First - the AC was repaired this afternoon! WOW - seriously I can't believe what a difference it makes!!
The sunroof in my car is now my next dilemna... confirmed tonight it's not sealing or closing when I went to the car wash and water came shooting in the car... bitches!
Now ... since I can enjoy my AC, I decided to post some random info about me...
1) What stickers do you have on your car? Hawkeyes
2) Do you have any nieces or nephews? What's their names? yep... Brayden & Mikayla, Zach, Hannah, Samantha
3) What do you hear right now? fridge and tv
4) If you could drink anything right this second, what would it be? water
5) Does anything hurt on your body right now? nope
6) Went on vacation? Not this summer...
7) What size ring do you wear? not sure
8) Do you own a camera phone? yep
9) When's your birthday? end of May
10) What is the weather like? freakin hott
11) What should you be doing now? Honestly, since I haven't slept well the last two nights, sleeping
12) Did you attend your High School prom? just my senior year
13) Did you go to someone else's prom? nah
14) Would you give your bf/gf a second chance if they cheated? Did once, will never again
15) Something red within 5 feet of you: couch
16) Do you like stars? sure
17) The funniest thing you've seen this week? not sure
18) Ever done the Electric Slide? no
19) How much French do you know? few words
20) Favorite sparkly thing? earrings
21) Ever crash a car, been in accidents? one accident
22) Do you look good in yellow? I've been told I do
23) Ever fooled around at work? yeah... ha
24) Ever sang in front of a crowd? once
25) Do you dance? in my house when noone is around
26) Something sweet about the person who took this before you: she's a sweet girl
27) Favorite kind of pizza? taco
28) Ever had Dippin Dots? I don't think so
29) Ever make fun of a homeless person? nope
30) How old were you when you got your first car? 16
31) How many speeding tickets? technically - never had one but my record shows 1. I accidently ran a red light in '99 and the office ticketed me for speeding... bastard
32) Snow or sand? either
33) How many parking tickets? none
34) Has anyone ever told you you have pretty eyes? pretty frequently, yes
35) How many different people of the opposite sex have you cried over? 2
36) How tall are you? 5'8
37) What time do you usually wake up on the weekends? depends... somewhere between 6:30 and 9:00
38) Do you like your phone? its okay, the battery won't keep its charge, its got a scratch on the screen and it randomly shuts off
39) What color are your bed sheets? chocolate
40) Do you ever keep arguing even when you know you’re wrong? probably
41) Are you tan? arms and face, yes
42) Last time you took a nap? Saturday
43) Are you slowly drifting away from someone close? already happened
44) When was the last time you cried really hard? been awhile
45) When was the last time you held someone’s hand? not sure
46)Last bed you slept in? MINE
47) Are you wearing socks right now? ummm, hello? it's 90+ degrees outside.
48) When was the last time you went out of state? ha, well I do that normally 5 days of the week... working across the state line can do that to ya!
49) Have you been to the movies in the last 5 days? nope
50) What was your last purchase? the part for my AC
51) Hair color? brown
52) Do you have a pet? nope
53) Plans for tonight? going to bed
54) Is the person you last kissed physically attractive? yes
55) How long have you known your best friend? Amanda since junior high... so 14 years... Patti since WalMart days ... so about 10 years
56) Do you currently have a hickey? NASTY!
57) Who is the fifth text in your inbox from? What does it say? Probably Bryan, but not positive and not going to find my phone to verify that
58) What's your favorite number? 13
59) What do you miss most about high school? not having all the bills & worries
60) What are your initials? KJA
61) How many and what kind of animals are in your house? didn't I already answer this... no pets
Monday, July 21, 2008
random info about me
taken for granted
I haven't been at work since Thursday afternoon / evening. I was hoping to have a nice, relaxing, productive 4-day weekend. That all fell through Saturday night.... when my AC in the house stopped working. I didn't realize it wasn't working through until Sunday. It apparently was cool enough in here Saturday that it held through until Sunday morning. It was a LONG, HOT day and night yesterday.
Thank goodness for the fan I bought a few weeks back...I bought it in hopes to be able to keep the air circulated in the house enough that I wouldn't have to run the air so low. Well, it has been my saving grace. Last night at about 11:00 p.m. I'd had enough. I packed up a few things and was going to go stay in a hotel. About 1/2 way there I decided I was being a wuss and there are people who have no fan and are struggling to stay alive in heat like this, so I turned around after a few tears and came back home.
I'm sitting here now, sweating my ass off, waiting on the people to get here to fix my AC. Apparently somebody needs more help than me! I'll be so thankful once its fixed and hopefully not take everything for granted.
The week will turn around and it will get better!
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
hafta vent & lots of pics
So the venting piece - I can't get over, and I know I'm not the only one nor the first to say this, but it still blows me away that Cedar Rapids Iowa has their town flooded, something like 4000 houses lost and do you hear anything about charity events or concerts being held to raise money for these folks? Do you see anything being done by our country to take care of our people? HELL no! Why? A few reasons in my opinion ...1 - it's not a big city like New Orleans, 2 - it hasn't affected celebrities or where their concerts may be held, 3 - more importantly - OUR folks will pull together and take care of each other. They don't need (well, really they do) the help from the US population as we Iowa'ns will take care of EACH OTHER!!
I cried while watching this video... watch it closely. You'll see the stickers on the houses indicating their "status". Safe to enter, not able to enter, etc.
Now, onto the good part, pictures. There is quite a few :)
More pics from the Clark family visit...
Amanda n Samantha
The only pics I got from when my Mama was here (and they were from my cell... ugh)
Mom at Crown Center at their Christmas Store... (click on the picture to make it bigger and read her shirt - it's pretty damn funny)
At the Crayola Store... that is a life size crayon box!
Habitat for Humanity day...
Mark on the ladder, Mary pointing and Matt observing
Bryan's ride for the day... bastard! I'm so jealous!
One of the houses we worked on
PT still smiling after a hard days work
Our team (and the supervisor)
Front row L to R: Mike, Mary, Duane, or Big D (the supervisor)
Back row L to R: Mark, Brad, Mike, Paul, Bryan, Jill, myself and Matt
The after Habitat for Humanity party!
Out on the lake on Mark's boat!
A few pics from Patti's visit... damn I miss this girl!
Mother & Son
Joey, Patti & Zach (LOVE Patti's expression!)
Me, Patti and Zach (sun was in Z's eyes)
BFF! Seriously, there are no words to express how much I miss her and what I wouldn't give to live down the complex again from her! When you movin' to KC girl?!?! Love ya to pieces!
And last but not least, I went out to Lake Jacomo Sunday night... to wind down, to relax... had a little picnic by myself, read a book and got some good photos!
Little man chasin the geese, it was so stinkin cute! The smile on his face is priceless!
They were tired of him so back in the water they went!
These two young kids brought these old cars down for some pics, very nice cars!!
WOW! I think that's enough for now :o) I'm ready for my Friday & Monday "off work" days to be here!
Sunday, July 13, 2008
3 of 3
My BFF Patti was down this weekend with her son and a teenager friend (hence the 3 of 3 or 3 busy weekends in a row). I never forget how much I miss this girl and seeing her only makes the time in between harder. They got into town around 6:00 pm Friday evening. We had dinner at Applebee's where I (maybe we) experienced one of the worst waitress experiences in my life. I think I've never tipped only one other time. For a $42 tab and 4 of us eating, she only got $1. It was that bad, seriously. After dinner we drove around downtown then came home to shoot off some fireworks.
Saturday we didn't get up until around 11:00. Had lunch at Red Robin (yummy! It was my first time there) then came home to change into swim gear and headed to Oceans / Worlds of Fun. We got there around 2:30 and didn't leave until 11:30pm. I was exhausted! But I didn't let that stop me - we then headed to Perkins for dinner as we hadn't eaten.
We all slept in until around 11:00 again today, had a quick and cheap lunch and they left :( I haven't had time to download the pics yet - which sadly I didn't take very many. I left my camera in the car Satuday in fear of it getting wet and ruined and regretted not having it so many times. I'm thinking about buyin a cheap digital camer that won't piss me off if it gets ruined. Pics to follow on a separate post.
I miss her and Z already, but it'll only be a few months this time instead of SEVEN! I'm flat out exhausted (even with sleeping in until 11:00). I took tomorrow off, it'll give me a chance to run a few errands but also catch up on some sleep!!
Now...back track a few days. :o)
This week flew by so fast! Mark was still out Monday so the day was over in a heartbeat - or so it felt like! Tuesday and Wednesday flew by with him trying to catch up and me trying to get everything ready for being out of the office for a few days. Thursday the team and I volunteered at Habitat for Humanity. It was so effin hot! It pissed me off that every time I tried to move around to do stuff I felt like I was going to hurl. I felt like a big 'ol loser who didn't help in any way. I'm tellin you, the heat and I dont' jive. We started off tearing down some siding (because it wasn't put up right), tressels were put up on a porch, a stair case was torn out to put a landing in, the staircase put was put back in, a roof was being prepared to be shingled, more siding was put up. We all enjoyed it, I can't wait to do it again! I will however make sure it's done in the spring or fall next time though! Pics to follow of this as well.
For now, I'm off to do some laundry and maybe catch a little nap!
Hope everyone had a great weekend!
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
innocence 2
Monday, July 7, 2008
Sunday, July 6, 2008
is it really Sunday night?
Normally when the last day of the month is on a Monday, the week drags...thankfully not this week! It was Thursday before I knew it. I had training from 8a-1130, a few of us went to lunch then just as we were getting back my Mama pulled in the parking lot! We headed to a nearby mall, we shopped for a little bit then I decided I should go back to work for a bit. I left her there to shop, but never made it back to the office :) As I was backing out one of the kids called and wanted to meet for drinks - so off to the bar we went! Mom called around 4 and said she was done... I picked her up and back to the bar we went! We both felt pretty good by the time we left. Friday morning we didn't get up so early, but shopped all damn day! If you know me, you know I'm not a big shopper. We were invited to a few different places to watch fireworks, but we ended up staying home, laying in bed watching the fireworks around my house.
Saturday we got up at what felt like the butt-crack of dawn, heading to the City Market. I was a bit disappointed as I wasn't able to find any melon... but Mom had a good time. We shopped some more on Saturday then just lounged around Saturday night.
Today we drove to Lake Jacoma and Longview Lake then went for lunch. I was sad to see my Mama leave, but we had such a good time - lots of laughs!
The work week starts again tomorrow, but it's another 4-day work week for me as my BFF gets in Friday! I can't freakin wait!!
Have a great week everyone!
