Did you know that? Probably not. But, yes, my due date was labor day back in 1984...but my mama had me 3 weeks early. Thank goodness for that, too, because I was already 8lbs 9oz. I would have just about killed my mama. She would have thought she was birthing a baby pig!! :) haha, maybe that's why I liked pigs so much growing up.
Anyway, I had the BEST labor day weekend. On Thursday (which technically doesn't count towards the weekend) me and Jules went had had our hair(s) cut. **i never know how to write that when I'm talking about two people getting hair cuts** ANYWAY...they looked really good, and even though mine is not quite what I was looking for..it's still pretty. Over the weekend I worked on how to fix it and I think I've got it figured out now.
Friday we went to a couple apartment appointments to check out new places to live and we found THE ONE. We loved it...I'll include more about that when it gets closer to time, but just know that we are SOOOO excited to move now!
Saturday I did a little grocery shopping so that we had food in our house again and I just did a few things around the house. I laid out a little bit, but it started getting rainy, so I logged in some time on the weeeeee.
Sunday I made Taco soup...which basically is a million different types of beans, corn, and ground turkey/hamburger. And lots of taco seasonings. It's soooooo good, but it gives your intestines a nice little workout (if you know what I mean ;-D) Then, I did a little laundry and went out to the pool. I read and relaxed and did a whole lotta nothing...
Then, MONDAY! oh, lovely Monday! I found a new heavenly past time! I got in the pool...right at the 4 foot mark, and I stood at the edge with the water right below my shoulders and I read on the side of the pool! it was soooo wonderful! I did that for about an hour and I only got out because my stomach was eating my backbone (I was starving!). That's all I could think about--how lovely reading from inside the pool was!! But I got a little sunburned and thought it best to NOT go back out into the blazing sun.
Anyway, what I'm trying to say is I had a lovely weekend...the only thing that would have made it better would have been if it were Memorial Day weekend instead of Labor Day. :(
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Weeeeee have fun.
So, for my birthday my mom and sister bought me a W*ii. And I must tell you--I LOVE THAT THING! Heather has had one for a long time, and every time I went home I would play it every chance I got. I am seriously amazed by the technology. So, then she sold it to Stevie, and this last time I was home I played "his" every chance I got. So, they surprised me by buying me one!
I had to hook it up in Jules' room, because the TV in my bedroom (which rarely gets used, so I'm really not sure why it's even in there) is from 1982. It still has the wood paneling on the sides. Nice, eh? Anyway, it doesn't have the correct hook-ups. The TV in the living room is hooked up with Ti*Vo and they say that you shouldn't hook the "weeeee" up with Ti*vo because it will cause a 1-2 second delay in your movements. That's just what we want, right? To swing at a baseball and two seconds later the bat actually swings. STRIKE THREE...YOU'RE OUT!!
So, anyway. It's hooked up in Jules' room and she's kind enough to let me sit in there and play. Sometimes she's even asleep and I play. You'll hear me in there grunting or yelping at my fights in Indiana Jones...or whatever game I might be playing. It's so fun!! I have the best time. Too bad the money in Deal or No Deal isn't real, because I'd be sitting pretty right now. Anyway, my point is that I am enjoying the Weeeee so much!!
Me and Jules play shooting targets or balloons, we play bowling, baseball, golf. It's all just SO FUN!! I just don't see how I'll ever get tired of it! I feel like a 13 year old boy who just got his first X-box. haha!
I had to hook it up in Jules' room, because the TV in my bedroom (which rarely gets used, so I'm really not sure why it's even in there) is from 1982. It still has the wood paneling on the sides. Nice, eh? Anyway, it doesn't have the correct hook-ups. The TV in the living room is hooked up with Ti*Vo and they say that you shouldn't hook the "weeeee" up with Ti*vo because it will cause a 1-2 second delay in your movements. That's just what we want, right? To swing at a baseball and two seconds later the bat actually swings. STRIKE THREE...YOU'RE OUT!!
So, anyway. It's hooked up in Jules' room and she's kind enough to let me sit in there and play. Sometimes she's even asleep and I play. You'll hear me in there grunting or yelping at my fights in Indiana Jones...or whatever game I might be playing. It's so fun!! I have the best time. Too bad the money in Deal or No Deal isn't real, because I'd be sitting pretty right now. Anyway, my point is that I am enjoying the Weeeee so much!!
Me and Jules play shooting targets or balloons, we play bowling, baseball, golf. It's all just SO FUN!! I just don't see how I'll ever get tired of it! I feel like a 13 year old boy who just got his first X-box. haha!
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
I'm movin' on up...
Ever since it was raining in our kitchen we have been having landlord issues. He's such a nice guy, and for the first two years we lived in our current residence he was beyond helpful. But this last year has been hard for him...hard on the economy...just plain hard. He lost his job in like December, right before the flood, so he was equally stressed about the water problems. The flood stuff is taken care of, but the way that it was handled by the HOA and HUD was sub-optimal. Anyway, since the flood we've consistently been having trouble getting ahold of our landlord. We only had a cell number, because his email address was through his previous job. He got another job fairly quickly, and was apparently busy busy busy at work. We called him on his cell several times and left messages regarding the hot water heater not working (this was around Feb/March.) It took him several weeks to come fix it...meaning several weeks of waking up at 3:30 am to make sure the pilot light was lit, so that I'd have hot water for a shower before work. Several weeks of never being sure that we'd have hot water for anything, and several weeks of the heat being hit or miss. It was really frustrating. Finally he came and fixed it.
In May, when the pool opened we called him about getting the pool pass and code. They give the info to the owners, and it's the owners' responsibility to pass out the info to their tenants. Anyway, I couldn't ever get him to answer the phone. I put a note in the rent check. I called several times. I spent at least 3 weekends inside at the beginning of the summer because he wouldn't even call back. Instead he came by, didn't ring the doorbell/knock and stuck a newsletter with two ladies phone numbers on it on the door. Those ladies ended up being the ones to call about the pool.
Lately, the hot water heater is fritzing out again. This morning I took a very very cold shower. One thing people who know me well know is that I don't like to be cold. So you can imagine how well the shower went this morning.
Anyway, all this is to say that in the past culmination of events we've decided to move. I know what you're thinking: I thought you were moving back to AL???
The answer is simple: we are. But it's not the time, right now. The economy...my job is going really good...it's just not right. When it's time, God will let us know. So, for now, we're staying. And moving.
We live right now about 45 minutes from my job, and about 1 hour from Jules' job. When it snows this is just doubled so we've decided to move closer to our jobs! I'm really really excited about it.
Our first meeting with an apartment complex is Friday. I'll let you know how it goes. I'm SO excited!! :)
In May, when the pool opened we called him about getting the pool pass and code. They give the info to the owners, and it's the owners' responsibility to pass out the info to their tenants. Anyway, I couldn't ever get him to answer the phone. I put a note in the rent check. I called several times. I spent at least 3 weekends inside at the beginning of the summer because he wouldn't even call back. Instead he came by, didn't ring the doorbell/knock and stuck a newsletter with two ladies phone numbers on it on the door. Those ladies ended up being the ones to call about the pool.
Lately, the hot water heater is fritzing out again. This morning I took a very very cold shower. One thing people who know me well know is that I don't like to be cold. So you can imagine how well the shower went this morning.
Anyway, all this is to say that in the past culmination of events we've decided to move. I know what you're thinking: I thought you were moving back to AL???
The answer is simple: we are. But it's not the time, right now. The economy...my job is going really good...it's just not right. When it's time, God will let us know. So, for now, we're staying. And moving.
We live right now about 45 minutes from my job, and about 1 hour from Jules' job. When it snows this is just doubled so we've decided to move closer to our jobs! I'm really really excited about it.
Our first meeting with an apartment complex is Friday. I'll let you know how it goes. I'm SO excited!! :)
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