It's Wednesday already?

Oh, how the days fly by....Only 3 1/2 weeks until Mom,Dad, and Jennica get here!!!I'm counting down!!! yay!:D I haven't seen M&D in over four months and it's been over three months since I've seen Jennica.

D and I were awakened early in the morning by the sounds of chainsaw and barking dogs outside our window.  Crazy neighbors!I was so ticked off. It's very inconsiderate to be trimming your tree with a loud chainsaw at 7 in the morning. Grrr.... It was not a good start to the morning. And I hadn't been sleeping well anyways! D and I stayed up late watching the news and I didn't get to bed until 2 am! haha The Occupy LA encampment which was @ city hall was forced to vacate the park. The process included a good thousand or so police officers. They surrounded the park and used the tunnels to come out through the actual building of city hall. There were hundreds of protesters, but  everything stayed pretty peaceful.

I was in a cleaning mood last night and did some in depth cleaning in the kitchen! The counters were looking pretty sparkly! Yay! Now I just need to get the rest of the apartment whipped into shape. Everything is just so cluttered. I need more space!!!

I spent most of the morning paying bills and working on paperwork for work. I had a work meeting @ 3 and didn't leave the office until 5. Found out that they're going to start training me in home sessions so I'm pretty excited about that! It will be an extra four hours a week and with my same client. I start my training tomorrow! yay!

My new schedule will be:

Tuesday:   8:00 am to 1:00 pm School Session
                3:00 pm to 5:00 pm  Home Session
Thursday:  9:10 am to 2:10 pm  School Session
                3:30 pm to 5:30 pm Home Session
Friday:     9:00 am  to 2:00 pm  School Session

So yeah, that's good news! :)

Well, that's it for tonight. Happy Wednesday,everyone! :)

It's Tuesday....

I'm sitting here watching "Wife Swap"...love this show! After six free days, I was schedule to work today.  I was happy to go make some money. The day went by pretty quickly, which I am thankful for! My client was in a really good and cooperative mood. I had brought him a squishy tomato toy and he LOVED it! During his breaks he would ask for 'tomato'....Halfway through the day, he somehow tore it and the water poured out on the water and all over him. Poor guy, I think it scared him a bit! haha He loved his tomato so much :(

Anyways, I think i'm getting a cold. Yesterday morning I woke up with a scratchy throat and now it's just plain sore. My nose feels weird and my ears are all plugged up. Bleh. So I've been drinking lots of OJ and taking NyQuil. Hopefully that will help!


I guess I really don't have a whole lot to say today, but just thought I would check in. I'll go ahead and share some photos that I took a couple weeks ago and never posted:

11/19/11 I went for a walk @ the Nature Reserve

This was when the road was just splitting...since then part of the land actually collapsed. I haven't been down there in the last couple weeks...

Pretty sunset!

11.19.11  Moving a dresser that was left in an apartment. Took it over to Alicia's parent's house

Alicia's mom loves gardening/growing things and the back yard is like a garden/jungle. I loved it!!! So cute!

Pumpkins growing on top of the garage roof

Fruit off the cactus...can't remember what the name is...tastes like a mix of watermelon and kiwi

Little peppers from the plant in their backyard

Veggie soup

Chocolate from Mexico

Hilarious card from Jennica!

Well, that's it for now. Hope you have a good week!!! :)

I survived...

Thanksgiving, that is...  hehe. While I did enjoy spending time w/ my in-laws, I definitely missed being with my family and enjoying their good company and yummilicous food!  This Thanksgiving was different indeed. Dinner wasn't ready until around 5 or so, so we slept in and just kind of relaxed in the morning. Alicia's parents were having trouble with their sink drain, so we took the Snake machine over to unclog it.

Diego fixed the problem pretty quickly, so we headed over to his fam's house.

D and my contribution to dinner was a giant pot of mashed potatoes...

yuuuum!

Our dinner...

My sliver of pumpkin pie

So we basically hung out @ D's fam's house all day from 1 to 10:30pm. We made the mashed potatoes, hung out while waiting for the turkey to be ready, and then played a bunch of card games. It was pretty fun. Edgar taught us this card game called Speed and it's sooooo much fun! It's basically a race to see which player can get rid of his/her cards the fastest!

Diego had both Thursday and Friday off from work so that was great! We decided to head over to Fry's Electronics store to check out the deals. Diego was wanting to just browse around. It was sooo busy!! But they didn't really have any great deals so we left without buying anything.

There was a LONG line of cars going in to Fry's. There was even a cop out directing traffic

After Fry's, we stopped by D's house. Larry was working on his car...

Bigshow had been chewing on the bone (that you can see in front of him)...Diego picked it up and told him to sit and then placed the bone in front of him. Bigshow was sooo patient and just sat there waiting until we told him it was ok to move. What a good doggy!

D trying to wrap Bigshow up in a blanket...haha

So cute!!!

Larry and Alicia tagged along with us while we went to a couple more stores. We went to World Market, Michaels, and Target.

I always find so many things that I want at World Market!

Really pretty jewelery box!

Some REALLY nice owl bookends which I love!!!!!

Pretty teal pillows...although they wouldn't match my couch unless i get a brown slipcover

LOVE the bright colos!

The blue fondue set is adorable! I could totally see these in a restaurant...

I thought the earrings in the center were pretty...they're an emerald green color...

LOVED this! It's so adorable!

I thought these would be cool for a little diner/bakery....

We were starving and Alicia and Larry said that this place was pretty good...

They were right! My burrito was yummy!

The flan wasn't the best though...

Alicia wants to go back and try this dessert sometime...

Some ADORABLE ornaments that I saw @ Target. I absolutely love these!

Some cute cupcake decos

i saw this and thought of Aunt Key....also the little pine cone ornaments on the right are pretty cute...

Love these earrings!!! I might have to go back and get them!

Perty!

Cute!

ADORABLE picture frame that I saw @ Michaels...

I think I went a little overboard with the pictures! haha


On Saturday, we met up with Rachel and Edgar at the Golf Range. We had a lot of fun, although I really sucked haha.

Edgar

Checking out the different golf clubs..

Diego's turn...

Moi!

We'd worked up an appetite, so we decided to get something to eat...

Hung out here for a couple hours talking...

D's dad bought a bunch of pecans!

Later on that evening we went to Johnny Rockets for a late dinner...

D and I split a delicious egg salad sandwich and I got a PB malt! Yum!

D and I went shopping with Larry today to help him pick out some new clothes...

It was an extremely successful shopping trip!!!!

We stopped by Radio Shack because larry needed some sort of tool....

Well, that's it for now folks. It's almost midnight here and I need to get some sleep. Night everyone!

Countdown Until My Family Lands in Cali: Four weeks from today!!!!