Getting to know you

So I came across a new blog, MannLand5. Its a fun blog, and though I am a day late since she does this on Sundays, I figured I'd participate anyways:

So anyways, here it goes:

The questions..

1. What year did you graduate high school?
2004

2. What part of your body do you neglect the most?
My feet- luckily I just painted my toes since we've been having weather warm enough for flipflips

3. Beach house or Lake house?
A beach house all the way!

4. Mac or PC?
You know I guess a PC cause that's what I have, but I am not opposed to the idea of a Mac

5. Did you wear braces?
Yes

6. If you could be one person for a day..living or deceased..who would you be?
I think it would be interesting to be Rachel Ray- her food always looks delicious!

7. How many times have you moved in your life?
4 times, 3 of them were in the last 18 months and 2 of those were cross country moves!(This was from my most recent move in August '09- my husband and pup in the front seat and 560 lbs of stuff we transported ourselves in the back, along with a moving truck full of stuff the Navy moved for us!)

8. Would you rather cook or clean?
Cook! But that's why I hate cooking- cause there are always dishes to clean up afterward. My husband says I need someone to just do all my dishes for me- Ha! Maybe when we strike it rich winning the lottery.


Happy Monday! Let this be a great start to everyone's week!

Luck O' the Irish

Being that I'm half Irish and my favorite color is green, I couldn't wait to wish you a Happy St. Patrick's Day!

(Picture taken at the Butchart Gardens, British Columbia )

What are some of your favorite traditions? My mom always did the corned beef and cabbage thing, except it was "smoked neck" and cabbage. My grandmother always made this, and her parents were actually immigrants from Ireland. She said her mom had never even heard of corned beef and cabbage until she moved to the US. So today I'll be making smoked neck & cabbage and potatoes, with a beer on the side.
Do you have any food traditions? Do you drink green beer? Do you go to a parade?

Finally...

Finally, I can feel Spring. I can almost smell it in the air.

You know what made my day yesterday? It was 71 degrees, sunny, and I put on my flip flops for the first time in months, and slipped them over my toe nails I'd just painted with this:Its Diamond Strength, Lavender Marqui colored. Remember? I love Lavender ;) And after all, diamonds are a girl's best friend!

Its actually been nice here all week, and my husband and I have been crazy busy working in our backyard. We started with a yard full of weeds, that doesn't drain. So we've been putting in a drainage system and it is A LOT of work! Much more than we ever anticipated haha. We have plans to put in some shrubs and other plants and flowers.
I'm also doing a veggie garden this year! So far I have jalapeno peppers growing, tomatoes, and basil. They were all started inside the house from seeds. I'll also be doing cucumbers and dill, but you are supposed to actually start them outside, unlike the others I already have going. So we'll see! I am super excited about the prospect of having my own veggie garden!
And what else? Oh, we've ripped up our bedroom carpet this weekend and we're having new carpet installed this week. Therefore we have our bedroom furniture scattered everywhere upstairs so we could remove the carpeting, and its a disaster! I can't wait until this process is all said and done! That's for sure! We'll be sleeping in the guest room until we can put our bedroom back together.
How have you been getting ready for spring? Any yard work or spring cleaning?

March 4th already?

Where has the time gone? I feel like it was just Christmas time! And wow its been almost 2 weeks since my last post on here.
I should update you all on my happenings and thoughts over those couple weeks.


Yes I became a fan of this season's Bachelor on ABC. And yes I didn't want him to pick Vienna. I think she is awful lol. But you know, if he is dumb enough to have picked her, he'll get what he asked for. I have to say though, now whenever I here the song "On the Wings of Love" it is forever ruined for me, as Vienna's face is the first thing to come to my mind. I'm sorry, but she is fake. I can just hear it in her voice. She tells people what they want to hear! I know these reality show relationships rarely workout, but have you heard what people are saying about her? An ex stripper? Cheated on her first husband while he was in Iraq? I know you can't believe everything, but come on. I doubt EVERYTHING in the magazines is a lie. There's got to be some truth to it all.

What were you thinking Jake!? She just oozes with "fake"!

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Next thing that consumed much of my last couple weeks was my little buddy Frank. It was just over 2 weeks ago that Frank threw up. And we thought hmm, then he got sick 2 more times that night and I got worried. Then the next morning the same thing. So he got a trip to vet. He sent Frank home with some medicine and told me not to feed him the rest of the day. The the next day we were to only feed him a rice and ground beef mixture. Okay, great. The next day was Friday and he didn't get sick all day! Then Saturday he did well for breakfast & lunch. But Saturday night- the poor little guy got sick yet AGAIN! So this time I started getting really worried, thinking it was a blockage of some sort. So we actually took him to the emergency pet clinic, being it was a Saturday evening. I just didn't want to chance waiting until Monday morning to see our normal vet.
There, they did some x-rays and didn't find anything, so we took him home, and just decided to feed him only VERY small amounts. The next day, Sunday, my husband had to leave for a week long business trip, so I was just hoping Frank would be okay. And he seemed okay. So Monday I had to work. And I was nervous leaving him along all day. But I had to go.
I came home from work Monday evening and that little dog threw up again while I was at work. I felt awful. So I figured I would take him into the regular vet again Tuesday morning. Well he woke up Tuesday and got sick 3 more times before the vet was even open to call. I got a hold of them and brought him over right away. He told us we could wait on it a few more days and not give him food for 12 hours. Or we could go to the internal medicine clinic.
So I opted to take him to internal medicine. He ended up having an ultrasound done, lots of blood work and stayed over night. And they found nothing on that ultrasound. The ONLY thing that came back showing anything was a possible pancreatitis. They said by the time they did the test he may have been on the downside of the pancreatitis, being as though he'd already been sick for 6 days, and so it might have not had a very strong reaction during the test.
So... $1400 later, yes thats right, one thousand- four hundred dollars later after all the vet visits, the diagnosis was a possible pancreatitis. My gosh, for all that money I would have loved to have known what was wrong. He came home with instructions to feed him some special canned food from the doggie hospital. Yuck is what I thought, yum is what Frank thought lol. He is doing bettter now, but what a crazy week that was. It was a lot of money, but he's worth it, and the main thing is that he is okay!
So hopefully over the next week I can really catch up on things around the blogging world. If I am not back before then, have a great weekend. Tomorrow is Friday-woohoo. We're starting our yardwork this weekend- bring on Spring!!!