As Seen on TV!!

Man I hate it when I don't update often. Need to work on that. So.....

I'm at work and its busy as hell. Its around 1:30 and my help doesn't come for another half hour, but I have someone working with me and that is awesome. Its been so busy....If anyone reading this uses layaway....You know what I'm talking about. The phone rings.....

I'm in the back trying to find some space for all these packages cuz my asshole store manager is still a jerk and is being really stingy with the space so I have to be creative and I hear this.....

"jeannine....(now everytime the phone rings I cringe cuz its always for me and its always someone begging for money and its always the same thing I have to hear and say and do when the phone rings) its for you. Sounds like Sarah is in trouble..." My heart sinks.

so I go to the phone and its the dean or principle or whoever this person is and I hear......

"I'm not sure if you heard yet......(now I'm really panicking cuz I haven't heard shit but my heart beating a mile a minute at this point) but there seems to be a hostage situation (HUH???) in your area and the police diverted the buses back to the schools. Can you come and get your daughter?" of course...I'm on my way.

turns out......Some guy is has this house held up across the street from MY HOUSE and the police have a 4 block radius blocked so no one can get in or out until this is over. So with this information I go to my manager and try to explain this and he's looking at me funny (he always looks at me funny though....We have that kind of relationship) and says go. The coverage was there...So it wasn't a problem. Not that it would be...I was going anyway.

so I go and pick her and her friend up and proceeded home. Sure enough....Cops everywhere, couldn't get down my street at all.....But I did get through the alley. That was the only way home. So we get in the house and go to the front and there was a MOB of people there. Just like on TV. Looking. Standing. Talking. Looking. Standing. Myself included. Standing there... Trying to get in the perfect position to see this house and wait to see what happens. The command center was set up two houses down from me in the vacant house, squat was there, fire, ambulance, you name it. The block that the house was actually on was evacuated (from my house it was across the street about 3 houses away so you can see it from my block) and we just stood there. This has been going on since noon and we got there around 3 and it was still going on. Helicopters were there and we found out that it was ABC news so we turned on the TV to see if there was coverage and to find out what happened.

standing out there (in the damn cold mind you) the stories were just flying everywhere!! The first I heard was....This guy was an escaped convict and he took over the house. A few minutes later we found out that the house belonged to this lady who ran a day care and so now there are kids there. Then we heard that he killed a cop and the final story was....His girlfriend saw him on America's Most Wanted and she turned him in for the money. When that was floating around there were added rumors of bombing her house when all this was over.

it seemed that everyone out there was somehow related to this man. I heard "that's my cousin" I can't tell you how many times. Something to be proud of I guess.....I don't know. Anyway.....Around 5 or so I guess they got tired of standing around and the cops finally started talking him out. That was cool. Just like on TV. He got on the phone and patched the guy in so you can hear both conversations and to me that was about the most exciting. Then they got his sister to talk to him and finally his mom. After about 10 minutes he surrendered and came out. The the cops went nuts and threw him to the ground and handcuffed him and everyone cheered and clapped and was screaming how much they loved him and God is good. Maybe they WERE family...Hmmm. I guess the good part about this whole thing was that nobody got hurt. The news crew created mob scenes trying to get interviews and we went back in the house and resumed out day. It was 6pm. Sarah and I went to curves, came home, had dinner and was seeing if anything was on the news and of course...Nothing. We were in the paper though.

the next day I'm at work and one of the cashiers came to me and said....I didn't know you lived in Zion. I confirmed and said...You must have seen what happened last night. So I got the scoop. The real deal.

She in fact WAS his cousin and lived next door. He was wanted in Wisconsin for weapons possession and the cops have been following him that day to this house which belongs to his family (so there wasn't a break in so to speak) and was empty. He was holding himself hostage I guess.

so that is what all the excitement was about.

other than that the week has been ok. Its getting colder by the day and I'm not ready for it. Its Saturday and the first day in a long time I got to really sleep in and rest. I really need it too. I've been working double shifts...Not everyday but at least twice a week and they are taking there toll on my body. I totally messed up my program this week and didn't' even go to my meeting which I'm not happy about. But today is the start of new day, new week and I know this will be a better one. More on that here if your interested.

I've been getting into doing puzzles again. Got Sarah into it too. Were working on a dolphin one right now but its a Photomosaic so its really challenging. (I still have this one of the NY skyline that a friend has giving me for xmas a while ago that I was going to start but my table is not big enough.....But I will have it done!)

today is going to be laundry day and rest. Sarah is at work now. Her wisdom tooth is coming through and the poor thing was in pain. Had to take her to the dentist yesterday. Her face was so swollen and you can see the tooth coming through. Ouch!!! So she has an appt with the surgeon to have that removed. This is not going to be fun for her. Poor thing. I feel soooo bad for her. She doesn't do pain so well and wants to be put to sleep when they do it. She keeps hearing horror stories and now she's panicking. LOL....Poor thing.

went to see The incredible the other day. Cute movie. Definitely entertaining...Was not spectacular.....But didn't suck. I liked it.

the holidays are coming to fast. 2 weeks for turkey day and 5 weeks for xmas. So not ready. Well...Have a good weekend. Ill try to update more often.

ciao!