Chill Time

I can't believe it's already Thursday! And while we're at it, I can't believe it's already December! Time flies! I think time goes by faster as you get older. Or at least you recognize it when you're older. Since it's been like, a week and a half since I did the whole blogging thing, I have a feeling this blog is going to be a little ADD. ;) So bear with me...

And speaking of time flies! This week, Taylor and I have been together for six years! I can't believe it! I feel old! I love my hubby! We've been through lots in the last 6 years, but I'm glad he stuck with me. I think I'll keep him around :)

My uncle was on the Today show yesterday to talk about the progress of my cousin's case. We are finally seeing some progress. The Australian court indicted Gabe and set a trial date of February 3rd, and basically if he isn't there that day (which he is supposed to) then they will start the extradition process, which who knows how long that is going to take, but we just have to keep praying!

Today was day #1 of my low carb diet! Woo woo! I really am determined to lose the weight I've gained, in the last couple of years, especially since the wedding. Tay & I pretty much finished off our pre-diet groceries and I went to Market Street yesterday and stocked up on diet food. It was kinda pricey but I really am dedicated to making it work. I found lots of good recipes on line and even some desserts, so it will make it easier. So cross your fingers that I stick to it!

My BFFAEAE Allison is coming to see me this weekend and I'm SUPER excited! She's been living in Po-Dunk, New Mexico and there's nothing to do there, especially since her hubby is going to be out of town, so we're gonna have some much overdue bonding time and do some christmas shopping and I'm going to finnagle her into helping me work on Wyatt's birthday cake if we have time! Tee hee hee.

But right now I am sleepy, so it's time to hit the sack!
Night night!

Just another manic Monday!

As I type this, I am watching my gay boyfriend dance on Dancing with the Stars GO LANCEY!!! :) Aaaand... I have to admit that I liked Brooke's freestyle better I think... And so did the judges apparently, but I still love my gay boyfriend :)

Anyway! I just found out that we have 3rd row tickets to the Cowboys Thanksgiving Day game!!!! I'm super excited! So, Dad, Clayton, Taylor and I are all going to Dallas Thurday morning and coming back on Friday! It should be interesting! But fun! Oh! And my little cousins are going to SUPER jealous because the Jonas Brothers are going to be playing at halftime! Haha! Taylor's favorite band! I hope they play his favorite LAVA song! (he hadn't ever heard of the Jonas Bros. 'til we went to the lake and my cousins made sure he never forgot them! lol!) So that will be fun!

And! I was actually on TIME to work today at 7am! So that was unexpected! I even ironed my pants, did my hair, and had ALL of my makeup on BEFORE I left the house! Usually it's still making its way onto my face in the truck :) Impressive, yes, I know :)

That's pretty much it! I've got to get stuff ready for work and watch my TIVO'd John & Kate Plus 8! NIGHT NIGHT! :)

Wow. Talk about let down.

The much-talked about game that has been hyped up for 2 weeks was a TOTAL and COMPLETE let down. I'm very disappointed. And that's actually all I'm going to say about that.

But good news! I finished putting my Christmas stuff up today! "Finished" meaning all of the stuff that I currently own. I really need to get more stuff, but it's going to have to wait. ALSO! I was reminded by my Food Network watching today that one of my favorite things about the holidays is quickly approaching! CHRISTMAS FOOD NETWORK SPECIALS!!! YAAAAYYYYY!!!

This week should be a busy one, I'm actually working 7-6 Monday and Tuesday, so that oughta be a whole lotta NO FUN! Seeing as though I can barely make it to work on time when I'm supposed to be there at 8! But it's only for 2, I mean 3 days. I have to be there at 7 on Wed. too but I'm leaving around 4 because we're having thanksgiving w/ my family on Wednesday night because Dad and clayton are going to the cowboy game!

OH! AND I have more good news! But I think I have to wait until Tuesday to post anything "official"... And, I'll probably be able to elaborate more if I wait until then!

But for now, I'm gonna gather up the puppies and go to bed! Yay! I love bed! :)

Being a slacker as usual!

I haven't blogged in FOR-EVER! So here ya go! :)

The end!

Okay! Just kidding. Sooooo! Nothing really eventful has happened recently. We did go to Midland last weekend to help Taylor's parents put up their Christmas stuff since Tay's dad tore his Achilles tendon and is laid up for a while. So I mainly just played with Hannah and Wyatt (since that's what I do best) and did a little bit of shopping! I did happen to find out that while I was there, a "friend" of mine's dad was shot and killed while at Whataburger. I say "friend" because we don't really have any contact nowadays, but growing up (and again at MCS) we played softball together and her dad was actually our coach at one point in time, it's just a sad deal. I just can't imagine what they are going through, and I hope I never have to, but it makes you think about what you have and what would happen if that were taken away from you. I even saw her do a news segment I watched online, and it made me cry. It's just very, very sad.

Anyway! I can't keep thinking about that... OH! Yesterday! I went and put a BUNCH of stuff in our booth at KK's. It makes the first pic I posted on here of our booth look SUPER lame!!! K! Ready for this?

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I seriously thought I wasn't going to have enough room to put all of my stuff! Cristin brought 2 more of her canvases (but they won't last past this weekend, I guaruntee it because those things sell like hot cakes!), luckily I had painted a couple of pieces of wood to use for shelves, so that worked out nicely. but I still need at least 3 more so that I will have more space. I'm also glad that we had enough that I could block out the lady's booth next to us, because she always puts stuff on our ledge and it's really annoying! I still need to make at least 3 different kinds of taggie blankets, and 2 wipee cases, and I wish I could do it before the weekend but I know it's not going to happen. Sis is going to Cali through the weekend for a conference, so I've been charged with dropping by and making sure the booth is orderly for the weekend. I don't know if I can handle that much responsibility but I guess I'll just have to do my darndest!

Anywho! Now that you know all of the wonderfully boring things about my booth, what else can I blog about???? OH! The hub and I might get tickets to the Tech/OU game in Norman this weekend, so that could be exciting! I put in for our bowl tickets to whichever one we make it to, so I've been pricing plane tickets and stuff :-/ Let's just say I'm hoping that Santa brings me some southwest giftcards!!!

I started putting out my Christmas stuff yesterday and brought out my box of ornaments, but am holding off putting the garland, stockings and christmas tree up until this weekend (if I dont go to the game). I just want to be in the christmas state of mind when I do it, and it doing so requires at least 50 degree weather, if not cooler! And christmas music! Definitely christmas music!

And that's about it. I figure I won't blog until next week because I have stuff I should be doing until then, and next week is a short week what with Thanksgiving and all, so I must be productive both at work and here at the casa! So!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Psalm 107:1 ~ "Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever."

WOOO HOOO TECH!!!!

Soooo....

I am EXTREMELY tired! Why you ask? Well, because Friday night, we (me, Tay, and his friend Brian) went to take some stuff up to the tailgate and hang out but after walking around and going to look at the ESPN College Game Day set up, the boys got the wonderful idea that we should camp out at school so we could get up early and get in line so that we could get into the area set up for Game Day. So - that's what we did. (But not before we could go home and gather supplies!). So, to make a long story short, at about 2:30am Saturday morning we finally situated our little sleep set-up in the truck. We then woke up at 5:30am and walked from the parking lot we were in to the engineering key where they had the stage set up. We were just hanging around in the dark with a bunch (and when I say bunch I mean about 1,000 - and this was just the ones I could see, not including the ones that were around the corner of Holden Hall) of other crazy Tech fans waiting to get in and about half an hour into our venture, Taylor starts telling me that he's hungry and that I should go get us food (YEAH RIGHT!!) then at about 6:15-ish, some Game Day people started walking around handing out HOT Chick-fil-a chicken sandwiches!!! IMAGINE THAT! Then at 7 am the line started moving! We finally got in at about 7:30am which then led to another hour and a half of standing around before Game Day actually started (but they taped a couple of Sports Center segments and Corso would talk to everybody and mess around in between, so that made the time go by a little quicker). Then the actual broadcast started at 9am and lasted until 11am. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN!!! (Even though my legs were already tired from the 6 hours of standing up I had already done and it wasn't even noon!) So we went back to the truck, got our game faces on, and headed to the tailgate til 6pm and then headed up to the stadium and the game started at 7:00pm.

SOOOOO THENNNNN, in case you didn't know, we proceded to BEAT THE NUMBER 1 UT (who is now number 4, and we are NUMBER 2!!!). Yup! I would go into detail, but most of all of you who read this (hopefully) know what happened. But I will just say I think I had an anxiety attack there at the end!

OH! And Matthew McConaughey was there, as hot as he is, if he didn't want to be subject to the home crowd (students) booing him, he should have been holed up in a suite, that's just my opinion.

So yeah, then today we gained an hour, so that was cool I guess, and I didn't woke up relatively early at 9:30 (depeding on how you look at it) then we all (Taylor, Me, Brian and Michelle) hung around and went to eat at Ruby Tequilas at 11. Then they left and the rest of my day has been consumed by cleaning house, doing laundry and ironing, but I did manage to upload my pictures from yesterday so here ya go...

It's dark at 6:00 in the morning!

One of my favorite signs, it said "Graham's My Favorite Gracker"

The sun decided it would come out and play!

There were LOTS of signs!

View of the set from the huge screen they had set up.

Bobby Knight telling the College Game Day boys how it is :)

I'm pretty sure this is right after Bobby Knight said of his TTU pick "I hope we beat their @$$"

Corso making his pick -- Putting on the RAIDER RED head!!!

GUNS UP CORSO!

One for the road.

Ready for kickoff...

WE WIN A LOT!

Me and the hubby

(please excuse the funny face/baggy eyes, I was trying to tell the girl how to work my camera and had slept 5 hours out of the past 48)

Now it's night night time! :)

It's Monday... Again.

I've noticed a trend in my blogging. I usually blog on Mondays, probably because I'm very much NOT motivated to do actual work on Mondays, which is unfortunate because I always have something I probably should be doing, but oh well...

This weekend was nice. I got off work early on Friday and got to hang out with my hubby and get some things taken care of like get his brakes on his truck fixed and our alignments adjusted on both of our trucks and my battery replaced, which in the end cost a small fortune, but was minimal in comparison to what we would have to spend later if we didn't fix it.

I also got to buy some cold-weather work clothes (since I didn't really own any!) AND a cute black pea coat! (Ashley would be so proud of me and my pea coat :) ) And I went to Hobby Lobby to pick up some stuff for things to put in the booth and for the diaper cake I made for Amber's baby shower so of course I had to spend a little on the fall decor they had 50% off! I'm going back this week to get some fall-y candles b/c those are 50% off this week :) I love that place!!!

Abbie got fixed on Wednesday, so she was even more pathetic looking than usual. We're hoping that the lack in hormones will hinder her wandering-ness and help her to be able to put on a few more pounds (in addition to the obvious not going into heat part). AAAAAAND!! I had my grocery shopping done this week by this concierge service at the hospital. They'll run your errands like, take checks to the bank, get your groceries, pick up your dry cleaning, and all kinds of stuff! It's CRAZINESS!!! I LOVE it, it's AWESOME!!!

So yeah, I spent a lot of money but it was mostly on stuff we needed (minus the fall decorations, but you can't win 'em all) so I feel good about it. But it was overall a great weekend. My Red Raiders whooped up on Kansas, so College Game Day will be here on Satuday, which I'm SUPER excited about!! My Cowboys squeeked past the Bucs yesteday WITHOUT Tony Romo and Amber's baby shower went really well on Saturday (and the diaper cake was a hit too!).

I'm hoping my productivity and good fortune will overflow into next weekend. I have lots of stuff to make to put in the booth before Friday, I've got like, 5 dozen cookies to make for a baby shower my sister's helping with AND I'm hoping I get all my work done by Thursday so that I can have friday off to prepare for GAME DAY!!! GOOOOOOOO TECH!!!! :)

Helloooooo Out There!!!

I super can't concentrate today.

I have a new obsession.

I finally got the tracker on my googlepage for Tina to work and I have spent 75% of my day today just watching it. It's bad. Seriously, it's like an addiction because there are people all over the country (and from like, 4 other countries right now) that are going to the site the I created about HER! And you can watch it in real time. It's surreal. Definitely surreal. 

This is not to say I don't have anything to do. Which is the bad part. My productivity today = 0 but oh well... And I know when I get home I won't be motivated too much either between being on the computer and watching DWTS, but I have plenty to do. BAH!

Tay and I went to Midland Saturday and Sunday for our niece's 1st birthday. It's the last of the 1st birthdays until we have kids, which is kind of weird but I'm kind of okay with that. It was kind of a bummer yesterday though because out of all the people (probably at least 25 adults) we were the only couple without kids or wasn't pregnant. Not that we are trying to get that way or anything, but as usual, we just kinda felt like we were out of place. And I should say that all of those people were older than us anyway, but oh well...  Anyway! So since I was kid-less, I was on camera duty, so I'll post pics whenever I get them from Mindy (I took them with her super cool camera).

Anyway! That's about it. Between feeding my latest internet addiction, my sick husband, DWTS and my house-keeping duties, I ought to stay pretty busy tonight. So I'd better pretend like I got some work done before I leave in 15 minutes! ADIOS AMIGOS!

OMG! Craaaaaazzzyyy PEOPLE!!!

Duggar family reveal sex of No. 18: It’ll be a girl

And Taylor thinks me wanting 4 is a lot! But hey, if you've got the money, the love and the time, I say go for it!

Pardon the Expression...

But today is a Monday --- ALL DAY LONG!!! My weekend was DEFINITELY too short and I was not ready to start the week, but what choice do we have, right? Oh well!

For those of you who follow the "saga" (for lack of a better word) of my cousin Tina, you might get a kick out of this... So, it's been a few months (almost 5 to be exact) since the Australian coroner charged Gabe Watson with Tina's murder, which he still has not been extradited for, nor do we know when that may happen, but after all the hubbub surrounding the ruling things quite obviously settled down media-wise since then. What hardly anyone knows (unless they freakishly stalk him like my cousin, aunt and I do) is that Gabe got re-married in August (a girl named Kim Lewis if you're keeping track).


Let's just say that we have our ways and homegirl really shouldn't post pics of her and her new wife-killer husband on facebook if she doesn't want the world to know... I'm just sayin... And even though it INFURIATES me every time I think that someone could be so naieve AGAIN (which at this time around easily translates into STUPIDITY!) to marry that "Scum bag" (as Geraldo Rivera put it), it's beside the point. The point is that yesterday, I got a "Google Alert" about Tina, and it was kinda random that 5 months later, here it is, but nonetheless it kinda cracked me up. It was an article published in the Sunday Times (a London based paper) yesterday and although I have heard/seen/etc. most of it many times before, there were a couple of things that made me chuckle, for instance:

"Gabe is a man mountain, about 6ft 4in and weighing over 17 stone."

The whole article is very descriptive, and decidedly anti-Gabe (which I obviously have no problem with) and if you want to read the article in it's entirety you can go to Tina Watson: the bride who drowned at the Barrier Reef. It's kind of lengthy, but has a lot of info that really not many people know about that wasn't covered in the media like that 2 days before her funeral, with my WHOLE family at my Aunt & Uncle's house Gabe’s father came to their house demanded possession of Tina’s Jeep, wedding presents and the rest of her belongings, including the mattress that Tina had in her room -- one of the only things that hadn't been moved into the house before the wedding. Or when the funeral director and the manager called Tom aside before the services and told him that they’d been instructed by the Watson family that if he said anything or did anything – or anybody in my family said or did anything – that would in any way be against Gabe, they were to be removed from the funeral.


It makes me sad really, and even though it hurts every time I read something or see his ugly mug on the internet, it reminds me that it's not over yet, and that someday (hopefully sooner rather than later) he will get what he deserves. October 22nd will mark 5 years to the day of her death. I just hope that the authorities show up that day (or the 11th, the day they were married)at his door and take his "man mountain" self Down Under! Please keep my family in your prayers as October arrives and those dates come and go, please pray for strength and patience for my Aunt Cindy, Uncle Tom, cousin Alanda and her precious little family and although we will never understand why he did it, that hopefully soon they will find comfort in the fact that even though it will never bring Tina back, he will pay for what he did.

I just couldn't resist....

I gave in and went to Pier 1 yesterday! I was seriously OBSESSING over my ideas for decorating for fall (apparently I'm going through decorating withdrawals), that and I'm ADD and since I have put the sewing machine up for the time being since I was so productive last week, I needed something to do! So, it may not SEEM like much, but I took before and after pics, just for my own reasons I guess...

Before:

After!!!

Here's a close-up of the arrangement (ALSO my FAVORITE THING OF THE DAY!!!) I made and the purdy fall candle!!!

I looked at the pillows, and they're kinda pricey, so I figured I'd wait 'til I could use my mother in-law's interior decorator discount the next time I go home! YAAAY!

Unfortunately, the store here didn't have the little acorn or the ribbon pillow, so my mom's going to look at the store in Midland for me this weekend! Oh! The things on the floor (or hearth I guess if you wanna be technical) are pumpkin luminaries that my sis-in law gave me! They're cute and have tasty-delicious pumpkin-spice candles in them! I love pumpkin and/or spice smelling stuff! Just another reason why I LOVE FALL!!!!

Another reason I love fall: NEW SEASONS OF TV SHOWS!!! Namely my personal fav, Grey's Anatomy!!!

HOWEVER! I was THOROUGHLY disappointed in yesterday's "BIG" 2-hr long season premiere! Nothing really interesting happened other than Christina was impaled by her karma, er... I mean an UN-Godly sized icesicle! REALLY??? Let's hope they do better in the next episode, which BY THE WAY won't be for another 2 weeks! DUUUMB!!!