Finished Painting

Over this past weekend we finally finished up our painting of the formal rooms and installation of some more light fixtures in our foyer and dining room. Duke even tried to help us paint when he stepped in the yellow paint dish. I love the way the formal rooms look. Now we just have a few more touch ups to make and the area is complete. I also want to hang a few shelves on the walls in each room. Rich finished putting up the cabinet pulls and installed Mianna's ceiling fan. My favorite thing has to be the medallion we put up with the dining room chandelier and the cranberry wall.

HELP

Work has been pretty sad the past few days with all the people in the south needing help. I have listened to so many pleas and crying mothers and people just not able to contact there loved one in the New Orleans and Mississippi area. Some times there just wasn't much to say to people except we will pray for you and your family. This is really the Tsunami of the states, that is what it looks like from all the pictures I've seen online. Man. Before the hurricane hit we had to tell people to evacuate and call all kinds of customers to cancel reservations and make arrangement for folk in hotels out of the area. It was so crazy. Now it's not so bad but just people desperate to get in touch with anyone who knows anything about the area and how high the water is on our bases there in both states.

Kitchen nook chandelier

I wanted to surprise Rich and so I installed the kitchen nook chandelier all by my lonesome. I'm so proud of ME. LOL I think it looks great.

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Hurricane Katrina

Rain Rain Rain. Last night on my way home I got soaked just walking to my car with and umbrella. I had on a light skirt and it was wet all the way through, I managed to keep my head and coach bag dry, but I got well every were else. Now it's raining HARD. I telling you, when it rains in FL it doesn't just rain, it RAINS HARD AND SIDEWAYS. LOL. I dropped Mianna off at school and now I'll just relax and clean house. I do need to go pick up some more paint to finish up our rooms. Katrina is small but she is moving slow as a turtle. I think there are 4 people reported dead down south.

NO more 6 Feet Under.

I'm so sad that my show is off the air now. We watched the last episode of Six Feet Under on Sunday and I just finished watching it again, I'ts so sad, but I like the way they ended it.

Trentin

When I had got home from work yesterday Rich told me he ran into Trentin on base. We havn't seen or heard from him in over 12 years. Trentin just moved here from Spain with his family. He is still married to the same lady and I'm not sure how many kids they have now. I can't wait to invited them over and have dinner or a BBQ. Ingrid, I'm sure you remember Trentin. I know I have some old pics some place in a box. Remember when we went to the haunted mansion and I was PG with Mianna? Man that was almost 13 years ago.

More pictures of our painted formal rooms

Hardening Muscles

Okay so I finally got to see the physical therapy Dr today and he told me that the hardening of my buttock muscle is causing the sciatic nerve to get pinched in my hip area. Its all because I sit all day long at my job and so I learned some streaches to help it. He said it will eventually happen to the left side so I have to streach on both sides to make it all better. Anyways, I probably would have never started to have this problem if I had only kept up with going to Yoga and getting my twice a month messages. SO I'm going to start working days this Monday and Ill try to make some time for yoga and messages again. I need to get a regular message like I use to. It funny how the little things make suck a difference in your life, but going from being a regular work out person to just not working out at all, is BAD for me. ehehhe. I'm not sure if I'm going to like this new days schedule but I'm full time now and I will work from 10-6 everyday, but keep my same days off.

Cranberry

Yesterday I got home from work to find Rich and Mianna had painted the long wall in our formal living room. Just the day before we had went to Lowes and picked out the colors for your formal rooms. They painted the wall with Eddie Bauer Signature paint in Cranberry. Mianna and I started to paint the dinning room in Sunseet beach by the seaside retreat collection and it's a really pretty yellow. the rooms are not done yet, but we will have it done soon. I'll post pictures as soon as it's finished. Rich also added the handles to our kitchen cabinets and it gives it a real nice look.

4 years

It's hard to believe that it has almost been 4 years since Aaliyah passed. The anniversary of her death will be on August 25th. I'm still sad about it after 4 years and it feels as if it were just yesterday. Time is really stuck in fast forward.

Late dinner

Late last night Rich was out with the people from his TDY class and they had dinner at Carrabba's. I had to work, but since I got off at 9 he decided to Waite around for me and I actually got to meet the entire crew. We decided to go over to Johnny Carinos so that I could eat dinner there, since I wanted my Jalapeno trout. mmmmmm. Now I'm going to eat the leftovers for lunch.

SAD

I'm sad. I was going to buy my Pottery Barn stuff tonight, and it's gone. all gone. I'm so sad. I wanted them shelves so bad and the chairs are also gone. man!!! it as up there for month and went down in price and the one day I finally decided to go and buy it, it's gone. I SUCK

Tags

My Tags on Flikr are so cool. I didn't add tags when I first started and now it's fun to add tags to all my pictures.

More on my everyday encounters with the wildlife in FL

Today I got up early and decided to take Duke on his daily walk. I have been going down the new road for a few days now and today I crossed the street to my neighbors yard and was startled when Duke walked up on the grass by the sidewalk and some thing huge jumped. O my god. I couldn't believe my eyes and Had to run home with Duke to get the camera. It was like something out of a movie, I have never encounter such a thing. It was a HUGE grasshopper, I have not done a google on it yet, but I took the pictures to work and my boss called it a Georgia grasshopper. O my goodness this thing is HUGE, I'm talking as large as an adult hand and so pretty with red wings and a yellow and black butt. I was scared of it so I stayed far away, but I was only scared of it taking a giant leap, and with the size of it's legs I wouldn't be surprised if it could jump twice my height. Anyways, let me just show you the pictures of this Southeastern Lubber Grasshoper

When I got home from work, Mianna told me that dad had killed a cotton mouth snake today. It was only a baby and I took pictures of the head and tail, but the thing is , Rich said it was very aggressive and the fact that it's a baby, scares the hell out of me, because that means the momma is some place close by.

Sun bathing with FL wildlife

Rich lain out in the backyard and it was so funny when Mianna yelled a butterfly is on dad's butt. We all ran over to watch and literally this butterfly was there for like 10 minutes. While I was taking pictures of the butterfly and busting up I seen a snake. O MY GOD a snake, Mianna was just about to run out and warn him before he got bit, when her new fried Elise said " no it's not a snake it's a skink. A what? I finally seen the rest of it and was relieved that it was only lizard. Elise said she just watched a thing on Animal planet about it and said it's called a skink. I looked it up and to be more specific it's a Juvenile skinks and it's native to FL. The most common one of the 3 is the Southeastern Five-lined Skink but the Broad-headed Skink is also another type and it really hard to distinguish between the 2 or 3. After it left the bug it was eating under Richie's chair it ran towards the tree and I read that the Broad-headed Skink like to climb high up into trees so HMMMM. After I folded up the chair I found a grasshopper and an albino looking frog. Just a little too much wildlife for me. LOL

Solitude with Sade

I'm just loving being alone, cleaning house and listening to Lovers Rock by Sade. LOL

Mighty Mouse

I have got to get this mouse. LOL

Mervyn's

I miss shopping at Mervyn's and I would have to drive to Louisiana to go shopping. LOL, It's only a 13 hour or so drive.

Kennel

I should get one for Duke.

Pain go away.

Well guys, I was thinking I was feeling all better when all my pain, just started back up yesterday. I miss my physical therapy appointment on Monday and now I wish I never did. I have to wait 2 weeks for the next appointment and in the mean time I'm just taking my naproxen and felling like a pill junkie. I hate this. I can't really sit for long periods of time because it really starts to hurt and then my thigh and foot go numb and the back of my thigh just hurts. This dang nerve damage is not going to go away. My entire right side of my body, from head to toe, is in pain. Suck sucks sucks. What really sucks, is that I have to go to work and sit for a constant 8 hours. Last night I was in pain and so I had to stand up and do my job. My sciatic nerve is what is being triggered, so they say by the muscles in my buttock that are strained, or what ever. I have no clue really what the DR told me since he talked so dang fast, but I got that much out of his explanation for my problem. He had asked me repeatedly if I have ever had an injury or if I was lifting heavy thing. NO , NO and NO. But then being female and that fact that I had a child might have a little bit of some thing to do with the problem. I also read a little bit about it on the net and it could be a number of things and if this pain doesn't go away they will probe me. O GOD NO. The Dr says that it goes away 90% of the time with meds and therapy and that was comforting to hear. I'm just hoping I'm in that 90 percentile