Idiot drivers and New Years

We had a wonderful Christmas!! I hope everyone else did as well. New Years is around the corner now and we have to stay here to celebrate. All of my friends are going to Little Rock and we can't go. :( Maybe next year. Aaron has to work the next day and I am not going without my husband. We will have fun here, I just love getting to see all of my friends!!!
I have never seen so many people that could not drive as I did last week going home. It was horrible. The mini-vans and Z71 trucks thought they were invincible. They would fly past us and then we would see them a mile down the road in the ditch. I am just glad none of the idiots hit us. Happy New Year!!!

Christmas is coming!!!!

I have been wanting to post but it has been so crazy around here. Jennifer and I stayed up until 2:00 a.m. the night before last and last night until 1:30 a.m. But we got all of our Christmas shopping done and gifts wrapped!! Finally!!!!!!! I always say I am going to start shopping early and I never do. Maddax has been such a good little helper when we wrap presents. He helps with the tape and helps clean up too, it is so cute. I am really excited about Christmas this year!!! I just hope I can make it home tomorrow before it is too late. It started sleeting and snowing and the roads are horrible here. I am going to try to go home if it takes me all day. I miss my mom so much! I miss everyone but she hasn't been feeling well and I want to be there for her so bad. Times like these I do not like being so far away from home. Have a wonderful Christmas everybody!!!

Christmas cards and tanning beds

I am taking a break from typing my Christmas card list. I absolutely love sending Christmas cards. This is the 3rd year we have taken pictures by our tree with our cats and sent them in the card. Aaron can't stand taking pictures, he has no patience what so ever when it comes to photographs. This irritates me so. I love making and taking pictures. We are taking them tomorrw, very quickly. I am almost fiinished Christmas shopping. Yeah!!!

I have decided that I am not going to lay in the tanning bed anymore. I am getting older and wrinkles are starting to appear on my face in some places. I have applied self tanning bronzer for the 2nd day. It is working quiet well. It is the L'OREAL brand called SUBLIME BRONZE. I have used self tanner before and turned kind of orange but this is beautiful so far. It is very harmful to lay in the tanning bed and I have known this for some time. It is just so addictive. I feel 5 lbs. smaller and more attractive with a tan. In my opinion, people look more attractive with a minimum tan. I will repeat myself, with a minimum tan. I see people all the time that are very tan and it is gross. They look old, wrinkled, and by the way people, it is winter time!!! It is also very obvious that you live in a tanning bed!!! By the time I drive to the tanning bed, put on my lotion, fall asleep while the bulbs burn my skin and drive back home, I could have applied my self tanner in 10 minutes paying less than half the price. (run on sentence??) :) The tanning bed is so dangerous to my skin!!! Why have I been living in this cloud that I am young and it doesn't matter if I damage my skin now?? Well guess what?? I will have the same skin when I am 60+ and the better I take care of it now, the better it will look then. Wake up Chris!!! Oh, and those eye goggles they put on the bed... Wish I had a dollar for every time I walked in, picked them up and tossed them on the floor. Hello! Maybe the tanning bed is damaging to my eyes too!!??? Oh no, wouldn't want to look like a racoon. Never wore those either. So, if you see me during Christmas break or anywhere else I might be looking a little pale. (maybe orange, will know soon!!) Merry Christmas to everyone! Go buy some self tanner.

SELF ABSORBED or just STUBBORN???

I have been wanting to write about this for a long time. I do not understand why people are the way they are and I guess I never will. I just hate it when I am trying to have a conversation with someone and all they do is interrupt.
I guess there is a reason I am writing this today. Jennifer and I were TRYING to eat lunch today and the person she was talking to would not let her get a word in at all!! That is so annoying! I can not stand for someone to do me that way!! Which reminded me that I have my blog and if I can't talk to someone about something because it is humanly impossible to have an adult conversation with them, I can tell my computer about it.
I hate playing games. I hate it when your feelings get hurt about something and the person that hurt them is too in to themselves to notice. I hate not wanting to call someone because you KNOW how the conversation will go and you don't feel you should be calling them anyway, don't they know they hurt your feelings??? I also don't like using the word hate, (mom and dad used to tell me not to use that word) but I feel it is the only word that will serve my purpose. I think if I argued frequently with the people that are the most close to me I would have to step back and check myself. Maybe it is not always someone else causing the problems or starting the argument, maybe it is you. Thank you computer for listening and not interrupting me.

I had a wonderful Thanksgiving, I hope everyone else did. I did not want to come back home when Sunday arrived. The cats were great on the way there. I took their food up a few hours before we left so they wouldn't get sick on the way. I did not have a pet carrier like I thought, so they slept in the back seat. On the way home is a different story. Alix, who is the younger male cat that loves to eat had a big meal before we started home. I did not know this. I am driving down the road trying to tell Aaron how to hold him so he would stop meowing. Nothing worked so Aaron finally put him in the back seat (on the blanket) and told me to leave him alone, he would be fine. Just as soon as he sat him back there I heard this awful wretching sound. It was not a hairball, it was catfood!!! Gross!!!! It wasn't that bad, just put us behind having to pull over to clean up cat puke. Aaron says next time we go out of town for a long period of time they are going to the vet. I told him they are not going to the vet, they will be fine with us. We will just make sure Alix doesn't eat before we leave. I can't concentrate anymore b/c there are non-blog readers peeking over my shoulder. I told them if it was so interesting to look on their own time. :)

This is Maddax. His mommy is the blonde in one of the pictures below. She is one of my best friends and she and my Maddax are moving away in Jan. I will miss them so much. (He is older now, this is the only picture I have saved on my computer.) 

Thanksgiving

Aaron and I are going home for Thanksgiving next week and we are taking our 2 cats with us. It is a 4 hour drive and I do not know how they will be. They have only been to the vet and back home. So, in their minds they probably associate the car with bad things that happen to them. Great. At least I do have a cat carrier I can use.
I am looking forward to Thanksgiving, it has always been a happy time back home. Maybe more sentimental now, but it is still happy to me. I am so lucky to have such a wonderful family, so loving, with open arms, always. I guess that is what I am thankful for this year, and every year so far. My loving family. Each and every one of them, I am thankful to have. I hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving. Oh yeah, the food. The food is always so, so scrumptious!!!! :)

Strep throat sucks

My friend Jennifer and I went out to her sister's Thursday night and visited for a while. Her sister has two daughters that are just precious. When we got there and when we left, we had to give them hugs. We thought nothing of it.
The next morning, I was awake at 5:00 a.m. with my throat feeling like a spider bit it on the right side. I continued to lay there and toss and turn. I finally went back to sleep. Aaron has to be up at 6:30 for work so when he gets up I wake again. (still laying there wondering what is wrong with my throat) I lay there half asleep until 8:00 a.m. (I am off on Fridays) That is it, I have to go look at my throat. Wow!!! It is very red on the right side. I think I am getting a cold, dang it!! I hate being sick. I call Jennifer later and the first thing she said was, "girl, my throat hurts so bad today." I was like, "you are kidding me, mine is too."
The day goes on and I am starting to forget about the pain because I am having company this weekend and I am so excited about it. I have been cleaning my house all day long. I run to Wal-Mart and get some cough drops, take a little cold and sinus medicine and think, I will be all better now.
The friends get here and we have a good visit! I am totally not thinking about the sore throat. We go back out to Jennifer's sisters house and visit some more. We come home, stay up late visiting and then we all crash.
This morning at 5:00 a.m. I am awake again, this time the pain is all over my throat. I hate to be woke up on a morning when I have no reason to be up so early!!! I lay there and toss and turn some more. At 8:00 a.m. I get up, look up my Dr. and call, no answer. This is Urgent Care and they are supposed to be open on Sat. I am miserable. It hurts so bad, I have never had a sore throat like this ever. After I get awake and eat a cough drop, I am a little better.
(forget the no name stuff) Jeanne and I take Katy to get her facial. Jeanne used to live here so when we leave we decide to drive around so she can look around at different things. We had time to kill while Katy was getting her facial. We drive by Urgent Care, (not even realizing it) and Jennifer is pulling out of the drive. I circle around and we talk to her. She proceeds to tell us that she has strep throat and she just got a shot. I am so shocked! I then decided that I probably needed to go inside too. Jeanne dropped me off, she got Katy and I waited and waited and waited. I finally got called back. I have squirted so much Chloroseptic down my throat by then. It was getting worse by the minute. They swabbed the back of my throat, I went back out to wait. 10 minutes later, I found out I had it too!!!!! I have never had this. It is so freaking painful! I get a big shot also and I come home and take a nap. My guests for the weekend are out shopping without me and I am so mad that I am sick!!! We are supposed to go out and do something fun tonight but I just talked to Jennifer and she sounded horrible. I am not to sure how I will feel later either. Oh yeah, one of Jennifer's nieces had strep throat 2 weeks ago. I guess that is where we got it.
I was so excited about having company, now I have to sit at home and feel needles in my throat. I know I will be fine and this is not the end of the world, but I am pissed! Strep throat sucks!! Strep throat sucks!!!

This is an old picture of two best friends of mine!!!!! HA!!! It was saved on my computer and I found it. We were going out that night!  

This is one of my best friends and myself.  

This is my wonderful husband, Aaron and myself. 

This is my beautiful mother and myself on my wedding day. 

I went home for the weekend and just got home tonight. I had such a great visit! I would go home every weekend if it didn't take 4 hours. I got to spend some much needed time with my mom, stepdad, aunt, and grandpa. I also got to see all of my best friends I don't get to see often. Two of which are coming to visit this coming weekend. I am so excited!!!!
I forgot to write about the Halloween party we went to. Aaron did not like his 70's costume...so he got to dress up like a woman. It was hilarious! It was so last minute but he looked funny! I will post pictures one day.
I am exhausted. Hope everyone had a good weekend! Have a great Monday! (is that possible!??) :)

Voting

I voted today for the first time ever and I have been glued to the TV since I got home from work. I have been so into election this year and don't know why it has taken me so long. I am so mad at myself for waiting this long. There was nothing to it, go to courthouse with ID, fill out paper work, go and vote. I am really glad it is over now. 5 people called today and have called for 3 weeks straight. Heck, Bill Clinton called the other day. I answered the phone (even though it said unavailable) and I had the most strange look on my face. Aaron was mouthing in the back ground "who is it"? I sat there a few seconds and busted out laughing!! I guess I thought for a second it was really Bill Clinton! How funny, Aaron got a kick out of that one.
By the way, if you answer those "unavailable" calls they won't call as much. You can either tell them you will send the money as soon as possible or tell them you don't want any. If you don't answer, they will mark you as NAY and keep trying you. (I know this because I worked in telemarketing for a few weeks) :) It sucked!! Oh yeah, I love to use quotation marks but somewhere between high school and college I forgot the rules or they changed them!! Is it like this---I said, "what are you doing"? Or----I said, "what are you doing?" I am sure someone will have the correct answer for me!!! :) Good night!

Mrs. Lucille

I have several topics today...

1. What do you do about the white spots you can get from the tanning bed? I am so mad! I look like a Dalmation!! I have asked people about it and all they say is, "I have seen that before and it doesn't go away", well that is just great. I have not had a chance to go to the Dr. yet but I will, soon.

2. Aaron (my husband) just got off work and he is resting up for our big costume party tonight. He is just so excited about it. HaHa I think it will be a blast! He looks so funny in his 70's outfit and wig.

3. My neighbor, Mrs. Lucille-- I must say I am very blessed to have such a sweet neighbor. We have lived next to her for 5 months, she has lived there for 60 years. When we got settled in I just had to know who our neighbor was because our houses were so close (and that is the nice thing to do, go meet them). I wasn't to sure about her at first, her yard looked kind of un-kept and so did she. But heck, she is 80 something and she doesn't have a lot of family around to help her. The very next day I was push mowing our yard when I noticed she wasn't at home. I hurried over and mowed her front yard before she got home, it isn't very big and I do not mind helping people. When she got home and realized her yard was mowed, she came right over. I came to the door, and she didn't even let me say hi before she was asking if I knew who mowed her yard. I just stood there with this puzzled look on my face and then I started to smile. I couldn't help it, I am not a good liar. She looked at me and said, "did you mow my yard"? I was like, "umm yes ma'am I sure did". She tried to hand me $ and I was not going to take it. After a few minutes of "nicely" arguing about the $, she threw it in my flower pot and walked back over to her house. She let me know that day I was not working for free.
Let me tell you, she is my new best friend. Since then, I have mowed her yard several times, mowed one of her rent houses twice, we go to Wal-mart, we go to the Dollar General, we also go to Lowe's. (She can't drive so she either calls a taxi or I take her places, her husband died several years ago and her daughter had a stroke and she is in a home 3 hours away.) We also go out to eat---often!! She reminds me so much of my grandparents and great grandparents. She and her husband used to have a farm and she is a go getter. When I say farm, I mean farm. They had chickens, goats, pigs, horses, cows, ducks, dogs, and probably cats too. I have heard some stories!
Here are SOME of the things I have learned from Mrs. Lucille:
1. Soap is dish washing liquid, not Ivory
2. Milk is not just milk...there is sweet milk and butter milk
3. Older people sometimes call everyone 30 and younger "kid" (just like my papaw did)
4. It is possible to eat most foods with no teeth.
5. You can get a senior citizens discount almost anywhere! (which is good)

She is so much fun! The sad thing is, I do not like our house and when our lease is up we will probably move. (again) We move a lot, for those of you who don't know. I can't seem to be satisfied. We have lived in apartments since I can remember, which is fine with me. But our last apt. was brand new, but too small. So I get the bright idea to rent a house. Well guess what comes with that???? Bigger place--more to clean, bigger yard--mow it yourself, older house--water leaks and unlevel floors. It has all hard wood floors, which were so beautiful until I moved in and experienced the dirt that just lays on them. We don't have a vacuum that can get the floors good, so I have to sweep. (I know you are thinking, why doesn't she get one of those swifter things.) Well guess what, back to my unlevel floors and old house. When you use a swifter, it just doesn't work. The dirt fills the cracks up or half of it stays behind when the floor decides to be unlevel. All of the floors aren't old, some of them are new and don't have cracks. I swift some and sweep some, but I really miss vacuuming. Enough about my house, I could gripe about it all night long. It is just about time to get ready for the party!:) peace

why?

I am such a weirdo!! This is the third time I have typed something tonight. Everytime I get half way into a story I think, this is stupid and erase it. What is my deal? I think I worry too much about what people may think on here and that is so not me!! Guess I will touch on those subjects at a later time. Happy Halloween!

catching up

I have a lot of catching up to do. I want to try and make this blog an every day thing. I think it will be good for me. Especially since my best friend is moving 2 hours away and I am already 4 hours away from my family. I am such a family girl. Last month I drove home every weekend. That is pathetic! Oh well, I love my family and all of my friends down in SEA.
My husband, best friend and I are going to a Halloween party Saturday night. I got his costume tonight---a 70's outfit. How funny he looks!!! He is such a good sport. Let everyone know how it goes! night night

getting started

I am typing something to see how this works. I will type more later. I am tired, our deep freezer decided to turn off 3 days ago and we just found it...