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Ok, I got the new layout up :) Yippeee! And I don’t feel like writing complete sentences so it’s list time!

♥ One more Christmas gift to buy/make! I plan on finishing it as soon as I get paid
♥ A new year and hopefully new beginnings
♥ Eighth Christmas with my darling boy, Gene
♥ Lots of books for Christmas to read!
♥ Cheeseburgers for lunch
♥ Christmas decorations down… 1/16th done with cleaning the house
♥ My beautiful doggies that I love so much!
♥ Gene’s graduation… No more school, no more homework! More time with mee :)
♥ Fruit juice! I looove juice. Black Cherry Cranberry is my current favorite.

More later, perhaps. Right now I gotta get to lunch! Have an awesome day everyone :D

Candy :: Dec.28.2005 :: Lists :: 2 Comments »

It has been a long time since I posted. Gees. Life has been just so busy. And then I had some problems with my Movable Type installation but my lovely host helped me fix it. They totally rawk beyond belief :) Thanks to them!!

Anyway, I am off for 5 days so I hope that in this time I can get things in order around this house and also make a new layout for my domain.

Candy :: Dec.28.2005 :: Website :: Comments Off

I haven’t been keeping up with my blog very well lately. I mostly just visit the people on my blogroll and that is all I have time to do. I’ve been pretty busy this week! Between work, the company Christmas party, Gene’s brother and his wife coming in, Gene’s graduation, and going out of town for our extended family Christmas… I’ve been busy! The house is almost totally clean and ready for his brother and his wife to come in. I’m about to start putting some music on my MP3 player so that I’ll have some stuff to listen to while we are out of town. :)

Astro will be going to the vet tomorrow morning and Emma will be dropped off at my parent’s house. I’ll let you guys know how much Astro weighs when we take him in. I’m interested to find out. Gene and I are guessing somewhere in the 80lb range. He’s a growing boy :) Sometimes I have to remind myself that he is only 6 months old and still has a lot more growing to do. What in the world have we got ourselves into??? :D

Gene had his last final this morning so I am hoping to con him into helping me clean today. I am just so proud of him for getting through college with such awesome grades. He thinks his GPA will be about 3.96 or so! He made 2 B’s in his Physics classes a couple of years back. He has tried so hard to make awesome grades and has really made an effort while he has been in school. I can’t even describe how absolutely proud I am of him!! He is such a smart, dedicated guy and I love him with all of my being :) But anyway… I still have so much to do. And a few gifts to wrap. Busy, busy :) I’ll try to post again when we get back in town. I hope you all have an excellent weekend :)

Candy :: Dec.16.2005 :: Daily, Family :: 3 Comments »

Astro likes the snow. Why is this a bad thing, you ask? BECAUSE! All he wants to do is go outside. And I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned this on my blog or not but our backyard has no grass. The people before us didn’t take care of the lawn and there are 2 giant trees in the backyard. So from the shade and lack of water, the grass has disappeared and it is now just a desert out there. So when it rains or snows, it turns into MUD. So now I have a large puppy who likes to run through the snow and get as dirty as he possible can. And then tries to come in the house like that!!! :mad: I can’t believe it. I just knew he’d hate it! Darnit.

So the snow is melting. I’m trying to get things done around this house today. I’d rather get all of my housework done today so I can have Saturday and Sunday to relax and have fun. So far I’m on my third load of laundry and I have about 3 more to go (big blankets that I have to wash one at a time!). I’ve vaccumed the entire house, Gene did dishes. I filed away as much paperwork as I could (took an hour!). I still want to clean the bathrooms and clean my computer desk off. As well as try to find a place for the crap that is just laying around the floor in our computer room. I have great aspirations :) Just getting it all done… that’s the hard part! Man if I had a maid that I could tell her what to do, I would live a spotless life. Because it’s not that I don’t know what needs to be cleaned.. It’s just that there is so much to do… I never know where to start!

At 4 I am going with my mom to get her hair did :D We’re going to the salon in Walmart. I always get my hair done there now. The girl did an excellent job last time I went in. Can’t beat a great haircut for $12.50! And Sunday I have a bridal shower to attend, so I still need to go get the gift for that. I hate shopping this time of year.. it’s a nightmare out there! Especially on the weekends. May run to Target this evening to get the gift so I don’t have to go out tomorrow.

Candy :: Dec.09.2005 :: Daily, Dogs :: 5 Comments »

I realize it has been about a week since I posted last so I thought I’d update. I really don’t have a whole lot to say right now. Things are definitely getting more and more hectic as the days go on. Gene is graduating college next Saturday. And next Saturday we are going out of town to my extended family’s Christmas get together. And next Thursday Gene’s brother and his wife are coming in to stay with us a few nights. And I’m so nervous because we’ve never really had company in our home before and I feel like its dirty and I’m a slob :(

Sorry, had to start a new paragraph. I hate long paragraphs. Anyway, so back to my list of busyness. I got a bridal shower to attend this weekend and I need to finish my shopping for our family Christmas next weekend. And I need to do so many things. But number one priority right now is cleaning the house and finish getting the Christmas lights on the house. Once I have these things done I will post pictures of our house lights. :)

Tonight we got our first snow of the season. It was only an inch or two but it was definitely awesome :) The only part that really stunk was driving home from work in it. I don’t get off work until 8 PM so by time I get off work, it has gotten cold enough outside for it to harden up and turn icey. I know my car was swervin’ around a bit here and there. I was a nervous wreck! I always drive really bad during the first snow because I have to adjust to driving really really slow. I’m talking, I have to meditate, become one with my car and get all zen-ish goin’ on. Otherwise I’d be in a ditch somewhere.. because I don’t have patience when it comes to that kind of stuff!

A friend of mine called me a couple of days ago. A friend I haven’t spoken to since about 9th grade (10 years ago?). She was my very best friend through elementary and middle school but she ended up moving away in high school. So anyway, she calls to tell me of a couple of our friends passing away. And it was really a bummer phone call :( I was glad to catch up with her and see how she was doing… but a bummer of a phone call, for sure! And that is all I can think about lately. Is our friends and their families and how tragic both deaths were. And how life just isn’t fair at all. And how I should be enjoying my days more and more. A lot more than I am. The stress is nothing compared to what they are going through. This, I know.

Candy :: Dec.08.2005 :: Daily, Friends, Tragedy :: 2 Comments »

I finally finished my book, Save Karyn. It was a great book and quite englightening :) I just had to finish it last night so I sat down on the couch and read and read until I finally got to the very last page. It’s about a girl in her late 20s who moves from Chicago to New York City and overspends on designer merchandise. She racks up $25,000 in debt pretty quickly and finds a very creative way to pay it off. Check out Save Karyn’s website. It’s a true story, too!

I would totally recommend this book to anyone. I would even recommend younger (high school age) people to read it, as well. It should give you a great insight to how easy it is to rack up credit card debt and how stressful it is to have that debt weighing on your shoulders all of the time. I think a lot of teenagers these days don’t take money as seriously as they should. And I sure don’t believe they can even grasp how exactly tough it is living in this day and age where money is everything.

Candy :: Dec.02.2005 :: Reading :: 1 Comment »

I can’t seem to get my asthma under control. It seems like I’ll go one day without any attacks and start to feel confident that it is over and then the next day I have asthma attacks periodically throughout the day. Kind of sucks! I just want it to be under control :( I am so tired of having to take my rescue inhaler. If I take one too many puffs on accident, I end up hyperventilating and it just makes me feel tired and miserable. I need to get back into the doctor’s office but I hate to go back. Just going to have to go back to the pharmacy and get more expensive medicines that I can’t really afford right now!

Gene and I are taking some kind of Zinc throat lozenges that we got at Walmart. They’re cherry flavored and quite tasty. None of that menthol crap! :) Gene has been fighting the beginning stages of a cold for at least a week now. The runny nose, sore throat and cough are really getting annoying for him. Poor guy :| So we got some more medicine at Walmart the other night as well as these throat drops. They apparently shorten the length of the common cold by up to 50%. So maybe it’ll prevent us from even getting sick. Wouldn’t that be nice!

Today I had a filling in the upper left corner of my mouth. Next Thursday I go in for 2 more fillings in the left side of my mouth and I’m done until the new year starts! After the new year I will go in to get the crown for my root canal and I hope I’m done with the dentist until I go back for my 6 month cleaning. Gene had a few fillings this morning and we met with the oral surgeon about his wisdom tooth extractions. He ended up having to re-schedule those for after the first of the year because he is already at his max. for his insurance. My poor boy has never been in surgery or under anesthesia so we’ll see how his first experience goes :love:

Anyway, time to get off this here compoota! Still need to take a shower and pick things up around here. Or I may just take my inhaler and rest for the night. I hate this wheezing and constant feeling of congestion and stuff in my throat. I know I’m not sick. I know it is just due to the allergies around here. The wind has been blowing so much lately that everyone is having allergy problems. Even people who never had allergies in the first place!

Candy :: Dec.01.2005 :: Daily :: 3 Comments »