Oh Christmas Tree

Tonight David and I set up our Christmas tree and lights and all our holiday decorations ... and it is amazingly beautiful ... I stared at the tree forever tonight ... I just love Christmas so much ...


I also finished all of our holiday cards last night and will be able to mail them tomorrow ... woohoo the holiday season is upon us ... now if i could just get all the gifts I need :)

Kicked my ass

Yesterday I went to work with David ... he has 70 blinds to hang all in one day and I knew he would need help ... so I offered and he said yes ...


HOLY SHIT ... I am dying today ... we worked our asses off ... my back, arms, feet and hands are killing ... it was like doing 100 squats while holding 50 pounds ... opening boxes ... hammering the ends of blinds ... carrying them all around the office ... handing the blinds up to David ... it was some serious work ... I am so happy I went to help him because who knows when he would have finished if I weren't there ...


I will say this ... I have even more respect for David and the work he does after spending the day with him than I did before I spent the day working with him ... he is amazing ... he busts his ass every day ... and he is so good at his job ...


Anytime he needs help in the future I'll be there ... and any time he wants to take a nap after a job I'm not going to bug him ... because the is all I wanted yesterday afternoon ...

Packing Care Packages

Yesterday Marianne, David and I spent about 3 hours making up care packages to send to our troops ... and today Marianne and I repacked a couple of them ... weighed ... addressed ... filled out customs forms ... and added postage to 15 packages weighing a total of 200 pounds ... the soldiers should get them in about 2 weeks ...


it really felt so good putting them all together ... I had been thinking we didn't have that much stuff until we started making the packages ... then I realized we really had a lot of great stuff to send everyone ... and the boxes were awesome ...


I made mixed CDs for each ... 2 each of the 50's, 60's, 70's ... and an 80's a 90's and a holiday mix ... plus some homemade lip balm ... and then we had tons of books, magazines, catalogs, snacks, cards, toys ... they were just stuffed full ... it really was so awesome ... I am so glad we could do a bit for others ...

Melissa's Last Week

Well this will be Melissa's last week at work ... she quit the week before Thanksgiving ... and is staying till December 3rd ... it is weird when someone quits and is still at work ... and it couldn't have been at a worse time ... this is our busiest time of year ... sucks but what can you do ...


we have a temp in and she seems pretty good ... but we are all out of sorts at having another person quit at our businest time ... Victoria last year and now Melissa this year ... it is just hard ...


I have tons of work to do this week so maybe I won't notice too much ... I am sure we will pull through ...

Thanksgiving ...

We had such a great time this evening ...


Thanksgiving was hosted at Steven and Sharon's house ... and everyone was there ...

Steve, Sharon, Andrew, Jason, Jenny, Ellie, Mark, Sonni, George, Maureen, David and me ... it was so nice to have the whole family on both sides there ...


and Sharon took care of everything beautifully ... she did such a great job with no stress at all ... and after hosting it last year it sure was nice to not have to do anything at all ...


The kids were so cute ... Andrew is just a doll ... if you say "cheesy smile" on cue he does the most adorable smile ... it is fantastic ...


I really have a lot to be thankful for this year ... I married the greatest man and am really enjoying being married ... being a wife ... I have a beautiful niece and nephew this year ... my family is all close ... George W. Bush won the presidency ... and I have a good job ... all in all 2004 is wrapping up to be a pretty groovy year ...

First anysoldier.org email

I've been using the site AnySoldier.org for a while now ... every day I pick a new name and write a letter ... tonight I received my first email back from someone who got my letter ... he is a Cpl in the Marines ... and it was so nice to hear from someone ... I of course wrote back right away ...


hearing that my letter made someone feel good about what they are doing and appreciate the support meant so much to me ... especially after David and I spent the day signing 150 Christmas cards and addressing them to troops ... it really is nice to know that we can help in some way ...


since it is after 1AM it is now Turkey day ... Happy Thanksgiving to everyone ... I believe we all have so much to be thankful for this year ... :)

Writing more often

I am not sure what has been happening that I haven't been writing ... but I need to get better ... so lets recap what has been happening ...


Last weekend David and I got a new coffee table that is totally awesome ... a new end table ... and new hall lights ... all of them rock ... it was a great weekend ... and my coffee table is so great for scrapbooking I can hardly believe it ... and the new lights are beautiful ...


at the beginning of the month we made our first attempt at having a baby but alas it didn't happen on the first try ... I didn't really think that it would but it should would have been great if it did ... we are both so excited to expand our family of 2+cat ... :)


On Thursday David developed the most awesome lint catcher for the dryer ... it may not sound that great but we don't have a vent that leads outside so the house can get pretty dusty from all the lint ... his contraption is amazing ... and he put dimmer switches on our hall and entry lights which makes such a huge difference ... sometimes they were a bit too bright ...


This weekend I discovered [was told about by my brother] FreeCycle.org ... the site is amazing ... it is location specific ... and people list stuff they are giving away or things they are looking for ... so far I have given away our coffee table and someone is coming by tomorrow morning to pick it up ... and I posted that I needed paperback books and other items for care packages for our troops in Iraq and have gotten 4 responses from people so far that have things to donate ... so awesome ... the site is totally worth checking out ... it is like eBay for free ... I mean we had to get rid of our old coffee table ... it is in good shape and I hated to give it away ... now it will have a good home ... this will be a fantastic way to get rid of stuff that has piled up in the house that we just don't need anymore ... I highly suggest checking it out ... :)

Dinner with Family

Tonight David and I went over the Jenny and Jason's house for dinner and had such a great time ... Ellie was awake for awhile so we got to play with her and hang out while she took a bath ... and boy does she love her bath ... she is such a different baby in a short amount of time ... I didn't realize how much a baby changes from 3 months to 5 months ...


Then Jason, Jenny, David and I had salads and pizza and hung out and talked ... it really was so much fun ... I am so glad we live close to my brother and his family ... we always have such a good time hanging out with them ...

Bummer Yankees

As my last post was publishing the Red Sox got a two run hit and won the 4th game ... so tomorrow there will be another game ... so finally the Yankees can kick their ass ...

Let's Go Yankees

We of course have been die hard Yankees fans ... they are in the playoffs with the Boston Red Sox ... the Yankees have won 3 games and are headed for the World Series and right now ... at after 1 in the morning it is the bottom of the 12th inning and tied at 4 to 4 ...


The Red Sox fans are cheering like they will go into the World Series if they win tonight ... I realize they are just trying to hang on for another chance at a 5th game ... but come on ... they have lost the first 3 games ... lets get to the real champs and have the Yankees advance to the World Series ... :)

Lexus fun

Today Jason, Jenny, Eliana, Mark, Sonni, David & I spent the day at the Lexus test drive event at FedEx Field ... and we had a great time ... they had 3 different drive tracks set up and you could test drive the Lexus and compareable cars in their class ...


We drove a Range Rover on the off road course and it was awesome ... through gravel pits and a huge dirt mountain ... the asscent was a bit hairy but david did an awesome job ... the car was simply beautiful ... it must be wonderful having a car like that ...


Then we went to the race course and we drove a Mercedes S430 and a BMW 745i ... he took the curves with speed and it was amazing ... David loved the BMW the best ... he would have driven the course over and over if he could ...


We all then went into the tent and had lunch and hung out and talked ... it was awesome ... Ellie was a doll and laughed while I made faces at her ...


It was truly a fabulous day ...

Christopher Reeve

I was quite sad to hear that Christopher Reeve passed away yesterday ... he had a spirit to triumph over anything and that will surly be missed ...

Poor Kramer

Last night Kramer came into the office when we got home and let out a weird moan ... then went under David's desk and laid on his back moaning ... his eyes rolling back in his head and he kept lifting his leg up ... he obviously didn't feel good ...


we took him to the emergency hospital and it turns out his bladder was swollen the size of an orange and he couldn't pee ... poor thing ... he had to stay in the hospital overnight ...


we went early this morning and picked him up and took him to his regular vet ... they are going to be watching him throughout the day to make sure he is ok ...


It sure is lonely around here without him ... I think David and I both miss him ... last night David started to look for him before going to bed and was sad all over again ... hopefully he will be coming home tonight ... :)

Feedback on eBay

I have been using eBay for 5 years now ... and I've come to a decision ... conclusion ... whatever you want to call it ... I think that a seller should leave feedback as soon as you pay for your transaction ... because that is what they are evaluating ... how easy the payment transaction went ... how quickly you paid ... and how good your communication was ...


like me ... I pay within 2 minutes of the auction ending ... I am always watching/bidding at the end ... as soon as it says I am the winner I pay ... they should leave feedback on that right then ...


Once I get the product I leave feedback on that ... but all the sellers out there wait to leave feedback until after you rate them ... doesn't seem right ... I could pay in full within 2 minutes and get a terrible product in the mail ... if I leave negative feedback then they will retaliate and do the same even though my part of the transaction was perfect ...


it has happened once to me ages ago ... someone sent me a broken camera ... when I told him it arrived broken he told me I could send it back and he would send me a replacement ... when he got it he said I was the one that destroyed it and then left me negative feedback ... even though he had all my money and I paid right away ... and now he had the broken camera too ...


I think I am going to try and start something so that a seller has to leave feedback as soon as the buyer pays ... maybe I can get something to happen ...

My New Blog

My New Blog


Well I've changed the name of my blog and somewhat started over ... all the past posts are still there but I just needed a fresh start ... I sent an email to a bunch of people from my blogger address which I didn't mean to do cause I really don't like my friends and family knowing about my blog ... I can't speak too freely when I know they could be reading it ... and I know that most of the regulars that read my blog are hardcore liberals and I am a Republican ... it was just making me uncomfortable ... so it was time for a whole new place for me ... :)

Awesome Game

We had the greatest time today at the Yankees game ... [technically it was an Orioles Game but not for us] ... there were so many Yankees fans there it was awesome ... and it was the first time I've been to a game where I was rooting for the visiting team ... I didn't realize how crappy the home team is to the visitors ... nothing flashes on the screen for them ... no "nice catch" or "let's go" ... and I noticed they flash something on the screen for O's fans to start cheering but Yankee fans do it all on their own ... the stadium was shaking from the "Let's go Yankees ... clap clap clapclapclap" ... it was fantastic ... and to top it all off the Yankees went into the 9th inning tied 7 to 7 and their first two batters knocked it out of the park ... in the bottom of the 9th the Orioles didn't score anything ...


on the way to the car we saw a kid with the best shirt on ... it said, "I root for two teams, The Orioles and whomever beats the Yankees" ... well today his shirt was a big dud ... but it did bring a smile to our face ... and I kinda chased him down to take a picture ...


it was a fabulous Sunday and I am so glad David, my dad and I got to spend the day at the game ... :)

Yankees Game Today

Today we are going to an afternoon Yankees game ... technically it is an Orioles game and they are playing the Yankees but we are going to see the Yankees play ... David has been so excited for months now ... I am surprised he was even able to sleep last night ... couple hours and we'll be on our way ... :)

Live Strong??

Live Strong??


What to do?? Today someone gave me those yellow rubber wrist bands that say "LIVESTRONG" ... I see everyone wearing them lately and to be honest I don't like them ... I really don't like Lance Armstrong who started the whole thing ... so I don't want to be associated with him by wearing the bracelet ... but I think it is so nice of my friend to give it to me that I don't want to hurt her feelings ... I am just not sure what to say or how to go about it ...

Ellie's first babysitter

This weekend was great ... Saturday night David and I went to my brother's house to babysit for Ellie ... we were her first babysitters and we had a great time ... she is just a doll and made me even more excited to become a mother ... whenever that happens ... but I am quite excited ...


Then on Sunday we were totally unproductive so I figured that meant we should go out to dinner so we went to some Greek restaurant with Jenny, Jason and Ellie and had a great time ... I tried some different food ... big deal for me and we got to get out of the house and have some nice conversation ...


Monday ... clean ... clean ... clean ... I spent the day cleaning my desk ... fun stuff I tell you ... but I wasn't up for too much more ... I went to the butcher dentist on Thursday ... and he fucked up one of my teeth ... turns out they don't work on Friday so I went all weekend with a messed up tooth ... so I'll be seeing him again during the week ... that is for sure ... :)

Register to Vote

Today I sent in the forms for David and I so we could vote in the 2004 Presidential Election ... I'm so excited ... for a while there we both always voted ... then we moved so much that it got hard to keep up with ... but this year the vote feels particularly important and we are going to be there first thing to cast our ballot ...

Walk 4 Hope

Walk 4 Hope


David and I have signed up for a 5K Walk 4 Hope for the City of Hope Breast Cancer research ... I am trying to raise $1000 on my own and any contribution anyone can make would be greatly appreciated ... our donation page can be found at:


Liz & David's Donation Page

Fabulous Weekend

We had a productive and really fun weekend ...


On Friday we bought a DVD burner which is pretty exciting stuff ... at least for David and I ...


On Saturday we went to my parents house with Sharon, Steve, Andrew, Jason, Jenny and Eliana and had a birthday party for Jenny and an anniversary party for Jason and Jenny ... we really had a great time ... my mom made lasagna and we had the funniest cake ... my mom got a carrot cake and for some reason when she opened the box it looked like the cake had exploded ... it was fine at the store but it was in a bunch of pieces ... so my mom stuck a votive candle in the center for Jenny to blow out ... it was pretty funny ...


Today David and I took a trip to Target ... which we won't have to travel so far soon ... [in March there will be a new one right down the street from our house] ... so we went to Target to do a little shopping and ours is a 2 story Target ... there is actually an escalator for the shopping cart ... it is a pretty cool set up but years ago when my mom and I were there we put a cart on that has something on the bottom that actually fell off and jammed the system ... my mom walked away laughing her ass off and I had to stand there and wait for someone to unjam the thing ... today about half way up the cart made a loud sound just one time and David said, "Is that what it sounded like when it happened to you?" ... I told him it didn't really make any noise and then all of a sudden the cart was stuck and making the loudest most obnoxious sound ... it was crazy ... and we both just started laughing ... they had to shut the escalator off ... some guy had to slide down from the top and he couldn't get the cart unjammed ... and it wasn't because I had something on the bottom ... the system just jammed ... so he started pushing it back down all the while making this huge racket ... drawing attention from everyone who was shopping for school supplies at the top of the escalator ... a crowd started to form and a woman walked by and said, "To be honest with you I am so glad that is your cart rather than mine" ... eventually they got the system to work again and we finally got our stuff but it sure was funny ...


tonight we went to the local Silver Diner for their car show ... some of the most beautiful cars from the 40's, 50's and 60's ... we took some great photos and I'll download them soon ... there really were some fantastic cars ... we walked around for a long time checking out cars and taking pictures and then had dinner at the diner ... it was a great evening and really a fun weekend ...


and now it is time to kick back ... watch some TV and get ready for a new week of work ... :)

Gonna try again ...

Gonna try again ...


Well I have added the quit meter once again ... and yet again I am trying to quit smoking ... this time it must work because I want to get pregnant and have a baby ... I really hoped that would help David quit as well ... the thought that it is for someone else rather than himself ... but so far that isn't helping him out ... he didn't even last 10 minutes this morning ... I'm not sure how he is going to do it ...


for me ... most of the day I haven't thought about it ... right after lunch it was kinda tough ... and right now while typing this it is a little hard so I am not going to say anymore ... :)

no sleep for the bat freaked

no sleep for the bat freaked


Well of the 5 hours I laid down to try and sleep I didn't get any that was restful ... I kept dreaming of bats [something from the first time that had finally gone away] ... my dream last night was that I had to call Animal Control again because David's bathroom was filled with bats ... that just in the tub alone they caught 11 of them ...


when friday afternoon rolled around i was so looking forward to the weekend ... now i realize it has just sucked big time between cramps and bats and no food in the house and having a creative block when it comes to Jean's scrapbook ...

bats ... bats ... bats ...

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Well ... we've got 'em again ... god damn motherfucking son of a bitch disgusting wreched disgusting fucking bats ...


i was working on a scrapbook ... already having a shitty crampy day and getting nothing accomplished when i kept hearing this banging in the dining room ... i was thinking it was our fucked up french neighbors banging on the floor/ceiling until it got louder ... when i stood up and looked in the dining room i saw the above bat just in that position and Kramer trying to jump for it ...


I ran back to tell David ... the two of us chased Kramer into the bedroom and shut the door ... I called animal control and they said they would send someone as soon as possible ...


so we had to just sit in the bedroom and wait ...


but then i thought, "hummm good scrapbook page lets go take a picture" ...


David went through the kitchen, grabbed the camera and took a picture while I stood in the living room watching the bat to make sure it didn't fly away ...


we got the picture and headed back to the bedroom ...


after about half an hour david thought he should go out and make sure the bat was still hanging from our blind ... it was taking him forever and i began to get a bit concerned when he came back in and said the bat was no longer on the blind ... but he thinks it is on the floor under one of the chairs ...


he thinks ...


what the fuck ...


we turned on Naked Gun 2 1/2 and waited ...


eventually animal control called they were at the front door ... i buzzed them in and we headed back out into the unknown ...


David answered the door on his way back through the kitchen as i followed ... he told her that it wasn't hanging from the blind anymore but he thought it was on the floor ...


she threw a net over it and kinda giggled it around and said "I think its dead" ... I told her that i heard the cat banging around when i found the bat but i didn't know if he had gotten a hold of him ...


she kept shaking the bat in her net and said "I really think he is dead ... i can't believe he is this asleep ... do you have any idea if the cat got him?" ...


but I really didn't know ... i can only guess that kramer got a hold of him at some point ... there was a lot of noise going on ...


I was talking to my mom while we waited for animal control ... i have no desire to live here anymore and she doesn't understand why ... i hadn't even relaxed from when this happened last year ... i can hear them in the trees all the time ... and in the last month two have swooped into the patio and back out ... but another one in the fucking house is just too much for me ... i would leave tonight if i could ...

bats bats bats ... FUCKING bats ...

bats bats bats ... FUCKING bats ...

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Well ... we've got 'em again ... god damn motherfucking son of a bitch disgusting fucking bats ...


i was working on a scrapbook ... already having a shitty crampy day and getting nothing accomplished when i kept hearing this banging in the dining room ... i was thinking it was our fucked up french neighbors banging on the floor/ceiling until it got louder ... when i stood up and looked in the dining room i saw the above bat just in that position and Kramer trying to jump for it ...


I ran back to tell David ... the two of us chased Kramer into the bedroom and shut the door ... I called animal control and they said they would send someone as soon as possible ...


so we had to just sit in the bedroom and wait ...


but then i thought, "hummm good scrapbook page lets go take a picture" ...


David went through the kitchen, grabbed the camera and took a picture while I stood in the living room watching the bat to make sure it didn't fly away ...


we got the picture and headed back to the bedroom ...


after about half an hour david thought he should go out and make sure the bat was still hanging from our blind ... it was taking him forever and i began to get a bit concerned when he came back in and said the bat was no longer on the blind ... but he thinks it is on the floor under one of the chairs ...


he thinks ...


what the fuck ...


we turned on Naked Gun 2 1/2 and waited ...


eventually animal control called they were at the front door ... i buzzed them in and we headed back out into the unknown ...


David answered the door on his way back through the kitchen as i followed ... he told her that it wasn't hanging from the blind anymore but he thought it was on the floor ...


she threw a net over it and kinda giggled it around and said "I think its dead" ... I told her that i heard the cat banging around when i found the bat but i didn't know if he had gotten a hold of him ...


she kept shaking the bat in her net and said "I really think he is dead ... i can't believe he is this asleep ... do you have any idea if the cat got him?" ...


but I really didn't know ... i can only guess that kramer got a hold of him at some point ... there was a lot of noise going on ...


I was talking to my mom while we waited for animal control ... i have no desire to live here anymore and she doesn't understand why ... i hadn't even relaxed from when this happened last year ... i can hear them in the trees all the time ... and in the last month two have swooped into the patio and back out ... but another one in the fucking house is just too much for me ... i would leave tonight if i could ...

Opening Ceremony

Tonight we went to my parents house and watched the opening ceremony for the 2004 Olympic Games ... the beginning was absolutely beautiful ... and seeing all the athletes walk in was fantastic ... although at times they did resemble a group of flight attendants ...


David and I curled up in the recliner and shared a blanket ... it was nice hanging out with everyone and watching it on the big screen with HDTV

Addition to the family

In July we also had another big event occur ... David's brother Kevin and his wife Yadira welcomed a 10.5 pound, 22 inches long son into the world. Julius Ceasar was born on July 29th. We haven't met him yet because they live in New York but maybe one day soon ... :)

13 going on 30

13 Going on 30


Last night we went to my parents house and Jason, Jenny, Eliana, David, my parents and I watched "13 Going on 30" ... I loved it ... we all loved it actually ... fantastic movie ... and even our dozers [Jenny, David and my dad either get up or fall asleep during movies] all stayed awake ...


Ellie is becomming such a doll ... she is happier ... cries less ... and has started making noises like she is talking ... i am looking so forward to having a baby ... i wish we were already trying ... but there is a plan in place for a reason and I gotta stick to it ...


David and I have totally gotten into our respective projects ... I have been scrapbooking like crazy and David is building a model car ... it is kinda fun that we each have something to work on while at home ...


well we are off to breakfast ... hummm sunday morning at the diner ... how great is that!! :)

Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper


I am fucking in love with the new Staples commercial with Alice Cooper ... I was cracking up last night when I saw it for the first time ...


Staples does make the best "back to school" commercials ... :)

Support your Candidate

Support your Candidate


If you support George W. Bush, please drive with your headlights on during the day on Friday.


If you support John Kerry, please drive with your headlights off that night.



Thank you

I have an addiction

I have an addiction ...


... it is called scrapbooking ... ya know I thought it would be a nice hobby to take up after the wedding ... ya know put together a book of wedding stuff ... one of honeymoon stuff ... then I realized Jenny's birthday is coming up and I know she loves scrapbooks but doesn't want to work on them ... so I could put one together of her beautiful baby ... then I asked Kris to send me all of her photos [they are just in a big box] and that I would put them into albums for her and sort them all out ... they came yesterday and as I looked through them I kept thinking, "Oh these would look great in a scrapbook" ... started pulling out the good ones and wound up staying up so late last night scanning those ... her birthday is on Wednesday so I figured if I could get this finished by Tuesday I could overnight it to her ...


In the last week as I have come up with these many projects I have spent more money than we have at A.C. Moore buying scrapbooking stuff ... and I haven't even touched the surface of all that I could have ... every day driving home I think, "oh I pass right by A.C. Moore ... maybe I should see if they have ..." ... you can fill that blank in with anything scrapbook-y ...


I will say it is the most productive "project" I have yet to undertake ... there is an end result that has purpose ... lots of my artwork from the past is either hanging on our bedroom wall or stacked up on the shelf in the closet ... some of them are nice but most just take up space ... and I do find cutting paper very relaxing ...


It has also given me a new thing to do while goofing off at work ... there are about a million and a half websites on scrapbooking so I can read articles and get ideas ... but I am obsessed ... I guess when I try and quit smoking again [for the umpteenth time] this is a good project to work on ... which was another of my goals ... and I guess when I do finally get pregnant it is also something good to work on ... but I am spending so much time on it that I haven't even picked up my baby books to read ...


I guess I just can't do anything half assed ... hahahaaaaa ...

Scrapbook crazy

OK so I was totally sick today ... I called in sick this morning really early cause I hadn't felt well all night but about an hour later the other girl in my office called out [she wasn't actually sick cause when she called she had said she was on her treadmill and thinks she got overheated] but whatever ... I couldn't leave my boss there alone ... and I had a feeling there were a couple of things that had to get done today so I put on my clothes that were closest to pajamas and headed to work ...


I was right there were a couple of things that just had to get done today so I am glad I was there ... but all day my boss kept telling me that I didn't look well and I felt hot and that I should go home ... I kept telling her I wasn't working hard ... that I was mostly goofing off but that I wanted to get the important things done ...


So on the way home I just was feeling "ick" so I thought to perk myself up I would stop at A.C. Moore and check out their scrapbook stuff ... well holy shit I would up spending about $80 on the stuff ... crazy ... that did include 2 books ... one I hope to use for wedding pictures and one for honeymoon pictures ... but my lord that is a crazy amount of money to spend on scrapbook shit ... although everything I got was pretty damn great ... and I need a project ... so in the end I do believe it is all worth it ...


See we need to quit smoking ... [I know that is a regular thing that I write but this time I have to] ... we want to start trying to make a baby in November ... and I know that I should quit for at minimum 3 month before getting pregnant ... today was supposed to be the day but I just wasn't up for it ... I'm going to give it a week ... David on the other hand ... I don't know if he can quit ... he spends so much time in the car going from job to job ... on the stupid beltway in hella traffic ... if I were in his shoes I don't know if I could quit either ... the hardest times for me are when I am in the car and right after I eat ... so I am going to tell him that I don't expect him to quit smoking ... especially if he isn't mentally ready but there will be some ground rules ... [I am going to sound like our bitchy frenchy upstairs neighbors but ... if once I am preggers and the smell makes me totally sick he will have to go downstairs to smoke ... or just stay out on the balcony all night ... and that if the smell makes me sick he will have to sleep on the couch ... I am sure he will agree to these ... cause basically the only other choice is for me to throw up on him ... hahahahaaa and I know he would hate that one ...


well I am going to go check out all the goodies I purchased this evening ... my god I am a bit sick to my stomach right now at how much I spent ... I guess that is good motivation to quit ... I can put the money towards the massive amounts of scrapbooking shit there is out there ... not that wanting a baby isn't a good enough reason ... :)

July of our first year

Besides getting married we went on a fabulous honeymoon ... we left on Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Sea from Baltimore Harbor and went to Freeport, Bahamas ... Key West, Florida ... Coco Cay, Bahamas and Port Canavral, Florida ... it was an excellent week ...


On July 31st we hosted our first dinner party ... Jason, Jenny, Eliana, Steven, Sharon and Andrew were all in attendance ... David went so over the top with the food it was breathtaking ... he impresses me every day ... the plate presentation was super and all the food was sooooo good ... it really was a fantastic evening and it was so fun having everyone's kids here ...


I would say our first month of marriage was great ... it didn't feel that different in the beginning but everyone kept telling us we look so happy ... and that we are what people wanted to see in a new married couple ... it is nice to hear those things because I am totally happy being married ...

Idea behind this blog ...

July 4, 2004 David and I got married ... it has so far been the happiest day of my life ... I'm so excited to be his wife that I am already working on his first anniversary gift ... since the first anniversary gift is supposed to be paper I am going to make him a scrap book with a page for each month of our first year of marriage ... so I am going to use this blog to keep track of the fun, interesting, hard, exciting and challenging things we go through this year so when July rolls around next year I can fill a book to remind us of this first year ...

Wedding & Honeymoon photos

Well I finally got all of our wedding and honeymoon pictures online for anyone who would like to see ... I can warn you that they are probably pretty boring ... but who knows ... it could be boredom that you are looking for ... :)


Our wedding and honeymoon photos


So now that all the events are over ... and July 4th has come and gone I need to come up with a new background for the design ... any ideas??


PS - don't say you weren't forewared on the boredom factor ... :)

I love being married

Well I am a married ... honeymooned woman ... what a fabulous two weeks ...

 

Our wedding couldn't have been better ... all the work and effort we put into it sure did pay off ... it was the most fabulous day ever ... and everyone noticed all the little touches I did which is great ...

 

a week later we boarded a cruise ship out of Baltimore and went to Florida and Bahamas for a week of bliss ... the two of us are so tan it is crazy ... and the vacation was so relaxing and wonderful ...

 

Ya know what ... I love being married ... it is just so great ... I know it has only been two weeks ... but it has been fun so far ... :)

Work before Wedding

Today is my last day at work before the wedding ... Kris and Chevy are getting on a plane tonight and will be here in the morning ... I can't fucking wait to see her ... it has been since March of 2001 since we last saw each other ... this might actually be the longest we have gone without seeing each other since we were 14 years old ... it is going to be great ... and tomorrow afternoon Heather will be getting on a plane to be here tomorrow night ...


the time is finally here ...


up until a few minutes ago none of this seemed real ... until Kris called and said she was packing cause they were going to the airport at 9 tonight ... then it hit me ... this is my wedding ... I haven't been working on all these projects for someone elses wedding ... crazy man ...


all the family stuff I am just letting go of ... there is nothing I can do and I can't spend my time worrying about other people ... they can worry about themselves ... what is done is done ...


I still have a ton of stuff to do but I will have a couple of days at home to work on stuff while Kris, Chevy and Heather are out sightseeing ... I am sure I will get everything done in time ...


Yesterday I went and had my eyebrows waxed and shaped for the first time in my life ... I felt so decadent and guilty ... like I really didn't need to be doing something so extravagant ... but I did have a gift certificate for it [obviously Kris was trying to tell me something] and they did come out quite nice ... but I don't think it is something I could actually spend money on on a regular basis ... just not my style ... and since no one has noticed I am thinking it wasn't too necessary ...


My dad is just getting over being really sick and it sounds like my mom might be getting it now ... that won't be good ... weather.com also is predicting rain for the whole weekend ... again, not good ... they are having a party the night before and planned on using their deck ... so just to be on the safe side I am stopping at CostCo today on my way home and buying a tent they could set up ... just in case ... neither need to know about it and if we use it great ... and if not CostCo will always take it back ... I would prefer that to happen but we will see ... at least the wedding and reception are inside the same location so once people get there they won't have to worry about going out in the rain ... schwoooooo ...


damn man in a few short days I am going to be a Mrs. ... who would have thought???

9 days till I get married

I picked a good time to blog again ... cause I have shit to get off my chest ...


I can't believe I spent a portion of last night telling off/arguing with my future brother-in-law's girlfriend, woops I mean fiance ... about the whole driving the father thing ...


I am pretty passive ... I don't let things get to me ... but last night I let it rip ... she and I went at it - IM style - about them not driving him down ... telling me she didn't want her fiance to be made to feel guilty for his decision ... and that the whole driving the dad down hinged on the very fragile and hard family dynamic dad has at with each of his sons at one time or another ...


I called her bullshit ...


I told her I never said anything to make him feel guilt ... any guilt he felt was self inflicted for making such a selfish decision ... and that he had driven his dad down here for the last two years on the same weekend so don't give me some "family dynamic" about the whole trip ...


She then said "I hope I can say this without offending you but if you are so worried buy him a plane ticket" ... my response - "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ..."


I explained we spent a ridiculous amount of money for this wedding and that sure $150 wasn't that much for a ticket but that we were pretty tapped out ... and that this is what I meant when I said no one realizes there is a wedding going on that weekend and that it is ours ... we shouldn't have to be dealing with all this shit ...


eventually I told her I had nothing more to say to her and that I had to get work done ... it is just such bullshit ... I or David shouldn't have to be dealing with this ... and he is just so upset ... he sounds like a bride ... yesterday he was saying, "Fuck man everyone around us seems to have no idea that this is our wedding ... it is our one time to do something for ourselves and have fun. Everyone is trying to compete with the wedding and the 4th of July and I am fucking sick of all of it" ...


He is absolutely right ... people are asking all sorts of stuff of us ... planning their own events for that same weekend while everyone is here ... Yes I understand lots of people are in town but I know these people would be pissed if we had honed in on their wedding ... planning stuff for our kids or our birthdays or whatever ...


OK my tirade is over ... I have 9 days till I get married ... a million things to do ... so for now I am off to work ... if I get there early I can leave early which means I have more time to get stuff done ... :)

Here is the scenario

Here is the scenario ...


You are driving to your siblings wedding ... it is about a 5 hour drive and your fiance is riding with you ... your father lives in the same area as you and he is 64 years old ... he too is going to the wedding ...


do you ...

A) Give your dad a ride

B) Make him drive all alone


In my opinion ... a good person would give their dad a ride and not feel inconvenienced by it ... I mean they are going from and to the same place and he is 64 years old ...


But if you are a guest at our wedding you tell your dad to find his own way to the wedding ... cause he doesn't like your music and you are just too selfish to give the man a ride!!!!

just a thought ...

I've been thinking about it ... and the commercial for the birth control patch is on all the time ... and the women seem so happy and excited to be sticking a patch on themselves ... "ohhhh how easy birth control is now" ... but I believe a man came up with that idea so he could see that his woman is taking birth control ... with a pill a skeptical man could think she isn't "really" taking it ... because unless he watches her swallow it he can't be sure ... so it is a way for men to "tag" women so they know they are getting their dose each day ...


... like all we are thinking about doing is trapping that man into having a baby with us ... yea that is what we spend our time doing ... :)


just a thought ...

new site design

Well a new site design constitutes actually writing something in my blog [the design is mirrored after all of the party favors I've made for the wedding] ... 2 weeks from today I'll be getting married ... I can't believe it ... at one point I never thought this time would come ... now to say I am two weeks away gets me nervous and excited ... excited to marry David ... nervous I won't finish all my projects in time ...


so any of you without a calendar ... two weeks from today is July 4th ... our countries independence day ... and Davids un-independence day ... :) ... as we celebrate our country becoming free David will say "I do" meaning no more freedom for him ... I kid of course ... we are really just doing it so he can get on my medical insurance ... :)


I am quite a do-it-yourself-er ... so I have made a million things for this wedding ... sure when it is all over I am going to have so much time for so many things ... but at the same time I think I will miss all the projects ...


things I made for the wedding:

CDs [we actually had a guy rip them and print right on the cd ... came out great]

CD covers

personalized matches [bought box matches and put my own stickers on them]

our invitation

program [still working on these]

little packets of sparklers

newsletter for out of town guests

bags for the guests hotel rooms

party bags for the wedding guests

silver tins for personalized M&Ms

stars covered in glitter for the escort cards

escort cards


all sorts of stuff ... even the list is starting to bore me ... hahahaaa ... every time I finished one project I would find another one to start on ...


my father has so kindly offered to help me today ... so for fathers day we are taking all the items that go in all the guest bags over to my parents house ... and we are going to fill the bags and tie the ribbon ... and I can leave them all over there ... which means we might actually be able to clean our house soon ... it has been a disaster for the last couple of months ... with all the wedding crap all over the place and all the blinds David needs to install for jobs ... it is a wonder we can even walk room to room ...


we aren't having a really big wedding ... but the people that are coming I have known for years and years so that will make it so special ... friends of our family that I have known since I was 4 years old are actually making the trip from California ... it will be their first time in Washington DC ... it is so exciting people can do that ... and with it being a smaller affair I will be able to spend time with everyone here ...


shit ya know I can't remember if I had written about this but on May 19th my brother and his wife had a baby girl ... she is just the cutest thing around and every time I leave the house I want to buy something for her ... I might be going a bit crazy on the baby clothes thing but buying for girls is so great ... her name is Eliana [el E ana] and everyone calls her Ellie ... she is still keeping them awake all the time ... and you can tell they are very tired ... but goodness she is cute ... I can't wait till she is old enough to babysit and David and I get to spend an evening with her ...


David is very much on the baby train that is for sure ... he is ready, willing, and able ... although we won't have a honeymoon baby I think we are going to try very soon ... I mean shit he will be 40 next year and I will be 35 ... although most would guess we are in our late 20s which is nice ... but biology knows better ... it is fun seeing the stunned look on peoples faces when I tell them I am not 25 or better yet when David has to show his license to prove he isn't 27 ... which he had to do last weekend with my brother's in-laws ... they just couldn't believe it ... :)


well I am going to try and get better at writing again ... I know I have said that a million times but since the wedding stuff is winding down I might be able to ... besides I have a week between the wedding and our honeymoon ... we are taking a cruise out of Baltimore [woohoo no flying] ... going to a couple of stops in Florida and the Bahamas ... we haven't been on a vacation in 3 years ... it is going to be so nice to get away from everything and spend some fun time with each other ... I can hardly wait :)

nothing really exciting

I just never seem to write anymore ... maybe cause nothing really exciting is happening ... wedding planning has been tiring me out ... I just want to get it overwith at this point ... I want to be David's wife ... have a vacation ... and start the baby making ... well maybe give married life a few months before the baby making ...


My brother and his wife could have their baby at any moment now ... I am kinda bummed they aren't going to call anyone till they have had the baby ... I understand they don't want anyone there but I would love to get a call as they were on their way ... so that I could kind of share in the excitement ... but oh well people have to do what is best for them ... I understand that ...


I miss Kris ... she took a new job a couple of months ago and we hardly ever talk ... we used to talk anywhere from twice to 8 times a day ... now we talk like twice a week ...


I have to go to the dentist tomorrow and I freaking out a bit about it ... I had so many surgeries in my mouth as a kid and so much shit going on in there that I get a bit wigged out now that I am an adult ... and I am 100% sure I have a cavity which doesn't make going any easier ... I wish it was a guy that practiced sleep dentistry ... but I'll tell you this ... I am going to get as much gas as I can ...


I have been thinking about starting a paper business ... ya know specialty papers for invitations and announcements ... I would love to sell the supplies [cause they I would get them for cheaper] but I would also love to make invitations for people ... I've been trying to come up with a good name but it is harder than one would think ...


David's birthday is this month ... on the 25th ... and I am once again in a quandary as to what to get him ... usually i am great at getting people gifts but with David I SUCK ... there is a big box full of reject gifts from Liz ... I kid you not ... most of them don't even sell on eBay ... it is a sad thing I'll tell ya that ...


We are going to one of my all time favorite restaurants for Mother's Day on Sunday ... Mon Ami Gabi ... the place rocks ... I'll probably stop eating Saturday afternoon just so I am good and ready for Sunday night ...


I have become totally hooked to two shows lately ... Airline and Showbiz Moms and Dads ... Airline is just super fantastic ... I have absolutely loved every episode ... so cool of Southwest ... I knew there was a reason my dad and I are diehard Southwest fans ... and Showbiz Moms and Dads is great ... I do feel a bit bad for the kids but it is a great show ... very interstice ... I stayed up way too late watching it last night even though I was TiVoing it at the same time ...


ok I have rambled long enough ... I should get some sleep ... my bed is so comfy lately I get so excited to lay down :)

Postcards For Mom

Postcards For Mom

This site is so damn funny I can't believe it ... you must check it out ... I only wish I had thought of it :)

calmed down

Well I have calmed down quite a bit since my last post ... David and I took Friday off of work and applied for our marriage license ... we also went and ordered our cake ... then we spent the day hanging out at my parent's house while they had a movie theather installed in their basement ... OK well maybe not a movie theather but a big fabric screen on the wall and an overhead projector on the ceiling ... it really is so cool ... my dad has wanted to do this for so so so long and he hardly ever dones anything for himself so he went for it ... he was just like a kid he was so excited ...


yesterday I spent the whole day printing stuff that I either need to cut our or assemble or whatever ... it felt like I got a whole bunch accomplished ... and while I do laundry today I am going to keep working on cutting or assemblying or whatever ...


Today is my friend Heather's birthday ... I wish I could be in Kansas and celebrate with her ... I sure hope they are having nice weather because she is having a BBQ down at the lake ...


well unfortunately the time has come for me to start my laundry ... god how i hate to do laundry ... i should have started it yesterday but I just wasn't in the mood ... not that I ever am but anyway ... I am off ... I sure hope everyone who celebrates Easter is having a wonderful Easter Sunday ... as for us we probably won't do anything Easter-y until we have kids who want the sugar ... :)

99 days till I get married

You know the scene in My Cousin Vinny when they are on the porch of the cabin ... Lisa is going through the speech about her biological clock and Vinny goes through a long list of things that are piling up stressing him out and asks, "What more could we possibly pile up on the outcome of this case?" ... that is how I am feeling ...


Today is 99 days till I get married ... the list of stuff I have to do is getting longer rather than shorter ... some of the things I can't do until orders come in ... some of the things I am still trying to figure out how to do them ... we have no honeymoon planned and it turned out some of the mileage we were going to use to pay for things we aren't getting ... so it is just so much on top of so much on top of so much ...


and to make things even worse ... it is this time last year that we had the BATS ... and I am nervous wreck at home ... every time Kramer freaks I freak ... when I hear wings flap [hopfully they are from birds] I jump up and run ... bats bats bats ... I can't deal with them again this year ...


I think the point I am trying to make is that I am just too fucking stressed out right now ... I am dieting and working out like a fucking maniac and I am getting very little support from the people around me and it is hard ... I am down 35 pounds but I don't believe I have even lost one pants size cause everything still fits just fine ...


and all the people around me are complaining about all sorts of shit but no one is having time to listen to me ... and I need that so badly ... I am sick of listening to everyone else ...


my birthday was on Sunday and it came and went without incidence ... I realize we were all dealing with a bit too much death last week but I fucking live for my birthday ... and it was just a nothing day at all ...


ok my pity party is over ... I gotta go figure out why my arm is hurting me so badly ... and it feels like it is asleep ... hummmmmmmm

all at once

Americans killed in Iraq were Baptist missionaries This was all over the news Monday but I just couldn't write about it ... Jean is my mom's cousin ... Jean and her husband were two of the four killed on Monday in Iraq ... the whole family was terribly shocked ... then yesterday morning while I was at work my mother called ... my Grandmother's brother passed away Tuesday night ... 3 people from one family in two days ... just doesn't seem right ... my Grandmother is the only child living from her family ... out of 10 children ... it makes me so worried ... this is the type of thing that triggers a person's will to live ... my dad's father passed away a week after his sister because he was so sad ... my Grandmother and her brother have lived next door to each other for 50 years ... I'm just not ready to let her go ... she is my last grandparent left ... Sunday is my birthday and the 11 year anniversary of my other Grandmother's death ... I don't want them both gone ... at the same time ... I miss my dad's mom terribly ... we were very close ... and I don't know how my mom will handle when her mother is gone ... I just can't stop crying ... I am worried about so many people right now ... it is just so much loss and fear all at once ... I'm not normally one to pray but I think I may try it today ...

Honeymoon in Europs

David and I are going to Europe for our honeymoon ... lucky bastards I know ... but a part of me is so nervous to make the trip ... my brother and his wife left for their honeymoon on September 5, 2001 ... they spent a couple of days in Europe before boarding a European cruise on September 10, 2001 ... the first morning of their trip they were stranded in a port in Portugal for 9 days ... wherein the cruiseline made other transportation arrangements for the passengers ... the ship didn't sail because of 9-11 ... with all the scary stuff I am reading lately I don't want to be a tourist in Europe ... a part of me is a bit freaked out by it ... it is David's dream to visit Europe and he feels this is his best chance to go ... I just wish I felt safer about the whole idea ... I'm having a bit of trouble getting excited about the journey ...


that really seems to be the only thing on my mind lately ... everything else is just gravy ... yummmm gravy ... still dieting ... kicking some serious ass too ... doubled my workouts ... twice a day now even when I don't feel like it ... big step for me ...


its bedtime now ... tonight I will say some good thoughts for those who lost their life [and their families] in the terrible bombing in Spain ... the 11th of the month doesn't seem to be a good day ... doesn't seem to matter what month either ...

sick to my stomach

The following article makes me sick to my stomach ... it reinforces the fact that I just don't understand people ... how can a woman have a problem looking at a pamphlet about sex with her husband ... how can these woman be against their children hearing about homosexuality and masturbation ... this is only sending a message to their girls that they can't be who they are they need to be something mommy and daddy approve of ... so they in fact might have to lie to themselves about who they are ... it is sad sad sad ...


Updated: 07:43 AM EST

Some Texans Boycott Girl Scout Cookies

By ANGELA K. BROWN, AP


CRAWFORD, Texas (March 3) - Some families are boycotting Thin Mints and Do-Si-Dos and other Girl Scout cookies. Troop 7527 is down to just two members after the other girls were withdrawn by their parents. And Brownie Troop 7087 is no more.



A Christian radio station in Waco aired ads for two weeks urging folks to boycott Girl Scout cookies. (Rod Aydelotte, Waco Tribune Herald/AP)


Why are folks in this conservative Texas town where President Bush has his ranch so mad at the Girl Scout organization?


Planned Parenthood and sex education.


The furor was started a few weeks ago by the leader of the anti-abortion group Pro-Life Waco, who sent out e-mails and ran ads on a Christian radio station urging people to boycott Girl Scout cookies because of the "cozy relationship" between the Girl Scouts and Planned Parenthood.


Parents were upset to learn that the local Girl Scout organization had given a "woman of distinction award" last year to a Planned Parenthood executive. And they were disturbed to find out that the Girl Scout organization has been giving its endorsement for years to a Planned Parenthood sex-ed program in which girls and boys are given literature on homosexuality, masturbation and condoms.


"It's not that we're a bunch of activists. We're just a bunch of moms who care about their kids," said Lisa Aguilar, who took her 10-year-old daughter out of her eight-member Girl Scout troop. "For us, it's the morality. Where is Girl Scouts going?"




The two troops in Crawford, population 700, decided not to deliver the cookie orders that they had already taken.


But cookie sales have skyrocketed this year as many people bought cases just to show their support for the Girl Scouts, said Becky Parker, a troop leader who is the cookie distributor for Waco-area troops.


"People thought the boycott was ridiculous and was one man's extremist views," Parker said.


While the cookie boycott may have backfired, the furor prompted the parent leaders of the two Crawford troops to quit.


"You're telling these girls to raise their fingers up to pledge to honor God and country, and yet you're handing out materials saying homosexuality is OK," said Brownie leader Donna Coody, who disbanded her five-member troop.


Because of the uproar, the Bluebonnet Council of Girl Scouts, which oversees troops in the Waco area and 13 other counties, announced last week that it would not be affiliated with Planned Parenthood sex-education programs this year.


In an editorial in Friday's Waco Tribune-Herald, Pam Smallwood, the Planned Parenthood of Central Texas executive director who was honored by the Girl Scouts last year, complained that Girl Scouts had thereby demonstrated that "bullying tactics are more effective than an informed democracy."


The Waco-area Girl Scout organization has been putting its name and logo on brochures for the Planned Parenthood sex-education programs but said it does not contribute any money and does not send girls to attend.


Some 400 to 700 fifth- through ninth-graders attend the half-day Nobody's Fool conference in Waco each July. The program never mentions abortion, according to Planned Parenthood. The youngsters receive a book with chapters on homosexuality and masturbation, as well as illustrations of couples having sex, people examining their naked bodies and a boy putting on a condom.


Some Girl Scout mothers called it soft-core porn.


"It embarrassed me to look at it with my husband," said parent Shannon Donaldson.


Pro-Life Waco director John Pisciotta, an economics professor at Baylor, the world's largest Baptist university, said his call for a cookie boycott "was a way to bring attention to the issue and wasn't really about cookies."


The Girl Scouts national organization, which is based in New York and has 2.9 million girl members and 986,000 adult members, takes no position on sex education or abortion and has no national relationship with Planned Parenthood, according to the Bluebonnet Council.


The Crawford mothers are forming their own girls organization and will use a Christian-based curriculum. Beth Vivio, director of the Bluebonnett Council, declined to say if parents in any other troops had taken their daughters out.


Some parents decided to explain abortion to their girls. Others gave only a vague explanation about the uproar.


"Our girls have been through a lot these past three weeks," said Jennifer Smith, who quit as leader of Girl Scout Troop 7527 and removed her daughter. "After I told my 10-year-old daughter that they are supporting some things that are not morally right, she understood."


That girl didn't understand ... that isn't an explanation ... and it didn't give her the option to make up her own mind ... her mother just took away her choice just like she wants to take away everyone's choice ...


it is crazy ... two great organizations for women can't work together or support each other anymore because of some closed minded people in Texas ... fuck that ... fuck fuck fuck that ... you don't want to be a Girl Scout ... or you don't want your daughter being a Girl Scout fine ... but let everyone else make their own fucking decision about what they want to do ...

March 1st

woooohooooo ... March 1st ... alright ... this is my favorite month of the year ... maybe because it turns to spring this month and the warmer the better ... maybe because my birthday is this month and I am a birthday whore ... maybe because oh shit it is cause my birthday is this month ... there is no more to it than that ... and to make things better my birthday is on the first day of spring ... how fucking dandy is that ...


well I am not going to let this good mood go to waste ... I think I'll go bug the cat for a little while ... :)

Quote

A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"

only Tuesday

fuck man it is only Tuesday ... what the hell is going on!!!

The End of Sex and the City

I can't believe it is over ... the last episode left me happy ... sad ... euphoric ... lost ... touched ... complete ...


it makes me miss my friends ... and it feels as if another set of friends is leaving my life ... I cried tears of joy and sadness ... it is/was a fabulous show and a part of my Sunday nights will feel empty now ... I am so happy I was able to experience every episode for the last six years ... it was a very special experience that touched both my heart and mind ...


I will miss Carrie ... Miranda ... Charlotte and Samantha ... they are woman who dared to be themselves and a part of each one of them is in me ...

boycotting Jiffy Lube

I am now boycotting Jiffy Lube ... I used to love them but the assholes at the one by our house ruined it for the whole company ...


weekend before last David took his work van in ... and had $1300 worth of work done at the Sears Auto Center and the Jiffy Lube [by our house the two are connected and work together] ... anyway our cost at Jiffy Lube was $204.45 ... by mistake the guy rang up someone else's car on our card for a total of $244.77 as well as the $204.45 ... he said $244.77 was refunded but after a week the credit hadn't shown up on our account ... I called and they said we needed to come in on Monday ... David called on Monday because we weren't going to make it home in time to get there before they closed but the guy wouldn't do anything over the phone or by fax ... so last night David went into Jiffy Lube ...


The manager actually laughed in his face and said "No I am not giving you your money back, I told you to come in on Monday" ...


EXCUSE ME ... you charged my card for someone else's work you can't keep that money ... well David got really really pissed and walked out into the shop and yelled "Give me my fucking money back" ... and left ... when he got home he called and yelled into the phone "Give me my fucking money back" ... then he called Jiffy Lube's corporate office ... they put him on hold and called the store ... well the store called the police and said he threatened them and used racial slurs [David would NEVER do that] ... and Jiffy Lube corporate said there was nothing they could do ... David wasn't getting his money back if the shop didn't want to issue the credit ...


meanwhile I found the phone number for the person whose bill they charged us for and left him a message [since his name and everything was on it I knew who and where to look] ... I then called our bank who promptly issued a credit ...


I don't understand how Jiffy Lube can get away with this ... it is robbing us ... it is such bullshit it is crazy ... so today I am writing letters to the CEO's of both Sears and Jiffy Lube ... I just don't understand how this is legal ...

SAN FRANCISCO

HOT DAMN TO SAN FRANCISCO!!!!!!!!

Finally someone takes a step to let people who love each other get married ...

How can people even think this is wrong??? I don't get it!!!!!

Does it hurt them in some way??? --- NO

Does it make people happy???? --- OF COURSE!!!!!!!!!!!


I hope they win the battle ... I hope by the time I have children this won't even be an issue anymore ... I think anyone in love should be legally able to lawfully commit to each other ... it shouldn't matter if it is a man and a woman ... and man and a man or a woman and a woman ...


I'm keeping my fingers crossed that San Fran wins this pursuit of justice!!!!!!!!!!!

Work Problems

There are many reasons to refuse a job in a company where your father is the General Manager ... today I am experiencing one HARD CORE ... when your direct superior is being an imbecile you can't go off on him and tell him how wrong he is like you could at any other job ... and at this moment it is making me soooooooo mad I don't know what to do ...


I have NEVER had a problem speaking my mind at work ... I work hard and am quite diligent that I feel if something is wrong it is my place to say something ... but right now I am in no place to do it and it just makes me soooooo mad that I want to throw up ... I am sick to my stomach and just want to get the fuck out of here so badly ... I just don't know what I am going to do ...


and the fact that he is SO wrong ... and has taken the side of idiots and is punishing me and we are now not speaking that each minute that goes by I get more and more and more pissed off ...


I can't wait to fucking get out of here today ... I am so mad it didn't ice storm like promised because then I could have worked at home today and been happy :)

Motorcycle Show in Baltimore

I was so hoping there would be freezing rain and snow and it would be a shitty mess this morning ... I really wanted to work from home so badly ... unfortunately it is supposed to start in like an hour so I am going to head out so I could at least get stuck at work ... :)


my new schedule is killing me ... David and I are in bed before 9 PM most night ... sometimes earlier ... and my alarm goes off at 3:45 ... it is an ungodly hour to say the least ... by the time I get home I am wiped out ...


This past weekend David and I went to the Motorcycle Show in Baltimore ... it was pretty cool ... David got to see all the Orange Country Chopper bikes which he just loved ... we took some great pictures ... and actually got out of the house for the whole day ... pretty big accomplishment ... the cat thinks he is losing his mind ... usually one of us is home and now that we are both working all day and going out and doing stuff he has the run of the house so his need for attention is higher than ever when we get home ...


ok I am off ... gotta get to work before the shit starts coming down ... :)

20 pound mark

Today I hit the 20 pound mark ... I have lost 20 pounds since December 30th ... which means I met goal one ... lose 20 pounds in January ... now on to my second goal ... lose 20 pounds in February ... of course this will be harder and I will have to step it up a notch ...


I found out today that at the Baltimore Convention Center the motorcycle show is going to be there Friday, Saturday and Sunday so I think I am going to take David tomorrow as a surprise ... the guys from American Chopper [Orange County Cycles] are going to be there displaying their bikes and I know David would get a huge thrill out of that ... :)


He started his first week at his new job on Monday and already he is going to Williamsburg VA for the second time ... on his first day he drove up there for a job and stayed in a hotel ... our schedule has changed drastically since he has to be at work at a scary early time ... today I borrowed a car so I didn't have to go in so early ... thank god ...


and all the wedding plans are coming together nicely ... later I'll have to post the picture my friend Bob drew for us ... it is awesome and I am using it to make personalized matches ... :)


OK I should get ready for work now ... I've been up for 3 hours already it is like my day is half way done and I haven't even really started ... :)

working on our invitations

The entire weekend has been spent working on our invitations ... I cut several hundred pieces of paper ... I punched 4 tiny holes in each of those 100's of pieces ... cut lengths of ribbon ... printed 100's of pieces of paper and got so frustrated with one print job that David is ready to smash our printer like in Office Space ... even though there were so many other things I needed to work on this weekend I feel a huge sense of accomplishment ... really got a lot done ... but at the same time it makes me curse the woman who we bought the supplies from because we were supposed to get this stuff before Thanksgiving and I didn't get it till something like January 7th ... I had 10 days off during the holidays ... I would have gotten into the groove of working on stuff and probably gotten them all finished ... instead I must now go to sleep since I have work tomorrow ...


oh I forgot everyone who was asked to pick a song for our CD party favor picked their song ... so we also figured out the order for the songs and got that put together ... woohoo ...


ok now it is bed time for sure ...

1 month

OK I only remained a non smoker for 1 month ... I am smoking again ... I just couldn't do both ... and dieting won the battle ... I know I will try again ... once I get some weight off and comfortable with the way I am eating now I will attempt it again ... but at this moment it is more important to get some weight off and look and feel good for my wedding ... but as they say every time you try to quit you get closer to succeeding ... besides I know I will have to do it soon ... at the end of this year we are going to start trying to have a baby ... :)

NetFlix

Since we have joined NetFlix I have been watching fantastic movies every weekend ... this weekend are retro movies ... we have Mouse Hunt [one of David's favorite movies] ... Pollyanna [which I just adore] and right now I am watching My Bodyguard ... this movie rocks ... I haven't seen it in ages but I grew up loving it ...


I think this weekend David and I are going to start making our wedding invitations ... kind of exciting and kind of a nervous prospect at the same time ...


ok so I think I am going to get started with the printing so I can figure out all I need to cut and punch holes in and all that fun stuff ... I will say I relish every moment of all this ... it is all a once in a lifetime experience :)

14 pounds

Well I am down 14 pounds in the last 15 days ... not too bad ... but it sure feels like I have been dieting longer than 15 days ... I am feeling good ... it isn't enough yet that someone would notice but there are few feelings as exciting as stepping on the scale each morning and seeing it has gone down ...


I have been craft crazy lately ... after the wedding I will either be burnt out on projects or will go into withdrawals cause my body will still be craving the craftiness ... this weekend I made silver stickers ... they are kick ass ... I made some that seal our invitation closed and cut them all out ... then I made about 100 tiny envelopes to hold sparklers in [I cut a piece of origami paper in half and then glued 2 sides of it to make a little envelope for the sparklers] ... then last night I made about 200 little stickers to put on the envelope to remind people to take them outside ... I am still in the process of cutting those out ...


my mom thought I was taking too much time to plan my wedding ... I think now she sees why we picked a date 14 months from when we got engaged ... she thinks I am crazy too for doing so much stuff myself ... but it sure is fun ...


I think I am typing now cause I am procrastinating going to work ... so I should just get dressed and get the hell out of here ... :)

David's tux

Today we bought David's tux ... we went to Men's Warehouse and I started tearing up when he was all decked out ... I've never seen him in a tux before and he looked so handsome ... it just made everything seem more real and even more exciting ... he got a beautiful tux with black suspenders, black vest and a long tie ... I'm just getting so excited I can hardly stand it ...

David is so kick-ass

David is so kick-ass ... he has been running his own business for a little less than a year ... he measures and installs window coverings ... well last month he applied for a job with a big company that does windows and flooring ... yesterday they called to say he got the job ... it is awesome ... company car ... great benefits ... tons of work ... and he can keep doing his stuff on the side after business hours ... how fucking cool is that ... he is just so excited ...


now I just keep reminding him ... tell them now about your honeymoon in 6 months ... make sure they know about it ... cause if I have to I will go alone ... :)

Bridezilla

Funny I should get a Bridezilla comment ... I have come to a conclusion ... when you are planning a wedding people are assholes ... now not everyone ... but many are and they force perfectly nice and kind women to become beasts ...


I actually interviewed a photographer that told me under no circumstances would she take a photo of each table ... this is my only required photo of the whole day ... to ensure that everyone that is attending the wedding gets in a picture ... and she said no ... I was flabbergasted ... it is my wedding and I am paying for her services and she can say the one photo I want she won't take ... so I sounded like Bridezilla whenever I spoke to a photographer ...


I also paid someone to do part of our invitations ... David and I have chosen to make our own ... but to save us a bit of time I hired someone to print part of it and drill holes and cut a section ... it was supposed to take 7 days and I ordered it on November 1, 2003 ... it finally arrived to me on December 30, 2003 ... WAY more than 7 days ... and it was TERRIBLE ... oh my god the holes were punched at different heights and different widths from the edges of the paper and from each other ... there was no way the 4 holes could have been more different from each other when they should have been exactly the same as each other ... and nothing was printed centered ... the tops and left side had way more "white space" than the right and bottom ... it forced me to become bridezilla waiting 2 months for something that was supposed to take 7 days and then to have it look so horrible ... I made her purchase more of the items for me and we will now do all the printing, drilling and cutting ourselves ...


I've also learned if you call to get a quote for something it is one price ... if you later call to get that same quote for a wedding it is 3 times the price ... what the fuck is up with that ... how right does that seem ...


so they make women become crazy while planning ... and each thing builds up a bit more and a bit more ... it is no wonder someone freaks out because the pink is the wrong shade ... they held it together while people did crappy work and overcharged them and didn't follow through and missed appointments ... now the pink is a bitch ... hahahahaaaaaa


I told myself I wouldn't turn this into a bridal blog ... but there is nothing else really interesting going on in my life ... although I have lost 11 pounds in the last 9 days so something must be going well with my diet ...


so if anyone feels like seeing all my dorky wedding stuff that I have been doing then check out: my wedding stuff ... we are making anything we can ... favors ... invitations ... I am doing all my own flowers ... stickers ... all sorts of shit ... so I would say if you are really bored it is a good place to check out ... hahahhaaaaaaaa

6 months

Six months from right now David and I will be saying "I Do" ... and will become husband and wife ... it is so exciting I can hardly stand it ... there is still so much to do in the next 6 months but I do look forward to every moment of it ... :)