Soooo……I got tagged from a friend to write 50 things about myself that you may or may not know so enjoy……..I’m also a sucker for these type fwds.
1.I love the beach, everything about it, from the feeling of being tan, to sundresses, having sand everywhere..You name it I love it! Oh and eating fresh seafood….mmmm
2.I love to sleep in, love it, Saturday mornings are my favorite time of the week….I get down right mad if I have to miss sleeping in on my one day. I love to sleep and feel rested and taking my time getting ready.
3.I love to get my hair cut and colored as soon as Shantel, cuts my hair and it’s still wet I start to love it, it’s so fresh and crisp. I love to have it blown dried too, it can put me to sleep sometimes.
4.I love to do laundry, my husband loves this about me, love it, love to fold, love warm good smelling laundry right out of the dryer…..its hard for me to wait till we have enough before I do another load.
5.I treat myself to coffee every Friday at Bagel boy. I make it every other day of the week but Fridays I treat myself to a yummy cup.
6. I love exercise it makes me feel fantastic, I love to run, to lift weights you name it I love it! It makes me have so much energy and I love the results.
7. I talk to my mom everyday, typically on my lunch break and then maybe once more on my way home or at night. Not a day goes by that we don’t talk.
8. I am an only child and as a child I didn’t really care but now that I’m older I wish I had a sibling or two. Luckily I have several brothers and sister in laws.
9. I’m scared of dying, I had to watch one of my best friends suffer and die and I don’t ever want to have to go through want she did.
10. I have always wanted to be on a sitcom, when I was growing up it was Home Improvement, not sure why but I did.
11. I enjoy throwing dinner parties.
12. I would love to live in southern Florida. If Tim told me we could move, I’d move tomorrow.
13. I love Publix one cent items on Sunday and Monday
14. People tell me that I am a lot like my Memaw and that is the biggest compliment to me.
15. I try really hard to do always do the right thing.
16. I wonder what kind of mom I will be, if I will be a good one or if people will always wonder what I was thinking.
17. I don’t like my job, I don’t have a good attitude about it either but I want to.
18. I get mani/pedi’s every month it’s my treat to myself for working. J
19. I love UT sports, and the fact that my parents have a tailgate every home football game and lots of people come to it.
20. I don’t like that my parents don’t live in Knoxville and I can’t wait till they move back.
21. I can’t stand soft drinks. I use to love diet mountain dew and dr. pepper and coke but now can’t stand them.
22. I love that my husband thinks I’m cute and tells me that all the time!
23. I love that my husband and I are on the same page about almost everything and that we have so much fun together.
24. I don’t think that I am good at decorating and I wish I had a better eye for what goes together.
25. I’m not spontaneous and I don’t think I ever will be, I’m a planner and that is ok with me!
26. I try not to worry too much about what others think of me.
27. I don’t like to throw up, I’ve only done it once and it scares me. I hope that when I get pregnant I don’t have morning sickness.
28. I love to drink wine preferably white, but I love all kinds just nothing too sweet.
29. Napa Valley is one of my favorite places in the US, Scottsdale Arizona is another place I love.
30. I don’t know why I don’t make time to read my devotional or bible everyday and I want too, I strive to.
31. In college I was known for always showing my stomach with no matter what I had on, whether it is a tank top or a sweater at least 1 inch of my stomach was always showing.
32. I love to shop, love it, but only with my mom. She and I are the best shoppers together.
33. I love music especially easy listening, 80’s, there is nothing better than driving home on a Friday with your windows down, the sun shining, and belting out to Chicago J or Billy Ocean, or Lee Greenwood that’s for my college girls!
34. Wow I’m only at 34...hmmmm I don’t like cold weather, static, paleness, and dry skin
35. I want to be a stay at home mom one day
36. I love meeting people for lunch and catching up.
37. I loved being in school, but hated studying, I loved to make a study guide, loved it.
38. I love Tim and that we do stupid stuff together that no one else may think its funny but we think it’s hilarious.
39. I love my parents. I could be around them all the time and never get tired of them except maybe if my mom tells me what to do. I love how close we are.
40. I love that my dad calls me most days no matter what state he is in just to check in.
41. I wish I had more time to cook and experiment. I love well planned meals.
42. I love to play sports, you name it I’ll play it, and I love to be active.
43. I love cheesy shows like 90210 and Melrose Place, and cheesy movies like 27 dresses and how to lose a guy in 10 days. I could watch those kinds of movies over and over.
44. I love traditions and want to start more.
45. I am energized by other people.
46. I love weddings, being in them or just attending them.
47. I love to dance and would go to a dance club every weekend if Tim liked it. I love to dance and I’m pretty good at it. Haha
48. I hate to read, anything but magazines, especially People, but I wish I like it, I would love to get lost in a book but I never do and have no desire to.
49. My favorite stores are Ann Taylor Loft, Gap, Banana Republic, Pottery Barn, The Fresh Market, Macy’s, Target, Bullocks, and REI.
50. My favorite restaurants are PF Changs, Seasons 52, Little Azio, Panera, Brio
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
A wonderful weekend
This past weekend was alot of fun. My parents came in town, along with there best friends my other parents for a party Saturday night in memory of there daughter. My mom and dad got here Friday night, mom made a wonderful meal, chicken parmesean, salad, and a pineapple trifle. It was all delicious. We also had a fire because it was so cold out temperatures in the single digits. Saturday morning the Ferraris's got to our house. My parents and them sat around our kitchen table all afternoon eating good food and drinking good wine, it was really nice to see the four of them having such a good time. While they were catching up around the table Tim and I went out and ran some errands. We ended up going to Home Depot and buying a rug for our den. We hardwooded it this summer and had yet to find a rug that we like. We've looked everywhere and finally found one. It was fun to go back to our house and have all of my parents opinion and help with putting it down. Later that evening we had invited my cousin Melissa and her new husband Brent over for dinner while my parents and Ferraris's went to the party. They live in Flowery Branch, GA which is about 40 mins. away and we had yet to see them since their wedding in November so we thought it would be fun to have them over. We grilled some pork tenderloin, roasted some potatoes, had greens beans, and drank some wine, it was nice. We talked about being newly weds and everything that goes along with that it was a really fun night. We hope to be able to get together with them more. 
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Good News
As most of you know for some time now, I have had a hernia. 3.5 years to be exact. I first noticed it after Tim’s 30th Birthday Party. I always blame it on prepping for this party and all the stuff I had to do and carry, but I truly don’t know when it happened. When I realized that I had a bulge I went to my doctor and she agreed that I had a very small hernia and that it wouldn’t keep me from doing anything but that before I had children to get it repaired. My thinking at this time was well shoot I’m not even married that is way in the future I am not going to have surgery now, so I didn’t. Well the time had come, Tim and I have been married over 2 years now and children have entered our minds so after the New Year I made myself make the appointment to schedule my hernia surgery. If you read my first blog you’ll know that procrastination was on the list, well I didn’t procrastinate I called.
So onto the good news. That was a little background information. Tim met me at the doctor yesterday because I was nervous and wanted him there. The doctor came in and I had to drop my pants in front of him, Tim and his PA who was a woman, all strangers except for Tim. The doctor was very funny though so it wasn’t bad. Well he asked me to strain and I was like do what, he said “act like your going to the bathroom”. Well if it wasn’t humiliating enough to be standing in the room with my pants around my ankles I had to strain 6 times like I was going #2, good times. Well after he had poked around for awhile, he tells us that he cannot find a HERNIA! I was like are you serious???? He said if I can’t find a hernia, I’m not going to perform surgery on someone who doesn’t need it, so I said well of course not. He told me that I could possibly still have one but it’s not noticeably and that it shouldn’t be a problem for Tim and I down the road to have children. Needless to say I skipped out of that doctor’s office; I paid my $35 co-pay and was outta there with the biggest grin on my face.
So onto the good news. That was a little background information. Tim met me at the doctor yesterday because I was nervous and wanted him there. The doctor came in and I had to drop my pants in front of him, Tim and his PA who was a woman, all strangers except for Tim. The doctor was very funny though so it wasn’t bad. Well he asked me to strain and I was like do what, he said “act like your going to the bathroom”. Well if it wasn’t humiliating enough to be standing in the room with my pants around my ankles I had to strain 6 times like I was going #2, good times. Well after he had poked around for awhile, he tells us that he cannot find a HERNIA! I was like are you serious???? He said if I can’t find a hernia, I’m not going to perform surgery on someone who doesn’t need it, so I said well of course not. He told me that I could possibly still have one but it’s not noticeably and that it shouldn’t be a problem for Tim and I down the road to have children. Needless to say I skipped out of that doctor’s office; I paid my $35 co-pay and was outta there with the biggest grin on my face.
A New Year A New Blog!
Wow it’s already 2009. I can't believe it, it’s truly the first year I feel like a "real" grown up. I know that has been the case for some time now, but it has just hit home with me recently. I will turn 29 this year and that has hit me hard. I've realized a few things like I have been working for almost 5 plus years and I've been married over 2 years now. I own a home. Wow how time flies. Well since it’s a new year I thought I would try something new like blogging. I've never done anything like it before but I thought to myself I love reading friends blogs and it just seems like a great creative outlet. Why not?
Speaking of new things, I don't like to make New Years resolutions because they seem like something you'll do for a month and then quit doing. It kills me when people go on diets, I'm like what are you going to lose 10 or 20 lbs. and then go back to the way you were eating only to gain those back. Diets and people who diet frustrate me because they don't work. I have decided instead of resolutions to make life style changes! Life Style changes are something that you are going to try and do forever in your lifetime. I talk a good talk, but can I make this happen I hope so. So on to my lifestyle changes....my dad had triple by pass this past year and because of this he has had to change his life style when it comes to what he eats. He and my mom have done a wonderful job at this. I have talked to my mom about what they eat and they don't deprive themselves at all, they eat the "right" foods and oils. I have had her give me some of there recipes and food items that they have used to make this change. Most people would consider me a healthy eater, but I know I cheat and I just want to always be mindful so I don't end up having triple bypass down the road. Ok my next life style change. Some people know this about me and others don't, but I have a phobia of throwing up. I have had it since the 5th grade when I threw up for the first time. I know this sounds silly people throw up all the time, but for some reason it scares me to death. I know no one likes it, but I guess the thought of not being able to control when and where it happens really scares me. I have actually had counseling for it 2 different times. Now if you really didn't believe me you do now. Well sometimes this fear keeps me from enjoying things I want to enjoy. It feels like it can smother me and it burdens me. I know that I don't have to live this way and that I can be free from it and that is something I want to happen this year, for me to get rid of this fear and not let it affect my everyday life. Let's see one more oh yeah if there is one thing I have learned in the past two years it is to live life to the fullest! I feel like I do a pretty good job of this but I know there is always room for improvement and last but not least not to procrastinate or not to wait until the last minute to do things. For example as simple as this maybe I have 2 pairs of pants that I would love to wear but I have yet to take them and have them hemmed. It's such a simple thing but I keep procrastinating, and because of this I have yet to wear these fun pants. Another example would be like forms at work, I know this is a boring one but I am so bad about not reading emails from HR that have forms in there that we need to fill out and return. I always seem to be on the list of people who "this is your last chance to pick a plan or fill this out and return this" so my goal is to do things in advance! I will brag on myself for a second, today I we had our w-4 forms due, well I made sure I had mine filled out and I returned it way before the day was over!!! Go me! I know this time of year makes everyone think about different things so whether it is to make some lifestyle changes or resolutions or neither, I hope 2009 will bring exciting events to your life!
Speaking of new things, I don't like to make New Years resolutions because they seem like something you'll do for a month and then quit doing. It kills me when people go on diets, I'm like what are you going to lose 10 or 20 lbs. and then go back to the way you were eating only to gain those back. Diets and people who diet frustrate me because they don't work. I have decided instead of resolutions to make life style changes! Life Style changes are something that you are going to try and do forever in your lifetime. I talk a good talk, but can I make this happen I hope so. So on to my lifestyle changes....my dad had triple by pass this past year and because of this he has had to change his life style when it comes to what he eats. He and my mom have done a wonderful job at this. I have talked to my mom about what they eat and they don't deprive themselves at all, they eat the "right" foods and oils. I have had her give me some of there recipes and food items that they have used to make this change. Most people would consider me a healthy eater, but I know I cheat and I just want to always be mindful so I don't end up having triple bypass down the road. Ok my next life style change. Some people know this about me and others don't, but I have a phobia of throwing up. I have had it since the 5th grade when I threw up for the first time. I know this sounds silly people throw up all the time, but for some reason it scares me to death. I know no one likes it, but I guess the thought of not being able to control when and where it happens really scares me. I have actually had counseling for it 2 different times. Now if you really didn't believe me you do now. Well sometimes this fear keeps me from enjoying things I want to enjoy. It feels like it can smother me and it burdens me. I know that I don't have to live this way and that I can be free from it and that is something I want to happen this year, for me to get rid of this fear and not let it affect my everyday life. Let's see one more oh yeah if there is one thing I have learned in the past two years it is to live life to the fullest! I feel like I do a pretty good job of this but I know there is always room for improvement and last but not least not to procrastinate or not to wait until the last minute to do things. For example as simple as this maybe I have 2 pairs of pants that I would love to wear but I have yet to take them and have them hemmed. It's such a simple thing but I keep procrastinating, and because of this I have yet to wear these fun pants. Another example would be like forms at work, I know this is a boring one but I am so bad about not reading emails from HR that have forms in there that we need to fill out and return. I always seem to be on the list of people who "this is your last chance to pick a plan or fill this out and return this" so my goal is to do things in advance! I will brag on myself for a second, today I we had our w-4 forms due, well I made sure I had mine filled out and I returned it way before the day was over!!! Go me! I know this time of year makes everyone think about different things so whether it is to make some lifestyle changes or resolutions or neither, I hope 2009 will bring exciting events to your life!
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