DWTS – Week 6

Now we are starting to get down to the good dancers. The ones where you hate to see anyone leave. They are good, they are determined, and they don’t want to leave. Unfortunately, someone has to leave every week, or else no one would win the Mirror Ball Trophy.

You guessed it, I have my chart. My mom pokes fun at me b/c I keep a chart. I’m not really even sure why I do. One season I kept it all on a Legal pad. Once the season was over I did away with it. Oddly enough, she made fun of me, but when she wanted to know who did what the previous week, she either asked me to look or I just handed her the legal pad. Either way, she had it right at her fingertips. (more…)

Mi Casa es Su Casa – Part 2

Ok, so I told you I’d give you a tour of the inside. Now, remember, not our stuff! This is still the current owner’s “Stuff”.

But welcome to our living room. This is standing at the front door looking toward that direction (haha get it =P)

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Mi Casa es Su Casa – Part 1

Welcome to our home. We finally found a place to live and aren’t going to have to live in a tent in my parent’s back yard. This is exciting. Part 1 photos will show the outside of our house and around it. We are living in a Berm house. A berm house is also known as an Earth House. 3 of the 4 sides are covered with ground so in essence, it is kind of like an in-ground house… Right now it is a house but once we move in there, it will be our home!

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Wedding Party – April

I’ve decided to start introducing our wedding party. Next up is April.

She has been one of my longest friends that I’m still in contact with. Our town has 6-grade schools and I transferred from the one my sweetheart and I attended together in K-1 and went to the grade school April was in for 2nd grade. If I remember right, we had different 2nd-grade teachers but still somehow wound up as friends. Isn’t it great and funny how those things work out…

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I Hit 100!!!!

Ok, so I’ve seen that when you hit 100 blogs you are supposed to tell 100 things about yourself that most people wouldn’t know. Boy, this seems like it’ll be difficult and tricky! I don’t even really know how many people read this so I might be doing it for a small few but oh well… so be it! And truthfully I’d love if you’d leave me 5 things about yourself in the comments. I like to meet and get to know people more than talk about myself!

So here we go:

1. When I started this blog, I had no idea where I’d go with it. Some people show photos, some share recipes, me, I just go on about whatever floats my boat. I have photos, I have recipes, I have jibber-jabber…. guess we’ll see if it ever takes on a full direction… 🙂

2. In high school I had a pair of tennis shoes size 11, but now I wear 9-10’s… did my feet shrink??

3. I’m marrying a friend from high school on September 4, 2010. He is my Prince Charming and he knows about computers so it’s fun to call him my PC and go off about being a computer. Yeah, you might have to be there to fully understand 🙂

4. I’ve been driving a vehicle since I was 4 years old. I learned in my dad’s 1986 3/4 ton 4×4. He’d put it in first gear with 4×4 Low= Granny and I’d sit on his hard hat to see over the steering wheel so I could drive a truck for him while he was loading square bales of hay.

5. I actually learned to drive the standard as a standard the summer I turned 12. Dad didn’t have to start it for me anymore 🙂

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Wedding Party – Evelyn

I feel like introducing my wedding party so in the next few posts, you’ll get to meet some of my friends!!

My life has changed drastically in the last few years. It has been a bit of a whirlwind! I graduated from college in May 2005 and planned on going on to teach agriculture at some high school. Well, those plans never panned out. I was dating a guy and at one point he had told me he’d move wherever I did but as our relationship progressed, he told me he refused to move. With his lack of education, he wouldn’t find a job making what he did and he planned on going back to school so, in a sense, I put my life on hold. I’m not going to blame that on him, that’s not totally fair but I figured we’d eventually get married and what-not and I didn’t want to put the strains of a long-distance relationship into the mix so when I didn’t find a job as an ag teacher I signed up to be a substitute teacher. Boy, now that was fun… NOT! I did that for a year and waitressed part-time at a restaurant when they needed me for big events but that wasn’t enough. Instead of the next year signing back up to be a substitute teacher, I found a job at a fortunate 500 company in my town as an accounts payable clerk. Boring but hey it was a job. However, I didn’t realize that I would meet some of my best friends this way.

I slowly became friends with a guy I worked with named Kalem. And I swear he must have felt sorry for me. As I started making friends at work, my relationship with the guy started to dwindle and get worse. Eventually, Kalem told me I should come hang out with him, his wife, and some of their friends, just to get me out of my parent’s house. At that time all I did was sit at home with my parents or if it were a weekend, well then the boyfriend actually had time he might give up to spend with me. Sometimes it felt like pulling teeth for him to spend time with me and we were usually upset with each other the whole time. So through Kalem, I met Evelyn, his wife.

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Oops I did it again….

I have this habit going on every 2 years I go some outrageous distance to meet someone famous. My first trip was with my mom in June of 2006 to Des Moines, IA to meet Janet Evanovich. That summer she released the 12th book in the Stephanie Plum series called: Twelve Sharp. She had a talk and Q&A session to go along with her book signing. We got wrist bands when we entered and that was our number series to meet her. Luckily the ladies next to me had way higher numbers than mom and I did and they didn’t want to meet her so they gave me their wrist band. I wasn’t there until after midnight because of those nice ladies!!!

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DWTS – Week 5

This week almost brought a perfect score. Nicole & Derek were one point shy of a perfect 30. On the very first show I joked and said had Nicole been with Mark they’d have my vote every time. haha but Nicole & Derek are doing excellent. So are Evan & Anna. I also like Erin & Maks and Jake & Chelsie. Boy next week it’s going to be a very hard decision and sad to see someone leave. They are all doing so well. Finally though Kate went home. (more…)

Achoooooooo! Oy!

So Prince Charming and I have finally found a place to live after we get married (as long as nothing falls through…..). How exciting is that? I’ll have to give you a tour of the house one of these days. No more living in a tent! Yey. Ok well, that’ll make sense when I say this… Everyone has been asking us where we are going to live once we get married. In my last semester of college, I moved back home because I was doing my student teaching and it was the same distance drive from mom & dad’s house as it was from my apartment up by the school to where I did my student teaching so I saved money by moving home. I’m not sure my parents expected me to stay though…. i’ll have to ask and get back to you. When Prince Charming moved home from Tuckesee (Kentucky/Tennessee line at Ft. Campbell) last fall, he moved back in with his mom. So I always joked around and said we’d live in a tent in my parent’s back yard.

We take possession of the house on June 1. I don’t want to live out there by myself so Prince Charming is moving out there and then I’ll move in after we’re married. Over the weekend we went shopping for some stuff for the house. It all has receipts so if this falls through it can all go back, but you can’t pass up the deals we found! Anyway, that’s besides the point of this post.

So one of the deals is since we aren’t taking possession until June, we still have to go out and mow the yard between now and then so they don’t have to pay someone too. And boy has that been a headache, literally… I’m so congested today I’m not sure how I’m getting air into my lungs. And I’ve never been congested mowing lawn. It’s weird! Anyway, we had all intentions of mowing the lawn on Saturday but were told Friday night we did a good job of mowing the lawn. Prince Charming and I looked at each other and then said, um… wasn’t us. We planned on doing that tomorrow. Well since we were told that we got busy on Saturday and dumb us assumed it was done. Sunday we headed out there and realized the lawn indeed had not been mowed. We looked at each other with the same oh crap look and started plotting how we were going to get out there to get it done.

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We’ve got a BEAR!!!!!

Ok so technically he is an Australian Shepherd named Bear but he’s huge. The guy we got him from told us he could eat us out of house and home if we let him.

So the story b/c as with me, there’s always a story :). My dad sent me a link one day at work off Craig’s List about this Australian Shepherd dog that someone in my hometown was giving away. I made the comment boy I want an Aussie. Dad was like well geez, why didn’t you say something. (This was Thursday last week). So Friday Prince Charming goes searching for the ad for this Aussie and found it and sent it to me. So he tried calling the phone numbers (cell & home) all day with no response. Prince Charming was afraid they’d already given him away but it was worth a shot. A little after 5 the owner called back. Turns out they still had the dog and the guy just lived around the corner from where I do (actually just across the hwy). So he gave us directions and we headed over there. The funny part, this guy works at the same company we do.

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