Showing posts with label Megan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Megan. Show all posts

Thursday, June 2, 2011

May happenings

So May blog wise pretty much got filled up by the May Music blog series I was doing, so I wanted to just do a quick recap of some of the major events that happened. During the month...

Jude's Birthday -

The first of the three birthday get togethers I went to this month was for Erin's dog Jude who celebrated her 3rd birthday. I brought a gift of some dog treats and went to celebrate with Erin, her grandparents, and their other dogs. (several pictures previously posted in a blog on the subject)

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Casey's Birthday -

Casey turned 23 on May 6th, we went out to eat at the Nascar grill at the Indiana Live Casino for her birthday. Erin went with us and got to see some horse races for the first time. I got Casey a 24 pack of coke and a 12 pack of vinalla coke for her birthday.

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Megan Schwering's Birthday -

Megan had a Birthday party at Joe and Chantel's house on Saturday the 7th. It was going to be a big production with 2 bands and everything but at the last minute got toned down and I was kind of glad that happened really. Bruce, Megan S., Joe, Chantel, Brock, Megan B., Arron, Cassie, Erin and myself all attended. It was an intersting night and was nice to get together with people.

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Thor -

Went to see the movie Thor with Bruce, Megan and Erin one night. Bruce and Erin really liked it while Megan and myself weren't as impressed. (note I didn't think it was a bad movie, just wasn't as good as I was hoping) after that we went out to eat at Buffal Wild Wings. It was a fun night.


Counting Steps -

My Aunt Pam's school was having a step/walking challenge and she asked Casey and I to carry a pedometer in place of a couple of the teachers at school, and that we would get the prize if our team reached the goal. We were on teams of 5 and had to get 1,000,000 steps per team to earn a 25 dollar check. I ended up scoring over 400,000 steps for my team and will be getting a prize check. Though Erin does think it's silly that I wear the thing. I'm going to keep wearing it the summer because if I walk 500 miles as an individual I will get another $25 dollars.



D&D -

Got in a game of D&D, saddly only one thus far, with Brock, Erin, Bruce, and Joe. It was my first time running a game as a DM and I think it went fairly smooth. It was nice getting a game in since it has been since last September that we played. I enjoy D&D its just so hard to get everyone together for a session it seems. Anyway it was nice to get some ideas and creativity flowing.

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Cemetary -

Went to put flowers on the graves of some ancestors for Memorial day with Dad, Pam, and Grandma down in Brookville and Harrison. Its nice to look back at the family history every once in awhile and this is a nice family tradition of sorts.


Storm -

As I dedicated a blog to in May we had a major storm hit Decatur County, at home we didn't have any real damage other than being without power for 60 hours. At the museum where I work we lost 8 windows to the hail. I'll refrain from saying much else since I have already covered it in a full blog.

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Predator -

Brock moved into an apartment next door to his Mom's house and on memorial day weekend had what I guess you could call a house warming party of sorts. Brock, Bruce, Joe, Erin, Casey, Bruce, Chantel, and I all got together to watch Predator and Predator two on Blu-Ray.

arnold Pictures, Images and Photos


Well i doubt anyone was that intersted in what I did last month, but if you were there is a quick run down of my life! Since I'm not doing a full blog series this month maybe I'll keep up posting the events that are happening/have happened in my life.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Graves and Storms on 5-25

So yesterday my family (Grandma, Aunt Pam, Dad) and I went to do a Memorial Day tradition of putting flowers on the gravestones of Dad's side of the family. (Grandpa usually comes but couldn't make it this year as he had to do something with one of his horses at the last minute notice)

We traveled to Harrison, Ohio and saw my Great Grandma Zeumer's grave (she recently passed away in April at the age of 98) as well as the rest of her and my grandmas family. Then we went to Brookville and saw my Great Grandma White's gravestone and her families plots. We also met up with my Great Aunt and Uncle Don and Kath.

After their we went to one final graveyard to see some more of my Grandma's family plots at a small Methodist church north near the Brookville Reservoir. When the Unslers and Monroe's are buried.

After seeing all of those sites we headed to the Hearthstone restaurant in Metamora and ate dinner with Kath and Don who met us there. A debate was had amongst our family as how it was strange their lunch buffet did not include the salad bar and how they had never heard of that.

After we got home I headed into work for a bit and then went to the gym to work out, I had head their was going to be a storm coming in but I don't get worried about storms at all so hadn't paid attention to it. Well about 5:15 pm everyone there has stopped exercising as in gathered near the glass windows facing the street as the storm hits... for awhile you could not see anything in the parking lot as the rain and debris stopped us from seeing anything. The picture I took here with my camera phone you can sort of make out a car in the background, but this was about 3-4 minutes after the worst part of the storm had whipped through.

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Of course everyone was on their cell phones and checking with their families, one guy had heard the roof of his house was in the street and that the garage door was no where to be found. Charlie, one of the trainers, had called his sister who worked across the street at Arby's and they had found the Gentle Dental sign in their parking lot (about a quarter of a mile and across St. Rd. 3 from where it originated). I later confirmed this sign report.

* I had gotten a text from Steve saying he didn't want to die at walmart :P granted he couldn't see outside and people always exaggerate reports to make it seem more extreme so I have no idea what he was hearing was happening. Luckily for him walmart has backup power.

The wouldn't let us work out with no lights, so Scott and I took these pictures out the backdoor of Anytime Fitness.

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Piles of hail were around most buildings and in the parking lot

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The hail was all different sizes

After waiting around 10-15 minutes and finding out neither my parents nor Erin's grandparents had electric I decided to head out. Erin's grandparents asked me to pick up dinner, and I gave Scott a ride home so he wouldn't get stuck in another storm is one came in quick (we had no idea when the next would hit). Then I went to find food, first I tried Arby's but soon found all of Lincoln St. was without power, so I went to Wendy's and picked up dinner.

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While taking Scott home

After grabbing the food I headed to Erin's where traffic was stopped on 3 for a bit, where it looked like a semi-truck had been overturned into a ditch and they had just got it back on the road. (It looked like someone had twisted its trailer).

Ate dinner with Erin's parents and listened to the radio while playing cards by candlelight. I was regretting working out since I never had a chance to shower. When reports of a second storm were coming in we went to the basement and sat for about an hour. Erin and I watched an episode of law and order on her laptop before the battery gave out, while her grandparents listened to WTRE.

After that Erin and I went for a walk, and then it was decided I should try to make it home before the last wave of bad storm hit. I could have stayed the night on the floor but I knew my Dad had his generator running so I could take a cold shower and see the news (he runs the TV and water pump on the generator.. the essentials as he would say).

*During the walk Megan reported to me that her house in Bloomington had taken a lot of damage, but that she was ok! The storm did end up covering a large area with its multiple tornado alerts.

But before I left Erin and I drove to Sandusky to see if it was damaged like the reports on the radio had been saying.... the verdict... nope it was perfectly fine! They all even had electric.

On my way home I was hit by really heavy rain and a little hail, but it wasn't too bad of a drive home and I made it safe.

Overall I'd say the storm is going to go down as being over hyped, I'm not saying that there wasn't a lot of damage... just I think it will be blown out of proportion in a few weeks when people look back at it. I feel like I'm helping to over hype it now that I have made this whole blog post. But I like storms and there are some good pictures of the damage that I have grabbed to post here.

Greensburg Daily News Photos:

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Courthouse

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Enniking Auto Repair, along 421 what I would say was the hardest hit area in Greensburg. To bad I didn't find many pictures of the surrounding area. most were taken near the park which was also hit hard.

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Airport hangers

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park basketball courts

Taken from Facebook (most from Kris Jones)

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Park shelter view 1

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park shelter view 2

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park shelter view 3

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park

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2 of the largest pieces of hail to hit the area

Saturday, November 13, 2010

100 things about Megan

So one of my best friends heard about my 100 things about me blog, and as she has done some blog series herself, I attempted to get her to join in. Well, simply put she refused, and I ended up being challenged to come up with 100 things about her to post. I accepted said challenge and this is the result: 100 things about Megan. I even finished this before I completely finished the 100 things about myself (still have like 30 to go, but I’m still breaking it up into 6-7 post throughout the month), and it wasn’t too hard…. Just tough finding a balance on what I wanted to post as I wanted to give a variety and not just bland facts about her, I guess to give you a bigger picture so to speak. Also I was told not to put anything too embarrassing… Now I need to move on to 50 things about her sister Emily, only 50 though because honestly I know much less about her, thus her 50 things will probably be a lot more basic. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this Megan.




100 things about Megan

1. Her name is Megan

2. By the time I post this she will be 24 years old

3. She is the 2nd oldest of 4 sisters and has no brothers

4. Her older sister is named Amanda

5. Her oldest little sister is named Morgan

6. Her youngest sister is named Emily

7. She loves her family and tries to keep in contact with them as much as possible, even though she has spent the last several years living in other cities; in fact she talks to her Dad on the phone almost every night around 10 pm.

8. Of her sisters she is the closest with Emily

9. Her first job was working at a Nursing Home

10. This is one of the reasons she loves and feels close to elderly people, even if one of her stories involving working at a nursing home is that an old man once peed on her shoe.

11. Also, she has bathed old people… I find this strange/gross

12. She once adopted an elderly woman, who was going to be moving into a nursing home, cat named Gus.

13. Megan’s first car was a teal Ford Probe

14. She still has the Probe even though it isn’t currently running, she also keeps insurance on it because she believes if she takes the insurance off it will be a sign of her giving in to the idea she will never drive it again.

15. Currently she drives a black Chrysler 300.

16. Megan has been to a couple colleges, she began her college career at Franklin where she commuted every day from her home.

17. Later she transferred to USI and moved to Evansville

18. Megan was a History major at USI and graduated in the fall of 2009.

19. She prefers American History from post Civil War onward, with emphasis on Women’s and Civil Rights movements.

20. She admires the work of Emma Goldman, who I still find to be a very creepy/scary looking woman.

21. She is now at Grad School at IU

22. She believes in ghost and spirits, and says one of the houses she lived in while in Evansville was haunted by an evil spirit.

23. She is atheist so I wonder if she thinks ghost are trapped souls, or imprinted memories? The whole trapped spirit idea is tough to go with unless you are open to the idea of a higher power, at least I think. edited: she claims to be agnostic

24. She is a Vegetarian

25. Even though she is a vegetarian she doesn’t like very many vegetables and mainly survives on grains, with cheese and beans thrown in their as well.

26. She loves animals, more than people…. She would probably save a dog’s life over a human if she had to make the choice.

27. She has a pet dog named Ralphie

28. A pet rabbit named Poppy

29. And a couple pet cats; Luna, Gus, and her boyfriend’s cat Simba.

30. Gus is diabetic so she has to give him insulin shots

31. Last year she donated to an animal farm to save the life of a turkey

32. Megan would love to own her own farm sanctuary sometime

33. Megan studied French in high school as well as briefly in college; however she doesn’t consider herself very fluent in the language.

34. She has visited both Spain and France though.

35. She is a former member of the chargerettes dance team

36. Her bus drivers name was Mark

37. She hates riding public transportation – to many people/germs

38. She loves to read books, particularly memoirs

39. She owns a Kindle on which she reads sometimes.

40. Going along with her love of reading…. She has worked in a haunted library… but never saw the ghost.

41. Megan has visited Washington D.C. where she did some protest marching and all that jazz

42. She hates republicans/conservatives

43. But She also isn’t a big fan of democrats, as she doesn’t feel they are liberal enough

44. If I had to paint her into a political stereotype… probably communist edging out socialist

45. Also sadly she hates Rush Limbaugh

46. Interestingly enough we can both agree to be friends despite totally different political views, actually we have pretty varying views on most things, so its cool that we can still get along… by just understanding we will never change each other’s mind, and just listen to what we say when we go on a long rant about something we disagree on completely.

47. She doesn’t like to be called “Big Beaver”

48. Though she is cool with the nickname ”Meaty”

49. Megan likes listening to classic country music

50. She has partaken in some mind altering substances

51. One of her favorite vacations’ of all time was renting a cabin in Georgia with Morgan and Emily.

52. Also she once went on vacation with her family to Tulsa to see a classic car time capsule dug up… unfortunately… the car was all rusted when the unveiled it.

53. One of her goals/dreams in life is to travel old route 66 in its entirety.

54. When she gets mad at people while driving… she honks her horn all angry like, I imagine she probably shakes her fist as well.

55. I think her dream job would probably honestly be to become a career student

56. She doesn’t like making new friends

57. She also feels left out from her friends a lot of time since she was the one who moved away, and now has to drive and work to keep up with everyone.

58. She is allergic to aspartame.

59. Last Halloween she dressed up as DOG the Bounty Hunter

60. She loves family traditions, and hates when they don’t happen/end

61. She hates renting, and would like to own her own home… however when that happens she wants it to be a big and nice home, she won’t just settle for anything.

62. She is scared of the idea of child birth, and thinks of it as “alien” even though she does want a child someday.

63. She loves Mexican food

64. She helped research for the book “A Pictorial History of Mesker Park Zoo.”

65. King of the Hill is her favorite TV show

66. She dislikes birds/foul and has since she was little… well maybe not dislike.. but is scared of them.

67. She is also scared of centipedes… and even though she loves animals it is alright to kill bugs because she doesn’t believe they have feelings/ can feel pain.

68. She prefers winter over summer, and fall is her favorite season.

69. She pretty much only wears long pants… I don’t think I’ve EVER seen her legs, which now to think about it is kind of weird :P

70. One Day she called me out of the blue to ask me if I wanted to come with her to hop a fence and sneak into a graveyard. That was the first time we hung out outside of school.

71. She wants to live in the country, she doesn’t like living in the city with a lot of neighbors

72. She does do light spying/stalking on her neighbors.

73. While living in Evansville her house was robbed.

74. She is afraid I will be robbed and or shot while working at my job, so I guess that means she is caring and/or a worrywart ;)

75. She has seen the Pacific Ocean

76. She is really swayed by nostalgia

77. Megan is a fan of the comic strip “Peanuts” and the Charlie Brown holiday movies

78. She likes the cartoon Sponge Bob

79. She claims to like football, though she doesn’t have a favorite team and never watches it so I am skeptical as to this claim.

80. She doesn’t like roller coasters, though she has been to Kings Island multiple times

81. She is much more attractive than she will admit to, and sometimes has a negative self image

82. She owns an elliptical exercise machine

83. She dislikes it when non-Irish people celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day

84. She likes to sew and do other “crafty” things.

85. She wants to work a job where she gets regular breaks or vacations, she can get burnt out easily sometimes.

86. She doesn’t like the taste of beer, she does like some vodka and rum though.

87. She has a poster of Tupac corrected: she used to have a Tupac poster

88. She loves board games, and has a bunch.

89. She knows how to can food

90. She listens to Pandora radio a lot… enough that she has actually tripped the usage amount in a month and had to pay to use the service.

91. She doesn’t like Christopher Columbus

92. She is firmly on the anti-book burning side of any book burning argument

93. She has a tattoo

94. She also has piercings… but only in the ears. correction: she also has had her belly button pierced

95. She has never broken a bone

96. She wants to buy back her families old 1970’s camper, if she can find it since her Dad sold it.

97. He likes works by the animator Hayao Miyazaki, such as “Ponyo”

98. One time her car broke down at a place called “Opossum Junction”

99. She would refuse to hitchhike or pick up a hitchhiker, or even bum a ride from a stranger

100. She has a family tradition of going to the Circus every Spring at the Pepsi Coliseum.

101. Bonus: She has a cool friend named Dustin ;)

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11/14 - added 3 edits/corrections after Megan read the list.