Ikea

Is there any other place closer to heaven? ME and Shanna decided we deserved a trip. Its only about 20 minute from my house, so its really hard to resist from going on my days off. We had a whole list of things she was going for. I on the other hand didn't really need anything in particular. Half way through that massive building I found a beautiful bookcase that was in the same line as my coffee and side table. AND did I mention it was on sale? Cha CHING! Once we got to the check out line I started freaking out. Here's what i had in the cart....
*Votive Glass jars
*Votive Candles
*Lamp
*Lightbulbs
*Book case
*Napkins
*Napkin holder
*Pillow Cases
Did I need any of it? Probably not, but I had a fantastic time. I had called Anthony half way through to decipher if his mood would allow this purchase or not. He advised me that our anniversary was coming up (next Thursday). My gift would either be this Ikea trip or something from him. I'm pretty sure he said that in hopes that I would empty my cart and leave empty handed. Boy was he wrong, I hung up the phone, grabbed one or two more things in the cart and headed out. Happy Anniversary to me!

We loaded everything up. It BARELY fit in Shanna's car. After getting everything to fit so we could close the trunk, I got in the car. We had to push the seat all the way to the front .We then had to tilt the seat uncomfortably towards the dashboard. This resulted with crushed knees, and my face in the dashboard. After getting over the first rush of claustrophobia, it was hilarious. Shanna took a pics of it, I will have to get it from her. All in all it was a great day.

rambling

Today has been a very thought provoking day. I've noticed lately that I feel as if things have been a little out of control. I remember back about a year ago when I wasn't the assistant manager at work. I would come home usually every night feeling as if I had worked as hard as I possibly could. I was an asset to the company. I was overweight....nothing new, but I didn't feel overweight. Flash forward a year. I sit at work feeling as if I could walk out the door and the work would somehow get accomplished without me. I have gotten lazy, not just with work but with life. I use to think that marriage would be easier if he just listened to me....clearly I'm always right. But i have realized that I'm wrong. Which was a hard lesson to learn. His favorite quote it seems is "You choose to be happy". My response would be a grumble and I would instantly think "well I wasn't the one that made the front room the mess, so clearly you are the one that made me unhappy".

Today was as normal as any other day. I went to work, got the things I needed to accomplish checked off the list. Then I had a heart to heart with my boss and friend Shanna. We talked about our goals. I was brutally honest and told her how I was lazy, and my ideas of how I could change those things. After getting everything off my chest we got dressed and went to the gym. We didn't impress ourselves there. We had walked about 7 miles on Saturday in preparation for the marathon this weekend, so I think our bodies were still a lil upset about that. After the gym I drove home. As I was driving home I looked over to the right and saw the walking track that is less than a mile from my house. "How come I haven't taken advantage of that track more?" I swerved over into the parking lot and started to walk. I thought about my life. Where I am as a person is not where I want to be.

It was so nice to take some alone time and think these things through. I get so worked up with life and I never really take a moment to really evaluate where I am. Me and Shanna have this running joke that we say almost everyday....we will be full, stuffed to the rim with cafe rio, and instead of stopping we will continue on and i'll say "Welp, tomorrow is another day." This coming from the overweight chick that at times wonders "How did I get this huge?". It is all starting to make sense now (:

After my walk I feel so much better. I am going to be a better manager at work. I want to be an asset like I use to be! Someone that is proud at the end of the day of all that she has accomplished. I am striving to be a better wife. If that means cleaning more, or smiling more, or just not letting the small stuff take control of me, then so be it. I have got to take control of my weight issues. My goal is to walk that stupid track at least 3 times a week, but still continue to commit to the gym.

Tomorrow may be a new day, but I have decided to change the things in my life right now.

Wendover

I finally got the pictures uploaded from my Wendover trip. It was really fast, just an over nighter with my two good friends Shanna and Jenika. It was Jenika's birthday and that is where she wanted to go. Not a whole lot happened but we had a really great time. We stopped at the tree of life, which is just my favoriestest.....as lame as it may sound. Then we went to wendover. Played at some penny slots. I only gambled 9 bucks. It was enough for me. I think Jenika maybe offered up 15 bucks and Shanna at the most 10. We are so exciting. I just want to say how much I love both of them. They are so much fun. And I appreciate that they allow me to be me. They know that I don't drink, and they never bother me about that. I have always appreciated that about them. We always joke how hilarious it would be if I ever did, but honestly I think we all know that It would be so disappointing. I would be upset, and then what would we joke about? LoL. Anyway I didn't want this to be sappy. But thanks girls! I had a blast! Next time Vegas!!!

Weekend events

It has been so long since my last post. I have a good excuse though. The Scrapbooking Convention took up every spare minute I had last week. Well it is finally over!!!!! I am 100% glad of that! Me, Shanna, and Summer worked the booth. Summer was fortunate enough to only have to stay until 5 on Friday. In the two days of the convention, me and Shanna put in 24 hours!!!!!!! It was brutal. We were really chipper the first day. I saw a lot of fun people that I haven't seen in awhile. We looked forward to the activities of the show. The dance off was my favorite. People will do almost anything for something free. I can't really remember anything too eventful on Friday. It was busy, lots of fun people in the 16 hours we were there. The one thing that really defined the day was within the first 5 minutes we arrived.

Me and Shanna were setting up the booth. We had a rod arch on the back of the booth that had our banner on it. I had made some stupid little decorations that I wanted hung from the arch. Me being short and having very stubby legs decided to "let" Shanna take care of hanging them up. She got on a folding chair and starting hanging them up. A man walked by and began telling me about something about the show. All of a sudden I looked back and Shanna totally fell!!! The chair folded up and her leg scrapped. Of course we took some pictures (it was a long day remember).


The picture doesn't do it justice AT ALL! It was swollen and from a side angle it was so bumpy. Poor thing. Today it was a lot calming down but a wicked bruise is homing in. So that was our event on Friday. Oh and the man that I was talking to while this all happened didn't even blink an eye. He gave me the paper, and continued on....RUDE.

Saturday was uneventful. We were constantly whiny and at times very witchy. We finally were relieved and we thought we were home free. Our feet hurt from wearing heels. Our cheeks hurt from the constant fake "seller" smile and we were so sick of hearing YMCA and other hideous songs over the speaker. We held our heads high as we carried our many boxes and bags out the big expo center doors........

As soon as we opened the doors the wind was howling and roaring. If felt as if the scrapbook gods were upset that we left an hour early. The wind was so bad that our skirts were blowing straight up in the air!!!! I had Knee Highs and after that......no protection besides the obvious underwear. It was horrifying! We got to a safe area and put our boxes down and laughed and laughed. Of course near by watching all of this is a poor scout leader with his son trying to sell something. I apologize to the father, his son is now tainted. To make matters worse the father came over and tried helping us to the car. I started yelling...."Shanna you go get the car.....Sir PLEASE don't help!" Finally Shanna got the car, we gracefully held our skirts with one hand and our packages in the other as we loaded up the car. It was so embarrassing. We laughed most the way home. We barely survived the weekend. I will not be offering myself to another show for at least a month or two. Mostly because I get bored and whiny easily and partially because I hate the feeling of rejection. You go on and on about your product just for them to say...."Okay I will be back....Yeah right honey!"

Hope everyone had a great weekend. I'm going to bed and will most likely won't be up and around in time for breakfast....or even brunch. Enjoy the corny pics.


Me still semi happy

I wuv my boot! They are hot......and also painful!

Okay now we are sad....and grumpy, this is around hour 14. It looks like I'm wearing a horrible suit LOL.

The booth. Notice the arch where the leg incident occurred. The layouts on the left are the ones I stewed over for days. Stupid!

A blurry Shanna and a happy Summer. The beginning of the show when our hopes were high.

Horrible shot of me. Notice the candy jar on the bottom right....that's how we lured the woman in.

Shanna! She wore the cutest outfit. Look at the cute bag on the ground. It was only 9 bucks! I had to have it!

Random Nothingness

It has been so long since I have written a post. Mostly just because nothing too exciting has happened. Last weekend I was at the Home & Garden Show. I got the opportunity to be an annoying vendor. You know the type....the saleswoman that stares at you as you get closer and closer to their booth. Then although you act uninterested that particular saleswoman still goes on and on and on about that ketchup bottle shaped backpack that you just CANNOT live without. Well as it turns out, I'm not the best saleswoman. And I'm fine with that. As the hours went on and more and more people passed I just wanted to hug some of them and tell them that I wasn't going to bother them. Some looked at me with pure hatred in their eyes, even before I said hello. Which was weird to me, they came to a show to be educated and to see the different things that were offered. So why won't they let me speak? I'm so glad that I am not a salesperson full time. Its too tough!

I really don't have any fun stories from the three long days at the show beside the horribly dressed woman. The winner of that contest reminded me of the deceased Latin singer Selena. This particular Selena look alike was wearing skin tight pants and a white skin tight leotard. The leotard had holes all down the sleeves. Of course she had the fakest boobs I've ever seen. The second I saw her I knew she was the winner of the show! In second place came the lady that wore spandex pants with the cuffs (aww the memories), big socks over the pants and to wrap it all together she wore green crocs. I love her. If a tornado came through her hair would have been the only survivor. You could smell all the hairspray and you could even see it! She was amazing. I believe she bought a gift certificate from us though, so therefore I will not continue on. So anyways, that was my weekend. Three days of selling and people watching.

Today I have off. I went to Roberts and bought some supplies. We are doing another show. I will be at the Scrapbooking Convention this weekend both days. I am in charge of making some layouts with some of the pictures of our rooms on them, they will be displayed at the show. I went to Roberts with the highest expectations. It was so amazing to me to go in and be completely overwhelmed. I felt a huge amount of pressure. I have a small budget. With that small amount of money I am to make something fantastic. And I just couldn't handle it. I bought a couple pieces of paper, some glue dots and one or two other things. And I was out of there. I'm hoping I can get some pages done before the show. Let me know if any of you are going to the show. I would love to say hello to you, and I promise, I will not turn my sales skills on you.

I really have no idea why I posted any of this. Its all very random but I just felt the need to post. When I get a page or two done I will take some pics and post them. Then you all can highly criticize how horrid they are. I crash under pressure......every time! Hope everyone is having a great week! Love ya all tons!

P.S Sorry if the Selena look alike is your relative....or the croc lady is your mom.

Pathetic Saturday Night

You know you are having a lame Saturday night when you have listened to This http://carmensingalong.ytmnd.com/4 times. Okay.....so i'm not being honest. I have listened to it 4 times, then I minimized the window and tried to sing it without the lyrics. Then since I didn't pass my own lyrics test, I listened to it at least 3 more times. Where is the world is Anthony is the real question? Stupid school! I haven't seen him at all today. What a sad Saturday we both are having.....Random thought....I miss the 90's.

P.S. I need a lesson on how hyperlinks work.....see, if I was in the 90's it wouldn't be a big deal....but these times we are in now....its just shameful.

Rascal Flatts Night

Every year I get the grand opportunity to go to Rascal Flatts with my mom. She is so funny during concerts. She gets all giddy when they come on stage and when I don't clap or when I'm ready to sit down she scolds me and gets me all pumped up again lol. We got really good seats this year again. Row 20 on the floor....not too shabby. It will never beat the year we were on the 6th row (also the same concert that I ripped my shirt off!!! I threw it around in the air and Jay signed it....This is a true story, go to my moms house, she kept the shirt lol) but this was an awesome concert. Their stage set up was amazing. It went all around the floor. When they would come on our right side they were about 10 feet away. It was awesome. Of course I took pics on my camera but once again...I can't find my cord. So I took some on my phone too. They are horrid but at least u can kind of see how close we were. Jessica Simpson opened for them. It was brutal. She once again forgot the lyrics for about 15 seconds, and she was just so annoying. Plus her laugh is something I just can't handle. Anyways thanks mom for taking me! I had a great time! You are always so fun to play with! Love ya tons!



Joe Don! He is my moms favorite lol. Took bad this turned out so weird. I have a good one on my camera tho.....just wait! One day I will show you fo realz!



This is the end



This is the picture that joe don sent to my phone....and every other person there lol. All I had to do was text him and then here came this awesome picture. Now of course i'm signed up for something and I keep getting reminders to buy their cd on april 7. LOL



This is my favorite pic (from my phone). At the end they dumped a ton of confetti. It was a magical moment lol. We look so happy hahaha. I still have confetti in my purse....I really should clean it out lol.