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Confessions of snooooow

Okay so I have a confession to make...

I HEART Walgreens!!!

I have been there probably MORE than a handfull of times in just this past week!!! Seriously, yesterday, I went there twice. And I really didn't even go for more than one thing. But we all know how that works out. You go in for one thing, you come out with, oh maybe 5+ things!!! I could shop there EVERY SINGLE DAY if I let myself, but then we wouldn't have any money...'cause I wouldn't put it past myself to buy one of everything in that store! It's hard. I have to tell myself NO sometimes when I think about going there. It's one of my many addictions!!!

Oh and we got MORE snow!!! These pics are actually from Tuesday morning. We got a couple of inches over night on Monday. But last night...I was waiting for my Mister to get home...falling asleep on the couch and when I got up to get into bed, I looked outside and saw the cars covered by about an inch of MORE SNOW!!! Arghghgh....how frustrating...I just want it to get warmer outside. It looks like my wishes may come true. I just heard on the radio that on Sunday it's supposed to rainy and a high of 50 DEGREES!!! That is awesome...well, not the rain part...I can bet you I will have a headache that day! Ick!!!

IT'S THE WEEKEND!!!! WOO HOO!!!

Ears Noses and Throats

Well, I went to the Ear Nose and Throat Doc today...I left there very frustrated and disappointed! I was literally almost in tears. I have had 2 to 3 sinus infections in the past 6 months. I get headaches frequently and believe them to be sinus. Most recently, I have had burning and drainage in my nose and ears. This doctor told me nothing, basically. My appointment literally lasted about 5 minutes AND I got NOTHING out of it. I wasn't 'looking' for meds or anything, but I was expecting something! He looked through my ears, nose and mouth. He told me that he thinks I'm having frequent migraines and suggested that I see a neurologist. I just felt like it was a waste of my time and co-pay money. Not to mention, I had to go to the Lake Forest location, rather than the Grayslake one. I felt like I was on a college campus. I also felt like he was judging me or something. He kept just eyeing me. Ughgh...it was just so frustrating. I KNOW I have sinus problems and he tells me nothing...am I being ridiculous here? I just feel more confused now than before. Frustrating!!!

Nothing much to post...

I'm sorry that I haven't posted in a couple days. Well, I'm not sure who I'm saying sorry to...because I only know of 2 people that regularly read my blog. And to those who do....well I double apologize because I'm not sure if I'm entertaining you or boring you!

Let's see, we got some more snow on Monday night. It was supposed to be an accumulation of up to 10 inches, but we got lucky and only got about 4...woo hoo! I have a new outlook on snow now though. My current theory is, we live in the Midwest and it's winter...deal with it! Right?!?! I mean, IT IS the Midwest. If you really hate snow and winter that much, them maybe this is not the right locale for you! Of course, I say this now that I have 4wd! Ask me last year and I'd hate it too! I really think that has A LOT to do with it!

Our treadmill is still not put together. It is one step further though, it made it's way up the stairs and into our living room! That's a good thing, right?! Thanks bunches to my future BIL. He came over and help my Mister carry it inside...all the while I was working! Just thought I'd update you some. Plus, I'm trying to burn through the last couple of minutes work!

Hopefully more to come tomorrow! Ciao!

We got a treadmill (and a new bookcase too!)

Isn't that fan-freakin-tastic?! Well, I surely think it is! I went and picked it up yesterday...now it's just a matter of getting it out of the car, up the 3 sets of stairs at the apartments and...PUTTING IT TOGETHER!!! Ahhhhhhh!!! I have a feeling the latter part will be not to pleasant. For what it's worth, I already apologized in advance to the Mister...you know, in case I get a little out of hand. You see, I like to put things together and often times think my way is the right way. I'm kind of a freak for perfection. Said times are always resolved, we understand eachother :) Can't wait to start getting in shape! Woo hoo! We also have a new addition to our 'furniture collection'. We slowly but surely building our happy home, well, we already have a happy home, but you know what I mean. It makes the living room look more filled in and less insane asylum, white walled living space.

That's all.

A little dose of optimism

Mason got a haircut

BEFORE (long hair...this pic doesn't do him justice...he looked like a hippy!)

AFTER (above and below)

He doesn't look too happy, huh?! Well, he got dropped off at the groomer's (Shear Paradise Pet Salon & Spa) yesterday morning. The gal had to basically grab him to make him go back because he was hiding behind his mommy's legs! He is such a momma's boy! But I LOVE that place because instead of keeping the dogs in cages before and after their haircuts, they just let them stay out on the floor and play with eachother. So it's like a doggy day care for the day too! He got to play with all of the other doggies. He, however, wasn't anymore tired or worn out at night...still wanted to play! He smells better than the dirty dog smell, but the baby powder smell that he has now...ughgh...it kind of makes me sick when I smell it too much! His daddy picked him up and he had a cute little bandana on him...I had to take it off...it was bothering me!

TGIF!!! IT'S THE WEEKEND!!!!

One word answers

Because I don't have anything to really blog about today, here you are!
I'll give you something to think about for tomorrow...Mason (the pooch) went to the groomer today for a haircut...



feeling: STUFFY
thinking about: FACE
your family history: UNFINISHED
the last person you had "words" with: DEALER (WORK...PARENTHESIS DON'T COUNT!)
want to fly away to: JAMAICA (NOW!)
hate the sight of: DIRT
the sport whose players turn you on: FOOTBALL
favorite color ink: BLACK
american idol judge who irritates you most: PAULA (CRAZY!)
place you thought monsters hid when you were little: BED
favorite spice or herb: GARLIC/DILL
what you like for breakfast: CEREAL
your living room couch: OURS
most recent purchase: LCDFLATSCREEN42INCHTVHA!
hours you typically sleep on weeknights: EIGHT
something you dislike: PAIN
favorite color: SAGEGREEN
your snack when willpower is nonexistent: CHOCOLATE
your bedsheets: DIRTY
the part of your face you scrunch most often: BETWEENEYEBROWS
the last thing you thought was funny: MASON
what you're going to do now: WORK






HAVE A FABULOUS NIGHT!

(I think) I'm addicted to caffeine

Well, this may not come as much of a shock to you Zizi...seeing as my mom drinks about, oh I don't know, 5+ cups a day of this stuff! I, on the other hand, don't think I drink as much. I do LOVE my coffe in the morning and it just doesn't seem right if I don't have it. I only have 2 cups in the morning and then, occassionally, one at night, if we decide to make some. Now, this being said....last week, I started to get a headache at work and got a pop for some caffeine, just to see if that would work...and IT DID!!! I don't know if this is because of caffeine or not...but it kind of worried me. I thought to myself, I don't usually 'crave' caffeine, but I also don't want to be dependant on it!!! So I don't know...but I do know that I don't want to give up my morning coffee!!!

On a side note...I have been having 'issues' with my mouth! I have been getting tightening of my jaw. I am trying to do some research and it keeps coming up as TMJ. All of the reading that I've done doesn't exactly pin point how to get rid of it. So I went out and bought a stupid mouthpiece to wear to bed. In the directions, it says that aside from the mouthpiece, it wants you to focus on 'mouth closed-teeth open'. I have been 'practicing' this all day yesterday and it helped a bit. I just don't get it though...it is so frustrating and I want it to go away!!! I don't know why it is happening and I don't know which doctor to go to...the dentist or the doctor. Plus, I'm sure talking all day at work does not help one bit!!!

Any suggestions? Does anyone you know have this, or do you?

please...HELP ME!!!!!

The little miss got a haircut

Today, Miss A came over for a visit. I have been meaning to trim her hair for so long, and well, it happened today. She agreed right away...which was amazingly odd! The best part...she let me straigten her hair! She looked too cute and WAY too old! She's going to be a heartbreaker when she gets older! To those of you who don't know, the little miss is my niece.

The haircut begins...

BEFORE (her naturally curly hair)

AFTER...isn't she beau-t-ful?! Do you notice that look of tears on her face... This little miss is an anal one. She worries normally about her 'flyaways' and always puts too much mousse in to 'tame' them. She was in tears before she saw herself in the mirror because she claimed that her hair was 'too frizzy'! Wow...at five she's already worrying about that, can you believe it?!

She quickly got over that though...she would NOT stop staring at herself in the mirror.

We decided to put it half up for her birthday party that she was going to. She got a 'pampering day' over at our house...I also painted her finger nails AND bought her a Disney Princess watch...she must have been in heaven!

Just a fun little pic...hanging out!

We had to get 'ole Mason in the picture with us.

Oh and we watched High School Musical Two again. And now I have that darn song stuck in my head! It won't go away! Too cute!

Happy Valentine's Day!

mmm...don't these look good?!

Happy Valentine's Day to you all!

Nothing all too special goings on here in our neck of the woods. The high today is supposed to be 38 degrees! This is so exciting, considering it's been in the negatives. The sun isn't out like it was yesterday though, so it doesn't look very enticing here. My Mister is making me din~din tonight, but this isn't for any special occasion (I have been blessed with this AWESOME gift ever since I started working later hours...isn't he just THE BEST?! I definitly think so!).

You see...I don't really think that big of Valentines Day. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate it whatsoever. And I'm not going to throw a fit if The Mister got me flowers or a gift or anything for that matter...but I'm also not going to throw a fit if he didn't. In my opinion, I'd rather pick a random date out of a hat and have that be our special day for eachother, rather than have the same day that everyone else is joyously in love over (or the opposite, if you don't have anyone, and all depressed. Which I think is silly!).

OOOHHH...and for the men out there who think that V-Day is a woman's holiday, and think they don't have their own. Well, do I have something for you HERE...

***i will put a disclaimer on this one though...if you are easily apalled, DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT go to this website. FYI...this is only because the day is called STEAK AND BJ DAY. Some gal called in on the morning show I was listening to this morning and was going on about it...too funny!

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!

Finally!

YAY!!! It's finally over! The writers strike that is! You can check out the story HERE.

Finally! I am sooo excited about this, as you can obviously tell! I miss all of my shows and I can't wait until they start airing again. Most missed shows include the following; Grey's Anatomy, The Office, and I can't remember them all! Oh I simply cannot wait! And now I'll get to watch them on our NEW TV! Woo hoo!

New kicks

My Mister got me some new kicks! I love them and think they are sooo cute! I am really into flats right now. They just seem to be the most comfortable. These are Sketchers. Me likey!

P.S. Thanks lover!

One of my pet peeves

In our apartment building, they have guidelines (in the handbook) stating that nothing is to be left outside of your door (in the hallways). This includes garbage, shoes, etc. The second floor seems to have a problem with this rule. As you can see in the pic below, they put ALL of their shoes out there. There has been multiple bags of garbage, huge rugs and MORE! I personally think it looks trashy and makes the building look like garbage. I understand with the snow and all that you wouldn't want wet shoes inside, but you're living here...FOLLOW THE RULES! Put a small rug right inside your door and put your shoes there, for cryin' out loud!

See the difference? This is our floor, it's looks so nice and clean and pretty! That's how it's supposed to look, people!

A few highlights from our weekend

1. This cute little lady spent the morning with us. She is so cute and LOVES glitter... She also LOVES make up now too...already?! She knows where her Auntie keeps her make up and always makes it a point to put some on each time, asking, "What's this for?" She even loves to stare at herself in the mirror after she puts on lip gloss! It's too cute! Of course, I have to let her...I am the Auntie and all!

After the aformentioned hang out with the little miss, me and my Mister ventured out to find our new tv. We only went to 2 stores and came home with this beaut! It's a 42" LCD HDTV flat screen tele! Then we had to come home and figure out how to arrange our livingroom. As much as the fireplace is AWESOME, it is just in the way. After an hour or two of tense-ness, we found a solution. We expanded our living room, by using our dining room. So now we have a bigger living room.

Sunday, as mentioned in the previous post was a wonderful day of R&R! Me and my future SIL went and had our manis, pedis, massages and facials. It was the BEST! My massage lady was AWESOME! The nail tech, on the other hand, was a different story. Very rude and butting her nose in on my life! Needless to say, she didn't get a great tip. Then I got to hang out with some of the best gals in the world, my friends. We had some fun and also some food. What a great way to cap off the weekend.

Hope your weekend was funfilled and relaxing!

My head hurts...

Oh boy...my head hurts! It has hurt since

Friday! It is a dull and achy ache and it won't go

away! Regardless of what I take, what I do...it's just

not going away. Nothing helps. I don't know what to do!

I don't think I have a fever...any suggestions on what it could be?

heeeeelpppp!

Ooh la spa

Just wanted to make ya'll jelous! Tomorrow me and

my future SIL are going to get manicures, pedicures,

massages and facials. I simply cannot wait! My lower

back is so sore right now, so I'm definitly looking forward

to that! What a nice and relaxing day! No reason for this

post really...just thought I'd share!

P.S. We got a new TV!!! I'll post more about that

later, along with some pics!

Got Snow?

We do...want some of it?!

I sometimes love to hate it

HOT SAUCE...any kind, you name it, I probably

hate it. Well, probably. I kind of like the Franks

Buffalo Sauce. And I'm a huge fan of Taco Bell's

Mild Sauce (although their food is sometimes a

different story). First off, I have a really weak

tolerance to spicy~ness (we're talking Big Red Gum

is spicy people!). Secondly, I just feel that if something

has too much spice in it, it just ruins the taste of the food.

I would rather not even eat it. It's a waste of calories

that I can't even taste!

Now, my Mister is completly different. You give him hot

sauce and I think he'd put it on anything! (Sorry babe!)

To each their own though!

Sometimes it is addicting though...you know,

the not so spicey kinds (Frank's Buffalo Sauce...mmm!)

100% SUV Gal

First things first...WE GOT A SNOW DAY AT WORK!!!

We got to leave at 2:30pm today. Let me tell you, it was

AWESOME!

Secondly, I have decided that I am an SUV drivin' kind of gal.

Mind you, I've had 'sedans' my whole driving life and I like me

a convertible or a cute little coupe (although I'm not a huge

fan of 2 door cars), but I've come to the realization that with my

current car (Jeep Liberty w/4wd) is the best option for me. Not

necesarily that kind of car, but the fact that it is bigger and has

FOUR WHEEL DRIVE! I am a huge fan of this feature. This is

the first car that I've had that has FWD. I HATED driving in snowy

or rainy weather prior to this. Now, I feel like I rule the world!

And I'm not one of those cocky FWD drivers out there

(okay, maybe occasionally, but that's only when I'm impatient).

I just feel more confidant driving and most importantly, not scared.

So, there you have it. I will make it a point to always have

FWD in my (or our) future cars...at least one of them!

Happy Snowing!

(Update...it's pretty much stopped. Now it's just being blown

around by the wind. Apparently we got 10 inches. And apparently

the truck that delivers the salt to our county got stuck on it's

way to make the delivery...hope it's fixed by the morning!)

P.P.S. Our power went out for about an hour tonight. And

the Mister is still my little sicky! I wanted to post a cute pic of him

in his sweats, with his hood up, all zipped up, lounging on the couch

all sickly...but I don't think he'd be having any of that.

Dear Winter

Oh Winter, how I hate to love you. While I love that silence you bring on those white snowy nights, I do not like how you make traffic stop and my head spin! You frustrate me when I think about how long my ride home will be, even though I live like 2 miles from work.



Don't get me wrong, Winter, you are so beautiful and peaceful. So graceful and white. I just wish you would pick a span of time and stick to it. No late in the season snows, pretty please? At least this year, and well maybe next?!

And P.S. Can you please not snow on our Wedding Day next year? Well, maybe a dusting to make it pretty, but no road hazards?!

(I'm knocking on wood now incase I just jinxed us!)

I Voted Today!

and I'm very proud of myself!

DID YOU?

Outlook: SNOOOOOWWWWW!!!

Well, boys and girls...ITS GONNA BE A SNOWY ONE!

As you can see from the weather report that I listed below,

courtesy of NOAA.GOV we're supposed to get somewhere around

4 to 12 inches of snow here in the Midwest! I don't mind it, but I'd

rather be sitting at home and not having to work in the mess!

Oh well! Good luck all!!!!

Tonight: Periods of snow with areas of blowing snow. The snow could be heavy at times. Low around 30. Windy, with a northeast wind between 20 and 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 4 to 8 inches possible.


Wednesday: Periods of snow with areas of blowing snow. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 30. Blustery, with a north northeast wind between 20 and 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches possible.

p.s. I'll keep you posted with pics!

Family Ho-down

Watch us and the kids really

woop it up!

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