Bless Your Heart

too much pressure!

at lunch today i went by the post office to get a money order to send rachel for my new bath products. so psyched! i stopped by the subway on the way back. it’s in a gas station right near my office. we don’t have many choices around here for places to eat- which is weird because there are soooo many offices. open up a good, fast restaurant here and you’ll be sitting on a gold mine. anyway, i haven’t eaten at a subway in forever so i didn’t know what i wanted. i finally decided and got in line and man- it was like rapid fire yelling & split second decisions and i forgot to choose my bread and they have 147 kinds now and did i want the meal or just the sandwich and what toppings. whoa! i can’t handle all that pressure! i always end up making the wrong decision. sure enough, i accidentally ordered the meal which meant i had a drink and chips i didn’t want. and they weren’t even busy! i’d hate to be there during a rush- people would be in tears from all the questions!

back in business!

thanks to crasher *again* for help with posting pictures. he sent me to imgstation.com and i’m all set up now. i was able to re-post the pics i posted a couple weeks ago. more to come.

hittin the bottle

last night husband and i did our weekly running around shopping thing. i picked up john mayer’s room for squares at best buy. so far so good. we also hit target for milk bones, blades for jon’s electic razor & hair color. yep, i colored my hair. i never color my hair. i’ve been blessed with naturally blonde streaky hair and i can’t believe it’s stayed so blonde so long. most blondes go dark naturally by my age. i only colored it because when you’re a natural blonde you naturally have roots & lots of different tones in your hair. it looks cool in real life, but bad in pictures. so for my wedding and now for my sisters i hit the bottle to get rid of my roots. it’s now the same color it was for my wedding. blonde, but with a little strawberry mixed in. the box said “natural golden blonde”. it looks really strawberry to me though. i did it this morning before work. brave huh? what’s funny is that when i have color in my hair no one asks if i get it colored. but once the color comes out people ask who my colorist it. weird. my hair doesn’t hold color long. i have to get it cut every month anyway, and it just seems to slide out & fade away in about a month. husband read the ingredients last night when we got home. he couldn’t believe i’d put that stuff on my head! he’s anti-beauty product anyway. how funny that he ended up with me!

just a wee rant ** ok, this is long. sorry! but i hope you’ll stick around and read. please excuse my run on sentences & train of thought writing.

sarah has a very interesting post today about being a bitch. namely, if you ask for what you want & tell the truth for some reason the world likes to label you a bitch. well, she hit a nerve with me. i’ve been struggling with a similar situation for the last year or so. i’ve decided that i don’t want to stay up to all hours of the night drinking and puking while having inane conversations about the last time we were all together doing the exact same thing with people who i find, quite frankly, a bit boring, just to talk on the phone for hours about it the next day. i don’t want everyone in my hang out group to know and discuss all the personal details of my life. instead, i’ve decided to surround myself with people who are interesting, challenging, and have similar goals and values. i like to keep private things private. my friend melissa’s fight with cancer this year has shed some light for me about what’s important and i want to explore that. in short, it’s time to grow up and i’ve done a lot of that the last year or so. now, in the interest of saving feelings, i’ve not outwardly expressed any of this with the aforementioned party people. i’ve just stopped going to every party. stopped staying on the phone for hours. i’ve got things to do, this isn’t high school. i don’t share every minute detail of every day with them. this all means that most of the girls in the group think i don’t like them. when in fact i’ve just made different choices. that doesn’t mean your choice is wrong or bad if you choose something different from me. it just means that i like steak and you like chicken, no biggie right? now, i’ve tried to hang with it all for my sister’s sake, because we’re close and she’s marrying into that group. but once this wedding’s over, so am i. i’m tired of the girls not being nice to me just because i don’t want to do the same things they do. i’m dreading the bachelorette party because that’s who’s going to be there. i’ve never been nothing but nice to them so i’ll be nice again. even though they won’t be nice to me because they think i don’t like them and let’s be honest- i don’t. but only because they aren’t nice. i hate that i’m not excited about one of my sister’s wedding activities but it just feels so high school. at the last shower, any time my mom and i would come into a room they’d leave while giving not so nice looks our way. so after this long drawn out tirade…does it make me a bitch because i’d rather hang out with my husband than go to a keg party? am i a bitch because i don’t call girls every day to go over my personal life with a fine tooth comb? is it bitchy to know what i want, do what i’d like, be honest but tactful, even if it goes against what a group of girls thinks? i don’t think so. neither does joy.blogspot. what do you think??

on holiday

tomorrow my littlest sister morgan is going to las vegas with her dad for a week. and saturday my mom is going to bermuda for a week. i’m going to miss them so much. i’m in serious need of a vacation myself. alas, i won’t get one til we go to baltimore in august.

nelson news

husband took nelson to the vet this morning to get his stitches out. turns out his tail is a little infected so he’s back on antibiotics. and the stitches weren’t tight enough so they didn’t heal up like they were supposed to. so they have to stay in until saturday. as soon as they were back hom jon duct taped him right up again. seemed to work last time! no more bandage-less tail!

random

i have a training class in about 15 minutes that’s going to last all morning so i have to make it quick. i put in my order to rachel for fun bath things! i’m making gift baskets including her bath bombs, scrubs, etc. for my mom & sisters & me! i can’t wait to be all smooth and yummy smelling!

last night jon’s parents came back from l.a. i picked them up from the airport and drove them home to gastonia. they brought us back these cool retro brightly colored aluminum tumblers. jon’s so psyched. he loves drinking milk from them because they keep your drink so cold. i just can’t drink plain milk, especially from a glass. if i drink it at all it’s got to be chocolate, or in cereal, or if plain then very cold and only in a plastic cup. i know, weird. my mom’s the same way, but worse. she won’t drink it at all. the in-laws also brought us a cool hollywood oscar magnet for our fridge collection & some bone shaped doggie mints for nelson. cute!

chick flicks!

i’m a singleton this week. husband closes at work monday, tuesday, thursday, friday & saturday. that means he doesn’t get home til at least midnight. he’s taking me to lunch as much as he can this week, but that’s the only time i’ll see him save wednesday night. looks like it’s chick flick week! last night’s feature: riding in cars with boys. it was a pretty good movie, somewhat on the depressing side. drew did a good job going from teenager to 35 year old, but it wasn’t convincing to me that she was a 20 year old man’s mother. i guess because i know i’m older than her. brittany murphy was good in it too. and i’ve always loved steve zahn. he just cracks me up.

on hold

well, it looks like the site where i was uploading my pictures has decided not to let me back in. it’s not recognizing my login info. although it’s correct. so i’m on the hunt for another place where i can upload pics for free. until then…no picture pages. =(

html help??

does anyone out there in my little group of blog readers know how i can easily change the font on my blog without changing the whole template? i’ve been trying to change it based on my wits, but it’s just not working. just so you know, i think it’s so cool that you come here and read what’s up with me. sorta feels like we all go hang out at the same little club each day ya know?

here kitty, kitty

when jon got home from work sunday we drove out to his parents’ house in gastonia (about 40 minutes away) to check on their kitties and water their plants. they’re in l.a. this weekend at jon’s cousins’ daughter’s christening. they got a fabulous e-saver for $125 each round trip so they couldn’t pass it up. anyway, we filled up their food & water & fed the fish & watered plants then had to do a head count to make sure none of the cats had gotten out or whatever. so we found andy, joliette, fenwiette, figaro, bob, oliver’s being boarded….so we’re missing sparky. yep, that’s right…they have 7 cats. seven. that’s just sooo many. i have to take a benadryl before we go over there or i swell up like nobody’s business, and we have 2 cats! it’s just that with 7 they can’t control the cat hair. it’s everywhere. i forgot to take anything yesterday so we were speed racers trying to get out of there. they would have 8 cats but one died last fall, lambert. they are really sweet cats, but man. 7? see, that’s why you have more than 1 child, and lots of hobbies. so when you get old you don’t fill your house to the brim with felines. their vet bills are outrageous! one cat is almost blind, one has allergies & one has herpes. ay yi yi. we finally found sparky hanging out under the piano upstairs so we could go. i sneezed all the way home.