Saddle up your horses..

Ummm. Why did I just read on someone's facebook status that Steven Curtis Chapman was in Louisiana and I'm not there?? I am so mad! I saw him when I was like..um 12 or 13 years old. And then I went to get his autograph and I think he was in a bad mood because he wouldn't really talk to anyone. I have to give him a chance to redeem himself!!
Anywho, it's the first day of the Ides of March challenge! That means I gotta blog every day. I can do it. I just hope I don't bore you guys to tears.
So guess I'll just blog about my day....welllll...I was happy that I could work very close to home today (so I could sleep in an extra hour!) We had a steady flow of patients so it was pretty good day. I stayed after work to exercise..ran 2 miles..did some other stuff..came home and cooked some porkchops. and sauteed zuchinni and squash and cooked rice. annnd some kale chips..annnd something bad. I had an extra zuchinni so I got crazy and pan fried that sucker. (Does it make it-any-healthier that I used egg whites and spelt flour??ha!). It was really good! Thank God I only did one zuchinni because I couldn't stop eating it.
Ah! Something awesome happened today. I bought my ticket to see Thrice in New Orleans for their farewell tour in May!!!!!! The day after my birthday!!!!!! I don't think you people know how much this means to me. I know I have said like so many things about them..but honestly. If you wanna hear someone sing da truth..listen to dem! Seriously, they have helped me through so many situations in my life, they will really never know how much they mean to lil old me. I even got a tattoo from some of their album art :) (put a bird on it!!) <--for my fellow Portlandia watchers..if you haven't seen that episode..just youtube that phrase and watch the minute and a half sketch. It's so true! ha.
Alas, the dirty dishes are screaming my name.

(note: I was just informed by Ashleigh that The Ides of March doesn't start until March 15..sooo..oops!!)

There's no end in sight.

"And come what may, I won't abandon, or leave you behind because Love is a loyalty sworn, not a burning for a moment."

Thank God. (literally).

Walkin' side roads, cause that's the only way I know.

I had a most productive day. I went to work for 8. I came home at lunch to let dogs out, and folded laundry and washed dishes as well. I went back to work until 5. I logged 3 miles on the treadmill. I am on week 3, day 3 of couch to 5k! I usually run just a tad longer..well because I usually hate running for like the first minute or 2. Then I get into this rhythm and its just hard to stop and start and stop and start. My breathing gets all out of control..I also did lots of incline. Annnnyway. I came home and vacuumed up pine needles that were leftover from our sad dead Christmas tree and moved around the living room a bit. Then I dusted everrrry room and vacuumed the rest of the trailer and then cleaned counters. Then I made a salad! Now I'm beat! I'm also not feeling very well..I started feeling horrible yesterday (body aches, swollen and sore throat..ya know, all of the dumb flu s/s) but when I woke up this morning I felt 75% better! Still have the yucky throat stuff, though :-(

I am not going to say anything about the LSU vs. Alabama game because I have talked about it all day to each and every patient that came in, and I'm tired of it. And because I think the game spoke for itself. My husband and I both just sat there and watched. No yelling or stomping or cussing. Just sitting silently, watching.

On a happier note, my brother and sister in law are coming to visit this weekend. And I can't contain my excitement!!!!! I know I'm going to be so annoying and they are going to be ready to not see me again for a few more months, but I can't help myself and they better suck it up!!

I think that is all that is happening in my boring life right now.
I wish Hunger Games would come out this weekend.
I wish there was a good show that I could go to soon.
I wish I had lots of $ and could go to New Zealand or Italy or somewhere else far away for a vacation.
I need some excitement.

So this is the new year..

2012. Change. Not the biggest fan. (It's really hard for me to just think about taking down the Christmas tree today!) It's funny how even if I don't particularly like the place I'm in, change still scares me.

Who knows what this year will bring?? Visits to the Twin Cities, Raleigh..hopefully NYC at some point, Florida..who could forget Grand Isle??

2011 wasn't the best year for me..but I am thankful for [most of] the happenings of 2011.
I was very thankful to move back to the country! I think that was the best thing that happened.
I was bo(l)th sad and happy for my brother and sister in law moving to another state. I truly am extremely happy for and proud of you, Steph!
We gained a moo moo.
We spent time with my husband's siblings (which doesn't happen very often!). We spent a week with them in Florida, and a long weekend in Tulsa. Which was our first really long road trip together, and my first time to Tulsa.
My husband and I didn't kill each other! We made it through another year. We learned how to be more patient with each other (which is a life long process, of course)
I got to go to New York this summer to watch my cousin eat in the Nathan's hot dog eating contest!


Okay, so maybe a lot of great things did happen this past year. I am very thankful and blessed to have the people that I have in my life..you all make it worth living!

Oh, Mr. Moon..

So I totally stole this from something that my cousin posted on facebook..but It's soo funny! So I had to post it..

How to Make a Peanut Butter Sandwich, by the Losties

Jack
1. Gather ingredients
2. Point gun at ingredients and shout “HOW DO I MAKE A SANDWICH OUT OF YOU?!?!?”
3. Breathe heavily through your nose as though you were about to hit ingredients
4. Give up and make the sandwich yourself, and eat it bitterly

Kate
1. Make separate sandwiches, one with peanut butter and one with jelly
2. Take a bite of the peanut butter sandwich, declaring it the best
3. Take a bite of the jelly sandwich, declaring it the best
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 ad infinitum
5. Follow peanut butter or jelly sandwich into grave danger

Sawyer
1. Throw the jar of jelly at wall, sneering “I don’t need no sandwich”
2. Call the mascot on the jar of peanut butter lots of clever nicknames
3. Huff and puff and stomp around and grumble a lot
4. When no one’s looking, make perfect, even, symmetrical peanut butter and jelly sandwich and sit in a corner, enjoying every bite

Locke
1. Sit idly by, believing that the ingredients will find a way to make a sandwich out of themselves
2. Lose faith and make the sandwich anyway
3. Realize that you were the instrument by which the ingredients chose to make a sandwich after all
4. Run around the room and grab everyone’s knives, insisting that their sandwiches will do the same in time

Hurley
1. Make sandwich
2. Eat sandwich
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 ad infinitum

Sayid
1. Procure 23 milligrams of uranium-20
2. Set hadron supercollider to eight megajoules
3. Program a sandwich-making macro using Cobol or Visual Basic
4. Act all tough-like

Desmond
1. Eat sandwich
2. Call the sandwich “brother”
3. Place peanut butter slice over jelly slice
4. Spread jelly on the other slice
5. Spread peanut butter on one slice
6. Take two slices of bread, a jar of peanut butter and a jar of jelly

Ben
1. Steal someone else’s sandwich
2. Claim you coerced them into making the sandwich for you all along
3. Say you’ll tell them everything if they make you another sandwich
4. Stare at them all creepy-like

Libby
1. Lay out plans for one of the most intricate, fascinating, and delicious sandwiches of all time
2. Just as you start making it, get shot

Claire
1. Mmmmmmm, peanut butter

Tuesday.

Hello bloggie..I feel like I kind of fell of the blog earth for awhile. But I really want to start blogging more! I really enjoy reading everyone else's blogs and I wish I had more to say sometimes..Or more things that I felt like I could share to an audience..Anywho..I know this is going to sound weird butttt a few months ago I started following this girl on instagram. (I can't even remember how I came across her-most of the people I follow I have no idea who they are!) I think I started following her bc she always wears the cutest outfits and posts fun pictures..but I also started following her blog. Maybe I'm a little stalkerish? Anyway..I was just reading some of her posts and I came across this one and I feel like I could have written it. It describes EXACTLY what I believe, and how I feel about Jesus. So I just thought I would share it. I honestly wish that everyone would believe this way..it's so uncomplicated and real! Here it is:

What I believe

I believe in Jesus. I believe that He died on the cross for me and loves me so so much more than I deserve.
He died knowing every sin I would ever sin and still chose to.
A lot of people ask what I believe or what my religion is - It's Jesus. That's all.
I am a follower of Christ and will be till I die and meet Him (oh how sweet will that day be?!) so that makes me a Christian by definition.
I don't claim a denomination and I don't have a certain set of rules I believe I have to follow, other than the Bible. His word is all I need.

I know that He loves me just as I am, and that is probably the best feeling in the entire world. Can't be topped. He accepts my colorful skin, my piercings, every bit of me. Those things don't define me anyway. I suppose some Christians have given a bad example of what it looks like to follow Christ, but the Jesus I follow - He is so very rad.
He doesn't except you to come to Him a certain way, He wants you just as you are. He loves you where you're at now. He desires you. Oh, goodness. He longs for you!
He is the best.

I've never come before Him, and felt that I needed to leave and come back when I was having a better day or a better month or year, or thought when I obey his commandments better, then I'll come back and talk to the man upstairs.
Nah. He wants to hold us on our bad days, give us rest. He's not just upstairs either, He is everywhere. I feel him in the warm sunlight, the cold breeze, the stillness of the afternoon. I see Him in sunsets and sunrises, in the leaves on all the trees dancing together, the little birds that fill the air, the stars that hang so perfectly in the night sky, the crackling of a campfire, the peaks of mountains, blankets of snow. He is so beautiful.

Isn't that awesome? It's perfect. 

I hope you all are having a great week! I'm gonna go eat some gumbo now :-]

meet me underneath the oklahoma sky..

So many things have been happening lately! My husband and I's 2nd anniversary, a nephew's birthday, Thanksgiving..so many things. I honestly haven't had time to sit here and blog lately. Guess I'll go ahead and make it a picture blog! I have been trying to upload a video of my nephew when I gave him his birthday present, but my computer will not let me. Here is a picture of him with his huge "shahk" I hope he loves it! I was so so so sad that I had to miss his birthday party :( Oh well, guess that just means I'll have to spoil him extra for Christmas ;) Love you so much Fox, you are getting so big! Happy Birthday!

For Thanksgiving, we went to visit Judah's brother and his family in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Judah's younger sister and her husband (Johanna and Bru) were also there, as well as Judah's parents. It was a great time. We don't get together very often, but when we do we always have the best time. Here is Judah with his (almost twin!) sister:

Here are some pictures of our 5 month old nephew, Zachary Elliot:

The boy can sleep anywhere, through anything! He slept through pretty much all of the saws and other tools that the boys were using to put new floors down in Jared and Joy's house. Here he is sleeping at Target:

Grammy got Zach a cute new hat for Christmas..here he is with his mommy:

Got him!

(didn't mean to flip off the camera..)

Also, here are some pictures of our other nephew, Keenan. I'm sure he ate like 67 pieces of taffy while we were there. He looked like this the entire time:

He tried on his Thanksgiving play costume!

One thing you have to know about the Vedros's: they love to make every.single.thing. a competition. So obviously they love to play games so that everyone can yell and argue and just have a good ole time together. This competition turned into who can draw it better..Keenan and Judah drew different things and everyone else had to vote on which picture was the best.

After Johanna and Bru left, we realized that Bru forgot his favorite glasses. They're Keenan's now!

Here is one of the pictures. The competition was who can draw the best house..I don't think Judah understood the rules..

I think this is a horrible picture of me, but I love this gal! Johanna and me:

I'm so sad that we probably won't see each other until next summer. But I'm very thankful that we got to go visit them. The drive, by the way, was absolutely beautiful. The leaves on the trees were all red, orange, or yellow..it was just miles and miles of huge hills (Joy made fun of me bc I accidentally called them mountains..but they were huge! They just didn't seem like hills to me..) with pretty leaves. And deer..there were so many deer. It was a 10 hour drive, but it didn't seem like it. We were very happy to be home and see our doggies! Happy Late Thanksgiving!

Btw, I am very thankful for all of you people reading this.. and (the rest of) my family (who aren't reading this)..and the trailer we live in..and the food in the fridge..and my job..and all of my friends and co workers too..and my doggies :-) Oh and my husband too!