I know I really need to get active in updating my blog again. I’ve honestly been trying to find a direction to take it in because, quite frankly, it’s just a giant bore. Any ideas?
Posted by: ckmarler | July 7, 2010
I know I really need to get active in up
Posted in Life
Posted by: ckmarler | April 23, 2010
This just makes me love baseball even more.
Posted by: ckmarler | April 7, 2010
It’s baseball seaason, folks!
Posted by: ckmarler | April 2, 2010
“No wonder you’re having trouble honey, you need a co-pilot”
Bad drivers are one of my big pet peeves. This is what I think about every time people make excuses for someone driving or parking a giant SUV poorly.
Posted in Life | Tags: Bad drivers, funny, SUVs, video
Posted by: ckmarler | April 1, 2010
This is SO me
I don’t have any big regrets, because I’m pretty happy with my life. But I have lots of minor regrets. I always order the wrong dish in restaurants. Always. No matter what I order, somebody else orders something that’s better. It even got to the point where I was consciously trying to pick things that I didn’t think I wanted, because I thought I would reverse the process and actually pick the things I would later regret not having. But I regret that, too.
Posted by: ckmarler | March 14, 2010
How cool is this?!
Check out my friend Leslie’s awesome eventing shot in the Talahassee paper!
http://www.wylie-eventing.com/2010/03/maggies-paparazzi.html
Posted by: ckmarler | March 9, 2010
Need a laugh?
Posted by: ckmarler | March 8, 2010
Stress? What stress?
This has been a challenging week. I realize it’s Monday, but we’ll just say “the previous seven days” and consider that this week. Maybe even longer, but I don’t want to think it’s been longer. When I was letting it all sink in, I realized that the little stress-o-meter thingy people use to measure stress is going through the roof for me*.
We’ve had some changes on the home-front. We’re trying to get all our finances in order so that we can start making all the repairs and fixes on our house so that we can sell it this year. That might not sound like much, but when you’re talking about a new roof (our quotes are around $5,000), removing wallpaper and trim, putting in new flooring in two bathrooms, painting the whole house, and any hundreds of small things I’m forgetting, it adds up to a lot of work and money.
Then my grandmother, who is 94, had surgery on her cornea on Friday. Obviously, anytime someone of that advanced age has a surgery of any kind, it’s a big deal. She wasn’t looking forward to it and has been struggling with it since. It’s irritating her and now it seems she’s got an infection. The doctor says that’s common, but it doesn’t add to her comfort level or get her back to normal faster. I wish there was some way to help. We went to visit her this weekend but the pain medication made her so drowsy she couldn’t enjoy it. She knew we were there though, and that’s all that matters to me.
Then on Friday, we found out that my aunt, my mom’s sister on the same side of the family has breast cancer and will be having a mastectomy tomorrow. 
This is my aunt that I’m the closest to, she gave me my first job working for her in a real estate office. Her only daughter is down in Florida and really can’t come up to help. This puts the brunt of the caretaking on my Mom’s shoulders, all while maintaining a full time job. So in addition to my ill family members, I’m worried about my Mom. I’m afraid to think of what HER stress-o-meter thingy looks like.
I guess all of this minimizes all the changes going on at my work. Even though I have some pretty serious career decisions to make, a major re-organization has got nothing on my loved ones!
*I’m at 322. Seriously.
Posted by: ckmarler | February 22, 2010
**Update**
The man accused in Carrie Daugherty’s murder has been able to have his trial delayed again. So sad.
Posted by: ckmarler | February 18, 2010
Want
While I hope I don’t need these anytime soon, or again this season, for that matter, I want these sooo badly!
Posted by: ckmarler | February 16, 2010
Justice for Carrie
February 22nd is the next trial date for Carrie Daugherty’s murder c. The man that murdered her has been awaiting a trial for nearly two years. Her loved ones have been awaiting justice for as long. His trial was last delayed in June of last year. And already, people have gone back to their normal lives and forgotten all about this brutal, violent crime. I know that people go back to their normal lives, they have to, but I am curious about when and why media latches onto a case and won’t let go or in this case why do they seemingly let go before it is finished.
I have a personal connection, Carrie was a friend. We didn’t know each other very well, but, still, we were friends. And I’m close with many of her best friends that she left behind. And we’re all wondering where is the public outcry? Where is the outcry for SWIFT justice? Where is the media coverage? Will Jamie Satterfield be tweeting updates from the courthouse to let us know what’s going on minute-by-minute?
I’m afraid she won’t; I wonder if it’s not sensational enough for her to get assigned it (Jamie, if you’re reading this, I really, really wish you would cover this). And for all the media outlets*, I wonder if it’s just not enough of a “ratings grabber” when it doesn’t involve race, drugs, or political scandal. It’s just a tragic story of a young women with an amazing future ahead of her and how a violent, brutal attack robbed the world of her. Those who were touched by her, will always be so, and those who were touched by the crime, have forgotten. They sleep well at night assuming that justice has been served and we’re all safe from the Micah Johnson’s of the world.
Little do they know how far that is from the truth.
*For disclosure purposes, I work in the advertising department of one of the most respected and important media outlets in East Tennessee.
Posted by: ckmarler | February 2, 2010
Elizabeth Edwards
My friend Katie has a spot on post about Elizabeth Edwards on her blog. I was so struck by it, I commented “I hope this ends up in Elizabeth Edwards’ inbox”. If you look at the other comments, you’ll see, Ms. Edwards did, in fact end up reading it. I feel a lot better, knowing that SHE knows people feel this way.
Posted in Blogs, Life | Tags: blogging, Elizabeth Edwards, inappropriate, politics
Posted by: ckmarler | February 1, 2010
Ace is the place with the helpful hardware man
We had another weekend of snow. On Friday night/early Saturday morning, my mom called to let us know that they were out of power from the snowstorm. My mom takes care of my 94 year old grandmother so it was a bit nerve-wracking to think of her without heat. They had an old kerosene heater, but couldn’t get it to work. Mom’s cell phone was dying so she asked me to call the power company for her. It wasn’t that she couldn’t do it, it was that the line was busy since evidently everyone’s power was out in her area.
We offered to attempt to drive down there and get them. I thought we could possibly get Granny to go to a hotel if I were there to talk her into it. She’s not much on wanting to go anywhere and while it would seem she’d be all for it what with them being out of power, she’s just not that way. She has a dog and was worried that they wouldn’t let her take her with her. Of course, I wouldn’t have let anything happen to my grandmother’s dog even if they hadn’t let her bring her to the hotel but that kind of stress affects an elderly person more than it would you or I. So, at my mother’s advice, we decided to wait and see what the morning would bring.
I got the call from mom around 11:00 and she asked if we could find a kerosene heater and bring it to them. Sure. That’s an easy one. Well, so we thought. While I’m not a patron of Wal-Mart on a normal basis, I thought that they would likely be my only hope for finding a kerosene heater in Knoxville during winter-weather. We went to one Wal-Mart and quickly found out that all Knoxville-area Wal-Mart stores were out of kerosene heaters. Crap. My husband and I quickly put both of our smartphones to work and called two different Lowe’s, two Home Depots, two, Mayo garden centers, a feed store/co-op, and finally, a neighborhood Ace hardware store. They had one. I begged the guy to hold it for me and we drove as quickly as we could.
I also bought a battery starter/mini-generator thingy. It wouldn’t help them in this situation because it needed a full 24 hours to charge, but if they had it, they would have had light and some power, certainly enough to power my Granny’s electric blanket through the night.
As I attempted to charge the battery starter with my cigarette lighter (you can’t for the initial charge), I asked my husband to run into Ace and get the heater and a gas can. The wonderful guys at Ace REFUSED my husband’s attempt to buy it. They were adamant that “this heater is for a girl named Catherine’s 94 year old grandmother”. Immediately, I remembered what I had said to the guy when I was on the phone and frantic. I had begged him to “please don’t let anyone else get this” and you know what, he wasn’t going to. I was so stricken by their kindness, I immediately started tearing up and ran in the store to thank them. I cannot express how thankful I am for the thoughtful staff at Ace hardware in Bearden. They will forever have my business (and I don’t even live in Bearden!)
Posted by: ckmarler | January 10, 2010
He Binged Google
Posted by: ckmarler | January 7, 2010
Blog Stats
Yesterday was the busiest day ever for my blog. I have no idea why. None of my stats are really telling me anything. Weird.
Posted in Blogs | Tags: blog stats
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