Archives for 2006

So Scott decided out of the blue to put a deck in on Saturday. We discussed the design early Saturday morning, he went to Home Depot and by 5:00 Saturday we had the frame and Sunday afternoon he put the deck boards on. He still has to do the steps but he threw out his back working on it and it has been COLD and rainy since Sunday. I miss the warm weather… I am so ready for spring/summer!

I’m still working on the bracket software and it’s getting better. Probably still explains my lack of posting here.

AI was really good last night I thought. I LOVE CHRIS! Have I said that yet? I can’t wait for him to win! Kevin must go. Bucky must go. Mandisa was good. Kellie was actually good. Wasn’t impressed by Ace. Taylor was sort of boring for me.

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I’ve been busy this week. NCAA brackets. That’s all I have to say. Actually, it’s not. The guys at work convinced me to create an online bracket system so they could keep track online. I’m obsessed with getting it up and running and not doing too bad actually. And I helped fill out a bracket at work and now I’m also obsessed with keeping up with the scores and my bracket, which I could do online if I could get it up and running.

Scott got his wisdom teeth out yesterday. He was HILARIOUS when I went back right after he got out. Just to give you a taste, here are some quotes:

To the nurse: Did you take advantage of me?
To the nurse: Can I get a conjugal visit?
To the dr: Can we have sex?
To me after I told him he was talking crazy: What is in your mind comes out of your mouth. That’s why you have to have a clear mind.

There’s some stuff I haven’t told anyone and don’t plan on it. Needless to say that was the buzz for yesterday.

I’m highly irritated that Kevin is not off of AI yet, surprised that Ace was in the bottom three and don’t care that Melissa went. Her turn was coming soon enough. And she forgot her lyrics for goodness sakes.

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The past few days have been non-interesting. I did get off early Friday and went to Target with Mom and the girls. I still had several hours overtime for the week so it was nice not to worry about working. Although I did get a production call at 6 that night. I ended up cleaning Saturday because Friday night we rented The 40 year old Virgin. We got the unrated version and it was pretty crass but it was REALLY funny. My sister called me last night at 10:30 when she was watching it cracking up laughing. She could barely tell me the scene she was watching. Emma spent the night with MIL on Friday night and didn’t get home until 5 yesterday! So Lexi and I were outside a lot yesterday. It was almost 80 degrees I think. It was really warm. I cleaned while she napped. Heather came over and we watched Diary of an Mad Black Woman. I was really impressed. It was really good. So this morning I’m just getting ready to go to church.

I finished the book Created to be his Help Meet. It was a good book that I could read like 5 more times and just grasp everything. There was a lot of info in there! I still don’t know where I stand with one or two issues in there. But I’ve already tried to start making changes. Scott has noticed and he likes it. And I can tell his attitude about things already changing within one week when I have changed. I’m looking forward to trying to making more changes and see where it takes us!

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Got to the gym last night. It wasn’t the hardest I’ve ever worked, but at least it was something. And I don’t feel as tired today either. Emma actually asked to go with me to stay in the nursery. And she was good with it. They had Aladdin playing and I found her lounged back on a bean bag watching it when I got there. Lexi was napping when we left so Scott had the house to himself for an hour. That doesn’t happen very often.

So AI last night stunk for me. The only ones I actually enjoyed were maybe Katherine and definitely Mandisa and enjoyed Kelly although I thought she was off pitch/sharp/whatever that is called in some spots. Was the whole “mink” conversation not hilarious?? Kinnik must go home tonight. I’m not insistent on any of the others. I’m just looking forward to the guys tonight. I was so happy that House had a new episode last night. I was so excited when they announced it at the end of AI. I had forgotten that it was supposed to be new. I thought it was a great episode. I can’t think of the guy’s name but the guy from Felicity was great.

Work got really busy for me yesterday. I’m lucky me and the girls got to eat lunch. I had meetings, then we had production problems and then I got dumped with a big estimate I have to put together before next Friday. I think I worked like 9 or 10 hours yesterday. But my manager ok’d some overtime so I’m good with that. Speaking of which…I need to get back to it…

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I am very tired. Yesterday afternoon and evening I wanted just to lay down. Not sure why either. And of course Lexi got up like 4 times last night. She must be having trouble getting those molars in. I noticed the other day that they are all breaking through. Emma is sleeping late this morning. Yesterday I had to try to wake her up like 3 times to go to school. I wish I could have let her sleep because I know she needs it.

We watched Walk the Line this weekend and it was so good. I love Reese Witherspoon. And there was something romantic and desperate and noble about their story all at once. I watched it a second time yesterday morning. We also watched Elizabethtown. It was kind of weird, especially about 3/4 the way through and it was nothing but a self-discovery road trip. There was definitely good stuff about the movie but I don’t expect to be watching that one more than once.

So the guy who wants to buy our Jeep has not made it to the bank yet so we still have it. He says not to sell it though and we don’t have any other offers so we’re just hanging on until he gets it.

I finally got that book Created to be his Help Meet. It is a TOUGH read. Not hard to read, just very straight to the point about what the Bible expects and if you don’t follow it what can happen. It’s a pretty big eye-opener. Most of our society would laugh it’s way through the book. It is pretty conservative. But I can’t imagine your marriage being bad if a woman was to actually follow what it suggests.

One chapter I read was quite interesting. It talked about 3 types of men. All men are a little of each type but are dominant in one. When I read the first one, I knew immediately it was Scott’s type without even reading another word. I laughed through most of it and even read it back to Scott and then he grinned through it because it described him so well. The 3 were Mr. Command, Mr. Visionary and Mr. Steady. You wanna guess which one my police officer husband is? Yeah, Mr. Command. He is a born leader, always giving orders out whether someone wants them or not. He expects compliance, he expects to be served. He wants to know where you are, what you’re doing and does not want you doing anything that would take away from that. ie, go shopping on Saturday with D because it would take away time from him. Yes, that is my Scott. Mr. Command. I love him for it because I’m Mrs. Indecisive but yes, sometimes it makes you crazy. So that was interesting to read to see how I should react to that. The other ones were also interesting to read as well because Scott does have some other of the ones in him and it also brought to mind other men I know and it is funny to see how those personality traits come out in the husband and in how the wife reacts. This book is worth it just for that chapter.

I missed Grey’s Anatomy this week. And they haven’t put a podcast out either. Which is a bummer. I need SOMETHING to keep me going until Sunday. And Bachelor is off so I didn’t have anything to watch last night either. Thank goodness AI is several times a week :).

I have got to make it to the gym tonight. Last night I was just too tired but I really need to go. I’ve gained back a few pounds because I have been eating like CRAP and only going to the gym twice a week the past few weeks. Maybe I’m so tired because I haven’t been exercising. Probably.

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Yay, I did it…cleaned on Friday night again. That works out so well. I just love not being burdened with cleaning my house on Saturday morning. I am sure you are tired of hearing about it every Saturday morning. Anyway, Emma stayed the night at MIL’s last night even though MIL is going to the dr today because she is sick but far be it from me to say no to her, especially for that reason. Scott went to a junk yard with the boys today. Yes, a junk yard. They all need some sort of part for their used vehicles and are going to scrounge together I guess.

Oh, in great news, it looks like we sold that Jeep we bought and indeed doubled our money! Yahoo! We are still not sure what to do with our money except I think we definitely decided to put a picket fence up in the backyard. The neighbor complained that Mattie poops in their yard so we’ve been putting her on the chain outside. We’ve been tossing around the idea of a fence and meant to even before we moved in but it just hasn’t been an issue until now. And spending over 1K on something needs to have a good reason. But I figure it will be a good selling point when we move, so it’s more of an investment.

D & I want to go shopping this afternoon but Scott is complaining because he’ll be gone this morning and then if I’m gone this afternoon, that doesn’t give us much us time together on one of his very few Saturdays off. But really, this is the only time for D & I to go spend our gift cards until April 7 because Scott is getting his wisdom teeth out in two weeks and the next weekend he is off, he is having to work the Carolina Cup Horse Race. Scott said he’d go shopping with me today to spend it but for some reason that just doesn’t seem quite as much fun. Although we did have a lot of fun the past few times we went, so maybe.

In AI news, I’m so excited for the bottom 4 on Thursday. Someone must have read my mind. Maybe after 4 seasons we all finally figured this thing out. Oh! Ya’ll have GOT to go read the latest entry at www.greyswriters.com. She has this list of 6 things about the show and the 6th one she goes random on AI. It’s hilarious.

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I am definitely enjoying the guys this year on AI. Which is a first for me for AI. I liked Clay Aiken but I never really wanted him to win as much as I want Chris Daughtry to win. I’ve liked him since the first time I saw him on there. It was the same way with Carrie. I tried to vote for him last night but his line continued to be busy. I would be good if Taylor won instead and I really enjoyed his song last night unlike the judges. David must go tonight. Sway must go tonight. I will be surprised if its someone else that goes. As for the girls, I find myself not caring so much.

MIL took both girls yesterday afternoon. I was able to work uninterrupted, clean the living room/kitchen/play room and go to the gym for some arm workout AND a class. Yipee!

I started reading the Excellent Wife by Martha Pearce since it was in my “library”. I’m waiting on another book Created to be his Help Meet by Debi Pearl but I ordered it from Amazon from someone and picked expedited shipping and hopefully they shipped it right away. It’s tough stuff to read. Very conservative. Which is fine with me but it requires a lot from wives. I know if I did it, it would be good but it’s hard to do it.

Right now I’m in a I want to quit my job phase. I don’t want to live without the money but I find I don’t like that my kids are sometimes being “babysat” by me. And I know if I wasn’t working, I’d probably have other tasks around the house that would keep me from their attention but at least I would have the option. And I could go to Bible Studies and go to the gym and I could take Emma to Little Gym and go to D’s house with the girls and I just would be freed up to even just go to the backyard whenever we wanted! We would probably have to get rid of our van and get a used one and I’d probably have to give up the gym and I’m not sure we could even afford preschool and we surely couldn’t afford Little Gym. So I know it’s not what I think trying to live on one income and I am really lucky to be able to work from home at all. It’s just. Ugh. I don’t wanna work right now.

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I had a one on one bible study type thing with a good friend and mentor of mine on Monday. Mostly about G. I think I realized how serious this could have been and how immature, selfish, wrong, etc. I was. I spent a lot of yesterday thinking really hard about what I did, what I should be doing and what I want. Needless to say, I don’t think I’ll be talking about G much more. It is sort of sobering when you actually have to talk about what you did out loud to someone you respect very much.

Emma didn’t go to school Monday or today. But I’ve got PMS and she’s irritable and Scott went to work today and I can only hope we don’t drive each other crazy. I have little compassion when I have PMS and she needs lots of it right now so I pray I can serve up a lot to her even though I don’t feel like it. I finally took her to the dr Tuesday after she stayed all day on Monday on the couch and the dr said she was almost 100% sure she had the flu but it should only last another day or so. And Mom went to the dr last night and she has pneumonia!

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