March On!

Well i have done more posts this month than the past 2 months, fun! even though Tammi told me i cant do more than one in one day, well she didnt say that, but she did say that it doesnt count! :)

today was pretty boring, crazy boring! we went to church and then did our bible study soup lunch on prayer, its very enjoyable we both get a lot out of it! came home and started the chores, laundry, avon order ready, dishes....blah blah blah

what a beautiful day!!!! love the sun, its amazing to me how much it melted from yesterday, its crazy! well here comes the flood! then we went for a drive and a little mudding, even though kams truck was just washed and waxed!!! its okay it was fun and we had the windows open and Sadie LOVED it she is a HUGE fan of sticking her head out the window! we love seeing her ears flopping around!

we came home, i got my feelings hurt by the ebay guy and then i watched some tv, got the ebay stuff done, hauled out the old tv, ate supper, folded laundry and am watching more tv. getting ready to hang out with kam and watch celebrity apprentice. we are getting into that show!

tomorrow has a lot of fun scheduled!!! we are going to bis in the morn, we have a couples massage, then need to sign insurance papers, then do our passports, then some shopping, chiro appts and finally supper with jeramie and annika. oh and we are gonna stay in bis at a hotel, i have an early tues appt and its not that far for kam to drive.

i will update more tomorrow night! :) i am gonna sign off for now and snuggle my hubby! :) Good night sleep tight!

Feelings hurt....

I am selling a ton of stuff on ebay, which is going good, well it was until today. I had rec'd an email from someone asking the measurements on a pair of jeans. I gladly measured the jeans and sent the person the email back. Then yesterday i got the same email from the same person and it was all in caps, so i copied the email i orig sent and resent it back to this person stating that i had sent it on thurs here was that info again.

then i come home to day to the meanest email i have ever rec'd from someone i dont even know, or care to know at this point. just basically screaming at me about how i sell my stuff on ebay. it sucked, i mean who are they to tell me that. i mean really. its ebay for petes sake. but no one likes to be told that they suck or that they are doing a bad job so it really hurt my feelings. kameron read it and agreed that it was mean. i asked him if i should reply he told me no that i should just delete it, i know that was a good idea because i could have been really mean back. so i did i deleted it. but i cried i got my feelings hurt. kameron was like, its no big deal, and i knwo it wasnt but i hate when people are mad at me or i did something to hurt them and they yell. so it just hurt my feelings.

sorry to vent about something so dumb. i am totally over it, but i just had to get it off my chest! :) Thanks!

Happy Birthday Miranda!!!

Just a note to say Happy Birthday to Miranda! She is my sister in law married to my brother. Did I mention he is my favorite brother! :) Miranda is a wonderful person who keeps my brother in line on a daily basis! She has also provided us with a WONDERFUL niece, Olivia. We are so lucky to have her!

I hope you had a wonderful day Miranda! You deserve it! We are looking forward to seeing you next weekend! :) Thank you for being not only a wonderful sister in law, but also a GREAT friend! :)

The Middle of March!

Well here we are the middle of March already, which means...drum roll please..... SPRING IS COMING!!!!!!!!!!!! :) lets hope sooner than later, i have a feeling though that we will have one more big storm before is officially nice for a couple months. but what a winter it has been! :) i mean seriously, i wont complain any more as we all know i declared about 2 weeks ago, i divorced winter! :)

so it was abusy week last week, my last week at aetna, (tear...) maybe a little, i did make some wonderful friends thru there! I will miss them, but know we will be in touch! :) so a recap of the week....

Monday Kameron left for work and then the snow started, Erin stayed with me that night. Sarah circle was cancelled.

Tuesday-snow snow and more snow!!! :) and i had a "snow" day, i didnt leave my house, but i had to take the day off. i actually got the taxes done.... YEAH!!! we all know what a pain in the butt they are! and i listed a bunch of kamerons and some of my clothes that we cant wear anymore on ebay (i have made some good money!) Erin stayed again

Wednesday no more snow! that was the light at the end of my tunnel! i worked all day and went to sarah circle that night. erin drove home the roads had started to clear. I cancelled my appt with my crazy doc (mental health professional) and supper with Jeramie and Annika, i was too cold to travel! and i had a wonderful chat with my dad (tim) about anything and everything!

Thursday i was "sick" yup sick of work! so i did a million things, ran errands all morning, had some avon to deliver, got passport applications, dropped the taxes off, and mailed some ebay packages. oh and i should mention had a wonderful talk with my mother and a LONG overdue chat with my dear friend sarah! i also talked to my dad (dean) about insurance and stuff for quite some time! kam got home late that night. oh and did i mention i did not lay aorund all day, i took all the cushions off the furniture and vaccuumed (with my dyson-the best ever!) and cleaned the floor in the kitchen and hung up all the clothes that were in baskets trust me it was bad! oh and my favorite father in law cleaned my driveway! THANK YOU!

Friday, i had my exit interview with Aetna then worked for about an hour then decided i was DONE! it felt great, kameron and i unhooked my computer and got my scrapbooking desk ready to go, i am so excited to actually have a place to work on scrapping! i love it so much! then we went out for lunch and ran a few more errands and mailed a few more packages... i headed to scrapbooking club for the night. what a wonderful night, i am so happy i am part of this group!!! thank you to Lori for getting me involved! oh and thank you to Lori and Tammi for making this group such a wonderful therapy session for me! even if i didnt get home until 4am, yes you read that right, 4am! but on a positive spin, i got a ton of scrapping done! i feel like i was ran over by a truck!!!

Saturday (TODAY!) woke up with kameron and sadie, as usual, got ready and went to Sheilas for breakfast (a little date thing we do!) ran some errands visited his parents, we came home and sold our wii, sad but true. we just never used it. so then i made kam start to hang about 75 different things for me, oh how he loves his "honey do" list!!! :) then i took a name (i am such an old lady!!!!) we grabbed some supper now we are watching the state a tourney on tv and just listed about 30 more items on ebay! :) SELL SELL SELL!

Tomorrow i will blog again, i hope to be more of a daily blogger, setting a goal for myself! :)
Thanks for taking time out of your day to read about mine! :)

Career vs. Job?!?!

Well we all know I took my job with Aetna to get a change of hours and being off of my feet. so considering my circumstances at the time it was a VERY smart move for me. I took a cut in pay but it was worth it to have a schedule and get breaks and lunchs and normal sleep. i mean afterall i had not only myself but a baby to worry about.

as most of everyone who knows me knows i havent been happy with what i do at aetna for a long time. i am in a call center and yes i have gained a PLETHRA (is that how you spell it?!?) of knowledge on insurance. i am very thankful for that, i love that we now get an eob in the mail and i can read and understand it. before it was like thye were written in chinese, not even kidding. but some things have happened with the company lately and just the fact that i have not been happy for a long time. i have thought about other jobs but its been really hard because aetna pays well. and its hard to have a job that i am not using my degree, i mean i am making money but this was never my passion.

so on a wing and a prayer i applied for a job with activities for learning, the position advertised is not the position that i ended up interviewing for. but i did 2 interviews with the company and on friday i was offered a position. i will be starting the 23rd and will be the school specialist. i will be helping write math curriculum for the company, which by the way does math curriculum for customers all over the world. if you want to learn more go to the website. but anyhow, i will also be traveling a bit to expos and shows, i am excited about that part too. in addition i will work on the website and doing a lot of follow up with current customers. there is about 80% of the business to home schools and the rest to public and private schools.

so needless to say i am PUMPED!!!! :) i am happy to get out of my house, and not to mention use my degree! we were ready to take a pay cut but was very happy to get a RAISE in pay!!! :) I will be a salary employee with a laptop and cell phone. so i cant really complain!

For my sanity this is by far the best move ever! :) there will be lots of changes in our house with me not being home and sadie being alone, but i am so ready for this challenge!!! :)

as for the daycare, that thought crossed my mind. i have always wanted to do that. but you know thats a scary thoguht in town when american express just laid off 50 people, the thought of opening a day care scares me! any type of business in this town is going to hurt when there are 50 moms and dads without jobs. the day care option is out there, this is not a financially smart decision right now especially without having any kids, unless i could sadie and i dont think doggy day care is a money making option! :) AND when an opportunity comes your way you need to take it, especially one like this. i couldnt pass it up, i would have kicked myself.

so thats the big news in my neck of the woods! :) Thanks a million for reading!!! :)

The truth about Texas!

Well kameron and I havent been entirely honest about why we went to texas. sure we went to get out of this dumb winter weather that hasnt ended yet (for petes sake its MARCH!) but any way we had a wonderful time traveling together, as we always do.

but the truth......YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH! just kidding you can, we went to Texas for a job interview.....yup, kameron interviewed with the same company that he worked for about 10 years ago, its actually a branch of north american coal, he works for one of their companies Coteau now, and there is about 7 divisions throughout the us, and this mine in TX, san miguel is one of them also. so we thought about just seeing what was out there and i said i wouldnt move there without taking a visit there first. so thats just what we did.

there were a lot of tears before we went, while we were there, and when we came home. we even took some time to go house hunting. we found some nice homes, kameron had a nice interview and the thought of living that close to a big city was exciting, we would be 30 miles from san antonio in pleasanton about the size of Dickinson.

so we did a lot of thinking wrote down the pros and cons about 600 times or more and finally made a decision. we are not moving. we will be staying in linton. it wasnt an easy decision, but at this time it was the right decision.

so thats all, no more secrets now you know the rest of the story.

oh and that line was a tribute to paul harvey.....i miss him! :)

Happy Birthday Lori!!!

Hello all, I am going to just take a minute to wish Lori a happy Birthday! :) I havent known Lori for all that long, i mean I have known of her, but not really KNOWN her! afterall she lives basically on my block and i am kind of a neighborhood spy!!! :) Anyhow, Lori, thank you for your friendship, you bring a lot of sunshine to my life! :) Thank you for bringing scrapbooking back into my world and i so enjoy our Friday nights together, thank you for the laughs...keep em coming! :) You are a wonderful friend. Have a wonderful day! :)

Lawrence

Well we had to say good bye to a dear friend this past week... Kameron has known lawrence for a long time, hes bought, sold, and traded parts and cars with this man for years. Now i wont say that lawrence was the most loved man by everyone but we held a special place for him. I still remember when he showed up at our wedding reception in Linton, we were shocked, he didnt go to a lot of public events, but we made sure to send him an invite. We always got a nice Christmas card from him, i will miss that dearly and we always sent him a birthday card, afterall he shared the same birthday with Kameron. Lawrence had a wonderful heart even if he wasnt dealt the best hand in life. We will never forget you Lawrence and your ability to keep us talking to you for hours! :) RIP