The car is back

Well, my car has decided to resurface. John went and picked it up today. I guess it is driving ok and they were "very apologetic" about losing the car. They never got it to overheat but the door locks are fixed and the seat will remain broken since they said it was $1600 to fix.

Helga

This is Helga. For those of you not familiar she is from Hey Arnold on Nickelodeon. I apparently have been named Helga at work. I don't consider this a compliment.....

I would also like to welcome all the new zits that have moved onto my chin. Not sure why they decided to show up, but I would like them to leave. I guess this is what I get for eating sour patch kids this weekend.

Song of the week: Carrie Underwood's Mama's Song, gotta check out the video on YouTube, it's good!

I almost forgot

I almost forgot, John called to find out the status of the car and they told him that we didn't have a car there. They said the only Infiniti G35 was for a Betty Smith. So John went down there and apparently my car is Betty's. They had no phone number listed and "promised" us that they wouldn't have let just anyone take our car. At this point, I have no confidence in them or their diagnosis. But we finally got a loaner out of it so whatever, they can have it as long as they want.

Some more random photos....

 

My Cailes and me



My baby Edward



Exhausted

It is only Monday night and I feel Thursday night exhausted. I have spent the last 3 hours editing my paper over and over again. I think my theory for this class is to give 100% in the beginning and slack off towards the end.....

The next class I think I'll reverse it.

I just keep telling myself that this is 3 of 13 in the program. I will make it.

So, let's start with the weekend. Friday night we went to Easy A with Stephanie and Bart. I liked the movie, I thought it was cute and a great throwback to some of the best 80s movies. John had to work Saturday and Sunday which is ok because I really just did homework the whole time.

I will say that I am even more interested in this class' material than the last one. It's really getting into a variety of mental disorders that interest me.

Random thoughts for the day are that:

• Apparently the guy's bathroom is more interesting than the girl's at work, people watch TV in there on their phones. I would love to have a shot at those idiots.
• Heard on the radio that the government acknowledged that for at least the last 70 years there has been evidence of extra terrestrial beings, including the lights I saw about this time of year in 2006. Nothing anyone can say will convince me any different and I even got my dad to admit that it's a possibility.
• I found out a few weeks ago that shaved ice with cream is delicious and I am still thinking about it.

The saga continues

So the other night as we were discussing how much it was going to cost to tow my car and get it fixed I got thinking that we had purchased the extended warranty on my car. So I went digging through my paperwork and sure enough, we did! AND the water pump is covered under it, along with towing, rental car, the motor in the passenger seat, etc. AND lucky enough, I have about 2500 more miles before the warranty runs out.

So the car was towed today to the dealer. Well, they say that it's not overheating, the seat is fine, etc. GRRR!! I just know that I'm going to get the car back and in 2600 miles it's going to break! So they still have it and are supposed to be putting it to the stress test. We'll see what happens.

Here we go again

Today is the start of my next Psych class. It is Advanced Abnormal Psychology. I'm pretty interested in what we'll be studying but I really have a hard time not making class my life because the courses are intense and then I resent not having a real life. After this class I'll have 10 more and I'm done with my Master's!

The update on my car isn't good. So it wasn't a hose. Then they thought it was the thermostat. It wasn't the thermostat. So now they think it's the waterpump. What that means is that now I have to get my car towed to the dealership because they can't change it here because of where the water pump is located.....

Anyways, so hopefully we'll get it towed this week and fixed. The bad news is that while it's finally cooling down, it's supposed to rain which doesn't make it easy for John to ride his bike to work; meaning... we have to get a rental? Who knows, this whole thing pretty much sucks.

That's about it for now...

Really?!

So the big news of my day was my stupid car. I was on my way home Target because I believe in supporting the French. Well my car started sputtering and I thought it was going to die. Luckily I was right around the corner from my house and got it home as it started smoking or steaming or whatever. Then there was antifreeze spewing out of it. So we'll see how much this is going to cost! I had just been thinking about 3 days ago that I had a feeling my car was going to start costing me money.

Also, today I dyed my hair. I haven't dyed my hair myself in at least a year but I am trying to grow it out and I get so bored with it I have to change it up, so Chocolate Cherry it is!

We moved into this house almost 2 months ago. Since we moved in I have not been able to find my brown belt. I have no idea where it is and I finally had to buy a new one about a month ago. Well, today the belt reappeared. I think it had moved into a secret hiding place in the bottom drawer of one of the dressers.

Last night we went to a new restaurant called Asian Cafe Express. It's in a questionable neighborhood and is in questionable condition, however, it was really good! Of course it helps when you're there with the owners daughter, among other friends both new and old. We had some fried pork that was awesome, chicken dumplings, and fried milk! That was just the appetizers. I realize that if I'm going to do this blog correctly I will need to start carrying my camera with me, but I'm just not there yet. I think my favorite dish was the Bart Special. (Cue bad jokes now)

Well that is enough randomness for the day. The dogs have another meeting of the BADC (Bad Ass Dog Crew) tomorrow. We're going to try a different park this time. So it's an early morning for us!

Enough for one night

An amazing Arizona sunset

I love Rob!

Lacey, Jared Allen, and I at the Kenny Chesney concert

Jaden swimming in the pool at our house in Maricopa

4th of July 20?? 2008?

Brookie and Ashton at my fave Chinese restaurant, Ming's.

Jaden tried to drive the golf cart and then got out without stopping it.

My Beanie on our girl's trip to NY

Buzz Lightyear!

Cheryl and I!!

Oldies but goodies

Downtown Disney, Florida

John and I at Rain Forest Cafe a few years ago in Florida

I found one!

My Nephew Ashton

Random Thoughts

I was thinking alot about this blog today and I think I'm going to have to carry around a pad of paper to write my randomness down on.
1. I love music and think I have a pretty good variety of everything.
2. Movies - we go to a lot of movies and I've gotten into some independent ones that are interesting.
3. I love Hoarders AND Jersey Shore. I'm not afraid to admit it, I do the fist pump.

That's three things that I've been thinking about today.

Now, I've brought out one of my external hard drives to try and find pictures, but I don't know where they are since my hard drive has crashed 3 times in 3 years.

What direction to go

I've been thinking about how I want to direct this blog. I've realized, and all Wallaces will understand this, but I think about food a lot. That's kind of scary.

Some of the things that come up a lot are I do Bountiful Baskets. My mom told me about it and I order it about every other week. I really like having all the fresh fruit and veggies around but it does make me think about what I'm going to do with it!

Well last time I got two heads of cabbage. What was I going to do with cabbage? My mom then reminded me of several recipes she has with cabbage that I have never liked. But the more I thought about it the more I wanted it. I made one of them and it has been so good. It made me think though that I'm getting old! First, I'm making food that I never used to like and second, I'm writing about food!!

On another note I had an exciting day at work. Got a 5 minute voicemail from a student who dropped the F-bomb about 10 times. I'm glad I was in a good mood and just forwarded it to my manager to deal with!

Back to normal

So John and I dropped Nick and Shar off at the airport this morning. They got here Thursday night and we fit quite a bit into that short time. I think most fun was we went up to Sedona yesterday. That has become one of my new favorite places. We tried out a Pink Jeep tour that was gorgeous. I haven't tried to upload pictures yet, but when I do there will be some good ones.

It appears that I am going to have a very busy fall. Between work and school we have Cherly coming from SC in November and now hopefully my parents also. Plus John's big 4-0 birthday and some much anticipated bike cruises.... I'm tired just thinking about it all. I definitely need to find a job that pays more and offers more vacation......

What to do...

My brother and sister in law made it safely to Phoenix last night. They're here until Monday and we are now stuck trying to decide what to do. I hate to say it but I am probably a better restaurant guide than excursion guide for Phoenix......

We have reservations for a fun dinner for tomorrow night. I'm not sure what we'll do until then!

My next challenge for the blog is pictures!

I've been inspired

I'm sure that I'm not going to be consistent with this, but Jena has inspired me to try. I have a ton of pictures and stuff that it would be cool to have an accounting of; more so than Facebook.

Let's start out with the basics. (As if anyone who looks at this doesn't know), John and I have been married forever (8 1/2 years). We live in Gilbert, AZ. We came down here 4 years ago and started out in a rental in Maricopa. Then quickly bought a house in Maricopa and just as quickly decided we hated the commute. Two years later we sold the house and moved into a rental in Gilbert. That worked well for about a year. In February we moved into another rental and then in June we conned people into coming here for my graduation and then made them clean and paint and move us in 112 degree heat.

We have my two little babies, Joey a 5 year old miniature schnauzer, and Edward my 2 year old yorkie terrier. They are super cute and make me laugh everyday.

In April I moved from Bank of America after 8 years and went to University of Phoenix as a finance counselor. I am really enjoying it and am grudgingly taking advantage of the smoking deal on my masters program.

John started working for Chester's Harley Davidson in August. It has been an adjustment but he seems to be getting the hang of it and I think there's some good potential there.

We'll call it good for our first attempt at blogging and see what else we can do to spice this thing up.