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!!!

Jack Johnson soothes me!

I had a good weekend! Friday night I went to a farewell party for my co-worker. We barbecued and hung out and then they decided they wanted to go salsa dancing. My lovely friend, Morgan let me wear all of her clothes so that I would go. Otherwise I would have been in my wok clothes. They had some hoochie mommas. I was initially very nervous... This placed looked sketchy. On one side it was really ghetto. The other side was salsa dancing. We all got hit on all night! Those men all thought they were Rico suave. They would walk up and say "let me teach you how to dance momma". I am not your momma! We all stuck out like sore thumbs, maybe that is why they would ask to teach us to dance instead of just to dance :). I love the girls from work. It is always a guaranteed good time with them. I drove home at like 2-3ish in the morning and had to get up to go get my hair done. I went to my gas station hair place. The first time I drove up I almost left but my friend said they were great and not to be scared. I'm glad I listened. I died it dark brown again. There are these three old ladies that work there and I don't know where they are from but I can't hardly understand half of what they say. I just smile and nod. I need it cut but I have decided to grow it out. It was hard not to chop it off! Saturday I went to the beach and when I got home that night I decided to call my friend Paula to hang out. We were such men it was hilarious! We went to Panama Hattie's (bar on the beach). We drank beer and ate wing and boy were they good. And it gets better.... we went to her house and played wii. We played bowling, tennis and baseball. I lost every single game! We are such losers but it was a blast. We both decided that it is fun to act like guys. We almost always talk about wedding stuff (she is close to being engaged), go shopping, or get our nails done. It was fun to do something different. She's awesome and I am lucky to have a friend like her around here. Today we both slept until like 11 and went to the beach again. I got an ok tan, the weather has been beautiful this weekend. It really makes me appreciate living here. I saw this big fat burly man with "FUCK OFF" tattooed on his big belly. I could not help but laugh. I wanted to go take a picture of him. It was funny. I am excited I finally got to go shopping today. I have been shaving with conditioner and bathing with shampoo. Talk about roughing it! lol I also got the new Jack Johnson CD. He really is the shit!
I am waiting to hear from Nick to see if we won the St. Jude Dream Home. That would be nice right! At first I was mad that he spend 100 bucks on a ticket but then I remembered that it is for St. Jude so I got over it. Wouldn't it be nice to get the keys to a brand new house for 100 dollars. hell yeah! I'm gonna cross my fingers like we would ever actually have hope. :)
So, now I just finished making tacos... my favorite and I need to get the house cleaned up to Nick's standards. I mean it is clean, but not spotless. Hope everyone had a nice weekend and got to enjoy the weather as much as I did. I can;t wait to go home Tuesday. I am pumped to see everyone and I can't wait to see Duncan!!!

Friendship is like a prism through which the many variations of beauty are revealed in our lives.
Anonymous

NO, I'm not pregnant!

Ok, so it has been an interesting one. First, I was sleeping in late this morning when I realize, holy crap I have court in an hour!! (The courthouse is 50 minutes from my house). I literally jump out of bed, get ready in ten minutes and drive 90 all the way to work. Then, my gas light comes on. I stopped to get gas and phew. Then, I realize my file as at the office. I ran in the office to grab it and made it to court by 9:10. Then, I sat for TWO hours! Hurry up to wait. I hate court!!!
Then, I was leaving a home visit and walking to my car. Some gross painter guy was screaming at me. I ignored him of course and my client came running outside and they started yelling at each other. It was the craziest thing. I did not even know what to say. Then, at another home visit a client poked me in the stomach and said "oh, are you pregnant?" WTF!!! Everyone knows that you don't just ask someone that!!!! Bitch... no my dress is lose, suck it! lol THEN, I get home and pull my clothes out of the washer and my favorite navy pencil skirt from Express is ruined! I am a genius and pored bleach on it. It was a sad, sad day.
I also found out today that my brother and sister-in-law are having a boy...Jenn finds out soon. I love all these new babies. I'm so excited.
Today was full of stress and drama fo ya moma. I am surprising in a good mood though, maybe it is the Popeye's I ate tonight or the quote from yesterday. Maybe tomorrow will be better! :)
Food for thought:
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

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-Leo Rosten

Master's degree, here I come

I have been so motivated lately. I love days where I have a positive attitude towards life. I try to achieve this every day but it is a rarity... and while I was in my positive and motivated mind set today I made a life decision. And it did not come from a song! :) I think I am going back to school if Nick ever finishes to get my master's degree in teaching. I love what I do now, but I have always wanted to teach. I feel like I will always regret it if I don't, like I have some sort of calling towards it. I have been looking into programs here but I don;t think I will be able to do anything until we actually move back.... I think I can make a diffeerence. I always like to find the good in children and I could get used to the summer vacation and hollidays. ;) hmm....
I worked out for the third day in a row... wooo hooo! ......more randomness.....
THIS IS HOW MY BRAIN WORKS PEOPLE!
Ok, this is how stupid my clients think I am.... for the THIRD time this week I was told that a drug screen was diluted because the person drank too much water!!!!! WHAT THE F. Are you kidding me? I want to ask them if they think I am an idiot. You have to take cleansers or poor something in there for your crap to be so watered down it comes up diluted!!! These people are crazy. :) Never a dull moment.
I miss Nick and Duncan doodle! :( I can;t wait to go home on Tuesday and see everyone!!!! Any suggestions on a bday gift for dad? I am tired of Outback giftcards. I need to be more ccreative. I am so excited. Jo, watch out... I'm gonna pop your boob when I see you! lol (some might take this the wrong way lol) I have a feeling I am going to miss my plane, I hope not. I need to clean the house before Nick comes home. He tends to have panic attacks when the house is a mess. Poor baby, one day he will learn to be like me. Any hoot...

My rev run thought for the day:
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude, to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company ...a church ...a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past ...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude ...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you ...we are in charge of our attitudes.
-Charles Swindoll

I'm on a roll!

Ok, so I had late visits tonight but I was determined to work out. AND I DID!!!! Yay... I know, I am suprised myself. I busted ass on the tread mill (spelling?) for like an hour. I am so proud. Now i'm home and I am scared to go in my closet. I'm not sure what to do. I held a big mirror up to see if the roach landed on my shoe box and it WAS NOT THERE?!?! Where did it go? Nick called our landlady...FINALLY. I am not sure if she is going to pay for it but I think it is considered maintanance. I feel like if I am paying as much as I am to live here, the least she can do is come exterminate my shit!
So, lately I have had baby fever. I know I am random going from roaches to babies. hehe but I have the itch I guess. I hope I get over it soon. When Nick was here he entertained the thought and then we came back to reality. I hate the fact that I think about it so much. I have more than I could ask for and I can;t enjoy living my life right now without whining about Nick finishing school , moving closer to family, getting a house, having a baby.... I am always looking forward to the future and worrying about the things I don;t have RIGHT NOW. I know good things come to those who wait but I always think we have put in our time. When that Trace Adkins song came out it really got me to thinking about my life and how I need to try living in the moment. When will I ever live in Florida again.... never! When will we get to randomly go on a trip with no worries, never. Nick tells me it is natural to make goals and look forward to the future but I would like to work on taking one day at a time and enjoying it. :( One day we will have the 2.5 kids and the house with this. So, until I have a little one of my own, there will always be my little duncan doodle... and the creepy picture from dave and busters... ha, some of you know what I am talking about.
Well, this is the song, and as some of you know I base some life decisions off of songs. Lame I know but I do these things!

Your Gonna Miss This
She was staring out the window of their SUV
Complaning, saying "I can't wait to turn 18"
She said "I'll make my own money, and I'll make my own rules"
Mamma put the car in park out there in front of the school
Then she kissed her head and said "I was just like you"

You're gonna miss this
You're gonna want this back
You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast
These are some good times
So take a good look around
You may not know it now
But you're gonna miss this

Before she knows it she's a brand new bride
In a one-bedroom apartment, and her daddy stops by
He tells her "It's a nice place"
She says "It'll do for now"
Starts talking about babies and buying a house
Daddy shakes his head and saysAnd s "Baby, just slow down"

Cause you're gonna miss this
You're gonna want this back
You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast
These are some good times
So take a good look around
You may not know it now
But you're gonna miss this

Five years later there's a plumber workin' on the water heater
Dog's barkin', phone's ringin'
One kid's cryin', one kid's screamin'
And she keeps apologizin'
He says "They don't bother me.
I've got 2 babies of my own.
One's 36, one's 23.
Huh, it's hard to believe, but...

You're gonna miss this
You're gonna want this back
You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast
These are some good times
So take a good look around
You may not know it now
But you're gonna miss this

Oh My GOSH! I can't handle the insects!!!!

So I was getting ready for work this morning. Everything was fine. I went into my closet to grab a pair of shoes. I look up....and to my horror.... a HUGE ASS roach! Crawling up my wall. What the fuck?!?!?! I ran in the kitchen to grab something to spray it with. I did not have roach spray and I know how those bastard's are. They don't like to die! I found some flea and tick spray. I shot him with it and he fell. Looked like he fell on my top shoe box. But I really don't know. He will just have to live there until Nick comes home. So of course I call Nick and bitch at him to call out landlord lady. He did not want to call. Yeah right, your ass better call. He acts like he does not know me by now. I will avoid confrontation at all costs. I got so mad I hung up. He better call. I can't sleep knowing that a roach of any size may crawl on me. It is bad enough I have to deal with this at my client's houses but when it is in my own... oh, hell no!

I'm turning over a new leaf!

So, I know I have been the worst at blogging! Ever since I started working I have just stopped but this will change! I will give the people what they need! :) ha, like anyone really reads this! Anyways.... today I was motivated by shopping. What else is new? I decided I want to start working out due to the muffin top that is continuously growing over my jeans. Gross! And what will motivate me to actually get my butt off the couch. New work out clothes of course! It just makes me so happy. I bought about three new outfits and spent way too much money. I am sure Nick will have something to say about it. :) We will see if I keep this up after the "new clothes" smell goes away.
Last weekend Nick suprised me by flying home. We stayed at the Hilton hotel in Orlando and went to universal studios. We had a blast. We ate lots of good food, rode bad ass roller coasters and went out on the town. It is funny how being away from someone makes you love them that much more. I am so lucky to have such a thoughtful husband. All I need to see now is my #1, Duncan. I miss that baby so much. He has had quite the eventful summer. He ate my mom's counch. (We will be replacing it) and peed on my dad's bed. (my dad already hates him!) :) poor daddy! Mom said the other day they could not find him because my dad was left to watch him. She said that she walked outside and saw him sitting under dad's umbrella just relaxing. So Duncan, he is a smart baby!
What else has happened this summer.... Jennifer came to visit. It was VERY HOT when I took her downtown ut we got to relax a little and just enjoy some sister time. She is pregnant and I feel that it is a girl. We shall see if my predictions are correct! Kali, Jo, mom and Sara also came the weekend after Nick left. It was a good trip. kali and Sara are more and more beatiful every time I see them. Kali has got game! We were at the beach and she lost her new ring in the ocean. She cried a little and then realized that mom would just buy her another one so she got over it. Then, these two little boys around her age came walking up and told her that they wanted to help her find her ring. They put there little goggles on and searched away. It was the cuttest thing I have ever seen!
Anyways, I have nothing interesting left to say. I guess I need to blog about work sooner or later. There is always something interesting going on with these crazy clients of mine.
To all of my family who may ready this, I miss you and love you. I can;t wait to be home!!!! 9 more days!!!! YESSSS