Somewhat Wordless Wednesday

Because wearing glasses inside and

taking pictures of yourself is all the rave these days!!!!!

X-Mas

So I hope everyone had an awesome X-mas.  I'll be honest here, I was not looking forward to X-mas this year.  With my guy being gone I couldn't get into the holiday cheer.  Everytime a X-mas song would come on the radio I would change the station.  I actually dreaded seeing my family and having to look and feel happy on X-mas.  But during X-mas eve after I got all my shopping finished I went over to one of my grandparents house with my moms side of the family and actually had a good time.  There was tons of talking (thanks to my brother who can't shut up lol) and lots and lots of laughing.  As much as I miss Bill and knew that he should of been there but I was able to sit there and soak in what X-mas is really all about, Family.  The next couple of days were followed up with running around like a chicken with its head cut off lol going from house to house so we could get together with most of my immediate family and exchange presents.  Chloe did very good this year with her presents.  There was no whinning about opening presents unlike last year.  The last couple of X-mas we have been sick at X-mas time and she has just not been in the mood to rip through wrapping paper to get to her presents.  I'll let the pictures do the talking of this year :)

Family Traditions

So in a portion of my family (because my family is freakin huge lol) we have a tradition every year for X-mas.  Usually me and my grandma bake up a storm and give out the goodies to people at work and family.  Well as my grandma ages the more she doesn't want to bake all these goodies every year.  The tradition has finally fell upon my mother and I to keep it going.  Well since my mother and I have our own house holds to manage and kids to take care of its easier if we just do it separately and when we have time.  Well I decided to slap on sappy emo music and get down with my bad self baking all those delicious goodies that my grandma has taught me over the years.  My mom already made a few of our awesome recipes so I kept with the stuff I knew I couldn't screw up on my own!!!!

Lots and lots of cookies!

Yummy brownie cookies!

Chocolate covered cherries ( I did make one little mistake and got the unstemmed cherries lol)

Banana nut bread because its just freakin yummy.  (this isnt my actual bread.  I'm making that tomorrow night but here is a pick for your viewing pleasure)

Of course the pups slept the whole time lol.

Do you guys have any family traditions?

Dear So and So... Sleepless in Nevada

This is my first go at this so cut me some slack lol.  Oh and after you get done here head on over to 3bedroombungalow where you can read the good stuff.

~Dear pups,

Barking every 5 mins between the hours of 9pm and 2am is going to make you guys end up sleeping in the livingroom alone on cold tile or better yet outside.  I love you guys to the end but keep it up and no warm bed for you.

Love your sleepless mama!

~Dear Stupid people outside at all hours of the night,

Your lucky my guy is not here or you would be in big trouble!!!  The pups barking (that interrupts whatever important conversation you deemed necessary to have between 9pm and 2 am) would be the least of your worries! 

Tired and sick Nicole

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She has the cutest aprons and gloves imaginable.  I may have to go and order me one after X-Mas!!!!!!  That is if I don't win this one!!!

432 hours and 18 days......

that have included 1 phone call, 1 video chat and 139 emails……


It’s hard to believe that is has almost been a month since we had our last real kiss. I know I should thank my lucky stars that I am able to talk to him as much as I have been but sometimes I think that makes this even harder. I can tell him everything I’m thinking of but I can’t see him or feel his touch. I can’t see the emotions on his face when I tell him the different things that are going on with me and Chloe. I’m taking it one day at a time but it is not easy.  My mind reminds me of all the things that can happen over there when a few hours passes by with no email from my love.  I have become my own worst enemy.

I have a routine set for me and Chloe during the week with school and work and I have managed to keep us extremely busy during the weekends. But I’m getting tired of always having somewhere to be or something to do. I long for our days together as a family.

I long for him. My heart aches for him. It’s like I am missing a piece of myself while he is away. Sometimes I think I can actually feel the physical pain of it.

I now know how much of our time together I took for granted.

RTT - To dye or not to dye?

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Ok so heres a low down of yesterday.  Left my lunch sitting on the dresser before Chloe and I got out the door.  Spent my whole lunch break at the post office to ship my guy is care package.  Had a not so healthy lunch because I was in a hurry to get back to the office.  Got half way to the springs preserved when I realized I left the free admission tickets at my moms and had to drive all the way back to her house to get them.  Got to the springs preserve at 7pm to find out they closed at 6pm.  (I thought something was up when they had the entrance gate closed and I drove in the exit gate lol).  Then this morning I was late to work yet again because I couldn't find my keys.  But I did remember my lunch.  Oh and PMS has been plaguing me up until this morning.

But I decided to go back to being a full blown red head on Sunday.  What do you think?

Don't mind the "what the hell" look on my face lol.  Since I was running late this morning I didn't have any time for makeup.  And I didn't really want to smile so the whole world could see my giagantic gap from my missing tooth.  But I think it brings out the green in my eyes more now!

Anywho Happy RTT!!!!!!

Wordless Wednesday

No words can come close to describing the fun we had that week in North Carolina and Virginia!!!!

More Wordless Wednesday found here.

Swimming outside in December? = RTT

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So as some people already know I have 4 little loveable mini dashchunds.  We have a little pool for Chloe out in the backyard for the summer and during the winter I fill with blankets for the dogs when I need to put them outside so they don't get cold.  Well yesterday it rained almost all day long and I didn't think to bring in the blankets or put something to cover up the pool because guess what, I was leaving late for work again.  Well I worked all day got my running around down after and came home.  About 9:30 I looked out the back door to see if it had stopped raining and it did but then I saw the pool was completely full of freezing cold water.  Their blankets and toys that were in were completely waterlogged.  At first I tried to lift the whole pool up to drain the water out but with the water absorbed blankets it wasn't happening.  I took the blankets out flinging water all over the place and myself and lifted the pool up again.  Well it creased in the middle and alot of the water came running out the sides, all over the patio and my poor bare feet.  Its a good thing Chloe was not there or else she would of got a not so good ear full of every "bad word" under the sun lol.  I just thank god we don't live somewhere where it gets to 20 below!!!!

Domestic woman moment: I'm so freakin excited (almost as excited as I was when we got our new front loader washer and dryer and my vaccuum cleaner) that I got the shower doors out of our master bath over the weekend.  They were in good shape (I'm donating them to habitat for humanity if they ever call me back to pick them up) but I absolutely hated them and they kept coming off the track.  My guy blames me for them coming off and it probably is the way I was pulling them but regardless they sucked.  Now I have a nice shower rod and curtain up and it seems to make the bathroom seem a bit bigger.  I would never of thought that at 24 stuff like this would make me excited lol.  Do you have anything that excites you that you never would have thought would?

RTT

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So before you tell someone to grow up you need to have a long good look in the mirror. If you can’t support your children and provide food and roof over their heads on your own and you don’t even have a high school diploma it seems to me you’re the one who needs to do the growing up. And on that note learn how to budget your money. Maybe you won’t be in the pickle that you are in. Just a thought!


On a better note I have a list of things to do while my guy is gone and I think it will keep me busy through the next couple months which is heaven sent for me. I love being busy since it makes the time go buy faster and I feel that I will get a lot of stuff accomplished.

Ohh so before my guy left he found this article regarding the military care package supplies that The United Postal Service will provide for family member or friends sending care packages to the men and women overseas for free. I don’t remember the link (it’s saved on my computer at home) but if you call 1-800-610-8734 and hit option 1 twice and tell the operator you would like a Military Care Kit they will send you one at no charge. I ordered mine on Friday and should have it sometime this week or early next week.

And on another military note I found some air force girl friends bumper stickers and a license plate frame here for cheap. They also have tons of other military family member things there as well.

Well thats all I got right now.  Happy RTT!!!!!

Thanksgiving Weekend Wrap Up

Yep so how was everyone's Thanksgiving?  Mine was pretty good.  I spent part of the morning cleaning and then the rest of the day in the kitchen cooking.  We had a total of 14 people not including myself show up.  And for it being the first time I have had Thanksgiving at my house and cooked the turkey it went pretty well.  Except that the turkey didn't cooked all the way lol.  But most of it was so everyone was able to eat while I cooked the rest of the turkey.  Then later that night after everyone left my guy had to take his family to the airport.  I was actually a little sad to see them leave.  I really enjoy spending time with them and learning new things about my guy that I didn't know from his younger years.

The next morning my guy got his butt up at 4 am so he could get to Best Buy before they opened to pick up some bigger external drives for his trip and for the house.  I got a lovely call at 5:30 am from him asking if I needed anything from Target.  Haha even if I did there was no way I could think of it that early in the morning.  I'm not usually conscious till atleast 7 am on a weekend.  When I finally did roll my butt outta bed we had breakfast and I went out with my grandma to get my shopping done.  Which only consisted of one thing for someone other than myself and the rest of the $70.00 was spent on myself.  I think I deserved it.  Then later that night we took Chloe to see Planet 51.  She has been bugging me for the last week to see that everytime she sees the commercial on T.V.

This was the first movie in the theatre that I have taken too and she did so good.  She stayed in her seat the whole time and didn't make one peep.  After she said she really liked the movie.

Saturday was a pretty uneventful day.  We lounged around the house and went out to lunch.  My guy must of packed and unpacked his giant green duffle bag that the wonderful airforce supplied him atleast 3 times making sure he had everything.  We had a nice home cooked meal of steak, veggies and loaded smashed potatos.

We were up nice and early on Sunday to get my guy to the base on time.  I'm sure my guy kept it quick and simple so he wouldn't break down. 

It was a bit early for Chloe to be outside as you can see.  She doesn't really quit understand what is going on but I'm sure in a few days or by the weekend when Bill hasn't come home she will start wondering where he is and when he will be back.

The rest of the day couldn't go by quick enough.  I was surrounded by family and friends and that was nice but I really just wanted to be home with Chloe by myself to process my emotions and have a good cry which I still haven't done.  Just some tears here and there.  I'm sure tonight the water works will be flowing.

P.s for the record it is now 10:00 pm and not really any tears.  Then again he has called me atleast 4 times today before they hoped their plane lol.  I'm taking this alot better than I thought originally.

RTT

(haha I finally figured out the button ~ go me!!!!!)

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So I'm sitting here getting caught up Fringe on Fox and I can't help but wonder if this stuff does actually happen.  I mean how do people come up with stuff without having seen it happen before?

And how cute is Joshua Jackson in this show?  I have loved him since his days as Pasey on Dawson's Creek.  Yes I was one of the many who would watch this show every week.  Sad, I know.

Did you see that Paula Deen got smacked in the nose with a ham?  That happened while she was donating a bunch of hams in Atlanta for charity.  But she took it with stride and didn't seem to let it take away from her good cheer.  Oh how I love me some Paula Deen!

So as everyone who knows me knows that my guy is leaving Sunday morning for his deployment and I'm really heartbroken about it :(.  And he tells me lastnight that there will be no crying at the base that morning.  Yeah like that is going to not happen ha.  He forgets how emotional I get.  I know seperation makes the heart grow fonder and everyone keeps telling me we will appreciate our time together more once he gets back and I'm sure that is true but right now it just sucks.  But to help deal with it all I have been making a list of all the stuff I want to do while he is gone.  Like getting new counter tops in the kitchen and I spent most of my lunch break wondering around Target looking at all the shelves and frames to hang up on my walls.  If I keep myself busy the next 4 months will fly by!!!!

Dental Woos

As you can see from my new profile picture on here I have a giant gap in my mouth. It isn’t pretty and I'm very self conscious about it. It’s the whole reason why I’m in braces. I had a baby tooth that never came out. Apparently my parents were aware of it while I was younger but I don’t remember dentists every mentioning it to me and they didn’t do anything to fix it. If they would have taken care of this when I was younger I would have only been in braces for about a year instead of the 2 or more that I was quoted. Well about a year ago this baby tooth of mine became infected and my new dentist said it was time for it to come out and that I would need braces ugh! So they set me up a consult with the Orthodontist (“Ortho”) and off I went. Well the Ortho explained that they would put on the braces and leave a bracket off of the baby tooth so it could be pulled by my dentist. After the dentist pulled the tooth I was referred to an Oral Surgeon (“Oral”) to have my gum cut open and a bracket and chain attached to my adult tooth that was still up in the roof of my mouth.


Well I had all that done and $900.00 later that my insurance didn’t cover my tooth was slowly making its way down. Well the 1st time I had this surgery it was done back in February of 2008, since then I have had it done 4 times (which of course I had to pay for because neither of them would fess up to who's fault it actually was). The bracket kept coming off my tooth for some reason. Well come to find out when the Oral opened up my gum for the fourth time that the Ortho was pulling the tooth into the base of my Lateral Incisor and the tooth was stuck which caused the bracket to pop off within the 2 weeks it was on. Now that the Ortho and Oral have finally communicated, (they haven’t gotten along since the first time my chain popped off and they blamed each other for it) I seem to be back on the right track to getting my impacted canine down and in place. I was quoted this was to take about 2 years and it has been a year already so hopefully in the next 6 months I won’t have this horrible gap anymore and an actual tooth there and have a de-banding date too.  So I'm thinking by the time this is all said and done I will have a $10,000.00 smile if not more lol.

This is a diagram I pulled from Century Orthodontics to give an idea of the process I'm going through.

Impacted Canine Diagram[1]

ABCs

I found this little didy over at More than an army wife and thought I would give it a whorl.

ABC's OF ME:


A-Age: Twenty Four
B-Birth date: July 17, 1985
C-Chore you hate: Cleaning bathrooms
D-Dog's name: Pebbles, Sam, Rosco and Donut
E-Enter or Exit: Enter
F-Favorite color: used to be lime green when I was younger but now its red
G-Gold or silver: White Gold
H-Hair color: Strawberry blonde
I-Instrument: I got nothing lol
J-Job Title: Receptionist, personal assistant and master of all trades lol
K-Kids: just Chloe
L-Living arrangements: Our house with my guy on the north end of town
M-Monkey or Moose: Monkey cuz they are just too darn cute
N-Nicknames: Nicola, nicki, toot
O-Odd thing about you: I have an overly active drooling problem
P-Pet Peeve: People who do not rinse their dishes when they are threw with them!!!!! (my guy knows it!)
Q-Quote from a movie: “I shall call him squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my squishy” ~ Finding Nemo
R-Right/Left Handed: Right
S-Siblings: half brother, half sister and 2 step brothers
T-Time you wake up? Somewhere between 5 and 6:30 am mon – fri, sat and sun are around 7 am
U-Underwear: boy shorts
V-Veggie you dislike: cauliflower
W-What makes you run late: Chloe in the morning with her whininess
X-X-Rays: ankle and teeth
Y-Yummy food you make: guacamole dip, and cheesy chicken
Z-Zoo Animal: penguins!!!!

Wordless Wednesday

Ok I'm jumping on the bandwagon thanks to More Than An Army Wife and Mrs. Staff Sergeant.

Rosco and Pebbles in all their Holiday Glory!!!!!

Random Thoughts

So I have been sneezing all morning and my head is starting to get congested. Now is not the time to be getting sick! Bill has family coming in Saturday and Thanksgiving is next week, plus Bill is leaving next Sunday. I'm gonna start chugging my vitamins and cold medicine now and hopefully kick this thing before it gets bad.

Why is it that I associate my self with people who can't seem to keep themselves away from drama and when drama does rear its ugly self they start to act like freakin highschoolers? Highschool was just a phase in our lives. Grow Up! Just saying.

The puppies are getting better about going potty outside. I came home from work yesterday and not one accident on the floor. So the potty training puppy gods may actually be on my side :).

Lastnight I found out that for the last 2 months of my guys deployment I probably won't be able to talk to him since he will be in a remote undisclosed area. I don't even want to think about what could possibly happen at that time. I know the first 2 months he will be on a base safe and sound doing his job but when I think about what could happen the during the last 2 make me sick to my stomach. I don't even want to think how I'm going to be during those last 2 months. I'm just gonna pray nothing happens and its a rather boring deployment.

I hate feeling this spastic :(

RTT

So this is my first Randon Thoughts Tuesday post!!!!!! If anyone can tell me how to post the "RTT button" on here that would be awesome!

But anywho yesterday I get a call from Chloe while she was at her grammie's house and she says "I have an ear confection!" I say "an ear infection?" and she says "No! an ear confection!" I couldn't help but laugh. Or when she says the number 3 it sounds like she is saying tree! I also can't help but laugh at her. Is that bad?

We put our X-mas tree up saturday and I like it. I think it would be better with white lights and that would make the ornaments stand out better. But my guy wanted color lights and since we put it up early for him I'll give in. Next year there will be white lights whether he likes it or not lol. And yes this is a crappy pic of it. I got a new camera and I'm still trying to figure it out lol.

Why the hell is it still in the 70s? Its November for crying out loud. I want it to be in the low 50s during the day. I love the winter and sometimes wish it was winter all year long. There is nothing like curling up on the couch under a warm blanket with the dogs and Chloe and watching holiday movies and sipping cocoa.

Oh and lately the little things have been making my eyes get all watery and tear up. I can't blame my monthly visitor anymore so I'm thinking I'm beginning to slowly crack since I have been trying to just keep it all bottled up and not let my guy know how its affecting me. And I know its only 4 months that he will be gone but anything longer than 2 weeks is a long time for me. Also I knew getting into a relationship with him that deployment was going to happen and I'm up for the challenge but I still can't help but get a little emotional about it. Anywho enough of that back to work. Hope everyone has a good Tuesday!!!

Crappy/Good Week

So other than my emotional breakdown yesterday. Gotta love being a girl on a hormonal overdrive! This week has been pretty good. Chloe hasn't been acting like the spawn of satan. My chain that was reattached to my canine that had to be re-exposed, bracketed and chained for the 4th time last week is healing and moving again. And I got a 5% raise that was back dated to August. Hell I'll take an extra $320.00 plus the extra $100 on each check now during these poor economical times! (Doing a lil dance) ;).

The puppies have finally figured out the doggie door! Woot Woot for potty training!!! Chloe is finally fully potty trained except for the occasional accident at night and now I'm starting all over again with 2 puppies. But the big mission before my guy leaves is to have both pups fully trained before he leaves and I think that might actually happen.

I'm still a bit down about him leaving but I know we will get through it. I'm thankful that we atleast have a few weeks together and that he's not just up and leaving in a few days. Also that part of his family will get to come down and visit before he leaves. And so thankful that my family and friends (old and new) who live here are such a great support system through this hard time especially since it is the holiday season. But enough of this mushy mumbo jumbo I'm afraid I must get back to work. TTFN

Halloween

So Halloween came and left like the wind. It seems like we spend almost 30 days getting our kids and ourselves ready for this day. Some even longer to create or find the perfect costume that suites our tastes or trying to out do what was done last year. Chloe decided she wanted to be a pink cat this year. Where did she come up with that idea? I have no clue. Well actually I take that back. I had suggested back in September that she could be a black cat. Well Chloe thought differently. She wanted to be a pink cat because "mom! Pink is my favorite color!" Well excuse me! My four year old is going on 13 ha! What of world of hurt I'm going to be in lol. But anywho back to the story.

So pink cat it was going to be. I figured I could do this the cheap way and find pink cat ears and a tail and call it a day. She already has a pink leotard from gymnastics and tights, plus the pink sparkly ballet shoes her papa bought her earlier this year. So I just needed to find the cat accessories. Well me being such a procrastinator :) waited till 2 weeks before to start looking for the rest of her costume. Yeah not a good idea. They had some on the net but I wasn't too keen on ordering because with my luck it wouldn't get here in time*. And I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for next day shipping on a $15.00 dollar order. Stubborn I know lol.

Well we decide to go shopping with my mom one night after work that week. She was heading to Wally World and I needed some cleanser anyways. Well as soon as you walk in the door there are the Halloween costumes. Chloe took off with my lil sister to go get something to eat at Mickey D's while my mom and I started shopping. I decide I want to check out the costumes they have. I find this cute fairy costume and have a thought. " Maybe I can get Chloe to want to be a fairy instead of a pink cat?" I quickly call my little sister and tell her whats going on and have her hype of the idea of being a fairy instead of a cat. She brings Chloe over by the costumes and Chloe's eyes grow big as she sees all the little girl costumes infront of her. I quickly point out the cute pink fairy costume and how cute she would be. She jumps at the idea and quickly forgets about being the pink cat. Woohoo no more internet searching. With all that being said here is the pretty little pink fairy in all her glory!!!!

And couldn't leave out Donut who fit so perfectly in the pumpkin lol.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween and gots lots of good sweets!!!!!!!!!

*Yeah so I did try and order one of the cat accessories I saw online and the stupid website caused my bank to shut down my card. Never doing that again. But on a brighter note that caused my mom to buys Chloe's costume. Woohoo for a free costume!!