Tonight at dinner my husband asked me why I stopped blogging and I realized it was mostly because for a really long time I felt I had nothing important to say. I realized today, however, that everything is important to me, to him, to someone and perhaps I may not be the only one feeling at that specific time. Regardless if 1 person or 1 million people read my blog I'm sure at some point there is someone who is feeling happy, loved, blessed, depressed, alone, defeated, sick, optimistic, rejuvenated, or so many other things. Therefore, I've decided to try and blog everyday.
I am currently a stay at home army wife, in search of a career. Since I moved to North Carolina I've had a terrible time finding jobs with a career path. I don't necessarily have to work but I want to. I need something that is my own and I need something to do. Being in the town we're in there's not much place for advertising. Most things are chains or mom n pop shops without advertising funds. Over the past couple months I've been working on getting my real estate license, however, I've also been very sick and haven't been able to study as I should. I took my second x-ray today and hope to figure out what is wrong with me so I can put 100% of me into this new career path thing.
Unfortunately, I started this blog later in the night than I'd planned and I'm going to sign off to watch Kung Fu Panda on tv with my hubby until The Glades come on :). I absolutely LOVE The Glades! If anyone hasn't watched it and loves crime shoes with a bit of drama, sarcasm and attitude, it may be the show for you!
Monday, August 12, 2013
Monday, February 11, 2013
Rainy Days
So the hubby left this morning for another field exercise, I am so happy I have to guard puppies and an alarm system. At first I was really disappointing we were going to be spending our first (out of 6) Valentine's in the same zip code apart AGAIN, but no i'm over it. Mandi, Willow and I are going to go to New Bern, home of lots of exploring, Nicholas Sparks, and a fish market and I'm pretty excited about it.
We are definitely settling in to our life a little more. Zeus is getting better with everyone and Baxter is only a spoiled brat, stealing toys 3/4 of the time instead of all of the time. We've gotten our house unpacked, had a Superbowl party and had Mandi and Willow over for dinner so it almost feels like a real home, we are almost there. All we need now is grass and our dog run! I can't wait for our dog run. We got it in the mail last week, however, the box was all torn up and one of the pieces was bent. After a long talk on the phone, and a complaining UPS driver we got the first one "exchanged" and have a new one on the way. I wanted to have one up before the trip Thursday, but i'm not sure if i want to do it by myself lol, that is if it even gets here before then.
We are definitely settling in to our life a little more. Zeus is getting better with everyone and Baxter is only a spoiled brat, stealing toys 3/4 of the time instead of all of the time. We've gotten our house unpacked, had a Superbowl party and had Mandi and Willow over for dinner so it almost feels like a real home, we are almost there. All we need now is grass and our dog run! I can't wait for our dog run. We got it in the mail last week, however, the box was all torn up and one of the pieces was bent. After a long talk on the phone, and a complaining UPS driver we got the first one "exchanged" and have a new one on the way. I wanted to have one up before the trip Thursday, but i'm not sure if i want to do it by myself lol, that is if it even gets here before then.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Websites and Recipes
Life since the big move has been going surprisingly better than I imagined. I've made a friend joined a few groups comprised of other army wives. I'm not sure how many lifelong friends I will make, but how can you ever know in a quick meeting. I have met a lot of great people and I can't wait to get to know them better.
In the meantime I am learning how to be a housewife and a puppy parent. Being a house wife is stressful but fun. Having my minor OCD is nice because my husband and two puppies destroy the house nearly every day so I ALWAYS have stuff to do. The frustrating part is the husband part. I really hope he'll get better with time but right now he is such a man, for example, while I was unpacking there was a stack of paperwork in the living room and I asked him to move it. The next day I found it in the kitchen and I asked him to put it away. The next day i found it on a box in our office and finally had to say I'm not asking you to move it around the house I am asking you for a place to put it away. Like many men, his idea of cleaning is putting everything in piles and, well my clean is way different. I am learning that if I want the house my kind of clean i'm going to have to do it, however, I hope he helps a little and learns that everything has a place, such as putting the mail in the mail slot and not on the kitchen counter lol.
Being a puppy parent has it's ups and downs as well. I love them more than anything and I love how excited they are to see me when i leave and how no matter where i am they are right next to me, however, they stress me out haha. Steven surprised me with Baxter when we got to NC. When we picked Baxter up at the Animal Hospital he was boarding with they told us they had a puppy named Zeus, also a German Shepard, who had been abandoned by his owner. The poor puppy had had his ear nearly bitten off by a big dog with his previous owner and had stitches. The woman at the animal hospital suggested we adopt him. His legal abandon date had not yet come so they told us they'd call on the day to see how we felt about it. After an extremely short discussion we agreed to adopt him and it has been an adventure ever since. Poor guy is so accident prone and always getting hurt, I feel so bad for him because he's traumatized and every time he starts to get comfortable he gets hurt and no he will barely leave my side. In all reality he's only been with us since January 11th so my hope is that over the next few weeks/months he'll feel more comfortable. Our biggest obstacle is our other little teenager who is having major sharing problems which includes branches, toys, parents, petting by anyone, etc. All I can do at this time is hope everything works out for the best.
I am not having much luck finding a job that I like and since I don't technically need to work I am going to try and start a small website design company. Today I am working on my site and my father's since he is paying me to build him a site.
Wish me luck!
In the meantime I am learning how to be a housewife and a puppy parent. Being a house wife is stressful but fun. Having my minor OCD is nice because my husband and two puppies destroy the house nearly every day so I ALWAYS have stuff to do. The frustrating part is the husband part. I really hope he'll get better with time but right now he is such a man, for example, while I was unpacking there was a stack of paperwork in the living room and I asked him to move it. The next day I found it in the kitchen and I asked him to put it away. The next day i found it on a box in our office and finally had to say I'm not asking you to move it around the house I am asking you for a place to put it away. Like many men, his idea of cleaning is putting everything in piles and, well my clean is way different. I am learning that if I want the house my kind of clean i'm going to have to do it, however, I hope he helps a little and learns that everything has a place, such as putting the mail in the mail slot and not on the kitchen counter lol.
Being a puppy parent has it's ups and downs as well. I love them more than anything and I love how excited they are to see me when i leave and how no matter where i am they are right next to me, however, they stress me out haha. Steven surprised me with Baxter when we got to NC. When we picked Baxter up at the Animal Hospital he was boarding with they told us they had a puppy named Zeus, also a German Shepard, who had been abandoned by his owner. The poor puppy had had his ear nearly bitten off by a big dog with his previous owner and had stitches. The woman at the animal hospital suggested we adopt him. His legal abandon date had not yet come so they told us they'd call on the day to see how we felt about it. After an extremely short discussion we agreed to adopt him and it has been an adventure ever since. Poor guy is so accident prone and always getting hurt, I feel so bad for him because he's traumatized and every time he starts to get comfortable he gets hurt and no he will barely leave my side. In all reality he's only been with us since January 11th so my hope is that over the next few weeks/months he'll feel more comfortable. Our biggest obstacle is our other little teenager who is having major sharing problems which includes branches, toys, parents, petting by anyone, etc. All I can do at this time is hope everything works out for the best.
I am not having much luck finding a job that I like and since I don't technically need to work I am going to try and start a small website design company. Today I am working on my site and my father's since he is paying me to build him a site.
Wish me luck!
Monday, January 14, 2013
Puppy Duty
o my! What a year this has been already! Steven and I arrived in North Carolina December 30, 2012 and on December 31st, he surprised me by taking me to the animal hospital to pick up our little puppy! While getting Baxter's shots a few of the receptionists told us about Zeus. Zeus is an adorable, pain-in-the-butt puppy about the same age as Baxter. After having his ear almost completely bitten off his previous owner had dropped him at the office and abandoned him. The receptionists asked us to consider adopting Zeus and on January 11. These two have been driving us absolutely crazy lol. They seem just like little kids "you want to rest? I think no!"
Right now is heaven! I wanted to rake the backyard so we can have lawn in the summer I had the puppies outside with me and they were running and jumping, chasing bugs, eating sticks, and for the first time ever they both sat at the door to the house and stared at me. I opened the door and they ran to their respective places on the floor next to the couch and passed out! haha I think I have just found my solution to hyper puppies!
In other news. Out of 79 boxes I'm down to about 12. 2 are Christmas stuff, a few are clothes and some are "random boxes of crap" as I labeled them, which i now have to go through since I was a hoarder when packing lol. They house was looking a lot better but something was just off and we couldn't really figure it out; there was just something that didn't feel like home. Well, yesterday Steven we bought a Hoover Pet Vacuum and curtains, took down the blinds the puppies ate and vacuumed up all of the pine needles and an ddirt dragged in by the moving company and puppies and it feels so much more homely! It's amazing what a clean home can do! We figured out the alarm system and have gotten both puppies potty trained and the beds and new tv set up. All we need now is to get them to sleep through the whole night and we'll be golden!
Hope the rest of the day goes well!
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Website Development
Today I am working on uploading something to lacustomweb.com. I love website design and development, however, I have been looking at templates in order to make the process go faster and even though I've looked through what seems like hundreds, I still haven't found one that seems to suit me or my company. BLEH!
I wish I could develop this amazing sites, but I am just a beginner and I can't make sites like these templates. Realistically I probably could, but I feel like it would take forever. Part of me wants to start this company and wants it to be a great success, however I just don't know if i'm cut out for it. I would rather up keep and fix a website than design one.
I wish I could develop this amazing sites, but I am just a beginner and I can't make sites like these templates. Realistically I probably could, but I feel like it would take forever. Part of me wants to start this company and wants it to be a great success, however I just don't know if i'm cut out for it. I would rather up keep and fix a website than design one.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Tuesday - 2 days down, 2 to go
This week is kind of big for me. My job is not exactly a place of happiness for me, at least not anymore. Over the past few months it has become almost unbearable. Originally, due to the move, I stated I would be leaving the company on the 14th of December. Yesterday I announce Thursday will be my last day. I am so happy and so relieved and face only two problems, the struggle with myself over the paycheck I'm missing out on and the fact that now the past two days have been crawling by like snails. I swear 1-2pm yesterday felt like it took a few hours. Nevertheless, I am happy with my decision. I am going to practice and freshen up /improve my web design skills in hopes of having a business or side business called LA Custom Website Design.
I'm so nervous about "starting" my own company and even just about charging people Steven and I know for websites, but it's something I want to do and I'm hoping it goes well. To be completely honest, I don't think I'm the kin of person who has my own company. I love busy work and web design and creating things for print (this I just learned over the last year) but I love to have something to create for. I love websites and could do that but I think the thing I've fallen in love with even more is designing things for print. I love spending hours and even days with myself or a team changing photos and layouts and tweaking tiny little things then sending it off to the printer. Seeing the final product, being able to hold it and think, this is me or this is us, is a great feeling.
I suppose for now I will do what I can and hope that I find a job I fall in love with when I move.
I'm so nervous about "starting" my own company and even just about charging people Steven and I know for websites, but it's something I want to do and I'm hoping it goes well. To be completely honest, I don't think I'm the kin of person who has my own company. I love busy work and web design and creating things for print (this I just learned over the last year) but I love to have something to create for. I love websites and could do that but I think the thing I've fallen in love with even more is designing things for print. I love spending hours and even days with myself or a team changing photos and layouts and tweaking tiny little things then sending it off to the printer. Seeing the final product, being able to hold it and think, this is me or this is us, is a great feeling.
I suppose for now I will do what I can and hope that I find a job I fall in love with when I move.
Friday, November 16, 2012
Happy Rainy Friday
As my best friend said to me this morning "Happy Rainy Friday". There's just something about a cloudy day that makes me feel alive. I'm not a sparkly vampire I swear, but I just love cloudy days! I also love the rain.
Literaly Rain is water falling from the sky wetting everything below, but metephorically I've always felt as if rain is a new beginning, a fresh start. It pours down from the sky as if the Lord himself (I apologize to any potential non-christian reader) washes everything clean. He doesn't feel the desire to floud and wipe clear the earth as previously down, however, he welcomes you to take the advantage to start fresh.
I'm a west coast girl, born and raised in Reno/Sparks, NV, but often I feel as if I am a southern girl at heart. Last summer in North Carolina the clouds burst the sky opened and the rain poured down on my fiance and I, the same thing happened to us on our honeymoon in Florida. When it pours I see the vision in my head of the man and woman kissing passionately in the rain, or the happy couple playing, splashing, laughing, or even the exhausted person who stops and lifts their head to the sky, letting the rain fall down upon them as if it's washing away all their day's problems. I love the rain and a big part of me can not wait to move to North Carolina to see a down pour, to frolick in the rain and to let it cleanse my soul. My husband on the other hand; well, he's often like a cat, he sees water and he does running. Wet is not his thing haha.
Some people think my love for the rain stems from my childhood in the water. From age 5 to age 18 I was a competitve swimmer who spent, at the least, 2 hours in the pool a day. Even now, a stressfull day for my can be cured by a swim or even by sitting in a pool area breathing in the chlorine (healthy i'm sure =P). I just know I love water and I hope one day my man will passionately kiss me in the poring rain or laugh as we chase each other through the rain and fall in the mud.
For now, I am in Reno, sitting at my desk staring out the window as i watch the clouds. It's clear that they want to rain, perhaps that's what's fascinating about them, the hope and possibility of rain or snow, the ere of winter.
Literaly Rain is water falling from the sky wetting everything below, but metephorically I've always felt as if rain is a new beginning, a fresh start. It pours down from the sky as if the Lord himself (I apologize to any potential non-christian reader) washes everything clean. He doesn't feel the desire to floud and wipe clear the earth as previously down, however, he welcomes you to take the advantage to start fresh.
I'm a west coast girl, born and raised in Reno/Sparks, NV, but often I feel as if I am a southern girl at heart. Last summer in North Carolina the clouds burst the sky opened and the rain poured down on my fiance and I, the same thing happened to us on our honeymoon in Florida. When it pours I see the vision in my head of the man and woman kissing passionately in the rain, or the happy couple playing, splashing, laughing, or even the exhausted person who stops and lifts their head to the sky, letting the rain fall down upon them as if it's washing away all their day's problems. I love the rain and a big part of me can not wait to move to North Carolina to see a down pour, to frolick in the rain and to let it cleanse my soul. My husband on the other hand; well, he's often like a cat, he sees water and he does running. Wet is not his thing haha.
Some people think my love for the rain stems from my childhood in the water. From age 5 to age 18 I was a competitve swimmer who spent, at the least, 2 hours in the pool a day. Even now, a stressfull day for my can be cured by a swim or even by sitting in a pool area breathing in the chlorine (healthy i'm sure =P). I just know I love water and I hope one day my man will passionately kiss me in the poring rain or laugh as we chase each other through the rain and fall in the mud.
For now, I am in Reno, sitting at my desk staring out the window as i watch the clouds. It's clear that they want to rain, perhaps that's what's fascinating about them, the hope and possibility of rain or snow, the ere of winter.
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