Yay!!!!

I am sooooo excited about Sarah Palin!

All this time I was sure that McCain would choose a VP that would be pro-life, but wouldn't be outspoken about it... boy was I wrong!!!

Finally!



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin

Praying

I worked 1/2 day yesterday and attended the prayer service to begin the 40 Days for Life. I think all went according to plan, and the weather was pleasant, the people very sweet, and everything went beyond my expectations. I will have some good pics soon.

I can not wait to leave work today and get back!

Oh, I forgot to say that last weekend, on our way to the reunion, I got my first ever ticket in Georgia! I was in the passenger seat and had the seat belt tucked under my arm.. a $15 citation, can you believe it?!
Then last night I was stopped at a sobriety checkpoint near the state line, but this time my seat belt was on correctly :-)

Big Day Tomorrow

Tomorrow the 40 Days for Life prayer vigil kicks off, and I have been making tons of phone calls and emails recruiting volunteers.
I am really excited about it, even though it might be a little soggy outside!
I am taking my camera and will be there most of my free time from tomorrow thru Labor Day, so don't expect too much posting from me!

http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_133915.asp

Lackluster Saturday

The best part of Saturday was my Sister and I doing our bi-weekly estate sale/yard sale route. We ate breakfast at Shoneys and hit the road early!

After all of that sale-shopping (buying nothing, as usual) I came home and took a nap. I had been up since 5 a.m. and knew I would be up way past my bedtime.

The buffet was finger-foody, the music was annoyingly loud to where we couldn't hold decent conversations, and it took them 2 hours to start the slideshow!
Oh well!







We ended the night at Applebee's and made it to the car by midnight.







This is Michael's "disappointment" face of our High School reunion.

Finally able to announce....

That Chattanooga will be participating in the 40 Days for Life campaign!

It begins on Wed, 8/27 and I will be captaining week 1, it is too exciting!!!


Read the announcement here!

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Official 40 Days for Life campaign site

Chattanooga Matters

Pro-Life Majority Coalition of Chattanooga

Wishing for the camera

Wednesday was fairly normal. Matthew got stung by a bee and had to go to the doctor's office and get a shot. We went shoe shopping.
This morning we dropped the dry cleaning off around 7:45 and then we went to his sleep Dr.'s office and he was prescribed a new type of sleep mask, so we headed down to the medical supply place for him to pick it up, be fitted, and learn all about the new mask.
I wish I had brought the camera because the view from the Dr.'s office was awesome.
I made it in to work by lunch, after a morning of waiting rooms.

Already Wednesday!

Last night Matthew and I treated ourselves to a great dinner out.
We stopped by the store and picked up a few essentials, and then I headed off to visit with my Mom and Aunt a few minutes away.

A great thing that happened yesterday was the lady from the Georgia family/children's services called us back and we should have a lot of info. in the mail today.

They are having an orientation on 9/9 and I can not wait to find out more!!

sanctimony

Just a quick note on being sanctimonious.

Today has been a real illustration on drama, both personal and in the workplace. I thank the Lord my life is relatively unaffected by all of the foolishness.


Thoughts for the day... (mixed bag)
Please sit quietly at your own desk and maybe you might actually get some work done.
Stop whining.
Enablers are just as much to blame, and even if you're children are "adults" you still have the duty above anything else to protect them.
Go to church!

So much drama going on around my family and my workplace.


Okay, I am done!

Well, I finally got "the men" to fix my car, 2 serpentine belts later and my car is back in service.


This is my Mother's cat, which my nephew named Ammo. He is such a cutie!



Matthew came home and took the dog out in the rain.



My weekend was awful, a fitting end to a really bad week. I am finally starting to feel better, but I really do think I caught a stomach bug somewhere in the middle of all of the "female" issues.
We worked hard on the house this weekend and did some really deep cleaning. Matthew cleaned out the gutters and they were so clogged!
This week my intention is to get geared up for a big weekend, with the HS reunion and all.

From Chestnut Street to the World!!!!

Playing with Google StreetView today!
I looked up all my friends/family/coworkers houses and how cool is this thing?!?!
My house is on there but it has the wrong address, 1232 Chestnut Street 30741. It has the for sale sign up. Must have been taken last spring.
I like to see the people on the sidewalks, too. There is one in front of Matthew's apartments.. "hello!" I say to him.

My site has become increasingly viewed by Europeans, just this morning I have had multiple visitors from :
UK
Switzerland
Germany
Slovakia
Denmark
and they all have came from Robbie Williams searches, lol. YaY Robbie fans!
Good afternoon, Europe!!


I still feel crappy, but it is hard to be blue when the weekend is only a few hours away!!

Happy Holy Day

Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Today's readings.

Been Sick

No updates in a while, been feeling crummy.
My days have been work, home, couch, playing dominoes with Matthew.
This weekend we are going up to my parents to get my car fixed (they have to install a new serpentine belt).
I am sure I will have some funny pictures soon!
I finished my book, Alice at Heart, and it was really great.

Boo!!! to WB for pushing back the new Harry Potter movie 8 months from the original scheduled date. They are getting my bad voo-doo vibes today. grrrrrr.

A good thing, no?

Well, I was home early second day in a row. Cramps have completely whipped my butt this time around.I refused to take the Provera, and just stayed on my double dose Metformin. Lets just hope it is the stronger meds doing it to me, and not just a fluke. We will know by next month, anyhow.
Not much going on. Napping, medicating, napping some more.
Here are some pics from Toodles' walk, looking up underneath the magnolia tree, fat cats occupying my chair, a filty car with baked-on berries, Wader asleep inside my shoe, and if you look at the one down my street, the red people at the far end of the road are middle school football players. Toodles gets freaked out at all of their whistle-blowing!

Pain, and relief.

Cramps. Bad Cramps. Feel awful, can't move.
Taking a muscle relaxer, here are some pics of us yesterday watching the Olympics at Michael's apt. and me being lazy at home.

400th post, change of plans

I left work early today to run errands and spruce up the house.
It was an absolutely gorgeous day to run around with the windows down, and I did! Toodles and I ran errands, went to the Battlefield, and to the Post Office. He is a good riding buddy.
Matthew went on call tonight. We had just sat down at Shoney's and placed our drink order when he was paged out for a water leak! We got the drinks to go (free!) and headed out. It took him all of 15 minutes to be finished once we arrived, and we ate dinner at Southern's in Red Bank, yum!




An exciting bit of news is that we will be contacting the Ga. Dept. of Children's Services next week to set up our first "on the road to adoption" interview! YaY.
I am so excited, and Matthew is excited in his own way.. lol. Once he figured out there were classes, and a 6-18 month wait, he didn't freak out so much. What, did he think they were just going to leave a baby on the doorstep and drive off?!?!

Hahaha.

This will be interesting. I hope we can hurry and take the classes so we can begin to change our frame of mind.. to becoming parents!

:-)

Have a great weekend everyone!

Getting Older, hopefully wiser.

Here is Matthew and Toodles, settled in for the evening after taking a walk. I'm not sure that Toodles really likes to watch MASH, but Matthew thinks it's "bonding".

Geez. Is this what I really look like from day to day? I'm going to have to start looking like my 28 yr. old self soon and get some make-up! Oh, look at my new camera.. sweet!

Here are the bunk beds my in-laws gave to us.. they are awesome!

Wader is feeling rather pissy today, no reason.



Okay, so news of the week will be our forthcoming 10 year class reunion. I know of about, um, 3 people that will for sure be attending. So many of my friends said no, or couldn't find the time or money.
Michael and I were of the same mindset, which was that we couldn't stand to NOT be there, so we sent in our money.
I am not sure why they aren't having it at the actual school, I thought that's what was normal in these events. Oh well.
10 years.
We are all older.
I feel older.
Enough of this, I am going to go get ready for Big Brother Eviction NIght!!! WooHOO.. Yeah, lame.

Slow Wednesday

This is Wader in an ethereal mood.





I came home early and watched DVR-ed Saving Grace and Monk, played with the dog, went and bought groceries, etc.
I began reading The Hours and finished up watching A Good Year.
Matthew came home and made spaghetti!!!
I followed the animals around and got some pics.

Can you spot the other shoe?!?! Yes, massive Wader likes to prop herself up on our shoes!

I finished the night with a large sink-full of dishes, whew!

Finally, we get pics.

Here Patchey is inspecting the baseboards after she discovered the nick on the one behind her.

I caught Wader grooming and she is very annoyed.

Toodles is sacked out in his spot after the Battlefield excursion tonight.

Nermal is in the kitchen stealing dog food.



Last night......

Toodles smiles!

Nermal is peeved we have company over.

Matthew, being Matthew :-)

Michael trying to pose with an uncooperative canine!

Uh-Huh

BTW, there is a trailer up at www.startrekmovie.com, and the forum boards are humorous.

Praying for Sanity

.. which would be an excellent blogger address for a new, ranting blog.. but I can barely maintain this one, so I "gift it" to the world.
Matthew and I (mostly I) have been watching a lot of Clean House on the Style Network. If you've seen that show, you will realize how they have completely added "gift it" to our lexicon. I mean, I have absolutely NO problem de-cluttering and throwing out or donating the entirety of our house several times a year, but to be rewarded for stubbornness.. Sheesh!
So, anytime someone wants to "gift me" a flat panel TV just for being me, I'm okay with that!
:-)
Today work has been a battle. Incessant waffling and whining, and not from our side of it!
I am filling my prescription tonight for Provera, amongst a little bit of animosity.
I have carried this prescription in my purse for well over a month now, really denying it's purpose.
Provera is a medicine to kick-start your cycle, for those of us who have months or years in between ours. It is a hormone, and everything you read says it puts you in the "mother of all PMS moods" for over a week!
It is prescribed for fertility in order to get your cycle going so you can start the Clomid regimen.
I have gone to the double-my-original-strength Metformin and still no cycle. I've taken pee-stick tests and no baby. I've had two separate Dr.s tell me there is no baby, take the medicine.
PCOS makes you irregular in your cycles.
But PCOS isn't all physical, there is a huge part of it that is emotionally linked to your almost daily chant of, "Am I fixing to start? Am I pregnant?" because you literally don't know from one day to the next if "today's the day" to go out and buy tampons, or if you should opt for a pee-stick-test.
And even those tests cast doubt because there are dozens of documented PCOS sufferers who manage to test negative on even the most sensitive tests until they are well into their 2nd trimester.
But, the longer you wait, the longer you feel like going crazy.

It is this constant attack of emotions and uncertainty that makes you a basket case.
And so, when the Dr. prescribes you something to actually induce a period, you cringe and think about it for over a month, because with each new day you just might spontaneously start or find out you're pregnant.
It really is exhausting.
:-(

Movie Night

Watching a movie .... friends came over!
No rest for the weary!
For some reason blogger is giving me internal errors when trying to post pics, so I will try in the morning. Sheesh!

A Busy & Rewarding Weekend

Saturday I got up at 5 a.m. and had Nero bathed and brushed out in Fort Oglethorpe. He was such a great dog, and very trusting with everyone!
I was able to get the below-mentioned camera as a joint B-day effort by Matthew and his parents, and it is much appreciated and I totally love it.
We went up to visit my parents, sister, and nephew in Sale Creek. We had a great dinner and brought home my nephew to spend the night! Matthew saw Batman and my nephew and I saw Mummy 3.
We had a great time shopping at Wal-Mart past midnight and staying up late, and my nephew seemed to enjoy the bunkbeds. We made it to bed around 1 a.m.
Sunday morning my sister came by at 6:50 a.m. and my nephew woke up and mowed the grass for us. We had breakfast and then they left for home.
We cleaned up a little, took naps, and brushed out Nero.
We met my coworker around 4:30 and Nero did great! I took one last shot of him with Matthew, and it was a great photo!


Today I am tired!

Birthday, 28 in 2008!

It is a Friday this year, 5 weeks from today.
The three things I want for my birthday (Sept. 5th!):

1.) A Weekend of no chores. That's right, a weekend of NO chores. Since the preceeding weekend is Labor Day 3 day weekend, I want to get my house pristine and challenge Matthew, the dog, and cats to not mess it up until the following Monday!

2.) Normally I want a vanilla or red velvet cake, but this year
I'm hoping for a nice moist German Chocolate. Yum!

3.) The dreaded digital camera. Since giving my precious v503 to my mom and then failing to find a suitable upgrade, I am hoping that Matthew can surprise me with a camera (my only requirement is a Kodak) I will once again adore.. and fill my blog with pics!

Getting ready for the weekend!

Finally, made it to Friday and I am so glad for this weekend to get here!
Saturday we are taking the dog to get groomed, and going up to my parent's house for a visit.
Sunday we are delivering Nero to his new home, and getting our house back to normal!