schlump

I am totally a schlump today.  Ok so Saturday night we ended up going to Amber and Dustin's for the evening and hanging out.  We had such a great time!  Nothing like hanging out with your besties!  Sunday, we hung out at home.  I did some laundry then Zach came over and we watched some Twin Peaks.  Today was back to work.  I came home and we haven't done much.  We're both totally zapped b/c neither of us slept well last night.  We're chilling out at the moment, but I think before long we are headed to bed.  I am so mad though!  I had uploaded a bunch of clips onto youtube and was putting them all together in one vid and my internet went crazy and deleted them all! Argh!  I plan on filming another day in my life soon and hopefully will get it put up on youtube.  Maybe while on vacation!  I am pretty sure there will be lots of videos and posts from vacation! We are going to have so much fun!

In other news, the spending freeze is going well!  I have started a list of products I want to try and I'm going to prioritize them and limit myself once I'm allowed to spend again.  Seeing as we just got a new car
(which I LOVE by the way) we are trying to really reign in our spending to save some money.

Disclaimer: I'm about to talk about videos games.  I watched these games but did not play them.  Jon would agree with my statements though and he played them.  And yes I asked him about his opinion.
Jon finished playing L.A. Noir and I have to say I was disappointed.  It was a really strong game for a while, but it really petered out and was anti-climactic at the end.  He also finished Duke Nukem Forever and man was that game fun!  Obviously you can't take it seriously, but it was just a really fun silly game.  He's now playing Infamous 2, which is really kickbutt!  Awesome game! We're also playing through The Legend of Zelda: The Windwaker which is simply amazing.  I have a serious soft spot for Zelda games!

Other than that we are really just gaming up for vaca.  We've started packing and are really catching up on all our chores so we're ready to go.  Lil' bro is house/cat sitting for us, so that's nice b/c we don't have to worry about that while we're away.  Well I'm off folks, have a great night!

No I'm Not Dead

Hello! I am back blog world!  I had a bad bout of the flu this week, but I am back and healthy.  Well mostly.  During this nasty flu, I managed to burst the blood vessels in my face and eyes.

These pictures were taken the day after I was sick.  My face has almost cleared up (you can't really see how bad it was in the pics) but my eyes have actually gotten worse.  I look diseased!  I know there is nothing I can do but wait for them to go away, but they are so nasty looking!  Anyway.  This week consisted of the following:
Monday - cut down a tree and had dinner with David and Kate
Tuesday - doomsday filled with the flu of death
Wednesday - hazy day of aftersickness
Thursday - short visit with Sonnie and Phil, then home
Friday - picked berries with Mike and Michelle, then home
Today - Walmart trip, hanging out at home, back to blogging!

So yea.  I wish I had taken my camera berry picking last night, but I didn't even think of it! Mike (Jon's Dad) grows raspberries and blackberries (and a plethora of other things) so we headed over and picked some.  I see blackberry cobbler in our future.  Anyway, you've been caught up.  I'll try to be around more this week!  Of course on Friday we start our vacation and there is NO internet or cell phone service where we are going, so I'll be gone for about another week, but I'll be back with post updates and LOTS of pictures! Anywho, that's about that.  Check out my youtube channel for a new videos, coming soon.

Oh and SUPER YEA AWESOMENESS WITH RAINBOWS AND UNICORNS AND WORLD PEACE!  NY legalized gay marriage!  One step forward at a time!  We'll get there eventually!

Stomach Flu

Nuff said.

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day!  Have to give a shout out to the two best dad's ever.  

#1. MY DAD! (pic circa'69 while he was in Vietnam)

 Hansome no?

#2, My husband!

I cannot express how awesome these two men are and what amazing father's they are.  I love them both more than I can say!  (insert heart bursting with love)

Flashback

I was reminded yesterday of several cartoons from my childhood.  Here they are and yes, I watch too much tv.

Lady Lovely Locks and the Pixietails

Jem and the Holograms

My Little Pony

Rainbow Brite

 (Note: I'm stopping putting in pictures here b/c this post would be huge!  So starting here, just a list.)

The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin
The Gummy Bears
Beetlejuice
Ducktales
The Care Bears
The Real Ghostbusters
A Pup Named Scooby Doo
Darkwing Duck
Tale Spin
Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers
Garfield and Friends
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Muppet Babies
Popples
Pound Puppies
The Jetsons
The Flintstones
School House Rock
The Wuzzles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Ok I should really stop b/c I could just keep going.  I loved me some cartoons!  I would totally watch ALL of these if they came out on dvd!   I've been watching episodes of these on youtube since yesterday.  Ah nostalgia...

New Car

OMG!  Ok so Jon's car is kaput.  So today we went to Clarksville to the Kia dealership and...we bought a new car!  Like brand new!  Only 77 miles on it AFTER we drove home!!!  I am in love!  We got a 2011 Kia Soul.  I absolutely love it!  Here it is!

Isn't she pretty!  We've never owned a new car, so this is pretty big for us!  Very exciting!

Thus Far

So this week thus far has been busy and it doesn't look like it's going to be letting up!  Monday I actually went home from work early b/c I was feeling all wonky.  I actually had to sit down in the file room while i was, you know, filing, b/c I got so dizzy/nauseous!  I came home at lunch and just slept!  I didn't wake up til Jon got home.  We picked Josh up Monday night b/c we get him all week!  Jon and Josh went swimming at Sonnies. I went but pretty much sat in the hot tub and relaxed.  I felt much better yesterday though!  I think the sickness is a virus b/c Jon said he felt funky too.  Anywho, Tuesday we went to Sonnie's for Phil's famous ribs.  Seriously, they are the bomb diggity.  We stayed there for a while and Josh swam the whole time!  In fact, Jon and I went home and Josh stayed to swim!  Sonnie brought him home later.  Today my car went to the shop and $470 later, it is fixed.  Except for the tire.  Apparently in addition to the air/heat not working, brake issues, leaking fluids, and alignment issues, I also need a new tire.  Yeah.  At least it's fixed!  Sonnie picked me up and took me to work and Jon picked me up from work and we went and picked up my car.  If you live in Seymour, check out The Garage.  They do good work at a decent price!  Yea!  After picking up my car, we went to the Legion to have dinner with Chris and Dave (grandparents).  Mike and Michelle (Jon's Dad and stepmom), David, and Zach were also there.  Oh but Chris wasn't b/c she isn't feeling well. See!  Totally a sickness going around.  You have been warned!  Now we're home and just chilling out.  I think we are taking tomorrow night off and staying in.  We have some cleaning to do b/c my family is coming this weekend to visit.  At least we're off Friday.  Woop!  We're thinking car shopping on Friday.  We'll see.  Hopefully we find something we like that's affordable.  Anyway that's our week thus far!  Toodles!

GAH!

SO EXCITED!!!!!!

Why will I be seeing the new Batman movie?

Exhibit A

http://www.2flashgames.com

Tralalalalalaaaaaaa

Well poop.  We were supposed to go to my parents today to celebrate an early Father's Day with my Dad, but my stupid janky-butt car decided that today was a good day to go completely bat-shiz crazy and now we are staying home.  Harumph.  So I called Dad and told him we weren't going to make it.  Total bummer.  Instead we will be staying home, doing copious amounts of laundry and cleaning the house.  Productive? Yes.  Fun?  Not so much.
Anywho, a Saturday recap is in order.  I got up early and went to Walmart for the weekly grocery shopping and ended up getting a whole lot of lake stuff for Michigan and very few groceries.  We piddled around at home for a bit, then took a nap.  Last night we headed over to Dustin and Amber's for some good old fashioned chat time.  Good times were had and we were out until 1:30am.  We got up early this morning to get going to go to my parent's.  I made some corn salsa while Jon showered, then we headed out.  Then the car went nutso, so we came back.  And now I'm stuck with 2 quarts of corn salsa.  That is a LOT of salsa.
We are going to take my car in this week to have it looked at.  We are also going to start seriously looking for a new car to replace Jon's.  Then he'll drive my old car and I get the new one.  I'm such a nice wifey, yes?  Anyway.  Oh yeah we ordered a new coffee table!  I'm so excited!  It's going to be so pretty!  Our current coffee table is an old hand me down from....somebody.  It's really wobbly and none to pretty to look at.  We were ordering a new nightstand for our bedroom, so we decided to order the new coffee table too.  I can't wait to get it!  I tried to copy the pic from the website, but it wouldn't work, so you'll just have to wait until we get it!
So that's pretty much it for now.  Toots!

Good Gracious!

I've been a bit sporadic in my posting lately, and I think it's b/c I've lost my mojo.  I just haven't had anything to blog about.  I have been making a lot of youtube videos b/c I find them easier to do than trying to write a blog post.  It's really just laziness combined with how busy we've been lately.  Anywho, I may not be posting every day like I used to, but I will try to stay up to date!  So.  With that said, HI!  E3 was this week and Jon has been checking it out so he can post about it on the9er.com, his website.  Well his and Dustin's.  Anyway I caught the Nintendo action yesterday.  I am pretty psyched about the games coming out for the 3DS, so we are definitely going to be getting one.  Also, the new controller for the Wii U looks so freaking cool!  Cannot WAIT to try that out!  Honestly, I didn't see much innovation on the part of XBOX, which I know some people will disagree with, but it just looked like a rehash of what's already out.  I didn't see the Playstation stuff, so I can't speak to that.  That's been our life this week thus far.  We're going to take it easy this week b/c we are going to my parents on Sunday to celebrate Father's Day with my dad.
That's all for tonight folks!

Birthday

They say its your birthday.....Nope it's mine!  Yep I turned 29 today and had a fantastic b-day!  Jon, Josh and I went up to Indy to see my family.  I got to see my parents, 2 sisters, and all of my nieces and nephews!  I love my family!  Josh went to Beef and Boards with my parents and his cousins and had a great time.  Jon and I went out to lunch at O'Charley's, shopped at Target, Ulta, Borders, and JC Penney and then went back  to my sister Becky's and got some cuddle time in with Grayson!  Then we headed back home to drop Josh off, went to dinner night at David's and watched National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1.  Too funny!  Now we're home and getting ready for bed.  I had such an awesome birthday!

Hot, hot, hot!

Man it is hotter than hades around here!  Whew!  It's either a swimming pool, or air conditioning if you want to be comfortable, otherwise just be ready to sweat!  I am looking forwards to being able to swim in Sonnie's pool!  Summer is definitely here to stay!  Anywho, we're just chilling at home today and trying to stay cool. We are probably going to go get ourselves a Tropical Sno (shaved ice/snowcones) and drop a book off at the library, but other than that, we're just going to putter around at home.  I love days like that!
In other news, my birthday is tomorrow!  Woop!  I'll be a respectable 29 years old! I don't know why that is respectable to me.  Hm...  Anyway, we are going to go to Indy tomorrow.  Josh is going to Beef and Boards with my parents and the older cousins while Jon and I go to lunch and then visit Becky's family.  It should be a fun day!  So yeah. Oh a couple other bullet points for today:
#1 I finally found popsicle molds!  They are cheapy and small, but they'll work!  I can't wait to make homemade popsicles and pudding pops!
#2 On Monday I will be officially off pop (not counting Sprite) for 1 month!  
#3 I posted a couple of videos on youtube.
#4 I am on another spending freeze.  I need to stop spending.  So no spending in June!  Ok, well starting tomorrow, b/c I got a couple things at Walmart, so no spending until July....10th.  Yeah that sounds good. 7/10/2011!
#5 I am SO EXCITED about watching the new/last Harry Potter!  And the Deathly Hollows Pt 2 is going to completely ROCK!  SQUEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

And that is all.

Wee Bit Wednesday

{one}

do you believe in ghosts?

Yep.

{two}

are you more of a

talker or a listener?

Depends on who I'm with!

{three}

would you rather get up

early or sleep late?

I'd like to sleep late, but my body clock gets me up.  But oh to sleep in again......

{four}

if you could instantly become

an expert at one type of dance,

what type would you choose?

Tap!  I took a class when I was little and I remember just loving it!

{five}

what is your favorite drink?

Grape Kool-Aid

{six}

if your house caught fire and

you could only grab three

things, what would they be?

My cat, my husband, my camera

{seven}

if you could only visit one

restaurant for the next five

years, which would it be?

Hm, that's a tough one.  I'm gonna have to go with El Nopal.  It's a mexican restaurant here in town.  Yum!

{eight}

who inspires you the most?

Another toughie!  I'll say my Mom and my Grandma.  Can't say just one. 

{nine}

if you had your own talk show, who

would your first three guests be?

Let's see.  I'll go with Jennifer Aniston, Seth Rogen, and Shigeru Miyamoto

{ten}

sneakers or sandals?

Barefoot.