4 posts tagged “birthday”
The yard sale went pretty good. Sold a bunch of stuff and whatever didn't sell we donated - I did NOT want it back in the house. (Side note: Haha, it's 4:20). There's still a lot in the house that can be purged. I just ran out of time getting to it. But now that I don't have a looming must-do-this-by date, well I don't mind taking my time. Although I'll be cursing myself for sure as to why I didn't do it when I was so gung-ho to purge crap from the house.
Oh and most of the stuff in the garage needs to be trashed because we apparently have a water leakage problem down there. There seems to be a crack in the garage wall where a downpour spout comes and doesn't drain into the yard, it drains into the wall. Which it turns out it's impossible to drain into a wall and it just creates a crack and leaks into the house. Who knew? So now that Matt has weekends off he can no longer slack off on stuff to do around the house, as I will be home with him and can nag him to do it. Because if a wife isn't there to nag, then why is she there?
That was a lot of sarcasm for one paragraph.
My birthday was this past weekend. It was nice. Matt took me out to eat on Saturday night. We went to Wolfgang Puck's in Cool Springs. They had a hockey game on Versus, so that was nice to sit there and watch it. I really want cable now so I can watch more hockey. But I digress. On Sunday we went to my Dad's house and he took us out to eat at Macaroni Grill. It was good. I got some nice gifts including a new game for the Wii. Carnival Games is really fun. If you get the chance to play it, you should. Good times. I also got XM radio for a year.
I love it. It's really great. I had also gotten Predators playoff tickets, but of course it was before my birthday. Matt and I bought each other a ticket to game 2 here at home. Then my Dad got us tickets to game 3 here at home for our birthdays. So I got a little hockey-ness thrown in there as well.
With the money I received for my birthday I bought myself a new digital camera. It's a Nikon Coolpix. I really love it. Major upgrade from my 3.2 megapixel Cybershot. It's got 8 megapixels! 8! It was on sale at Best Buy for $150 and it came with a case & a 1gig memory card. Score! I also went ahead and bought a home kit of my XM radio with birthday money as well. That way I can listen to it in the house as well and catch more hockey games on it.
Some of the sales people at work took me out for lunch as well on Monday. That was really nice of them to do it and I really appreciated it. It's nice to work somewhere where they treat you nicely.
I'm now ready for my vacation next week. I'm not actually going anywhere, just hanging out at the house. But I'm really looking forward to it. I just really need a break from work. Especially from one certain aspect of my job. It'll be nice not to have to worry about that for a week. Also after this week, I'm going to need a break! I've been busy every night this week! Well Tuesday I didn't actually go out, but I had to set up the meeting between Matt and the poster on Craigslist for a new phone. Matt accidentally dropped and broke his during the yard sale on Saturday. We found someone on Craigslist selling the same phone I have (The original LG V) for $50! Yesterday we ran around town until 9p! Tonight I'm going to help a friend here at work unpack some of her stuff after her move this weekend, since I wasn't able to help this weekend. First I have to stop by the vet though, cause Lucy has some weird white spot on her paw pad. Hopefully it's nothing bad. I'm hoping it's a fungus or something easy to fix. Just cause I hate to think of her hurting. She's my little girl!
Alright, I gotta go finish some stuff. Here's a picture of Zoe running around town with us this week that I really like.
Well I have actually done some purging of stuff for the yard sale! I've gotten all of the office purged of stuff to sell & of course any trash that happened to be in there. I got about 5 boxes worth of stuff! So that's good. But it took like 2 nights to go thru it. So tonight I would start on the bedroom. Except I'm soooooo tired. Like I could just go home and CRASH. But I know if I do that, then I won't get as much stuff in the yard sale as I'd like to and any money I can make from this would rock. That's what's keeping me going with getting home and doing it. It sucks right now though, cause Matt is sick, so I'm also making dinner first THEN working on getting stuff in boxes. So that's a good hour taken out of my night just getting dinner together.
My mom emailed me today to go eat lunch either tomorrow or Friday for my birthday. I went ahead and planned for tomorrow. Part of me just doesn't want to because of my self-imposed distance from her until she gets 3 months sober. Just cause I don't want this to be seen as some door opening. The only thing that will open the door completely is going to a meeting with her to see her get her 3 month chip. The door is still open...in case of emergency or something. But I don't want to give some false impression. BUT I'm also curious as to what it will be like. I'm nervous. I know I shouldn't be, but I am. I don't want her to try and lay any kind of guilt trip on me. I talked to Matt about it via text and I let him know that I had already planned on taking some cash so I could just throw some money down and walk out if things get to ridiculous with her. Cause I want her to understand that our relationship will not be the same. I can't be unguarded around her anymore. That level of trust is gone, once and for all. It survived the first round of drinking, but hasn't survived the second round. But I still want to have a relationship with her. Cause she's my mom! But things will have to be different so that I don't get walked on anymore.
I've realized in the past few years that I really need to do that with a lot of people more often. I allow too many people to walk over me and it just doesn't need to happen anymore. So. I'm trying to be a grown up and not let that happen. You think it'd be empowering and great, but it's really hard!
Anyway, another reason I'm nervous is that I don't want to give myself a false hope that things are on track to her getting sober. Because I seriously don't think they are. Granted, I don't know cause I haven't talked to her much. It's been a few sentence emails here and there about random shit. But I don't want to have that hope. Cause I'll just get disappointed. It's better to be pleasantly surprised than hopeful now and feel stupid later.
We'll see how it goes. For now I shall go home and purge some more. I'm just glad with the fact that I've actually done that and not slacked off there. Woo!
Rock on! So Watkins has this community education program. I love it btw, I did the Black and White Photo Lab one summer. It was great and a nice chance to continue developing my own film and pictures. I do miss that sometimes. Anyway, this summer they have two computer imaging classes Intro to Adobe Illustrator/In-design CS2 & Photoshop I. I prefer to take the Adobe Illustrator/In-design class. I think that will be more of what I can use here at work and to help me advance into designing stuff around here, not just for work, but also for clients.
But, considering it's going to be $215 for either class, I'm going to have to raise some money first. Cause yeah, Matt's going to be making more at his new job, but he doesn't start it until the 5th of May. So the extra money flow won't be felt right away. Luckily though, Matt's family is having a yard sale and have offered to let us sell stuff at it. & luckily I want to get rid of A LOT of stuff at the house. We've got about 6 years worth of crap (cause we carried a lot over from college) that we never use anymore and we just need to get rid of. I'm hoping to make about $100 at the yard sale, which I think is doable. One year I had one and made enough to pay for Matt's tuxedo rental when he was in his friends wedding.
The yard sale is on the 3rd of May though, so I'm pretty much going to go home tonight and box up as much crap from our office as I can. I gotta clean it out anyway, cause we're going to put Zoe in her new crate in there when Matt starts his job. I don't want anything within chewing distance to her. I also need to start watching more movies for my 300 total for melflix.com cause I don't want to be holding off too much or I'll never get the 300 done. I think I can work for about 2 hours tonight when I get home and then watch a movie after that...right? Oh crap, I also have to wash my hair tonight (it does take a while - well not the washing part - but I do have to straighten it out with this new haircut). Hmm. Eff it! I can do it!
While I am disappointed that the Preds didn't make it past Round 1, at least I don't have to worry about making time to catch the game until it starts up again. Although I am trying to follow the rest of the Stanley Cup playoffs. I'm just very much a newbie to hockey, so I really only know my team. I don't know enough about the rest of the teams to follow. But I'm going to try. Cause now I like hockey too much and want to hear/see it year round. In fact, I'm asking for XM radio for my birthday so I can listen to the NHL channel. In less than a year, I turned into a hockey girl. Who knew?
So my dad came by this morning and picked me up early. We headed to the flea market. I found a few stuff, nothing big. I did get a cool old Mickey Mouse club kaleidoscope for my mom, from the MMC of her era. She can add that to her kaleidoscope collection. I actually really do hope I inherit that. I'm laying claim on that, Jeremy's not getting it.
Anyway, then Dad took me shopping for new work clothes. At my old job I could wear jeans and such. Just as long as I looked presentable. But I need to look more professional at my new job, so he got me some clothes and shoes. My mom had taken me out on Tuesday night and bought me new clothes too. So I have an assload of new work clothes. Which is great, cause I really only had about 3 professional looking outfits. I should be good to go now.
Then we went to Best Buy and he bought me 2 DS games for my birthday (Cake Mania & Sims 2 Pets). Matt's gonna get me Cookin' Mama for DS. I told him about the Wii and he decided he wanted to get that for both me and Matt for our birthdays (mine is May 4 & his is May 16th). So I had Matt call around town and the Wal-Mart on Charlotte had 3 Wiis in. Only place in town too. So we drove over there and Dad got us a Wii along with 2 games. It already came with Wii Sports and I picked out Rayman and Wario Smooth Moves. He also got an extra remote so Matt and I can play together.
We're so excited. Matt's playing Rayman right now. My dad and I set it up when we got home and we played bowling and boxed. It was fun!
