Tuesday Boredness

Just sitting at work wishing I was doing something fun. Or at home where I could do whatever I want. My house is pretty much in a serious state of disrepair. I've had one of those "I'll clean that up later" weeks, and so now it is later and everything needs to be cleaned up! -_- Boo.

So not a whole lot of anything has been going on. Just livin life. Did have fun Sunday night though. A couple from our small group, and the bro and sis and law and us all went to the couples house and brought papa johns and watched a movie in their new movie room in the basement. (We watched Taken for the 4th time for me, haha, but I love it) And us girls sat and talked awhile while the boys went to my parents to get something.

Lee and I went to Lowes last week. I found out we were going to have a little extra money that week so made up a list of improvements that need to be done around the house. Like laying the tile in the guest bathroom that has never been done, cleaning the windows, hanging up pictures, putting the rest of the knobs on the kitchen cabinets, etc. So we spent about 60$ and got everything we need just about! I still want to get some plants for outside but that can wait.

We are trying to get ready for next month. Every Sunday of October we are hosting the small group at our house. Eep, so we went it to look good!

I also found a room sized rug for the living room that I really like. Its kinda shaggy, but not overly so, and goes great in there. After I get my pictures/shelves up I'm going to really like the dining room/living room area I think.

So my birthday is coming up! About 2 weeks, little over. Its oct 12th. I better start coming up with stuff I want! Lee and his family will be dogging me about it soon, lol. I really dont know...sure I have lots of stuff I want but they are way out of everyones price range! Lol. I'd like money! But thats impossible to get people to give you, well my family might. But his won't! They are very big on being personal etc.

Id also like a new camera, but I want to move up in quality, and that starts costing from 400-800 dollars! Um, what else...I guess I'd like a shotgun, but I don't want one that bad...we haven't hunted in about 2 weeks. Mostly because of the rain. It has rained EVERYDAY for like 2 weeks straight. No joke. We hare having all kinds of flooding. Thankfully not around us though. Finally they said its going to clear up after this week. That has definitely put a stop to my riding -_-. I was watching a few videos on trail competitions, that looks really fun. I want to set up a course out in the pasture and try Daisy through it, hehe, I bet she'd do great! The Alabama Horse Fair is at the end of January, and they have a Trail Horse Competition that any and all horses and riders can enter. Here's a run from last year a girl did on her pretty paint mare:



I think she did great for it being her first competition. Which also tells me anyone and everything enters these things. There is another video of a fat appy that a girl rides through, she doesn't get through but maybe 2 obstacles, lol. I know for a FACT Daisy and I could do better then THAT. That high jump up and down thing though, I think thatd be our worst, lol, that thing looks scary! But the pain mare does GREAT over it.

I like these type of trail competitions. The kind of stuff you would actually maybe encounter out on an actual trail. Not the crap AQHA does with all those crazy intricate poles and junk and their heads at their hooves and going SO SLOW.

Frankly I just want to get out and do SOMETHING with my horse in public. Its been over 2 years! Right before we found out Daisy was pregnant with Tuff Tuff. I'm also kinda worried about her lameness though. I'm definitely not taking a lame horse out in public. I need to get her to a vet to find out just what is going on. I can guess all day but that won't do any good.

So the boss showed up, better skidattle, adios!

Work Work

Betcha can't guess where I am?? lol, okay maybe you can.

Only 30 more minutes to go though! Its been a pretty fast week so far. I loved having Monday off to spend with Lee and the fam. We just lounged around all morning, then went over to his parents for a bit, then on over to my mom and dads for a b-que. That was pretty fun. Dawson was in fine form, sooo funny and cute! Dad b-qued chicken, soo good. And my grandma made homemade macaroni and potato salad, AND fried okra. Can you say TUMMY ACHE, haha. So good. Then my dad also had homemade ice cream making, and it was really good, peach. You just cant beat homemade ice cream. Why can't they make it that good for the store? I mean blue bell gets close but not there.

Here's a few pics!

The adorable Dawson Wayne

Me and my daddy!

My grandma, and Dolly!

And me and Bowser of course :)

Anywho, mostly just sat around and talked. My grandma from Arizona is in town this week, and that was fun to spend some time with her. I was around her my whole childhood, but after we moved to Alabama I have missed her. It is good to get to be around my dads grandpa tho, she lives here now and I did not see her much in my childhood; she lived in Oregon.

The boys got a old playhouse of my nieces out and converted it into a shooting house, lol. They still need to put a roof and sides on it, but its a good base! They drug it up the hill to where they are going to try to shoot deer when season opens.

So I'm pretty excited about this Saturday! We may be going to Tennessee!! The Smokey Mountains baby!! Okay, just Pigeon Forge, but still, its up there! 5 hours away. But totally doable. Apparently there is a really big car show up there that dad and them want to go to, so we are invited too. Sounds fun! Well, Im not a big car show fan, but I am a fan of Tennessee :) Wow, that looks really strange if you look at it real close. Weird work.

Anywho, got choir practice tonight. Gotta be there early for some reason. I'm in a worship team, so I guess we are having a meeting about that.

I got my violin out yesterday and played a VERY little bit and my fingers/wrist are sore today! Way out of practice. I even cut my finger nails, sniff. They were so pretty too, lol. It is very hard to play with long nails though. I need some new strings, a new bow would not be amiss either.

Well, short post, for me, I know. But almost time to leave. Until later!

Is It Time To Leave YET??

So sitting at work, and I think time has stopped moving, or at least has slowed down. I think it has been 5 something forEVER. Of course thats because I get off at 6. Lee is supposed to be meeting me here at that time and then we are headed over to his softball game. HOIPEFULLY they won't get massacred again tonight. Although Im not holding my breath. They almost won one last week, but Tues game sucked pretty bad. Lee played good tho! Just wish everyone else would get their act together!!

Me and Lee Lee before a game

So not a whole lot has been going on. We worked at the fireworks stand all day Fri and Sat. Wasn't as bad as I was thinking it would be. Still havent seen the moola yet though. -_-' I found a few hotels that look promising, if we decide to go to the beach. One is in Fort Walton, FL, the other Gulf Shores, AL. The one in AL is 3 miles from the beach, the one in FL 20 mins, ugh. But it is nicer and cheaper. Go figure. We shall see... I kinda feel bad though if we DO go, because the bro and sis in law were kinda planning on going to the beach in August with the pop up together. But its not romantic if you go with someone else, you know?? And Lee and I haven't had a trip together since our honeymoon over 3 years ago. But I don't want to shaft them either.

So I slept till like 10:30 today. UNHEARD OF! I was tired though, we were out late swimming in a friends pool and I was tired from the weekend still. So then I only had like 20 mins to lay out and then had to get a shower and go to work. Oh well. I got it all done, though not as tan as I'd hoped. I want to get a good start going before Sat, we are planning on taking the boat and sea doo out to the lake. YESSS. Hopefully the sea doo is fixed. Dad put a new oil filter on it, so PLEASE GOD let that be what was wrong with it! (the old one was cracked)

I think Lee and I should prolly take it out Friday afternoon just to see if it is okay, instead of dragging it out with everyone else and having it screw up and then being stuck with it, you know?

Oh, we did do something interesting last Sunday. My bro got a Land Rover given to him by his in laws. Only a few things wrong with it, which he has fixed, and he wanted to take it out off roading. So our friends amanda and ryan have a FJ Cruiser, and they came along, just in case we needed to be towed, haha. Another friend also came on his four wheeler.

So there is a 4-wheeler/off road place like 3 mins down the road from our house, so we went to that one. I didn't have a whole lot of fun at the time, but looking back on it, it was pretty fun, lol. I just don't like not being in control. When I am in a vehicle being driven by someone else, doing things like leaning sideways and going up and down steep hills, etc, I get VERY NERVOUS!! I really wanted to be on a four wheeler, not stuck in the back seat!

Pretty pictures of the power lines you could see from the
trail

Anyway, we got to a part that went kind of down hill and was REALLY rutted up from the rain the night before. So I was like IM GETTING OUT, haha. Jamie stayed in, shes crazy, and Lee got out to guide him. Well it took like 30+ mins just to navigate that, and he almost turned the sucker over!! I think I lost about 3 years of my life watching it! Scared that crap out of me. Heres the first part of him trying to get down it, not the worst by far!

The Land Rover And The Ruts from Britnieann on Vimeo.

Anywho, we made it past that and nothing else was a problem, thank goodness!! Here we are after we survived, hehe.


After that we headed back to my house, well minus amanda and ryan, and I ordered some Dominos and me and Jamie went and got it and a movie. We got Push, which was really weird and not something I'd watch again. Then they went home and that was about it!

So its about time to close and Lee is out waiting on me, so I guess I will go, adios!

Helloooo

So I guess its been a bit since my last post, so I better blog again!

So our first softball game went GREAT! They won! 5 to 4. It was a good game, the teams were pretty evenly matched, which I LOVE. I hate getting killed by a much better team, and then its kinda sad when you do it to another one, lol. They practiced against the redneck white trash team again Saturday night, and killed them again, lol. Although Lee didn't play as good this time, he wasn't hitting real well and he was running to 3rd and couldn't stop on top of the base and ran past it, so he was out :(. Of course now he is saying things like, I'm not much of a contribution to the team, etc. Ugh, he didn't get any points in the real game either, he did get on base though. Just the other people batting after him didn't hit good enough to get him to home.

I'm not sure if he is going to make it tonight to the game. He has been working late this week, and its early, 6:30. So we will see. I will probably go even if he doesn't to hang out with my peeps. I'm glad if he does go, that I have my camera this week. The younger bro had it last week when he went chasing tornadoes. (which they didn't find)

So I really hope he does good tonight and feels good about himself...

Annnyway, I got the sea doo tagged! And a battery in it! YEAH. Dad actually bought the battery, for working up at this shop on mondays. Yesss. Haven't taken it out yet, but probably will this weekend if not before. Speaking of money, we spent SO much this weekend, ughhh. Stupid!! I think we will be okay, but its going to be close. We ate out WAY too many times, and then went to the movies.

Speaking of movies, our 3rd wedding anniversary was last Wednesday. We didn't have the money to do much, but decided to go up to the Monaco and watch Terminator. But it takes an hour to get there (huntsville) and we got there RIGHT on time, and the seats were full. So we changed it to UP, which we LOVED. It was soooo funny! I had a lot of fun, and I think Lee did too. We wanted to eat somewhere too, but Lee got home kinda late to go before and it was after 10 when we got out of the movie. Oh well. The Monaco is in this new mall near us, it looks like a European city kinda, its outside and has water running through it, SO pretty. I love it. This is it: Bridge Street Town Center

Speaking of movies AGAIN, I am SO excited about The Proposal (sandra bullock) it looks HILARIOUS. Although I'm a little annoyed when I just saw it has nudity in it. What the?? Its PG-13!! Geezeee, ridiculous.

So had a pretty decent day yesterday. I got up with Lee to make his lunch and then just stayed up and cleaned the kitchen and living room. Then went back to bed for an hour, lol. I worked at dads till about 1pm or so and then stopped by walgreens and then went home. Got suited up for the heat and all sunscreened up and mowed the lawn for a few hours. Got it all done! Worked on my tan too, yeahhh. Then Lee finally got home and he grilled pork steaks for us. I made some blueberry muffins and corn and it was gooood. We watched Gran Torino while we ate. Not my fav movie so I played Sims3 while I watched, lol.

So pretty slow at work so far, kinda excited about after work. I love games, its fun to get out and about. I hope Lee can make it, I don't think he really wants to...sigh. Hes got to finish a side job, hopefully today so we can get the money from it. But his stupid boss has been working them late, so he can't get it done. It only likes about 2 hours.

So I guess thats all for now. Ta ta!

I'm Not Lost!

Just been entralled with my new Sims 3 game and not wanting to do anything else! Lol, Michelle knows what I mean! It came out last week and is about all I have been doing at work, well, besides working that is ;).

So! Had a pretty fun weekend, even though I had to work Saturday. But lets backtrack a bit to catch up.

Last few weeks have been really tight in the money area, kinda nervous about that. We had 5 weeks last month and that screwed my schedule all up. So we have quite a few things to pay for these next two weeks and I'm worried the money is going to run out. :( But God willing we will make it. Lee also has a old friend that used to go to our church, wanting him to do some remodeling on his house. So that will be some extra money, whenever he gets over there to do it.

Oh, guess what! I convinced Lee to get on the church softball team this year! He did it the first year we started it, right before we got married. He was actually on our honeymoon the first game, haha. But he didn't get to play much and didn't like it. Then, we had a lot of older guys on there who got upset if they didn't get to play so the coach coddled them, etc. Wel the next two years Lee didn't play, and so this year came around and now its a different coach, with mostly younger guys his age and lower playing. So my bro convinced him to sign up. Yeah! I like it because it gets him doing something (he always says he has no hobbies) and out socializing, and I get to be out socializing with my sis in law and we are now getting to be good friends with the sis in laws best friend from high school and her husband.

So they have games every Tues and Thurs night, which might get old pretty quick. I like practices, but game make me SO NERVOUS! Its like he is my little kid, I want him to be good and do good, and to feel good about himself. And if he does bad I feel bad cause HE feels bad, etc, lol. And they he will get upset and say stuff like, I knew I'm not good, I shouldn't have sighed up, I TOLD YOU SO, lol.

Anyway, he did quite well in their first practice last Thurs, and REALLY good this Sat at practice. They actually got asked by another softball team if they wanted to do a scrimmage game. (not a church team tho, these guys were REDNECK WHITE TRASH to the core it was hilarious. Mullets and tatoos and smoking while playing and snaggletoothed wives with 2 teeth in their heads, hahaha. NO JOKE! It was like something out of a movie)

Anyway, he got like 4 or 5 runs in! And did sooo good, I was so proud, it was a good confidence builder for him. Hes never been an athletic guy, physical, but not athletic. But he can do good if he practices. Sat morning before I left for work I threw some balls with him to help him practice, it was fun. He was laughing at the way I catch balls, saying he didn't know how I caught them, I guess he thought I was holding my mitt in a weird angle when I caught, whatever, it works for me!

Anywho, first real game is Tues night, then I believe another Thurs. I hope he does good!! They usually don't win many though, lol. Also gotta come up with 40$ for sign up and then another 12$ for a shirt...gahhh.

So about not much besides that has been going on, work, etc. I'm at work again today because the boss had family in town so she swapped me for tomarrow, so I will be off Tues instead of Mon. I guess Im working at my dads garage on Mons till about lunch time now. For free, apparently. Yeah. Lee is not happy about that. Can't say I am either, I sure could use some extra money this week. Its not looking good at all. I've been messing with my budget for about 30 mins now with little luck of stretching it at all. Need more moollaaa! Mortgage is prolly gonna be late this month. :( Lee wants me to call up and see if we can refinance and get a lower interest rate and lower our monthly payment. We heard about one couple that did and went from 6 to THREE percent and then lowered their payment a LOT. Thatd be nice...

So Sat after work we had ball practice, and then Sunday was church and then small group. Chris called the night befoe to tell us to bring our bathing suits cause they were taking the boat out the next afternoon. Yeah! So after small group we got changed and got the boat hooked up and headed out! Amanda and Ryan (the couple I talked about earlier) came with as well. They are fun. Amanda is a bit girly girl, but she does okay. (shes also gorgeous with a really nice tan and body, just love that -_- yeah, she wore a bikini)

So we drove around a bit then stopped and the boys all jumped in to swim. We layed out a bit then I jumped in, but got out pretty quick cause it was COLD still! Then we got the tube aired up and Jamie and I rode that for a bit, SO FUNNNN! Then Ryan wanted to try it, so I rode with him, then he wanted to go some more and tried to get Lee on it, but he wasn't having any of it. (he does NOT want his head under water, and thats what would happen if he fell off, lol) so Jamie jumped back in with him. My butt was so sore from the water beating it, and of course my abs too cause I was laughing so hard the whole time. It was great fun though. So after that Chris wanted to boogie board (knee board) so that meant I had to drive the boat since no one else has a license. Well that always makes me nervous, tho I try not to show it. I did okay though! Lee said I did good, lol. I've only drove it like 2 times, lol. That being my 2nd, haha. There was also a lot of trash in the water, so I had to keep dodging that, not fun. I piled 2 life jackets up under me so I could see over the windshield, haha, the seat should be made higher. Chris sits on his knee, but that is sooo uncomfy.

So after that we decided to head on in since it was getting late. Got the boat back on the trailer and Lee and I headed out to go get some dominoes while they took the boat back to mom and dads. Then we went back to chris n jamies and ate pizza and watched Bolt, again, lol, ryan and amanda had not seen it. I love it though, so I don't mind watching it! Its hysterical.

And then Lee and I headed home and that was it! We have been having a good few days together. I feel closer to him, its been getting a little shakey last week or two. I need a lot to keep me happy in my relationship with him. And he doesn't always get that, but he is doing better.

So that is long enough! I'm hoping to get some pictures from amanda from yesterday. She took a lot while we were on the tube, lol. Should be pretty funny!

Ta ta!

Back To Work

Well, had a pretty fun Memorial Day weekend. It was nice to have Lee Lee off work Monday, although we didn't do much of anything at all.

So Friday, gotta try and remember what went on, geesh my memory is bad. Okay, I'm having a total blank. Anyway, Sat we got up and decided to go to Lacon (flea market) and check it out, we hadn't been in awhile. And I'm so glad we did! We found some SUPER good deals. This little mexican woman was selling this 3 tier metal rack thing, its about 3.5ft tall, that you can put plants on, books, whatever, for 5$! Not sure what I'm gonna do with it yet. Lee likes it on the porch, but I want to decorate the house not the PORCH. Anyway, we also found an old coleman camping stove for SIX BUCKS! Then I found a decorator table, you know those ones that are just wood with 3 legs and you put a table cloth over them? I needed another one for the bedroom but didn't want to spend the money on it, lol, and found that for 4$! Thennn I found a fold up lounge chair for tanning for ONE DOLLAR, yessss. It looks brand new but dirty. Very excited, been wanting one of those for like 2 years, lol, no more laying on the ground with the bugs/ants! HALLELUJAH! I think that was it, we had a lot of fun. I also saw this little kitten I wanted so bad. It was SO CUTE!!! I know better then to go over by the animals but I heard their little high pitched meows and I couldn't resist!! This little light cream one was adorable, I stuck my finger in there and it just rubbed and rubbed on it, then licked it!! So CUTE!! It was so sweet and friendly. But alas, Lee said NO, and I knew better anyway...sniff.

So after that we headed back to town, I told Lee I wanted to go to hobby lobby and buy a picture that was 50% off this week, that I didn't have money for earlier. It is SO PRETTY. I'll have to take a pic. Its like wood that looks like something off a barn, kinda has slats, and its painted white, with hydrangeas on it and Live Well Laugh Often Love Much. So pretty, and in the middle it has a spot for a 5x7.

GOOD GRIEF!! The durn UPS man is here at 10 oclock!! Oh great, and he is getting out the dolly. That means I'm going to be stuck with a bunch of work. Okay, maybe not too much, he just put 2 boxes, one is big, they have luggage in them. Yeah, not much at all.

Okay, trying to beep Lee (on the nextel) to tell him about Bowser. He was acting REALLY strange this morning. He was limping??? And then after he came in from going potty I touched his head and he YELPED. This dog NEVER yelps, even when I beat the crap out of him for something. I did it a few more times and he yelped, but theres nothing there! I have no idea whats wrong with him. He was cowering around acting scared, etc. So strange. Dumb dog, I swear if its not one thing its another with him!! I'll prolly have the bro in law check on him a little later...

Okay, Lee has no clue...and its raining at his job, great. He's worried they wont get 40 hours in this week becaue its supposed to rain like EVERY BLOODY DAY and he already didn't work monday, I highly doubt his boss will pay them for it. He sucks. They only have a little bit of inside work...GO AWAY STUPID RAIN!

Okay, so on Sat I got my picture and then we called Chris and Jamie to see what they were doing, Lee thought he might have picked up a Land Rover Jamies dad was giving them. Its to play in the woods/trails with. So finally got a hold of him, no he hadnt, but wanted to know if we would go get it with him cause our truck is bigger then his and it has to be hauled (needs a water pump). So by that time Lee and I had already gotten all the way home. So we unloaded our loot and went to the inlaws real quick to help with a four wheeler problem (what would they do without Lee?? lol) and get some chains to hold the rover on the trailer with and then Lee got stuck helping his mom with something too. His dad did get our new stove working tho, so that is good.

Then we went over to a church friend who has a good car trailer, picked that up (saw some SUPER cute baby goats) and then picked up chris at his house. Got to his inlaws, FINALLY got the rover running long enough to get it on the trailer, and headed went to a car wash to clean it up. I mostly slept in the truck, I was so sleepy and headachey that day. Although I did watch a horse in the pasture near there for quite a while. He was upset his buddy was gone and was trotting around and calling a lot. Got back to their house and got the rover unloaded (jamie was at a bd party) and they messed with it for quite awhile. I slept some more, lol.

So finally Jamie got home and we decided to go out and eat. She and I wanted Olive Garden, of course the boys vetoed that, so we finally settled on Carrabas, since my mom and dad and a few other pepole have been telling us how GREAT it is. Lee, total homebody, didn't see why we had to go all the way to huntsville to eat (hour away) since we have plenty of places here. I was like yeah, and we eat at them ALL THE TIME. I like to try new stuff. Anyway, we had to take the trailer back, so we did that and met up later. They have a really nice '03 chevy avalance that we ride in everywhere, hehe.

So got up there (its in a mall) and got our little buzzer thing and walked around the mall a bit. Jamie wanted to go into forever 21 (never been in one) so we ditched the guys and had A LOT of fun looking in there. They have GREAT prices, and such cute stuff!! Then we walked out and Lee had found a buddy of his and was talking to him, and Jamie happened to know the buddies sis in law, so she talked to her, lol. Lees buddy had a little 4 month old boy, cute cute, and he was like, so, about time for yall to have one, right?? We both went EHHHH...and looked aside, hahaha.

So our thingie went off so we went and got our table. And about gagged at the prices. UGH! So I got a chicken pasta thing with mushrooms and peas and it was REALLY GOOD. REALLY good. Jamie liked hers all right, the boys were NOT IMPRESSED, lol. So there went 35$ bucks! But it was still fun. Our waiter was kinda ugh tho, he thought he was funny, but wasn't, and you could tell he had the same speel for EVERYONE. He did get us a free desert though since it was our first time :).

So we drove back to our town and got dropped off, then went on home. Church the next day, then small group, then we decided to drive around the lake a bit, to see if our old ramps were still there for the sea doo. They were, also found some other ones. And got caught in torrential rain and loud thunder storms. Lee was going to show me a huge house he built on the lake but I wouldn't let him go down the driveway it was STEEP and its someones house! He got kinda ill with me, and then I got ill with him for being ill with me, and well, not good, lol. So we went on home, and did a buncha nothing, then I made some fish sticks and fries and we watched tv, and then to bed.

Yesterday I was hoping someone was going to call and say hey, we're having a memorial day thing, come bring some food and party with us! Well, no one did. Oh well. My dad is sick and so I kinda figured we wouldn't do anything. So we went over to lees parents and hung around there all day. It was okay. She fixed us biscuits and gravy (which we didnt eat till 1:30!! They are so late with everything) and then we sat around and talked, oh and lees younger brothers went to the store and got stuff to make bombs with. -_- Something with toilet cleaner shaken up in a bottle?? They were kinda scary, lol.

I also went out and to feed the new mare with Jesse. I grabbed Tuff while I was out there and brushed his mane and tail out, got some more of his shedding hair off. Then messed with his feet some. I remembered they had lunged Skip the other day so I got the lunge line out to see if he remembered his lessons from last year. He did, and was a good boy. We mostly walked but did a little slow trot. It was sloppy out there. And SUPER humid, with the gnats driving you bonkers!!

Then we decided to do a cook out, so lees dad and us went and got some ribs and other things and he grilled those and I fixed these appetizers I've been wanting to try, and it was all REALLY good. I loved the appetizers, these are them: Won Ton Appetizer. They are UNBELIEVABLE! And so easy. Everyone seemed to really like them. Your supposed to use won ton wraps but our little hick stores don't have those, so I used some premade bowls from the freezer section. Worked great.

So then we watched Australia, well most of it, at 11 we decided to head home, since they had like 40 more mins, lol. That movie is forever long. Its good though.

Okay, so now we are on Tuesday, yeah, I like having another day that feels like the weekend, cause that gets the NEXT weekend there much earlier!

Okay, shutting up now, gosh I'm boring!!

I leave you with a simply adorable picture of my nephew Dawson in dads '66 GTO from the grand opening last sat.

Headachey

Well you guessed it, at work again, but a little different because its Saturday, boooo. I hate working saturdays, I feel like I'm missing out on so much! Especially today. There is a car show a couple towns north and EVERYONE is there but me. Sniff. The boss told me about it awhile ago, so I knew it was coming, but I didn't know everyone was going. Lee even went. Sniff again. Oh, well, I guess theres no reason for him not to, he might as well have some fun, lol. My dad took his '69 GTO I think, and Chris and Jamie took their mustang, and the boss and husband (my uncle) took their Monte Carlo. I hope they have fun. But I also hope my work day goes fast too! Nobody has come in yet...not sure when I'm getting off. Whever she gets back from the show, which is who knows when. Prolly wont be any sooner then 3:00 and more like 4:00.

So enough whining. Look what we bought!! More stuff for our trip, hehe. Firsttt A TENT, its specifically for backpacking, small and light weight. We will be snug as bugs!

And yes, it is set up in our dining room, lol. I came home yesterday and found it there!! And its still there today, lol.

And next! My new backpack!!

Isn't it cute! Its a pretty light/soft green color. We went to Academy Sports and Outdoors last night (took us over an hour, it was way down in birmingham) and we found it, was only 39$! So I'm happy. I was sorta getting worried since its a week from today and it really would have been too late to order anything. I didn't win that other one on ebay, stupid suckers got into a bidding war with us at the last minute and they wanted to pay more for it then we did. Oh well. This is the back, duh, lol:


So now we are all set! Lee and I just need to decide if we are toting our blow up mattresses with us or buying pads for under our sleeping bags. I think we will just take the mattresses. Gonna be fun blowing them up tho, ugh. We have a foot pump but that will still take forever. We might just buy a battery powered one from kmart for 10 bucks. But that is also another possibly heavy thing to carry, gosh. This bag could have been a tad bigger, I'm having a rough time with my sleeping bag. I tried tieing it on the outside underneath but it bangs into my legs when I walk and looks really goofy too. So I'm trying different things...with it stuffed in the bottom and then my blow up mattress up top, there is very little room for anything else. And I still have to get my change of clothes, mess kit, water, food and such in there. Ughhh.

So anyway, I guess thats all for now, not much else going on. Well, we are throwing a suprise birthday party for mom tomorrow. Its not till next Thurs but they are leaving on a trip to Arizona that day. They wanted to go before my dad gets tied down with his new mechanic shop he is opening next month. (which I will be helping him as secretary in! :) ) So we are going over there to do Easter since we had our play last week and didn't have time, so she will be suprised. Which reminds me, I've still got to color easter eggs, geez, annd figure out what to get mom. Well I just talked to the big bro and I think we're both just gonna give her 25$ to spend on clothes or whatever. Gotta get a card tho...and Jamie and I are supposed to decorate my grandmas tomorrow, we got some streamers last night, just need some balloooons. :)

Oh, almost forgot, we went to a neat place to eat last night, Shogun. Jamie and chris always talk about how much they love it so we put it into the GPS and it found on close for us, hehe. It was pretty neat, lots of tricks and fire from the chef, and the food was pretty good. I get to eat it for lunch today, there was a HUGE helping. I couldn't even eat a quarter.

Okay shutting up now.

Work work workkk

Well here I be again. Pretty bored of course. Its my 'monday' and I have an extra work day this week, so not real thrilled. I'm working Sat for the boss, she wants to go with her husband to a car show (they have a Monte Carlo muscle car) . So I am working till 3:30. Not terrible, still have the afternoon to get around I guess.

Lets see, well first off our Easter Play went awesome! We had at least 10 people get saved!! (from Hell that is!!) And no mishaps, all 3 showings went great. I am so glad its over though, man it was getting old, lol. My grandparents and aunt and uncle came the last show and they loved it. My aunt (who is also my boss) said it was the best easter play she had ever seen, and they have seen a LOT. They go to a huge church in another town.

So all weekend was took up by the play, we were out all saturday and sunday. Fri night we had practice too. Poor Bowser got the worst of it, he was in his room a lot poor guy. I was so glad to be home when we finally got there! Sat night I was exausted. I have picsss!!!

Lee Lee getting dressed, hehe

The tomb!

Aren't we adorable, UGH, I had like the ugliest one.
(Kristy [Lees sis], Lee, Me, Mom, and Jamie [sis in law])

It was fun though, I think its going to be a yearly thing. We might even do one Christmas. Thatd be neat. A group of us went out to cracker barrel that night to celebrate it being over haha. I have leftovers to eat for lunch ooo yaaa. We had a really good waitress too, like one with a PERSONALITY. That is SO RARE. Lee gave her a niiice tip.

So Sunday night we had a bad wind storm go through and demolish a lot of stuff. Trees were down EVERYWHERE. Thank God not at our house though. The woman behind us had one fall on hers and it hurt a car and messed up the roof over her living room. Eep. And the worst part is we have had NO POWER since Sunday night at about 2:00am. Lovely. I mean, you really appreciate it after its gone!! I actually saw what made it go out. I got up around 2:00 to go to the bathroom and looked out the window to see how windy it was (sounded like a tornado!) and all of a sudden across the cow pasture I saw this huge fire ball and heard a loud POP. I was like WHAT THE?! and my heart started going 90 mph, lol. I kept watching to see if it was going to light up again, to see if something was on fire. But it didnt, then I thought it was probably a transformer that blew. And it was. I ran in there and told Lee and he was like what?? Haha, not thrilled about being woke up.

Anyway I REALLY hope we have power when I get home today. But even if we don't we probably won't be home long. (although I am starting to worry about our food in the refrigerator!!) I was talking to my bro on facebook and we are planning on going to the bass pro shop this evening. Might hit the acadamy sports too. That is if Lee gets off in time. His boss up and decided that they werent working thurs and fri so they have been working late. I was like, you tell him that not all of us have money coming out of our butts and can just take off whenever!!! I mean, we have MORTGAGES TO PAY THIS WEEKKKK! I'm really getting stressed about this money situation. I have it all figured out where it SHOULD work but if we don't get a full paycheck.... :( And we have to CURB our spending. So hard. I do have almost 200$ saved up that will save us if we need it, but I don't want to use it.

I ordered Lee a backpack today! This one: Backpack.
I hope it works good! I still havent found one that I really like. Def not one that cheap! I'll keep a lookin tho, but its getting down to only 10 days out! We need to find a tent. I found one for 5$ buy it now on ebay but the shipping its TWENTY five bucks. I emailed him to see if he can lower it. It should not cost more then 10$ to ship that thing. Thats rediculous.
I also want some walking sticks. Or trekking sticks as the call them. I found these, they are PURPLE!! I know that my clumsy butt is going to need them! Its going to take some getting used to tho! I might should buy them with my saved money and get to practising now lol.

So I guess thats all for now, adios.

Lots to Catch-Up On!

Helloooo, sorry its been so long between posts. Been a tad busy!

Gosh, I'm not even going to try and recap the whole last few days, lets just do the highlights.

Main BIG news is this! My bro and his wife and Lee and I are going to go BACKPACKING!! We are all sooo excited. We thought of this Sunday afternoon at lunch between play practice and church at the steakhouse. Lee and I have been talking about it for awhile, ever since I found out from a church friend there is a nice place NW of us that you can ride bikes/hike in. Well I started looking in to it and found out you can also hike in there and just find a campsite and camp! Cool, right?? I mean, that is REAL camping! I didn't know you could do that anywhere around here. Well, we mentioned it to my bro that day and he was like, when are we going?? Hahaha, so!

The date is is set at the 25th of this month. Leave out early that Sat morning and hike in, maybe find a camp pitch our tent etc, and go exploring. Then camp that night and come back Sunday. Although both Jamie and I are off that next Monday, haha, we couuullld stay another dayyy. But who knows, we might not enjoy it! I'm kinda worried about myself. I in general kinda like my creature comforts. And I HATE creatures, lol. Bugs, spiders, ACK. So you can be sure I am bringing tons of bug spray/repellant. I even saw these sticks you can put in the ground around the perimeter of your camp, that will keep em out! YESSS. ;-)

Anyway, we tent camped with Lees parents twice before, and I was not a big fan. We've also camped with Jamie and Chris in the pop up trailer, and I liked that MUCH better. Sooo, this is gonna be even farther to the left then just regular tent camping...and we will be doing lots of hiking...which Im not generally a fan of. Sssooo, why am I so excited? I'm probably going to hate it!!

But, the pros, its going to be fun getting all our bags packed, sleeping bags, tents, etc, and getting the food together, and driving out there and getting out in the pretty weather and nature. This place is supposed to be gorgeous. Like you can't go 100 feet without finding a waterfall or a creek or a river. So cool. There is supposed to be TONS of watefalls. I'm hoping we can find a really pretty spot near the water to camp. Shouldn't be tooo hard.

So we shall see!! My mom looked at us like we were crazy, lol. But thats mom.

So we've already spent nearly 100$ on this trip, geez. We bought me some hiking shoes, sleeping bag, and lee bought a little cooker thing for our food. And we got some mess kits sleeping bag for Lee from Dicks sporting goods the other night. And so now we are out of money for the week. Its gonna be a race to see whether our bank account is + or - by the time I get my check in there tomarrow (hopefully, shes been acting like she wants to start getting it to me Fri, not cool)

Gahh, I'm so sick of having a headache everrryyy dayyyy. I brought pain meds with me today too, well, I was GOING to and I had them all set out and of course forgot them at home. GEEZ. I'm such an idiot. I've got some PMS meds that has pain killer in it, but those mothers are horse pillssss. Might just need to get over it. Okay back, went and grabbed a coke and my ranch wrap from mcdonalds that got left here on Fri. Lee brought it for me for dinner before we went to the movies but I was more interested in my mcflurry lol. We went and watched 12 Rounds. It wasn't that great. I just have a strange liking for John Cena, so thats why I wanted to watch it, lol. (The Marine was better) I want to see Fast & Furious 4 next. Prolly would have seen that Fri if it wasn't opening night. The line to get into that theatre was nearly out the door, lol.

Soo, get off at 3 on Wed, ohh yeahhh. Think I'm gona go home and mow the grass a bit. Its nicer today. It froze yesterday and the day before in the morning. ITS APRIL!! But I think that was just the last hurrah, so we should be in the nice 70s for the next week or so.

We went walking on the high school track last night with the bro and sis n law. Gotta start getting in shape! I was happy with myself. I walked around with Jamie 3 times and then jogged the last. At the end of I ran at a pretty good clip and it was actually kinda fun! I can't wait till I get in better shape and can book it. Its much more fun then running mindlessly/endlessly on the treadmill. After that we went and played tennis for a bit. That was fun. I sucked to begin with but got a little better, lol. Then we went back to their house and plotted our trip a bit more, lol. Chris printed out a bunch of maps for us and got a GPS from his work. Then we headed home! We got in bed late the night before so we were both pretty tired, specially poor Lee Lee. I felt bad too cause I didn't wash his clothes...and forgot to make his lunch today too! What a sorry wife I am!! :(

Oh speaking of food, I had some pretty good cooking/baking triumphs last few days! I got this wild hair that I wanted to try to make homemade cinnamon rolls. See the husbands granny that lives in OK is like a legend with them things. They all cant stop talkin about how good they are after they get back. So I was like, hmmm, maybe I can find a good recipe. So I went to my fav food site (allrecipes.com) and looked through till I found a good sounding one. It was one that called for a bread maker, which was good, cause it does all the kneading and junk. So I gave them a try Sat night. They were doing good until I had to put filling on the dough and roll it up to cut it into individual ones. It got all soggy and mushy and stuff was coming out EVERYWHERE! So I just did what I could with it and stuck them in the 200 degree oven to rise again. Well then I cooked em and put the frosting on and wonder of wonders they came out great! Lee is very pleased with them, says they are better then Grannies, hehehe. I took some over to his mom and dads last night, hopefully they will say the same thing.

I also tried some clam chowder last night. It came out good, but not what I was wanting it to taste like. I wanted it to be like the ones from Red Lobster or Red Robin. But it wasnt...might try different one...it was still good though but VERY rich and like OH I JUST GAINED 10 LBS! Lol, I only ate half a bowl and felt so full. It was this one: Clam Chowder. And here is the cinnamon rolls.

So not a whole lot else going on. We have our Easter play this sat night, sun morning, and sun night. Yeah! We are practicing thurs, fri, and sat. Whew. Hope it all goes like we want and lots of people come to Christ. It should be pretty darn awesome. I can't wait to see Lee in his costume, hehe, he wasn't at the last dress rehersal. I think we are doing one tomarrow night though. Yeah!

So I guess I'll shut up now, only about 2 more hours of work yeahhh. Adios!

Weekend Recap

Holaaa, as usual, bored, stuck at work. So here I am!

Raining AGAIN today. Gosh I'm so sick of it! I think its going to do this off and on all week. I did get a clear day yesterday, yeah! Went out and played with Tuff Tuff. I was hoping it would be nice so I could go out there again this afternoon, but doesn't look like that is going to be the case. Lee is working late so I will have to find something to occupy myself with. And since I've been on this thing all day already, I'm going to be REALLY sick of it by the time I get home. So that leaves tv, ugh (all 4 channels) or the PS2, or my book. Eh...not real exciting. I wanna go out and ride or play with the horsies!! :( If we had a barn I could at least brush them, but oh well.

It has been VERY quiet today, not good! I did just do a pretty good sale tho, so that is good. Just need a lot more of them! Boss will be very unhappy if not. Speaking of, I haven't heard from her today. That is odd. I hope she isn't upset with me, etc. See I thought I was going to have to work yesterday for a little bit but she said she would call me. Never got a call...so I hope I don't get something from her like, I couldnt get a hold of you, etc, so I couldn't go on my trip, yada yada. She has done this to me before. And she had my wrong number, not my fault, I have given her the right numer. Whatever.

Grr, internet is still being stupid. On and off, on and off. >:( She has GOT to get some other kind of connection because this is NOT working. Lol, this mom and little boy just walked by and he was screaming really high pitched in very short duration like he was excited. Funny.

So last week. Not much went on since I posted. Lee had to work Saturday, so that kinda stunk. I can't even remember what I did that day till he got home...or what happened after, haha. Geesh. Give me a moment, it will come to me! Argh. Okay, maybe not. I do know we went to play practice that night, lol. Oh okay! I think I remember now, we had our small group that day at 4, oh yeahhhh, its all coming to me now.

I met mr Lee Lee at the door, if you know what I mean, ;) then after that we went to town for a bit before small group. I wanted to go to the hunting store and get my arrows refletched, renocked, etc, and I also needed to go to hobby lobby to get stuff for my basket for the play. But we ended up going to see his grandpa who had fallen of his horse last week. He is layed up with like 6 broken ribs, SUCKS! He is like 85 though, you don't bounce at even half that age anymore, lol. So we stayed there until we had to leave for small group. And I made Lee stop by hobby lobby real quick. He hates that place. :roll eyes: I lurrvveee it.

Anyway had small group, which was very small and quiet cause no one wanted to talk, lol, then the sis in law and lee and I went to mcdonalds to eat some lunch/dinner before play practice. That was fun. Then we went to that, which most of the time Jamie and I hung out in the sound booth with my daddy cause they were going over scenes we weren't in. It was fun to be up there with him chattin etc. He loves us girls, hehe. He keeps hinting at us to give him some more grandkids, haha, he used to hate the THOUGHT of being called a grandpa! Now after Dawson came he is all for it! Well hes got another year at least to wait on me, haah.

Then sunday we got to wake up late cause we had no choir practice, ohhh yaaa, then had church, went out to lunch with my mom and dad and Jamie at ruby tuesdays, which was gross btw, then off to play practice for like 2 and a half hours, ughhhh. Finally got done with that. I told dad about a movie I had and he wanted to watch it so I gave him that and we left. Then as we got on the freeway to go home he calls and wants to know if we want to come over and bque chicken and watch the movie, lol, so we're like yeah! But first we went and got Bowser and gave him a bath, picked up some bushs beans and off we went. That was fun, ate dinner, watchedd the movie, and ate peach cobbler that mom made. Sooo good.

So monday, I did the usual laundry clean up day, then I went out and played with Tuff Tuff, then I just kinda hung out at the in laws house. Mostly I listened to Lee's sister yell at her mother for an hour. It was quite rediculous. I about left 2 or 3 times just to get away from her. -_-'

PHEW, I just got off the phone with the OBGYN, I had a thing come in the mail saying I needed to reschedule my appt, so I called and they wanted me to come in like next tues, ugh, see that won't work for me. I have no insurance, so I don't WANT to come in and get examined, because I can't afford it!! (which they may have payment plans, I dunno...) So I've put it off like 3 times now, lol, usually I can't get in again for a few months, so this time when she said next week I was like EEK. So I said, uh no, that wont work, I'm really wanting something a few months out, and she said okay, hows june 2nd, I was like PERFECT, haha. Then I said I needed my pills refilled, and she said they'd call it in. Phew. So hopefully it will all work out okay.

I'm actually looking at health insurance right now. Rates arent that bad...for just me that is. I am really wanting to get something so I can plan on having a baby next year...possibly. Gosh, that scares me and excites me at the same time. I think you have to wait a year on most plans before you can access maternity.

Well I'm gonna go, adios.

Its So Pretty Out!

And I'm stuck inside! Waa!

This morning I was home for a few hours, didn't go in till 12. I thought about getting my tack together and riding Daisy May but it was still cloudy and looking like it might rain at that time. Of course as soon as I have to leave it starts looking gorgeous out!! Its probably a muddy mess out there anyway though, it rained yesterday and HARD last night.

So not much been going on. Had a decent day yesterday, work went pretty fast. Then I got home and did some picking up, played some Sims, then Lee got home. Talked with him a bit laying on the bed and just enjoying each others company (thats all! haha) We decided we didn't really want to go to easter practice so we got up and went and got some papa johns and a movie. I found this neat thing at Walgreens, well outside. Its a dvd rental thing called redbox. So neat! Its only a $1 to rent one and they have all the new ones every Tuesday. So Monday when I was there getting a anniverssary card for lees parents, I rented Bolt. SO CUTE!! You have GOT to see it if you havent, we loved it. We took it over to lees parents and watched it that night.

Anyway, yesterday I had to drop off Bolt and we looked through but didn't really see any others we wanted to watch, until we got to this sci fi sounding one that I liked the sound of. Well it turned out to be TERRIBLE!! Oh well, only a dollar gone, haha. So we picked up our papa johns and headed home and had a nice night in. Took our shower and then off to bed!

So, not sure what I'll do after I get home tonight. Need to get the laundry put up, clean the kitchen. Guess I'll either make lee a frozen pizza or do chili dogs for dinner. It will still be light out when I get home, so I might do somethin outside...who knows what Lee will be up to by the time I get home. He gets of at 3:30 and I won't get home till 6:30.

So bored! I want to be at hommeeee. I try my hardest not to look at the clock so I'm suprised by how late it is, haha, I'm a retard I know. I should go read my book, time always goes fast that way. I am reading one of the 3 I got at the thrift store. Its by one of my fav authors Victoria Holt. She wrote in the 60-70's, and they are historical romance/mysteries. But clean, not raunchy ones. I love how they all have some kind of mystery in them.

Oh look! Its 4! Yeah, only 2 more hours to gooo. Well guess I will go, adios!

Its Friday, but not a TGIF Friday...

Its not a Thank God Its Friday kind of Friday because I have to work tomorrow, thus, its not the last work day of the week, this week. Sad. Sniff. But I guess I have to get over it, or be miserable. So I'm gonna get over it.

Its been VERY quiet here at work today. Maybe 6 customers all day. None until nearly 12 o'clock. Good for me, but not good for the store. (I work at a womens accessories store, purses jewelery, luggage, etc)

So I was talking to my friend on IM and she suggested to blog since I was so bored. Good idea Michelle! It really has kept me entertained for quite a while today.

Its raining. Been threatening to all week, finally got 'er done today. And its supposed to rain all weekend until Sun afternoon. Boo. But I have to work 12 to 6pm tomorrow, so it doesn't really matter to me. Can't be out in it anyway! I want to go ride again, been over a week now. Boo. I can't wait till Tuff is riding good so Lee and I can head out and do some trail riding. I hope he turns out to be a good 'husband' horse. One I can really trust anyone on. He seems to be so far! And should only get better with age and experience. Daisy is pretty trustworthy, although she can pull some tricks. You really just have to make sure she knows that you are calling the shots no matter what she does, and she gets over it pretty quickly.

Oh yeah, only 2 more hours! Less then that, almost an hour and half. Still raining, still no customers. Boss is not gonna be happy. Wonder what Lee is doing...haven't heard from him all day. He was sweet this morning when he said goodbye to me before work. I love my fuzzy face. Thats what I'm calling him right now because he is growing a goatee sorta thing. I like it pretty good. His mama doesn't, haha. ;)

Well not much more to say. Adios!