Life in general

Jess and Steve will be here in Seattle in 5 days! I'm so so so excited about that! I can't wait to wrap my arms around Jess!! :D

So there is 7 days until Christmas. I am all done shopping. Just have a few presents left to wrap. It feels so good to know that I'm all done and I don't have to rush to finish in time. :D

My birthday is 10 days away!! :D I'm so excited for that! My mom is going to take me to get a pedicure and we'll probably do lunch also. Then on Friday the 29th we're heading out to Marysville to go to the Tulalip Casino!! :D YIPPEEE! Jess and Steve will be there so that will be great funn!

Work has been ok lately. I don't have as much to do right now and it is really driving me crazy because this office is a lot slower than what Piedmont was. Some people are really getting on my nerves also which really sucks. I don't like that at all.

I think I'm just really irratable (that is a hard word to spell) right now because of issues with my body. I won't go into detail but I need to go see an OB/GYN pretty soon. I hate that I have a problem and I don't know what the issue is. My doctor put me on vitamins because he thought that would help but it seems to be getting worse now. I think I also have a sinus infection which really sucks. I hate being sick more than anything! I have also been extremely tired and can't seem to get over that. You would think that with all the vitamins I'm taking (especially the B-6 which is energy and metabolism) that I would be feeling better. Life can be frustrating.

Max is still not getting along with Zach. We had to buy a muzzle for him to wear when they are together. He has been really cranky/lazy lately. He had fun at my parents house last night.

My dad let me borrow his HP photo printer. I can hook my camera up, hook it to the computer or put my memory card in and it prints right there. I printed two pictures last night but there are lots of things to play around with on it so that will keep me even more busy!

Melissa turns 21 on Wednesday. Karen said last night that they want to do lunch that day before they fly out to Nebraska that night. I cant believe how much she is growing up and what a beautiful woman she is now! Love her!

Ray and I did a little bit of ring shopping and I saw one at Helzberg's Diamonds that I liked. It's a 3-stone ring 3/4 ctw with a plain band. I've also been shopping on eBAY because it would be great to find one and get the winning bid for less than what we would pay at a store. Not sure when he is getting his profit sharing check though and that depends on when I get the ring. I really wanted a New Year's Eve proposal because then Jess would still be here for me to celebrate with but he says no. I guess I'll just have to wait and see how he decides to do things. But I am also really bad about sitting back and just letting things go. I'm also very bad about not buying myself anything within 30 days of Christmas/Birthday...

In weather news it has been crazy again. Thursday we were at Ray's mom's watching the Seahawks get whooped and the power went out in the last couple minutes (which was fine since the end got even worse) but they still don't have power. We drove home that night, which knuckle drive for me! My hands hurt the next day! We drove under one tree on Woodinville-Duvall and then not even a mile down the road had to turn around. Then on the Snoqualmie Valley road a tree and power lines were in my lane so I got in the other lane to go around them a Jeep came flying around the corner and didn't even slow down until I flashed my lights at them, crazy drivers! Novelty Hill was fine and the power was all on in Redmond on when we drove home but the wind was so strong that it was moving my car and it was raining and people were flying down the freeway, stupid drivers! So there was over 1 million people that had power outages, not here so I had to go to work. WIT was all out and there were trees all over the road there. And with the Bellevue branch being out that made all the other branches out since the network computers are in Bellevue. So we went to Southcenter on Friday night to return something and look for some stuff and it was absolutetly insane! The food court was packed full and all the stores were packed. We didn't stay long. Then we went to Safeway to get some groceries and that was crazy. The lines were so long and the checker said it had been like that all day. They were all out of fire wood and batteries and kept announcing that over the loudspeaker. The gas stations had lines down the streets since some were out of power and gas and everyone was running out of gas because stop lights were out causing traffic and hence more gas being used. So it is just weird to see a whole city and surrounding areas go crazy. Ray's family came over for a bit yesterday since they still don't have power and my Aunt Karen and Uncle Jim and the boys stayed at my parents since they didn't have power either. The only thing that really affected me was that the restaurant where the WIT Christmas party was going to be on Friday was out of power and so that got canceled. I was really looking forward to that and was sad when it got canceled.

Well, this has turned out a lot longer than I had expected so hope you didn't get too bored!

Oh Christmas Tree Oh Christmas Tree

So our first Christmas Tree together turned out to be a Seahawks tree. The little snowman ornament was the inspiration. Thought I would share some pictures with everyone. I will try to get some pictures of the new place up soon! Merry Christmas!