One, two, three, four

The IPOD commercial makes me giddy every time I see it. Why? Because it's the song that our TTD photogs used for our slide show!

So, I decided I needed it for my new ring tone. After a quick Google search I was able to find the name/artist, and YAY!! I now have a new ring tone.
However, I could never make out all the words, and now that I have them.......well, you tell me what you think.

one, two, three four
tell me that you love me more
sleepless, long nights
that was what my youth was for
oh teenage hopes are lying at your door
left you with nothing,
but they wanted more.
oh, oh, oh,
you're changing your heart.
oh, oh, oh,
you know who you are.
sweetheart, bitter heart,
now i can't tell you apart.
cozy and cold,
put the horse before the cart.
those teenage hopes,
through our tears and the lies.
too scared to run off,
to one little life.
oh, oh, oh,
you're changing your heart.
oh, oh, oh,
you know who you are.
one, two, three, four, five, six, nine, and ten.
money can't buy you back the love that you had then.
one, two, three, four, five, six, nine, and ten.
money can't buy you back the love that you had then.
oh, oh, oh,
you're changing your heart.
oh, oh, oh,
you know who you are.
oh, oh, oh,
you're changing your heart.
oh, oh, oh,
you know who you are.

I HATE COX!!

Ha! After I typed that I realized it could take on a whole other meaning...

Anyways.......
Our internet is through cox. I don't know that I have many other options for this, especially when our phone and cable it also through cox.
Well, my internet is down frequently. We have that high-speed, high tech crap. Did I ever say I married a geek? Anyways, so whatever we have in the house is up-to-date and great. So, I wonder why we have issues? It's not our equipment.

After months of calling cox and having random service guys come look at our stuff.......they finally told us that we are the last of the last. Meaning the box thingy that we get our internet from has like a line system. Someone is first, then there's lots of other people, then you have us. We are the end of the line. What does that mean? It means that if alot of other people are using their internet, our signal sucks!!!

But, we pay the same amount as those other people. Therefore, I am pissed! As I'm typing this right now, blogger is telling me "could not contact Blogger.com" Saving and publishing may fail"
You have no idea how many times I type something, only to hit post, and get the "internet explorer can not display the webpage"I just attempted 4 times to post on Courtney's blog. Those poor horses.

Ok, I have learned some things from this. If you are typing alot, copy and paste it to a notepad. That way you don't have to start over, or worse, try to remember what the hell you were trying to say. Speaking of which, I'm running to save this right now. Love the control A, control C, control V options!

Anyways.....after months of those guys doing nothing but telling us we were SOL, last night DH was finally trying to do some work online. Note that when I'm trying to work online, it's ok. But, since it was him, he was irate! He called them and demanded that we do not pay for a service we are not getting. So, last night they stopped charging us for internet, and will start again in Thursday night when the service guys can come out. And I imagine every time we get dropped, we will be calling telling them to stop charging. Hopefully now they will do something!

Will this post? Am I back online??



Nope. I'll try later. Right now it's time to listen to my son read a book about sharks.

(note: I tried to post this from 8 pm until 10 pm last night. I finally gave up and went to bed)

How did I get my new job?

Well, I'm convinced I owe it all to my knottie friend, Marcie. She did my resume. She does this as a side business.
http://www.resumebee.com/

It's been a long time since I've had an office job. I've been doing things such as corrections officer, drug/alcohol counselor, group home supervisor, mental health worker, etc....
How was I going to get back into the accounting field? I had no idea. I started my college career in accounting, but thought it was boring. Hence my switch to criminal justice. If I only knew......

But, I'm back in baby!!
Thanks Marcie!!!

I have a new job!!

Ok, so I'm sure you're wondering why I would have a new job, when I own my own business. Well, sometimes business just isn't going well. I need some guaranteed income. So, I've been long searching for the perfect job. I finally found it!! I have a part-time bookkeeping position with a small law firm. I can go in around my pet sitting schedule!! It's wonderful! I've only been there for 3 days, but I love it! The gals are great to work for. It's a kind of law I'm not really versed in, but I can learn. ( my degree is in Criminal Justice)

For those of you who don't know.......When I first started my business, I had 2 part-time jobs, which eventually turned into 3. So, last year I basically had 4 jobs. In August of last year, I quit one, and quit the other 2 in November. My thought was I could live off my pet sitting income. And for awhile I could. But then, 3 of my very regular clients moved and I have not been able to replace them. So, off to a new job working for someone else.

(sorry, no new pictures!)

Done with the dress

We had our reception last night. It was wonderful! The dress was clean :)
We had about 60 people show up; my mom, all DH's family, a few co-workers and our friends. My family apparently doesn't like to travel. I swear none of them ever go anywhere! When I lived there I couldn't wait to get out of that town!
We had it at a Mexican restuarant (wanted to keep the theme going).
Afterwords we went out with our friends for a night of kareoke. I think the dress has served it's purpose. I've worn it 3 times now, and every time I was excited to get into it. But, after the reception, I couldn't wait to get out of it. Everyone wanted me to wear it out on the town, (i'm sure so they could get free drinks), but I went home and changed. It was hot and heavy.
It's new home is on top of my son's bunk bed. Lord knows how long it will stay there until I decide what to do with it. Will I preserve it? Or sell it?? I could donate it. I'll have to do some more research on that. I heard somewhere you can donate it and the proceeds go to breast cancer research. Or something like that. Can anyone help me out here?

I'll talk some more about our AHR after I get the pictures uploaded.

TTD Video!!

Can I just say how great these guys are?!?!?!? Our reception is this weekend. We did the TTD around 3 weeks ago, and they ALREADY have our video done!!!! So, we get to show it off at the reception!
(let's just hope my dress is cleaned by then and it will all be perfect!)

http://fatcatrocks.blogspot.com/2007/08/extreme-session-kick-off.html

Scroll done towards the bottom of their blog to see our video! It's absolutely amazing! You can't leave comments on their blog, but feel free to give them some love on my blog. They will be reading it!!

Be sure to have your volume on!

Need your help!

Ok, so I'm determined to start painting rooms again. We had a horrible experience with the kitchen and took some time off........but it's time to go again.
First place is the entry/hallway. What color should I use?
Here are some pictures to help you decide. Please don't judge the mess, we're cleaning......(the picture frames for our wedding pictures, and I'm throwing old magazines away.....)


This is the veiw from our living room into the entry.

This is the end of the hallway, towards the entry.

This is the entry into the living room

The kitchen into the entry/hall way.

Our new rug in the living room. Basing our new color scheme off of this. browns, greens, and a sky blue.

Thank you cards

Well, it took awhile, but here they are. (I hope)





Our reception is next week!! So far 50 people have RSVP'd.

Oh, and since we realized all these people would probably want to see our house, we started buying stuff off our registry! We got a new rug, a purse organizer, some photo frames. Still looking for a new shoe organizer.
I'll get some pictures after we're done moving stuff around.



And, I've spent the day making these..........



This one for my MOH.


And this one for my MIL.

I plan on making one for FIL, BIL, Mom and my kids. But, the program is so slow that my patience is gone for today. I'll have to wait for another day....