Family

So, a quick post to update what has been happening in my life since my last non update...ya'll still love me though.
So, our new black kitty, named by his daddy Eeeeevil, is the perfect little boy. He has never had a single accident, and is as sweet as can be. I'm glad I made the decision add the new addition to our family, even though his two older brothers took a few days (or weeks in Chiisai's case) to learn to love and accept the newest member.
My brother Gary came home from his second tour overseas, and we're happy that he is home and safe. Since he has come home, he has continued his plan of socializing his anitsocial sister and brother in law by making sure we know we're always invited to his weekly get togethers with his friends. It helps us because we would rather stay home and not see people, because its easier, but he drags us both out of the home and makes us play nice and be SOCIAL...
Alec recently tried out for 7 brides for 7 brothers, and was cast as one of the suitors. I tried out as well, but I really don't like people looking at me, so I wasn't sad or upset to not be cast. He is going to have a very busy summer with practices, and then a month of performances, luckily he'll only have to perform 3 nights a week, rather than 6 because they double cast. Practices barely started last night, and they're already creating a headache for the two of us. However, we'll survive, and I know Alec will have a lot of fun.
We're getting ready to do another remodel on our home,this time it'll finish the project we started last year, and finish up the front room, plus the wall that we opened up between the front room and the dining room. We're going to sand and stain the floors, repaint the walls, and build the archway, or lattice work to cover up the exposed beams. I'm excited, I never thought I'd be exicted to remodel a house, but every project we've done has been fun.
As I say every time, I really should post pictures...oh well, I haven't posted to facebook either, so don't kill me.

I'm expecting!

A new baby kitty in April :)
I wasn't going to, I thought that two was more than enough. But yesterday in church, we were sitting in the lobby during sacrament meeting, and it seemed like everyone that has a baby decided to come out into the lobby that day, and I got so stressed out and turned to Alec and said we needed another kitty.
I was kind of joking, I just barely got Chiisai to stop having accidents on the floor, and I still go to the litterboxes every couple of hours anticipating a accident right outside the box.
Still, I kind of wanted a new little baby to hold. I was telling a coworker how I had seen a cat on ksl.com that the owner was selling and she was pregnant. My coworker wanted to see the picture, and when I went to pull it up, I found five babies instead. They are going to come with their first set of shots already taken care of, plus they'll be fixed, all for the low low price of $15. So I asked Alec really nicely if we could go look, and we found our new baby. I'm hoping that he won't have potty training issues. I've learned enough tricks to try that we should be fine, but I've spent the last year and three months cleaning up accidents, and I'm done. (Yes I realize that when I have an actual baby I'll clean diapers for longer, but Alec is willing to change a diaper, but not clean cat poo...)
Pictures to come once the baby arrives home with us.

I DID IT!!!!!!!!

I totally get my new running shoes, I met my goal, and I'm so happy. Thanks to Dagny for cheering me up. I'm still going to continue working out (hopefully) but I can feel myself getting stronger, especially in the stomach muscles. Once I pick them out, I should take a picture and post my new shoes. :) Merry Christmas everyone!

Struggling to climb back on the wagon when its speeding away at 90 miles an hour

I sometimes find myself in a funk. Lots of different things put me there, children put me there a lot, but thats a different story.

My weight puts me there the a good portion of the time too. I was always the "skinny" girl, but I didn't realize how much of that was how much I was running all the time with track and cross country. Ever since I quit those, my weight has been a constant struggle, save one time. Last year I joined a gym, it was wonderful. I was working out five times a week, doing cardio and strength training, and getting back to being skinny, then my husband stepped in. I swear to this day its because I pointed out to him how much smaller my chest was becomig and how great it was, he denys everything. He "convinced" me how much money we could save in the long run if he bought me my own eliptical machine and then I could work out at home. Since then, rather than losing weight, or even maintaining, I have been gaining again.

I really want new running shoes for my birthday (although my secret want for a birthday present is another gym membership) and I've told myself that I have to lose some weight in order to "earn" my birthday present. So, I've been trying to climb back on the wagon after falling off, and I feel as though its going too fast for me. Sometimes I just want to give up and be fat, but I already feel so gross and just a "little bit" overweight.

I've been "better" about working out each night, I'm just trying to keep it all in perspective, but I seriously think that I'm going to have to starve myself and still work out each day in order to make my goal. Wish me luck, because I really want new shoes.

random

I LOVE my new job. Some have requested house pictures. I still haven't figured out how to write around the pictures. These are from last spring, before we even put the offer in on our house. I need to take more, and upload them. But that might not happen for a while. We're getting a new furnace this week, so we won't be as cold.

The story behind that, when our home inspector went through our house, he passed the main furnace, and said the second furnace, that is for the addition (which is pretty much our kitchen) didn't work, and would need repairs. So, earlier this month, I had a furnace company come out, because they were advertising furnace tune ups to make them run more efficiently for the winter, and help us save $$. However, when they were out, they said that our main furnace didn't really work after all, the heating element was cracked, and that can make carbon monoxide leak out. So, our home warranty people had to come out and inspect our furnace, and we requested they take a look at the second one as well, so that they could get any repair work needed on that one paid for by the warranty. They cleared us to get a brand new main furnace and we only have to pay $400, while furnaces cost up to $8,000, and merely cleaned the gas valve on the other, and got it up and running. So, I've had a warm kitchen, and freezing everything else, but they are coming on Thursday to give us a new furnace, YAY!

New Job

One week from tomorrow I start my new job. I'll be moving on up to our corporate offices into the billing department. True, its not necessarily a pay raise, and I'll most likely get yelled at a lot more often. However, there are many many bonuses coming from this new job.
1. I will be working the same days and hours as Alec.
2. We'll get to carpool and save $$ on gas, and help the environment a little more.
3. SATURDAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! off
4. I will get to get out of the horrible office that I'm in. There is so much politics and favoritism going on there, I hate it. We have people that are so in with the boss, that when they come in to work, they are mostly getting paid to visit and chat with her. We also have people that are "sick" and take advantage of it all the time, by either not working, or calling in every single Saturday because they are "sick", and they're on FMLA, so there is nothing the bosses can do about it. I think that its rather convienent that they are only sick on Saturdays, and no other day of the week, but no one listens to me. The same person that is sick all the time hardly works when they are there, they sit on their cell phone and text all the time, even in front of customers.
5. I won't have face time with customers anymore! Its okay sometimes, but to see the looks that I get when my coworkers are the ones sitting and texting and ignoring the customers. There are six of my coworkers that text all the time and ignore customers, and I only have two other coworkers in the office besides those six, and the managers.
6. I won't get blamed for certain coworkers lack of understanding anymore. We have one lady, who is very nice, but she is from Venezuela, and doesn't understand everything very well, and makes A LOT of mistakes, and I get yelled at by customers for her mistakes all the time.
So, as you can see, I don't give a crap that I'm not going to be making more money in my new job, but I'll be free from the little mini "hell" I've been living for the last year, and in a better position to continue furthering my "career" at RC Willey, however long it lasts.

I'm a customer too

May 29th, our homeowners insurance agent gives me a call saying the state wants us to put handrails up on our front porch, or they will force our insurance company to cancel our policy, we have 35 days to get it done. My husband decides to have his friend help him out, he gives him the measurements, and the friend decides to research code and let us know. We hear NOTHING. A week later, the friend decides to come up and help with another project, and tell us that handrails can be done through Lowes, but they are special order and take a while to come in. I tell my husband that my grandmother knows people that can get them done, why don't I find out who, and call them. He is okay with me calling, but he wants pictures and examples of what they've done. We can't find any online, so I have to go to the place and look, oh wow, its your basic handrail, what a surprise. I tell them, come over to my house and measure please, and then make me handrails. They come measure almost two weeks ago, and then take off as soon as they're done, without talking to me. I hear nothing, Alec called them last week on Friday, but the secretary was gone, and nobody knew anything about it, we ask can you call back on Monday. Monday around three they finally call back, to give me a quote. I tell them, I don't care about your quote, I want these done, will they be done by Thursday. She doesn't know, they have been busy, she says she'll call me tomorrow. I wait all day today for her call back, nothing AGAIN. I get home, frustrated, thinking that I'll just call them in the morning, and I check the mail, there is a letter from our insurance carriers, its a reimbursement check dated June 12, a mere 14 days after I was notified, saying that our account is closed and here is our money back. I call the handrail people, and someone answered after hours, it must have been the boss, he was "apologetic" saying they've been busy with other jobs. I tell him, you promised me that the most it would take to get handrails would be one week, here we are almost two weeks later and they haven't even been started, I'm a customer too. Then I tell him its for my homeowners insurance, and he acts even more "apologetic". But when I ask the question, are they going to be done for my on Thursday, he doesn't know and he'll get back to me tomorrow. GRRRRR