Power tools, Christmas tree and Ipods = One amazing weekend!

I cannot explain how good it feels to get things done you have been dreaming about! We got so many things accomplished this weekend....it's crazy!

First mission:

   Move old TV upstairs, set up new TV and rearrange the entire living space! We got a new TV in April but had it in our bedroom. We have this huge dinosaur of a TV in our living room. The thing weighs a hefty 219lbs! Just looking at it makes your back hurt. Well, something came over us. Friday, we set off on an adventure! We hit up homemakers and got just a plain bed frame. We are trying to make more of space in the bedroom. Our old bed frame...huge. After that we went to Home Depot and got some needed materials! Friday night Michael started setting up our new entertainment system. Talk about a kid in a candy store!! He got the stand all set up and then the fun started! Of course, the cat thought it was his new bed.

He spent about 2 hours moving all his components and making sure all the wires were hidden. While he did that, my handy side came out. I used the power drill and disassembled the desk! I did it all by myself!! Of course it had a "woman's" flare because the screws were all in baggies and taped to the back of each board it belonged too. Michael laughed at me for that one. What? I like to be organized. That is my OCD coming out. It has to be clean and make sense. He finally got everything working and TADA!

He has his computer on the bottom. We have a wireless mouse and keyboard and basically you can check your FB in high def! Haha. That project was complete!  (Side note: yes that is a Christmas decoration!)

Second mission:

  We had a huge furniture movement! We spent most of Saturday helping my parents get rid of their hideous floral couch! (No offense Dad!) They bought this amazing new couch that totally compliments their living room and house! Michael and Fabio (my dad for those of you that don't know) took the floral hot messes away to the DAV and picked up the new couch. Of course my mom and I went shopping for a little bit. I swear, I could spend my whole paycheck on Christmas decor. It's horrible! I managed to only spend $50 and I felt that it was a good deal on a few things! After the manly men put the new couch in it's place, we ate lunch, watched the Hawks lose and then loaded up the truck! We are sharing our storage space! After my Grandma passed away, a lot of her stuff my dad received. Until they make room for it, we offered our storage place up. We took a ton of things over and then picked up the desk that I disassembled myself, and some other things and took it all over! I think we ended up bring more stuff back though. We had to get all our Christmas things out of there! After that was all completed we headed back home to work on the next job.

Third mission:

   The bedroom. Wow oh my wow. That thing has been our downfall. Our bed frame was so huge and stuck out about 2 feet extra on each end. Now if my bedroom was 20' x 20' this wouldn't be an issue. We had to rearrange everything to get that massive of a TV up there. Michael built a stand to put the TV stand and the TV higher. I took apart the bed (again, I got to use power tools and my muscles!) and got all the matresses moved! Lucky for us, David was passing through. David and Michael tackled so many things. They took down the treadmill to the garage! We are cleaning our garage over the next 2 weeks so that one stall can be the gym. They moved the TV, the stand, the old bed frame, and an old entertainment center out! I then set up the new bed frame and cleaned up a bit. We don't know how, but our room looks like it is a 20' x 20'. It's crazy! We still have a few little messes here and there, but I don't care at this point. We have worked our butts off this weekend and it's totally pays off!

This weekend all in all was a good one! We got our tree up! Yes, the tree is up. We have not decorated it though. We are testing out our cat with it! I will say we do have the stockings up! I got new ones on Saturday so they had to be put up! Christmas is only 48 days away...I have to get use out of my stuff!

OH YEAH! Best bonus of the weekend. I went to move the desk on Friday and there was my purse! Yes!!! My huge J Simpson of a suitcase purse!! In my purse: wallet, keys, camera, and of course...IPOD!!!!!!! Oh ipod how I love you and have missed you! Michael thinks he threw it on the desk and it fell behind. Nice to bring that up now after you swear someone stole it out of our car! It's back and I don't care! Now I have to spend the next week updating it! Lol!

All good things must come to an end...

I still love them. I always will! They did they best they could with what they had! It's a hard loss, but things happen for a reason! I love the Black and Gold !!!!

Grammie and a new baby.

This week has been a little stressful. Actually, more than stressful! Happy news! Michael's sister is expecting! Due May 20th! Down fall, she is on bed rest. She has a pretty sizable blood clot. She can't do much of anything. She gets extremely tired very quickly and can't pick anything up more than 10lbs. Of course, this is driving her nuts. She had her annual fall production that she is the boss of and she couldn't even go to the performances! Just crazy. They think she will be on bed rest till the end. That is about....20 more weeks! Wow, she is going to go crazy! We hope everything goes smoothly and that we will have a healthy sister and a healthy new nephew or niece!

Another. My Grandma. Turns out she went to the doctor and her lymph nodes were enlarged. They ran tests and on Friday we got out answers. She has stage 3 lymphoma. I believe it's taken over from her torso down. If she doesn't do anything, they don't think she would make it by Christmas. Not having it! She starts chemo on Tuesday (Nov 10th). They are every 21 days and very aggressive. All we can do is pray for strength for her. They already know they are going to be extremely hard on her. She can't be around anyone who could possibly be caring an illness. I just hope everyone can stay well enough to get together for Christmas! We just have to take it one day at a time.

I may have won the battle, but I might not win the war.

Earlier this week Jos's hubby accused me of taking his money! I justify this by saying "I am just introducing her to new things." I may fall upon information such as George Strait coming to town and I lovingly pass along. I know her love affair with that man. He said that whenever he sees my name, it's cost him money! What?! I don't think so! We then started to mess with the man a little. I started thinking of ways to really cost him some Mr Franklin s. I first sent an idea that Josie could stay in Texas a few more days and fly home. That would only cost about $420. Not that bad. Then I followed up with an email saying that she needed another dog. I chose a Mastiff because they are big and it would protect her since Derek is leaving. Well, then today happened. As a normal Thursday ritual, we were getting ready to head out to lunch. We got out of the elevator, looked at one another and decided to go to Target instead of the restaurant. This is never a good idea. We all piled into the Durango and Derrick started up the beast. First off, you have to be frackin Conan the Barbarian to get those seats down. Sorry, but I did not grow up on the wheel of death or whatever that thing is called. I believe all 5 of us tried. We all failed. I offered to jump over and slide into the back. Five jumps later, I think I got about 2 bruises, a sprained shoulder, and a puffy toe! All in good fun! It entertained the rest of the car load. When we returned from work, I once again, emailed Mark! This is the email I sent to him:

1) I am filing a claim after sitting in your 3rd row seating. There needs to be a disclaimer.
2) Jos needs a new car due to this vehicle is a monster and she made Derrick drive
3) I would like to see you climb over the 2nd row seating to the back 5 times and not have an injury somewhere. The seats would not fold down.
4) Another passenger was injured on the running boards. She too will be filing a claim.
5) The tailgate about knocked Derrick out, that is a hazard.
6) You need to make a sign warning people about motion sickness
7) Per above, you need to provide Dramamine or barf bags in your glove box
8) There is not enough cargo room for everything we buy
9) Once again, I cost you money! SORRY! =)

All in good fun! Until, I heard the horror stories of Marks revenge...now the waiting begins. I relate this to a Chuck Norris joke.

"Chuck Norris doesn't sleep, he waits." aka I am screwed.

Back to our Target trip, between 5 of us, I think we spent about $250!! That is one expensive lunch! And Mike didn't even come! I did manage to get some Christmas gifts and a few things I really didn't need! I do think this might become a common adventure during the holiday season! Again, sorry Mark!

Now off to watch GI Joe, with my GI Joe...wow, that was bad.

Congratulations...

you finally broke me.

51 days and counting, time to break out the music!

We are 51 days till Christmas! I will admit that I have brought out the Christmas music at work and just burned 2 more CD's full of holiday cheer. It always puts me in a wonderful mood. I wish the season could last longer!! It will always be my favorite time of year!

Ahh Novemer....it has it's perks!

First off, I love November. It means 2 things.
1) Halloween is over
2) Thanksgiving/Christmas is right around the corner!

I will have state for the record that Christmas is my all time favorite season! I am sure I will have a blog just about that later on!

Now that it's November, a countdown is almost coming to an end. Derrick and I have been counting down the days till New Moon since the end of May. It seems like only yesterday we were at 189 days. Now, we are down to 17! I think I could squeal like a 10 year old. This is one of the few girly things about me. Although it is very embarrassing, I still don't care. I read the books and then found out they were starting movies! How can I resist? I will say, I did take the "Harry Potter" challenge. I did successfully complete it. They were very good, especially 6 and 7. But I will always be an Edward Girl!

I have few friends and co-workers that can testify that I'm quite in love with the whole thing. To them, I apologize! I am sorry you have to put up with me! In about a year and half, when this is all over, I promise, I will calm down. I usually have a different picture somehow Twilight Saga related on my desktop! Everytime the New Moon trailer comes on, I shush everyone and make them watch it! I also enjoy looking at all the little things you can buy. Sad, I know. But this is me! Luckily for all of you, the next movie comes out in May. Once again, another countdown will begin and more drooling will start! =)

Another little countdown! 9 days till RENT!!!!!!!!

Hey, I did find a somewhat goodlooking picture or Robert Pattinson, non Edward:

Now, I think I am going to turn in! A lovely lunch at Rolling Wok is starting to catch up with me and my pillow is yelling my name! Sad, it's only 8:45. Oh well!