Since M was in Canada last night, I decided to treat myself to some yummy Chinese food for dinner.  I stopped by the Panda Wok on my way home, grabbed some fried rice and veggie lo mien and headed to the house.  I chatted with M on IM while I ate dinner and watched TV.  He was exhausted from his long day and went to bed early.  I didn’t actually get to talk to him since it’s like 69 cents a minute to call from Canada!  BOOO!

While I was watching Glee I decided I needed to get on it if I was going to color my hair.  – Back story, I got highlights a few months ago.  The stylist did an all over color glaze after the highlights in hopes of getting me to a more natural hair color.  Since this FAILED miserably, I now had 3 inch dark roots underneath all the highlights.  While I can manage the root situation on top for a few more weeks, the underneath was driving me nuts.  At Target the other day I decided to pick up some brown hair color and see what would happen.  – I grabbed a mirror and began to figure out where the highlights ended and what should be a solid color.  Once I had my line, I mixed the color, applied, waited 20 minutes and voila, brown hair.  Now I will see how long the $3.50 box of color compares to the salon color that lasted less then 2 weeks.  Plus side, it was still brown after I washed this morning, YAY!  (Normally it washes out, that’s another blog.)

With hair color done, shirts washed, and TV watched I headed upstairs.  I watched TV for a while and decided to go to bed.  First there was Julio attacking Halle in another “no one should sleep at night so I’m gonna be a crazy cat” episode.  Then there was the monsoon that hit around midnight.  Finally I got to sleep.  Around 4:30 there was another Julio attack and both cats where banished from the bedroom.  Then there was the alarm.  Ughh!  Can a girl just get some sleep?  Needless to say I’m pretty tired today.  Plus we had breakfast at work this morning and nothing screams NAP TIME like a plate full of carbs first thing in the morning.

Everyone has been pretty sluggish this morning, trying to push through the carb induced comas.

M is on his way home!  YAY!  And he even told me he bought some presents, double YAY!

And on one weird note, I received my VERY FIRST non friend comment on my blog.  Unfortunately I think it was spam as it said something about a colon cleanse.  Dammit!  Maybe one day!

~k

M had to get up at 3am to get ready for his 6am flight to Toronto today.   Since he knew he would only get a few hours of sleep he went to bed pretty early.  I stayed up and watched TV for a while.  After I finally laid down I realized I hadn’t seen Julio in a while.  With M in and out of stuff, I started to worry Julio had been locked in a closet somewhere and I would fall asleep and he would spend the night locked away.  Of course I couldn’t let that happen so I walked down stairs to find him.  As soon as I was in the den he came over to me.  I told him it was time for bed and we headed upstairs.

Once we were in the bedroom I laid him on the bed next to Hal.  I figured he would be sleepy and go to sleep. Ummm, yeah.  He decided it was time to play jump on Halle.  This of course woke M up.  I finally put Julio in the hall and shut the door.  Then, poor thing, I could hear him sticking his little feet under the door and meowing.  Seriously?!?!?!  I decided to put Hal out too, to be fair.  Then I hear BOOM CRASH and M say “wtf was that?”  I get up and the table in the hallway has been knocked over.  The vase is on the floor and Hal is the the middle of the flowers.  I pick everything up and head back to bed, with the door shut again.

Hopefully tonight will be a lot less eventful.  I guess I will do some laundry and my hair, again.  I had hoped to have a movie for tonight but I don’t think that will happen.  I guess M will just have to watch Letters to Juliet this weekend with me.  🙂

*and just to clarify, I am almost 100% certain Julio knocked over the vase and table.  I think Hal was checking out the damage.

~k

This weekend I finally made M go shopping for wedding bands.  I told him we weren’t going to buy them yet but he really needed to start looking.  I know him and it will take him forever.  And thanks to a broken pinkie years ago, a wedding band might be a little uncomfortable.  After looking a little I think he has narrowed down the type of metal he might want.  He even got the style number of one :D  Does this mean I think the hunt is over?  Not by a long shot.  I will probably wait til the new year before I really put the pressure on him to figure it out.

Meanwhile, I’m pretty sure I found my wedding band.  It is a little more then we had talked about spending but it is far less then the other ones we looked at.  It is platinum and has diamonds on the band.  I really didn’t figure I would be able to find one for the price we found.  Granted it’s on sale but the sale will last through the end of February.  YAY!

Since we have so many other things coming up soon, like Christmas, and football tickets and car insurance the wedding bands will have to wait.  Till then I’ll just keep looking at the pic of the one I want.

Also, we went to 3 jewelery stores, all nice ones, and all 3 mis-identified my diamond.  I got emerald cut, princess cut and one person was just like, what is that?  HA!  And I thought these people knew what they were doing.  :)  Oh well, it just goes to show it is pretty uncommon and I like that.

Til tomorrow!

~k

Six months and one day from now I am going to marry the man of my dreams.  Awwwww!  But really the whole blog won’t be like this I promise.  :)  Since I don’t blog on the weekends I will miss this important milestone and well I was kind of out of ideas for today, hehe!

In six months and one day I will be a Mrs.  I am very excited to marry M.  It’s really hard to believe we are to this point.  With six months left we still have a few more things to do.  Print the invitations, and pick the font!  Buy our wedding bands, which will take M close to six months to find the right one.  Yes I’m talking about you!  :P  We need to find him a shirt and flip flops for the ceremony and I need to buy him a boutonniere.  I still need to have my dress altered/hemmed/bustled/whatever, which will happen in April.  And then there are still a few random DIY projects that need to be finished, including our cake topper and my day of outfit.

Thankfully I don’t really feel stressed yet.  And I think once I have the invitations done everything else will be pretty easy.  This also means I have six months for my hair to get to a reasonable length that I can manage to style by myself.  Unfortunately only nature can control that, so wish me luck.  Otherwise I will be sportin’ some Jessica Simpson extensions. 🙂

Well Friday, it took you long enough to get here and now you are taking forever to get to 5:30.

~k

M and I have had our suspicions that Halle and Julio cuddle when we aren’t around.  Normally Hal will tolerate some sweet kisses from Julio for short amounts of time but this is really as close as she lets him get before the hissing begins.  Well last night Hal was up and the couch and Julio decided to join her.  And by join I mean lay RIGHT beside her, touching her!  I looked at M and we both waited for Hal to make it known she would not tolerate him touching her.  However, she did nothing.  She laid there and Julio laid his little head on her.  It was the cutest thing.  Thus proving to M and I that they do <3 each other.  :)  And just to make sure I grabbed my phone and took a few pics.

Awwww, aren’t they cute?  And no M and I had nothing to do with this.  They actually slept like this for a while.

~k

Hello Wednesday you suck!  The day barely started and I was in a pissy mood almost before I left the house.  I’ve kept my blog away from all the football controversy surrounding Cam Newton but I’m about to break.  I’m not going to rehash the rumors and speculations or the “unidentified sources”.  My only question is this, what if the kid did nothing wrong, and by nothing I mean taking money, what if he is just a scape goat for people’s jealousy and envy?  What happens then?  This kid has been put through the ringer because people are jealous of his success.  His talent.  What a shame!  If he did take money, well we all know how that worked out for Reggie Bush.  Super Bowl ring anyone?  Whatever the outcome, I hope for the best and I hope Auburn and Cam will be found in no wrong doings.

With my rant out of the way, I find myself feeling very silly getting all worked up over this debacle as it were.  I just read a friend’s blog.  A friend of hers just lost her husband this morning.  He was maybe 30 years old with a wife and 2 kids and he passed away from a brain tumor/cancer.  So as I’ve sat here this morning stewing over the latest football nonsense, this girl is grieving the loss of her husband.  I can’t even imagine what I would be like if I were in her shoes right now.  It seems silly to me that I am so worked up over something so trivial when in real life bad things happen yet no one knows about them.

I’m not sure these things should even be in the same blog.  They are hardly related and one seems far more important then the other.  Yet somehow I feel I can’t talk about the first without mentioning the second because a year from today, 10 years from today, this day will mean something much different to someone else.

~k

Last night M and I went to dinner with his parents, grandmother and aunt.  One round of  mixed drinks and three bottles of wine later we were having a great time at dinner.  What a great way to start a week or end a Monday right?  HA!  Yes if you don’t have to go to work the next day.  Needless to say I wasn’t feeling top notch this morning.  I didn’t feel bad but I didn’t feel great either.

Finally the clock hit 11:15 and I decided a trip to Wendy’s was in order.  I mean a night of drinking deserves some fast food relief.  More importantly it deserves some good ole sweet tea.  I’m pretty sure sweet tea might be a hang over cure since I already feel better and I’ve only had a few sips.  :)  In college this was always my go to as well.  A night of drinking normally lead to a McDonald’s or Guthries trip the next day.  I say it was for the food but I’m starting to think it was really the large sweet teas that got ordered.

Anyway, M and I had a nice visit with his grandmother and aunt last night.  They seem really excited about our wedding and have even bought their wedding attire.  YAY!  Now  M and I really need to get on buying OUR wedding attire.  I’m not talking wedding dresses and suits but the actually clothing we will need while in St Lucia.  My summer wardrobe is pretty sparse although I’m doubting November is the time to start looking.  Oopsy!  I know we will figure it out.

~k

Oh Monday, why do you keep coming back?  This weekend was the end of daylight savings time.  Let me just say I really like daylight savings time.  I DO NOT like regular time.  Sure it’s nice to see daylight when I wake up in the mornings but really, I hate leaving work and it’s already dark out.  I know I’ve read about why daylight savings was started but it just seems kind of dumb to me.  Well at least regular time does.  🙂

M and I had a pretty lazy weekend.  Saturday was full of football.  Unfortunately the Wolfpack didn’t fair so well against the Clemson tigers.  Had I known both teams were going to play like utter crap I would have worn my Clemson sweatshirt in hopes of a Wolfpack win.  Oh well. Auburn had homecoming this weekend and it was an easy victory over Chattanooga.  And that’s all I’m going to say about my Tigers for now.  (There will be a long detailed post in the next few weeks.)

Yesterday afternoon while we were watching yet another football game, M and I noticed that Halle was limping pretty good on her back right leg.  I grabbed her and started gently poking and prodding to see if I could figure out what exactly hurt.  I’ve pretty much ruled out her foot as I pushed and pulled and stretched it out.  She didn’t seem to have any discomfort with that.  I think it may be more in her hip area.  We are hoping she just pulled something playing with Julio but if she doesn’t look better in the next day or so she will have to go to the vet.  I am worried about taking her because I’m scared I’m not going to like what they say.  She has several lumps, which have been identified as fat deposits, but a while back I noticed a knot on her neck.  It’s about the size of a pea and it’s hard.  I’ve been keeping an eye on it and it hasn’t seemed to grow but I still worry something might be wrong.  I know I should take her in but I don’t know if I could handle her being sick.  But if she is I just don’t want her in pain.

Anyway enough sad stuff.  Back to blah Monday!

~K

The other night M and I decided the weather was chili worthy.  On my way home M asked me to stop and get some peppers and an onion and a couple of lotto tickets (it was at 104 million – obviously we did not win).   I got home and M began working on our first pot of chili for the season.  After some minor tweaks and a little bit of this and a little bit of that we decided it was ready.  M grabbed a bowl of chili and a bowl of chips.  I grabbed my bowl of chili and we had dinner on the couch, as we do most nights.  🙂

Anyway, once M was done with chips I grabbed the bowl and started to eat them with my chili.  As usual Julio decided that he needed to be as close as possible to what I was eating.  Sometimes this bothers me and I make him move and other times I’ll let him sit in my lap.  This was one of those, he can sit in my lap nights.  I knew he wanted some of what I had but I thought the chili was a little to spicy for his “tummy troubles” so I gave him a little piece of a chip.  He ate the chip and I continued eating my chili.  Then he decides to just stick his head IN the bowl of chip crumbs!  Okay, really?!?!?!  M and I look at each other, look at Julio who is still trying to get a little chip piece, look at each other laughing and wait.  He finally gets the chip piece, sits on the couch and eats it.  At this point M and I were cracking up.  This really just happened.  And more importantly we just watched and laughed.  I told M we were gonna make great parents.

Julio is such a little rascal but he’s so darn cute it takes a lot for either of us to really get mad at him.  And for the most part he is pretty obedient.  The other night when T was at the house helping with the baby shower invites Julio thought he would just get on the table.  I looked at him and told him no and to get down.  He got down.  T, who has cats, couldn’t believe he actually listened to me.  What can I say, we are great fur baby parents!  🙂

Happy Friday!

~k

So I am feeling sad today.  Last night on FB I saw that a childhood friend of mine passed away.  Since I have been unable to get the details, I know it was not some sort of accident.  On top of his passing, his father is in hospice and not expected to make it much longer.

I was not very close to this person but for some reason I am really bothered by his death.  I woke up several times last night thinking about him and different things that happened when we were kids.  The last time I talked to him was a few years ago over IM and email.  He had been in Afghanistan serving and on his way home he was supposed to stop in Ft Bragg for a few days.  I gave him my number and told him to call me and we’d get together.  I never heard from him and later he emailed to say things had gotten crazy when he got back and he’d lost my number.  I figured as much.  And I also figured he would try to get home as soon as he could.

It’s crazy to think of the things he probably did and saw while he was overseas only to come home and pass away.  Like I said I don’t know what happened but I have some assumptions.  To make things worse M and I were watching storm chasers last night and the show was dedicated to one of the cast members.  At the end it said he’d had a fatal accident at home and passed away a week later.  According to Internet sites he committed suicide.  He was my age.

I hope that this post will help me feel better about the situation but I’m not feeling better yet.  I feel silly feeling upset over someone I hadn’t seen in so long.  I’m just not sure why I can’t shake the sadness over his passing.

~k