Okay... I've been lame...

And I haven't posted in over a week. Ah well! If you look at my 101 list, you'll see that I've been kinda busy. This weekend I painted the smurf room, made a birthday cake for my sister and a birthday card using my cricut cutter, went to Home Depot a few times and went mattress shopping.

So, I crossed painting the smurf room off the list, but I'm not QUITE finished painting b/c I need to do the top by the ceiling b/c we're not putting crown molding up in the extra bed rooms. But here's some before pics, I'll post the "afters" later.Now you see what I mean about SMURF room! When we first started working on the house, Taylor's cousin Jason was living with us and Taylor had the bright idea to tell Jason that he could paint his room whatever color he wanted. BAD IDEA! Because he came home with a MIDNIGHT BLUE looking color from Behr. He started painting it on the walls and I came home from work and saw it. I then made him mix it with white, thus the smurf color! But! It's waaay better than midnight blue if you ask me! But now, it's much better than both!

AND while I was painting the smurf room, Taylor was installing our new sink and faucet. Let me just tell you THAT was an ordeal! It literally took all weekend and about 6 different trips to Home Depot! What a pain! I love my hubby! He's such a trooper. I would have given up about an hour into it, but he kept at it, now we have a schmancy new stainless steel sink and faucet. I wish I would have taken a before of that ugly thing! It was "white" plastic. And I use the word WHITE very loosely. Between living through about 7 boys and LOTS of paintbrush rinsing (and no telling what else) that thing had seen much better (and brighter) days! That's for sure! And let me just tell you, it makes my kitchen look SOOOOOOOOOOO much BETTER!!!!

Annnd I was going to post a pic of the birthday cake I made my sister for her 25th birthday, but #1, when I load it on here, it doesn't want to turn the right way, and #2, the top icing work didn't quite survive the trip to Cagle's, but it still tasted good. And one of the girls that works there came in and told me it was really cute, so that made me feel better (and I gave her a piece of it to show my appreciation :-). Which reminds me, Cagle's is a non-chain restaurant the hubby and I hadn't ever had, so WOOHOO! Chalk another tick mark on the 101 list!

So that's pretty much it, I've been kinda busy at work the weather has been SUPER NICE (the high today and yesterday was 83)! This weekend should be pretty busy again. I'll be glad when I get caught up with all the stuff I need to get done and can actually take a weekend to relax! But that is all for now, now it's time to go night night! YAY for bed!!! TTFN! :)

CAKEBALLS!

Soooo! I made my valentines cake balls and they were DELICIOUS!

All it took was this:

And turned it into this:

They were delicious! Did I say that already?? Because they were.

I had an AWESOME Valentines day! I made the hub and I heart-shaped pancakes for breakfast (with eggs and sausage) and then I ALLOWED him to go and play golf with his buddies and I made the cake balls while he was gone. Then he came home and made me a DELICIOUS dinner of King Crab Legs, twice baked potatoes, and salad.

All in all, it was a really great weekend. I was a bum and just hung out at the house. I love doing that!

Anyway! That's about it! I don't have anything else cool going on... I'm just going to lay low again tonight and watch Secret Life of the American Teenager and finish up some laundry. I live life on the edge, I know :)

More pictures!

I don't really have anything to blog about, but it's been a whole week since my last post, SO HERE I AM!

Tay & I went to Midland again this weekend to see Taylor's family (his grandparents were in town and it was his grandma's birthday Sat.) and "give" his parents their anniversary present (the pro-pics we took a couple of weeks ago) on Sunday. But we did actually get to hang out with my parents for a while too. Tay & I went to church with my parents on sunday, then to lunch in Odessa and to the boat and RV show. The boys were looking at bass fishing boats but Mom and I were trying to convince them that we need a combo bass/ski boat. But we left with no boat. Or RV's for that matter. Boo.

So, I was bored up here at the workplace (true story) and decided to take some pictures, so here ya go! My little setup. :)

And yes, those are shoes under my desk, and unless I have to leave the office, they stay there :)

Oh! And just because I love them, here's some flowers that J got me in appreciation for letting him "crash at our pad" last weekend. Love him.

Happy Tuesday!

YAAAAAAAY Picture Time!!!

Okay! SO, remember those pictures we went home to take for the in-laws? WELL! The dude FINALLY posted them (if you want to see the rest, go here)! There are about 30 of them (of all of us), but there are only 3 of just me and the hub, which brings me to the purpose of this post.

I have REEALLY been wanting to get a GOOD pic of Tay & I framed, (and it's on my 101 list!) so all you people are going to help me choose! :)

So what will it be?!?!?

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! REALLY?!?!

Defence given more time in dive death case

AAP

3 February 2009

THE case of accused honeymoon killer Gabe Watson has been adjourned to give his lawyers and the prosecution more time to prepare.

American David Gabriel Watson, 31, was required to appear in Townsville Supreme Court today charged with the murder of his wife Tina.

He did not appear in court, but solicitor Rohan Armstrong, of his Townsville-based defence team, asked for more time.

"I have been in contact with Mr Watson ... we need more time to take further instructions on the matter," he told the court.

The Crown also requested more time, and the matter was adjourned to a date to be fixed.

The Alabama newlyweds were 11 days into their honeymoon when Tina drowned during a dive off the Townsville coast, on October 22, 2003.

Mr Watson has since remarried in the US, and his lawyers there have already indicated they are likely to fight his extradition in the courts.

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Seriously! Like 6 YEARS ISN'T ENOUGH?!?!?!?!

TGIF!

THANK GOODNESS IT'S FRIDAY b/c I am pretty much feeling not motivated AT ALL to do anything up here! I think I may leave around noon b/c there's not really much to do. I am SO ready for the weekend! However, I don't think I'll be able to be very productive because Hubby's cousins are coming to stay with us this weekend b/c Jason has his hearing w/ the stoopid motorcycle guy on Monday. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, here's a recap:

On my birthday in 2007, my friend and I were going to get our nails done before my Bachelorette/Birthday party later that night (I was leaving 2 days later for Vegas to get hitched!) and we convinced the Hub and his cousin (who lived with us at the time) to go with us to get their dirty-man nails purdy-fied for the wedding, so all 4 of us piled into Tay's truck and Jason drove b/c it was my birthday so the rest of us had been drinking (Jason was too little) and we left. Then I discovered that I didn't have my camera and that the momentous metro-sexual moment needed to be documented, so I told Jason to turn on the next street and go back to the house (we hadn't gotten but to the street in front of our house). So, he obliged, turning on his left blinker and started to turn, ::cue weird thud/crash noise::. We all looked around and were like "What the heck was that?!" then all you see is a tumbling mass of person and motorcycle and dirt. My BFF and hubby jumped out of the truck to go check on the dude. Jason and I stayed in the truck, not knowing what the heck to do--actually, I'm pretty sure we were just frozen stuck there. ANYWAY! The moral of this story is, the dumb kid was speeding down this tiny road and trying to pass us on the left, as we were turning left and laid his bike into the front left tire of the turck and proceded to tumble into the ditch, stickers poking into his un-helmeted head & he broke his wrist, some ribs, maybe some other stuff AND got a ticket for failing to pass safely or some crap like that and has been trying to sue my husband's insurance and my "cousin in-law" for something like mental anguish, disability, and some other BS. It's really lame. OH! And I myspace-stalked this dude, and turns out he's trying to get into the Police Academy here. That's who I want enforcing the laws! RIIIIIIIIGHT!

So, Jason has to show up for some hearing on Monday, to basically say the guy is dumb and he's not going to get anything. But we'll see. I kinda wanna go so I can see the dude and tell him he ruined my 21st birthday b/c NOT ONY did we not get to go get our nails done that day but I GOT ATTACKED BY ANTS while we were waiting the hour and a half for the DPS to show up!! (And we only live about 1/3 of a mile outside the city limits! For goodness sake, the police dept. showed up LOOONG before they did)! BAH!

Anyway! So I'm playing hostess this weekend and I pretty much don't want to but oh well. It wouldn't be so bad if it were just Jason, but he's bringing his cousin, who I don't think has ever even been to Texas (she's an interesting gal, BTW, so I won't really be trying for "hostess of the year" or anything like that, b/c I'm pretty sure it wouldn't really matter to her...)

So yeah..... That's pretty much it, I'm gonna go get some random stuff done before I go so it looks like I did something productive today!
ADIOS! :)

My 101 list is finally complete and posted!

It's a FUH-REEZING day today! It's been snowing/sleeting for the last couple of hours, and I am at home because I am a sissy and didn't want to drive today. SOOOOOO I have been productive cleaning and writing thank you notes for a couple of christmas gifts, and even a wedding gift I got over the break (over a year later, random, I know!) and I FINALLY finished my 101/1001 list!!!! WOOHOO!

Like I said yesterday, I kinda started it last week, but I am doing it full-blown now!
And since I'm home from work today, I'm really trying to get some of the stuff done like painting the baseboards, but I know I won't get it done today, but I may be able to cross that off by the end of the weekend. So right now I have a handful of things in progress, and one completed already, but check it out for yourself and let me know what you think. I know I won't get ALL of it done, but having those things on there really motivates me to do them.

ADIOS! I'm off to be productive and hopefully warm up in the process!

UPDATE!

The playlist music is WORKING!!!!!

I AM SAAAAAAAAAAAVED!!!!! :)

Brrrrr!

After it was almost 80 degrees outside yesterday, my hopes for a pleasant rest of the winter were dashed today when I walked out to my truck and it was 22 degrees with a windchill of 12! BOOOOO!!

Also, booo to my work's firewall for not letting my playlist play on here! I'm pretty sure I will go into a music-less coma if it doesn't start working! My itunes is working, but those songs might put me to sleep because over half of them are Celine Dion. No offense Celine, I love your guts, but you alone are not going to get me through this Monday! Today, it's just me and another lady in the office, and The Boss Lady is in meetings all day, so there's not really much to do... Thus the need for some snappy music!

I apologize for my lack of blogging this weekend, but I was actually being productive (GASP!). It was kinda chilly Saturday, so the hubby and I just hung out at the house in the morning, then in the afternoon we went and ran a couple of errands (he even went with me to the Fabric store!!!WHOA!) and Saturday night we hung out some more and I did a couple of loads of laundry and cut out fabric for some burp cloths.

Yesterday was GREAT! I made 25 BURP CLOTHS! (This pic is what was left after I took a load of them to the Crap Mall) I was a sewing machine! (Haha! Get it?!?!) The hub thought I was going to sew my hand onto one of those things I was zooming through them! I was pretty stinkin' proud of myself! Taylor went to the grocery store (YAY!) then grilled some chicken for fajitas outside and enjoyed the nice weather with the dogs while I was sewing, but I had the sliding glass door open so I could partake in the nice weather too!

IN OTHER GOOD NEWS!!!!! My BFF Allison just texted me, and WE'RE GOING TO CABO!!!!! I called her last week to address the issue of us needing to go on a girls trip and we quickly decided that since she's already going to New York next month, everywhere else we wanted to go, our hubby's would want to go too, so we were stuck. But her parents have a time share in Cabo and they aren't going to be able to use it until christmas, so they're letting us use it! WOOOOHOOO! So we are tenatively going to go in August. The summer is a busy time for her and her hubby (he's a Youth Minister in Artesia) and they're also in the process of exploring other opportunities to minister (as in, Texas or Oklahoma). And that's a good time for us as well because Taylor will be done with his welding stuff and I will have accumulated enough vacation days. So now I REALLY have some motivation to lose weight! Bikini body here I come!!!

This is the place \/

WOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!! I'M SO STINKING EXCITED!!!! :D

Okay, so moving right along... (I guess going 2 days without blogging makes for a long post!) If any of you have read my very first post on this blog, you would see that I inteded on making a 101/1001 list. What is a 101/1001 list you may ask? Well, I had to hijack another blog's explanation of it, b/c mine just wouldn't adequately describe it, hard to believe, I know :)

The Mission: Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.

The Criteria: Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).

Why 1001 Days?
Many people have created lists in the past — frequently simple goals such as new year’s resolutions. The key to beating procrastination is to set a deadline that is realistic. 1001 Days (about 2.75 years) is a better period of time than a year, because it allows you several seasons to complete the tasks, which is better for organizing and timing some tasks such as overseas trips or outdoor activities.

Goal setting tips
Be decisive. Know exactly what you want, why you want it, and how you plan to achieve it.
Stay Focused. Any goal requires sustained focus from beginning to end. Constantly evaluate your progress.
Welcome Failure. Frequently, very little is learned from a venture that did not experience failure in some form. Failure presents the opportunity to learn and makes the success more worthy.
Write down your goals. It clarifies your thinking and reinforces your commitment.
Keep your goals in sight. Review them frequently, and ensure that they are always at the forefront of your thinking.

I'm cheating and I "technically" started last Monday (when I went on my diet, and started running) but I'm still workin on populating the list, so I'll post that whenever it's finished.

But here's the fun part: I'm challenging all 3 of my readers (that means YOU Ally! It will give you an excuse to actually blog!) to make a 101/1001 list and DO IT! Post the list and I will keep up with you! K? K! Good luck! :)

Day 2 of "Running"

Okay, so it was really yesterday, but better late than never, right? Okay, that's what I thought. :)

Yesterday (thursday) was day #2 of FAMILY running! I actually rather enjoyed it. Yes, you read that right. Although, my tune may change when we actually start hardcore running. Right now we're on Week 1 of the "training" plan that goes a little like this:

Warm up by walking for 5 minutes.
Jog for 60 seconds.
Walk for 90 seconds.
Repeat for 20 minutes.

I don't think I "enojoyed" the actual running part as much as I liked just getting to be with my little family and enjoy the unseasonably wonderful weather (78 degrees in the middle of January?!). Anyway, we'll see if I enjoy it as much in the mid-40's tomorrow...

Oh! And speaking of running, I've found what's going to be our first "real" race.

DRUM ROLL PLEASE.....

Tay and I are going to run with his sister and her husband in the BLOODGUSHER 2009 in Midland on March 28th.
It seems like a ways away, but hopefully it will keep me motivated, we shall see...
But for right now I'm sleepy, and I'm looking forward to my freedom to sleep in late the next 2 days, and maybe make a couple dozen burp cloths in between sleeping stents ;)

Hope everyone has a great weekend!