Winn Reunion 2009

This was our group this year at our family reunion in Branson, MO. Let's see, did anything exciting happen this year?

Ummmm, for 2 weeks Aunt Ev & Uncle Phil have been in St. Louis due to her health.

Wednesday before reunion, Mom called me to tell me that Marvin was in ER. He had cut himself & was getting stitches. I guess he was already almost done by the time mom called me but I decided I better go up there anyway.

When I got to ER, my parents' neighbor & friend was sitting there too. She had brought Marvin's dad up right after Marvin had come to ER. Good thing I went up there. I got 2 for the trip of 1. Luckily he only had a UTI. So, mom was coming home from STL to go to Grandma I's stress test. So we met her at McD so she could see the guys, then went to Gma's.

Friday reunion starts. Oh, Grandma I decided we were having a boring week. She ended up having a low blood count. The found it due to some lab work they had done. So she ended up spending the night in the hospital too.

But somehow, Saturday things came together nicely. Grandma came home and Lisa & Uncle Phil were able to come home for the weekend from St Louis. It was a good turn out and it was nice to see the family that was able to make it.

I have to admit, I was a little wired & stressed up. I drank a lot of coffee too so I was a little high strung, but I made it & I think with little casualties.

Sleep Over

Neviah (my 2nd cousin) came over to spend the night with us the other night. We had fun. We didn't do a whole lot but she found my shoes. She kept putting my flip flops on and saying that she could fit. I told her if she liked those then she needed to come check out my closet.















We found lots for her to put on & the "fit" her. She also did really good at posing for all the photos. She would put one pair on & then tell me to take a picture.

STL Summer 2009 Part 3

This was my 3rd trip TO Saint Louis this summer (several through). I went with Holly again. Carter had 2 doctor's appointments. So while we were heading that way we could stop & see Aunt Ev & Uncle Phil.

Well, Carter's first appointment was for a hearing test. He had fluid in his ears so they couldn't do it. Then the 2nd appointment was for a vision test & he had pink eye. So a wasted trip for Holly. :(

But I got to see Aunt Ev. While I was there, she had a room mate that had been on drugs, fell, hurt herself and ended up in the hospital. Apparently she was coming off the high and the doctors told her that she had a crack in her neck & needed to wear this neck brace. Well the male nurse tried to put it on & she kept saying to stop restraining her. She was yelling that the nurse was attacking her. After she yelled VERY loudly for some help & they struggled she ripped her IV out of her arm. That made the IV alarm go off & it was quite loud too. So that woke up Aunt Ev. Well Aunt Ev decided to tell the male nurse that all that girl needed was for him to turn off the alarm. He replied with, "ma'am this would go a lot easier if you would stay out of it."

Well, Aunt Ev involved or not, it did not go easier. The girl was screaming, running into the hall & attacking the staff. They had to call in 3 doctors, 3 nurses and 4 or 5 security guards. They finally sedated her, restrained her & moved her. But not before quite a scene and several bad words yelled out really loudly. And not before Aunt Ev could announce that the nurse was being a little S**t.

Lisa and I both had to keep Aunt Ev from going over to the other side to interfere.

In Uncle Phil fashion, he said he hoped that they would get a refund for that day's rate.

Bad Day

I usually take these encounters in stride & handle them better than I did the other day, but I must have just been having a bad day.

I went to Wal-Mart to pick up some pictures. I told this older gentleman at the counter (that I have seen several times) that I was there to pick up pictures. He looks at me & says "Quan?". I reply, "no Perkins". He finds them & tries to pronounce my name with an accent and like rolling the "r", he made a couple of attempts at it & I just let it go. Then of course he continued. He then asked if the name was Korean and instead my typical response of no, but I am Korean, I responded with "no". Well then he kept trying to guess & I just said, "my parents are American and they gave me an American name, don't know what to tell you."

I grabbed my pictures & left.

Leaky Leak

Right before I took Brayden to St. Louis, Bray discovered a very wet play room floor. When I went in there, the whole closet was wet & so was Cody's bathroom closet. When we first moved in, the same thing happened. But it was like this super gush that we noticed right away. Apparently this is like a consistent leak.

So, I called my insurance agent on the advice of mom. The adjuster gave me a hard time at first that they were not going to over the leak. But in the end, they did.

Marvin & Ron had to come in through the kitchen because the leak was upstairs in Bray's bathroom. So they took out a cabinet in the kitchen to get to it.

After they re sheet rocked, mudded & taped, I painted. I have paint from when the house was built but the paint is not labeled very well. So I found paint that I thought matched. So I painted the 2 closets & the shower. Then I decided to touch up the walls. And then found out that the paint does not match!