What's new.

Well this has to be short. I have no time for this at work anymore! Things at work are keeping me busy. That is good. It makes the day go faster. I am going a little crazy, but I really like the extra money! I can't wait until Christmas! Josh is getting an awesome gift and I can't wait for him to open it! Yay! I would say what it is, but he might decide for the first time ever to read my blog! We just put laminate hardwood floors in our bedroom. We were moving the furniture back in there at midnight last night! It looks soooo good though! I'm very happy, but my house is a disaster zone! Maybe I can squeeze in this story about Maynard:

Last night I bathed him and washed his big bed and brought him in for the night. I put him in the laundry room, where he is usually just content to be inside. This time was different. He just would not stop whining! He whined from the second I put him in there. He does not usually do that. He is so happy go lucky, and he is just the best dog. Finally I thought...well, maybe he just needs to potty. I let him out the back door, and he took off running!! As soon as he got out in the middle of the yard, there are no words to describe the sound that followed, other than...SHART. He sharted all over the yard! lol I couldn't help but laugh. He had gotten into the scraps and I had thrown out a huge piece of ham from a christmas party, and apparently it got the best of him. He is such a good dog! I felt horrible. He just held it until I let him outside. He was perfectly happy to be in the laundry room after that. I loved on him alot because I felt so bad. Bless his little heart.

I guess that is all for now!

Being the office manager....sort of.

Today is my first day without Laura. I feel sooooo lost. I can't remember some of the things that I am sure she showed me. I guess that is to be expected. Thankfully we are slow today. Not too many phone calls and not too many patients either. I dread tomorrow. We are pretty booked. Oh well. I can do this. Just two more days and then it's the weekend. That makes it sound like it's nothing. Anyways. That is pretty much it. I got my car back!!!! Did I say that already? I don't think I did. Man I love my car!!!! I talk to it daily now. I have been a terrible mother to it, but I am determined to do better! lol I guess I will update again later!

Changes

Well it happened. Our office manager is leaving. The surprise in all this is that my boss doesn't want to hire another one. I guess we just aren't busy enough, and he doesn't want to just hire anybody. That's right. You got it. It is now on me, and him. I have no office manager experience and know NOTHING about insurance! I now have two days to learn how to run this office. Hmmm. Scary. This may be my last blog for a while because obviously I'm going to be busy. The good news is that I am getting a 4 dollar pay raise for the time that I am playing office manager. I was aiming for one more dollar, but I had to negotiate to get the 4 so I guess I will settle. If this turns out to be more than I anticipated we will just have to renegotiate. I am a little stressed to say the very least. Everything happens for a reason, and I do really need the extra dough. Is it worth it? We will find out. Pray for me that this will all work out! I will at least post a short follow up blog to keep you updated, because I can't post anything on facebook, because my boss is one of my friends.

On a lighter note, this past weekend was amazing!! I had a wonderful time with my friends Cass and Nicole seeing New Moon! The concert was lots of fun too! Those friends of Josh's sure are rowdy, but they behave a little better with the wives present. We all had a great time!

just rambling

Things I am looking forward to:
-New Moon, in the VIP section at Monaco Pictures, with my BFF's, in Huntsville at Bridgestreet on Friday!!!! (did I forget to mention stuffing my face at PF Changs before the movie?)
-Jamey Johnson concert on Saturday in Tuscaloosa with the hubby and our friends!
-Thanksgiving!
-Black Friday
-Getting my car back!!!!!! (this should be #1 on the list)
-Payday!!
-Wearing my new outfit with my new boots!
-Josh putting our new floors in our bedroom. Goodbye ugly green carpet, Hello wood laminate! ( just to clarify we bought the floors before the car mess. I haven't gone on a crazy spending spree) Well.....just those REALLY cute boots, and an outfit to go with them.....cough.


Things I am not looking forward to:
-going to get groceries after work, but I can't live without coffee creamer!!
-cleaning my stinky house
-spending all that money when I DO get my car back.
-My office manager at work leaving :(
-My office manager at work telling our boss she's leaving :O
-Playing office manager until we get a new one :/
-Driving Josh's big bus, umm I mean truck to Huntsville on friday.


While I am at it, I have to brag a little. Our not-so-little dog Maynard (aka. Moose) is just the sweetest! He is so cute. He is laid back, sweet, and smart. The other day I was giving him his pill for heartworms and he dropped the tiniest little piece of it out of his mouth. I picked it up and placed it in my palm and held it out for him. He obviously didn't see it, or understand what I wanted, so I said: "here. Eat it." He turned his big head sideways and looked at me like: "What mommy? I don't get it." So I kept saying it, like that would make him understand. Finally he didn't know what else to do, so he took his big paw and placed it in my hand to shake it. It was soo cute! I had to laugh, and I praised him like he did a good job. He was so excited that he figured out the mystery.
We bring him in when it is cold and put him in the laundry room with a baby gate. He is so big he could easily step over it with no problem, but he doesn't. He is quiet and happy and he just lays in there and plays with his duck. He has woke me in the middle of the night a few times, but only because he is chewing his duck and his other squeaky toys. Oh, and this morning he was terribly upset when the coffee maker came on by itself. He didn't know what it was. What a good guard dog!
I will have to post new pics soon. He is getting so big. At his last appt he weighed 45 pounds. That was several weeks ago. I am sure it is more than that now!

Follow up on my last blog.

Well, I am going to keep this short and sweet because it is what it is. I just thought that I would let everyone know what happened. Yesterday Josh went and met with the guy at Franklin Automotive, and realized that he was not trying to rip us off. We told him to go ahead with the cylinder leak test, and it turns out that I have done so much damage to the motor that it is not worth trying to fix it. It needs to be totally replaced....A salvaged motor is costing us 6,000 dollars. We decided to keep our savings (we don't have enough to fix the car anyways) and not use the credit card because of the interest rates. Fortunately we have awesome credit and we just took out a personal loan with a lower rate. I don't even know what else to say about it......I guess I just have to accept it and deal with it. There is nothing else to do. Thank God we have the means to do it. I am feeling down and out, and I am thinking about getting a christmas helper job to make a little extra money. I know it is only 6000, but we have worked SOOOOO hard over these last two years to pay off credit cards and student loans and Josh's truck, and we just now got ahead!!!! My car is no longer worth what I owe on it. It used to be worth more than i owed because we pay extra on it every month to pay it off faster. I don't know why I am sharing all this financial info on my blog but I just feel like I need to vent. I have been paying 500 dollars a month on that car since i got it 3 years ago. I still owe 12000. Now I have another 6000 for the motor which will be over 200 dollars a month. HMMMMM 700 dollars a month for a car that I now owe 18000 dollars on!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a nightmare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, I'm done. I probably shared too much and this was longer than I thought.

Crap Happens!

Here we go.......Ok so I left for work the other morning and I noticed that my heat in my car was not working. Ugh, well at least my car has seat warmers. So I am trying to keep my buns toasty while driving an hour to work. When I am about...5 min from work on the interstate my engine light comes on.....hmmmm so I keep driving wondering what is up. Then as I am about to get off on my exit I decided to look at my temp gauge. Sure enough my car is running hot and ALL THE WAY HOT. (on the H) I figured this was important enough to call Josh at work. So I tried, but he was out on the unit, so I had to leave a message. I wasn't sure what to do, but I was almost to work, so I decided to try to make it. (in hindsight I realize this was probably not the best idea) Anyways, I got to work, pulled in the parking lot, and kaplooey! My car dies, and the power steering goes out......I couldn't even park it. I coasted to a stop. Hmmmm.......I'm thinking this is not good.......maybe I should have stopped? eh? I went in to work, with my car lopsided in the parking lot, and waited for Josh to call back. Why I wanted to subject myself to his opinion on the matter I don't know!!! Of course when I told him the whole story I got an earfull!!! (you know better than to drive a car when it's running hot, yada yada yada, cost a fortune, yada yada yada, probably cracked a head, yada yada...Wait is he threatening me, or talking about the car. LOL JK) So I swiftly tell him I didn't call him to get yelled at, so tell me what to do so I can get back to work. Anyways, Franklin Automotive happens to be across the street from my work so I called them. They only work on higher end cars like Acura Volvo Infinity, etc. Well, since I drive an Acura I thought that would work out great. Long story short...they were able to get my car across the street without towing it, but apparently I have done some serious damage. I don't know how much yet, because when I told Josh how much the "cylinder leak test" was going to cost he had a coniption! Not to mention whatever it will cost to repair it!! Needless to say we are going to look around for somewhere else to take it. This will most likely either: max out our credit card which we have paid off and only keep for emergencies (such as this) (We don't even want to talk about the interest rate they inflicted on us before they made all of these laws restricting credit card companies.), or.... it will drain the itty bitty house fund that we have recently been working hard on . Or even better..... some combination of the two....drain house fund, and still have to put some on credit card.....I am a little stressed to say the least. The moral of this story is not to pull over when your car is running hot, however....you may definitely want to make a mental note of that for future reference....even though most people (including me) know it anyways. The moral of this story, is that crap happens! That is life. Like they say.....LIFE is what happens while you are busy making plans! I think this will be my quote for the day, even though I don't know who said it. It could be worse. I am trying to think positive, even though the thought of spending my little pennies that I have scraped together with the hopes and dreams of someday being out of my little death-trap-in-a tornado-trailer makes me want to curl up in a ball on the floor and cry uncontrollably for a few minutes. But I won't. (yes I know that is not a sentence, but this isn't english class) I have faith that God has a plan for my life, and sometimes we just hit a few bumps in the road. I will have my house one day. (And Megan so will You!! lol I read your post today and I feel your pain!) I guess that is all for now!

Update!

Here is what I finally did about my chest pain. I did take off the next day with the intentions of seeing a doctor. However, I hurt so bad that evening after work, that I decided I should go to the emergency room. I went to St. Vincents, and spent 8 hours being poked and prodded and monitored. First they did a chest x-ray. Then they did a blood test. The blood test they do to check for the possibility of clots is called a D-dimer. This just checks for increased levels of the clot disolving substance in your blood. My D-dimer came back slightly elevated. Because of this the doctor decided to do a CT scan to rule out blood clot for sure. Has anyone ever had one of those? OMG I am such a baby. (I know) but I almost had a panic attack. The lady doing the scan told me she was going to inject contrast dye into my IV. I knew that before she told me. What I didn't know was when she told me that the dye would make my body feel hot all over, and that I would feel it and taste it in the back of my throat, and that I would feel it in my bladder, and that it would feel like I was urinating on myself. This is when I got a little freaked out. She was not kidding either. It was terrible. I felt like my body was being totally taken over, and there was nothing I could do about it. It made me feel claustrophobic. I hated it! Anyways, long story short, my CT was normal. NO blood clots for me!! Yay! I just have a bad case of pleurisy. Just like they said before. I got another decadron shot and some more steroids for home. I feel sooooo much better! I can "breathe easy" now, knowing I don't have a blood clot. (pun intended) Peace of mind was worth the 8 hours in the ER. I also would like to say, that I am sooo thankful to God for having mercy on me, even when I don't deserve it. It is when you feel you worst, that you really appreciate your life and all of the blessings in it. God is so good to me! Why do we complain over the stupidest things? Thank you Father for my life, and my family, my sweet husband who takes great care of me, my dogs, and even my job! I am soooo blessed!

Chest pain is a pain in the butt!!

I need to vent. Ok here is the deal. I inherited a lovely chest cold from my sweet hubby last week. It happens. It is almost unavoidable when u sleep in the same bed with someone. Well, I of course am the only hygienist and assistant at my work. Most of you know that. Being the trooper that I am, I go in to work all last week because I can't stand to put someone in a bind! On Wednesday I was out of zombie mode, and feeling a little better. Still had a cough but that was it. On wed. night I had a sharp pain under my left rib. Thought nothing of it. Took some gas medicine thinking maybe it was gas pain and went to bed. (sorry if that is TMI) At 3am I woke with severe pain under my left rib. I could not breathe I could not move, laying down intensified the pain, no way to get relief. I woke my hubby and told him I thought something was terribly wrong, and that I could be dying. (a little dramatic I know) I turned a lovely shade of green, got nauseated but did not throw up, and got clammy. I got dressed and told Josh that I didn't want to pass out with no clothes on,(real clothes that is. I was in my t-shirt and undies) and that he may have to take me to the emergency room. He got up with me and I sat on the couch trying to decide if I was overreacting or if I should go to the emergency room. I calmed down and convinced myself that I was overreacting, and that my off-brand gas medicine obviously did not work so I took some more. lol. I sat on the couch until 5am which is when I was supposed to get ready for work. I thought I would not be able to work with this pain in my side and having no sleep so I decided I would call in at 6 and tell my boss I was not coming. At six when my alarm went off for me to call in I realized that I had dozed off, and that is when I had second thoughts about calling in. Who calls in for gas pain!!??? I then hopped in the shower, and left for work looking like a hot mess. When I got to work I asked if it would be ok if I saw my morning patients, and then go home. We only had one afternoon patient and I hoped we could reschedule. He agreed but was obviously less than thrilled, and wanted to "see how I felt now that I was up and moving around" UGH! Yeah! Because work always makes you feel better! Well, being the loyal employee that I am, I figured I was already at work why not suck it up and stay. So that is what I did. It was the last day of the week so I knew I could survive. I survived, and that night my mom made me some "sleepy time tea" a special concoction of her own that would hopefully help with my self-diagnosed "gas pain". Well it did something alright, but the "gas pain" was still there. Only now it was in my back and my shoulder. I knew then that I needed to see a doctor. I decided to bypass the emergency room and just see a doctor at the urgent care. I hate emergency rooms. Especially Jasper's!! The dr. at the urgent care seemed a little confused by my symptoms, and decided to do bloodwork, and chest and abdominal x-rays. X-rays were normal but he said two of my liver enzymes were almost double the normal level. He said he wasn't sure what it was but thought that I may have pleurisy, gave me a decadron shot and some pain meds and told me to come back in a week for more bloodwork. Ok, well after the decadron shot I did feel better, I slept better, but when I woke on Sat, I was hurting a little more (still felt better, but not as good as I did immediately after the shot) sunday I felt a little worse than saturday, and now it is Monday, and I feel a little worse than I did on Sunday. Everyone following me? I am thinking that I should feel progressively better? Is that too optimistic? I still don't feel as bad as I did the first day I had the pain, but I am not feeling better. I did some "research" on pleurisy and it can be caused by several things. One of those things being a chest infection. (Which I had the week before) Here is where I get a little uneasy, It can also be caused by a blood clot in the lungs. Ok...... I know. If that's what it was I would probably be dead by now, but I had all of the symptoms! And I really made a mess of my birth control pills this month. Taking 2 on more than one occasion because I kept forgetting. Obviously birth control is a risk factor for blood clots!! I decided today that I want a second opinion. Just to rule out blood clot. Is that stupid? Am I overreacting? Anyways I told my boss that I would like to take tomorrow off to see another doctor. (The first time I have actually taken any time off during this ordeal) He definitely is pissed. He didn't say that, but I can tell. I even found someone to cover for me while I'm gone!!! I want to scream at the top of my lungs (if I could without excruciating pain!) MY HEALTH IS MORE IMPORTANT!!!!! I have run myself ragged trying not to inconvenience him with my sickness. KISS MY ASS!!!!!!! Sorry ladies, I would rather type it than say it. It makes me feel a little better. Any opinions appreciated. Am I overreacting? Should I just "wait and see"? Thank you to anyone who actually read this whole post. I know it was long and boring.

Wedding disasters!!

This weekend was Sarah's wedding. Here are a few of the hightlights: On friday (the day before the wedding) Sarah calls me crying hysterically. I told her to calm down and tell me what was wrong. She found out the day before that the area where they were having the reception was booked for a breakfast, and a 12:00 lunch on the day of the wedding. The wedding started at 2, so there was approximately one hour to set up and decorate the whole reception area before the reception started. Anyone who has had a wedding knows how crazy this is. I try to remain calm and pretend like this is no big deal. I am freaking out for her on the inside. Then she says the flowers that were supposed to be small gerber daisys came in and they were the size of a small saucer. The reason this is bad is because these were to be used as the men's boutineers. They were hugely ridiculous looking! So being the awesome MOH that I was I told her it would be ok. We would recruit everyone who loved her to help with the reception and I would go to the flower shop to fix the flower situation since she couldn't because she had to meet with the preacher before rehersal. (of course I wasn't really sure that there was anything I could do) So I went to the flower shop and nicely asked if there was any other flower we could use for the boutineers because the bride was crying hysterically. Fortunately we were able to "borrow" some flowers that were supposed to go in the bouquets and use them for the boutineers instead, and the bouquets were still beautiful! Problem solved. Whew! So I'm driving home from solving this problem when she calls me crying again, saying "I guess we're just not going to have any music!" This ,by the way, is three hours before rehersal begins. Ok....why not? She says, "My computer is frozen and I can't download anything!" Yes...I know....You're thinking.....Shouldn't that have ALREADY been taken care of? I didn't dare say that, so I said well, why don't you just come over to my house and use my computer? Then she says...I have to get ready for rehersal and be there an hour early.....Ugh.....so I'm like.....Ok, tell me what songs you want, and I will download them. She says: "I DONT KNOW.".....seriously. There was one song she wanted, but she didn't know what she wanted to use it for. So I told her not to worry that I would pick her out some music. Yeah!! That stressed me out! I had to pick out someone elses wedding music 3 hours before the rehersal! I went home and asked Josh if he knew where OUR wedding CD might possibly be. After a little digging he found it!!! SCORE!!! Fortunately we had not used any special or sentimental songs in our wedding. Just traditional, classical, wedding music. So I uploaded that CD onto the computer, and downloaded the song she said she wanted and added them all together and ta-da! I figured if she didn't like it, there wasn't much she could say. Anyways, she heard it for the FIRST time at her rehersal. She was just thankful to have music! The groom on the other hand had the nerve to say he didn't like the song that they left to. I laughed it off and told him that he better not knock it since he didn't make it. I DID! It didn't bother me because, grooms really have no idea what us women go through to plan a wedding! They just show up, and think someone waved a magic wand, and a wedding happened! Fortunately, the drama all happened the day before, and the actual wedding day was perfect and beautiful! I am soooooo glad that it is over. Hopefully I am done with weddings for a while! Everyone i am close to is married now, except my sister, but she is doing a beach wedding next year and she isn't having bridesmaids or groomsmen! Thank GOD! After the wedding I had to rush home and make cheese dip, because we had friends over for the game. I was exhausted by the end of the night. It was a good weekend, but a very tireing one!

a few thoughts

This is just an update on what's new. Which is not much....Maynard is growing so fast!! He has sucessfully jumped on the couch once. Fortunately only once. The couch is Ellie's "safe place" where she can hide from him. Obviously not anymore. I already posted this on my facebook, but it just really cracks me up. We took Maynard to the creek this weekend and he loved it!!! He gets nervous when he can't touch though. We will work on that. What else....I am starting to think I have carpal tunnel syndrome. I may be overreacting, but dental hygienists are very prone to getting it. I have only been doing this for three years. How am I supposed to work for the next 40!!!! Hmmmm...I guess I will just have to stay home and raise babies....how terrible. (sarcasm) I have had a little bit of the baby fever lately. well...a low grade fever. That is saying alot for me though. Before the thought of babies right now would give me a panic attack. lol

Today happens to be mine and Josh's two year wedding anniversary! We aren't doing anything special. We didn't even buy each other cards. How terrible is that? It doesn't mean I love him any less though. It has been a great two years. (overall) I head the other day that a 20 year old girl from Jasper was killed in a car accident. She was supposed to be getting married this month. I don't know her, but it really makes you stop and think. I have always been terrified of losing Josh! I am soooo thankful for everyday that God gives us together. I know you can't live your life in fear, so I just try not to take a single day for granted, even though I know sometimes I do. Every single day is a blessing! I hope that we grow old and wrinkley, and flatulent together. lol Ok....maybe not flatulent. But if I have to be all of those things, I can't think of a better person to be them with! He loves me for exactly who I am. I don't have to try to hide my flaws from him. He knows them all, and loves me in spite of them. He will probably just pretend not to hear my flatulence! ha ha. ok.... I will stop. Anyways, that is all that is new.

Maynard

Ok, It has been over a month since I have posted, so here is what is new at the Piper house. We have a new child. His name is Maynard and he is a chocolate lab. He is 9 weeks old, and he is pretty big for his age. He has a cone head that we are hoping he will grow into. I will post pictures later. My camera has been in surgery so I will have to take some now that I have it back. Ellie is not so excited about her little-big bruder. He is already three times her size and of course is full of energy. He wants to play with her soooo bad, but she is scared. I can understand why. He is clumsy and rough and he barks at her like she is a toy. What else.... We just got home saturday from a full week at the beach! It was awesome. We went parasailing, and we rented jet-skis, we saw dolphins, and sharks and manna rays, and sting rays and we stuffed our faces. It was good for us to just have some stress-free time together. I guess that is all for now. It is lunch time, and I am hungry, and my belly won't let me focus on what I am writing.

a little complaining + an update.

Now is probably not the best time for me to blog....but here I go. I am so ill today. I have been sick with a chest cold for two weeks, and I thought I was over it, and now I woke up with stuffy sinus infection head. Ugh! Josh is being a jerk today too. So I'm bored at work as usual and I decided to look at houses online. Just to pass the time. I found one I really liked and I called him to tell him about it. Woa! I was not prepared for a hissy fit, big baby, panties in a wad,butt hole tantrum, but that, most definitely, is what I got! Conversation went as follows: Hey babe, I was calling to tell you to check out this house online. "A HOUSE!" Yeah, I was just bored at work so I was looking at them. "SIGH...OK WHAT'S THE WEBSITE" Gave website and MLS number......waiting......Then I say.." I know what your going to say about the outside, just give it a chance and look at the inside, it's really pretty. WELL YOU SEE THAT IT WAS BUILT IN 1955! I'M NOT INTERESTED. "Yes but it has been totally remodled. who cares if it's old. That just means it has lasted that long." "Just look at the pictures please" WELL I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE WIREING IF IT HAS BEEN REDONE. " Ok Mr. electritian, just look at it would ya?" WELL I ALREADY KNOW I DON'T WANT TO PAY THAT. " Ok honey...that's just the asking price, would you just look at it." ..............ITS OK. "I really like it." ITS NOTHING SPECIAL. "I would like to look at it." WELL YOU CAN GO LOOK AT IT THEN, BUT I'M NOT INTERESTED. I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU ARE SO INTERESTED IN BUYING A HOUSE ALL OF THE SUDDEN, AND I WILL JUST GO AHEAD AND TELL YOU I'M NOT PLANNING ON DOING ANYTHING ANY TIME SOON. BUILDING OR BUYING!..........
Ok. I'm sorry somebody pissed in his cherrios this morning, but the attitude was uncalled for. Oh, did I forget to mention that just two weeks ago he wanted to go look at a house in the home buyers guide for the simple fact that it had a shop! really? In fact the only reason we didn't go is because when I called my sister (she is an agent or realtor or whatever) she said the house had already sold. So I didn't just get some wild hair for a house.
Ok, I realize I am venting more than blogging, but sometimes you just need to. Maybe I am done now. Just for the record I really am happily married, and I do love my stubborn husband.
Hmmmm.... what has been going on lately?
1.)Ellie got a summer haircut. It's cute
2.)Ellie went "swimming" at the in-laws and almost drowned.
3.)Me and Josh tried knee-boarding with my sister for the first time ever. I was not very successful.
4.)I decided to call a temp agency to see if I could work some fridays. I met with the lady, and she will call when she needs me. (FYI: this decision was for extra money for a house!)
5.)They haven't called, but it's ok cause I kinda changed my mind. I'm lazy and I like my fridays off.
6.)It is just me and my sister working out at the gym now. Kristi is back in school.
7.)I signed up for a 1 year membership. Weight loss to date: 0 lbs ha ha
8.)Went canoeing with our friends Gary and Sherry on the fourth.
9.)I am reconnecting with my bff from highschool today. We are having a dinner date.
10.)Got totally schnockered on nyquil last night and passed out. Don't remember much.
11.)Planning on a decadron shot in the hiney after our dinner date. "hey...long time no see...I brought you something.....It's the crud!" ha ha jk
12.)Sarah just called and said she is giving me back my regular Nintendo. I'm pretty excited. She's had it for a while. Regular Nintendo is awesome!
That's all

House fever!

Ok, so not much is going on in my life right now, but I figured I would blog anyways. I have house fever! I want a house so bad I can taste it! I am tired of the trailer life. ha ha. I am thinking about doing temp work on fridays to make extra money to save. Really the problem is the saving. We should have extra money, we just don't know where it goes. Obviously not in our savings account. Anyways, we have been looking at house plans again, and I am not thinking clearly. I really just want to jump in head first and start building a house and hope that the finances just work themselves out. I know that isn't a good idea. I just get so excited about it! I want a house more than anything! When we got married we had a 5 year plan. It hasn't even been 2 years and I can't take it anymore! We need to speed this up.

On a different note, I woke up at 3:00 this morning because the sheets at my feet were cold and wet. What? Stumbling around in the dark. Grab the flashlight to investigate. Flashlight is too bright. Blinded myself. Can't see anything at all. Sleepy. Don't understand. Finally focusing. Ugh. Ellie has gotten sick right on my feet. Yuck! This is a first. Not good timing. Why couldn't she have puked on Josh's feet? He would have slept right through it. Ha ha. It was just watery. Nothing solid, but still not good.
Her new nickname is tanglefoot. She desperately needs to be thoroughly brushed and detangled. I am a terrible mother. I know. She normally follows me everywhere, so the other day when she was missing, and not coming when I called I got worried. When I found her she was in the bedroom floor immobile, because her hind leg had gotten tangled in her matted hair when she was scratching. It was really sad. She was so helpless. Just hanging out with her foot stuck to her head. ha ha. Ok it's not funny. I will work on that this weekend. I guess that's all I have for now

Updates

Well it has been a while....I am still not good at keeping up with this. I forget. Then I can't remember anything worthy of mentioning. Josh and I are planning a vacation. A whole week in PC! We have never vacationed for a whole week. I am excited. It won't be until August though. I gotta get my tan on. I kinda wanted to go to Hilton Head, SC but I couldn't find any nice, cheap condos right on the beach. If I'm going to the beach I want to have it right outside my door. And I want to pay nearly nothing for a luxury condo. That is hard to do. It would have been a more laid back beach experience though. Coffee shops and bike trails. It really sounded like fun. I am too picky about condos. Oh well PC will be fun too. Actually this will only be my second time in PC. We went for a few days last year, but somebody (myself) wasn't picky enough about the room for once, and we almost passed out from the smell of some really harsh cleaning materials when we walked in the room. There was also some pretty nasty obviously puke stains in the carpet. This is why you should always see pictures of the EXACT condo or room you are staying in. I have never done the spring break thing. Its not my style. I always went to Gulf Shores.

So my new addiction is Farm Town on facebook. It is so ridiculous. I laugh at myself. This game is so addictive. Don't even try it unless you want to be hooked! I spend my days at work plowing and harvesting my little heart out!

What else?.....Still working out....still no weight loss. Still slow at work....Still planning Sarah's wedding. No wonder I never update this. I'm boring.

Camping and Canoeing!

Well, I had a fabulous time this weekend, although it was a little crazy at times! Friday, I went and got pedicures with my mom, and my sister, and then we went to eat perico's together! yumm. After that my mom and I went back to the mall and I did a little shopping. I got a shirt, two dresses, and some 89 dollar shoes on sale for 24 bucks!! You can't beat that! After shopping, I met with my cousin Sarah and her other bridesmaid Kristi and we went to David's bridal to find her a wedding dress! We were successful, and she looked beautiful! (NO thanks to Donna, her crappy consultant!!) That night, Josh and I went to a birthday shin-dig for his friend Wes, and it was pretty fun. Saturday morning Josh and I got up to pack for a weekend camping in Arkansas with his friends "the WCO" (also known as Walker County Outlaws) Don't ask! Their girlfriends came along too. We also had two other chicks that I didn't know tag along. That's a long story. Anyways we borrowed a tent, and bought an air matress and packed up, and we left with some of the others around 2:30. The trip over seemed long, but it was fun and we only got lost twice! (Thanks to the Garmin!) We got there at around 8 something, and met everyone at the "Price Chopper" to get some groceries. Then we were too hungry to grill out, so we ate at a mexican place. We walked in 5 min before they closed. Needless to say our waiter was not all that friendly. Having been there myself, I can't really say that I blame him. We had to set up our tents in the dark, so that was interesting. Then we pretty much crashed because we had to get up early to go canoeing. I slept great on that air matress! (really. that's not sarcasm) Oh, I forgot to mention that when we got to the camp site, Josh's friends told us then, that there was no running water in the bath-house. That's right...no potty, and no shower! Now that is roughing it! We got up early, and went to eat breakfast at this little country place. It was awesome. It started raining early that morning, so when we got back to the camp site to change into our canoeing clothes, Josh and I discovered that our tent leaked. Bad. So half my clothes in my suitcase was already wet. Bummer. fortunately the bed stayed dry because of the matress. Anyways, it was still raining, so: To canoe, or not to canoe. That was the question. Well the "WCO" still wanted to go. So us girls loaded up in the cab of a truck, and we put the boys, and the coolers in the bed! Ha Ha! You should have seen them in the cold rain on the way there! Pitiful! Once we got there, we had six seperate canoes, so we used our lifejackets to tie them all together like a barge. It was like a party on a river! Crazy people! We had a blast. Nobody flipped because there was too many of us to take down. People on the banks would point, when we would get close to a drop-off, thinking we would never make it, but we did. I think the boys had a little too much beer, but other than that it was great! The bus ride back to the truck was a mess! Crazy people we didn't know, being loud and obnoxious, and puking out the windows, and flashing us, and "other stuff." I can't even describe it. Or, I won't anyways. Let's just say it was bad. When we got back, Jordan got a call saying there was a storm with a tornado headed our way. It wasn't close yet, but anyone who has read my blog knows I don't do well with tornados! I flipped out! I wanted to get a hotel room ASAP! At least then I could shower too! Anyways I finally calmed down and we monitored the weather, but nothing ever happened. Just lots of rain. We grilled out that night, and I had the best hamburger I've ever had in my life! Then me and Josh slept in our wet tent. I didn't sleep so well that night. I was scared of storms, and there was a railroad crossing right near the campground, and I'm pretty sure I heard the whistle like 5 times that night! We headed home on Monday. We stopped at a western store, and I got me some pink boots! I've never had a pair of boots, so I was pretty excited. Arkasas is very flat. (I know that came out of nowhere) It was just an observation. There were lots of rice fields there. Me and Josh couldn't figure out if they were flooded on purpose, or if they had just had a lot of rain. I did a little research, and apparently they were supposed to be flooded. I thought it was neat. Anyways that was the weekend for me. Quite eventful!

Well it's been a while since I've posted. Not much is going on in my life right now. Not that that's a bad thing. I'm actually enjoying just being in a routine. I love having Josh at home at night. Did I ever even mention he is on day shift now? Well he is. He has been super sweet lately.

I am still working out at the gym with Kristi. I totally love our Zumba class! I will probably sign up for a year membership in June when my three months is up. Just so I can Zumba! It gives me lots more energy.

My little cousin Sarah is engaged!! I am so excited! She is like my little sister. We have always been close. Ok, I call her little, but she is like 22. I am going to be her matron of honor! She is getting married this year in sept. or oct. I may be more excited than her!

Work has gotten slow again! I'm starting to worry. We are finally having an open house on tuesday. Maybe that will generate some businness. Everyone is slow right now though. Even the pedo office down stairs.

I guess me and Josh are going to cookout with our friends tonight. That should be fun. We will have to come home early because Josh has to work again in the morning. I guess that is it for now!

First pics with my new grill!

Ok, so I'm not lovin the braces. I am still learning how to eat, not that that is stopping me!

re-do x3

It's been a while since my last post. Which by the way, there were about 50 trees down on Josh's MeMaw's 75 acres that surrounds our little home after that storm. So I'm not just a sissy. Anyways, Josh decided to plant grass for the third time. We haven't had grass since we moved over there. (Not for the lack of trying.) So he came home from work at about 7:00am last friday, and worked outside on the tractor all day, with no sleep. He tilled up the ground, planted seed again, and then we covered it with hay until it got dark. I did my spring cleaning in the house, while he worked outside. I cleaned everyting: cleaned out closets, swept, mopped, vaccumed, cleaned the bathrooms, the kitchen, vaccumed out the couch, dusted, tons of laundry, I even groomed Smellvis. She needed it. We crashed that night, and I told Josh I would finish putting down the hay the next day before it rained, because he had planned a motorcycle trip with his friends. So Josh got up early to go on his ride, and me and Ellie walked out on the back porch to say bye to him. Only Ellie didn't stay on the porch. She decided to run down the steps into the freshly tilled up dirt, and morning dew, and run from me, and get muddy from head to toe! She is such a brat! Now she needed another bath! Only I didn't have time to give her one, because I was meeting Kristi at the gym in ten minutes. So I tossed Ellie back in the house once I caught her, and she proceeded to leave tiny muddy paw prints, all over my freshly mopped floor. I went to the gym, came home, and started working on the yard. I finished spreading the hay, and then went to deal with mud-butt. I did take a little pleasure in seeing her pout in the bathtub for the second day in a row, but that didn't make up for me having to wash and dry her again. So then I blow-dryed her. Then I re-swept, and re-mopped the floor. Then I had to go bathe myself, because I was nasty. Josh came home later, before the rain started to roll in. Only it wasn't just rain, it was practically a monsoon! So once the rain stopped, we checked out the yard, to see how the hay held up, and low and behold...it didn't! There were big washed-out ditches all in the yard, which probably means, no grass this year either...This was our last attempt. We could have layed sod for what we have invested in seed. We will just deal with it until we build a house. Which I hope is sooner rather than later. We have been looking at house plans. Just dreaming for now, but it is good motivation. Oh, I forgot! Thursday I got spacers put between my teeth. I am getting braces this Friday!! Yay! (sort of) I will be glad to get it over with. The spacers definitely challenged my normal eating habits, because my teeth were so sore I could hardly bite down, but I'm no quitter. It just took me a little longer to eat than usual. That is pretty much all of the exciting news. Bye for now!

Storms

Ok so last night was probably the scariest night ever! I was home by myself. Josh was working so it was just me and Ellie. I knew it was going to possibly be stormy, but nothing severe. Just a wind advisory. Normally I am running for cover in storms, because a mobile home is just not the place to be. For some reason I was feeling a little brave, so I thought I would just suck it up and stay home. I hate spending the night away from home. It is such a hassle to take Ellie anywhere. So about the time I went to bed it started raining, and the wind started blowing. Nothing major. So being the true scaredy-cat that I am, I layed there and couldn't sleep. 11:00,...12:00,.....1:00 Ok at this point the wind is howling, but I'm really trying to be brave, so instead of leaving to go somewhere safe, I decided the best place for me to sleep would be the floor beside the bed. Just in case a tree was to fall on my bedroom. (Yes, I do realize how crazy I sound). 1:30am So I am on MyFoxStorm.com checking the radar, (the satelite was out)when someone in the chat room says there has been a tornado spotted in Jasper. Ok I am no longer brave.. I am freaking out! I grab my shoes, and my dog, and the car keys, and I decide I am going to Josh's grandmother's old house that is right next door to us. No one lives there, but I have a key, and it is fully furnished with power. So I am scared to even get in my car because the wind is blowing so hard I am expecting a tree on my head any minute. I make it to the car, and drive to the old house, dodging limbs in the road. I finally get in the house, and I go inside, and me and Ellie get in a closet in the bedroom. At this point I hear stuff hitting the house, and the doors to the closet start sucking open and closed, because of the draft in the house. Talk about scared! I am going to die, in a closet, with noone but my dog. I call my mom to tell her bye, and she doesn't answer. That figures. So I keep sitting there, waiting to be blown to pieces, but the wind just keeps blowing. My mom finally calls back, and she says that there aren't any warnings, just a wind advisory. That is putting it lightly! My cousin Sarah and I have decided we would make much better weather people, because we would not just say "wind advisory" we would say stuff like: "It's blowing hard out there! GET OUT OF YOUR MOBILE HOMES NOW!", and "It's raining sideways people!" I think that makes the situation a lot more clear. No guessing whether or not you should stay, or go. Anyways, the wind finally died down, so I went back home, thankful to be alive. Apparently someone must have just reported a tornado because the wind was so bad. There were never any warnings. My power was out the rest of the night, and this morning, so I look like a bum with wrinkled clothes, no sleep, and hair that had to dry by itself on my way to work. Cute. Really cute. Apparently it is still out. We are supposed to have more storms tonight, so I packed my things this morning, and Josh and I will be staying in Trussville with my inlaws! No more being "brave" for me.

weekly post

I had a great weekend this week! Starting with Thursday.. Kristi and I went to the gym, and did Zumba. I don't think I blogged about zumba last week, but it is this dance class that Kristi wanted to try. We did it once before, and we totally suck at it. We have to either be the only beginners in the class, or the two most uncoordinated people on earth! It is hilarious! We try to hide in the back of the class, but that is not enough. We still stick out like sore thumbs. Probably because we are about two seconds behind everyone else, or because we are always moving in the wrong direction or because one of us is doing it right while the other is doing it wrong, and we run into each other. We did a little better this week, but it still wasn't pretty. I still have not lost a single pound. It is quite frustrating! Moving on. Josh and I went bowling with our friends Gary and Sherry on friday, and we ate at the cajun steamer. yumm We ordered so much food and appetizers that I ate the left-overs twice! (yeah I know I was just talking about not losing any weight, but like I said....It's frustrating....I had a weak moment...or two...) On saturday we went to my in-laws, and we all went to a movie (Duplicity) the movie kinda sucked, but it was fun anyways. We also ate Japanese, but no left-overs that night. I pigged out and didn't have enough left to take home. (are we seeing a pattern here?) Sunday I should have got my lazy butt out of bed and gone to church, but I didn't, and I missed a great message. I will definitely be there next sunday. Josh and I watched a movie at home that day, and I'm pretty sure that is all we did. I was also off on Monday this week, because Doc took the day off so I slept late and then went shopping for something to wear on Easter. I don't usually do that, but I just really needed some dress clothes anyways. I tried on several things in the juniors section, before finally coming to terms with the fact that I am not a teenager anymore. I am a big girl now, and I need to start dressing like it. Once I realized that, I finally found something church-worthy. I guess that is it for now. I could go on, but I will stop myself before it gets too boring.

Another boring weekend

Ok, so obviously I only post after the weekend. My life is just not that exciting. Friday I went to the gym with Kristi, and then we went and ate at Jim-n-Nicks, and after that I went to spend the night at my mother's house because Josh was at work, and I was anticipating bad weather. Since we had waited until we were under a tornado warning the night before to leave our mobile home and then almost got blown off the road, and had to turn around, I thought it might be good to do some precautionary planning. Of course, when you are actually counting on something, it doesn't happen. Not that I'm complaining! Saturday, I went to the gym, and layed around the rest of the day. Josh had to work all weekend, so I didn't do much. I went back to church on Sunday, Josh was working, but my sister and her boyfriend and my niece went too. It was good for me to go. It has been a while. After church, Kristi and I went back to the gym. That was the 5th day in a row! We were exhausted, but we got through it. I was proud of myself. I know this post was boring, but unfortunately so was my weekend! Next weekend should be better. Josh will be off work then. Maybe we will go to the drive-in. That sounds like fun. We will see...

Weekend summary

This weekend went by too quickly as usual. It was fun though. Nicole's wedding went great, and she was beautiful! We had a great time before the wedding, getting our hair done, and fixing our makeup. Girly stuff! I got to see my Cass Cass, and thanks to her, I made it home with no problems! Saturday was fun too! Josh and I went to eat hot wings at some new friends house, with some old friends...Does that make sense? Anyways, we all had a good time together. It is funny to me how, once you get older, and married it is easy to find things you have in common with any other married couple. Even if you are very different people individually, or very different ages you still have the same daily struggles, so it is easy to find things to talk about.
On sunday my sister and I came to birmingham to go shopping for wedding dresses!! Yay! I am so happy for her that she has found someone who she is totally in love with, and who feels the same way about her, and treats her that way! She deserves it! She has definitely gone through a few frogs to find him.
Well that sums up the weekend. Now I am back at work. This is a good week though. Things are picking up. I still have time to twiddle my thumbs, just not as much time. Oh I forgot to mention that I went to the gym by myself last night! It was very boring, but I was proud of myself for going anyways! That is all for now!

Rambling

Today is cleaning day at work. This is good, since we only had one patient today. The other one canceled. Yes the other ONE. This new practice thing is rough. Things are definitely picking up, and I can't really complain because I do love my job even though it is sometimes boring.

Me and Kristi went to the gym again last night. We worked our arms this time, so I have been noodle arms today. Of course I wouldn't tell my one patient that I could barely control my arms. Scalers+shakey arms=lots of bleeding. Ha Ha. Just kidding. I managed to keep things under control. I am just a weak person. (physically) I couldn't lift the same amount of weight as Kristi. It was funny. Her husband was showing us what machines to use to work out our arms. I couldn't do one of them at all. He said we could wait until I was a little more "advanced" for that one. Ha! That was putting it nicely. Oh well, I never planned on being in any weight lifting competitions, so I should be ok.

Today after work I have to drive all the way home to Jasper, so I can pick up my bridesmaids dress, and then drive all the way to Athens. Yuck. I would have had my dress already if I would have double checked what time the alterations place closed. I sent Josh to pick it up, and he arrived about ten minutes too late. It was my fault. I guess I should have been more specific. The wedding is tomorrow. I hope my dress fits. I am scared I won't be able to get home from the wedding chapel. I don't know my way around Huntsville very well, and I have no sense of direction. I don't take directions very well either. I guess I will survive.

Pain

So I have been trying to eat a little healthier for a while now, in a half-hearted attempt to lose some weight for the summer. Well apparently if you are lazy and you don't excercise that doesn't really happen. So after getting frustrated about eating healthy, and not losing a single pound, I decided I should quit being lazy and add excercise to the mix. So I joined the gym with my friend Kristi. We started this weekend. We worked out on sat. and sun. and now I am pretty sure I could be dying. I am SOOO out of shape! Oh my gosh, my whole body hurts! Walking is a big accomplishment at this point. I could hardly make it up the stairs to work this morning. I am glad no one was in the parking lot to see me grab on to the hand rail for dear life, and hobble up the steps. I sneezed yesterday, and thought that every muscle in my stomach was going to explode. How did I let myself get this way? Ha Ha. It will all be worth it later. That was pretty much the main event of the weekend. Josh was in his friends wedding on Saturday, so friday was rehersal, sat. was the wedding, and sunday after my workout I crashed, and layed around and read my book for the rest of the day. I didn't sleep very well last night. Ellie has developed a new habit of wanting to sleep on my head. I don't know what this is about. I tossed and turned all night, and every time I rolled over, she climbed back on my head, and when I would push her off, she would lay on my back, or my legs. We had the whole queen size bed to share, and she wanted to sleep right on top of me. It was kinda sweet that she wanted to snuggle with her mommy, but geez!

Poo On Night Shift

Here I am, sitting on the couch doing nothing, just like every other night this week. I hate night shift. I miss Josh so bad. He had to work all weekend, which meant that he slept all day, every day. Which meant that I did absolutely nothing productive because....Well just because. I guess I could have done something, but it is hard to get ready when all my stuff is in our bedroom, and he is asleep in there. I guess I could have picked out my clothes and stuff the night before, and put them in the other bathroom, but I was lazy and I didn't. So I layed around in my pajamas for three days, and didn't even shower until Josh got up for work every day. Oh! I did shower and leave the house on saturday. I had to go to Athens to pick up my bridesmaids dress from Nicole's house. She was moving the last few things out of her house. I can't believe she is getting married! I am so excited for her. Anyways, after that I made it back home just in time to say bye to Josh. Then I went to the tanning bed, and then Sarah and I made plans to watch a movie together since our men work the same shift togeter. We also thought it would be a good idea to get Ellie and her springer spaniel puppy, Mabry, together for a playdate. This did not turn out so well. Ellie does not know how to play with other dogs. She has not been around other dogs very much, so she is always scared of them. Mabry on the other hand was very excited, but since she is used to playing with a boxer, Ellie did not make the best playmate. We had to keep them seperated the whole time. The journey to Sarah's was quite exciting. Ellie is not the best car rider. She likes to be in your lap the whole time, and she also likes to look out the window, but since she is so tiny, she has to prop up on my arms to see out, so every time I move my arms to turn the wheel she falls down. It is quite annoying. We also went through the Chic-fil-A drive through, because I was feeling like a milk shake, so I had to keep her from trying to jump out the window. Did you know they give out dog treats at the Chic-fil-A drive through? Well I didn't, but they gave Ellie this huge milk bone. Well, it was huge for her. She usually gets small treats. Anyways I let her have the whole thing, and as soon as I pull away, she drops it between the seat and the console. Ugh! So then I have to pull over and turn the interior light on and fish out the treat. Then Sarah calls and says to meet her at Burger King, so I get the bright idea to try out their new mini burgers. Here we go to drive through number two. I drive all the way to burger king make my order, and pull to the window. At this time Ellie is just finishing up with her treat and she is sniffing around, and burying her head between my legs trying to get the crumbs she has dropped. This must have made a fantastic impression on the guy at the window, because he seemed quite amused by Ellie's behavior. I didn't even try to explain the situation. I figured that would only make things worse. Sniffing for crumbs, yeah that is believable.

Dog + Shoes = Bad

Yesterday when I got home from work, I had to hurry and get ready to go to the funeral home, my great uncle passed away on Monday. He was ready though. Now he does not have to suffer anymore. However, there may soon be another death in the family. The reason for this being... When I went to put on my black heels, I noticed that a huge chunk of the heel was missing. Around this huge chunk was teeny tiny little teeth marks. Apparently my little varmint dog Ellie loves shoes as much as I do...Did I mention I LOVE my shoes? I really needed to wear those shoes! Plan B: I was wearing black and white, so I thought maybe I could wear my red heels, and it would look ok. So I tried them on, but I just didn't feel good about wearing bright red shoes to the funeral home. So, I took the red ones off and left them in the floor, and went to plan C: black fingernail polish. It's sad I know, but it was my only other option. I used my black nail polish to paint over the big chunk of missing shoe. It only had to get me through the night. Well I made it through, with my crappy touch up job, and Ellie survived the night also. I didn't actually catch her in the act, so I didn't know how to punish her. So anyways, I'm driving to work this morning when Josh calls and says "I called to tell you something that is going to make you really mad." (That is never good.) I'm thinking...It is 7:00 in the morning, what could he have possibly done already to make me mad? That is when he says, "Ellie chewed up your red shoes."....You have to be kidding me!! (do you know how hard it is going to be to find the exact same shade of red fingernail polish!? ) Just Kidding! I have worn those shoes ONE time! The varmint is going to get it! (Varmint is what I call her when she is being bad) Ellie has lots of names. She has a different name for every personality. I call her: Elvis (when she's feisty), Smellvis (when she's stinky), Ellie Mae (that's just her middle name), Mavis (when she's not paying attention), Wiley, (like Wiley coyote, this one is when she hasn't had a haircut in a while, and the hair on her face gets long. When she lays her head down for a while, and then raises back up, the hair on her cheeks sticks straight out and she looks like Wiley coyote. It's hilarious) I call her love bug (when she's sweet), just "Love"(when I feel sorry for her), Turkey (when she's running around crazy), and lately I have been calling her Vermin (which means the same thing as Varmint, but I have called her varmint so many times I needed to switch things up a bit). She only answers to Ellie, but she knows when I am talking to her. She tries to act all sweet and innocent, but if that doesn't work she runs for dear life, and hides under the bed. Ugh. If she wasn't so darn cute and loveable! At least now I have an excuse to buy new shoes!

Weekend festivities

Well this weekend wasn't all that fabulous. It went by too quickly as usual. Friday night me, Josh, some of his friends, my cousin Sarah, her boyfriend, and some of their friends went to Cafe Bills to eat. It was ok. Nothing too exciting there. Saturday Josh went to Jordan's house to tint his work truck windows, so I spent the day chilling by myself. blah. That night I went to a lingerie shower, while Josh hung out with his buddies. The shower was pretty fun, but I got home kinda late so it was hard to get up for church the next morning. I did though. The service was good. I am always so glad when I do go. I wonder why it is so difficult to make yourself? Laziness thats why. Anyways, after that I had to go to a bridal shower for my friend Nicole in Killen Alabama, which I had no clue where that was, (she doesn't live there) so I met my other friend Cassidy at her house in Phil Campbell to ride with her. We had a good time! Which we always do when we all get together. They are my best buddies from hygiene school! We all live in different places so it is always fun when we can get together. After that I went home, and that was my weekend. I really didn't get to spend much time with Josh which is ok most of the time, but this week he is on nights, so I won't get to see him much. We are on completely opposite schedules. He will leave for work at 5:00, I won't get home till at least 5:30. Hopefully absence will make our hearts grow fonder! Ha ha. That is usually not the case with us, but we will see! And now it is monday, and I am in my little cubicle (not really it is actually an operatory but it feels like a cubicle so that is what I call it) and we have one patient for the whole day. That is not good in case you were wondering. I wonder if I should be worried about job security? It is a new practice so we are slowly building patients. I think I am ok for now. It is expected to be slow when you first start out. . . . Right? . . . . ? Hmmm....

Relieved

Yesterday was a big day for my family. I won't really get into it, as it is not my business to tell, but I am very relieved, and thankful that it is over with. I am so grateful to know that I have God to lean on, and I don't think I could make it through life without knowing that. On another note, yesterday wasn't such a happy time at the Piper house. I came home crabby from my emotional/stressful day, and unintentionally put my dear hubby in a bad mood, and things just went downhill from there. I hate pointless, stupid arguments. Why do we do that? Just to fill you in, I got angry when he asked me not to talk about getting braces. (because I have been talking about it for four weeks straight) Teeth are important to me. That is what I do! So then of course i reverted back to my childhood days to give him the silent treatment. I really showed him. Long story short, we finally realized we were being ridiculous and got over it. That is one good reason why we don't have children yet. Because we both still at like them on occasion. I guess you never really completely grow up. After our little episode, Ellie and I crashed for the night. I have been so tired lately. I am usually a night person, but I just can't stay awake. I don't know what the deal is. I think my cousin Sarah and I will definitely be cashing in on our valentine's spa day together soon. Cause I could sure use it!

I have no clue what I'm doing....

Well I am at work, and bored as usual (since we have no patients) and I have heard a few people talking about this blogging stuff, so I figure... Why not? I have already read the latest US weekly, surfed the internet,checked my MySpace about 47 times today (still no messages), read about all of the news I can handle, written in my journal, ate my lunch, and my snack...(bored), and I still have about three hours to go. So here I am. It is no wonder I am struggling with this diet thing. I have nothing to do but either eat or think about eating. I know my job sounds rough huh? I just wish the day would go by faster. I could be doing so many productive things right now. My house is a wreck. My dog needs a bath. Speaking of, I am curious to know what she is up to right now. My guess would be sleeping. I just wish I was home with her and Josh, but we need the paycheck!!! Josh will be starting nights this week, so I dread that. It is only for two weeks, but it could be exteded. I just hate being on opposite schedules. It messes everything up. We may not even see each other some days, because he will be gone by the time I get home, and I will be gone when he gets home. That really sux. That is life I guess. I don't like being a "grown-up" sometimes. At least I won't have to cook dinner those nights. I will miss spending that time with him though. I don't know what I am going to make for dinner tonight, maybe tilapia, it is always better when Josh makes it.....There I go again, thinking about food. Ugh