For the Love of Cows

If anyone would see the emails that go back and forth between me and my BFF Kim they would wonder about us. Yesterday we had an afternoon long conversation about the difference between Bulls, Steers, Cows and Heifers. She has a pasture by her new condo in FL (which honestly I didn't know there were many cows in FL but I digress) that holds some cows and bulls. She was calling them all Cows and I had to set her straight on that. Crazy girl refuses to talk to them despite my encouragement to do so! 

I won't tell you what she said when I offered to take her to a dairy farm and let her milk a cow. 

I guess I just have cows on the brain since I'm going home this weekend and we have some day old calves that I am looking forward to bottle feeding. I love bottle feeding calves, they are just so sweet! Mom said they liked being petted so I'm excited to love on them. Somewhere along the line I have become an animal lover. I used to be really afraid of cows when I was younger, I think because I was so short, I was afraid they would stomp on me and kill me or something. Now that I'm tall 5'9" the fear appears to be gone. 

People, Kim included! Tend to think we're a little nuts, but we treat all of our animals, cows included! as pets and family. Weird to some people, but we take good care of them.  Even if my Dad tells poor Precious how fat she is! The love for our animals is continuing on with my precious nephew. He is obsessed with cows, and one of his first words was "moo". It continues to be a favorite word of his, anytime he spots a cow he starts moo'ing. He got to visit the pasture a few weeks ago, and while I was at work and missed it, his Mommy took pictures, and that little boy has no fear! He got all up in the cows business and was ready to make friends. I was so proud of him!

Mid Week Confessions

It's that time again. You know how we do this thing!!


I was in the bathroom at work, washing my hands, congratulating myself on putting together a somewhat decent outfit, when I noticed something hanging from the arm of my jacket. The price tag. Complete with Orange Clearance Sticker. The sad thing is this is not the first time that I have worn this jacket.


I have been singing along to one of my favorite songs for a few months now, but one part of the chorus I wasn't sure what she was saying, so I kind of just mumbled and made up a word that sounded like it fit, but totally wasn't a word. I had an AHA moment this morning when I realized FINALLY what the word was. And it was an easy one, which made me feel even more stupid. 


I listen to NSYNC regularly. Yes, I know they haven't been popular in years, but they were my favorite band as a teen/college student and I have mad love for them. I'm not ashamed to say when I get married "This I promise you" will be played at my wedding. I'm dead serious.


I had to walk over to the fancy building at work, and when I left I was attacked by geese. They were hissing at me and advancing, so I took off at a trot. Really not what you want to do when you're wearing fancy flip flops. But my choices were look stupid or lose a few toes. I choose looking stupid.

Ladies who Lunch: At Dog N Suds!!!!

 Tuesday the day I had greatly anticipated finally came! Emboz and I took Baby Madi to her first trip to Dog N Suds!!! She was pretty excited to sit at the picnic table like a big girl! It was a beautiful day to sit outside!!

 Pictures with my girl before our food came!

 Love that little stinker!!

 This little girl LOVES.ROOTBEER. Our server set it down on the table and Madi immediately started yelling MINE! MINE!! MINE!! Trying to reach her tiny little arms across the table! I put the straw in and gave it to her and she started going to town on that rootbeer like she was going to die without it!

 While Madi drank her weight in Rootbeer I chowed down on Coney Dogs. I.LOVE.CONEY DOGS! But only at Dog N Suds! Their coney sauce is, mmmm.. so good and indescribable. It's almost a little sweet and the stuff that some of my dreams are made of. Before you get impressed with me taking time to pose for a picture before eating, I should say I had allready eaten a coney dog before this picture was taken. Some things just can't wait!

 Madi was also pretty enthralled with their fries. Emboz tried to clean up the food before we left and Madi grabbed as many fries as she could and stuffed them in the pocket of her bib. I thought it was hilarious! (and not a bad idea!)

She did't think it was quite as hilarious as I did however.

Emboz was driving me back to work and Madi was in her carseat with her sippy travel cup of Rootbeer :) and we hear her saying MINE! MINE! I look back and she is happily chomping away at the fries she had saved in her pocket.  Can't say I blame her. Dog N Suds knows the way to my heart as well. Here's a hint.. CONEY SAUCE!

p.s. Emboz WAS at our lunch but when I'm distracted by a cute toddler and coney dogs, apparently pictures with her fall by the wayside. She did have lipgloss on though!

Precious Memories

One of the most PRECIOUS things that happened while Snugglemuffin was here, was his new found hand holding love. We went outside to walk around and play on Friday morning and I sat him down on the grass thinking that he would take off running in the open space to go explore. I was surprised and touched when instead his little hand reached up for mine. Truth be known I had a tear in my eye. Yes, I am a sap!

I enjoyed walking all over our back yard and baseball field with his little hand holding tightly onto my index finger. It was the sweetest thing ever!

I love this picture, he is leading the way, to go see a Tractor, of course. Come on Auntie LETS GO!!!

The next day we went into town and stopped at Walmart. He didn't want to ride in the cart so we walked around Walmart holding hands. He was so proud of himself, you could tell he just thought he was big stuff walking around the store with Auntie. He waves at everyone he meets, although he hasn't quite grasped HI so he tells everyone "bah! Bah!" So cute. He sounds so southern! I think it was the most fun I have ever had at that little Walmart. Walking around holding my little buddies hand, meeting everyone that came within 35 feet.

Snugglemuffin and Auntie- Reunited Again!

 Last weekend Snugglemuffin came to Indiana for a short trip and I had SO MUCH FUN with him! I missed him so much, and miss him ever more now that he is gone. We didn't do so great getting pics together, me trying to live in the moment, and him being a toddler octopus, but we did manage to snap these few!

 

We have assigned seats at the dinner table, and Snugglemuffins is right next to Auntie!

 Saturday we took a quick trip to town and I attempted to get a cute Backseat Buddy Picture.

 You can see how well that went! HA! love the look on his face!

 It's going to take some more practice to get him doing self portraits! Good thing I am dedicated!

 Oh, oh almost a smile!

 A small smile and of course it's blurry!!

 This would have been a great picture if he hadn't missed his naptime and been hungry and tired and just OVER.IT.

When we said goodbye. Both of us were struggling.

Awkward pictures and all I love my nephew and I'm counting down the days until I see him again!

Apes and Cherrybear- Reunited Again!

 

Friday night I ran home from work, changed, slapped about 5 pounds of makeup on my face, and fought with my hair for 35 minutes to try and straighten it into submission. Why you ask? Because I had a very important event to go to that night!!!!! And I wanted to look my very best!

 

I got in my truck, and drove and hour and a half, crossing state lines, to go meet up with.......

 

April!! We met up halfway at an Olive Garden where we enjoyed a three hour dinner where we talked almost non stop! I don't even think I ate half of my food I was just enjoying talking with her! I love that we have such a solid friendship that after we are apart we just pick up right where we left off. I am lucky to have that with my BFF Kim and Caca as well and I feel very blessed.

 

As you can see my hair struggled a bit but I didn't care!!

 

We had such a great time and had an amazing waiter who was SO nice to us, and even kept refilling our water and checking on us. He was so kind to let us stay there for three hours!

 

Apes requested that we dress up so I wanted to get a picture of our outfits. The front desk person snaped it before i was ready, hence the goofy look on my face but minor detail! I thought we both looked very pretty!

 

I just love her!!

Of course before we left we had to take a self portrait outside. You're not hanging out with Cherrybear unless there is a self portrait involved! I laughed and was heart warmed by how well we pose together!  I thought back on the many self portraits we have taken in the past few years and how many more there are to come! 

 

I am so thankful that God led me to my job and let me meet one of my best friends there! April is truely a life long friend and I am beyond thankful for her!  We have both learned so much and continue to grow and learn together. It's so neat to be able to see how we have changed and how God is molding us! I look forward to walking through life with her!

Friday Thoughts

When you- my lovely readers, read this I will be well on my way to meet up with my April for the night! If you remember she moved late last year and I have not seen her since Thanksgiving! So we made a plan to meet half way in a random town in Illinois and have an Apes and Cherrybear date at Olive Garden! I am SO excited! I have missed her so much! She decided that we are dressing up for this auspicious occasion, so I am wearing my pretty blue Easter dress and attempting to do my hair up pretty. Yeah, we'll see how THAT goes! Regardless, I hopefully will have much pictures to share next week! 

As if that wasn't enough fun for the weekend, on Saturday I am finally getting a new bed! I scored a Queen Bed on Craigslist for way less than my budget so I am more excited than you know! My Mom is picking it up and then the two of us will lug it up to my third floor apt. In other news if anyone wants a double bed, I have one for sale! ;)

I won't be getting my new Queen Bed set until I move most likely. I'm so proud of my little Frugal self because I have enough My Points to get a gift card for the store my bedding is at. So I'm going to walk away with a several hundred dollar bed set, only paying about 29.00 out of pocket. Yes, my Couponing Momma taught me well!!!!!

And last but not least, I have to blog about my precious nephew being here last weekend and the moments with him that I want to remember! Everytime I try to write about him though I get all teary and miss him so I stop writing. Soon I shall overcome my Auntie-Sappyness and put pen to paper. erm. um. well.. finger to keyboard, and tell you all the cute things he is up to these days!

Until then, Peace out Homeslice!

Tiddlybits

I started packing tonight. I realized while sitting at work I had almost a month until i move. I about panicked, so I came home after my eye apt and started packing. 10+ boxes later I'm starting to feel better about it.

Possibly because I'm hopefully roping my Mom into helping me pack my kitchen. She is a great packer. I am not. The kitchen is the hardest room for me. So many oddly shaped items. So I"m hoping she'll help me out with that.

My new place is on the way to my eye dr, so since I had a few extra minutes I pulled in and checked out where exactly I'll be at. I wasn't thrilled with the close proximity to the Village Pantry. 

I was also a bit of a creeper and got out and looked into the front room windows. The previous tenants had just moved out and the shades were open :) The living room was smaller than i thought but I liked it.

I was super excited about my mailbox being right by my door. No more tromping downstairs and running into weird people as I'm in my PJ's on the weekends!!

I have an issue with feet. Kind of a love/hate. I love baby feet. I love being barefoot. I HATE seeing other people's feet but yet I am strangely fascinated by them. Now that it's warm outside it's a non stop barrage of feet. And let me tell you, about 96% of the population needs to cut their toe nails. It's gross! Toenails are NOT supposed to be longer than your toes people. SHORTER!!!! Shorter than your toes! If you want long nails, grow your fingernails, don't be disgusting and have nasty long toenails and show it to the world. If you must be disgusting, please, wear socks.

I did learn at the eye dr that my right eye has gotten worse. He put me in a spare pair of new contacts and I have to say I could see alot sharper than before. I'm excited to see how well I can see things at work tomorrow with my new eyes.

I'm stoked because also at work tomorrow our new supply company is coming and doing a demo for us and giving out free samples. I love me some free samples. I love office supplies and I love that I get to order them. It will be a nice break to the afternoon. Now those are meetings I LIKE!!

The search for a new bed is *hopefully* winding down. I have two potential people I'm looking to buy them from on Craigslist. Hopefully by this weekend I'll be laying in luxury with some more space My pillow fort takes up a bit of space needless to say.

It will be 6 weeks tomorrow since I fell and had my head injury and concussion. And I STILL have a goose egg on the back of my head. I'm wondering if it will ever go away? It still hurts! I had to tell my Eye Dr about it, so he had to do some special eye tests to check on things. He asked me if I was seeing lightening bolts of light, and told me to let him know if I was.  Well I wasn't but I was after he shined all of the lights of Lafayette into my eyes. I refrained from mentioning that to him though.

Mid Week Confessions

I really want to wear false lashes since I have such puny lashes, which just clumped and fell out this weekend, again, grrr, but i have no clue how to put them on!  I tried once and it was a massive fail.

I have really been trying to live in the moment and not be so focused on capturing every single moment with a picture, hence the lack of photos on the blog. But I struggle when my nephew is around! On one hand I want to be present and in the moment, but on the other hand I want to get as many of him as possible since I get to see him so little. Which means I take tons of him and then realize at the last possible moment that we only have one picture together the entire weekend so I try to get a decent picture with him, and he's tired and wanting a nap, and getting a picture with a toddler is like trying to wrestle an octopus anyway.  Massive fail. Then I feel bad that we don't have a nice "Framer".

I really don't feel like I LOOK like an adult most of the time. I've tried stepping up my game and wearing, gasp, foundation under my powder. That was a big step for miss 5 minute makeup. Which btw i can still do. Just in case you're concerned I have went off the deep end.  I try to dress professional for work but man I feel like I just look thrown together all the time. I really need Stacy and Clinton to help me out.

I had to order a cell phone case for my phone as the sides are SO slippery that I keep dropping it. Sunday night I dropped my phone on my nose. Yes, I have real talent.

Misc May Photos

Holly in her new sweet ride!!

Holly and I on our lunch date-Yes my head looks hugemongous here!

Posing at Camille's with my Salad!

Attempting a picture of the fabulous hair day I was having

So HAPPY my hair is finally growing and getting longer!!

Mid Week Confessions

Tim Tebow at the Met Ball is my new computer background and I am not ashamed to say it!

I spend an inordinate amount of time on Craigslist every night trying to find a decent priced Queen Sized bed.

My church is now following me on Twitter and after I saw that I told Kim that I guess that meant I had to stop complaining so much on Twitter and behave myself.

I drop food on myself. I'm pretty sure this has been well documented on here. Last week we took MWS out for a surprise thank you lunch and I totally dropped a fork full of food on my chest. #canttakemeanywhere

I fell prey to the colored denim trend and bought myself a pair of pink capri's. The Jury is still out on whether they are cute on me or not. I'm 30 and not a celebrity so the odds are not so much in my favor!

I talk to myself in the grocery store. People most likely think I'm nuts, and possibly I am, but I talk to myself while I shop and look at products. I really need to stop but it's so hard! I think I do it to remind myself of what I need since every time I make a grocery list I manage to leave it 1. at home on my coffee table or 2. on my desk at work.

knock, knock.. anyone there??

So at this point it's really going to be a miracle if anyone is still reading ye old blog.  I've been going through a blog slump. I feel like I need to write but don't feel like writing. So I haven't been. And yet I feel guilty about it! 

Life has been busy and it shows no signs up letting up anytime soon. Working full time, teaching Piano three nights after work, getting ready to move, trying to have a social life, and dealing with a chronic illness, well it's no wonder I have to put an alert in my phone everyday for 4:30 when I get off work to remind me where I am heading each night. My weekends are booked up until the first of June. 

Don't get me wrong, I love my life but man it is BUSY lately! So the blog has suffered, and quite honestly, probably will for a little bit! But stick with me and I will hopefully find some free time and some free space in my brain to hold in what I would like to blog about.

Mid Week Confessions

Last week I had email and phone communication with Company ABC that I order products for at work. For two days we went back and forth trying to sort out an invoice discrepancy. Finally, I scanned my paperwork and sent it to them, to try and track down what had happened. 40 minutes later I received an email from my contact explaining what had happened. The invoice was for a DIFFERENT COMPANY. Could be why she couldn't pull up our invoice numbers or the correct account number. I was hugely embarrassed and decided we could never order from that company ever again.

I get my news and weather updates from Twitter. I had no clue we were under a Tornado Warning until I saw Tyler had tweeted it. 

Sometimes, ok alot of times, I wait to do my dishes until 1. my sink is full or 2. i run out of glasses. I just HATE doing dishes in my sink and my dishwasher doesn't work.

I am pretty doggone excited about spending the coming weekend on my couch. I have been somewhere 3 out of the past 4 weekends, and next weekend I'll be gone visiting family as well. I feel like I'm headed in 5 different directions every day of the week. I can't wait to not have anywhere to go but to Church!

It's a little goofy, but I made an email address for Audra's dog, Cubbie, and have been emailing her and her hubs with updates and pictures from him this week so they wouldn't miss him. A few people laughed at me when I told them this but I thought it was GENIUS!!

7 Quick Takes

1. I have already started writing my Mid Week Confessions for next week. The first one is an epic idiot moment.

2. I'm so excited about house sitting and Cubbie sitting for Audie this weekend!! I feel like I'm going on vacation as well! I can't wait to snuggle up on the couch and watch cable tv with Cubbie while it's cold and rainy Saturday.

3. I randomly went to Sears this week and managed to clean up at their massive clearance sale! I got 6 new shirts for 25.00!!!

4. I'm trying to dress cuter for work but i just really struggle putting outfits together and i feel like none of my pants fit me perfectly. Like they fit in one section and are too big in another. drives me nuts!!

5. I am BEYOND excited about seeing my Apes in May!!

6. My hair is finally starting to take off growing and it's getting so bushy and longer!! YAYS!

7. I really envy people who have tans. But I don't envy people who have skin cancer so i'm good.

What's in Your Wallet?

I love reading US Weekly's What's in your purse article, so I thought I would show you the travesty that is my purse. I actually had to clean out my purse because it was getting too heavy, and I wanted to switch from the black purse up top, to the pink one at left. So I dumped all of my purse out on the floor and was shocked by everything that was in it! Let me give you a sampling of some of the items.

All the loose pills are from a weekend home where I threw a pill bottle in my purse and the dumb thing unscrewed and dumped all over my purse.

I carry a makeup bag filled with other bottles of medicine. Yes I am a walking pharmacy.

Pink Watch for my Piano Lessons.

Notebook for my Piano Lessons.

Nasal Spray. Just keepin it real.

Two pairs of glasses.

Sunglasses.

My Cruz Android, which is very heavy!!

Camera.

Card Reader.

5 pens.

3 Lip glosses.

1 Lipstick.

BeautiControl Powder.

Biofreeze for Migraines.

Contact Case.

Wallet.

Work Keys.

Photo Album of Snugglemuffin.

Random Paperwork from my Accident.

I am beginning to see why my purse was so heavy!