NaBloPoMo... do it... dooooo it

Ok, so last year I discovered people talking about NaBloPoMo and if I remembered I was going to get all the days.. what the hell is NaBloPoMo you say? It stands for National Blog Posting Month.. Ok, so that is what November supposably is, so to celebrate the great NaBloPoMo you are supposed to blog every day during the month... ai yi yi. So there we go, it will be national blog month so our goal Tia is to post every day. This should prove interesting (and somewhat hard!) as we are going on vacation this month as well as going to the turkey show! we can doooooooooooooooo it! I think... :-)

Happy Halloween... again!

:-)

Ok, so now its Halloween night and we have had 10 trick or treaters! that's it!! what the heck. we're nice, non scary people but alas noone ever comes here. We generally give out regular sized candy bars, maybe next year we'll go for King Sized ones for our loyal visitors! anyhow, the real aim of this post is to show this years dinner. I had a hard time coming up with ideas for it this time and then I had a hard time with the dough as I used frozen dough and I'm not used to working with frozen dough. I had decided long ago we should have "meat pies" because ever since we watched Sweeney Todd we have joked about the meat pies in the freezer section of the store. So I bought some (I wouldn't recommend it! yuck! I should have made my own or bought the cheap pot pies but anyhow...) then I was trying to figure out how to have "body parts" in it and finally bought a cheap two dollar doll, uhhhh dismembered her, washed her arms and legs then cooked the pies and added the arms and legs. It was funny although nasty and not tasty at all. bleck. the batwings and eyes and spider and mummies were good though. Tia's mummy was made with a veggie dog.. strange! she said it tasted good though but I still have my doubts. The fingers were alright too, although I may make them a bit different next time. anywho, I am going to start on next years menu much much sooner! I like halloween, have I mentioned that?

Happy Haunting

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Happy Halloween all! you wouldn't know it to look at my house but I really like Halloween. I used to decorate the house and yard almost as much as Christmas (although I dont hardly even do Christmas anymore!) But haven't for the last few years.... mainly because the box of lights and stuff are somewhere in the depths of my very very messy packed full shed! But anyhow, I like Halloween. So all you lovely people c'mon over to my house and get yourself some candy! We don't get alot of trick or treaters so so sad. Have a great day

It's TUESDAY!! WOOOOHOOOO

Don't know why I wrote that, felt like it. there is actually nothing special about today being tuesday but hey, I'm in a strange strange mood this morning. I am presently at work as usual, and there are no customers, again as usual. I need to get those cobra pics uploaded now that I've downloaded them. Maybe tomorrow I will have a post pics spree... or maybe not. Last Saturday was a pretty good day. I woke up earlier then I really wanted to and I was nervous as all get out taking Bella to doggie day camp but it all worked out pretty well.. well until it was over and she wanted to eat the "bug" (pug something or other cross). I should have known she'd want to eat it, she has this thing for eating real bugs. especially stink bugs.. Yick! anyhow, whilst Bella was at camp Tia and I went to the movies. We found a theatre which was playing the nightmare before christmas 3D and grabbed a quick sandwich before it started. if only I'd known they have a freakin food court in there!! I didn't look at the prices though so it all might be for the best we ate before since we paid $4 for a bottle of water once past the podium man. After that show got over we went out and got tickets to the next show, Saw V Tia and I have watched every saw movie so far but I must say this one wasn't even that bad. they are more gory then scary anyhow, but this one just seemed to be somehow lacking. I'm sure there is going to be another as they left it wide open for that but hopefully it will be better.

This weekend Bella has camp again and this time its Colt's turn to spend the day with me... Quit whining Tia! I can hear you already... oh wait I heard you in real life already. Its his turn. I believe Colt and I are going to go see "W". That should be interesting.

Lets see what else has gone on... Ummmmm.. not alot. Today I am going to get off work, go water cows, do chores and wait for help to go haul hay. I had thought about just going and hauling the part done so far by myself but then changed my mind. I would hate for my kids to miss all the fun and excitement! hahahahaha they will be so happy I waited. I am sure of it.

Cobra Cobra Cobra

Wooohoooo Last night was Cobra! It was great fun. Tia, Emily and I got there REAAAAAAAAAAAALY early to get in line, after a few hours Tauna arrved and we waited in the line forever again but it was fun... cold but fun. We ended up getting almost to the rail, one row in front of us and WHOA was it smooshy. people pushing and moving trying to get better positions but it was fun. Today my body feels as though it was beaten, a body surfer fell on my head and my neck made odd cracking noises but now its just a bit sore. My calves are sore also from bracing the throngs around me and not letting them move me. mwah ha ha Hot and sweaty, definatly tiring, but very very fun the opening bands were alright too, which is a nice change as sometimes you just wish for them to get over. Cobra is always good, although I swear I was deaf by then so it could really be just the mood of the crowd and singing and jumping aroud that makes it good rather then the music itself at the moment :-) I plan to download some pics tonight but for now I'm off to take a buck to the vet so tata

almost forgot...

Guess what Tia,
Dad bought Sassy a hoodie! hahahahahahahahahahahaha

Good Morning!

Hello to you, my blog fans... hahahahahahah

I am currently in Fallon Nevada, after quite the week in California. Meetings did not go all that bad, there was alot less "crap" (for lack of a better word) that went on and they got done in two days instead of three! YAY! I am however glad that at least for the foreseeable future it will be my last convention to sit on the board. I am already excited for 2010 in Tucson when I get to do convention stuff instead of board stuff! YAY!! It always seems like the classes and tours I want to go on are right during board meetings thus not allowing me to go. I did get to go to a couple of classes on Friday this year though, they were on long distance hauling and one on showing and fitting tips. I have been showing and fitting for quite some time but still picked up a few handy ideas. Our lovely Mr Carl was also there. It was great fun to spend the evenings with him, he's always a fun man to be around. I was a abysmal failure when it came to pictures though as I didn't take a single picture of the motel or any of the activities.



There is a pic off the web of the outside of the hotel. It was a nice place, had nice staff and sometimes good food. I say that because the welcome dinner was not so great. I had heard the youth banquet was not so great and I had mixed reactions to the spotlight brunch. I did however like the food at the Friday night Banquet and our Directors lunches were superb. The wine and cheese event was awesome this year. I did not have one cheese that I wanted to spit into my napkin! I had a couple of surprises, not bad surprises though and there was plenty to be had by all. Not only cheese, but meat and vegetable platters. Todd, Carl and I had planned to make an appearance at it, then go to dinner. We did not end up going to dinner!
The spotlight sale was fun. It was a good thing we had brought the car as I know there is a really good chance we would have been bringing home a Saanen buck if nothing else! Which is why I brought the car. didn't want to be tempted. it didn't work was still tempted but at least it kept us in check. After the sale we jumped into our car and started on our way. We did take a scenic route at one point, but it all worked out ok as we hadn't planned to get all the way home. It would have been nice though. I miss my kids. Anyhow, we have gone down a little in our places to sleep as we are currently here:



Ok, so its not the doubletree, our room is clean and there is a bed and hey look internet! and free internet! It always amazes me that you can pay $100 plus a night and have to pay for internet and you can pay $50 and get it for free. Hmmmmmm...

Anyway, I will be glad to be home. Tuesday is COBRA COBRA COBRA! I am still not sure what our plan is. Tia is supposed to be deciding what time we are leaving to get in line and I don't think she's doing it! We have also not decided for sure about sleeping accommodations that night or if we are driving home afterwords. I will say there are NO places near the venue that I plan on staying!!! I am not even sure how we are going to park near the venue! I'm sure it will all work out in the end.

Well its getting late enough now (6:30 here) that I am going to go take a shower and pack up my stuff and make all kinds of noise to get Todd up and moving so we can hit the road soon I hope!

I did it!

stupid reports.. blah blah blah. oh well at least they are done. still not looking forward to directors meetings, and I need to get laundry done and find my "meeting clothes" and pack the car. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be all like "yay, going away for a few days. Woohoo" but for now its more like, "ugh, I have other things I could be doing"

Tock Tick...

Yes, I know it is generally Tick Tock, BUT I swear the clock is running backwards today! The weather sucks, it is snowing AGAIN and so all of Hinckley are holed up in their nice warm homes (or frozen in their beds maybe) and not venturing out to my lovely work to keep me company. Of course church doesn't get out for a bit so maybe that's where all the locals are and its just the usual tourists I am missing but it is making for one loooooong day! HUZZAH! a truck just drove up! It's super jumper frank, looks like he must have run out of fuel somewhere and hitched a ride to fill up a gas can! that's not a good thing in this weather. I call him super jumper because that boy can jump in volleyball, he just doesn't know the rest of the rules and breaks most of them! hahahaha He can jump though.

So what has happened this week... Well we never did find my keys. Maybe there will be a miracle and they will have been found by the time we go to volleyball tomorrow. I'm not holding my breath though. Hopefully we can find a place to make a spare. This only having one single key to the car is enough to put me on edge knowing we are going to lose it! :-)

I should be using this time to finalize my report for convention and finish reading and taking notes on the others. but I just can't get into it. Ok, so I'm going to HAVE to do it soon, the meetings are in two days after all! DOH! I am so not looking forward to it. Hopefully I get a better attitude once we are on our way... or once we get there... or hell eventually! I am totally looking forward to our family vacation in November though! YAY! The only part I worry about is the kids missing school, but we'll get over that I'm sure. I'm excited to go and we have some fun things planned I think plus we always have a good time just screwing around in the arcades. I am SO going to beat Colt at Basketball this year! I have about giving up on any of us ever beating him at the air hockey tournament. Grrrrrrr One day, we shall topple the kind of air hockey... one day I tell you, one day.

lets see what else.. we had Bella's last day of training for this session I had contemplated taking her to advanced but right now its not going to mesh with our schedule the next while AND I think there is a better option. Our main problem I want to resolve right now is her social problems. I had thought of taking her up to doggie day camp, where you take them drop them of for the day and they play all day with the workers and other dogs. Sounded like the perfect thing for her. BUT, I was worried about how it would go with her being so shy. I talked to our trainer who then brought in the lady who works in that area and we discussed it and they think it could be a good thing. They aren't worried about her social problems and so I think that's what we are going to do for a few months. take her up on Saturdays and leave her for the better part of the day so she can interact with others AND even better do it while we aren't there to "protect" her. This next weekend I will be gone, but I think we will take her up on the 25th for a test run and see what happens. I really hope it works. She is probably the neatest dog we've ever owned but I really want her to like people and other dogs too instead of just us.

The boys are back from hunting. They didn't get anything but snowed on but hopefully they still enjoyed it. Colt was talking about next year already so I guess they plan to go back.

what else... hmmmm..... I guess I'm running out of things to do to procrastinate so I guess I'll go do reports.

Church must be out! I see cars moving around out there! YAY maybe

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Ok, so its getting freakin cold outside. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Today it SNOWED! what the freakin heck!!! The ground was to warm for it to stay but it snowed and snowed and snowed, and its COLD out there! Hopefully it is going to warm up again at least for awhile but the high today was barely forty degrees. brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Right now I should be working on convention stuff but I so don't want to. I have absolutely no desire to go! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh I'm so burned out on the being a director that the mere thought of going or reading the rest of the reports makes my skin crawl. This is my last convention as director though so I will persevere and get through it and then be free FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Ok, so actually I'm still a director until next october but it will be that much closer to being free! :-)

Ok, so I'm going to go check reports. SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH

Sunday? what Sunday...

Ok, so I failed at the Sunday update :-) So now we are having Tuesday update. The boys have gone elk hunting and of course it started storming as soon as they left and I hear it was ugly as all get out up there. So far no elk, lots of snow and wind and cold. They were supposed to come home yesterday but they called and said they would be coming today instead. I'm not so sure I'm ready for the dirty boys to come home. the house has been pretty picked up all weekend with just Tia and I home.

So Tia and I were home all weekend alone as I mentioned. We didn't really do much but it was still fun, we had grand elaborate plans to SLEEP IN Saturday but I ended up going to work instead. Then of course I worked all day Sunday. Other then working we watched a couple of movies and ate fish and chicken! mwah ha ha. Then last night we went to Volleyball which was great fun until it got over and I found out Tia had lost the car keys. Not only that but the other set of keys is locked in the car and not only that but she thinks the lost ones are the ones with all my other keys on it and not just the car key! DOH!! I hope they find them out there once its light enough to see! But for now I gues at 4 o'clock when the place opens I will be heading out with the wrecker from Droubays and have them get me into our car. Then after Tia gets down with simulators we will drive back out there and search for the keys.

Todd and the Doctor

So we finally made it to the hip Dr after waiting forever after the MRI was done. It was odd though as for some reason Todd's hip apparently quit hurting about a week ago. Well anyway, we got to the doctor and he started looking at the MRI images. He said it didn't look nearly as bad as the other one had. There is a small piece that has broken off and is just moving around in there though. They are thinking that it has found itself a "happy place" and lodged itself there at the moment though and that's why the pain has gone mostly away now. So for the present time they are thinking no surgery! YAY!! If it starts hurting again then the piece has probably started moving again, at which time they will do one of two things 1) give him some sort of injection in his hip or 2) send him to a different doctor who does hip scopes. Apparently hip scopes are very uncommon but there are two doctors in the state that do them and they might be able to snag out the piece that way and smooth out a few other problems. Which may buy us alot more time before finally having to replace it. I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO hoping that the thing just stays in its happy place for awhile and that we can go a winter or two without having him be off work. That would be sooooooooo nice. So anyhow, that was the doctors report. The boys are going elk hunting this weekend. So we are all holding our breathe to see how it goes and if it starts killing him again after being more active for awhile. Hopefully it goes fine and things continue to look optimistic for awhile. I am not calling to make an eye appointment until AFTER the hunt though. I am just pessimistic enough to think that something is going to go wrong.

I'm blind!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Ok, so I've been blind for a long time but today I'm blind at work! For some darn reason this morning I grabbed Tia's contact case instead of mine and now I don't have even close to the right prescription in my eyes! I thought I was just tired when I left home but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooo Tia called me and told me what a dork I am. I can actually see "things" alright but I can't read! what am I going to do with myself for another hour and a half without being able to see! waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

I guess when I get off I'll go home and put the right contacts in then go to town and buy Tia some more maybe I'll order new glasses while I'm there. Mine kill me at night. I'm still hoping to get Lasik done, especially now that we think Todd won't have to have his hip replaced yet (oh yeah haven't posted about that yet) but I discovered you supposedly have to not wear contacts for like a month before AND besides my old ones are driving me crazy at night when I wear them after taking out my contacts. Things look about like they do today as a matter of fact . maybe I should have bought new ones sooner then every four years :-) I didn't want to buy new ones on the off chance I would get to have my eyes done though but every winter we use all the medical money on Todd's surgeries. But now it looks promising that there will be no major surgery and maybe I can get them done in January which means I should call and make an appointment to find out if I am even a candidate for it to be done at all! DOH! Well I'm off to refocus my eyes so I can post about Todd's Dr appointment.