Friday, Beautiful Friday!!

It's Sissi's birthday today, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

I am so glad this week is finally over! It's been a crazy, crazy week, and month. I had an all day depo yesterday. Didn't get home until 8:20 last night. Then they wanted rough drafts of the transcripts. Oh, my! Not good! I had to do some editing to make it semi-okay. Although, it still wasn't good. The witness & attorney kept talking over each other, even after being reminded several times not to. And, of course, I don't find out they want rough drafts until the end!! Let me know at the get-go, please!

I'm going to be spending all day at home working like a slave on transcripts. Then I have the photos at 7:00 tonight in Allen. Looking forward to that. Then more work over the weekend. I hope to get a lot accomplished this weekend. Julie just asked if I'd cover a job for her in Gun Barrell City on October 10, which is a Friday. So if it goes, that's the plan. It's at 9:00 am. Then I can stay (hopefully) the weekend at the lake. At the very least stay until Saturday. It'll just depend on how the next two weeks are.

As y'all know, I've planned a cruise for February. I do love cruising. Such a relaxing vacation!! At least to me it is. Anyway, while we got a good deal, I've been checking for a price reduction on our cruise. If we had booked it the day before we did we could have saved $50 per person. So I've been checking and checking. Mary Ann, who's going on the cruise too, says I'm obsessed with it and we got a good deal. And we did get a good deal. But I'm cheap!! I want a better deal!! LOL So daily, or at least several times a week, I'll check the price. No drops at all. In fact, the cruise had gone up $200 pp. So I was really feeling good. Yeah, we did get a deal. So today I go to check and guess what?? There was a price drop!! We ended up changing our week. We were originally going Feb 15. Now we're going Jan 18, which works better for me since January is usually slow work-wise. Still out of Galveston (or Houston if Galveston isn't up and running by then). We're saving $150 pp off our original (great) price. This will be the cheapest it gets I think. I haven't seen a seven-day cruise for lower than what we got. Now it just needs to get here! Now I've just got to save up enough Coke rewards to get the free soda package. LOL I'm getting there.....

Oh, and, Sis, I got your comment about the card I'm making for you. She really wants to add more verses?? She can. I haven't started yet. It is going to be a book, though, and not a card. LOL

Back to work ~

Hump day

Oh, it's a wonderful Wednesday. And now we can slide right into the weekend. I got to talk with Courtney today for a bit. You should of heard the sounds Hana was making in the background!! She's going to be quite vocal, but then who's going to be surprised by that?? LOL

My job for today at 1:30 got cancelled at about 9:30 this morning, so I got to stay at home (in my pajamas!!) and work. And I still have so much to do. It's been a busy, busy, busy month for me. Glad for the work and will love the paychecks later on for sure! LOL

So Dancing started back up on Monday. I watched all of Monday night and parts of last night. I was proofreading during last nights so I wasn't paying as much attention. No great standouts right now. I'll be glad when it's narrowed down a bit, though! The show just drug on. I had started it on the DVR because I was finishing up on work and then dinner. So started watching it an hour in. I was caught up with Live TV within about 30 minutes. Crazy!! Too many commercials. Being I don't have any crushes this year, not sure if I can make it the whole season. Last year was the first time I had watched every episode since the first season.

Let's see. What else? Oh, found out Doug's birthday is the 23rd (HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!) and Sissi's is the 26th (HAPPY BIRTHDAY ~ EARLY!!!!) I'm also making a card for one of Sissi's credit union members. Still working out how/what I'm going to do on that. I've got to get a few things in the mail.

So this afternoon I'm in the kitchen cooking something in the oven and washing some dishes and hear this big popping noise. I wonder what it could be, hope it's not something snapping on my house like a beam or the foundation cracking! Go to the oven a few minutes later and discover s what the popping noise was. The pizza stone I had gotten from Pampered Chef totally cracked down the middle!! I gotta say they have excellent customer service! I called them up and they're going to send me another one. All I have to do is send them a palm size piece of the broken one. Guess I'll have to get the hammer out!

Last Sunday evening I went and watched Maggie play her very first baseball game ever. She was sooooo excited. She told me she had dreamed of baseball. She's loving it. She's the only girl on her team. Plus, it's all about her. Matt isn't playing because of the broken arm. And she's got a cool uniform and cleets and a hat and glove. She's in the "ready" position there. She got to bat three times. Struck out each time, but did have two good foul balls, one right down the third base line that was just barely foul. She got to play left field and then third base. The coach was telling her when she was on third if it came her way, to throw it to second base because that's where the out was. She looks at him and is concentrating then asks where second base is. LOL They hadn't had a practice at all. Just met before the game and had their first practice of about 30 minutes Julie said. I took lots of pictures of her. I put them up at Flickr and she called me (via Julie) Monday night to let me know she loved her pictures.

So that's been my excitement so far this week other than working. I'm going to be taking photos Friday evening of Baby Thomas for his birth announcement. I'm really looking forward to that. Then on Monday I have the photos of Ashley's coworker to do! Wow!!

Lastly, here are a few pictures I had edited/tweaked. I thought I had included them in the Flickr pictures, but I looked and they're not there. What do you think? Yeah or Nay?


Bye for now!

Howdy

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Long time no post! Just been busy, busy, busy. I did get a chance to pop up to Frisco and take some stuff for the big Massey garage sale. I think everything but maybe one or two of my things got sold. Yeah! When I was up there, I did snap a few photos of Hana. Here they are. Didn't get too many and didn't get to stay long. She did take a few steps, though. Won't be long before she's all over the place.

Just working and staying busy, which is good and bad! LOL It always seems like it's all or nothing. I'd like it spread out a bit more, but gotta work when I can.

This is a big week in the family. We have four birthdays. (Hope I'm not missing anyone ~ let me know if I am). We have Doug & Sissi's on the 23rd & 26th. I'm horrible, but I always get it mixed up, which is which. I want to say Sissi's is the 23rd?? Then we have Nana and Jeff's birthdays on the 29th. Fun!

Lastly, how 'bout them Cowboys?? I've watched every game this season so far. I hope to see them all. They're 3-0, and aren't playing as well as they could. At least I hope this isn't as good as they can play!

Talk to y'all later!

Monday, Monday

So the weekend is over! What a bummer. It was such a great weekend, too! My mom and Nana came up, along with Aunt Sissi. We all met up at Courtney's house and visited (watched) Hana. Then we went shopping and I got all new bedding for my new bed. I really, really like it. Check out the picture of it. The colors don't right in the picture, but I love it. Then we had dinner at Posada's. Yummy!!

Then Sunday, I took my mom & Nana to Costco & Sam's Club. It was fun. We then went to Courtney's and watched the Cowboy game. They won!! It was fun. Hana really put on a show for us, too.

Now it's back to the grindstone. Work, work, work. Here are the pictures I took of Hana (and others). 9-7-08 Weekend

Another week gone

I didn't realize it had been a week since I last posted! Oh, my, how the time flies.

So I didn't get down to the lake last weekend due to work. I did buy a new mattress though! It was delivered yesterday and I slept on it last night. Very nice. It'll be even better the more I sleep on it. And it's sooooo tall!! I can no longer sit on the bed and have my feet touch the floor. And there's absolutely no way Rowdy will be jumping up on the bed. He can't even stand up against it and see on top of it.

Otherwise, the weekend was pretty boring. I just worked and stayed around the house. My computer is still messing up. I've talked with Dell and they're supposed to call me back. I missed the call yesterday. I'm able to work on my laptop and I've hooked a keyboard up to it so I don't have to type on the little keyboard, but I hope my desktop can be fixed!!

I've talked to Courtney a few times and she's busy packing! They're going to be moving soon. And although they're moving to McKinney, it's not too much further from me. Of course, I'd love it if they were closer to me, but it's not too bad. Their new house is like six or seven miles further from me, but they just opened the 121 toll road that goes ALMOST to their new house. So I'm looking forward to going over there and hanging out.

I emailed with Ashley today and I'm going to be taking pictures for one of her co-workers! Oh, my! I'm excited and nervous. I just really want to do a good job and have her like the photos. Then once it cools off (more permanently) I'm going to take some family photos of the Dietz. That will be fun!! Ashley said that they got Dylan a car for his 16th birthday! I can't believe he's 16!! Crazy!!

My mom mentioned that they may come up this weekend. I really hope they do. It'll be fun to have a girls weekend!!!

Well, I've got to go for now. Rowdy just came and up-chucked. At least he stayed on the chair mat!

Jenn