Holy mess, it's February.

So, I have to apologize once again for taking so long to post on my blog, but I've been really caught up with schoolio. No worries...Snoop dogg is not my teacher. pretty sure my brain cells would disown me if that were to happen.)
So yesterday was Valentines Day.... yayyy...not. I spent about 5 hours with my honey before I had to travel the rest of the way home by myself. I was so ready to get home though... I missed my little Annie girl. I guess you could say she was my Valentine :) She got to sleep in the bed with me last night! and tonight again, since dad (Jay) won't be home with brother (Colt) until either tomorrow night late, or Friday. Kinda dissapointed...Oh well.

So school has been rockin my socks off. 3 classes. Biology, Psycology, and Speech. all online.(yay) more reading (not yay). I actually have a speech that I should be turning into note cards as we speak.(I type). I also have to have 5 people as my "audience" and realized that it's going to be more difficult to get this done before Sunday because some of my last participating audience will not be in town. :/ We shall see what I can come up with. I may have to have a girl I know, come and bring all of her children. :) The teacher didn't say that there was an age limit.

Have you ever been bit by a dog?! It is a total mess! let me just tell you. I got bit by a neighbors dog, while getting in the middle of him and Annie girl. On the middle finger of my right hand. It was gross. And Jay was already gone, so he couldn't help me clean it and whatever. So I had to sit with my head between my legs (because I got too lightheaded to stand) and clean it. Man that was a treat. The next morning, I woke up and my finger was the size of a hotdog! around, not long... that would just be creepy. Anywho, to make a long story short, I had to get two shots, a tetnus and a shot that involved the consistancy of hair gel. (not fun). But it's looking much better now and is finally healing up. It was actually quite difficult to write for a while, since I am a righty.

I will be attempting to get a job in the next week or so, so that should keep me as insane as ever. Can't wait for that stress to kick in! My eyeballs hurt, and I should go start making note cards, since I'm suppose to do my speech tomorrow night, but dont' think I'm going to do that since Jay won't be here. He's my camera man. :)

Oh, I have decided that I need to get on this "eating healthier than I normally do" diet. So basically I put less butter on everything. HA! KIDDING! I'm going to reallly try to lower my calorie intake and hopefully it will help Jay lose some weight too, he's so unhappy with himself right now, and I hate that for him, since he doesn't have time to work out or anything. He thinks that eating less will help him to lose the weight, but I don't think it will. We are getting older and it's going to be harder to lose weight than that. I also got a Groupon Good deal with a Slendertone. It's one of those belts that contracts your ab muscles for you. I used it for the first time today, and holy cow I know I'm going to feel it in the morning! I don't even thing I could make my body do as deep a crunch as that thing was making my stomach do! I can't wait to see the results! It says like 4 weeks, you should see the difference. So maybe I will post a before and after picture. Although the thought of me posting a picture of my pasty stomach kinda makes me wanna jump off a cliff. Maybe I'll think about it. lol. Ok, that's all for me for tonight. see you in another 4 months. :) JK! Hope it's not that long.

Night all.

Jingle all the way.

So, it is the week of Christmas...the Tuesday before to be exact. Christmas is Sunday. Which kinda sucks for the working world, since they will have to go back to work the day after Christmas celebration extravaganza! and that sucks... I said that already though.

Holy Schimolies Ironman! (only about 2 of you will get that..) Have you seen the show The New Girl on FOX? It's seriously my new favorite show... Jess is as rediculously awkward as me!

I cannot believe how fast this year has flown by!

Our Christmas tree looks like crap. ... I know that's random, but...Just sayin. I am sitting here in plain view of it. It's leaning terribly, and I never found our solid colored ball ornaments so only our ... what do you call those exactly... "other ornaments" (including the two pairs of feather birds we have) are on the tree. I managed to find some poinsettas to cut and put in the tree from last year, so that helped fill in the holes. It's pretty sad.

This will be our (Jay and I's) first Chistmas, just us... me and him... and the two four legged children. Here are the kids in their Christmas attire. :) Love it... They on the other hand, were obviously miserable. :)
 

TEEHEE!!! Penguin man cracks me up... he was pissed. Sister is pretty use to it :)... she's a girl. :)
Anywho... I'm going back to my episodes of shows I've missed :).

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YA'LL!

Christmas Trees... the kind that smell like outside...not plastic :)

So this year is the first year that I've had a real Christmas tree in... well, a long long time. As a matter of fact, I bearly remember any of our trees being real... but I know we had them, because my mom always had to vacuum around the bottom part of the tree due to the massive amounts of needles that fell.

Well, when me and Jay got married, we (meaning me) got a prelit artificial tree on sale at Garden Ridge. Well, that tree is still in storage, and rather than me driving four hours then have to put the thing up (also being nervous that the lights may give me hell) I decided to go get one of the real ones. And Jay agreed. **Suprisingly**

So I got to go pick out a tree, by myself (which I wasn't seriously thrilled about) and managed to haul it in the house by myself too! Pretty proud of myself. :) Let me just say, I've had the tree in the house less than 24 hours, and I think I have swept under and around the tree like ... oh, 10 times already... This thing better survive when we go out of town for a week. :/

So, new REAL tree, means I needed to get lights for it! :) If you haven't learned by now... it's the little things in life that excite me... like silly shaped pencil topper "erasers" that don't even erase quat, they more like smear around the lead on your paper, making it look dreadful. That's the time you just scratch out the word and the smears and write the new word next to it. ...[just realized how completely off topic I am]...anyway... that's how I feel about Chistmas lights.

So, before Jay had to go to work, he helped me get the tree straight so that I could decorate it tonight and have something beautiful to look at while I'm sitting next to the fire :) It's suppose to start snowing late tonight and tomorrow, so I'm definately going to be doing everything indoors. :)

A predicament that I have run into though, is that our roof is very tall and in fact taller than our ladder that we have... so I am afraid I will be limited to our outside house decorations this year. :( Oh well, more to look forward to next year, I suppose.

Ho Ho Ho...oh, excuse me... I had to clear my throat

It's officially Christmas Time! The Christmas lights are getting strung up on houses and mantels are getting decorated in red and green. I love this time of year! The snow just kind of solidifies the fact that it is the time of year! :)

I hope all yall had an awesome Thanksgiving with family and friends. I know I did! We got to head south and spend it with both sides of our family. It was great! My cuz, Cricut took our holiday pictures for our Christmas cards. It was 78 degrees. It was kind of miserable, but I can't tell you the last time I've laughed so hard. Here are some of the pics she took.

(notice the wardrobe change, due to excessive sweating)

She's pretty talented. But we had to have a little fun of our own... :) Here's some of that!

One thing I learned that day... EVERYTHING is more fun with a mustache. :)



I've got just about all of my Christmas shopping done! I only have one other person to buy for! Oh, and here's a little artwork by request... :)

Meet Paul and Pauline turkey!

Ok yall! Have a good week. I'll try to post again before Christmas! :)



It's Holiday Season!

So here it is, already the middle of November! AGH! That means that Christmas is right around the corner! Holy Cow!

I was recently introduced to a really cool program called Dropbox. It's basically like a file sharing system that you can use with whoever you want. **This includes music!** All you have to do is take the file that you want to share and drop or copy it into the drop box folder, then send an invitation (email) to share the folder with whoever. It's so cool! I have just aquired about 60 new songs thanks to my Dad.(who I introduced it to, and loves it because it also has an app!) So you can access your shared files from your phone.

So I am currently jamming to some old school country thanks to my pop's great taste in music. (Dolly, Hank Jr. AND Sr., Don Williams, Brooks & Dunn (but have they ever made a song that wasn't a hit??!) and other astonishing country artists who wrote the book for these now a day country artists.
"Dancin in the kitchen till the mornin' light...Lousiana Saturday night..."

In other news, my Scentsy business has really kicked off! Although, I'm afraid once people know I'm a consultant and place their first order from me, the sales will start to dwindle. I suppose we shall see. But to explain how good it has been, I will explain to you how many goals i've already passed....

First 15 days goal = done
First month goal = done
First 70 days goal = only $18 from this goal!

I'm kind of excited about the Holiday season to be upon us! But this means traveling, and traveling means booking flights. And as some of yall know (as oilfield wives) you are a wife, friend, chef, secretary, and travel agent; among many other things. We have a very busy schedule until the week before Christmas. So this week, I'm trying to keep myself relaxed and collected, trying to keep things organized in my head, then suddenly have short twinges of anxiety knowing that I have so much to do before we travel! And on top of things, I am also running a new business and need to have things shipped here and I may not be here when they arrive! Agh! *which is another thing I need to wrap my head around (what to order, when to order, when it'll be here...) Ugh...

Oh, Good news! I went to apply for my college again, since I got in last semester, but didn't go. (not because I'm a slacker [which i kinda am nowadays] but because I wasn't here yet. Anyway, I didn't have to apply again, all I had to do was call them, and now all I have to do is wait and see what all classes transfer over and then figure out what classes I can take! :) I am planning on doing online classes, because, well just like I told the admissions lady..."I'm from Texas, and I don't do the whole driving on the icy-snow stuff, because I'll end up in a ditch, so the less driving I have to do, the better... for the whole community..." She laughed in her yankee laugh... example: "oooo-oo-oo-haha" wierdo yankees.

But... Jay and I are having our Christmas pictures taken for our Christmas cards while down for Thanksgiving, and I have no idea what to wear, or do with my hair.... another situation I have to think about...did I mention how excited I am to see some of my South East TX family? ok... well let me try to express the exitement... DJSKLFJOEIJLANNDIFAELJFAJAHHHHHHHH! .....hope that gets my point across!

Here, I drew you something..because I love you. :)

Yes, those are fireworks.... during the day. And they are beautiful. And the sun likes them too...unless he's high. then in that case he LOVES them. :) and that is me, squeeling in such an excited pitch that only dogs can hear.

I will try to draw yall another pic maybe during a flight or something, because, frankly, I don't see myself posting anything before Thanksgiving. [remember, i'm a slacker] Maybe something to do with snow, dogs...me... who knows...PEACE YALL.

Happy Halloween!!!

Today was pretty eventful! Jay is on his week off for work, and so we took the time to run some errands around town and get all our stuff taken care of to be able to hunt (hunters license, duck stamp, gun, etc.). Yep, that's right, I got a new gun! It's a 20 gauge Benelli youth gauge shot gun! So exciting!

We hope to go hunt SOMETHING this week sometime. Hopefully phesant. :) I've never been. Jay says when they flush up that they are going to scare the crap outta me, but we'll see. Pretty excited about that too.

I also signed up to be a Scentsy consultant! If you've never heard of it, it's pretty cool. They are basically scented wax warmers. We call them wickless candles (and flameless). :) So if you are interested in hosting a party (online or at your home) let me know! If you'd like to order off my site, it will ship right to your door!
Here's my site: https://perfectscentsbyalley.scentsy.us/Home feel free to order! :)

KEEP IN MIND, CHRISTMAS IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER!!!! Scentsy warmers make awesome Christmas presents and you can combine some items to lower your total price!!

Ok, off the Scentsy soap box, we had two sets of two trick-or-treat-ers at our house... I was super excited since we are the last house on the street in the opposite direction of the subdivision entrance. :/
Oh well. More candy for me! :)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

The end of October...Already? Sheesh!

So, I think a post is a little overdue, but you'll understand when I tell you that I've been busy getting our new house situated and organized. Yep, we finally got our house. It's pretty amazing, not gonna lie. REAL Hardwood floors, stainless steel kitchen appliances, gas fireplace, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths... which might I add-the spare bathroom is the only room in the house that is completely decorated. Anywho, super nice. Even though I know the only people who will see it is most likely the people who already live in Williston. :) No worries, I understand, It's freakin' cold up here.
All the "locals" (not sure why that should have quotes... just seems fitting I guess...) say that usually there is snow on the ground by now. With this underlying tone of worry. Making it sound like an inevitable people-killing-blizzard-snow storm is to occur at any given moment.

So, A lot has happened in since the last post. Me and Jay flew down to Houston and Fort Worth to visit some family and friends for his week off, and we went to Ranch Bash (Which was an awesome beginning to a chaotic night, but fun none-the-less). We had a really great time visiting family and meeting new friends. Chuck even drove us up and went to the concert with us! You can see some of the Ranch Bash pictures on my FB page. (If I'm not friends with you on FB, then you'll never be able to see them, and that sucks for you.) That was one crazy night, I hope I never have to relive...well at least part of it. :)

Let's see... What else should I talk about.... OH! The Texas Rangers are in the WORLD SERIES!! Last night was game 4 and they won! So, now they stand 3-2 Rangers in the series!!! They came so close last year, they deserve it this year! LET'S GO RANGERS!

So, since I have been working on getting the house in order, I've basically been inside all day, every day, and it is making my two 4-legged children BONKERS! That and the fact that it's cold outside, and... I don't really want to go out there...I'm a terrible parent. We don't have a fence for our yard yet, but they say we should have it "next year"... I dunno if that means January "next year" or "next year" as in a year from the time we moved in... Hmm... So the pups have a stake with two lines on it for them. I don't know what I'm going to do when it starts SNOWING.... I am told that I should expect close to 200 inches of snow this season... so I am to assume we may be having to dig out a walkway to the back yard for the pups... :/ yay.

Colt has become quite a talker since living in CO. I can almost make him say "I love you" in the morning, when he is buggin' me and trying to get me to either feed him or let him out. Annie would prefer to stay in bed all day long if she could. So she seems irritated by the fact that Colt is so... energetic. He is constantly bringing me his ball to throw to him, but since we do not have a rug for the living room yet, I usually just roll it to him, or throw it directly at him (no violence involved) so he can catch it. Or else, I end up with scratch marks in the floor where he peels out like a cartoon character for a few seconds from not getting traction on the floors before getting to his ball.

Did I mention that I sweep like 4 times a week... I've never swept that much in my life. I guess it's the fact that the floors are a darker wood, so the (colt) hair shows up a lot more. The only carpet in the house is in the 3 bedrooms. The bathrooms and laundry/mud room have tile and everything else (kitchen, dining, and living room) have wood floors.

Our TV is going to be mounted above our fireplace, which will be new for us, since our TV sat on a stand at the last place, and leaves us with a useless piece of furniture now... :/ good thing it's a piece of crap, and weighs like 1,358,259,564,223 pounds. :) I don't even know what number that is... I know it's past a billion... Right????

I haven't drawn anything for a long time, I kinda miss the hilarity in that whole process. :) I know I keep saying "maybe I'll draw..." and I never do... yea well... I got crap to do... only not really. Today, I felt completely useless. I can't hang anything on the walls, because Jay wants to be there to put his say in the matter. "I think this duck mount would look better in the dining room..." uh.. yea... he's a duck hunter.... We have 3 new mounts that were added to our "collection" right before we moved. Thing is ... Where the heck to put them... Put them in the guest bedroom and freak our guests out to where they can't sleep, put them in the dining room and gross our guests out.... So it will either be in the computer/craft/scrapbook room or in our bedroom... next to my bridal portrait.... how romantic. :/ They are beautiful birds, don't get me wrong, but I just don't know if this house is ... set up for mounts. The only place we can imagine his huge Canadian goose is above the fireplace, only that's where our tv is gonna go... sigh... "noooobody knowsss, the trouble I've...."

Ok, I also cook a lot too. So that keeps me pretty busy. Cook, Clean, unload dishwasher, load dishwasher, cook, clean, repeat... It's pretty lonely with Jay working so many hours, but he brings home big checks. :) which is good. Did I mention we are the new owners of a Can-Am 4-wheeler? Yep, when we were down in Houston, we bought a 2011 model and it is AWESOME! It has a seat for a passenger, so it's "legal" for me to ride behind Jay. It has a back rest and handles for me to hold on to... which I've already gripped them so tight there are scratch marks... (not really, those are from a tree, when Jay was climbing up the bank of a creek bed). But they really are handy.

So that new friend I met while being locked out... we've been to lunch once a week every week since I moved into the house, with the exception of the week we were down in Houston. :) She's really cool. I think she'll be my friend for a while at least... until she realizes what an odd-ball I am. :)

Anyway, I gotta get to the kitchen to load the dishwasher before Jay gets home and it doesn't look like I've done anything all day. :/