Hi...is anyone out there???

I don't blame you if you've stopped checking to see if I have been blogging. I said that I would come back and update about Mexico right away and I didn't...let's not even start about Xmas yet!

But tonight I'm actually really hoping to get this done...really I am!

We had a full house for Christmas...quite honestly far more then I ever expected and I loved every minute of it!
I hope one day we win the lottery and we can buy the big house I've always dreamed of so I can host...how awesome would that be!

Tomorrow night my aunt and uncle come to stay with us and then we'll head to New Orleans...I'm excited but will blog more about that later.

I will also blog more later on Operation Make a Baby in 2010....just have a few more tweaks to work out tonight then I'll update.

I'm sure I actually will have enough updates for each of the days I missed to "unofficially" blog every day in December like my goal haha.

Come back soon!
I promise I'll be a good blogger.

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Let's talk about...

Pedicures! Where have they been all of my life seriously!!!!

I wanted to sleep so badly but though that maybe rude haha

She then talked me into waxing my eyebrows which I've never done before and it wasn't that bad...she said that my eyebrows were already pretty nice (thank you) but she'd make them "pretty" haha

and then she asked the dreadful question..."you want me do your upper lip" o...m...g... I almost died then I almost had to pick myself up off the floor from laughing so hard in my head...I mean what am I a 65 year old Jew from Jersey...(no offense to the Jews I have many Jew friends and we joke about this all of the time) I guess it's the dark haired Italian in me le sigh...

none the less I do look better haha

and my tootsies look oh so cute! I took pictures that I'll post when I get back.

Packing is pretty much done thank goodness! I just have to do a few things tomorrow but wanted to be changed and have gotten ready for the day before I do so...


ooh also Mr. B's cousin...uncle winnie is giving away his yorkie poo and he said we have first dibs...I'm trying to talk Mr. B into it!!! send me vibes he says yes! He's adorable!
Speaking of dogs...I feel so bad for Parle having to be in the kennel for so long but we didn't want to ask Uncle Kevin and Auntie Jen since they have to cats, a full grown bulldog, and a baby bulldog now.

Oh well he'll get some great Xmas presents tee hee

Rough Day Part Two

It just never ends...oh boy! I'm not dreading getting back from vacation because I'll be doing so much on that Sunday and won't have time to breathe.

Now by about Wednesday of the week I get back I think it will be much better but still...

And this other center is killing me on the detail work. Meetings galore. I have to be to work before 8 actually which for me is a killer especially since I missed Teen Mom and I have to wait until 11 to watch it and it's an hour long bleh.

But Mr. B said I could get a pedicure tomorrow! I'm so excited. The last time I had a professional pedicure was my wedding folks! That's a year and a half and it wasn't even that good...the last real nice one was geez about 3 years ago.

I can't decide what color I want...I know it sounds silly but I really dig the black color just don't know how it will look on my toes.

Mr. B said I should do one black and one gold for the saints haha


Oh side note...I'm watching House Hunters and can't believe how much they people say they can "afford" because there's just no way!

And I love how House Hunters always says their payment will be xxx amount but that doesn't include insurance or PMI if you need it...so that usually adds in about 200+ more a month haha

So you get all of these first time home-buyers thinking they can afford stuff that they can't and that's why we're in the crisis we're in...all these damn ARM loans.

le sigh

well my show is about to start and then Rough Day Part Tree will start

LSU!!!!

It looks a lot more cute at night of course but still I think it's cute :)

Oh and today was such a terrible day that's all there will be...I seriously was on the verge of crying multiple times...

I honestly don't know if it will get any better the rest of this week...I'm just looking forward to having some drinks on Thursday at dinner...then back to work ugh but then Saturday...oh Saturday how I will love thee....drink in hand by oh about 12:30 weeee

Sneak Peek

of the snow...

I'll post more tomorrow....and my LSU tree :)

Ugh Christmas

Is coming so fast! Where has the time gone???
I just realized that I have to mail out Christmas presents before we leave on our trip because otherwise they will get to their respective homes late!

And I have to mail out Christmas cards ugh...so I just placed my order for my pictures to pick up tomorrow on my lunch.

I tried ordering from CVS but my order didn't total over 5 so they were going to charge me 1.49 (which would've been more then 5) silly!

So I did it through Walgreen's and they didn't charge me...so I'm Team Walgreen's!!! I also have to look for eco-friendly sun screen.

And the Saints won!!!! weeeeee....barely but it's a win and now we're 12-0 yesss

This counts for Saturdays post hah

Lists...

My husband just told me that we need to start making lists now for Mexico...he's a fucking pat rat....I mean seriously you need a swimsuit, a pair of shorts, a few shirts, dress slacks, and a few nice shirts...a medium suitcase at most...

we way over packed for Europe...I will not do this again

side note....IT SNOWED!!!! LIKE REAL BIG FLURRIES SNOW WEEEEE!!! I took a bunch of pics....post tomorrow

#17 Influence a Person to Make a DayZero List

Ms Jinny created one weeeee!

I won't link to her blog because that's private :)

But that's the first thing that I can cross off my list!

weee

I'm so looking forward to this weekend because tomorrow is D day folks...it's the day I take over another center while that Ops is on maternity leave. I'm nervous and really want it all to work out.

Just realized...

That I won't be able to blog while in Mexico because I'm not bringing my work laptop in case it gets stolen.

But when I get back I'll blog about each day since I'll be taking daily pictures of me drinking unlimited drinks and getting beach massages for cheap and eating whatever I want and relaxing in the pool....jealous yet? haha

well I'm not going to post the food from Tday because I did that on FB but here are two pictures that Mr. B and I took with our doggie

I was going to use one of these for our Christmas cards but then thought "Hey! How about use a picture from our trip to Europe because that would be more fun" so I'm going to go to Walgreen's on Saturday and print some off.

I was able to pick up some new Xmas cards while shopping in the antique district with my grandparents. I have a few left over from last year I believe...super cute with a cajun recipe on the back! Love them!

Well that be it as my GG would say.

Happy December!!!

Ok I failed at the whole blog for everyday in November.

I could cheat and do pictures and updates but I'm honestly lazy and will just do it for December because....I've started something new!!!!

It's called the DayZeroProject

Here is the link to my list
http://dayzeroproject.com/?u=colie18

I will use this blog as part as my update as well as my normal day stuff.

I'm going to be uploading my pictures from Thanksgiving. Unfortunately I didn't take as many as I wanted.

But I had a great time with Mr. B and my grandparents!

More to come!

Sunday's Post

One word

Hungover

I am becoming so old these days. We stopped drinking at about 12:30am...and we watched tv until about 2. I was up the first time at like 7:45 but went back to bed but at 8:30 there was no more sleeping in...my body just wouldn't allow it.

So therefore I was terribly hungover. Auntie Mel and I decided to go to McDonald's and I told her "If I say pull over you better pull over immediately"....I felt for the better part of the day like I was going to vomit at any given moment.

But I pulled through and it was ok. I slept like a baby last night.

Saturday's Post

First off I had a fantastic time with Auntie Mel!!!! I'm glad that it was just her...we drank, and ate, and drank, and ate, and drank some more.

I don't even want to talk about the horrible LSU game because honestly that's just not worthy of my words right now le sigh....

But some drama did happen Saturday night and of course it wasn't our drama (as if heh). It was with Uncle Winnie and Auntie Ash...I will post later because honestly it's a big ol mess of a mess and I don't have the patience to deal with it.

We tried out the new Mexican restaurant that is literally 1.5 miles from my house. The food was great but the margaritas sucked. We tried Midori and it was soooo salty that we sent it back. We got mango and it was still salty..I think it was the shitty waitress because she was making them and took forever to bring them back or help us or anything.

I will go back for the food and just get a beer next time.

Le Sigh...

I always hate when Mike's gone well down in L-Town drinking without me...because the truth is if one of our friends got in a fight he would be the one to actually fight for them and that worries me...whereas when I'm there if something stupid happens I let them deal with it and have Mr. B sit back like he should.

But it's not like he'll get in much trouble down there anyways.

But what is transpiring with Uncle Kevin I just don't know and geez it could get really ugly. I don't like everyone judging when they don't know the situation though because it's not their situation to judge and that's one of the reasons why I'm soooo grateful we moved from L-Town.

They all want to live in that drama filled world and talk about each other behind everyones backs, and fight, and sleep with each others spouses, and the drugs and bleh...it's just not something I wanted to be a part of and there are some friends that I miss terribly who don't involve themselves in that crap but we're such a small group that you're bound to get involved even when you don't want to.

So anyways I'm a judgey person when it's just Mr. B and I around but nothing serious...when it's serious stuff I've always said "Don't judge someone unless you've walked a mile in their shoes"

which is so true especially if you don't know the back story and these people want to THINK they know a tid bit and run with it which drives me insane.

and that's really why we don't have many friends because we've surrounded ourselves with true people who would be there no matter what...unfortunately for us they all live about an 45minutes to an hour away.....in all different directions haha but when we do get to spend time with them it just makes it so much better!

Well I'm off to fall asleep to the Golden Girls haha

Real Housewives...

ok first off I love all of these shows (I'm a tv junkie) but come on these aren't real housewives.

What would be good is to show me having to get up and go to a mundane job and text and be on facebook on my phone and then go work out and hear the thoughts in my head about those jokers and then come home to bitch at my husband and drink by myself.

And every once in awhile get us wives together have some wine and collectively bitch about our husbands and how they don't do anything in the house or watch the kids. ....thats real folks.

But none the less I love the show. I love Jeana and will miss her terribly I really will. I don't get how all of these women are going broke...I mean I know how it happens but they knew the market and economy was slowing down so come on!!!! Bring your spending down a tad.

I dislike Tamra and Vicki so much it makes me want to gag. I want to tell Vicki listen you're not cute and you're trying to fit in with these young hotties and you can't...and Tamra get a new hair weave girl because that stringy shit you are trying to pull off isn't working.

Gretchen and Slade are a mess..I honestly don't even need to talk to them but what's great is they actually know they don't have as much money as they once had so they're being smarter about it.

And to think in the first season Slade had all this money and wanted Jo to be a stay at home wife...haha nice

It's a funny show and I loved watching last night afterwards when everyone voted on who would be the best neighbor Jeana or Vicki and 96% of people said Jeana haha I love it and then Vicki made a snotty comment about how it was skewed.

And then when they talked about how Jeana asked Vicki for money...that's fine Vicki had that right not to do that to mix business with pleasure...but when Jeana said that's ok after it aired I had a ton of people call and say you need our money it's yours...and Vicki had the audacity to to ask "well did you take it?"

That's truly none of your business sweetheart and then Jeana said heck ya! And you could tell Vicki in her head was thinking how stupid.

Well at least she's not too proud to know that she needs help you douche.

She doesn't just trample all over everyone every second she gets like you do. bleh

Anyways that's my recap of last night haha

To Be Honest...

I didn't have anything exciting going on yesterday to post to actually post on the day instead of the day after haha...I suck

and nothing exciting going on today to post about today's either.

What I do know is today is going so slow and I've hit the proverbial brick wall. I mean like an hour ago and I was running full force ahead and BAM! Knocked my happy ass back a notch.

I have no motivation to work out at all today. Granted I did work out on Monday and yesterday but I really wanted to get in 4 solid days.

I'd also have to go to my car to get my work out gear...boy I can talk anyone out of doing anything haha

Now I will be working out tomorrow so that is 3 at the gym and I'm thinking of popping in my Biggest Loser dvd while cooking dinner.

That dvd does some push up stuff too so that would be good for me since I've neglected that recently.

I weighed myself this morning and it said 168.8 (I'm not getting excited because morning weight is always lighter and sometimes I fluctuate a little) so I will not say that I'm now in the 168's yet...and the ticker I have I think I have it set on 170 so I should change that to 169 but I like to see it stay the same for a few days before changing.

I know it's unrealistic to think that I can drop 8-9 more pounds before Mexico. I mean it's like 23 days away. Granted I will be working out next Mon, Tues, and Wed but then I'll be eating non stop for 5 days haha

Then the work outs have to be 4 up until Mexico and I'm also going to work out there.

So that would be like 2.5 lbs every week and we all know that most likely won't happen. But if I could get to 165 before we go that would be nice mixed with me tanning so I'll appear smaller then I am haha

I just want the bathing suit to not fit so snug that it looks like I have love handles in my suit ok...ok

Well I have to save room for more later...

Yipeee

Not only am I caught up (17th post for the month) but Auntie Mel just told me that she will be coming up this weekend to hang out with me since Mr. B is going down to where we used to live.

I personally hate sleeping at the house alone so that's great but it will also be so much more fun having someone to watch the LSU game with and to drink with me while I clean haha

Plus it's auntie Mel!!!! I've missed her...it seems like forever since she came up for the LSU game!

I really should've been doing more today haha but I did two loads of laundry so I think that's a big step!

And there's no point in cleaning the bathrooms until closer since we'll be using them.

Good news is I got Goodwill to make the trip up here from NOLA even though normally he doesn't come until Thursday whooo

Plus I found a walker for my grandpa....it only took 18 places but I did it.

I also called the tanning place and even though she couldn't find my card she did find Mr. B's from before our wedding. He has 7 left so she's going to transfer them to me whoot!

Let me tell you about...

Walkers....yes the old fogie walkers.

Do you know how hard it is to find a medical supply store in the Baton Rouge area that rents those suckers??

Try 18 places hard...and that's not even the walker my grandpa wants. He wanted a heavy duty one but I just couldn't find it le sigh

Good news is it was only 15 to rent for the entire month...but even to rent that bad boy for 7 days for 15 bucks to me is a steal.

So now I can check that off my ever GROWING list.

weeee

Elllll SSSSSSSS UUUUUUU

All of these pictures are backwards...I hate how when you upload pictures it does it at the top instead of the bottom and then this happens.

None the less this was my last LSU home game/tailgate since I'll be staying home with my grandparents for the Arkansas game. Mr. B will be going le sigh....


One of the most beautiful places in the world...

Number 7 seems to ring true with me

Charlie...he's a good man. He's upset because someone stole the bottle of booze but it was ok because I stole his cousins and topped off our drinks haha

Us at the beginning of the game...it got worse from here

Poor Lucky she hurt her ankle while doing the Roger Rabbit with Mr. B which I will post later.

The group...well part of the group

Mr. B in all of his glory

Mr. B is making love to the camera haha

The best Crawfish Etouffee I've ever eaten.

The making of the best Crawfish Etouffee

Sneak Peek

Ok so I'll give you a little sneak peek of how the room is coming a long.



It's still not done yet. I have to hang some floating shelves and decorate those and then it will be done! whoooo

Weeeee

Curtain Update

On Friday when I got home guess what was at my door?
Apparently Elain felt bad and decided to drop it off haha

I had gone to Target to buy new cheaper curtains so I'll be returning them and I guess I got my favorite curtain for free! Hey I deserve it with all of the stress.

In the meantime Mr. B came in through the garage and saw the bedroom furniture and asked if I had bought new...I said well sort of I redecorated.

He was not happy whatsoever...however he was impressed that I moved that stuff all on my own without scuffing up the floors.

Eventually he calmed down and thought it looked "ok" because you know he couldn't actually say he liked it after all of that.

So I took some teaser pics that I'll post tonight since this is I think my Saturday post...and then I'll post for Sunday with the pics and today's post will be the LSU game pics haha

Trying to keep up is hard!

Grrr...

This post will actually be for yesterday because I will be updating tonight.
So I check the status of my curtain yesterday at work and success!!!! It was delivered.

I get home and nothing...I'm like seriously? There's noway someone stole this because we have this alcove by our door and it's hard to tell unless it's a big box which this wouldn't be and the two previous days nobody stole anything.

So I looked it up and it sure says delivered and a Elain signed for it...I thought well maybe that was the driver.

So I call USP and the automated thing says Elain signed for it at like 140 Del Orleans which is totally not my address haha

So I talk to a lady and she puts me to her supervisor. He says it was a two way system yada yada yada....basically UPS did the first part and then they hand it off to the USPS...stupid postal workers.

Theres no way you would get our addresses mixed up and she lives like 10-15 minutes from my house!!! And her name is Elain and mine is Nicole umm ok

Elain knew damn well that wasn't her package but signed for it and common sense would say even if she didn't look at it right away she would've walked into her house saw the name and ran outside and caught the mailman to give it back...or here's something how about mapquest and deliver my package biznatch!

So I call Target and the lady was like "do you know this Elain" I'm like ummm no if I did I would call her up and ask for it back duh.

So they credited me back the curtain which is cool because that included shipping and now I'll just go to Target myself and get one and save the 3.50

But I'm peeved because that curtain will really help make the room and I wanted it done in case Mr. B got home first and he could see my "vision" haha

I still need to hang the two floating shelves but he can help me with that and I need to get a chair from like the antique village or craigslist and redo it.

But it looks so much more grown up weeee...

Well I think I'll be safe since they were North of Atlanta and head to drive back all today and I think he has to go to the office first in order to get his truck.

But I have to work out and then run to the grocery so hopefully I can get it up before he gets home. I'm sure he's not going to be thrilled at first but maybe with me doing some cleaning last night he'll forgive me haha.

To Do List

okay...so I just wrote out my to do list for tonight and this is all my fault ok...Mr. B for one doesn't clean the house much and that's whatever I've gotten over that but when he's gone I like to just relax and not worry about anything until I'm like "shit he's going to be like so you didn't do anything while I was gone"....and yes I did put together a nightstand on Tuesday night but that's about it...last night I did much more but I have a shit ton to do and I have this much to do because I have to prepare for my grandparents arrival in less then 2 weeks...since football season my house has been neglected and they will want a tour and we're going to tell them to shower in our shower since it'll be easier stepping in and out.

So without further adieu

Finish hanging brackets
Hang new curtain
Wash bedding
Make bed
Move bed
Hang two thingies I got at HL
Hang another painting
put pictures in this cute little desk picture holder thingy
pledge
put away shirts and books from old dresser
decorate nightstands
vacuum everything
sweep living room floor
murphy said floor
light candles for good smellies
clean guest shower
clean guest toilet
make futon bed
clean all of the kitchen
clean out fridge for garbage day tomorrow
clean out pantry for garbage day tomorrow
tidy up our bathroom
tidy up our room
clean our toilet
clean our shower
clean cobwebs (yes I have them in very inconveniently placed areas)

Did you see how I gave up capitalizing the beginning of each task and making up words umm yah..

3 letters

FML
oh and I have to work out before all of this

OKAY!!!

So I went to Hobby Lobby after work...I truly have a love/hate relationship with that place. I spent about 70 bucks however I would've spent 150-165 if they didn't have their sales.

I think everything I bought either was 50% or 66% off...so hey and I figure with all the stuff I got for the guest room even the stuff from Target I will have done a total room transformation for about 165 bucks....I think that is truly a success!

I forgot to look at the clock when I had finished putting together the other nightstand/bookcase. But I know it didn't really take me long at all...even after messing up one part twice heh...

I was actually able to move the old furniture out and take it through the damn house into the garage. The headboard was surprisingly heavier then I thought it would be but that wasn't the true test....we had this dresser/bookshelf thing. It was two pieces....and I remember the movers saying how surprised they were at how heavy it was and Mr. B saying something about the wood and it being made in the U.S.A haha

Well I took the top piece out and yes it was heavy. I stopped about 4 times haha
But the true test was that damn lower half ughh

I ended up pushing it to the living room on the carpet but then knew I wouldn't be able to pick it up so I took an old sheet and put it on the floor and was able to somehow get the dresser on top of it and then I could push it across the floor without scratching up the wood floor. But I did it and I can imagine what Mr. B will say...something to the effect of being shocked as hell that I did it haha but when I put my mind to something I will do it!!!

So the curtain rod came in and I started to hang the brackets but haven't finished because I needed to clean the other part of the house in between Glee...

So I got the living room looking much better and two loads of laundry done and the kitchen is looking much better.

Tomorrow night I will do the living room floors and finish the kitchen and more laundry and vacuum....and clean our bedroom and bathroom.

Oy vey and finish the guest room.

Well I am catching up to this whole blog everyday...well hey two on some days counts right?! haha

Tomorrow night I'll post Before and After pics....

Bookcase/Nightstand

Okay let me just say that they are soooo much bigger then in the picture and I really wish I would've just gone to Target myself and looked because I wouldn't have gotten them.

Don't get me wrong you get a lot for 55 bucks but the room isn't THAT big for a queen bed and two of those on the wall that I wanted it!

So I got one together and had some hiccups but managed to do it all on my own and tonight's will be a breeze now that I know what I'm doing.

I'm thinking that I might have to change the layout of what I wanted and just have one nightstand actually by the bed and the other one on a different wall if I want the window to be open so you can actually really see the curtain.

So last night I took a look at the massive collage picture frame that Mr. B's aunt and uncle got us. It holds 33 pictures. Here's the issue. Only about 16 are 4x6's and about 3 are 5x7's. The rest are either wallet size or get this even smaller!!!!

So last night I go and figure out a plan because I'm OCD and need everything to be matchy matchy and I picked some to be Sepia print and some color. But on Shutterfly if you order a wallet size you get 4 pictures and wallets apparently are really expensive. Sooo I had an issue because I didn't want 4 of all of those tiny damn pictures. So I didn't order the wallets and figured I'd take the memory card into Walgreens and see what I could do because I know my grandma has done it before and I maybe able to print out wallets but with different pictures since I would physically be there.

But at least I can get a massive start on that project. I also ordered pictures to go into this cool frame which will be in the guest room. Then I ordered this great picture of Auntie Sylvia at my wedding and had this cool Damask frame that I got months ago. Then this morning I pull it out and realize it only fits a 3x3...wtf is up with all of these small photos? I mean where do you even get them for crying out loud!!!!

But I think I'll be able to cut it down and if not then I'll find a different picture to put in there and I'll just use a different frame.

Because tonight I'm going to Hobby Lobby to get lamps for the tables and I'm going to get some floating shelves I do believe.

But I don't know about hanging those myself...that scares me. And maybe I can find some more fall decorations and some new Xmas stuff weeeee

Are y'all well the 9 folks that follow bored with this decorating talk..because I'm kind of boring myself but I really don't have anything else going on and I'm excited.

Well last night while I was working out the little girl (who I think is 19ish) who already has a child who's about 2 (and her boyfriend works out there too) was outside because her mom came and they were fighting...I didn't want to just stare but they were pretty heated and that led me to believe that she probably lives at home with her parents still and she probably was asking for money or something...well she came in and I heard her talking to the other girl and she was crying but that damn music was soooo loud.

That's what I don't like about when the owner isn't there because he has these little kids working for him and they act so unprofessional. Holy crap I just realized that I have to start tanning for Mexico this week!!! Today is the only off day of working out hmm crap

I think I still have some tans left at the other tanning place so I better use them up before checking out the gym....kill two birds with one stone the way I see it!

Ok well I do have actual work to do...not enough that will be 2.5 hours long. Oh and my bosses boss just resigned so I'm hoping my boss will apply and get it and then I'll apply for her job and hopefully get it. This would mean at least a 10k raise which I'm sure they would low ball me and give me that but I know the range so I would ask for in the middle and hopefully get it. Well who knows if my boss will apply and get it but that's my shot or another one of her in the different district but still in our Region gets it so I can apply for their job...if someone outside our Region gets it then well we're all screwed. I planted the seed a couple times today so we'll see haha.

Tree

Well I can't find the picture of my sleigh bells boo but here is a picture of the tree I just bought

I think it will be cute in our corner and it's perfect for 15 dollars haha

Z..z...z...uuuuuuummmmmm

ba!!!

Yep that's Zumba. I'm so excited that I saw a sign for it the other day while driving to work. I called earlier and got nothing and got worried but just called back and got someone!

It's at a dance studio I think mainly for younger kids but they are introducing this to adults.

They have two classes
Mondays-6:30-7:30
and
Thursdays-7:30-8:30

I will of course be doing the Mondays....that's already an hour later then I am normally used to. So I'll basically be going home to try and get some kind of dinner together for Mr. B and then leaving right after that. I won't eat beforehand because I know that this gets crazy intense.

So now I'll be doing Zumba on Monday's and then working out 3 other times during the week and the day that I don't work out I'll be doing weights at home weeeeee!

I don't have much longer before Mexico and I know that 10 more pounds is probably not going to happen so my goal is 5 more lbs and just to be toned...that's really what I want. I want to b e able to take pictures of me in a bikini and not cringe.

And not to mention that we'll be talking about baby making seriously and we better be doing it starting January 1st and I would really like to be in the 150's by the time I get pregnant. So that means that I have about 10ish-12ish lbs to go. But I'll have the rest of December to make that happen and I will work out while on vacation since we'll be doing a lot of relaxing and not much of anything...just the way I like it.

I talk to my MIL (mother in law) last night and she's not going to come and clean the house...apparently Papa is taking her off as executor and putting her dip shit of a sister on there...I don't know why these people think it means they pick how much money people get....all you're doing is making sure people get what's supposed to be given to them via the will. I think the dip shit and the new wife are in cahoots together and have a bigger plan.

But MIL doesn't even care. She just wants to get the pieces from her mother's grandma out of there. Even the uncle called and said the dip shit has been going in there and taking stuff which doesn't surprise me at all. So my MIL and her other sister will get that stuff and flea bomb it and separate between the two. I think the other sister has about had it with them as well.

MIL did say she called and left a message for dip shit that wasn't nice and she told Papa he was making a mistake...but like I told my MIL they took out 50k on the house for who knows why and it would be better if he did take her off of the will for the house that way she won't have to worry about having to fix it up to sell it and try and get a profit after they owe the 50 extra k on it. I say give it to the nasty new wife and dip shit and let them deal with it.

They're all not very close anyways except for MIL and the other sister which obviously won't change anyways.

I just looked at saw my nightstands are out for delivery whoooo...which is perfect since Mr. B went off to GA today and won't be home until Friday. I'll put together the nightstands tonight and take out the old shiter and move the bed in the new place in anticipation for the rod and curtain....which now that I think about it I might need another panel but we'll see.

I went to Lowe's today and bought a sleigh bell thing it's a bunch of bells on a leather strap...it goes on a door. It soooo reminds me of the one my GG has which will be nice to have that homey feeling. I also bought a fake tree for 15 bucks...yep you read that right. It's 6ft tall and it's one of those taller but skinnier ones but I think that will be perfect.

I plan on getting a tiny like 3ft'er to decorate with all of our odds and ends ornaments and the skinny tree will be for only the one color theme I have.

I'm also thinking of buying another little tree and decorating it in LSU hehe.

I hate that Tday and Xmas are so close together because I feel like I just get up my Tday stuff and then I start getting my Xmas stuff up.

I started placing pictures in my order bin on Shutterfly for my big ass picture collage frame that Mr. B's aunt and uncle got us for our wedding. I think it holds something like 50 pictures haha so most of them will be pictures that I took of really cool acrhitecture and just a few thrown in of family....I'm going to do a mixture of I think color (with a soft focus on it) and sepia.

So this week begins Project cleaning for my grandparents arrival!!!!

Unfortunately not one room can be done and ready tonight haha but the guest room will be ready by Thursday night and that means the Office should be fairly close too.

I can then just close the doors on those two rooms so Parle doesn't get in there...then the morning they're coming I can go in for a quick wipe down and candle burning.

I think they'll end up taking showers in our bathroom since they won't have to lift their legs very high which means extra cleaning in there.

So that means cleaning the shower this week, next week, and the week they come. Which if you know me I hate hate HATE bathrooms!!!

And then there's the organizing of the pantry which I have thrown away a lot of stuff and will do so more this Thursday for trash night and then there's the cleaning out of the fridge. I can't wait to get rid of a lot of this beer for our last tailgate together!!!!

Ahh so much to do so freaking little time.

Weekend Recap

Friday oh how I love thee!!!!

I worked out...I'm so proud of myself because the week before with Auntie DC and Auntie Kellie coming in I didn't get to work out at all even down in NOLA.

So I figured last week I would be lucky to get 2 workouts in due to getting back into the swing of things. I intended to go on Tuesday but this darn bronchial crap was still too much so I went Wed, and Thurs, and talked myself into Friday.
I am loving the new daylight savings thing because now it's dark and people aren't motivated to work out haha so nobody is in there which I love.

Then we just relaxed and watched tv and I slept in (well more then a normal home game)

We then headed up to Lafayette to see Uncle Kevin and Auntie Jen. They were having sort of a housewarming/LSU party.

We ate a lot of great food and drank a lot and watched LSU play. I think it was rigged and Bama shouldn't have won. Clearly that interception was real and it's funny how the reviewer went to Bama...and how the ref's are based out of Birmingham ummm how could that be?

But our ranking actually got better!!!! We're 8th in the AP poll and we were 9th before the game.
But heck we've only lost to the #1 and #3 teams so I think that is pretty darn good.

I love Iowa but I'm glad they lost so the fans will be knocked down a bit...they really shouldn't have been ranked as well as they were because the quality of teams weren't that great.

Yesterday we just lounged around and I was able to nap. I put Loaded Baked Potato soup in the crock pot and let it do it's thing.

The Saints played which it was definitely a lot harder then I think they anticipated but we're 8-0 baby! WHO DAT....WHO DAT....WHO DAT SAY DEY GONNA BEAT DEM SAINTS WHO DAT!!!!

I'm really proud of those guys...it's awesome!

Well Mr. B got a call from his mom saying Papa's house is filthy...the new wife doesn't do shit and he has cancer and he's doing radiation so he can't clean it up. She brought all her filthy animals in and doesn't clean up after them so now the sisters are going to go and clean it out and do flea bombs...she said it could get ugly.

I don't know if she'll really come or not but we've offered for her to stay at our house which would be nice while Mike's gone. But geez she should be getting here today or tomorrow if she does so we'll see.

I can't believe the weekend went by so fast...geez we need to win the lottery so we can just stay home haha

Sorry for the Delay

I didn't bring my laptop with me to Uncle Kevin and Aunt Jen's.

I'll recap the weekend after I post this (that way one of these can be considered a post from a few days ago heh)

I did a little shopping on target.com (I luuuurve Target). I really wanted to spruce up our guest bedroom especially before my grandparent's get here for Tday. I actually really want to buy some crown molding for our guest bathroom as well...but just the plastic kind because who will really be able to tell anyways and that would only cost like 50 for that...I think it's worth it however getting Mr. B to believe it might be harder.

But if he goes out of town for the Ole Miss game (it's away) then maybe I would have auntie Mel come up and "surprise" Mr. B on Sunday haha

Ok regardless I wanted to buy more but you know felt bad and all since Mr. B's commission checks are always a surprise like in the Cracker Jack box. Although we're thinking that these next few months will actually be better yipee


So I bought two night stands (which are actually bookcases but you can't tell), a curtain rod, and a curtain haha


I'm going to take out the old crap and put it in our bulging garage where apparently everything goes. I think I need to make a call to the Good Will again.

1-Curtain Rod- 9.99

1-Curtain- 14.99

2-Bookcase- 55.00 (now back off sale for I think 69.99)

I also have little things that I bought months ago in hopes and preparation that I would finally update the room so I'm happy I won't have to buy much but maybe a small wicker basket for each bookcase which I can get at Walmart for cheap.

I'm thinking of bringing in the computer desk since it will now match the night stands. I gave up on the bed in a bag that I wanted because it was a little over 100 and then I'd have to for sure get black furniture. I really did want black but the espresso still is nice and I can the taller bookcase for the room later on and then it matched the desk.

And I began to think where would I put the desk when/once we get pregnant because the only option was the laundry room but I was afraid Parle would pea on some wires or something but now with not getting bigger furniture we have plenty of room and then the guests of course could have easier access to the computer.

So yah Mr. B has no idea that I'm doing this because I knew he'd gripe about it and he just so happens to be going out of town this week when all of the stuff is supposed to arrive.

Cole B Photoraphy

I finally was able to get some decent shots of NOLA without the rain! But I didn't want to take too much time up since I had guests with me.

These are raw...I haven't done any editing to them.