Yay! It's Friday!

I've been trying to find a second to post all morning, but that has been nearly impossible. Karen's off this morning. She had to take her mother to the doctor so I'm here by myself. I don't mind really and from the looks of it I should probably get used to it. Her mother's not doing too well, they think her cancer may be back. So I'll probably be working lots of hours by myself. I don't mind though. You can't in a situation like that. Anyhow, it is relatively quiet. Although we haven't had any time that there wasn't people in here so far.

Doug's friend Ronnie is going to be in town this weekend. Which means, I have to go straight home and clean the house tonight. That's pretty much going to keep us busy all weekend. I think that Ronnie is coming over tonight for a little bit and I know for sure that we are cooking out with him and his fiancee tomorrow.

Sunday we are going to Cascone's and to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for my birthday. I even bought a cute new skirt last night at TJ Maxx for the occasion. I'm not sure I'm happy with the shirt I have for it though. I might need to go look for something else. :-) I'd kind of like new shoes too, but that may be pushing it!

I had other things to tell you, but now I have been interrupted so many times that I can't even begin to think of them. Maybe they will come to me later...probably when Karen gets here and I can't post again.

Image Intensive!

Just got these pictures back from last weekend's day trip to Portsmouth and Kittery and thought I'd scan them in and share them with you. They include the first ever photos of our schoolhouse, which you will be the first to see since no one has come out to visit us yet. Of course, most of the photos are of my lovely pups...

Joshua, Casper and Maddie panting like mad in downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This is actually the only picture I have of them there. We walked all over but didn't get to do much. There were signs everywhere saying "NO DOGS ALLOWED AT ANY TIME!" Even at the park!! It was funny though, when we went back to the parking garage to go to Kittery, we practically had to drag Madeline up the stairs. You could really see her working hard to make her short little legs climb the stairs. It was a bit like watching Rocky, actually.

The pups see the ocean for the first time in Kittery, Maine! I actually scanned all sorts of these photos, but somehow this is the only one of them that I saved right. Oops! Oh well, this is a pretty good one because it shows how brave our little girls were! Madeline's feet were barely touching the sand! You can't tell in this picture, but Casper became obsessed with DRINKING the salt water. The first time she tasted it, we laughed it off because she kept licking her chops. We thought that was the end of that. Wrong! She really seemed to like the taste of it and dispite our chiding, kept on drinking throughout the time we were there.

Josh and I at the beach. We took this picture three times, each with varying degrees of success. One of them is so downright awful, I wouldn't even show it to my mother!

Josh and Madeline on our lawn. This is a terrible picture of Josh, but the expression on Maddie's face is absolutely priceless. I call this her "Don't Hate me Because I'm Beautiful" photo. Very haughty expression.

Casper in her favorite spot, trying to blend in against the house. This isn't a great view of it (I really didn't take any great view pictures) But you can see Josh's pride and joy, his antique lawn mower. Also, isn't it incredible how green the grass is? We don't water it at all, no one here waters their grass, but it is as green as can be!

Isn't she beautiful?

I took this picture from our front porch yesterday morning before work. You can't really tell, but to the right of the church we can see mountains and a field which has a cow and the most beautiful white horse I've even seen. Madeline barks at the horse when it is out in there, but it dosen't seem to mind. The cow, however, is very curious about Maddie and moos loudly when it sees her.

Again, this is not a great picture. It gives you the basic idea though. Huge windows all along the front and the neat sign about our door which reads "Noyesville" which was the name of the school. The yard looks rather weedy here, but it isn't . The large bush against the house is a beautful flowering thing, which in the winter has pretty red berries. You can barely make out the flowers which are planted in the old chest. The stick on the porch is a hiking stick that Josh widdled for me out of a tree branch. Yikes, looking at this picture again, I think how derelict it must look to you. Really, it isn't though. It is just rustic like everything else here in Vermont.

That is it for now, maybe more later! :)

Grateful

I was going to post today about how depressed I was about my birthday. Doug either has forgotten this great gift he told you about or something. He asked me last night what I wanted for my birthday that costs $35, then he changed it to $50. That just kind of put me in a foul mood, knowing what you told me. So I was depressed about that last night and this morning. And then I talked to my mom. Apparently my uncle's stepson died last night. I'm not very close to my uncle or any of his stepchildren, but it still makes me sad. His stepson was about our age, maybe a year or two younger, he was married and I think even had a baby. It's sad that I don't really know more. Mom didn't know any of the details, but from what she has said I think it was something bad. Why else would a healthy 20-something man die? Anyhow, I'm not depressed anymore. I'm grateful that I do get to celebrate my 25th birthday and who cares what I get, as long as I'm surrounded by people that I love and who love me!

Hot, hot, hot!

That's what we have had lately and it looks like more of the same until at least next week sometime. And of course Doug's mood has definitely reflected it. I'm at the point now that I know if I say something to him and he snaps at me, that's my cue to not talk to him for the rest of the night.

Not a whole lot of anything else going on. Today is Angela's b-day, by the way. I know you wouldn't forget or anything. She moved and has a new phone number though, so don't try to call the old one. I'll email you the new one in a bit.

Did I tell you that Doug and I are on a diet? Sort of anyway...don't tell him about the candy bar I had with my lunch. It's Desire's fault. I went to her house last night and she sent me home with a whole box full of junk food. Anyway, I'm going to walk with my mom tonight so that ought to cover the candy. I hope! We're trying to get into shape for Ronnie's wedding. Doug wants to look nice in his tuxedo and I just don't want him looking better than me! :-) Dieting really does suck though. We have managed to cut back on going out to eat. We haven't been in over a week. Well, at least not together. I had Taco Bell today. But only a bean burrito. I ordered a soft taco too, but didn't have time to eat it. So it's going to be my dinner tonight. Yum. Not really.

I'm sorry to hear about Harry Potter. I do know why you are depressed. It's not my fault. One of our patron's just had to know who died and so I looked it up for her. Don't hate me. I had to do it. It's my job!

Harry Potter Depression

Finished the book. It was good. Really good. But I can't help thinking that they should have passed out antidepressants with it instead of a poster and rubber bracelet. I've never had a book put me in such a funk!

Humph.

Guess What Today Is?

Tsk, Tsk if you don't!

HARRY POTTER DAY!

Could I BE anymore excited? *Channeling Chandler*

Tonight Josh and I are going to go to Burlington, eat at the Chucky Cheese type place with a HUGE arcade. Play games until 9:00. Go to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and eat candy and drink cherry slushes. Go straight from there to the Harry Potter party at Barnes and Noble where we will stand in line for ages to get our hands on *drum roll* THE BOOK! After which we will drive home, arrive sometime after 2:00, and read until the wee hours of...

Well, until we are done.

Could our evening out get even more juvenile and less romantic? I don't think it is possible. But I'm looking forward to it anyway! I'm trying hard not to face up to the fact that I will probably be 27+ (for book seven) the next time I get to be this giddy. But hey, with any luck I'll get to celebrate THAT book in England! Now I bet there are some kick butt Harry Potter parties over there. In fact, I'd be suprised if it wasn't a national holiday!

Look what I bought...

I was at K-Mart this morning and I picked up a new comforter for when we get a queen sized bed...hopefully in about 2 weeks. It was on sale for $19.99, so I couldn't pass it up. I only got the comforter. I'll go back and get sheets when I get paid or something. They are on sale this week, but not that much. Really, I would be fine with solid color sheets. Probably some navy blue ones and maybe some light blue ones. I'm pretty sure Doug will prefer any of those to my lavendar ones!

What a day...

Today is not a very good day so far. It started off with last night when I decided to sleep on the couch. Doug made me mad and frankly the couch is more comfortable than sharing our tiny bed! So even though I slept really really well, I'm still mad that I had to sleep on the couch at all. Thankfully I had the whole morning to myself to sulk about it before coming to work. When I got to work, I noticed that all of the streets surrounding the library are closed! Apparently they are going to do road repairs or something today. Thanks, city engineers, for mentioning that. So while I was trying to figure out what to do about the road situation I realized I was just about late. So I rushed in here only to realize that I forgot they are doing updates on our computers today. We can still use the internet, but our check in/check out modes are disabled at the moment.

Doug is fasting today. He's got his big bad scary colonoscopy tomorrow. I'm not looking forward to that. Plus, I get the impression that he's in a pretty bad mood today. Heck, I would be too if I couldn't eat all day. I know he's getting nervous about it and I'm trying to be positive and say that everything is going to be fine, but I'm nervous too. I think his mom is going to be at the hospital with us tomorrow. I don't know if that will be good or bad. Good because I'll have someone to talk to, but bad because it'll be his mom and she always asks a bunch of questions.

Anyway, I'm going to quit griping. How was your holiday? We had alot of fun. Our barbecue turned out nicely, but it would have been better if you and Josh were there. Actually it would have been better if any of my friends were there. I had Rebecca, but really that was it. So sad for me. Desire came over for a little bit, but her brother and sister-in-law were at her house so they pretty much stayed over there. We went up to the new shoppes on Monday. We parked at one end and walked all the way to the other. Doug hates window shopping so he was being a brat most of the time. We did really like Sam's Club and are seriously considering a membership. We decided Home Depot is just an orange Lowe's. Oh, and I love Michaels! We still haven't spent the last of our TJ Maxx giftcard. I tried to get Doug to help me pick something, but he wasn't interested. We also went and looked at beds at Sav-On. I think we have picked out what we want. It's going to be about $400, which isn't too bad. Plus Doug thinks we'll get a discount again. And we're going to sell our refrigerator when his mom gets us this other one so hopefully that'll be $100 in our new bed fund. I looked at paint when we were at Lowe's too, but I just can't decide what color I want to do. I wish you were here to help me.

Update on the trash collecting situation. I got us new service. I called the people my parents use. They picked it up last week, no problem. This week Ace came by to pick up our trash. Fortunately they came to the door to apologize and I told them I'd already made other arrangements so they are going to reimburse my money. Thank goodness.

I think that's it for now. Have a good day.

Still looking...

I still can't decide what to get from that catalog. I love everything! It's all so cute. I do have an issue with the fact that nothing is going to match my kitchen though. With the dumb ivy wallpaper (I don't want anymore ivy before you even ask!) and my rooster towels and picture, I just don't know what to pick. And after you said the thing about the square votives I started looking at those and I am also really liking the tall cylinders. I think I might want square votives in some holiday type things. Maybe the Halloween and a Christmas one, maybe. I don't know...too many choices!

Yay! It's Friday!

That's really all I had to say! :)