Please park all brooms at the door

Oh What to do, what to do........

Hmmm....... Lets see where Shall I begin????????? The good news is that we are no longer having a problem with Minnie digging her way under the fence to our neighbor's yards. Nope, she is over that! Now she is on to digging under the back fence in to the ally then running around to our front yard. A couple weeks ago, I was getting out of the shower and I heard lots of barking coming from the front yard. I was thinking o great one of our neighbor's pits is out which is almost like an everyday thing. So I look out the window and what do I see? Minnie barking at the mail man. In the middle of the street. So I am in my towel and I open the front door screaming at her and she comes running in to the house. I was sooooooo mad at her. So the whole time I am throwing on my clothes to go get our mail, I am yelling at her. She just lays down on the living room floor and keeps her head down. As I leave the house I yell at her to stay and not move. So I go down the block and apologize to the mail man. He tells me that was the first time he pepper sprayed a dog and the dog didn't back off. So I get my mail and walk in the door and Minnie was actually still laying where she was right when I left.

So yesterday morning, Shawn just got up to get ready for work and there is a knock on the door. It is our neighbor from across the street. He explains to Shawn that Minnie got a hold of a rooster. Meghan goes and looks at the rooster and Shawn whistles for Minnie who is now in our neighbor's drive way hiding behind their van. She slowly comes out with her head down. Meghan comes in and says that the rooster is in two pieces and that organs are out. Then in comes Minnie and Shawn. Minnie immediately runs to the backdoor. I think she was trying to get away from Shawn who is yelling at her. As soon as he opens the door she runs out. He goes out to temporarily fix another hole. I guess he was sticking a brick in it or something, but it scared Miss Minnie and she bit her tongue. So back in comes Shawn and Minnie. He is trying to check out her tongue which has already quit bleeding. Then he is petting and loving on her and omg the look on her face was like ha ha ha hes not mad at me. When Shawn takes her back out side, Meghan says, "I think she was faking!" I said, "You think? She has to be the biggest drama queen dog I know!" Oh and guess what it doesn't end here! Nope guess where Minnie is right now? Laying on the floor right beside me. While I was connecting the computer to the internet, I thought I would call Shawn and see if he was going to come home for lunch and he asked me if the mail had came? So I look out the front door window and vroom right past my eyes was a blonde thing. I said NO SHE DID NOT! Shawn goes what? I open the door and yell Minnie and her she comes. I get off the phone with Shawn and I start talking to her and when I stop talking she runs for the backdoor like okay now let me back out. I looked at her and said nope your not going back out, just so you can create another hole under the fence. Shawn should be home any minute now for lunch, and if Minnie thinks she is going outside she is wrong. I do not have class this afternoon since I have already turned in my observation report, so she can stay inside with me while I finish laundry and work on my online classes. How boring I know!! I think I have already made her mad, when Red and all the other neighborhood dogs were howling at the sirens. She went crazy with her whining and I just looked at her and said no, so she just laid down. Shawn and I bought chicken wire lastnight. We are hoping that will stop it. Is there such a thing as a dog going through teenage years? And my next question is I never snuck out at all so why do I get stuck with a dog that does?
As far as Mr. Red, he doesn't leave the backyard unless we pick him up and carry him. He just runs around and plays with toys are walks around in their empty pools.
By the way, with the whole Rooster thing, I am wondering (from where the rooster was attacked mainly) if it was messing with the dogs and Minnie just thought I will show him. In the backyard, she will catch these huge black colored birds and then she drops them in the home depot bucket. Oh and if you are worried that the rooster was the same one that was in our yard a few months ago, I don't think it was judging by the color of the pile of feathers by our back fence.

Toodles

~oh the pictures were taken yesterday afternoon from the kitchen window~

What do you think?

SO I typed up a long post earlier about little miss minnie, but then the computer messed up and now it is no where to be found. So I just kind of researched the comment about my brother and this is what I found....

Godwin is Super Star of the Week

11/21/2005
Ryan Godwin scored a career-high 31 points against Texas Wesleyan.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Ryan Godwin is this week’s Super Star of the Week after scoring 22.3 points with 1.67 steals a game this past week.Godwin scored a career-high 31 points and had four steals in an 89-81 victory over 15th-ranked Texas Wesleyan, hitting six 3-pointers. Godwin's previous high was 22 against East Central last season. For the week, Godwin hit 12 treys and shot 52 percent from 3-point range.“The thing I was most impressed with was how we gutted it out,” OCU coach Ray Harper said of the win. “Ryan stepped up big time. He made some big plays.”A senior from Ardmore, Okla., Godwin is a basketball junkie. Godwin said he can usually be found at the gym or home. If he’s bored, he’ll play basketball. The reason he picked Oklahoma City University was the basketball team.However, if Godwin played another sport, it would be football. He said that the New England Patriots will win the Super Bowl early in the season.Godwin’s favorite TV show is ESPN. He hopes to travel to another country someday.More on Ryan:Favorite athlete: Allen IversonFavorite TV show: ESPNReason I picked OCU: BasketballYou’re most likely to find me at: The gym, homeIf I’m bored, I: Play basketballReason I’ve gotten this far: Jesus Christ

http://www.okcu.edu/athletics/newsdetail.aspx?id=10023&c=1

So ummm...... yea that is not my brother

This week is going by.....

fast. So far this week has been great. I am pretty much done with my school work. I have an assignement I need to finish sometime today. Have you ever watched or played the game twister moves? Yesterday, a few kids wanted to play so since there were not very many kids left. We got it out and I attempted to play. It is like a work out of its own. Everyone has their own small mat. You can watch a demo of it at http://www.hasbro.com/twistermoves/ just click on try it. Well I need to go get in the shower. Shawn has his night driving tonight. So he does not go to school until 12:30.




Here is a pic of Minnie and Red cuddling lastnight.

Awesome Birthday!

So my 22nd Birthday turned out great after all. Actually it was awesome! I received the roses Friday afternoon from Shawn. It just topped everything else that had happened that day. I think things at work are going to turn around. I am kind of glad that I am off on Mondays. The only bad thing is, is that tomorrow, I have 6 assignments I need to get done by Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. I decided not to change my blogging address! I figure if you don't like my blog, then don't visit it. Hey who would have thought of that. So anyways, Thanks for everyone that called and left messages on my phone. I was not able to have my phone on me Friday, but now if you need to talk to me and I am at work, just like the others, I can carry my phone. I have to say my favorite voice mail, had to be my cousin Kyle singing happy birthday to me. I was able to listen to it shortly after I received my roses. The day just kept getting better and better! Friday night, my parents treated me to Leals! It was wonderful! Then Meghan stayed the night and kept me company until Shawn got home. Yesterday, when we finally got up and around I went to the mall, with Meghan and her friend Amanda. It was fun, but by the time we left I was ready to go. I think if I went there everyday for 3 1/2 hours and just walked I would be in great shape. It was like almost everystore we went in to the escalator was out. If you have ever been in to the Dillards at our mall you would know that that is a steep stairway. Anyway, I found some really great deals! It was funny we went into Mervyns and there is only like 3 clothing racks left with about 20 people around each one left. We decided to walk through the store and then walked right back out. I didn't realize they were leaving so fast! After the mall, I took Amanda to work, then Meghan and I went to walmart with mom. Afterwards, Meghan and I came back to my house. Meghan ate her subway and then Shawn wanted to take me to out to eat at Texas Roadhouse, where for the first time we had horrible service. But my grilled chicken salad was excellent. oh Meghan just ate dessert there. ( I don't want her to sound like a pig) That was my birthday dinner with Shawn. Then we headed home. Last night we watched Sky High. I really liked that movie!

So........ how do you like my new template? I found those two backgrounds and found a way to put them together. I have been working on that while Meghan and Amanda are at drivers ed. Well, I better get going, I told Shawn I would take him his leftovers last night to eat for lunch and I need to pick Meghan and Amanda up from drivers ed. By the way, thanks to that picture of my roses I just realized that I still have stocking and two ornaments hanging up on the shelf. At least it isn't summer and I am just realizing it.

Toodles~

It's here!

It's finally my birthday! So lastnight, I didn't come home and crawl in bed and cry myself to sleep. I came home, still kind of mad and decided I did not want to be at home by myself and I needed a new vacuum filter. I figured Meghan would go with me so I headed over to my parents and talked/cried to my dad about everything and then when my mom got home I talked/cried to her and then I was bound and determined not to let everything that had taken place earlier that day to completely ruin it all. Then lastnight before I went to bed, I checked my email and I had a wonderful email that my Aunt Peggy had sent to me on Wednesday and it made me feel so special that I cried but those were not tears of anger or hurt. I think this whole birthday experience this year is just to new to me and a great lesson. I guess the days before it and today itself is just all together different. But, it just makes me smile and realize how thankful I am in an odd awkward way. I guess in some ways, I still am naive and think that the world isn't has bad as I think it is and then it is shown to me. It is almost like a whole other awakening. I think a day in 7th grade was my first big awakening to this world. It would probably be the day that I realized hey not everybody is Christian, and not everybody worships God, and some people even go as far as worshiping the devil. You might be thinking 7th grade? Didn't you know that before hand? Well ya, I heard it at church, from my parents, the news, and other sources. But when I seen a guy with devil worshiping jewelry on and it written on his books I couldn't believe it. Then I guess the years following after that, I just never understood why people go out and do things like drinking to get wasted all the time, drugs, or whatever else. But I also had parents that talked openly about everything and other extended family members that were practically walking warning posters to myself. I never wanted to do that and It still doesn't appeal to me. I think sometimes by me not showing interest in things like that makes me a target because people (who obviously don't know me that well) automatically think that something is wrong with me. Like my bachelorette party and Shawn's bachelor party is actually that because we didn't have strippers. Or you don't go to the club every weekend or you have never been here or there? Why or how that was work related and brought up at a meeting I will never know? Well speaking of work I am suppose to be there in 15 minutes and I still have to blow dry my hair! By the way today's proverbs 31 devo is awesome! And if you ever read girl talk there is a post on a personal retreat and I think I am going to do that next weekend. Anyways, I better go! Thanks for caring and loving me as I am!

Toodles~

TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY!!!!

hmmm.... have you ever

Started the week out in a great mood, while the others around you are not, but yet you are so determined not to get into the negativity that they are in? Well I guess what! I failed at that today. This is my birthday week and I wanted to be in a great mood all week long, but I guess that isn't happening. I just want to crawl in bed and cry right now. I dunno why, I guess because people can be so rude, hurtful, and purposely mean! I am mad at myself right now for even feeling this way and letting it get me down! I just dont see how people can do things just because they are in a bad negative bitchy mood! Since Tuesday, I have heard well aren't you in such a good mood, and then it is like with in a few minutes lets see what we can say negatively about you. I guess today's meeting did that. I know that I am not a perfect angel but who knew I could be and do all of these other things that I have no clue about. Some of these things aren't even things I would do. Who knew that loving to have birthdays and getting excited was such a bad thing to other people. I really wish Shawn didn't have to work tonight or tomorrow. Anyways..... School was okay lastnight. I thought the drive to Canyon would let me have some time to myself after getting off work, but traffic was awful and I think every slow driver was on the road. Shawn and I left my house at 6:05 and didn't get to Canyon until 6:45 and then Shawn ended up having to park the car because I was so frustrated by the time we arrived. I don't have anything else to really type up, I think I am fixing to change my blogger address. I might do that this weekend. If I do, just check your email for it. I really hope that all of you are having an awesome week! I turn 22 tomorrow for those that care and want to be happy with me. My prayer for the day is just pray that I have a good day tomorrow, because I think I have an invisable target on my back that I can't find or see to take off.

Nevermind

Disregard the question in the previous post. I changed the layout with the help of a different blogger template. Now I am off to bed! Did any one watch American Idol? My favorite part had to be when they asked the girl to bring her mom in and her mom was dressed worse than her tanning bed daughter. Have a good night.

My birthday is in 3 more days/ well actually in a couple of hours it is only 2 days away.


Toodles~

Quick Question & Post

Is the side bar information(links, archives, info) on the side or down at the bottom underneath the posts. Please comment and let me know. I have had a couple of people tell me it is down at the bottom, but yet on my computers at home it is on the side. So I would like to see the majority on this.
Today, was a so so day. I wasn't in a bad mood, but yet I wasn't in a good mood. It is when you just don't feel good, but you just can't tell what is wrong. Shawn is laying on the couch with a fever right now. We found out that he has an abscessed tooth or something like that. He is on antibiotics and pain killers. I am not a big american idol fan, but I love the first few episodes that come on. I think that is what we are watching tonight, while I get ready for school tomorrow.

Toodles~

I thought she knew the whole point of pajamas and how to wear them!

What happened????? When Meghan got up this morning from the couch this is what she was wearing. Yep, she is Seriously wearing pj shorts over jeans. Shawn and I happened to see the camera and got a picture. She is still walking around like that! Hopefully my sister doesn't sue me for slander over this picture! Mom, I guess the good news is that she likes the pj shorts you got her!


Toodles~

Hmmmm...... It's Monday and I am off and so is Shawn!!!

This weekend was fun for the most part. I went to lunch and shopping with my mom on Saturday. I had a great time! Yesterday, Meghan and Amanda stayed the night. Never a dual moment with those two. I also discovered Starbucks Caramel Frappuccino. We were at walmart last night buying ice packs and stuff for Shawn, and I decided to try it. I like the vanilla, but this is sooo much better! Shawn has a dentist appt this afternoon at 2. Saturday he developed a tooth ache and it has only gotten worse. So we called around this morning and found him a place to go. So anyway, now I am just sitting here watching him play on the ps2. I think the plan for today is just to sit around, relax, listen to the drama rama in Meghan and Amandas' life, oh and hopefully finish up on laundry. Hope everyone has a great week! My birthday is in 4 days!!!! I think all birthday should be fun, no matter how old a person is!


Toodles~

Happy Friday

I am so glad today is Friday! We don't have much planned this weekend. Shawn works Saturday and Sunday. We both have Monday off! So we can spend the day together. Shawn has his shooting gun whatever test today. I am waiting for him to call me and tell me how he did. I start school on the 18th! I am ready. I will probably go and buy my books early on Tuesday, since I have to be at work at 10:30. Well I need to go get ready for work. Sorry for such a boring post.

~Toodles


Quick Update: Shawn said he got all 50 shots on paper and 49 of them in the box. They needed at least 70% of their shots in the box. So he did great! 12:51 pm

Guess What???

It snowed today! YEAH!!!!! It is suppose to be sunny and in mid 50's tomorrow. I am just glad that we got a little bit of snow! :)

toodles~

Forgot to ask

So what do you think about the new template???

Do I really hear an Ice Cream truck?

I guess I am not imagining it, an ice cream truck just passed by outside. I guess it is warm enough out side. So anyway, there really isn't much to update on. I may be graduating a semester maybe 2 before I thought. It all depends on how many classes I am able to take this summer. I thought I was busy before with school, but probably not compared to what I will be this semester. I am taking 18 hrs. I have never taken that much. I have 3 online classes 1 class mwf from 9 to 9:50 and then a Monday afternoon class from 4 to 6:30 and a Wednesday night class 7 to 9:40. I will not be working on Mondays, just 11:00 to 6:30 T,TH,&F and 10:30 to 6 on W. So the plan is now just to stay in Canyon all day Monday and that gives me time to work on my online classes. The thing, I am really mad about is two of my online classes are English Classes. I wouldn't be so mad, but I have already had several other English Classes when I was an English Major, and they will not let me substitute them. It is pretty much what I consider Basic education classes this semester. My Monday afternoon class is the only class that I have about/over Special Education. I think the challenging part will be trying to get in observation hours for 4 of the 6 classes I am taking. So now, I am kind of antsy just for the semester to begin, so it can be over with. Does that make since? The only part that kind of frightens me or makes me nervous is the question Where Shawn will be working at and if we have to move? I think the scary part is I was looking at the syllabuses for the classes I am taking and it looks like I have midterms the week after spring break, but we shall see. My birthday is in 12 days!!!! I am so excited. This will actually be the first birthday in like the last 6 years that I haven't gone anywhere and that kind of bums me out. We were going to try to make it out of town, but Shawn has to work. Well anyways, I just remembered something I need to do.

Toodles~

A ride with Minnie

Yesterday afternoon and early evening, Shawn and I were cleaning up the backyard and spending time with the dogs. Minnie has changed a lot and Red has gotten so big. I think he weighs more than Minnie now. I just hope that he will eventually come around socially. It was a big step for him yesterday for me to hold the leash and him take 4 baby steps towards me before he laid down on his stomach. Since, we have gotten him, we have put a leash on him and let him run around. He does fine until you pick it up and then splat. There he goes on his tummy again. We really don't know what else to do. He has just barely began following Shawn and Minnie out the back gate to take out the trash. Anyway, Minnie is doing great with her commands and she doesn't really jump anymore except on Shawn, but that is because he allows it most of the time. Anyway, last night we had to go to Sams to fill the truck up and we decided to take Minnie with us. She was sitting in the back seat and doing fine until we started to go over the Ross-Mirror bridge. Once we got to the top we noticed that she had laid down flat on her tummy and kind of moaned. Shawn and I didn't know what to think at the time. But on our way back, She did fine going up the bridge but by the time we were at the top of it She was laying down again. Then when we reached the bottom, She peeked her head up, and then sat back up. So we discovered that Minnie really does not like heights! By the way, the picture is a picture we took last night in the truck.

Today was my first day back to work and Shawn's back to school. I went to work at 10 thinking that we all had to be there at 10 but I guess we didn't have to show up until our normal time which mine on Tuesday's is 11:30 so I got to leave at 5. The kids were not to happy about me leaving though. Through out the next 6 to 8 weeks, I have to go over social skills with my kids. This week and next week we are covering Problem Solving. I thought I would have a hard time getting them to listen, but I didn't. They were so into today's activities of acting out different scenarios and discussing steps that they about freaked when I said I was leaving at 5. I have to say that I was proud of myself for making it interesting enough for them and I just pray that I do the same on the other topics.
Shawn seemed to have a good day at school. He is excited about starting Fire Arms on Monday. He doesn't work again until Thursday.
Yucky, I just heard on the news that we probably are not going to get rain until spring. But hopefully they are wrong! Isn't it sad that for once I am praying that the weather people are wrong. Half of the kids today at work were in summer clothes. Shorts, Skirts, and sandals at the beginning of January. I would like to wear my winter clothes. It is so dry and kind of miserable. What I mean by miserable is that I don't think my skin has ever been this bad. Shawn and I have a humidifier that we use, but I don't know how much help that is doing now. At first it seemed to help, but now I seem to wake up with headaches all of the time now. Like this morning at 6 I had a horrible headache. I took some aspirin grabbed an ice pack and went back to bed. It was my first time using an ice pack but it seemed to help a lot. I guess we are lucky here in Amarillo right now that we have not had any huge damaging fires like other places. I think there were a couple of grass fires today. But thank goodness the wind was not as bad as Sunday. Sunday the wind was blowing 40 to 60 mph. non exaggerating there. It was crazy outside. When I was taking Shawn to work there were a few of motorhomes with trailers pulled over on I40. I was having such a hard time driving that I ended up taking a different way home than I40. Well now I am just rambling on. I think I am going to call it a night.


Toodles~

ps my b-day is in 16 days :)

Happy New Year !!!!