So sad.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14663786/

I can't believe Steven Irwin is dead. I really feel bad for his wife and 2 kids. Although, I'm sure a lot people [including myself] were expecting this to happen sooner or later but by a crocodile rather than a stingray. I really enjoyed watching his shows and it's awful that we won't be seeing him on T.V. anymore.

Summer days

Yeah, it's been FLIPPIN' HOT the past few days and I'm seriously ready for summer to be over! The humidity is what really kills me.. even at 8 p.m. you're still sweating like a pig because it's so humid. Although, I'm quite happy that we haven't had any hurricanes so far this season. It was a year ago on the 29th that Katrina hit New Orleans and I believe around September 23rd will be a year that Hurricane Rita hit us. Just another month or two and then it's smooth sailing!

Speaking of heat, something has really been bothering me lately. It seems like every other day or so we're hearing about someone leaving their infant/child in their vehicle. Now, I know people make mistakes and can forget things at times but, SERIOUSLY, how do you forget that you have a child in the backseat?!? I really don't understand it.. really. I mean how can you even just leave your child in the car while "running in" to get a few items?? Maybe I'm clearly missing something here but it seems mildly [to put it nicely] retarded to me.

So, we're still on a house hunting mission and not really having the slightest bit of luck. We looked at ONE house and found out that it had flooded four times in the past 6 years. Yeah, NO THANK YOU! I was a bit upset about that though because I really, really liked the house but my Momma [aka life saver :)] talked sense into me and helped me get over it. Although, I'm at the point now where I could say to hell with buying we'll just rent for the rest of our lives! Ugh, looking for a house is a serious pain in the tush.

I am SO ready for Halloween! I love that time of the year and the whole atmosphere that it brings. I guess I'm more excited now because Mad's is old enough to somewhat realize what's going on and I get to play dress up with her, lol! Although, we won't be doing the whole going trick-or-treating thing yet unless it's family. Oh, and it's the time of year that I can eat ungodly amounts of yummy candy! Bring on the fatness.

Whoa.. 2 months.

Well, a lot has happen in the two months I've been M.I.A. from my blog! Ok, so not really THAT much but enough to obviously keep me busy. Life is Grand!

Not long after I made my last post our laptop had to be sent off for 2 weeks to get a new hard drive. I'm not exactly sure how or why it happened but one minute it was fine and then all the sudden it froze up and went black. D stayed on the phone with tech services for probably 5 hours and NOTHING worked. Nothing. So, we sent it off the next day and had to live life for 2 horrid weeks with out it. Yes.. it was quite tragic. It was a happy day when we got it back though. All was well again!

We've been doing a lot of travelling this summer! Maddie & I went to Texas with my Mom for a few days to visit some of la familia. Not to mention all of the road trips we've made for D's softball tournaments and we're not done yet! D and I are also planning to go somewhere for a weekend before summer's over but we're not sure where as of yet. I love road trips!

I finally got my house back home sold! I'm so happy that is done and over with. I definitely couldn't have done it without my Mommy. She handled everything from day one and did a wonderful job. Everyone tells her now that she should get in the realty business, haha! So, now we're looking for a house here and we're not having too much luck so far. Everything we come across is sold within hours! It's such an aggrivating process but I'm being as patient as I possibly can [love you, Momma! :)]. Patience is a virtue.. or so I hear.

I really suck at this!

My, oh my.. It's been quite a while since I last blogged. I get in these slumps where I don't feel like talking about anything or even sitting here and typing for that matter. Oh well, it's mine, ALL MINE! Muhahahaa!

Anyway, here lately I've been spending like ALL of my time on the message board [http://www.contestformoms.com/cfmboard/ GO JOIN!! It's great!]. It was down for quite some time and it's finally up and running again. There are some really wonderful women on there and without it [them] I would go crazy!

My Mom's coming in this weekend to visit, yay! I swear I see her now more than I did when I actually lived at home. Ok, so maybe that's a little lie.. I saw her everyday, all day, because we worked together, lol! Point being, I love visiting with and seeing my Momzies.

We are finally getting a kick start on looking for a house. I am so ready to get out of this little shit hole we're in. I'm still in the process of trying to sell my old house back home but hopefully it'll sale somewhat quickly. There are a lot of Hurricane Katrina evacuees there from New Orleans and I figured it would go rather fast being that there are so many more people looking for homes in that area. We'll see! So, we've been looking at some brand spankin' new houses being built here not far from where we live now. They're beautiful houses and I'm hoping and praying that if everything works out for us we'll be in one before too long! *Crosses fingers!*

Anyway, that's all for my so-called-update! It's super late and I'm tired & delirious. More later!

Hear me roar!

Let me just start off by saying that I am very outdone with American Idol! I was highly pissed off when my man [Chris Daughtry] got sent home first of all and then Elliott gets the boot tonight. I really, honestly, thought that Katharine [yuck!] was going home tonight. I was almost in tears watching all of the clips throughout the show of him. Elliott came a long way and improved A LOT from the begininng. He'll have a record deal too though so he'll be ok! After Chris left though I've been rooting for Taylor all the way. He's got to win it.. GOT TO!

Anyhow, Mads and I are venturing back to my hometown tomorrow morning. Just going to get our usual visits in and also my bestfriend is FINALLY having her baby boy! EEK! I'm super excited to see him. She's being induced tomorrow morning and hopefully everything will go smoothly without any complications. K, time to sign off and get a few hours of needed sleep. Bleh.

So not fair!

Well, I'm officially done with American Idol and AMERICA!! Ok, not really the America part but for the people that didn't vote for Chris. I'm so upset that he's gone, I can't believe it!! I really thought he was the next American Idol. I sat here with my mouth wide open in shock when they called his name. UGH!@&@!*!!!

Oh well, I know he'll have an album come out and I'm buying it! Hmph. That's all.

To do or not to do .. That tis the question

I really hate having to make hard decisions. Really, I do.. SHIT!@#!*!!!

Well, D & I are planning on getting married within the next year or less. Ever since I was a little girl I've always dreamt of having a big, beautiful blowout wedding with all of my friends and family there. Tons of flowers, food, great music and blah, blah, blah! Well.. I've grown up and snapped into reality and , well, I just don't see that happening as I planned it. Don't get me wrong, I would still absolutely LOVE to have that sort of wedding but HELLO! We're broke and it's just not happening, lol.

We've been talking about having a small wedding or just going off somewhere and getting married. Now, I wouldn't mind one bit going off somewhere and just doing it BUT I definitely want my daughter there and, no matter what, I definitely want my Dad and Stepdad to walk me down what ever aisle I walk down. That's a must for me among everything else. Also, D said that he definitely wants his parents to be there too. So, basically, if we decide to go off somewhere [ by this I mean Vegas or some sort of island ] and get married then we'd have to pay for everyone's way there and, BAHAHA, that's totally not happening. Yet, if we do it here it'd still be quite a bit of money. I really don't think I'm making any sense of this, huh?

Case in point, we don't have any money but I really want a decent wedding. I don't know.. maybe I'm just stressing myself about this more than I should be. Sometime in the near future though I'm going to talk to a travel agent and see about prices of different places and just get an idea. We've still got a lot of talking to do about this crap too. I just think things to death sometimes. Ugh.