back by popular (ok one person’s) demand…

ahh my melissa – it is so sad that i think about you so often, well that part isnt sad, but that we communicate so infrequently – i have to say things have been so hectic and i cant wait to tell you about all of it:

 

1st – weight loss, you inspired me to begin my own weight loss regime, i started on tuesday at 190 and a group of teachers are doing a biggest loser thing and i am not determined to win, but i am determined to lose weight, the right way.  so far i have been eating really well, excersising every day (except last thursday) drinking tons of water, and keeping myself occupied and letting myself be proud of doing those things each day.  so, i doubt i will see any weight lost at my weigh in on tuesday, but i know it will come, and the endorphins from knowing i am being good to my body will get me through until i see those results.  i am so proud of you – 10 lbs!  damn skinny minny!

 

2nd – the house!  we are closing in less than a month, may 14th!  we have been going in there every day because all of the big things are coming together, we now officially have a kitchen!  our appliances arrived today, stainless and black, our granite is in and it matches perfectly with our cherry cabinets!  we bought our washer and dryer and fridge last weekend – i am just soooo excited to move in, not the moving part exactly, but having this beautiful house that my name will be on!  i feel like such an adult, scarry!

3rd – nick is going back to illinois to finish his masters in august, it was just a myth for me until i finally accepted it, became depressed for a few days, and then got over it.  now, i am just bent on taking advantage of every second i have with him.  i know he isnt dying or going off to iraq or anything, but 4 months is a long time to be apart from your other half – you know how i am feeling, we would rather be around them than anyone else. 

 

4th – i have been talking to alice a lot lately, i am going to be flying in for bob’s high school graduation, they are paying.  i dont really know how it will go, i am sure things will be fine, ill get the lectures i have always gotten, but the important part is that i will be a part of my family for a weekend.  i miss them a lot, having a christmas away from them made me realize how lucky i was to have them all around, even though, at the time it got annoying.

 

5th- i have gotten back into cooking, last night i made the most delicious dinner ever and tonight i am going to make a portobello mushroom pizza.  i had cooked a lot with all of my free time in bloomington, but since i have been here, i havent felt it – which led to a lot of eating out and not healthily, i can honestly say i have eaten more mcdonalds out here than i had in my entire life before i moved here, pathetic!  so i am just so happy to be feeling good about myself, leads to a lot of walking around naked, even though i know i dont look like ive lost weight yet!    i wish i could say that has lead to other things – but that is still, and will maybe always?, be an issue.

 

6th- the normal routine of work has been amped up!  we have only 21 days left in this school year and i have SO much to cram in!  i cannot believe my first year of teaching is almost over.  i feel so bad for my students because they were my guinea pigs,  i made so many mistakes and have learned so much from them, i just hope they were able to learn a little from me, too!

 

anyway, theres my life in a nutshell…i will be updating the house pics soon – will you be able to visit?  no pressure, i know money and things are tight, i would so look forward to seeing you.  i will also see if there is a way i can weedle (word?) myself down there when i am back in illinois in may, i cant promise anything since i wont have a car…i will keep you updated

 

this has been like an email!  might as well post it for the world so they can see i love you

 

hurry up…

and wait.  our house has now been plastered and next the cabinets and flooring will go in…it is so exciting and yet i want it now!  i am so into immediate gratification that i feel like a child.  oh well, may is very close at hand!  i had a rather interesting weekend, last night we went to a “comedy” competition – it was a doosy.  first off, it was at a mexican restaurant, which was a plus.  we thought it was supposed to start at 8 so we got there a little before 7:30 so we could eat.  well, turns out it wasnt going to start until 9 and we were supposed to pay a 5 cover charge to get into the comedy part.  so, we eat and it was yummy although i am sure it would have tasted better if i could have actually tasted it.  my allergies are killing me, i finished the zpac and i refuse to use that afrin cause now it scares me and zyrtec aint worth a damn, so this lady we were eating with was telling me about this oil she uses and she had some on her so i tried it.  i put a little on my finger and then dabbed it in my nostrils and waited.  then, it stung so bad that my eyes were watering and it was soo painful i wanted to like bang on something and do a little yell.  and to make it a little worse, it cleared up my nose for like 35.4 seconds.  so we eat and have a generally nice time, minus the oil.  so we go to the comedy section, which is just foldable chairs put into rows in the middle of the restaurant and have a seat-it is now 8:45.  it starts getting pretty crowded and we are getting excited cause the whole reason we went is because a former teacher was going to be there, we were part of many teachers from my school who came to support him, so that was nice.  anyway, the damn show doesnt even START until after 9:45 and they open it up with like a 9 year old talking about why stupid people are stupid and he even throws in a few yo mamma jokes.  now, i am all about funny mom jokes, but he definitely didnt write those, plagiarizer!  oh, i forgot to mention the prize for this is $2,000!  then the second guy comes on and his jokes are all, “whats the difference between the 4th of july and me?  the 4th of july goes out with a finale i go out with a bang”  omg it was painfully ridiculous.  now keep in mind there are like 16 people going to perform and most of them were HORRIBLE, like patheticly unfunny, uncharismatic, uneverything.  i dont even know why they would bother to get in front of us – just cause your mom says your funny…so there were a few funny guys but it got so draining cause there were maybe 5 funny ones (including our friend) and the rest, well i just told you.  in the end, our friend didnt win, there was some racial tension, and it was 11:45.  i was so ready to be home and comfy!  so now i am just gonna take sparky to the dog park and then get to work-i have so much to do!  i have to plan my poetry unit that i am starting tomorrow, i have to do at least 2 lessons for my class, i have to grade 100 essays – UGH!  but, there is less than 40 school days left!

pink eye?

i have been feeling pretty crappy all last week, my allergies were just insane.  i sneezed at least 30 times a day and i wasnt having it.  so…i got the over the counter Zyrtec which they say is the same dosage, but it didnt make everything better.  people think that az is so much better for allergies, but let me tell ya, there are tons of plants that have tons of pollen that all seem to find my nostrils at the same time.  so i have been taking one every 12 hours and it just wasnt happening.  i figured i had a sinus infection cause i pretty much get one every year – yesterday, easter, my eyes were itching like crazy and i didnt sleep well at all (nick seems to think south park at 11:30 doesnt need to be turned down) to make a long story short (too late, i know) i went to school today and my eyes were itchy and i have first hour prep so i went to the nurse, i know the school nurse how cute , to get some contact solution and she was like, nope you have to go home you have pink eye, you must go to urgent care and get the drops so you wont be contagious tomorrow…so she called the secretary and told her that she was sending me home and i went to the urgent care…3 hours later i was seen by a doctor and he spouted off about how misdiagnosed pink eye is and how its a bacteria that will clear itself out anyway and yada yada yada - are you enjoying this post yet?  so, in the end, i have a nasty ear infection in both ears and a sinus infection.  ugh…but i will be so much better soon, hopefully i will be able to breathe out of my nose, and stop snoring at night   melissa, love you, thanks for reading! 

   <——————–my best friend (ish)

i wish…

here is nick and my wish list for when we have money :

 bikes $500 each

another dog $125 adoption fee plus kennel and doggie bed

wooden sculpture $350

new clothes $500 each

zoo membership $60/year each

new makeup $200

new car $20,000 at the most

a nice dinner out $100

a trip to illinois for vacay $500 plane tickets, rental car $150

new blue glasses, cause i keep breaking them! : ( $100

lasik for my eyes ..??

elective dental surgery for n …?

italian sodas $2.00 each (yea, we are that poor)

piano $3500

vacuum $400

…this is in no particular order – and its cause we are bored, not snobby right?  just random things we want – and any other money left over will be donated to a worthwhile charity, of course!

help!

…i need somebody, not just anybody, you know i need someone…to tell me why my dog will not stop peeing in our house.  here is sparky   he is my adorable doggie, who i love sooooo much.  however, he marks anything and everything.  we take him to the dog park and he doesnt even notice the other dogs until he has sniffed and peed on every tree, plant, blade of grass, what have you.  this is all fine and good, we figure sparky is like us, we dont really talk to the other dog parents and he doesnt really talk to the other dogs.  so, here is the issue…we crated him in bloomington because he would mark our curtains and various other things – that worked wonderfully.  now, we have a doggy door and he knows how to use it, but at least once a week we find a place where he has peed on something.  now, this is not random peeing, he doesnt pee on the furniture, the cats’ food bowl, the cabinets, etc.  he pees on things like brooms, extension cords, things that are not normally in the space.  he also loves plastic, we have to make sure no plastic bags are ever on the ground and we have had to get rid of our rubber bottomed bath mats because he would pee on it constantly, even if we are in the next room.  this is very frustrating because we praise him, give him treats, etc. when he pees outside, we take him on walks, we cuddle…nick gets uber mad and i can understand – what do we do now?  we are moving into a new house, brand new, and peeing will not be allowed…we wont have a doggy door so he will have to be crated.  thats another worry, we will be gone for at least 8 hours every day and i feel bad about leaving him crated for that long, dont want him to develop any doggy bladder issues from holding it.  my idea was to crate him in the bathroom and train him to use puppy pads in the shower – that training isnt going so well…ill have to read up on that.  it seems mean to leave him crated that long – however, he loooooves his crate, like hardcore.  he is in it all the time, chillin with his stuffed animals and the sweatshirt that smells like me…

on a different note…we are headed to that festival now, i hope there’s food (i kinda have a one track mind) so ill be on later…leave some suggestions if you know anything about how to leave a dog home when you are at work that doesnt involve him roaming free – or how to stop him from marking stuff

Feels so good…

get stuff done!  i just finished two assignments for this class i am taking and it makes me happy!  i only have 3 more days left of spring break~sad face but i am determined to suck all of the fun out of them that is possible!  yesterday, nick and i went on two walks…one that was like 2 miles and another quickie.  it is so nice to be able to enjoy the weather in march, not trying to rub it in or anything.  it is just a different way of living, that i love.  tomorrow we are going up to scottsdale to go to an art festival.  nick has really gotten into art, especially since we are looking into decorating our house.  we both love very modern stuff, i have picked out the awesomest (yea, its a word) color scheme for our bedroom.  so, let me first start off by describing the colors of the house…our kitchen will be black impala granite and this is on all the counter space, but also a full backsplash, so all the way up to the bottom of the cherry cabinets.  our flooring is a ceramic tile that is brownish, see cabinets, granite, tile, carpet samplesfor it altogether…soooo i really wanted a bright color to pop off of all of this dark and nick loves green-so in our bedroom, we are going to have our black mirrored dresser, a black satiny bedspread and above the bed will be a beautiful grass-green wall with a huge black fleu de lis on it.  i am so pumped cause in my mind it looks flippin sweet!  i’ve never really been into decorating, but ever since we walked through the model homes, it has bit me.  i just love the combination of the black with the pop of green and blues and yay!  so…that is my idea – so we will be looking for more ideas at the arts festival and it is just nice to get off of our butts and do something.

 last sunday allison came into town to stay with us and that was a blast!  we threw a st patricks day party and invited all the teachers and stuff – i think maybe 1/2 actually showed!  but i made jell-o shots for the first time (duhn duhn duuuuuuuhn) and they were bad.  like, call poison control, bad!  nick had 2, i had one, ally had one and i think some really drunk teachers had a few, but they were soooo strong!  i ended up throwing all of the rest away because they weren’t good for anything!  then, i made jungle juice, but forgot to read the kool-aid packets, apparently you need to add sugar to kool-aid!  so, people were supposed to be arriving any minute, thank goodness everyone is always late, so nick, lovely buns, went and got sugar-and it was delicioso!  i had a good time – made some new “friends” ~ its hard to call people friends out here, cause i wouldnt think of calling them with serious issues, i guess that just takes time, but with my other friends, it seemed to be right away, the whole “click” thing…ah, well!  i guess then life happens…

as far as life happening, this next week is gonna be a killer – nick had a second interview for a job here, one he really wants, that would keep him from going back to illinois for 4 months – but he hasn’t heard yet, hopefully soon.  its killing me, every time i think i am set for him to go, emotionally prepared and all, then something comes up that has a glimmer of hope and i fall for it every time – argh!  i have to say this break has been great, dont want it to end, wishing i had some basil right now – not to be too random or anything…so to whoever in the www is reading this – thanks!  to the one person i know will read this religiously, i love you spa!

Inspiration

i have decided to have my own weblog because reading my bff’s melissas is so flippin awesome.  plus, this is much more fun to do than the homework i am supposed to be working on!  so…i hope to be putting updated pictures of my house up here and chronicling that adventure to those who care…and talking about school and my animals and my hopes for more animals and such.  i hope this wont turn into a b***h-fest, but im sure there will be a few rants….favorite this page, i know you wanna!

 Current obsession: www.icanhascheezburger.com i cry so hard, i laugh – - wait, flip that and reverse it

~loves,

me