About That Time I was Thrown out of a Hotel at 2am

So here while back I told you that we got kicked out of a hotel at 2am… here’s that story…

So a few weeks ago we went scuba diving over in Mermet, IL. There isn’t a hotel right there, you either have to go to Metropolis, IL or Paducah, KY. We went to Metropolis.

So we got in around 11pm and went to check into the hotel. We’d heard from others in our larger group of the horror stories of this hotel so when we got there we all asked to see our rooms before we actually stayed in them. So then they proceeded to check us all in.

Other than dead bugs on the floor and the floor dirty (my feet were gross walking from the shower to the bed) our room was okay… (Way better than what others in our party dealt with)

At 1:45am we were awoken by pounding on the door. If the lady had pounded any harder it would have busted the door down. Hubby went to answer the door and the lady told us we had checked out. We were just woke up and had no clue what was going on so we told her no we didn’t check out. We were told that people in our party had checked us out and we needed to leave NOW.

So we quickly grabbed our stuff and left. Went down the road to the Super 8 where they greeted us with open arms and were extremely accommodating.

Other people in our group even had their doors opened on them. Others in our party had their credit cards charged double. So I definitely would say NEVER stay at that hotel… I contacted their corporate office and was given some standard answer but I can tell you I’ll never stay at that hotel or the chain ever again… YIKES!

So that’s how we all were able to cross getting thrown out of a hotel at 2am off our Bucket List.

Time in my Life

Date: 
September 18, 2014

Age:
31

Friday Nights:
Oh geez, not one Friday night is like the other anymore these days!

Hair Style:
Apparently I’m brunette… lol. But I have some natural highlights showing through.

Favorite place to dine out:
I still love Zio’s.
Longhorn
Marshiano’s Olde Time Pizza

Favorite Outfit:
Sadly, my maternity clothes are all to big… My regular clothes are either too small or they fit but don’t look great so I’m lucky these days to find clothes so I’m not running around naked.

Love Life:

My Husband and I love each other more now than we did the day we were married… And that’s pretty hard to top… 
Home Life: 
My house is a mess right now. Oy!

TV shows: 
Still love Friends reruns
Grey’s Anatomy
How I Met Your Mother
Franklin and Bash
Pioneer Woman
CMT Music Video’s (does that count)
Wow I sound like a TV junkie but I’m not
Extra time: 
I’m in Grad school… and have a newborn (although she’s about to not be classified as that anymore) who has spare time? But I do love playing with my camera. What can I say I’m a camera junkie and my husband keeps calling me a camera/picture snob. I’m not sure what to think about that…

What excites me: 
When baby girl sleeps through the night
When I get to sleep through the night
Hot showers
Playing with my camera (I’m attempting to complete a Photo 365 project, wish me luck)

A moment I never want to forget:  
What it felt like to feel baby girl kicking me
What it felt like to hold baby girl in my arms for the first time
Tbug getting Scuba Certified
Going to Mermet Springs to dive as a family
The first time baby girl smiled at me and we knew it wasn’t gas
Baby girl is on the verge of giggling….
The way my husband looked at me after giving birth to our baby girl

Repost – Our Story Part 6

Repost from June 29, 2010

Part 1 Here 
Part 2 Here
Part 3 Here
Part 4 Here
Part 5 Here

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{Chapter Six}
Yes the message was from none other than the boy from years ago. The boy who brought back flooding memories…
Him: Long time no see!! How’ve you been??
Me: Definitely. Just working, How about yourself?
Him: SAME working in KY right now for the government!! Fun Fun.  Where you at now??
Me: Wow Kentucky… that’s nuts… oh for now I’m back home with my parents working… in this economy it looks like we are lucky to have jobs. So Married? Kids?
Him: I am divorced with a 6 year old daughter!! You?
Suddenly I felt my heart sink in my chest. A bit of hurt or something, I’m not sure the emotion that came over me. I always said I never wanted to be with a guy who had been married or one who had kids. But wait, me, thinking of being with another guy, just out of a long relationship… was I nuts? Was I losing my mind? I think so… or maybe it is all this lack of sleep!  Yeah that must be my problem. Hell this guy never even said he liked me… A few messages through facebook for the first time in ten years is not a marriage proposal.  Heck it’s not even being asked out on a date or for coffee.   Ok so my problem was definitely sleep deprivation taking its toll on me. MUST GET SLEEP!!!!!
But I continued on chatting through facebook instead:
Me: nope to both. Been dating a guy for 5 1/2 years but that’s on the verge of falling through.
Him: well that sucks. I’m sorry to hear that!! I hope everything works out okay!! Do you have MSN Messenger, it would be easier!!

Me: Nope, and I’m not even sitting at a computer… I’m watching off the phone internet… LOL

Him: LOL I see!!

Me: Although I was actually on a comp earlier when I found you. Gotta love modern technology.

Him: LOL I was on my phone when I got the first message from facebook… LOL

That must be when my exhaustion took over and I fell asleep.

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Repost – Our Story Part 5

Repost from June 28, 2010Part 1 Here 
Part 2 Here
Part 3 Here
Part 4 Here

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So from Thursday to Sunday, there really wasn’t anything new that had happened. Still fighting through text messages and on the phone with very very very little phone contact. I went out to dinners with my parents and hung out with my dad all day Saturday and Sunday helping with odds and ends around the house. Saturday night I wound up going to the movies with Kalem & Evelyn just to get out of the house. I needed to. I was going nuts. Oddly enough, I’m not sure I spent that much time there in one sitting. Sunday morning felt weird b/c I didn’t jump out of bed, get dressed and head to his house or his church or anywhere for that matter. I got up from what little sleep I had and watched Friends re-runs and then went downstairs and watched some movie with my parents.

Life sure did seem strange but hey I guess that’s what happens from time to time. You learn to deal with it or else you don’t but I was, slowly but surely and truthfully it had only been what, right at a week so truthfully there isn’t a whole lot of time there, right?
Later that afternoon Kalem & Evelyn said they were going to the J’s house (Jason & Josh, easier to say the J’s) to watch Anime and eat dinner. I’m not super crazy about anime but hey I thought it was another excuse to leave the house so I told them I’d meet them there.
So you remember that awesome post about buying a laptop? It is getting ready to come into play. I hope you read up if you didn’t read the initial post 🙂
Since the J’s live in town and have awesome internet, I thought hey, why not go steal their wi-fi. It beats the dial-up internet at my parents house, that’s for sure! At home I wasn’t used to the fast internet so I had to take the baby out for a spin and see what she could do…
One of my addictions at the time was facebook.

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Marshiano’s Olde Time Pizza – Miller, MO

A year and a half ago Hubby and I ate at this restaurant in Miller, MO called Marshiano’s Olde Time Pizza for the first time. (read the first post here) I’m telling you this pizza is awesome and totally worth the drive. If it was in a bigger city they’d have a waiting line to get in, no joke! We asked my parents if they’d like to come meet us for dinner.

We got there before them so we ordered so that when they showed up the food would be ready. We couldn’t have timed that any better either. We got 2 orders of Fried Green Beans, one regular and one spicy (not all that spicy though!). Chicken Alfredo pizza and a Meat Lovers Pizza. Hello YUM!

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Throwback Thursday: 9/11

Do you remember where you were 13 years ago? Holy cow, is it really 13 years ago? It is crazy how time moves on after tragic events that happen. People heal, people move on, but we never forget.

I know where I was. I still remember hearing Tom Brokaw’s voice and that feeling of, you don’t hear him in the mornings unless something is happening bad. I remember walking into Jess’s room and sitting on her bed and looking at the tv just as the 2nd tower was being hit live. Then the emotions that everyone went through. We may be located in the middle of the US, a few plane rides away, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t affected too.

In high school I was in band, I got out before my senior year of high school because I was lazy. The band teacher tried to talk me into staying in and he’d help me get a full ride scholarship to a university. Had I gone to SMS in band like he tried to talk me in to, the SMS band actually marched in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in November of 2001. I always wanted to go and see the Twin towers but I never got the chance… but I missed out on a second chance of going in November of 2001. I have mixed emotions on that as well…

As a graduation present from college my mom and I went and spent a week in NYC in 2005. One of the destinations I had on our agenda was to go where the twin towers stood. So here are the pictures I took of that area… obviously not all of them because if any of you know me I have a ton! I just got started into digital (plus I had a film camera then) so it made it easy to take an extreme amount of photos…

As I write this post I”m watching CMT’s Throw Back Thursday. It’s crazy to hear all the songs that came out due to 9-11-01. It is also a very surreal feeling that both of my kids will only know 9/11 because of history books. 1-2-03 and 6-26-14.

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Mommy, the Dogs are Getting Fat

Prior to baby girl being born, I had a tendency to walk the driveway. If I had the dogs on a leash we’d leave the driveway, otherwise we’d stay in the driveway.

After baby girl was born there were a couple times she’d cry and cry and I couldn’t figure out what was wrong so I’d take her outside and we’d walk the driveway. She absolutely LOVES walks.

The other night she told me that she thought the dogs were starting to look a little chunky.

I think that was her way of saying we needed to go on a walk.

She absolutely loves the sights….

but her favorite is when Dale’s cows are up. Sadly they haven’t been in a few weeks. She really likes the cows.

But she was happy that we went on our walk. Like I said, she loves her nightly walks.

Plus we gotta keep the pooches slim and trim! 🙂

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