A while ago I posted about future family members and they were the dogs that Dom and I want to eventually get. Well, we decided a few weeks ago that we wanted to get a puppy now and are looking for a small female dog that doesn't cost us a limb. Since we decided that we were going to add to the family I have been following every source possible to find a reasonable pup. The local paper, the Pennysaver, Craigslist, animal shelters, etc. Unfortunately, after weeks of searching we are still dogless.
The kind of small dog that Dom and I agree upon is rare and when we find one the female is either gone, too old, or too much money. I love how they say "small" rehoming fee and then charge $300. That to me is not small. Anyway, this has been getting to me lately because I just want a little K-9 friend that I can hang out with while Dom is gone. There are many other reasons why we want a dog but that is a big one for me. Lots of people say it takes a while to find the right dog and to be patient but I am getting really ancy and discouraged. I just hope that God is working in this and taking his time in picking out the right dog for us. I can't wait to post pictures of our new little friend but it might be a while.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
A Good Day
After a long morning of nothing, I went to Auburn to get my hair cut by a friend I have known since Jr. High who happens to live up here now. It was a fun little social time and it felt nice to be around a girl and have healthy hair again. Once she finished, I made my way back home. I proceeded to continue my day of nothing by watching some episodes of The Office.
My husband came home just as I had finished "The injury" from season two. Now I had taken chicken out in the morning to make these baked chicken kabobs but what I failed to realize is that they already needed to be thawed in order for me to finish the recipe early because it needed to marinate for hours. I had to call my mom to see if it would be sanitary to put the chicken back in the fridge and use it the next day, it was so I did. I have to call my mom for everything still. I am getting the hang of it but I'm not a seasoned house wife yet. I then decided that I would try and talk Dom into going out for dinner by saying that we could take our change from around the house to Coinstar and deal with the percentage they take out for converting it to cash and use it for dinner and a movie. I have really been wanting to see Angels & Demons since I finished the book a few days ago.
When he came home I pitched my idea and was shot down....it was sad until he said we should just go out to dinner anyway without doing Coinstar. :) I chose CPK and we split a pizza. After dinner I tried again to talk Dom into taking me to see the movie and he said no again but wouldn't give me a reason why. On the way home he then surprised me by saying that we were going to see the movie and that he had been planning on taking me all day. I was so stoked! We saw it and they changed a lot and it will never be as good as the book but I rather enjoyed it. What I enjoyed most was a night out with my husband. I had such a great time and I'm glad I have such a wonderful husband.
My husband came home just as I had finished "The injury" from season two. Now I had taken chicken out in the morning to make these baked chicken kabobs but what I failed to realize is that they already needed to be thawed in order for me to finish the recipe early because it needed to marinate for hours. I had to call my mom to see if it would be sanitary to put the chicken back in the fridge and use it the next day, it was so I did. I have to call my mom for everything still. I am getting the hang of it but I'm not a seasoned house wife yet. I then decided that I would try and talk Dom into going out for dinner by saying that we could take our change from around the house to Coinstar and deal with the percentage they take out for converting it to cash and use it for dinner and a movie. I have really been wanting to see Angels & Demons since I finished the book a few days ago.
When he came home I pitched my idea and was shot down....it was sad until he said we should just go out to dinner anyway without doing Coinstar. :) I chose CPK and we split a pizza. After dinner I tried again to talk Dom into taking me to see the movie and he said no again but wouldn't give me a reason why. On the way home he then surprised me by saying that we were going to see the movie and that he had been planning on taking me all day. I was so stoked! We saw it and they changed a lot and it will never be as good as the book but I rather enjoyed it. What I enjoyed most was a night out with my husband. I had such a great time and I'm glad I have such a wonderful husband.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Came and Gone
As I have previously mentioned, Dom and I had some visitors this past week and a half. They are all gone now but the excitement still lingers. It starts off with Kelsey. It was so fun to see her. We had lunch and we did some catching up. She told me about a pretty sweet church that Dom and I actually like and plan on going back to. It was nice to have a friend around again. Next was Brooke. Her visiting was awesome! It was so nice to have a piece of home here and I just love her to bits too. I picked her up Friday around two or something and then took her home to do work. We were having our open "house" party that night and I still needed to make a couple things. I put her right to work and we made the enchiladas. The people started coming over and she got to meet all of Dom's family again. She survived Dom's dad and captured Dom's mom and aunt. They are still talking about how nice and sweet she is.
The party was such a success. We didn't think a lot of people would show and the ones who did would leave half way through but everyone we invited showed up, with food and stayed the whole time. We mingled, ate, mingled again, had cake and coffee and then watched Count of Monte Cristo. Some people hadn't seen it and enjoyed the story. Dom and I were extremely pleased with how it all turned out. Having Brooke there really calmed my nerves. I was pretty much stuck to her all night.
That next day Brooke, Dom and I went to see The Hangover with April up in Auburn. We had seen the previews and thought it looked hilarious and Brooke's friend said that it was so funny and that it wasn't ronchy either so we were stoked to see it. Well, the friend totally lied. There was full on nudity, cursing, and it just wasn't that funny. I was sadly disappointed. After that we all went out to coffee and Brooke and Apey got to catch up. Later we went on a little hike under the Foresthill Bridge and after that we headed home, packed up Brookie and drove her to Davis to drop her off with her posey. It was sad to say goodbye but she said that she wants to come and visit again and that she would stay longer next time so I was satisfied.
That Sunday Katie Newman came over for some coffee with Dom and I and she is just so much fun to talk to that we had a blast seeing how her life is and catching up. She said that we have to go floating down the river over the summer and we are so ready to that, I think we made it a plan but we'll see what happens. She left and headed off to her house and we chilled at home since we missed church. Oopsies.
Next, we had Austin come to the house. He came last Monday and he flew in. Now he is twelve years old and he was flying alone so my mom wanted me to go to the gate to pick him up. In order to do that you need to check in with the ticket counter and get a fake little pass to go through security. The guy who checked me in noticed that my brother and I have different last names and he looked at me skeptically and asked about it. I told him yes we do but that was all. Then he asked if I was going to pick up my boyfriend and me being an optimistic idiot thought that maybe he was hitting on me and said, "No but I am going to take him home to see my husband." I said it with a little bit of attitude as well. It wasn't until I realized that he sent me to the wrong gate, a gate that didn't exist, that he wasn't hitting on me he just thought that I was using the brother excuse to pick up my boyfriend. I felt like such a tard.
The week with Austin went pretty smooth. We watched movies, walked through Auburn, bought a plant, played cards with Dom and read. I felt bad for the little guy cause Dom and I don't have the most exciting lives and I thought that most of the time he was bored out of his mind but he said he had a great time. That Thursday the rest of my family flew in and they brought us an XBOX 360 as a house warming present. Dom and I were so excited because we had been wanting one since it can do so much entertainment wise. If you get this wireless adapter thing then you can play your Netflix, Hulu and other shows through your TV instatly and you can also play your iTunes through your soundsystem. Then we all had dinner and hung out, it was so nice to be around my family again. I had missed them terribly.
The next day Dom got work off and we all went to Sacramento and walked all around. We saw the capitol, the governer's mansion, old town Sac. and pretty much everthing else you can think off. We did so much walking. After that we went home, had a two hour break, rejoined to have dinner at CPK, my fav., and then made dessert at our place. Brownies, ice cream, whipped, cream and chocolate syrup, yum!
Sat. was supposed to be spent hanging out at Rowland's lake but the weather was too cold so we went on the Foresthill trail that we took Brooke on but we went further this time and even went down to the river that the trail runs along and the boys and Dom went swimming. There was this sweet tall rock that they could dive off of. This little hike got us all pretty tired but after this we went up to Dom's parent's house and had dinner. The boys got warn out by Havilah who happens to have the same energy level as Logan and if you know my brother you know that it's an insane amount of energy. We walked down to see the horses and Craig and I helped pick up poop and bring the horses in. This concluded the evening and on the way home my brothers passed out in the back of the car because they were just exhausted.
The next day, yesterday, was Father's day and my parents were leaving at 8am and I wanted to get up and say goodbye to them. I also decided to bring them coffee and doughnuts as a Happy Father's day gift as well as a goodbye. I had to get up real early because I know they do and I didn't want them going to get gross coffee from the lobby before I got there. I showed up around 6:30am, right after their alarm went off. They were surprised and happy to have the Starbuck's coffee. I got to hang out with them as they continued to get ready and then we all went out to breakfast at IHOP. Dom didn't join us because it would have been way to difficult to get him up that early especially when he didn't have to. So he stayed in bed and I brought him breakfast. Anyway, I gave them all huge hugs goodbye and sent them off on their vacation. It was pretty hard to say goodbye but they'll be back. And so concludeds our busy week and a half with family and friends. :)
The party was such a success. We didn't think a lot of people would show and the ones who did would leave half way through but everyone we invited showed up, with food and stayed the whole time. We mingled, ate, mingled again, had cake and coffee and then watched Count of Monte Cristo. Some people hadn't seen it and enjoyed the story. Dom and I were extremely pleased with how it all turned out. Having Brooke there really calmed my nerves. I was pretty much stuck to her all night.
That next day Brooke, Dom and I went to see The Hangover with April up in Auburn. We had seen the previews and thought it looked hilarious and Brooke's friend said that it was so funny and that it wasn't ronchy either so we were stoked to see it. Well, the friend totally lied. There was full on nudity, cursing, and it just wasn't that funny. I was sadly disappointed. After that we all went out to coffee and Brooke and Apey got to catch up. Later we went on a little hike under the Foresthill Bridge and after that we headed home, packed up Brookie and drove her to Davis to drop her off with her posey. It was sad to say goodbye but she said that she wants to come and visit again and that she would stay longer next time so I was satisfied.
That Sunday Katie Newman came over for some coffee with Dom and I and she is just so much fun to talk to that we had a blast seeing how her life is and catching up. She said that we have to go floating down the river over the summer and we are so ready to that, I think we made it a plan but we'll see what happens. She left and headed off to her house and we chilled at home since we missed church. Oopsies.
Next, we had Austin come to the house. He came last Monday and he flew in. Now he is twelve years old and he was flying alone so my mom wanted me to go to the gate to pick him up. In order to do that you need to check in with the ticket counter and get a fake little pass to go through security. The guy who checked me in noticed that my brother and I have different last names and he looked at me skeptically and asked about it. I told him yes we do but that was all. Then he asked if I was going to pick up my boyfriend and me being an optimistic idiot thought that maybe he was hitting on me and said, "No but I am going to take him home to see my husband." I said it with a little bit of attitude as well. It wasn't until I realized that he sent me to the wrong gate, a gate that didn't exist, that he wasn't hitting on me he just thought that I was using the brother excuse to pick up my boyfriend. I felt like such a tard.
The week with Austin went pretty smooth. We watched movies, walked through Auburn, bought a plant, played cards with Dom and read. I felt bad for the little guy cause Dom and I don't have the most exciting lives and I thought that most of the time he was bored out of his mind but he said he had a great time. That Thursday the rest of my family flew in and they brought us an XBOX 360 as a house warming present. Dom and I were so excited because we had been wanting one since it can do so much entertainment wise. If you get this wireless adapter thing then you can play your Netflix, Hulu and other shows through your TV instatly and you can also play your iTunes through your soundsystem. Then we all had dinner and hung out, it was so nice to be around my family again. I had missed them terribly.
The next day Dom got work off and we all went to Sacramento and walked all around. We saw the capitol, the governer's mansion, old town Sac. and pretty much everthing else you can think off. We did so much walking. After that we went home, had a two hour break, rejoined to have dinner at CPK, my fav., and then made dessert at our place. Brownies, ice cream, whipped, cream and chocolate syrup, yum!
Sat. was supposed to be spent hanging out at Rowland's lake but the weather was too cold so we went on the Foresthill trail that we took Brooke on but we went further this time and even went down to the river that the trail runs along and the boys and Dom went swimming. There was this sweet tall rock that they could dive off of. This little hike got us all pretty tired but after this we went up to Dom's parent's house and had dinner. The boys got warn out by Havilah who happens to have the same energy level as Logan and if you know my brother you know that it's an insane amount of energy. We walked down to see the horses and Craig and I helped pick up poop and bring the horses in. This concluded the evening and on the way home my brothers passed out in the back of the car because they were just exhausted.
The next day, yesterday, was Father's day and my parents were leaving at 8am and I wanted to get up and say goodbye to them. I also decided to bring them coffee and doughnuts as a Happy Father's day gift as well as a goodbye. I had to get up real early because I know they do and I didn't want them going to get gross coffee from the lobby before I got there. I showed up around 6:30am, right after their alarm went off. They were surprised and happy to have the Starbuck's coffee. I got to hang out with them as they continued to get ready and then we all went out to breakfast at IHOP. Dom didn't join us because it would have been way to difficult to get him up that early especially when he didn't have to. So he stayed in bed and I brought him breakfast. Anyway, I gave them all huge hugs goodbye and sent them off on their vacation. It was pretty hard to say goodbye but they'll be back. And so concludeds our busy week and a half with family and friends. :)
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Just Dropping In
Lately I have been a little homesick, missing friends and family terribly and I guess that God wanted to cheer me up because all of a sudden I have a couple weeks full of friends and family. The family was planned and they will be here next week but the friends were a total surprise. Normally I don't do anything important during the week and Dom and I just hang around on the weekends but this week we actual had plans with his family pretty much the whole weekend. Out of nowhere Brooke texts me asking what I am doing this weekend because she is coming up last minute to visit! Not only was I surprised but totally stoked. I didn't care if I had plans because they definitely take a backseat to Brooke's visit.
Then, later that night I get a phone call from Katie Newman saying that she will be in town on Sunday and wants to see me. Again I was totally surprised and starting to find it quite comical that my usual laid back weekends, and this one that actual had a plan, was now being infused with much needed visits from friends. On top of all this excitement I get a text from Kelsey saying she is in town until Thursday and wants to hang out! At this point Dom and I just start laughing in amazement.
So, to recap I see Kelsey on Thursday for lunch, I have a "house" warming party on Friday with Dom's family and Brooke, who will be staying until Saturday, and I see Katie on Sunday for morning coffee, not to mention the welcome home party for Dom's cousin that same day. Wow, God is so good. I can't wait to tell you how it went.
Then, later that night I get a phone call from Katie Newman saying that she will be in town on Sunday and wants to see me. Again I was totally surprised and starting to find it quite comical that my usual laid back weekends, and this one that actual had a plan, was now being infused with much needed visits from friends. On top of all this excitement I get a text from Kelsey saying she is in town until Thursday and wants to hang out! At this point Dom and I just start laughing in amazement.
So, to recap I see Kelsey on Thursday for lunch, I have a "house" warming party on Friday with Dom's family and Brooke, who will be staying until Saturday, and I see Katie on Sunday for morning coffee, not to mention the welcome home party for Dom's cousin that same day. Wow, God is so good. I can't wait to tell you how it went.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
1/4
Tomorrow Dom and I will have been married for a quarter of a year. Now I know three months doesn't seem like much but when you put it in those terms it seems like a bigger deal. It's hard to believe we were only engaged for about this long (three and a half months total). Anyway, we decided to celebrate today because of reasons I will explain later. How we celebrated was sleeping in and I mean really sleeping in, we didn't really get out of bed until around 1:30 p.m. Then we went to a free piano concert at the Sherman Clay piano store. They have this amazing Steinway & Sons concert hall and give concerts for free occasionally, all you have to do is sign up to be notified about the next concert and you're in.
This concert was performed by Richard Glaizier who is a Steinway & Sons pianist who played classic American music for us. Songs like Rhapsody in Blue, Over The Rainbow, some ragtime, and few others by Gershwin. It was a wonderful concert and it was fun to get all dressed up with Dom and enjoy it. After that we went to dinner at T.G.I. Friday's. I chose this place because of an advertisement that I saw for them online about a two for twenty deal they had, two appietizers and entrees for twenty dollars. When we got there I asked about it and they looked confused, apparently I got the resturaunt wrong and that deal is at Applebee's. Oops. They said that happens often but I still felt like a dork.
Next, we made brownie sundaes at home and enjoyed some Mad About You. It was a great anniversary celebration. The reason that we didn't celebrate tomorrow on the actual day was because we are going to see Up with Dom's sister and mom and so we wanted to celebrate today alone. See, Dom wanted to surprise me on our anniversary day by making me dinner and then taking me to see Up but when we went to visit his family on Friday his sister told him she watched it and she wants to see it again. Dom said that he wanted to take me to see it and so she asked if she could join us, well he couldn't deny her and that is how our little arrangement came about. I like that we will be going to see it with his family and that today was a great day alone with my wonderful husband. :)
This concert was performed by Richard Glaizier who is a Steinway & Sons pianist who played classic American music for us. Songs like Rhapsody in Blue, Over The Rainbow, some ragtime, and few others by Gershwin. It was a wonderful concert and it was fun to get all dressed up with Dom and enjoy it. After that we went to dinner at T.G.I. Friday's. I chose this place because of an advertisement that I saw for them online about a two for twenty deal they had, two appietizers and entrees for twenty dollars. When we got there I asked about it and they looked confused, apparently I got the resturaunt wrong and that deal is at Applebee's. Oops. They said that happens often but I still felt like a dork.
Next, we made brownie sundaes at home and enjoyed some Mad About You. It was a great anniversary celebration. The reason that we didn't celebrate tomorrow on the actual day was because we are going to see Up with Dom's sister and mom and so we wanted to celebrate today alone. See, Dom wanted to surprise me on our anniversary day by making me dinner and then taking me to see Up but when we went to visit his family on Friday his sister told him she watched it and she wants to see it again. Dom said that he wanted to take me to see it and so she asked if she could join us, well he couldn't deny her and that is how our little arrangement came about. I like that we will be going to see it with his family and that today was a great day alone with my wonderful husband. :)
Monday, June 1, 2009
Working Hard For The Money
This weekend was spent moving Dom's office to a new location. Now this might seem like a simple task but seriously, it was one of the most intense weekends ever, at least work wise. He owns a Jewelry repair shop with his family and he runs it. His office includes all of the jewelers equipment and work benches, large gas and air tanks, tons of different jewelry repair machines that are made out of heavy metal and a thousand pound safe, not to mention all of the normal office stuff you would think of.
The safe was the hardest part and the most scary. People's lives were in danger including my husband's which made me quite nervous. Did I mention that his office was upstairs? Yeah, this definitely complicated things. Taking the safe down the stairs on this power dolly thing took the might of 5 men and even after that they were all exhausted. One more thing to mention was the safe has a piece of glass in it and if you break it the entire safe is unusable, it's a safety mechanism installed to protect it from thieves but it just sucks when you're moving and can't jostle it too much. We did eventually get the thing moved but man oh man it was hard.
Moving day was Friday, Saturday and Sunday were spent setting up the shop for work on Monday. It is difficult to set up equipment you don't know how to use and I ended up being a little work mule and runner. Any errands to go do I was the person to do it. Dom's whole family was there to help with everything too but this Parisi couple put in a few more hours since it is his shop. All in all, tough weekend but a lot was accomplished.
The safe was the hardest part and the most scary. People's lives were in danger including my husband's which made me quite nervous. Did I mention that his office was upstairs? Yeah, this definitely complicated things. Taking the safe down the stairs on this power dolly thing took the might of 5 men and even after that they were all exhausted. One more thing to mention was the safe has a piece of glass in it and if you break it the entire safe is unusable, it's a safety mechanism installed to protect it from thieves but it just sucks when you're moving and can't jostle it too much. We did eventually get the thing moved but man oh man it was hard.
Moving day was Friday, Saturday and Sunday were spent setting up the shop for work on Monday. It is difficult to set up equipment you don't know how to use and I ended up being a little work mule and runner. Any errands to go do I was the person to do it. Dom's whole family was there to help with everything too but this Parisi couple put in a few more hours since it is his shop. All in all, tough weekend but a lot was accomplished.
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