Tomorrow is the day

Yep tomorrow I will nervously go to a testing facility where I will spend all of my allowed 3 hours answering 100 multiple choice questions about Construction Documents. I have been studying off and on for 2 weeks and hope I have attained enough information to pass. They dont tell you how many you need to get correct to pass but I dont care as long as the letter in the mail says PASS. If one were to fail they would have to wait 6 months and pay the $102 again, it wouldnt be the end of the world but it wouldnt be fun either.

Saturday night Matt and I are attending a bon fire equiped with a projector that will project the UT vs Memphis basketball game on the side of a shed. Yes we are having a field party with a big fire. So a bunch of the people I work with will be out in a field drinking a lot of booze, and burning things. That is my kind of weekend.

I am excited for this test to be over so I can start working on the house again and working out. Also my family have been waiting for me to finish with the test so that they could come visit me for my birthday. I cant wait to see them and catch up.

Snow for my birthday

Every year around my birthday I somehow get snow either in the form of an Ice storm or just a heavy sleet. This year the Tuesday before my birthday it snowed about 2 inches, a nice white blanket over everything. Matt's parents were in town and they got to experience the snow. His mom said it was the first time she had seen snow in 20 years because they live in Mobile and it is always warmer there. Marty and Randy took some pictures of the dogs playing in the snow so I decided to share them.

I had a wonderful birthday and am thankful for all my gifts, cards, thoughts, text messages, and e-mails. It really does make a person realize how many friends they have even if they are far away that someone does care. I hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day with their honeys or friends. I did thanks to my hottie from hottingham.

latest weird dream

Me and a few friends and i think Matt were skipping along excited about going swimming in this body of water that looked like a lake but had pretty big waves. We jump in and began swimming toward the back sort of like when Jim Carey started swimming for the wall in the movie The Truman Show. There were people toward the back holding their hands up for something. I go to dive into the water and begin to swim when I hit the water with my head it was made of foam. It was the texture of the posterpedic beds in the commercials where you put your hand in and it sinks in and then bounces right back. So we settled toward the front of this weird body of water and a huge candy crane began to drop clumps of pink cotton candy at us. I caught this huge piece and began to share it with the crowd. It broke like bread and I passed it out like these people were in need of hardened pink cotton candy. Soooo weird.


Interpretation

Cotton Candy To see or eat cotton candy in your dream, represents childhood pleasures or rewards.? You are content with the way things are going in your life

Styrofoam To see Styrofoam in your dream, indicates that you are undergoing some form of transition in your life. In particular to see a Styrofoam cup in your dream, suggests that you are feeling somewhat insecure or instable in a relationship.

Ocean To see an ocean in your dream, represents the state of your emotions and feelings.? It is indicative of some spiritual refreshment,? tranquility and renewal.

Swimming To dream that you are swimming, suggests that you are exploring aspects of your unconscious mind and emotions. The dream may be a sign that you are seeking some sort of emotional support. It is a common dream image for people going through therapy.

Outbreak

Last week in our office there were maybe 2 people, that will remain nameless for fear that the world would kill them for causing the modern plague, that were sick in my office. So I can only speculate that over the weekend while watching the superbowl everyone started to feel this super virus invade there bodies, because everyone is out sick. I had already planned on taking off Monday because I needed a day off and because the drywall guy was coming to fix our basement. I did not know that my husband would also be off that day when I planned this or I probably wouldnt have taken off, well I say that because I didnt forsee me getting sick. I had been working on a project long hours with a guy at work who was sick so I assumed that my body had made anitbodies and beat this cold before I even saw any signs of it. Well I was wrong, way wrong. Friday on my way to Dallas, TX with my husband, yes a 10 hour road trip, I began to notice that my head, and eyes were hurting and my body felt like I had ran a marathon. My legs, knees, and back were so sore and restless that I knew I was getting something. We even stopped at "the Wall" to get me a massager that I could sit on with heat and everything. We made it to Dallas at 1am and went to bed. The next morning I didnt feel any better. Aside from the cough and constant blowing of my nose I was fine. We did some sight seeing in Dallas, the I.M. Pei architecture and J.F.K. Memorial. That night I was gross. Sunday on the way back from Dallas I wasnt much help on sharing my driving responsibilities. I think I drove from Little Rock to Memphis or something like that. Sunday night was a constant buring up with fever to freezing chills throughout the night. I slept with my head hanging over the edge of the bed with a humidifier blowing on my face all night. Monday I sat on the couch most of the day. So today I am back at work and blaming those un-named employees for my pain and suffering. Lots of people missed work yesterday and today because of these guys they should be punished.

This friend could use a praying hand

Hello all and when I say all I mean the few who read and even know that I blog.
Matt and I are going through a lot of stress with our jobs right now. Mine has been somewhat stressful for the past month and will be over tomorrow. Matt's job has been stressful since he started recruiting but as of last Friday has morphed and grown into more than just stress. We really need all the good thoughts and prayers that you can throw our way. So if you have a little extra minute keep us in your thoughts.

We will be keeping all of you in ours as well.

Baby's on the Brain

Well the other day I was talking to my older cousin about my younger cousins yes plural who just so happen to be pregnant. We were discussing things like when my husband and I are going to have one as we always discuss. Families are crazy. Before you get married all they ask is when are you going to get married and as soon as you do its, "When are you going to have a baby?"
Slow down and enjoy life a little, dont be in such a hurry, I will do it when I am goood and ready. I think I need to have some things done before I should be bringing a new life into this world. I know most children aren't planned, no one in my family planned there children aside from my sister who tried and tried and finally gave us our "Big E".
So the things that I want to get done before I start such an adventure are:

I want to get licensed in Architecture, which will hopefully only take me a year since I am already signed up for my first test Feb. 22 and want to/have to pass them all in a year or I will have to take the new tests. I really dont want to be a big old prego and at a testing site with kids trying to make a good score on their SAT's

Also My husband and I are moving to San Diego in April '09 so I want to not be pregnant during a move across country and having to stop at every rest stop to empty my bladder.

Karen, Lacie and I are planning a trip to Italy sometime in the Spring or Fall of '09 so I really dont want to be "swole up like a tick" and waddling through the streets of Italy eating all the pasta and marinara that I can find and not being able to wash it down with any wine.

Although it looks like my schedule shows that I should wait until Winter '09 to become a balluga whale my hubby is one of those people that is in a bit of a hurry. Also when I think about being in San Diego so far away and prego it would be much easier if I were closer to home and used to my surroundings.

So after Cathryn freaks out about this blog just like she has about one's in my past, I can change the subject.

I came up with these ideas related to babies.
The first one is an invention of the sorts.
It is a big heating pad for parents to put under the sheets in a crib in the winter. I freeze in the winter and always have an electric blanket on my bed. I know the saying to not put a lot of blankets in your baby's crib for fear of SIDS so I thought of this idea. The heating pad would have a thermostat so the parents could set it on a certain temperature and the infant would stay warm and cozy.

The second idea stemmed from the conversation that I had with my cousin that I mentioned at the beginning of the blog. Our family has had 4 baby's in the past 4 years and have 2 more on the way. I think that we could get a storage unit for baby stuff that holds the families cribs, strollers, clothes, etc. When a mother is expecting she goes and picks out what she needs and uses it and then takes it back when the child has grown out of it and it is there for the next mother to use. Sort of like a free thrift store.

Matt's b-day surprise

Well January 8th was my hubby's b-day. I was super busy with a project going out and couldnt plan anything before hand and Matt just so happened to total a car on his b-day so I was a little distracted. So I began planning the day after for the weekend after his b-day. I called a new restaurant to make reservations and they told me some bull about not being fully open so they couldnt take my reservation. I didnt really understand why but thought that maybe we would get lucky and get there early to get a table. I invited everyone at work and some tried to invite a lot of Navy friends but as usual with everything I plan only a few could come. The five of us ended up at Agave which is a fairly new Tequilla bar near the Gulch. We had a plethara of tequilla shots and mexican food and laughs.

The laughs were mostly at what Shelly would call "Southern Belles" and what I would call "Becky's". These are girls that wear dresses about 6" too short allowing their butt cheeks to show and who really really want to be seen and heard by everyone in the bar.

After Matt had about 12 shots of tequilla and a beer he was pretty much ready to do just about anything but I still couldnt convince him to bust into the Becky's party and start dancing in the middle of all of them. So we said goodbye to Cafra and Ryan, Shelly, Matt and I went to the Flying Saucer. Upon leaving Shelly and I hashed a scheme to shoot Ryan and Matt with silly string. I got the idea from one of our first dates when all we did was run around in the rain and shoot silly string at each other. My truck took the bulk of the blue and orange shooting string of fun.

Work wont work

At my office for the past two weeks we have been having trouble with the server and when this happens no one in the office can work on their projects because we back up our work on the server. The only thing any employee can do is get on the internet or break out the pencils and paper. Well being that my office is solely based on computer work and my job is a CADD jockey or now Rosie the Reviter I get on the internet. The past two weeks I have been too busy to get on the internet so even when the server was down I had to break out my pen and start redlining my own work for later when I did get a brief hour of Revit bliss. Well this week I dont have a deadline for 3 weeks and probably need to work from now until then but I will allow myself a little bit of blog time.
I have gotten used to using the intercom system at work since everytime I want to do anything big on my project I have to announce it to the whole office. At first I would giggle everytime I would use the intercom but then we started to make it a game of who could come up with the most unique way of saying you are saving to central and now it has evolved to just plain annoying.

"publishing post"
"typing blog"
"clicking mouse"



"SAVING TO CENTRAL"
When you get 20 people doing this at least once an hour it gets old.

"DONE"

Christmas pics

Its all about the food with these two girls

Mom and Dad cooking dinner

Christmas dinner on the infamous blue china

Christmas "Vacation" Ha

Well if you have read Cafra's blog you can pretty much just use it as a Mad Gab and replace airplane with car and her cities with Mobile and New Albany. Oh and add two dogs to the equasion and I was back to work on Wednesday. Whew that made me tired just typing it.


Here is how it went:
Left Nashville at 10pm Friday night to arrive in Mobile at about 5:30. We would have been there sooner but we had to stop for a nap because we were both falling asleep and I havent taught Sparx to drive. So Saturday we sleep until 12 noon then get up and get a shower and have a late lunch/early dinner with Matt's parents and sister. We had the tradition turkey and dressing then opened gifts. That night we played Dance Dance until I was hot and sweaty. The next morning we awoke to face the mall and Best Buy to return something already. That night we had the tradition German dish Sour Bratten. (Probably not spelled correctly). After dinner we played a game of Cranium with mom and dad, watched some football and packed our things to leave.
So we were on the road at 9pm to arrive in New Albany at 2:30 we were hauling ass and no nap needed. We got up Monday morning to go to my grandma's house for appitizers and fun with family. Then we drove my mom to my aunt's house since my dad had to work and there we played another game of Cranium which just so happend to make us a bit late for Karen and David's get-together.
So we arrive a bit late to there apartment in Tupelo, MS to see that Karen has prepared a full feast complete with ham and some Italian custard dessert that she will have to send me the recipe for. We had some wine and a lot of laughs and began planning our trip to Italy. We headed back home late and woke early to my mom cooking and asking when we were going to get up. I made holly treats for my sister and my mom made yeast rolls for me. The family arrived and we ate the traditional turkey except for my mom's new baked potato casserole which is my new favorite. We let the kids open gifts and decided not to exchange gifts with the adults.
Then it was outside with the 12 gauge shotgun to shoot a little skeet. Yea I said it. Just imagine 5 rednecks lined up in our yard each with a shotgun blasting away. That is what I call a Redneck Christmas. After that mom called us in to open gifts with them. Then we were on our way back up to Nashville to unpack, rest and work hard again until our next holiday.