gotta give him credit

i promised to write today... as i start this post it's 11:56, so i'm gonna say it counts!

as far as writing about something -- i'm afraid i'm still having writer's block.

nono, wait. i do have something that is TOTALLY blog-worthy! plus, the hubby would beat me if i didn't write about this!

so in my previous post i whined about discussed how exhausted/swollen/beat i was from going back to work after having 5/6 days off. what i didn't mention (because i was so dadgum tired) was that i had a BIG treat waiting on me when i got home from work at 9 pm last night.

the HUBBY cleaned HOUSE!

and i don't mean he just put the dirty dishes in the sink and stuffed the dirty clothes under the bed and sprayed febreze around the place to make the smell coming from the trash can disappear... i mean he actually CLEANED!

vacuumed, folded a load of towels i had done, started another load of towels, cleaned up a mess i had made making crafts, MADE THE BED, put his dirty clothes in the dirty clothes basket, (this is a big one!) cleaned the bathroom countertops -- WITH scrubbing bubbles, and cleaned the toilet. AND he mowed the back yard. i nearly cried. i was so happy to be able to go to bed and not think about all the cleaning i was going to have to do this morning. what's so funny is he did all this between 5:30 and 9:00 because when i came home from lunch at 4:30 the house was a wreck and i made a comment about how messy it was. he told me he didn't want me to have to spend my weekend cleaning the house. awwwww. so sweet.

i may have mentioned to him at some point that i sometimes gripe write about things he does or does not do around the house, which might have led to him cleaning for me. either way, i assured him i would brag ALL about him on my blog and make sure he gets full kudos for a job well done.

i'll write more tomorrow. i promise!

i'm alive.

my vacation ended wednesday night. i was gonna cry about it to you, but something came up. i can't remember what now. my brain is fried.

i worked thursday/friday/saturday. i am WORN. OUT. six days off kind of spoiled me.

my poor feet are so swollen and hurting. and something about the way i'm sleeping (i think) is messing up my right, ahem, groin muscle. it hurts to... well, move my leg.

i have tomorrow and monday off. hallelujah!

i know i've been neglecting the blog world recently, but i'll catch back up with my posting and commenting once i recuperate from three whole days of working at walmart.

i'm such a weenie.

well, that didn't take long

Our PS3 quit working back in November, and we just replaced it a few days ago.

You know how little kids are when they get a new toy? They love it more than ANY of their other toys and play with it nonstop -- won't put it down, won't play with any other toys, sometimes even sleep with it...

Well, the PS3 isn't in our bed, but it might as well be. I'm hoping this infatuation doesn't last long -- the hubby wasn't playing this much before it quit working, so I'm hoping it's just the "newness" and that it'll wear off. Soon...

**hang mirror in laundry room
**load boxes of crap valuable personal possessions he won't throw away into the car to be taken to storage
**call lawyer in Texas (This one has to do with us qualifying for Medicaid. As in, saving us thousands of dollars in hospital bills.)
**set up surround sound (Should have been done when we moved in.... in September...)
**hide wires around entertainment center
**pay for his real estate classes he took in February and arrange to take state test (You know, so that he can get his license and go make some friggin money so that i can actually afford to go to quit work and go to nursing school.)
**mow BACK yard (because only the FRONT yard got mowed on Saturday.)

...because this is a list of stuff he could should be doing instead.

go go go!

I'm no longer upset with my hubby. My yard is mowed. =)

I'm sure I will find something else to gripe about in the (possibly near) future, and when I do, I might just write about it. I can do that, because this is my blog.

I do love him dearly and just needed to vent a little bit yesterday.

Two days vacation down, three days vacation left. It goes by way too quickly. Yesterday we went to Hot Springs with Tyler and Britney. Yesterday was Ty's birthday and Britney had given him a gift certificate to Best Buy so he could get a surround sound system, so the four of us loaded up in the car around 4 yesterday afternoon for a quick trip outta town. I have SO much fun with them. We went to Best Buy, Chili's, and Pirate's Cove for a round of mini-golf. Fun times with my family!

For tomorrow, I have a whole bunch of nothin' planned. It should be great!!

VACATION!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm getting paid as I type this right now! WHOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

Of course, my "vacation" will consist of staying at home and relaxing. This is okay with me, though, cause I'm getting PAID to do it!

After much talk, thought, and consideration, my mom and I decided to order the bedding for Christopher's nursery. We were my mom was originally going to make it, but I think it will be cheaper, easier, and faster this way. I wish we had thought about this a week ago, but we just decided last night -- so I am ordering the bedding off eBay this morning. We were hoping to have paint matched to the bedding and start painting sometime this week, but we probably won't have time. We'll just get the room cleaned out and ready to start working on it. That in itself will be a chore. I would take a picture of how it looks right now, but I'm not gonna subject y'all to that....

Also -- my mother and I went to a yard sale yesterday morning and hit the jackpot! We got some awesome stuff for a great deal. A stroller/carseat combo, a crib mattress, a jumparoo, a swing, a bassinet, some Tommy Hilfiger shoes, a few onesies, a baby monitor, and lots o' toys!

My husband slept from 10:30pm Thursday night to 10:45 Friday morning... he says he was awake for about an hour and a half in the middle of the night. THEN he fell back asleep on the couch around noon for 30 minutes or so. Then he slept from 1:45 to 2:45 - after promising me he would mow the yard after a "little nap." I left to go to town around 3:00 yesterday, and he was getting ready to mow the yard. When I got home at 3:30ish, he was asleep on the couch, and a few minutes later he moved to the bed, where he stayed until 5:30, when his mother called him asking him to move some furniture into her house for her.

And so he did....

...and my yard is still not mowed.

He finally stayed up after moving furniture, but went to bed at 11:30 last night and is still in bed right now -- at 9:30.

I'm getting way past irritated.

And I'm seriously, seriously thinking about going to mow the yard right now.

After I order the nursery bedding!

rambling =)

i have had SUCH a busy week. or at least it seems that way to me! i have worked 8am-5pm all week long, and Stephen has worked 8pm-7/8am all week long. we have just been seeing each other as he was walking in the door and i was on my way to work, and for a few hours between 530 and 730 --if he wasn't napping. i'm not a morning person and i had trouble sleeping without stephen (just going to bed, i would put it off because i'm a scaredy cat) so i've been EXHAUSTED all day long at work. my feet/legs/hands have been SO swollen, when i get off work i look like a balloon and i barely have enough energy to stand. i'm scared to see what August weather will do to me if May is kicking my butt this much!

i got off at 2 today because i had some overtime (long story, but it involves me working 9.5 hours yesterday) and tomorrow i work 12-9 (hallelujah for sleeping past 6:50!) and then i am ON VACATION! i'll have 5 days off and be paid for 4 of them. this is the first time in my working career that i get paid to not go to work so i'll be a happy camper next week!

i had a doctor's appointment this week and he thought my fundal height measurement is weirdly large, so i am having an ultrasound next tuesday to see what's going on with Mr. Christopher. i'm excited to get see him again - my last two ultrasounds have been kind of disappointing, we haven't really been able to see anything fun, like a face, hand, foot, etc. we are praying that everything is fine and that i'm just having a big, healthy baby boy!

i'm off to do more laundry and housework!

OH! and YAAAAAAY for Kris Allen winning AI last night -- so awesome!

boring blog - you've been warned!

Being poor really changes your attitude when it comes to shopping. In high school, I could have gone to Texarkana and spent a few hundred dollars without really blinking my eye. Not now! Of course, back then I didn't have any payments - the only thing I really needed money for was gas.

Stephen and I got our tax refund back a few weeks ago, and while the majority of it has gone to a savings account for EMERGENCY USE ONLY. (Like when WalMart decided to cut us back to 15 hours a week and we had NO. MONEY. AT. ALL.) We're using a small portion of it to fix up the house a little bit. New vent-a-hood, (see pictures of our current nasty one) new paint in the kitchen - cabinets & walls, possibly new counter tops - this one I'm super excited about - and some new siding in a few places on the exterior of the house. Then a portion of it is going towards credit cards, of course. I wil be glad when those are paid off!

So -- yesterday we head down to Texarkana to do some shopping. I had several things I wanted to buy, plus we were going to price countertops, cabinet handles, etc etc. We went to:

Home Depot
Best Buy (Gift Card)
Kirklands
Bed, Bath, and Beyond (Gift Card)
Lowes
Hobby Lobby
Victoria's Secret (I needed more underoos.)
Sears
TJ Maxx

ALL those places... and we still spent less than $65.00

It's just different shopping now, knowing that the money could be put somewhere more useful, other than home decor. =( It makes me sad.

BUT I had a great day anyway. We picked up my brother & his fiance when we got there and they spent the day being chauffeured all around Texarkana. They are probably our favorite couple to hang out with and we don't get to spend nearly enough time with them, so we really enjoyed hanging out! We went to Olive Garden for dinner and then back to Ty's apartment to watch Taken (the movie Stephen bought with his gift card at Best Buy.) It was really good.

We made it home about 2 am and crashed, and I just got up around 10. I have so much to be doing - pick up house, laundry, and deep clean my laundry room. I also want to start working on taking my cabinet doors off and start sanding them so that I don't have so much to do next week!

Sorry for this long, boring, pointless post. Maybe next time I post it'll be something fun!