seconds of confirming my account. I opened a trouble ticket to inquire about the problem and just received a response. It’s one word, “Bunnylover.” WTF??? How does that even remotely answer the question? Now don’t get me wrong, I know who bunnylover is, my 15 year old daughter. Still, that does not address my question. In fact, it’s a bit on the immature side in my opinion. I have four computers in this house and five people have accounts on that site. We aren’t all my daughter. A quick trip to google would clear up any question about me being a 15 year old girl as well I would think. I mean I have been around for a while.

I did ask my daughter about the situation. What she told me is that it has to do with one of the volunteer admins being jealous over some guy asking my daughter to be his mate even though my daughter turned him down. Apparently the girl banned my daughter to eliminate the competition. Some kind of desperate attempt to win this guy over even though he’s already told her he isn’t interested. Pathetic and immature teen bullshit.

Now I’ve found out that nearly our whole town has been perm banned. They all probably wrote trouble tickets asking about the IP ban since I’ve been told that almost everyone in this town that is with my ISP has the same IP addy, like one big LAN.

I remember when wolfhome was first starting out. I was busy back then with the PWA but I seem to recall that I had joined all those years ago probably as Wolfrose but never did anything with it. It wasn’t so interactive back then either. The new chat they have now is rather cool. It’s a shame it can’t be run by more mature people with some professional ethics.

Posted: April 18th, 2007 under family, friends, kids, teh internets, teh st00pid.
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That is how long the $45 a month child support order lasted. I received my copy of the new order in the mail today. They also sent another paper that showed the amount of the arrears now owed and how much interest has accrued over the years of his “punishing” me by not paying the full amount or just plain not paying at all. The interest is over $8,000 and the total amount owed is over $24,000 now. Yeah, I feel real punished. LOL

Posted: February 24th, 2007 under family, kids.
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You know, if it can be messed up I’m sure The Office of the Attorney General of Texas will find a way…

I received in the mail today a copy of the new writ of withholding for the Rat Bastard. It had an error. Of course.

Since my daughter turned 18 they had to amend the order so that he is no longer paying current child support and only paying on the arrears… which was over $20,000 last I checked and with somewhere around 12% interest tacked on each month I’m sure it’s a bit more than that now. When he was paying current support he paid only $45 per month toward the arrears which didn’t put a dent in it since the interest was more than that per month. The amended writ of withholding for some reason just dropped off the current support and only ordered him to pay $45 per month for the arrears. At that rate he would owe another $100,000 in interest by the time he paid the now owed amount. My daughter would be an old woman on her death bed and the arrears would still be owed.

In any case, that isn’t what the original order stated so I called them to correct the matter. The new papers are in the mail now with the correct amount of $274 per month. At that rate he may have it paid off in about ten years… maybe. I’m quite sure he wouldn’t be smart like my oldest daughter’s father and pay more than owed when he can to get it paid off faster… no, this one thinks he’s punishing me when he doesn’t pay, doesn’t think about the interest compounding and putting himself further in debt.

Posted: February 20th, 2007 under family, kids.
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This is a picture of part of my Valentine’s Day presents. Parker gave me eight roses, one for each year we’ve been together. I also got the teapot the roses are in with matching sugar bowl, cream pitcher, and a candle that looks like the sugar bowl. The kids gave me a mule with saddle bags that are salt and pepper shakers.

We got the screen up for the theater a couple of days ago so that’s where I’ve been for the past couple of days just watching movies. The picture is just awesome, really bright, sharp, and clear. Soon we’ll be getting DirecTV hooked up to it and people might not see me for a while. LOL! Actually I plan on having my laptop in there anyway.

Speaking of computers… Parker totally loves his new machine. He was busy Monday night and missed Heroes. It had been replaying Friday nights on Sci-Fi but it isn’t on the schedule tonight so now he’s sitting here watching it off of the NBC website on his computer. Yeppers, he is a happy camper.

Posted: February 16th, 2007 under family, kids, parker.
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I’m almost finished with the redesign of wolfrose.com. The new splash page is up and I have the gallery changed over so now all we have left to do is change the wordpress blog over to the new design. Parker tells me it’s not that big of a deal.

On the home front we are still waiting on the screen for the theater and we nearly have all the rooms switched around. I’ve just about decided that we just have way too much stuff. Parker got his new computer all set up and is really happy to no longer be going in slow motion on the old Win98. We’ve also decided that the formal dining room makes a much better den for the TV and games than it did a collection area for random stuff.

Posted: February 12th, 2007 under family, teh internets.
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