I am gonna try something new....

So I have decided to try and post every day, and along with my post I am going to try and put up a photo. I have so many photos that need to be shown and they just sit sadly stored away on my computer. Its tragic. So for my first official picture and post here is a photo of my daughter Riley.

She will be 3 in a few days, well the 25th. I took this picture in December while we were visiting Spokane. We were staying in a hotel and the second she got in there she stripped down naked and put on my furry hoody. She looked so darn cute I had to snap a photo. I hope you all enjoy this as much as I do.

Wow this is actually kinda fun! Its a stress reliever to, I may post a few more photos tonight ;o)

Good Morning

Well I am up early. Today I am not as grumpy as last night. I am still grumpy though. I am going to try and get over it, but I still dont even want to look at my fiance.
I have a Dr. appointment today. I dont have any idea what they are doing. I am pretty much dredding it. I also have to go and and pick up my job application and fill it out so I can hopefully start working. I dont know how much I will be able to work since I have to have surgery again on the 26th. I am really hoping to get a couple days in though, I really want to move into that house. Oh... I didnt tell you about the house...

I may have mentioned our neighbores recently moved out. Well they did, and it got me to thinking about moving. I got the itch to do it so I started looking for places on CL. We found a couple and went to look and one was nice but pretty far out of town, the other was a huge dump and extremely far out of town. Then I got an email from a guy who had a place for rent, he left the address so we decided to run by and...

IT WAS AMAZING!!

I instantly wanted it.

It is a brand new house, only a year old, in a very nice housing complex just 6 miles from town. I have not seen the inside but the description is- black granit counter tops, Tuscan tile in the entry way, thick brown carpet throughout the house, fenced back yard, 2 car garage... the outside is beautiful too. It is a deep red color and has a wonderful landscaped yard. It is pretty much my dream home! Oh it also has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms and is 1550sqf. Well anyways, I told the guy we liked it, but I was worried because it was $900 a month and he wanted first last and a deposit but he said we could have our pets there so I figured it was worth a try anyways. He said he would take a $300 deposit, and he would even hold the house for us for a month (we were worried our landlord now would be grouchy with us when we asked to move since he was with the neighbors) so now we only have the problem of the $1800 and talking with Don about moving. We decided we would take a chance and just mention it to Don, I mean after all its not like we were ever planning on staying here forever. Well he ended up taking it very well, he was totaly fine with it and said we would be stupid if we didnt do it since it was a lot bigger and we needed the room. So now that thats out of our way all we have is the issue with the $1800 to move in. Hopefully both of us will get our income taxes back right around the 1st and we can do it. I want this soooo bad! I have to meet with the guy on Monday to see the inside and talk with him about the house. I keep thinking there is going to be some crazy catch that will keep us from getting this house, I am just praying there is not. I will keep you posted.

Well I should get off of here, I need to take a shower and start to get ready. Not to mention I just let me dogs back in and I smell some odor that is not appealing. I may need to give them all baths....

It's been a bad day

Today has been a shitty day...

I am in a super bad mood....

It all started because of my fiance. God he can be such a dick sometimes! I am not going to go into details because it will take this entire page and over an hour, but I could honestly have killed him tonight. He just never knows when to shut up! I am sure there are plenty of women out there who have men just like him. If he is sick I better be catering to his every whim and making sure he is comfortable because he is a whiny bastard. Heaven forbid I get sick. Like I may have mentioned I am dealing with kidney stones. He has stomped around the house for 3 days acting like an ass. Even though I have felt like crap I got up and cooked a nice dinner last night, and all week I have set out what should be cooked. Tonight he blows up and actually calls me lazy because I didnt vacuum! I was so mad. I slapped him. There is more to this but he is just a horrible baby. I cant wait till he is sick again so I can call him names and make him feel like a jerk.

Today was just a huge rotten pile of crap on my porch.

I am sure I will get over it, I think I will give it a day or so and let him twist in the wind. I know he feels like shit now that he knows what a jerk he was.

Good.

I like to see him suffer.

Brought the New Year in with a bang

So I got home today... from the hospital! Two nights ago we were up late keeping an eye on the flood news since the news said the river right next to us was going to flood. When we finally decided to go to bed around 1am my side hurt a bit, now I knew I was having some sort of kidney infection, but I was drinking plenty of water and cranberry juice, not to mention sucking down the cranberry pills. Anyways, hopped into bed only to wake up at 2am in so much pain I thought I was going to die. Of course I had no idea what was going on, but I woke Andy up and told him he needed to take me to the E.R. So he got up and took me all the way to Olympia because all the roads to our hospital were closed down due to flooding. Well I had to sit in the waiting room for almost 3 hours, and when they finally took me back to the room I was about to die. I had been puking my guts out since the pain started and it was not getting any better. To make a long story short they found a 8mm (frigging HUGE) kidney stone in my left kidney and a horrible infection from it. So I had to have emergency surgery and got to spend a couple days in the hospital. The didn't even do anything for me really except to put a tube in to hold my urethra open. They had to push the stone back in because it would have made my situation a lot worse if they had tried to pull it out. So now I have to go to the doctor again in a week and they are going to hit me with sound waves to break up the stones, and then I have to try and pass them. Once they are out then I have to have another surgery to get the tubes taken out. Wonderful, I know. Anyways, I am pretty much in pain even with the drugs they gave me, so I am kicking in my room for awhile just watching a movie. I am super tired so I think I may sign off for now. Hopefully I will not hurt as bad tomorrow.

It may flood...

So it snowed a record amount here this month, and it rarely snows here. Now all the snow has melted and it has been raining like crazy here. Now we have a flood warning for our area again. We flooded last year, well not our house, but everything around us. Our area was declared a natural disaster area even. I am not really worried about our place flooding, I dont think we are in any danger because of where we sit, but I am still pissy about the thought of it flooding again. We could not go anywhere because the freeway and roads were all shut down. Oh well....

In other news I am seriously looking for a new job because I really want to move to a new place. Our neighbors are moving out this month. I was not exactly super friendly with them or anything, but they were good neighbors and Riley liked playing with her girls. I did have some fun hanging out with her as well. I would have liked to move into her place as it is bigger than the one we live in now, but it is still a trailor (which sucks). The landlord which happens to be Andy's uncle just found out she was moving yesterday and of course today when we called him he had already rented it. He said he would try and get us in there, but I am not going to hold my breath on it. He is actually a big jerk and a slumlord. The place we live in has needed a lot of repairs and he either takes forever to do them, or doesnt do them at all. We have even had serious things happen like our septic tank having issues and he took almost two weeks to fix it. Not only was it a hazard to our health, but a huge disgusting pain in the ass. Anyways, I have found the perfect house, of course it is almost double our current rent, but it is 1000 times better and not to mention bigger. Of course right now I am not working, I could be very soon though and I am pretty confident I could make at least $1000 a month. That would cover the rent completely. The main problem right now is the fact that Andy's car needs new tires and some brake work before he can drive it, so he has been using my car to go to work in. Once he gets his income tax this next month he can fix his car so he can use it and then I can go to work. I am not going to hold my breath on moving since I know its the last thing that Andy wants to do right now, but I want a new place, a nice place, a place where I am not embarassed to have quests come over, a place that we can have family visit and they wont have to sleep on the couch or in the middle of the living room on an air mattress. I guess we will see what happens. I am hoping the lady calls me tommorrow so we can talk, and then hopefully they will pick us to rent their home. Well off I go, hopefull this rain lets up and we dont flood....

Home again Home again

Ohhh what a pretty color :o) Thought I would try out some new stuff on here lol.
Well we are back home now after our two week Christmas Vacation. It was nice to see family, but it sure was a long time away from our own home. We made it home in 7 hours, which is two hours later than our usual time. We had to borrow the car top carrier my parents had to bring home all of Riley's loot. It is rediculous how much stuff she got for Christmas, and also her birthday. We had an early party for her over there so everyone could celebrate. It was a lot of fun though. Anyways, we got to Olympia just as it started to snow and we just barely got the car unloaded in time to get 1 inch of snow! It probably will not stick but it sure makes it cold here. Tomorrow will be a fun day, I have to clean the entire house. Its really gross. At least I will stay warm lol.

So now the holidays are over and I need to really get back to budgeting and wedding planning. I am just glad I got the venue booked before this next weekend and the bridal show. Thats when all the crazy brides will be scrabbling around for a place. I am also waiting for a contract to come either tomorrow or the next day for our photographer. You know, I just love Craigslist! What a wealth of usefulness. I found a photographer who is amazing but just starting out, and she works with a second person so I will get two for the price of one and both are really good! I just love the fact that you place an add for what you want, how much you want to pay and you get tons of responses. I really think I am going to be using CL for a bunch of my wedding stuff to cut costs. Once I get the photographer booked I dont have any idea what I will need to do next. I guess line up where I will be renting my chairs from.... I will have to contact my MOH and see since she is still up on the wedding stuff.

Great start to 2009

Well it is officially 2009 and we have 7 months until the wedding. Things have actually started out very well this year. My parents finally gave me a wedding budget of $2,000. I had originally talked with them about doing the entire wedding for $5,000 but they had different thoughts, so now I have to figure out how to do everything I want for a lot less. They did also pay for the venue, so I am very grateful for that. So far I think I may be able to do the things I want and only have to spend around $500 out of my own pocket which would be GREAT.
I had wanted to use a specific photographer but I would have lost half my budget by going with him, so I decided to do some looking around for someone just as good, but for less. I had excellent luck! I posted an add on Craigslist.org and had so many responses I could barely keep up. I was think we have found the perfect one, well actually two. The gal is younger, but she teams up with a friend who owns her own photography business and we get two for the price of one. Both of their work is amazing! Not to mention I told her of our small budget and she not only agreed to do exactly what we wanted for $700, but then came back and said she would take another $100 off of that and not charge for mileage little or the editing time! I have not booked her yet but only because I just got the email and its after 1am lol.
I also went and talked with Andy's aunt Kathy who owns a flower shop. I was not planning on using real flowers but I really wanted to after I saw how dull the fake flowers looked in photos. I was hoping for a little "family" discount but she blew me away when she said she would order whatever I wanted at cost, and if I wanted her to help me do them she would just close her shop down one evening and we could get in there and get it done. She said we will most definitely be able to get all the flowers I want for $200 or under. I was so shocked she gave me that great of a deal, but I was really happy!!
Things are just coming right a long which makes me feel a lot better, and take a bunch of stress off. Anyways....
Tomorrow we are having Riley's 3rd birthday party here. It is early but we are going home and everyone here wanted to do something for her birthday. It should be fun, I am excited. I just hope the weather is decent. It was ok and then it snowed about 4 inches last night so the roads were pretty bad. I have to drive to town to pick up her cake in the morning so I hope its nice so I can get there and back quickly and safely.
Ok well I am going to sign off for tonight. I am still a bit ill from my activities last night so I need some sleep.