Bryan turns the big THREE OHHH

I am so tired I cant even keep my eyes open, but I did want to share these pictures of the suprise party for Bryan's 30th birthday.

Times-They are a changing.....

My cheese is moving........
So, if you know me at all, you know I have worked nights at the APC for 2 years now. Go to work at 3:30 pm and get off at 11:30 pm. I have also been working 30 hours a week during the day at a gift shop downtown. That is all about to change.

I'm sitting in my cubicle at work a couple Tuesdays ago and all of the sudden this voice in my head (DO NOT LAUGH) told me I needed to transfer to the day shift. I'm thinkin "NO, I do not want to get up that early, NO I do not want to take a cut in pay, NO I do not want to leave my nighttime work friends. The voice says you have to go to days. WTF.......I have never wanted to go to days = WHY. No reason, just go to days. So at break I call Norman and see what he thinks (besides the fact that I'm crazy) - he says we'll tighten our belts but we can do it. Now, in the past, if someone requested to go to the day shift, it took weeks, months, or even longer. So, I'm thinkin, I'll request to go to days and maybe sometime next year I'll actually go. So back to my cubicle I go, I email my supervisor my request to transfer.

THE NEXT DAY, the supervisor's supervisor comes to me and says "so you want to go to days" - I'm like "yeah" and he says "WHEN" . OMG what do mean "WHEN" you mean I can go now - yep you can go now - OH NO. So I say I'll go in 2 weeks-gotta give the day job boss some notice to hopefully change my schedule so I can keep working downtown too.

OMG-I'm gonna have to get up at 5:45 AM, I must be crazy. I'm not a morning person, I cant smile in the morning, I cant be nice in the morning- what am I gonna do. Then I start thinkin, I'll be getting off work while it is still daylight - WOW. I'll get to watch my favorite shows (that I've missed for 2 years) - WOW. I'll get to see my husband more than 2 nights a week - WOW. Ok so some good with the bad. The very worst thing is that I have some of the greatest friends at work on the night shift and I am going to miss them terribly. But the good to that is that some of those wonderful people have gone to days in the past so I will get to see them now.

The day job, well it is down to just Saturdays for now-but that's ok, I will luxuriate in some time off. My Cheese is moving - big time.

Oh, if you're wondering about the picture of the sofa, it is for sale. Nina has two of them. Very retro/cool. She needs to downsize to just a love seat. Let me know if your interested. Have a wonderful day - This weekend is supposed to be RAIN FREE yeah!!!!!!!

Whew, its over

After weeks of getting ready, the yard sale/glassware sale is finally over. What a job. If I ever say I am going to have another one, somebody slap me please. Nina and I worked so hard getting it set up, we were exhausted when we shut the doors on Saturday. Wish we could have sold everything - but that never happens. The Salvation Army will be getting a chunk of the leftover yard sale stuff and I guess I'll take everyone's advice and start ebaying the glass ware.

So, I've decided to go to the day shift at work. That will be strange - getting up in the wee hours of the morning and getting off work while the sun is still shining. I'm excited. I just hope I can continue to work at my part time job - just in the evenings instead of the mornings- keeping my fingers crossed they can accommodate my new schedule.

It is a cold, rainy, depressing day here in Hot Springs. The kind of day you just want to stay curled up in bed under the covers but since I have some time, I better enter some Coke Codes. I've got a box of caps just waiting for me. Have a great day all.

Here I am

Hi folks, don't have a lot to talk about, been especially busy with Nina and with getting ready for the big garage sale and glass sale. I did get my camera - a Nikon D3000 and it is awesome. Here are some pictures:

Bubble time after Sunday Dinner, Connor loves to chase down the bubbles and pop them.

Nina's new tatoo. That's all I'm sayin

And my little Connor Monster. He's getting so big. Hope everyone is doing well. Take Care and we'll talk again soon.

Sundays

It's been a while - sorry. I've been busy. I've been depressed. I've been tired. I just haven't felt like talking to you all for a while. I'm still busy, tired and a tad depressed and right now I have a killer headache but we'll chat anyway. Some days, I just don't have time to hardly turn on my computer - but I do and I check my email and facebook wall every day.

Okay, so what's been happening here in the life and times of terri and her family. This past holiday weekend was nice. Spent lots of time with Nina. Bryan came down on Sunday and cooked for us - it was great. Had 3 nights off in a row - way nice. Had to work the days though. Below is a picture of the Connor monster and Bryan on Sunday after dinner. We always go outside and play after dinner. Pretty soon it will be dark at 5:00 pm and cold - so we are taking advantage of these wonderful Sunday evenings now.

The picture below is one I've been wanted to take for a while. Isn't it ironic that I have a cool little red car, my daughter has a cool little red car and Bryan has a cool little red car. I got mine first :)

Now, last weekend I got a huge surprise. As many of you know, we bought our house 2 1/2 years ago. It was new construction but the builder wouldn't let us make any decisions about the house. He already knew what he was going to do and he told me he would build me a beautiful house - which he did. One thing about this house that I would have changed - given the opportunity - is the paint color on the walls. The walls and ceilings everywhere (including the garage) are sage green. I am not a fan. One day while checking on the construction progress, we happen to be there the same day the painters where there and they hadn't painted the master bathroom or closet yet so I asked the painter if he could please just paint those two rooms white - he did. I had previously decided that I wanted my bathroom to be decorated in Aqua and Brown - so sage green just wasnt going to work. Since we moved in I have been looking for the perfect shade of aqua to paint the walls and finally found it in the latest issue of the Oprah magazine. I told Norman that this was what I wanted the walls painted in the master bathroom. LO AND BEHOLD I came home from work last Sunday and when I walked in the bathroom.................

This is what I saw. I was SHOCKED cuz Norman doesn't ever do anything like this as a surprise. So now I have my aqua bathroom and I'm gonna have to go buy more towels.

We are having a yard/garage sale the weekend of Friday & Saturday October 2 & 3. I hope this is the last yard/garage sale I ever have to have. I am also going to try to sell my vintage glassware -all 25 cases of it. Nina and I have been pulling out each piece, inspecting it and cataloging it - and she has been taking pictures of each piece - what a job.

Darlene - I hope you had a wonderful vacation and got lots of rest - with all that's happening at SS you're gonna need it.

Sandra - where have you been? I haven't heard from you in a while. Hope all is good with you and your family.

Paula - I guess I am going to have to snail mail those pictures to you. email me your address and I will print them out and send them to you. You need to come see us - soon.

Charles - that N1H1 email - WTheck was that creature - kinda wigged me out, nina too. I appreciate the hankies, I just hate that I need them so often.

Reggie - some good news - not in the bones. We are all still praying and thinking of you.

Jenn - we missed you at Sunday dinner - hope you had a good trip.

Lydia - Thank you for all your support and advice. You always happen to be there when I need you the most.

For everyone that has given me coke codes, caps and fridge pack ends - THANK YOU SO MUCH. I haven't won anything YET but I will.

Have a great week everyone.

Why

Some days it is too hard to talk. Some days it is to hard to think. Some days I just don't want to be here. Today is one of those days.

My day off......

Let's start with last weeks shopping trip. Nina may have gotten all the clothes but I got the cool stuff. I'm really into the peace sign right now and I have been looking for sunglasses with a peace sign and I wanted a new wallet - so look what I found!!! (yeah I know the wallet is upside down kinda but YOU know that is a peace sign). Now I have like 5 pair of sunglasses but these ARE the coolest. And since Nina doesn't think these are cool, I don't have to worry about her "borrowing" them.

Family dinner night was great but we missed Norman (he's on vacation). I forgot to take pictures - just wait til I get my new camera, I won't forget anymore.

Today, I got up at 9:30 (for me - on a day off - this is like WAY early), went to pick up some groceries for Nina - don't want her to starve. Then went to KING KONE for lunch, burger, fries and shake - it was really good. After lunch I cleaned the bathrooms - YUCK - I so need a housekeeper. Then I layed down to take a nap but NINA called and wanted me to meet her at the gas station on her lunch hour - her tank was empty (so was her wallet). Then I started to read some of my magazines (they have been stacking up for a couple months now) - got bored and decided to post this instead. Just got an email from one of my work friends - Terri (Campbell) - she is home with migraine - hope you feel better soon Miss Terri. I have the BEST work friends ever. It's almost time to take CiCi Bear for a walk, then I gotta enter my coke codes, enter some sweepstakes, take out the trash for trash day, eat dinner, take a shower then off to bed. Whew, these days off go by fast.

I'm watching the news right now and they just stated that Arkansans are some of the most medicated people in the US - mostly because of obesity. WE BE FAT.

Paula, your email will not allow my email to be delivered to you - I'll try something different.

I'm being stared at (cici is ready to go for a walk) so I'll talk at you later. Have a wonderful week everyone. I love you Nina Bear. REGGIE - I hope you are doing ok, I hate how the "company" treated you. Take CARE.