Internet, House Stuff and What Exactly Is A Best Friend?

Liftoff.....I have internet peeps. In the new house. Beware!Also while internet man was bringing that blessing, the UPS delievered my "incredibly cheap, luxury bedding" I got for my new bed from that little internet secret place where I get all my linens extremely cheap. Oh it was a glorious moment. I have the curtains hung (cause I didn't get matching curtains last time and could never find the right ones to match) and the bedspread smoothed out, it looks very bed and breakfast in there right now.But the highlight of my day came while working on a paper for school while listening to Sex and The...

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Boonies

So one draw back to living in the boonies, no internet.Working on getting internet, but noone down here seems to be in a hurry.....for anything.So I'm hiding out in the old rv park's shower room plugged into their internet and electric to charge my laptop and post my school stuff....and facebook surf. Turns out sitting at Barnes & Nobles for 3 hours doing school will bleed your laptop dead.Dang......Be back as soon as I get air, I mean wif...

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Hello Little Town

Oh what is a girl to do when it's raining and Murphy is hiding in her lap, Duchess is still snoozing and Princess isn't due home from church camp till this afternoon.......Why she should catch up on True Blood and Hawthorne episodes online.....of course.That aside I've been up to my eyeballs in crazy around here these days.We got our rental house.Then I made arrangements to fly up and get my household goodies out of storage in Oootah.Then I realized that I blessed a good family friend with my 10 year old bedroom suite that I absolutely loved but Dave said was on it's last legs. Oh it was a beaut....

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Whew, Finally Get A Breath

I've been running nintey to nothing for weeks now. Finally this afternoon, I've been able to sit back and take a deep breath. Dear Lord but has my summer been insane. As Duchess says, "I'm so glad your home all the time to take care of me..." Good night, how do mom's stay at home and get all this done. I've juggled parenting, work, and marriage for years now. This is the first summer I've had off with my kids and I have never been busy!Princess is now knee deep in youth at our new church. She is going to weekly summer youth camp and today right after church left for a 5 day spirit filled youth...

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A Different Way of Life

We are listening. And we are stepping out on faith......Tonight, I'm going to sign a lease on a Texas house.It's in a very very small country town, 10 minutes from the big city and 30 miles from Dave's work.It's got a fabo school district.It's got a HUGE yard.It speaks to the part of my soul that has been longing for simpler times and getting back to basics.HUGE chan...

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Round the Corner

So here we are again, leaning over the edge wondering where to go from here.So once his contract ended and he got his new safety manager job, it has become very apparent that this is a long term permanent local thing.We've joined our local church, got the kids involved in youth/kids activities and joined the local gym.Now we're pondering whether to strike out and find us a rental house since we have our house in Utah rented. RV living is cool when you travel but not so cool when you're staying put in one area for a long time.Cautiously dipping our toes in the water, we're scouting the local area....

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And She's Back

The happy paper writer is back and she's kicking and screaming at the top of her lungs. Flowing nicely into my senior year of school, I'm back in a class of ONLY ESSAYS. Once I got all four English classes, three History classes, and two pysch classes out of the way, I really thought my days of paper writing was behind me.Enter "Judgment in Managerial Decision Making" where the book is a very petite 120 pages, I'm required to use previous classes, working knowledge, and appropriate sources, I'm to apply the concepts of this class to my life in general.Kill me now. It's bad enough that Dave somehow...

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Dear Self

You're sweaty and exhausted. You can't raise your arms above your head and since the shower at the gym was out, you didn't get a shower but guess what....You held your own at the gym. Robert may have pushed you through the paces and added a lot of hard stuff today but you hung in there and walked out with your head held high.We rock.And we're taking a nap now, so you'll feel up to swimming later.Love,Br...

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Warning: Me in a Canoe

There are so many options for blog post titles on this one, I've considered the following:I tipped it alot but stayed dry.He did all the work.They all had chicken and beer, we had salad.I peed on my shoe.He took a picture.This is not how I pictured this.And finally: holy crap this is harder than it looked. So we got up early on our first full day without my sweet babies, who are as I type living it up in Colorado with my folks. Dave the Gentile rolled me out of bed and we headed to the gym bright...

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2 days on the road

We made excellent time driving the kiddos up to drop off with my folks. A full day there to the meeting city, and a full day back home to Dave. A few thoughts on the trip:- Love is not my favorite truck stop any longer, nasty! Travel America centers are NICE!- Hearing my kids warn each other to "hover" when using the potty in a not so great bathroom, priceless!- There is only so many times you can distract Duchess before she'll continue to talk for a full hour- My kids love 50's music- Duchess bought ran me off the road cause I was hysterically laughing at her story of a new movie where a dog...

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Road Trip 3001

Yet another road trip is about to commence. Woohoo, I do so love me some road trips. Big arse truck stops, singing and tooling along following the white lines spells freedom for me. First summer in evah that I'm not working, instead hanging with my kids and keeping my family busy and happy. I'm loving our life.So I'm packing my babies for a full week with their mimi and pepaw. But first I'm driving them a long way to meet up at a hotel with my folks for the evening. Then I'll bust out of there on a mission....get back to my man.I'm burning tons of cds, washing laundry, packing snack and bags for...

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Upcoming Roadtrip Preparations

I love roadtrips.However this is a special one. In two days I'll leave early and drive my babies up to see my mom and dad. Then I'll drive back alone for a week with my boyfriend (oops, husband, love of my life, guy who snuggles and tucks my hair behind my ears when he's talking to me..you know...him). I get to hug my mom and know my babies are in the very best hands.However, on the way home....12 hours in the car BY MYSELF. Which means, sunroof down...jaunty driving hat and all the music I can pump at loud volumes through my sweet boise system.I'm already downloading and loading playlists for...

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Memorial Weekend

We hiked 4 miles one day, we swam ALOT, we hit up church, we started packing for the kids' trip this week, we bbq-ed, we slept in, we finished school and we hit up the movies. Oh and we ate alot of ice cream, just because. And we thought of the vets who gave it all, going over it with our kids to which they both thanked their daddy for his service but said they were glad he didn't die in service. Ahhhhh. All in all it was a relaxed and lovely weekend. Got no complaints. Hope your weekend was ...

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