Howdy howdy!

Things are good here. No one has written in awhile so I figured I would drop one in on yall! Work sucks. Can't wait for the MC career to be over so I can go be a nurse. Jeremy and me are good. Taylor is good. Poon is good. Everything is good as long as I am not at work. Our friend Mike that used to live with us but moved away on orders to Pennsylvannia is here visiting this week. He leaves tomorrow morning though. Very sad. He is trying to get orders back down here to Jax though. Hopefully it will all turn out well with that. We really miss him down here. He's a good friend. And he just told me to say that he misses us everywhere he goes because he loves us dearly. We are watching saw four right now. We rented it last night and half of us fell asleep before we got halfway through it so we are finishing it tonight. So I better go so I'm not annoying them with my typing. Hope all is well with everyone. I love and miss everyone dearly. Hugs and kisses. Pet on the head and back to my Ginger puppy. Very soon baby Hannah will be here!!!! HAVE A NICE DAY!!!

Not fair!!

Hermy is part of the family now too. You're gonna hurt his (or her) feelings. Anywho, don't have a lot of time this morning. Have to go get my classes ready to teach, and then study for my Spanish exam. Pretty busy. Wish me luck. Love to all.

too busy

Just too much going on. I'm once again preparing my lectures the night before. I have a plan in mind to change that so I just need to discipline myself to stick to the plan. Pilates is great! I am so sore though. Just indicates how out of shape I really am. There is a girl in the class that had a baby 3 weeks ago. She does better than me. My age is really starting to tell. Icy roads here this morning. I'll wait before going in to see Mom and Dad. No use running my car off the road. It's supposed to start warming up so they should be melted off by 9 or so. Plenty of time to do a little cleaning and give Grandma a bath. My training program for running has been on hold another week. I've tried to work that into my master plan for staying ahead of the game too. I think there is still plenty of time before the June deadline though. Our countertop for the bathroom is finally in (hopefully it will be right this time) so maybe I will have a sink in my bathroom tonight! We've got the bedroom doors up so we'll have some privacy when the Rojas get here. Lots to do today so I better get cracking. Sandy invited me to see a play (Sabrina is the leading role!) so I'll try to make that. Talk to you guys later. Love to all (except the snake!)

I'm baaaack!!!!!!!!!

sorry i haven't posted in a few days. i forgot to do my homework and had a month's worth to catch up on in two nights. my back is killing me and hannah is pissed at being cramped while i sit. funny story though. we thought we lost hermy this morning. didn't see him in his cage. we looked everywhere for like 30 minutes. finally started pushing the substrate around and i about had a heart attack when i uncovered him. little turd burrowed under the sawdust. funny huh? juan thought so. love you all

Nonny huh?

Well hello to crash and nonny. The snake is ugly. But it's a snake so it's a given that it looks like that. I can't wait till little Hannah gets here. I told Amy that I wouldn't be greedy and would let her hold pnut first when she comes out. Haha. I'm just as excited as Amy and Juan. Pretty laid back day today. Got up and went to the bank. Came back and Jeremy and Poon had french toast and hashbrowns cooking. It was good. Then I sat around for a bit and went to see Amy's snake. But I am going to go for now and watch scrubs before I have to go check in at work from the long weekend. Love to all!!!!

FYI

Thought I'd let you know. Reptiles carry staph so make sure and wash hands extremely well if handling. Make sure I'm the only one squeezing the baby!!

Changing Name

Thought I'd cross over and rename myself. Nonny! What do you think? Will Hannah like it? Sounds like my given name. I like it but of course I will answer to anything the little angel decides to call me.
If you read my other blog (MetroRunners) you know I announced my next big goal. So I'm announcing here too. Next year is the BIG 50 for me and I want to spend it backpacking in the Black Hills. So I'm issuing an invitation to anyone that wants to join me. I know crash has been wanting to do it again and kate hasn't done it before. What about it? We have over a year to make plans. I really don't want to go alone so I'm counting on SOMEBODY to come with.
Welcome to kate. Check out my other blog too if you like. Several of us are "training" for the 5K run during Superman Festival. That's how the whole goal thing got started.
Time at home today. Catching up on bill paying, cleaning house, working on lectures for school. Ricky called in sick to stay home and work today. We're getting there. Travis is taking 5 hogs to the meat processers today. Cold and sunny here. Expecting wet stuff tomorrow. Disappointed in the Packers. Routine day at home.
Love to all.

Guess what????

We are gonna get a snake. Thought I would share since I know that both of you, along with everyone you talk to, probably thinks this is a bad idea. That is what makes it so funny to me. Anywho, it is a ball python and we are going to name it Herm (m) or Hermy (f), Juan's idea. It grows to around 5 feet but it is a very docile pet that is easy to take care of. Don't worry though, we are going to keep it in the bedroom so it is out of sight and out of mind for when ou all come visit. Just thought I would share.

Life in good ole jax

Things are ok here momma. Sitting on the couch watching tv. Just got done eating supper. We just made a pizza because we weren't very hungry. The boys are watching the military channel about guns and blowing stuff up. It's interesting but something that I'm kind of used to hearing about constantly. Sometimes I hate military life. Not much longer though. Jeremy is doing good. Going fishing every weekend as a "guys day". It's so cute. They come back all frozen like a Popsicle. I don't like cold weather so I am completely satisfied staying inside. Taylor is doing good. We are going to try and get her tomorrow when they get back from fishing. I am watching our friends Sean and Tiff's kids tomorrow. Tiff has to work and I told Sean I would watch the kids if he wanted to go fishing with Jeremy and Poon. They are going to freeze. Sean has a daughter named Adrianna she is almost a year younger than Taylor but not quite a year. And Tiff has a son named Bricyn. He is a little over a year a think. They are both adorable. But most certainly not as adorable as Taylor. I suppose I am going to go get ready for bed. I haven't had to watch kids besides Taylor in a while. So 2 kids tomorrow is going to wear me out. I love you guys! Sweet dreams and good night!

HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey yall! Here I am finally! Geez! Give me sometime women! Anywho. Going to meet Amy and Juan for ice cream. I'll blog ya later!

Invitations

I'm not sure if I have Juan's email address. I set this up so nobody but authors can read it but all those factors can be changed. I made you an administrator too so you can change anything you like. Add some pictures or whatever. Invite anybody in the family. The more the merrier. We will probably change topics then too. I invited Brenda but I might have gotten her email addy wrong. Most people think it is junk mail and delete it unless they know.

Grandma was a little confused this morning. comes and goes. Grandpa was all built up about the new medication that has been in the news but found out it cost $30K per year. I told him most companies have programs to help reduce the out of pocket expense. So I'm still hopeful. Mary ran off the other night and hasn't returned yet. I think his tomcat instincts kicked in. Unless somebody steals him, I think he'll eventually come back. It was less than 10 degrees this morning. Can't imagine that whatever he's doing is worth laying out in the cold! But he's male so who knows which head he's thinking with (sorry to any of the men who may be reading).

Woke up without water this morning. Trying to get it unfrozen. Shower will have to wait. Sourdough bread is rising on the counter, Ginger's sleeping on the floor, Rick's gone to Lowe's, I'm planning what furniture I'm going to move next while I eat CC cookies with my coffee, several books waiting to be read. LIFE IS GOOD!

howdy

i posted on your metro runners first. hope it helps you. i just know that only walking will get you so far. so i left some other ideas to try. you might want to go to books a million and look at the running magazines. i have a subscription to runners world. always something new to try and change is always good.

i think bub is finally starting to realize that he needs to start getting used to being on his own. you have too much on your plate to have to baby sit a 23 year old too. anywho, let hem go and do his thing and hopefully he will be moved out. one of these days he'll realize he can't be there when he wants to bring a girl home.

i will tell kate again about this, maybe even show her. you need to invite juan though too. unless it is just a girl thing. he asked what we talk about and i told him bub and rick. he said he didn't want to betray his men bybeing a part of our blog. i thought that was funny.

thank goodness for weekends!

Just checking my blogs. I sent a request to you and Kate to join the other blog about running. So far it's just me and Denese but maybe it will grow.
Travis hasn't come home the last few nights. Not sure what he's been doing. Hate to be checking on him all the time. I guess he's doing better.
Rick and I went to the movies last night with Joe and Judy. Ate at Olive Garden-Yum Yum! Inspired me to try some Italian cooking. I also have my sourdough started and working this weekend. Fresh bread tomorrow!!! If you wanted some, the recipe to make the starter is in the Blue Willow cookbook I sent you.
I wanted to do some organizing and putting away but can't get very far. I really need some bookshelves or something to put things away. Can't get stuff out of boxes if there isn't anything to do but put it in another box. I guess it all takes time. Rick has been steadily getting the doors and trim up. At least we can have some privacy now.
Tell Kate to check her email and join in.

GOOD MORNING VIET NAM!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, bub is gonna have to pull his head outta his ass if he is ever going to find someone to settle with. He's just being a turd and it pisses me off. That girl isn't going to want anything to do with him if she finds out about his lifestyle. Bub works hard when he works though, so it might be a step up for the lady. No kid deserves to live in that kind of enviroment. I would kick him out though. He has friends he can go to but he needs to know that you are available if he needs you. Besides he needs to be thrown back into the fire anyway. The sooner he faces the truth instead of running from it, the sooner he can get over it. Juan actually agreed with that one, so it must be right. If it hurt him that bad, he wouldn't be running around with all these other girls.

Another day

I was home at noon to go to the dentist. Travis was sleeping. He told me I should kick him out. He also said he hated the thought of going home and being alone. How do you respond to that? His friend is going to fix him up with his sister who is older, divorced and has 2 kids. Travis seemed to be looking forward to it. She is in nursing school to be a RN. Apparently she and the hubby broke up because he wanted to lay out drinking all the time. sounds like a match for Jenna to me. He's not home now but he left the coffee pot on. He's kind of an every other night drunk!
I'll post more if anything else happens. Otherwise we're all fine. Half my face is numb but that's only temporary. How's Hannah? Juan? Buckley? Cooper? Sue?

Training Advice

I'd be happy to get some training advice. Right now we are just walking and some of us (the younger ones) are running part of the time. Denese and I walked 2 1/2 miles last night in about 40 minutes (I forgot to start my stopwatch). I'll send an invite to the other runners website and you and Kate can motivate and advise us all. Participants are me, Denese P, Judy N, Tina and a friend of Tina's named Julie. So check out both the blogs.

hey mama i was thinking. how long do you have before the actual race and what goal did you set for the race itself? A 5k is what we have to run for our PFT so me and sis might be able to help you get started and keep you motivated.

hey mama i finally got on here. i don't really know what to write though since i just talked to you this morning. hope everything is better than it was at that point in time. well, just wanted you to know that i figured this thing out.

tortoise

Just in case you're curious about the tortoise name: I started another blog for a group of us that are wanting to train for the Superman 5K race in June. It is supposed to keep us motivated and on track. So far so good. Despite the cold.

Welcome to our family blog

Always trying new things. Heard about blogging but didn't know what it was exactly but then they talked about it at school. So here goes. Let's give it a try. I just wanted something we could share how things were going. Hard to keep up when we're so far apart. We can share pictures too.