Roomating.

Its been almost three years since I had a roommate.
Three amazing years.
But now that time is over.
And for a month I will have another human being living with me.

I spent the weekend rearranging my house.
Since I live by myself, there hasn't been a need to use all my bedrooms as "Bed" rooms. So I moved the additional mattress into my bedroom and utilized the extra room as a closet.

Cause I have that many clothes.

Yesterday I took a couple of hours (4) and washed and hung my clothes up. Put away as many pairs of shoes as I could, and moved the mattresses back into the newly opened space. Surprisingly enough my clothes can all fit in the closet. Then I had to condense all the tubs from the closet in my bedroom, to the closet in the "pet" room. so that she could also have some closet space.

So its was productive to say the least.

I'm just not really sure what to do with another human being in my house.

No more walking around in my undies.
No more blasting music first thing in the morning.
I'll have to share my bathroom too...
Which means I'll actually have to clean it on a regular basis.

You guys. Living with me during the school year, is like living with a teenage boy.

I suppose its a good thing she's moving in during the summer! 

Its Thursday...!

Sung to the first verse of “Friday” by Rebecca Black
You have to sing this in monotone, otherwise it doesn’t work out.

Great Smokey Mountains - Pic from last weekend

7am, waking up in the morning
Gotta be fresh, gotta get out of bed,
Gotta let the dogs out, gotta do my hair,
Gotta get dressed, gotta feed the pooch(es)
Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal
Though never really even eat cereal
Gotta make a list of what I have to do to day
Seein’ everything, the time is goin’
Tickin’ on and on, everybody’s rushin’
Gotta get down to my car
Gotta drive to work, Gotta do my work
Gotta get home, gotta wash my car, and exercise my dogs...

Its Thursday, Thursday, gotta down on Thursday......
…...

Have I annoyed anyone yet? Anyone at all?
Well, that was a waste of time..

Needless to say, I have another busy weekend ahead, and it doesn’t look like this will be slowing down anytime in the near future. To be honest, I’m glad. While there are days when I enjoy my “carefree” lifestyle, it’s been a real drag at times..

So lots of pictures from this weekend coming up? I sure hope so!

Happy 4th of July!- School House Rock

Happy Fourth! No big plans over here other than surviving the day. I've got several dogs to take care of so most of my day will be spent doing that, and playing with my own pups.
I hope you all enjoy your three day weekend celebrating this great country we live in!





Wooo! There's going to be FiRee WOrrks! :) 

Daily Randomness By Erin

• Lebron James has an animation series!?!? #randomthingsfoundonYouTube 
• Rob just dumped his water bowl on the carpet. Thanks little dude. 
• Still recovering from my "wild" weekend of gardening. #aching 
• I'm probably about to do something I'll regret. 
• Ok so I decided to NOT do the thing I would probably have regretted later. 
• Cause they are! RT @aThumper Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and they consider the politicians as a joke. 
•  RT @GuidePupRob twitpic.com/4jpywc - all this training stuff sure tires a guy out! 

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Randomness to the 'nth degree

• Taking a break from doing laundry and cleaning my refrigerator.
• The fun I have on weekends is ..... something. I just can't think of the word at the moment
• Soooooo tired.
• I think I'm going to abstain from caffeine for the next month. Haven't had a good nights rest in months!

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Weekend. What a Weekend!

Sunday was the adventurous day. Every year on labor the city of..um.well where I live, puts on one of the largest firework displays in the country synched to music. The downtown area attempts to squeeze over 400,000 people on their streets and roads, to watch this display. After church let out for the evening, my friends and I changed clothes and drove down there as well. 

400,000 people +  finding parking = not so much. We finally spotted a parking garage that looked empty and zipped in, congratulating ourselves on our genius in spotting this garage. We found ourselves a spot to watch everything, and settled in. Well the place we'd pick was less than ideal as we soon found out, since we were standing up by the bridge, where the display was being shot, we couldn't see the fireworks in the water or off the side of the bridge.  Which was sad, cause I love the waterfall of fireworks going of the side. 

And because we were where we were,(heehee) we couldn't hear the music that was being broadcasted on the other side of the bridge. *sigh* So we saw this guy and snuck up behind him, and listen the best we could to the music coming out of his cheap little radio. *one our local radio stations hosted the event so the played the music collage over their station.* About halfway through they noticed what we were doing I think, and starting acting um well like boys who think girls are paying attention to them. Dumb in other words. ;) 

As soon as it was over, we all dashed for the car, making sure we had a firm hold of my friends 9yo neice. Once in the car, we were telling our driver for the evening to go back the way we came out, since we had driven in the exit, on accident. However she had other plans, and went in the opposite direction, which landed us smack in the middle of where "everyone else" had parked. 


We literally sat for about 40-45 minutes before traffic started moving. We had to do something to keep ourselves from dying of boredom, so my sister Kristen and Rebekah's niece Kimber and I did a couple Chinese Fire Drills, much the amusement of our fellow people stuck in the garage and to ourselves of course. I consoled myself with the thought most of them probably thought I was 16 anyway. 


Then we all went to Sonics for "real ice cream". ::Grins:: We were almost home, when I get a call from a friend or ours, whose children make an appearance on my blog from time to time, and whom I've baby-sat for several times. Any baby no. 5 was due last week, and we've all been waiting impatiently for her arrival. 


Apparently between the time church let out and booms day celebration she'd gone into more intense labor had already dilated 7cm and wanted to know if I wanted to come up and photograph the baby as soon as she was born. It was already 1130pm, and since I didn't have to work the next day, Rebekah, Kimber and I decided to sit up and wait for Baby T to make her appearance. And wait we did. Around 12:45AM I texted Michael to see how things were progressing, the midwife texted back telling us she'd been at 9 cm at 12:15 and everything was progressing nicely. I had to laugh, what a great midwife. :) 


Around 1:15am the midwife texted us and let us know to expect a baby within the hour, so I finished cleaning my bathroom, and woke up Rebekah and Kimber so we could head out to the birthing center. When we arrived, we texted Micheal to let them know we were there, and the midwife came in and led us to the family waiting room area. 


An hour later, we heard the tiny cries of an angry newborn, being thrust into a brand new bright world. It was about 30 minutes before we could go see them, but she exercised her lungs throughly during that time!!! Despite being the oldest of six, I have never been able to hold a brand-spanking-new baby, so I was pretty much speechless while holding her tiny little body. 


Her she is Miss Lydia Grace - Born at 2:52AM September 6, 2010 - Weight: 8lbs 13.5oz Height 19.5 inches. You'll be seeing a lot of her in the future I am sure. :) We left the center, tired, jacked up on caffeine but happy to be a part of the beginning of a new little life. 

I also discovered why photographers turn photos black and white. You don't know how badly the lighting was in this photo! bwahahahahaha

And that was my Labor Day. :) I didn't go to bed until like 5AM, so you can guess how I spent the majority of the daylight hours.

Peaceful.

Excuse me while I cry at how uneventful my weekend has been. I know I'm probably jinxing myself, but after the stress of last week, I really needed to do absolutely nothing (read: clean my house and prepare for next week) today.

And I did, I got up around 8:36AM due my furbabies needing to potty. All at the same time, I decided to try and be productive, and sorted my clean laundry, dumped the dirty laundry and fed the dogs. All before climbing back into bed and sleep for another three hours.

So technically I didn't sleep late, but took a early morning nap! :) We just lazed around, "played outside", read through blog post after blog post and in a few minutes my baby-sitting charges will be arriving.

Always a little stressful with my dogs, as they aren't used to smaller children, but they all survived last week, and we can do it again.

School starts in two weeks.

I'm already dreading Monday.

July 17, 2010

{11:30AM}

{12:00PM}

{1:30PM}

{3:30PM}

{4:30PM}

{11:15PM}

{12:00AM}

I think I like Monday's

Give me a couple weeks and I might be able to tell you why.

The Weekend
My weekend starts on Fridays at 10:35AM.
An awesome feeling.
Pompei and I decided to check out a local dog park,and he had a blast...for the 10 minutes we were there. I had some shopping to do, and can't afford to bring a wet dirty puppy into stores. (We are not allowed to leave them in our vehicles)

We then went to Wal-Mart and Hobby Lobby so I could get some more of those metal dresses; and then headed to Mckay's Bookstore for the next hour or so.
Poor Pomp was completely exhausted after all this.

Or so I hoped.

Later on I met my friends at our favorite hangout/study and we stayed there for a while.

Saturday, my sister disappeared with the car for 4 hours.
I'm starting to understand how a parent feels, I was biting some serious nailage waiting for the car  her to arrive home in one piece. (She's only been driving solo for about a month or so, and does not have a cell phone).
When the scuffed and hub-cap-less vehicle turned into my driveway, I knew my suspicions had been correct. Now I love my sister but...how shall I say this... observation of things about her, isn't a strong suit of hers. In other words...she doesn't know where she's going for the most part. 
When I talked to her, Friday we'd discussed where she was going to go, and how long she'd be gone. (Hey when you're the oldest of six, you tend to take on some "mothering" qualities, plus I really need that car to stay intact for at least the next few months.)

Well, being 18 she decided to make her own plans, and visit a library that neither she, nor I had visited. (She's also obsessed with the library) Well...she really wasn't paying attention to her directions, and left the house headed the wrong way.
And somehow managed to drive about an hour away from her course; thankfully some kind soul gave her directions back..which she did, but not before running the car off the road.

Thankfully no...permanent.... damage to the car was sustained.
And Robyn was fine too.

Did I mention I'm adopting all my kids when they are 20?

I'm thankful there wasn't a steep drop off or telephone pole in the way.

Sunday - Did my second ever photo shoot with a family from our church. A Nerve racking experiment for me, but one of my biggest critiques viewed them, and said they liked them... so gives me hope the family will like them as well. There's a reason why I want to be  pet photographer...they dont' have opinions. haha.
Then I took the dogs to a park, we all sweated our heads off, came home took a nap before getting ready for the evening service at church.

So yes, very uneventful but pleasant. My favorite kind! :)

I have no words...

I really don't.
I am sooooo tired.
All I've done today was write, and not blog post but this paper that I need to turn in Monday.
I've done more than that, but it FEELS as if all I've done, was read, write, cite and edit.
I am so not confident in this paper, but I'm just sooooo tired of working on it.
I'm really past caring what the grade is.
S'what I get for procrastinating.
I can't help it. REALLY.


Um.......


Actually I've gotten quite a lot of other homework done.
C,R, their niece, mother and I went too see a play last night.
Anyone read Ramona Quimby when they were younger?
This play was based off the first book in the series Beverly Clearly wrote.
It was very cute, and I got in free!
Despite feeling achy I had fun.


Today I was sort of stuck at home, since my dad and sister took the car, and then C left on some long shopping venture, then H & R both took off, which left my parents van...(15 passenger) and I HATE driving that boat. So the dogs and I spent lots of time between outside and in. I do like being able to do homework outside, its just so much more fun that way.

I attempted to recreate O'Charley's Loaded Baked Potato soup....but something back fired, I have this thing against following recipes to the letter..and well lets just say sometimes its good to follow recipes.
I'll try it again later.

C brought one of her co-workers home, to help her paint our kitchen. They got everything turn apart, and will start painting next week. We agreed to let her redo the kitchen, with help from me of course, and I'll take care of the bathroom makeover..and we'll both work on the living room.

I'm going to go get something to eat, so I'll leave you guys with some photos from this week:

Monday

{Pompei in front of the drink machines at school, gotta get in my daily dose of caffinee.}

Tuesday

{Pompei and one of the kids from church, he was a little frustrated that Pompei wouldn't chase the object}

{Neighbor H made these yummy pasteries and brought them over for me too try them}

Thursday

{My attempt to brighten up a very dreay day}

Friday

{Bubbles hanging out on the couch after a walk}

 

{Pompei poses as a reluctant flower}

Saturday

{Texas enjoying the sunshine}

{Before Pics of the Kitchen}

{C & whomever she's recruited to help her, will be painting the cabinets white and one day hopefully we'll get a stove!}

Last Weekend

Life is back in the slow lane again, and it feels sooo good!! But anyways, had one of the funnest, wettest, busiest weekends...Saturday rather. 

Normally after camp meeting we have a big picnic with all of our out of town guests. The weather stations had been reporting rain, rain, rain all day Saturday, but some of us...ok me, was very optimistic that it would be beautiful day.

Needless to say my hopes were squashed at the sound of pounding rain in the morning. Which immediately made me decide that Ira would need to sit out this picnic, (which was to go on rain or shine) After waiting about an hour after it was scheduled to start, we loaded up on umbrellas and towels, and headed out in the rain.

Which was still POURING DOWN. Everyone was huddled under shelter, eating, talking and having a great time.

Eventually some decided that a little water wouldn't hurt them and dove outside to play volleyball. While we (smart ones) stayed under the shelter and watched the park turn into a lake...or a ratha large pond.

Once everyone was throughly water logged, we made plans to do something INSIDE later, and I split for work.

Two hours later was on my way to Gatlinburg TN, to go Ice Skating!! I have never been, but used to roller-blade Alllll the time. It took some getting used to the thin blade of the skate but once I did, it was fun!

Once they kicked us off the ice...(they were closing) we all walked around the Bass Pro Shop...massive all things camping-fishing-hunting-store......it had Starbucks..:)

I headed home ASAP as I was seriously dragging and my dogs had suffered another day crated, so I went home exercised them and crashed.

A Great day IMO.

Restful Weekend?

I don't think I've ever had one of those....all of last year I spent most weekends working. And before that I was a homeschooler, so there wasn't much to differentiate the weekend from the rest of the week.

Now that I am working during the week, and do have weekends off, I finally understand what all the hype is about.

So what do I do to make my weekend restful?
Yep that's right. Clean.

I have decided to use my weekends to prepare for the next week, and what better way than to start with a clean house? I think i ts a great way, it makes me feel accomplished when I'm done, and I can start the week, with clean clothes, a clean house, and (if they need it) clean dogs.

This week...at least one need a baath, and so he was hauled into the tub, scrubbed, and sent outside to dry.

{Who me dirty?!? Noooo!}

Since I normally don't have the house too messy, I found how much I have to clean varies, and normally every two weeks I'll Deeeeeeep clean. And Mop, and do mounds of Laundry, etc.

And than I can organize myself for the next week. Sunday I normally am writing out to-do lists for the next week.

So when Monday comes around I'm all set to go to work again!

Perfect way to spend a weekend IMO.

How do you spend yours?