3 years already? only 3 years?
tomorrow is our anniversary, and it always makes me think back. was there a time i didn't have conrad in my life? obviously the answer is yes, but sometimes it feels like we have been together forever and have had this connection forever. has it really only been 3 years? again, the calendar says "YES" but it seems to have flown by. today on my drive in to poky, i was thinking about what i was doing the day before our wedding, etc. sometimes it's still crazy to me that i'm even married. then i get the question, "so do you have any kids yet?" or "are you going to have kids soon?" and i think--i'm not even used to the idea of being married yet! i am, but it's surreal sometimes. i don't know if this is making sense, but hopefully you can follow, i guess i'm just reminiscing. we don't have any big plans tomorrow. conrad's going to get off early (7 instead of 10) and i'm going to make dinner. then, we all know how the story goes... steph and sara asked if i was going to XA and i quickly responded "i have better things to do" :) luckily, we haven't heard mammals for a few days, so that's good. bats have a way of putting a damper on romance. nic killed 3 rockchucks last weeks. yeah nic!! well, i feel like i'm babbling, so i'll let you all get on with your blogging experience. i hope you all have a great day tomorrow, i know i will;)
FYI: in a year, the average person walks four miles making his or her bed. (from my snapple bottle...my question:how much time does a person save a year by not making his or her bed? that might make me feel a bit better about my # of times bed made equaling 5x/year)
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Monday, July 17, 2006
margaritas and karaoke...
i will have to say that my last night (for a while) with a great friend was extremely fun. when i first heard the word "karaoke" i thought, it best be accompanied by margaritas:). come to find out, xbox has an amazingly fun game in which you create your own character and then compete doing karaoke into mikes hooked to the xbox. it was soooo fun. you all need to try it before you knock it. it sounds weird, i know. boise was fun. got some shopping in (breanne's fav part...) and ate at olive garden and red robin:) and relaxed. i guess the bad part was saying bye to angela. i feel like i'm saying goodbye a lot lately. first jeannie, ranae, then angela, soon pooh. i'm not sure if i like it. not like it's forever, but i just don't like it. change i guess. i handle it okay, i just don't like it.
update on the critters...one bat found thurs night, crispy on the outside of our house. one found fri. morning, live as could be in the dining room curtain. conrad rescued me. i don't burst out in tears anymore, but i still get annoyed by the other mammals inhabiting our home. nic is coming out wed. on his way to poky with "a small arsenal and some traps". he and conrad will have a great time getting the chucks, i'm sure. please be praying for no procreation of any sort on our property. that should get us through till we have a chance to fill with cement...
i will have to say that my last night (for a while) with a great friend was extremely fun. when i first heard the word "karaoke" i thought, it best be accompanied by margaritas:). come to find out, xbox has an amazingly fun game in which you create your own character and then compete doing karaoke into mikes hooked to the xbox. it was soooo fun. you all need to try it before you knock it. it sounds weird, i know. boise was fun. got some shopping in (breanne's fav part...) and ate at olive garden and red robin:) and relaxed. i guess the bad part was saying bye to angela. i feel like i'm saying goodbye a lot lately. first jeannie, ranae, then angela, soon pooh. i'm not sure if i like it. not like it's forever, but i just don't like it. change i guess. i handle it okay, i just don't like it.
update on the critters...one bat found thurs night, crispy on the outside of our house. one found fri. morning, live as could be in the dining room curtain. conrad rescued me. i don't burst out in tears anymore, but i still get annoyed by the other mammals inhabiting our home. nic is coming out wed. on his way to poky with "a small arsenal and some traps". he and conrad will have a great time getting the chucks, i'm sure. please be praying for no procreation of any sort on our property. that should get us through till we have a chance to fill with cement...
Saturday, July 08, 2006
Trauma...life on Isaak Lane (warning, this sounds like a psychotic break, don't read if judgmental of psychoses)
as conrad woke up to go to work this morning, i heard the usual purring--or something, i don't know how to describe it, cooing maybe?--from the attic. as i was getting ready to wake up about 8:30, i heard the rockchucks running rampant in the inards (word?sp?) of our home, up down, all around. i was frustrated when i woke up. kinda depressed. this didn't help. i got daring and opened the door to the cellar, where the stink comes in (when i walked in last night, it was definitely pungent, annoying!). i had a flashlight cuz the light doesn't hit the landing at the top, and what did i see, but tons of poop!!! i'm grossed out, disgusted, annoyed that my house reeks, etc., etc. i went on a walk to settle down and get my bearings. as i listened to the worship music on my shuffle, it got a little better, but still annoyed. i did a few things to get stuff ready for angela's party tonight and church picnic tomorrow. i took one load out to my car and came back in, went to the kitchen for something and back around through the dining room. what the heck was that big black mass crawling in front of my front door? first thought--tarantula. a second later after i looked closely--a bat. i screamed a blood-curdling scream and started bawling. i didn't know what to do. i didn't want to touch it, cuz they have disease. but it's crawling all over my living room floor. i started hyperventilating and called conrad's phone. he didn't answer so i kept screaming and crying all over the house trying to figure out what to do. MY HOUSE IS INFESTED!!!! i found a box and put it over the bat before it crawled under my loveseat and put a hose on it to weigh it down. conrad called back only to talk to his hyperventilating crying hysterically wife who told him there was a bat in the house. as i was talking to him, i was looking in the dining room and saw some black marks on the wall close to the ceiling and told conrad about it, thinking it may have been where the bat's been. i'm standing three feet from the window, look down, and scream into the phone and start crying even harder, and yell "there's another one!!!!!!". there's another bat sleeping behind the curtain, hanging from the casing. at this point, i'm ready to move out with the cows. conrad said to just leave and he'd call his uncle. we hung up, i grabbed the rest of my stuff and got the hell out of that house. one would have to wonder, do humans even live there? yes. are they controlled by animals? yes. so i drove to poky and about halfway caught my breath and stopped crying. i was mad and grossed out. how many more bats and other things are there? why does my house have to be infested? it's sick. conrad called later to say his uncle is looking for a fumigator. hopefully we'll get to the bottom of this animal problem. until then, please pray for my emotional stability.
as conrad woke up to go to work this morning, i heard the usual purring--or something, i don't know how to describe it, cooing maybe?--from the attic. as i was getting ready to wake up about 8:30, i heard the rockchucks running rampant in the inards (word?sp?) of our home, up down, all around. i was frustrated when i woke up. kinda depressed. this didn't help. i got daring and opened the door to the cellar, where the stink comes in (when i walked in last night, it was definitely pungent, annoying!). i had a flashlight cuz the light doesn't hit the landing at the top, and what did i see, but tons of poop!!! i'm grossed out, disgusted, annoyed that my house reeks, etc., etc. i went on a walk to settle down and get my bearings. as i listened to the worship music on my shuffle, it got a little better, but still annoyed. i did a few things to get stuff ready for angela's party tonight and church picnic tomorrow. i took one load out to my car and came back in, went to the kitchen for something and back around through the dining room. what the heck was that big black mass crawling in front of my front door? first thought--tarantula. a second later after i looked closely--a bat. i screamed a blood-curdling scream and started bawling. i didn't know what to do. i didn't want to touch it, cuz they have disease. but it's crawling all over my living room floor. i started hyperventilating and called conrad's phone. he didn't answer so i kept screaming and crying all over the house trying to figure out what to do. MY HOUSE IS INFESTED!!!! i found a box and put it over the bat before it crawled under my loveseat and put a hose on it to weigh it down. conrad called back only to talk to his hyperventilating crying hysterically wife who told him there was a bat in the house. as i was talking to him, i was looking in the dining room and saw some black marks on the wall close to the ceiling and told conrad about it, thinking it may have been where the bat's been. i'm standing three feet from the window, look down, and scream into the phone and start crying even harder, and yell "there's another one!!!!!!". there's another bat sleeping behind the curtain, hanging from the casing. at this point, i'm ready to move out with the cows. conrad said to just leave and he'd call his uncle. we hung up, i grabbed the rest of my stuff and got the hell out of that house. one would have to wonder, do humans even live there? yes. are they controlled by animals? yes. so i drove to poky and about halfway caught my breath and stopped crying. i was mad and grossed out. how many more bats and other things are there? why does my house have to be infested? it's sick. conrad called later to say his uncle is looking for a fumigator. hopefully we'll get to the bottom of this animal problem. until then, please pray for my emotional stability.
Monday, July 03, 2006
diet berries and cream dr. pepper in a frozen cup...
one of my favorite things in life, always brings a smile to my face:) i came into poky today cuz i had cabin fever so my sister and i went shopping and to lunch before she had to work. i had a five day weekend and am on day 4 and haven't accomplished that much. before the weekend started, i had BIG plans of all the things i could get done. but here i am with 1 1/2 days left and maybe half of them got worked on a little bit. oh well. i feel rested and i've been pampering my rash. i think it's getting better with drugs and running around the house with my shirt rolled up so no fabric touches it. yesterday was conrad's birthday so we ate pizza and then went to the river to play on the boat and sea doos. yeah, swimming suit right after eating isn't my idea of an ideal situation either, but it worked out ok. he had a good day, and was able to really let go of farming stress and have fun for a day. it was great to see him so laid back and laughing so hard when we were on the sea doos and soaking ranae and josh. he's so cute:) tomorrow we're going to go on a day road trip with his fam i think and then watch fireworks in poky. i don't know if it'll be with his fam or friends. i have my preference but we'll see what happens. hope you all have a wonderful 4th!
one of my favorite things in life, always brings a smile to my face:) i came into poky today cuz i had cabin fever so my sister and i went shopping and to lunch before she had to work. i had a five day weekend and am on day 4 and haven't accomplished that much. before the weekend started, i had BIG plans of all the things i could get done. but here i am with 1 1/2 days left and maybe half of them got worked on a little bit. oh well. i feel rested and i've been pampering my rash. i think it's getting better with drugs and running around the house with my shirt rolled up so no fabric touches it. yesterday was conrad's birthday so we ate pizza and then went to the river to play on the boat and sea doos. yeah, swimming suit right after eating isn't my idea of an ideal situation either, but it worked out ok. he had a good day, and was able to really let go of farming stress and have fun for a day. it was great to see him so laid back and laughing so hard when we were on the sea doos and soaking ranae and josh. he's so cute:) tomorrow we're going to go on a day road trip with his fam i think and then watch fireworks in poky. i don't know if it'll be with his fam or friends. i have my preference but we'll see what happens. hope you all have a wonderful 4th!
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