unbelievable

thats the only way to describe the survivor episode last night. i was so fuming that james did not use one of his TWO immunity idols! idiot! i was mad, but i think ryan was even madder at him. i cant wait to see him at the end in the jury...i like what he said in the end though. it was so true.
i'm wondering how next week will go with trying to get todd off, i'm not sure that will work.... i am officially out of the running

Survivor: CHINA

Carrie: Sherea & Dave
Cathy: Jamie & Eric
Emily: James & Chicken
Hope: Denise & Frosti
Luanne: Todd & Amanda
Mike: Jean-Robert & Ashley
Nicole: Aaron & Courtney
Ryan: Peih-Gee & Leslie

thanksgiving exhaustion

i am so tired from my week off in portville... yesterday i slept 9 hours at night- took a 2 hour nap and still wanted to go to bed early. in between sleeping i dragged myself around the house putting up tape for ryan to paint a bedroom and hallway. (it looks very nice) cutting the hedges by the road, shopping for things, making dinner, and eating ryans leftover birthday cake... yummmy. thank god we came home saturday to give me a day to sleep. i wouldnt be very useful at work if we hadnt.

the week was fun though. the surprise 30th birthday party for ryan was a success. he was shocked...he had no clue. it was fun. Alot of people came so that was good. i think 3 pieces of cake were eaten though so we have alot leftover. i told ryan we can freeze it and eat it on his real birthday.

shopping friday morning wasnt as successful. I didnt get the GPS i was suppose to. i did get a cheap bluetooth though. so now i have to shop everyday for the gps. target had a good sale yesterday but when i went they were all sold out. the woman told me to call everyday to see if any came in.

i'll post my pictures once i upload them...becky tooks tons for me at the party.

trips

I am in syracuse this morning- it has been a driving weekend. friday night we drove 7 hours to portville (7 because ryan left his wallet at work and we had to go back through traffic to get it) then sunday morning i drove to fayetteville to get the beds and dresser my parents are giving me. today i will be driving back to portville. then i shouldnt be driving again until next saturday. pheew.

luanne is the only one with both people left...
Survivor: CHINA

Carrie: Sherea & Dave
Cathy: Jamie & Eric
Emily: James & Chicken
Hope: Denise & Frosti
Luanne: Todd & Amanda
Mike: Jean-Robert & Ashley
Nicole: Aaron & Courtney
Ryan: Peih-Gee & Leslie

penn state game

well the penn state- temple football game yesterday was fun. it never rained, thank god. funny ryan story:
on the drive down we ran into a little traffic and ryan was getting all bent out of shape because... he wanted to get there before kickoff... and he wanted to see them practicing... and he didnt want to miss any of it. he wanted me to get everything ready, the blankets, the camera, everything. so when we got there we were ready to go. Game kickoff is at noon, we parked at 11:10 am. there were two couples parked right behind us and i get out and quickly get my hat, mittens, scarf on and come around the other side of the truck to find that ryan has started chatting with the two couples next to us. apparently one was in a buffalo bills jersey... then they offer us beer and i expect ryan to be all oh no we have to go. but he takes one! and then two and three. amazing what beer does to him! so then its 11:55am and we still are tailgating... then we have to run to the stadium and rush around to get our lunch and we missed the first two touchdowns of penn state.

they ended up killing temple 31-0. it was a good time though. its the same stadium the eagles play in. most of the fans were penn state, so i felt bad for temple- since it was their home game.

here are pics of the house and the game

saturday

unpacking update: we bought a nice desk off craigs list today and have our computer off the cardboard boxes. we also got our router working which took alot longer than it should have. our downstairs is almost all unpacked. our upstairs is a disaster.

today we are going to the penn state-temple football game. the weather is always looking out for me when i go to football games...i think its a sign to not go to football games. today is going to be rainy with a high of 45 degrees.

finally they got rid of that john robert..he really annoyed me. i'm thinking i have a good shot with the guy who has both immunity idols and the ability to win any physical indivdual immunity. lets hope i'm right-

Survivor: CHINA

Carrie: Sherea & Dave
Cathy: Jamie & Eric
Emily: James & Chicken
Hope: Denise & Frosti
Luanne: Todd & Amanda
Mike: Jean-Robert & Ashley
Nicole: Aaron & Courtney
Ryan: Peih-Gee & Leslie

moving

so the movers came on friday (they were ~2 hours late) and it took them almost 6 hours to unpack us. and thats just moving the boxes and furniture in, not unpacking the boxes. we have way too much stuff. and its a fact that our garage in portville was ALOT bigger than our new one. my poor bug is sitting outside in the rain until we can get some room in the garage. its been very overwhelming to unpack...i find myself doing a little, then sitting down. :) ryans parents came to visit this weekend also. rick cut down 4 trees and trimmed the branches off 2 more. our yard looks great now- he also weeded the garden. yvonne helped unpack alot. and we got the dining room painted. i will take some pics of the new house and share them.

Very late with the survivor update...almost able to do two updates at once.

Survivor: CHINA

Carrie: Sherea & Dave
Cathy: Jamie & Eric
Emily: James & Chicken
Hope: Denise & Frosti
Luanne: Todd & Amanda
Mike: Jean-Robert & Ashley
Nicole: Aaron & Courtney
Ryan: Peih-Gee & Leslie

red sox won!!

so exciting...and i am very happy that i can now go to bed early tonight. i'm hoping to be asleep by 10pm.














since everyone else was posting their halloween costume pictures i figured i would put mine up...ryan and i were 70s people for halloween- well i was a red sox fan too. since we went to a sports bar and the red sox were playing.

pumpkin

i think i am going to win the pumpking contest at work...


and while ryans away...murphy has converted!!

survivor update

well dad escaped another week...that was the worst 'finding the idol' i have ever seen. i really am liking that todd though...i think he is very smart. and we had our first victim tonight- carrie has been knocked out of the contest.


Survivor: CHINA

Carrie: Sherea & Dave
Cathy: Jamie & Eric
Emily: James & Chicken
Hope: Denise & Frosti
Luanne: Todd & Amanda
Mike: Jean-Robert & Ashley
Nicole: Aaron & Courtney
Ryan: Peih-Gee & Leslie

busy bees

we have had a busy weekend so far...last night we went to applebees for dinner...then we caught up on our shows. this morning we woke up early and went to the gym for our orientation. they have the coolest thing i have ever seen in a gym. at all the treadmills and ellipticals they have a mini tv/dvr player. you can bring in movies and watch them! then the circuit machines have a little computer on them and you have a code number that you punch in and it tells you what the settings and weight should be and how many sets to do, etc. makes sure you are doing the reps slow enough. and then it keeps track of everything you do so at the end of a week or month you can see how much you did. amazing. makes me want to go to the gym.

then we went to the home show and got lots of cool free things, bought an american flag for our new houses flag pole. Got ryan an eagles hat. then we went to the king of prussia mall and ate dinner at the cheesecake factory. so yummy. now we are settling in for beers and a red sox win. tomorrow we are going to the lake with murphy, our only friend. I think i am going to go to a craft show too while ryan watches football. looks like they have some pottery classes nearby that i might check out.

oh when we were leaving the mall i saw a melting pot resturant, so i cant wait to hear if its good from the boston girls and i am going to make ryan go.

paint worthy

which picture do you think i should paint? or none of them if that...



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painting

I finished my painting last night of our house in portville. i took some pictures and should be able to get them online tonight. i also went and bought a new canvas for my next painting. i think i am going to paint one of ryan and i. i figure we have all our puppies so that is logical. not sure when i am going to start it though. i have to find the perfect picture.



ryan and i went to the gym this week for our health screening apt. yeah i love it when you are told you are in the 'obese' weight range...i think i need to get serious about diet and exercise. maybe the most frustrating is ryan who eats 3 times as much as me is only 2% over his ideal body fat percentage...and everything else is in the excellent range. ugh.. hopefully it will be the motivation i need.

Woke up this morning to find the red sox had won!! i had to go to bed at 11 and they were up 4-1 so i thought it was safe to go to bed. i was nervous this morning though waiting on sportscenter for the MLB scores to start streaming.

Very disappointed in survivor last night, they are so dumb to try and vote off james...my favorite part was though when the one team thought they were just going to be given 2 players from the other tribe, never thinking that they would also have to give up two players. i was amazed by how dumb they are.


Survivor: CHINA

Carrie: Sherea & Dave
Cathy: Jamie & Eric
Emily: James & Chicken
Hope: Denise & Frosti
Luanne: Todd & Amanda
Mike: Jean-Robert & Ashley
Nicole: Aaron & Courtney
Ryan: Peih-Gee & Leslie

fayetteville bound

i thought once we moved that the travelling would end...but it seems like we are always packing or unpacking. we are going to a fake purse party and apple picking and we are going to watch the red sox game. its a jam packed weekend. oh and i forgot that we need to go to ll bean factory store. we are almost all packed up for the weekend. Once we get our house though we will not be leaving until thanksgiving- so everyone is going to have to visit us.

Ryan and i joined the gym this week, i get a free membership from the place i work. they are so far a wonderful company. we have all sorts of contests and they are all cash prizes. there is a world series pool right now...and a halloween decorating contest. so fun.


Survivor: CHINA

Carrie: Sherea & Dave
Cathy: Jamie & Eric
Emily: James & Chicken
Hope: Denise & Frosti
Luanne: Todd & Amanda
Mike: Jean-Robert & Ashley
Nicole: Aaron & Courtney
Ryan: Peih-Gee & Leslie

link

i found the best website for all the frugal blog readers... becky you should check it out and maybe learn a few things


thesimpledollar.com

i'm going to add it to my links too.

portville bound

well tonight we are headed back to portville to visit and to get some things we forgot at the house...and buy a cinnamon broom (anna if you could let me know where you got one).

today we are going to have our new house inspected. this is the only part of the house buying that would stop us. so hopefully there are no major problems with the house.

survivor was on last night and i was shocked they voted off leslie and not the girl who couldnt even lift the sword, did anyone else notice that they did freeze frames of everyone chopping the final rope but with courtney she was moving soo slow that they didnt even have to freeze frame it...oh and the yankees lost not a good night for ryan.

Survivor: CHINA

Carrie: Sherea & Dave
Cathy: Jamie & Eric
Emily: James & Chicken
Hope: Denise & Frosti
Luanne: Todd & Amanda
Mike: Jean-Robert & Ashley
Nicole: Aaron & Courtney
Ryan: Peih-Gee & Leslie

red sox game

watching the red sox game...i think i'm going to paint tonight too.

we got the house! we have the inspection on friday and then i'm not sure what else needs to be done before we close. we've been looking into costs of having a fence put in. i think its going to be costly. we are going to be very tight on money once we buy this house and not having sold our other house.

tomorrow i am heading to baltimore again for work. it will kind of suck driving 5 hours total- but shouldn't be too bad.

Visit

So mom, dad, and becky came to visit this weekend. our first vistors!!! of many we hope... it was a whirlwind though! it went so fast. Saturday we went to look at two houses - one ryan and i both like and then one i really liked. both 4 bedroom, one had alot more character but needed alot of work. if you check out beckys blog you can see all the pictures- she took alot. (and tonight we put in our official offer) we hope to close by halloween. that would be so nice.

after the house looking we went into philadelphia and went through a real sketchy area...luckily we made it to the philly cheesesteak area and they were fabulous. (dont listen to becky) then it was off the traditional site seeings. we went to the visitor center and got alot of maps and things. then we saw the liberty bell and the alchoies in the group wanted to go to the city tavern. where they proceeded to get bombed. its hard to site see with drunkards so we went to ikea instead. what a store. it will be nice to go there when we get into our house. i'm not sure we would buy any furniture or big things though. its pretty contempory styled. We did see some covers for the pink chairs in our living room. then we went out to dinner and then vegged out on the couch. we wanted to play cards but i forgot all my change - so we watched tv.

it was so nice to see my patty poo...she is sooo much smaller than i remember, i think b/c i have only been around the big oaf for 2 weeks.

here are the pics from the day

update

wow it has been a while since i updated...its been a very busy week. i started my new job- actually that part has been slow. but i havent been able to internet like i used to at my other job. i'm getting a blackberry for work- so cool i have always wanted one. ryan and i have picked out a house we want. now we either need to wait until our house sells or have two mortgages.

Survivor: CHINA

Carrie: Sherea & Dave
Cathy: Jamie & Eric
Emily: James & Chicken
Hope: Denise & Frosti
Luanne: Todd & Amanda
Mike: Jean-Robert & Ashley
Nicole: Aaron & Courtney
Ryan: Peih-Gee & Leslie


mom, dad and becky are visiting here now...i'll update all the fun times later. we did go see the house we want and they agree its a STEAL :)

employed!

I am employed!! i got my job offer officially today. so excited. i start monday. such a relief. i went shopping today to celebrate. i went to the king of prussia mall- it is AWESOME. i had so much fun there.

someone looked at our house again yesterday- we are crossing our fingers for an offer. hopefully we will hear something today but i doubt it. i am not impressed with our realtor at all. she doesnt email back- she cant get our house straight with who is coming to look at it. i bet we get an offer and she forgets to call us.

oh almost forgot the survivor update...not that i am happy about them-

Survivor: CHINA

Carrie: Sherea & Dave
Cathy: Jamie & Eric
Emily: James & Chicken
Hope: Denise & Frosti
Luanne: Todd & Amanda
Mike: Jean-Robert & Ashley
Nicole: Aaron & Courtney
Ryan: Peih-Gee & Leslie

pa

well this is my third day *off* as you would call it. and i must say its a little boring, i dont have very much to do but watch tv and walk murphy. i have been to the mall and target but since i dont have a job i cant spend money. i had an interview on monday and will hopefully get an offer this week.

last night we went to trivia night...apparently you are not suppose to call people to get answers. the winner won 2 tickets to a phillies game next week. we did not win. we came in 5th place. but it was alot of fun. next week it will probably only be ryan and i so maybe we can meet some people.

One bad thing about trivia is its in a bar and in PA you can still smoke in the bars. which is awful. i had smelly hair and clothes last night.

i'm going to go find the dog park today and take murphy. i might take a drive to king of prussia just so i know what outlets are there.