Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Going To Do A Makeover
I'm going to do a makeover here and try and get everything up to date. This might take a couple days so make sure to come back and see the new site!
Friday, August 01, 2008
One Post-Four Months
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!
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!
Friday, March 28, 2008
A Boring Post Today
Oh my goodness what a BEAUTIFUL day! The weather here has been so nice for the last week or so and I have been slowly starting to get into summer mode! Even done some yard work on my long 4 day weekend last week. I just love doing yard work. Hand me a branch trimmer, saw, rake, work gloves and I am there baby! And don't even get me started on burning! Give me a 12 pack of Corona's, a pile of brush and a book of matches and I'll be out there all night! I often remind Scott how lucky he is that he has a woman that loves working outside. Anyways, today it's going to be 80 degrees out and wouldn't ya know it, I have to work. Not too bad though because it's Friday and just knowing that it's the weekend makes me a happy girl. I don't know what I'm going to do this weekend. I was thinking about doing my spring cleaning but then I'll want to have all the windows open and right now is the worst time for it. My whole entire house and everything in it will turn green with all the pollen. I do however have a list of things I have to do for other people so I'm thinking of getting caught up with that.
I hope everyone has a glorious day!
Sorry for the boring post today but I'll share some fun stuff tomorrow!
I hope everyone has a glorious day!
Sorry for the boring post today but I'll share some fun stuff tomorrow!
Sunday, March 02, 2008
By The Way.....
I forgot to mention this but remember the mailbox contest from my previous post? Well.........I won second place! Yay me!!!
Saturday
I love Saturdays like this. Slept in until 12:30 this afternoon. Not because I was tired, but because I was just plain lazy and I felt I deserved it. Me staying up until after four in the morning really had nothing to do with it! Neither did me drinking a "few" drinks either! Hey....I had a rough week and it's the weekend and I'm entitled so....
After finally getting my ass out of bed, I done a quick cleanup of the house. Vacuuming, washing dishes, making the bed you know.....the usual. After that a quick shower and Nick and I were off for some serious shopping! I really wanted to go to Archivers because it's been so long since I've been there. Like a total of maybe 3 days and I needed to look for something for me to make Easter cards with. Found a ADORABLE card that I wanted to make but just my damn luck, the stamps that were used to make it with were sold out! I was so mad! They had everything else there for Easter except for the one thing that I wanted! I swear it always turns out that way! I've been walking around the house for the last couple weeks saying to Nicki..."I have to make Easter cards-what should I do? I have to make Easter cards-what should I do? What should I do for Easter cards? I have to come up with an Easter card idea- what should I do?". That poor girl! Every holiday that I need to make cards for she gets to hear this from me every single day I see her! It's no wonder she is starting to despise holidays! That trip to Archivers was a waste of time for me. All I came home with was $49.00 in crap that I "needed" like I needed a hole in my head. I still don't know what I'm going to do so unfortunately Nichole has to still listen to me.
I also didn't find what I was looking for at the mall. Nichole for some reason thinks I need a new pair of shoes. She literally hates the ones I wear now everyday. I think they are called deck shoes? It's the simple ugly slip on ones. They are made of canvas, are black with white skulls on them. She hates them and I love them! Actually she says they aren't all THAT bad, but when I wear nice black pants and a pretty pink blouse and look all nice with my hair pinned up and then I wear these shoes, it just doesn't look good at all. I say that at the age of almost 44 that it doesn't matter what it looks like.....it's how comfortable they are and how much I like them! She just rolls her eyes and sighs. She's young right now but she's going to get old one day and then she'll know what I'm talking about.
I didn't end up buying much of anything. I bought a glass lazy susan on clearance for like $6.50 and a birthday gift for my mother-in-law. Also got a devotional book and a book on tape (Joyce Meyers) at Barnes & Noble. We didn't even get to the second level of the mall and they were closing. Since we didn't spend much money shopping she suggested we we go out for cocktails afterwards. Well need I say she didn't have to say twist my arm for that one! We ended up at La Cacina- a Mexican place that serves the BEST strawberry margaritas EVA! We ordered a pitcher and also some dinner and we were laughing so hard I about pee'd my damn pants! I just love spending time with her like this! Always ALWAYS a good time! One thing I say about my kids.....all 3 of them, is that they ROCK! My day was originally planned for just cleaning and scrapping, but I had a much better time spending it with her instead!
After finally getting my ass out of bed, I done a quick cleanup of the house. Vacuuming, washing dishes, making the bed you know.....the usual. After that a quick shower and Nick and I were off for some serious shopping! I really wanted to go to Archivers because it's been so long since I've been there. Like a total of maybe 3 days and I needed to look for something for me to make Easter cards with. Found a ADORABLE card that I wanted to make but just my damn luck, the stamps that were used to make it with were sold out! I was so mad! They had everything else there for Easter except for the one thing that I wanted! I swear it always turns out that way! I've been walking around the house for the last couple weeks saying to Nicki..."I have to make Easter cards-what should I do? I have to make Easter cards-what should I do? What should I do for Easter cards? I have to come up with an Easter card idea- what should I do?". That poor girl! Every holiday that I need to make cards for she gets to hear this from me every single day I see her! It's no wonder she is starting to despise holidays! That trip to Archivers was a waste of time for me. All I came home with was $49.00 in crap that I "needed" like I needed a hole in my head. I still don't know what I'm going to do so unfortunately Nichole has to still listen to me.
I also didn't find what I was looking for at the mall. Nichole for some reason thinks I need a new pair of shoes. She literally hates the ones I wear now everyday. I think they are called deck shoes? It's the simple ugly slip on ones. They are made of canvas, are black with white skulls on them. She hates them and I love them! Actually she says they aren't all THAT bad, but when I wear nice black pants and a pretty pink blouse and look all nice with my hair pinned up and then I wear these shoes, it just doesn't look good at all. I say that at the age of almost 44 that it doesn't matter what it looks like.....it's how comfortable they are and how much I like them! She just rolls her eyes and sighs. She's young right now but she's going to get old one day and then she'll know what I'm talking about.
I didn't end up buying much of anything. I bought a glass lazy susan on clearance for like $6.50 and a birthday gift for my mother-in-law. Also got a devotional book and a book on tape (Joyce Meyers) at Barnes & Noble. We didn't even get to the second level of the mall and they were closing. Since we didn't spend much money shopping she suggested we we go out for cocktails afterwards. Well need I say she didn't have to say twist my arm for that one! We ended up at La Cacina- a Mexican place that serves the BEST strawberry margaritas EVA! We ordered a pitcher and also some dinner and we were laughing so hard I about pee'd my damn pants! I just love spending time with her like this! Always ALWAYS a good time! One thing I say about my kids.....all 3 of them, is that they ROCK! My day was originally planned for just cleaning and scrapping, but I had a much better time spending it with her instead!
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