we're back only to be gone again

my belle and cinderella

1. this week has been busy. when we returned on monday, we had house issues waiting for us.

2. 2 of our 3 a/c units had quit working so i had to call home warranty to get someone out here.

3. we also got a letter saying that our new home insurance was going to drop us because of our roof and hard- plank/siding which is ridiculous because its all fixable.

4. so monday phone calls were made. tuesday/wednesday were for waiting for them to show up.

5. got kinda good news about the roof. it has lots of hail/storm damage so insurance will have to take care of it besides our deductible which is 1% of the value of the house. still big money but not as much for the whole roof.

6. the big a/c unit was fixable. the smaller one not so much. hopefully we can get a new one and not have it cost much out of our pocket.

7. no return calls about the hard-plank/siding yet.

8. on our way to orlando, we got a chip in the windshield which ended up growing so we had to replace that. yeah, when it rains, it pours!

9. i think today, kaylee and i will go and do some shopping. few of my plants have died and i would like to get those replaced.

10. tomorrow we leave for alabama for the weekend. (for mike's work)

*we have an alarm system and a house sitter.

getting ready for vacation thats really not a vacation for mom's

1. so our "girl's day" continues though wednesday we really didn't do much. we did get some of kaylee's clothes around for vacation and then went to justice for a few more pairs of shorts.

2. i know she could wear her shorts more than once while on vacation but i hate putting back on clothes that are dirty and by dirty i mean worn in public. the public is a dirty place. anyway, she ended up getting 2 pairs of shorts, a sweatshirt and a shirt.

3.  we came home and got our tan on for about 40 minutes. i had to take an allergy induced nap.

4. yesterday we went and got our nails done then headed to target for a massive amount of junk food for our road trip to orlando.

5. we ate vita's pizza for lunch (and dinner) and packed her suitcase so she is all ready to go.

6.  today is clean the house day and run to the grocery store for some fruits and stuff to make breakfast and a few lunches while on vacation.

7. though i saw this dress on lisa leonard and now i want to go and get it.

8. i don't want to take any of my cropped jeans on vacation. its too hot for jeans.

9. oh, some sad news, mr. miyagi, our beta fish died. he was fine in the morning. dead by night.

10. and in typical us fashion, one of our a/c units died too but we're going to ignore it while on vacation. 

planes or trains

1. we live about 30 minutes away from an airport so we get a lot of these flying by.

2. back in indiana we had train tracks that did a 180 around our area so no matter which direction we were headed (except east), we would usually get caught by one or three.  i like planes much better.

3. so this week has been good so far except for the fact that mike missed our anniversary and while paying bills, i found that he went to hooters on thursday. (his last day of work for the week)

4. him going to hooters and forgetting our anniversary doesn't bother BUT going only a few days before AND forgetting and not telling me he went to hooters, well that bothers me.

5. then he used some excuse that maybe he has something planned while on vacation because don't we usually celebrate our anniversary on vacation? (we celebrated it last year while visiting indiana) yeah, he's a good bullshitter.

6. tuesday, i woke up and bon jovi's song,  shot through the heart and your to blame, you give love a bad name was on the brain. seriously, that was my first thought.

7. kaylee and i had a girls day. (since its just us, we have girls day a lot)

8. we went to michaels and the apple store. (i returned my iPad mini for one that has cellular connection and not just wi-fi connection) then headed to olive garden for lunch.

9. after lunch, we went to barnes and noble so she could use her gift cards from her birthday and christmas.

10. then we came home and got our tan on.

not that i'm complaining

1. but it never fails, we usually have nothing to do on the weekends then bam, we get hit with doing something all at once.

2. friday, kaylee had some girls over for a last day of school/pizza party. they swam for about 4 hours and ate pizza, cheese fries, chicken strips, fruit, cookies, donuts and ice cream. (our awesome neighbor heard the girls and brought over more cookies and ice cream)

3. kaylee didn't want to invite 2 of the girls because one seems to be always mad at her for some unknown reason and other is just mean but since i know their parents, i told kaylee to invite them anyway.

4. well those 2 girls won't be invited over the next time. they just caused some un-needed drama and bummed everyone out.

5. after swimming and eating, they played hide and seek till it was time to go home. (9pm-ish)

6. i went and got my hair colored on saturday. i wanted to go back to my close to natural color and it turned out beautifully.

7. after mike getting his haircut and picking up cupcakes and beer, we made it to bruce's birthday/crawfish boil. man was the crawfish good and spicy!

8. it was also our 11th anniversary. mike forgot.

9. sunday we were invited to one of kaylee's friend's brothers graduation/shrimp boil.

10. the brother took his sister lunch on friday (kaylee said he was there everyday for lunch this week)  and picked her up friday night from the party. he seemed to be a very nice, courteous young man doting on his sister. i told mike he and ham could probably learn something from him thats how well mannered he was!)

today was a loooonnnnngggggg day

1. so before ham's trip to the ER, i took kaylee lunch on friday.  the slice of pizza was bigger than her head.

2. then later she went to spend the night at her friend's house.

3. they dropped kaylee off saturday afternoon and we had piper stay to swim for awhile.

 4. we went to the cutest snow cone in a cup place thats right down the street for a snack.

5. and went to camponi's for dinner. (both girls didn't eat their spaghetti with butter.)

6. i texted a friend "guess which room i'm cleaning at the moment?"

7. monday i was down with all allergy symptoms- even my ears were itchy, like inside.  it was day 2 of no allergy meds because i wanted to see if my weight loss/health supplement would work.

8. monday night, i decided it might be best if i get this weight loss/health supplement in my system first then wean off the allergy meds.

9. is it weird that i'm already packing for disney?

10. i FINALLY got my "camera bag" and wanted to make sure i can fit everything needed to take into the park [suggested by the experts on pinterest]  with the camera. its a tight squeeze but i think i got it.

a trip to the ER

mother's day 2014

1. after ham returned from the dentist on friday, he complained that he had loss of vision for a brief second and a horrible, horrible headache.

2. so after the inspections lady left, i took him to the eye doctor. [since he was getting ready to head back to summer school, i wanted to make sure there was nothing wrong.]

3. she didn't find anything abnormal but suggested i take him to the urgent care center 2 doors down since he was shaking, feeling like puking and had numbness in his hand/arm. [she said he must be hyperglycemic]

4. i have never seen him in so much pain before and all i could think about is the high school student who worked for my parents, who died from a brain anyursm a few years ago. 

5. the urgent care center suggested we take him to first choice ER for a CT scan since they couldn't do one.

6. thank-goodness the scan turned out normal and he was suffering from a migraine.

7. he ended up sleeping in our room for the rest of the day/night since its dark and one of the coolest room in the house. [we need to get a new a/c unit for his side of the house]

8.  i think it had a lot to do with going to the dentist on an empty stomach.  all the different smells and pressure from teeth cleaning often gives me a headache and since he hadn't eaten breakfast, it just made it worse.

9. i think he's learned to give himself enough time to eat breakfast from now on.

10.  the last time i had to take him to the ER, he was probably 5 years old and had to get stitches on his forehead.