Been A While

It's been a while since I've blogged. My life has changed some for the better. Last I posted I lost my job. It was a blessing in diguise. I am now working back in my parents business, which I LOVE! I worked with them from 1994-2003 but the business has changed some in the past 6 years so I'm relearning some. Right now I'm mainly working on sales and marketing. And I'm utilizing my graphic design skills that I went to school for! Yippeee!!! I am in process of redoing the company's website. Right now it's VERY basic and not informative for our customer whatsoever but it's a start. See: Designs In Rugs. I'm sure in a few days it will change but I know this will be a few week project if not longer. I'm also working on marketing material (postcards, emails, flyers) and I even designed my own business cards. I'm not too fond of sales but I'm working the business. I'm trying to rekindle business relationships with customers we haven't worked with in a while and I'm really getting good responses so it makes me more comfortable.

My other half is still unemployed. I won't go into details but I'll just say BLAH!!!

My house that I was renting out the tenants moved out. So I'm looking for new tenants. I'm a little worried how I will pay my mortgage next month if I don't have new tenants. (This is where my BLAH with Joe will turn ugly.)

Sara started high school!! She's adjusted very well and is taking her grades more seriously. Like she actually does her homework without me constantly reminding her. The high school transistion was MUCH better than the middle school transistion.

So that's my update in a nutshell. I'm not sure how often I'll be blogging but I'll try to keep it updated.

PS-67 days till New Moon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Twilight Stuff

As I'm going thru my Google Reader on blogs I follow, I come to Twitarded. A blog about this adult woman and her adventures with her mini-Edward and her love for Twilight's Rob Pattinson. I literaly laugh until tears are pouring out my eyes and today I almost peed in my pants reading her posts. This blog is now my #1 all-time favorite blog. Even if you aren't a Twilight obsessor, it's one blog you gotta read!

Monday Sara super cleaned her room. Meaning she moved furniture and found stuff that hasn't seen daylight in years. When it was all said and done, she took out 9 bags of trash. I complimented her how great her room looks and she said it's because it's empty. lol. She is the bestest daughter. She puts up with my Twilight obsession. While cleaning her room she found Twilight stuff she had. Her obsession isn't nothing compared to mine. (She will tell you she's not obsessed at all but I know its deep down in there somewhere.) She gave me a Cullen crest keychain, 4 button pins, a magazine that had a Twilight article in it and she gave me possession of all 4 books! They are mine! All mine! I told you she's the best!

I saw on another twilight blog about this dance from that show So You Think You Can Dance. I've never watched the show and really have no desire to. One of the couples did a dance to Fire and Ice, which is a song on the Twilight soundtrack. Eh, the dance was ok. So I email it to my sister to get her opinion. My opinion is the only reason I watched it is because of the song. So then I go on to tell her how I almost had 2 heart attacks yesterday because of my Twilight stuff. Yesterday I wake up to mega rain storm outside. When it rains super hard for a long time, the water builds up outside and comes in the house from underneath which makes my bedroom carpet wet. I step on the floor to get out of bed to wet carpet. Ew! I look down and all 4 Twilight books are on the floor. Eeek! I pick them up and inspect. Thank god no water damage. They now stay up off the floor. What in the hell was I thinking of even putting them on the floor in the first place? So then my next near-miss heart attack happens on my way home from work. I felt like listening to my Twilight soundtrack and I cannot find it. I keep it in the car since that is where I usually listen to CDs at. At each red light I went thru each CD I have in my visor CD holder and there is no Twilight CD. Joe was the last one messing with my CDs so I'm all prepared to give him a can of whoop-ass. I get home and confront him thinking him and Sara are playing a trick on me. (Playing around with Twilight is NO laughing matter!) Joe denies doing anything with my CD. He goes thru my CDs and voila! There it is! Where in the world did it come from? I think he secretely planted it but I'm glad to have it back. Really it wouldn't have been the end of the world is my Twilight CD disappeared since I have it on my itunes so I can burn another CD. But this particular CD was made for Sara (which she gave me long time ago) and the label on the CD has a picture of Edward and Bella. Like I said, don't mess with my Twlight stuff!

Ok, I got that Twilight stuff off my chest. I'm ok. Really.

Rain, Twilight and More

So I'll start with my favorite topic: Twilight!
If you happen to be in France on November 18, 2009, you'll be able to see New Moon 2 days before us folks in the US! L-U-C-K-Y! I love the french language. I took 2 years of it in high school but unfortunately forgot it. But watching this trailer makes it just that much better!


New subject: Rain.
It's been raining hard most the day. I'm not complaining as we need it. I can hear my grass "oooo"ing and "aaaaa"ing yet it desparately needs mowing. Hopefully I can get to that this weekend. Joe, Sara and I went out to dinner tonight to our fav buffet place. They have the absolute BEST mashed potatoes in the whole world. Wait. I take that back. The second BEST in the world. Nana makes the 1st BESTEST mashed potatoes in the world. So anyways, when we got to the restaurant the rain had paused. During our eatings it came down. Hard. So we took our time, chilled, watched MJ news on the tvs. It finally let up some so we decided we'd leave. Well we were not warned about the parking lot lake we had to go thru to get to the car. Joe acted like he was going to melt if he got wet. Sara was being silly and I don't think she minded getting wet. I didn't mind either. Hell, it's just water. It's Friday and I haven't a care on my mind at this moment. So when I stepped thru the parking lot I did try to lift my jeans up but it was no use. This parking lot lake went almost to my knees! See:

I almost lost my flip flops too so I stopped in the middle of the parking lot lake and took them off. As silly as this sounds, it was the most fun I had in that minute of crossing the parking lot lake and getting soaked and not caring that I've had in a long time. Pathetic I know. It almost made me want to go in my backyard to play in the rain. But I didn't. Because there was some thunder and when there's thunder there is lightning. No need to play outside with lightning.

3rd subject: More.
hhmmm....can't remember what else I was going to blog about so this is it for this post.

The Twilight Saga & More

One of my favorite websites these days is Twilighters Anonymous. I visit it on a daily basis and it helps me stay sane with my Twilight obsession--but only so far. =) They usually hold a weekly contest and last week's was a scavenger hunt. Of course I participated and guess what! I WON!! Unfortunately I didn't win Twilight stuff but I did win this book "Swoon" by Nina Malkin.

I am excited to broaden my horizon with new reading material. This weekend I found a Borders gift card I forgot I had so I bought Eloisa James' "This Duchess of Mine." I will have enough to keep me occupied for a few months. And I can always fall back on the Twilight Saga.

Last night was the premier of the New Moon trailer. For those of you who haven't seen it, here it is:
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON trailer in HD

Isn't it just SO exciting??! I can't wait till 11/20/09. My sister and I will be there along with her husband and Sara, who is refusing to stand or sit near us. And why my brother-in-law is going is beyond me since he thinks all this Twilight stuff is gay but in reality we think he's just jealous that we can express ourselves better than him. We all know he's got a secret crush on Alice.

Vampire Baseball

It's been 10 days since my last post about Twilight. So for our viewing pleasure, one of the best scenes from Twilight the movie:


175 days till New Moon comes out!!

My New Shirt

It finally came today! Something I've been waiting for over a week! My Twilight shirt! I had it custom made and it's absolutely so cool! (At least I think it is.) Check it out:
The front:

The back:

I had it shipped to my office so I'd get it sooner verses having to wait the drive home. The mailman was late today and got to my office just as I was leaving. I grabbed it, stuck the rest of the mail on my desk, waved a big good-bye to my boss and co-workers and left. I opened my package in the car on my way to pick up Sara from school. I was jumping up and down in my car with excitement (as much as you can wearing a seatbelt.) I got to Sara's school. I did think about putting it on to walk inside to get her cuz I know it would embarress her but I didn't. When we got in the car I showed her the shirt. She rolled her eyes and covered her face. Then her face lit up and asked if she could run back inside to show her friend. So I was like sure. I really think she's jealous that I have a Twilight shirt and she doesn't. She'll never admit it though. So anyways, we finally get home and I show Joe. He smiled and I asked him if he knew what this shirt was. He replied no. I informed him "it's MY Twilight shirt." He just laughed and carried on with what he was doing. I try not to show too much excitement of my Twilight obsession around him (don't want to get him jealous or anything ;-). But I think he knows just how bad I've got it.

It's going to be a great week!

Edward as Rob

Hi, I'm Sam. I'm addicted to Twilight. My daughter is embarressed by this fact (even though she likes Twilight, too). I am in love with Edward. Edward Cullen. Yes I know he is a fictional character but so what. We all can dream and have fantasies right? It's healthy for our minds. I'm not all gooey over Rob Pattinson. He's cute but only to a point. Although I do like his music. (It's on the Twilight soundtrack, which I listen to daily.) His music is soft and soothing. But put him in Edward-character: H-E-L-L-O!! I was catching up on reading other blogs and a new favorite blog of mine, Our Twilight Chronicles, posted this:
Um...WOW! Words just can't explain this. Ok, I need to go wipe the drool from my face and get back to work.

I'm OK...Really

Sunday night I finally finished reading Breaking Dawn. I read 4 books in 4 weeks. I am extremely excited for the New Moon movie to come out in November. I can't believe how CRAZY I have been for the Twilight series. I've never been like this with anything. But at least I get to share all this craziness with my sister. heehee. She's got it bad just like me. We've watched the movie the past 3 weekends...this weekend maybe 4? She is still reading Eclipse and I'm trying patiently for her to finish Breaking Dawn so we can really talk about the books. I don't want to spoil anything for her. =)

So now that I'm done reading them I will be reading them again. Another first for me. I've never read a book more than once. My favorite of the 4 is Eclipse. Then Twilight, then New Moon, then Breaking Dawn. I want to go to Forks to take a Twilight tour. I want Joe to sparkle. I want Joe to drive a shiny silver Volvo. I want to live for eternity and never sleep. Ok...sorry. Got out of hand there for a sec. (Missy, I'm ok. Really. No need for an intervention.)

So anyways I will try to post other interesting stuff on my blog so I don't bore anyone with all this Twilight talk...unless you want me to?!

It's the week prior to Mother's day and work is hell. I may be MIA until after it calms down. Well see how it goes.

Facebook & Twilight

As most of you know I work in the floral industry. Mother's day is the 2nd biggest holiday for us. Since we are high on the todum poll, our holiday rush is a few weeks prior to the holiday. Things haven't been that bad and I've actually had a few minutes here and there to "play." So what do I do when I "play?" I'm on gooing all about Edward and checking out Facebook. I found this group, Addicted to Twilight, on Facebook so I've spent much time checking out all the great images and taking the silly tests. (I've taken several tests that say I'm compatible to be with Edward. =) There is this quiz about Twilight (books & movie) and I'm so hooked on it. I know most the answers. I still have half of Breaking Dawn to finish reading. But I had a goal to become top of my team which basically I believe is just my other friends that also do the quiz. Well today I finally beat my top friend! (My chick-a-dee's hubby!!) I know such a silly thing but I feel so accomplished!

Ok, I'm going to stop gooing all over Edward and try to get back to work.