and before you all get your hopes up, it's a cold! i was determined that it would be just allergies, but after spending all night coughing the last two days, i have to admit it's not allergies. my throat HURTS! and not just a little bit. i finally had to drink some tylenol cold & cough, the cool breeze flavor. yuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! however, it does work. oh my gosh! and you have to take 2 tablespoons of the nasty gunk! it made me gag! and i can take just about any medicine. when thomas took it earlier this year and complained about it, i told him to suck it up and get over it. it's like drinking cough syrup and listerine at the same time. not a good combo. i've been through almost an entire box of tissues. of course, this would happen when we are supposed to be moving this weekend. thomas is fine so far, but since we are all living in the same 12x12 room, i am sure he will have it just in time for moving day! well, i am going to go make thomas's lunch for work... and then i am going to take a long hot shower... and i wish i could climb back in bed, but hannah won't allow that and my mom is sick, too, so she can't watch hannah. i think we got this from those festering little brats at church. i promise, i love kids.......
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Monday, June 26, 2006
a great weekend...
we had a really nice weekend... on friday, thomas was off work and we went to Orlando to go to the temple with my cousin. we got there about 5 minutes before it was supposed to start. i slipped in as the doors were closing and told them that thomas was coming. they waited about a minute and then started anyway. thomas didn't make it in. he sat in the lobby during the service. but then we went to olive garden for lunch and headed back home. it was really great to be there with Michael. on saturday, we had michael's girlfriend and her family over to meet michael's grandparents. we had a big bbq and they went swimming. it was fun to get to know all of them. they are really nice people. then sunday was a pretty cool day, too. michael's grandparents left right after church, and then we had a family dinner and derek, a guy who just moved here from orem, utah, came over to visit. he is going back to utah this weekend and was rubbing it in that he was going to eat on gandolfo's on saturday... jerk! just kidding! the weekend was just nice and relaxing. much unlike next weekend, when we will be moving and i will be doing it pretty much by myself! my aunt volunteered to watch hannah so that i don't have to worry about her, too, while i am moving everything up and down stairs. should be a blast! this week is just going to be getting ready for this weekend. i need to get some boxes and bags and start packing up everything from our room... it's kind of hard, though because you never know what you will need.. i hate moving!
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
just another wednesday...
nothing too exciting going on here. i had a chat today at rakscraps. i gave away a couple of cool prizes from dedicated2digital, a digital design store. i went and had allergy shots. then i paid my storage unit bill. my arm still has it's little allergy shot bumps. gotta love it that when you are already having allergy issues, they shoot you up with more stuff you are allergic to! hannah has a cough now. she has never had a cough like this. she doesn't have a fever. her nose is slightly runny. but it's clear. i think it is just allergies, but we'll see. we are supposed to go to orlando on friday, so it will probably get worse by then! oh well!
Friday, June 16, 2006
no more Lucy...
ash & dyl had to get rid of lucy... they were going to have to pay a huge pet deposit at their apartment. and they were going to have to get her spayed next month and a million other things... so my dad's secretary at work bought her from ash & dyl. edna will take good care of lucy. we've known her since i was 11 yrs old, and she is the sweetest lady in the world! she is like a grandma to me! as much as we are going to miss little lucy, at least she went to a good home...
Wake Up! Jump out of bed!
Hannah has been watching Lazy Town On Demand and her favorite episode is where Robbie Rotten is trying to keep Sportacus awake all night. She loves the "Wake Up!" song.
Speaking of waking up, Hannah woke me up at 6 this morning (she didn't go to bed until about 11:30 last night). She started crying in her sleep and saying that she was hungry. So I tried to wake her up and see if she wanted to eat something, but she didn't. She cried for about 15 minutes and she stayed in our bed after that. She was really fussy the rest of the "night". She finally woke up at about 8:45, after kicking me and whining for almost 3 hours. It was a great night! :)
I get so frustrated sometimes with people being insensitive about my food allergies. Last night my mom and sister and cousin ran to Wal-Mart and then they ran to Taco Bell. When they got home, we had to rearrange all the cars so that everyone could get out when they needed to today (there are 7 cars in the driveway at night). So I was pretty ticked off when we came in the house... I hate moving cars with my mom. She is a completely irrational person and it makes me nuts! Anyway, we all came in and my mom asked me if I wanted a taco. I asked her if they all had cheese on them. "Yeah, they're tacos." Well, you know I can't eat cheese, so don't ask me if you didn't bother to order a taco without cheese. "I am so sick of special ordering food for everyone in this house.... blah blah blah..." She special orders everything. Then she asked if Thomas would eat a taco. I asked her if they had lettuce on them. "They are tacos. Of course they have lettuce on them!" How long has she known Thomas??? She knows he won' t eat anything that has touched lettuce. Then she got mad at Thomas and I because she ordered 10 tacos and nobody ate them... well, don't order food we can't eat. "I thought you could pick it off." How many times have I told her that cheese melts and even the powdery stuff on cheese has milk in it. If it has touched my food, it will make me sick. anyway... i had an allergic reaction to m&m's last night. I am slightly allergic to chocolate so I try to avoid it. Last night I had a small handful of m&ms and my throat and ears started itching so bad! no more m&ms for me... i love m&ms.
i think that's enough whining for one morning. i have a ton of stuff to get done today. i need to get off my butt and do it now! hope everyone has a great day! :::hugs:::
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Nothing important...
I don't really have anything important to say... I am currently backing up my harddrive. I try to do that at least once a week. I only have about 200 mb of space left on my harddrive. I have some major cleaning to do. My DVD burner is soooo sloooooow. At least it works now! :) Much better than a couple of months ago!
I went shopping today... bad, Meredith! I found about 10 dresses for Hannah, but I only got 3 of them (less than $10 each) and I get up to the register and my mom bought them for Hannah! that's always nice...
I am trying to find a duvet cover for my room and I just can't find anything I love. I have 2 full size quilts in storage that are blue & ivory toile. I am thinking about sewing them together and just using those for a while. I don't know if it will work or not... I am thinking about going to another TJ Maxx across town and seeing if they have a blue & green paisley sheet set in king size. They had it in queen size at the store close to us today... I have wanted it for months and I didn't get it because I didn't need it. Now I do, so it's gone! :) Just my luck! actually, my mom has a duvet cover that she bought at pottery barn a couple of years ago, that she isn't using. my sister has it at her house, but she doesn't like it, so I am probably going to take it from her and find something for her... she doesn't think i'm serious about stealing the duvet cover off her bed... she doesn't know me as well as thinks she does... i hope you are reading this, ashley! i'm coming to get it!
I think I have watched Cinderella 4 times today... Hannah loves it! I have been trying to get caught up on my scrapbooking stuff so that I am not stressed at the end of the month with the big move... Two more weeks.................. I don't think I can wait! :) The hard part is that I know we could be living there already, but we wanted to save the extra $500... I may have to go check out the key and see it again next week. Maybe I'll take my mom to see it and she can help me envision where to put everything. I just want to move everything in on the first, but Thomas can't get off work. And Thomas doesn't want to ask people to help us on July 4th.. I think it's perfect because we could do it during the day. And my cousin would be here to help. He works out of town on Wednesday and Thursdays...
Yes, Steph, Michael is home now! You need to come see him! :) just kidding! I actually want to set up my cousin, Michael, with Shelby's sunday school teacher. She is a cute girl and I think they would get along well. He would kill me if I tried! He is so shy!
I better get going. My DVD is done and Hannah is driving me crazy and Thomas is on his way home from work!
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
We did it!
We signed our lease yesterday! We can't move in until the 1st of July, and Thomas can't take time off work until the 5th, so we are going to actually move our furniture and boxes in on the 5th. I am so excited! So we now have a place to live until the 30th of June 2007... That means we have twelve months to be ready to buy a house! By then we should have a better idea of where Thomas is headed in his career. He is doing very well and still loves his job! :)
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Monday, June 12, 2006
Moving is Expensive!
I have started making a list of things we will need when we move and I am starting to feel overwhelmed! We really want to paint, because the walls are pretty scuffed up. We want to just paint a very light tan color or a darker beige. We want to stick with a yellowish tan or beige so that the light reflects off the walls rather than soaking up all the light, making the room smaller. We just want to paint the living room, dining area and solarium. We would like to paint Hannah's room a white paint with a pink tint in it. I don't think that's going to happen.
Plus, there are no overhead lights or fans. So, if we want ceiling fans, we have to put them in. I found some at Home Depot for $20 each... they are small and white and ugly, but they work. We'll have to put in 3 of them. It is cheaper to buy ceiling fans than the large oscillating fans. I don't know if they are going to let us do any of this stuff.
The cabinets are really narrow, so I am going to have to buy new glasses so that they fit in my cabinets. I am just going with some cheap ones from KMart or Target. Then I made a preliminary grocery list and about died! We used up all of our food storage before we moved out of our last apartment, so we are down to just a few cans of beans and that's about it! But our new pantry is tiny, so we don't have to worry about buying too much to fill it up! :) We are just going to have to make menus and only buy the stuff we need for those meals. But the big expenses are going to be garbage bags, paper towels, toilet paper, aluminum foil, sandwich bags, etc... I am not buying anything else that I don't absolutely have to have this month! :) I don't care how cheap those Laura Ashley dresses get... TJ Maxx is having a big clearance on their spring dresses and they have Laura Ashley's for $7 and dropping... nope! i don't need anymore! :) I'm moving out! I'm moving out! Yea!
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Good news!!!!
Our application for the condo got accepted! It looks like we will be moving on July 5th, because that's the first day Thomas can get off work. I am so excited! I was walking down the hall at church today and one of the ladies who found the condo for us, told me that they got a response back Friday afternoon after the office closed! We have to go talk to them and put down our deposit and work out all the details. I have to go choose paint colors tomorrow so that we can get them approved and paint before we move our stuff in! Everything is just working out perfectly and I am so glad that we waited! Heavenly Father really does answer our prayers, even when he think he isn't listening! :)
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Meet my newest niece... LUCY! Isn't she precious??? Ashley, Shelby, Hannah & I went to the flea market this morning and Ashley found a little YorkiePoo. We are pretty sure her name is Lucy, but Ash & Dyl wanted to talk it over tonight first... I've already cleaned up her poo... that makes me her favorite, right?! :) She has the sweetest little personality! She loves to be held and cuddled but she can be playful, too! If I were ever going to get a dog, it would be her!
Image Copyrighted by Meredith Cardall, 2006
DigiPick of the Day for June 5th!!!
Yea!!!!! I love Melissa! I was chosen again for the DigiPick of the Day on June 5th! It is one my favorite layouts I have done recently! Thanks, Melissa!
Bubbles Everywhere
Thursday, June 08, 2006
I think I found a place....
I went and looked at a condo today and I LOVE IT! The price is right and so is everything about this place! It is a 2 bed, 2 bath condo. It's on the 2nd floor. It has a single-car garage. Yea, storage! :) The layout is really cute! the kitchen is tiny, but I have decided that I am never going to find a kitchen as big as my last one! At least this one has a pantry! It is only 9 inches deep and 24 inches wide, but it is a pantry! It may not hold a cereal box, but it will hold my soup cans! It has a washer and dryer and big windows and lots of open space without being a giant box. There is enough closet space in the bedrooms. The bathrooms are super small, but the rest of it just makes up for it! We are going to submit our applications tomorrow. I really hope we get this condo. It just feels right! :) Patience finally paid off! :)
Monday, June 05, 2006
She looks so funny with her hair like this! She won't usually leave her hair in any type of bow or anything for more than an hour... we're at 22 minutes so far today! :) I definitely need hair practice! She reminds me a lot of my niece, Jordyn, lately with the way she is built and some of her facial expressions! Hannah is wearing all 2Ts and some 3Ts... her jammies are even going into 4T. She is getting ready to hit another growth spurt because she is starting to chunk up again... she's such a cutie pie!
Image Copyrighted by Meredith Cardall, 2006
Friday, June 02, 2006
$5 down the drain...
literally! I went to get gas today ($33 for my little Accord) and decided to get the $5 touchless carwash. All was fine and dandy until I was about 2 miles down the road and drove through a dust storm so thick you needed your headlights on. Gotta love construction. So now my car is muddy, rather than just slightly dusty...
Thursday, June 01, 2006
almost forgot...
apartment update!
I called the apartment complex with the tiny 3/2 apartments. I prefer to call them "quaint" or "cozy" as it looks like we may be moving there!!! They have an apt opening up July 15th on the second floor. I know, I know.... second floor stinks! But, they are an old complex and don't have security systems, so I prefer 2nd floor. Plus they have vaulted ceilings and it will help to open up the apartment. Make it seem less like a coffin... they are sooo tiny! :) But it's worth saving $250 a month! we are going to go look at an empty apt next week when they have one open and if all goes well, put in an application... cross your fingers, pray for us, and if you're catholic light a candle at mass for us! :)
Done with my Father's Day Shopping!
I am so good! I finished my father's day shopping today! I can't tell you what I got, though! Not like Thomas ever reads this, but you just never know! He'll love it! :)
Okay, I maybe also bought a lot of other stuff, too. Our TJMaxx is having a HUGE clearance right now on their springy clothes for kids. They have Laura Ashley dresses for $7. Tommy Hilfiger for $10. Hannah has tons of 2T and 3T clothes right now, so I went and got a few 4T dresses so that she has something to grow into. I can't believe that she is in 2T and 3T already! She won't be 2 until August. I may have also bought a 3month dress that just happens to match one of the larger 4T dresses... hmmm... I am NOT PREGO! don't get any ideas about that just yet!
I took Hannah to the pediatrician today. Her breathing is completely clear, her ears are perfect, but her throat is NASTY! No strep, though, just a virus. Apparently there's a nasty virus going around here... no runny nose or anything, just sore throat. So the doc told us to give her whatever she wants to drink. If she wants something cold like an icee or smoothie, give it to her! so she's been drinking a LOT of my Coke today. I used that excuse to justify a second Coke. I'm so bad! But seriously, the kid is drinking so much that I am changing wet diapers constantly! Time to pottytrain!
another apartment in the running...
I just can get over the price of apartments. I was ready to put in my application at the pretty apartments and I just got sick thinking about spending that much money each month. so i took a look online again and decided to just play with the floorplan of another complex. It is 1100 sq ft, 3 bed 2 bth. It is really old and kind of run down, but the price is good. the kitchen is TINY! but there is a pantry and there are small walk-in closets, perfect for storage. and there is additional outdoor storage. i have to call them today and see if they have any available. we'll see.
Hannah woke up with a fever again today. She hasn't really had any symptoms at all. But it has been 5 days. So I called the pediatrician and they are supposed to call me back later to let me know if I need to bring her in. So my day is on hold again... Then Hannah had diarreah. She had really yucky diapers the last couple of days, but just 1 per day. So it doesn't seem like a stomach virus or something. She has been a little cranky but she hasn't complained about anything hurting. It's been nice that she has been taking one short nap and one long nap every day. I can get a few things done.
I did a few layouts yesterday, but I am going to wait to post them. I am starting a challenge over at RAKScraps June 15th and I need the layouts for those challenges. I'll post them then.
I cleaned my room last night! I have one bin, 2 pullups boxes and a diaper box that are all full of Hannah's clothes and accumulated stuff that I am taking over to storage at some point today. I don't know how I am going to fit it all in! :) I hope it doesn't all fall on me when I go to move. I'll open the storage unit door and everything will avalanche on top of me! Then at least I won't have to unpack! :) I'll just back the truck up to the door and open it and it will avalanche into the truck! :) Wishful thinking!
