Everclear

As I was sitting in traffic this morning listening to my "Cross Canadian" station on Pandora when the song "Everclear" popped started playing. Oh how that song. You know when you hear a song and it just makes you have all these happy/fun memories? Well this is that song for me. It reminds me of college, which reminds me of OSU, which reminds me of Stillwater.

Stillwater; I seriously love that town.

I miss driving down the never ending Highway 51. I miss Greek Row and the Kappa house and how ALL of my best friends lived under 1 roof. I miss walking to class and passing Theta Pond on a daily basis. I miss all the fun country music that we'd see at the Tumbleweed. I miss all the crazy nights at Wally's and 804 Connell. I miss walking boomer and having heart to hearts with good friends. I miss gamedays. NOTHING beats Stillwater on a gameday. I miss burning multiple dinners during couples nights at our Westbrook apartment with Collin & Whit.

Bid Day 2007

I look back on my college experience with great fondness. It was such an awesome time in my life. I met lifelong friends, got a good degree, married my best friend, and had a whole lot of fun. What more could I ask for??

Evidence of all the fun had...

&&& I love my husband because he loved Greek life as much as I did.

It's Finally Friday!

WooHoo! It's officially my best day of the week. I absolutely live for Fridays. 2 days of freedom..Hallelujah, thank you Jesus.

As far as weekend plans go we really don't have much going on. We are planning to go to the drive in. It's quickly becoming a Friday night tradition. I love getting out of Dallas & feeling like we are in the middle of nowhere. Somehow it's comforting to me. Looks like tonight we will be seeing Repo Men. Definitely not my first choice (or second... or third) but I owe my husband a "man" movie.

me and the pups last weekend

&&& I love my husband because he too lives for the weekend.

Lazy Days

Let me give you a little background on me: To say the least I am a high strung person. I am the oldest child, type "A" personality, and Dusty Demere's daughter. It's in my blood. I have a go-go-go mentality and sometimes, no matter how hard I try, I have a hard time sitting back and relaxing.

This is especially hard for me when there is work to be done (ie: laundry, dishes, ironing, vacuuming, etc). From the moment I walk in the door from work I will cannot sit down until my house is picked up, dinner is cooked (more like picked up from takeout), the dogs are pottied, and all the other tasks are finished. Same thing goes on the weekends. During the weekends I feel like I am wasting valuable time if I am sitting around the house being a bum. My mind is constantly going 90- to-nothing with all of the things that must be done.

This weekend was different. I slept in on Saturday until 11:00.That's something I haven't done in over 3 years! And once I woke up I didn't crawl out of bed until 3 PM. I layed my happy butt in bed, watched my DVR, drank some coffee & cuddled with my pupps. I have to say, It was a very nice change of pace.

&&& I love my husband because.... he is SO different from me. He can totally sit down and enjoy the moment, rather than worry about "to do" lists. It's a quality I loathe and envy in him.

Circle of Hoodlums

Last week was Chris's Spring Break, so due to peer pressure I took off work for 2 days and we headed North. (I'm pretty sure I'm going to blow through all of my vacation time before the end of the first quarter) We went to the Panhandle for Thurs-Sat; enjoyed family, the lakehouse, and watched a lot of CHS baseball. It's amazing how much better the lakehouse looks without all of the previous owner's decor (or lack there of). It still has a ways to go, but Mom has done a phenomenal job on the decor thus far.

I am loving the lakehouse; I mean looooving it. I can already see how many memories we will have there over the years. I picture many Thanksgivings, Christmases, my children's birthday parties, and random fun Saturdays skiing... It makes my heart smile when I think of all the fun to be had... Now they've just gotta take the plunge and buy a boat... But not just any boat, a gooooood boat.

Saturday we headed out to Robert Lee; population 804. I rode with momma in the Beamer while Chris, Ollie & Ox followed in the Pathfinder. I was worried/felt bad for Chris deiving alone, but he assured me that he had Pandora and a Diet Coke and would be just fine. When we stopped for gas in Plainview Mom had the brilliant idea to put the top down on the BeamBeam. We agreed that if we did we would have an excuse for our bad hair days. So we did. Fun fun fun! So about the dance; Nena and Grandad have been workin' their booties off planning/hosting this "Circle of Friends" formal dance, so we were obliged to attend. All the Hoodlum cousins were there (minus Codi & Denver... Mr. & Miss too cool). It was actually a huge turnout. They had a live band, catered food, and lots of family to visit with.
The best part of the evening had to be our 1:00 AM family trip to iHop. Yup, even Nena and Grandad. I swear my Uncle Eddie is the funniest person on the planet. He can turn any situation into a funny one. I love that our family will laugh until the wee hours of the morning until our tummies hurt.

&&& I love my husband because he 2 stepped with me all night... even though we are both awful at it.

Name Game!

We are officially at the age where I think about having kids all the time. Many of our married friends are popping up pregnant, Liz and Eric are openly trying, our church class broke off into "babies" and "Non Babies" and Mitch and Lacey already have 2 little ones. We are surrounded by babies.

In result of all the "babiness" in our life I think about kids all the time. I have our future children named & their nurseries decorated. There's even a file in my email entitled "kids." I love gettin on Etsy and looking at all the fun baby girl things. Yes, I am certain that I am going to have 3 girls. Something inside me just tells me to "be prepared" for girls, and lots of them.

So in my curiosity I googled "baby name generator" Here's what it said I should name my first child:

Laurel Maggie Jones

I think it's kinda cute...

Too bad my real baby names are on top secret lock down .

&&& I love my husband because someday he will be a great daddy

The Woman With You...

I'm a sap for country love songs (actually country music in general). I love it. Chris & my mom swear that country music puts them in a foul mood, but for me it does the opposite. When I hear one of my old favorite songs it makes sitting in traffic just a little more bearable.

So this morning on my way to work I heard one of my faves, Kenny Chesney. Ahhh how I love thee. It went a little something like this:

The girl I was with a business degree

probably wouldn't recognize me.

I was gonna run the bank I was gonna run them out.

Now all I wanna run is a bubble bath.

Back then you know I had this plan

Before all of this reality set in;

Here comes life baby ready or not.

I wanted it all & that's what I got.

Cheesy, I know, but this song really describes my life right now. I don't know what I thought I'd be doing with my life, but I am positive this isn't it. I guess I thought Chris would magically float through law school, we would survive on money falling from trees & I would just hang out and play house until he got out. Ha.

I know better than to wish my life away, but I find myself wanting to fast forward through the next year and a quarter. Everyone is constantly telling me, "It will all be worth it someday" but sometimes I wonder will it? I have to take step back, put things into perspective & remind myself how luck we are; We're debt free, no children, family and friends who come visit, and living in the big city with tons of exciting activities. This is supposed to be a fun time of our life, so why rush it?

&&& I love my husband because... he lets me listen to country... but only if it's Pat Green :)

All is Well

I'm better. Much better. I have worked myself out of my funk and am fully committed to enjoying this weekend. The weather here has been beautiful; mid 60's, sunny, and not a cloud in the sky. My favorite! In honor of the fabulous weather I got motivated to switch out my closet from Winter to Spring. I love doing this. It's like going shopping in my own closet.

So I started this little project on Wednesday. Chris had night class, there was nothing great on TV & our suitcases had yet to be unpacked from our Mexico trip. Thus far all I have done is transform my bathroom into a disaster zone. It's covered in boots, scarves, and jackets that I want OUT of my closet. My goal for the weekend is to transport these winter items to my downstairs "overflow" closet and bring my favorite Spring clothes upstairs.

When we moved into this new apartment I was overjoyed with the size of my new closet. It is seriously huge. Our newest apartment also gave us 2 linen closets, a coat closet, a patio closet and another bedroom closet. I have no Earthly idea how, but I have managed to fill all of these. It's a bit embarrassing. Soo my other goal for the weekend is to downsize my wardrobe. I'm not a pack rat & I don't mind getting rid of things, but I hate finding a new home for my clothes. I've tried Plato's Closet, but it's a rip off. I give Liz stuff plenty often, but I worry that she gets annoyed with me always pawning off my old stuff. So I'm thinking this time might be a good time to donate to Good Will.

&&& I love my husband because he lets me have way more than me fair share of closet space.

I'm in a rutt...

The last 24 hours I've been in a foul mood... So bad that I don't even want to be around myself... Yup, that bad.

I don't even know where these emotions came from. This weekend was one of my favorites; Whitney came to town! I seriously love this girl. Friday night we got to go to Glorias, drink Margaritas & catch up on gossip. Saturday we spent the day at Northpark. It was soooo nice to have a girl to shop with, espicially miss fashionista Whit.

Saturday night Mitch and Lacey came to Dallas so we got went to eat at an awesome pizza place in Uptown. It was the type you see on the movies where you bring in your own bottle of wine & the pizzas are the size of the table. After supper we got to try Yogartlicious. Carter loved it. He literally went around in a circle getting samples from everyone. I think he liked mine best since it was chocolate with m&m's.

So why the frump? Work is fine. (minus the mild merger stress) Hubbs is great. Dogs are healthy. I have no reason not to be happy... I'm just gonna write this one of as an old fashioned case of PMS. Oh, and to top it all off Jake chose the hoochie hoe Vienna on the Bachelor.

&&& I love my husband because this weekend when I went shopping with Whit... & he didn't even ask how overboard I went. Whew....