weekend fun

It has been a pretty laid back weekend. Friday night Nick and I went to see Yes Man. It was funnier than I thought it would be! I wanted to see Bride Wars but Nick was having none of that. Sat. we went and played tennis. I am getting better every time I play. I have mucho respect for tennis players who are actually good. It is harder than it seems! sat. night we went out downtown. It was basically me, Nick, Chris B and Chris D. So they talked most of the night about things that I am not at all interested in. It was still pretty fun. We went to A1A and Sangria's. They had some really good bands out in little St. Augustine. I believe this is the most popular time to visit. The town is still completely lit up with white Christmas lights and the breeze from the water is breathtaking. I will really miss this place. Today, Nick and I slept late and ran some errands. I made homemade sweet potato fries. They were pretty easy and good. I am nervous about moving back home and I think every day about how much I will miss it here. If only I liked my job it would be terribly hard to leave. I wonder when I should start packing? I have to pack better than I typically do because we got specific instructions from the moving company. Who knew to put 4 inches of either crumpled paper or bubble wrap around all breakable items? Not me. I have a feeling that some of my things wont make the trek... but at least I wont be loading and unloading that crap. Anyways, hope everyone has a nice week. I am praying that this work week wont be as bad as the last few. :)

35 DAYS TO GO!

so, I think work is overrated! I am stressed out all day at work, i am not sleeping, and I have a car full of everything one of my kid's stuff. Nick and I started driving to work together this week. It is going ok. It makes me realize just how much I work. I feel like I cant possibly pack everything in to a 9 hour day!!! Tomorrow we have to drive separate so that I can work later. I'm so over it!!! I guess I should start a countdown to unemployment....

35 work days until freedom!!!! (not including Martian Luther Kin day because we are off). Does anyone have a resignation template I can use? I want to have it ready. Thank you Jesus!!

I thought this was funny! :)


“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.” Drew Carey quotes

Pictures

our New Year group
Happy New Year!
The gurls
we liked the horns
getting drunk
at the Caterie
jojie and jude
me and my baby sister
go dad go!
sporting the skinny jeans
sara sitting nicely watching the game
taboo
my babies
sad because it was his last day at home
enjoying the bed

Bye bye 2008!

So, I have not blogged in quite a while. Between working my ASS off and vacay, I haven't really had time. I can say that I am truly enjoying Nick's time off of school. He starts work on Monday and we will be commuting together as much as possible. It is nice to have some time where I get him al to myself. Xmas was ok, Jenn wasn't home so it was weird. Not like I didn't enjoy the rest of the fam it just felt incomplete. My dad, me, Kali, Nick, Sara and Jamie all went bowling one day. I think dad likes the particular alley we went to just for the food. Between us we ate 48 chicken wings, fried mushrooms, fried fish, french fries, and fried shrimp salad. And it was delish! Good memories! And we even got to play taboo a couple of nights while I was home. We went to the caterie one night and that was fun to hang out with Jo and Jude. We used to hang out there all the time, it is weird going back!

Life in St. Augustine is weird right now too! Duncan doodle is with my mom. I now know what it must be like to have someone die. I sometimes find myself talking to or about him as if he was here, may sound strange, but we forget that he isn't here. Poor baby, mom said he had fun running around the yard today, I hope he doesn't get hit by a car like all of the Crosbie dogs of the past! I would die! Work is not going so well. I am completely overwhelmed by the responsibilities I have and I am counting down the days until we hit the road. It is not like I am thrilled to leave St. Augustine, but I sure am looking forward to moving on to new things.

New years was really fun. Nick and I were both pretty plastered. We went out to eat sushi for dinner then met up with friends and went out after. It was kind of funny, we were toasting to the new year and it went as follows... me: "I am excited about 2009, I cant believe you will finally graduate this year and we will be home" Nick: "yes, here's to unemployment and living in a trailer...your right, at least I am graduating" Then we both laughed. It will definitely be a year of many changes. our goal is to go wherever life takes us and to hopefully have jobs and a house by this time next year. But, you never know! At the end of the night we called three different cabs. We ended up being stranded, sitting on our friends door step in the cold waiting almost an hour for one to show up, we laughed again saying "So, I guess this is how our year is going to start" :) We finally got picked up eventually and ended up going to bed at 4 in the morning. We woke up late today, went out to lunch and went to see Benjamin Button. It was a good movie, but pretty sad. After, we went next door to the Hallmark store because ll xmas ornaments are 50 percent off and we don't have many. We decided to buy each other a xmas ornament every year. Nick bought me one that is really pretty that has Noel written on it which is my middle name. I got him a Santa on a surf board so that we will remember that it is from St. Augustine. We also bought a gold cross and a turtle. I will miss it here, we are collecting boxes and we booked a moving company. I am nervous but excited.

I hope everyone had a nice New Year and stayed safe. Hopefully, I will be posting pics soon.

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!