new steps

yesterday we spent all day building our steps- well fixing the broken railing. it would have cost us $500 if we wanted to do brick, so we opted for this. i even was allowed to help.

Saturday

well my week is finally over, thank god. I went to bed about 9:45 last night and slept til 7:30 this morning. I had to get up early cause I had to take the pups to get their haircut. I'll post some pictures. then I went shopping for the lasagna I am going to make tonight. oh becky I got some of that tofu crumbles you were talking about. I am going to put it in the lasagna and see if ryan notices...



then I got back and watched some tv before picking up the babies. now I think I am going to take a nap. I'm pooped. I wanted to make some christmas presents today but I don't have all the supplies. I have to go get them tomorrow.

precious portville

sorry luanne- i didnt mean to be so offensive, i'll try to be more sensitive.

um, well i finally got to a computer today, i am doing a kaizen event at work this week. should be helpful for our production. like cath said i'm the "project leader" so i have to do well or i could be fired. so anyways i wont be able to be on the computer at all during the work day- until friday. but i'll be so swamped i wont get to email. so call me instead this week.

i got the cutest hello kitty halloween basket from my mom this weekend. i'll post a picture tomorrow.

crappy - the word of the day

its so crappy out today- cold and rainy. we finally turned our heat on two days ago- but it is sooo cold in here. today i am going to go into work and then tonight i am going out cause its my friend CF's birthday. i havent been out in forever.... i am not looking forward to how crappy i am going to feel tomorrow. i want to go buy batman begins today too.




















yesterday ryan and i took the dogs on a walk and i decided we should turn up this one road where a dog attacked me before (i was alone with both patty and linus) i figured it would be okay since it was ryan and i. but right as we got near this house 2 dogs started running after us and the old man that owns them starts yelling for the dogs but they dont listen. both of them were jumping up on me- one i know bite my arm. patty was going bizerk in my arms. it was terrible. the old man meanders out finally and trys to get them. saying "they've never done this before" when one of them ran after me a year ago. anyways we finally get away and we see this big black dog coming down the road and when get near her patty goes bizerk again. (she had a very stressful walk) but the woman must have heard all the commotion with the attack cause she told us that her dog had been bite twice by those dogs. agh. but we live in east bumf- and there is no leash laws- so you cant even have the dogs tied up. pain. needless to say i will never walk up that road again.

out of the circle still

no I did not get within my lifetime goal limits, infact I gained!!! I dont know whats wrong with me. Bec- what is your contest again? I think I want to be in it too.

Did anyone watch without a trace last night? it was really good. I'm trying to cutback on my shows but it is too hard. I'll list all the shows I watch

Monday-
Laguna Beach

Tuesday-
Gilmore Girls
Real World

Wednesday-
One tree hill
Apprentence - martha
Dangerous Minds
CSI: NY

Thursday-
The OC
Reunion
Survivor
CSI
Without a Trace

Sunday-
Cold Case
Desperate Housewives

Thats 13 hours a week- I think thats too much

cpr-aed

yesterday I got 4 hours of training on CPR and AED. so now I can use one of those shocking machines just like on tv. I didn't realize how simple those things were.

I have to go to first aid training next week, agh. thats the stuff that makes me want to puke.... just the training, let alone I actually had to use it.

I have to go back to ww again tonight... I'm terrified that I have to pay AGAIN, no I am sure I am going to have to pay. what is wrong with me?! why cant I lose these few lbs like I used to be able to do?!

I also have to go to a leadership community event thing tonight. I'm going to apply to be in it for next year. its a once a month meeting thing where you are in groups with people from all different companies in olean trying to make the community better, more prosperous. I hope it doesn't go too long though cause I haven't eaten or drank since noon and I think I am going to be famished and grouchy.

crafty lady weekend

this weekend I was crafty lady... I cant go into too much detail though cause I made some presents... but Saturday morning I went to stamp camp in portville and made 3 xmas cards, a mini scrapbook, and a gift bag. then I came home and did my secret crafty job. it turned out very nice. Its something I saw when I went to letchworth state park last weekend that I said "oh I can do that" and low and behold I did! now I am going to make more to give as presents.

Friday night Ryan got my bug fixed (green). I even got to drive it today. so exciting. however I did have to listen to some of ryans drunk friends talk to me for about 15 minutes on batteries... how I need a new one even though its not dead- what a difference it is going to make, what brand I should buy, what color the writing is on the battery, which store carries which brand... the list could go on and on, but I wont torture you like I was.

Sunday I pretty much cleaned and sat on the couch and slept. our shower is now clean, I hate the hard water we have- it turns our shower curtain orange and makes me feel dirty when I get out of the shower.

finances

So becky you can finally rest at ease... ryan and i now share our
money, all in one account. this is a pain though having to change all
of my online banking accounts... agh. and i have to use up all of my
hello kitty checks. and order more!!! ryans name is going to be on a
hello kitty check, hee hee.

holes (again)....

well this sucks, i emailed to the wrong place and it didnt post.

ugh. anyways i finally finished the hole patchwork in our living room. so exciting. i'll put a picture up. cath you'd be so proud.... it only took 6 months. and i should emphasize I because i did everything, cut the dry wall, mudded it (twice), sanded it, primed it, painted it, and put the cover back on. and nothing got broken in the process... just took a while. doesnt it look nice?



i got to interview a candidate today at work, it was strange i have never interviewed anyone and they didnt give me a format or questions or anything. but i think it went ok- well since i have nothing to compare it to it went great..

green bug

So last night ryan and I tried to get the green bug going, so we pulled it out of the garage with the 4-wheeler and pushed it down the hill towards our neighbors houses and ryan put it in 2nd and it started for a second but then stalled out. I dont think he was going fast enough. it was funny though, then we had to pull it back up the hill with the 4-wheeler.... our neighbors must think we are quacks.

went to the parkwood for dinner last night, it was yummy. they do chicken wings and tenders on Tuesday nights.

Does anyone watch CSI: NY? I missed the very end of the episode and wanted to know if they fired an agent....

Car fixes

Well I dropped my car off at my garage this morning and they call me around 10 to tell me that they are having trouble getting parts and they are going to need my car for a few days. :( if only my green bug still worked... I might have to try and get it to start tonight.

anyways my cylinders are misfiring because they think its a bad coil and they can't get any parts as of yet.... once they fix that they are going to try and figure out the transmission problem. AGH. she didnt think it would cost THAT much, the parts anyways.

baseball is no fun now, I dont think I am even going to watch anymore.

car troubles

well this was a bad weekend for cars at underwood lane.

first off i went to the letchworth craft show on saturday morning. very cold and rainy out- but overall was a good time. and i got some cute stuff.

well i get home and ryan, junior and pudge are working on ryans truck, about an hour later ryan comes inside and says his truck is done - but it shakes a little at 50-60 mph. and pudge told him to live with it. (good mechanic, anyone want his number for your cars??) so jr and pudge are working on jr truck- they need a part, so they take ryans truck to olean. about 10 minutes later the phone rings and ryans drive shaft fell off while they were driving it. So ryan takes my bug (that i had just driven and it was driving perfectly fine) and goes down to bring them tools to fix it. well my bug comes back in the driveway for 2.5 seconds and then speds off. 15 minutes later i get a call from ryan asking me if my car was shaking when i drove it earlier. (it hadnt) apparently it just goes bad sometimes. so 2 hours later they get home and ryans truck is still broken. they have to wait until sunday to get a part from a store. so they go to close up the garage and my electric garage door opener wont close. agh. my conclusion for the day: dont let them anywhere near your stuff.

meanwhile my car is shaking at speeds from 0-39 and its not shifting gears. the mechanic (pudge) says its bad gas. ???

needless to say i have an appointment tomorrow with my REAL garage.

pom halloween

oh arent my babies the cutest???

yucky

oh i feel pretty sick this morning... after my wonderful day at my unmentioned job i decided to open the bottle of champange i bought on the wine tour and before i knew it i had drank the whole thing! so today i am not feeling so good.

i got to watch all but tribal council on survivor last night. what a good twist i thought.

work sucks

work sucks. This has been the worst week almost (maybe the second worst). people are just such a pain around here. not doing their own jobs because they are to busy butting their noses into everyone elses. I need a day off.

good tv is on tonight, cant wait. i had to tape dangerous minds and csi:ny last night cause i was too tired. i think i am going to cancel my netflix subscription cause i havent watched one in almost 3 weeks. its a waste of money right now. too many good shows on tv.

the stupid red sox lost again last night, i dont think they are going to make it....

fired

oh i forgot too- in our paper yesterday was a huge article about blogs and how a lot of people are being fired because of what they say on their blog.... just a warning to some people....

monday...

well it was such a nice quiet weekend for once...
i cleaned alot on saturday- the dog hair was over taking us... unfortunately i forgot to take my allegra and had a horrible allergy attack and was so exhausted the rest of saturday and alot of sunday. i got alot of cleaning done though, i was very impressed. ryan worked on the shed, it is almost all done (not done done) but the siding is done. there are still no doors... I'll send out some pictures dont worry.

i was in our office saturday cleaning when i noticed a noise coming from the attic and a watermark looking stain on the ceiling. well i sent ryan up there yesterday and its a huge bees nest in our attic. ryan sprayed them with our wasp/hornet spray but i think we need to do it again. crazy bees, seem to just love me this summer.

sucks that i had that dumb, cant move her feet, brianna

dr appt day

Well today I had to go to my yearly gyno exam...fun fun. but when I went to the doctors office the power went out like 4 minutes after I got inside. and of course with such a computer reliant place I couldn't even register. I waited like 10-15 minutes and no one knew what was going on, but apparently half of olean had power out. so the lights come on and they just hand fill out a paper because the system is still not up. so I go over to my dr's waiting area and a woman comes out of the office and was like "yeah atleast you didn't have to have your exam using flashlights" how terrible, to be in one of the dr's office (no windows) when the power went out. I am glad my appt was just 15 minutes earlier.... so then when I get back to work there is a message from my dentist saying they have an opening in the afternoon if I could make it. then they drilled on my filling that has been bothering me with out any novacaine!! it didn't hurt at all but the whole time I was wincing just incase he hit my real tooth and not the filling. not fun.

we had crazy wind this morning- when I woke up I looked out the window and it looked like you were in a car wash- the rain was that consistent and horizontal. I was afraid to let linus and patty out, thought they might get blown away...

weigh in day

yeah this past weekend was not good for my diet....i think i ate every cracker that was put in front of me, cheesey poofs at wills, garlic wings at crossroads, and a dozen beers.... oh its going to be bad tonight.

dishwasher mechanic

so last night we finally decided to tackle the dishwasher.... we have been hand-washing dishes since the 15th (and it sucks!). incase no one knew while i was gone in atlanta ryan started the dishwasher and we were out of dishwasher detergent so he put regular dish soap in. well it foamed all out the door and then wouldnt drain. well it wasnt till last night that i remembered he had put regular detergent in. but we took apart the drain hose and checked for clogs. then i said why dont we just try to run it again- thats when foam started coming out of the sides again. turns out that you just have to scoop out the suds and keep trying. mental note to ryan: do NOT use anything but dishwasher detergent.

so now our dishwasher works again!!!!

my tape for desperate housewives did not tape- i'm pretty pissed. if anyone has it on tape and it can get to me before sunday i would greatly appreciate it.

i got all my halloween decorations up last night- the house looks so cute. my neighbor loves the ghosts i put in my garden. i still have my pumpkin lights to put up on the porch but i might do that tonight. i was pouring rain most of yesterday and last night.