Day 20 - Hobbies!!!

 

 

Day 1 - Your Favorite Song
Day 2 - Your Favorite Movie
Day 3 - Your Favorite Television Program
Day 4 - Your Favorite Book
Day 5 - Your Favorite Quote
Day 6 - 20 of my favorite things
Day 7 - A photo that makes you happy
Day 8 - A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 9 - A photo you took
Day 10 - A photo taken over 10 years ago of you
Day 11 - A photo of you recently
Day 12 - Something you are OCD about
Day 13 - A fictional book
Day 14 - A non-fictional book
Day 15 - your dream house
Day 16 - A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 - An art piece (drawing, sculpture, painting, etc)
Day 18 - My wedding/future wedding/past wedding
Day 19 - A talent of yours
Day 20 - A hobby of yours
Day 21 - A recipe
Day 22 - A website
Day 23 - A YouTube video
Day 24 - Where I live
Day 25 - Your day, in great detail
Day 26 - Your week, in great detail
Day 27 - My worst habit
Day 28 - Whats in my handbag/purse
Day 29 - Hopes,Dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 - A dream for the future

I have a few hobbies since one hobby can't keep me busy.

READING

COUPONING

BLOGGING

BAKING

SLEEPING

FOLLOW ME BACK TUESDAY!!!

Participating in a blog hop today :) I love finding new blogs and meeting new people, great way to get followers too!

So, I had my ultrasound yesterday. I didn't get to talk to the doctor (probably not until next week) but the technician was pretty helpful. She said I had two fairly large cysts on my left ovary. They aren't big enough to need surgery but they aren't small enough that will go away on their own. She said most likely I will need to take birth control for a few months to get them under control. I will most find out what the plan of action is next week.

I made a comment that the pain medicine the doctor gave me wasn't really making much of a difference. I'm not usually one to complain and I hate asking doctors for pain medicine. I don't want them thinking I'm trying to abuse the medicine. It just hasn't been working since about Friday afternoon. She told me to call the doctor and ask for something different. It turned out to be fairly easy and he called me in a new prescription within a couple hours and the new meds work great! Although, I did fall asleep by 10 last night, lol. 

I started watching the movie the back up plan with Jennifer Lopez. I'm about 40 minutes into it and it's cute so far. I love her clothes and shoes in the movie! I can't wait to finish it. The bf even volunteered to watch it with me.

He's been super nice to me, probably due to the pms, but I will take it. I even got to eat a McFlurry for dinner last night, yum!

Days 17-19, this is harder than I thought

Day 1 - Your Favorite Song
Day 2 - Your Favorite Movie
Day 3 - Your Favorite Television Program
Day 4 - Your Favorite Book
Day 5 - Your Favorite Quote
Day 6 - 20 of my favorite things
Day 7 - A photo that makes you happy
Day 8 - A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 9 - A photo you took
Day 10 - A photo taken over 10 years ago of you
Day 11 - A photo of you recently
Day 12 - Something you are OCD about
Day 13 - A fictional book
Day 14 - A non-fictional book
Day 15 - your dream house
Day 16 - A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 - An art piece (drawing, sculpture, painting, etc)
Day 18 - My wedding/future wedding/past wedding
Day 19 - A talent of yours
Day 20 - A hobby of yours
Day 21 - A recipe
Day 22 - A website
Day 23 - A YouTube video
Day 24 - Where I live
Day 25 - Your day, in great detail
Day 26 - Your week, in great detail
Day 27 - My worst habit
Day 28 - Whats in my handbag/purse
Day 29 - Hopes,Dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 - A dream for the future

I remember the first time I saw this and it was so interesting. Coffee art!

My Dream Wedding                           My Dream Wedding

 I'm good at shopping and finding a deal!

I won an award!

I won the "Blog With Substance" award! Thank you Nicole!!!!

I've never won an award and this was my first! I feel so special. It really brightened my day after this awful weekend :(

Here are "The Rules":

•Thank the blogger who awarded it to you.

•Sum up your blogging philosophy, motivation, and experience using five (5) words.

•Pass it on to 10 other blogs which you feel have real substance.

My blog summed up:

Life, relationships, family, reading, fun!

And the awards go to.....These women have been super awesome since I've started just a few short weeks ago. Super friendly and I follow their blogs as much as possible! If you get a chance check them out!

Tutu Bug

Dating Diva

Tantalizing Testimonials

Bipolar.and.me

Student Saving Bucks

Design it Chic

Adventures of a Betty Crocker Wannabe

Not so Homemade

Kami Buchanan Custom Designs 

Ordinary Recipes Made Gourmet

I follow a few blogs and it was hard to narrow it down. This past weekend was pretty painful for me. I've been pms'ing and got my monthly visitor and now I'm not sure if they will even bother doing an ultrasound to look at my cysts :/ One of my girlfriends from high school had a tastefully simple/pure romance party on Saturday night that was a blast :) I ordered from both!

I've been in pain since Friday from cramps so I'm on some pain medicine. Hopefully they figure out what is causing so much pain. At this point, if I need surgery I will do it. I can't stand being uncomfortable from this any longer. I also have to wait another week or more to find out my results from the biopsy. I sure hope this week goes by quick!

Day 15 & 16 (I fell a little behind)

Day 1 - Your Favorite Song
Day 2 - Your Favorite Movie
Day 3 - Your Favorite Television Program
Day 4 - Your Favorite Book
Day 5 - Your Favorite Quote
Day 6 - 20 of my favorite things
Day 7 - A photo that makes you happy
Day 8 - A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 9 - A photo you took
Day 10 - A photo taken over 10 years ago of you
Day 11 - A photo of you recently
Day 12 - Something you are OCD about
Day 13 - A fictional book
Day 14 - A non-fictional book
Day 15 - your dream house
Day 16 - A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 - An art piece (drawing, sculpture, painting, etc)
Day 18 - My wedding/future wedding/past wedding
Day 19 - A talent of yours
Day 20 - A hobby of yours
Day 21 - A recipe
Day 22 - A website
Day 23 - A YouTube video
Day 24 - Where I live
Day 25 - Your day, in great detail
Day 26 - Your week, in great detail
Day 27 - My worst habit
Day 28 - Whats in my handbag/purse
Day 29 - Hopes,Dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 - A dream for the future

My dream house would be huge :) But I wouldn't want to clean it, that's for sure. This house would do just fine

And of course I would have to have a huge kitchen that looked onto the water :) with a full chef's kitchen amenitites.

The rest of the house I wouldn't be very picky lol. This would be the master, very relaxing and spa-like.

And then the living room would have lots of natural light.

I would also want very luxurious bathrooms 

This would be my dream house. 3-4 Bedrooms with 3 bathrooms and a finished basement on a lake. Anything more picky than that is being greedy :)

A Song that makes me cry would have to be, Who you'd be today by Kenny Chesney.

Listen to it and try not to cry....

Boost My Blog Friday Blog Hop

I'm learning how these blog hops work!

Some scary news

So Anna-Grace from 20 something bloggers made my new header :) I"m so in love with it. I needed a pick me up this morning and that was definitely it. 

So I went to the dr. after work yesterday for the pain in my side. Turns out my annual for the year (which I had done about 2 weeks ago) came back abnormal :( They think I have pre-cancerous cells in my uterus. So they did a biopsy and scraping. Not what I had planned for last night. So on top of my bf not being there, I had to deal with this all alone. I was beyond freaked. I really want to have kids and this just throws another wrench in the plan.

I got one foot in the door and Mr. P knew something was wrong and wrapped me in a hug and I cried for like 3 hours. Of course I assume worst case scenario. It's a simple procedure even if it does come back as pre-cancerous. So now I have to wait a week to find out the results. In the mean time, I have an ultrasound scheduled for Monday to figure out how bad the cyst is, but the procedure yesterday was more important at the time. As of now, I'm just sort of trying to see what else gets thrown my way. I have a pure romance/tastefully simple party over the weekend and maybe some hardcore cleaning :) I guess that's all for now.

Blog Hop (My First time!)

I'm participating in my first blog hop :) I'm excited about that. I got it from Nicole at It's all Random :) Honestly, I'm just having a bad day. I think I'm stuck in a funk and I have no idea why. I woke up fine and went to bed fine. I have the semester off from school and that's what started it. I was so bummed not to get into any classes and I went to the bf for sympathy and all I got from him was well sh*t happens. Really? That's your support? I'm waiting to go to the doctor about my cyst, bf has the day off, think he even OFFERED to go to the appointment with me? NOPE! I'm not sure if I want unrealistic things or if bf is just completely oblivious to how I'm feeling. I told him and I was crying when I left for work. So he called me at work and told me maybe something good will happen. Ok so that's a start, but that's it?

**back story is it took me 6 years to get my associate's degree (which I got in Dec!) part my fault, part the schools. All my credits transferred fine, but when I go to register only my credits from that school count and I end up not getting a single class and I'm on waiting lists. Classes started this week and I have no classes, not even close :( I need 6 classes to get my second degree with a concentration. You can pre-register only if you need 2 classes or less. It's a flawed system, I tried to talk to the dean. I'm waiting my turn but super frustrated in the process.

As for the cysts, I'm worried about having kids at some point, sooner rather than later and it would just be nice if he went for moral support. So like I said am I being unrealistic or he is just a guy?**

I'm not this whiny all the time, I just need some encouragement :/

Day 14 I'm keeping it up!!

Day 1 - Your Favorite Song
Day 2 - Your Favorite Movie
Day 3 - Your Favorite Television Program
Day 4 - Your Favorite Book
Day 5 - Your Favorite Quote
Day 6 - 20 of my favorite things
Day 7 - A photo that makes you happy
Day 8 - A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 9 - A photo you took
Day 10 - A photo taken over 10 years ago of you
Day 11 - A photo of you recently
Day 12 - Something you are OCD about
Day 13 - A fictional book
Day 14 - A non-fictional book
Day 15 - your dream house
Day 16 - A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 - An art piece (drawing, sculpture, painting, etc)
Day 18 - My wedding/future wedding/past wedding
Day 19 - A talent of yours
Day 20 - A hobby of yours
Day 21 - A recipe
Day 22 - A website
Day 23 - A YouTube video
Day 24 - Where I live
Day 25 - Your day, in great detail
Day 26 - Your week, in great detail
Day 27 - My worst habit
Day 28 - Whats in my handbag/purse
Day 29 - Hopes,Dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 - A dream for the future

I honestly don't know of ANY non-fictional books I've read, want to read or anything like that. I guess I could list my On Cooking book I use for (4) classes at school. I've read books based on true stories, but I will go with the last book I read that was I do remember. That book was Drunkard. 

I read this book in a day, literally 24 hours I couldn't put it down. It was a journal about a guy that didn't think he had a drinking problem and how it affected his life and then he realized he does have a drinking problem. It was a good read, I gave it to the bf to read. He made it to chapter 7, some of us aren't bookworms, I am :)

I woke up in a good mood...

I woke up in a great mood. The dogs slept most of the night, I have a new ride in my garage ;) even got to sleep at a decent time. Then I got out of bed :( Still didn't get into any of my classes so I now have the fall semester off :( I have had horrible pain in my left pelvis and pretty sure I have a cyst on my ovary. The doctor can not see me until tomorrow and I have to take off work, otherwise I wait til Monday and by then I'm sure I will be pms'ing. Then I get to work and have a severe migraine from doh-doh brain not doing his work and having to pick up the slack. I hate whining and usually just deal with it, but today is overall a bad day. Oh well, I have a picture of the new ride!!!!

 I also did look into (and still am) continuing education classes at least. They are usually only 1 day, but about 6 hours long. I would love to take the cookie exchange class and maybe the breads class. I'm going to my mom's tonight to show off the car and then going home. I think I need a good glass of wine ;)

Day 1 - Your Favorite Song
Day 2 - Your Favorite Movie
Day 3 - Your Favorite Television Program
Day 4 - Your Favorite Book
Day 5 - Your Favorite Quote
Day 6 - 20 of my favorite things
Day 7 - A photo that makes you happy
Day 8 - A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 9 - A photo you took
Day 10 - A photo taken over 10 years ago of you
Day 11 - A photo of you recently
Day 12 - Something you are OCD about
Day 13 - A fictional book
Day 14 - A non-fictional book
Day 15 - your dream house
Day 16 - A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 - An art piece (drawing, sculpture, painting, etc)
Day 18 - My wedding/future wedding/past wedding
Day 19 - A talent of yours
Day 20 - A hobby of yours
Day 21 - A recipe
Day 22 - A website
Day 23 - A YouTube video
Day 24 - Where I live
Day 25 - Your day, in great detail
Day 26 - Your week, in great detail
Day 27 - My worst habit
Day 28 - Whats in my handbag/purse
Day 29 - Hopes,Dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 - A dream for the future

Well I'm going to go with a fictional book I'm reading at this time :)

  I'm pretty far into it. I'd say half way. Hoping to finish it tonight :)

And my new car is.....

You're gonna have to wait :P. We found a vehicle (hehehe) that I put a deposit on and we had to make sure the sale went through on my old car. I must have went to 10 dealerships last night. I looked at every type of car/suv made in the last 4 years within 6 hours last night. I'm super excited to pick up my car tonight. I paid a little more than I had planned on, but to me it's worth it. You will all find out tomorrow.
We had dinner at Chili's last night and they totally messed up my bill. They gave me someone else's credit card back so I'm sure that will cause a problem at some point :( Then the dogs chewed 2 pairs of my shoes so I wasn't a happy camper, but the car is taking everything away. I will post up something later. I'm too tired to do anything right now. 

Day 10 and 11 and 12 of 30 Day Journal

Day 1 - Your Favorite Song
Day 2 - Your Favorite Movie
Day 3 - Your Favorite Television Program
Day 4 - Your Favorite Book
Day 5 - Your Favorite Quote
Day 6 - 20 of my favorite things
Day 7 - A photo that makes you happy
Day 8 - A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 9 - A photo you took
Day 10 - A photo taken over 10 years ago of you
Day 11 - A photo of you recently
Day 12 - Something you are OCD about
Day 13 - A fictional book
Day 14 - A non-fictional book
Day 15 - your dream house
Day 16 - A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 - An art piece (drawing, sculpture, painting, etc)
Day 18 - My wedding/future wedding/past wedding
Day 19 - A talent of yours
Day 20 - A hobby of yours
Day 21 - A recipe
Day 22 - A website
Day 23 - A YouTube video
Day 24 - Where I live
Day 25 - Your day, in great detail
Day 26 - Your week, in great detail
Day 27 - My worst habit
Day 28 - Whats in my handbag/purse
Day 29 - Hopes,Dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 - A dream for the future

 

Oh this should be fun :) 

 Ok, picture from at least 10 years ago, I'm scared to look....

This is the only picture on the computer of me in the last 10 years. Thank goodness you can't see my clothes! hahaha

Now a recent pic of my hair...

See how the bangs are so short? I can't even put it in a pony :( Oh well, it will grow.

 

Ok,something I am OCD about. Hmm..... There are a few.

• I alphabetize my DVDs by title.
• I am crazy about cooking meat and making sure it reaches proper cooking temperature. I refuse to get food poisoning!

•  I have flip flops in every color and if it's summer, I am wearing them!

Ok, I think that's it for today :)

Crazy Busy Weekend

Ok, so of course I thought I was going to have a lazy boring weekend, wrong! Although that is never the case anyways. Friday, my boyfriend one of the BFF's came over and we all went out to dinner at.....

Applebee's! Bad part was they messed up my food, but they bought our whole dinner, score! So we went home watched 

 I give it 2 out of 5 stars. I'm partial though, I don't like Del Toro or wearwolves so take it how you want. Saturday I got my new hair cut :) It's cute but not worth the extensive amount of cash I had to fork over for it. And she cut my bangs too short :( I can't even get it in a pony tail which was #1 stipulation. Last time I see her (she was a newbie cuz my normal girl was on vacation). I spend the afternoon with Mr. P and we ran some errands and watched....

Super cute, bf fell asleep about 1/2 an hour into it. I enjoyed it though. I'm also reading my book, The choice :). It's getting pretty interesting. Then yesterday bf went to work while I saw my BFF and my godson :) OMG I haven't seen them in forever and we had so much fun. We bbq'd some dinner and just hung out and had girl time. I had to drive her home though because, long story but she doesn't have a car. Still had a ton of fun :)

Also, bf posted my car online and sold it within 8 hours, so tonight I have to go car shopping and pretty much buy something by the end of the week. Not exactly what I was ready for, but the Grand Am has a couple problems and I'm ready for my new car. I plan on having this next one for 4-5 years. I'm looking at a Jeep Liberty or Jeep Patriot I think. I'm still undecided on new vs. used. It really does come down to price....

The Fair and a Tornado?!?!? Day 9

Day 1 - Your Favorite Song
Day 2 - Your Favorite Movie
Day 3 - Your Favorite Television Program
Day 4 - Your Favorite Book
Day 5 - Your Favorite Quote
Day 6 - 20 of my favorite things
Day 7 - A photo that makes you happy
Day 8 - A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 9 - A photo you took
Day 10 - A photo taken over 10 years ago of you
Day 11 - A photo of you recently
Day 12 - Something you are OCD about
Day 13 - A fictional book
Day 14 - A non-fictional book
Day 15 - your dream house
Day 16 - A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 - An art piece (drawing, sculpture, painting, etc)
Day 18 - My wedding/future wedding/past wedding
Day 19 - A talent of yours
Day 20 - A hobby of yours
Day 21 - A recipe
Day 22 - A website
Day 23 - A YouTube video
Day 24 - Where I live
Day 25 - Your day, in great detail
Day 26 - Your week, in great detail
Day 27 - My worst habit
Day 28 - Whats in my handbag/purse
Day 29 - Hopes,Dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 - A dream for the future

Last night, my mom, my cousin and I took my niece to the fair. We were able to pet some animals and see baby animals! We even saw some goats that were born Sunday!

I took almost all of the pictures, except the one I'm in holding my niece :) After about an hour of being there it began to rain. Not a big deal...Then we were under a tornado warning, five minutes later a tornado watch and one had been spotted about 20 minutes away. We decided to try waiting it out but Riley was getting cranky. We drove 10 minutes away and stopped at my grandpa's and took cover in the basement. Which isn't your normal basement.....it has "fake" slot machines!!! Riley loves them and sort of understands how it works. She just loves hearing the coins fall :)

 When I finally got home to my dogs, I pulled in the driveway and saw all the branches on the ground :( 

And in the backyard, by the pups runner. I'm so glad they were inside and safe!

Thankfully no one was hurt and we have power :)

Thirsty Thursday

Oh, how I could use a Diet Coke about now.....So, last night I got a chance to meet my cousin's baby, Zachary. Now I'd like to point out what a cute little kid he is, but the truth is he was born with a cleft palate. The poor guy has had one surgery, needs another one in 7-8 months and 3 more before his 8th birthday and then (and it's only a maybe) he will look "normal". My heart, really feels for this baby. My cousin's wife had no idea until she actually had the baby and then I guess lost it in the delivery room :( So no pictures of the baby as of now, but I do have the pictures of the lil outfits I got him :).

Tonight, I'm going with my mom to take my niece to the fair. She loves all the animals. I will have tons of pictures since my brother is gonna need to see them too. 
I applied at 20-something bloggers and I'm waiting for them to approve my blog. It's like an elite club to get into. I'm hoping that will help out my number of blog friends :)

Day 8 of 30 Day Journal

Day 1 - Your Favorite Song
Day 2 - Your Favorite Movie
Day 3 - Your Favorite Television Program
Day 4 - Your Favorite Book
Day 5 - Your Favorite Quote
Day 6 - 20 of my favorite things
Day 7 - A photo that makes you happy
Day 8 - A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 9 - A photo you took
Day 10 - A photo taken over 10 years ago of you
Day 11 - A photo of you recently
Day 12 - Something you are OCD about
Day 13 - A fictional book
Day 14 - A non-fictional book
Day 15 - your dream house
Day 16 - A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 - An art piece (drawing, sculpture, painting, etc)
Day 18 - My wedding/future wedding/past wedding
Day 19 - A talent of yours
Day 20 - A hobby of yours
Day 21 - A recipe
Day 22 - A website
Day 23 - A YouTube video
Day 24 - Where I live
Day 25 - Your day, in great detail
Day 26 - Your week, in great detail
Day 27 - My worst habit
Day 28 - Whats in my handbag/purse
Day 29 - Hopes,Dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 - A dream for the future

This might not make sense to all of you after yesterday's journal, but I'm not really here to make sense.

This is a picture of my husband. He passed away close to 3 years ago and I miss him everyday. It makes me mad and angry that he was taken away from me so quickly. I do cherish the time I was able to spend with him and appreciate the little things so much more. I love this picture because I caught him a real honest laugh, not the forced camera smile. This is from our honeymoon in Cancun. He taught me many things and the most important was how quickly something can be taken from you and to enjoy it while you have it.