moving moving moving and all the headaches...

what is it about moving that brings out every single emotion in a person. fear, excited, worried and just plain crazy. i have have a constant to do list in my head and forget it just as quickly. the worst part about all of it is i have to go through tthe stupid country canada to get to my new home and believe me, the requirements are terrible. i thought asking for a loan was hard. i have to list everything in my house. you heard me right EVERYTHING. how stupid. it would be easier to pack it and burn it.

3 weeks left at the job. so very sad. i am going to miss everyone. and the pay. but i will be able to sleep in and go fishing at any time. how cool.

but i will be seeing my husband in 14 days!!! on my birthday. can't get any better than that!

geez the count down is almost done.

map of where i will be

my baby is almost...

niomi is 16 today. i am amazed that she has lived that long and that i have not killed her. she is able to drive at night and everything now. i actually like it. she calls and checks in but she is able to run to the store. she told me the other day that she is kinda scared of growing up. she said she sometimes wishes that she could still be a little kid running around without shoes.

they just grow up to fast and not fast enough.

i am moving jobs within the company. i am moving to text processing and my new hours are 7:30 to 4 pm. i am very happy about that but i know me and know that i am going to be a bear in the morning. but i will be able to go to the gym again right after work. yea!

other than that things are good and trucking right along. i am extremely excited about going to alaska in T minus 2 months.

things have really changed

most recently i have been on the pursuit of losing weight yet again...I went to my doctor and told him that i am just very tired of trying my guts out and not getting anywhere. he has recommended that i get the lapband and i am going to go through with it. my insurance is even going to pay for the majority of it!!!

while researching all this joy, my heart problem has cropped up again and i have been in the er 2 times in a week. i went to my doc and they put me on heart meds and a 'king of hearts' to monitor. i also have high blood pressure and feel like crap. i know the pressure is from my weight and my heart is something weird cuz i haven't had a problem in years. but in order to get the lap band i have to have the heart checked out. i even might end up in heart surgery too. the lady at the hospital today told me they have a new procedure to laser the heart where the electric impulses are making the heart do the tach thing. i am definitely scared about the idea of having surgery on my heart. but i am more scared of not doing anything.

so that's my sob story.

good news and tepid news.

niomi is getting her license on monday. i am glad cuz now she run her self around but i am also scared since my baby is in a moving vehicle without us to tell her to watch out.

i also have a commission! one of the people at work has asked me to do 3 painting of some records covers. i am very excited and look forward to doing something challenging and different. i also have decided that i would like to do the spring fair here next year. it is a VERY big thing around here. thousands come from several states to do the fair and when i went i didn't see anything like what i do.
so i am going to give it a shot. maybe i will do well. no, i will do well!!!

jeremy is the same. well older, fatter and with a mohawk now. he is so cute.

steven is being a good boy. not crashing his bike so much now that i put my foot down.

other than that i still have all the cats -7 and 1 wiener dog, an albino hamster that goes in circle cuz we think he had a stroke and my goldfish that are so big that they could be dinner.

i now live ....

my basement is done. the carpet went in last thursday and i have a brand spanking new basement with LOTS of plugins and it is NOT cold. I am so happy but with a grimace since i have to put every thing back and have to dust every little thing cuz of the sheetrock dust. so it will take me awhile. but i love it.

we also have a new addition to our family. his name is steven. 18 but a friend of niomi's who needed a place to call home. he does not have any family. he fits pretty well with the family.

i am also trying to see if i can get the lap band to help loose weight. i have tried so many other things and still gain the weight back. i just don't know what to do.

anyways, i am tired and really dont want to expound much more

the end is near...

my basement is finally being painted!!!!!!! the painting lady said it should be all done by sunday and the carpet and final electricity by 3/7. I am so excited that i am all a quiver to get my studio back. i am jonesing so bad that i am dreaming about it now. and now i can get back on course of world domination. i am very disappointed that i had to take such a large hiatus but i will be in full domination mode!!!

i also have gotten back on the horse of working out at the gym. i go at 7 am and when i get up it REALLY sucks but by the time i am done i feel great and my mood is fantastic! the only problem is that i am so hot and sweaty even with shower it takes awhile for me to cool down. in other words, my hair is never nice and my make up is all run off by the first hour of work.

i am also so excited about my up coming alaska trip. jeremy and i are soooo ready for a vacation and niomi is, well i don't know. she just tells me that she hates fishing. she doesn't know real fishing.

my job is good. other than sitting for so long each day its not bad. when i go home for the day it is left there instead of coming home with me. i like that. i also like the almost anonymity of it. i do my job at my desk and then go. easy... and so much better than working for an asshole like frank.

i also applied for a claims job but didn't get it. i was told from a very nice birdie that claims is hiring a supervisor. i cant apply for that since i don't have the experience but that they usually move up someone so there will be another opening for claims. i will be applying for it. great money and laptop and car. who wouldn't want the job. the guy who interviewed said i was a very good candidate and asked if i wanted to go to SLC or lewiston for a claims job. i don't but that's ok.

well back to work. i love all and i will try to be on more.

cries, whys, and blowing snow

well so far this week has been up and down. we have been stormed out like crazy and have actual snow that is ankle deep. that NEVER happens here. and when it does it melts next day. so now we have about a foot of it in the yard. cute Wiley loves it! hops like a rabbit.

i had an interview for a property claims jobs here at farmers. very nicccceeee job and VERY nice pay and i would even get my own car and laptop. i really hope i get it. really really really!!

the basement is being mudded now. i can see the finish line on this. but a very unsual thing happened, somehow, i can't imagine, the worker guys sheetrocked one of the cats into the ceiling and she was up there for awhile and had dug a little hole through it and thats how jeremy found her. he had to tear it donw to get her out and the poor little thing is all bruised from it. so sad.

and my daughter got in trouble again. this time it is big and crappy. i just hope we(family) can get through this without killing each other or going broke.

whats new and old

i have not really had the time to update. sad as that is. my new job as csr doesn't give me the free time to screw off at work as much.
it sucks...

but i finally bitched at my landlord and the worker guys were at the house for 3 whole days last week and i now have walls!!!!!! i can't tell you how much that makes me happy.

we also got shit on with the snow this last weekend. a whole 5 in. maybe 6 in. they even closed the schools. i really just don't get this school disctrict.

i also applied for a claims job in farmers and i go test for it tomorrow. i hope i get it. higher pay grade.

gotta go and eat. totally starving. plus i also started working out again today. i am trying again.