bats!!!!!!

we got home tonight after taking the old bug to the ice cream place and our neighbor came running over to tell us that they just saw 5 bats fly out from between our house and chimney. Ryan couldnt believe it so we stood there for a few minutes and i finally saw 2 more fly out!! It was horrible! So then we came in and checked on the internet and apparently ryan thinks that all the mouse "poop" was really bat poop, which is very dangerous to humans. UGH its horrible!!! so ryan called the pest control guy and it is going to be quite extensive for them to be removed. why us??? last summer we had bees...and apparently bats too.

i got burnt today on the march of dimes walk. the girls made the walk no problem, i was so impressed. It was such a nice weekend. yesterday we went to home depot and got all the supplies to finish the shed and garage. so exciting. ryan starting painting the shed doors today and i got a new shelf painted and into the basement. we need to get the shed/garage finished in time for our bbq.

anyways the guy that is going to remove the bats is coming here tuesday....wish us luck

Sunday

Well its sunday night, we got alot done this weekend. Friday night we watched brokeback mountain. i liked it alot, ryan thought it was different than he had expected. but he didnt hate it. he was actually somewhat mature during the movie...i was surprised. i did think it was better than becky had made it out to be.

saturday we went to wellsville to get ryans trailer. then we got a roller from ryans grandfather so we could roll our lawn. then saturday i made a texas sheet cake for ryans moms birthday which was today. we then went out to the parkwood for a few drinks and ended up staying until midnight.

Today we cleaned up the house because we had ryans family over for his moms birthday. they are redoing their kitchen so they cant cook anything. ryan made ritzy chicken, it was very good. the texas sheet was so good. i sent most of it with people who left though. noone got less than 4 pieces. hope you liked it cath and mike.

Tuesday we have our first leadership catt session. it is my groups turn to host the session...i'm kind of nervous cause i have to doing the opening message. but atleast i will get mine over and i will be able to enjoy some of the day.

SPONSOR ME!!!

its for the babies remember....

next weekend I am going to walk with the babies on a 6 mile walk....and yes they can make it. if you would like to sponsor me please do!!!!

this is the link:

http://www.walkamerica.org/CooperOlean

sugar withdrawl

My body is revolting against me since not everything going in it is sugar.... I ate so much candy this weekend. Luckily when we got home last night Ryan ate all of the whoppers so I couldn't.

we had a very fun weekend in Syracuse, we went bowling Friday night. after two games though everyone but my dad stopped playing so I had to bowl for 7 people...in two lanes. I was pooped after another game. a girl at the bowling alley had a pink hello kitty ball!! I was so jealous. Got lots of shopping done too. we got 3 beer kits so we can make some more beer. We need to drink some of the Irish stout we made, I think we have only drank 2 bottles of it.

Last night when we got home we raked some of the stones out of our yard that the plow had pushed during the winter. I HATE that job. pisses me off so bad, b/c the plow guy doesn't have to ever rake so what does he care where he pushes the stones. I think we are going to put a little fence up for decoration so that the plow can't go so far into our yard.

for some reason I seem to have extra time at work today...I must be forgetting to do something. hmmm I'll probably find out tomorrow what it was.

shock

i cant believe they voted austin off. i was so convinced that bruce would vote for aras. i dont like that bruce. i hope they vote him off next. terry should have given him the idol before the vote. atleast he is on the jury. it was a good survivor though.

so i just found out that nicoles wedding and my friend from college are getting married on the same day....a few miles from each other. what are the chances of that?! now i have to decide which one to go to. ha ha!!! (kidding nicole)

i finally found a good enough picture of linus, i'll put it up one of these days. i am going to start painting it soon. becky the paper i have is canvas paper, does it matter what side i paint on?

no plans this weekend, kind of nice. especially when we look at our summer schedule, its going to be nuts. starting in may.

A Bug's Life

so. I decided to take the bug out for a "spin" I figured that it wont stay running in the garage because it needs to get going and moving in order to warm up. I was wrong. way wrong. I drove it down the hill and shifted into 2nd and started to turn in the culdasac. when I heard a bang and it stalled. of course I was at the bottom of the hill and couldn't get it going again. And btw ryan wasn't home to help me. so I went back to the house and got the 4-wheeler and dragged it back up to the driveway, I didn't think it all the way through though. I backed into the driveway and the bug didn't want to turn cause the wheels weren't turned. so I pulled it into the driveways bank and got into the bug to get the brake on. Somehow I finally got the bug back into the garage. I cut my hands all up on the wench and cursed the bug up and down. I definitely think the 4-wheeler was worth buying now though.... my neighbors must get a good laugh out of me.

tuesday

does anyone watch the unit? it is so good- everyone should watch it. its about this secret department in the army that goes on secret missions and basically doesnt exist. i dont understand though why we would give the general public all this info. cause all our tv shows are watched in other countries. then we wonder why we get bombed.
anyways its on tonight and i love it.

I have been trying to get my bug running for 2 days now...no luck. i got my new battery in hoping it would be the fix...knowing that it wouldnt be though. and it wasnt. maybe tomorrow i can get some help. i need to have the oil changed too but i will leave that to my mechanic.

patty had her teeth cleaned yesterday and it was only $80. i think fayetteville is trying to rip people off when they clean their dogs teeth.

sick

i'm still sick, i slept most of the day...it was so nice. we had our leadership retreat this weekend. ryan and i are both doing a leadership program for the county. there are 22 people in the program and its 10 months long. we go once every month now for 9 months. i think its going to be a great resume addition. plus i will learn lots about the area...and hopefully not be so negative about it all the time.

so not much has been going on lately. i got my carb back in the bug but i still need to do some adjustments. next saturday i can take it out on the road, as long as its not salty. i have a few things i need to buy for it, a new battery is the main thing. this bug is much easier to change the battery thank god.

patty is going in for her teeth cleaning tomorrow, i'm hoping it wont break the bank. shes had no food or water since noon. poor baby. i think i finally found a 'paintable' picture of linus. i seriously took about 140 pics to get it. she is just not photogenic like patty. half of them have her tongue sticking out. i never realized how often she does that.

st pattys day

tomorrow is such a good day. i'm so excited, i am taking a half day of vacation. ryan and I are getting out at 11, going to the Y then going to lunch and drink drink drink. i think its going to be a sloppy night. fun fun. i am bringing my beeleybop's to wear. which reminds me - becky you never wore the ones i got you in vegas! how rude........

i have been so busy at work i havent had a moment to catch up on the blog. so last weekend we went to albany for nicoles house warming party. so fun.

patty got groomed today, i had them cut her butt and legs a little shorter this time cause she sometimes gets some unmentionables on her butt hair, cause its so long. she looks a little ridiculous right now, kindof like a mindy butt- but it will grown in.

ryan tried our irish tout tonight- after he broke a bottle in the basement, agh. wasting our precious beer. it tastes pretty good, kinda like the IPA though :) tomorrow when i drink the real stuff i should be able to tell better. its been forever since i have had a guiness though.

oscars!!

tonight is the oscars, i am excited. i hope jake g wins for brokeback mountain. oh i am pissed. i read in the paper last sunday that brokeback mountain was coming to wellsville movie theater so i asked ryan if we could go on saturday and he actually said yes. so i was so excited. well yesterday he called to see what time it was showing and last thursday was its last night!! so upset. i missed my chance to see it.

it has been a very busy week for me, a guy i work with is out for 3 days and so i am doing extra work, plus its a busy time anyways. ugh. i went in today for a few hours.

ryan and i are going to bottle our latest beer- an irish stout tomorrow. hopefully it is ready by st pattys day.

more vegas

okay soooo.......

tuesday we watched the view and then shopped and went sight seeing.
we spent forever in the forum shops. lots of really high end stores
which we only window shopped but it was fun.

tuesday night we went to dinner at margaritaville and sat outside and
it was freezing. we thought drinking lots would help- but it didnt.
just got me drunk. i slept for an hour after we did sparklers off the
balcony in beckys room. then went back down to the casino to gamble
with ryan and my mom until 2 in the morning. it was fun- i won $3
that night.

overall i lost lots. wednesday night we went to see O - cirque de
soliel. it was awesome. it was a water based show.

having to go back to work friday wasnt as bad as i thought it would
be, i am pretty much caught up so that tomorrow should be back to
normal. i hope so cause i have to leave early to go to an aerobics
class. i need to get back into going to the gym. ryan gained 4.5 lbs
over our vacation, i didnt even weigh in, i was too afraid.

yesterday we brewed our irish stout beer, hopefully it will be ready
by st patricks day. and i took apart my bugs carbuerator. i am going
to put it back together today. it has been soaking in cleaning
solution all night.

oh ryan and i went to see eight below last night- it was so sad. the
huskies are so cute and reminded me of poopsie too much. the movie is
only a little sad if you havent recently had to put your husky to
sleep. if i ever get another dog it will be a husky.

home

we got home thursday night just in time for survivor.

vegas was so fun. we jammed so much stuff in. i am going to get the pictures up on the internet today and i will send them out. we got to vegas monday morning about 11. we had no problems getting there, thank god. not sure i really like the way southwest does things. cause if you are late then you would get crappy seats. or if your connecting flight was late you would get crappy seats. but it was cheap so i cant complain.

we went sightseeing at the stratosphere monday night then we went to old vegas to see this fabulous light show that cathy and becky kept talking about. we ate buffet too, i think i tried every desert there. i totally blew my diet. but anyways the light show was pretty dissappointing. it was all gambling scenes. we were so exhausted since we had been up since 3 that morning. so we went back to our casino and gambled a bit. oh we met up with my friend taryn from school too. becky had given her our tickets to the view and she told us that there were lots of seats empty that morning. soooo we decided that the next morning we would try to go see the view.

the next morning we woke up at 5:30 ish to a very loud crash followed by an alarm (like a car alarm) i thought it was a bomb... it really scared me. so anyways we find out later it was a swat team going through the window of the casino next to us. at midnight the night before a 22 yr old shot another 22 yr old in the hotel, then ran into a room and 5 hours later the swat team finally got him. crazyness.

we saw the view tuesday morning, it was so cool. the guests were rosanne barr, wolfgang puck, and the chippendales. i got lots of pictures. it was very cold though, we had to sit outside to wait to get in and then the taping was also outside. we froze.

ok ryan is insisting that i get off his computer so i will finish later....

valentines day dinner

well Ryan and I went to dinner at spragues... we waited about 40 minutes to sit down... right after we got our salads Ryan noticed an ambulance outside the window. so I look around the room looking for some commotion that prompted the ambulance...nothing. then 3 EMT guys run by our booth and go to a booth in the same row as us (so I couldn't see what was going on....luckily) Being Cathy's daughter- I rubberneck out to see whats going on. An EMT runs back out the door and it seems serious. as I peer out I see an EMT pulling an old man out of a booth and onto the ground. I couldn't watch anymore. but I did see that about 4 tables were pushed out of the way. I would have hated to be those people, having a front row seat and all.
then I hear the automated voice of a defribulator. since I just had my first aid/Defribulator training I knew what was going on. not sure if it was a good thing or not. anyways so they shocked him twice atleast. and you could feel it in the floor when they did. it was awful. not everyday some one dies right in front of you. I think they did revive him though- as they were wheeling him by our table the machine was shocking him again and then it said something like "rhythm changed...check for vitals" so we think he lived. we are going to check the papers today.

how horrible though...dont think we will forget this valentines day.

finally over

well the event at work is over... it has been looooong days. i dont like working so late. esp when i left for work at 5:45... that was yesterday of course. today i was late. and then on my way to work i was calling my mom to wish her happy birthday (her golden golden birthday) and i dumped my coffee on the pants (ankle) twice. it was horrible. i have a terrible stain on my jeans now. the day started not so good. i woke up at 6:12 (suppose to be at work at 6:30). so i took 6 minutes to get ready. Ryan was so nice to start my car, shovel a path, and warm my coffee up. so thoughtful.

well the rest of the week shouldnt be as eventful. i'm glad. we had a quiet weekend and this next weekend should be too. its ryans last weekend of classes. then he only has 1 class once a week for a few months, then he graduates. i think we'll have a party. probably combine it with our chicken fiesta. mark your calendars

super bowl sunday

this game isnt as exciting as last year. i dont even know the teams playing this year. well i know the steelers i guess, lots of people i work with like them. i always forget how close i am to PA.

i have to go into work extra early tomorrow so i wont be able to watch the whole thing. i am doing another kaizen event, only for 2 days this time. but we start at 6:30 both days. i am going to go to dunkin donuts on my way to bring in donuts for the team. do anyone see the DD now has a Latte Lite? a small only has 1 point and a medium is 2. its made with splenda and skim milk. the iced ones are 1 point more. also i dont know if you add flavor syrups if it adds points. but its way better than the normal 13 points...or something along those lines. i tried one and ithe smell of it totally reminded me of highschool when i would make espresso on the stove and choke it down with chocolate syrup.

vegas is coming soon.... two weeks tomorrow we leave. sooo excited. if anyone has been there and can recommend things to do let me know. dont worry becky i am looking for some 300 ft monument to walk to the top. hey maybe we can walk to the top of the stratosphere....

we watched two movies last night, crash and cinderella man. they were both very good. crash was disturbing, but mostly because its all true. Cinderella man was very inspiring, i was afraid it was going to have a million dollar baby ending and i would have been so pissed.... that russell crowe is good. i cant believe he didnt get any nominations for it.

pictures coming soon

My work wont let me log into my blog anymore, or see comments at work. hmm. I don't like that.

so anyways I have some really cute pictures from recently that I am going to post tonight.

work has been pretty busy. I have been here much longer everyday than I have wanted.

so yeah last week at ww I weighed in, it was not good. I weigh the most I have weighed in 3 years. not good. I have been doing extremely well this week, so hopefully it continues and I can get back to my lifetime weight...and then stay there.

veronica mars finally started showing new episodes last Wednesday. I was very happy, it is a great show. Survivor starts tomorrow, I cant wait to see the new twist play out. should be good.

goodbye earth destroyer

well last night we made the trek in the snow to niagara falls to trade in the earth destroyer for a colorado. its so nice. it has on-star and XM radio. and with verizon you can hook up your phone through the on-star system so its hands free through the radio. seems cool. I'll put pictures up of the new truck.

work is crazy lately, I have been given a few new projects that will keep me very busy.

I'm off the ww meeting- I have to weigh in this week but I am turning over a new leaf and I am going to go to the meetings every week. I think it will really help me. and I need it.

truck shopping

we bought the truck essentially on Saturday but have to go tomorrow to pick it up. we got a great deal on it though. Ryan got more than he owed on his old truck and we got them down over $5000 on the new one. our payments are going down only a little, but still down- but he has a 3 year warranty and much better mileage. and we would have had to put a bunch of $$ into his old one soon. Ryan is pretty excited...it will be his first new car. and now I can keep my bug!!

Sunday we watched all sorts of football, fun fun. and we made chili. it was so good.

check out the quotes

isnt that cool? it changes everyday. and I pick out the quotes. so dont tell me they are crappy.

wow this week has flown. tomorrow we are going up to niagara falls to buy ryan a new truck. He is getting a smaller one with much better gas mileage. so now I dont have to get a silly suv yet. this will work perfect for road trips. the only thing we will need to buy is a trailer for the 4 wheeler. but there is no rush on that. and our monthly payments are going to increase at all. maybe even decrease.

We tried a couple of the beers we made. they are very good. tomorrow we are going to stop at the beer store in buffalo too. so we can make another batch. we will have to start drinking our beer or buy more bottles.

weekend

well the weekend was good. Friday night I went to my Y and started what they call mission meltdown. its $15 and you get a t-shirt and pedometer and each week you weigh in (if you want to lose). I'm hoping it will help me get to the gym more. I have been using the treadmill we have at home quite a bit too though. I walked or went to aerobics everyday but Sunday. not that I have noticed any weight loss yet. I'm working on it.

ryan started a class so Friday night and Saturday until about 3 he is at class. I got a lot done around the house. Saturday the temperature dropped to 10 degrees. brrr. Saturday night we went over to a coworkers house for a drink before our dinner. dinner was sooo good. I got broiled scampi and ryan got a filet. and the dessert was awesome, some sort of cake with chocolate filling. it was over very quick this year since it wasnt open bar. so we went back over to the co-workers house and watch the patriots LOSE- WTF??? he has a bar in his basement (finished basement) and ryan fell in love. I will not have a bar in my house though. never.