Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Some sadness some happy!

Onward with the crappy part of the past few weeks, days whatever.

Well one of our cats passed away 2 weeks ago tomorrow. He was such a cool cat, grumpy, cantakerous and the boss. As Fiance said, his cheese slid off his plate but we just know that he is in a better place now playing over the bridge eating raviolis and drinking milk.

Onto some happyness, I got my last book of the Nora Roberts Bride Quartet series, Happy Ever After. Loved it, of course like all the series Im disappointed to have it end but I thought that Parkers story along with Laurel, Mac and Emmas stories were ended very well. Of course I had to leave to pick up Fiance right in the middle of reading a good part, but then again the whole book was a good part. LOL. Now Im done getting books for the rest of the year but I do have a few Im looking forward to finding. The Chicago Fire trilogy by Susan Wiggs seems like it will be a good series but Im in no rush to get them. Im quite honestly obsessed with my Nora Roberts books, NOONE is allowed to touch them but me, even Fiance knows that he can not touch them mostly because he doesnt know where they go on my bookshelf. I have them all organized by type and then in order of release date. It gets a bit more complicated within the sets mainly because I want the books to be organized by series or sets but also within date order. Like the MacGregor series, it was one of the first sets but there were books out in between them but I am anal enough and crazy enough to have to have them as a set in order all together. Not in actual copy right date order. LOL...Yes its ok to think Im nuts, I know I am but it works for me.

Ive had some other stuff going on but nothing fun or exciting. Mainly Ive been randomly picking up some crochet work I started like my blanket that will either be for the bed or the back of the couch to cover the Frankensteinness of having to perform surgery on it. Its pretty neat, worked with Homespun yarn by Lionbrand, a total pain in the ass to work with but OMG oh so SOFT so well worth the pain. I also am making myself a scarf for the winter with Fishermens Wool, its soft kind of itchy but its soooooo pretty.


Can you believe that Christmas decorations are being put out already.....I cant Im so not ready. One because Ive got the dilemma of picking and choosing who to get something for. Fiance and I pretty much are only getting for M and K along with his brother and his gf. He wants to get wire for his brothers garage a birthday/christmas/thank you present and I want to get something for his gf because she honestly has been like the one friend who isnt a dumbnut douchebag and is who she is. She is probably the least fake person Ive ever met and I appreciate that, even if she does get grumpy and moody sometimes, but again its something I respect because shes upfront about it and isnt fake or two faced.

Well Ive got to start my day, shampooing extraveganza.....Sooooo not fun......till next time

*~TNH~*

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Is the cold over yet?

Im freezing, got the wood stove fired up this morning hoping it warms up pretty quickly

Update of things that have happened....Not much LOL, pretty boring in all reality.

We did take a trip about an hour away to go eat with Fiances family, not at all what was expected but better than we thought. We sat off to the side by ourselves and not jammed into tables with everyone else which was awesome because I was not all about sitting elbow to elbow iwith people I dont really want to hold conversations with.  Oh well, this weekend though we are hoping to go bowling with the part of the family we actually like.

Other than all that drama the only other stuff going on is working on my Secret Santa projects, rather than spending an arm and a leg on stuff Ive been raiding my yarn stash and working on stuff for my SS with that. I did go out and buy some really nice red and off white yarn to make a set of stuff. I made a scarf, hat, fingerless gloves and now Im trying to make socks. But if you know how to crochet then you know that sock patterns + small needles + Caron Simply Soft Yarn = NO FUN. Seriously once I made the toe my hand starting cramping up soooo BAD I thought it was going to fall off. I probably should have used a bigger needle like stuck with the H instead of using what the pattern called for which is a F and D. But its more fun working on these projects while watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer....<3 <3 <3 that show. Im currently on Season 3 woo hoo. Now Im just waiting for Angel to come back from hell and Faith get the boot. I never did really care for this season but I never got to see the end of it. Cheerleading practice killed being able to watch Buffy when I was in high school.


Ugh,,,I hope you all have a good weekend, I probably wont be back till next week sometime. Sometime soon Ill figure out how to put some pics on here, Ive got tons to pull off my phone. But time to clean the house and get working on my crochet projects....Maybe Ill get Fiances blanket done before Christmas, I think that would be a nice surprise for him, his own woobie blanket!

<3

*~TNH~*

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Im ready for.....snow...

I am so sick of this rain. Its blah dreary and just makes everything miserable. Got the wood stove fired up to get some heat into the house, I dont like our oil heater it just makes the air dry and gross. The poor weenie dog was shivering so bad yesterday I had to get a fire going even though Im roasting my bojangles off. LOL

The past couple of weeks have been pretty uneventful except the fun day fiance and I had at the fair. It was awesome, we went with his brother and gf and had tons of fun. M even got a bunny named Thumper. Hes so adorable and Im glad she got him. She had a lot of issues from the rehoming of 2 labs, one because people are idiots and the other because she realized that she didnt have the time or patience for another puppy especially one that acted out as badly as L did. There are sometimes where I wish I had no pets but at the same time when crap is just building up, I need them they are the best 'feel good' things Ive got.

But its that time of year again...Secret Santa. I got my Santees name and Im excited. Im a little nervous because Im making most of my stuff. I currently have in the makings a really nice autumn red scarf that Im crocheting and I made yesterday a fleece no sew pillow for her kitty with a matching blanket. OMG its so cute too bad they didnt have anymore of that pink plaid fleece I wanted some for myself. But Ill head back to the store at some point and find some fleece for myself, Im due for a new woobie blanket for the living room and one for the bedroom would be nice for the winter. Those no sew things are easy to make as long as you take the time to measure and cut before you start tying stuff off. I learned my lesson with that yesterday.

Well I just wanted to pop in so it didnt seem like I disappeared off the face of the earth. Im sure Ill be on more once the holidays get closer...Ill need some anonymous venting come that time of year. Gotta love the family drama and bull they bring along!!

Have a good week and stay warm!

*TNH*

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Just one of those days.

Geez it just kicked me in the teeth that Im a miserable person...Not always but man when I get into these moods I could rip someone a new one and not think twice about it.

So over the weekend Fiance had someone come over with his GF, I have known her for a while but her moods are just like a rollar coaster up and down constantly. Its so petty but I got irritated because she was being rude not bothering to get out of her truck to say hello even. When she got her truck I went out of my way to help her clean the whole thing out from top to bottom etc but she doesnt even get out of her car to take a look at mine. WTF! I mean I know its a girl thing but still girls compliment each other on stuff and to top the day off we all went out to DQ to eat they got real food and Fiance and I just got milkshakes so Fiance asks the guy if he got his garage door yet, Background: hes building a garage took a loan for it but used his door money to purchase his GF a truck when she wrecked her Jeep...and the ungrateful wench complained about it the whole time, it doesnt have this it doesnt have that wahhh wahhh wahhh.....ANYWAYS she makes this smart ass comment about how his bills come first, well me being the jump up and fight type person immediately took offense to this because it sounded like a dig at us. Excuse me but would you like to see my bills you skank...They are all paid and dont get pissed off at me because you have to work...I dont have to work because I budget shop, I dont buy name brand stuff for myself I buy off a clearence rack and damn straight I get generic stuff. I have a HUGE book collection, but I bought 99% of them USED for less than $2 a piece with free shipping!!! Yeah so we just remodeled our kitchen, we also bought the windows a year ago and had all the supplies at our house! So who in the hell are you to make a dig at me because your being a bitch. To top off the end of last week and the weekend I was getting harassed because Im not driving 2 hours to be someones personal driver because they want out of the house....UGH See this is why I have a blog and this is why I dont hang out with people...I love my internet friends, cant stand the people in real life I have to be fake to....And they wonder why Im not going anywhere for the holidays Im cooking myself....


But onto some good news, new car is running good, bathroom restaining project.....slow but coming along all the wood pieces Ive sanded and stained look like antiquey burnt wood and I love it but Ive got to get off my butt and start finishing it.

Im gonna get some house work done and get my house cooled off, today was the first day of having to use the wood stove in the morning and the fire is still burning out so its hotter than hell in here even with windows open...Haha time to sit outside and cool off!!!


TTYL!!! Have a great week everyone!!!

*~TNH~*

Friday, September 17, 2010

What a week!!

Its been a little while but its been kind of a hectic yet uneventful week.

As I said before I was 'patiently' awaiting the arrival of my new car. Fiance who is by far the most amazing man EVER got me a new car for my bday an 02 Ford Explorer. Well let me tell you it was love at first drive. Ive never had a budget that allowed for me to have anything power in it or AC and Ive got both haha. Well we got Hank (AKA: Hank the Tank) Wed evening, it was like a rush wham bam thank you maam type deal. I was in the shower and had a pretty outfit ready to wear cuz hey getting new car type deal so I wanted to not be all fancy dressed up but just better than my normal jeans and t-shirt deal. Well not even 5 minutes into my shower shampoo and all in my hair Fiance calls and was like "Get out of the shower NOW call the insurance company and come pick me up we have to leave now weve only got till 430 to transfer the title" It was 4 when he called so I didnt even get the shampoo out of my hair Im running around soaking wet on the phone with the insurance company trying to get dressed pick up all the stuff our dog could eat while I was gone and rush out the door. Poor little Bertha was doing about 70 mph the whole way to pick up fiance cuz he said rush so I RUSHED! But it was a happy retirement day for Bertha and a great welcome for Hank. We took him home and completely did a interior and exterior cleaning of him and literally it was like WOW! I still feel like Im driving someone elses car not my own, Im sure though after a little while Ill get used to driving something so nice. Haha

In the waiting time frame to get Hank I got a wild hair up my butt and decided I was going to sand down the wood pieces in our bathroom to match the whole theme we have going on in the kitchen and living room...Well my goofy butt hasnt finished it and Im babysitting tonight....2 little girls who have a tendancy to get into anything and everything related to perfume, makeup and lotion. One time they even put hand soap ALL OVER my long haired cat...He smelled like lemons for weeks after that it was horrible. But its not even time to pick them up and Im already ready for tomorrow morning. I know its going to be crazy and hectic and full of tantrums because at their moms house they dont have the same rules. Our rules are simple, stay out of what your not allowed in, respect the pets, and dont act like a turd! They know if they misbehave and blantently disregard our rules they will be going home. No bargaining thats that!!! Hopefully though Im just being blah cuz Im grumpy today, it would be nice if things went well tonight!!! Atleast I dont have to cook haha!


Now onto the drama of the week. Seriously why cant most women just be normal. Ya know I get that we all need friends we all need someone to vent to and just gripe moan and complain about our other halves, But why ask advice and then still act like an ass? Really!?!?!  Ive got this 'friend' who wants to hang out this weekend but only because shes mad at her husband for wanting to go out with his friends and golf for a couple hours and she cant go anywhere because she doesnt have a license. Well first, Im not ok with driving alone for an hour to go pick her up, let my car sit at her house and have her drive around with her baby, and then drive another hour back home. Not to mention Fiance does not have a license, he is working on a car this weekend that he has less that a month to get done so if he needs parts Ive got to take him, if he needs help I need to help him, I will not leave him stranded with no way to get to a store or have help. Well rather than explain all this to the girl thru text I called so I could get my point across without her thinking Im trying to be a jerk. She was fine completely understood why it just wasnt feasible and it wasnt that I didnt want to hang out its just that I am not driving for 2 hours to go to a mall when theres one less than 10 minutes from my house. Well she wont drop it shes trying to figure out ways to get Fiance to agree to go do something but its like "Get it thru your thick skull woman I said NO". All in the meantime of her bugging me shes griping moaning and complaining about how shes stuck all the time with her baby and cant go anywhere, she lives too far away from her family, she has no friends, whine, bitch, moan, complain!!!!! So I tell her look if you want to get somewhere with your husband and you want to work this out than you need to tactfully explain your feelings instead of attacking him and making him out to be the ass and yourself the victim, you should have thought about getting your license within the 2 months before you moved knowing full well that you were moving an hour away. They told everyone it was only like 20 minutes...Ummm NO time it on GPS because its over an hour!!!!!!!! Well trying to explain tact and respect to her is like trying to get it across to a 2 yr old, she just is a spoiled brat who was sheltered by her family her whole life and compensated for a minor heart condition. Im not downplaying something serious but she milks her FIXED heart condition for everything its worth, the whole time she was pregnant it was "oh poor me" and now its like "oh pity me". Im just so over it I already know that Ill be avoiding any phone calls or texts from her because I just am sick of having to skirt around being a jerk and not be able to just lay it out there the way she needs to hear it!

This is the reason I stay at home....Its just too much work to try and be polite when all you want to do is scream at the top of your lungs to stop being an idiot. Its like the other members of the family who are crying "Im broke" yet they own 3 cars, just remodeled their house, buy name brand clothes and just took an $800 trip (for housing alone) to Myrtle Beach...Yeah whats wrong with that picture.....Or how about the nimrods who cried moaned and complained their cell bill was too high while Fiance and I were on their plan (we did pay MORE than our share of the bill) then when we got off their plan they run out and add another $60 to their bill...Are you an IDIOT!!!! For real!! Its official Im just going to live my life thru here and my 2 favorite forums haha, the people there are a lot nicer and more considerate!!!!



Whelp Im off to shampoo Hanks carpets and give the Golden one of his last outside baths for the year!! I hope you have a great weekend and hopefully mine goes the same (possible jeep races out in the mountains tomorrow with Fiances boss and family...)

Best Wishes to you all!!!

*~TNH~*

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Bleh...Its Saturday!!

Ugh how bored can one human be on a Saturday...EXTREMELY!!!

Im just hanging out with the puppers keeping them from chasing the cats. Another normal day...Wanna know whats missing? My darling fiance..He got asked to work today and since we are not going to turn down the extra cash he went into work. Muddy crap work at the electric company unloading muck. How awesome but Ive been promised that I wont have to cook tonight. SWEET! I love to cook just hate cleaning up the mess LOL. Being Saturday Im waiting for someone to pop in looking for him, I hate when people come to the house when he isnt home. Not because Im a hermit or anything Ive just decided that I really dont care for people when the hunni bear isnt home. I like being by myself....Speaking of which.


Why am I such a coward?? Seriously! Someone who is supposed to be friends with me and then turns around and offends me or hurts my feelings or worse yet makes me mad, what do I do...Turn the other cheek. Im running out of cheeks here people. I never say anything I just pretend that nothing happened even when Im still mad. Take yesterday for instance. I get a text from someone who is probably too dense to realize they were being an insulting ass. Do I tell them why I havent been texting them or why I dont want to see them no, I just make an excuse to not see them and stop talking to them. Seriously how hard is it to not say something rude and ignorant...well it must be hard because it happens. I guess what really pissed me off about the whole situation is that this person was someone I thought I could count on to be a venting source for myself and her. We could always talk to each other about everything...Now not so much and I really feel that they are being a hypocrite. Sorry but dont say one thing and turn around and do another. Thats one huge thing that both myself and fiance stick to. Granted there are sometimes I say Ill do the dishes or something and not because I didnt feel like it but say someone asked us for help or to be somewhere, do we flake on them NO. We always do what we say we are going to.

Maybe Im just over the whole high school persona of wanting to people please my way thru life to feel like I have friends or something. I just dont care anymore and maybe that makes me callous, or a hermit or anti social but so be it. I dont need to run around playing happy face with people that I dont like and that includes family. As Ive gotten older and 'wiser' in my life I just faced facts that not everyone is a good person and human can suck a lot sometimes. Really have you read the news lately. I read an article about some girl throwing puppies in a river in Bosnia. WTF are you kidding me???? What about the millions of animals surrendered or abandoned because their owners suck. Or the kids abused day after day with noone to stand up for them. Murder, bombings, gangs, drugs.....What is happening to this world? I am a huge animal rights advocate, they dont have voices and they need people to stand up for their rights as living breathing things. There are times when I find a cat on the farm that has been dropped off and I just want to find these people doing this and flip out on them and just ask them WHY? Why is it the cats fault that they were too lazy to have it spayed and it had kittens, or why didnt they get their male fixed and then dropped it off because it started spraying. I was broker than a joke and still got my male and female cats fixed, especially when our last cat was found starving huddled on the side of the barn. Come on people get with the program here!!!! Ok enough of that rant, I get to bleh because theres only so much one person can do. Im hoping that feelers I put out on the web can help one drop off kitten get a new home. Shes such a sweetie pie just needs some loving and a furever home.


Anyways its a crappy Saturday and Im hoping tomorrow we get the word on what up with my new car. Im so excited but trying not to think about it. I cant wait to play with the buttons and stuff Haha. Yeah Im lame never had a car with automatic anything let alone AC and I can get the clicky button unlocky doberwally thing to unlock the doors. The crappy thing, I have a tendancy to lose my car keys or lock them in my car but I cant just go get a spare made. Ive got to get a special computer chip key made directly from a dealer. EEK I better keep a good eye on my keys cuz I CANT LOSE THEM! Haha...


I dont know if Ill post anything tomorrow (not like anyone is reading this haha) but Ill be back on Monday! Everyone have a great weekend and I hope your Saturday is less lame than mine!!

Best Wishes
*~TNH~*

Friday, September 10, 2010

Here Goes Nothing!

Whelp this is it haha. Welcome to my blog, this isnt going to be all that interesting I can tell you that but maybe youll enjoy reading about someone elses life. Im 26, just celebrated my birthday on Labor Day woo-hoo right...NOT Im officially in my late 20's and it feels like two seconds ago I was still in high school. I live in a crappy town with my fiance who literally puts up with my craziness on a daily basis..Why couldnt tell ya it must be love LOL!

Everyday I wake up to drool, jumps, whining and barking...wanna know why. Cuz Im a softee and love animals with a passion. I am at my limits with 3 cats (Fatman, Hercules and GiGi), also a Golden Retriever named Max and a Miniature Dacschund named Franklin. I love them all to death they make waking up everyday an adventure cuz you never know what your going to deal with from day to day. All of my cats are rescues or adoptees and thats something I really enjoy, if I could Id have my own rescue for cats and dogs however at 5 pets the darling fiance has cut me off. LOL Ill still do what I can though.

Seriously this is so weird for me, to basically anonymously be able to get my feelings out and just let loose for once. It may take me a while to find my flow but bare with me please. Ill try and get this show on the road....starting with the events of this week.



So as I said before Happy Birthday to me on Labor Day awesome right. Nahh not so much in the whole family sense. The family obligation is there to see my mom but honestly I could have cared less because when push comes to shove she only 'wants' me around when she needs something that I can help or do for her. But that darling fiance of mine did something beyond amazing. I had been begging since we started remodeling out house (just cosmetically) for us to be able to redo the kitchen. Seriously its a huge pile of crap. I have the counterspace made for Smurfs who can do any serious cooking or baking when your counter needs to not only hold appliances, but also double as a dish rack, cutting board and still hold what you need for cooking and baking. Yeah Right no normal person can cook under those conditions. Well my wish came true. We took my tiny Smurf sized kitchen and basically double the space by removing one small piece of furniture and adding a piece of wood. For real thats all we did....and it took 3 whole days LMAO!

It started with removing our ginormous bay window because hello 70's trailer+bay window=HUGE HEAT BILL! Thankfully this project cost little to nothing we already had the furring strips courtesy of last summers living room make over and the window to replace the bay window from a garage sale last summer. Come on who sells 7 brand new windows for $75, a really dumb person who gave us a great deal! All we needed was to load up the car (got a story about that monster too) and get a nailer, portable air compressor and saws from fiances dads house and bam the project is in motion. I even go to do some demo work how awesome, I felt so frickin cool kicking that window frame outside of its hole and onto the ground. It was a total moment of "I am woman hear me ROAR" Haha I felt like the Hulk! Well we got that all done put the window in, sealed it all up redid the outside of the house got that painted and sealed for whenever we get siding for over top the wood and presto chango pretty kitchen. Inside we have junk paneling thru out the house so down the seams we put furring strips up and also used the strips as floor and ceiling molding and stained it all this really nice dark cherry stain...Super pretty with off white walls. I love it. Also directly under my window we put a whole new shelf up and stained and sealed that as well. Its so nice I have no kitchen table but over double the counter space now so I can bake and wash dishes at the same time. Woo hoo...Ill post some pictures when I figure how to do that. Ive got some good ones!


Since its Friday and Im basically doing the whole week Ill add my final whoopdeedo story. Well I got a new car last year...Not new new but new to me. 1997 Chevy Cavalier, hunkajunk! $100 for the car cuz it had been wrecked and the people didnt wanna fix it. We snatched it up because fiance is like superman of fixing cars. Well sadly Bertha is just not doing too well she needs more TLC that Im willing to invest her. I mean come on why would I want to put hundreds of dollars in a car Im trying to replace already. Dont get me wrong though I love the beast shes a great little car but we need a bigger car. Max is scared of getting in Bertha, we cant haul wood in her or the trailers for taking scrap. I know we sound like hicks but when your fiance works on cars sometimes you gotta make trips to a scrap yard, or junk yard and a little Cavalier just aint cutting it! So add birthday surprise number....4 I think my loving, amazing, perfect, sweet, thoughtful, handsome, angelic fiance went behind my back and bought me a 2002 Ford Explorer....Ugh Im in LOVEEEEEE! Its exactly what I wanted, an SUV, nice roomy, the interior is nice the body isnt smashed up. Bonus is that the engine only has like 5 miles on it, the tranny was redone. Woo Frickin Hoo....Bad news is that we were supposed to get the new car tonight :o( we wont now till possibly Sunday or Wednesday of next week or *GULP* the week after that cuz of stupid Bike Week in Florida. EEK my patience has run to non existant and I want daily updates as to what is going on. *Stupid freakin pulley needing fixed*


Argh..Anyways the random people reading this well ya'll have a GREAT weekend and Ill see ya Monday or maybe a bop in TCS or GRF since I haunt those places daily!! LOL


<3 *~TNH~*