A picture says a thousand words

Except in this case, not really.  I'm just lazy, so here, have some pictures:

Invitation Madness

All Done

 

I wish I had a job at Food Network. Look at that presentation!

Memorial Day Corn. Why yes, yes it was delicious.

 

That's all.  Goodnight.

 

Poll Time

We need your opinions!  (Pretty please... and be honest.)

  

poll by twiigs.com

P.S.

We finally registered!  Go us.

• Target (If you go into the store, make sure you choose Club Wed, we had a registry with them when we first moved into the townhouse, which was a looooong time ago, and it won't let me delete it.  It will automatically default to that list if you don't choose Club Wed.  :( Boo)


• Bed, Bath & Beyond

I guess I could give these their own tab, eh?  Also, I think it's funny that someone bought us shower curtain rings... and we haven't even given this list out yet... I wonder if it is a mistake?  :P

And, I think I'll type up a breif trasncript of the dog whisperer thing, for Lucy and Landon too, I remember a lot of Lucy's and some of it is kinda hard to hear.   I know you're as excited as I am.  :)

Tra la la

Jason is working until 2 am, so I am trying my hardest to stay up until he gets home.  It is currently 42 minutes after my absolute bedtime (10.)  Generally, if Amanda doesn't get to be in bed by 10 she is a TERROR.  I can only imagine what the children will be like.  :P  I need my sleep, and I value it completely.  I did take a nap this afternoon as I have NOT been sleeping well at all... however, I slept through the timer, and woke up at 6:05.  I flipped out, thinking it was a work day, and why hadn't the alarm gone off, and OMG, where is Jason, why is he not in bed with me, where did he go... a few minutes later... I realized: oh, it's Friday, work is over, and it is 6 pm not 6 am-- we are all good.  Phew.  That is how much sleep I have been getting.  I don't even know what day it is.

So as a few of you may know, Jason caved into my crazy last weekend, and he allowed me (I didn't give him a choice really) to take our pups to a Dog Whisperer.  Not The Dog Whisperer, but a really good one, that not only helped us communicate, but gave us a lot of help with other things in training aspects.  Her name was Krista Cantrell, she has actually written several books, and been on TV and blah blah blah... and totally not a hoax, as I am sure know some of you thought she was... She had some AMAZING insight and knowledge.  Jason was skeptical until she got to Lucy, and then he was sold.  I recorded the session, that we went to with two of my co-workers (as one had been to her before, so we set up a "group" like session) but unfortunately, we had to stop recording during Lucy's session, and when I went to save it, having not used the program, screwed something up, and the last hour (which was ALL Lucy) was not saved.  There are some interesting tidbits in there from Maggie (co-workers dog who went first), Landon, who is a ham, and Sadie (other co-workers dog), plus about 5 minutes of Lucy before we had to stop.  The file is about 2 hours long, but interesting.  You can find a zip version, and the straight MP3 version, here. 

A few weeks ago, I built a garden.  I think I mentioned it.  I put up pictures of it in the gallery.  Well, our sweet devil of a dog, Lucy, decided to jump into it, and have a hay-day in the dirt yesterday, demolishing everything in there.  I was so upset, I didn't know what to do.  All the onions were shredded, and there was no saving them, and I got to save five out of the 6 jalapeno plants.  Luckily, we have a separated yard, and we moved the garden into the back yard, where they cannot get into (now anyway.)  Sadly though, I don't think the jalapenos are going to make it.  I replanted them yesterday, and when I went to water them today... they were all shriveled and... almost dead.  So sad.  :(  Luckily she only got into one bin, and not both.  The tomatoes, cucumbers, and artichokes still have a chance.

As for the gallery, I added a few new pictures / categories:

• Camping


• The Garden


• And the kids and Jason sleeping on a Sunday  (really important, I know.) 

Enjoy!

I am so bad at this...

But at least I update... unlike someone... who is half of this site.  ; )

Things have been crazy busy... still... I don't think it is ever going to calm down...  Ugh.

Things that have happened since the last time I updated, ages ago:

We went camping for Easter.  Super excited to use our new stuff, packed it all, left early Friday morning, got a great camping spot, got to fish for about 45 minutes... and woke up to SNOW the next morning (at about 2 am.)  Prime camping spot, actually camping spot from hell because it was the furthest one away, and we had to haul ALL of our crap back, soaking wet, in the snow.  I eventually wore down and put on a trash bag because I was freezing and my clothes were sopping.  Ugh.  Needless to say, we didn't get to use much of the new stuff except the portable toilet, and our water jugs.  Don't worry, there are pictures... which brings me to the next thing:

Someone reported my Windows key as stolen (which I guess, technically, it is) so my computer has basically been crapping out on me for the last 3 weeks.  :(  I have reformatted and tried and tried to find a legitimate copy of windows, with no avail.  I may have to... buy it. Disgusting.  I really wish that I could use something more basic... like... anything, but unfortunately, there are so many programs out there that wont run on *nix based systems, that I really... just can't switch to anything free or Open Source.

School is done for me!  (And will be done for Jason in a week, I think.)  I got an A in all my classes but one, where I got a B (which was lame, because it was an 89% and they wouldn't just bump it)  8 out of 9 isn't bad though, right?  I'll never be THAT crazy about school again.  I do have my Certificate of Completion in Computer Applications and Usage (i.e. I know how to use a computer, go me, and whooopie!) which I should receive in the mail in a few weeks,  and I have to have one more class to get another Certificate of Completion in Web Design.  What do those all mean?  Nothing really, except that I am done with two chunks of my education on my way to an... associates degree.  Ugh.  The school system is so ridiculous sometimes.  All these classes, all this work, and I can't even get a degree that will get me anywhere.  I suppose that is partially my fault for dragging my feet for so long and changing my mind every semester.  :P

Last week, after I was done with all my finals and homework, I built a garden!  I will eventually post pictures of that too... but I am still working on that computer issue, so I may end up using Jason's computer to do so.  I have planted tomatoes, jalapeños, yellow onions, white green onions, purple green onions, cucumbers, and artichokes.  The tomatoes, cucumbers, and jalapeños were already grown to a small size, and they are doing fine, everything else was planted by me, so far the onions are kicking ass though.  The white green onions have already sprouted, and I have seen little sprouts (that literally look like alphalpha sprouts) coming up where the yellow onions should be.  I will have my own salsa factory soon!  The jalepeños, even though I don't know how old they are since I didn't sprout them, already have a few buds for peppers.  Who knows if the first batch will be good, so I guess we just wait.

Lastly, from last Monday, until yesterday (Monday, so a week) this is what has happend:

• Jason got a kidney stone.  - Monday


• Amanda got a sty. -  Tuesday


• Jason passed said kidney stone.  -  Friday


• Amanda gets rid of sty (for the most / painful part anyway.)  - Friday


• Jason gets another kidney stone.  -  Monday

I swear, he is really pushing the limit on "in sickness and in health".  NO MORE KIDNEY STONES.  I swear, he is trying to start our family early in his kidneys.  :|

 

And... I swear, once I get all this computer hubub straightened out... I will update more... promiiiise.  :D