1. still haven't found "the house". I mean is there a "the house"? The last time I was MAJOR excited about a house was in Westerville ohio. The little red house. And I did love our yellow house in Winona Lake! I really thought our rental house in Texas was so adorable, even though it had it's issues. Both our of houses here, are just houses to me. I really didn't want to buy the one we are in, (I thought it was ugly). But we cute-i-fied it right up and I like it. but it is not love. so to find "the house" in Tyler is stressing me out! It feels compounded by this fact...what schools we want the kids to go to.
2. had a bit of road rage last bight. I mean I know you have had these thoughts before, like you really just want to run into the back of someone going so slow...on purpose...because they think it is funny to make you suffer. I am not asking for people to speed, only to GO THE FREAKIN SPEED LIMIT! I am thinking, well who cares I will show you and I will just run into your car, how would you like that! I had a BIG expedition, you in your BABY honda...let's see how that would turn out for you!
3. scored BIG time on some actual moving boxes!! One of my friend's, sister's, husband's, boyfriends, niece (just kidding, it was said friend's next door neighbor) was just professionally moved here (@&#!!!) from Alabama and she had major NICE boxes stacked in her garage. Yipee! No dumpster diving for me!
4. decided I would make worlds #1 worst single mom. (well, maybe not as bad as Brittany, oh wait she gave her kids up right?) Corey has been MIA since July 6. (He is really at Ole Miss soccer camp, I do actually know where he is, I am simply stating he has been MIA from this family.)sucks. I guess after 16 years, I am kinda used to him being around...
5. decided to share to all my fabric softner... Snuggle liquid. It lasts on your clothes forever! I love it
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Here I am again
I have a neck ache
My butt is asleep
All I do is sit here and look for a house in Tyler Texas.
All I really do is look at the same houses that I saw yesterday (and the day before and the day before... etc x infinity) lol
So instead I am going to tell you what I love...
I love my fabric softner and I highly recommend it. If you want to know what I use, you will have to do something crazy like...leave a freakin comment!....so that I know there are actual people reading this...
oh I'm sorry, did that sound harsh?
I love hazelnuts.
Bet you weren't expecting that one! You can buy them chopped now (b/c it was so hard to chop them up in the past) and I toast them and put them on everything! Or I buy them whole and just grate them into sauces. I use them now instead of pecans etc... ssooooo delicious! fun.
I love sweating.
When I am at the pool. Getting all hot and sweaty (in the 2.5 seconds after I get there) and waiting for the break time at the pool, then sliding into the cool fresh water. delightful.
I love pigtails.
If I could I would put Emy's hair in pigtails everyday. Unfortunately, she thinks that her hair looks better down (uncombed, and roughly tucked behind her ears) so she is forever pulling out her pigtails and just going with the look. precious.
I love cool mornings.
Today, an unusually cool (only 63 degrees) morning made me want to jump up and down in my driveway. What I really did, was drag the trash cans to the curb in my pyjamas WITHOUT SWEATING which never happens in Mississippi in the middle of July. pure joy.
My butt is asleep
All I do is sit here and look for a house in Tyler Texas.
All I really do is look at the same houses that I saw yesterday (and the day before and the day before... etc x infinity) lol
So instead I am going to tell you what I love...
I love my fabric softner and I highly recommend it. If you want to know what I use, you will have to do something crazy like...leave a freakin comment!....so that I know there are actual people reading this...
oh I'm sorry, did that sound harsh?
I love hazelnuts.
Bet you weren't expecting that one! You can buy them chopped now (b/c it was so hard to chop them up in the past) and I toast them and put them on everything! Or I buy them whole and just grate them into sauces. I use them now instead of pecans etc... ssooooo delicious! fun.
I love sweating.
When I am at the pool. Getting all hot and sweaty (in the 2.5 seconds after I get there) and waiting for the break time at the pool, then sliding into the cool fresh water. delightful.
I love pigtails.
If I could I would put Emy's hair in pigtails everyday. Unfortunately, she thinks that her hair looks better down (uncombed, and roughly tucked behind her ears) so she is forever pulling out her pigtails and just going with the look. precious.
I love cool mornings.
Today, an unusually cool (only 63 degrees) morning made me want to jump up and down in my driveway. What I really did, was drag the trash cans to the curb in my pyjamas WITHOUT SWEATING which never happens in Mississippi in the middle of July. pure joy.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Should and Should Nots
What I should be doing:
Find a house to move into in Tyler Texas (in 16 days)
Pack up house in Brandon MS (what... I have packed 5 boxes already!)
Keep house clean, just in case contract falls through
Pray that our nazi, I mean inspector, gives our buyers a good report (he just "failed" a house in my neighborhood last Friday)
Scope out the job market in Tyler Texas (I really think at this point I could be a realtor, I already know everything about every house possible)
Become fluent in Spanish (in like 16 days) Seriously, I applied for a cheer coach position at a high school and they called today and offered me a teaching position, a SPANISH teaching position, in a HIGH school, in TEXAS, where actual Mexicans live. I was like "No, I applied for the cheer coach position" hello, where is the correlation? Just because I minored in Spanish in college (who doesn't) and taught ELEMENTARY Spanish last year (IN MISSISSIPPI...not too many Mexican here) does this somehow qualify me to teach? wow. that is all I can say.
What I should NOT be doing:
Sitting by the pool for 5 hours
Taking the kids out to lunch because I am too lazy to make something
Surfing other blogs so i am "up" on all my friends (I really know very few of them) lives
Talking on the phone to friends
Keep up with reading the 4 books that I am currently reading (that calls for a post in itself, I am very excited about each book. Perhaps when I am procrastinating later tonight I will make that entry)
Dream about living in a foreign country
Eating cereal for dinner, for the 3rd night in a row...
Find a house to move into in Tyler Texas (in 16 days)
Pack up house in Brandon MS (what... I have packed 5 boxes already!)
Keep house clean, just in case contract falls through
Pray that our nazi, I mean inspector, gives our buyers a good report (he just "failed" a house in my neighborhood last Friday)
Scope out the job market in Tyler Texas (I really think at this point I could be a realtor, I already know everything about every house possible)
Become fluent in Spanish (in like 16 days) Seriously, I applied for a cheer coach position at a high school and they called today and offered me a teaching position, a SPANISH teaching position, in a HIGH school, in TEXAS, where actual Mexicans live. I was like "No, I applied for the cheer coach position" hello, where is the correlation? Just because I minored in Spanish in college (who doesn't) and taught ELEMENTARY Spanish last year (IN MISSISSIPPI...not too many Mexican here
What I should NOT be doing:
Sitting by the pool for 5 hours
Taking the kids out to lunch because I am too lazy to make something
Surfing other blogs so i am "up" on all my friends (I really know very few of them) lives
Talking on the phone to friends
Keep up with reading the 4 books that I am currently reading (that calls for a post in itself, I am very excited about each book. Perhaps when I am procrastinating later tonight I will make that entry)
Dream about living in a foreign country
Eating cereal for dinner, for the 3rd night in a row...
Sunday, July 13, 2008
My passport story
Well, just when you think you have everything worked out...
I finally went downtown to get my passport processed, and after a 20 minute drive and a short wait there I was.
All of my paperwork completed and the cutest picture of myself to go on the passport.
Actually I took 2 different pictures down, and I was asking the lady there to help me decide which one to use.
They were both very good pictures I had cropped out of family pictures.
I mean, you need a good picture, it is a 10 year commitment!
So imagine my surprise when I get there and she says
"all photos have to have a white background"
that's right people, I should have actually read all the paperwork.
So...what to do??? Go home and get a new photo?? Drive all that way for a good photo?
The vain part is screaming YES
The reasonable part is whispering, no it is okay, just have her take one right here right now and be done with it.
That sounded good, until I caught a look of myself in the mirror.
Did I mention that I had just come from the gym?
With a NIKE hat on my head and
NO MAKEUP and
a (sweaty) grey t-shirt on????
Passport lady is like "do you have a brush?"
As if I carry one around just in case I need to have a passport photo taken (even though I had 2 lovely sets in my purse, one with a gray-ish background ((come on that is close enough)) and one with a purple background)
So she is clearly startled by my choice to have my picture taken.
Well, I can't take a passport photo with my hat on (sort of terrorist-ish) so I take it off and "fluff" my hair and then pull it back into a pony-tail (my daily summer do) and pull some out to make like I have bangs (at least some hair) and then even before I can put on lipstick, she takes the picture.
There you go.
My 10 year passport with the world's ugliest photo!!!
love it.
I finally went downtown to get my passport processed, and after a 20 minute drive and a short wait there I was.
All of my paperwork completed and the cutest picture of myself to go on the passport.
Actually I took 2 different pictures down, and I was asking the lady there to help me decide which one to use.
They were both very good pictures I had cropped out of family pictures.
I mean, you need a good picture, it is a 10 year commitment!
So imagine my surprise when I get there and she says
"all photos have to have a white background"
that's right people, I should have actually read all the paperwork.
So...what to do??? Go home and get a new photo?? Drive all that way for a good photo?
The vain part is screaming YES
The reasonable part is whispering, no it is okay, just have her take one right here right now and be done with it.
That sounded good, until I caught a look of myself in the mirror.
Did I mention that I had just come from the gym?
With a NIKE hat on my head and
NO MAKEUP and
a (sweaty) grey t-shirt on????
Passport lady is like "do you have a brush?"
As if I carry one around just in case I need to have a passport photo taken (even though I had 2 lovely sets in my purse, one with a gray-ish background ((come on that is close enough)) and one with a purple background)
So she is clearly startled by my choice to have my picture taken.
Well, I can't take a passport photo with my hat on (sort of terrorist-ish) so I take it off and "fluff" my hair and then pull it back into a pony-tail (my daily summer do) and pull some out to make like I have bangs (at least some hair) and then even before I can put on lipstick, she takes the picture.
There you go.
My 10 year passport with the world's ugliest photo!!!
love it.
Roxanne
Rock Band!
Corey and Kennedy were in Tyler for soccer camp last week, and then they left already this morning for Ole Miss soccer camp! I had enough time to wash all their clothes and have one delicious dinner and a fun night (!) and then off to camp again...
The most fun was hearing Corey sing Roxanne....priceless!
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