Food for Thought

“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.”

Stanley Lindquist quotes

Some late Thanksgiving pics.

I was craving DeAngelos

Nampkin face
sending their letters to Santa
It is snowing, if they only knew it was really going to snow :)
my little angel babies
Sara's xmas list :)
Kali's long x-mas list
paw paw and his girls
Nice

Jennifer, I am waiting on those pics, you better send them before you have that baby!

It's beginning to look a lot like christmas!

I have not blogged in a while so I feel that I need to catch up. Thanksgiving was great and surprisingly quite drama free. I loved getting to see the babies. We took them to get pictures taken with Santa. They are totally fans of his. I think this is the first year Kali did not cry, I tend to think it is really funny when children cry st the sight of Santa, but the picture was precious anyway. Too bad it is such a rip off. We only bought two pictures. They rape you on the prices!

It snowed in Louisiana the other day. I was woken up at like 6 with a call from my mom after a night of nightmares. It scared the shit out of me. She said "you wont believe..." as I prepared myself for the horrible news I thought was about to come out of her mouth she then said "it is snowing". I was beyond jealous for several reasons: 1. I missed Kali and Sara's first sight of snow. 2. I missed the snow. 3. I had already had a shitty week at work and was feeling homesick and this did not help. 4. It was 73 and rainy in shitty Florida! So, like I said, I was not a happy camper as I drove to work getting pictures of the snow and listening to Christmas music in my car trying to pretend it was cold outside.

Last week was probably one of the worst weeks I have had at work. I worked until like 7 or 8 every night. I am swamped and it doesn't look like it will get better. I don't know if I was PMSing or if I am just in the mindset of "I am leaving in three months". I cant wait to get into teaching. When I hear teachers bitching about their jobs it makes me want to throw up in my mouth. They have no idea how good they have it. Either that or they just have no idea how bad other people have it. I will definitely appreciate the hours, vacations, and not having to look poverty, despair, helplessness, and criminals in the face every day. I think my job is slowly depressing me, and I am not a depressed person. I will stop complaining now.

Today was very nice. I went to Target which makes me happy. I got Sara's xmas presents. I got her some play dough, a finger painting kit, and some outfits that I know she will look too cute in. Then I went to Flavors, my fav. They had a new soup today which also made me happy. I am beginning to think I am a loner because I was in my own happy little bubble sitting alone people watching and enjoying the weather and good food. I did not realize how much I liked being alone until I moved here. Then I drove around downtown a little just looking at all the gorgeous decorations. Lastly I went to my fav nail salon and got the best manicure I have ever had from Tiger. (Jenn I took you there). I sometimes feel like I am going to really miss this place. Jacksonville is the only thing that ruins my perception of how much I love it. They boat parade is downtown tonight and I might talk Nick into going. And.... My best Florida friend got engaged last night!!! She came by the nail place to show me her ring with is fabulous. I don't think I have ever been so excited for someone, they are going to be so happy. And they may stay in St. Aug so it will give me an excuse to visit.

I have a new nephew also! Brian and Alecia had their big baby on Thursday and despite the snow, everyone made it. I saw pictures and he is really cute, and I don't just say that!

I also sent off my application for the teacher program like two weeks ago so say a little prayer for me!

Thanks to Jordin I found the best book ever........ Are You There Vodka?, It's Me Chelsea. I laugh my ass off with every chapter. It is highly recommended.

I CANT WAIT TO BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS!! I have been listening to Christmas music non stop lately. Yay for family! I miss yall!

THE FAMILY

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. ~Erma Bombeck

family drama fo yo mama

I am so sad right now at what went on at my parent's house last night. If you don't already know, you don't need to know but it feels like some things are just so fragile. Our family dynamics are crazy! Last night was definitly a bit white trashy if you ask me, I am kind f embarrassed! I just dont think we were raised that way and it annoys me! I really worry about my family, specifically my nieces. I hate to think that one day, they will look back on their childhood and remember these types of squables. I just feel like some things never change and it is so frustrating. All I can do is hope things get better. It kills me to hear my mom cry, family should not do that to one another. We need therapy! We shall see how interesting Thanksgiving is. I told Jennifer if anyone starts to fight, she needs to say "please stop, you are going to make me go into labor!"...it may work!
On a happier note... my siser looks awesome! It is hard to believe she is so far along, it gives me hope for the future! She carries the baby well and I have never seen her look so pretty. I am excited.
Me and Nick are planning away at our future. It is really exciting, I can't go into too much detaill but things are really falling into place. We are currently looking for movers, so if anyone knows any good ones, HOLLA at me! It is going to be a rough transition but I think we can do it and I can't wait until graduation. I think I may cry, like I am graduating! I told nick that he needs to buy me a graduation present for all the lonly nights I had to endure. :) we shall see! lol.
I have been working sooo much lately, I can't wait to go home. I am trying to cram two weeks worth of work into one. I was out until 8:30 last night. It sucked. I need to be working on my stupid essay for the teaching program that I am applying to, but I think I have writers block. Can you have writers block before you even start? The topic is "why I want to be a teacher and what experiences I can bring into my teaching that will benefit the students". If that isnt a bull shit topic I dont know what is. I guess I would think any topic is bull. :) I am trying not to be a negative nancy but I hate essays! I may get Jenn to help me when I go home. I remember sitting up late at night sometimes in her room with her watching her type last minute essays. It is funny the things you remember from when you were a kid! I specifically remember her typing christmas poems for the newspaper :) She could come up with a mean xmas poems people! Ah, good times! I bought scrabble, so I cant wait to bring it home and rumble. Oh, how I love the dysfunction that is the Crosbie's :). What fun would life be if it were boring?

UGH, overworked and underpaid!

I am really aggravated, overworked and underpaid for the crap I have to deal with! I have been working so much and have been so stressed. Hopefully, things will get better.
This past weekend Nick and I saw the movie "Changeling".... awesome movie, highly recommended. Even Nick loved it. I also got to go to the new outlet mall. They have all new stores and I was there ALL day. My legs even hurt when I got home. I got Nick to rub them and we laughed about how high maintenance I will be once I am pregnant. lol, God love him for putting up with my whiny butt! Anyways, that pretty much sums up my life lately.

Beautiful babies!

I got these pics sent to me from Jenn not too long age. These are from Sara's birthday that I could not make it to. I edited them a little bit, aren't these girls beautiful! They are growing so fast, I almost can't believe my eyes! I remember the day both of them were born! Now I feel old. Anyways, enjoy!

Anniversary pic

me and my honey :)

Nick and I celebrated out second anniversary this past week. It was really nice, we went to Caps on the water (my fav). I have decided that every year on our anniversary we have to take a picture. I think it will be funny to watch our age progression. lol It is hard to believe that two years went by already.

Some Halloween pics, late post

Birthday, Halloween, anniversary!

So I realized today I haven't blogged since my bday! My birthday was great! Me and the girls from work went to Copelands for lunch. Everything was delicious and we had a good time. I got back to work and a big box arrived. On top was a picture of Kali, three cards, a halloween night shirt, a halloween cup with gummy bears (which made me smile, I knew that was Kali's doing!) and a coach purse!!! I was totally shocked. I really liked the purse but the color was orange. And I thought if a purse if that expensive I want to use the hell out of it, so I reluctantly called my mom and asked if I could exchange it. I went the next day and it should be shipped to my house soon, like tomorrow, I can't wait! Needless to say, it was so sweet and thoughtful, it really made my day. I also got sweet text messeges and calls all day, I felt really special. That night, Nick took me to a Louisiana style resteraunt in St. Augustine. It was funny because I had almost the exact same thing for lunch. It was still very good though...Harry's. He also bought me an ice cream cake with was delicious and we are still finishing it off. It was one of the best birthdays I have ever had. 23 will be sweet indeed, this year will bring many changes for me and Nick. We day dream about his graduation, buying a house, moving home, having kids... good things to come.

Halloween was fun. We went to my friend Jodi's house for a party. I was dressed in a last minute hand-me-down costume that i tweeked and made my own. I was a cheetah!! It was cute. Nick thought it would be cheaper to make a costume and he was little John...HUH? WHAT? OKAY? He totally sold it but got a little carried away and ended up spending a ton of money to look ghetto. It was funny, he really thought he looked cool :). After, instead of going out in Jacksonville and having to drive all the way home Nick and I went out in St. Augustine. They had some interesting costumes to say the least. I will post tonight if I had time. We had fun!

I am cooking chili right now because I was craving it today. I was so bored I went to Marshall's (for the second day in a row) and to the movies by myself. I walked in the theatre and was the only one there. I thought to myself, well this is St. Augustine so it is now too far fetched for me to e in here by myself. I sit a while and realize, I am an hour early. I did not remember to change the time in may car. So I sat for an hour. I saw Zack and Miri make a porno. It was pretty dirty to say the least, but entertaining. So I am going to take a shower and get ready for desperate housewives. Tomorrow is me and Nick's 2nd anniversary. We are going to our favorite resteraunt. I am excited. I can;t believe it has been two years already. Time really flies. I still look at our wedding ipctures and I feel like I can remember every detail. :)

23 years down

This past weekend was so fun!! Friday night we went out... I got so drunk I slipped and fell if front of everyone and busted my ass. I could not stop laughing. Saturday Nick and I hung out all day and had people over to watch the sad display of football. Sunday Nick and I got up early, went to this great breakfast buffet at cafe 11 and then went shopping all day. Does it get any better? yes it does... We got home and watched Desperate Housewives and Brothers and sisters... My perfect day!:) Saturday when we were at lunch we went to Chik-fil-a. We saw two cute little red headed boys who were walking out at the same time as we were. The little boy who looked about five looked up at his dad and said "dad, are these buildings made by cows" His dad smiled and said "no son, people" "well there are cows holding up signs all over the place"... Me and Nick were laughing so hard. It was the sweetest thing ever... I love kiddies. Anyways, My weekend could not have been more perfect. I really got lucky in the husband department. ;) OH, AND MY BIRTHDAY IS TOMORROW, 23 here I come:::sigh:::

A few quotes I like:

Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so bad. Once you're past that century mark, it's just not as shocking.
-Annie Elizabeth Delany,

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
-Jim Fiebig

"Age affects how people experience time. The observations on this are well known, so it is only necessary to outline briefly what has been the experience of everyone I have ever talked to or read about: the years go faster as one gets older. At the age of four or six, a year seems interminable; at sixty, the years begin to blend and are frequently hard to separate from each other because they move so fast! There are, of course, a number of common-sense explanations for this sort of thing. If you have only lived five years, a year represents 20 percent of your life; if you have lived fifty years, that same year represents only 2 percent of your life, and since lives are lived as wholes, this logarithmic element would make it difficult to maintain the same perspective on the experience of a year’s passage throughout a lifetime."
-Edward T. Hall,

Oh no she di-ant!

OMG, some people take Halloween costumes a little too far... at what point do you say "ok, this is a little too slutty"? I mean, wearing a bra and underwear really is not a costume... and when you have kids, it is just plain wrong! Cover it up people, leave a little for the imagination.

Jenn, your baby shower invites are the cuttest I have ever seen!!!

GO VOTE!

I'm ready to vote! I have done my homework and can't wait to get this election over with! I get so annoyed reading and hearing about peoples one-sided views. I really think that some people just don't have an open mind at all and only see what they want to see. It is amazing to me how two different people can watch or read the same exact thing and yet only remember the parts that they agree with and not measure things as a whole. It is sad how the media can sway peoples' opinions on things. I don't want to say who I am voting for because I don't like arguing about politics. I will say however, that I hope everyone takes a good look and really makes the right choice :) happy voting!

On another note, I had a rough day at work. Sometimes work is so emotionally exhausting. Sometimes I wonder if I am actually making a difference or if some people are just bound to fail. People really just dont know how to manage life. I really believe that we should do EVERYTHING in our power to maintain those family ties but sometimes it just kills me to see parents who choose drugs, men, and laziness over their own children. I guess you can lead a horse to water but you cant make them drink it... is that how it goes? Lately, I feel like that is totally happening with my cases. Wish I could go into detail, but I cant. I just have to internalize it and my heart breaks for some of these babies. Anyways, I have training AGAIN tomorrow. 7 steps to healthy families. It is part two. Last week was good. I am excited about the weekend... Nick finally gets a break from school. We are going shopping for Halloween costumes, and my birthday. :) Yay for birthdays, I got money today:))
Hope everyone is having a lovely week.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time
-E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White,

I made it!

So I just got back from the USA 5k run. I am sooo tired. I ran most of it but had to stop and walk a good bit. I can now say with full confidence that I am so out of shape. I had a five year old boy pass me with his mother!!!!! I laughed to myself so I wouldn't cry. Also, I had some people pass me that were old enough to be my grandparents. Too bad I guess, I am just glad I finished. We had a good time. Nick is still there cleaning up for extra credit.
This happened at work the other day and I thought it was funny. I had one of my crazy parents go up to their kids school and fuss at the principal for like 30 minutes. Once the parent left the principal called me to ask what was going on and have me fax over a court order. I am not kidding, these were the exact words of this principal of an Elementary school... " Mam, let me tell ya, I hate my job, but there is no way I could EVER do yours! I don't know how you deal with these people; they would make me crazy!" All I could do was laugh. It is so nice to hear the leader of a school tell someone he has never met how much he hates his job. :)
I guess there isn't really much else to blog about... so until next time. Au revoir!

an interesting trip to the bank!

Today the funniest thing happened... I was at the bank in the drive in. A lady pulled up on the side of me. I heard her because she was screaming. "Hey, I am not a customer anymore because you people lie to me! I want my 2 dollars out of my account. I want to close my account and I BETTER get my 2 dollars! I had ten dollars and you people took 8. I have already spoken to the president of the bank and he said I can come pick up my money... I am on chemo- ther-p and I want my 2 dollars TODAY." I notice that at first the teller was trying not to giggle. She looked at me ( i was in the first lane) as if to say "this bitch is crazy". Then she had a look of panic in her eyes. I drive off and wait a little while to pull out. As i am driving down the street I see a cop heading that way turn his siren on. HE PULLED INTO THE BANK. Omg! I wanted to turn around but I had to hurry up to get to the gym on time for my class. It was pretty funny, I almost gave her two dollars, but I didn't have any cash on me. Crazy ass people.

rollin with the hommies :)....clueless

So we went to horror night at Universal last Thursday... We thought it closed at 2 and it closed at 12. We only got to go through 3 or 4 haunted houses, they were mediocre, the lines were long. I was not too impressed and I don;t feel like it was worth the drive.
This past Friday Duncan baby was super sick.... $300 worth of vet bills later, we still don't know what happened. Nick came home and Duncan pooped and threw up in like 7 different places (we have carpet people)... All I can say is that I am glad I wasn't the first one home! :) Nick scrubbed it up. We have had Duncan eating boiled chicken and rice since then, talk about annoying to cook! But we love our baby, Nick is going to make the best day.... aww.
This weekend was pretty laid back, all I did was clean and watch tv. Nothing interesting. I know my life is boring. I have court in the morning... with the mean judge. I hope I don't get my ass chewed out. I'm so nervous!
I have also been studying for the praxis test, I bought a book. I never knew how dumb I was until I started reading basic elementary crap that I should have learned in first grade... I am learning new things! Sad, I know!!! But it is kinda cool to actually understand where apostrophes go and why... I used to just place them haphazardly through my writing, not anymore!!! :) That is a little embarrassing, don't judge me! I went to public school bitches! lol
I also have my eye on a new hand bag... and it is not coach! I am so proud of myself. I want it for Christmas but I don't think I can wait that long. I will try to hold out. Peace out hommies, and I know what you are thinking... yes, I am delirious! It has been a LONG day.

Feel the burn

I did not have a great day.... I found out that my unit at work will be switching offices in about a couple of weeks. I'm going to miss the people that are not moving with us :( I think I hate change! Also, it is going to be a longer commute, I am so annoyed!!! My supervisor was looking at me wondering if I would quit. It was funny. I also worked out for 2 1/2 hours today... go me! I did this sculpting class which was neat. I think I am going to be super sore tomorrow.
Also, we are going to horror night this Thursday with Nick and his friends from work in Orlando. I am pumped, I CANT WAIT!!!!
Thanks to Jenn for the AWESOME necklaces and the wrapping paper with my babies pics on it. She also sent me a CD full of pictures... I LOVE THEM... my babies are getting so big :(. 5-7 months!!! Big things to come, I'll keep you updated as I find out more about what the future holds ;)
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
-Isak Dinesen

Boys will be boys!

Ok, I will start out by saying that the comment "Mr. Puggle" wrote on my last post was the weirdest thing i Have ever read. I did not think that other people actually read this blog, I thought I had it set somewhat privately... I guess not! Anyways, so much stuff has happened the past couple of days it annoys me because I forget. Yesterday me and my friend went to a pet shop and it was the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.... NOBODY SHOULD HELP THESE PEOPLE STAY IN BUSINESS!! I think that it is cruel to put those poor animals in little kennels(More than one per kennel) with no interaction from humans, and they looked underfed...they all looked at me like they wanted me to just take them home. All of the white puppies had brown fur under their eyes like they had been crying. their pictures looked like mug shots above their kennels. poor babies, never again will i go in there.

yesterday I cooked! Turkey burgers (which I THOUGHT were supposed to be brown) turns out there white.... duh! I felt like such an idiot when they started cooking and I was thinking the meat was bad. Also, yesterday I found my favorite salad dressing which they never have at Publix because people buy it up so quick, I bought two bottles, expensive dressing. I went to put one of them in the pantry and it exploded all over the place when i dropped it. Greek salad dressing was ALL OVER the carpet. It still stinks!!!! Sucks, I know. I just can;t say enough how good I am in the kitchen ;) Also, the GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) awards were on last night. It was my first time watching. The GLAAD is all about the public perception. They are around to make sure that gays are portrayed in a relistic light because the media can warp our perceptions of things so greatly. The opener was Kathy Griffin with her mother. It was so funny! She was doing an interview type thing.
KAthy: "So when you were growing up what did the word Gay mean?"

her mom: "oh, it was a pleasent word. It meant having a good time and being happy"
Kathy: "If you were gay now what is the woman you would most want to be with"
her mom: she says some old woman who I dont know
Kathy: :"what would you do with her"
her mom: "oh I guess go out for coffee"
Kathy: :"Do you think that your gaydar gets better or worse with age?"
her mom: "worse"

It was really funny, you would probably have to watch it. The award show really got me thinking.... I dont understand why there is so much hate in this world. Americans are supposed to be free but isnt it quite alarming that fellow gay AMERICAN citizens dont have the right to do as they choose. Marriage is a commitment and I do not understand why we say that they cant be commited to each other and gain the benefits that come with it. Did yall know that if you are homosexual you cannot adopt a child through the foster care system in Florida? Even if you are not in a relationship, there is actually a box on the application that asks you if you are homo or heterosexual. But, they do not discriminate against race or religion. It baffles my mind. So a christian child can grow up in a jewish family but not be adopted by a homosexual person or couple. It kinda sucks I guess... maybe it will change one day. And the thing that probably bothers me the most are those people in the religious community (not all) who are SO against homosexuality yet they teach that we are supposed to love thy neighbor as thyself. So contridictory... Just a thought.
Anyways on another subjest, Today work was pretty rough. I cried! Tomeka, my work friend, told me I need to work on my "wall". I also went by BCBG again today...just to look. The girls all recognized me and told me that I am always in there.... that's so sad. I have a weakness for that store. I should go work there once a month to get discounts. So I feel bad that I went. Also, I was just talking to Jamie and she said that my mother went out and bought Kali the same doll that Sara got for her birthday because she wanted it. How f'd up is that!?!?! It is like my mother lost all of her child rearing skills when she had grand babies. All that does is teach Kali she can have whatever she wants and it doesn't matter that it was Sara's birthday. When we were little you better be damn skippy we didn't get a present after someones birthday because we were jealous and wanted it too. I'm scared Kali is going to turn into me. I don't know what happened to me but I hate that part of myself. I am so happy when I have something new, something better. My closet is busting with clothes and yet I still cant seem to stop myself from shopping every week, sometimes more than once a week. I need to find a hobby that makes me as happy as shopping does, is it even a hobby? I don't know.
Now I almost forgot the dumbest thing that happened yesterday when I was going off on my tangents (sp?)(sorry for the randomness by the way). I am always telling Nick not to jump on the bed.... not like little kid jumping up and down but he stands on the floor and jumps into the bed. I have heard the wood splitting before when he has done this. So I am trying to make the bed and I asked him to come in and help me. Well what does h do, JUMP on the bed and what happens? The bed frame breaks. He completely split the damn wood in half (cherry wood). Then I start yelling at him and I told him I was going to call his mom and ask her if she ever taught him not to jump on the bed. He thinks it is so funny! So I got annoyed and went to sleep in the guest room. I am perfectly happy at around 12 when he comes in to get his electric screw driver. He proceeds to "fix" the bed and be very loud while doing it but I was so tired I fell asleep through the noise. Then when he is done (i don't even know what time it was at this point) he comes in the room to put his screw driver up and turns on the light and tells me to come to bed......and then the devil comes out in me! I was in the middle of sleeping, its the middle of the night, NO I AM NOT GETTING UP TO COME TO BED, I'M SLEEPING!!!!! WHY ARE YOU SO RUDE!!!! LOL it is funny now that I think about it, I am a bitch, but please, don't wake me up! Needless to say it is all said and done now, but boy sometimes I swear he acts like a little kid sometimes,like a little boy trapped in a mans body! Will that ever end? I kinda hope not. Gotta love him though! :) Well Im gonna cook, yee haw!

Puggles :(

So yesterday consisted of me shopping for two hours in BCBG. It was awesome. I think that has got to be my favorite store. Last night Nick and I went to a friends house from work. Tons of coworkers showed and we had a great time. I spent half the night trying to talk nick into letting me get a dog. One of my co-workers sister in law is moving to California and she told me if she dosent find a home for her dog by wed she is bringing it to a kennel. I was so sad. It is a puggle, a mmix between a pug and beagle, cute dog. It is the same size as duncan and it just seemed perfect. But Nick is NOT having it. I also did some research on these dogs and apparently they are the "hot new hybrid dog". I think it is sad that these poor dogs are being bred just because they are in right now and more and more are ending up in kennels just like this dog. Im sad we cant save her but I really hope she can still find this dog a home. :(
Me, Nick and Duncan are going on a lunch date. Hope all the fam had a good weekend of birthday parties. Jenn updated me a little and it sounds like the typical Crosbie gathering. Hope to see everyone soon!

:(

We got another wedding invitation in the mail today :(. I swear, this is making me nuts!

wedding invitations :(

I am kinda sad today. I got an invitation to another friend from home's wedding :( I think this makes wedding number 6 that Nick and I wont be able to make it to. It is kinda sad. And today is the beautiful Sara's birthday. I have missed both of her birthdays since I have been here. 11 months to go, :(

A good weekend... minus the throw up in my car!

I had so much fun last night. Friday Nick and I went to the movies, I think I blogged about it. It was nice spending time with my honey for a change! I went to Nick's classmate's house last night to watch the LSU football game. It was a pretty good turn out, about ten of us. The couple who's house we were at last night are so funny. Right when I got there someone said something about a baby being in a closet. I of course asked what they were talking about and the mother yells "don;t judge me!" I started to laugh thinking she was joking but come to find out, her 18 month old was indeed sleeping in the closet. It is the quietest spot in the house. She even made her husband stand in the living room and scream to check to see if he would wake up. Lol.. after the game, my lovely husband lost money in a game of poker. Then we went out in the garage, they have a couch and tv set up out there. I swear I felt like I was back in high school. It was the best. Well by this time everyone but me was drunk. They were taking shot after shot and everyone was seriously lit. The guy who's house we were at tries to ride his 6 year old daughter's barbie bike and then all the guys take turns riding her scooter up and down the street. One of them rode the scooter into a flooded ditch. He did a swan dive trying to make it graceful..It was the funniest shit I have ever seen. I cant remember the last time I laughed so hard....pictures to follow! :) We did not end up leaving until about 4 o'clock in the morning. Nick threw up, (as I predicted he would) in the car.....yea I know, there has been WAY too much throw up in my last few days! Needless to say it was an interesting night full of laughs and good times. This morning when Nick and I went to pick up the car (we drove separate) The mother would not come out of the room because she was so hungover, nick had a bad hangover, and the father was watching the kids, appoligizing (sp?) for jumping in the ditch. lol I really love the people that I have met here and will be sad to leave.
I am trying to book flights to go home at the end of October for our friends wedding and they are super expensive. I just get annoyed because like a week ago they were around 200 bucks less. I hope I get to come home! I read Jordin's blog about Catherine's birthday and I was sad that I missed it. And mom's frivolous shopping, so annoying! I struggle with this. I try to remind myself that it is her money and that she can spend it how she wants but I just worry so much about her. I guess I have always worried about my parents money situation since I was little. It is not like we went without anything, I guess it was from all the fighting when I was little, hearing it, jacked me up in the head. I just want them to have plenty put away and I want my dad to actually retire one day. It's just scary, that's all. I guess they will always have me and my sisters if anything ever happens, God forbid. So I will not say anything else about it :). Anyhoot, I am tired and I still need to clean the clothes off of my closet floor before I go to bed. It seems like this is becoming a nightly thing. I have way too many clothes! Hope everyone has a good week at work/ school. I have decided since Mondays are so dreadful, I will treat myself to a pumpkin spice latte every week to make the day a little better. :) At least until they go out of season, by the way... speaking of season, I made the cutest Halloween cards for my nieces and nephews today. I am so pumped for Halloween, my favorite time of year!!!! I hope I get to carve another pumpkin, it always reminds me of the reulets for some reason.
I will stop now, Jack Johnson is making me sleepy, peace out!

Too many bodily fluids

Today was so gross!!! I had to take two of my kids to the doctor today. They are 1 and 2 years old. I pick them up and get to the doctors office and what happens? The one year old shits all over herself. So I ask for some gloves and go in the bathroom and change her stanky ass diaper. Then right when I finish, I walk out of the bathroom and what else... another stanky ass diaper. I am for another pair of gloves. The two year old had like diarrhea all over the place. It was like they were just waiting for me to pick them up to do this. So I bring her in the bathroom to change her. While I am trying to hold my breath and change her diaper the little one heads for the toilet to put her hands all over it so I run and grab her. We finish and walk in the doctors office. They BOTH start screaming bloody murder, like someone was killing them. For about an hour I listened to them scream and cry. I had to hold one of them down to get a breathing treatment. Then the kid was screaming so much, she throws up ALL OVER ME.... down my shirt and jeans. While I am wiping it up from everywhere, I accidentally stick my hand in it. Then, as if things could not get any worse, they both insist on me holding them. They were using my shirt, with these big pieces of fabric as a snot rag. So at that time I had boogers, throw up and shit all over me. Possibly the most horrendous day of my life... Note to self, NEVER again will I bring kids to the doctor by myself and NEVER will I have kids that close in age. Actually, I am not having kids anytime soon. Too many bodily fluids!

On a cleaner note, Nick and I went to Carrabbas tonight :) YUMO. And we saw the weirdest movie. It was funny but o so weird. It has George Clooney and Brad Pit in it. I am supposed to go out tomorrow night with some work friends and attorney's for the dark side, I shall see... Hope everyone has a lovely weekend. I will, the weather has been gorgeous!

I suck at consistency

In case anyone is wondering, I know I suck at blogging... I suck at consistency. I go through spurts of everything! Monday I did card making and cooking, today I cut recipes out of magazines and pasted them to my recipe cards Jenn got me for my wedding, who knows what will be my thing tomorrow.
Last weekend was fun. Some of Nick's friends from school threw an 80's prom party. A friend from work accompanied me to a thrift store and helped me pick out the most obnoxious dress in the store. It had shoulder pads that stuck out about three inches on each side. And for the record... teasing is a bitch. I tried to make my hair big and do the whole bang wave thang. It was hot. I wore way too much blush and very blue eye shadow, Linda 1980's style, if those of you reading this know what I mean! lol
Anyways, I was looking into the teach Louisiana website thing last night and I was getting so stressed out. I think it is going to be harder than I originally assumed it would be. Me and Nick were also throwing around the idea of me moving home on his last internship just because I don;t want to be here again for two months by myself. We could possibly buy a house before he is finished or something. Who knows! I guess in a perfect world I could move home, start school, find a job and live in a house that we buy. It is just so much to think about!!! Life is scary. And it FREAKS me out to think that all of this is possible in only 6 months! I guess we will figure it out, we have to! If anyone has any advise or knows anything about the teach Louisiana program please shoot the info my way.
I am watching this stupid new show on Bravo. It is about this chick who styles for celebrities. Her assistant is freaking out because the other assistant did not organize the dresses correctly from one direction to the other. I want to slap the bitch.
Ok, while I am already bitching I will let people in on a few of my pet peeves... when people put a status on facebook that makes them sound like they are from Plaquemine... I call it plak-min-eese. Example: Sally is going pick up food, Jack is going rent movies....it's like they don't know how to use the word TO! Also, another thing that is so Plaquemine is when people use the back window on their car as gravestones!!!! I don't care who you know that died and neither does anyone else!!! It drives me crazy. And, last one I promise, I am sick of people bitching about the new facebook. If you don't like it, quit using it. That's all ;)
Anyhoot, I guess that's all I have today, 80's prom picks to come!
Oh! I almost forgot, Bon chance (sp?) Jo!!! I hope you get picked to go to France!

A few from this weekend.

Driving down to Ft. Lauderdale, Duncan has to see out of the window.



Nick waiting to play with the big boys. Dad was only happy when he would win! It was so funny.










Duncan hanging out, trying to ignore the crazy people.

What's been going on

This has been a long week. I will start with last week where I left off. I found all of my kids, everything turned out ok. And at this time, I am drawing a blank on anything I did last week :) I love my short term memory. I have been enjoying spending time with Nick now that he is off school, he starts again tomorrow. Work has been good, I left several hours early today. Nick and I went down to Ft. Lauderdale this past weekend to the looney bin. My family is nuts. It was really nice getting to see my dad. They put him and his brother to work on the house almost the whole time I was there. Nick fits in better than me. They played more cards! They made Nick watch them play for hours before he was approved to play. It was funny. Lin and I got to hang out a good bit. We were both PMSing so there was a few squabbles, but we are like sister's, bound to fight sooner or later. Mom told me that they had a lot of people staying at the house through the hurricane. Jamie had a tree on her house, close family friends and neighbors lost a lot, we lost a few shingles, trees and dads new shed. We made out pretty lucky. I guess you don't realize what you have until it could possibly be taken from you. I was really worried. A lot of people said that this hurricane was worse than many they have seen. Thank God everyone is okay and only material things were damaged.
This is totally random, but it seems like everyone I know is pregnant! It is bazarre. Two sister-in-laws, my sister, two c ousins, numerous people at work. I guess it is in the water. Nick told me not to drink any! :)
I bought two new CD's today, Kelly Pickler and Sugarland. I am really digging the Kelly Pickler CD. I would recommend it. I also bought the shampoo and conditioner Jo blogged about recently, I cant wait to try it. Sometimes I feel like I am still a 13 year old girl in Plaquemine, I still enjoy Wal-mart so much as trashy as it may sound. :) I remember when we use to think it was a big deal to hang out at Walmart on a Saturday night. Oh, the innocence! I can only hope my kids will be so sheltered. lol
I am kinds freaking out about going back to school. I was looking some stuff up and realized that I may not be considered a resident when I move back and if so I would have to pay out of state tuition or wait a year. I am trying to figure out a way around this, my only thought was that Nick is still a LA resident and if we are married that may mean I am? I don't know and I don;t want to ask. We will see i guess.
Well, I must go, I have to get my nails done.....

J'espère que tout le monde a une bonne semaine en avant. Pour ceux-là sans le pouvoir, pendre là dedans ! Prendre que Jordin ! :)....freetranslation.com, I failed french people!

Your so vain....

Well, I am happy to report that work was closed again today. Bt, at around 5 the shit hit the fan! My supervisor calls and says that I have to account for all of my kids. My work cell phone is broken still and I only have an old emergency list of numbers. So basically I scrambled around looking for my clients' numbers to call. One of my clients has two kids. She only has four diapers left, her car flooded in the storm and her yard has water up to her knees. She dosent have much food left and no way of getting to a store. So, basically, I have to bring her diapers and food tomorrow as well as drive around Jacksonville looking for my people and making sure they are ok. While I was dealing with all this we got a call from a friend saying she got in a car wreak and she needed us to pick up her dogs for her (they wee in the car). Wierd stuff today. Anyways, I am not happy about working tomorrow but I guess it was worth having the past two days off. I might even shop while i am in Jacksonville.
I am so excited Luke comes in tomorrow. I have to pick him up from the airport at 2. I haven't seen him in forever. We were all going to get a hotel in Jacksonville and go out Saturday night but with the weather it might not be worth it. We will see.
I am almost tired of being cooped up in the house all day. Nick got on my nerves earlier. I really hate it when he looks at pictured of himself. All he does is zoom in and out and talks about how hot he is. He stooped to an all time low today. He tried to replace the background desktop picture on our computer. Right now we have a picture of the two of us. He found this other picture with JUST HIM which he feels he looks so hot in and he wanted to put it as our background pic. Don't get me wrong, I think he's hot! But, I yelled at him and told him that it sickens me that he is so vain and I can;t wait until he gets old, fat, and bald. lol These are the things we fight about people! I swear we are so fucked up! :)
This quote can sum up my day today. :)
Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance. ~Author Unknown

TS Fay

Well, today I slept until 11, Nick brought me breakfast in bed, and I don't have work. What could be better? Nick and I went out to eat at one of our favorite restaurants on the beach. On their sign they wrote, "Don't worry about Fay, Come eat with us today" I thought it was really cute. I wanted to take a picture of it but all the letters had blown off by the time we left. EVERYONE is calling us asking if we are OK. Yes. They had two guys from the Weather channel come in the restaurant and sit by us. Nick was so excited I think I saw him drool a little. He begged me to let him go talk to them and of course I didn't. Then, 2 guys with CNN shirts came in (don't they have real news to report on?) and we saw local news people outside of the restaurant filming. It was kinda funny. Nick was so excited. He wanted to drive around and stalk the news crews. We decided to drive by the beach just to see the waves. The parking lot was full and there were a lot of people out there looking. I have never seen waves so tall in my life. The ocean was so choppy it was pretty eerie. Anyways, I figured I would snap a few pics to commemorate the day. Now we are sitting around staring at each other. Fun stuff.

a few pics.

I tried to get a picture of his face but he was chowing down on a bone. The next one is a profile shot. He is such a cutie!


Nick looks clueless in this pic!

It's just a tropical storm people!!!!

Today was an interesting day to say the least. I wake up (extra early) because hurricane Faye is coming and we all had to be at work at 8 (who gets to work on time ever? ...not me!) So I wake up late but I was rushing to get ready since out supervisors were actually looking for us and I ran out to my car to grad my work bag. I was taking Nick's car to work because I need all kinds of crap repaired on mine. I walk up to my car and to my horror, my sunroof is open!!!!! Before I went to bed last night, the weather lady said that we would sleep good due to heavy rains all night. Well, needless to say, everything in my car was ruined! I had inches of water on my floor boards an, in my seats, and in my cup holders. My brand new work bag was socked, my beloved planner... ruined (I can;t find it at Barnes and nobles anymore), and all of my paperwork was soaked (thank God I did not bring any files home). Worst of all, my cell phone for work was in the car. The phones are the crappy free ones, but we get charged $100 when we break or lose them, so that sucks!!! And I have many contact numbers in there that are lost. :( I get to work and we had to wrap all of our computers in garbage bags and pick up all of our paperwork with any identifying info. We have this chick that I work with who is in charge of emergency stuff. She was sunning around the office freaking out and updating everyone was too often on the hurricane. She was literally stalking people in the office. Everyone is like panicing about this stupis storm. It isn;t even a real Hurricane!!! It was so funny. She takes her job WAY too seriously! Target had the windows all covered and people were like stocking up on supplies! I don;t even think we have water! So I come home at 1:30, nice after an hour and a half lunch break with the co-workers and I am excited that we don't have to work tomorrow. So nice! Me and Nick were running some errands. The bug man came to our house today. He said that the roach we saved for him was an outside roach so that was good. He asked when we started seeing them and we told him about a month and a half ago. He said that in the past couple months he went from no calls to this area to about 10 calls to these condos. He said that the landscapers are probably doing something different which would explain why everyone is starting to see them around the same time. That was good to hear. So he sprayed and I hope I never see any of those bastards again! I can't wait for Duncan to get home. He is getting his hair cut and Nick went to pick him up. He always looks so handsome. The groomer said that he was bad today though so I am nervous. Apparently, he shit all over the place when they tried to do his nails. Not surprising, he probably did it on purpose! I hope she didn't take and chunks of hair out! When me and Nick were running errands Lindsey, my cousin, called me to chat. She had me laughing so hard! Apparently, she went out this past weekend and slept at a friends house. Her phone went dead but she did not think it was a big deal. When she got home my whole family was waiting on her long with detectives and police. They filed a missing person's report and a stolen car report!! The detective was talking to her like something happened. They didn't believe her when she said that nothing was wrong. She eventually checked and had like 15 messages. My aunt went to all of her friends houses looking for her. She had about 5 calls from the police report saying "if you can please answer the phone, or you can call 911." I think it is nice that they take it seriously. To make matters worse, my other cousin was home announcing her engagement in the midst of all this. Only Lindsey!

Anyways, that was my day. Nick's home, we are gonna cook steaks.

On the road

Home sweet home

I had a great visit home. The flight was good. When I got off the plane and started walking towards Nick Kali waited like 3 minutes and then jumped out and yelled "Happy birthday Jessie". I had to explain to her that it was her birthday. She is so funny! We got to hang out with people I haven't seen in a while. We went to the mall of LA and I was in awe at how nice it is now. I miss that mall. It just feels like home. :) I spent many'a days in there. I have figured out that I got my compulsive shopping habits from my mother who does not thinks twice about dropping hundreds of dollars in one trip. I thought I was bad, but come to find out, she's worse. Kali is a sucker too. I took her "birthday shopping" not knowing that mom had already gotten an obscene amount of themed bday decorations. Well Kali made me re-buy EVERYTHING. I was so pissed when we got back home and her only response was "I forgot". We had fun though. She is growing up way to fast. I also got to see her at Karate. She got in trouble for going off into space and staring at me through the window which was funny. While I was sitting there it was nothing but soccer moms. I don't think I want to be like them. All they did was bitch and whine about how bisy they are and they had their noses buried in their planners as they sat and gulped their starbucks coffees. Who wants to be like that? I wanted to ask them if they had ANYTHING better to do, which I doubt they did. I went to walkons Thursday night to hang out with Nick's co-workers. It was a good time until we got out tab. $93 what the hell? I didn;t even drink!!!! I was so pissed at that point. I should have asked them to give me a print out of the reciept but I didnt. We then went to the funny bone because a friend of mine had "free tickets". When we got there they said that they had given out all of them. We were thinking, why would you give out free tickets if you cant honor them. I was pissed again. And the show SUCKED. It was this old guy who looked like Hannibal ector. He freaked me out and no one on stage was actually hypnotized. They were laughing. I also had to buy a 6 dollar diet coke. I spent Friday in Torbert... Need I say more. It was pretty boring and uneventful. I did get to see my brother and sister-in-law's new house. It made me jealous and I got antsy about what kind of house we will have. We ate boiled crabs that were of the chiz-ain. Saturday was the party. It was really fun. I think dad was happy that we kind of surprised him after he had to work all day. Kali had fun. Sara is kinda bad. She is cute though. Me Jo and Jude took Kali to the mall earlier that day. It was fun. I brought her to Libby Lu and of course she had a ball getting her hair and nails done. The child has some sick obsession with fake hair. I don;t get it. The party did not get awkward this year until the end which makes me laugh. Kali's doctor brought her kids, her husband and her mother to the party two hours late. When they drove up Kali yelled, YOUR LATE! As if it were not obvious enough. It was so funny! We had a little water balloon fight which was fun and Nick burned some hamburgers, he tried! Saturday night I had the brilliant idea of going out to eat. We all went to Outback. Everything was fine until the check came and mom paid for everyone which pissed me off. I would not have gone if I would have known she would pull that shit. I was really angry. I just worry about them. I feel like dad works so hard and for what? Mom just blows money. I went outside because I was mad and Kali sat with me. She asked what was wrong and why we were fighting which really broke my heart. I feel bad because I don't think she understands that when we fight it doesn't mean we don't like each other. We went home and dad was drunk. He was cracking everyone up. He had to write a letter to his insurance company basically to state that he did not hurt himself on the job. He was very candid in it. He was "positioning his leg to wipe his but after a bowel movement". He is so funny it kills me. He had everyone rolling. It reminded me why I like being home. I guess every family is a little crazy at times but deep, sometimes DEEP down we always love each other. Mom cooked us all breakfast on Sunday before Nick and I left. Mom cried, felt bad. The drive home was not bad at all. We got home in about 10 1/2 hours. We played games and did trivia on my crackphone the whole way. We also finally came to the conclusion on what we will name a daughter (if we have one).... Blair. We are thinking Estelle for a middle name or Noel. Whatdayathink? When we got to my friends house to pick up my car the tire was flat. Nick spent all day today fixing everything wrong with my car that has built up since he has been gone. He cooked a really nice dinner tonight and cleaned the whole house... what a sweetie! Work sucked today because I had so much shit piled up to do. I am depressed right now because I hear football. It makes me a little nauseous! I hate the shit!!!!! I am ready for labor day!
Jennifer found out today she is having a boy!!!! The Crosbie curse is broken, no longer can we say we have "all girls". YAY, I am excited for Jenn and can now start to buy boy stuff :).

To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time.
-Clara Ortega

Tomarra Tomarra, I'll Love Ya Tomarra!

I can't wait until tomorrow!!!! YAY, I am going home for 5 days!! I can;t wait! I had an ok day today. I don;t think anything unusual really happened. I got a lot of compliments on my hair today which made me feel good. Everyone thought I cut it but no, it is amazing what a little hair dye can do! And.. my face didn't break out in a rash from it, so double yay! I have to stop at Starbucks in the morning to buy my co-worker a slice of cheesecake for letting me park my car at her place and driving me to the airport. I was going to get her a gift card, but all she wants is cheesecake. She is supposed to be on a strict diet so I am kinda bothered by the fact that I must buy her the one thing she loves the most... LOL. She is so crazy, but I love her.
I am loving my iphone all over again. I updated it last night and realized that there are a ton of new things you can download onto it now. It gets better everyday... I wish I would have waited to buy the new and improved cheaper version, but boy was it worth the money. I really need to buy a new hair straightener. My poor thing has been dropped one too many times and one of the ceramic plates keeps falling off. One side is connected and the other just flaps off. Talk about a burn hazard! I will have to take my chances, at least I got soap to shower with now. Life is looking up! :)
Well, my favorite show, Jon and Kate plus 8 is on, I must go!!!