Wednesday, September 28, 2005


Here's a picture of some turkeys that came out of the trees that you see in the distance. You can also see where our yard ends and how close they get to our house.

I took this on 9/2 in the morning looking out my front door. I thought the fog was neat.

Tuesday, August 30, 2005


Kam and Candy dancing back in '96 or '97. Loooong time ago, lol. I stole that shirt from Kam, heheheh.

Thursday, August 25, 2005

Exercise is Bad for Your Health

This has been an eventful day. First, we've been having problems with house flies. They're freaking everywhere. So, I've been spraying the crap out of my house with bug spray lately. We're probably going to die of bug spray inhalation, lol. Today, in addition to flies, I also had a wasp get into the house. FYI, Raid Flying Insect spray is excellent.

Also, we decided to move Bailey from the front yard to the back yard and train her to do her business in the fields behind our house. Well, I go to hook her tie out to the back steps and there is the neatest (if you're into those things) spider I've ever seen in real life. Here's a picture of it.
If anyone happens to know what kind of spider this is, I'd be interested to know. Leave a comment. Then, after I proceeded to beat at it with a large branch, it ran off and I tied Bailey to the steps. Stupid person that I am, I didn't unlock the back door. So, I unhooked Bailey from her tie out thinking (again, being stupid) that she'd go to the front door to be let in the house. Boy, was I wrong. She took off like a bat out of hell and ran clear down the back of our road 5 houses down. The girls and I chased her down there (M crying the whole way) and then I had to drag her back since she's too heavy to carry very far. I'm telling ya, if she hadn't stopped, she would've been a homeless dog tonight I was so mad.

Now, I'm pooped from chasing the dog and half dragging, half carrying her home, which she's lucky she still has. I'm ready for a nap. But, I have an algebra assignment due today and I decided to make homemade chicken and noodles for dinner. Making noodles is a chore in itself. So, just thought I'd share my day. Here's a couple more pictures of Bailey, The Dog Who Lived.

This first picture is the Boxer Smile. She doesn't do that all the time, but it cracks us up when she does. She looks so dopey.
The second picture is Bailey and her friend Buster playing in our front yard. He comes to visit her every so often.


Thursday, August 18, 2005

The Wonders of a Blog

I found out yesterday that we missed seeing a friend of ours while we were in Ohio by mere days. HowEVER, if he had kept up with our Blog, he would have known when we were going to be there and we could have planned accordingly. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!! Cedar Point is much more fun when you go with a group of people, moron.

Anyway, you can definitely tell summer is almost over in Vermont. It got down to 46 last night. We went to bed with the windows open and we froze our tushes off. I'm sure the leaves will start changing anytime now. It's almost 11 am and still only 57 outside right now. BRRRR! I can do without the snow, but we're looking forward to seeing how Bailey does this winter. She doesn't even like to go outside when it's raining, lol. The other day, C was going to let her outside and she took one look and saw that it was raining and peed on the floor right in front of the door. So much for Boxers being a vicious breed of dog. The only people that would think that are people that have never actually been around one.

Well, time again to hit the books. Laters.

Thursday, July 28, 2005

More Pictures.


My nephew, Noel. Fresh out of the oven at 2 weeks old.


Baby Noel sleeping at my dad's.


Noel in his carseat.


Noel chillin' in his carseat.


Noel in his carseat.


C, Noel, and Bailey at my dad's.

Tuesday, June 28, 2005


Another picture of Bailey sleeping. She does a lot of that and in weird positions.

This is a cool picture I took last weekend. I just thought the way the sun was shining through that cloud was neat.

This is a picture of Bailey sleeping after her bath. She was shivering really bad, so we covered her up and she fell asleep like that.

Thursday, June 23, 2005

Just an FYI

I cancelled our Vonage phone account today. That's the 802-522-1038 number. The service sucks, so there ya go. We still have our cell phones though like always.

Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Warning!

I finally got our desktop up and running and was able to access my address book. Be forwarned that I had funny e-mails that I have just been waiting to forward on to everyone, hehehe. If you didn't get any, you were probably the one who sent them all to me, lmao.

This is, obviously, a rainbow. I took this after some rain we got last week. This is the view we have out the front of our house. Pretty nice, eh?

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Just Chillin'

With my new refrigerator!! It finally came today. 5 weeks with no refrigerator sucks royally let me tell ya. Our new one is super duper nice too. I had to wait all day for it to be delivered so we don't really have any food in it yet, but it'll hold tons and keep it all fresh. All we have to do is hook up the ice maker and water filter thingy and figure out how to shove it into the space where it goes, lol. Woohoo!

Monday, May 16, 2005


This is what was so interesting about our trip to New Hampshire. The color in the pic is a little off, but otherwise, we now own the same 4Runner.

Friday, May 06, 2005


Bailey checking out Chloe

Isn't she purrrty??

Military Spouse Appreciation Day

Military Spouse Appreciation Day: May 6, 2005 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Article by Arlene H. Hull Content provided by LIFELines

"If the military had wanted you to have a spouse, they would have issued you one." Remember those words? Well, that was then and this is now. America's military has realized and acknowledged the significance of the military spouse. In 1984 President Reagan proclaimed the Friday before Mother's Day of each year to be Military Spouse Appreciation Day. It is your day to stand up and be honored.

For the times you've stood and watched a ship sail from the harbor, an aircraft disappear into the clouds, or a truck convoy pull out of sight, not sure when they would return, we thank you.

For the countless household moves you've made from a place you know to one that's strange and different -- often by yourself -- we thank you.

For the families you've held together, for the anniversaries, birthdays, and holidays you've celebrated alone, we thank you.

For the hand you've extended to another military spouse when the need was there, truly creating a military family, we thank you.

For the spirit and strength you've shown when your service member has gone into harm's way, we thank you.

For the pride you've displayed while serving as an ambassador of the military spouse to the rest of the world, we thank you.

Far too frequently, the sacrifices and dedication of the military spouse have gone unnoticed and unappreciated. In our nation's recent history, thousands of service members have been placed in harm's way as they stood watch as freedom's guardian. You too have stood watch at home, facing challenges alone. You have waved flags and held banners high to express your support. You have kept the candles burning on the home front as a reminder of our deployed military.

You have made difficult sacrifices of your own, and have called upon your inner reserves to nurture family life so your service member can focus on the business at hand.

Even in times of relaxed alert status for our military, you have stood ready and alert for the slightest of signs, perhaps overlooked or ignored by your civilian counterparts, signaling a potential change in the status of our military forces. As a military spouse, you have willingly packed up and relocated countless times, and may have been separated from your own parents and siblings for several years at a time.

Quite often, you have been placed in an unfamiliar ethnic or cultural setting, or a remote location. You have met this challenge with confidence and pride, making your nation proud of you. By the same token, you have extended your hand and hospitality to visitors to our country.

A country cannot count itself strong by its armed services alone, but must also depend on its civilians. With military wives and husbands setting a superior example through devotion, courage, and commitment, we are a nation of strength.

Military spouses … stand tall, stand proud … we salute you, you are truly our unsung heroes.

Saturday, April 23, 2005

Updates

I just sent out our new phone number and mailing address in an email. I don't have all of my contacts on this computer and I haven't hooked up the other one yet, so if you didn't get it and want it, email me or call our cell phones and let me know. I'm not posting that info on here. That's it for now.

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Life at the New House

We're sorta settling in. I haven't unpacked too much because we're painting everything and I don't see the point in unpacking just to shove it all in the middle of the room and covering it with plastic. The kitchen isn't getting painted so it's mostly put back together. Half of the living room is almost painted so I'll be able to unpack and put some furniture away. We haven't picked out a color for the dining room yet or our bedroom. I've been so stinking busy lately. I've been ready for bed at 9 o'clock, lol. I'm covered in three different colors of paint and my hands are so sore from painting I can barely make a fist. I know, I know. It'll all be worth it when I'm done. Blah. I also started my next class today. Fun, fun.

Our weather has been absolutely great though. Not too hot, not too cold and the humidity is real low so the paint dries fast. It couldn't be more perfect. But get this, our fire danger is high. I thought we left all that behind when we moved from Cali. If Vermont burns down like San Diego did, we're moving to a swamp. There have already been several brush fires around the state.

Well, I'm gonna grab some breakfast and get started painting for the day.

Saturday, April 16, 2005

We Are Official Home Owners

We are completely moved into the new house. It took 3 days altogether to get all our junk moved. Closing on the house went smoothly. Getting all our stuff moved and getting the old house cleaned was a big pain though. The next time we move, I'm hiring a cleaning service. Our new house is awesome. We love it even with it being a jungle of boxes. We're sore, bruised and tired, but otherwise well. We're trying to get some r&r, so this is all the update you all are getting for now. Laters.

Wednesday, April 06, 2005

What a Nice Day

Too bad I had to spend it indoors packing. It actually got up to 63 here today. That's a veritable heat wave for Vermont. The girls are outside playing and enjoying the first truly nice day we've had so far this year. I, however, have spent the entire day running errands and packing. I will never again complain about TMO movers. They can break all my stuff just so long as I don't have to pack it. I've also been busy making calls. I've had to call U-Haul, the cable company, the trash company, the electric company. I still need to call someone about water and sewage but darned if I can find out who does that for here.

Stupid people. As I sit here typing, some idiot is sitting in the middle of the intersection waiting to drive through it. Umm. Doesn't it make more sense to wait behind the stop sign and let traffic through?? Idiots.

Anyway, I also still need to call the oil company to have our service switched. There is SOOO much to do when you're moving. There's things about this house I'm going to miss. Like, all the room, the deck, the huge yard, the creek that I can hear running out behind our house, our nice neighbor, the views, and our family room. I'm not going to miss the leaky sky lights, my rotten land lord, the mysterious smells that stink up the house from time to time, the flies, earwigs and hornets, the huge oil bill, the lousy fridge and stove, and the slanty floors. I suppose there's always going to be things that you love and hate about any house you live in. I just can't wait to get started on the decorating in the new house.

Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Daylight Savings Sucks

Why does one hour make so much difference in the morning?

I've been pretty busy packing lately. If someone wanted to pay for us to have movers, I wouldn't object, lol. I spent 7 hours on Saturday just in 2 rooms and didn't even get them all packed. We have so much junk. I need to learn to not be such a pack rat. So far so good with the house and loan and stuff though. We close in 9 days. Any birthday or holiday gifts should come in the form of Home Depot gift cards from now on, lol. We're gonna be spending some mad money in there in the next couple years.

We're still waiting on Spring. Almost all of our snow has melted. It's been raining like crazy here. Supposedly, it's going to get into the 60's tomorrow, but I'll believe it when I see it.

Other than house stuff and the weather, lol, nothing else has been going on at our house. Till next time...

Thursday, March 17, 2005

Home Again, Home Again...

We made it back safe and sound late Tuesday night. We're beginning to hate the drive from Vermont to Ohio. 14 hours in a car isn't fun no matter how you look at it. The girls made it to school yesterday despite being up so late the night before. They've missed so much school lately it's pathetic.

Domino went bye bye while we were gone. We don't miss him. He was a pain and didn't have half the personality that Chloe has. Chloe, however, is being a pain herself since we've been back. She always makes us pay for leaving her. She's been kicking her litter everywhere and dumping her food dish. She'll settle down after a couple of days, but until then she's going to drive me crazy.

This is the first day of the last week of my current class. I'll be so glad to get that class over with. It was boring as all get out. Being in Ohio made me fall behind, so I had a lot of catch up to do in one day.

Now, we're just trying to hash out a few things with the new house and get settled back into our regular routine.

One of the radio stations on the way back was having people call in with their favorite or most hated reality tv show. It made me realize that I like very few reality shows and couldn't pick just one that I hate the most. Who's with me? I can't stand any of the dating and marriage shows, Survivor, or American Idol. C and I both like Project Greenlight, Last Comic Standing and American Chopper. I like Wife Swap and Super Nanny. The people on those shows are so annoying, lol.

Something else we saw on the way home was that there is an Iwo Jima Memorial in Connecticut. We saw a sign for it and I looked it up on the internet to see what, exactly, it was. It looks neat and we'll have to stop there sometime.

Has anyone read The Da Vinci Code? Some Catholic cardinal is warning people against reading it, lol. I read it and enjoyed it and recommend it to others. Good thing I'm not Catholic I guess, heheh.

Anyway, Happy Saint Patrick's Day. Don't forget to wear your green.

Friday, March 11, 2005

Pictures and Other Things

I've posted some pictures of the house we're buying. There's more on the realtor's website, but I haven't posted those yet. So, starting from the top and working our way down, I'll explain what you're looking at.

The first picture is of the dining area. We're thinking of using it for an office area and putting the kitchen table next to the kitchen, behind the fireplace though. That's something we'll figure out for sure when we get our junk moved in. The light that you can sorta see at the top of the picture, we plan on replacing that with a ceiling fan light deal. I hate the one hanging there.

The second picture is of one of the bedrooms. They both basically look the same. One is going to be the girls' bedroom and the other will be their toy room since they've decided they want us to put their bunkbeds together and share a room again.

The third pic is the living room looking towards the front door and coat closet. The border will be the first thing to go and I plan on painting. What color? I haven't decided yet.

The next pic is the master bedroom looking at the closet. Again, I plan on painting that room too. Color has yet to be determined.

The next pic is the master bath. Across from the toilet is the shower and behind me is the oversized tub. I love that bathroom. The fixtures have to go though.

The next pic is the living room, I was standing back by the front door, looking towards the kitchen. In this angle, behind the fireplace is where we're thinking of putting the kitchen table.

Next is the laundry room.

Next is one of the girls' bedrooms again looking at the closet and out the door.

The last picture is the girls'/guest bathroom.

I think that's the grand tour basically. I'll post more pictures another time. We're getting ready to go to Ohio today when C gets off of work. Our grandfather passed away last night, so we'll be in Ohio for the funeral and stuff until Tuesday. So, I need to finish up cleaning the house and load the car so we can go as soon as C calls to say they're done with him. Till later.

Dining area.

Bedroom #2

Living room.

Master bedroom looking at the closet.

Master Bathroom.

Living room looking towards hall and kitchen.

Laundry room.

Bedroom #2

This is the second bedroom from the back corner, looking towards the door so that you can see the closet.

The girls'/guest bathroom.

This is a shot of the second bathroom. Other than replacing the fixtures, this room will pretty much stay the same.

Thursday, March 03, 2005

Saturday, February 12, 2005

Random Pictures

Can ya tell we have fun with the new digi camera?

Domino contemplating jumping, lol.

Chloe likes to pretend she's a cat.

Domino gettin' cozy with his Mickey Mouse.

Our Snow Storm

Some more pictures. This time it's the storm we got on Wednesday night and all day Thursday. We got a foot, or something like that, of snow. It took C an hour to dig out and that was with the help of our neighbor and their snow blower. Today, C dug our car out of the driveway so that I could go grocery shopping. Gotta love Vermont. Also, in almost all those pictures, you should be able to see mountains in the distance but it was snowing so hard you could barely see anything at all.

The road in front of our house. You can sorta tell where it is, lol.

Looking down the street with our car covered in snow in the foreground.

Snow

Looking out back off of the deck.

Our backyard.

This is looking across the street in front of our house.

Monday, January 31, 2005

Modern Marvels

We just got a digital camera this weekend, so I thought I'd post some pictures that I took today. Hope you all like them.


This is Domino. We just got him this past Saturday. He's a cuddle bunny.

This is what it looks like outside the back of our house.

This is Chloe, our bunny we've had since June.

Wednesday, December 15, 2004

PSA and Other Stuff

I got my first call from a telemarketer on my cell phone tonight. Do yourselves a favor and go to www.donotcall.gov to register your cell phone numbers if you haven't already.

As for everything else, we're all doing ok here in Vermont. Snow, snow, snow, but that's just Vermont. The girls are having a great time playing in it this year. We got them a coupla sleds so they go out almost everyday sledding in our backyard.

We got our Christmas tree up and decorated. I just love it. It's huge, lol. I named it Jose, heheh. No, I wasn't drinking eggnog at the time either. I have most of my shopping done, which is more than I can say most years at this time. I haven't wrapped anything yet though, lol. We're having a hard time keeping Chloe out of our tree and the presents that are already under there. I've had to re-wrap two presents so far. She also scoots her cage so that it's up against the tree so that she can chew the branches through her cage, lol. She just as bad as a dog.

I can't think of too much else that's going on. I mainly was posting because of the do not call thing. I hate telemarketers. I'm thinking I hear an echo anyway. So, I'm done for now. Laters.

Monday, November 01, 2004

Halloween P.S.

Here's a little post Halloween fun.

http://members.home.nl/saen/Special/Zoeken.swf


Feel free to thank me for it.

Karma...It'll Bite You in the Ass

The title doesn't really have a purpose. It's just something to remember.

Anyway, the girls had a great Halloween. Their costumes and makeup turned out great. We drove to an actual neighborhood so they'd have houses to go to. There aren't enough places in our little rinky dink town for them to walk to, lol. But, they got the goods and had fun so Halloween was a success this year.

This time change deal is for the birds. I don't like being tired at 10pm, lol. I almost wish we lived in Indianapolis or Arizona where they're smart enough not to have daylight savings time.

The elections are tomorrow. Everyone ready to vote and for the ad campaigns to stop???? I sure am. The Redskins lost last night. Anyone know how that relates to the presidential elections? Kinda interesting and scary if you're hoping Bush wins.

C got his promotion today. He's officially a Staff Sergeant now. I didn't get to go to the "ceremony" cuz I would've had to take the girls out of school and stick my neighbor with having to find someone to watch her daughter, but from what C said, I didn't miss anything. His command sucks dog crap. What else needs to be said?

Now, I gotta get Sid ready for the bus. So, that's that. I hope everyone is still keeping up with the Blog...

Friday, October 15, 2004

Hello

Nothing much to say, just trying to be more consistent. Ummmm, let's see. Can you all believe the gas prices?? I just paid $2.02 today. Geez.

Wanna hear something funny?? I got a letter today from C's CO congratulating me on his selection to Staff Sergeant. I just thought that was funny cuz it's his promotion, not mine. Oh well.

That's it I guess, lmao. Oh one last thing to Jennifer. Spooky Slots is back at Pogo, heheh. I know you probably don't have time for it, but it brings back memories. ANYwayyyy, that's it. Laters.