sunshine on my flip flops*

Got baby on the brain?

2011-12-02T12:08:00.003-06:00

Well, I finally did it.. I went to the doctor to talk to him about my infertility. I learned that I can use that word because my doctor told me it is defined as tyring for a year without luck of getting pregnant. So there.

I'm not sure what I was expecting when I went in, but the doctor was very friendly and informative. We discussed the history of my crazy, stupid, frustrating, idiotic periods. I also feel that I've earned the right to use all the words.

He said he was willing to bet I just wasn't ovulating. Which is what I figured, seeing as how for a while there I was trying oh so hard to track and find the best time for some baby makin' lovin' with my boy. He started me on one round of Provera and Clomid. Then I'll go back in for bloodwork to find out if that helped me ovulate or not. I know much better than to expect anything right away, but it's just one of the things you can't help but hope for.. you know?

I can't wait to make my husband a daddy for the first time. I watched our neighbor's baby for a couple hours last night and it melted my heart to see him interact with baby Ashton.

I know that it's all in God's hands but I also know that we're ready.

Premonition?

2011-11-07T12:27:00.002-06:00

I had this odd feeling at work on Friday that I should brush up on my CPR skills.

Weird?

But thanks to google.. I now feel a bit more confident should I ever need to perform CPR.

But please people.. don't make me have to use this skill.

Put me in coach..

2011-10-24T12:27:00.003-05:00

.. I'm ready to plaayyy

Okay, not really. I just can't get over the game yesterday.

WHY in the HELL would Frazier have not gone for that 4th down with 2:30 left in the game?! It doesn't make sense to me. You need a touchdown to win.. so go for that touchdown.

But on a positive note.. we did play one hell of a game.

And that Ponder.. I sure hope he goes far! (we need it)

*sigh* Enough football talk. Really Nikki, there is more to life.

In a funk

2011-09-30T12:18:00.002-05:00

Today is just one of those days.

I'm not motivated to do anything, and all I want to do is sleep.

It's that time of the month and my head hurts, and my stomach hurts, and my body hurts.

Plus is makes me mad, because it means that once again.. I'm not pregnant.

Ugh.

But hey, it's Friday :)

V.i.k.i.n.g.s

2011-09-26T08:07:00.002-05:00

I am a Vikings fan.

Not just on game day.
Not just if we win.
Not just during football season.

I wear my purple with pride.

Not just on game day.
Not just if we win.
Not just during football season.

I am a Vikings fan.

The post where I complain about money..

2011-09-22T11:38:00.002-05:00

..or lack thereof.

I knew it was going to happen. Joe is back to school full time. He's also going through the police academy and taking entry level firefighting classes as well.

And what do you know.. he has just exhausted his unemployment benefits. (their words, not mine)

Joe's going to work as much as he can in between school, homework, and trainings.. but it will probably only be 3 days a week at most.

We have a little bit of school money left, which I'm hoping will at least pay our mortgage for the time he's in school. But I'm still trying to figure out how the devil I'm going to pay all our bills with just my paycheck! Oiy.

I'm pretty cool headed about it now, but I'm sure I'll freak out sooner or later.

Oh well, things could be worse right.

I have a very loving husband and 3 beautiful puppers. Life has got to be good.. right? :)

9/11

2011-09-11T20:54:00.003-05:00

I can't describe how much my heart aches today, for the thousands of lives lost and the million of lives affected by the tragedy that happened on this day 10 years ago :(

I cried through the sermon at church, I cried when I saw flag after flag being waved off every interstate bridge, I cried every time I heard a plane fly overhead, I cried when I tried to tell my husband oh sad I was feeling.

To watch the news and see the videos and posts on FB literally breaks my heart.

And never have I been more proud to be an American.

Thank you to every service member that is/has/will be serving for this country!

Corie Mae

2011-09-10T08:34:00.005-05:00

I woke up this morning and found out that a girl that I've been friends with since middle school was in a serious car accident last night.

I won't lie.. we haven't been good friends for quite some time. It was just one of those things where two people slowly drift apart. I don't regret it, or blame anyone.. it just happens. It's always like a little reunion when our paths happen to cross at the bar some nights. :)

So, with that being said.. I can't describe how sad I feel. I know people get in car accidents all the time, but to have it happen to someone who I have laugh, cried & stayed up all night talking with just makes it so hard.

CME* I love you and I KNOW that if anyone is strong enough to pull through this, IT IS YOU! Please know that I am sending every ounce of thoughts and prayers your way. Please get better soon. You have SO many people that love and care about you!

**All of us girls :)

Are you ready for some football!?!?

2011-09-08T14:35:00.003-05:00

Every year I wonder how I make it EIGHT months without football?! Honestly.. how do I pass my time? Well there's no worries about that anymore.. it's FOOTBALL season!!!

YAHHHH!! :D (everyone cheer with me!)

Me, being a die-hard Viking fan, really wishes the season didn't open up with the Packers playing tonight. But hey, I'll deal. I just really wana see the Saints whoop some ass ;)

3 Years*

2011-09-06T18:12:00.002-05:00

Joe,
I can't believe how time has flown! It feels like just yesterday my dad was walking me into a room filled with my family and closest friends to give me away.. to you. Our relationship isn't perfect, but I'm willing to be no one's is. All you and I need to know is how much I love you. Before I met you, I didn't know it was possible to love one person so much.. but honey, I do. Happy anniversary!

All grown up

2011-09-03T21:23:00.004-05:00

I'm trying to figure out when my little bitty puppy grew up to be such a handsome dog!

Mama loves you Charliepants :)

Labor Day

2011-09-02T08:03:00.002-05:00

I'm so glad it's Friday!

Time for a much needed weekend away w/ my boy :) Going back up north to Two Harbors to celebrate our THREE YEAR anniversary! Wow, where did the time go?!

Hope everyone has a great & safe holiday weekend!

Tired out

2011-09-01T09:55:00.002-05:00

I need to make some life adjustments here pretty soon.

I am just sick of being so dang tired all the time!

I'm sitting at my desk at work, knowing full well that if I put my head down for even a minute I will be out like a light.

It's a struggle to keep my eyes open, and it's starting to make my head hurt just trying to do so.

Everyone keeps telling me that the humidity has finally seeped back into the air.. maybe it will help to step outside. (Even though my "steps outside" usually just mean going to the bar to visit with Jesse and Gus quick.)

Any suggestions on how to wake myself up?

Party = success

2011-08-30T15:32:00.004-05:00

Last Saturday Joe and I had a big blowout bash at our house. We got 2 kegs, roasted a 135 lb piggy and 200 years of corn. We think we invited about 100 people, and roughly half showed up. Not bad, not bad. I know how busy most people are on the weekends in the summer, so I was happy with the turnout!

We tapped the first keg at 3:30 on Saturday, and finished off the second one at 6:00am on Sunday.

I'm not saying I could do this every weekend.. but it really was alot of fun to have so many people over at our house.

Our pool and deck were broken in good for the first time by about 12 children :) Poor kids, we haven't hooked up the heater yet and the pool was only 74 degrees! There was lots of shivering children running around my yard after that!

But never fear, we had a HUGE bonfire to warm them right up!

I sure do love summer!

So what do you think.. should we make it an annual thing?

Would you people come to my parties? ;)

Bed.. book.. bummin'

2011-08-30T13:47:00.000-05:00

.. that is exactly what I would like to be doing right now.

I want to curl up in my big comfy bed, with my warm snuggly puppies, and I want to completely lose myself in a book that is so good the thought of having to close the cover and float back down to reality makes me want to cry.

It's just one of those days where I need to get lost in something good.

Oh, and if there happened to be a bag of Dove chocolates w/ almonds next to my bed.. I wouldn't even complain.

The night I stayed out until 4am.

2011-08-06T07:57:00.000-05:00

That would be Thursday night.

That would also make me an idiot, because it is now Saturday and I still haven't caught up on my sleep!

Thursday my friends play volleyball on a bar league. It's Sami, Petey, Jeffrey, Michael, Dustin, Alli, Kayla & Kirky. So I always go to North Hudson to watch them, and then we usually grab dinner and a few drinks at Kozy. Joe doesn't ever come with because "sports aren't his thing". Dummy, it's not about the sports.. it's about friends and having a good time. But whatever!

So we got to Kozy around 9:00 and ordered some food and drinks. After everyone finished, they decided to call it an early night and go home. Except me, Mike & Kirk. So we headed down the road to Starr's Bar for awhile. We each had 3 or 4 more drinks, played some dice and took some shots. Scott was trying to get us to come over, and I kept hesitating because I reallly needed to go home and sleep. It was already well past my bedtime. But then he said we could go swimming, and really how could I turn that down? :) So around 1:00 we went to Scott's house. It was me, Mike, Kirky, Scott and Kirk's brother, Ryan. We weren't there 10 minutes before all of us jumped in the pool! It was really fun :) There was a little bit of drunken drama between Kirk and Ryan, but we just let them fight it out while we kicked back on the deck with a beer :) Finally I checked my phone and realized it was 3:00 and I needed to get up in 3 hours! I really didn't want to, but I ended up taking Kirk and Ryan back home to North Hudson and then went home. It was a very long ride with a soaking wet dress!

I got home at 4:00 and got exactly 2 hours of sleep.

Then yesterday at work my manager bought me a 5 hour energy :) She also told me that I wasn't allowed to partake in Thirsty Thursday's anymore and she was going to call me at 10:00 to make sure I was home in bed every Thursday. I guess I do like my work girls here sometimes :)

I went grocery shopping after work yesterday, but spent the rest of the night relaxing with my Little House on the Prairie books.. it was very nice :)

Now 5 more hours of work, and I can go home and help my baby boy with our pool deck!!

Have a great weekend! :D

sigh

2011-08-04T10:06:00.001-05:00

I have absolutely nothing to do right now.

I'm losing my mind.

Helppppp.

Think of all the stuff I could be doing if I was at home.

Stupid, stupid work.

Changed my mind.

2011-08-01T16:40:00.001-05:00

Gosh, I'm horrible at this!

I've gone so far as to log on to blogger, title a post, and start WRITING.. and then I just change my mind.

I wish I had a fascinating life to tell you all about :)

Friday I left work around 1:00 and took a MUCH needed nap. My silly self drank too much wine the day before and didn't get nearly enough sleep the night before. So after a nap and shower on Friday afternoon, I met Joe in New Richmond and we went to dinner at Pete's. :) Mm.. I love Pete's buffet! I checked out the new Maurice's in town and did a bit of Walmart shopping then headed home.

Joe had to go back to work for a little bit and I met up with Michael, Jeff & Petey for a few beers at JJ's. Ended up being an early night.. I was back home in bed well before 11:00.

Saturday we were celebrating my cousin, Ell's, 1st birthday and taking family pictures at Fort Snelling State Park. I can't talk enough about how much I LOVE being with my family. It's impossible to not feel anything but complete and utter contentment when I'm with them. So, Saturday was just an absolutely perfect day! We grilled out at the park, I spend lots of time swimming and playing with all my little cousins, and I got even got some quality time with my brother (which doesn't happen often enough) All the fun in the sun that we had quickly caught up to us when we got home and both Joe and I took a nice nap :) Then Dylan came over and the boys played around in the garage until about 4am, while I got lots of episodes of 7th Heaven in! Perfect :)

Sunday morning, we both slept in until 11:00 then slowly started getting ready around the house. We made our way in to Hudson to finally get the lumber for our deck! All that work loading lumber in the sun made us decided that we deserved Chinese for lunch :) We came home, and I got showered up and changed to go to the boys' softball game. Horrible game, got 12 runned.. but we all agreed it was for the best anyways, because nobody wanted to be outside (let alone playing!!) in the heat. So of course to cool down, me and Mike and Scott went to Kozy for a couple beers and some food :)

And now it's Monday and the workday is finally over!

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend :D

Let's play the catch up game.

2011-07-23T08:24:00.001-05:00

How is it that I read other people's blogs religiously.. but I can't find time to write one of my own??

Just plain lazy I tell ya ;)

Not too much has been going on.. I've been trying to enjoy this beautiful summer weather as much as I can! We finally got our pool up, and it's been a savior on some of these humid, humid days. I'll admit we don't use it nearly as much as I'd like, but that's due to the fact that we haven't built our deck yet. For now we have half a ladder that goes into the pool, but doesn't hang down the other side. So we have to back Joe's pickup up to the very edge of the pool so we can get to the ladder. Kind of a pain, but worth if it we're going to spend all day lounging in a floatie :)

Hopefully we'll have our deck up in a couple weeks!

Let's see.. what else is new? Joe came home with a new car yesterday. And I bet you guys aren't even surprised! It's a 1991 Camaro.. actually a decent looking car. He's going to sell his Ford Ranger (if anyone's interested) which I wasn't too happy about, because it's a good little truck that can do much more than a car! But oh well, Joe is sure he'll make good money off of it, so I'll just let him do his thing.

I am in dire need of getting my carpets cleaned. Has anyone used a company that they really like?? And my carpets are so bad from potty training Kylee & Charlie that yes, they need to be cleaned professionally. And SOON!

Charlie, oh gosh I could go on about him forever. Mostly bad things.. some good though ;) He is just the naughtiest little thing I've ever seen! And it kills me to punish him, because I know he really tries to be good. But because of him, I need to replant almost all of my front gardens. Not looking forward to do that, but luckily my beautiful mama is going to come and help me!

Joe and I decided that we are going to have a big party in August! We talked about it last year, but never had the time to make it happen. So I think we're both looking forward to that soon :)

I was just about to say that I have nothing more to write about right now, and then I got up to help a customer and realized that I didn't mention my new job! I'm still at Associated Bank, but I took a promotion at the Hammond branch. SO much closer to home for me! Only 5 miles away.. :) Unfortunately, that's all I like about it. But hey, I'm making money right?

Okay, that's really all I got for now.
Thanks for reading & not forgetting about me in my blogless days :)

Oh you know the norm.

2011-03-09T08:42:00.000-06:00

I have a secret room in the basement at work that I take naps in about once a week when I stay out too late the night before. I bring my blankey and sprawl out on the desk and sleep like a baby for an hour.. It's heavenly.

Well, I was walking into work today w/ my blankey AND a pillow, and one of my bankers said to me "a pillow too?? you must have been out later than usual!!"

Apparently I need to switch up my habits.. people are catching on.

Star

2011-02-15T10:03:00.000-06:00

**CAUTION.. SAD STORY**

Oh, what a morning I've had.

I was supposed to work at 6:45 this morning, and I was kind of running a tad bit late. I left the house around 6:26ish.. and I usually leave by 6:20 at the latest. So anyways, I left and was on my way to work when I got into Roberts on Hwy 12. I saw something in the street up ahead and at first I thought it was a big garbage bag flapping in the wind. I saw a jeep parked on the side of the road w/ it's lights still on a little bit before the thing in the road. I got closer, and I saw it was a DOG!!!!!! This poor, poor dog had just been hit by a car and it was flopping around in the middle of the road :( :( :( :( :(

I quick whipped into the Holiday parking lot and I saw that the person in front of me had pulled over too. We both got out of our cars and ran to the dog. We each picked up an end (it was a bigger dog, but I wasn't sure what kind) and we carried it over to the side of the road. Of course I'm crying my damn eyes out, hoping this poor dog doesn't die.. and the dog doesn't have a tag on, so the other lady that stopped ran over to Holiday to ask them to look up a number for Animal Control.

When she left the dog wasn't moving, she was just laying there looking at me while I was petting her, but a couple minutes after the lady walked away the dog sat up and I could tell she wanted to get away. I had a grip on her collar and was trying to make sure she stayed calm.. I was soo happy she was up and moving though! I was able to look her over a little better when she was sitting, and I could tell I had blood all over my mittens and my jacket. It looked like she got hit in the front and her mouth has some blood in it, but other than that she looked fine!

Finally the jeep that had been parked on the side of the road turned around and drove over at the same time I little boy was running up to us. The lady in the jeep is the one who hit the doggy, and the little boy was his owner. I guess the boy was putting Star (the dogs name) out on her chain when she got away and ran towards the highway and the lady hit her :( Of course the lady was way shooken up and felt terrible, but the boy handled it very well. I sat there with them for a little while longer, and then the boy walked the dog back home.

I'm kicking myself now for not getting the boy's phone number now. I would really, really like to be able to check up on Star :( I'm hoping his parents were home and able to get her to the vet right away. But I'm pretty sure she's going to be okay! She looked like a tough puppers!

What.. cold??

2011-02-08T15:46:00.000-06:00

65°
Arizonans turn on the heat.
People in Wisconsin plant gardens.

60°
Californians shiver uncontrollably.
People in Wisconsin sunbathe.

50°
Italian & English cars won't start.
People in Wisconsin drive with the windows down.

40°
Georgians don coats, thermal underwear, gloves, wool hats.
People in Wisconsin throw on a flannel shirt.

35°
New York landlords finally turn up the heat.
People in Wisconsin have the last cookout before it gets cold.

20°
People in Miami all die.
Wisconsin's close the windows.

0°
Californians fly away to Mexico.
People in Wisconsin get out their winter coats.

-10°
Hollywood disintegrates.
The Girl Scouts in Wisconsin are selling cookies door to door.

-20°
Washington DC runs out of hot air. (Ya think? Nah.)
People in Wisconsin let the dogs sleep indoors.

-30°
Santa Claus abandons the North Pole.
Wisconsin people get upset because they can't start the snowmobile.

-40°
ALL atomic motion stops.
People in Wisconsin start saying..."Cold enough for ya?"

-50°
Hell freezes over.
Wisconsin public schools will open 2 hours late.

Saw this somewhere today & it really made me laugh because it's totally true.

got to love Wisconsin!

Out the window.

2011-02-08T15:25:00.000-06:00

How is it possible that common sense has flown so far out the freakin' window?!??

I just.don't.understand people. Use your freakin' head.

Sick as a dog.

2011-02-01T15:29:00.000-06:00

Ooh boy, never again will I brag about not getting sick. Now I am a girl that lives w/ allergies 24/7 and it's not like I don't ever get colds.. but I hardly ever get "really" sick.

Well on Monday I kept coughing & coughing the whole day at work. My throat wasn't even sore or scratchy, I just kept having to cough. Nbd. Then I get home Monday afternoon around 3:30ish and by 5:00 I had a fever and felt like crap! I hate, hate calling in sick at work so I just loaded up on meds and went to bed around 7:00 so I would hopefully feel better for work on Tuesday. No such luck. I worked a 9hr shift w/ a 103 degree fever.. noooot the brightest idea ever. It's safe to say I was quite happy when it came time for me to go home. I got home curled up in front of the fireplace w/ 2 fleece blankets for about an hour until I finally warmed up, and that's pretty much where I spent the rest of the night.

Wednesday morning I didn't even set an alarm, Joe called work and told them I wouldn't be coming in. I still hadn't gotten my fever to go below 102, so Joe made me take a cold shower :( it was horrible!! BUT it did break my fever.. for a couple hours :/ Joe left to go snowmobiling all day, so I had the house and the puppies to myself. Me and the couch were verryyy good friends! Wednesday evening I got myself showered and dressed and went to Ron Thoennes's wake. So sad :( I'm really glad that I was able to be there for my friends, but I don't think I should have left the house.

Luckily I had Thursday off already, so I had one more day to rest up. Not that it helped.. I felt like I was never going to get better!! :(

Finally today.. over a week a later.. I feel better! Definitely not 100%, but I'll take what I can get. I am so, so thankful for my husband. He took such good care of me when I was sick. He brought me medicine, made me soups, kept me stocked with cold washclothes when I had my fever.. he was the best caretaker I could have asked for! Love you baby! :D

Vodka & Eggs..

2011-01-31T10:21:00.000-06:00

Sunday morning my sweet, loving, darling husband woke up before me and decided to surprise me w/ breakfast! Welll that is, until he realized that we were out of vodka & eggs. Then all hell broke loose. No longer was the element of surprise his key goal, rather it was to get my butt out of bed so I could go on a vodka & eggs run. Either way, breakfast & bloodys were delicious :D

"Now we can really be friends.."

2011-01-14T08:13:00.000-06:00

So the only times me and Sami really hang out are nights when we go to the bar. Every Wednesday we play trivia together at Seasons Tavern, and occasionally we'll go there other days during the week just because. And then we're either at JJ's or Seasons at least one day out of the weekend. Which is completely fine with me.. no complaints or anything. I love this girl and it wouldn't matter where we hung out!

Well yesterday we both happened to have the same day off (this never happens) so we decided it was only right that we hang out together :) I ended up sleeping in until 12:30 (ooh how nice that was.. but kind of stupid also) and I quick took a shower and met Sami at Pearle Vision in Hudson. She was going to pick out new glasses and wanted a 2nd person's a opinion. After that we went to Fantastic Sam's to get my hair cut and then decided we needed lunch. We tried Kaladi's, but for some oddddd reason they're only open until 3pm (WTF, right?) Anyways, we ended up eating at La Fiesta Mexicana. It was very yummy! As we were walking out to our cars we were both saying how nice it was to have spent the afternoon together and then my lovely friend, Samantha says "and now we can really be friends, since we've hung out outside of a bar." hahah ooh my, it made me laugh! Have I mentioned I love this girl? :)

After that I was going to just go home, but decided that since it was Thursday I would stop at JJ's. (really, Thursday has nothing to do with it, I just wasn't ready to go home and clean.) So I went there for what was supposed to be one drink. Then after 5 drinks, 3 hours & lots of laughs w/ Gustafer & Jesse I decided I really should go home and work on my list of things I had to do for the day.

Well when I got home I realized it was already after 8:00 and all I wanted to do was curl up on the couch w/ puppies (Joe was plowing) and watch a movie. So I watched Pretty In Pink and neglected every single thing I had hoped to accomplish on my day off. Nice, huh? Oh well, it was a good day anyways!

And now, thankfully, it's Friday! Have a great weekend everyone!! :)

Bar hoppin' & lazy days!

2011-01-09T13:09:00.000-06:00

Had a great Friday night doing some bar hoppin' w/ 2 of my favorite people.. Sami Gianforte & Molly Timmerman :)

Started the night off w/ Molly at L&M's. It was they're first night doing bingo and since a friend asked, we decided to stop and play a few games. Well a few games turned into about 2 games & a race to finish our drink because we could not get out of there fast enough!! haha let's just say there were some annoying people there.

SO where do we go then?? JJ's of course :) Got let in VIP style by Mr. Jesse Penman himself, settled our asses on a barstool and were pretty content to spend the rest of the night there eatin' nachos :) My love bug, Sami even came all the way out to Hammond to hang out too. It was all find and dandy until I found out something that made me have a bone to pick w/ Jesse. (even though he claims it wasn't him.. ) but anyways, after being ignored by said boy for about 2 hours, we decided to try our luck w/ the other Penman boy instead.

We loaded up the Vue and headed out to New Richmond to The Outpost. We sat there for about 20 mintues or so before Jer got back to the bar, and then we chatted w/ his gorgeous self for another half hour or so. We each had one drink & one shot and realized it was already past midnight and we had my boys waiting for us at Gibby's Lanes in New Richmond. So we got our goodbye hug and made our way out to the bowling alley to see Geno play!!

Gibby's was pretty quite by the time we got out there at 12:30, but it was still lots of fun! Only had one drink there because I don't think I've ever paid $4.25 for a dinky plastic cup filled w/ about a drop of vodka and the rest diet Coke. Just ridiculous! We stayed there until about 1:45 or so, got our hugs & kisses from Geno and headed back to home (second home I mean.. JJ's) Samantha and I continued our ongoing dart tournament, which I won that night :) then she headed out and I had one more drink w/ Molly, Dylan & Joe. Did my usual routine of helping wipe down tables and put up chairs, said my goodbyes to Gus, and once again got our butts kicked out the door at bar close.

And then Saturday and Sunday were spent being extremely lazy. Sadly, I had to watch my boy, Peyton Manning lose last night.. which pretty much made me want to cry. If I can't see the Vikes in the playoffs this year I reallllly wanted to see the Colts :( but oh well, there's always next year.. right ? So anyways, today I'll watch the Pack and hopefully go to Season's Tavern Christmas party. What fun! Hope everyone else had a great weekend :)

the only picture I got of the night :( still a gorgeous one though!

Routine

2011-01-05T13:23:00.000-06:00

Whenever I have a day off from work, my morning routine gets very messed up. You see, when I get to work the first thing I do is log onto my computer and get my drawer out.
If there are no customers at the time, then I..

1. Check my work email - not that's theres usually anything important
2. Check my hotmail email - not anything important there either. except bills :(
3. Check my 5 favorite baby blogs :)
4. Check my other friend's blogs
5. Check my bank account
6. Check Joe's bank account

And then, and ONLY then am I able to really start my day. If the morning is hectic and there's people here bugging me that shouldn't be.. it's just a bad start to the day, lol. What weird habits I have!

2010-12-31T08:12:00.000-06:00

Oops, I've kind of been slacking on my blogging duties lately. I feel like I do the same thing week after week, so really there's nothing worth telling! Let's see how this week was..

Well I guess I should start a couple days before this week started.. CHRISTMAS! My 2nd favorite holiday. I love, love, love getting together with all my family.. especially at my grandparents house. The atmosphere is just so friendly and loving. I love sitting on the couch with my aunts drinking wine, I love playing with all my little cousins, I love helping my Grandma cook dinner. There's really nothing better than family :) Christmas Eve my mom, dad, brother, Grandma & Grandpa came over and had Christmas at our house. It was a lot of fun! Christmas Day we went over to Joe's moms and had Christmas there, and the day after Christmas we celebrated at my grandparents. Lots of fun times!

So back to this Monday. It was very, very busy at work and by the time 5:00 rolled around I was ready to hightail it out of there! I got home and spend a quite evening at home w/ Joe & puppies :)

Tuesday = BINGO NIGHT! I was so, so excited because Sami didn't have volleyball that night and she was able to come play bingo with me!! I went to JJ's around 7:00 by myself, because Joe had to go tow poor Tiffany's car home. Sami and Stevie got there around 7:30ish and Joe came around 9:00. Joe won the coverall!! Along with 3 other people.. :( lol and it was only $210 because someone had won it the week before.. but hey, he still got $70! That was pretty exciting :)

Wednesday = TRIVIA NIGHT! Tuesdays & Wednesdays are by far my favorite days of the week! I actually convinced Joe & Jake to come play trivia w/ me at Seasons this week, so we all headed to Seasons around 8:15. Since Stevie didn't have school this week, she was able to stay and play trivia.. yay! I don't think Joe loved trivia as much as I do, unfortunately :( but oh well. The only bad part of that night there was that Hot Toddy was not working :( Hot Toddy is the best bartender at Seasons.. love him! After trivia was over I kicked Sami's ass twice at darts (which was good because she kicked mine at JJ's last night, lol) Then we played Cricket w/ the boys. Hard game, but fun! I think Joe was getting a little crabby because he didn't want to be out so late, but he also didn't tell me he was ready to leave.. so I finally could tell he wanted to leave and we headed home. My favorite Jesse Penman had text me and told me he was working and to stop out at the bar if I was out, so when we got home I went out to JJ's for awhile. And when I say awhile.. I mean 3:15 in the morning. Oops :/ It was fun though, there was only a couple other guys in the bar and I helped Jesse clean tables & put chairs up, then we played a couple games of darts and drank. Really probably shouldn't have drove home, Jesse called and talked to me the whole way home so that helped a little I guess. Still don't like driving after I've been drinking though!

Thursday = LONG, LONG day. I actually woke up Thursday morning still quite drunk. (only got like 2 hours of sleep) I realized I had pushed snooze wayy more than I should have, and was already quite late getting ready for work. Great start to the day, right? Well it didn't get much better. Every hour I swore I wouldn't make another one. lol I was just about ready to swear off drinking. (HA) I started to feel a little better right before I left work, which was good because I was meeting Joe's mom and we were gona do some shopping in Woodbury. Got a new pair of work shoes (Christmas present from Joe's mom) and a couple groceries at Trader Joe's but that's about it. We had dinner at Pei Wei then came home and I went right to bed! I was only able to sleep for about 3 hours before Joe and the boys came home and were very, very loud until like 3:00 in the morning. I was not happy with them this morning. I was really hoping for a good night's sleep before going out tonight. Hopefully I'll be able to get a nap in today after work.

And thankfully today is FRIDAY! Even though the morning didn't start off the greatest on account of someone hitting a power line in front of work and the power being out. But hopefully the day goes by fast and 3:00 comes and I can leave right away! Still not quite sure what our NYE plans are.. but I hope it'll be fun!

Have a safe & fun New Year's everyone! :)

Dear Vikings,

2010-12-14T07:16:00.000-06:00

Why must you make it so hard to be a fan of yours???
Please pick up the pace. It may be too late for playoffs, but it's still nice to watch you win.

Yours forever,
Nikki.

Wheaties

2010-12-03T09:03:00.000-06:00

So I bought this box of Wheaties because my boyfriend, Peyton Manning, was on the front. Little did I know.. I LOVE Wheaties!! Haha I've never had them before, but they are most delicious! Definitely my breakfast choice every morning now :)

Economy Size

2010-12-03T09:00:00.000-06:00

The plus side of buying economy size.. easier on my pocket.
The down side of buying economy size.. practically throwing my shoulder out lifting the god damn thing every time I do laundry. :(

Birthday Celebrations!

2010-11-19T14:44:00.000-06:00

My birthday week has almost come to end.. but what fun was had!

Monday night I babysat, and made some extra money to go out with :)

On my actual birthday (Tuesday) I worked until about 11:00 and then Joe met me up here and we went to MOA! Now, my husband is not the shopping type.. so I think the only reason he agreed was because it was my birthday. Which is fine with me :) We spent about 3 hours just walking around the mall, it was very much fun! Joe got me some new perfume from Victoria's Secret for my birthday and he also traded in his biggest deer hide and let me keep the coupon to go pick something out for myself later. New warm pair of mittens here I come!! :) So we got home from MOA and pretty much just got changed and ready to head out to JJ's for dinner & bingo! It was me, Joe, Erin, my mom, dad, Derrick, Dilly Bar & Jake. Dinner was delicious and bingo was fun as always! Except I didn't win :( but oh well. My bar boys weren't there, but Amybar was.. so that was good enough for me :) Oh I forgot my lovey, Sami even came out for a little bit after her volleyball practice. I love this girl :) I think we left the bar around 11:30 and I stayed up for one more drink with the boys at home then went to bed since I had to work at 8:45 on Wednesday!

Wednesday royally sucked at work, because Monday night I started getting a cold and by Wednesday morning it was just awful. I had the worst sore throat and stuffy nose. It was really no fun. I worked until 5:00 and then went over to Joe's mom for my birthday dinner at their house. Steak, potatoes & veggies.. SO DELICIOUS!! But needless to say, after that I was ready to go home and pass out. Which is exactly what I did :) I guess Joe left to sleep somewhere else in the middle of the night because he said I was whining in my sleep. Sheesh boy, it's not my fault I'm a baby when I'm sick! lol

Thursday I felt a little better, but I still would much rather have been at home in bed. I got home from work around 6:30 and Joseph had dinner mostly ready and we ate dinner and watched Bones in bed!

Today is FINALLY Friday and I get to go out w/ my bestest ever friend, Amanda Jane Miller!! It has been WAY too long since I've seen her :( We are going to go out to the Outpost for some good ol' quality drinking time! I can't wait!! On that same note, it is my first weekend in the last couple months that I don't get to see Sami.. I'm going to miss her! But I'm glad she's going to LAX to visit her friends.

Saturday is work and nothing else planned so far. Spending some time to myself since the boy will be hunting!

Sunday.. BIG GAME. Oh boy, I'm a little nervous :/

Monday.. work.

Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday.. NO WORK!!

Thursday is Turkey day.. my favorite day of the year :) :)

Friday & Saturday.. back to work!

Monday already????

2010-11-15T08:44:00.001-06:00

I'm really wishing it wasn't Monday morning already :(
I had another great weekend, and was sad to see it end so soon!

Friday I got done w/ work at 3:00 and went home to try and take a nap. Well, the nap didn't happen.. which is okay because I wasn't as tired as I thought when I was at work. (Weird that I perk up the second I leave work, right??) So I putzed around the house a little bit. Got some much needed laundry done! Then around 7:00 my once bestest ever friend, Abby came over. It was soo nice to see her! I feel like it's been years & years. (Sadly, it probably has.) We sat in my living room talking for about an hour before Samantha Jane decided to get her ass to my house. Then we all headed out to JJ's. What a GREAT, GREAT time we had! We talked, we ate, we drank, we danced.. it was so much fun! Not going to lie, I haven't been that drunk in quite awhile. Which made it all the more fun of course :) We got home around 3:00am and I made the mistake of laying down in my bed and after that there was no getting up :( lol my feet hurt so bad from dancing in heels, and I was just exhausted. So instead of holing up w/ my girls downstairs in bed, I slept in my own bed. Abby left pretty much right away and me and Sami fell back asleep until Joseph came down and told us breakfast was made :) Honestly, the thought of food made me want to gag, and all I could think about was a Bloody Mary. For some reason, I thought that could cure all my ailments, lol. Which it did.. for awhile!

After Sami left Saturday morning, I crawled back into bed w/ Joseph and slept for a looong time. Then Joe had to go to my parents to help with my brother's truck and curled up on the couch with puppies and watched Dawson's Creek. Sami kept calling me while she was at work and telling me how she just wanted to die because she was so hung over, lol. Made me laugh a little bit! By about 7:00 I was bored and ready to go out again, but Sami was working until 10:00 and I didn't really have much else to do. So I just waited for Joe to get home and we ate Chipotle and went to bed :)

Sunday morning (ahem.. afternoon) I woke up at 12:01 and raced upstairs to turn the Vikes on. What a sad game.. again. After the game we went over to my parents so Joe could do Kory's brakes, and then we went to MONGOLIAN for dinner. YUM!!! So delicious. Almost made me forget about the game. We got back to my parents and Sami told me she was meeting a blind date at Seasons and she wanted me there for moral support. So me and Joe sat w/ Stevie and had one beer and spied on Sami. Oh what fun :) I'm still waiting to here the details on the date. He was cute & they laughed alot, so I hope it went well!!

Now it's Monday and I'm oh so sad about it. Can't it be Saturday again???

TOMORROW is my BIRTHDAY though!! yay!! :)

Thirsty Thursday

2010-11-12T07:46:00.000-06:00

What a very, very long work week it has been already! I'm so glad it's Friday and I have the weekend off :)

Last night I worked until 6:00 and then met Sami, her brother Matt, and Mike at Seasons Tavern for a "few" drinks. Her sister works there too, and it was so much fun to hang out w/ all of them. They were like a second family to me so long ago and it was great to see them! Unfortunately, a few beers turned into 11:00 and me realizing it was much past my bedtime. :(

So I went home and got to help Joe package venison from his deer he got that night! I was excited about the deer part, not the me cleaning & packaging it part at 11:30 at night when I should have been sleeping a long time ago lol. But it's always my job, so I did it :)

I'm supposed to be done at 3:00 today, so the plan is to go home and take a nap and get ready for a night w/ my girls, Sami & Abby!! I'm so excited to have all 3 of us together again. It's been wayyy too long :) Not even sure what we're doing yet, but I know it'll be fun :)

Hope everyone has a fun & safe weekend!

1 Week..

2010-11-09T09:32:00.000-06:00

.. until my BIRTHDAY! :) :)

22 YEARS OLD! sheesh, where did time go!

Don't really have anything special planned. Since it's on a Tuesday, that means bingo night @ JJ's w/ good friends of course :)

I'm secretly hoping for my mom to make me a special bonnie butter cake! Mmm, I can almost taste the sugary delicious-ness now! Sugary delicious-ness that I don't need, but want oh so bad, lol.

Weekend Fun!

2010-11-09T09:13:00.000-06:00

My work weeks are usually so boring that I really live for the weekends! Now granted, sometimes my weekends are really boring too.. but still, it means no work! Let's see if I can remember when I did last weekend...

Friday night I was supposed to work until 5:00, but ended up not getting out until about 6:00. Originally I was going to go home and relax w/ the house to myself. (Joe was going to be at my parents all night helping dad w/ Kory's car) But then a certain someone talked me into going to Hammond for a little bit. SO I called up Sami G and said that we should go out tonight for a little bit. Once she agreed, I convinced Mike & Scott to come hang out w/ us too. :) We all met in Hammond around 8:00 and drank at the Sports Bar for quite awhile. (By the way, certain someone wasn't even there. jerk.) Me, Mike & Scott played darts (Sami just made fun of me the whole time.. bitch) and then we all played a couple games of dice. I will tell you true love right here.. Sami lost the last dice game & I took her shot of JD for her. Honestly, that's love baby. We decided it was time to move along, so we set out to walk to the Hotel, but ended up at Ras' instead. $5 Ladies Night for Sam & me :) It was a very good night. Drank toooo much, stayed up toooo late.. AND unfortunately ruined my new cell phone :( I shouldn't say ruined, because I'm pretty sure after a couple more days in a bag of rice it'll be good to go. But still frustrating nonetheless.

Saturday may have been the longest day EVER. I was just dead off my feet. Had to get up at 6:30 for work, then spent the rest of the day w/ my mama shopping. I got home around 6:00 or 7:00 and little Sami G, who had napped the whole afternoon was ready to go out.. me, who had only gotten about 10 hours of sleep all week was in no mood to go party more lol. So I passed out around 8:00 and didn't get up until 9:00 the next morning. Sure felt good :)

Sundays are always my favorite day of the week. FOOTBALL!!! :) :) I had a couple hours to myself in the morning while Joe still slept, and then went hunting. So I cleaned the house and watched some 90210 until around noon. Then I got to watch the Vikings WIN!! It's about damn time. Never once did I lose faith in my beloved Vikes.. but it sure gets discourging to watch them lose every week :( So that was a good end to my weekend!

Now it's Tuesday.. which means BINGO night! :) Let's hope I win some mooooola! $$$

Make New Friends & Keep The Old*

2010-10-25T11:10:00.000-05:00

What a wonderful, wonderful weekend I had! :)

Friday started off perfect because I knew I was going to be done at THREE. 3:00 on a Friday never happens, so I was very excited!! At that time we were supposed to have my family over to carve pumpkins, so I went home and started cleaning the house and doing a little laundry. Then I talked to my mom and we decided not to do pumpkins that night because both my brother and his girlfriend told people they'd work for them. So I was a little bummed because I was really looking forward to having my family over. But then I got a text message from my beautiful, long lost friend Sami! Seriously, I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say I haven't seen her since since we graduated (almost 4 years ago.. HOLYCOW!) So I was beyond excited to say the least :) First we were just making plans to go play bar bingo at JJ's Sports Bar on Tuesday night, but then we made plans to meet up in Hammond later that night too! I was all dressed and ready to go (I had my mind set to go out that night.. probably would have gone out by myself if no one else would have, lol) So I putzed around the house a little waiting for Sami, then went to meet in Hammond around 7:00. We went to the Sports Bar for one drink, then got a text saying that the happening place to be was at The Hammond Hotel instead. So we went and hung out w/ my 2 favorite Penman boys the rest of the night :) It was so much fun, and it was like no time had passed since I'd seen Sami last!!

Saturday was kind of a sluggish day, because free drinks all night really doesn't make a girl feel too good the following day. So I laid around, cleaned a little and finally got up to take a shower and CARVE PUMPKINS! My mom, dad, Kory, Monica, Jake & Joe's mom all came over and grilled some food, drank some beer & carved pumpkins. It was a lot of fun! I was so tired that the night got to seem very long, and as soon as everyone left I went to bed :) Joe went out to a field party for a little bit, but the rain kind of ruined that.

Sunday I was going to go with my mom to take Kory back to school, but me and Joe had a surprise party to go to in Chisago City so I wasn't able to go with this time. The party was fun! I was worried it was going to be weird because I woudln't know anyone.. but it wasn't at all! The only bad thing was that we had to miss the first quarter of the Viking game. Oh what a game. I think that's all I'm going to say about that now. Too talked out about it :( Still love my damn Vikings though.

Now it's Monday and the day is slowly dragging on. Tomorrow is bingo night w/ Sami and hopefully Mike! Can't wait :) :) :)

No, No, No

2010-10-22T07:09:00.000-05:00

I just heard on the radio that it's going to be a "much colder & snowier" winter this year.

I usually don't complain much about winter.. but for some reason I'm just not ready for it yet this year! I don't want to pay for heat, I don't want to stock up on mittens, I don't want to have to start my car an hour early every day.

I'm. just. not. ready.

Fall can last another couples months, please :)

My night..

2010-10-19T17:38:00.000-05:00

2010-10-16T08:13:00.001-05:00

I felt like I should blog because I'm bored and actually have time too.. but then I realized I had nothing to blog about.

Hate when that happens!

Have a good weekend :)

Camping

2010-10-11T05:50:00.000-05:00

I had a very fun weekend! Friday night was just spent sitting in the garage w/ Joe, Jake & Denny drinking.. so nothing too special. Then Saturday morning we got all set to go camping at Willow River State Park. It was very fun and relaxing! We got home Sunday morning, I took a quick shower and then snuggled up w/ Joe & Dylan to watch the Packers lose :) Now it's back to work on Monday.. pooey.

Sooo sleepy.

2010-10-04T12:32:00.000-05:00

I could seriously fall asleep standing at my teller station.

I. am. just. that. tired.

Oh 4:00.. please come quickly!

ZzZzZzZzZ

Puppies, oh puppies!

2010-09-26T19:16:00.001-05:00

I love my little pupper duppers :)

Can't Wait!

2010-09-23T16:10:00.000-05:00

I can't wait to go home tonight.. curl up on the couch with a nice plate of dinner (made by my lovely husband) and watch BONES!! Yay, I really can't wait!! I'm so mad that the 5th season doesn't come out on DVD until October 5th. I always like to buy the previous season and catch up before it comes back on TV. But don't worry, I remember exactly what happened the last episode of last season!! :)

Seriously, how could you not love these 2 together! Jeez, what was Bones thinking telling Booth no?!?!

That time of the year again, folks!

2010-09-19T15:42:00.000-05:00

Joe got his first deer of the season on opener day! Our freezer and bellies will be very happy over the winter :)

I wasn't able to get a picture of the deer before he gutted it (because THANKFULLY, he cleaned it up at his mom's house this year!!)

Happy boy bringing the meat in the house.

Joe & Jake cutting

Laundry basket full of fresh packaged meat! :)

The end result :)

There's no pictures of me, but my job is to rinse and trim the meat after it's cut, and then to package when it's all done. It's a hard day's work after hunting, but well worth it :)

9.7.08

2010-09-07T07:59:00.000-05:00

Happy Anniversary, my darling husband.
These past 2 years have been wonderful..
I can't wait to spend 60 more with you!

Oh yea, NOW I remember why.

2010-09-04T08:59:00.000-05:00

I just realized why it is that I don't like going out on nights when I work the next morning. Unfortunately I realized this at 9:00 this morning, instead of midnight last night. I'm someone who is quite the baby about my sleep, let me tell ya! You do not want to be my friend if you're the reason I got no sleep.. (just ask Joe, lol)

But, it was a fun night! I got home from work around 7:00 and Joe & Jake made me some dinner (Deer & Beer we like to call it.. a good healthy dinner of venison and beer.. yum) Then we set out for Hammond to hang out with our neighbors Jeff & Shannon! We went to Ras' first because there was supposed to be a surprise birthday party for someone Joe knows, but Jeff and Shannon weren't there so we went to JJ's Sports Bar for 1,2,3,4... um.. too many beers? lol then we went back to Ras' for $1 Keystones.. oh yea, can't go wrong with that! :) Then home to bed around midnight!

Fun night, except my poor body is yelling at me for not giving it enough sleep.

Silly body, sleep is for babies!

Are you kidding?

2010-09-02T15:00:00.000-05:00

Customer walks up to cash check..

Me: Do you know your account number, customer?
Customer: Are you kidding me???

No sir.. I am not kidding you.

I know my account numbers.. why is it so crazy that you would know yours??

Really, all you had to say was "no, sorry I don't."

A-hole.

State Fair!

2010-08-27T21:27:00.000-05:00

*ice cream sundaes
*cheese curds
*Austrailian potatoes
*apple cider
*pork chop on a stick
*pickle on a stick
*cotton candy
*root beer
*frozen grapes
*corn on the cob
*steak sandwich

WOW, I'm really hoping there isn't more.. but sadly, I'm probably forgetting some stuff. But boy, oh boy was it all delicious!! I just LOVE going to the State Fair! It's never boring, and there's always such great food. And the people watching.. so much fun! All in all, it was a wonderful day! My legs feel like they're going to fall off now (too much exercise, I tell ya!) which is perfect, because all I plan on doing tonight is snuggling up to my handsome husband and watch OTH.

Have a great weekend!

Day #4

2010-08-26T22:33:00.000-05:00

Aside from spending most of my day in training.. ( I know, I know.. who goes to training for work on their day off?? this girl) but anyways, I'm most happy with the work I accomplished when I got home! I finally got our office set up.. yay! I have an actual desk to put my computer on! Not a kitchen table, or a futon, or a laundry basket on the floor.. a real desk! I'm very excited :) I also put up some more bookshelves in the living room. It seems we're always in need of more movie space. So I'm glad that's taken care of too! We should be set for awhile.. unless I go on a crazy movie buying spree.. ;)

STATE FAIR TOMORROW!!!!! more fun to come :) :)

Doggy don't.

2010-08-26T18:33:00.000-05:00

Me and Joe were just standing out in the garage and a lady walks by walking 2 little dogs.

Well one dog decides to go doo-doo right in front on our yard (on the road) I kind of look away, out of respect for the lady. I know it's kind of embarrassing when your dog poops in front of people when you're on a walk. So I glanced back towards the road and she looks right at me. She then starts to pull the pooping dog along down the road.. but not before glancing back at me 2 more times!

Seriously, pick up your dogs crap! Especially when it's right in front of my driveway where I walk to get the mail AND especially because I watched you just saunter away, knowingly.

Major doggy don't, you stupid lady!

PS. I saw the poop pick-up bags dangling from her wrist. Good waste of money, huh lady?

DIY.. or not.

2010-08-25T17:03:00.000-05:00

Honestly, I didn't think it was possible for one person to suck SO bad at this DIY crap.

UGH.

Try "do it yourself, while calling your husband 80 times to help over the phone"

When did I become so retarded?!?!

Fun day babysitting!

2010-08-24T21:13:00.000-05:00

I had a BLAST babysitting Nora, Addie & Grayson yesterday! When I first got there Nora and Addie were off playing by themselves, so I got handsome little Grayson all to my self for awhile :) when the girls decided they wanted to play with me too, we put Gray down for his nap and we went outside to play. I got our the basketball hoop and tried to teach the girls to play HORSE or PIG. That didn't go over so well, lol. They liked the idea of the animal names, but that's about it. We played outside for a little over an hour then went inside and got baby Grayson up. We ended up playing Hide & Seek forrrever. It was so much fun! I've never seen a 1 1/2 year old catch on so fast! We would tell him it was his turn to count and he'd stand in a corner with his eyes closed and count.. to 2. But hey, it was a good start! :) I only gave the kids 2 rooms, plus the kitchen to hide it, but surprisingly it didn't get old! I could tell the kids were worn out after a meltdown from each of them, so after Addie & Gray left me and Nora went on a little walk and spent the rest of the night curled up on the couch together. It was a very fun day :)

Today's Stats

2010-08-23T13:56:00.000-05:00

Fresh cookies made!

Kitchen reorganized to accommodate china cabinet!

Laundry done!

Oh I also tried to make time to play outside with my lovey puppies.. but then Kylee bit me and I was pissed off at them the rest of the day.

Never ending weekend

2010-08-22T11:59:00.000-05:00

I woke up this morning and though "awh, man.. Sunday already? Where did the weekend go?!" and then I remembered that I have ALL next week off! YAYYYY!! It's like a never ending weekend. Well okay, it'll end in a week.. but that's not the point :) I'm going to babysit all day Tuesday, and go to a training for work on Thursday, but other than that I have nothing planned.. which feels great! I wish that Joe could spend the time with me too.. but I guess it's good that he's working :(
Well anyways, I guess I'll tell you about my weekend! Friday I had to work until 6:00, then I got to go babysit a cute baby boy!! :) I kind of wanted to go down to Pepperfest after, but nobody else wanted to go.. so I went out to Erin Corner's instead to see my BEST FRIEND. :) She threw her dad a surprise birthday party, and I crashed it at the end by eating all the leftover cupcakes and chips, haha. I hate that I don't get to see Amanda very much, I miss her! So I was glad I got to see her on Friday!
Saturday morning Joe had to work, so I went to the Pepperfest parade with Molly, Mya, Greg & Dawn. It was fun.. but I ate wayyy too much candy! The parade lasted 2 hours, and I pretty much left for home right after. Then me and Joe went over to Dylan's house for a little soiree :) His parents were having people over from Al's work.. so I got to eat lots of good food and beer! His co-workers didn't stay long, and after they left we all partook in a little Putirskis family fun :) First we played HORSE, which JP won. I think I convinced him that I won too, since he shot after me and I pretty much suck.. so he had a good chance at winning.. haha. Then we played kickball! Girls against boys.. soo much fun! Takes me back to my elementary days, playing kickball everyday at recess.. oh the good times we had! So after that everyone's all hot and sweaty, and what better way to cool down then to drink more beer??? Well I guess I found a better way.. I made Dilly Bar take me for a ride in the 'stang :) We went into Baldwin to get everyone smokes, and then we stopped at A&W to get me a root beer float. On our way back we drove past his neighbors house and they were having a huge party. Earlier in the day the same people were flying their little airplanes over and over and over the house and we were getting a little annoyed.. so, well.. we mooned them. haha but as me and Dylan were driving past their house we decided that we wanted a plane ride. What's the worst that could happen.. they'll say no?? So we dropped in and asked who the owner of this fine establishment was (yea, they're his neighbors, but he's never met them.. lol) The guy happened to be standing 2 feet from us, and Dylan asked if we could get a plane ride in and he said SURE! The guy was super, super nice. He took us up in his little 4 seater and we cruised around for about 10 minutes. It was soo fun! I haven't been a little plane like that forever! I guess Justin & Toni went over there right after we left and tried to get a ride, but we were the last ones they took up because it was getting dark. So that's cool, we just barely made it :) By the time we got back to Dylan's house, they were ready to go in and watch the Packer game so me and Joe just went home. Joe was tired and had to work in the morning, so I went down to Kozy around 10:30 and hung out with my mom until 1:00.. it was very fun! When I left the bar I decided I was hungry so I stopped at Taco Bell, came home and ate then went to bed. It was a great ending to a GREAT day!!!

Amanda Jane Miller

2010-08-17T17:51:00.000-05:00

is my best, best, best friend ever!!!

Amanda asked how we liked the Milwaukee County Zoo, and I said it was great except I didn't get to see any hippos!

So today when I got the mail.. there was 2 hippos in there!

Yep, I love her!

Luxurious

2010-08-17T12:28:00.000-05:00

If you remember awhile ago me and Joe were able to get a free king size mattress, which we were SO excited for! It was back when we had all 3 dogs and a queen just wasn't cutting it. So we got the mattress and for awhile I looked around Craigslist and whatnot to find a cheap enough bed frame, but I kinda gave up. Until I've had it in my head that I want to reorganize the basement, and that darn mattress is taking up the whole floor! So today I found 2 box frames & a metal frame for only $60!!! We're going to pick them up tonight, hopefully! Can't wait to have the biiiiig, luxurious mattress in our bedroom :) :) :)

Monday blues.

2010-08-16T20:34:00.000-05:00

I was so excited for this weekend.. but WHY?? I really don't know, because nothing went the way I wanted it too.

Friday night I got home from work around 6:30ish, and I was hoping Joe and Dylan would say they wanted to go out.. because I really wanted to go out! It was Heartland Days and I was ready to drink. Well Dylan wanted to go to the pull in Ellsworth, but me and Joe didn't want to because we knew it was going to rain. So instead Joe decides to go over to his friend Mike's house to help him with his go-cart. He tells me he won't be long and if I'm still awake (his never ending joke.. apparently he thinks I sleep too much) we can go to Hammond! I actually got alot done around the house, and I was dressed and ready when he got home. But did we do anything?? No. We just went to bed.

Saturday I guess Mike talked him into working, so I was on my own for most of the day. I asked Joe if he could be home by 3 or 4 at the latest so we could go to the truck pull, and he said okay. So I did some stuff around the house, and then went to Woodbury to do a little shopping. Didn't get too much, but returned a pair of jeans at AE. Oh but the best part.. I saw JESSIE JEWEL/ARCO. It was a very nice surprise to see my mrs. baby mama. I miss her quite terribly :( But anyways, I was on my way home and Kurt called and said him and Kyle were out at the shop and wanted to know if I wanted to stop by for awhile. Hard to say no to my best friend that I haven't talked to for almost 2 weeks!! :) Then I went home and me, Joe & Dilly Bar went to the truck pull. It was fun :) Dylan went home after to eat dinner and I just assumed he'd be back later and we would actually GO OUT. Nope. Joe fell asleep and I sat on my ass bored. I watched the Vikes win, that was about the best part of my night. I was just so mad, there's not many times I want to go out, and whenever I do, nobody else wants to go. It's not fair. I know I sound like a whiny 3 year old, but I don't care :)

Sunday was a good day. Thought maybe Joe would take me to the parade, but we got the house cleaned instead. Me moved our freezer into the basement, and brought a big china cabinet Grandma gave us into the kitchen. I really like it! Just wish my house was bigger now.. :) Then we went over to my parents for the rest of the day.

Well, that was my weekend. Now it's Monday night and Joe's at a snowmobile meeting, so here I am sitting on the computer with a snoring puppy dog in my lap. I almost don't want to move him, he's so precious right now.. :)

Goodnight everyone!

More than annoyed.

2010-08-13T09:02:00.001-05:00

I just spent almost half an hour on the phone with the Baldwin post office, the Baldwin UPS hub, the Hammond post office, the Hudson post office, the UPS store in Hudson, and finally stupid American Eagle (who made the stupid mistake in the first place!!!!!!!!)

All the lady at AE had to do was ask for verification of my address before she sent off my pair of jeans.

GR.

Cheap Therapy

2010-08-13T07:47:00.000-05:00

It's Friday morning, I'm at work by myself and I realize that there's a loooot of stuff floating around my head.. so what better way to get it out, than to blog?? :)

Joe's been laid off for 5 months now, and just recently (I'd say the past 2 weeks, maybe a little longer) he's been doing some construction work in the cities.. for CASH! So it's been sooo nice knowing thatwe have just that little extra bit of money. And now the beginning of this week another place called and wanted to hire him for a month or so, also working for cash! AND he just got an interview at United Gear, so it finally seems like things may be falling into place. Thank heaven! :)

It's been really hard on me with him not working. I'm very irritable and we fight wayyy too much. And I shouldn't lie and say it's because he's not working, the main reason is I'm extremely jealous of this girl that he's friends with. It's pretty much the same fight over and over again. And I hate it, because I realize how difficult and stupid I'm being even at the time, but I can't help it :( So we've really been trying to work on that, and I'm happy to say that things have been much, much better. :)

More exciting news.. we're getting a pool! Joe's mom had some problems with their deck foundation out back so she took down the whole deck and decided she didn't want the pool anymore either, so we got to take it! We've talked about getting a pool ever since we bought our house, but it always seemed too expensive and maybe too much work? But we are getting the pool for free, we're doing the work all ourselves, and Joe's mom gave us all the pool chemicals she had left (about a years' worth). So we're not even out much money! Then I think when Joe gets paid from these couple jobs he's been doing (hopefully a little more than $1,000) we're finally going to build our deck. It was a tough decision for awhile.. do we pay off credit cards with the money, or do we do something for ourselves?? But we've wanted a deck for sooo long, and we're going to need some sort of a deck for the pool.. so it seemed like the right thing to do :) We just got the pool liner in the mail yesterday, so now all we're waiting on is a free day and people to help! Hopefully this weekend, or next?!

What else have I got to say?? Work still sucks 90% of the time. They're letting us hire a part-timer, which is awesome.. I just wish they'd hurry up and hire someone!

It's FINALLY Football season again!! I wonder how I survived 7 months without Football!?! Very excited for the Viking's first preseason game tomorrow! GO VIKES!! :) :)

I'm very thankful for the rainy summer we've had. It's been so good for our little pine trees we planted this spring! Granted, we could have done without the torrential rains and 90mph winds some days (even thought they were fun to watch, lol), but the rain itself was nice to have!

We still haven't been able to get pregnant :( I told myself it was a good thing, because of Joe's unemployment right now.. but it's still hard. We both want it so bad. Everyone keeps telling me that it will happen when it's meant to happen.. but if we both feel like it's meant to happen now, then why hasn't it?? :(

Well it's starting to get busier at work now. Hour and a half down.. 9 to go.

Happy Friday everyone!

Milwaukee Pictures!

2010-08-11T18:48:00.001-05:00

Miller Brewing Co.

2010-08-10T18:22:00.001-05:00

07/22/2010

Milwaukee

2010-08-10T18:03:00.000-05:00

I never posted about our weekend in Milwaukee! Let's see if I remember :)

We got up early to leave on Thursday morning. I got really bummed because it was cold and rainy, and I was hoping for warm and sunny so we could do lots of stuff when we got there! It ended up raining the whole way down there. I was very glad Joe was driving, because it was coming down so hard that we were hydroplaning all over the place! So it was pretty scary, but we made in there in one piece :) Actually when we got there it was almost sunny out! We checked into our hotel and put some clothes on that weren't wrinkled from sitting in a car for 5 hours and set out exploring.

We went to the Miller Brewing Co, and got to tour that whole facility. It was super neat, and crazy to think how much beer is made and shipped out there every day! Makes me love my Miller Lite even more.. :) The tour lasted about an hour, with plenty of time after to sample beer. I was thinking you'd get dinky little samples to try, but nope.. you got three 6 or 8 oz glasses of beer! It was pretty sweet.

By the time we got out of the brewery the sky was looking pretty dark again and then all of a sudden the sirens went off! There were thunderstorm warnings, tornado warnings, flood warnings. It was not going to be a pleasant evening! Once again it started pouring so hard we could hardly see when we were driving. It didn't help that we were in city where we're not used to driving. But once again, we made it to the hotel safe and sound.

It was still pretty early and I had planned on doing more things, so it was kind of a drag to be stuck in the hotel. But I guess I'd rather not die in a tornado, so we laid low for awhile. The TV in the room only had like 30 channels, so we got bored real fast. aaand we got hungry. So good ol' Tom Tom told me that there was a Chuck-E-Cheese pretty much within walking distance of our hotel! Of course we didn't walk in the torrential tornadic flooding weather, but we did drive ourselves to Chuck-E-Cheese! We got pizza and played games for quite awhile, then went back to our room and went to bed. For the day not turning out how I'd planned it, it went pretty well :)

We woke up Friday morning to.. rain. When the heck were we going to get to go to the zoo?! We were lazy bones and stayed in bed too long so we missed the continental breakfast, but luckily by the time we got showered and dressed it had stopped raining! So we set out for the zoo. And let me just say one thing.. the Milwaukee County Zoo is highly overpriced. Not to say we didn't enjoy ourselves, but we could have enjoyed ourselves at a zoo in Minnesota for free. But oh well. We got to see lots of cute animals.. except a hippo. I love hippos, and it was the one exhibit that we missed! I was very bummed out when I realized it after we left :( After the zoo we stopped for lunch at Baker's Square. I brought my mama home a piece of carrot cake since she was so nice to watch my puppies while we were gone :) By the time we got back to the hotel after lunch, everyone else was there! We got the Brewers tickets from my dad's friend who had a whole bunch, so we got to go to the game with all their friends. We started my pre-gaming a little in our room with frozen margaritas that I made everyone :) Then we continued at Miller Park before the game. I had a great time at the game, but it was soo freakin' hot!! It was very nice to get back to the hotel and fall asleep in the air conditioning!!

Well, I think that's about everything. I wish me and Joe were able to get away for more weekends like these.. but the fact that we don't, makes the few that we do even more special and fuN :)

Fawn-Doe-Rosa

2010-08-10T17:51:00.000-05:00

Today I was thinking that I never really have anything to blog about. Then I was looking through my camera and realized I had lots of stuff to blog about from this summer so far!

This is from a Sunday afternoon when me and Joe took my baby cousin, Wynter to Fawn-Doe-Rosa in St. Croix Falls. It was the first time I've ever been there, and it was soo neat! Unfortunately my camera died pretty much right when we got there, but I still got a couple good pictures. Other than the deer that I'm feeding, we got to feed ducks, donkeys, goats, baby cows, horses and probably more that I'm forgetting! It was very, very cool and I'm sure I'll make Joe take me back there again :)

7/25/2010

Who knew?..

2010-08-10T11:16:00.000-05:00

.. that it was possible for us to have a nice, slow and steady rain shower, without the destructive winds and torrential downpours???

I'm sure the storms will be back later, but for now I am quite content with the slow drizzle :)

Ella Roselea

2010-08-08T10:40:00.001-05:00

Happy 1 week birthday little Ella*
you are so precious & perfect, we love you already!
..especially you're fashion sense ;)

NOT my fault.

2010-08-07T09:56:00.000-05:00

It is NOT my fault that yes, we're a bank.. but no, we don't have butt loads of cash in our vault all the time. All I was saying was next time please call before wanting $10,000.

It is NOT my fault that the exchange rate on Canadian currency is so shitty. 10 minutes later maybe you finally realized that.

It is NOT my fault that someone got in line before you and you have to wait a second or two. Sorry to keep your precious Saturday from you. But please, kindly remember that work is the last place I would like to be on a Saturday.. so cut me a freakin' break!

Some things, yes, are my fault.

But those things I just mentioned.. no, that is just me doing my JOB.

So shove it up your butt, buddy(s).

FIVE YEARS

2010-08-02T10:20:00.000-05:00

Happy 5 year anniversary, honey!
I love you more & more everyday :)

Smelly McSmelly

2010-07-27T15:51:00.000-05:00

Usually I get up in the mornings and take a shower, and then while my hair is taking ages to dry.. I pop in a disc of Gilmore Girls and putz around on the computer. I did the same thing I do every morning today, and when I went to leave (a tad later than I would have liked) I suddenly remembered I didn't put deodorant on! How could I have gotten dressed with out putting deodorant on?? So anyways, I ran back upstairs and Joe was in the bathroom!! Gr, I was already in a hurry. So I just quick put some of Joe's on.

Well I just caught a whiff of myself, and it made me think of my loving husband who I miss a little extra today now :)

My little Bambi

2010-07-17T15:53:00.009-05:00

Milwaukee bound.. in a few days.

2010-07-17T07:52:00.000-05:00

Only 2 and a half more days of work, and then I have FIVE whole days off. I feel like this never happens. Me and Joe are going to go to Milwaukee for the weekend!

I work Monday and Tuesday (and today, hence the 2 and a half days of work left) Wednesday will probably be a major clean-the-house day. I can't stand leaving town and coming back to a messy house. I hate coming home to a messy house in general actually. So anyways.. Wednesday will be cleaning and packing day.

Thursday I'm going to try and get Joe to be up and ready to leave around 7:00 or 8:00. We'll see how that actually goes though :/ then we'll be on our way! I figure we'll check into the hotel first and maybe get some lunch, then we're going to hit up the Miller Brewery and the Milwaukee County Zoo. I'm super excited for both! I didn't really make any plans for Thursday evening, but we'll still have the night to ourselves, so maybe I'll find us a nice restaurant to go too :)

Then Friday morning my dad and brother are leaving to come down and we're going to meet them at Miller Park for a Brewer's game. :) Then lucky us, we get to share a hotel room with my brother, his girlfriend and his best friend. All because I'm too cheap to get us another room for the night! But oh well, it should be fun!

We might to the Saturday game too, but if not I was thinking of stopping and getting a day pass for Noah's Ark or something. :) Joe hasn't been to the Dells forever, and I'm always up for a water park.. so hopefully we have money and time left over to do that!

I'm really excited for the whole weekend, but I'm even more excited for the time off work. :)

Why can't that be me???

2010-07-14T16:24:00.000-05:00

Some guy just came in to the bank and told me he won $7,000 off a $3 scratch off ticket.

WHY coudln't that have been me???

He got $4,700 back after taxes. Oh what I would do with an extra $4,700?!

*sigh*

Now I'm thinking about how broke I am. :(

Sans pants.

2010-06-28T09:19:00.000-05:00

Yesterday Joe got this brilliant idea to go crayfishing. (very redneck of us, right?) Anyways.. he had been fishing down in Spring Valley the other day, and saw lots and lots of crayfish and wanted to bring me to catch them. I was pretty excited, I've never gone crayfishing before.. therefore I didn't know what the job entailed. WELL let me tell you.. I'm not sure if I'll go again, lol. For starters, I'm scared of water. Not all out terrified or anything.. but I won't swim in water where I can't see the bottom. After the 2 nights of rain we got, this water was very, very murky. Plus it was a good foot higher than it was the day before when they went fishing. So here we are trudging along in water up to my waist (which was quite cold by the way) and I can't see the bottom at all, which is totally freaking me out. Plus you can't see the crayfish if the water isn't clear!! So after about 20 minutes walking upstream we turned back and called it day. Seeing as how we were soaking wet from the waist down, we stripped down to our skivvies and rode the whole way home with the windows down and sun shining :) I will always love Sundays..

Fun weekend w/ my baby cousin!

2010-06-26T22:16:00.000-05:00

Icing on the cake

2010-06-23T18:59:00.001-05:00

I've been trying to think of ways to repay my wonderful, loving husband for spending 2 long, grueling weeks fixing my damn car. I bought him 2 more seasons of The Simpsons (he's slowly collecting them.. and by slowly, I mean I buy them for him whenever I can.. which is not often) so I buy them on Amazon or Ebay for pretty cheap, but I still don't have money to do that very often.

But anyways, I decided I would surprise him and bring home Chipotle for dinner tonight as a special treat. The boy loves Chipotle almost as much as me :) So I go to Chipotle, order our burritos, pull the $13.00 that I know it's going to cost (okay, well it's $12.98, but who has exact change!) out of my pocket, trying to be prepared for the nice cashier.. and what does she say to me??

"$6.28 please."

I say "Oh well I had both those burritos, a steak and a veggie"

"I know, but we're going to buy one of your burritos for you today!"

WHAT?! How awesome is that!!

It was honestly the perfect ending to my work day :) and also the strawberry rhubarb pie I had waiting for me at home from Joe's mama.

So I guess this shout out goes to Chipotle.. thank you for making my great day even better!!

Happy

2010-06-23T07:01:00.000-05:00

I woke up this morning feeling.. happy :)

I feel like it's been so long since I've actually felt happy, and not.. broken.

So I sure hope this feeling lasts.. because I'm not sure how much more of me my poor husband can take, lol.

Happy, happy Wednesday everyone!!!!! :)

WHY??

2010-06-10T15:32:00.000-05:00

..haven't I blogged forever???

My very, very worst fear.

2010-05-24T10:01:00.000-05:00

Yep, they've arrived. Time for me to go into hiding!

..just kidding.

..kinda.

The first of many..

2010-05-18T15:47:00.001-05:00

..great weekends this summer! :)

Friday I got done w/ work around 4:30 and ran to the grocery store quick, then got home and took a shower before our friends came over. We had our friends Kyle & Christa over. We met them when we lived in our 2nd apartment in Hudson, so now that we moved we hardly see them anymore! It's always a fun time when we're able to get together though :) It was such a gorgeous night, we grilled out in the garage and then sat out by the fire the rest of the night. Couldn't have asked for a better night at home w/ friends!

Saturday morning everybody woke up pretty early, but me and Joe stayed in bed just a little longer :) It's not often I get to sleep in, so even though we had people over.. I still took a little advantage of it! Eventually everyone got up and ready and we went to the car show in Burkhardt. The day was just perfect! I guess I wasn't prepared for the sudden summer day though and I got quite sunburned :( Me and Joe got home around 5:00, and he left right away to go to St. Paul. My uncle is a cop and Joe was going to go on a ride along w/ him. That meant I got the rest of the night to lay in bed and watch OTH. :) Which is exactly what I did.. it was so nice!

Sunday, even though I was burned to a crisp already.. I slathered on the sunscreen and me and Joe spent the entire day outside! :) We watered all our new baby pine trees.. all 81 of them! It took sooo long, but the poor trees definitely needed it! I cleaned (even vacuumed) out my car, which was long over due! I didn't wash the outside though because it took so long to water the trees and I didn't feel like lugging the hose all the way back to the front.. so we'll leave that for another nice day :) We went fishing for a little while then in the early evening, and I got lots and lots of little fishies! It was very fun.
The only thing I regret about the wonderful weekend, was that I didn't take any pictures! Oh well, another day... :)

Rain, Rain Go Away.

2010-05-07T07:17:00.000-05:00

I usually love the rain.. but on a Friday morning when I'm beyond tired to begin with.. I just wish it would stop. (until I get home and fall into bed, then it can pour)

Happy Friday everyone!

Happy Birthday!!

2010-05-04T18:05:00.000-05:00

Happy 24th Birthday to my husband!! I love you baby :)

Stressed to the max.

2010-05-04T12:29:00.000-05:00

I feel like my life is just a complete and utter mess right now.
Joe's been jobless for a month now.. and for some reason, I'm the only one stressing about it.
I'm not going to lie and say it hasn't been nice to have him home. He's gotten so much yard/house work done.. stuff that we've been saying we wanted to do forever, but never had the time.
But now it's really starting to get to me. All I do is worry about money. Which probably isn't the healthiest thing to do.. but how could I not?!
I feel bad because I've been very crabby and irritiable with Joe, and alot of the time it's not even his fault! I just come home from work completely worn out and tired, and he's the only one there for me to yell at. :(
I know that things are bound to get better.. but when???

Gr.

2010-04-20T15:19:00.000-05:00

WHY ARE BOYS SO FRUSTRATING!!?!!!

Husband, I love you.. but seriously?

Redneck Friday Night.

2010-04-17T07:52:00.001-05:00

*brewing your own beer
*cruising around Walmart, just for the hell of it
*deep frying everything in the house

love my life :)

To buy, or not to buy?

2010-04-01T16:38:00.001-05:00

Me and Joe have been talking about getting a new puppy lately. It broke both of our hearts to have to put Lucky down. :( so this made me not want to get attached to another dog (other than my 2 little love bugs now of course) but apparently it made Joe want another one! I love how we're opposites, lol.

Anyways, I just can't decide what we should do. I guess Joe has already gone to Angel's Pet World to see if they had any boxers. (we both decided that IF we decide to get another dog, we want a boxer) Well, Angel's didn't have any boxers, but Joe left his phone number to call us when they get some in. I have no desire to buy a dog from a pet store.. I've just heard bad things, but that's not the point. I just don't know if now is a good time to get a new puppy! I just made a vet appointment for Max & Ky today and it's going to be $300!! That's wayyyy more money that I have. What if I had to bring 3 dogs to the vet!? And with Lucky I had to buy dog food twice as much.. that's more money that I don't have. Don't get me wrong.. my dogs are in no way neglected, or not fed or given toys.. it's just that adding another dog to the picture means a lot more money. (Which I dont' have.. had I said that yet?)

PLUS, I would kind of much rather have a BABY than a new puppy. Although who in tarnation knows when that'll be!!!!!!!!!!

But a baby boxer :) just think how cute it'd be :)

This is the song that never ends...

2010-03-25T09:27:00.000-05:00

More like this is the week that never ends. :(

All better!

2010-03-19T12:35:00.000-05:00

About a week ago Joe was having some pain in his tummy, so he went to the docotor and they told him he had a hernia.
So he went in for surgery to repair it yesterday. He is one sore boy today :( but at least everything went smoothly! I sure have my hands full at home now taking care of a whiny baby.. but I'm okay with that! :)

LOVE IT!

2010-03-02T11:47:00.000-06:00

This nice warm, SUNNY weather has got me in such a good mood lately!! :) :)

Happy Valentine's Day!

2010-02-15T08:32:00.000-06:00

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

I'm not the type of person who needs to be with my husband 24/7, but it was soo nice to be able to spend the whole day with just each other yesterday! I wouldn't have traded the day for anything!

The morning started off by Joseph bringing me breakfast in bed :) We stayed in bed just a little longer then, but decided that we didn't want to waste the day in bed. So I got up first to take a shower and I found a beautiful bouquet of roses in the kitchen. There was also a yummy smelling candle, a red heart balloon and a very sweet card :)

Our first stop of the day was Cady Cheese. Usually we get there a couple times in the summer and we always pack ourselves a little lunch and eat our squeaky cheese curds outside in the sunshine. But since it was too chilly for that we just bought out treats and were on our way! Our next stop was Stockman's in Wilson. We bought Joe some new jeans (he only has 1 pair. well TWO now!) and a Valentine's Day treat for the puppies.

Our plan was to make our way to Woodbury for a nice dinner at Red Lobster, but since we weren't hungry yet we decided to meander around a little longer. We went to C&M Liquidators in Woodville. Joe remembers going there with his parents when he was little. He was disappointed that the toy aisle wasn't nearly as big as he remembers. I had to remind him that everything looks bigger to a little boy! lol especially a place with toys! Thennn after we left Woodville we headed to Hudson. We spent a good hour just walking around Fleet Farm. Joe bought some bullets for his SKS but that's about it.

By this time we were both a little hungry, but we thought we'd just go to the grocery store instead of spending so much money at Red Lobster. (plus I don't like Red Lobster, lol) SO we went to the grocery store and picked out some deliciouuuusss looking steak. And lobster and fish for Joe! And a couple other little treats that we normally wouldn't allow ourselves to have.. but since it was a special day, we thought it was okay :) We rented Up from Redbox and headed home to make ourselves a feast!

The whole day and evening was just perfect!!

My Loves.

2010-02-07T20:12:00.000-06:00

My first love = Joseph, my darling husband of over a year.

Ah, yes.. but Joseph is not the only man in my heart.

Gorgeous Peyton Manning has had a special spot in my heart ever since he was drafted to Indianapolis 12 years ago :)

And so this is why I sit in front of the TV hoping to see my 2nd leading man win his 2nd Superbowl tonight.. instead of snuggling in bed with my darling husband of over a year. But that's okay with me :)

What's new pussycat?

2010-02-03T07:16:00.000-06:00

Am I really that lame that there is absolutely nothing new with me??

Maybe instead of talking about what is new.. I'll talk about what isn't :)

I really, really miss Lucky still. I've only ever lost a couple pets before, but I never remember it being this hard. :( I miss her snuggling as close to me as she can at night (pissing Joe off greatly) .. I miss her sweet puppy kisses, I miss her bringing me her teddy bear, telling me that she wants to play. I just miss her lots and lots! But at least I still have my 2 other babies!

Speaking of babies. My tummy is still empty. :( But I try not to think about it much.. it'll happen when it happens.

Joe decided that he wants to go back to school for Criminal Justice. He's actually quite serious about it too. I know that he's called a couple schools and checked out his best options. I'm very proud of him, I know he would love being in law enforcement! He got me thinking about maybe going to school finally too. I checked into WITC a little, and they do offer Early Childhood as night and online classes. I'm just not sure if I want to go to school though. First of all, that's a lot of money (around $50,000 maybe) to have both of us go to school. And that would definitely put having a baby on hold.. a loooong hold. I just don't know if I could do that :( I'm ready right now! We're ready right now! So first I'm going to let Joe figure out what he needs to do to get into a good school for law enforcement. Then I guess we'll go from there.

I'm going to my parents house on Friday to have my dad do our taxes. I'm very excited to get some of out debt paid off! Mostly Joe's truck :) I keep thinking about getting a new car. I really would like something with better gas mileage. I hate the thought of having a car payment right after we pay off the truck though :( So I'm sure I'll try to hold off on a new car for now. I've always got my eye out for a good deal though!

We're still loving our new house :) .. I guess it's not really new anymore, but still! The only thing that I'm not loving is how much of a cheap skate I am. I won't set the thermostat above 65 degrees, because I really can't afford the gas bill in the winter. :/ So it's mitten and scarf weather in our house! Which really isn't all that bad, but it'd still be nice to have it 70 degrees inside! Couple more months, right? Okay, well like 5 or 6 more months. Have I ever mentioned how much of a summer girl I am? :) I looooove summer sunshine! Maybe Joe will let us move to someplace warm someday. A girl can dream, right? :)

Hm.. what now? How bout work? Ooh well work is.. workish. If it weren't for the girls I work with, I would just dread coming to work everyday. I guess they just make it a little more bareable. :) I'm finally full time now.. can't remember if I mentioned that. It was only 2 years coming.. lol. So that's pretty exciting.. I get a little extra vacation time, sick time, and more paid holidays. Other wise everything's the same! My review is coming up in April and I really hope that I get a raise. This girl needs the moola!

I still babysit quite a bit, which is great extra money! I get paid for doing something that I love.. what could be better?! Whenever I get home from babysitting Joe asks me all about how it went, and then we usually talk about how we think it will be when it's time to raise our own children. It's an amazing feeling knowing how excited Joe is to be a daddy. It makes having to wait just that much harder :(

Well, whaddya know. I found something to talk about!
Have a good day everyone :)

Sad truth.

2010-01-26T10:05:00.000-06:00

Is it sad that the biggest reason I get excited about a day off during the week, is that it's one less day I have to waste gas to drive to Hudson??

I LOVE having no money.

..soo yippee for a day off! :/

Reasons why..

2010-01-19T12:37:00.001-06:00

These reasons (in order for the most part) are the reason I hardly ever blog anymore.

*Fishville
*Farmtown
*Tikifarm
*Sorority Life

GOSH DARN YOU, FACEBOOK!!!!!!!
(only teasing, I actually love you FB)

You would think that after staring at a computer for 8+ hours a day at work, the last thing I would want to do is go home and stare at yet another computer. I guess there's just something about sitting in your underwear at your own home playing computer games! (just kidding about the underwear part. it's 60 degrees in my house.. clothes are practically a necessity)

Well anyways, I am going to try harder to blog more. I could do it at work too, but we've been very busy lately. Plus whenever I think about something to blog about, I want to add pictures and I can't do that at work.

Huh, Friday?

2010-01-15T16:50:00.000-06:00

I can't believe that I've been waiting alllll week for Friday (for no special reason, it's just been a very long week) and I didn't even realize that it was indeed Friday TODAY.. until about 1:00.

Well anyways.. TGIF!!

Have a great weekend everyone! :)

Attention Walmart Shoppers:

2010-01-11T14:39:00.000-06:00

I was at Walmart on my lunch break, specifically to replenish my medicine cabinet.. and I couldn't believe the medicine aisle!!!!!

I wish I could have taken a picture, there was sooo many people.

Anyways, my point is that I hope that everyone feels better! Especially if they've been feeling as miserable as I have these last couple days :(

Hopefully you're medicine that you recently purchased from Walmart helps you, people!!

Hello Emergen-C,

2010-01-08T08:50:00.000-06:00

Please do you magic and help me to not get any sicker :(

Thank you kindly from your teary eyed, sniffly nosed, sore throat-ed friend.

Emilie Noelle

2010-01-02T22:08:00.001-06:00

HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY

EMMIE! :)

you're Aunt Nikki & Uncle Joe love you very much!

I WANT, I WANT, I WANT..

2009-12-21T15:13:00.001-06:00

.. I NEED, I NEED, I NEED.

I would like to speak to all these whiny, demanding, self-centered people's mothers and ask them what the hell they were thinking when the taught (or not taught in this case) their children manners!!!!

Do you know how far a simple please can go?

Lucky,

2009-12-06T12:55:00.001-06:00

I'm so, so sorry puppy :(

When Daddy brought you to a new place today, it wasn't because he wanted to. But Daddy says you couldn't be with us anymore. It's not your fault, and you're not in trouble! You are the best puppy ever and I could never, ever replace you Lucky love. We just couldn't have you getting us in trouble anymore :(

Maybe I still don't understand it, but I know it's probably for the best. Soon somebody's going to come look at you and they're going to know that you are the perfect puppy for them! They're going to have a big, big fenced in yard where you can run around free all you want! There won't be any other dogs around to make you feel nervous or defensive. Maybe they'll even have kids for you to play with. I know how much you love playing with kids :)

I know that you'll be scared for awhile, but remember how fast you warmed up to us? Someone is going to bring you home to love, I just know it. I bet they'll buy you a new teddy bear too! Sorry I wasn't able to get you one before you had to leave :(

Please don't be sad Lucky, I love you so much. And I'm so, so sorry.

Love forever,

Mommy.