I know it's been quite awhile since I've been here and updated, but here I am and I'm not even going to attempt to try and catch up on everything that has been going on around here. I'll do a briefing on the last couple months and then I'm going to try and come here more often and post. Yeah I know I say that all the time but seriously, I'm going to try hard this time! So.....with that being said, here is a brief update on the last couple month's of my life:
April 12th. Scott's Birthday: THIS is what really kept me away and ate up so much of all my time! Dear daughter Nichole decided on giving daddy a birthday present that keeps on giving-a puppy. She knew he always wanted a English Bulldog and so she found one that one of her co-workers were giving away. "Oh daddy would be SO excited, he'd love me forever!" Yeah. Right. 2 things wrong here. 1) we sooo did not want another dog (if we wanted one we would have certainly had gotten one!) 2) He is NOT a English Bulldog. He is a Boxer mix. Now a Boxer is part of the bulldog family, but they look nothing like an English Bulldog. She must have just heard the "bulldog" part and little bells started going off in her little head and.....well........you know. I asked her when she went to pick up the pup, did she notice that the momma wasn't an English. She said that there was just 1 more dog there and that no, it wasn't. She didn't know that this dog was the mother. The 15 nipples hanging down dragging the ground didn't give it away. (I seen pictures). I'm really worried about her. This is our daughter. She is assistant manager of a store. A drugstore.
Needless to say, the dog is still here and luckily still alive. (I'll elaborate more on that topic later). Let's move on.
May 5th. Cinco De Mayo and also my birthday. Nothing much happened here. I had to work that evening and so I missed out on my birthday dinner. I always look forward to being able to pick anywhere I want to go eat on my day. I can do it 364 other days also, but it just doesn't mean as much to me as on my birthday. Go figure. So on my way to work I went through McDonald's drive through and ordered me my favorite-a double cheeseburger and a large sweet tea. Not much of a birthday dinner, but I LOVE McD's double cheeseburgers and I LOVE sweet tea so it wasn't all that bad.
Also started to have our house worked on. We are having siding put up and having all our windows on the house replaced. We've been wanting to do that now for quite some time and so we took the plunge and hired the guy that did the same thing to our neighbors house. We seen his work and he did a beautiful job over there and so we decided to go with him. You always hear stories about how it can be a nightmare having home improvements done? Well, now I believe them stories. It's been utter chaos around here and it's really making me want to pull out my (grey) hair. I know it'll look so nice in the end but the process is driving me nuts. I'm an instant gratification kind of girl. I want it NOW!
June 27-29th. Me and sis went on our first SDV in Durham! For those of you who are non-scrappers SDV is short for "Scrappers Dream Vacation". Three days of non-stop scrapping. No kids, dogs, husbands to bother us. Meals were provided along with late-night coffee and tea served. Oh yeah.....hotel room included for 2 nights. It was awesome! Definitely going to be an annual event for us! It was so worth the money and I can't wait until next year when it comes around again!
June 28. Got a call from my boss. He just wanted to let me know that my position at work has been eliminated and I no longer have a job. 23 years with that damn place and that's the thanks I get. Not that it is such a bad thing......I have been wanting to get out of there now for such a long time that I look at this as a door that opened up for me. I guess I was scared of leaving there. You know, like it was my little sense of security or something. Yeah right. I seen this coming a long time ago. So.........what am I going to do now? I have no fucking clue. Enjoy the rest of the summer and take that much needed vacation I have been hoping for and taking it I am. I got me a ticket to fly back home (to Wisconsin) for a couple weeks. I'll be on that plane early Saturday morning, Aug.2nd. and won't be back until August 17th. I'll be very busy doing all kinds of fun stuff up there but I will also have a lot of down time also so that will give me time to hopefully try and keep this thing updated. Yeah. Like who reads it anyways. (smirk)
With that being said, the next time you will see me here again I'll be 1,000 miles away from home having a blast with my kids!
