First day of work

Well yesterday was my first day at work. Lots of orientation! Well tomorrow I go back to work. I have classes which will be over soon! Yippee

We had a Sunday dinner this weekend and I cooked turkey, dressing , green bean casserole, chicken and rice, cream corn, speckled butter beans, homemade bread, pumpkin bread, and pumpkin pie- oh wait I can't leave out the banana pudding. Bill came over and we all ate way too much but it was a great day. Bill played Oblivion on the Xbox so I watched him do that until I had to go to bed.

Hmmm today was a bleh day I made it to class but when I got home all I wanted to do is sleep. Had my doctors apt today, he's changing my meds so we will see how that goes.

I should be in bed now so night and will post tomorrow.

Paper...Holidays....Sims 3...Guilty

So I've been really bad lately on my posting lol. I had a paper due in my Anthropology class and well....I worked on it for 3 days...it was due Wednesday. On top of that I've not been feeling so hot either. I really haven't wanted to do much of anything. So lets see writing my paper well that was an art form on itself because of Cry baby wanting to help moma write the paper. 

This was my notes for my paper...out of the whole bed, this was her favorite spot to lay. I figured out a method of getting to the notes I needed but still, she makes homework interesting :)

It got even worse when she decided she needed to sleep on my hand while I was typing!!

SO after the journey of paper writing Monday, I decided to relax by playing my Sims 3 :) Well I started and epidemic in the house because now everyone is on Sims :)

Tuesday.....well lets say I slept awful-so I decided no class for me since classes was optional and I had a paper to write on. But  I managed to get the paper 95% finished. I say 95% because it needed proofing and final touches added to it. Our plumber came and fixed my sink! Which made me and Jasmine so happy because we were only able to use one side of the sink which totally sucked. But Dan-Oh Dan is a GOD of plumbers! He has given us an awesome sink and before that water pressure in our shower which for a year we didn't have. Oh the small things. Thank God for answering our prayers slowly but surely!

 I kinda went on a down Tuesday-I went from being in a great mood to being bleh...it also didn't help after I took my 7pm meds I began having a bad reaction to it. About and hour or two after I began having bad spasms (which is caused by the medicine I take) then the one that scared me the most was the face spasm! It was causing my right side to jerk so bad that I was looking half way like the Joker. NOT FUN! Benadryl didn't help so I decided sleep may help. Plus praying that I wake up the next morning and the spasm in my face to be gone. 

Wednesday......good news NO SPASM when I woke up! So that made me rejoice. I really don't want the spasms because there is a warning that it could be permanent! So I called the doctor and we discussed what we should do about my medicine. I'm suppose to cut the medicine down and split the dosage I was on previously...but I am still nervous about taking the medicine. But things happen for reasons so maybe it is time for me to change my medicine perhaps something less overwhelming. So please pray for me I really want to continue feeling better but I really don't want the awful effects that come with it. 

So I invited Bill over for coffee because I felt so awful for being bleh Tuesday when he came over for coffee. So while we had our coffee time I introduced Bill to the world of Sims! He said he'd like to build a house but the game itself ... not his cup of tea...lol!

After Bill left me and Jasmine realized that it was time to make our apple pie for Turkey Day!

 This is our latticing :) Of the pie. I showed Jasmine the concept and she decided to finish it :) IT was so hard to not want to eat the pie....well the pie filling anyways lol...This is our pie in the oven ....almost finished!

After making pie we realized we hadn't had anything to eat so this was our pre Thanksgiving dinner...

Which was ham and turkey sandwich with ranch dressing and mayo! with cheese-YUM!

After the pie was finished....we had to threaten Gary when he came home at 12am to not eat the pie! But to show how good the pie actually was....this is after Turkey day dinner and post turkey day snacking...

Sleepy Saturday

Well today was productive and yet a lazy day. I read a total of 0 pages of my articles.....I know bad me. I've been wiped all day. It didn't help I played Sims 3 until 700am. I couldn't sleep, so I took sleeping meds that late in teh morning. I was then promptly woken up by the Terminex guy and couldn't go back to sleep. Yippie... :(

We budgeted groceries...made a grocery list and me and Gary went grocery shopping. That was a serious outing since Publix is reorganizing the store so I was totally lost on where everything was.

Made it home and we as a household put up the groceries, cleaned out the fridge and promptly cooked a big pot of chili.

I had plans for Bill to come over for coffee but since he wasn't feeling well we had to cancel. It just doesn't feel right drinking coffee without my coffee buddy.

Crybaby got a bath today......she is not happy about this at all.
Even though the house is sleepy there still is goofiness to go around lol..

Julie clueless she is being captured by the iPad.....

Continued cluelessness!

 Mwah! Thats from me to you!@ Jasmine....

Julie however is like "I'm cute and I know it!"

Jasmine strikes a vogue pose for us...both angles...

The whole time Gary is playing \Zombie Gunship on his ipod.

Who loves kitty? Serious inside joke. For the longest everytime we look Hachi would have her but in the air doing something...so we started saying "Who loves Kitty?" when she does it.

My nails ;) I was gonna add it to my last blog but I just threw them in here.

So these are a little find I found a few months back. Finally got to wear them..they look vintage but are far from it :)

Again Gary plays his game unmolested by even Athena in his lap. She loves her daddy.

 My outfit for today and yes I too was part of the silliness...

Julie striking a pose!

me and my  baby crybaby

pesti posing!

and in the words of Hachi Peace Out

Mid Evening Nap

Hello everyone :) Well it was TGIF lol but I happened to fall asleep snuggling with the cat. Let me rewind and go back to where the day begun. I had my classes :) Which were great today. I found out I really  need to study my numbers in spanish and maybe even start writing in Spanish more often. So fair warning there may be a Spanish blog-I will translate thou :)

In between my two classes I removed Gary's battery from his car and went and got him a new one. After Spanish it took me and Jasmine both to get it changed but us girls prevailed! Girl Power!! Lol....Nah I just wanted to do something nice for Gary. So I decided what the heck I haven't gotten to be mechanical in a long time so why not@!? Jasmine thought it was neat I let her help but truth be told, i don't think I coulda got it out and in without her help SO thanks Hachi!

After the battery was installed I went and got my nails done. I know I know I go all tomboy and change the battery then go all girlie and get my nails done. But I wanted my nails to look nice for my second interview today. So I got a french manicure :) I will post a pic of them tomorrow. :)

OMG we found the neatest thing in the mall. Flying clown fish and shark! Bill I know you don't watch videos but watch this one! Its awesome.

If I had the money we would so have bought one of these if not both! They would be so much fun to play with. I mean play with the kids with when they came over. So what you do is fill them with Helium and 4 triple A batteries and let them go! I am such a big kid but this would be so cool to have. But they cost 39.95...if I'm gonna spend that it gonna be on food. But I will save up for them oh yes I will. Coolest big kid toys ever!

So we then went to New York & Company...where I usually get really great deals on the discount rack..but today I was shopping for black pants and well it wasn't much of a deal today. SO we left there and went to Goodwill where I got 6 pair of slacks and 2 shirts for 25 bucks! Thats a deal. 4 pair of the pants was the color of the day which made them 50% off, so even better.

I made it home in time to get my hair fixed, make up on (which was a bad idea today) and dressed. I loved my outfit I will have to post a pic of that too!

I made it to my interview which well Latrice wasn't there she was running late on her lunch. But I waited which paid off! I had my interview which went well. But I was asked if I was tired, which I was my medicine had my groggy. But the mascara I used made my eyes water (its in the trash now btw) and made my eyes slightly red. So she asked if I was tired because my eyes were red...me automatically embarrassed was like no no...my eyes are red because I usually don't wear make up. I look good in make up but I prefer the natural look over doing my make up....plus I'm a bit lazy lol. She admitted she was the same way and we had a small girl moment of laughing about make up being aggravating. THen she promptly went and asked TJ when I could come back for my third interview! They  liked the fact I was real with them and not all stuffy! Woot! So Monday at 12pm I have my final interview. I know extensive right!? But I am happy.

I came home thinking I was going to have to make a grocery list and go grocery shopping so I could cook but my sweet husband all ready had dinner planned out and cooking! So no shopping for me today...I still have to tomorrow but it was nice to be able to shower and just relax a bit. SO he made this yummy spicy baked chicken (which he didn't mean to make spicy but I loved anyways), rice (which Jasmine cooked lol he still doesn't know how to work the rice cooker) and field peas with garlic sauce for the rice and chicken. It was so good I ate a whole plate plus two small helpings of rice and sauce with peas.

After dinner I decided to go snuggle to Dusty our gray cat and fell asleep! I woke up from the weirdest dream ever though. It was dealing with a tv show...where women fought on (I have no clue), then it went to a crab like alien monster machine that was firing at a couple in a delorean style car...which boosted when shot...the guy got hurt. Then the girl got out and did the horror girl scream and run..Which then went to me and Gary having a conversation about what she should do then when he suggested she climb a tree I went look...then it became me not the blonde girl running for a tree. The monster thing shot the tree in half then I looked at Gary and went see I told you not a good idea. Then the dream cycled to our house (but not our house) where I was watching a cat play.....I don't know it was a weird dream. I am never eating garlic chicken and then falling asleep ever again!

But that was teh gist of my day! So see ya guys later...

Hola! Hello! Daily Review

Hey today was good. I woke up a little excited and antsy but i called Bill. Talking to him helped me calm down a bit. I was antsy because I had two presentations today plus my interview. :)

I think the presentation went well on the rapper I had to go over. Everyone really "digged" the music video I played. They liked my rap I made so that was good.

Me and Jasmine (Hachi for those who don't know) went to Sally's to look at hair dye. I thought about dying my hair again. Eh I think I'm going to leave it alone. I'm not sure yet though. We looked at nail polish and was like oooh...ahhh...and then realized we would be really broke if we had money lol.

So I napped today so I wouldn't look tired in my interview. I woke up at 3pm touched up my make up, fixed my hair and got ready to go. I made it there 15 minutes early. I think the interview went ok ;) I am scheduled for another interview tomorrow at 6pm so again lets keep our fingers crossed. Its only seasonal but they are hiring the best out of the seasonal workers.

Well off to study spanish and philosophy..wait no I am going to watch Bones :) I deserve it!

What I have to deal with when I am doing homework

But it could be pay back for what their uncle Ty did to them...

Double a tumble today....

 I woke up bright eyed and bushy tailed. So I got up and got ready for class. Then I go to put stuff in the car because I dressed in a long dress with low heels.....(will be the death of me one day) I find my passenger back tire was very low, so  no breakfast for me-I had to put air in my tire at oh10:30 which is my usual breakfast time. SO I ran up to Enmark and put air in my tire. :) Then made it in to my class 5 minutes late!!! Ugh! Morning traffic was crazy.So philosophy was really great this morning. We did an assessment of the philosophers we have discussed. I thought I was sol'ed but I remembered :) So yeah. We watch dead poets society-well the ending...

But the first tumble of the day happened when I was leaving class. The short stairs in West Hall will be the death of me in any shoes I wear! I fell!*****serious blush***** Then the nicest guy ever helped me up and even held my hand all the way down to a flat surface. ANd what did I do...blumber...mumber.. mutter...but I did get a thank you out. Cute guy helped me and I was ashamed for busting my butt. I think Gary would have laughed at his oh so confident wife stutter like a fruit cake. Ok may be not that bad but it was bad. So I at first didn't think I hurt anything until I started walking around and welll.....I hurt my hip on the left side. >____<

Me and Hachi went to take her and my books back to the library :) So I got to hang with my bestie! We so got a coke though at the store! WE WERE LIKE COKE! MUST HAVE COKE! so We had coke ;) and chips, slim jim and pickled sausage :)).

Now fast forward to the lessons I had to do....well heres my rap....

My name is Sandy

I’m oh so dandy

Florida born girl

Come give me a whirl

Gotta smile gotta grin

Give me a shot and i will win

Take it once take it twice

Next time i might not be nice

Yeah the girls tried to get me to rap it and I was like um NOPE. Not a rapper-I seriously can't hold a beat for anything ....

So after Hachi read it she decided to give me a whirl...well we battled it out....mainly me hanging onto everything for dear life so she couldn't spin me. Julie attempted to help...but Hachi was like whatever and continued to assault me ..... assault...lol ;))

Then she got me loose and went to swirl me but i was on the edge of the door...then I felt the chair rock back...which is dangerous since this is a rollie chair ... then without any warning all three tumbled over. Me on bottom, jasmine on the wheels...and julie well I'm not quite sure where she fell. I was staring up at the ceiling laughing and moaning because my back hurt seriously. So husband dear! MASSAGE! Please ;)

Last minute pic before we all went to bed :) Us silly girls :) But hey we love hanging out....!

Tomorrow is my interview so I will be going to sleep soon but I did promise to show the puppies in their costumes so here they are ;P

The Double Duo

Super Dog and 

Bat Dog

Productive day

Well I managed class :) That is always a great start to the day. I thought I wouldn't be in my Sociology class but my days were confused so I will be in sociology tomorrow. Fun fun.... any who.

I finally decided what to do my Anthro paper on. So I am writing about German Rap/Hip Hop. Not necessarily anything I'm too crazy over but its a topic and I really needed a topic asap.

So on top of writing up my presentation tomorrow I have to write up 8 to 10 lines of a introduction like what rappers do. I feel so educated...hmmm...wait nope I don't see the linguistic nature of introducing myself like a rapper does. I'm not from Compton and well I'm seriously white.. like poetry I can do but rhymes like Eminem does no way.

So in between my classes today I managed to eat...read for my Religions course plus get my SSN card reordered. Some how I managed to loose it changing out my wallets. The nice lady at the window asked where I was born. I was like Citrus Springs, FLorida. Which btw is totally wrong! I was born in Inverness, Fla...under a rock according to my dad lol. Thanks daddy love ya!

So I have no clue where this place is but the US Army was totally wrong about where I was born. Wonder how they got that wrong.

I even got a nap today since I managed to get a tone of reading done. I napped a little longer than planned but its ok. I was still productive tonight. I cooked dinner, got 6 articles for my paper (Which Julie is going to be so nice to print for me!), and even done my spanish homework and studied some too. ALl that is left for me to do is read some philosophy then its bedtime for me.


Ah while I was trying to do homework my cat Crybaby decided she knew the best way for things to get done. I really don't know what has gotten into her but she thinks I can do my homework with her right there...Really kitty?

She then decided laying on my arm would make things ever more productive.

Now what was my lovely roomies doing while I was getting homework done? Homework of course or were they? Nope it was Happy Feet for them. They were curled up on the couch.

Jasmine was all snuggled in watching the extras of Happy Feet. Julie had disappeared and I thought I wasn't going to get a photo of her tonight but I was wrong she came just at the right time.

Thats my Julie being all Cute : )

Where was the puppies in all of the chaos...asleep. They had their moment of hoohah and they were out. Just as Pestilence was trying to chill in the middle of the floor again-poor cat is gonna get squished one of these days.

Bath time apparently in the middle of her nap time.

Tomorrow I will have to post pics of them well the puppies in their cute costumes for Halloween! Maybe I can even snag pictures from Gary of Halloween so I can share them :) I managed to get my costume on that day for a total of 10 minutes before  me being sick kicked back in full blast.

Good News

Well today I decided to apply for a couple of job positions that were open. One of those positions was at Sears as a cashier. :) I actually got an interview Thursday for the job. I hope all goes well and I can start asap :) We are really in the need for the extra cash.

I know I am seriously stressed about school work, money and our cars. Gary's car has a dead battery in it and we can't get one until Friday. Bleh! I hate this not being able to do what we need to. I have 3 major papers I need to write and 3 2-page response papers I need to write. Plus I need to study for exams that are coming up. So I am totally freaking. I've been having these episodes similar to anxiety attacks-I'm not sure what is bring them on but sometimes they happen from when I am asleep and I wake up to them. Which really sucks btw!

So I was trying to apply at Micheals for a cashier position but it was requiring me to do 12 pages of agree and disagree questions and I really need to get my reading done since its already getting late in the evening. I decided to jot down my day before I shut myself into the bedroom with my Roc the Mic Right book and commence to reading that. FUn...

I'm excited about my interview and hope hope hope I get the job. So for everyone who reads this: Say a little prayer to the cosmos that I get the job. It would benefit us greatly here in my little home. Car repairs could be done, groceries, pay cable bill and maybe have enough money to have a fun day once every two weeks :) I know Gary would love that!

Well off I go to become an hermit for the night-wait I have to feed the munchkin Odin first.

He loves his veggies..which right now hes being quiet. Earlier he was chirping and barking! That's my little man for me :) So some blueberries and veggie mix for him-then hermit time for me.

A long Journey

Its been almost a year since I posted to this blog. At first I was going to delete it and begin a new one. But then I read some of my past post-and I realized its me. I shouldn't erase who I was just because I was in a dark place at the time. Life isn't an easy path for any of us to walk-but sometimes we have to realize we have to ask for help and accept that help when it is given to us. Its been a three years now since I lost some very special people-I tried to be the rock for everyone else to lean on and never did I accept truly they were gone. It felt as though I should have done more...more and more I thought this the darker I fell into my own mind. I lost who I was and was loosing those around me that was still here. I wasn't who I needed to be-I had turned my back on faith, on family-I was lost. It took a stupid mistake to make me realize I needed help-I needed that hand to help me backup onto my feet. I couldn't do it alone anymore. I had a mental disorder that hadn't been an issue until I became stressed beyond anything I've ever dealt with.

But that is neither here nor there-its been a rocky road but I have a support system of some of the greatest people. My beloved husband Gary, my best friends: Julie, Jasmine, Bill...they have seen me at my worst-my best and even those times I'm a crying mess because all I want to be is normal. I hate being who I am at times...then I realize they love me so why shouldn't I love me. There are many battles ahead of me but I have some of the greatest people on my side. I have my faith still-God has had many conversations with me.

Today has been a good and bad day all at the same time. I have my ups and downs but I am learning to adjust to them-Ah!

What am I saying....yeah I had a bit of a down moment but I had fun today. I played cards with my brother and my hubby. Eh they beat me a couple of times even though I got to knock Gary out twice ; ) Sorry babe! I did get ya. I managed to finish my Sociology assignment even though I found it quite annoying. I really don't understand my Sociology teacher-the man is really different. I even got started on my Anthropology response paper...fixed and awesome supper. We had spaghetti, salad and garlic bread for supper. I think everyone ate way too much lol...but that makes me feel good they enjoy themselves. We watched both of our shows tonight, Once Upon a Time and Grimm. Even though Gary slept through most of Grimm.

I think I finally decided to start back writing because of my niece Crissy. She finds time in her busy life even when there is tragedy in her life to write. I know it use to be therapeutic to me, so why not start back? So here it is. I know it may not be as colorful as Crissy's blog. But I think I can start blogging again..Bill I know you say don't put anything in writing but hey.....I can always go back to see where I was this time next year-maybe things will be better.