A GOOD Monday :)

My last blog I was complaining about my Mondays and at the end I said NO MORE!  No more crazyness, it must stop!  Thank God this is such a better start to the week! 

I had such an awesome weekend.  Im so blessed to have family and friends and my wonderfully hubby.  You know we dont thank God enough in the good times, we tend to just pray for him to get us out of the bad times.  And I just want to say Thank you Lord, because I am so blessed! 

Saturday I finally got Nates man room pretty much picked up.  It had morphed into our "junk" room for over a month and it was beginning to make me crazy!  I got a lot of things put up in our attic.  You know I wish I was one of those people who could just throw stuff away, but I just cant.  I mean obveously we havent needed it in a while since its been sitting there and got sent to the attic, but its just one of those things that I will eventually throw away the next time I move and dont want to drag it to my next house to clutter up, but for now we will keep it.  I have still have some stuff over at my moms that I have to get too, which makes me depressed, but thats okay Ill find a corner of the attic to stack it in and we will be good to go again.  Anyway, I cleaned taht mess up and got my house straightened up and then met my sissy and mom at Kirklands for their little weekend sale.  I found a beautiful picture to hang in my living room, I'll update you with a pic once Nate and I get it hung...straight... which will probably be a whole other blog in itself!  Then we went to the mall and looked around.  I was so greatful to get to get out of the house because the ACC tournametn was on.  When Nate and I got married, I told him he could watch as much of any sport he wanted and I would watch it with him except for racing and golf.  Luckily he is not into either of those much, so i get overdosed with football and Duke basketball.  I have really grown to love both of them, but I am not as hard core bout Duke as Nate is.  I will cheer them on and be sad when they loose, but its just not something I want to do on Saturdays.  So while I was out shopping, Nate was watching the game!  It worked out really well because he gets in heated screaming matches with the TV when they are doing bad and of course I try to be realistic and calm him down which only makes things worse because then he holds it in and wont talk till the game is over.  So I think we have finally found the best solution!  Me+leave him alone during the game = happy Nate lol

After shopping Nate took me out on a date!  We do things all the time, but most of the time its with other people, or we are singing somewhere.  So we went bowling, and out to eat for pizza and let me tell you I just had the time of my life!  I dont think I have laughed so hard in years.  Nathan is a funny funny guy, and I would tell you what was so funny, but it was one of those you just had to be there moments.  And of course we ended our romantic date with Krispy Kreme!  Chocolate covered cream filled is my FAV and I gained 1lb over the weekend too... BOOO

Sunday was a wonderful day too, we got a band together and lead worship at a new church in Gastonia called My Fathers House.  Its located at the Y off Union Road, go check it out if your in the area! 

My neice Tori is in Cheer Xplosion, a cheer competition team, and she competed at UNCC, so all the girls went to watch her and then eat for Kimmies birthday.  Which leads me to my next rant....


HOW COULD ANYONE NOT LIKE THE OFFICE?!!!!  My sisters think its the stupidest show ever and its annoying, but I think its the funniest show ever!  I told them a joke from it and they burst out in mocking laughter at the cheesecake factory last night!  Okay, please make a comment on this if you like or dislike the office I want to know! 

Another CRAPPY day..

literally!  Now all of you positive thinkers out there, dont jump down my negative speaking throat just yet because when I say I've had a crappy day.  Im speaking quite literally.  You see this morning Nathan and I woke up to go to the gym, which we havent done in a while because of my knee, the weather, belly aches, you know all the normal we just dont feel like going to the gym excuses, and everything was great.  Even though my knee still hurts ( I fell one Saturday morning on the icy deck trying to take CoCo out to pee so she didnt do it in the house) I still made myself run 1/2 a mile before it started to hurt, so I was pretty happy with my workout.  We came home, by now its about 6:30am and I made myself a nice bowl of oatmeal and Nate a bowl of frosted flakes with a banana sliced in it.  I had JUST sat down to start on my oatmeal with Nate yelled across the house for me to "come here"  I could tell by his tone he wasnt happy about the reason I had to "come here".... so.... I went.  And this is where the crappy part comes in!  Water, yes WATER, the same topic of my last blog, was pouring out of the bottom of the toilet, the tub was full of water, the guest bathroom toilet was gushing water, and the tub in the guest bathroom was barfing up...shower leftovers.... UCK... We grabbed every "old" towel we could find, shut off the water, and called my bro n law Chris, who is a plumber.  He told us its probably our septic tank.  So we are lucky that there wasnt crapp spewing everywhere instead of water!  Thank you Lord!  :)  The pots finally stopped leaking and Nate stayed home today to get someone out there to pump the tank.  Someone came about 1:30, and Nate said that was the nastiest thing he had ever seen!  The guy took his shovel and tapped the top of the "sludge" and it was HARD... EEWWW!!!!  He said he doubted if the tank had ever been pumped and the house is 20 years old!  Can you imagine, 20 years of CRAP!  OMG!!!  Thats pretty hard core right there, I dont know what I would have done if 20 years of crap would have started oozing out my toilets and tubs and sinks instead of just plain ol water.  So, that is done, BUT the stuff is still clogged up.  How exciting is that?!  I hope this isnt the beginning of a vicious trend of horrible Mondays.  You know how sometimes the weather gets on a cycle of snowing every Wed. or raining every Saturday.  This will not be good if it is going to be a habit, and I can just tell you right now that it will NOT be because I just wont allow it.  From today on, "I do declare" - michael scott, the office, that there will be NO MORE CRAPPY MONDAYS!!!!  :)

Looks like a job for THIS guy....