Only Tuesday

Today is Tuesday and this week is already going by WAY TOO SLOW! p.s. my sister thought my last post was depressing. That was not my intention. Hubs read it. He like it. Said it was real and honest, not depressing. What do you think?

Please sir, may I have some more

I'm getting sick. My throat has been sore all week and yesterday the sniffles and sneezes appeared. I don't like being sick because I can't kiss my husband - don't want to get him sick (though he probably will get sick anyways, knock on wood). But I do love soup and being sick is a great excuse to eat some!!

Anyone have a favorite recipe I could try??

Being social

I'm not very good at socializing. Not very good at all. I'm a homebody as my grandma would say. I enjoy being home; I'd almost always rather be home than out having fun. I've been called shy all my life, and maybe that's the correct term to categorize me under but I don't think that's it.

I'm not scared to talk to people (unless it's on the phone - but that fear is about gone think goodness). I just never know what to say. And when I do say something it comes out too soft and no one hears it, or it's too weird and everyone looks at me funny. I have thoughts but getting them out properly is difficult.

I'm also VERY honest. If someone asks me a question I answer it and I tend to shock people with my answers. I'm totally not PC. And I despise small talk (not as much anymore though). I don't like fake people and I have no desire to communicate with them.

So naturally I don't socialize often.

I say all this to lead up to last night - I went to see a movie with some ladies from church. I'm trying to improve myself and work on my flaws, socializing obviously being one of them. Plus Hubs keeps "encouraging" me to make friends.

I figured it would be a good way to ease into the group. I knew where the theater was, I could drive myself and park where ever I wanted (that's often another big reason I don't go to social gathering at people's houses. I don't want to deal with where to park or how to get there).

I got there and waited a minute outside then I saw some of the group and we went inside. The movie, The Help, was really good. Full of laughs and tears.

After the movie we were all gathered around talking and decided to get some food. Denny's was open and close so that was the choice. I said "no" at first, I really missed Hubs, but then decided the night was going alright so far and I had more trying in me.

I talked a bit and listened and nodded and smiled. I think I did alright. I didn't find anyone to be fake or annoying, I was surprised at how comfortable I felt. I expected to feel like a third wheel, since I was new, but I didn't. I was just myself and that was enough (which is the goal - I hate fake people so I really don't want to have to become one to fit in).

I got a Chicken Salad. They talked about children a lot, which is totally understandable since they are all mothers. That part was hard so I ate my salad and thought about something else. I like listening to pick up on advice but it was mostly all stuff I knew and it made me sad that I couldn't relate first-hand or input any funny stories.

Overall it was a good time and I'm glad I went. Hopefully I can go again and eventually come back to this post and see how much I have improved and how silly I used to be.

To those of you who are great socializers, does it sound like I'm on the right path? Any helpful advice?

New phone frustrations

My new phone arrived today. I was very excited!! It's all clean and shiny and new. But within an hour I'm already having second thoughts about it. I tried to active it online but it didn't recognise my serial number and gave me a "live advisor" number to call instead. If I could call them to active my phone I won't need to buy the stupid thing in the first place.

Now I have to wait till Hubs gets home so I can use his phone. I really wanted to get it activated by now so I could call the LDS Services office (I also wanted to call my Mommy). I've been trying to get a hold of them all week (at least the times when Hubs left his phone home) with no results. I need to ask them a question about my name, but more about that later.

For now it's ranting time.... okay I'm over it.

Today... I'm a bad wife

We are FINALLY all moved and mostly settled. But more about that later. For now I want to confess something... I'm a bad wife today.

The only thing Hubs asked me to do today was mail his heart monitor back. He has had to wear it the last month and it's time to return it and find out the results. Yay!! But I didn't get to the UPS store. Instead I stayed up last night watching Property Virgins till 4am. This morning I slept in till 11, took a long bubble bath and leisurely checked my email and facebook. Then I looked up the locations for the UPS store and found out that the closest one to us closes at 3. It's 2:37 now and by the time I get dresses and in the car it would leave me 5 minutes to drive. The drive is more than 5 minutes. Sigh.

I also broke the printer trying to print the directions. It must have gotten beat-up in the move cause the ink cartridges where way out of place and wouldn't slide. I jammed them back in and a stupid plastic thing feel out and now the cartridges still won't slide even though they are in there properly. I'm guessing that plastic thing was important and I broke it - or else it was already broken and just feel out, trying to frame me. We just went over our budget last night and here is one more thing we have to buy. Sigh.

But it doesn't stop there, I have accumulated three separate technical problems I need his help with when he gets home. He is our IT guy and I'm so grateful for that. His smarticals have come in handy time after time. Without him, our business would not be nearly as successful. Anyway, these problems may take only minutes, or hours - I'm just not sure. I feel bad for asking him, expecially after today, but I need him (and he loves me and I know he will forgive).

Maybe I should unpack the rest of the house and make an amazingly delishish dinner to make up for it - think that would work?

9 days

I've been so nervous lately because we were having a hard time getting a hold of our mortgage loan guy. He was suppose to schedule the appraisal for our first home a couple weeks ago and hadn't. I felt like we were going to loose the house. It sucked!

But we finally hear from him and the appraisal on our first home is scheduled for tomorrow. I'm probably even more nervous now since my hope has been mostly restored. I WANT THIS HOUSE!! Cross your fingers and toes that the appraisal goes well and we are able to close in time.

UPDATE: The appraisal came back for exactly the amount of our contract. Yippiee!!!

Not the weekend we planned

Warning: this is long, more of a journal entry.
Last weekend was not the weekend we planned. You see, on Saterday Hubs and I were going to lounge around all morning and go shopping in the afternoon, probably stopping by Crispers for a super yummy lunch. Then Hubs bro was going to come over and have a 'guys' night while I hide up in the bedroom watching Smallville. Nothing fancy but that's how we roll.

Then on Sunday I was going to teach my sweet spirit 4-6 year olds about the Holy Ghost. I had the whole lesson planned out and ready to go. I had props and a song and activities. It was going to be an awesome lesson! I even had it typed out and everything. After church we were going to come home and relax. Maybe watch a movie or tv together. And yes, I was probably going to watch more Smallville.


But instead... Hubs woke us up at 7:30 Saturday morning. He told me his heart was going too fast and it wasn't beating right. I placed me ear against his chest and the sound I hear was truly frightening. I didn't want to alarm him because I knew that would make it worse so we layed back in bed and I tried to calm him down. Calm him down I did, but not enough. So we decided to go to a walk-in clinic. I rushed to get dressed (didn't have time to shower - gross I know) and stuffed a purse with some essentials (water, Special K bars, a book) and out the door we went.

We got in to see a doctor rather quickly, yay, and once they hooked him to a million wires they confirmed that something was wrong with his heart. They had their suspicions and suggested he get checked out at the Hospital. That day. Via ambulance.

The ambulance came and drove him away. I followed in the car.

A Denison Whitmore was playing and I cryed like a baby. I wasn't really scared, but maybe I was. Thankfully the hospital wasn't too far away. Got out of the car and saw the ambulance there unloading my love. I watched and he looked over at me, saw me and smiled and waved.

They took him to the ER at first and got his heart back to normal. That afternoon/evening they him to the Hospital for further monitoring and tests. He stayed the night. They made me leave at 10pm. I came back at 7:30am and then at 4pm they let him go home.

Got home and cleaned up the house while he rested. Then his brother came over and they played a few games while I watch Smallville. Business as usual. It was weird. It's only been 28hours and it's like nothing happened. He is fine now, need to take it slow but he's fine, doesn't even have to take meds. except an aspirin. People keep asking if they can do anything for us, we have been blessed with awesome friends and family, and I say no. Cause it's true. Life is back to being our type of perfect!

It wasn't the weekend we planned but it could have been much worse and we are truly grateful.

LIttle Victories

"Little Victories". Those two words have been on my mind all day. Our apartment is a mess and I haven't felt like cleaning it. I'm in that 'not quite sick, but not well' stage and it won't go away. I made it to church yesterday long enough to teach my lesson before I bailed. Came home and watched Smallville for the rest of the day.

We got a counter bid for the home we want. It wasn't great and I think we will loose it. I inquired today, about another home in that same area only to find out that it's been taken off the market. Grr! If we don't get this one we are back at square one and I'm going to go C-R-A-Z-Y!!

So back to "Little Victories". I've decided that instead of cleaning our appartment I would create little victories. I started with the desk. "Just clean it off and you'll win", I told myself. Low and behold it worked and the desk is now clean. I did the same thing with the dishes an hour later and ta-da, the dishes are clean. Two little victories down a million to go.

I was in Heaven...

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One of our good friends had a beautiful baby boy last week. They posted some pictures on facebook and Hubs and I looked at them together. When viewing one in which the baby had a confused look Hubs said as though talking for the baby, ""I was in Heaven, now I'm here. What's going on?"

It made me laugh and cry happy tears. I've always known that babies come from Heaven and I've heard mothers talk about the marvel of it many times. But when my lovely husband spoke those words, so casually, it was 'real'. When we are blessed with a child I want to remember that it just came from Heaven. I want to give it the best life possible and teach it all about where it came from.

Looking for a house - part one

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My husband and I are looking for a house. We are currently renting and it's getting old. We need a bigger place, a place of our own. Since house prices are so low right now it's the perfect time for us to buy. The only problem is finding the right house and mostly finding the right area.

In our church we have what we call wards, basically the group of people we go to church with every week. The ward we are in depends on the location of our home. Make sense?

Right now we are in a really great ward. We have grown to love the people in our ward and have made many friends. So of course we would like to stay in our ward and have been looking for houses within the ward boundaries.

Here comes the problem - there are very few areas within our ward boundariesthat we would consider living in (there is a lot of crime here in Orlando). This makes house hunting HARD!


So hard that we are starting to consider moving outside our ward. There are a few places closer to my husband's work that look nice, plus it would mean less travel for him (his round-trip commute is currently 2 hour) which would be nice.

But we would have to go to a new ward. New people to get to know. New friends to make. What if we don't like any of the new people? Is it worth the risk??

So I ask, what would you do? Should we stick to only houses we can find in our ward or should we look closer to Hub's work???

6 in the morning

As the title says, it's 6 0'clock in the morning. My husband woke up 'not feeling so nice' so I got up with him, made him some breakfast (poured some fruity pebbles in a bowl and covered them with milk) and did some work. I work as a graphic designer - did you know that? (I feel like Meg Ryan in You've Got Mail, except I'm not writing to anyone in particaular).

I LOVE my job!!

Having literally worked as a 'maid' in two different hotels/motels you tend to appreciate a good job when you have one. I set my own hours, pick my clients and projects, and get to be my own boss. It rocks. I'm so lucky but all credit belongs to my Heavenly Father who gave me the talents in the first place. Without Him I couldn't do anything.

So as I sit here at 6 in the morning I'm thinking - what's up with 6 in the morning anyways? It's not a common time for me to be awake, in fact I know little about such an hour. Being a night-owl I tend to sleep right through it 90% of the time.

Things I'm noticing:
1. It's still dark outside
2. It's wet - maybe because it's raining although I can't be sure
3. My Husband looks hot via computer light

All valuable information if you ask me. Yep, good thing I'm awake right now. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to write this post. What a shame that would have been :)

Tell me, are you up at 6 0'clock often? If so, what do you do? Do you enjoy it?