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So...most of you know already but I adopted / rescued a puppy 2 weeks ago today. The lady I adopted him from said he had hardly any fur and was covered in ticks and fleas. Poor guy! He is 14 weeks old today. I'm learning a lot, having a lot of fun and feel like I am emotionally exhausted. From him not eating one day and having a very upset tummy to having no accidents the first week and now about every other day having accidents....in the end he will be worth it, or is worth it.

Here are some pics of my baby.... Jax!

The first and only day he slept outside of his kennel.

Showin' off the chompers!

Snugglin' with mama... first day home and only time he's laid down with me

Car ride home, not too sure what to think.

Other than that, keeping busy with work (playing multiple roles is getting old!) and the 2009 Race for the Cure. The race is August 9th, a week from tomorrow. This is my first year so I'm very unsure of a lot of things, I'm excited to be helping and very proud to be doing something that has such meaning to my family.

Jax is sleeping, so I am taking advantage of it and going to call it a very early night!

Until next time

slacking

Lots to share... you know the story. Been busy.

Stay tuned for some big news... big news for me at least :)

God is Good

To follow up on my last post... the longer I thought about things that night, which made me cry ever harder and longer, I realized that one individual is my friend. A friend who does care, but is being influenced by a group of people who are not friends. I then cried some more because I was upset with myself for doubting this person's friendship... but in the end I realized that Satan was testing me and God pulled through with me.

I realized during these hours of praying and thinking that this person never really has been my friend and that in my mind and in my heart I've tried over the last several months to "make" this person want to be my friend. It just isn't meant to be right now, and at the end of the day I am okay with that.

I woke up the next morning feeling 100% refreshed. 100% thankful to God for yet again getting me through that situation.


Other than that... yesterday was a very lazy, relaxing Saturday. I slept most of the day and today has been my productive day. I've done 2 loads of laundry (folded and put away even!), worked, went to Church, cleaned up and am now cooking dinner.

Hope everyone has had a great weekend and have a great week coming up... it's going to be a stressful start but will end in a relaxful way! Can't beat having all the sales executives and the director out of town for a full day!!

How?

How do I go years thinking these people are my friends. People who I thought cared about me. People who want the best for me. People who I could share my happiness with and see the joy in their face for me or to the other extreme people I could share my problems with and know its hurting them too.

I am disappointed in myself for... I guess in my mind for trying to make myself think they were friends. Tonight I realized that a handful of people in my life are not truly friends. They are people who use me and will in my mind always use me.

I am glad that I finally saw this and can adjust some things in my life. Their loss, not mine!

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On a good note, I asked Him to help me through a situation last night and not within 20 minutes was the situation resolved and I felt 100% better. God is good!

Happy 4th of July... almost

I got told the other day that I was slacking on blogging... busted! So, heres for you CM!

I guess not a lot has been going on for me to post...

It's July... seriously, can you believe Christmas is 5.5 mos away? Can you believe the kids start back to school next month?

Work was going pretty good (considering all that we have been through as an office) until the last week or so. Sadly, the one person who I thought was a good friend has proven otherwise and with just a few of us in the office its proving to be a challenge. I have a lot to focus on or do with all the stuff going on so I just need to focus on that and life will be good.

My parents will be here later today, for the weekend. Haven't made any plans or really thought about what we're going to do yet, probably should start working on that. I assume our weekend will consist of a trip to the Legends for my Dad and some shopping for Mom.

Told you I didn't have much to blog about. Just a few pics

The other day I decided I'd go home a different way and came across this beauty. It's my future house, how nice of these builders and people to look out for me like that, huh?

What my job consisted of one day this past week. Making address labels, printing 173 letters, stuffing envelopes, sealing envelopes and then b/c our company decided to get rid of my Pitney Bowes machine, putting 173 stamps on these envelopes. Good times.

And lastly, what I am currently on the hunt for. Its time for a change and I think one of these 'lil guys could just do the trick.

Have a Happy and Safe 4th everyone!

Happy Father's Day!

I can't speak for others, but I would like to think for those of us who can't physically be with our Dads on Father's Day, it tends to make our hearts ache, makes us home sick..... at least for me, it does.

I haven't seen my Dad in a little over a month. They were supposed to be down this past weekend, but he had surgery and is recovering currently. My next planned trip wasn't supposed to be until Thanksgiving, but that may change. I may find a long weekend to go back.

So...onto the purpose of this post.

Happy Father's Day to the best Daddy a girl could ask for! Who knows just what it takes to break the "ice" first thing in the morning... the best grandpa to my nephew and niece... to one of the most stubborn men I've ever met (hehe)! I love you and can not wait to see you again!

so glad this week is over!

To say its been a week from he double hockey sticks is an understatement. The good news story is that the boss and I have been getting along for 2 weeks straight... maybe 3. Either way, it's been a good run and I think we're only on the uphill.

The bad news is I've cleaned out 4 desks this week... this WEEK! 4 desks... 4 reps ... gone. Yesterday I had 5 trash cans full from 1 desk... today I filled at least 4... our cleaning people have to hate us. The bad part about that is I'm not even half way there. Insane.

Good news story... fresh people, fresh faces, people to train the way we want / need them to be...I guarantee its going to be a rough, interesting, challenging next month or so, but we will pull through.

Okay, so apparently I had a few more pics than the daisies... I think next time I will separate out events to make it easier ...

My other BFF

This pic was taken in '99. Three things:

1. Look at how full my hair was, what I wouldn't give to have that full hair again.
2. I have this pic on my fridge as a reminder of a size I once used to be.
3. This girl and I have been friends since 8th grade...that's 15 years!

And this little cutie is my neice, Samantha. My bff above step-daugther. Isn't she just adorable?!

I had to run to Lowe's a few weeks back and picked up this for $5... can't beat that. I need a shepards hook to hang it on... for now its just sitting on my patio.

here it is today

another plant of mine

this poor guy... I'm not sure how much longer its going to make it. I've had it since about 2002... it used to be so full and beautiful...

The Daisies

red

all 3 of them by each other

late May - early June 2009

Currently I'm relaxing at home listening to some tunes before the game starts. While I won't be paying full attention to the game, I definitely will be watching it.

I'm not sure where to begin, or what to talk about first, so here goes!

I don't think I've shared with the world (well, the few of you who actually read this) that I am attempting to date. Attempting being the key word there! You see, I haven't "dated" in about 10 years... I dated my ex for about 5 years off an on, went through a period of "nobody can love me", then the period of I hate my job and my life, then I moved to Kansas City and dating was the last thing on my mind. I'm finally trying to put myself first and find my prince charming... or at least meet some more friends! I put myself on this website (POF) and after finishing this blog will be removing myself. It's a free site, that should have been the first sign. Started talking to Q, we were going to meet, he never showed and stopped all communication. Started talking to W, we actually met. I really liked him, felt like we had a lot in common and there was something there... until he pulled the same crap. He stopped responding to calls, texts, etc. About a month or so later he told me he had decided to go this way b/c he has a g/f and every time in the past he had tried to end things she supposedly hurt herself physically. He said he had strong feelings for me and wanted to be with me but didn't want the girl to hurt herself. We decided just to be friends and were going to hang out... he stood me up and yet again has stopped all communication. Moving on... started talking to J...another guy I decided after talking to that I wanted to meet. Well, he avoided meeting for dinner at all costs, and after a few comments I took it that he couldn't afford to really "date" a girl. I told him I didn't expect to go to a 5-star restaurant, but to start dating somebody I do expect dinner... we haven't really talked since. An occasional hi, but thats it. Then there's C... I had talked to him a few months ago, he was supposed to come out to LS to meet me, never showed up. Supposedly he fell asleep. We didn't talk for a good few months then out of the blue he gets ahold of me. We started talking... I am intrigued by him. I wish I could pinpoint what it is about him, but haven't been able to do that yet. He was going to come to LS last Friday, last Saturday, Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday night... one excuse after another I am "dumping" him. We were going to meet last Monday afternoon, I ran upstairs to shower and ended up falling asleep in bed , during that time he called 16 times, left 3 voices mails and sent about 5 texts. Seriously? Peace yo! Soooo... again the website is gone, well more like my profile is gone. It is apparently not my time to have somebody in my life, at least somebody that I've met online.


I have been giving myself pedicures... and while I'm not a professional, I think they look pretty good for the 3 times I've done it. I was doing the typical french manicure, I switched it up this time and went with a pink tip french manicure. You may not want to enlarge! ha

The weekend of May 29th was Rockfest... and my birthday! My golden birthday was the 29th! One of my BFF, Patti, came down with her b/f. They got lost Friday night trying to get here, and when I went to find her I got turned around, LOL. We were up until about 4 a.m. Saturday morning, I had to turn around and get up for a 9 a.m. appointment. I was tired already and the day had just started! I had planned on getting to Liberty Memorial for Rockfest around 12:30 or 1:00, we got there around 1:45. By the time we hiked from my friends house to Liberty Memorial and around Liberty, I was beyond hot and felt like crap. I thought I was going to have to leave them there. But, after a bottle of water, a bottle of caffeine and sitting under a shade tree, I was good. It was an incredible time (minus the contact high from all the people doing drugs) and can't wait for next year already! For those of you not familiar with Rockfest... here's just a little info... it's held at Liberty Memorial in KC, for the past two years it's been 50,000 people shoved into the park, 15 bands, 2 stages, all food and drinks are $5 or less and much much more. And of course, the pictures start from the end ... I don't care though :)

Right before we left... speaking of leaving, as we were working our way through the crowd trying to leave, I had to stop and almost threw up. The closer we got to the stage the worse the smell of drugs got. UGH!


Rock on sista!

You got beads for showing your boobs.

One of the awesome girls we sat next to, forgot her name but she was awesome.

A small section of the trash near us. Everywhere you went was trash... Johnny always says the place looks better the day after when they bring the cleaning crew in then when they started...

I look like complete crap, but didn't care. Patti made a tourbon for me when we were walking to keep the heat off my head, which didn't do jack for my hair... but again, I didn't care.

Awwwwe, besties!

Check out the hairy man in the right corner... ewwww!

Another hairy man (in the white tank)... and the lady in the black tank... if you're my "friend" on facebook, this is who I was talking about. She was rockin' it out, but spilled her beer with every shake of her booty. Alcohol abuser!

MOOSE!

One of the 10 commandments of Rockfest.

And another.
And this we almost had to do.

Druggies!

LOL... I was totally trying to be non-chalant about taking this hottie's picture but got busted! He was such a ball of energy and such a good 'neighbor'!

Patti & Donnie

Put 'em away!

Wow

People walking to Rockfest

Before we left

Our shadows in my car.

Dad has surgery next Friday... 3 hernia's. Poor guy. I'm debating going back for the weekend, but don't think I'm going to be able to as I'm covering for somebody that day.

I went to the market yesterday, gosh I love going! I should have went earlier to avoid some of the craziness, but got 2 of 3 things I went for. I got some gorgeous gerber daisies! Because of the way blogger is un-doing all of my edits, I will post the pics in a separate entry...

Lastly, I'm always stealing recipies off of others blogs... I wanted to share this - pretty simple but very good!

Chicken breasts

Lawry's Baja Chipotle Marinade

Jalepeno bread

Jalepeno cheese

Spread some marinade on the bottom of the dish you're cooking the chicken in.

Lay your chicken breasts in the dish.

Cover the tops of the chicken breasts with marinade.

Marinade for an hour.

Bake for 40-45 minutes @ 400.

Put chicken on slice of jalepeno bread with a slice of jalepeno cheese and serve.

Delish!

Pictures of the daisies to follow...