Just my thoughts

Picture Challenge

2012-02-15T14:20:00.001-05:00

I know I am not doing this right but I am determined to see it to the end! I missed yesterday because we were out and about all day so.....

14 Heart;I know this is not romantic at all but I am a nurse after all.

Today 15 is phone and I decided to put up a picture I took with my phone

This is a picture taken with my phone of me and my grandmother on a visit to her. I miss her so much!!

Hodge Podge Wednesday

2012-02-15T14:00:00.001-05:00

1. George Washington-Abraham Lincoln-Thomas Jefferson...who would you most like to meet and why?
I would love to met any of them! If I had to pick one I think George Washington. To hear stories about his faith and his opinion on how this country has changed.

2. What's your favorite chain restaurant?
I'd have to say Chic Fila! When I had a spell a few years ago with low blood sugars. Food in general would make me sick. (Sounds strange that blood sugar is low and I got sick to eat but it is true) Chic Fila was like comfort food. It was really all I could eat. Sometimes now when feeling bad I long for Chic Fila chicken nuggets, waffle fries and diet lemonade. HMMMM!

3. When you look back on your life do you imagine you'll think about the goals you failed to meet with regret? Or will you look at what you accomplished and say it was good?

I have come a long way in my life. I will look back on what I accomplished. I have had pit falls and valley's like everyone else but mostly I like to be positive and look at good.

4. Grapefruit-take 'em or leave 'em? Given the choice between an orange and a grapefruit which would you choose? Would you prefer it served as is or squeezed into juice?

I am not a grapefruit person! I would choose an orange any day!

5. When was the last time you cleaned out a closet? Is there a closet in your home that currently needs cleaning? What are you waiting for?
Well we are moving from a temporary apartment into a home (YIPPEE!!!) so I have cleaned my closets for the move to the temporary place, now I suppose I will do it from temporary to new.

6. You get to have lunch with three famous people...who would you like to see round your table?

John Travolta!( I have loved him since I was a teenager and he was on Welcome Back Kotter, would love to talk to him about my faith and set him straight. Rachel Ray (I have no idea why just like her she seems down to earth), Mariska Hargitay (have no idea why).

7. On a scale of 1-10 how would you rate your ability to parallel park?

Did you say 0-10? because I choose 0! I can not parallel park to save my life!

8. Insert your own random thought here.

getting our new home ready to move in, cleaning, painting, patching a few holes in the wall ( the couple we bought from used boulders to hold pictures on the walls. We were trying to decide do we want a family room right now? or wait? since it is just DH and I now. We were looking for furniture for up stairs living room. Well we bought a POOL instead. I can wait on the family room (man cave). This summer I will be relaxing in my own yard. AHHH!

Photo Challenge

2012-02-13T23:13:00.002-05:00

Today's challenge is blue. My newest carousel is blue

Photo Challenge day 11 and 12

2012-02-12T21:41:00.002-05:00

what makes me happy right now my new home.the front of my new house

looking out my living room window

my closet in the apartment

This and That

2012-02-12T06:52:00.001-05:00

I just thought I would post a this and that to put the "Hodge Podge" of things going on in my life right now.

Tia in her new sweater

After a busy week I slept away yesterday. So those of you doing the photo challenge I will post two later today. I work night shift as many of you know and every once in a while it all catches up with you. I had many plans for yesterday all were for naught. I put a meatloaf in the oven and fell asleep and burned it! So today after all that sleep I am wide awake at 5 am!
We closed on our new Ohio home on Friday. YEAH!!!!! DH company are paying for moving so the moving company should have our stuff here by the end of the month. We however will move in with minimal furniture this week!!!! We are going to get a futon and a TV. The rest will come later. We will have kitchen appliances to cook and can unload what we have here in the apartment.
Our dog is almost 13 years old. She is a Chesapeake Bay Retriever. She has arthritis in her back legs and a seizure disorder. She has been hating this third floor apartment. Every time we bring her out she goes to the door right below our apartment and looks at us like please no more steps.
I am going to start a new job also. I have been driving an hour to an hour in a half to Columbus every time I work and it is really getting old. Some of the other nurses who work where I do have apartments in town so go to after work. But that to me almost seems like I am paying them to work there. So I started looking for a new job closer to the home we were buying and I got a job. I start the first of the month. I am taking a small pay cut but is worth in the gas I will save driving 20 minutes to work instead of an hour!
I can't wait until all is hooked up in the house and I have cable internet back this DSL is so S-L-O-W. It makes me crazy some times.
I can't imagine what is going to be like to sleep in my own bed again with my own blankets and pillows. I am so excited about this!
My prayer now is that the house in SC sells before our first house payment April 1. That would be wonderful! Then we would not have to pay 2 mortgage payments.
It is very sad that we lost a talent like Whitney Houston. Drugs and alcohol are the demise of many. Even if she did not die of drug overdose she still had been effected by her many years of abuse. Such a terrible shame.
I am also excited because my nephew is going to paint us an original piece of art work for our home. He is an award winning set designer in Florida. Brilliant and talented! http://symbiontscenic.carbonmade.com you can look at some of his work here! Or you can follow his designs on his his business Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/SymbiontScenic
I am going to get my grandson Ethan at the end of March to stay with us for a week. It is the first time he is coming for vacation by himself. So great!!!
I am so looking forward to decorating our new home! (Sorry for jumping around that is what my brain is doing this morning.) We have two great fireplaces! real wood burning fire paces. I can't wait till I can smell the wood burning. Need some attention to chimney first though, not much but will need cleaned and looked at.
O well that is enough of my scatter brain jump of things for this morning. I will be back soon with more randomness....

Photo Challenge for today

2012-02-10T20:58:00.000-05:00

Does a self portrait have to be of me alone? This is me and my grandson Ethan playing a facebook game.

Photo challenge for today

2012-02-09T17:04:00.000-05:00

Door in new house

Apparently I missed some photos

2012-02-08T22:16:00.001-05:00

I missed the photo for sunshine! I love when the sun shines through the trees!
I am going to try to do better on this challenge so far I am really being challenged.

Photo Challenge day 8

2012-02-08T22:11:00.002-05:00

I only wish I looked this good while sleeping. Working the night shift tonight so I was sleeping at 10:00