Edna's

So we went to Edna's on Saturday night for Kelly's birthday! Well, actually i went to Edna's with Kelly's friends for Kelly's birthday because Cody couldn't find how to get there (but that is a entirely different story!) Anyway....i get there and there is A LINE to get in. what??? a line at Edna's...and when i did get in the crowd was like no Edna's crowd i had ever experienced....it was like going to a downtown club (no offense Kellie). I stayed for about 15 minutes and then left. It was not fun and I will not be going there again :( I guess everything has to change.....

the simple things

new paper towel holder


64 calorie beer


sunshine/warm weather


45 minute of personal NCIS time

Wednesday???

I was thinking 2 things today...first, today is only Wednesday :) This week has seemed to snail by! Maybe the end of the week will go faster, although i'm not counting on it!



Something that has gone by really fast though is February! I guess its a short month anyway so that makes it seem like it goes faster but i'm having problems believing that it is almost over! But I'm glad because it means Spring Break is 2.5 weeks away and i get a pay check on Monday! :)

Tea Time

So i bought this last night at Target! It has a little basket in the lid that you put loose leaf tea in...then you add hot water...drop the basket into the water and let it brew....Its awesome!! I did have a little problem with the basket not wanting to stay after i brewed but it doesn't really bother me!! You can also use it for coffee!

We are in need of a Whole Foods in OKC!! We had school meetings in Tulsa today and stopped by a Whole Foods afterwards!! I love that store....they have the best cheese and meat deli along with an awesome salad bar and very fresh produce! My first experience with a Whole Foods was in NYC on our honeymoon and i seriously think we spent over an hour just looking around!! In the NYC Whole Foods they have a whole restaraunt type thing on the top floor with sushi and an awesome salad bar! Anyway....if you have a chance to visit one i say GO! And hopefully some day OKC will be caught up with the rest of the world! :)

I know it hasn't been very long since i've been doing this weight watchers things...but i will tell you one thing. I feel a lot better....i have more energy....i am not tired all the time....i feel better about myself in general....its a really nice feeling and makes me want to stay with it! I'm sure if i would do some actual exercise it would be that much better :)



On another subject....i was put in charge of the art and oklahoma board for the turkish Olympiads here at school....i posted one of the pictures (the one that i expect to win). And yesterday we worked on our oklahoma board....to be quite blunt, it looks like shit! I for sure didn't do my best work on coming up with an idea......i'm not to worried about it...i did have students that helped put it together so i can make my case that way! :)






Here is the picture of said board....

RID

so i had to go get some RID today....for those of you that don't know its a lice killing shampoo. there have been several kids at school these days getting sent home with lice. yesterday i went on a field trip with some 2nd graders....one of the ones that was in my group and who held my hand, and gave me several hugs and sat next to me all the time, got sent home with lice today. although my friend jennifer checked me i thought i would take the no lice precaution! this has been happening all year...there are two families that have about 11 kids in our school that can't seem to get "rid" of it!! (i crack myself up!)

So its time! Its time for me to come up with a plan to tackle the mess that is my house and try to keep it that way! So i am going to try a routine....and here it is!

Mondays- clean den/start laundry

Tuesdays- kitchen/dining room

Wednesdays- grocery shopping/laundry

Thursdays- free (i have to give myself some time off :)

Fridays- living room/laundry

Saturdays and Sundays- kitchen/laundry/bathrooms

Now one might ask when our bedrooms will be clean...and its a good question! When the laundry is all done our bedroom will be clean, note all the days of laundry. My goal is to be able to get everything done in the hour between 4-5 when i get home from work....that won't happen right away because i can promise you its going to take me more than an hour today to get all of our dirty dishes clean! Hopefully next week, assuming i stick to the plan, it won't take me as long! Wish me luck! :)

I am going to print this off and hang it up in my house so that i will see it and hopefully inspire me to get it done!

So the first year of marriage you learn a lot about your spouse and the little things that just come up randomly. Take last night for instance....i've been sick for about 4 days now and Cody has been really good (although, i think he is sick of me being sick)....but last night i was taking my temperature, he looks at me very seriously and say "did you not put one of the plastic covers on the thermometer" i look at him and say no....then he said "how are we supposed to keep it sanitized" and looked at me like he would never use that thermometer. Throughout my entire life i have always just used alcohol to clean of the thermometer and never had a problem. And yesterday, i knew i was running a fever....i used the plastic cover and took my tempature....99.8....i took the plastic cover off and took it again....101.2, there is just a little bit of difference there :) Its little things like this that you learn about each other that you never even thought there would be much of a difference.

I did go to the doctor yesterday...she gave me a shot of antibotics, which feels like is already starting to kick in. I don't have a fever this morning, thank goodness. And as long as i don't swallow or talk i'm okay :) Its been nice having 3 days off of work so that i don't have to use my sick days! The doctor thinks i should probably take tomorrow off too, i probably will just so i will feel 100% on Monday!

so i'm pretty sure i have strep....which totally sucks! i've been running a fever on and off and my throat is KILLING me! its really hard to swallow! i'm pretty sure it wasn't you theresa :) i was going to go to the doctor today but since its hard to get out of our house i set up something for tomorrow. hopefully i'll be able to get out tomorrow! putnam city is already closed hopefully we will be too! cody got up this morning and made me a pot of tea and is letting me have the den to watch the first season on NCIS! isn't that sweet!

I'm done with the ice, it sucks! First i woke up this morning with a sore throat....yes, i know, i'm always sick :( It took me close to thirty minutes to get the ice off my car to drive home. then, i make it all the way home and almost hit cody's car when i'm driving into the drive way. I get out of the car and fall on my ass as i'm about to get to the grass....my body has hurt all day, my throat and head hurts and then i fell....so of course i start crying! I'm really glad we don't have school tomorrow! It has already been officially closed!

So this morning on the way to work i was thinking about teaching music....and wondering what i'm going to do to keep from going completely insane with childrens music...surely their has to be something out their that is okay. Then it hit me....They might be giants has a childrens album....although i haven't heard it, i'm very excited about this idea....i did look at the song list and it seems like something i could work with...and it looks as though they have at least 3 childrens albums and are coming out with another. Then I got to thinking....Jack Johnson, he has the album Sing-a-long and lullabies based from the curious george soundtrack...this is awesome. And i'm finding all kind of musicians that have made childrens albums...including the barenaked ladies. I'm going to check them all out and i'll let you know if they any good!

Yesterday...i got the card that states my last name has officially changed....its weird. I decided to practice before signing it...i signed my last name great....but i totally messed up my first name....isn't that how it always is! :)

1.5 days of work left...woohoo!!

So this makes two days in a row! :) woohoo! Its a good thing i have Whitney to keep me on track! :) Today...i went and activated my new debit card with my new last name on it....now they are going to send me another one because they didn't ask me if i wanted a picture or not....might as well have your picture on your debit card! Then i went to the jail and got my fingers printed. Why did you get your fingers printed you might ask....well....i got a new job (assuming that my background check goes okay :) After almost two years looking at medical records and determining if people are disabled...i've decided to go back to what i know. Music and teaching...so i will be teaching art and music for Dove Science Academy Elementary school next year. The more and more i think about it...the more and more i get excited about it...and i love the idea of teaching art, i get to use my craftiness and my music knowledge. Woohoo!

Then i went and got my hair cut....it so badly needed it! I had to take the purple out because of job interviews and i miss it! But there is always the summer! hehe!

Something else Whitney and I are talking about getting started is wedding planning. Helping people who want to think outside the box plan their weddings at a cost....we are still thinking about the cost part...and we will hopefully be working on getting a blog up about weddings/parties and stuff very soon...after we come up with a kick ass name!! Thats always the hardest part!

So the picture in todays blog will be from our honeymoon...and then i will blog about that sometime soon....if not this weekend Monday for sure!



I promise you the statue of liberty is right by Cody's head! :)

Mouse in the House

So, for a few months we have been having problems with mice. I think they are truly gross but they come with home owning i am told.

So last night, cody was talking to his dad on the phone, and he comes down and tells me Oreo has a mouse in her mouth....and that she was just playing with it. All night you could hear Oreo running all over the room looking for that mouse. We were getting ready for bed and i was in the rest room and when i walk back into the room, cody says.....go get me an empty cup from the other room (he was sitting with his feet up, on the corner of the bed)....so i go and the mouse is sitting in some of his clothes...he puts the cup on it, while Oreo was trying to play with it....we got some paper to place under the cup and then we took the mouse outside. It was an eventful evening :)

fun stuff going on

okay....so really its not so fun...my soon to be sister-in-law is currently in the hospital. i can't really go into details but she was checked in last wednesday and they don't know when she is going to be released. there was talk of yesterday but it didn't happen which was a very good thing in my opinion. i've been really upset by the whole thing but things are looking up!

then last night....i get home from work and they have blocked off most of 15th so i can't get to my drive way.....i go down ross and park in my neighbors drive way and noticed the cops are blocking off two or three blocks of our neighborhood and there is yellow rope hanging on the statue in our front yard....which we are told we are not to walk in front of. Everyone is getting home at this time and having to park their car somewhere else and walk. So come to find out....there was a shooting involving three cars that sped down our street, one of the trucks flipped over in the yard about 5 houses down. it started at the car wash on the corner....two people (that were involved in everything) went to the ER but not hurt really bad and last time i heard they were looking for the other 3....i guess they found a car at the car wash with a trunk full of guns....and the truck that flipped over, my neighbors son saw them climb out of the car and make a run for it....fun times!

What's New

Well, there is really nothing new here...but again i decided to write :) We lived through our double Turkey Day! I've never had two turkey dinner less than 3 hours apart. I was full...i'll just say that much :)

So as pretty much all of you know...i'm turning 30! And i'm sure all of you are wondering what my thoughts on turning 30 are...lol! Or maybe you aren't but i'm going to tell you anyway!

I'm truly excited about turning thirty...i'm sure most of you are thinking, "she's excited because she is getting married and really happy right now" and i say that that is right but i've been excited about turning 30 for a long while now. I don't really feel like i have anything more figured out than i did 5 years ago, but i've learned that i may never have it figured out and i've realized that its okay not too...i've wasted a lot of time worrying about things i can never change...or things that i haven't done yet...or getting everything right and why i'm not where i should be. Now, i'm realizing that you can worry all I want but it really does no good other than just makes me feel worse.

I've always pretty much been a people person...but it has hit me more and more these days how those connections are what matters. Friends and Family are going to be what matters in the hard times. Something else that i've had to learn, you can't please everyone...and if they are truly your friends that will love you regardless. I've caught myself worrying a lot about what people think of me...and its those time when i'm surprised to see that no one really cares about what i was worrying about and that they are supportive regardless...those are true friends. And the best part about turning 30 (and probably the cheesiest) is that i have the best friends anyone could possibly ask for! Thank you guys! :)

Days like today

I'm tired and i'm irritable. I knew today was going to be a little on the rough side because we have a lot changes going on at work today...i've been taken away from my secure home...the place that i felt safe and thrown into the open waters where i know no one and i have no one but myself to rely on...so it seems right now! i know it will get better but right now i'm ready to go home! okay enough bitching...

so this weekend cody and i decide we are going to go to breakfast on Saturday morning...we live right down the street from a Jimmy's egg so we decide we are going to walk there. we get there and we see that they only take cash or checks (very weird these days) of which we had neither...so we go back home and get in the car to go to a little new coffee shop on 16th. we get there and we go inside to order and they didn't have breakfast like we were wanting but it was about lunch time anyway so we decided we would order sandwiches. cody tried to order and we were told that the bread hadn't arrived for the day so they couldn't make us sandwiches and it would be about 30 to 45 minutes...so we order an expensive cheese plate and teas and wait for the bread. it was lovely outside so we head outside as we sit down and put our teas on the table...the table collapses and we get tea ALL OVER US! so we laugh it off because by this time its just funny...and move to the other outside table. eventually the bread came and we got the rest of our food for free but it was one of those days :) lol! :)

The weekend...

So i'm glad the weekend is over! not that it was a bad weekend but it was somewhat long and i'm tired! i hate getting to work on a monday morning after you should feel rested but you are more tired then when you left on Thursday night! :) So, this next weekend isn't going to be any better i'm sure...being as we are leaving on Thursday afternoon and not getting home until Monday night from ACL...i'm very very excited about this...okay, so i'm going to share with you the shows i will be at for sure:
Bela Fleck and the flecktones- i've seen them live before and they are great live. after seeing them live i went and got one of their cd's and it wasn't quite the same but is it ever. :)

Spoon- the new spoon album is pretty good.

Bjork- she is someone that i've been waiting to see live for a really, really long time. i can't even fathom what its going to be like!

Damien Rice- i'm a damien rice fan, but i go back and forth with listening to his albums...sometimes they sound all the same to me then other times, its just perfect for my mood. i do think that his latest album 9 is my favorite though...there are a few just killer songs on there...like elephant, coconut skins and me, my yoke and i...good stuff, has anyone heard it??

Andrew Bird- i can honestly say this is the one i'm most excited about...i've seen some of his shows on TV and on the internet and i just can't wait to see him live!

Muse- they are just good...

Okay, here is a toss up for me...i think i'm going to have to split my time between these two...Arcade Fire and the White Stripes....i hate when they do this....i'm thinking Arcade Fire may get more of my attention but the White Stripes, i've been wanting to see them...but if i had to pick which one i liked more musically it would be arcade fire...which one would you pick??

Sunday is the best day by far!

Yo La Tengo- i know not many of you like them...but i think everyone should give them another shot or listen to their latest album...they are good, i promise!

Fionn Regan- a while ago i blogged about him...his kind of singer songwriter and he has an awesome voice...very good stuff...as a matter of fact i may have put up a video

The National- a girl at work let me borrow this cd and its good...as a matter of fact i think i'll listen to it now :) she also let me listen to langhorne slim...has anyone heard them??? that is also some good stuff!

Ian Bell- from Gomez...i was a little disappointed when i didn't see gomez on the list...but then i just found out that at least one of gomez is going to be there and all was right with the world again!

Midlake- another one of those obsure bands that not many people have heard and the only reason i have was because of Chad Gulley but they are pretty good and i'm excited to see them live...live is always better!

Lucinda Williams- its just fun to see if she can make it through the entire show!

Wilco- Nothing more needs to be said about them...they just have an awesome show every time i see them and if you haven't heard the new album...you need too...(man, i'm coming up with all kinds of albums to talk about now :)

The Decemberists- there is a whole blog about them... :)

The we end with Bob Dylan...and honestly i have no idea what to expect here! :)

Has anyone heard or no anything about Joss Stone, Blonde Redheads, or MIA...i've actually heard of them..but don't know that i've actually heard them...Also, check out the ACL lineup and tell me if there is something that i should see!

Has anyone seen any of these bands? What were you thoughts?

80's song vault

Okay continuing my music talk, this morning as i was driving to work i was trying to think of what a good cd would be to mention today. But in look through my i-pod i've decided that i was going to pick a song. Sweet Dreams (are made of these) by the eurythmics. I love this song, and i don't think i know anyone that really doesn't like this song. Why is that? What makes this song greater than any other 80's song? I don't think it the cello's in the video...to be honest until i just watched it i did remember that they had cellos in the video..Does anyone know anyone that hates the song? So i was thinking what are other songs by the eurythmics....Here comes the rain again....that seems to be the only other song i can really remember by them. and in listening to their other song on youtube videos, there were several songs that i couldn't listen to at all, they were just aweful...which i then realized the eurythmics really aren't a very good band. So, what made sweet dream the lasting one? hmmm...???




So in other news....cody got himself locked out of the house last night while i was at a birthday dinner! :) hehe! it was really pretty funny. we have those locks like a lot of classroom doors. you press the little button on the top and it keeps the door locked so that when you shut it you don't have to worry about locking it...and if you press the button on the bottom it unlocks the door knob so that you can walk in and out freely. Most houses don't have this anymore and neither of us are used to it. i knew one of us would eventually lock ourselves out and im glad it was him first! :)

Tomorrow night
Lisa Curl and the Triplets
UCO Jazz Lab
Doors at 7:00
Show at 8:00
Cover is $7

The final frontier

i probably got all of the star trek fans wondering what i'm going to write about but...it has nothing to do with star trek! :)

we got moved! okay, we got most everything moved. there are little things that we have to get from each place but the apartment will be offically moved out of tomorrow. thank goodness! we spent most of yesterday afternoon and evening cleaning. and thats when we realized, that we had a lot of condiments but no food! :) so we had to hit the grocery store so that we won't be eating out. and we have acl this month...two weeks from Friday!! woohoo! :)i'm even more excited realizing that it is sooo close! :)

the one great thing about moving is the not knowing where anything is....wheres the check book, wheres the cds for the party, where's cat food...for that matter, where's the cat! i am so ready to have everything in order! (btw, the cats not really lost...she is in the house somewhere and she makes herself seen every now and then! :)

anyway, things are going well and we will have people over very soon!!

Also, this thursday night at the uco jazz lab...
lisa curl and the triplets
7:30 show
$7 cover
and i think we will be doing a live recording.