TGIF!!!

Yes Friends! It's Friday!
I am thrilled.

This has been an incredibly long week...I've been attempting to not allow the drama surrounding me to infiltrate my shields and bring me down...as I have plenty of my own drama to contend with...but that is neither here nor there.

It's leap day....and I think that we should get the day off of work....but I'm afraid that's just not going to happen. I'm hoping today flies by because at 5, I'm picking up the Bug and then we're headed off to the C Home for a whirlwind weekend which hopefully gives us some time to veg....

Tonight's activities shall include some food ....probably from Charlies....and then....wait for it.....
CLEANING!!!
Hopefully the house is being shown tomorrow and I want it to smell all fresh and clean like I do nothing but stay home to polish the place...tee hee....yes, I'm pathetic......but ya know....it's better when the place smells of Mr. Clean :-D

Tomorrow Mom is picking me up bright and early and we're venturing to the baby shower...then venturing back....hopefully early enough so I can enjoy dinner and a movie with the Bug.

Sunday we're going to J brother's to see his progress!! I have SO got to get a new camera phone so I can post pics.....

Do YOU know why I'm smiling?

Well...in this pic it's because it's warm where I was...I was laying down....being taken care of my momma and K....oh yeah...and doped up on Loritab so not feeling much pain....

This has been quite the long week...I've been sick all week...this morning I woke up wondering if someone had put an ax in my face while I slept...so I got up and swallowed a couple of Excedrin and went back to bed for a bit....now I'm upright and at work and wondering how long the day is going to be....
I had hoped to be all bright eyed and bushy tailed by this point in the week....talked to C last night...all is going well....after this weekend they are taking her off the med and she can deliver any time...the baby looks good, is near five pounds and trying to "breathe" on her own :-) So that is a huge answer to prayer.

It's 15º outside...um, yuck? I keep trying to convince Bug that we live in the wrong state.....he just laughs at me......but spring IS coming, right?

So I'll take a deep breath and get through this day and know I can veg tomorrow night...and in the meantime meditate on this:

"You're all I want in heaven! You're all i want on earth! ...I'm in the very presence of God - oh, how refreshing it is!" Psalm 73:25, 28 MSG

I love it when they're wrong....

the weather man was wrong! we got about 4 inches...but not too bad! wahoo!
It's still bitterly cold and my sinuses are so packed my face hurts....but such is life....you'd think I'd be smart enough to stay home in bed...but I'm not....I'm....dedicated...yeah. we'll say dedicated!

Heading "home" for the weekend...my cousin C's baby shower is Saturday.....this baby is such the little miracle...C has had a few miscarriages....and has gone into premature labor a few times with the little one she is carrying now...she's due mid-April but the docs don't think she'll hold out that long....a couple more weeks and they think it will be safe for her to deliver. I am so excited :-)

Snowy Tuesday.....

The weather man says 6-14 inches of the white stuff today...ugh...I pray he's wrong!
The people that looked at my house on Saturday aren't interested....so we'll see what happens with this other guy...I'm refusing to get discouraged or sad this time....something will happen when God says it needs to....so I am attempting to stock up on some patience...too bad they don't sell that at Wal-Mart!
We're both fighting colds....ugh...Bug went back inside at work so he's adjusting to the weird schedule again....I'm still plugging away between work and babysitting....and waiting to hear about the "new" car.....
hope you're having a good day

Saturday was good....

We tasted two more flavors of wedding cake...We are ending up with a main cake and two side cakes...so the baker suggested we do three flavors....so we loved the white cake we tasted the day we ordered it....and this week tried raspberry and strawberry...ohmybob....the raspberry marble was the best cake ever!! SO! we're pretty sure we're going with that!

Then my wonderful Bug....he fixed my car again....Thursday night I was driving down one of the lovely expressway type routes and I hear something under my car.....yep. my muffler.
So I pull over and Bug comes to my rescue and we finish pulling it off and realize that the exhaust pipes we bought labor day weekend have rusted straight through to the point of unraveling. So Saturday we take it to the auto parts place...I set it on the counter and ask the man if they warranty their parts. He looked at it and asked "what is that?" So I tell him it's the exhaust pipe I bought from their store labor day weekend....we end up getting new parts and Bug gets me all squared away (yes....I am looking into replacing the car.....my wonderful mechanic is looking for something for me).

Then we head off to run a million errands.
but the part that was good...you're looking for that....

In the midst of the euphoria of eating good cake....my phone rings...it's my realtor....my house was shown that morning....she's putting a call in later to find out how it went....another person is interested....needs a ranch style house for his mother in law....maybe show the place next weekend....
wahoo!!

Update?

We ordered our wedding cake!
and next weekend we'll taste some more flavors to decide if we're going with the phenominal white cake we tasted or a flavor....wicked cool yes?

Not quite what we planned...

When we planned our weekend....it went something like this:
Depart B City around 6....get to the C Village around 7:30....make some dinner, read....sleep...Get up Saturday....visit O Town and get my ring fixed and cleaned up, make a payment on our bands...venture to A Village to pick up K and her boyfriend....venture to W Village or H Town to let teens be teens....take them home....visit dad and fix my sax....venture home...dinner...sleep....get up Sunday, clean the house and "lock down"....venture to H town to hug people....venture back to B City.....sleep.

Went more like this:
Friday...Eye worked until 6....Bug until around 7....got to C Village around 8:30-9ish....scratch penne, garlic, olive oil, three kinds of peppers, asparagus and mushrooms....instead...have macandcheese....sleep....go get ring fixed....make payment...pick up K and best friend...stop in S Village for some food and arcade games...Head to W Village....let them shop at two stores in plaza...try to bowl...but it's tournaments.....go to B Village for another bowling attempt.....tournaments again....so we take the girls back to mom's and end up making a stop at brother J's house (saw flashing hazzards by his house and being....well...me....had to make sure everything was alright ...it was. flashing lights were the tractor coming home with hay.......shush....I know.... :-P)
anyway, that ended up being cool because Bug hadn't seen J's house yet (he's building it himself!) so we hung there for a while which was cool....then to dad's to fix the sax...had a "gut busting" moment when dad was checking the sax and Dad's austrailian shepherd mix decided to sing along....
head home...order food...have a happy conversation about maybe possible potential interest in the house by the nice man that delivered the food....eat...sleep....
wake up to snow and yuck on Sunday...talk to one of the ones we wanted to hug and discover they're all sick and the weather is nastiness....and the other ones can't make it...so we decide to postpone the visit....take care of some things around the house....head back to B City....without our power steering....yeah. fun adventure.
We left and Bug says "steering is a little stiff." I tell him to kick the ice out from behind the wheels. he does and says it's a little better.....but still stiff. I tell him to pull over at the gas station and I'll check the power steering fluid...it's dry. so we add some and venture off...stopping halfway to put in more fluid....now, I know it needs fluid, but have no idea how much so, no, it didn't occur to me that it was leaking since it was dry again half way...I thought it was just funneling down to where it needed to go. yes. laugh at me. silly girl.
so anyway. we get to W. S. Town and we stop at an auto store...I get a can of stop leak and more fluid.....we put it in and head to Bug's house....steering still not playing nice. so we put in more fluid...I work the wheel to see if it's working....take the car around the block...add more...we do this a a few times...and then....on our last trip back around....I see the puddle of pink snow....yep. leaking right back out.
So of course, I handled it like a mature, responsible woman.
I cried. then I called my daddy, my mommy/stepdad and then my brother. My brother was kind enough to tell me it was going to be alright, don't cry, I'm not going to die....I can drive the car without the power steering, it's just going to be hard (yeah you should see my biceps today...strong like bull!!)...so I stop blubbering....Bug comes back out and says that his dad said the same thing as J brother...so I pull myself together and venture back out with the sweet offer from my brother to call if I get shaken up again (awwww! what a good boy!). So I kiss Bug goodbye, pray for safe travel and venture out....man alive, I will never take power steering for granted again!!
Got it to the shop yesterday....apparently the power steering fluid filter froze and cracked. yep. that was all. So the wonderful mechanic replaced it and around 8:00 last night I once again enjoyed the beauty that is power steering...
I think I've had enough adventures for this week......

Ooh!

Hey! Look at that! We're under 200 days!!
which is awesome because well, we're ready to be married allfreakingready!
still have lots to do...but we'll get there.
we got thrown a monkey wrench yesterday.
The Brown company Bug works for told him the week after our wedding is closed for vacations....so Bug told the man "look, I'm getting married...really need that week off..." so the man is going to talk to his boss and see what he can do....so I'm praying it works out because I don't want to have to be all bridezilla :-D

We have to fly to Virginia for a wedding I'm in in October....so maybe we'll take that week if we can't have our chosen week...dunno.
right now, I'm choosing not to stress about it.

This weekend should rock....gonna take the K sister and her boyfriend out for some fun and then hopefully see some awesome people...yep. you know who you are...world travelers and home bodies and such ;-D