The Quiznos thing worked out, I'm back there for the time being. They actually promoted me to shift manager which is really nice. After we take our test (whenever that may be...) I will not only get a raise according to my grade but my pay will be higher because of the shift manager title as well. It is still really hard work, but it makes me tired enough to sleep well at night and brings home some extra cash which is in need right now.
The doctor thing pretty much just faded. No one from the office ever called me back to see if they could still find out what was wrong. Apparently just because the one test they ran came back normal means nothing at all is wrong. Whatever. I listened to my mom and took some decongestants and that seems to be working. But after a few days of not taking them my headache starts to come back. Adam says I should go back in but I feel it is almost pointless.
Having problems with my "womanly" parts as well... possibly an ovarian cyst has formed. They are sending me in for an ultrasound in another week and a half to see if that is really the problem. It's like constantly having the worst cramps of your life every day for the past month. Not fun at all!
Other than that the health has been good for both Adam and I so far.
We got a new computer today as well, hence why I am finally updating. Our laptop would constantly have the screen just go black or close to it to the point where we couldn't see a thing on the screen at all. So I finally talked Adam into getting a newer computer, and it is also a desktop which is nice. It has a bigger screen, an actual mouse and a very comfy keyboard. It also came with a free scanner/printer. I love it :)
The house is officially up for sale as of tomorrow. We signed the papers with the realtor on Friday and he's turning them in tomorrow morning. It is exciting but very stressful seeing as I have to keep the house virtually spotless. It's hard enough to keep it somewhat tidy. The whole staying with Adams parents while we are trying to sell the house might come into play again... although I'm not too sure how they feel about that. We'll see what I can manage. Quiznos is giving me close to 40 hours a week again and I'm exhausted by that, so to come home and clean up after Adam, myself and the dogs ... plus Gill and the bird, that is a lot of work! I'll post some pictures of it later this week hopefully, once things are up to par.
My sister is in town! I was so excited for her to come on Saturday that my day just drug on and on. It's nice to finally see her again, and the boys are a blast to play with. Too bad you don't live closer, Jen... just think of all the free time you could get by me coming over and spending time with them :P
But now it is close to 1am and I have to be at work by 11am... it's time for me to relax so I can get some sleep tonight.
- Location:Home
- Mood:
drained
Got the MRI results back, everything seems normal. Adam still thinks it might be a pinched nerve so we are talking about finding me a chiropractor around here to see. Hopefully we'll figure it out soon.
Redoing the bathroom this weekend, the tub is already out in the middle of the hallway and Adam is starting to take out all the hideous black and white tiles. It'll look real nice when everything is finished, I'm pretty excited. It's the last room in the house (minus the basement, which we aren't finishing) that still needed to be refinished.
Other than that nothing is new since all I've been doing is laying in the bed the past two days.
No call from the doctor again today, but what can I do? Just have to sit here and wait. Adam wants to call tomorrow to see if they've heard anything but I doubt it. She said she'd call me and let me know when they knew something. Then again this is the same office that told me they'd call in the prescription for pain meds for me and "forgot".
Anyways, that is all I have to talk about so maybe if I get that information tomorrow I'll update again.
I think I mentioned I had broke my foot after getting home from my sisters in December. Was put in a splint for a week, then a cast for 3 weeks and then this special hard shoe for another 3. It healed up real nice and now I'm walking with no more pain, yay! My knee and ankle (I also sprained those) aren't too much of a problem either. Sometimes they get sore since my problems with my knees are a constant struggle and that was the second time I sprained that same ankle, but I'm fine now.
After Quiznos shut down while I was at Jens, I didn't get out and get a job right away because of my foot. Fell into a little funk and it was kind of hard to get my motivation back up but I'm doing good now. Had a second round of interviews today at the Quiznos store they are reopening with different owners back down in GH. The owner who interviewed me gave me a pretty good idea that I was going to make it. He pretty much told me the schedule for next week (we open on Wednesday!!!) and said they'd call on Friday to give more times and stuff, so I'm sure I got it. And it's a good thing too, sitting in the house all the time really sucks.
About 5 weeks ago a really really bad headache started, and I have yet to kick the thing. It's really bad, and I've been sick to my stomache and my arms and legs are jerking and I'm having facial muscle twitches and my head will randomly just jerk either to the right or back and it hurts so bad. I have a prescription for some extra strength viccodin (sp?) that I have to go pick up tonight when Adam gets home. We'll probably pick up some groceries too, since all we seem to have is box pizza and veggies. Yuck. But back on the subject at hand, lol. I ended getting talked into going to the doctor by just about everyone so I went and they got kind of worried and said it did not sound like migranes anymore and sent me to get an MRI of my neck and head. I haven't had any release of pressure either, it's like my head is just about ready to explode or something. Who knows, they should be getting back to me sometime this week hopefully. I'll go crazy if I have to wait a whole nother weekend for a result.
Other than that everything has been going good, nothing big to talk about. Still working bingo, now two days a week but that is an extra 50 bucks per person in our pocket a week so that is nice. Grocery money :P Getting really excited about the warming weather coming in. Babysat today and took Keegan and Olivia outside to play for a half hour while Hailey snoozed upstairs. Can't wait to start going camping just about every weekend if I don't have to work them. We are planning on going out east camping for about 10 days this summer, we bought a big 6 person tent and planning on getting a real nice air mattress to take along. I can't wait! And then in November the Fett family is taking off down to Florida and going to sea world and disney. That'll be fun too, especially since we'll have the new baby (my sister-in-law Amy is pregnant!).
But that is all for now. I'll update again probably when I find out if I for sure have the job and whenever that doctor gets back to me which will hopefully be SOON. LoL.
Ok, since I haven't been able to get a hold of you Jen... here is the story.
Thursday was a pretty good day, the flight back went decent and all that. When I got home I just relaxed since Adam wasn't getting home until 630 anyways. Well, when he got home we decided we wanted to go out and see a movie together for something fun to do. Me being my stupid self decided I wanted to go wait in the car till he was done doing whatever it was that he was doing. I started heading out the door and the second I put my first foot down on our stairs outside I flew down them. I started screaming even though I didn't really know what had happened yet. All I knew was the my leg and my back were killing me.
Adam cam running and he brought me inside. My foot was already swelling and it was hurting really really really really bad. He took my over to Mercy and they did xrays and I ended up having a sprained ankle, knee and a broken foot. Yup. Go me. They put this long splint that goes up to my hip on and wrapped me up in ace bandages. They gave me vicodin (sp?) so that has been helping a lot.
Friday morning I got up and Adam took me to get my wisdom teeth out. I was doing ok, even though I couldn't take a vicodin that morning bc of the surgery but I figured they'd be knocking me out soon enough. Well it took a little longer than I thought to get in there. I had to watch this video and they talked to me forever. When I finally got in there they put me to sleep and it was good. When I woke up I was in quite a bit of pain and I started having an anxiety attack so they had to bring Adam in. I don't know why that happened since I'm on meds for it but I was hyperventilating and crying and shaking and all that good stuff.
Adam brought me home and I'm doing good now. I have to go to the doc tomorrow anyways for a re-evaluation on my regular meds, so he'll probably want to look at my leg (everything is still very very swollen and sore) and then I have to make an appt with Adams uncle who is the doc that takes care of my knee usually to see what he'll want to do with my foot. I'm hoping they put it in a hard cast so I can at least put a little pressure on it. It's hard as hell to walk around in crutches all the fricken time.
But that is pretty much the story, I'll update again after I get more info from the doctors. It's hard as heck to get downstairs to get online though, lol. I had to sit down and go down on my butt the whole way and then adam brought down my crutches for me, lol. Getting back up should be just as fun! =P Anyways.
Hope that explains some of it, lol.
I don't know if I mentioned that I started working at Quiznos in any of my past entries (seeing as I don't update this journal very much anymore) but I started in September. Everything started off really great. I got along with every person and was doing a really great job. Then the GH store closed... my store and the GH store are owned by the same people. That threw us all for a loop. Yet, no one gave us any info on why that had happened or what was going on with it. So we went for a couple of weeks as normal... except for the owners son being a jerk to everyone. Well, last week he was too awful for his own good so after I was home for a bit and had time to cool down I went back in to talk to him. I brought up the fact he's been extremely harsh the past few weeks and that no one knows what's going on and that I was afraid I'd come home and find that store closed down just like GH. He PROMISED me they wouldn't, and I went home on good terms with him.
I worked Thursday 11-1pm and left that night at 7pm for Kansas. Friday afternoon I get a call from a friend of mine that worked at the GH store saying they shut down the other store that day. How fricken frustrating. So now I have no job and don' t know when I'll be getting paid for the hours I worked the last two weeks. The people from the GH store are filing a case against the owner and they want me to join in, which I'm planning to. Adam also wants to go after them legally because of what they have done. We'll see how it turns out.
All I know now is that I don't have a job to go back to. It's almost Christmas and we haven't even bought any gifts yet. We don't really know what we are going to do but hopefully it'll all work out. Adam's moms friend might be able to get me a job working as a receptionist for an insurance company and I've put my resume into two different positions at the company Adam works for. Either of those would be a first choice work environment, but if all else fails the Subway down the street from us is reopening. Who knows.
Lately I've been SO tired, and haven't been feeling too good. I've actually thrown up for the first time in like almost 6 years. My back is killing me an I've just been wiped out 24/7. It's probably just from all of the stress I'm going through with the Quiznos drama. Hopefully it doesn't get worse now that we are going to have a bit of money problems until I find a new job.
Adam most likely is going to get this Team Leader position in his department at work. It's a lot like a management position but they think team leader just sounds better aparently. I'm excited for him. He has been working his butt off for this company and it's really starting to pay off. It'll be a great pay increase and maybe he'll be able to work somewhat better hours. They've also added a company gym with a personal trainer and are trying to get a daycare. Hopefully he'll stay there for a long time, just like his dad and be one of the big wigs ... lol.
Well, I'm heading out. Going to try and figure out how to get the sims games to install quicker... it's taking forever!
Oh and Jen... tell me how to get more friends on here so I can actually write in here without feeling dumb =P
I probably talked about getting a job at Russ' last time, if not then for a while I did. But freaked out, went to the doc and got put on meds for social anxiety and panic disorder. After about a month Todd (the manager over there) was informed that I was not coming back, but thanks for holding my spot. Spent most of my time babysitting for TerMolens. And now that I'm doing MUCH better my mom has gotten me a job over at Quiznos because one of her friends is the manager over there.
Training starts on Monday for me, 11-5pm then Tuesday thru Friday 9-3pm. I get about 30 hours in this first week. But I'm training down in GH with Cindy (moms friend). Then after that she is putting me up in the Muskegon store that is about 5 minutes away from my house. That was a super great thing about this job, that especially in the winter I won't have to drive the expressway in my car a half hour back and forth.
The down parts... memorizing 32 different recipes for the subs/salads over there. It's insane. Mostly because I haven't had to memorize anything in the longest time and now this. But I'm determined so I'll do it. I've got about 8 down so far... don't know when I have to take the test. The other downer is that I won't be able to babysit as much. Olivia is bummed but Keegan and Hailey don't really know the difference. Looks like they'll be going to daycare now instead of having me come to them. I just couldn't wait anymore, we needed the money and I really needed to get out of that house! LoL. I still babysit on Sunday nights (instead of Bingo - woohoo!!!) and every other Thursdays when Michael goes to poker and Sue works. That isn't too bad.
But yeah, now that I'm going to have an actual steady income we might have enough to cover internet which means updating more and actually having stuff to talk about and possibly me starting those online psychology classes sometime in the near future. Keeping my fingers crossed. It would be SO nice to know I'm doing something more with my life than just sitting around the house everyday for yet another year. Ugh. What a waste that was of my life.
Also thinking about getting my viola back out maybe once a week. Possibly practicing. Don't know yet though. We'll see about that.
Dogs are doing good. Rosco has fleas but we are taking care of them. Ellie has her ear acting up again but we are taking care of that. And Izzy is a giant horse, lol. She is 65 lbs already! For a 5 month old puppy she's growing pretty darn quick. Most peopl think she isn't going to get too big though, and definitely not as big as Ellie. We'll see about that one too. You never know.
Not too many more bites on the house either, which stinks. It would be nice to get a bigger house with a bigger yard but who knows, it could be another year before we are able to actually sell it. Maybe Adam will break and use a realtor instead of doing it by owner.
Ok, but back to studying my subs/salads I go. No more wasting time :]
- Location:Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Mood:
sick
Ugh, bad part is that it is at Russ' and it's nights. Not at all what I had been hoping for. But it's something. I start trainging on Monday, and then again on Wednesday and Saturday. I'm not too thrilled but it means money. And it's not like I'm hostessing either, it's waitstaff so it's decent money. I'm really nervous though because I'm not exactly the best person to be dealing with people all the time. It'll be fine though, it's mostly people with kids (which I love) or older people who always like to talk to me b/c I'm "cute" or whatever. Blah.
So hopefully I'll be working 3-4 nights a week, don't know how much money it'll bring in. I'm crossing my fingers I won't need a second job on top of that either. Another thing that sucks is that I won't get to babysit a lot anymore. This week I've sat for Keegan, Hailey and Olivia about 4 times including tonight but seeing as my usual days to sit are Monday and Wednesday nights and I train those and will probably work those night it blocks out babysitting.
Nothing else new for me though. Life is pretty boring actually. My sims games aren't even keeping me entertained anymore. I actually made my newest famliy have 15 children!!! It was craziness. I had my first set of genuine twins though, and then I forced two more sets into the family just to get it over with. And I finally finished my first lifetime want, the dad wanted to be "captain hero" and I got him there =) It was exciting lol. Now I'm trying to get all my children through college and get them into homes. I might not play all of them though =( Too much work. Can't wait for Bon Voyage coming out Sept. 5! I told Adam I'm going to go and wait for it at Wal-mart or something and get it right when it comes out lol. By then I'll have enough money due to having an actual job so I'll be able to afford it and not wait months to save up 40-50 bucks =P
And another exciting thing is that I'll be able to afford Cedar Point too! And possible the internet so I can take classes now =) So I guess working at Russ' will actually pay off, just everytime I complain Adam will have to remind me of all the benefits that come with it - money, school, new cloths/games when appropriate, internet =D Exciting!
I was also thinking that since I'll be working that I'll lose more weight because of walking and not being bored and eating because I'm bored. I looked into some different weight loss places like Curves and LA Weight Loss but the one I'm most interested in is the medical weight loss clinic. It says I can lose 50 lbs in 17 weeks and then 70 lbs in 23 weeks. Not too long to wait :) And for a 6 month membership which would cover the 70 lbs I'd only pay $180!!! That was the best price I've found. And it's closer than Curves and the same distance as LA Weightloss! I'm pretty excited. Hopefully I'll have enough money for it. We'll see.
But anywho, Kat is on her way over to hang out for a while and I want to try to call Mike and Sue one more time before she gets here to see what time they need me. Watch them say to come at 8 so I only have a tiny while with Kat. Doubt it though, Sue said 9pm last night so if he doesn't call I'll go over then.
I'll update on the job status and money status another time. Hopefully when we have our own internet =P
- Location:In-laws
- Mood:
content
Nothing new is going on, life is pretty boring right now. Just doing a lot of house work still, Adam still needs to finish up the basement and then we have some painting touch ups outside. We still have the side of the garage to paint since we didn't finish it in time for the cold weather last yet and then the shed in the backyard. Plus we have to do touch ups upstairs around trim. I wish we could redo the floors but that is too expensive right now... they just look bad because the people who lived here before didn't finish them off right so the polywhatever it is lol is all peeling off.
No job yet either, and it's making me really angry. I am hoping that maybe Mike and Sue ask me to be their nanny like they were talking about a couple of weeks ago when I went into the UPS interview. They want me to watch the kids while they both work. It's not a steady schedule since Sue sometimes works night and sometimes works day but it'd be better than nothing and I'm really good with the kids so it's pretty simple. And I really like the kids, they are a lot of fun and they listen pretty good. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
My to-do list today...
- dishes
- vacumming
- dusting
- clean bathroom
- shower
- babysit from 4-10pm
I'm also planning on asking Adam to bring the sheets and comforter to the laundrymat to get washed. There is black Ellie fur all over the nice white sheets and it looks disgusting. He's going to be painting so it shouldn't be too hard... while he is waiting for things to dry and he can go back and check on things.
Still no hits on the house either. There hasn't even been a call the past few weeks. After we are done we are probably going to have tons of open houses, lol. We want to move so bad. Of course right now we are planning on building our own home be it in the subdivision or on a lot outside of it. That means that for a few months we will probably be stuck living at his parents home. That will be awful for me, but if it means getting everything just as we want it in our new house then it'll be really good in the end.
Going to go start on that to-do list. There isn't much to do so hopefully I can get it all done today lol.
- Location:home
- Mood: content
It's getting there though! I'm pretty excited. I went to the doctor and had my check-up. Since I haven't had an actual check-up in forever... no seriously, since I was like 6.... we went over tons of stuff. I told the doc about my headaches and how my mom says they are "tension headaches" and it's just because I'm making myself too stressed and all that. Well apparently once I described them to my doc she says they are definitely MIGRANES. Silly mom, I told you so! Ugh. The doctor gave me meds to prevent them and then some meds incase one breaks through since that does happen. Yay. Now I won't have to deal with getting these awful, horrid and excruciating headaches every single fricken week! Yay. LoL. That is why I am happy. Finally I know it's not because my head is seriously about to explode any day now, lol.
She also asked me tons of questions about random things, wierd some of them lol. I answered everything truthfully and to the best of my knowledge and she ended up sending me out for blood tests. Yuck. I freaked this morning when they stuck that needle in me. I was shaking and almost cried! I hate needles... did I mention that before? Well she has like 2 panels or something and a couple other tests. I'm not sure. All I know is that she filled in the bubbles for a lot of things on the list... Hopefully I get the news back from that in a few days. Probably within the week, the lab technician said this morning. I'm glad that is over with.
Went and looked at the house we heard about at the beginning of the week. Don't know if I mentioned it or not. It was a lot closer to Adams work and had about twice the about of square footage inside and about twice the yard space too. The realtor for the lady said that it was all redone and looked nice so we'd love it. We got there and the living room was just as small, if not smaller than our current one, all the bedrooms (only 3...) were the same size if not smaller and the kitchen was smaller. The basement was finished but it was totally 70's... not redone as he had said. There was supposed to be a "family fireplace" but it ended up just being this electric plug in miniture fireplace ... practically a glorified space heater. It was a complete waste of time. Not to mention the backyard used to have a chicken coop - can we say NO to that because of the diseases chickens can carry, um we have 3 dogs that we do not want to get sick! Ugh. This guy had the nerve to tell us we overpriced our house, too. We have it set right now at 119,9. Yup. Not too bad considering the other houses. Apparently it's not worth that according to this guy. He has only seen the outside... the front yard only for the matter of fact! Yup. This dude was a real winner, I'm telling ya! Ugh. I'm still ticked. Apparently because we painted the entire exterior, including foundation and trim, the roof is new within two years, we relandscaped the yard, we painted every single room in the house and redid a lot of the kitchen and now we are redoing the basement, it's not worth the extra money? We bought it for 98 and we put a lot of hard work and money into it... we set it at a high price at first because there are plenty of houses in the area for more than that for that same thing and we know someone will offer a lower price later on plus we need to pay capital gains since we've only lived there for one year. He pulled out a listing of some dump.. seriously an ugly house that hadn't been redone at all and said that it was going for 67... yup. This house that had weeds, no landscaping and needing new floors and paint was what we needed to compare our house to! The nerve!
That turned into a really long venting paragraph. Hehehe... Sorry!
Yeah. That was pretty much my day. Adam and I ended up driving to the city we were originally planning on moving to which is about 20 minutes east of this city and looked at houses that were about 1000% better than that and for only a few grand more! That brought our moods up. That guy isn't getting within 30 ft of our house! Nope. LoL. Not over our dead bodies!
Well, besides that nothing new. Just been babysitting and continuously waiting on jobs. Life pretty much sucks in the money department but we are working on it. We are still hoping to go to Cedar Point too, this summer. We'll see.
Off to play some sims =D Yay. I'll update again on the whole house thing if anything develops and when I get my test results back, other than those things life is pretty boring for me nowadays.
- Location:In-laws
- Mood: amused
The wedding was nice. Very pretty. A lot different from mine, more laid back. I had a DJ and everyone was dancing and it was loud and really busy, whereas hers was a dinner party type of thing. No music, just a slideshow of pictures of the two of them and a dinner. Not much happening. But it was decent. I wasn't really in the dancing mood anyways =P
Not much to update, today was pretty bland besides that. I'm gonna go and get some stuff done though.
- Location:in-laws
- Mood:
contemplative
I have tons to do today before we leave. Dishes, cleaning up the countertops and putting things away since Adam doesn't know how, sweeping, laundry, vacuming, and packing up a whole bunch of stuff. If it dries out I might clean my car out too. It's pretty messy right now.
Apparently my cousins wedding is tomorrow and we forgot. We'll see if we can still go or not, I can probably still call or something and let her know. I would feel bad, but then again she never even rsvp'd or came to my wedding at all. So I really shouldn't feel all that bad.
I was supposed to get together with a bunch of my friends from a while ago tomorrow too, but that isn't really going anywhere. It was going to be me, Anna H., Sarah I, Katie, and Jessica K. all of who I was best friends with is 7th & 8th & 9th grade. Then Anna got sick, Jessica got a boyfriend and Katie joined sports teams and stuff. So it left me and Sarah who had a MAJOR blowout junior year. I've been talking to Sarah since arond the wedding, and Katie and Jessica and I are still on good terms. Anna and I haven't really talked in about 2 years and I've been trying to get together with her but it isn't getting of the ground. We'll see. Maybe today she'll want to get together for like an hour or so and catch up.
Other than that I'll probably just play cake mania or sims and hang out. Enjoy the air conditioning and all of that while I can.
We'll see if I can get hooked up to Beths interent back home, she said we are aloud to when we moved in but we haven't been able to connect until recently... then it stopped again :(
- Location:In-laws
- Mood: content
I was supposed to hang with Shayna today but with my "you-know-what" lol I just don't feel up to it. I don't even want to go to the concert tonight, but Adam really wants to so I have to. It isn't even going to be fun. We probably won't even go to the carnival since it's too expensive. We don't even listen to Daughty lol, we just bought the CD this past Sunday! What is the point, really? None. He hasn't been to a concert and just really wants to go I guess.
Took Izzy for her first walk down the peir last night, everyone wanted us to stop and let them pet her. I swear, it took us three times longer than normal lol. But she was really good, just needs to learn how to walk in a straight line. She was all over the place, too much stuff to look at I guess. All the dogs get to go up north again tomorrow to go swimming at Whiskey creek. I'm sure Rosco will love it again along with Ellie but Izzy isn't too sure about the whole water thing yet.
I felt really bad yesterday too, was supposed to hang out with Kat but seeing as I woke up late and didn't feel all to well I completely forgot. Then didn't even see that she called. Ugh. I ended up not even remembering until about 6pm... so I called her and left her a voicemail since she was probably at work by then. She hasn't called or emailed or anything. She's probably mad, but hopefully she can understand that I just wasn't up to playing tennis yesterday.
Besides that nothing new. Normally I would never post anything anyway lol.
- Location:In-laws
- Mood: crappy
- Music:none
That is our house... since this pic we added some nice new black shutters.
Our new puppy, Izzy. She is 2 1/2 months old and an AKC chocolate lab. She is really attentive, already knows to answer to her own name and nearly done being potty trained!
Adam with Ellie and Rosco, maybe you can tell that Rosco is nearly as big as Ellie now! He's certainly getting their anyways. I can't pick him up anymore :(
Anyways. Yes all we have beeing doing lately is working on the house constantly. Pretty much all finished. All we have left is the basement... need to killz the floor & paint it, along with painting the walls. We also have some touch ups on the outside of the house, along with staning the back steps. We are working on getting the lawn to look nice and I still need to figure out what to do with the jungle I call my backyard lol.
Been up for sale since may, had three calls so far no one has come through yet. Planning an open house hopefully next weekend. We really want to move to Allendale, the new houses there are nice although now with the three dogs we are looking for something with a little more land to it. I'm hoping that we move by the fall, even the late fall. Otherwise we'll probably have to wait until after the holidays :(
Been looking for a job but so far no real luck. Had an interview with UPS so far but haven't gotten called back for a second... it's only been a week though. We'll see, still have my resume up on Monster.com ... although nothing is really coming from that. I do not want to resort to working in fast food... especially not somewhere like Russ' again. Ugh.
That is about it though. I'll probably have more the next time I have a decent internet connection, lol.
- Location:In-laws
- Mood:
blah - Music:watching Gilmore Girls
Sunday we worked bingo, nothing to exciting to talk about. Monday Adam had the day off work so we pretty much just drove around like we used to. Ended up at Talsma furniture to look at some couches - everything is ridiculous there, no sense paying that much money for something like that right now. Then we ended up farther into Holland looking at some of the other houses we were seriously considering last spring. The one I really wanted, out on 21st St. looks wonderful. The new owners pretty much did everything I wanted to do to the outside, new siding or at least paint and fixed up the front stairs & stuff. I can just imagine what they have done inside. That house was so much bigger than the one we bought and was only 5 grand more, we could've done it. After that we just drove back to GH and watched TV while we had dinner.
Tuesday we went to the ghhs orchestra concert, it was SO long! We had to wait until the very end to listen to the symphony orchestra (it's split this year...) and it was totally worth the wait. They sounded amazing! I can't wait until next week Saturday to go to Festival to cheer them on, there is no doubt in my mind they will get straight ones.
Wednesday just hung out at home with Adam, nothing much.
Thursday Adam went to poker and I had the girls over. We played some sims and BS and went in the hot tub. They left and I watched some tv till Adam got home and we called it a night.
Today we got up early to bring Ellie to the vet, thought she might have worms. She doesn't. She's lost 15 lbs though, since moving her into our house. The vet was pleased since before she was about 100 lbs and growing. She says if we can get her down another 5 lbs she'll be where she should be. The only downside, she eats like a horse and she already acts like she's starving when we feed her what we do...
After the vets we went to the bank to figure out the whole loan thing for Adams credit cards. He wants to get a loan to pay them off that hopefully has a lower interest rate than the cards themselves but so far no such luck. The lady from the bank is going to try again and call us back though, so we still have our fingers crossed.
After that it was lunch at Russ' and some TV then off to Secretary of State to renew my plates and get the car in my name so we could be covered by our insurance. Needless to say I am very relieved it's all done now. I was getting worried about it being near the end of February and I still had January tags!
Now all I have to worry about is finishing FAFSA and getting my meap money so I can start school asap and getting a job after that, which will hopefully not be as hard as I think it'll be. I am afraid I am only going to find evening jobs and I don't feel like never seeing Adam again... we'll see though.
That is it for now.
I've been filling my days with cleaning, sims, and tv lately. Still getting this school thing organized. We are actually working on getting the fafsa done tonight so that we can make sure we have the money to go. Then I have to apply. I'm starting to thing I might not be able to go for the spring semester, but maybe the summer. I don't know, it all just depends I guess.
Going to the job fair up there at Baker with Katherine in the morning. That should be fun, I guess. It'll give me more of an idea of what I want to do since I still have time to change my mind. We haven't really talked about the whole moving thing since the day I went to Baker for my visit. I guess all this stuff just takes time to figure out though.
Valentines was good. Spent pretty much the whole day alone, then when he got home we went to the store and picked up a bunch of things to make a real nice dinner together instead of going out. The dinner didn't end up as nice as I'd hoped... the recipe I got didn't taste all that great when the finished product was there to eat.... definitely won't be doing that again! But I made a cherry pie & we ate that while watching American Idol :) How romantic, lol.
Watching Greys tonight, and I'm psyched for it. It's a pretty big storyline these couple of weeks... Jen I'm sure you know what I'm talking about if you read this. CSI is on too... but I doubt we'll watch it soon since we'll be busy.
Anyways... better go & work on the school stuff now.
Adam and I were talking about moving again, after I'm done with school & get a job. Since he is most likely getting full time this week & getting a raise, then I'll be making a good deal of money with my job hopefully we should be able to afford a nice, bigger house. He is hoping we get a house in one of the new suburbs of Allendale out by the university. That is pretty exciting too :) Of course I'll be a little further away from friends & stuff but I don't mind making the drive every now & again.
I don't know if I mentioned it before but now we have two cockatiels. They are really adorable, especially our female. The male is a little feisty so we can't hold him as well as the female but he does whistle really pretty.
Anyways, nothing else too important going on with me.
- Mood:
accomplished
So this weekend was pretty fun, since I babysat & made some mula and hung out with Kat & Sarah. I learned how to play BS haha. I'm pretty good actually. Adam made things a little more exciting by lying about smoking a cigar. Yup. Thinks I'm stupid & can't smell that on him! Ha. But then he came clean & Then we did bingo and that wasn't so fun but that put more money into my pocket. I'm saving for an elliptical.
Now it is Monday, I'm fighting a cold, can barely breathe & doing laundry. Ugh. This Friday is my Baker visit, that is something to look forward to. Other than that I'm pretty bored. I probably have fold some more laundry. Yuck, lol.
It's funny because out of all the programs I looked at last night that one was the only one I am interested in... but I'll keep looking & not make up my mind right away. Its a little exciting because who knows, maybe I'll ended taking classes this summer or something?
Adam took me bowling last night again, it was fun. I pretty much suck at it though so after a while I just get sick of gutter balls. Haha. Yup... last night I was lucky to pass 50 while Adam was getting about 150... humiliating. He wants to go all the time now, maybe I'll get better.
We almost took a ditch last night, it was pretty scary. It was when we were leaving the bowling ally and it's on this little street so it was really cold & icy and Adam put on his brakes and we just went sideways... almost all the way out to Laketon. I was either looking at a ditch on my side or going right out into traffic. That was not fun. I really hate the snow, I'm not really good at the whole driving in it thing. You can't see lines & half the roads are icy. Yuck. I hope it goes away again, lol.
Got a facebook yesterday, so now I have both that and myspace. There seems to be a lot more people on facebook though. I've already got some friends on it and everything. Right now its being a butt and freezing while I'm trying to do stuff so I'm here now intead of later, yay for live journal not freezing up on me.
American Idol tonight, this should be fun. It's really the only show besides Walker, Texas Ranger & CSI & Greys that Adam gets all excited about. Starts at 8 here... so I don't know what we will do before that.
Anyways, I'm going to check facebook & then eat something...
Since the last time I came here, we had Christmas which was crazy because we had to be in like 5 places at once. It all worked out but I was tired by the end of the day.... it never used to be like that, haha.
New Years Eve was spent babysitting, just the two of us playing zilch and cribbage and all that. It was a good time.
Besides that things haven't been really exciting around here. Adams working on the house and I'm trying to figure out my whole job situation.
Thats pretty much that. Maybe now that we have internet back I might actually be able to update a bit easier.
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