Happiness is not a fish

I really wanted to spell that with a y... but that's not the lyric
Anyways...
This weekend starts COLLEGE FOOTBALL! Yep, I'm excited. True, it means less time with my Hoss but it's not like I'm getting to see him much anyways. He's been covering a court case since last week and who would have thought a judge and lawyers would want to be in court until 6:30 on a Friday evening! And it's been like that all week, not to mention Jr. High Basketball has started back. Yay for $$ boo to no hubby. **Shocker: I love my husband and spending time with him** Oh and Madden's out along with NCAA 12. Hmm... we need better hobbies.
Our Sweet Mini-Beast turn 3 on Sunday -- she's all growed up but I'm hoping that Huck will keep her young. And that boy! Man he's gotten big :) He's as tall as MB and standing on his hind legs, taller! And he's only 8 months old. And he's constantly barking. Some days I want to rip that barker out!!!
But Hoss and I have talked about it and we think it's because he's not getting rid of all his energy and he just wants to play! Bexar is still Bexar.

This weekend we are H-burg bound for the first Tech game of the season :) I like college football but I'm still more excited about The Final Four tickets (yep still talking about that one). And next weekend we are going to Ruston for a home game with my oldest brother and most of his family. First college football game for his oldest :) Gonna be a fun time for sure.

Basically, life's been good to us for now. Things have leveled out and while something is still in the air we are getting by. I think we've found our real together time (though it pains me to say it -- literally, I'm in soo much pain!)
Still waiting on Hoss to contribute again. I love reading his personal writings or sports writings... not his government stuff (ZZZZZ...)

Only human after all

I'm human, I admit it. Shocking I know...Is it wrong that some days when I hear of certain people not having it easy, I just smile a smug-a grin? Probably but I do it anyway. Now it's nothing ever serious, I'm not that mean spirited but there are days when I hear that so-and-so is having a hard time with such-and-such that are little minor things in the grand scope of the world or when I hear that this was taking much longer than so-and-so thought (OMG! End of the world)... I just kind of smile. You know that smile -- the it's about time you understood that the world doesn't revolve around you and your issues and you are small in comparison... basically that Take That! smile.
Yes, I know, I'm not a nice person. But I do it anyway and don't feel guilt. And call it what you want. It's probably true. Some of it's jealously that they've never dealt with anything real (all kid glove, soft problems), some it of is just my hateful nature. I've never claimed to be any other way.
Oh yeah, did I mention we have 4 Final Four tickets to the last 3 games!!!! We rule :) and them others are JEALOUS :)
And no we don't have tickets in possession so I can't post them until Feb. It's gonna be a LONG wait :D

It's the greatest time of year

OMG!!! I'll let Hoss elaborate this post if he wants or at his blog but:
WE HAVE FINAL FOUR TICKETS!!! I ♥ basketball and the 2012 Final Four is in NOLA and we are sooo going there.
Who's excited!!!!!! ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ONCE IN A LIFE TIME OPPORTUNITY :)

You are always on my mind... always on my mind

I've constantly have stuff going on in my crazy head. No joke when we say, I live there. I'll have entire years fly by in my head in the day. And while I know it's not reality some days I wished it was.
Lately I've been more concerned with the budget. What can I say -- I'm the money person. And really, if you knew me, you would know it's nothing new. I've always been constantly tinkering with where we were going to pay for this and when we could pay this. Last week, I worked out a plan to get us back to one cc by Oct. Today, I've switched it up. Maybe it's the move on my brain, probably just the way I'm wired. Hoss started back with baskeball officiating and that brings in good $$ so I'm ready to get things settled so we can go back to the savings plan. It's simple when I can free up an additional $291 on top of the planned $250. If we could get the last cc paid that's almost every bit of our extra income saved. Yep we both work two jobs but not necessarily to pay the bills just to live comfortably and go places.
But I also think I'm in this $$ thing because of my job. I'm a loan officer for a small credit union and lately I've been working my tail off to try to make some loans come in. At the lastest board meeting, the bod agreed to allow us to provide an alternative to payday lending. So it's back to the drawing board for a new loan product setup. Got to get the docs decided on, the parameters set, marketing and naming. Everything -- we do it. Ok I do most of with my manager. And as a break, I look over my personal finances. Yep, I'm a nerd. I find the planning relaxing, implentation of my plan not so much.
But more importantly, I do it for one reason. To have something to talk to Hoss about during the day :) Nope not because I don't have other stuff going on but it's one of the only things I can talk about and I'm always trying to see what he's doing (and yep, he's sloooooooow to reply to me -- he knows the waiting kills me!!) What can I say, I'm hooked.
Anyways, guess I better think of something else to text him and maybe one day he'll come to visit me with beignets :)

This is the story of a girl...

hmm.. that would be a cute title for a blog. Oh well. I love stories. I love reading them, making them up in my head. I just wished I could write. Sadly, it is not my talent though I try with keeping up the blogs. And guess what -- I'm surrounded by writers!! My Hoss is a writer for a paper therefore co-workers are writers (did I mention I work there part time?), all his college buddies are, I think even some of my friends were at least communication majors. Me -- not a lick of any talent. I can come up with great play on words and one liners and in my head the story is fantastic but the reality is sadly lacking.
And if you hadn't noticed, I have one BIG problem -- I ramble and ramble and ramble. Most of the time, I say the same thing over and over and the same story. Hoss tunes me out a lot!
But my favoritest past time is reading. I love books. Big ones, small ones, picture books, even coloring books. And most different types though non-fiction, self help crap is yucky and extreme sci-fi I can do without but I'll give those a chance.
I'm trying to encourage Hoss to actually write one because he's a good writer in the sense you feel like you are there. Little ol' ladies who hate sports would come up to him and talk about his sports writing like they were there because they felt the game through him. He started a book once and got pretty far on it but it went MIA during a move so it's no more. But the book I'm looking for from him is a book about Huck. Nope not our Huckabay but his namesake -- Coach Huck. But Hoss's is just not quite ready yet and that's ok. The story is there just waiting to be developed when the time is right.

Like it's her birthday!!

Whoo hoo! My birthday and vacation were WONDERFUL!! First time I can say that in a long time. Not that my birthday's aren't always great but this one was just special. Why??? I don't know. NOTHING happened. But this vacation was soo relaxing and so good for both Hoss and me.
And of course we didn't hear the title of the post until the day after but it's cool -- I celebrate all month long!
I'll do a photo post later because I'm at work. But it was neat, we went shopping (got me a Vera Bradley purse [to replace one I can't use anymore] for $8.40! got our Christmas gift [maybe we'll use them since they cost a small fortune] and clothes shopping for me [Hoss loves to shop for me :)]), we went exploring and doing touristy stuff like Six Flags, the Zoo, the Botanical Gardens and Ripley's Believe It or Not! (which was LONG!!).
Let's think... we watched some soccer and sports and even a MOVIE!! I know, right... NEVER happens because I don't like movies. I can find better ways to spend my money than go see a movie but Regal does a $5 Tuesday so we spent twice as much on concession (because Hoss has to have it even though we just ate) and saw The Rise of the Planet of the Apes. That was a cool movie.
What else... oh my actually birthday gift was the new Nintendo 3DS... yay... ok so I'm not super excited about it. I wanted a DS yes but not the 3DS but Hoss talked to the wrong person about it (who actually if they cared about me knew I wouldn't want one and who else would Hoss be buying for... not so bright) and Hoss did his own research and decided it would be best. And he bought it for me right before they lowered the price (literally Aug. 10 b-day; Aug. 12 lowered the price **grumble....**) But it's cool; I looked it up, I should be getting 20 games free. I just have to check to make sure I qualified or then there will be some words going on.
But the 3DS isn't so bad, it's compatible with the regular DS games so it's worth it. And I finally got the new Zelda game. Though I could do without the 3D part of Zelda and the DS. It's why I didn't want it. Seems useless to me and it is unfortunately.
But I love what Hoss gave me because Hoss gave it to me. And no I'm not complaining just expressing that it was not what I wanted. But I love how he paid for it!! My two month hiatus on bill paying taught him something and he paid for it in cash from his officiating money as opposed to charging it like we would normally do. Yep, he's AWESOME!

On other news, the downside to the vacation was officially hearing that we aren't moving. Yes that's what I couldn't talk about. Hoss applied for a sweet position in Laffy and didn't get it (though he was the best for it and I'm soo not biased :D). We saw that coming the week before, but it still sucked to hear it.
We're ready to move on from the chapter in our lives. We're ready to start over elsewhere and find the friendships needed and the lives wanted and get out of this rut we are in. But He said not right now. There may still be some changes coming around the corner but no move in sight. And it's ok in another way -- we aren't financially ready to make a move and we've got our plan to be ready. So we'll see and keep our fingers crossed on the next prospect.

Vacation all I ever wanted

So I was hoping to have some exciting news for today's post but alas we are still waiting and hoping and wishing and praying. There will be news but we don't know what and when.
The end of today starts our vacation. Can I just say FINALLY!!! Now I thrive on stress but lately (and maybe it's my age) I can't handle it. We have our own issues, then someone else's, his job, my job, my second job, someone else's, our own, etc... I am beyond ready for this vacation.
So where are we going??? Back to Hades - no really it may not be named that but it sure is going to feel like it and it doesn't have the best memories for my family. Yes that would be San Antonio and New Braunfels Texas. First, I seriously hate Texas in general. I'm resigned to that eventually I'll live there but I will not be happy (I want the state boot kicking the texas star but Hoss won't let me do that). I'm sure it's got some great points but so far my luck with that hole has not been the best. Memorable yes but no good ones.
Maybe luck will change this time. Hoss lived in NB for 6 month before coming back to a better state (which ain't saying much) but never got to really experience the touristy stuff there aside from the Natural Cavern Bridge or whatever it's called.
Last year, we tried that stupid concept of a staycation. That's for idiots who can't budget or who live in big cities and hate travel. Not for this family and never again as far as I'm concerned. While I got work done around the house (ok I decorated our bedroom, but that was a LOT of sanding **grumbling stupid people who put stupid sandblasting finishes on walls**), it generally SUCKED! We like to experience new towns and cities... ok we like to go to sporting events mostly and maybe a concert and just drive around but whatever. So this year we are going on our vacation. True we are cutting it short. Instead of our traditional 7-8 days gone, we'll be back early but there is a reason that can't be talked about just yet because it may or may not happen. Otherwise we would be staying and just relaxing.
Granny is getting the pups and they will have more human playtime then they will know what to do with.
Oh and have I mentioned that Wednesday is THE BEST DAY OF THE YEAR! Yep, my birthday and it will be just Hoss and me. No silly parties that no one likes besides me, no silly people. Just Hoss and me and soccer on TV... yep I get to watch soccer on my birthday because I just love soccer that much and wouldn't rather be shopping or watching a movie or driving around or finding ANYTHING else to do... Thank goodness it's a night game and now it makes sense why Hoss wouldn't cut our vacation on Wednesday like I wanted... hmmm... :D