Finals..BLOW!

Usually I don't feel the stress of Finals Week. This year is definitely the exception. Here I am, working on one final ...Studying for another...and dreading my last one. I've never been so ready for it to be over!

So all of yall in school, good luck! I know I'll need it!

Family ...shmamily.

So where to begin this little tale? The beginning is far too long and the end is pretty tragic. I'm not too sure.

Let me begin with, I'm Italian. I do everything 100%. A lot of times I get hurt in the process, but thus far, my brother is the only one who has been able to hurt me the most in my life.

My nephew has an iphone that I pay for. Yes, I know, bad mistake. He has one over his limits and keeps adding $40-50 to each bill. Its pretty ridiculous. His excuse is that "his phone plan sucks." Sorry buddy, not a good excuse. Long end of a short story, I asked him to call me and he told me "nah." I got pissed. I told him he needs an attitude adjustment and that he needs to call me. Pretty much he never called me. Instead he called his dad to tattle on me. This has go back and forth and back and forth. I have allowed myself to get SO ANGRY over this. He is 14...not 44. He needs to treat his family with respect. I have always been this guy's advocate and his confidante and for him to do this is like a big slap in the face.

I let that brew for 2 days.

Then I heard my brother's half-brother (he wasn't very close, but its his half-brother  nonetheless) passed away unexpectantly. I called to make my mends and give him my condolences. Instead of wanting to talk this out like adults I got the coldest shoulder. He told me "Yea, yeah..ok. You don't have to say anymore." When I tried to tell him we should talk about this phone thing he said, "Don't even worry about it, dont worry. Just cancel the sucker. Just do it. Forget it. Its sad that people have to fight over something so silly when people are dying out of nowhere. Just forget it..." I was pissed. This was all the while I was saying "This isnt about a phone!" He said "SURE IT IS!" Anyway, we kept talking over each other and did not accomplish anything. In fact, the only thing that was accomplished was me bawling my eyes out and screaming "ARE YOU F------NG KIDDING ME?!" and then him hanging up on me. I usualyl do not let people get the better of me..but lets be honest. This is my older brother. My dad was never there and besides my Poppies (GRHS)...this is it. For me to be absolutely rejected by him over something like this is insane. And on top of being insane, lets talk about his kid not respecting me. If this was my son doing that to him...........He would be walking crooked. This is not right.



And while I was writing this I decided to look at my phone bill. He has decided to rack up $80 in data charges. Wow. I did not even know that was possible. I am so upset. I feel betrayed in the worst kind of way.

Thanksgiving...and more importantly..Black Friday!

Lets start with the food...because letsbehonest...Its one of my favorite days of the year. I had anticipated this day to be pretty horrible. I mean that with all kindness and everything, I just thought it would not be a great day for me. I had scheduled my procedure for the day before hoping I'd be good (and thank God I was!) and I had also tried to plan some of the food for the feast at my sister's house. The Husband and I had decided to skip out on his family's dinner this year due to trying to avoid getting upset. We figured some of his family that was involved in our botched adoption process would be there and to be quite honest, I'm really not ready to handle that. ESPECIALLY on the day after the procedure! Though I'm healing (from both, the procedure and the adoption) I'm still trying to get to 100%. Thank God for great family and friends...and SCHOOL. Who would've thought I would have said that last one?! :) So, I ended up eating with my sister and her family and my mom and running home to meet the Husband who just got off work. Though I had already eaten, it was nice to sit at the table with him and have him tell me, "I am thankful for you." I just needed to hear those 5 little words. It's been a rough year all around for everyone. I'm actually in a great place, but its not without a lot of work and stubbroness, really. I changed clothes and he fell asleep as I watched Elf.....for the 6-7 time. I am not kidding!! (Smiling is my favorite!)

Then I get the text 2 hours earlier than we had planned on going...


"Are you ready?!"

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YEAH!

This is my day! I shop and condition for this! I had woken up at 445 am on Thanksgiving morning and did not get in bed until 845 on Black Friday. That is pretty awesome. We made it to Old Navy (and got the camera!), Kohl's (had a horrible line), Target (AWESOME!), and Wal-Mart (Pretty awesome!). ..oh and Big Lots (Ok!).

Every year we learn and perfect our Black Friday Shopping. Hopefully next year I can coax Louise to come experience it with us :) . Next year, I may skip out on Kohl's..at least hold off on it. Old Navy was a great place to do this year! We got waterproof cameras with a $40 purchase! They're good cameras too! Target was AWESOME!!! My trick was to go at 2 am. Everyone had gotten what they wanted and hit Wal-Mart and gone home. We were one of 15 shoppers at Target when we went. There were a few more at Wal-Mart but not much.

I think our two BEST buys of the day were :
- $12 Chef's mat at Big Lots. WE LOVE THIS THING!!!!!! Noo more hurting feet while I bake!
- $20 blow up Snowman from Wal-Mart. This thing has a story!

We were grabbing a few things while we were there, mostly we went to get a $20 blow up Santa for my sister. We were across the store and she asked where they were so I pointed and said "THERE! They're blown up!" So we go and look and look. There was no box in site! Finally we asked someone and they said they do not have any. OH great. Well I looked at the ad and looked at the one's blown up. They were the exact same! The only problem was they were about 15' in the air on this big shelf! We asked if we could buy them and they asked about 4 people and they finally said YES!!! Well at that point I decided to go ahead and get the snowman...especially if they're working on getting the Santa anyway. We waited..and waited...and waited..FOREVER! 35 minutes later they came with the lift and got them down! People were so excited we had them and had thought we found them somewhere. Dummies! They couldve asked just like we did!

Now to prepare for the Ugly Sweater Party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LEEP procedure. I survived!

I've been on complete edge for the last few weeks, anticipating the arrival date of my procedure. I was absolutely freaked out to put it kindly. I was also freaked that it may damper my Black Friday traditions of being a loon and staying up all night fighting for good deal and spending some QT with my mom and sister.

Let me just say, all my fears were deminshed pretty quickly! They gave me the pamphlet and it really just scared me more. I looked up the procedure (Even on youtube...BAD DECISION!) and searched for reviews. As of right now (almost a week after) I am doing pretty darn great. I have no discomfort at all and am excited for 2012. Bring on the baby makin!

Pretty much the worst part was the anticipation before the procedure. The day of, I was sore and the day after I was just a little off. By the third day, I was truckin along!

They gave me a Xanax before, which by the way, DID NOT relieve my anxiety. I tried to tell them that. Mostly I think they gave it to me so I wouldn't fight back. :) Then I get on the table and they adminsitered a shot in 4 locations. The 1 spot kind of hurt (and I hate needles) but by the time she was at the 2nd or 3rd spot, I was good. When she preformed the actual procedure, I only felt like she was preforming a pap but I had no discomfort. The only time it hurt was with the forceps.

Moral of the story is, Im SO GLAD I didn't change my appointment (again, I know, Im bad). And Im also glad that this is behind me for right now. If I have to do this again, I will at least know what I am standing against.

 Thanks for the kind thoughts and prayers, yall.

One hurdle done, 10 more to go.

I'm not even sure where to start, it's been so long!

Let me start with the easy stuff. School is going pretty awesome! I am kicking butt and taking names. I can't wait to be able to transfer and hopefully that will be next fall! Woohoo! My plan is to be on the President's list this whole year! Halloween was last night and that means one thing...Christmas candy and decorations are only 3 weeks away!! And even better Black Friday is coming. Awwwwyeah!

Lets move on to the harder stuff-
So we were looking into adopting within our family this year. Shocker, huh? Well after being 'approved' then us making an appointment with our attorney, we were asked to meet up again at our house where our hearts were repeatedly ripped to shreds. I'm really okay and trying to get over it, seeing that its been a couple of months now. Well the whole comping thing worked until I got on facebook to see that pictures had been posted. It was very sobering for me. I guess I never thought that moment would really happen. I know that's very naive to say, but its the honest truth. So here we are 3 weeks for Thanksgiving and instead of preparing myself for my favorite holiday and 2nd favorite holiday (being Black Friday, obviously!) I am fretting that they will show up at Thanksgiving Dinner. I can internalize a lot and deal with things on my own inside my own home...but to actually physically be in the situation? I am not sure I am up for that battle.

So for the next 3 weeks, school will actually be my escape! I'm not sure I have ever said that before!

xoxo

9/11

Its going to be the 10th anniversary of 9/11 in less than 36 hours. I still cannot believe that. I still remember waking up watching a plane crash into one of the buildings. It was so surreal. I remember my mom telling me its probably an accident and that she was going to work. I got in the car with M and her brother and another friend. We drove to school in shock. We couldn’t wrap our high school minds around this sort of hate and carnage. I remember walking the halls and seeing people with fear in their eyes. Some student’s hard parents that traveled regularly to NYC for work and others who had family that lived there. I remember thinking how silly it was for me to go home and right as I walked into Mrs. Cone’s class I got my note to go home. I met my sister down stairs and our whole family was congregated around the TV. It was so quiet that night. Since all the planes were grounded, everything was such an errie still. Cars weren’t on the roads, planes weren’t in the sky. Everyone was home, where they belong. The sense of anger that day was later shadowed with a pride no one could fake. Pride that you felt deep in your soul. We scouroed the city looking for an American flag and never found one. What an amazing feeling that was. After this sadness came a togetherness. Watching those firemen and law enforcement officers covered in dust and ash gave me goosebumps. Who am I kidding, they give me goosebumps just thinking about it now. Wow. Just wow. How selfless you must be to do that. I sit back and wonder if put in the same position, would I? Regardless, these brave men and women are no doubt heroes.






I think this 9/11 hits close to home because of the Husband. He is an amazing law enforcement officer that was born for this job. He love what he does and does what he loves. It amazes me how natural this profession has come to him. This 9/11 he will be working and assisting in a horrible wildfire we have about 13 miles away from our house. If I haven’t said it before, he’s my own personal hero.





So on Sunday, I’m going to church and then taking the Husband some goodies to let him know I love him and more than anything, appreciate him. That’s the one downfall of his (and every other first responder’s) job. People love them when they need them and hate them any other time.

 
 

Its been a while!

I can't believe I haven't posted on here in so long!

I need to get back into it. :)

So lets see..let me catch up on the last month and a half. We went on vacation to Florida. We drove from Texas to Panama City and then the next day, on to Orlando. I have to say..it was a fabulous trip! There was 13 of us that stayed in a house we rented. It, surprisingly, went very well! On the way home, The Husband, his little sister, and I stopped in Biloxi for the night. Wow. What a fun little town! I was really nervous to be quite honest but after we got to the hotel, I was pleasantly shocked.

We also celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary! Sometimes I don't know how I got so lucky to find this guy! He's just as goofy (Actually he's definitely MORE goofy ) as myself. Im pretty sure our main goals in life are just to make each other laugh. We are always trying to out do each other just for a few laughs. AND I LOVE EVERY MINUTE OF IT!! Just last week, he bought me a bike for making the President's list at school. He didn't want to buy his yet since we're trying to save money to pay for stinkin' school...so instead he borrowed his mom's big purple schwinn cruiser to go riding with me. :) What a gem.

Its practically August- so its school time again. Yay/boo, :)/:(...you get it. I'm actually really pumped about this semester. I actually get to start some education classes. YAY! I'm really considering transferring out of my community college next fall. I'll have enough credits- almost enough for my associates. Im totally ready. Im ready to be where I want to be and where I've worked so hard to be.

Where'd the summer go?!?!?

Royal Wedding Loot!

HOW COULD I FORGET THIS!?!?!?!?


I showed up to N's on Saturday to get ready for the 80's prom...and what was before my eyes?

My Best English Friend, Louise, sent me ALL SORTS of Royal Wedding stuff!!!!! If you could have only seen the dance I did when I was opening all of it up! HOW FUN!!! There was more stuff too! Geez! I'm a lucky gal.

Louise! CAN. NOT. WAIT. for our Skype Tea Party!!



Memorial Day Weekend!

What a fabulous weekend we had! Where do I even begin??

I'm not sure what I did Friday, or if that even matters..because Saturday we  (N and I) went to an 80's prom!! We had such a fabulous time and...I'm pretty sure we looked the best! A weird electronic/new wave guy. But after that..it was rocking! What a great time! A Flock of Seagulls was supposed to be there as well..but they cancelled. Whatever..We still looked rad! 

Sunday, my sister had a little get together at her house for Memorial Day. It was great to see the two younger nephews swimming with their little big friends and all the good stuff to eat! Unfortunately the husband had to work, again, so I went married single. It never gets any easier. Before I went over there, I decided to whip together a little somethin-somethin. Vanilla cupcakes with amaretto (light amaratto) buttercream. Super good! I'm all about a cute cupcake stick/flag and liner. It just makes a broing cupcake...more fabulous. :)

On Monday, we went to the Husband's grandma's house. Its always so great and welcoming there. We go to eat the BEST steak in the world with equally as good twice baked potatoes. Yum! I bet you wish I had a picture of that, huh? We visited with all sorts of family and especially his cousin who is in the Army. After all, isn't this what this past Monday was about?

My Heroes.

Here is my Grandpa / Poppies. He is a WWII veteran and one of the most influential people in my life. He passed away Memorial Day 2008.

This is my fabulous cousin, Johnny. USMC to the core and I could not be any more proud of him, even if I wanted to. He has always been an amazing person. He's the proud husband and daddy to a beautiful wife and sun. I miss this guy!!

This Memorial Day was filled with so much fun, friends, and family. I could not have planned a better weekend (well, maybe The Husband being off would have been cool). Having my Poppies pass away on Memorial Day always makes this weekend a little bit harder for me. For the past few Memorial Days, I make the trip to San Antonio to decorate my Poppies' grave and to talk to him. Thats normal, isn't it? Whatever! It makes me feel better, at least.

Happy Memorial Day, yall!

Long time no post, huh?

The things that can turn a girls frown upside down. It does not take much to make me happy or put a smile on mine face. After my past few crap weeks, last week was one for the books.

Monday- I've been calling the radio station for weeks trying to get on in the morning for this game they play call "Can't Beat Maria." Its a pop culture game where you try to stump the host. When I say I've been calling for weeks..I mean I've called 3 times in the past 3 weeks..and 3rd time was a charm!!! I was on the radio and lost to Maria by .5 a point. :( BUT..they still gave me the Britney Spears tickets! So pumped to be going! Its funny everyone keeps telling me to sell them. REALLY?! I want to go so bad!


Tuesday- We decided to go buy a car.

yep. Just like that. Walked in at 130p. Drove out at 345p...In this beauty..

Wednesday- Actually Wednesday sucked, but I was still on a new car high.

Thursday- I found out I got an A and a B in my classes. WHEW. I busted my ass this semester and Im glad it showed!

Friday-Saturday are a blur.

Sunday- I got to spend the day at the beach with Nichole! It was fabulous. The sunburn..not so much. But Im good today.

All in all it was a fabulous week. :)

The Royal Wedding.

Let me start off by saying...

Yes I totally had my fabulous friend Louise attempt to contact me when it was happening LIVE for her! (seeing as she's in London :) ) Well that didn't work. so thank goodness I recorded 3 different stations coverages of it, and also watched it when I got to work..on loop...all day.

And yes, I did come home and make some tea and eat some biscuits (and maybe possibly wore my cool hat) while I watched the highlights.

I  have no shame.


Talk about a real life fairy tale. Going from THIS....to THIS!

There's just a little bit of a difference there, huh?



Not to be cliche, but the wedding was fabulous. I love that Westminster Abbey created such an intimate service for them...even though there was over a thousand guests. Was I the only one that thought that? I understand, I only watched across the pond...in my TV and all, but really. The aisle was insanely long, but the seating was very intimate for guests.


And lets get to the best part..

:) SO sweet.

And to finish up..

I'm so glad Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice decided to choose their hats from the Lady Gaga: Royal Collection. Fabulous, ladies.

Much better.

What to say about my last post? Im pretty sure it was the medicine they've put me on. It was like PMS in a bottle. Nothing would make me happy and The Husband would not answer my phone calls or frantic text messages. Do I blame him? Im pretty sure they were very nuerotic. Thank God for great friends :) and family for talking me off the ledge. I'm normally a happy go lucky kind of girl, but for some reason I just got a little nutty. I apologize for that. I thought about deleting said post, but I'd prefer to look back at it when I'm feeling the same way next month...to know ITS. O.K.


Lets move on to something a little fun ..shall we?

And here I sit...

Seeing as its Royal Wedding EVE, maybe I can blame my new acquired bad attitude on it..oh wait, Im freaking married. I can't do that anymore. LAME. I'm sitting her alone..by myself...well, Shiner is here (not really, he's sleeping in the other room). I'm sitting here blubbering like a big ol'baby for no dang good reason. Okay, I have a good reason. I had a yay/boo week. I'm not prepared for everything I found out on Tuesday and now Kyle is gone for the weekend. To top it off, The Husband left in the wee hours this morning and will not be back until late Sunday. Nothing I can't handle...except we have no lines of communication. He didn't even call to tell me good night. I know I'm being a big baby...but whatever. I can cry if I want to!

Let me clear my throat..

LOU-WEEZY- This one is for you!

By the way, you're friend U. There's no one like you! ;)

I didn't realize I would actually get feed back on this thing. Theres lots of people that fit in between all of those ones I named. Mostly, lately, I have been in a crabby mood. Everything irritates me and pisses me off. I can't put my finger on why I'm acting that way. I don't want to.

Maybe this is why.

I went ot the doctor today with my ammunition. I had a folder full of info, symtoms I have, family history, etc. Guns loaded, yall. I have had this feeling I have PCOS (look it up, Louise :) I don't want to post the gross stuff). When I had the ultra sound today I was tearing up. How ridiculous. I kept looking at the screen thinking of how amazing it will be the day I look up there and see what I WANT to see.

Anyway, I did see something I wanted to see. Now I can face facts and deal with it. I'm actually veeeeeeeeeeeeery relieved that Its what I thought it was. Im pretty sure if it was something else, it would have crushed me. Im not an easy girl to crush, either.

So here we go...

Cakes and stuff

Usually when Im making a cake for someone, unless they tell me specifically, I have no clue what Im going to do to is (decorating wise) until I get it together. Right now I've got 20 purple roses and rosettes at my house drying and waiting for me for when I get home.  I don't think I could be so excited!!!!!!

I'll post pictures when Im done tonight.

Onto something else-
I almost want to say that I dont mind running. But I still hate it so I cant say that. :) Though I'm getting way better than I was before. I took a few more days off than anticipated and went for a run today, and I pickedu where I left it. Freakin' aweome!!!



We are now 70something days until Florida....

maybe I should run twice a day...

It never ends!

The older I get the realize thing stay the same.

In every group of friends I've ever had there is always friend "P" (that doesn't stand for anything, I was just trying to think of a letter that is not offensive). She absolutely gets on my nerves. She's immatue and rude. Doesn't know when things are inappropriate or when to shut up. There is always friend "Q" who is the follower and never has an original idea. You know they're capable, but they just won't break out of their shell. There is friend "W" who has every opportunity available and chooses not to take advatage of any of it. Friend "Y" just doesn't care. Friend "R" is usually super happy. The glass is always half-full and unicorns fart rainbows. And then you get Friend "V". The friend that, no matter what she does, she just gets the short end of the stick. Friend "A" always surprises you and is like wonder woman.

I guess I could go on and on with this.

It just amazes me how alike people are. In every era in my life, I've had a friend that filled every one of these spots and more. Mostly Friend  "P" who I have on facebook has hit my last nerve. I mean 'Block worthy', yall! Then I started thinking about it. I have  A LOT OF FRIEND "P"s!! Then this made me think of the patterns of my friends....if this is how I catergorize them....


Where do I fall?

work work work school school school

whew! It was great to have a lazy day today. Oh wait...thats not we had! But we definitely had fun. The husband's dad, stepmom, and sister came over and we went to the mall and had a fabulous time. Saturday we had a garage sale and I made a few dollars! Woohoo! Can't beat that. :) Besides that I feel like Im in the vicious cycle of life. Wake up, get dressed, go to work, come home, do homework, study, make dinner, eat, go to bed. Rinse and repeat every day. 5 more weeks until summer vacation! I CANNOT WAIT. Bring on the flip flops and shorts..

shorts..

Ahman. Not those things again! Week two of C25K starts tomorrow. Thank goodness.

That offsets the 6 cookies I ate for dinner right? Yeah, I think so too.


Have a fabulous week, yall! :)

I got called out.

So The Husband has a job where he wears a uniform and carries a gun. I go to the sam dry cleaners every week, sometimes twice a week. It cracks me up! Theres some hoodrat that works there that LOVES him. I told him we can be sister wives if he wants to, but I get to be the bitchy first wife. He's not down. Anyway, I do the same thing every time I drop his stuff off. I count what I have and check every pocket for bullets. (Yay, being an officer's wife). We joke and laugh and I leave.

When I pick up its a different story. I am ALWAYS in a crappy mood because where this place is, its in a weird shopping center. I'm almost always picking up during rush hour on this stupid road with all these stupid cars........okay. I'm getting riled up just thinking about it, but you get the point. Its gated off from this shopping center so you can only enter one way...until I got smart! I park in the shopping center and walk around the gate since its so much easier to get out of that parking lot then the actual dry cleaners parking lot. All is peachy keen, I get the stuff, we joke, and I walk out side.....

Someone yelled at me "_ _ _ _ THE POLICE! OINK OINK!"

Wow.

I laughed it off and smiled the biggest smile at them , knowing one day they'll need something and I know who will be showing up. Or my husband will be arresting his dumb ass. :)

What happened to a little respect? Come on now. I'm a lady. Is it really necessary to yell that at a stranger....and a woman at that? I just dont get it.

shopping..for a car

I didn't plan on car shopping this weekend...buuuuuuuuuuuut...

Isn't that how it always happens?

The husband and I decided that we'd just 'car shop' online this weekend. That turned into getting the edmonds app and the kelley blue book app fo our phones and we compared MPGs and safety ratings and all that junk for 3 hours yesterday. I have NEVER had a brand new car...actually I have never owned a car that wasn't more than 3 years old and I'm totally ready to have one!

I think I've decided on a Jetta.

Its got everything I need and its definitely the right price for the size. I don't know how easy its going to be getting rid of my SUV.

This is what I drive now..

a 2003 Ford Escape.

I love this car! Seriously it is so fun to drive, an it gets okay gas milage and ....its just been good to me. Here's my problem. I need to get $500+ work done it, needs  a new battery, and a new windshield. I've just been putting all this off.

Its really hard to put this much money into a car that we planned on trading in at the end of the year anyway.



ohhhhhhhh the decisions.

c2k5

I've started this once before, but have once started it again. I've been doing p90x, just not the whole 6 days a week. More like 4. But whatever..way better than I had been doing! About 5 years ago I hit this same road block.. I just wanted to get in shape. It wont happen if someone else encourages it (sorry, honey!) or asks me to join them. Im so dang stubborn that it only works when I WANT to. Well ladies and gentlemen...

I WANT TO!

I've been doing it for a few weeks, but haven't really been that motivated. I just realized our Florida trip is coming up quick..3 months and counting. I don't want to be bikini ready (Lord knows I've never been one to wear one...except in Mexico. Thats a diferent story. :) ) but I want to feel happy in everything I wear. thats all I want, really. So I'm doing C2K5 (Couch to 5K). My New Years resolution (one of them at least) was to complete this fully and run two 5ks. I can do this, yall.

Hummingbirds

I'm slightly obsessed with hummingbirds..and poppie flowers. For all different reasons, but lets start with this...

Can you believe they're so small? Though I disagree with this fool putting his hand on their nest, its great to see the comparison nonetheless.

I was made ..I mean I bought on my own will, the cutest hummingbird feeder in the whole world and I cannot wait to put it up.  Of course, I'm doing this instead.


EDIT: Literally, I couldn't wait. I was looking up nectar recipes (Which is 4 parts water to 1 part table sugar. Don't use red food dye!!)

Beanie Babies...

If you only knew how many of these I have in my office right now you'd probably either laugh or feel very sorry for me. The Husband's WONDERFUL Grandma loves to love us. We love to love her too. We like to have a garage sale at my sister's house 2 times a year. She always finds stuff to give us to sell and never once anything in return. SO SWEET! Her lovely friend has helped out this time and passed out 4 or 5 boxes of beanie babies. My equally as wonderful, mouther in law tried to go through them but wasn't too sure so the last day or so I ahve been trying to go through them. I mean, I don't want to sell one for $1 at a garage sale and it be woth $500 or something. But I will say, they are consuming me.

Do you remember when people thought they were going to get famous off these things? Well one of those people is my husband...in 2011. SERIOUSLY. He's always looking for a quick buck, this guy. For the past few months it has been playing the lottery, which I LOVE to do. Come on...Bingo queen right here!

So, what does he do when he sees all these lovely stuffed creations? Besides laying on the floor and making a beanie baby angel (which yes, he did), he decides do look all of them up on eBay with me. These things are going for .99 cents...$3 with free shipping. SERIOUSLY?!  There goes our chances of retiring early.

This stuff is serious, yall. I don't want to scare yall with my severe knowledge of these things, because Lord knows I've learned too much in the last 48 hours, but these things are super cute but worth NOTHING.

Remember having your mom drive you to EVERY McDonalds in a  30 mile radius? Wait, that was just me and my sister? Oh. Well we did. We loved them, not so much because they were 'valuable' but because it made us happy. They're cute and sweet and my mom didn't have to cook dinner..or lunch...or breakfast.  Then for a little bit people were making that money, selling them and all that. And now..these people that have put so much into aren't even able to sell 1000 for $20,000.

 WHAT HAS THE WORLD COME TO!?

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New blog layout!

I never thought I'd be so happy to redo my blog!

I was in yet another crappy mood today but decided instead of being a big old grump, that I'd do something that I WANT to do. What a concept huh?

We went to get our taxes done today..I HATE getting our taxes done. I always feel like we are going to owe money or some crap. Or they'll tell us we will get $1900 back and then turn around and say, actually itll be $544. OH WAIT, that happened! So irritating! I did the worst thing ever, and had spent every last dime in my mind. BLAH! Now that I'm writing this out, I understand I'm a brat and I should be happy that we are getting something back and I'm not having to pay. So right now... I am very happy we don't owe. :)


I'm quitting this 'tude and moving on to Sunday...

blah blah blah

Can I make reservations for a Pity Party for 1 please?

I dont know if this is from having a really crappy weekend with the husband, or being 'that week', or what, to be totally honest..regardless I'm in the crappies of crappy moods in crappyville.

Lately I've been ridiculously hard on myself and feeling like I'm not doing enough. I've been fighting  (nothing seriously, yall) non-stop with the husband..and ..and..and...

I'm so ready to have a baby.

I think this is all baby fever and hopefully by the end of the year we will be expecting. But damnit I want it now!  I'm so glad I finally sat down and wrote a blog about this. I, now, know 7 people that are pregnant and 5 that have delivered in the past 4 months. I am so ridiculously envious of them. I wish it was us.

I need to snap out of this 'funk' I've been in and get over it. Things happen when they happen and as long as I'm doing the best in all I do, I'm succeeding.

BLAH blah BLAH.

Or maybe I just need a vacation..? :)

Valentine's Day

Its really hard to write about Valentine's Day, when I woke up and our house smells like a dang skunk. SICK! There must be one outside or something..Anyway- moving on..

I usually don't fall into the whole Valentine's day shpeel. This year is different. This year Kyle is actually off and he has been excited about it. We usually do a nice dinner and exchange cards before Valentine's Day (according to his days off) but this year I bought him Call of Duty: Black Ops. He has been wanting it SOOO bad and only plays it when our nephew is over. Now he can play it! I just want a new silver necklace. No crazy thing..just a new everyday wearer. But if he just got me a card, I'd be still excited.

snuggies were made for days like today.

As I'm sitting here trying to play the cool Aunt Shannon card (my nephew has been up over 24 hours. 12 of those hours were playing video games) I was tootin' along on facebook and was just reading statuses. The things that people put amaze me. In the last couple of months I've decided to quit posting all the time. I annoy myself sometimes when I do that. The people who continuely put exactly where they are going are even more annoying. Seriously? You think people care that youre doing X, X, X, X, and then maybe Z? I think facebook (and other social networking sites) have been abused. People stalk each other and get pissed off at what someone else wrote on facebook. Someone tried pulling that crap with me and I told them that if I had ANYTHING to say to them, I would have no issue with telling them straight up. Facebook, and the internet in general, give people the abilitiy to create an alternate persona. What happened to people's personalities? Its like people have to create one in order to get attention or to be 'cool.' So strange to me.

I think this all boils down to..I'm growing up..

Shocker, right there. :)


Heres a little list on things Facebook shouldn't be used for:

1. Talking trash about ANYONE that may be your 'friend.' (and speaking of that..1000+ friends? We both know thats not accurate.)

2. Going in detail about your (on-going) medical condition. Yes, its definitely okay to say "Im in the hospital because.." ...It is not okay to complain about your diarrhea.

3. Countdowns to anything but a wedding/graduations/baby annoy the shit out of me.

4. Repeated song lyrics. We get it, you like the song. When you couldn't even copy and paste it correctly, it loses all merit.

5. Posting family information. IE airing dirty laundry or important information. I don't like finding out people have passed away on freaking line.

2011

Well that whole 30 day thing worked out pretty well, huh? :)

Its my first Saturday at home without having ANYTHING to do. Do you know how great this feels? Its crazy that over the last 5 years I have turned into a homebody. I used to hate that people did that. It meant they wouldn't come out with me...but now I'm that person. That goes to prove my theory on people's pet-peeves are most likely something they do themselves. In the last month, two wonderful friends moved away (half of my good, go-to friends, mind you), we entered into 2011, Christmas, we went to Dallas, I got a terrible tooth ache, and I got a new laptop. The good with the bad I guess.

I would've loved to say I got a new tattoo in there but my husband won't let me. ha! And Im perfectly okay with that. I wouldn't want him coming home with something crazy like a black panther on his chest. Okay..I wont lie, I'd think thats pretty awesome.


So here we are in 2011...

What do I want to accomplish in 2011? I don't particulary like setting "resolutions" though we do at my husband's parent's house every year and put them in a box we cannot open until the following year. But I prefer to ask myself what I'd like to challenge myself to do. Here's a few things I came up with.

- Raise my GPA to over a 3.1
- Run at least 2 5ks
- Gain some more self confidence
- Cut back my intake of Diet Coke.

These are things that are realistic yet something I need to and WANT to do. I'm doing my first 5k of the year in March. Its the Warrior Dash. Looks like a blasty. Its got beer at the end....you know I'm in!!:)

My GPA has been shot since the semester before we got married. My grandma was sick, I got pnuemonia, and uhhhhhhh we were planning a wedding. It was a little hard to stay in the game.

This self confidence thing.. geez. Where do I begin? I used to ooooze self confidence. I think ever since I gained a few pounds and moved here (4 years ago) and did not have any friends....it took a hit. Its been hard to gain it back. I'm back in the gym, but for myself this time. I have a hard yet easy to stick to regimend now so lets see what happens.

As for Diet Coke.. I'm pretty sure I've funded many employee's salaries with how much I drink it. I know I don't drink it as much as some. My inlaws specifically, but I do drink my fair share and I'd love to switch to mostly water.


I'll definitely be checking back in on these, for sure this time.

I hope everyone had a great new years and here we go! Onward and upwards!