Smart Move

Ok well I had a really bad day today....

BUT...

I really am having the best time in Montgomery. I guess if, even after the bad day I had, I still feel this good about moving, then that's saying something. Even the tough times are good. They serve their purpose. There is no doubt in my mind that we made the right decision. So many changes and improvements that I have wanted to make for us has just fallen into place. My blood has been enriched, my eyes have been opened, parts of me that have long been dormant have awakened. I am getting stronger by the minute. I'd call that a good start.

Plus my support system, my family and friends, have just been amazing. I couldn't do any of it w/out them.

In other good news, Tony and I have finally discovered our super-power! See, one thing I've always loved about Monroe is that it is a weather-bubble. Tornado's and the really really bad weather has always gone around it. I didn't want to go to Montgomery because it always seems like they are getting the worst of weather and tornado's galore. We are set to leave and the projected path of Gustav is straight through Montgomery. We leave and the path changes to go through New Orleans/Shreveport. So, that must mean that while we are together, our super power is a protective weather bubble. I mean, there is no other logical explanation. So it's cool that we finally know because that's sort of an important thing to know. You know. What your super-power is. *nods*

Tony had a great first day at Starbucks. He even has a drink now he likes!! That makes me happy because now he can enjoy Starbucks with me. Plus it's kinda important since he's working there and all. I had the best time going with him to Target and getting him NEW slacks (which he hasn't had in what seems like decades. He's been wearing the crap ol' same crap pair whenever he needed to wear such pants), and I never knew he looked so good in a black polo, slacks, a black belt, and black shoes. Then he came home, ran inside, and danced around in his new shiny green Starbucks apron. He is too cute for words. He is all in pj's now but I am going to take a picture of him tomorrow and post it. Hehe.

Thursday he has the whole day off so we are going apartment shopping. We have several awesome prospects. The plethora of beautiful apartment complexes around here never ceases to make me happy.

And now I have my internet again, so I really can get through anything. ;-)

After everything, I am still terribly excited, and happy, and I refuse to give up. Ever!

Headed Out

We are all packed up and staying the night at Tony's parents before we leave for Montgomery AL tomorrow morning. So I'm signing off for a while. We are doing the smart thing and staying with our friend for a little while we find the perfect place in our price range, and that will give us the chance to focus on our jobs, me finding the lay of the land (tony already knows it) so that'll be good. I'll be "dealing" without all my stuff and my privacy, but I just need to give it some time and it will all turn out. I"m bringing my computer with me though so atleast I'll still be able to keep in touch!
Love you all~ keep me updated on things.

Medals

A final medal count.

**sniffle**

It's been a spectacular one.

	COUNTRY		GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE	TOTAL
	United States		36	38	36	110
	China		51	21	28	100
	Russia		23	21	28	72
	Great Britain		19	13	15	47

Stupid Blarg

It's been a crappy past coulpa days.
Uber crappy.
Sigh.
Just had to vent.

Teehee

That was fun.

;-)

My Bella's Dogster

My Mungo's Catster

Mission: Sucessful

So I'm a little behind on the Olympics because of our trip to scout out apartments in Montgomery. But I'm catching up. I DID see however Nastia and Shawn get gold and silver in gymnastics, and Michael Phelps get his 8. I still can't believe that. I didn't think it was possible because of the relays...but they did it. Amazing. Simply amazing. I love that I saw a huge chunk of history in the making.

Our Montgomery trip went really really well. We worked our tails off. All day Friday we were apartment hunting or going by our respective work places to finish up paperwork and such. Much of Saturday was the same. It was nothing like apartment hunting in Monroe. All the places we looked at are beautiful. There are SO many great choices it was really hard to choose. We had to compare all the prices to what you were getting for that price and location and etc. I was very proud of us. The apartment thing isn't under a complete wrap yet, but will be soon. Exciting!

Of course we made time though, for us all to go see Star Wars Clone Wars. (I'm so glad we're going to have an awesome, pretty, digital movie theater to go to) It was great. Lots of fun. We can't wait for the TV Series to start. Also of course I made time to go to Panera and Barnes & Noble, a*k*a my heaven. (to both of them) I'm so excited I'll be living right by two of my very own heavens!!

I'm really excited about alot of fall TV that is to start soon. It makes me happy. :) I also can't wait for great games coming out soon!!

I'm off to finish enjoying my day off, I leave with a recent medal count!

	COUNTRY		GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE	TOTAL
	United States		22	24	26	72
	China		39	14	14	67
	Russia		8	13	15	36
	Australia		11	10	12	33

Signing Off For A Couple Days...

(Though knowing me I'll still find time for a medal update while I'm there, but just in cases)
It's 1:00 in the morning and I have to get to bed because we are leaving early in the morning for Montgomery to try to stake our claim, but I had to put up the latest medal count. Don't worry, once gymnastics are over tomorrow with the girls, we will re-take our claim on the medals. China is sort of dominating gymnastics.
We'll be back Sunday, hope everyone has a great weekend!

PS> Quote of the month goes to my mom. Our phone conversation went a little something like this:
*After making "moose sounds" to me because they had heard moose that morning so she was trying to tell me what they sounded like...with out me asking*
Mom: "How are the Olympics going?"
Me: "Fine mom"
Mom: "Have they done the ice skating yet?"
Me: "No mom, that's the winter olympics"
Mom: "Oh..... Have they done the downhill skiing yet?"
Me: /sigh

	COUNTRY		GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE	TOTAL
	China		20	7	5	32
	United States		10	8	13	31
	Australia		5	4	7	16
	France		2	7	5	14

Thank God For Super-Phelps

He's keeping the US hopes up.

Gymnastics sure isn't!!!

Sigh. I was ok with men taking bronze. I would even be ok with the women taking silver tonight, if they deserved it. But I don't think they did. They messed up bigger than what that team should *cough cough Alicia cough* have. I'm with Mikey on the scoring thing though. During the men's I thought we were being scored lower but I thought it was just me. So I payed close attention tonight and I swear it was different. I mean even the announcer at one point said "that should have been alot lower" when one of the chinese women majorly messed up. But don't even get me started on the stupid scoring. Maybe one day they will have it as good as it used to be. But right now it is one big mess. It's just wrong. Alicia probably would have stuck that beam landing if she hadn't had to wait around for 9348729847238 hours before she got on! *grumbles* It takes really good reason for me to be bitter about a loss, and I'm bitter about this one. Something just didn't feel right.

Phelps was amazing tonight, he went first and put the US relay team out a full length and a 1/2 in front of everyone else. It wasn't even a race! They stayed about 2 lengths in front of everyone the whole time. I think they broke the world record by 5 ! Michael is now the most decorated olympian of ALL TIME. dang

My back hurts. :(

	COUNTRY		GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE	TOTAL
	United States		9	8	9	26
	China		14	3	5	22
	South Korea		5	6	1	12
	Australia		4	2	6	12

Yep, you guessed it

Tonight was a blast. I knew going into the men's gymnastics that the US team did not have much of a chance. Then they start sticking everything and just blowing routines away. I mean they were fantastic. Amazed everyone. So then they got my hopes up that we would get bronze, and then they started doing so well, hopes were up for us to get silver! Alas, the Japanese pulled out silver in the end, but it was a tough fight in the end for that silver. So for that I couldn't be prouder of our guys!!! China came away with gold, of course, which they SO deserved, and we got bronze. Yay!

Swimming on the other hand, was an entirely great and exciting night. The excitement never stopped. Out of 4 finals, the US won 7 medals, 3 of which were gold. Phelps got his gold, adding to his winning streak. It was defiantly swimming's night tonight!

It was a great night for the US.

	COUNTRY		GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE	TOTAL
	United States		6	6	8	20
	China		10	3	3	16
	South Korea		5	5	0	10
	Italy		3	3	2	8

Olympic Update #2

AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

I had my first freak-out-throwing-pillows-screaming-so-loud-waking-up-the-neighbors moment of the Olympics.

The US Relay swim team was the underdog. France was the full-out-no-doubt-about-it favorite. Earlier in the day, the French said they were going to crush the American's and that's what they came here for. That statement was passed on to the American team as fuel for the fire, but no body really wanted to step up and refute it because the American's were indeed the underdogs and France was indeed going to take the gold. The whole race it looked that way. Phelps went first and being the super human that he is, put us out in front. After his swim though, it looked like a sure bet that France would take it. The last relay man, Lezak, was a full length behind the French guy on the way home. First of all let me say that big moves do not happen in swimming. If you are a full length behind someone on the way home, you might make up a difference to put you 1/2 a length behind by the end of it, but that's about it. Half way through the pool, Lezak starts to look like he's moving up. Hm. That's cool. Atleast make it a loss by not that much. Then, he starts to move faster. What the butt? THEN, by the very end of the pool (all this happened by just 1/2 a pool) he's neck and neck with the French guy. Exciting! - but still going to get Silver. They touch the wall, and US is immediately thrown down into the #1 spot. That's when the jumping off the couch and the screaming and the throwing of the pillows takes place. Eat your words France.
Also, this continues to give Phelps a chance to take 8 straight gold medals, which I always thought he never had a chance of doing because of the relay.
Also, the US broke the world record during that relay.
/sigh of happiness. I mean, yeah. /sigh

The other high-..no, lowlight of the evening was the disappointing US girls gymnastics semi-finals. They had a terrible terrible showing. Falling off the bars, stepping 29378942374 feet out of bounds, falling on landings... I can only hope that tonight was so bad, they will do amazing the night of the finals.

	COUNTRY		GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE	TOTAL
	United States		3	4	4	11
	China		6	3	0	9
	South Korea		3	2	0	5
	Australia		2	0	3	5

Olympic Update

Well the first day of the Olympics did not disappoint.
I'm especially happy to have DVR now for my equestrian events, which always come on during the day time so they are harder to catch. Now I just record EVERYthing and fast-forward through stuff I don't like to watch. I've never had the Olympics and DVR at the same time so I'm just on cloud 9 about it. Teehee.
The highlights for me today were the US women's sabre team sweeping gold, silver and bronze... Phelps breaking the world record by a full length and taking the gold... and watching the men's gymnastics-not our team, but the Chinese. Cause dang. I think they should have gold already.




Here is the top 4 medal count so far!

	COUNTRY		GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE	TOTAL
	United States		2	2	4	8
	China		2	1	0	3
	South Korea		2	1	0	3
	Australia		1	0	1	2

Moving In The Right Direction

You know what I love? Having Chai Latte and Doughnuts this morning. MmMmMM Well, just the Chai and Doughnuts part. I happen to hate the morning. But Chai and Doughnuts make it bearable.

I guess it is a good sign about moving the fact that Tony immediately got a job without even an interview, I got an immediate job without even an interview (which is just part time at a daycare), and I applied for one and only one job at 3:00 which by 7:30 the next morning I had a reply back from someone saying they want to see me about it. That one I am really excited about actually. I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much about it, but just the fact that I got a response makes me happy. It is at the Taylor Crossing Animal Hospital. It's one of the best Animal Hospitals I've ever seen.
What's funny is I applied for it without knowing it is the same animal hospital I used to stand on our friend Meredith's balcony (her balcony happened to look over the hospital's backyard where they would constantly have dogs out playing with them) thinking "I would love to work there" I have tried to get a job at the vet's around here for so long. We shall see!

A great thing about this moving stuff is I am going through EVERYthing and organizing and throwing away and putting in my sister's garage sale. I mean EVERYthing. Drawer's, clothes, toys, books... It's very refreshing. I'm trying to be ruthless about it. There is always those things you look at and say "well, I might need it one day". That is the junk devil trying to get you.


The Olympics start tonight and that means I get to do frequent medal counts on my blog again! Oh the joy of life's simple pleasures. Well it won't be much joy if the U.S. does poorly, but I'm crossing my fingers that won't happen! My DVR is going to be SO full of Olympic goodness. That's how I'm spending my Friday night tonight! I have a feeling I"m going to have no night life for a few weeks...

Saturday we are going to Tony's grandmother's birthday party. She's going to be 85 years old. I hope and pray to God that I am like her if I am fortunate enough to live that long. That woman... she is unstoppable. Has so much energy and no big health problems. Must be the Mexcian blood.

Sunday I'm hoping Steph and I will be going to a make-up party, and then to see Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. I don't say it often, but I really need some GIRLY girl time!

Meredith and Lauran got me a ticket to go with them to go to the So You Think You Can Dance tour in Pensacola with them in November as a "moving present"!! Wooo! I'm so excited to see the top 10 dance again.

Well I am off to make lunch for the rugrats. I hope everyone has a GREAT weekend.

TV Heaven

I'm great right now because I'm on a high from SYTYCD....

and right now Apollo Anton Ohno is on Project Runway and they are doing Olympics inspired stuff. (I was a complete Ohno FREAK last winter Olympics)

/dies happy

Just A Little Something

to brighten your day.

Enjoy.

:-)

10 Reasons It Would Rule To Date A Unicorn

SYTYCD

Sigh. I knew after last week it would be tough.
I love every single dancer on SYTYCD. They are all my favorite. I don't want any one of them to go home. I don't even know who I'm going to vote for!
Poop.

Weeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

*SQUEE!!!!!*



And thanks to Mikey showing me the trailer now I'm terribly excited about Wolverine because it is going to have GAMBIT IN IT!!! He has always been my favorite. Always!!!! /dies

Random, Boredom

Ok I'm totally addicted to Gilmore Girls. I didn't think it would be this good. The writing is just genius. It is keeping me from packing.

I am loving FFIV for the DS. It makes me so happy.

I'm hungry and am excited about having a peanut butter sandwhich in just a minute.

I go through periods of ultimate stress and ultimate sadness about moving, but OVERALL I am am extremely excited and optimistic.(It is big for me to actually be optimistic about something) I believe it is the start of something great.

Jones Cream Soda is like crack to me. I get it every now and then for a special treat. A four pack usually dosen't last more than a day.

I am SO EXCITED about the Olympics. I can feel it in my bones. The time is drawing near.

At The Moment

Well I surely didn't get enough sleep last night but I woke up all sick this morning so I'm up. I think I'll take a nap on the couch in a minute.

I'm really sad and nervous about moving. I cried all day yesterday because it finally hit me now that I am home from vacation. I'm terribly excited too, it just killed me to tell the few people left that didn't know and it kills me to think about leaving the friends I have here. Some people's reactions killed me too. I mean why would you ever not be supportive? When half of my friends moved away, even my best friend - my brother - I died inside, but I never showed it until maybe later when you can have those miss you moments. But I never told them not to move. Because I knew it was the best thing for them to do. And I maybe even secretly wished I had the guts to do the same thing. Well now I do. Oh well I just keep telling myself that they do it because they will miss me so much, and that if they are a good enough friend, they will remain friends with you no matter where you move. It will just be really hard if that turns out to not be true with some people. (disclaimer: I am not talking about anyone of you!) I am extremely grateful to everyone who reacted in a positive way. I really needed it and it has helped me out a lot.

It got me into some trouble letting Tony post it when I was gone on vacation, but he called me and was so freakin' excited to do it I had to let him. I think what makes me happiest is how excited Tony is about all of this. He really needs this. We both do, but it's just great to see him get so excited about it.

Tony, Shannon and I are finally going to get to see Batman today, that makes me sooo happy. This is the movie I have been most excited to see for forever so I can't wait. I didn't get to see it opening night, but I was at the beach, and I'm sure I'll go see it 5 more times, so that will make up for it.

Speaking of, our beach vacation wasn't all it was cracked up to be. I mean we had some GREAT times. Lots and lots of memories and laughs and love. But wow, some of it was NOT fun. I have blocked most of that out though, trying not to let it ruin the experience! It could have been alot better!! The good thing is that now we know--for next time--it will be better!

I finished The Host before we left. It was really good, but it could have been ALOT shorter. I got so bored during the middle of the book I thought seriously about skipping some pages, and I probably did. I mean that is a huge book, and I really don't think it needs to be quite that big. Had a great ending though, which I was really scared about. It was so original too, I've never read anything like that. I don't know how they would do it, but it would make a fantastic movie. I started The Wedding Machine on vacation and so far I love it. I'm only 25 pages in! It just reminds me so much of my group of friends, it should be a fun.

Tonight Shannon and I are having dinner with Steph, which makes me happy. I don't know how I shall live day-to-day without my little Mexican living right down the road from me. :-(