Happy Hump Day!

No not like that! It's Wednesday! 1/2 way there!
So today was a good-ish day. I only had a 1/2 day at work which was great. I took the 1/2 day off because i needed to go and try on dresses for my friend's wedding in October and i didn't want to be out late if i went after work. So I went and tried on some dresses and found one i like, but they only carry size 10 in store, so i don't know exactly how the proper size (6) will fit me. Frustrating, but i guess that's why God made alterations.
So then i had plenty of time leftover to go and finally get my eye exam and some new glasses. Joel and i use his job's insurance for our health/dental/vision, plus i doubled up on mine through my work for vision and dental because those coverages always seem to fall short of actual costs. So....to make a super long story short...I am covered double through one vision insurance provider. I called them and asked if this caused any problems, to see how the coverage would work since i'm covered 2x by one company. They told me that i could either get 2 pairs of glasses, one from each plan, and pay both co-pays, or i can, if i so choose, use my 2 coverages together like primary insurace and then secondary. Well i ended up deciding to get sunglasses since my regular glasses are still ok and i need sunglasses when driving (legally LOL). So i pick out a cute pair of COACH sunglasses that are only about $10 over my frames allowance. Then adding the 'black' coating on the basic lens made the total out of pocket to be nearly $100. I told them that i wanted to go ahead and use my husband's coverage first because it has higher allowances, so they pull up his coverage and tell me that i'm not on there. I was like, uhh yeah i am, i pay for it. So i called my provider, they said uh yeah...you're on there i can fax over your coverage. So they did. I then said to use my secondary insurance to cover those extra costs, and the lady told me that they couldn't do that. I told her that i called my provider and they said it was fine. She shook her head at me and was like no ma'am insurance doesn't work that way, that's not possible. Well i know full well that it does, that's why secondary insurance exists. So i asked her to call my provider and she said, ma'am i do the billing for your provider and i've never heard of them allowing that, you can't do it. So i said fine, i'm out. So they lost my business. I called my provider for a 3rd time after leaving and they again confirmed, that i could combine my insurances. So i was pissed.
Anyways......that place was rude and i didn't like them. So now i have to drive around to another place 30 mins away from my house some other time to get glasses. Oh well...at least i have a Rx now. I'm still blind. 20/30 in my L eye and 20/100 in the right. Dang.
So now that i've updated you on my insurance plight...LOL...on to other things...Lilly is in heat now for the 1st time, so i get to play happy hump patrol with Rupert. We never knew how old Lilly was so i wanted to wait until her first heat to fix her. So now here we sit, they can't play together or go outside together, and Rupert is very upset over the whole thing. Rupert's new name this week is rapist because he tries to rape my poor innocent Lilly every chance he gets. But we are being very religiously careful about watching them so that nothing happens. I don't want Boston Shelab puppies. LOL So that's my update on my life. Nothing new and exciting. This weekend is the Derby so there are all kinds of parties and events going on in town, but Joel and i didn't have a grand each for tickets, so we opted out of going. Madness i know. LOL
Ok, so now i really am done. Man this was a long post! Sorry!

Weekend O' Fun!

Well this week proved to be a pretty good week. Joel had a good work week and was able to come home early on Weds. so we could see each other for a little while. Friday afternoon when i got off of work i met up with Joel and his mom for dinner. She bought some new flooring and a washer and dryer and needed Joel's truck for hauling. So we helped her out and ate dinner. Then we came home for a few hours and went to a local bar down the street to have a few drinks and hang out. That was fun and the 'drunken becca at the taco bell drive thru' was fun. LOL (Joel was driving...not me)

So then today we got up and went to breakfast together at our local mom & pop restaurant which was delicious as always. Went and got the usual groceries and then come home. The weather was absolutely gorgeous today, which was a nice surprise since we thought it was going to rain all weekend. But no..it was sunny not a cloud in the sky breezy and about 75 today. We sat on the back porch for a good hour or two until our friends called us and wanted to hang out. So we went down to the Louisville side of the waterfront and hung out at the Derby Festival activity area. Vendors and food and live music...that was good times. Then we went to have dinner at a steakhouse but the service sucked terrible so we ended up getting comp'ed all but like $9. It always seems to happen to us when we eat dinner with those friends. I think next time we'll stick with fast food. LOL

So now we are home and heading back out to a little party at someone's house. Don't plan to be gone too long because we're both tired, but it should be fun to hang out around a bon fire for a little while.

Well...we're out....i'll check back in tomorrow and hopefully start writing every day again! sorry...i suck.

Long time no type....

So i'm getting bad about blogging...it's hard to keep up with this thing everyday!
Today was a pretty good day, Thursday...only one more day to Friday and the weekend, and my supervisor was out today so that's always good. It's better when we don't have our super lingering over us watching our every move.
This weekend marks try #7 at the babies but yet again...it's a bust. :( I don't think Joel minds, but i'm starting to get really frustrated. Doc told me that like 90% of people our age get pregnant in the first year...what if we aren't that 90%? What if something is wrong...what will we do then? ugh....i don't know but we have another 5 months before we really start worrying about it i guess. :(
This weekend Joel and I are going to have a 'date weekend,' which is very exciting. We have been together for a lot of time in the past few weekends, but we haven't had any alone time for just us...so we're going to do dinner on Friday night, and then spend Saturday doing whatever we feel like. I hope to reserve the 'errands' for Sunday, like groceries etc...that way we can just relax on Saturday and not worry about anything. Hopefully, since it will be raining and yucky out, we can just go to the mall and spend that day window shopping and just enjoying each other's presence. We enjoy spending time together in the house, but 1/2 the time i'm on the couch and joel is on the computer and we don't really talk...so we decided to get out this weekend and hopefully we'll enjoy the day a bit more. I wish it were going to be nice this weekend, it's been BEAUTIFUL all week, but of course...law states that all week while i'm at work it will be awesome, and when the weekend comes it will be gross.
Well Spring has arrived and tomorrow, if the weather permits, Joel will mow our lawn for the first time. OUR lawn...yay! He's not happy about it at all, but it shouldn't be too bad...i hope. :/
Well that's the weekend update....until next time...

Thunder Weekend

Well this weekend we went to our Thunder Over Louisville event. It was an absolute blast! We went to our friend's house early around 10am....ended up going over to the park around 1pm. It was really really cxold this weekend. 50 degrees isn't normally that bad but with strong winds blowing all day, it felt way colder. SO we bundled up in layers and coats and blankets and sat around watching the air shows most of the day. There were tons of really cool planes and of course Joel and his buddy could name every type, LOL. We ate corn dogs and funnel cakes and random 'fair' foods throughtout the day. Then we went over across the overpass to the other 'town' that allows drinking and had a few beers. Then came the fireworks show. It was really really cool. They had connected through NASA to the ISS astronauts and they counted down the show. Sooo cool. Then the show lasted about 30 mins or so with fireworks and pyro technics and stuff. It was really really awesome, that's all that cxan describe it, just cool. We ended up going back to our friend's house and munching down some whitecastles before going home around 2am. So after a long day we slept in today and missed church, we're bad, i know. But it was great times and a definite staple for the years to come. =)

'Ode to Coffee

So i have never enjoyed coffee, my whole life. Always loved the smell, loved the ambiance of coffee houses, just never drank the coffee. Well when i got my job here in Louisville, I discovered a Starbucks less than 1 mile from my office, that i have to pass to get to work. During the interviewing process if i got there early, i would stop by and grab a beverage. I decided to try the frappaccino, thinking that a cool drink sounded good on a 100 degree hot day. I ordered a grande caramel Frap. and paid the man for my beverage, then on my way i went. It is at this point that my world was turned upside-down. Each sip was like a little piece of liquid heaven. Little did i know that that purchase would throw me into a coffee and Starbucks obsession. After getting the job, i continued to go to Starbucks on a regular basis. This got out of hand and i began to go nearly every day, happily paying the $4.24 for my frappaccino. After probably throwing us into debt over my new frap. obsession i decided it was time to start cutting back. So nowadays i usually go there on Friday and Monday, sometimes just one or the other. I have now developed a new love...the McD's Vanilla iced coffee. These are much more cost effective, and while not as delicious, they do calm the craving quite nicely. So now here i sit, sucking down the addiction. This is really the worst kind of addiction for me right now too. It's like smoking. Here i am, we're trying to get pregnant, and i'm addicted to a caffeine LOADED beverage. As soon as something happens i'll have to cut it off cold turkey....but until that time....i will continue to load up on my Frappaccinos, Vanilla Iced Coffees, Cappaccinos, Lattes, and various and sundry coffee related products. Ode to my coffee....how did i ever live without you?!

Seriously Now?

So today didn't start off too great. I stop by McD's on my way to work to grab an iced coffee to make my day a little brighter (i know how Sean and Hettie understand the importance of the morning coffee). I hand over my debit card t othe man at the window, and he says, ma'am it's been declined. First off, that's just embarrassing no matter how old you are and how many times it has happened, Secondly, I know that I have plenty of money in my checking account. So i call my bank through the automated system, and ok...account balance is fine, available balance.... NEGATIVE $250?!? So now i'm pissed. I know exactly what has happened. We called on Weds. to have our car payments made on this Friday...well they decided to just go ahead and schedule them for Wednesday instead. So i call the bank that made the error and i'm like WTH? She says that she sees no notes where it was supposed to be on Friday, well duh, obviously, or else i wouldn't be calling. So now i'm sitting here with a bank account that is about to go $250 overdrawn, not to mention the 2+ fees i will get at $33 each. So to make a long story, not so long, i call my overdrawn bank and explain the situation to see what we can do and they offered to work with me and not charge any overdraft fees and let everything clear, especially since there is a direct deposit going in tomorrow. Well...it all worked out, but i never got to have my iced coffee...so for that....Screw You Navy Federal Credit Union...Screw You! :::waves fist in the air::: =)

LOL ok so i'm done ranting. Everything is better now and i'm on break at work. This weekend is Thunder Over Louisville and i'm so excited about it! We're going to a friend's house and then all going down the the waterfront for the air show and fireworks, and a few alcoholic beverages i'm sure will follow along. Indiana has the most wonderful law in the whole world....no open container laws. As long as you ain't drivin' the car...you can drink in the car. I just think it's funny...no reason to dispose of your beer before you're done...take it with you! :) So then on Sunday we are going over to the same house for a big ol' fashioned family style breakfast. Hopefully the rain won't be too bad this weekend and we can have some fun. Well i'm out for now!

EEK! I'm at work!

So this will be a short blog day since i'm at work already, hopefully 'the man' won't catch me. =) But it's still early anyways so i don't have to 'work' for another 5 minutes.

We got some great news on our taxes yesterday. We filled out our W4's wrong earlier this year so we were going to owe nearly $1000 AGAIN! But luckily we were able to deduct our moving expenses and we owe less than $400 now, SUCH a relief, plus Indiana has state taxes and we are getting back over $400 from that, so really we are breaking even once it's all done with. We are so happy and it's such a burden lifted off of our shoulders. God really helped us out on this one, as usual. =) I need to learn to trust God more. I always freak out when things like this happen, but God always seems to pull us through and things work out. I should listen to Joel more often too, he always tells me not to worry so much. I'm such a 'stresser' (if that's even a word, which i doubt it is) when it comes to life in general. I freak out about everything and worry about it until i know the actual outcome. I know that this causes all sorts of health problems and really can't be good for me while we are trying to have kids, but i really am working on it. Everytime i feel it coming on i just take a deep breath, and try to push it to the back of my mind so that i don't dwell on it. ugg.

Well it's time to get to work now, i just wanted to share the good news. Off to enjoy my carmel frappaccino now. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....

I will leave you with my favorite picture of the pig dog boy....=)

Time to catch up...

I haven't posted in a few days because i'm a slacker. =) So here's my life update. Friday was a great day at work, except it rained all day and we had really bad flooding throughout the area. I came home Friday and we didn't really do much, just sit around relaxing. Saturday was an early morning. We got up and finished grocery shopping and running basic errands then went to Joel's mom's house to pick up some furniture that she was getting rid of. So now we have a treadmill and an entertainment center!! YAY! We were cleaning house until about 6pm on Saturday and then sat back and enjoyed the fresh clean house. Sunday we were bad people and played hooky from church to clean up the house some more and spend some much needed time together. Joel's mom came over around noon and took us out to lunch and then we went to Goodwill. Bought some Disney movies for about $2 each which was good. =) On the way home we passed by a new church that we are thinking about trying out. We aren't really very 'excited' about the church we are going to now. It's not really 'bad' per say, but it's also not really 'good.' So we're going to start looking around again. Anyways, we found one that we want to try so next week we'll be trying that one out. So here I sit, in our wonderfully clean house with a new entertainment center and a spare room cleaned out that looks great!! I'm so happy with it all right now.
The weather today was absolutely beautiful. We sat in the back yard for a little while in between commercial breaks during the NASCAR race, and it was so nice. Later this month we'll have to get outside and really work on the garden. That didn't manage to get done yet this weekend. =/

Well that's it for me!

Happy Hump Day!

Get your mind out of the gutter! We're 1/2 way through the week, over the hump. It's all downhill from here. =) in a good way.

Work was pretty simple and laid back today. I got an urge to be lazy starting around 3:30 so I really just pretended to be busy for about 1 1/2 hours.

It was japanese style dinner tonight. Zucchini/carrots/chicken all grilled up together...mmm. And now here I sit. I plan to look into some of the sites that Sean passed over my way, later tonight (thanks! btw)

The dogs are driving me crazy...as always. They want to eat every bird in a 5 mile radius of our house.

My dad texted me today, which wasn't too surprising. He talked to Rachel yesterday, and kind of 1/2 apologized, for causing her pain that is, not for anything else. I know that he wants to reach out to us kids more and try to have a real relationship, but i don't know if i'm even ready for that yet. I should probably be an atheist axe murdering psycho by now, so i guess i'm not doing too badly, but i still have a lot of unresolved issues over the whole divorce. You'd think that your parents divorcing after you're grown and out of the house wouldn't affect you much, but man o man it does. =( well that's enough moping.

I am beginning to see signs of spring! The people who lived in this house before us, really weren't 'handy-men', but they were gardeners. We have 3 or 4 flower beds that are starting to spring back to life now and it's going to be exciting to see what pops up. So far we have what we think will be tulips in the back yard, some pretty little purple flowers by the front door, and these weird little purple bud pineapple looking things in the front yard by the driveway. (see pic).

I'm excited to see what else pops up as it seems to be something new every day. And soon...my Japanese Maples will grow leaves and be beautiful!

Well thats it for me! Hasta!

Another day another dollar

Tuesday....and there is nothing new to talk about. Joel is doing fine, no pain as of late from his kidney stone. No call yet about the CT scan, i really hope that they call soon because we want to know where it is and how big it is.

I'm at home now just relaxing away. Just had dinner and now i'm processing the food in hopes that i'll get motivated to start working out. I really need to get in shape before summertime so i can fit into all of the cute clothes that i've missed so much from FL. I wish it were warmer and that we had a sidewalk in our neighborhood so i could go walking/running with Lilly. She'd probably love the exercise and i would love the motivation. I don't know how well she would do on a leash though since she's only been on one 1x. eek! I should get on that.

Well that's it for me!!