Its a GIRL!

Joe and I are the proud parents of a baby girl.

Her name is Evey.

please dont let me get salmonella

So apparently they are recalling Peter Pan and Great value brands of peanut butter. There is a salmonella outbreak all over the country assumed to be a result of the peanuts.

The article.

The jars with the number on the top starting with '2111' are at risk for contamination.

This is really freaking me out considering we just bought a great value brand jar of peanut butter the last time we were at the store and I ate some two days ago.

My cousin also has a jar, and Joe's parents.

PLEASE DONT LET ME GET SICK!

On another....happier....note, we have the bronco. Its almost like riding in a semi. Joe is hogging all the fun by driving it the past few days. ;)

We are also going to get a puppy. A little miniature schnauzer. I think we are going to pick it up tomorrow. I'm nervous. It seems that every pet I get dies on me. Its not that I dont take care of them, I think I just tend to find the sad sickly ones endearing and want to help them. Like my poor chloe. She was a chinese dwarf hamster that someone tried to take back to the pet store because the other hamster didn't like her and bit her tail off! Of course they wouldn't take her back and I over heard while looking around.

Anyway, I hope I'm a good mommy to a perfectly healthy little puppy. I've been reading articles all day about taking care of a puppy, safety tips, and such. Its a big step for Joe and me. I hope we can make her happy.

I beat HALO II the other day. DUDE, I'm a serious gamer. HAHA.

I dont think anyone reads this anymore. Except for my cousin, so HEY ROBIN, i had a great time with you coming down last weekend. Don't forget our home is always open for you to stay, especially with your 21st coming up soon. We will PAR-TAY! Love you.

Bronco woman

So its decided. Joe's gonna give his buddy an offer on the bronco. It will soon be ours. My daily driver.

Its interesting my whole life I've wanted a bronco or a jeep. When my sixteenth birthday rolled around my father picked a civic for me. Mostly cause it was cheap and reliable. I was greatful of course, but in the back of my mind I always wondered why they didn't give me a sixteenth birthday gift that I wanted. Like my birthday wasn't even mine. My life was lived according to what they wanted. Now that I'm married and finally truly happy, its interesting that Joe picks something like this for me. Like he's fulfilling every bit that was missing. Even the petty wants and desires. I know that sounds rediculous, but while you are sitting back in your little sedan (being a square) wondering what life could hold for you outside the box....i'm driving OVER you and laughing.



The engine has been completely rebuilt. It has something like 30 thousand miles on it. And its a beast. I have to jump up to get in it. Like actually mounting a horse.
So, I'm a bronco woman.

I like it :).

No comparison

So yesterday turned out to be an interesting day.

I went to the Claremore Indian hospital. Since I dont have health insurance still, I decided to take advantage of the fact that I'm Cherokee and have my card. At the Indian hospital you can have everything from a routine physician's check-up to a dental teeth cleaning and free pharmacy. Well, the problem is, its first come first serve. So I arrive and hour before they open to get in line. Surprisingly I get through setting up my chart# (a general identification so you can use any of their services) fairly quickly. But the specific kind of treatment I was seeking actually required me to sign up for an appointment. The EARLIEST of which was JULY 3! 'F' that. So I walked out and decided it was a complete waste of time.
When I go home is when it REALLY gets interesting.

Its starts to snow some and soon its covered the ground and starts getting cold outside. I'm doing a little house work and suddenly the power goes off. I go into a panic thinking that maybe the snow storm somehow made someone crash into a pole or something. Then remembering that some people in this part of the state were without power for nearly two weeks and knowing that the news predicted the temp was supposed to be in the teens that night, I REALLY START TO PANIC!

Then in the very very back of my mind I remember my husband telling me that in order to transfer the electric into our name I was supposed to drive 40 minutes to the po-dunk electric company's office in COLLINSVILLE to give a deposit. It had completely left my mind. This was weeks ago before the last ice storm. OH GOD! I then proceed to chew the heck out of the company on my cell. "WHO IN THE HECK TURNS OFF SOMEONE'S POWER IN THE MIDDLE OF A SNOW STORM? WHAT KIND OF A PERSON/PEOPLE ARE THAT COLD-HEARTED AND DEMENTED ENOUGH NOT TO CONTACT THE PEOPLE EITHER BY MAIL OR PHONE AND TELL THEM THEY NEED TO GIVE A DEPOSIT SOON OR SOMETHING!?" It was just rediculous.
So, I then proceed to drive nearly an hour (cause of the road conditions) in the middle of a snow storm, all the way to their office just to give a deposit.

I'm just glad that Joe was at work and couldn't deal with this or I'm afraid someone over there would be dead. Or at the least deaf and delirious.

VERTIGRIS VALLEY ELECTRIC AND BASLER REAL ESTATE.....watch your backs.
A-holes.

On another note...Joe seems to really want to get this:

I would be driving it most of the time...but....
I kinda want one of these first:

No comparison really....