I haven't blogged in over a week, and there is no reason for it. I was not even out of town. I've been home this whole time. I just got nothing for ya this week. Me and the baby are doing just fine. I'm just now getting uncomfortable and tired of being pregnant... of course I'm not entirely ready for the alternative yet. I am getting more tired than I used to be, and I'm always ready to eat! We are ordering the furniture for the baby's room this Monday, so that's a bit exciting. It should be here in 7-10 days after the order is placed. I'll take pictures for ya once it's all set up.
The scrapbook store that I used to work for is having a huge sale. So I HAD to go and see what was left. I picked up quite a few things at 70% off... so I'm totally excited about that and feel quite inspired to get some work done! SO YAY! Finally (hopefully) I'll get my scrapping mojo back!
On the way to meet up w/ someone from ScrapJazz today I passed a yardsale. They had a fishtank on the lawn, so I pulled up. I checked it out and it looked really good to me, so I called C. Told him all about it... and now its in the back of my car waiting for him to get home. It's a 90 gallon tank! I still can't believe the price. It's like we stole it from them with their knowledge! We've gotta clean it up and then set up the water to run for a few weeks, then we are going to need more than 6 fish. LOL! C wants to keep the other tank set up, but I just don't know where we'd put it. Although if there is room in the baby's room, I think that would be totally cool to have it in there. Of course selling it is still an option. Only time will tell.
Still loving the car! We'll be busy this weekend making a 'frame' for the ScrapFest that I'll be attending the first weekend in August. When that's done I'll totally share pics w/ ya! Next weekend, my aunt and uncle are most likely coming up to help C with an idea that I had... hopefully, we can make my idea a reality. I'm totally excited about it.
K, really that's all I've got for now so ....
~til next time
Friday, July 20, 2007
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Your are what you eat!
Found this 'blog quiz' on someone else' blog....
Of course I would be a chocolate chip cookie... they are my absolute favorite cookie!
Of course I would be a chocolate chip cookie... they are my absolute favorite cookie!
| You Are a Chocolate Chip Cookie |
 Traditional and conservative, most people find you comforting. You're friendly and easy to get to know. This makes you very popular - without even trying! |
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
It's gone... and I'm a little bit sad about it.
Yesterday, on a whim I thought I'd run into the Nissan dealership to pick up some books on the sentra and the altima, then run to the used lot to see what they had. My thoughts were that I was doing the leg work for C and that if I found anything I thought he'd like we'd run by and look at it later. Well, LONG story short. Last night we bought C's new car. It's an '06 Sentra Special Edition. The ONLY thing I don't like about it, is that it is white. C doesn't like that it is white and that it is not a manual transmission.... and that I more or less pretty much 'picked it out'. He's right and I totally understand. I picked out and bought my car while C was in Texas. He barely had a chance to test drive one down here while I was buying it up in St. Louis. Then when we are only THINKING about replacing his truck, boom! all of a sudden, I've got papers for him to sign. Really, it's a great little car, totally perfect for what we want it for, it has almost (he REALLY wanted a stick-shift) all the features that C wanted plus a few extras, (spoiler, upgraded stereo system w/ 6 disc in dash cd player, tinted windows (which we would've added anyway), oh and a 10" built in subwoofer in the trunk. It's a pretty nice drive and as an added bonus the passenger seat is REALLY comfy! The best part is the money we will save on gas. It gets just about 3x more mileage than C's truck, so we can almost pay the car payment w/ the money saved on gas. It was sad to walk away from the truck, I think I even teared up a bit, but I'm also a little glad to be rid of it b/c I was starting to get worried about C's safety while he was driving it.
I've been holding out on you folks... this is for the coffee drinkers out there.
While staying at my aunts place in NY, someone made this UNBELIEVABLE pot of coffee (all decaf). I asked what they did and since then I've been making this at home. I fill my coffeepot's water line to 8 then add 3 scoops of decaf coffee, then 2 scoops of hazelnut coffee (i've been using folgers, since I didn't get to wholefoods yet to pick up the organic decaf coffees they have there) then 2 scoops of french vanilla. The coffee smells SO YUMMY and tastes just as good as it smells. I drink one cup hot in the am then have some over ice in the afternoon. What a delicious summer treat let me tell you!!! YUM YUM YUM!! If ya like flavored coffee ya gotta try this!
~til next time!
I've been holding out on you folks... this is for the coffee drinkers out there.
While staying at my aunts place in NY, someone made this UNBELIEVABLE pot of coffee (all decaf). I asked what they did and since then I've been making this at home. I fill my coffeepot's water line to 8 then add 3 scoops of decaf coffee, then 2 scoops of hazelnut coffee (i've been using folgers, since I didn't get to wholefoods yet to pick up the organic decaf coffees they have there) then 2 scoops of french vanilla. The coffee smells SO YUMMY and tastes just as good as it smells. I drink one cup hot in the am then have some over ice in the afternoon. What a delicious summer treat let me tell you!!! YUM YUM YUM!! If ya like flavored coffee ya gotta try this!
~til next time!
Thursday, July 05, 2007
this is gonna be LONG!
I've got a lot running around in my head and this is the place where I let some of it out.
First of all, in case you live under a rock or are deaf, mute, and blind... it's still raining in N. Texas. I personally love rainy days and don't mind this one bit, besides it keeps the air cooler and since I am almost 32 weeks preggo, I'm all for that! My only 'problem' w/ the rain is that my dogs don't like to go 'out' in it. And when it does stop or rather 'pause' from raining, and they do go out then they bring in muddy footprints and I have hard wood floors. Nevermind the fact that there are 5 area rugs for them to wipe their little feeties on before they get into the house, we still have footprints and lots of them. Oh and since they aren't outside as much, there is way more dog hair on the floors than there usually is. So on Tuesday, in an effort to be like the Holly Homemaker that I claim to be... I hauled out the vaccum cleaner... and used it. On every square inch of the first floor. I was almost done when I went to move the coffee table. It's on wheels so no biggie right? Well, since it is on wheels and on hardwood floors, I lost control of it and it totally smashed my big toe! The nail was/is this nice light shade of blue within an hour. It throbbed for most of the night and still hurts today. Let me tell ya, you don't realize how much you use your toes for walking til you hurt one of them!
I don't usually re-read books, well, except for the Bible... but I'm re-reading a book this week and boy is it a kicker. It's called "Having a Mary heart in a Martha world." the concept is that we women can tend to get caught up in the things and busyness of life and forget to just sit and take a moment w/ Jesus sometimes. Like when Jesus went to Mary and Martha's house... Martha was ticked b/c Mary was sitting there listening to Jesus talk and she (Martha) was running around like a chicken w/ out a head trying to be the perfect hostess. It bothered her so much that she tattled on Mary to Jesus! He told her, chill girl, Mary has chosen the better thing.
(um, this is from the 'DRB' translation not available in print or anywhere outside of my head actually) Anyway, the book really gets you to look at where your priorities are and how difficult we sometims make our lives b/c we don't spend a few minutes w/ God before we rush (or slowly enter) our day. Just thought I'd throw that out there for ya.
Ok, now for a vent about fireworks. Yesterday, C and I just puttered around the house, he actually was able to mow the back yard and we washed all the windows and screens on the first floor, then we napped and watched some movies. Well, around 8:30 we decided to go to a majorly announced fireworks display since the one we went to last year (which was great by the way) was cancelled and rescheduled for Labor Day. Our town wasn't doing anything and I think its b/c this majorly announced thing was happening just one town over. So we threw some chairs in the pickup, grabbed a can of OFF! (thanks to the rain we are overpopulated w/ mosquitos!) and headed out about 45 minutes before the show was to start. Now the place where the display was going to take place is only 10 minutes from us, but it took 90 minutes for us to get there!!! Traffic was horrific and people where being amazingly idiotic. The show started late, and we wound up watching it from inside the truck while stuck in traffic. Let me just say this, for something that was announced as much as this was, and for as hyped up as it was, I was expecting one incredible display of fireworks. Boy, was I disappointed! The show lasted about 15 minutes MAYBE one or two minutes longer than that with some major pauses between some of the blasts. What a HUGE letdown. It looked like the whole world had come out to see this display and it was the puniest show I've ever seen! EVER! The small town in IL where we used to go had better displays. Then it took about 45 minutes to get out of the snarl of traffic. Not before we were almost t-boned though. OK, now I've mentioned the rain we've had right???? So, common sense would tell you that the ground would be wet, muddy, and really not driveable. Well, common sense is obviously an oxymoron... b/c it ain't so common!!! This moron decides he wants out of his parking spot from up on the side of the road. So he tries to back up his LARGE SUV into the traffic that is inching its way down the road. (By the way, just b/c you have an SUV does not mean that that you can drive on any kind of surface, you need 4WD or AWD AND the right type of tires. If you primarily use your vehicle to pick up milk and run the kids to soccor practice you DO NOT have an all terrain vehicle. C's truck has 'mudding' tires on it and he even said he wouldn't have tried parking up on the side of the road like some of these COMPLETE morons!) The guys truck was at least 3 inches deep in the mud up there but he proceeds to spin his wheels and spray mud EVERYWHERE just to go nowhere. His buddies help push at least the rear drivers side wheel off the curb and into the street. Do you remember how I said he was 3 inches in mud? Well, guess what he has NO traction back there now. The other 3 tires are just spinning and spraying mud and the one wheel that is on the street is so covered in mud that it is just sliding on the road. So the geniuses get out and give him a few more pushes and boom the other back tire is on the road and now the entire rear of the vehicle is just fishtailing on the road. I'm scooting in my chair to the middle of the truck b/c I'm so afraid that he is just gonna slam into my side of the truck. Since there is so much traffic, C has no where to move our truck and we are both just praying that we don't get hit. The gifted driver decides to 'rock' his car now, putting it in drive then reverse then drive again. Can I just tell you if I wasn't so worried about getting slammed by this man in the middle of deadlocked traffic at almost 32 weeks pregnant, this would have been quite the show and more entertaining than the fireworks we had come out to see! Somehow he managed now to get the driver side tire off the curb and now he really has no control over his slidding truck. Truly its a miracle he didn't hit anyone. He finally spun his wheels enough on the pavement to remove enough mud to get traction and pulled the rest of his vehicle onto the road. Yes, he looked like a moron as he drove 2 inches away with his arms in the air claiming 'victory'! No one was happy w/ him, as most of us now need to get our vehicles cleaned to get his mud spray off.
Speaking of trucks... I'll just mention this and then end the longest post in bloggin history... it seems that we will be saying a sad farewell to C's truck sooner than we really wanted to. Of course, now that it is paid off and we actually have the title, oh and spent the money to have it reregistered b/c we figured we'd use it for a few more months... it doesn't look like it will make it that much longer. We'd rather not put anymore money into it. So we are on the look out for a small sedan for C. I'm really going to miss the truck. I loved having a pick up. It was great for camping and for hauling stuff to/from Home Depot or Lowe's, and getting rid of tree limbs that we've cut down. We had some good times w/ this truck, I will be sad to see it go. The dogs will also miss hearing C come home. They perk up their ears when he is about a block away and go running to the door as he gets closer.
Ok, I promised I'd go now...
~til next time!
First of all, in case you live under a rock or are deaf, mute, and blind... it's still raining in N. Texas. I personally love rainy days and don't mind this one bit, besides it keeps the air cooler and since I am almost 32 weeks preggo, I'm all for that! My only 'problem' w/ the rain is that my dogs don't like to go 'out' in it. And when it does stop or rather 'pause' from raining, and they do go out then they bring in muddy footprints and I have hard wood floors. Nevermind the fact that there are 5 area rugs for them to wipe their little feeties on before they get into the house, we still have footprints and lots of them. Oh and since they aren't outside as much, there is way more dog hair on the floors than there usually is. So on Tuesday, in an effort to be like the Holly Homemaker that I claim to be... I hauled out the vaccum cleaner... and used it. On every square inch of the first floor. I was almost done when I went to move the coffee table. It's on wheels so no biggie right? Well, since it is on wheels and on hardwood floors, I lost control of it and it totally smashed my big toe! The nail was/is this nice light shade of blue within an hour. It throbbed for most of the night and still hurts today. Let me tell ya, you don't realize how much you use your toes for walking til you hurt one of them!
I don't usually re-read books, well, except for the Bible... but I'm re-reading a book this week and boy is it a kicker. It's called "Having a Mary heart in a Martha world." the concept is that we women can tend to get caught up in the things and busyness of life and forget to just sit and take a moment w/ Jesus sometimes. Like when Jesus went to Mary and Martha's house... Martha was ticked b/c Mary was sitting there listening to Jesus talk and she (Martha) was running around like a chicken w/ out a head trying to be the perfect hostess. It bothered her so much that she tattled on Mary to Jesus! He told her, chill girl, Mary has chosen the better thing.
(um, this is from the 'DRB' translation not available in print or anywhere outside of my head actually) Anyway, the book really gets you to look at where your priorities are and how difficult we sometims make our lives b/c we don't spend a few minutes w/ God before we rush (or slowly enter) our day. Just thought I'd throw that out there for ya.
Ok, now for a vent about fireworks. Yesterday, C and I just puttered around the house, he actually was able to mow the back yard and we washed all the windows and screens on the first floor, then we napped and watched some movies. Well, around 8:30 we decided to go to a majorly announced fireworks display since the one we went to last year (which was great by the way) was cancelled and rescheduled for Labor Day. Our town wasn't doing anything and I think its b/c this majorly announced thing was happening just one town over. So we threw some chairs in the pickup, grabbed a can of OFF! (thanks to the rain we are overpopulated w/ mosquitos!) and headed out about 45 minutes before the show was to start. Now the place where the display was going to take place is only 10 minutes from us, but it took 90 minutes for us to get there!!! Traffic was horrific and people where being amazingly idiotic. The show started late, and we wound up watching it from inside the truck while stuck in traffic. Let me just say this, for something that was announced as much as this was, and for as hyped up as it was, I was expecting one incredible display of fireworks. Boy, was I disappointed! The show lasted about 15 minutes MAYBE one or two minutes longer than that with some major pauses between some of the blasts. What a HUGE letdown. It looked like the whole world had come out to see this display and it was the puniest show I've ever seen! EVER! The small town in IL where we used to go had better displays. Then it took about 45 minutes to get out of the snarl of traffic. Not before we were almost t-boned though. OK, now I've mentioned the rain we've had right???? So, common sense would tell you that the ground would be wet, muddy, and really not driveable. Well, common sense is obviously an oxymoron... b/c it ain't so common!!! This moron decides he wants out of his parking spot from up on the side of the road. So he tries to back up his LARGE SUV into the traffic that is inching its way down the road. (By the way, just b/c you have an SUV does not mean that that you can drive on any kind of surface, you need 4WD or AWD AND the right type of tires. If you primarily use your vehicle to pick up milk and run the kids to soccor practice you DO NOT have an all terrain vehicle. C's truck has 'mudding' tires on it and he even said he wouldn't have tried parking up on the side of the road like some of these COMPLETE morons!) The guys truck was at least 3 inches deep in the mud up there but he proceeds to spin his wheels and spray mud EVERYWHERE just to go nowhere. His buddies help push at least the rear drivers side wheel off the curb and into the street. Do you remember how I said he was 3 inches in mud? Well, guess what he has NO traction back there now. The other 3 tires are just spinning and spraying mud and the one wheel that is on the street is so covered in mud that it is just sliding on the road. So the geniuses get out and give him a few more pushes and boom the other back tire is on the road and now the entire rear of the vehicle is just fishtailing on the road. I'm scooting in my chair to the middle of the truck b/c I'm so afraid that he is just gonna slam into my side of the truck. Since there is so much traffic, C has no where to move our truck and we are both just praying that we don't get hit. The gifted driver decides to 'rock' his car now, putting it in drive then reverse then drive again. Can I just tell you if I wasn't so worried about getting slammed by this man in the middle of deadlocked traffic at almost 32 weeks pregnant, this would have been quite the show and more entertaining than the fireworks we had come out to see! Somehow he managed now to get the driver side tire off the curb and now he really has no control over his slidding truck. Truly its a miracle he didn't hit anyone. He finally spun his wheels enough on the pavement to remove enough mud to get traction and pulled the rest of his vehicle onto the road. Yes, he looked like a moron as he drove 2 inches away with his arms in the air claiming 'victory'! No one was happy w/ him, as most of us now need to get our vehicles cleaned to get his mud spray off.
Speaking of trucks... I'll just mention this and then end the longest post in bloggin history... it seems that we will be saying a sad farewell to C's truck sooner than we really wanted to. Of course, now that it is paid off and we actually have the title, oh and spent the money to have it reregistered b/c we figured we'd use it for a few more months... it doesn't look like it will make it that much longer. We'd rather not put anymore money into it. So we are on the look out for a small sedan for C. I'm really going to miss the truck. I loved having a pick up. It was great for camping and for hauling stuff to/from Home Depot or Lowe's, and getting rid of tree limbs that we've cut down. We had some good times w/ this truck, I will be sad to see it go. The dogs will also miss hearing C come home. They perk up their ears when he is about a block away and go running to the door as he gets closer.
Ok, I promised I'd go now...
~til next time!
Monday, July 02, 2007
ok, I'm back... finally!
Sooooooooooooooooo did ya miss me?
The trip to NY went really well. The planes were full so I was warmer than I wanted to be, but over all the flights were smooth, the layovers were uneventful and there weren't any delays... even getting back into Dallas where it has been raining for what seems like forever! The weather this year is the exact opposite of last year and quite honestly I'm very glad about it. I love rainy days! :D
The shower was wonderful! My family and friends totally blew me away with their generosity. I'm still overwhelmed by it all.
C painted the baby's room and b/c of the generosity we received in NY, we are able to order all 3 pieces of furniture we want for the room. We wanted to go do that on Saturday, but the store has a coupon that starts on July 23rd so we are gonna wait to use that for it. I'll be sure to take pics once that is all set up. I'm getting pretty excited about it and so is C. He was really bummed that we have to wait to use the coupon. If we weren't going to save a significant amount of money... I think he would have just ordered it anyway.
When I got back, I had a NST (non stress test) on Thursday and a sono on Friday and all is A-OK with the lil bean.
We have a home project in the works, I'll try to take before, during and after pics. I'm really hoping to have it done in the next week or two. Course, I'm not doing the work... that is gonna have to be all C, I'm just 'supervising'. :D
I've been 'tagged' to do a 7 things you didn't know about me blog... I'll work on that and hopefully have it up for you soon.
Now to leave you with some pics from the shower... I didn't take any of these!
My Step-mother, Beth & me
My 'other mother'. This is Debbie. She and my mom were best friends. Debbie and her family is my family! She hosted the shower in her home/yard.
My Aunt Virg, she's the one who takes care of me!
Here is my Aunt Sheri, she flew up from Orlando, FL; then my Sis in Law (and friend) Stacy, and my Aunt Dorene, she flew up from Austin, TX... she has also taken on a roll of taking care of me. I have WONDERFUL family and friends! I love them so much!
This is Sharon, my almost sister, who organized this whole thing.
In this pic, she is measuring my 'girth' for a game. (so humiliating by the way)
ok, I'm sure I've bored you all to tears by now...
~til next time!
The trip to NY went really well. The planes were full so I was warmer than I wanted to be, but over all the flights were smooth, the layovers were uneventful and there weren't any delays... even getting back into Dallas where it has been raining for what seems like forever! The weather this year is the exact opposite of last year and quite honestly I'm very glad about it. I love rainy days! :D
The shower was wonderful! My family and friends totally blew me away with their generosity. I'm still overwhelmed by it all.
C painted the baby's room and b/c of the generosity we received in NY, we are able to order all 3 pieces of furniture we want for the room. We wanted to go do that on Saturday, but the store has a coupon that starts on July 23rd so we are gonna wait to use that for it. I'll be sure to take pics once that is all set up. I'm getting pretty excited about it and so is C. He was really bummed that we have to wait to use the coupon. If we weren't going to save a significant amount of money... I think he would have just ordered it anyway.
When I got back, I had a NST (non stress test) on Thursday and a sono on Friday and all is A-OK with the lil bean.
We have a home project in the works, I'll try to take before, during and after pics. I'm really hoping to have it done in the next week or two. Course, I'm not doing the work... that is gonna have to be all C, I'm just 'supervising'. :D
I've been 'tagged' to do a 7 things you didn't know about me blog... I'll work on that and hopefully have it up for you soon.
Now to leave you with some pics from the shower... I didn't take any of these!
My Step-mother, Beth & me
My 'other mother'. This is Debbie. She and my mom were best friends. Debbie and her family is my family! She hosted the shower in her home/yard.
My Aunt Virg, she's the one who takes care of me!
Here is my Aunt Sheri, she flew up from Orlando, FL; then my Sis in Law (and friend) Stacy, and my Aunt Dorene, she flew up from Austin, TX... she has also taken on a roll of taking care of me. I have WONDERFUL family and friends! I love them so much!
This is Sharon, my almost sister, who organized this whole thing.
In this pic, she is measuring my 'girth' for a game. (so humiliating by the way)
ok, I'm sure I've bored you all to tears by now...
~til next time!
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