Happy 60th Birthday Dad!

I've been absent for about a week. I left off with my sad day blog. Since then, my friend Amy's dad was rushed to the hospital for his cancer Monday or Tuesday night. They decided it was time to bring in hospice. He got to go home Friday, but he did not make it but a day if that. He passed away Friday, I believe. His cancer was just too aggressive.

I also attended Damon (DJs) visitation in Decatur Thursday night. There were a lobby full of his young friends with tears in their eyes. His daughter was running around just as beautiful as ever. There were great pictures of him up all around. I dreamed about him this past Saturday.

On to some more exciting news. My dad just celebrated his 60th birthday with us in Tunica!! We had such a good time. We stayed Friday and Saturday night returning on Sunday. It was a nice time to get away for a weekend and especially with the parents. We played the penny slots for a few hours at Sam's Town where we stayed Friday night. The buffet took our money that night. I think Kyle got his $20 worth though with about 2 piles of crab legs, shrimp, and whatever else would fit. I was so sad to watch him and dad eat frog legs! You should know how I feel about that!! I hate to take a picture though. I had never really seen fried frog legs in real life. I was very sad!

Saturday, we ate the buffet again for breakfast. We got ready and went to the overlook on the Muddy Mississippi. It was so cold this weekend, the water was so rough, and it was MUDDY! It was cool to see though. We gambled at Gold Strike for the rest of the day. We ate Smokey Joe's for dad's birthday dinner and headed back to Gold Strike. We didn't really bring any money home, but we had a great time spending it while we were there! We all would win here and there, but then we would just continue to play until it was gone. Overall, I think we had a great weekend. Here are a few cool facts about the year my dad was born.

What Things Cost in 1949:
Car: $1,650
Gasoline: 26 cents/gal
House: $14,500
Bread: 14 cents/loaf
Milk: 84 cents/gal
Postage Stamp: 3 cents
Stock Market: 200
Average Annual Salary: $3,600
Minimum Wage: 40 cents per hour

By August, 2,000,000 sets in US, with 720,000 in New York city alone.

RCA steps up the development of its all-electronic color system.

TV sales expand at a rapid rate -- are 600% ahead of 1948.

DuMont 20" set is reduced to $999.

Laws prohibiting the installation of TVs in automobiles are enacted.

Captain Video debuts on the DuMont Network.

Howdy Doody merchandising tops $11 million for the year.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY! I LOVE YOU!

Sad day

Today has been a really sad day. I was told first thing this morning when I got to work that a man I work with, his son, committed suicide this past Saturday. Of course that is horrible news for anyone to hear, but I was especially sad. His name is Damon "DJ" Percival. I had a class or two with him at Calhoun a couple of years ago. Since then, I would always see him at Ketchup where he was a waiter. He was always smiling and being so friendly. He would always laugh and point when we saw one another out and say, "You work with my dad!" like he thought I would tell on him for having a good time. He was only 31 or 32. I have been pretty upset about it all day today. No, I did not hang out with him or really talk to him for more than a few minutes. BUT, it still hits close to home for some reason. Its just that feeling of...wow, I remember when he...and could I have done something to help him. I searched him on Facebook this morning and realized I had never ran across him on there or thought to search for him. Seeing all of his status updates should have been a sign for anyone that knew him well. I didn't, so I don't know if I would have, but it will always make me wonder. He was posting all kinds of signs of depression lately. I ask that if you notice any of your friends that seem to be down on themselves, please always take the time to check on them. You never know when your words of advice or just a shoulder to lean on could always be some one's only hope. I was also sad for his family, especially his dad that I work with. He has been in and out of work for his heart. He has congestive heart failure, had a leaky valve now replaced, and recently had a pacemaker put in. He has been having a hard time breathing these last couple of weeks and has been working half days. I know this will be so hard on him. His father, Dave, said he wrote a beautiful suicide note (if that is possible) and wanted to be cremated. He will be cremated and the visitation will be Thursday. He had a beautiful 10 year old daughter. It is so hard to think and wonder what was going on in some one's head when they feel like they have nothing left. I am just so sad. I am sad about a guy that I barely even knew, but someone who always seemed so happy. Tears rolled down my cheeks as I read comments from people on his Facebook. I just can't imagine.

If that wasn't enough sad information, I heard several other things that just seemed to make my day even more sad. A lady on my team is going through tough times with her mother who has dementia/Alzheimer's. It is just so sad to hear the stories about her mother. She forgets where she is in her own home and puts things where they don't go. It reminds me of my grandmother and that I should have been there more for her while she was alive. Another thing was that my friend at work, Amy, her father is not doing well. He is battling cancer, and they just found out that it has spread. The last thing I can think of for the sadness today is about a man at work. I do not recall knowing him, but everyone I work with does. I may would remember him if I saw him, but I can't recall who he is. However, his story still makes me sad. He, just like I do monthly, went to the chiropractor. When the chiro twisted his neck to pop it, just like mine does every time, he did something to his spine I believe. He passed out right then and there and had a stroke. He is not old. I am thinking 30-40. He has two small children and a wife. He did live through this, but I believe they said he has had another stroke...but I'm not positive. They sent out an org-wide email that he had written from the hospital. He said that now he has a heart problem and they will be putting in a pacemaker today. He thanked everyone for thinking of him. That really hits close to home even though I don't know him at work. I go to the chiro every month and every month he pops my neck like that. It could happen to me and that is so scary. I don't know what good that does, but I am thinking I will ask mine to stop. This man was fine as far as I know before this happened. One trip to the chiro, and he leaves with a stroke if not more than one, now with a heart problem. I guess all of this sadness to say that we never know how good we have it sometimes. We could be any one of these people, or we could be going through this with someone we know or love. Tell your family and friends how much you love them because you never know when it could be the last time.

I have lost so many people in my life already. I still sometimes am shocked at all of the people I have lost a such a young age. I just wanted to remember them for a minute.

~ Joshua Mark Boyd - my first major tragedy in life. He passed away May 15, 1997 at 15 when I was in the 8th grade. I remember it like it was yesterday. We used to hang out at Newby's Grocery back in the day when it was cool. We would all play pool. We would hang out at his house or he would at ours.

~ Coretta Smith - One of the sweetest girls I went to middle school with. I remember my teacher announcing on the first day of school in 9th grade that she had passed away over the summer. She had cancer and I had no idea. I remember the teddy bear purse she always wore, those kind that zipped up the strap and you could wear on your back. She was so funny and was a big cuddly teddy bear.

~ Anthony Ortiz - passed away while I was still in school. I met him through a boyfriend at the time, but he ended up going to our school for a while. He was hilarious. He was always playing dirty jokes on people. He was notorious for, "Hey, look at my scar." Ha ha!

~ Kurk Nicholas - passed away right after we graduated high school. We had tech class together and would eat at Burger King on the way. He would die laughing every time I complained about the fries there always being "stubbies". He was the prettiest girl in the Ugly Walk, and wanted to be a chef in Atlanta I think.

~ Brad Holladay - passed away while I was living in Colorado around Christmas time either 2001 or 2002. I remember thinking how sad his family would always be at a time that was supposed to be so cheerful. We hung out all the time and he was the owner/breeder of my beautiful pits - Boomer and Serenity. He had a love for them just like I do.

~ Jessica Leigh Luna - what I consider my second biggest tragedy in life. Yes, I had lost all of these previous people, but Jessica was one of my best friends. It left myself regretting that I had not seen or hung out with her in a while before she passed away April 2005. She was the most beautiful person inside and out. She was always there for me to listen to all of my problems. I now wonder if I ever took the time to ask her what hers were. I was too stuck on mine. Wow, talk about tears. I just watched this video. You can also see her memory page. I miss her so much. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEA19kOxs-U. If you go to her page, you can hear her voice from her voicemail. www.jessica-luna.memory-of.com.

~ Grandma - passed away right after Jess and right before Kyle's grandma. I miss not seeing her on the holidays. I wish I was closer with my entire extended family. I don't spend near as much time with them as I should.

~ Nick Gilliam - passed away either right before or after Jess...please forgive me for not remembering. He was one of my little middle school "boyfriends", if you call it that back then. He was a skater boy and was the first to tell me what shants were - part shorts/part pants.

~ Brian Smith - a guy that our group of friends used to hang out with. We always hung out at his house.

~ Clint & Natash O'Steen - passed away together in September 2008. They were high school sweethearts and a couple I was around because my sister hung out with them. They would always come over to the house to hang out and swim.

~ Dan Messineo - passed away in November 2008. He was another one of the old group that my sister used to hang out with. Times change and we all split ways. I was lucky to know all of the older people because my sister was older. Dan was so funny. He always made us laugh and would do anything for me or my sister. He recently worked with my husband and put two and two together that I was Kyle's wife. He was so excited to know that. He loved my family as they loved him as well.

I am so sorry this post has been so sad. I guess just thinking about DJ and his dad, it has really brought up all of these memories. I am sure there are people I didn't remember. I know we have lost so many others, but I wasn't as close friends to all of them. Is there anyone you want to remember? It actually has made me feel better.

Sarah & St. Patty

I'm updating two things in one, which I hate doing. However, I have been extremely busy at work (not that I'm supposed to do it there) and too tired when I get home.


We had Sarah (Say-ruh) a birthday party at our house for her 26th birthday. She is the oldest of our group of friend. I'm not far behind her though. It wasn't a lot of preparing for the party except to clean up the house. Friday night, H and I went to get the groceries for the party. She and I met up with hubby after that to eat some Thai food. I spent Saturday morning mopping the kitchen, cleaning the bathroom, and straightening up. I ran out of time before the party started because my day was packed. I got up early to clean, had a hair appointment (that lasts hours), then had to stop by DQ to get the delicious ice cream cake. I got home in time to straighten up a little more before it seemed like it was time to prepare food.

We had rotel cheese dip, H's special layer dip *yum*, dogs, burgers, brats, chips, and two liters. Oh, I almost forgot a mini-keg for the beer games and JELLO shots! Fun stuff! A friend of mine that I haven't hung out with in years came for the party. I was so excited. It was so good to see her. I really miss hanging out with her, but she has 3 beautiful daughters to take care of now. So, I completely understand. We started off our night testing the Jello shots...or shall I say Jello blobs? Kyle called them jello aliens. It was my first attempt making them and forgot to buy cups. So, I just used ice cube trays and we shot them with spoons. Ha! It worked though, but boy were they strong! After a few of those to warm up your cheeks, we finally played some beer pong. I swear I used to be good, but not that night. I don't know what happened?? We ended up playing flip cup so that everyone that wanted could play. Girls totally ruled the boys!



After a few of these drinks, choking down some food, and eating the ice cream cake...came the ice cream fight? Jessi decides to smash a piece of cake into Sarah's face which then resulted in a handful of the cake from Sarah into Jessi's face. See cake below. Ha! Nice hand swipe in it. We all had a great time hanging out, having a few drinks, playing cards, and listening to music. I'm pretty sure Sarah had a great birthday, because she told me several times "This is the best birthday ever!" ha! I'm so glad she had fun. Thanks to Heather for helping make this party possible.




St. Patty's day was pretty good. H, D, Kyle, and I went downtown for the "block party". I was a little confused, because the block was not blocked off like I thought it was. It was the same bars that are always open. I don't get it. Anyway, we headed upstairs to grab us a table where we ordered some grub and had a couple of drinks. They didn't have green beer for us to drink. What is up with that? Instead I got a mango and apple martini. By the apple one, they had ran out of glasses, so see below how I got my drink. We then headed to see a band that was playing and paid $10 to get in. The band didn't start forever, and it ended up being a hippy band. It was definitely interesting. I never heard them say a word, they just played the keyboard and drums. They had a guy in the background painting a picture while they played. The only thing I could figure out is that maybe he draws whatever the music makes him feel? I'm not really sure. I had never seen that before. We left Kyle there to hang out more, because H and I were sleepy. I still got home pretty early, so that I was not worn out at work the next day.


Work has been extremely busy because one of the three of us have been out this week. An organization keeps authorization folks to spend some money, and I have been busy! Stop giving money away!! j/k Its job security. At least I have been busy. I was afraid with everyone gone on spring break that it would be so slow that I would be bored. No true....at all. Speaking of spring break, I only have 4 weeks of school left!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow! Crazy! I will soon be a true Accountant!! Well, if you can call me that without me having a CPA. I don't want that at all. I am not even sure I want to be an accountant any more, but it is a degree and I will take it!!

Hope everyone has a good weekend coming up! I am back to school next week then off to Tunica for my dad's 60th birthday. Awww I can't believe it! He will always be 45 to me. I don't know why. I am so excited to be going on this trip with them. I am really sad my sister can't make it. It will be the first family vacation since I was like 5. I am so excited. I'm so excited for dad to get to have some fun instead of work all the time. I'm hoping it will be a fun and relaxing weekend for him and that we don't lose too much money. I can't wait!

Not Me Monday!

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

I am such a good friend that I did not eat macaroni in front of Heather while she was at my house Thursday. I would never be rude and eat in front of her when she had not had dinner either. Nope, Not me! (I still feel bad.)

I would never put a friend (Heather, again – Sorry) through going to pick out eye glasses in Wal-Mart with me, AFTER we had just shopped for groceries for 30 minutes. Nope, Not me!

I am so good at playing beer pong that I never get tipsy from playing, because I never have to drink any of the cups. Nope, not me!

I would never fall asleep on the couch while hosting a party at my house. Nope, not me!

I did not put my pop tart in the toaster this morning and wonder why it was taking so long before realizing that the power strip was turned off. Nope, not me!

I was not excited that Sarah left her ice cream cake at my house, nor did I eat any of it yesterday. Nope, Not me!

I would never leave my garage a mess after a party at the house on a Sunday, when I have all day to do it. Nope, Not me!

I am sure there are lots more things that I can't remember that I DIDN'T do this past week. I'll have to save them for next Monday. What did you not do?

Hump Day, No fun day

Wow. I am wore out. I can't believe it is already Wednesday. The weeks really, really fly by lately. I have been so busy at work. I hope that means because I am a good worker? My phone tends to ring off the hook lately. Our customer's seem to find one of us that they like and call only one of us. Its nice, but I have been so busy. We've stayed so busy that T and I have actually been eating in the cafeteria next to us instead of going out. That is so out of the norm. We almost always try to get out to get away. Luckily, the cafeteria really does have some pretty good food. Monday - Grilled cheese with fries, Tuesday - two pieces of pepperoni pizza, and today - a turkey club on a wheat sub. Yum. My pickle today was hot. I couldn't figure that out! ha! I think it was dipped in jalapeno juice or something. What's the deal pickle? I don't like spicy at all.

I am so excited. Next week is Spring Break. I'm not doing anything or going anywhere, but its nice to know I don't have class next week. I will more than likely try to catch up my homework for the following week or two. I cannot believe that I only have 4 more weeks of school work left before I graduate. Holy cow! Sadly enough, I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up. I have an Associates in Business, Associates in Accounting, and will soon have a Bachelor's in Accounting. I have been having a mental crisis. I have a lot in normal life going on after school, so I don't know if and how I can go back to do what I want. I love math and science. I thought getting into Accounting would be a lot of math. I was wrong. There is adding, subtracting, multiply, and divide. I like the cool stuff like Algebra, Geometry and stuff like that. So, I have really been trying to process going back for Engineering. Some people say do it, and some people talk me out of it. I would have a good majority of my basic classes already done from my two associates. I just know that I want to have a baby before I even try to worry about another degree. I promised Kyle to wait until I graduated...and that time is coming. It may be later this year, but I still plan to have a baby in the next year or two. If I back out of Engineering, then should I go for a master's of some sort? Crap. I don't have a clue. My poor friends have heard this story over and over. I'm sure its getting old. I wish I could figure it out.

Anyway, didn't mean to get off on that tangent. I guess I didn't have much else to talk about. I have been busy, but nothing that fun to talk about. I am just tired today. There was a big announcement made about my organization at work today. I am not happy at all. I think that is something that has been bothering me too. I will more than likely be changing supervisor's, and I really like the one I have now. I think we will be getting more work now too. As if we aren't busy enough. There are only three of us on my team, and one of the other ladies is working from home 2 hours a day. Her mother is really sick with dementia/Alzheimer's, and it is really sad. So, we are short a person for a few hours in the afternoon. Its been rough. After work, I went to the chiro and got to lay on the water massage bed. It was a nice end to the day...that and getting my back cracked. I feel so much better.

We are celebrating Sarah's birthday this weekend at my house. I actually REALLY remembered her birthday this year. I was so proud. I made sure to sing her the normal birthday song I sing every year. Happy day to you! Happy day to you! Happy birthday to you! I'm excited to get to hang out with her & Rodger and the rest of our friends. It should be a good time.

I thought this video was hilarious! I watched it many times and laughed so hard. Poor baby. Again, my love for animals. I think I like any animal video. This just describes how I feel sometimes. You keep spinning your wheels just to run smack into a dead-end. I hope you all have a great rest of the week.

Baby Talk

Yes, two posts in one day. I'm on a roll. I've just had a busy afternoon. I left work early for my yearly doctor appointment. Fun stuff let me tell you. After filling out "new paperwork for this year", waiting for an hour in the waiting room, and 15 minutes in the room in my birthday suit, my doctor finally comes in. As if it isn't embarassing enough to be sitting there dressed in a large paper towel, it was freezing in there. They finally turned the air up for me. Brrr....hello...I have nothing on! I was so excited, well kind of because it hurts, to get my very last Gardasil shot. I was not able to get pregnant while taking the vaccination. Sooooooooo....you know what that means! I started quizzing the doctor about what steps to take next. Remember, I stopped taking my birth control the first of this month. All she really had to say was to start taking Prenatal vitamins and wait a few months for all of the hormones to get out of my system. Yikes! ha ha! After 2 hours, I was out of there. I dropped my wonderful jeans off to get hemmed since I do not have 34" legs, and the lady said she can also fix the hole in my very first wonderful pair of Seven jeans. Then, I headed to Wal-Mart to pick out a few things...including Prenatals! I felt so stupid standing there trying to figure out what brand and whatever. So, I called my two best baby makers ~ Sarah and Kristen! Sarah didn't answer, so I called Kristen to ask her. I think I found the ones she takes. I will be taking them at night, because the doc said they make some people sick to their stomach. I hope they don't keep me up at night. Yippee Skippee!

And to add on to my previous blog today...my loving mommy read my blog and took pictures of my awesome love notes to Mr. Vanilla Ice in the play house. OMG! This is so funny! Don't you like how I painted my hand prints on there? Oh, the puff paint days. I wonder when that is going to come back in style? ha ha!

Ladies - Get ready!

Not that I am going, because I no longer support Sammy T's. BUT - look who is coming to little ol' Huntsville. ha ha! I was so in love with him back in the day when he was popular. I knew every word to Ice Ice Baby and probably several others. I remember writing him a "letter" in puff paint on my play house wall when he went to jail...don't remember what for. That is so funny. If I would have thought about it, I could have taken a picture of it while I was at Mom and Dad's. How embarassing. It's probably good I didn't do that. ha ha! I think I wrote how much I loved him and wished he would get out of jail. I don't really remember though. Oh to have those little kid crushes again. I still have one, but now it is Lil' Wayne. ha!

Don't lie - Who is going?? Its only $20!

Spring Cleaning

We had a pretty good weekend. We spent Friday night at home relaxing, since Kyle fished all day and was wore out. I was tired myself though...work has been busy. I was the only one in my group on Friday for a couple of hours and didn't leave when I was supposed to.

Saturday, I was determined to set an alarm so that I wouldn't oversleep when I knew it was going to be a beautiful day. I got up, cleaned the house like every other Saturday, and went outside. I threw on some shorts and tank top because it was like 75 outside. I tackled that nasty garage. I backed the car out and got everything set outside that I could. I swept all the grass and pieces of burnt paper out of there. Yeah, burnt paper. My chiminea was left in the garage and it got windy, so it blew burnt paper all inside the garage. I organized all of the bottles of cleaning stuff in a cabinet we have out there. I lined everything up around the edge of the walls to make room for stuff. I put boxes up in the attic that I had gotten down for Christmas stuff. It's about time. I used an old plastic garbage can to hold all of Kyle's fishing poles, since now he has like 15 poles!! They are kind of all tangled now, but at least there aren't 5 poles here and there all over the garage.

In the middle of my cleaning, I saw something out of the corner of my eye. It was two holy rollers (I hope that's not a mean term) walking up the driveway. I felt a little awkward standing there in shorts, a too small tank top, gloves on, broom in hand, and 103.5 jamming on my car radio as they walked up and asked me if I knew about Joseph Smith being born in 1820 or whatever they said. Then, they proceeded to pull out the Book of Mormon and read me like 2 pages of it. Nothing against that religion or any other, but it was so awkward for me. I was sweeping my garage and up they walked. After all of that, I weeded my flower beds, clipped the bushes, pulled up the dead stuff, and drowned some ant beds. I felt pretty accomplished. Serenity was out front helping me most of the time...or well, playing was more like it. She liked to roll around on the dead sod and get dirty. We went to a surprise birthday party for a friend of ours that night and came home fairly early.


Today, Kyle went fishing AGAIN. He swears they catch monster fish, but they never want me to go. They swear I would hate it, but they go all the time. Ha ha! Oh well. I got to finish up some homework. Daddy stopped by and posted a blue bird box on my fence out back. I left with him and went to Mom and Dad's. I wanted to be outside in the pretty weather, but I had done all my chores here at home. I told Dad I would help him outside. We got in the boat on the pond and paddled around to scoop out all of the lily pad pods. I guess that is what they are called. They took over the entire pond these last couple of years and have made it extremely hard to fish. We tried to get all of the seed pods out before they produced even more of those annoying things. While trying to catch some smaller fish, mom scooped out this baby snapping turtle. It would be a precious little thing if it wasn't a dang snapper. We grilled out again like almost every other Sunday. H&D came over to eat with us. Now, its time for bed while it seems like 10:30, the time has changed to 11:30. I need to get to sleep. Hope everyone has a great week!

Astronauts

Its not every day you get to be in arm's reach of an astronaut. Well, I was today. Perks for working for NASA I guess. I was so sad that I forgot about them coming until it was too late. I waited through all of their speeches and went down for the autograph. They give out a picture of them all that they sign for you. I got in the long line that wrapped around the auditorium. It stood completely still for about 15 minutes. They were only signing for 30 minutes. We finally started moving. I'll be darned if they didn't cut off the dang line right in front of us because they had to get going. I was a little sad. Luckily, they signed extras to pass out to the rest of us in line. The reason this one was so special to me was because I actually saw them launch back in November. It was a night launch. It was the most beautiful, unreal, amazing thing I have ever witnessed so far. It is unreal that something that big, with that much fuel and fire around it can just take off into space. It literally brought tears to my eyes and took my breath away. I tried to scan the picture, but it wasn't working. I will try to post it later.

Since I wasn't blogging at that time, here are some details from my trip. My co-worker, Terri, and I were invited to go with another lady we worked with. She was invited and could bring 3 other people. We were so excited and drove our happy selves all the way to Cocoa Beach. We stayed on the beach in a condo...and did not once get to get on the beach until we were pulling out to leave. We refused to leave without letting our toes hit the sand. We worked at JSC while we were there for 3 days. It was such an amazing experience to be there while all of that was going on. We got all kinds of tours of the buildings, the VAB, the control room. It was so much fun.


I was amazed with this building for some reason. I think because it was so big. The NASA meatball, as they call it, on this building could fit a baseball field inside of it. That is the scale of how big this building is. It stands for Vehicle Assembly Building. This is where they house the shuttles before they launch...at least I think I am getting my details right.

These are whiteboards that are posted all through this one building...I forget its name...the one that has the control room in it. They have a board for every flight that is cased in glass. It is drawings and writings from the astronauts and their families. They are so sweet. The ones that really were sad were those that did not return. The plaque's were on the wall too that had the mission's patch on it. The astronauts design their own patch. Again, the ones that were sad were those that didn't have a return date plate.


And of course...the Shuttle. The one we went to see was STS-126 and it was at NIGHT! Those are very rare to get to see, and it really is rare for people to go and see the launch on schedule. A lot of times they get scrubbed. I struggled with the decision to go, because Kyle and I had Alabama football tickets that Saturday I was supposed to be returning. There was a hurricane or something far off that could possibly cause a weather delay of the shuttle. I went with my gut, went to see the launch, it went off, the AL tickets were sold out from under us, and Kyle ended up getting to go with one of our friends. All in all, I made the right decision. That night at the football game was FREEZING! I would have been miserable. Plus, this was a chance of a lifetime that I couldn't pass up. It was great.

Here is the video I took from my regular camera. It is not the best quality, and I am not smart enough to figure out how to rotate it. So, you have to turn your head to see it. It is nothing close to the real thing, but this was my view from the causeway. Wish you could see it like I did. Scroll to about 1 min 20 seconds and it will start soon.

Ok, had to go back in time there to share those awesome pictures with you. This has really been a busy week. I feel like I have barely been home or had time to relax. Tonight, I worked pretty late to get some stuff done. I tanned, got gas, and came home. My mom leaked to me that Kyle had gone fishing...which I didn't know. haha He does this because he knows I want to go so bad, but he always seems to go when I can't. I get home, turn on the kitchen light, and something moved out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look and this is what I see in my kitchen sink. Poor things.

I won!

I won the auction on that pair of Lucky jeans. I am so excited. They are used, but she "says" she only wore them twice. The pictures look great still, so hopefully they will be just as nice in person. I hope they fit. I am anxious to know when I will get them. They need to hurry up and send them! I fell for another dark pair of jeans. I really need a light pair though because I only have one that is not as dark. The light pair of Seven jeans that I used to have busted at the butt. ha ha! I am thinking about taking them with me to the altering place when I take these I won to get hemmed. I will ask them if they can fix my rip. Its actually not a rip, I don't think. It is a worn place right between my legs. I am too uncomfortable to wear them though. Hopefully they can fix them. I would be so excited. They were my first pair of really expensive jeans. I've only had them a couple of years before they busted. They were my favorite pair though, so I wore them all the time. I can hardly find them anywhere any more.

Well, here is the pair that I won! I will let you know how they fit whenever they get here. Super excited! And did I mention that I won these for $26!!!!!! Plus $10 shipping, so really $36...but still...OMG! Lucky is usually no cheaper than $60 and up to $100 or more.

Snowy Sunday

I was awaken this morning by a text message from my sister at 6:50 am. It said, "Wake up lissy lou n kyle! It's SNOWIN HARD! :) love ya!" Ha ha I was like no way, I am dreaming. This is Alabama where it never snows. The weather guy forecasting one person may see a couple of flakes Saturday night. Well, this was a little more than a couple of flakes. After living in Colorado though, I know this is no huge snow and the snowing hard to us is nothing to them. But it was a good bit for us because it is not normal. The doggies weren't so sure what to do with it. I'm surprised they didn't pee on the porch to keep from getting their feet cold. They are rotten wusses like that. Yes, my backyard becomes a mini-pond when it rains. I hate it. And I can't have any type of furniture in the backyard because as you see, they terrorize it. Poor chair.

Well, the day has come. Today was the first time I have purposely not taken my birth control. Woo hoo! I have been on birth control for about 10 years now. Wow, that is a long time. I'm hoping that it won't affect me being able to have children, but my doctor says it won't. She said I am young enough that it should be just fine. I didn't renew my prescription for this upcoming month. Yikes! I'm kind of afraid what it will do to me now. My body is so used to taking those every day that I am not sure how it will affect me now. You always hear when you get on them that you gain weight or something. I remember it making my boobies grow! haha So, I hope they don't go away. Maybe when you get off of them you lose weight. That would be awesome. Yeah right. Like that would ever happen. The time is finally approaching that we will possibly be getting pregnant. That is sort ave why I started this blog. I wanted to get it started so that when and if I get pregnant, I can give updates on here. I am currently on Gardasil shots. I take my last one March 9th. You can't get pregnant while you are on those and for possibly a month after that. I've heard that you want to give about 3 months of being off your birth control before trying to get pregnant. I'm not sure if there is any truth to that, but I don't want to have anything go wrong because I rushed into it. I promised Kyle to wait until I get out of school. I graduate May 2009. Unless some other stuff comes up, we will probably plan to get pregnant this year. We will have to see how a few things play out first, but we are ready. We want to be young parents, so we don't want to wait much longer. Yikes, I'm getting nervous already! haha

Speaking of children, you have to see these writings I did when I was younger. I think you can tell the ones I did when I was younger then as I got older. The handwritten one is a note to my mom when I was little. My sister was a typical older sister. The one about the dogs had to be when I was really little because its all like one sentence long. I cannot remember what I had to write it for. The one about a Friend was another assignment probably in 8th grade or something like that. The one about my dream was to be written like the MLK speech. I had to do it in 9th grade. My teacher said mine was good and made me stand up in front of the class and read it. I thought they were pretty funny. If I can ever find all of my poems, I may start another blog to post those on. I don't write any more though, so it would be all old ones. Well, here they are. Enjoy, they are pretty funny.