WOW!!! It worked!!

I was looking around and decided there were a few textbooks that I could part with. So, I went to half.com(it's powered by eBay) and I listed about 4 books. I thought nothing of it, and then yesterday I sold one and a few minutes ago I checked again, and I sold another one! I cannot believe it. It actually worked. I made about $105.00 between the 2 books.:0) I am SUPER excited and HOPE the other 2 sell too. I tried to sell some of Joe's books, but he would not part with them! Maybe I can talk him into it once he sees that I got paid.

PS We got a Wii...it's super cool! (It was our Christmas to each other)

Cool

What a day!!!

Let me just tell you about my day yesterday! As you all know I work in the school system as a teachers assistant. We were at PE yesterday. 2 kids ran into each other. One hit their head, the other busted his lip open. So I walk the kid down the hall trying to calm him down without him touching me, (Blood and snot on hands). We are almost to the office when I stop for a second and look away from the child. He then grabs my hand and now I have his blood and snot on me. We got to the office and I immediately SCRUB my hands. I eve pour almost a whole;e bottle of peroxide on my hand. We get him an ice pack and all is good. I take him back to class and tell the teacher I work with what happened. She asked me if I had Hepatitis shot? I said no. She says go now to the nurse and see about getting one. So.... I go. I tell her what happened and as I am telling the story about him grabbing my hand I raise it up. She FREAKS out because she sees a cat scratch on my hand. She tells me that this is an "exposure". His blood or snot could have made its way into my cat scratch. OK....really not freaking out. Whatever. I get a Hepatitis shot and then am told I have to go and have my blood as well as the child's blood tested for Hepatitis and HIV. GREAT!! Now you are annoying me and inconveniencing me. So I go to the most germ invested crowded clinic and wait..... I go see a doc he looks at my hand. Gives me an antibiotic, and then I have to go down to the lab for blood work.
I go tell the nurse the usual ....bad veins...use a baby needle..blah blah blah. I guess she could tell that I was annoyed because she says to me" you should just consider that all blood is bad blood." I say "OK". She then goes on to tell me that 2 weeks ago she tested a 26yd old female positive for Hepatitis C THEN tells me that a 15 yr old girl tested positive for HIV. I got teary eyed. Not because she scared me, but because there is a 15 yr old in my town with AIDS. She is SO young. I leave and go back to work. My kids are at lunch and the grandma comes to get the boy so he can go get his blood drawn. She then proceeds to lip off to one of the nurses that "shouldn't she be worried about what her grandchild can get from the teacher, NOT what the child gave to me"? HELLO???? Did I bleed and snot all over YOUR kid??? NO!! He did it to me! I should be worried NOT you. (On a side note the mom has about 5 piercings in her face at at least 4 tattoos that I can see on her body when she comes to get her child). So yeah...please worry about me! WHATEVER!!!
I was just annoyed all day after that. But...I got the 1st of 3 shots I have to get for hepatitis. LUCKY ME!!!:0)

OR NOT.....

We are having family Christmas with my brother and his wife and my parents tomorrow. I realized this evening that the presents were not wrapped. So....I got the boxes all ready and went to the garage for some wrapping paper. There is no wrapping paper so I went a little"green" this year! I have brown paper and ribbon that I found in the house and improvised.
This is a picture of the final projects

I wrote earlier that I was not going to do a tree this year. However, I came home to one! Joe decided to put it up and do the lights before I got home. We did the ornaments together! Here's a picture of the tree.





Hope you guys have a great weekend! 11 days til Christmas!! It's supposed to snow here tonight...fun fun!!

It's begining to look at lot like....I hate this crap!

OK, so got the day off today. We got ice and sleeting yesterday. I am actually disappointed that we are off. The more we are out now the longer we are in school in May.YUCK!!! I am not a big fan of ice and sleet.I am already ready for it to be over!
But, on the flip side I laid on the couch all day, took 2 naps, watch Dr. Phil and Oprah(which I never get to do!) and was completely lazy today.:0)

Also, I decided no Christmas tree this year. We are not going to be here and we don't have kiddos, so it seemed like a waste of time......maybe next year.

Dictionary

If there were a word to describe me lately this is what it would be!!!

procrastinate

Main Entry: pro·cras·ti·nate
Pronunciation: \prə-ˈkras-tə-ˌnāt, prō-\
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): pro·cras·ti·nat·ed; pro·cras·ti·nat·ing
Etymology: Latin procrastinatus, past participle of procrastinare, from pro- forward + crastinus of tomorrow, from cras tomorrow
Date: 1588
transitive verb
: to put off intentionally and habitually
intransitive verb
: to put off intentionally the doing of something that should be done


I shouldn't take online classes that say you have until Dec.14th to turn in your work, b/c I have been kinda lazy all semester and NOW IT'S CRUNCH TIME!!!!!!AAAAHHHHHHHH My brain is overloaded from Earth Science homework!:0)

Newest Cake

Here is the latest wedding cake and grroms cake I did. I also dropped my partner. She was not a good partner and I was doing all the work and having to split the money.:0(
The dog is the grooms favorite pet.
Anyway, let me know what you think?

Roxxi

Family Pics

The 28th of October we did family pics with Joe's side of the family. I loved them and I thought they turned out great, but the mother-in-law did not like them. Oh well! Guess we cannot please them all! I am going to give them to my side of the family for Christmas. Tell me what you think! P.S. Walmart did a bad job of putting the negatives on a CD so the pics have things on them...but not on the real pics.

Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween from Princess Leia and Chewbacca!!!!!

My most interesting cake yet!

I just finished a cake tonight and I am voting it my most interesting! It is a wedding shower cake. They did not want any writing on it, just to resemble the decoration thing they gave me. So....I am going to show you the decoration thing. If the dress looks weird it's because it's one of those fan things, where it opens. Anyway, the next picture is my finished product. Tell me what you think? Did I replicate it ok? I have been busy with a few more cakes. I will make them a seperate blog and show them too

This should make you laugh!

OK, so Thursday night Joe and I and some friends decide to go out to the "strip". That's where all the bars are in stillwater. We had never been to any of them. It was a LONG day and I had a Pampered Chef party earlier that evening. We decided to take 2 cars since I knew I would want to come home WAY before them. SO... I go get ready to leave the bar at midnight and I cannot find my keys. Joe finally gave me his and said just leave the front door unlocked.. I go out to the car, get it unlocked, and begin to look for my keys. I finally find them in the ignition. GOOD! I found them....but wait? What's that sound? Is that MY car? OH YES IT IS!!! I left my car running for 2 and 1/2 hours while I was in the bar!! That's right! I locked all the doors, turned off the headlights, and never took the keys out of the ignition. I have officially LOST IT!!!:0)

Bit off more than I can chew....

I am completely overwhelmed with my school work. I got up at 8:30 this morning and worked until 3:00 on homework. I took a break at 3 to make a cake for Joe(birthday tomorrow) and then back to studying. I have been looking all over this weekend for my school bag. I have a VERY important test tomorrow in Spanish and need to spend the evening studying. So Joe and I destroy the house before I remember that I forgot it at school. No, bueno. I am now completely screwed and will have about 1 hour tomorrow night before the test to study. OH CRAP!! So...do I drop the class because I am overwhelmed or do I suck up the F I am going to make on the test? I am crying about it and Joe is no help. He says do whatever. I managed to find a few sheets of paper that had fallen out of my bag, so I had a few things to look over....not near enough. So, it's now 9pm and I REALLY want to go to bed....BUT I also forgot that I had to make a cheesecake for tomorrow. So...here I sit overwhelmed, tired(and hungry) waiting for an hour for a cheesecake to bake! UUUUHHHHHHHHHH Someone PLEASE tell me why I should stay in school? I am starting to wonder if it is all worth it?

What?? What did she just say?

No, no me gusta espanol

I HATE SPANISH!!!!!! As many of you know, school just started back up and I am already overwhelmed! I am taking Spanish, geography, nutrition, and earth science. Yeah 15 hours and a full-time job and own a business! Now you see why we do not have kids yet?!:0) I am trying to study my Spanish numbers. I have to write, say and know 0-30 for Monday. YUCK!!!! I hate it!!!!:0(
Anyway, a lot of you have asked about my new job? LOVE IT!!!!!! LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!!! It was the best decision I could have made. I went from a totally stressed out job all the time to no stress and all fun!:0)

Anyway, guess I'll go back to Spanish now.......wish me luck!

Number 27

So this past Friday(the 17th) I celebrated birthday number 27. I thought "eh just another day!" I was hoping that Joe would be home for it, if not we would celebrate it late. He DID come home for my birthday! I got woken up from my nap after work to a gorgeous man in ACUs carrying a dozen red roses!:0) My kids at school sang to me about 10 times that day. It was cute though. So I got to thinking...what is so great about turning 27??? Well I figured two things. I am hoping to graduate at 29...so I am 2 years from graduation( roughly!) and I want to be a mommy at 30...so I am another year closer to that goal too!:0) Overall it was a great birthday and I cannot wait for next years 363 days from now!
Have a great week!!!!!

Roxxi

New Job

So Monday August 13th I start a new job. What was wrong with my old one? Nothing!!! I was perfectly happy and content at my job. I got a phone call though asking me if I was interested in a TA in the school system. As most of you know I am currently going to school to be a teacher. I could not pass up this opportunity. I want to be in the school system to see how things work, to have a mentor and to model my own career after the teachers I will work with. I am totally scared and excited at the same time.
The only down fall to me leaving my job is I loose the scholarship that was paying for my school 100%. BUT...I am not stressing! God will provide the money for school. I am going to find other scholarships or whatever.

Have a great weekend!:0)

The 2nd wedding cake(and the others I did this weekend)

This is the wedding cake!!!!
This is the grooms cake.... I guess the groom likes motorcycles.
This was a baby shower cake for twins. This was a baby shower cake for some people who hunt.

Anyway, that was my weekend!! Tell me what you think!!!!!

When it rains it pours!!!

OK ,so let me tell you about all the baking/ decorating I have to do with weekend. I have to make 2 dozen cupcakes tomorrow night. I have a wedding cake, groom's cake, and a baby shower cake on Saturday and another baby shower cake on Sunday. Needless to say, I will be pulling an all nighter on Friday night. I will post some pics of the cakes probably early next week. (after I get some rest!)
So I know all of my army friends are going to tell me to quit bitching...but this whole Joe being gone thing is getting really old!!!! I am SO BORED!!! I was so desperate for something to do, I babysat tonight just to get out of the house.:0)
Anyway, hope you guys have a great rest of the week and wish me luck with all my up and coming cakes!:0)

A Day and 1/2

I am leaving at 3:30pm on Tuesday to go and see Joe down at his drill Sgt school. He gets the 4th off and the morning of the 5th off so I am going to go down on the 3rd. I am SO excited. It has been 3 weeks and I am READY to see him!!! I have a feeling though that the next 2 days at work will be LONG since I am so anxious.:0) I bought some red patten leather high heels for his graduation...might have to wear them before then!! Anyway, hope you all have a happy and safe 4th of July.

TTYL,
Roxxi:0)

My first wedding cake

Ok, so this last weekend I did my first wedding cake! I did not actually get to assemble it, because it was an outside wedding and they were afraid it would melt if it set outside. Anyway, here are the pictures. It was A LOT of fun but A LOT of work! I made all the flowers by hand. The flowers are in order by the 3 layers. The last pic is just pic of the flowers I made. Anyway, tell me what you guys think!:0)

I thought I was past all of this!

So I took Joe to Ft. Sill on Monday for a 9 week drill Sgt school. I am so sad. For some reason this 9 weeks is a little hard on me. I sat at Ft. Sill for 4 and 1/2 hours in the heat waiting for Joe to come and get his stuff out of the car... I was miserable.
Anyway, I am going to be a little lonely the next 9 weeks so I could use my peeps to keep my spirits up!:0)

TTYL

Rain, Rain go away!

It is raining a lot here. In 2 hours it rained 5 inches. There is SO MUCH water everywhere. Our back yard looks like a lake. It's crazy!

Taking a break from government....

I am studying for a government test I have tomorrow. Not too terribly hard...Joe just had the SAME class last semester!:0) It's on-line and open book!
Anyway, if you guys have not heard about ...Rosie O'Donnell is an idiot. I am so disgusted with her. She thinks that our soldiers are the terrorists and that we killed over 650,000 "innocent" Iraqi's. I highly doubt that the military killed all 650,000. Aren't they declaring Iraq a civil war? Meaning that they are killing their own people? I think that what Rosie is doing is treason. If she loves the Iraqi people SO much...THEN BY ALL MEANS GET THE HELL OUT OF THE UNITED STATES. Our husbands, fathers, brothers, and uncles did not fight for this beautiful country for people like you. I am banning all things Rosie. Any show she does, anything that has to do with that nasty pig that she is.

My Camping adventure

So I just got home about an hour ago from a weekend of camping. I took a shower to find something VERY disterbing on my stomach. A TICK!!!! WHY did God create the tick? What is the point of such a nasty, nasty creature? Can anyone tell me what animal or plant benifits from a tick?
Anyway, back to my adventure.
Joe and I and 5 of his buddies went camping. I was the only girl( in the beginning!) I am actually SO glad that I went. Those boys needed a lot of help! They definitely needed me and all of the things that I actually remembered to bring! Don't get me started on trying to help them put their tents up! We went fishing yesterday Joe got 2 little fish. One of them he caught the fish by his side...that was weird!
I am so tired I am very sleep deprived! I got about 3 hours of sleep both nights. My air mattress did not stay inflated so I slept on the awesome hard ground both nights. Anyway, better get out of here. I have laundry to do.
Have a great week!:0)

Random stuff

Ok so I got 2 A's and 2B's this semester! I was guessing 3 A's and a C... I was close!:0) Anyway, my grandma is in the rehabilitation part of the hosptail now. She seems to get a little bit better every day, although her memory is still bad. She fell out of bed this weekend, so now they are keeping a closer eye on her. My mom saw the bill from the hospital(before insurance) it was 120,000.00 THAT IS CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hospitals and doctors are making WAY TOO much and some of them give horrible service,but still get the big bucks.

As you may know I started a cake business in december. Although I do not have pictures of all of the cakes I have done, I posted a few on here. THe last one(Dora)is the first cake that we did. I am having a blast and the business is growing! Anyway, tell me what you think!:0)

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH( Taking a deep breath)

So this semester is officially over!:0) YEAH!!!!! I don't think I could take mush more of my science class! I am taking 3 classes this summer but I have about a 3 week break until then. This summer it's government, history(American after 1865) and Intro to Lit(Which I have a l ready done, but they won't take:0(. .) Anyway, for the moment I survived! I had a 4.0 last semester....probably not this semester! I will probably have 3 A's and C. Oh well! They can't all be easy!

Gonna go do laundry.....have a great week!

2nd Update

OK, so here's another update. My grandpa had hip replacement surgery last week. The other grandpa had a stint put in. Both surgeries were good. My Grandma is out of ICU and finally in a normal room. They took her off of her ventilator on Friday morning. She is breathing on her own.:0) Yeah!!!! Also, she talked to me on the phone. Yep, she said Hi and told me she liked her new room. I cried and cried after I talked to her. I was SO happy! I never thought that I would get to do that.
Anyway, the semester is almost over. I think I am going to come out with 3 A's and a C. I am fine with the C...I do not like the class....... SCIENCE SUCKS!!!!:0)
Anyway, have a great weekend and enjoy the nice weather. It's raining here(again)

Update on my grandma

Things are so so. On Thursday(March 29th) they took out my grandma's ventilator. She was doing good breathing on her own. Well Sunday(April 1st) they called and said they are putting it back in. I guess her pneumonia is getting a lot worse and it was exhausting her too much to breath on her own. So...... now we are just hoping that they can fight this pneumonia. PLEASE continue to pray for her. My grandma's name is DeLanne for anyone that is interested. Also, my step grandpa's son still has not woken up from his coma. (He fell the night my grandma was put in the hospital and had a blood clot in his brain.)

The Worst Spring Break EVER

OK so let me try to explain my last week to you. Joe and I left Friday, March 16th for Wisconsin. That's right Wisconsin. There were 7 of us in an 8 passenger SUV for 18 hours. I was in the very back with no room AT ALL and all the luggage around me. I have taken MANY road trips...that was the worst! So we get there Saturday afternoon. I meet Joe's 94 yr old grandma and other relatives. Sunday was ok...a little cold. I got to see Green Bay and see where my mother-in-law grew up.
Monday morning at 7am I got a call from my mom. My grandma had a heart attack and is unconscious and in ICU. She is in ICU because she went without oxygen to the brain for 20 minutes. I try to go on with my day without crying. Try to do a little shopping. I get a phone call Monday afternoon that Joe and I need to fly home things are not good. So I call the airlines and get a red eye out. Joe did not come(LONG story that I'll explain later). So I get on a plane Monday evening, trying to hold myself together. I arrived at midnight and went up to the ICU. Things were looking bad.
Tuesday same as before, not good. The doctors were asking my mom/aunt about a living will. Tuesday night my cousin, aunt, friend and I were in her room. We all got together and prayed over her and sang hymns to her.
Wednesday morning we were still at my aunts when the phone rang. The neurologist called. They are getting a few reflexes out of her. We get up there and she opens her eyes. We are all starting to feel a little hope.
Thursday she is moving her right and left arms and wiggling her toes. She even smiles at you.
Friday Joe arrives in from Wisconcin. She slept all day long b/c they say she's worn out and breathed all day on her own.
Yesterday(Saturday) She is smiling, moving a lot, even trying to take out her breathing tubes. Doing very well.
Today they said she's breathing 70% on her won. If she can maintain it for a few more days they will take her breathing tube out.
I am SO EXCITED!!!! This has definitely renewed my faith and thought on prayer. The doctors say that they have never seen a patient go with out oxygen for 20 minutes and do the things she is doing. I am feeling hopeful about her recovery and ask that you all continue to pray for my grandma.

A New Attitude

OK ,so I had 2 job interviews and I heard nothing back from either one. I decided that there was a reason that God has me at my current job and I should look for the best in it. So....I am now trying to find the good in things and actually doing some"sprucing up" of the center and my classroom.
ON a happier note. In the 6 weeks since I started back to the gym I have lost 13 inches total. When you start there they measure like 8 different points. (Upper chest, lower chest, waist, hips...........) I was SO SO SO excited when they told me! I knew I would have a few b/c things are fitting differently, but I never would have guessed 13. I actually have to go bra shopping next weekend b/c my"boys" are disappearing.:0(
Anyway, not much else going on around here. I am BUSY BUSY BUSY with school. I decided that since Joe will be gone for 7 weeks this summer(Drill Sgt school) I am going to do summer school. I know! Call me crazy!:0)

Mini Mid life crisis????

Is it possible to have a mini mid-life crisis? If so, I truly believe that I am having one! My life is SO busy and hectic that I seriously do not even have time to think. I have recently put out applications for a new job. After working in childcare for 5 years, I am on the verge of a mental break down!(NO...I WON'T SHAVE MY HEAD....DON'T WORRY!)
I have come to realize that I am at a point in my life that if it means either choosing to be a lead teacher or focus on my school, I would walk away from my job at any minute. I am SO tired all the time. Chasing 12 3 year olds around all day long is starting to get to me. Plus, trying to keep up with my school work.
I know I know...when I am a mom I am going to be even more tired than I am now. I know all of this! I am just afraid that if I continue to work in childcare I will seriously consider NEVER having my own.
I know that I do not want to do this forever(childcare). I WANT to be a teacher. I applied to be a TA(Teacher's Assistant) with the school system. I want something new. I want a teacher to take me under their wing and me my mentor. I want to learn about the school system and what it is going to be like when I have my own classroom. BUT.....here's the problem! This is a college town. People that get their degrees and cannot find work right away become TAs until they do. SO......Automatically they out qualify me for the job. :0(
I had one interview last week and I could tell that they made up their minds before I was even interviewed. My interview today was good. I felt better about it, but I was the 1st interview of 5 for 1 position!!!!!! Sorry I am just frustrated and venting(if you could not already guess). I WANT a new job. but I think that it's not going to be easy getting a new job. I do not have my degree yet so I am at a huge disadvantage.
Any thoughts??? Suggestions? Ideas on how to make my job suck less?
I LOVE kids and I want to work with kids....but I do not want my current job to burn me out.........HELP!!!!!!!!!!

Just Celebrated number 4

On Thursday Feb.8th Joe and I celebrated our four year anniversary. I cannot believe that it has been 4 years!!! Where has the time gone?
We got each other Colts jerseys for the Super Bowl so our actual anniversary was not much. We went out to eat and then went and bought a new Ipod. Then came home and did homework and went to sleep. Gee...we are so fun huh?!
I tried twice to upload some pics from our wedding. They wouldn't. Maybe I 'll try again later.

I stole this from E

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The West Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta.
The Midland
Boston
North Central
The South
The Inland North
Philadelphia
The Northeast
What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

I thought this was fun. I saw it on E's blog. Enjoy!

SUPERBOWL BOUND!!!!

What a game that was! The Colts were down by 18 and came back to WIN THE GAME against the New England Patriots. (34-38).This is Peyton Mannings first superbowl!!!! WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Be sure and watch the game Sunday Feb.4th and ROOT FOR THE COLTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I AM COLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am cold!!!! It was 8 degrees here last night and I high of 19 today. We had sleet and freezing rain this weekend.(from Friday til Sunday). There were an estimated 170,00 with out power over the weekend. Thank God we were not one of them. The schools are STILL closed at least until Thursday(possibly Friday). Driving conditions are terrible. Unlike snow, ice does not move off of the roads or even melt away very quickly. I drove about 20 today and that was causing me to slide! I work 15 minutes from work. It took me 45 today. I HATE this weather, but I have to agree with my friend E...I would rather be cold than hot any day!

Back in the grind.....

So my spring semester of classes started monday. I am not too sure how much I am going to like this semester! I am little overwhelmed by the amount of homework already assigned.
Joe and I both decided to make New Years resolutions. Joe has quit tobacco(YAY!!!!!!) He has gone 11 days now tobacco free. I am EXTREMELY proud of him. I need ideas for a good 1 month free gift? My resolution is that I am going to get back into shape. My goal is to loose 30 pounds. I joined a gym on wednesday. I am SSSSOOOOO sore today! But my trainer promises that I will loose 1 to 3 dress sizes in 5 weeks. That makes all the pain worth it!:0)
My cake business it going ok. We are starting to get busy. We have 4 cakes this month. I will put pictures of the cakes soon.
Well I better run. I have to read for school and don't want to miss ER!!!! Have a wonderful weekend!:0)