Aquarius trying to climb the stairs. Desperately.

wow

Wow, its been so long since I blogged. sorry. I always have lots I think about blogging but then I just never get on here.
Well, lots has been going ok this week. Work has been interesting over the past two weeks or so. Lots of changes happening. Nothing is official or announced yet, so I cant say too much but I think things will be good. barring some people potential bad attitudes that hopefully they get over! blah to pissy people.
I know my last post was about me being crabby, but I just felt crabby. I dont think I actually acted crabby toward others. Especially not work people.
So, the house is still getting put together a little more every day. I really love it. This week we got a Christmas Tree (We are going to put it up tomorrow) and some other random things. I also got a Tiffany (Dale Tiffany, not Louis Comfort Tiffany) lamp for my nightstand tonight on a great "Black Friday" sale and with a saved VISA gift card from the wedding. Its so pretty. I will try to post a picture on here.
At the end of last week we also ordered a arched window shutter/blind for our bedroom window. We CANNOT wait for it to get here.
I am excited for tomorrow to be a day of tree decorating and grilling for the first time on our new grill. Yummmmmmmy!

can't focus

So, I just cannot focus. I have been feeling really crabby for no reason since yesterday too. This is dumb. blah.

bad blogger

So, sorry its been 3 days. work has been kinda crazy. DH went and got back from a short trip up. He got a really great gig this weekend, but its quite time consuming. That's okay though, I am proud of him for getting it! :0)

We started watching Step Brothers tonight- def a guy a movie. Terribly vulgar but funny too.

Will write more, and hopefully work on the design of this blog, over the weekend.

this counts as my monday post

so this post, although made after midnight is to count as my Monday post... today was rather busy. busy at work and I worked kinda late. Then my evening flew by chatting to various people on the phone, working on a few things and then going to a late gig to see my man play some music. It was good. I enjoyed hearing/seeing the bass player play upright, she usually plays electric when I see her play at the church her and DH work at together.

its kinda fun starting to know more people so you can actually "run into people" when you go out. That was a hard transition for me moving here. going into places and knowing that you will 99% chance NOT run into anyone you know. I like running into people I know at stores, restaurants, clubs, whatever. Now, I do know more people- ALTHOUGH they are mostly all dudes who play jazz. NOTHING wrong with that, I just could use a few more girl friends in my life down here but that will come.

I do have some great girlfriends down here in TX, its just hard for us to hang out together very often btwn families, work, living kinda far apart--- real life stuff! It would also be nice to have a few more "couple friends" for us both to hang out with. those are the hardest friends to make I think! instead of just 2 people having to like hanging out and being about to schedule hangout time, you now have 4 people to work around and consider! I know that will come too. Not to worry.

turtle things

well today I had to buy Aquarius a new filter for her tank. Her old one was not working well anymore and really was not large enough to keep up with... well her pooping! gross, I know.
Now, she has a new filter that is for up to 75 gallon tanks! She only has about 30 gallons in her tank at any given time so 2.5 times the filter to tank ratio should help a lot! We will see.

home from Canada and off to IKEA!

So my hubby came home yesterday and I am so glad he is back! I am totally fine with him going out on the road to do what he does- play music- but of course I miss him while he is gone. But the home comings are always nice too! :0)

He is so awesome. He was gone for two weeks (almost) and was so tired when he came home but STILL did a bunch of work last night! He hung several pictures on our bare walls including some wedding pics and changed the toilet seat in the downstairs half-bath. It used to have this horrible forest green seat, but now, it has pretty white one with brushed nickel hardware. Sweet!

This evening we made a trip to our favorite furniture store- IKEA- and picked up a few things we needed for the house. We got another dresser for our bedroom (which we have needed for since we moved in together!), a cool stand/shelf thing for our TV in the master, some cool shelf legs for hubby's desk so it looks like more than just a couple IKEA tables put in an L shape and a small 2x2 honeycomb shelf for the 3rd bedroom TV. All of that for under $400 people! Ohh yeah, and we got a candle holder and some cookies! Pretty darn sweet huh?!

I will take and post some pics once things are put together- later.

Tonight he is working on the dresser and TV stand. Ohh how I will enjoy spreading my belongs out from being STUFFED into 3 drawers plus 2 plastic drawer sets, out into 7 real drawers! WHOO HOO. Maybe I can finally retire those plastic drawers of underwear and socks I have had since college. I think I might take one set to work to have some more storage under my desk.

HGTV?

I find it funny that since buying the house, I have hardly watched ANY HGTV! I was so obsessed with watching all the home buying shows during our home search/closing process and I really watched quite a few of them before I even thought about buying a house.
I guess having gone through the whole process makes it not as exciting to watch others go through it.
*We saw plenty of horrible houses on our journey.
*We had TONS-O-Stress (unexpected I might add) come up during the closing/loan application process.
*We had fun agents to work with.
*We just did not have the camera crew.

Actually, when we finally were able to get into our house after closing I kind of felt like I was on HGTV for a second. The old owner left us a few gifts- some candles on the mantel, a caddy of things to hang pictures on the walls with, and lovely note. How sweet is that?! We will definitely do the same when we move on from this house!
Ok, off to bed for me. My hubby comes home tomorrow! Yea!

doing good so far

Last night I did not watch 1 minute of TV! Can you believe it?! Like I talked about yesterday, I had my friend over for dinner last night so we just hung out and talked until around 9 pm. Then I played around online for a bit, then made myself go to bed! I had to wait up a bit for my DH to call from "the road", but still was a sleep before 11:30. pretty good for me these days.

Today though, I turned on the TV as soon as I woke up (I gotta watch my Today Show) and the back on again when I got home.

I have been struggling with the urge to go shopping all night and I did not give into that urge. I really really want some new fall clothes- just a few things like maybe a couple sweaters and a new courderoy skirt. I think I will go this weekend- my Old Navy and Limited coupons will still be good!

Cant wait for my DH to get home Friday. 11 days is along time for us to be apart! I miss him. I wonder if he is going to come back home from Canada saying "Egh?" at the end of every sentence or have cravings for gravy on his fries. j/k!

dinner was nice tonight

I had a friend of mine over for dinner tonight. I had a great time hanging out and cooking dinner for her. It all turned out pretty yummy I think AND I didnt go buy anything special to make the whole dinner with. I had everything here already! That is quite an accomplishment for me.

I have such a bad habit of getting an idea of something to cook into my head, but then I am short one or two things. Once I have an idea in my head I have a hard time not making that idea, so I usually end up going to the store to get what I am missing.

Maybe my shopping is not organized enough. I try to think of meals I might want to cook throughout the week, but I sometimes have a hard time with that. I think the fact that I get daily emails from Martha Stewart telling me what I could make for dinner doesnt help either. I dont always, or even often, make what she suggests, but it does spark ideas a lot of the time.

So back to our dinner. We had pan sauteed Tilapia seasoned with this awesome Central Market seasoning I got this weekend. For sides we had lemon pepper green beans (thanks to my friend, W) some sweet steamed Carrots (for W to try because she had not them before) and couscous with raisins and herbs.

W totally helped me clean up the kitchen and the dishes after dinner, which she did not have to, but I am grateful for the help. I feel like I have been cleaning so much for weeks on end with the move and getting ready for visitors. Blah to cleaning, but I do like having a clean house!

Happy November

Well, October truly flew by and I feel like Nov and Dec will do exactly the same!

My mom and grandparents came down to visit this weekend. We had a really good time. We did my (new) usual "First time to Dallas Tour"- Central Market and see the museum where I work. I wont make everyone come downtown to see where I work, but if they want to, and family usually does, I bring them down for a quick look. My mom has of course, visited before, but it was the first time for my Grandparents. And, my mom, like me, could ALWAYS go to Central Market so that is a fun repeat too!

*Challenge for myself this month* I am going to try to blog everyday this month. Not long blogs, just something to get into the habit. We will see how that goes, and considering I already missed Nov. 1.