christmas

well christmas this year was great, i was most excited to give my presents this year because i got such ones. I gave ryan a home brew beer making kit....he was very surprised. And i gave my parents 12 new pages to their scrapbook. fun fun. i had made a page of poopsie cause cath forgot her in her christmas letter....and when i showed ryan he was like oh you really want to make her cry. well she did cry, but it only took the first page :) hee hee

i'm watching my laguna beach season 1 dvds now.... i had missed a bunch of them i realized. i got lots of goodies.

we got home last night about 8, after a full day of shopping... i slept in until 10:30 i think. it was so nice. i have tomorrow off too. this week is going to be so nice, i have to work thursday and friday half days. noone will be there friday either.

threats dont work

well my cookie party was fun. the cookie party I do here with my friends family. Her father is 1 of 12 brothers and sisters and they have adopted me into some of their family traditions. so it was my friend and all her aunts and a few cousins. but normal cookie parties work where everyone makes a cookie (8 dozen if there are 8 people) and you bring the cookies and exchange them. However this party is a little different because everyone goes to one persons house and makes the cookies together. a few people make them and bring them but only like 2 people. I brought mine this year because its very time oriented and I burnt myself bad one year. so a crowded kitchen and boiling sugar doesnt mix. I helped with all the other cookies though. and we do a ornament exchange.

that was my Sunday.... Friday night was fun we went to a xmas party and ryan actually drove. they only had blue light for light beers and I hate blue light but I suffered through with a smile :). I was really good with the eating there, didnt overindulge at all. but then we met two of my friends out at a bar and we went to the P Club, and they were having a xmas party of their own. Being a little drunk, all inihibitions flew in the wind, and I gorged on jalapeno poppers, cookies, chicken nuggets and who knows what else.... agh.

waiting

well I am waiting to leave work, but ryan and I carpooled and he is stuck at work.... its Friday and I am ready to go home. my puppies are waiting for their walk.

We have a christmas party to go to tonight, should be a good time. usually lots of work people go. the fun ones not the ones I dread.

Bad weather is coming tonight though we should get over a foot of snow. I think we got almost a foot last night. Hopefully the weather will be good on Thursday for when we drive up to syracuse.

I have to make butter crunch all day tomorrow. I am going to my cookie party on Sunday and I need to bring 8 dozen I think. oops I forgot to ask how many. I made a batch last night- it was good.

Just finishing up a few christmas presents and I think I am all done. We didnt do too bad this year as far as spending too much. I cant wait to give ryan his christmas present I think he is going to be soooo surprised.

How well do you know U.S. Geography?

this was on the amazing race- see how well you can do. I got 90%

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html

alright alright

jees I've been too busy to get the pictures up on the web. but I will do it tonight. I can show everyone the new couch we got from a guy ryan works with. only $75. its a very nice couch, the only downside to it is that the family we got it from is asian and the couch smells like chinese food and becky keeps mentioning chinese food on her blog and thats what I keep craving!

the weekend was eventful. I got to drive drunk people home on Friday. very humerous. I have never seen jr so drunk. the bouncer at the bar had the same b-day as jr so they did shots of patron.... then sarah and them did one. I think they had tequila in the car too. Jr pushed sarah in the snow bank on the way to the car so she was not happy. other than that not too eventful....

Saturday we stayed in and watched all our tv shows oh and went and got our couch. Sunday we went to the bar at 1:30 and started drinking. :) strange I drank from 1:30 till about 5:30 but I really dont think I ever got drunk. a waste of all those calories. :(

weekend update

well the weekend was a lot of fun. Friday night we went to dinner with Ryan's parents then watched all the TV shows we had missed during the week. Survivor was great. I loved how pissed judd got.... "scumbags.....you're all a bunch of scumbags" I can't wait to see what he does at the jury. unbelievable how pissed he got b/c they lied to him. I wish they played the clip of him saying he will lie to anyone about anything b/c this is a game to win a million dollars.
Saturday I put up some more xmas decorations and put up the last of the lights then we went to the st bonaventure basketball game. we were suppose to meet some friends out at a bar afterwards for a drink. well they didn't even end up going out and we ended up staying out until 2 am!! it was a lot of fun though. I felt pretty crappy Sunday but not near as bad as thanksgiving day. yesterday we watched the end of the season 1 of veronica mars. I am going to start wrapping Christmas presents today I think.

Japan here I come!

I got it today too. I got it yesterday too. I love puzzles like that. my brain was actually used at work.

well I think it has poured here since 9 am...there is going to be some flooding. I was warned when I go in the parking lot to be careful because the water is close to a foot deep.

I will put my pictures up tonight. last night I was so deeply involved in veronica mars dvds. ryan and I watch 4 of them I think. shows are much fast on dvd- no commercials, it was like 40 minutes. it is a very good series if anyone is looking for one. nancy drew type. I love it.

tonight is the real world reunion, I cant wait. it looked really good- people confront lacey and her trash talking. I cant wait to see what she says about it.

whoops

guess you need the directions in english, like the forward I got had: sorry!

Click on link, and then click on the big blue circle. Use the rules below.

Apparently this is an IQ test given to job applicants in Japan:

"Everybody has to cross the river".

The following rules apply:

Only 2 persons on the raft at a time
The father can not stay with any of the daughters, without their mother's
presence
The mother can not stay with any of the sons, without their father's
presence
The thief (striped shirt) can not stay with any family member, if The
Policeman is not there
Only the Father, the Mother and the Policeman know how to operate the raft
To start click on the big blue circle on the right.
To move the people click on them.
To move the raft click on the pole on the opposite side of the river.
You do this right - you can land a job in Japan!

fun site

http://freeweb.siol.net/danej/riverIQGame.swf

bad challenge news

well my update is bad...i gained .6... and it wasnt even thanksgiving week!! I dont even want to weigh in next week. I think I am going to suck it up and go weigh in today. I think they have a meeting at 10:30 am so I am going to try and make that weigh in. then I dont have to worry about it this week.

monday

so its Monday and most of our first shift is off for the "killing season". its been nice though a whole bunch of new people are working. hopefully things go smoothly this week. everytime my supervisor has been off we have had a crash.

Me and two of my friends drove 30 minutes to smethport, PA yesterday to go to a christmas store that is suppose to be fabulous. but when we got there, there were big signs saying they were quitting the business and having a sale. there was a couple outside the door looking all confused- the store were closed from yesterday till Friday for inventory and pricing changes. and they had all sorts of cute peanuts character christmas stuff. so I couldnt wait to get in. we were soooo pissed.

ryan got his deer yesterday. a 6 point. for those of you city dwellers that means there were 6 antler points. and thankfully I didnt have to see it. I did see some organ in my fridge though. hopefully ryan has eaten it by now. he has the week off.

saturday

also known as "not getting dressed day" its 5 pm and i am still in my pajamas. i got up at 9:30 and watched reunion and young and the restless, that i had DVR'd. then i started cleaning. i talked to cath for a while and rearranged the spare bedroom. so much nicer. alot more room. and i put one of the nightstands in the newly organized closet so now its like at a hotel, you can put yoru suitcase on it in the closet. then i moved on the basement (and talked to becky) i got my scrapbook/card making area pretty much cleaned. well the best i can. then i organized the basement and put stuff away. it still is a mess but i got alittle done.

i pulled out my christmas lights cause i want to get them up. i cant believe how behind i am with lights, so many people already turn theirs on!!

ryan is out today for a kill...first day of shotgun...its almost dark and he hasnt come home yet....so i dont think he killed one. he would be home early if he got one. i already told him if he kills a doe or more than one buck i would call the police. (its illegal) he must be so happy he married me :)

challenge update

So I weighed in last night at the gym and its one of those slide scales so I don't know the true accuracy, but I lost 1.2 lbs this week. so far doing good. I didn't eat all of my flex points last week so I think that is good.
I need to save all of them for the month for next week :). So that is 3.2 total, I just need 6.8 to go. I'm still not back in the ww circle yet though. so I am either going to have to weigh in wed BEFORE thanksgiving or risk it and go after thanksgiving.... hmmm. decisions decisions.

So I took Patty to the vet this week and she needs a teeth cleaning. (I guess thats whats causing her bad breath). but the vet quoted me between $215 and $530... yeah, almost going to happen. I called the two other vets in the area and I have gotten much better prices. I think I have found a new vet too. I don't need to be ripped off. Plus this cost has motivated me to start brushing linus's teeth. apparently small dogs are more prone to these teeth problems.

While I was at the vet another dog had to put to sleep. why is it my luck to always be there when this happens?? luckily it wasn't a Pomeranian this time. I felt so bad though, the people didn't have the $1000-$1500 to pay for the surgery. Little did they know it would have cost probably half that anywhere else. They didn't look like they had too much anyways, so it might not have mattered.

shelves

Today we got the shelves put up in the spare bedroom. finally. i painted them today and need one more coat on them, and hopefully tomorrow i can get all the stuff put away and organized. Yesterday we got the office all organized and clean. i can't believe how much bigger it is now. so nice. our cleaning is coming along nicely. we still have the basement to do but that won't be too much. Becky did you want to sleep down there?

Last night I went to dinner with CF and NF at the beef n barrel. It was so good, I hadn't been there in forever.


I cant wait for the Goblet of Fire this friday. we are going friday night. i cant wait. the commercials are getting me so excited.

challenge

so a friend of mine was telling me how her and two other people are doing their own "weigh in" instead of going to ww meetings. each week they weigh in and pay $5, but in may whoever has lost the most weight wins all the money. don't you think we should add money to the challenge? but we could do highest % lost? what do you guys think? money is always a good motivator I think.

JARHEAD

so Saturday we did get to see it, Oh it was soooo good. JG is so gorgeous and half naked most of the movie, all naked some of the movie. Its def. not for children. and to my surprise there were quite a few in the theater. Lots of other cuties in the movie too, including lucas black (aka Pee Jo in crazy in alabama). A very interesting fact I learned from the movie was that during the time when the lit all the oil fields on fire it actually rained oil all over. that was crazy. they showed a horse that was running in the desert completely covered in oil.

we cleaned like crazy people yesterday. I have made of list of things we have to clean before our thanksgiving guests come. and we have lots to do. I also cleaned out our garage on Saturday. well took all the stuff that goes in the basement down there. my goal is to get my green bug sideways in the garage so I can park my yellow one in there during the winter.

baby cow

last  night when we went to go to dinner and see jarhead - we were driving on our road and there were 2 cars pulled over with their hazards on right in front of the farm where all the cows are. we i almost hit 3 women and a baby cow. apparently he got loose and was in the road. it was quite a site to watch them try and  pull the cow that did not want to go where they were taking it. ryan jumped out and went to see if they were home but they werent. as ryan was coming back from the house the guy pulled in that owns them. He didnt seem too concerned, he told them to "let her go, she'll be ok" then called her like a dog. too funny.

 

 

well we went to dinner and then went to the movie. we got there 5 minutes after the movie started and there was a long line, but i didnt think anything of it. but it was SOLD OUT!!! i was so pissed. the only thing i had planned for the weekend. agh. anyways i think we are going to go back tonight and try and see it.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Everyone missed Hello Kittys Birthday on Tuesday!

She is 31 this year!!!

finally Friday...

I think I have been saying that for months now.... work isnt as fun with this new job. much more stressful. I think I need to be meaner. I just got the book from carolyn (on apprentence) I should start reading it this weekend.

Tonight we are going to see jarhead (love that jake gylenhall...) I cant wait. I think it looks so good. other than that I dont have too many plans. I am going to keep working on my cards. and no becky you need to make your own.... I get my new stamps tomorrow too. they are being delivered.

ryan ordered us a plow this week, so now this winter we can plow ourselves. see now I really dont need a 4 wheel drive car. we have a 4 wheeler for that.

I'm excited this weekend I can take down all my halloween decorations and start getting my christmas ones out. I love decorating the house.

halloween

oh I forget the wonderful news, we had 2 trick-or-treaters.... it was 8:00 and I was all sad that we didnt get any....cursing where we live again...and about 8:10 the dogs went nuts and they do it all the time so I ignored them, finally ryan got up and there were our neighbors all dressed up. we have never met them before (they live near us, but not that close) then about 9 ss, ts, as all stopped by. AS was dressed up as pooh dressed as a bee. it was so cute.

I have been diligently making christmas cards all week. its so fun. I could go into business doing it. wait till you all get them, you'll love them :)