Fun Weekend!

But oh so tiring!! Last night I was actually getting shakey and kinda dizzy because I was just sooo tired.

So Lee has had 2 more softball games. Lost both, sadly. They haven't been playing real well lately. Thurs game started good, got REALLY BAD, then ended good, they did a good ralley. Lee would have had a run in but the person got out right when he was getting to home plate, so it didn't count. Oh well.

So anyway on Friday night we had planned a pool party at a friends house. He was out of town in panama city so we took over his house, hehe. He has a kind of in ground/above ground pool. Its like got a deck built up around it, so it looks like an in ground, but it isn't. It doesn't have a deep end. Which is okay for playing in and such. I brought buns for the hamburgers and a desert that everyone loves. (its got a layer of angel food cake, strawberries, then vanilla pudding, then whip cream, and you do it 2 or 3 layers. Pretty good! Jamie calles it Yum Yum, lol)

So we played in the pool (the bro and sis in law and our two friends amanda and ryan, well amanda didnt swim for some reason) and Lee cooked the hamburgers. Then we went in and ate, then came back out and played in the pool for like 2 or 3 more hours, lol. Lots of fun! Even Lee had fun I think, although he didn't ever get his head under water, hehe. I got on his shoulders once and Jamie got on chris' and we had a chicken fight. Which I won of course!! I always win those! hehe, good thing Lee has strong shoulders!

Anywho, so we got home about 12 that night, and had to get up at 6 the next morning, UGH! My dad acquired a new rental house (I think he has 5 or 6 now!) so he need us to come help lay some flooring and clean up a bit. The last tenants left a HUGE mess. Roaches everywhere, stunk, dirty, dog poo in the tub, etc. NASTY! And it was soooo hot in there. I was just dripping sweat. Thankfully after we did a bit of work, Jamie and I got away to go to the mall to go shopping. Yeah! That was fun. She needed some new church clothes so we walked up and down the mall, both stories, all afternoon shopping. We also took some photo booth pics, they are so funny! I will have to post them, left it at home. I wanted to get an air brush tattoo, but Jamie didn't seem too keen on it, so I felt bad making her wait on me to get one, plus my shirt was in the way of where I wanted it, and they were 5$, so I didn't. I wish I had tho! I wanted the chinese symbol for serenity on my left shoulder.

The second one was it, I think. Oh well, next time! I got Lee some shorts from Aeropostle and some socks that were on sale for his sister, she loves stuff like that from stores like old navy, abercrombie, etc. I tried to give them to her yesterday but every time I got near her she ran off like she was avoiding me. Fine!

I also got some of the CUTEST SHOES EVER! Thats them to the right, they're madden girls. They were originally like 40$ and I got them for NINE. Scoreeee. Jamie also got some really cute ones for 9$. Heres were made by some weird etienne aigner or something name. I wore them Sunday and felt SO sexy, lol. The night before I put them on and I was WAY taller then Lee, who was barefoot, in them, heheheh, that was fun. I was about the same height as him with his shoes on tho. He's 6ft.

So thats all the money I could spend, thankfully lees shorts were half off so they were 18 something. Tight money week again, as usual. Although this Fri Sat we are going to make 300$, yeah! There is a guy in church that owns fireworks stands. Lees mom and his little bro have been working at 2 diff ones. Well they need more people for the 4th this weekend, so he is going to pay us to work Fri and Sat. But its going to be from 10 to 9 Fri (possibly later) and 10 to whenever people stop buying on Sat. Which is like midnight or later I'm sure! UGH. We also have to miss our family 4th of July party...sniff. Not cool. I'm about to get bummed out about that, better stop thinking about it. It WAS going to be this past Sat, but they changed it all of a sudden, thanks. So now we are going to miss it. -_-

I've been thinking about what to do with the money...I want to go to the beach SO BAD. But I dunno if 400 is enough! (I was thinking we could swing an extra 100 of our own money to make it 4) I was looking at hotels and the decent ones are at least a 100 bucks a night. Sniff. I mean, I guess we COULD stay in a 60$ hotel room, but is it worth it?? I wanted to be in walking distance of the beach, but they are so expensive...I was thinking about taking the sea doo so we could play in the ocean with it, how fun would that be!! But we need at least 100 for gas, AT LEAST 100 for food, then if the hotel costs 100 a night...I dunno. Mobile is cheaper then Gulf Shores, but not near as nice...

So we went back to the rental after the mall and did some more cleaning, watched the boys do some more floor (they were putting down that laminate snap together wood stuff in the WHOLE house) and then I got Sims out of the truck and let Jamie play that for awhile. We finally got to leave about 7 something and got home, let the dog play a while, then went to BED.

Next day was church, then small group. I was wanting to go swimming again, but then we decided to go see Transformers 2. It was REALLY good. Although a lot more sexual innuendo then was needed, as well as cussing. I mean, this is a FAMILY movie, with 5 and 6 year olds! Come on you morons!

After that we went on home and it was like, sighhh, so good to be home! I made chili dogs and we watched Shooter. Well, part of it, it got close to 11 so we took our butts off to bed. Now I'm at work, so I can be off Friday for the fireworks stand. Lee and Josh are working 10 hour days this week to make up for missing work Fri.

So speaking of work. Dad said last Monday that he is needing to hire a full time person to work in his office at his shop soon, if it keeps on being so busy. I WANT TO SO BAD. But heres whats stopping me:

1. The Aunt - I've worked for her nearly 5 years here, and I feel like she would be DEVASTATED if I leave. She'd have to find someone else to work and we have gone through at LEAST 6 girls that all quit. I'm the only one that has stayed. We also had one get fired cause she was stealing from another girl who worked here. Stupid girl. Plus its like, okay, sorry, I like my daddy better then you so seeee yaaa, I don't want her to think that...
And its a lot of responsibility, the stuff I do. Something you don't trust to just anyone. It would have to be a very special person that she would trust to do what I do. I wish she could have her daughter work, but she has 2 small girls and I doubt she would have anyone else take care of them during the day...but you never know. That would make me feel a LOT better though if she did take my place. I wouldnt feel bad at all about leaving.

2. Money - I'm not sure how serious he is about employing me full time. Is this just something that is for a little while, and if it gets slow I can't work? Or what? I mean, I know its hard to say if he is going to be busy...and it seems like summer is always busy because of the heat messing cars up. So is it going to be slow in the winter?? Will he keep me on?? I mean, I'm pretty sure those wont be probs but I worry. And what if something happened to him and he couldn't work anymore, I'm out of a job. But that could happen to my aunt too...
Although its not like I make much at all. 8$ an hour won't break anyone, lol.

Pros!

1. Possible insurance. YES, I think that is a possibility, dad and mom need some, so they had a guy out the other day. I asked mom, jokingly, if dad was going to have insurance for me when I started working there, and she goes, maybe! I was like, REALLY? That would be SO GREAT. Then we could start planning a family...I'm starting to move that way a bit. I took care of my nephew yesterday afternoon and he is just SO ADORABLE!! It was so fun. But I dunno...

2. Happiness. I really do not enjoy working here. Yeah, its nice to be able to get on the comp for quite a bit, and not have to do a whole lot. But I don't like messing with people, and I don't like always worrying if I'm not doing what she wants me to, or not good enough, etc. I don't feel like that with dad. I know what I'm supposed to do and I do it. There is no gray areas like there is here. Plus, hes my dad, I'm much more comfy with him. And I don't deal with people much at all there, if I do its to take there money, not help them pick out a purse or jewelry and then when it breaks have to deal with them.

3. Motivation. I would be SO much more motivated to help dad out with his business. Because I care about it more. Id be more willing to work harder, do more for him, etc. Like advertising, PR, whatever.

4. Freedom. I never have to work saturdays, and I get to get out and go get lunch, put in deposits, run errands I'm not stuck there.

So anyway, sorry for the boring monologue. It helps me get my head straight. So I'll shut up for now, ta ta!

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.

Friday!

I'm SO glad its Friday, I'm pretty sick of being at work all day. Yeah for weekends!! And Lee is going to be off on Monday for Memorial Day, so I'm pretty happy about that. :)

I doubt we will do anything special though, its supposed to be cloudy/rainy from now all through next week. YEAH. -_-' But maybe we will b-que at the inlaws or my mom and dads or something. I would love to take the sea doo out, but the weather, and I'm not sure if the water is warm enough yet. We haven't had that many hot days lately. I also need to get it tagged and reg still. I found out for Lee to get his license he has to send in his information and a 5$ check in the MAIL. So SLOW! So we really need to find that thing! I mean, it has to be in the house SOMEWHERE. I just have no idea where. I've looked everywhere it even remotely should be.

So not much went on yesterday. I had to work 12-6 (which I didn't get home till nearly 7) and make dinner right after I got home, and then it was bed time soon after that. Oh yeah, customers...brb.

Anyway, I had SO MUCH fun with my horse Wendesday, we jumped our first itty bitty jump, lol. Go read my other blog if you want an in depth description.

Well the boss is here and I'm leaving in 30 mins, so I'm gonna shut up. Have a great weekend everyone!!

Money, Money... Why Dont I Have More of You??

So I'm totally not happy right now. Money. We never have enough of it. We are SO STUPID with our money, it really is epic. I mean seriously, we are not STUPID in of ourselves, but when we get to money, oh yeah. Its sad. I mean, we are both spenders, and thats not good. One of us should be a saver!!! Thats why we get ourselves in these messes. That and depending on the internet and not balancing our checkbooks. Stupid. Yet we never seem to learn. :sigh:

To top it off, our $300 in state refund, which was put in the savings, is now ALL GONE. GONE. To pay for our mess. Well part of it went to that. :sniff: So now we have to build it up from the ground. The hard way. And it probably won't get done. We SUCK at saving. :sigh: Well at least I can probably get my check today and deposit it, so MAYBE we won't overdraw AGAIN. I'm glad Lee has a bit of overtime this week. Hopefully he can get more. He also has a side job that is needing done. But who knows when he'll get it done/get paid for it. He has to work on top of a building that is RIGHT by power lines, so it can't be windy. And its been windy THREE DAYS IN A ROW. Unbelievable.

You know what, I can probably trace this all back to one thing. That started it all. I didn't tithe this week. I knew we would be short on money and didn't have it, we just didn't have it. But your supposed to trust God and do it anyway, and He will bless you with the money you need. But I didn't. And I have felt bad/worried about it all week. And here we go, the fruit of my stupidity. GOOD JOB BRITNIE. :sighhhh:

So anway, enough of that, I'm getting more depressed. Not much has been going on. We really do lead quite boring lives. And sigh again, its only 1:30!!! At least I get off at three today though. And then a mad rush to the bank.

Umm, dad had his grand opening for his new garage this Sat. (hes a Chevrolet mechanic)

It went okay, not many people came out. Apparently the strawberry festival was going on along with another car show (dad said on his flyers and ads that his grand opening was also a car show/cruise in for muscle cars etc) and it was also threatening to rain, so muscle car owners do NOT want to bring cars out if its going to rain, generally, lol. But we had a few cars there and we did have a good bit of people come, so it was okay.

Lee and I drove my bros super charged mustang convertible there, since they were out of town this weekend. That was fun, love that car. I want a convertible! hehe, I have t-tops on my camaro but it is a lot of work to put them on and off. Not just unsnap a few things and push a button! Plus the hydraulics on my back window, that hold it up, are broke, so that mother is HEAVY, and I have to use a pole to keep it open and I'm always worried its going to fall and break my back, lol. (that is where I store the t-tops when I take them off)

I got a new phone! Well new to me. Its actually Lee's, his boss gave him one of his phones he hardly used, thats military grade. So I got his, this is it: Motorola i880



Its not great, but much better then the one I have. I wish Nextel would get with it and have CUTE, cool phones with the direct connect, not boring ones. I loved my cingular Samsung phone, so neat. Oh well, at least this one has a music player on it. Although I don't know where the memory card adapter went, so I can't load more on it, lol. Great.

So we went over to the in laws last night, his mom made chicken fingers and fries, then we watched Mall Cop. SO STUPID. I knew it would be. Oh well. It was nice to hang out and not have to make dinner though, I really like his mom. Whoda thunk??

We watched Star Trek this weekend. Sunday matinees rock! Anyway, it was pretty good, better then I was expecting. I don't know much about Star Trek, so it wasn't as enjoyable as it might have been if I knew all the characters well, etc. I want to see the new Terminator this weekend, but we need to stop SPENDING!!

The weather has been CRAP lately. RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN. Finally this week we have had like 3 days in a row without it, its AMAZING. I swear, last year we were begging for it and now we are like GO AWAY! So many HUGE trees are falling down everywhere because the ground is so wet it just wont hold the roots when the wind blows hard. I think we are finally drying out tho. Now it just need to get HOT. I swear, we should be at the lake with the sea doo by now!! Not that we have it tagged and reg in our name yet, lol. Lee also needs to find his marine license. I have only been able to lay out ONCE so far. So not cool.

Okay 30 more mins, yeahhh. Lets see, can't think of anything else really, hopefully next time I write we will have our finances reined back in and not bolting off insanely. -_-


ps okay, have no idea why my new signature thing looks so crappy, but i dont feel like messing with it, ill check it later

I'm Alive!

Sorry, just haven't felt like sitting down and writing about my life lately. Its been pretty boring, so that doesn't help either, lol.

So anyway, I guess I should tell how the backpacking trip went. It was fun, it was hard, hot, LONG, disappointing, unexpected, HEAVY, and well, still fun. Warning, this is gonna get long!!

So we got up that morning and I was really excited, been looking forward to it for a month almost! And when you plan something a long ways ahead you just get really worked up about it! We had packed most of what we had the night before, and that didn't go real well. Lees bag I got him off ebay was just not big enough. So he tried and tried to stuff it all in, but it was so uncomfortable when he got it on that it started cutting off the circulation in his arms! SOO, I felt really bad that I bought him such a crappy backpack, and that didn't put me in a good mood, and Lee kept saying it wasn't my fault butttt....so then he pulled out the old boy scout pack of my brothers and packed it. It was much better. So after that we just decided to go to bed because we were both getting annoyed, etc.

So we got up the next morning, got the rest packed, and were in much better moods, lol. Then we drove over to the brothers and we all started talking about how heavy our bags were, etc, haha, and getting the scale out to weigh them. Mine and Jamies were about 30 lbs, the boys 40. UGH! And we felt every bit of those pounds later that day, lol. What a bunch of goobers!! --->

Anyway we loaded up and got outta there. We stopped at a wal mart on the way to get a few things we forgot, then got to the place about 11? It was a very pretty day, you could tell it was going to get hot pretty quick though.

We unloaded and got our packs on and struck a trail! We were planning on hiking maybe 3 miles and then making camp that afternoon sometime. That was the PLAN. ;)

To begin with I was miserable, I think most all of us were. Just all that weight on our backs was ridiculously hard to get used to. I was dragging, I could barely keep up with who was in front of me. It was HARD. And the trail was not flat either, lol. So we would walk a bit, stop and rest, walk, rest, lol, all the while laughing at our selves and thinking, how are we going to get anywhere like this! lol

So a few hours later we decided to stop and rest at this clearing, and the boys went up over a hill to see if they could find the water. That was supposed to be all over the trail we were on. So much so that I was almost going to bring water shoes with me.

Well Jamie and I sat there just happy to have those devil spawned packs off, trying to keep bugs and TICKS off of us. Yes, the woods were INFESTED with them, it was so weird. They were itty bitty, but ugh, so grossss, besides that they carry diseases. I never really found any on me, but Jamie and the rest brushed a ton off. And my bro got a few in him, and Lee and Jamie too. I never found one embedded until the next day when we got to my parents house and took a shower late that day.

So the boys came back, didn't find any water, and we decided to eat lunch there. A few people had walked by on the trail while we were sitting there, also looking for water. One guy was speed walking it with 3 large dogs, really needing to find water for them. After lunch we met up with them again, tho not the guy with the dogs, he had gone on a head. They all said they were going down a certain trail, where there was supposed to be water about 3 more miles on. Well my bro decided after looking at the map, to go on a diff trail. Well Lee and I were both thinking, I think we should follow the others, not go on some unknown trail to who knows where. Well, we didn't. -_- And ended up walking another 4 hours. Yeah, you heard me right. With 30+ lbs on our backs. My shoulders felt WOUNDED and raw, and my calves were burning and I was covered in sweat, but I was still trucking along, and I wasn't complaining, I was just trying to get to the WATER. A few hours later we stopped again to look at the map, and then the boy decided to drop their packs and head off by themselves to look for water again. They were gone FOREVER. I was seriously getting worried, thinking of all the bad things that could have happened. I couldn't get any response from the phone Lee had, and neither could Jamie, no service.

But finally they came back, and they said the words we were SO not wanting to hear. They had found NO WATER. Now you might be wondering why we wanted to find it so bad. Well we didn't have much drinking water left from what we had brought originally, and its hard to cook without it, etc. PLUS we were so hot and icky we just wanted to bathe in it, lol.

So the boys sat down and we were so depressed. We were were either going to have to just go off into the woods and find a camp and stay (it was going to be dark in a few more hours) or keep walking, or go back. Well we sure as HECK didn't want to walk all the way back, and I didn't think we should just tramp off into the woods and just camp. So I heard them say something about a bridge up ahead that was at a trail head. I said well we might as well head for that, there has to be water around a bridge, right?? So we all got ourselves up and on up the trail again. A few hours before this I had found my stride and was doing some good time. I had figured out if I walked with a longer quicker stride everything was easier, although my toes and feet were hurting and my shoulders were sooo sore and raw and my HIPS where a lot of my weight from my pack was sitting, were like UGH. They were bruised for a few days, I couldn't tighten my belt all the way.

So Lee and I were leaving the bro and Jamie behind, but I didn't care, I was just focused on finding the WATER. We stopped a bit every once and a while to let them catch up and then on we went again. Lee kept saying how proud he was of me, and how he was just so happy about how well I was doing and just so PROUD, lol. That helped a lot, he was so sweet.

And then, we HEARD IT. WATERRRR!!! It was like a waterfall or something off the trail somewhere, and we all got so excited! And relieved. So we started going downhill pretty good and then we started seeing a creek through the woods and then FINALLY. We got to the bottom, and saw the bridge, and the trail head, and WATER! There was a big creek and a pool, and it was beautiful. So the boys went over to the other bank to look for a camp spot, and we got our evil bags off and waited, they said they found a good one, so we handed the packs to them and they took them to the campsite. That water was COLD too. Like the cold that HURTS when you get out. But it was so nice to see it! Lol, so we got over there and started to set up camp. I went and washed my face and neck and arms, etc, as soon as I could. Thank God I had brought a wash cloth, lol. There was a younger guy and two girls there, that were swimming in the pool of water right behind our camp. At first I was like, greattt, but then we got a good idea. Maybe we should ask him if he could drive us back to our truck so we don't have to hike back tomorrow. Well the bro did just that and thank God he said he would. They were gone SO long though, they both didn't really know where they were going, so that didn't help. But he finally got back. During that time we got camp set up, a fire going, and Lee had cooked us all our canned soup dinners. Jamie and I just layed in mine and Lees tent on the blow up mattresses and rested. I about fell asleep three times, lol. We were planning on playing Uno that night but we were so tired we just went to bed, lol.

Well that night was interesting! The frogs in the creek were SO LOUD but that didn't really bother me, they were like that at my moms and dads, but there was owls (so eerie!!) and then some other strange, LOUD animal, and it was cold too. My sleeping bag was supposed to be for 30 degree weather. YEAH RIGHT! Lee had only a fleece one, poor guy, so I finally rolled into the crack between the two mattresses and tried to cover him up with my bag and get close to him, that was much better.

So needless to say we didn't get a lot of sleep, the bro and sis in law even less since they didn't have blow up mattresses, hehe. So Lee got up pretty early and went looking for firewood and I got up and got dressed soon after. Of course going to the bathroom first! So much fun in the middle of nowhere, ugh. But I had less of a prob with it then Jamie she went like TWICE the whole trip, shes crazy. I was like, just GO, its not THAT big of a deal. Geesh.

So we had boiled some water the night before to fill our bottles with again, and it was COLD by that morning. I filled up about 3 with it, then went and got some more water for hot chocolate. I got that on to boil and went to try some fishing. No luck! By then the water was ready and I made some hot choco for me and Lee and then FINALLY the sleepy heads got up and I made some for them too. Then it was time to get breakfast going! We got the instant pancake stuff where you just add water and shake it for a few mins and whala! So I got the mess kit and Jamie would spray it with cook spray each time and pour the batter, and I would cook it over the little propane stove. Went pretty fast. After that we packed up camp and went back to the truck. The bro and sis in law were ready to GO, I wasn't really, I wanted to find some waterfalls, and I think Lee did too but his feet were SO blistered up, he was done. So we stayed at the camp to take a picture together. Then on up to the truck. We got back into town and decided we needed to go to the steakhouse. That was the BEST STEAK EVER. Then we decided to head back to mom and dads to see if we could take the boat out. At that time the bro decided he wanted to ride Cisco too, so we did that, and then I convinced daddy (they were in AZ at the time) to let us take the boat out. That was FUN. We fished a bit, again not catching anything, and then went on to the movie store and picked up some papa johns and back to mom and dads again. Took some showers and then ate and watched Bolt on dads HUGE projection screen movie theater in the basement.


So, in all it was a good weekend, although we hiked EIGHT miles instead of three, lol. Would I do it again? Oh yeah, but I think I'd like giong with just Lee and I a bit better :) Thats what we are planning on for our next outing. I've got to LIGHTEN MY LOAD though, that was miserable. I want to enjoy myself a bit more, lol. And we will DEF not be going on that sme trail, geesh. We all kept saying, next time we are finding the water first and following it! lol

So I'll shut up now, this is def long enough! Ta ta...