I’m not sure if I actually told you or not that our AC went out in our house. We walked in a week ago Friday night and it was friggin hot in our house. Not a great start to the weekend. I am happy to say it’s finally fixed and a week later we were back in our house.
So as I explain in the first clip of the video, I couldn’t sleep on Thursday night and I started watching video’s. These clips other than the first are from July 8, 2010. They are very random. So I hope you enjoy this short piece into our lives 🙂
I swear, if this cold doesn’t kill me… I’m going to be a survivor! LOL. It’s moved from a head cold to my throat/chest. My cough is something fierce and it hurts like a son of a gun! I keep claiming at work I have on my sexy voice. You know, people who claim to have seductive voices are all deep and dark and whatever. Ok so mine isn’t quite seductive and every few breaths I cough up a storm, but still, I got my sexy voice on :).
Friday night we went to Target trying to buy Sudafed. Yeah, apparently because of the drug addicts you can’t buy it in Joplin City Limits anymore. Woohooo! {supposedly it’s used for Meth. I have no idea what Meth is… other than the obvious… a drug…} You have to go to another town. I happened to be there and didn’t feel like going else where so I just didn’t get any meds.
Saturday after running around all day I felt kind of like death warmed over so my mom was trying to get me to buy some meds and well…. I didn’t. Don’t know why. So hubby and mom schemed and mom went to town and got me some. Hubby told her to get Sudafed, she didn’t. I wound up with Nyquil which doesn’t work real great for me and Mucinex for day time. Holy cow those are like friggin horse pills! And I’ve seen horse pills.
Then they didn’t believe I was going to take them or that I was taking them so they kept asking me like I was a 6 year old if I took medicine. LOL.
So it has slowly traveled down to my throat and chest. It makes for a lovely combination. I can’t hear squat because of the pressure, I can’t breath or taste anything I’m eating or drinking. I have my sexy voice and a soar throat and a cough that would compete with a smoker’s cough. I’m a mess.
Oh and because I can’t breath I’m breathing through my mouth which causes me to cough and my lips are drying out because of the air. It’s a blast. Add that it’s 100 degrees out side, I’m hot and cold at the same time and I’m quite the little walking pair. ha.
And at work on Tuesday some guy told me I needed to go home and get better. I asked him if he was going to pay my bills. He laughed at me : /
So yesterday at lunchtime I guess my hubby felt so bad for me feeling like crap that he called me and told me to go outside, he had something for me. He had some errands to run at lunch and he was on his way back. I was really wondering what he had because anything and everything that has recently been ordered (which is really nothing but a dvd my mom got me) I already had in my possession.
He showed up with a Walgreens sack which included the following:
Vapor Rub for at night b/c we’re almost out VapoInhaler so no one at work has to smell me Blistex b/c he knows I hate Chapstick and my lips are dry and Sudafed.
Don’t let anyone spread rumors that he doesn’t like me!
Oh and in other news if you’ve made it this far:
Do you remember the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding? Do you remember the portion where his parents meet her family and they bring a Bundt cake? Do you remember her mother trying to say the word Bundt Cake? It cracks me up every time. In fact my husband and I randomly spout out “Bundt Cake”. Trying to say it like she does and probably failing miserably. They had Bundt Cake in the cafeteria yesterday at work. I had to eat a piece in honor of that!
Have I ever told you about my first date with my husband? I don’t think I have :). Not in any kind of depth anyway…
I had a group of friends that did a thing back in 2009 called “Dinner Club”. We’d choose restaurants around that weren’t chains, and we’d get dressed up and go to dinner. We generally steered toward the fancy restaurants because who doesn’t like to see your man in a suit, lol. I’m sorry, put a man in a tux, a suit, or a uniform and their hotness jumps a few levels :). haha.
A few days prior I had to give my RSVP to the group if I was coming or not. I’d been debating on asking my hubby to go with me but… I felt bad because he said all he wore was blue jeans and t-shirts and I would require him to dress up so I debated and almost didn’t ask him to go with me.
So the night I finally got the courage up to ask he asked me to go with him that same night to a local rodeo. Dang! I love rodeo’s, but I also enjoyed going to Dinner Club. So just after he asked me I told him I already had plans and you could hear his spirits drop. I was like, but wait, I was going to ask you to go with me. But we can go to yours instead because if you went to mine, you wouldn’t know anyone (like I’d know anyone if I went with him, but maybe) and you’d have to dress up.
Haha, he agreed and then he went shopping. :).
So the day of our date I just about tossed my cookies a few times with nerves. I was afraid to see him again. I was afraid he wouldn’t like me. I was afraid I’d be late (I drove, he left the top down on his car the night before and it rained). Let’s just say, I WAS NERVOUS!
I don’t remember the drive to Springfield. I made it in supposedly record time. He said I sped all the way, I don’t agree, but I don’t remember the drive either. We had an hour to kill in Springfield so I drove him around showing him where I lived when I went to college, I showed him the “art” in this guys front yard… we just drove around. Heck I even showed him the route I took to the dorms when I lived there. Yes, I need a life.
We went to dinner, it was ok. Then Evelyn got the idea that we should go to the mall. I tested my limits/waters to see what he’d say if I said yes. Evelyn’s husband Kalem threw more of a fit about going to the mall than my hubby did. I thought ok, so it’s a first date, he’s trying to impress.
Then we parted way with Kalem, Evelyn, Jason & Josh at the Mall and left for my friend Jamie & Brian’s. While there, we were sitting on a couch. Actually he was sitting at one end, I was laying across with my head at the other, my feet in his lap. Jamie’s daughter and her friend came up and started tickling me and I started flailing my arms/legs and that’s when it happened…. I accidentally kicked him in the nuts. (sorry I said nuts, twice) Poor guy, he keeled over in pain and I couldn’t help but giggle.
We went home around midnight that night, got to his mom’s by about 1 and stood in the driveway talking until 3am. I had my first kiss and I went home, with plans to meet back up the next day. Boy was this boy glutton for punishment or what!?!?
I kind of think he is because, um… he married me :).
Do you have any fun first date or dating stories about your spouse/significant other? or even a random stranger??
I was wondering yesterday what I was going to blog about…. then: Last night hubby and I sat down to watch Bunheads, the new tv show on ABC Family. He went into the kitchen and grabbed a handful of cherries and brought them in for us to share.
All was going well. We were sharing nicely. Then I grabbed a juicy one, bit into it and shot my husband….
Do you see it? He looks like he got shot with blood. hahahahahaha! Oh you gotta love Married Life!
Do you see this lovely hunk of metal? This was up for grabs to the lucky winner of the 500 Limited Rider Class (persons who haven’t won over $500)
And do you see this lovely guy I’m with? The handsome one I might add!
Well this weekend was NCHA Day… er…. weekend. I’ve always known it as “day” but I guess over the years it has turned into weekend. Anyway… Here’s the list of classes for the weekend.
Now when I started dating my husband back in 2009 he said his brother in law was going to teach him how to be a team roper. Now… team ropers have never been nice to me, I guess b/c I show cutting horses, I dunno. Maybe it’s just a coincidence.
Anyway My mom issued a challenge to my husband to learn how to show Cutting Horses. And he has been working on it ever since!
Well on NCHA Day especially he wanted to win a buckle. So we loaded up the gang and headed to the show.
Hurry up to wait mom… thanks… I could be snacking on grass most of the day… LOL 🙂
Don’t worry, I had to wait too!
Robert came out to hang out for a few so hubby was telling him what was going on.
Finally at about 6pm it was time for hubby to get ready.
Dad giving a few last minute pointers to hubby. This is only the second time showing KG.
Three loves in my life: hubby, dad & horse!
By this point I was sitting up on the announcer’s stand, probably annoying them because I was getting nervous. By the time he was showing I was telling him, “Sit,” “Put your hand down,” “Step up,” “Hold him up,” etc. Don’t worry, I was going through the moves with him even. Every time I’d say sit, I’d sit deeper in my chair. Finally Kurt (the announcer) looked at me and said, “How’s he doin Nicole?”… LOL. Boy that was a long 2 1/2 minutes.
They had a professional photographer there being NCHA weekend. I bought him a photo of his ride to hang in our house. He marked a 71.
And I’m so proud to say, as those of you on instagram & facebook saw, He won! He’s the proud new winner of the belt buckle!
Congrats Hunny! Now you get to show against the big boys… haha 🙂
Very seldom can the hubs and I just “run off” like a lot of newly married couples do, what with our hectic schedule anyway and throw in every other weekend we have his daughter with things she has to do, wants to do, etc, it seems like we’re always on the run anyway.
Sunday, other than studying, I had nothing planned and neither did he… so we hopped in the car and headed off toward Eureka Springs, AR. It was a Beautiful drive in! Oh my goodness.
For the first time in what seems like years, we’re having a beautiful fall, given the high high temps we had this summer!
As we were driving in we noticed a “detour” Now if you’ve driven down around Eureka Springs, it’s 2 lanes all the way up and down and all around swervey mountains… so we were wondering about this detour. Well if you notice, the road just fell off the mountain, so they moved the lane over.
When we got there, we drove to the bottom of the hill, parked and went and played around the railroad station. This building here was gorgeous, but condemned :(.
The Eureka Springs & Northern Arkansas Railroad Company.
Plus old farm machinery there too… HOW COOL! 🙂
I loved this sign!
Where you filled up the old steam engines.
Isn’t it amazing that is what holds one car to another and this was hooked to the engine, can you imagine how many thousands of lbs that holds by dragging all the cars together. Amazing!
Then we walked around the area for a bit before driving back up into the “hustling” part of the city.
The famous Crescent Hotel that is supposedly haunted…. whooooooooooooooooo 🙂
Then we found the Crescent Spring. Click on the photo to make it bigger if you’d like to read the writing 🙂
Now this manikin cracked me up… the wind was blowing just right that her sleeve was waving as if it were waving you in to the shop. Obviously a still photo won’t show that though :(.
We got in my car at one point and this was what the temp read out… Holy cow in October?
Then we went and found the winery in town. Keels Creek Winery & Art Gallery. Hubs and I aren’t huge wine people, but we have a few we like and we are always willing to try :). They had wine tastings 6 types for $5 plus you got to keep the glass. We were like ok sure :). Plus you get to try wines you might not try otherwise, and yes, there were a few I didn’t much care for.
Awe and this lovely thing came to great us. I wanted to take her home!
I loved the wreath. And at one point she opened a bottle for our tasting and we asked what they did with all the corks. She said they make things out of them (ie) but they also give them to visitors so they gave me all the wine corks they had sitting around. Now I’m ready to make my own wreath!
After we left the winery we headed for Beaver Dam/Beaver Lake
So I went to the Fortune Teller to see what my future held in store.
She said I’d meet a cowboy that’d make me fall to the floor.
I looked at her oddly and she showed me the cards
Then we moved over a couple yards.
She showed me her crystal ball and this is what I saw
A cowboy butt that stood real tall.
It sure looked familiar like I’d seen it before.
But maybe truly I’d seen it behind.
Guess I’ll have to ponder that for a while 🙂
**Happy Friday. Tomorrow is my birthday and my hubby has written a special post, I’m just not sure what it says. I promised him I wouldn’t read it until it posted 🙂**
True Love is reading each and every post I put up on this blog
True Love is kissing me every night before we go to bed
True Love is kissing me every morning even before I brush my teeth
True Love is learning my passions right along side me
True Love is supporting my dreams, no matter how crazy they are
True Love is feeding my cookbook addiction True Love is eating all my creations even if they don’t turn out just right True Love is telling me I’m beautiful even if I don’t agree True Love is bettering yourself for our family True Love is looking out for my dog True Love is helping out my family True Love is blowing off my temper tantrums True Love getting excited over the little things with me True Love is listening to me rant and rave when things don’t go quite as planned True Love is calling me just to say I love you True Love is pushing me to be my best True Love is you, being you!
Well, Hellllllllooooooo all my fine feathered friends… Lol 🙂
As you can tell, I’ve had posts posting, but I haven’t been by to see you in a short while… Things at work have been extremely CRAZY! and when I come home at night, I’m pooped!
I worked my butt off over the weekend and found out that 5:45am does in fact actually exist. In fact I even took a photo of it to share with you so you knew I wasn’t crazy!
And in Southern Oklahoma, this is what mornings at 5:45am look like:
I spent both days doing a lot of this:
btw, I hate painting trim, with a passion!
The weather down there every day, 102ish. My uncle said they’ve been over 100 degrees for at least 27 days now. The ground down there looks horrid!
That’s the color of ALL the ground down there and many fire warnings are out
Look at crack in the ground, every fence was that way.
My uncle said a lot of the Texas cattle ranchers are having to sell cattle because there is no grass for them. In fact at the NCHA Futurity held in December, they are worried about having enough cattle for the shows. It’s a huge concern. So I say we pray for rain here, let’s pray for rain for the dryer parts of the country, and let the wet parts of the country get a chance to dry up a bit! (You know, after all the major flooding)
So then to add to all that excitement of the weekend, my sweetheart had an appointment Monday morning and he needed a driver. I told him no problem and worked it out for a day of vacation. All was going good until I got called for jury duty on no other than Monday. I don’t mind reporting for jury duty but seriously, when I have actual plans like driving my husband to an appointment…. . So my mom agreed to take him for me. We got home at 10:30 Sunday night (after a long weekend of helping my aunt) and the trial had been cancelled so I was able to take him after all to his appointment.
He had to take some medicine to “numb” him 1 1/2 hrs before, and so sitting in the waiting room,
Oh I had a fun old time laughing my butt off at him. The medicine made him loopy (hence needing a driver). Along with watching Maury, Here are some of the cute sayings he was telling me:
Him: Jerry chello
Him: Frrrozen choc hotlet
Him: Shahihihiish
Him to me referring to himself: My bestestestest really good friend and might take offense to that husband guy (I posted a comment on his facebook page)
Him: My attn to detail has spiked
Him: There emergency lights are crooked,
Me: where are the emergency lights,
Him: hidden in the paintings, it’s like where’s Waldo
Him: My feets are asleet
Him: That picture is crooked
Him: I’m gonna be whiney tonight you’ll be tired of me
Him but no idea what he was talking about: Are you bull shipping me?
Him to me while I was looking out a window: Don’t check that old guy out, you’ll make him nervous
Him: You stuck me on the billboard right beneath the bus
Him: Give them a list of all the things wrong so that they can raise the customer level of there comforts
Concerned with lights out and that they weren’t evenly spaced “Aresemetrical”, (yes it’s misspelled b/c that’s what he said) to give the building a better flow
Him: It’d be really cool if they’d let me take my phone and beerphones back there so I could put them in my beers and listen to music
Him: Valuable collectronics
Him: Don’t does that to me
Him: (I put a post it on his shirt) You put a sticker on me, where’d you get a sticker
He eventually moved it to his forehead
Then he started singing about a snake named Roman
Him: Don’t forget to get Jerry’s Chello
Me: Are you going to play it?
Him: yup
This is what he told me they gave him to knock him out: Relapse-a-damn
(Our friend T’s birthday is Saturday, T said he wanted a card so PC was telling me all kinds of cards we could give T) Giving T “card” board with glue and chicken feed for his birthday
Me: Your losing your sticker,
Him: well put it down the front of my pants, it’ll stay there…
Me: Um how about I put it in your pocket,
Him: what if I drop my pocket?
Me: What if you drop your pants,
Him: stranger things have happened
Him to me while I was video’ing some of this: It’s no fair, I’m being taken advantage of and it doesn’t even feel good
In fact, the dental Hygienist came to call another patient in and got tickled at me because I was video’ing him at one point.
So now you are caught up on my life and going on’s… LOL 🙂 I promise I’ll get my google reader cleaned out! It said this morning I had 336 new messages to read…. That’s ok! I plan on going home and relaxing tonight! I should have plenty of time to catch up!
It kind of sounds like a line out of a movie… but it isn’t, it’s from MY Prince Charming to me 🙂
“There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be a day that I’ll ever regret marrying you. You may get annoyed with me and I may get annoyed with you but Baby, I love you with all my heart. I would marry you every day of the week if I had to just to prove my love for you.”
I think I got myself a keeper, No, I know I do! I am one lucky girl!
