Yeah I stopped putting the notes on. No reason - just don't feel like it but it's still a song :)
It's still be an interesting month with not much to say. Surprisingly quite uneventful in our immediate life. Yay!! I can only take stupidity so long before my health starts to get effected (Correct effect, Hoss?) Saturday we up to Monroe Saturday for another fun 7 year old b-day party. I don't know what it is but my brothers are treating me like I'm a real person. Not just the kid sister and it's wonderful!
And then it was on to Ruston for some USA soccer!!!! I ♥ soccer. Always have, always will. My best friend got me hooked in 4th grade with whichever World Cup was going on. Still don't understand those silly Americans who think it's stupid because you can tie and it's "low" scoring. Stupid people -- these guys run for 45 minutes straight twice!!! More of an athlete than most of those football players will EVER be.
Anyways. It's been nice lately. No worries about making others happy and how they take things, no serious scares over the jobs (though G just laid off 2 at Hoss's workplace). Just plenty of good times between Hoss and I with our pups and family.
But I'm bored. I'm tired of not having anything to talk about on here. So Hoss, what can I blog about or anyone really. Series ideas?? And yes I know somebody(ies) beside Hoss reads this I check the stats (even have a few ideas as to who cuz I'm smarter than the average bexar!) So someone, ANYBODY FIND ME... something to write about.
Hey Hoss, remember our conversation yesterday about writing. Totally started this with the title and it applied to what I was thinking about saying at the time and it ended up being NOTHING like I thought. Fun times!
This was supposed to be a family blog about the newly Mc5's (We are now 5 people/puppies strong!) written by the 2 people: E-beth and Hoss. But it's becoming more of ramblings of E-beth's head.
Disclaimer: the only thing real in it, is the direct dealings of the family. If from E-beth only listen to the pictures. She ♥ her head and lives in it. Hoss is a journalist and has no fiction bone in his body :)
Monday, June 27, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
♫ just one of those things ♫
It's been a weird kind of week. Nothing really to say lately. You know it's one thing for me to have nothing to blog about but it's been hard lately to even come up with tweets or fb status updates and I've noticed Hoss has had the same problem.
Yep, it's been a weird kind of week.
Don't get me wrong, stuff has been going on but nothing that bares repeating. One of my last blogs talked about music being so important to me but I can't even come up with a song for this blog. Guess it's because the second job's work has finally slowed down so I've slowed down. Now on to housework! (yeah right)
On another ♫ (hehehe, I'm soo clever), it looks like we are finally upgrading. My grandparents are looking to get rid of their king size bed and looks like we are in line to get it! YAY!!! A bed that I don't have to get a running start to leap into and one that's big enough of all 5 of us. Yes, all FIVE. Something I swore would never happen! No pups on the bed lasted all of one month with the Beast. But the usually don't sleep with us because I can't move with them on the bed. And oh man, the mattress is gonna be wonderful! It's soo firm and even has a pillowtop to make Hoss happy.
The bed itself is ok. Not quite my style but it will look wonderful in my room -- the dark iron. And about three sets of bedding, which I know won't be my style but it will be free or relatively free so I won't complain until we have the $$ to replace (Christmas anyone???) Now it's a matter of setting up some men to help load and unload it for us in a timely manner. **Hoping for July 9**
Oh and I hung up a curtain over my front door. It took FOREVER to find the right curtain and it totally went through the door. Our front door is slightly smaller in depth than most so now I get to fix that but I'm gonna wait until it's cooler. And yep I think my black thumb has kicked. Most of my flowers are looking pretty bad -- I've been forgetting to water again. I'll just keep trying.
Yep, it's been a weird kind of week.
Don't get me wrong, stuff has been going on but nothing that bares repeating. One of my last blogs talked about music being so important to me but I can't even come up with a song for this blog. Guess it's because the second job's work has finally slowed down so I've slowed down. Now on to housework! (yeah right)
On another ♫ (hehehe, I'm soo clever), it looks like we are finally upgrading. My grandparents are looking to get rid of their king size bed and looks like we are in line to get it! YAY!!! A bed that I don't have to get a running start to leap into and one that's big enough of all 5 of us. Yes, all FIVE. Something I swore would never happen! No pups on the bed lasted all of one month with the Beast. But the usually don't sleep with us because I can't move with them on the bed. And oh man, the mattress is gonna be wonderful! It's soo firm and even has a pillowtop to make Hoss happy.
The bed itself is ok. Not quite my style but it will look wonderful in my room -- the dark iron. And about three sets of bedding, which I know won't be my style but it will be free or relatively free so I won't complain until we have the $$ to replace (Christmas anyone???) Now it's a matter of setting up some men to help load and unload it for us in a timely manner. **Hoping for July 9**
Oh and I hung up a curtain over my front door. It took FOREVER to find the right curtain and it totally went through the door. Our front door is slightly smaller in depth than most so now I get to fix that but I'm gonna wait until it's cooler. And yep I think my black thumb has kicked. Most of my flowers are looking pretty bad -- I've been forgetting to water again. I'll just keep trying.
Monday, June 13, 2011
♫You've created nothing♫
Can you tell I have a love affair with music? Life is a musical might as well find the background music to it.
I hate hate hate crafts. Country chic -- worst design fad EVER! (But the Bath and Body scent is pretty good) There is nothing chic about country arts and crafts, homemade junk. Trust me, it looks cheap. Spray painting something another color -- not really crafts either.
Wood work and metal work, eh, I can handle that more. And a true artist work on canvas or slate or a real medium with a professional frame - neat.
But the junk I've seen lately that people think it "wonderful" -- gag me.
There are true artisans and craftsmen that I can appreciate most work. But the home person, don't bother.
That being said, my mother signed me up for a cake decorating class. **hangs head** I said yes because it could be a mother daughter thing for us and it involves baking and decorating which I can totally handle. Thank God it is only semi-crafty or I would die.
We had the first class Tuesday. It was ok. Saturday was practice day for us though. First time to make a buttercream icing -- yikes! Everything I have ever learned about baking I have apparently forgotten. Cream -- what does cream look like? First batch was not good, but mom looked over my shoulder for the most part on the second and it came out perfectly (I'm a fast learner) so my third it wonderfully. Then it was all about icing my cakes. Eh, I can do without the tip for icing. Just give me the spatula because that's what I'm used to, but I tried the tip. The second and third batches iced so we are good there. Now it all about the stars (first thing we "learned"), so I practiced a few and then told mom to practice! What! She was just watching me. nope scratch that, she was talking on the phone.
So now it's Sunday and back to mom's to really make something with a star tip.
Here are the results of Sunday's practice: which one is mine???
I hate hate hate crafts. Country chic -- worst design fad EVER! (But the Bath and Body scent is pretty good) There is nothing chic about country arts and crafts, homemade junk. Trust me, it looks cheap. Spray painting something another color -- not really crafts either.
Wood work and metal work, eh, I can handle that more. And a true artist work on canvas or slate or a real medium with a professional frame - neat.
But the junk I've seen lately that people think it "wonderful" -- gag me.
There are true artisans and craftsmen that I can appreciate most work. But the home person, don't bother.
That being said, my mother signed me up for a cake decorating class. **hangs head** I said yes because it could be a mother daughter thing for us and it involves baking and decorating which I can totally handle. Thank God it is only semi-crafty or I would die.
We had the first class Tuesday. It was ok. Saturday was practice day for us though. First time to make a buttercream icing -- yikes! Everything I have ever learned about baking I have apparently forgotten. Cream -- what does cream look like? First batch was not good, but mom looked over my shoulder for the most part on the second and it came out perfectly (I'm a fast learner) so my third it wonderfully. Then it was all about icing my cakes. Eh, I can do without the tip for icing. Just give me the spatula because that's what I'm used to, but I tried the tip. The second and third batches iced so we are good there. Now it all about the stars (first thing we "learned"), so I practiced a few and then told mom to practice! What! She was just watching me. nope scratch that, she was talking on the phone.
So now it's Sunday and back to mom's to really make something with a star tip.
Here are the results of Sunday's practice: which one is mine???
Saturday, June 11, 2011
♪ Oh my love look how you shine... The moon that you see may be different from mine ♪
Ha! Find that set of lyrics :) actually I'll give it to you -- newish artist Robby Earle - Ruston kid and his EP is wonderful! Hoss and I both agree this is the best song. It's applicable right now because my Hoss is away for the weekend
Wow! It's been a week since our 6th anniversary and I can't believe the changes with each other.
Let's start from the beginning: Last week
We had our anniversary trip to see Robby and Grant Terry in BR. Fun times!!! We ate at TJ Ribs, stayed at a new to us hotel, and listened to some AWESOME music. I got to meet an high school buddy of Hoss's. Pretty cool guy. Friday was a little more interesting. See I have a habit of losing things especially in the past two years or so. It used to be a around the house habit -- keys mainly. Now it's keys in the store, grumpy bear in the hotel and we thought camera at the zoo.
We went to the BR Zoo and it was ok with an explosive end! Hoss got sooo mad at me because I couldn't find the camera after we left and we decided to just drive around. Ok I understand he had the right to be upset but it's not like I do it on purpose. Turns out, after driving BACK to the zoo and him looking, I was sitting on it. I swear I checked!!!
Anyways, we got back home Friday and went to my parents -- my oldest brother was in and wanted to play some NASCAR Wii. LOADS of fun there -- stayed there until 2. And Saturday was the wonderful birthday party. Seriously it was SOOO much fun! My brothers and I stayed inside for some of it and played Life on the Wii -- I totally won!!! and then all the kids and spouses went a played Phase 10 outside -- Hoss won and wondered why I kept skipping his sorry self! But I hadn't had this kind of fun in years -- I actually felt like a contemporary of my brothers and not a kid sister. And the party itself was fun too! Three 7 year olds and a 4 year old!
Anyways that was the weekend. And it's been pretty wonderful since. The occassional lost temper -- we work a lot. But exactly how it should have always been. Guess we finally got rid of the junk that got in between our relationship.
**Steps on Soapbox**
See Hoss and I tend to have a lot of traditional role reversals. But it normally works for us. I don't care about your relationship, don't bother mine is how I feel.
He most definately does NOT control me or tell me what to do, and I do my best not to come across that way because I don't control him. Our marriage is not about control, it's about respect. And it burns me up when someone makes a comment about telling me what to do or how THEY would NEVER be controlled by a WOMAN. That's a wonderful sign of a controlling jerk and I will not be subjected to that. And seriouslly if you want something from me, ask me not him.
People who think they know our relationship is in for a shock. I never controlled Hoss, we just let people think what they want to. Just like Hoss never asked me permission for stuff but always made it sound like he had to. People really can be naive when they have a prejudice against someone and I love living up (or down) to those standards, I get loads of laughs. Nope I'm not nice and make no apologies
**Steps off**
Wow! It's been a week since our 6th anniversary and I can't believe the changes with each other.
Let's start from the beginning: Last week
We had our anniversary trip to see Robby and Grant Terry in BR. Fun times!!! We ate at TJ Ribs, stayed at a new to us hotel, and listened to some AWESOME music. I got to meet an high school buddy of Hoss's. Pretty cool guy. Friday was a little more interesting. See I have a habit of losing things especially in the past two years or so. It used to be a around the house habit -- keys mainly. Now it's keys in the store, grumpy bear in the hotel and we thought camera at the zoo.
We went to the BR Zoo and it was ok with an explosive end! Hoss got sooo mad at me because I couldn't find the camera after we left and we decided to just drive around. Ok I understand he had the right to be upset but it's not like I do it on purpose. Turns out, after driving BACK to the zoo and him looking, I was sitting on it. I swear I checked!!!
| Us before the camera went missing :) |
Anyways that was the weekend. And it's been pretty wonderful since. The occassional lost temper -- we work a lot. But exactly how it should have always been. Guess we finally got rid of the junk that got in between our relationship.
**Steps on Soapbox**
See Hoss and I tend to have a lot of traditional role reversals. But it normally works for us. I don't care about your relationship, don't bother mine is how I feel.
He most definately does NOT control me or tell me what to do, and I do my best not to come across that way because I don't control him. Our marriage is not about control, it's about respect. And it burns me up when someone makes a comment about telling me what to do or how THEY would NEVER be controlled by a WOMAN. That's a wonderful sign of a controlling jerk and I will not be subjected to that. And seriouslly if you want something from me, ask me not him.
People who think they know our relationship is in for a shock. I never controlled Hoss, we just let people think what they want to. Just like Hoss never asked me permission for stuff but always made it sound like he had to. People really can be naive when they have a prejudice against someone and I love living up (or down) to those standards, I get loads of laughs. Nope I'm not nice and make no apologies
**Steps off**
Thursday, June 9, 2011
♫ I'll love you forever, Forever and always ♫
First I want to say the above song is the SADDEST, most WONDERFUL Love song EVER!! Parachute totally beat out any country song (especially Don't Take the Girl) with this song. Hoss and I finally bought this CD (yes the actual CD not just iTunes) and I think I even started tearing up (Hoss was for sure =D)
It's already been a long week, so I'll make this one short and type a longer anniversary blog later (I have another good song for that)
Hoss's anniversary gift FINALLY came in!
Seriously, the horrible NOLA trip we took finally has turned around. One: what was lost has been found (shruken) Two: what was found has been bought and ready to hang.
So on the trip we found the wonderful artist who does work on slate and a brick look, when I finally got to walk around the square on that fun-filled trip. Hoss had seen the bulldog state and commissioned this one of kind work with permission from the graphic designer who designed the bulldog state (THANK YOU!)
Seriously check out Michael Dixon He's awesome and his LSU Fleur de Lis is AWESOME for being LSU.
And to make the NOLA trip even better, I lost my 20th anniversary edition Grumpy Bear that Hoss gave me one Christmas (well it had to have been our first Christmas together). I guess I left him but he's never been found. We joked that he was being held for ransom and my Hoss paid the ransom to get him back for me. Apparently Grumpy shrunk sometime in his hostage situation because he was much smaller than expected but who cares, he's back and in his proper place. I was actually going to retire him and my Curious George doll that traveled with us after that trip which it made it all the worse and the stupid hotel wouldn't say if they found him. So I'm hoping that some kid is taking good care of my Grumpy or they should return my real Grumpy though I love my new 'ittle Grump.
Anyways: Check out the new Parachute and HAPPY ANNIVERSARY HOSS! 6 years of adventure!
It's already been a long week, so I'll make this one short and type a longer anniversary blog later (I have another good song for that)
Hoss's anniversary gift FINALLY came in!
Seriously, the horrible NOLA trip we took finally has turned around. One: what was lost has been found (shruken) Two: what was found has been bought and ready to hang.
So on the trip we found the wonderful artist who does work on slate and a brick look, when I finally got to walk around the square on that fun-filled trip. Hoss had seen the bulldog state and commissioned this one of kind work with permission from the graphic designer who designed the bulldog state (THANK YOU!)
Seriously check out Michael Dixon He's awesome and his LSU Fleur de Lis is AWESOME for being LSU.
And to make the NOLA trip even better, I lost my 20th anniversary edition Grumpy Bear that Hoss gave me one Christmas (well it had to have been our first Christmas together). I guess I left him but he's never been found. We joked that he was being held for ransom and my Hoss paid the ransom to get him back for me. Apparently Grumpy shrunk sometime in his hostage situation because he was much smaller than expected but who cares, he's back and in his proper place. I was actually going to retire him and my Curious George doll that traveled with us after that trip which it made it all the worse and the stupid hotel wouldn't say if they found him. So I'm hoping that some kid is taking good care of my Grumpy or they should return my real Grumpy though I love my new 'ittle Grump.
Anyways: Check out the new Parachute and HAPPY ANNIVERSARY HOSS! 6 years of adventure!
Thursday, June 2, 2011
♪ Hold me in your arms, until I fall asleep ♪
Whlep, it's almost time to start our anniversary weekend. And I'm supery excited about Hoss's gift! First: Baton Rouge tonight for a Grant Terry concert. Next: Baton Rouge Zoo?? eh, who knows what we will do tomorrow. Probably eat at TJ Ribs though! Saturday: Our actual anniversary!!! And a birthday party!!! Seriously, I'm so excited about this party for some reason. Maybe it's the Mario Kart theme -- what can I say I'm a kid and a nerd.
But finally: his last gift. Is this really neat customized piece of slate. That has the nifty LATech with state emblem on it painted by an incredible artist that we met in New Orleans: Michael Dixon. We have seen the preview of it and I'm ready to post a picture of it. Yep, I rock as a wife. I know :)
My gift was an AWESOME new ring -- actually an enhancer for my engagement ring -- would post a pic of that, but that would just make you jealous because I have a hubby who can't say no to me ;)
But finally: his last gift. Is this really neat customized piece of slate. That has the nifty LATech with state emblem on it painted by an incredible artist that we met in New Orleans: Michael Dixon. We have seen the preview of it and I'm ready to post a picture of it. Yep, I rock as a wife. I know :)
My gift was an AWESOME new ring -- actually an enhancer for my engagement ring -- would post a pic of that, but that would just make you jealous because I have a hubby who can't say no to me ;)
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