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Mar
3
2007
1:21 am

Updated Bedroom

I said that I would take some pictures of our bedrooom after updating to the bedding that I ranted about in a previous post. Like I said afterwards though, it’s not as bad as I made it out to be. We made it work. So here are the befores and the afters. The room isn’t complete yet, I want to find more pieces for walls. It would help a bit if we had more space, we have 4 bedrooms, all of which are identical. I wish we could knock a wall down and have 2 rooms as 1, like the unit I viewed before moving in. It was 2 bedrooms and what they called a study since it was without closets. We’re content with what we have though. I can’t stop decorating although I know we may move over the summer.

I’m going to watch Greg do some situps, pushups, and whatever elseups since he’s gained the freshman 15 thanks to my wonderful cooking. Oh wait I have an ab lounge, he shall use that. One day I’ll use it…I may look fit, but I’m not. ~~Walking~~ hiking to class last year, was rough. This summer I have some plans to excercise.

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Mar
2
2007
2:00 am

Overfeeding Dogs = Not Cute

Why do people think it’s cute to feed their dogs EVERYTHING? They’re only teaching their dog to be greedy and are encouraging begging. They are also increasing chances of unnatural weight gain. It is unhealthy to feed your dog foods such as sweets. I just got done watching a clip on google of some idiots feeding their Shih Tzu a WHOLE ice cream cone. They were just in the background giggling like it was SoOoOo cute. Just because dogs give you that cute face doesn’t mean you should stuff them with any and everything that you yourself eat. Certain foods are bad for dogs, their bodies can’t process certain things. Even if they don’t get sick after having something that is bad for them, it doesn’t make it ok for them to have it. It’s still doing bodily harm. I’m trying to teach Caesar some etiquette. I’m trying to teach him that he won’t get anything if he begs. I teach him not to stare at others eating and I don’t feed him SWEETS!

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Feb
25
2007
8:49 pm

Oh Come On.

4 o’ clock this morning I woke up with the worst headache. The pain took over the right side of my head and eye. I kept trying to bury my head in pillows (Got new ones from Kohl’s!) but it felt like I was laying on bricks or something. After popping some Tylenol extra strength, I didn’t see much difference. Greg gave me a cold towel to put over my eye, that helped and I had a reese’s cup because I remember a girl saying chocolate helps headaches. The chocolate took my mind off the pain . From there it took me about 15 minutes to go back to sleep.

I later woke up around noon to get ready for work, I turned on the shower to be greeted by ice cold water. I even let it run for a while. I contacted the office, but since it’s Sunday I figured maintenance wouldn’t be around. I decided to boil some water, the aisles wouldn’t come on! SO, I decided to MICROWAVE some water. When I turned on the microwave, the lights went dim, and the water never got warm. SO, I decided to take a Huggies babywipe bath . Nothing went wrong there. The head maintenance guy showed up and ran some tests on the switches and outlets and discovered that 1 of 2 “legs” burned out, so anything on the 2nd leg won’t work properly. Tomorrow morning they’ll have to redo the “service” from the main into the apartment. So we don’t have hot water, I couldn’t cook, and it’s freezing in here since the heat doesn’t work. We had to use a utility extension cord to plug the refrigerator up in the dining room. Oh and I was an hour late to work. Dinner was a pepperoni pizza from Little C-a-e-s-a-r’s, a c-a-e-s-a-r side salad from Wendy’s and a frosty, mmm.

Speaking of Wendy’s they’ve been out of order. Yesterday Greg ordered me a Jr. Cheeseburger Deluxe meal and they gave me the Crispy Chicken Deluxe, I didn’t complain because it was good. After work we went back and they gave us free fries, of course I didn’t complain, it made up for the sandwich mix up. Today they didn’t mess up our order but they had to ask us if we ordered 2 c-a-e-s-a-r side salads. Now, I go to Wendy’s hoping for free food.

C-a-e-s-a-r was spelled this way to keep my autolinker from linking to Caesar’s dogster page.

Random Goodness.

I took the LPN entrance exam again today. To my surprise, it was identical to the first one that I took. I rushed through the math to make sure I finished. Anything I didn’t know I randomly bubbled in, I then went back to questions them and attempted to correct them. Last time I didn’t get to the last 6 or so questions so I randomly bubbled them in. Hope my new approach boosts my score a bit. Well, actually I just hope to be one of the 80 receiving an acceptance letter in May.

I’m working on a new theme, I just can’t get the css right. I’m debating where I want to upload my pictures from the Auto Show, my gallery (which needs to be redone) or flickr. I’ll see. I got some really good pictures of Kelis.

Yesterday Greg and I came home (southern illinois) to our new printer and bedding. Ugh, the bedding is not what I expected. Here is my review: I give this NO STARS! I paid $59.99 for this and $20 shipping. I thought I was really getting something seeing how it had been marked down from $117.99. It looks so much better in the picture. Mine looks terribly faded, there are strings hanging off the sides of my comforter from a horrible sewing job and I DID NOT receive my neck pillow. I could have gotten better at Walmart.

NOW speaking of Walmart, I ranted a bit about them in a previous post how the past 4 bedding sets that I purchased from them, the comforters unraveled at the corners exposing the stuffing. This was the whole reason I turned to Amazon to get bedding, but I got bamboozled again. Now back to Walmart, I had a spare set of sheets that were purchased from Walmart, I wanted to put them on the bed before we put the new set from Amazon on. We have a queen sized bed, the sheet set was for a queen sized bed, why did the fitted sheet say FULL SIZED?!?! Needless to say, it didn’t fit. - I will never buy any type of bedding from Walmart again!

I’ve been tagged by Sarah Jeannette!

RULES: Each player of this game starts off with ten weird things or habits or little known facts about themselves. People who get tagged must write in a blog of their own ten weird things or habits or little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you must choose six people to be tagged and list their names. No tagbacks!

1. I have a habit of grabbing my boobs when I walk/jog down the stairs - not in public.

2. When handling fresh beef, particularly steaks, the smell turns my stomach. It reminds me of dead people. That’s what I get for watching CSI.

3. While cooking, I have to wash my hands in between everything, I can’t touch meat then grab the seasoning, that’s just nasty.

4. I often prejudge people who fit the physical profile of those girls on “Girls Gone Wild”.

5. Everytime I work, I buy something.

6. I have scoliosis.

7. I can’t stand sweaters made with rabbit fur because the threads or whatever itch my face when floating around. At work my face itches a lot due to all the sweaters containing rabbit fur.

8. If I won the lottery or something of the like, I’d start planning to have my first child.

9. I watch HGTV whenever I can, it motivates me to try harder in life.

10. I have an Ebay store.

Who I’m Tagging: Tanasha, Jessica, Miracle, Brandy, Kris, and Meredith

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Feb
15
2007
12:27 pm

Hide Your Shoes!

So Greg just woke up, looks on the floor and says “It’s only a dream”. He then tells me that he had a dream that Caesar chewed up every pair of shoes that he had! Some weeks back, Caesar chewed a bit on one of Greg’s New Balance shoes. He got all mad at Caesar, but I specifically over and over told Greg that Caesar LOVES shoes. Greg continued to leave his shoes on the bedroom floor and learned the hard way. Yesterday Caesar got a hold of one of MY New Balances, he didn’t do much harm, but he was put in time out for the rest of the day. My shoes were in the downstairs bathroom though. But anyway, he’s out under the bed sleeping now. I want to do some cleaning before we leave for Chicago tomorrow. Caesar has bits of toys all over the floor, never again will we buy him plastic chew toys. Critter Snackz anyone?

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