2 Things today

Yesterday a scary thing happened. Ok well it wasn't THAT scary but it was more than a little weird. I typed up and started the Thanksgiving sign-up sheet. The one that is done every year for Thanksgiving Dinner so everyone knows who is doing what. Yea I know we haven't even had Halloween but I guess everyone just wanted to get a head start on the thing.

The other thing is today is Payday. Costco is opening. And we are going shopping. This will be VERY different cause I am hoping to take quite a bit of money so we can get a LOT of groceries cause I know that we need them. Max says he is going to bring a big stick to beat off the people cause this is kind of like their grand opening. I am going to have to see what we can get for a decent price cause we need the groceries. We already have the membership...Heinz does a special for their employees which is awesome!

Hope you all have fun days too!

P.S. Oh yea...tomorrow we get our NEW washer & dryer!!!! WOOHOO!!!!! We have almost no clean clothes to wear cause the old one died when we were already behind, sucky = (

New Washer and Dryer

On Sunday oh joy we had our washer die on us. We are not talking mess around die we are talking 2" of standing water on the kitchen floor and spreading die. I was so totally and unbelievably stressed out yesterday it wasn't even funny. The only nice part is that we decided to finally get the washer and dryer that we have been looking at getting for quite some time. We did the Lowe's credit card with the 12 months no payments and no interest.

I still almost can't believe we got approved on the spot, our credit has been bad.

We got approved and still had to come up with $188 for the rest of it. I am SOOO happy we are getting them we can afford to w/ 12 months to get up the balance.

Here are the store's pics of the new washer and dryer, we are going to stack them so that they will fit in our laundry closet, and it really is a closet w/ doors and everything.

This is the washer and yes it is energy star efficent.

This is the dryer. I did look for a matching pair = )

New Hair Cut

On Wednesday I got a haircut at ISU Cosmetology I think they did a really good job!

I am liking the cut cause it is just soooo easy to take care of. I don't even have to comb it if I don't want to! I'm watching the morning news cause yesterday I couldn't listen to the radio so I just sort of gave up on that for right now. I wasn't standing on my left foot with my right in my butt touching my ring finger on my left hand to the tip of my nose so it didn't want to work for me.

I know everyone has heard about this whole switch to DTV in Feb 09 and Max and I have decided that we are just going to find other ways of getting our news cause we don't want to have to buy one of those boxes even with the coupon. That is why our movie collection is so big is so that we can watch TV without having to get the converter box. Yes we do realize that we might miss out on some important stuff but it seems like everyone and every thing is going online now and like this morning if I really feel the need to watch the news I can go to the NBC News Channel 6 web site so that I can watch the news online they stream it live which is very helpful sadly it is ONLY the news and I wish it was more but oh well I guess.

Hope everyone likes my new haircut as much as I do!!!!

Mother Goose Comics

Ok these pretty much say it all....I'm sure most of you can either relate or you know of someone who these apply to! Hope you enjoy and have a good laugh break!!!

Comics (everyone needs a break right?)

Here are some comics I found.

This is how I feel at times but I try not to.

I am sure all of us feel like this!!!!!

Man I wish I had the reverse of this illness!!

Hehe thought it was a good one!

Can't leave....awww too bad.

Haven't you ever had a day that you felt like this?

Eating out with kids...need I really say more?

The Snow

Sadly yesterday most of the snow that was here melted so it is mostly gone but I managed to get a few good pictures of it! I even got one that I am thinking I am going to use for our Christmas cards cause it just looks cool! I am thinking that today the rest is going to melt because it is suppose to warm up quite a bit.

Poor plant! It grows right by our front door.

Lowell saw me with the camera so he was saying cheese and wanting me to take his picture so I did.

This is a pine tree to the west of the house not the same one that is behind Lowell. I thought it just looked really awesome with all the snow on it.

Max brushing off the car and getting it ready for our trip. Our car wasn't as covered as the neighbors who hadn't parked under a tree.

Yes this last one is REALLY YELLOWSTONE!!!! We couldn't believe how DEAD it was and it was un-plowed or so it looked!

My grandma has been a bit sick but she says she is feeling better and she sure is acting like she is feeling better! I hope that she does start doing her Albuterol treatments regularly cause I know that last year they sure did seem to help! I noticed that she didn't cough even half as much as she would "normally". She seems to have a cough that comes and stays in the winter time and the treatments seem to help she with that in making sure that she doesn't get sick!


I have been thinking that it is about time that I got back to work on making all the movie case covers. I make my own because we use a smaller more compact case than the standard...we don't use just the slims but they are about as tall as a CD jewel case but they are the black poly carbonate plastic that the other movie cases are made out of.

Yes I finished A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 13: The End.

I kind of liked the ending even though it was REALLY weird! I am hoping to buy this series it is good enough that I would like to own my own copy! I had it finished before leaving for Challis because I just didn't want to have to worry about getting it back in time. I didn't know at the time that I wouldn't even be spending a week there. I had originally planned on being there until the 27th of October but Max had a shift change again off of 3rd, aka graveyards, and so I decided that Lowell and I should come back to Pocatello because Max could spend a lot more time with us.

Fun in Challis

Well I went to Challis with Lowell it was ok. We had fun and then it snowed and we only hand sandals and I only had shorts and it was pretty darn cold! I helped my mom and dad on their job and just in general got a break from city life. I also saw two people I didn't expct, former class mates, Jace James and Ryan Greene. I knew they looked familiar but I just couldn't put my finger on who they were until they started talking. Well that is it for now have a nice day!!! I'll post some snow pics later!!!

Mundane

I guess that I just post the normal boring every day type of stuff that quite a few people would probably rather not hear about but I do feel so much better having put it all to words rather than hanging onto it. I am sure that everyone has felt left out, pushed around, stepped on, and generally just not cared about; wow that took a turn for the worse guess I am just not in a happy mood right now. I am worried about my friend's daughter who is VERY sick right now and Max is gone to work = P sucky. I am worried about how I haven't packed anything and I am not totally sure on what I should pack because I haven't made up a list of stuff that "needs" to go with us yet...we could be gone for as long as 3 weeks to Challis, we being Lowell and myself. My mom's b-day is tomorrow or rather today by the time I post this blog and I haven't gotten her anything for it which TOTALLY SUCKS!!! I know what I want to get her I just haven't done it yet and I would have to wrap it up and everything. I also need to print up cards for both her and Buddy, Buddy is my uncle and my mom's twin. I probably should still call him uncle Buddy but I haven't called my aunts or uncles by those titles since I was 13 and I just don't see any reason to start now I guess. I encourage Lowell to called them by the aunt or uncle title and I don't think that it makes them feel too old cause I don't tell him that they are really his great aunts and great uncles; besides being called all the time by your mom's name I guess sort of helps bridge the gap or something like that I dunno.

I have so gotten use to being called Pam or Sue that I don't even bat an eye when they do that I just get a bit confused when Pam or my mom, aka Sue, are there and so I am not totally sure to whom my Grandma is talking to. One of the many reasons why I don't mind being called Pam or Sue is because I dunno maybe because one of my great aunts had a bit of comfort because she thought she was talking to Sue when she was really talking to me. I would far rather be called Pam or Sue than Christine or Christina (I REALLY REALLY REALLY HATE being called that!). I would rather that you call me Chris or Sue or Pam if you can't say Christie. I am beginning to think that maybe I should get away from telling ppl to call me Chris because there seem to be getting quite a few Chris' in my "family". There is Chris Crook, Max's older brother, and then there is Chris Barnes, the guy that my sister is going to marry in December. I dunno I don't care, heck you might even get away with calling me Ces (pronounced phonetically ssess) but I would prefer that you keep that to chatting with me online and not real life.

Wow I have a lot on my mind right now eh?

I guess just typing all this stuff out helps a lot and makes me feel a bit better knowing that I wrote it down so I can forget some of it (not all cause I do still have to pack and do the cards). I kind of forgot that I also have to show VJ her announcements because I own a printing company therefore I am going to print up her reception announcements.

I would really love to move to Wyoming but it just seems like that is out of reach for us right now because Max has a contract with Heinz where he gets trained for 2 years then after his training is up he has to stay on and work there for 2 more years before he can even consider quitting and finding a job somewhere else. I know that in a way it is nice because Heinz wouldn't fire him because then they would be breaking their end of the contract (unless he does something really stupid which he won't) and then they would be out all of the money that they spent on training him and sending him to all the classes and everything.

Don't you just love it when you hit the spell check button and it just pops up all green and says done and you have 0 errors on your page? I know that I sure do. My mom was forever trying to help me get my spelling down and it appears as though some of it actually stuck in my brain! I am so glad esp because I would fail like EVERY SINGLE vocab test that was given to me unless it was in a sentence (which wasn't often). Yes I was a crappy English student. I just don't know what to tell you about that one.

BTW I did finish Book 12: The Penultimate Peril

It was a really good read and now I am off to read Book 13: The End

I hope that everyone who reads this has a good day or night!!! (yea I know tough words coming from me after I just had you read like 3 pages on what is bugging me but I do hope that you will walk away from this with a good feeling!)

ok ok so it's been awhile since I last posted

I know that it has been a while since I last posted but a lot of things have been going on like getting more movies for our movie collection. I have been reading quite a bit too and I have finished reading Book 10: The Slippery Slope

and Book 11: The Grim Grotto

I have also given Lowell haircut. He was starting to need one cause his ears were covered and it was looking shaggy.

Max is still working the stupid night shift and is still all screwed up on his sleeping and awake times. I am packing and getting ready to go to Challis for a while because we just need to get away for a while. Max needs his sleep and Lowell needs to leave him alone to sleep.

Lowell is watching Madagascar and I tell you what that is one FUNNY movie. I think that it is how the whole penguin craze got started cause the penguins in this movie are just soo funny and all the puns that are made and everything it is a riot!

well I think that that pretty much brings you up to date on what's been going on here. I hope you all have a fun time!