Amy

Now that was one quiet weekend. Really couldn’t have done much less. Well, we did a lot around the house, but we only went out to go to the post office and church. It actually was very nice. The house was actually clean for 2 days. You would never know that now, but it was nice while it lasted.

We found out yesterday Scott missed being the courtesy officer here at the apartments (*read that half off the rent) by 2 weeks! Apparently the apt mgr didn’t think he had jurisdiction here since he wasn’t a deputy like previous courtesy officers. Uh, hello, he has statewide jurisdiction, not just the county! Oh well. She said she’d be sure to contact us if anything changed. Man, half off?? We might have to move to the 3 bedroom with the 3 car garage!!

Daddy and baby ran to the grocery store. I’m supposed to be working, but I’m taking a few minute break. My brain is dangerously full. This project goes in next Friday and I’m still having to code and test, code and test. Ugh!

I think it will be a quiet weekend. I don’t think we are having visitors and we aren’t going back home until Tuesday. That will be for an extended stay though. My aunt, uncle and cousins are visiting at my moms Thurs-Sun so we are hanging around town to visit with them. Well, Scott is going to the beach Thurs-Sat with our old church, but Emma and I will be around. The only thing that sucks is since my aunt, etc is staying at my mom’s we have to stay with MIL Thurs-Sat nights. Which that in itself is not so bad, it’s just that the point is the visit with aunt, etc and I’ll have to be at MIL by 7:30ish to put Emma to bed. Oh, and not to mention the fact that the crib is in the same room as the guest room and the guest bed is completely uncomfortable. I can handle the bed, but I can not handle Emma waking up and insisting to be in bed with us since she sees us in there. Not good.

Not too much going on around here. I’m staying busy with my ebay stuff. For some reason, I love packaging all this stuff up and sending it through the mail. I’m a mail addict. My husband rolls his eyes all the time at me. I MUST get the mail each day and sooner is better than later. I will go out of my way to make sure I get the mail. I know what times it comes, who the drivers are and what their car looks like. In fact, I saw my mailperson riding down the street today in town. What’s good mail? The best is a package from someone. Next, a hand addressed envelope. Next, a magazine. A “company” addressed envelope (ie bill) is 4th. 5th is junk mail. Especially the newspaper kind. I hate that stuff. And lastly, the worst thing I can get in the mail is nothing.

Weddings are a big event to plan no doubt. But I have realized through the planning of my friend’s wedding this year how neurotic we all are in the midst of the planning. Looking back I realize how one track minded you get. The whole world is revolving around this wedding. Every extra minute you have is devoted to picking <i>something </i>out or making some type of appointment. I was in college full-time and working part-time. I can remember sneaking to the rental place to meet my mom between two classes. My grades proved how busy I was. Looking back, I would have definitely lightened up on several aspects. Not so much lightened up because it did take a lot to plan but I really regret not including my in-laws in a lot of the planning. I realize looking back now that MIL was probably dying to find out what was going on but didn’t want to butt in. I feel bad for that. And I really feel bad for making my bridesmaids wear shoes that were not comfortable for a lot of them. Of course, some of them did rebel and wear their own shoes, which is a whole other story, but still. I think really you become so in love with the wedding instead of focusing on what is going to happen. Little decisions become huge ones. Spats become fights. And to be completely honest, it’s all for what?? 40 minutes? I’m not saying I regret putting so much effort into the wedding. We had a good sized wedding and I loved every minute of it. I’m just saying I’m realizing what a freak I was when I was planning it.

I’m on my second round of <a href=”http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=bennettaj&completed=0&sort=3&since=-1″>customer’s clothing on ebay </a>. It is doing much better than I thought it would. Although it seems quite inconsequential since I just got an email from our Sunday School class saying this customer’s brother was in a car accident last night and hasn’t moved or woken up since. I guess telling her that the suit she paid $150 for is getting $31 on ebay isn’t the really the proper thing to do at the moment. In all seriousness, take a moment and pray for her brother. He is only 28.

Emma is quite the tired one this morning, but won’t give it up. Just cries at everything and anything that doesn’t go her way and leaning her head on anything head heighth as she walks by it.

I’ve been trying a few new recipes in the crockpot lately. I’ve got mushroom chicken in there now. I’ve made pot roast which is my favorite meal of all time and something else called Honey Chicken that was okay, not great. Anyone have any other great crockpot recipes?

Emma has some yucky cold thing. Just a bunch a snot running down her throat making her cough and hoarse. Yuck.

We went home for the day. Sort of a ghost-town. Almost everyone was either working or out-of-town. I’m glad we only spent a day there this time.

Emma wrinkles her nose now when something is dirty or I say, no, it’s yucky. It’s really cute. She picked up Trooper’s ball and it was full of slobber and she turned around with her nose all wrinkled up.

Have I mentioned that it is now 3 1/2 weeks that Emma has been going down by herself at night? One night Scott finished dressing her on the changing table from her bath and immediately put her in her crib and she was out with not even a wimper. It has been SO much less stressful at night. AND, she has been going down about 7:30, so Scott and I have been having some long evenings! Of course, we don’t do anything exciting! We’re usually in bed by 8:30 and asleep by 9:30. It’s ridiculous. We need to rent some movies and watch them on the nights “my shows” don’t come on.

Speaking of which, I’ve been keeping up with American Idol. I was a little surprised that John made it last night. I thought for sure George had it, but John is definitely a good (but boring) singer. I still think the strongest is probably Diana, Fantasia and Latoya. I think Leah will make it out of next week’s episode. Maybe Jennifer and Matthew (just because of the girls voting, I don’t really think he’s ALL that great). They have definitely stepped it up this year though, there are some good singers compared to some of them last year.

Scott has been in training this week and has been getting home at 3:30. He doesn’t leave until 8:30. It seems like he leaves for a long lunch and is back. It’s unbelievable how different this schedule is. We get to see him every morning, every afternoon and every night. They are spoiling us!

I took Emma to the zoo today with S&H. She had a good time, just wanted to stare at all the animals. S and I of course had a great time together. I caught this picture of her when she was “talking” to H. I can’t tell if she’s trying to say, Wanna piece of me or Did you just see what that monkey did?

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