Heros

Did anyone watch the new season of Heros last night. I was not that impressed with it. It was ok, but I think that they left too many holes in it.


I'm too lazy to post more pictures, not only that I don't have time so, here is a picture from the aftermath of Hurricane Ike.

Pictures from Hurrican Ike and Astros Game

It took me about 2 hours to post this and when I went and posted it, (I should have copied it just in case) only posted half and so I will post pictures later when I feel like doing it again. So, still, no pictures.

Wow

Ike has come and gone, and all I have to say is that it was awsome! What an adrenaline rush. We did fine, we had some roof shingles taken off, fences fall, a tree fall on our roof and broken branches everywhere but other than that, we came out alright compared to some of our neighbors. Justin and Josh sat out on the porch through the hole thing, even when the eye wall came around. I sat out there with them for alot a decent amount of it and watching the trees breaking and the sound of the wind was just definatly an experience in its self.

JJ slept through most of it. Jocelyne was a little scared of it but as long as she fell asleep with me, she was fine. She like watching the trees twist and turn and the wind. Everytime a big gust of it came along she would look at us and say "cool" with her big eyes as wide as they could get.

One of our friends got a roof leek, another one had a huge tree total his truck by landing on it and the neighbor across the street has a hole in her ceiling. There are more stories but I'll try to take some pictures of it to post so you can see what I'm talking about.

Waiting.....

I'm sitting hear watching the news on Hurricane Ike while trying to stay awake. Justin is sick, JJ is sick, Jocelyne is sice and I'm trying to stay in denial that I'm not sick.

Justin and the guys did all the preperations for the hurricane. They did as much as they could to the office wharehouse. They boarded up the kitchen window, picked up anything outside that might be flown around. We do have plenty of water. We gave some to our neighbors since they could not find any. I went and bought some last minute food that doesn't go bad and doesn't have to be cooked. I think all we can really do is wait and see what happens.

As for Jocelyne, she woke up 2 days ago with a high fever. Justin and I watched her fever that went between 104.7 down to a 102.4 for most of the time on Wednesday. Yesterday, she still had the fevers but as I went to go get gas in the vehicals, Justin and Brandon called and let me know that her fever spiked to a 106.2. We put her in the bath tub and got it down a few degrees and then I drove her to the ER. She was given alot of Tylenol and Motrin, fluids by IV, antibiotics, a some chest x-rays and blood taken. She looked so miserable. But when they were trying to get her to sit up for her chest x-rays, I told them to tell her to smile for the camera. It worked, she sat up and posed for the x-ray camera.

Since all of this has been going on with all the evacuating, we waited for quite a while, and the doctor came in and told us she had pnumonia and that they were transporting her to Texas Childrens Hostpital in the medical center. We drove in the Ambulance to the hostpital and they watched her for quite a while in the ER and the doctors came in and finally talked to me. They apologized for the long wait. I wasn't mad, I'm just glad she got the attention she needed. They told me that normally they would admit her into the hostpital for her condition but since there were children with much more serious conditions, they wanted to know if we felt comfortable taking her home in her condition. They gave me everything we needed to watch her from home. So we have been taking care of her at home and she is doing much better. I'm glad that we could take her home and that someone else that really needed the medical attention got it. Now I'm taking care of all the sick people at home.

So we will watch the television and see what is going on with the storm and just wait. That's all we can do.

The calm before the storm....

Jocelyne woke up really early this morning with a fever and she is home from school today so I'm working from home. Business calls have slowed down this week, but it's pretty understandable. Everyone is waiting to see what the hurricane will do. If you ask me, let it come, it will give us plenty of work, if it doesn't it will still give us plenty of work. Just for the fact that if it hits, there will be alot of drywall damage, if it doesn't hit here, it will make all the hurricane hunter drywall companies leave to get work wherever it hit so either way, I'm happy. Sad to say that I make money off of others miseries.

Things are much better.....

Since my last post, things have died down alot. A little bit of drama but I didn't let it get to me too much. JJ loves his new school. He was really excited about telling me everything when I picked him up. We all got sick though and he missed two days the first week of school. But I guess it happens when you put alot of kids altogether. Jocelyne got it a bit but she only got a stuffy nose. She absolutely loves her school. Things are going well.

Hurricane Gustav did miss us. But it was fun watching it on TV. I do have a confession to make though.... I actually love watching all the roofs coming off and the waves crashing and making destruction. I don't know why, but I do. I am glad to hear that it was not as bad for other peoples sake.

School and work start tomorrow, I'm happy to get back to work. This weekend has been great but I know it doesn't last forever.