Not much to say

Well, it's only been 4 days so not so bad so far. Friday was a lot of fun. We went to the auto body supply company party again this year. We all had shirts airbrushed and there was free food, games, and music. It was a good time. On Saturday I drained the pool and then took it apart. It was not fun! On Sunday Tom and I were talking and realized our anniversary falls on Friday and we have the weekend off. Being that it's really close to October already it was difficult to find a place to go away for the weekend to. We ended up finding a place at www.secludedcabins.com which is near Mohican in Lakeville, Ohio. It's really near amish country so we're really looking forward to spending our 5th anniversary there. The picture is of Tom's tattoo. I can't believe he put my name on him. I feel loved!

More than a year since my last post.

I'm going to try to be a whole lot better at keeping up with this. I absolutely love it but seem to not have time to check in and write what's going on and everything. I'm not sure how much I'll remember from the last year but here goes. September 2009 Tom's mom moved out and moved into the new Worley Terrace apartments over on Central Ave. She loves it. October 22nd 2009 Tom and I celebrated our 4 year anniversary. In the end of November 2009 my dad moved in with us. December was a blast with Christmas and family and all. Tom bought me my very own laptop for Christmas! I got to see my best friend Nancy when she visited Ohio. In January 2010 my dad met Lisa his girlfriend. He went from being like Eeyore to being so happy. She has a 6 year old named Brandon and an 8 year old named Jacob. They are amazing but sometimes a challenge as well. In February I wen to see Mariah Carey in concert for the first time ever. It was amazing and everything I had hoped it would be. I paid $150 for my ticket and got into the 11th row. She was right there! It was the best ever. Tom and I celebrated Valentine's Day and I don't remember much else about that month. In March 2010 I had my third miscarriage. It was the worst yet and I feared I would bleed to death. My husband Tom stood by me the whole time though. He's the most amazing man I've ever met. In April we celebrated Tom's birthday and my boss Brenda at the library retired. In May great grandma Ann became really sick and died. She was like a mom and I miss her terribly. She was an amazing woman. I can't say enough good things about her. We did a lot of cookouts with us and Dad, Lisa, Jacob, Brandon, and my little brother Shawn. We had an awesome time. We went to Blendon woods and played Frisbee golf which is so much fun. We went to a picnic that Jared and Erica invited us to in that very same park. In June the kids got out of school and I celebrated my 27th birthday. Lisa, Jacob, and Brandon moved into the basement. The library was crawling with kids and we were all going a little crazy at work what with no Brenda and all. In July we decided we would not go to Red, White, and Boom like normal because we just wanted to relax and not deal with it. We ended up going to Beulah park in Grove City to watch their fireworks the next night. Shawn went with us and it was definately worth the $5 to get in and park. The fireworks were awesome and since we left slowly while the grand finale was going on we missed 90% of the traffic. Toma nd I also wen to see Bret Michaels in concert for free. It was our first concert together. In August we got central air in the house which was so amazing! It was staying in the upper 90s in the house and even Teddy(my cat) was feeling it. He was walking around panting and everything. Shawn started high school as a freshman at West. He seems to be doing good there. We celebrated my dad's birthday on the 27th by having a spice cake with carmel icing that I made and he requested. It wasn't anything major though because Tom had knee surgery that day. He had a torn meniscus and some other stuff so he was mostly laying around until the next week. We took 2 weeks off together and then he took 1 more week off without pay because he just wasn't ready to go back to work and have to get up and down in the work van. There I've caught you all up. Now with the current happenings. Dad and Lisa are still together and they're looking for a house to rent to own. The problem is they have no credit and my dad has a record from when he was a teenager. We've been going to Tom's mom's house every week now for almost a year. It's fun and I've started watching M*A*S*H and really liking it. I'm addicted to playing family feud and the price is right on Facebook and I'm addicted to Facebook in general. The library has a levy coming up in November 2010. Vote Yes on Issue 4! I'll update soon.

cutest thing ever!!

Vacation was nice but...I'm ready for another one!

Our trip to Tennessee was awesome! We got there on Sunday evening and got all checked in to our awesome hotel in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. The next day we had to go to listen to a time share thing which lasted 3 hours even though they promised it was only going to be 90 minutes!! I was so mad I finally told them how I felt. I sai honestly I'm so tired right now I just want to leave. Tom said he didn't blame me at all and was glad I spoke up. We went to Gatlinburg that evening and walked up and down the little strip there. So much fun. We did an old time photo and everything. On Tuesday after checking out of our hotel we went to Dollywood. It was amazing. It was country and friendly and lots of Dolly of course. They had a Train and everything. We got on this water ride that was awesome and we rode these mini cars. LOL we looked so silly. It was an amazing day but man were we tired so instead of heading home we got a hotel and went and laid down and rested our feet. We got back on Wednesday and then left on Saturday to go to Norwalk for the Buick meet. My husband had his 1964 Buick Skylark and all was well...until they broke the rear end. We had to have it towed back home. So, that was my vacation in a nutshell. Now if I make it through the summer without majorly messing up something it'll be awesome! I've been put in charge of training volunteens and volunteers, supervising them, doing stats, money, and generally running SRC. Lord help me.

A great weekend!

I knew I was off the whole weekend and was excited enough about that. I saw on facebook that my friend Chelsea was going to see Jeff Dunham in Dayton. I wrote and said I want to go too and God love facebook her friend and mine Kelly wrote me and said she could probably get me and Tom in because her cousin wasn't going! I was so excited I couldn't wait to tell Tom. On Friday the day of the show at 4:00 she let me know the tickets were ours and we just had to get to the Nutter Center in Dayton by 8:00pm. I worked til 6 and we got straight on the road. We ended up getting 12th row center tickets for free. OMG thanks Kelly we had an amazing time. I laughed til I thought I would hurt myself. What an amazing and hilarious show. The show was over and we went to Wafflehouse on the way home which has the most amazing omelet ever! That was just Friday. The rest of the weekend was amazing too:)

Money has no stretch to it!! Darnit!

Well, in short last summer we decided to update our furnace and have someone install it. Everything seemed fine at the time and it was a great deal. Well, fast forward to one of the coldest days of the winter. I come home for my lunch break and it's colder inside than out. I look down at my cat Teddy who is an ice cube. I wrap him up in a blanket and keep him warm and call my husband. "Honey, please call someone. The heat won't come on and it's freezing in here." So the sears man comes and tells us he fixed it temporarily but that whoever installed it could've caused the house to burn to the ground. Great, now what? Then, they said they could fix all of the problems but we have asbestos in our ductwork. So I call to have that removed and they want over 900.00 to remove it. That's not counting the 1,400.00 that sears wants to get us back to square one and safe. At this point I'm to boiling and just can't figure out how to get out of what to do. I asked my coworker Tina B. if she knew anyone, and long story short it was the best thing I could've done. She got me a guy named Bret who was awesome, and in the end was only about 1,100.oo altogether and didn't have to get the asbestos removed. He did that too. So they saved me about 1,000 easy. If you need someone reasonable and good email bret skilldago@aol.com. I highly recommend him. Now, we still don't have central air or my security glass block windows, but I guess we are getting there. Whew, that dollar just doesn't stretch far enough no matter what you do.

7 day stretch of no days off is over:)

I'm so happy it's Friday, I had to post a blog. I haven't had a day off since last Friday and it's been a llooooooonnnnngggg week. I'll just be glad to have two days off without having any meetings or places I have to be all day you know? I got some bad news in the mail yesterday that ticked me off too. Our mortgage is being raised by $70!! How is that allowed? How do those people sleep at night? I guess I'm just so ready for vacation is all that's why I'm rambling. Well, on another note, I woke up to a newly bloomed bright yellow lily which I'll post a picture of. I'm really trying to get better with posting blogs. Hope you all have awesome weekends!