Hopping on a plane to North Carolina tonight to see my aunt, cousin and uncle! Should be good times… will also see Katie and Tiff while I’m in which I’m also very excited about – we have a lot packed into the next few days so I’ll probably have lots to share when I get back! AND hopefully a lot of pictures!!
Curt has a softball game tonight that I’m missing, as well as an after birthday party for one of the guys – bummer! But hopefully he’ll get a ton done with the house while I’m gone, b/c time is ticking away quickly and we only have a couple weeks until we said we would put it up! Yikes!
Talk to y’all soon…
xx
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Let's try this again....
Ok – here we go one more time…
So this past weekend was really great – Friday we went to a comedy club downtown and saw Cowboy Bill Martin, who by the way is the funniest cowboy I have ever seen… my favorite one liner of his that is SO true is “What is the difference between a redneck and a cowboy” which he supposedly asked his father as a boy growing up b/c people were teasing him about being a redneck, and his father quickly replied back “acreage, which makes you a cowboy” b/c they had some land… We laughed so hard! And then he goes – “Now I know some of you are laughing, but the truth is some of y’all will be going home late tonight, and the only place left to park is next to the dumpster,” which of course sent the audience into roars… very classic! He was a great comedian that is one of those kinds that used human nature to make people laugh so we had a great time… come to think of it, I’ve never gone to a comedy club and NOT had a great time – why don’t we do this more???
Saturday was an exhausting day – woke up at the butt crack of dawn and got ready for the moving sale festivities to begin… Curt and Kendyl started putting signs out at 6:45 a.m. and by 7 a.m. there were people coming by (and interrupting my process of bringing everything outside) and buying stuff! I swear over 100 people came through for the sale, and probably about half of them came through before 8 a.m. when it officially was slated to start! But I’m not complaining, we sold a ton of stuff and made a great profit, and by 2 p.m. we were finished and packing up. In the 11th hour someone wanted to buy the couch set, so we got that sold. It sold for less than I wanted, but the lady was telling me a sob story so I negotiated with her and I am happy with what we got even though it is lower than what we wanted… so now we just have the Gazelle, Oriental Rug, and Aquarium left to find people to buy and that’s it! We’ll be taking a bunch of stuff over to Goodwill as well and Half Price Books and make all of those rounds so that will clear out some more stuff!!
After we finished with the Moving Sale fun, we got cleaned up and got ready for a movie and dinner out with some of my Life Group folks – we saw Da Vinci Code and I liked it, though of course the movie of any book will never be as good! Then we went to Mi Cocina for dinner which was SO YUMMY and one of my favorites – best salad of your life! So it was a great night out with friends and as soon as we got home (11 p.m.ish) we hit the hay b/c we were all so tired from sitting in the hot sun all day from the moving sale!
Sunday Kendyl left in the morning and Curt and I hightailed it to church, then spent the rest of the day fixing up the house and doing things to get it ready to put on the market – this is such a huge job!! Then we went to Life Group and had a great time, and watched Crash (Netflix – whoop!) when we got home – GREAT movie, by the way!!
Yesterday Curt and I worked hard… I got home at around 6:45 p.m. from work, and then we got busy mulching the front and backyard – that stuff was *radiating* heat – not kidding – so not only was it in the high 90’s, but we were kneed deep in that stuff until about 9:15 p.m. and just dripping sweat… but we got it done! So tonight we have a meeting and what not, but maybe we’ll start packing a few boxes to “de-clutter” our house… take down personal pictures of us, and make it look like neat freaks live there! J
Oh! And Curt and I are getting way excited about our mini vacation to Playa del Carmen…
Curt bought a camera housing for our digital camera which will save us a lot of money from here on out with diving… (disposable cameras are expensive and not good quality, and renting a camera from a dive shop is ridiculously expensive, not to mention getting the CD and prints of the pics you like), so the housing will probably pay for itself in its first trip if we take a lot of great pictures! Curt also invested and bought us a couple diving knifes and scissors, which will make me feel better about diving in general… always have to have a plan and be prepared!! Here is the housing we bought…
we’re SO excited! We’re hoping to see a ton of sea turtles, and I have a feeling the cenotes will be so amazingly gorgeous… this will be just what we need before we start this new chapter of our lives!
I hope everyone is having a great day – speak soon.
xx
So this past weekend was really great – Friday we went to a comedy club downtown and saw Cowboy Bill Martin, who by the way is the funniest cowboy I have ever seen… my favorite one liner of his that is SO true is “What is the difference between a redneck and a cowboy” which he supposedly asked his father as a boy growing up b/c people were teasing him about being a redneck, and his father quickly replied back “acreage, which makes you a cowboy” b/c they had some land… We laughed so hard! And then he goes – “Now I know some of you are laughing, but the truth is some of y’all will be going home late tonight, and the only place left to park is next to the dumpster,” which of course sent the audience into roars… very classic! He was a great comedian that is one of those kinds that used human nature to make people laugh so we had a great time… come to think of it, I’ve never gone to a comedy club and NOT had a great time – why don’t we do this more???
Saturday was an exhausting day – woke up at the butt crack of dawn and got ready for the moving sale festivities to begin… Curt and Kendyl started putting signs out at 6:45 a.m. and by 7 a.m. there were people coming by (and interrupting my process of bringing everything outside) and buying stuff! I swear over 100 people came through for the sale, and probably about half of them came through before 8 a.m. when it officially was slated to start! But I’m not complaining, we sold a ton of stuff and made a great profit, and by 2 p.m. we were finished and packing up. In the 11th hour someone wanted to buy the couch set, so we got that sold. It sold for less than I wanted, but the lady was telling me a sob story so I negotiated with her and I am happy with what we got even though it is lower than what we wanted… so now we just have the Gazelle, Oriental Rug, and Aquarium left to find people to buy and that’s it! We’ll be taking a bunch of stuff over to Goodwill as well and Half Price Books and make all of those rounds so that will clear out some more stuff!!
After we finished with the Moving Sale fun, we got cleaned up and got ready for a movie and dinner out with some of my Life Group folks – we saw Da Vinci Code and I liked it, though of course the movie of any book will never be as good! Then we went to Mi Cocina for dinner which was SO YUMMY and one of my favorites – best salad of your life! So it was a great night out with friends and as soon as we got home (11 p.m.ish) we hit the hay b/c we were all so tired from sitting in the hot sun all day from the moving sale!
Sunday Kendyl left in the morning and Curt and I hightailed it to church, then spent the rest of the day fixing up the house and doing things to get it ready to put on the market – this is such a huge job!! Then we went to Life Group and had a great time, and watched Crash (Netflix – whoop!) when we got home – GREAT movie, by the way!!
Yesterday Curt and I worked hard… I got home at around 6:45 p.m. from work, and then we got busy mulching the front and backyard – that stuff was *radiating* heat – not kidding – so not only was it in the high 90’s, but we were kneed deep in that stuff until about 9:15 p.m. and just dripping sweat… but we got it done! So tonight we have a meeting and what not, but maybe we’ll start packing a few boxes to “de-clutter” our house… take down personal pictures of us, and make it look like neat freaks live there! J
Oh! And Curt and I are getting way excited about our mini vacation to Playa del Carmen…
Curt bought a camera housing for our digital camera which will save us a lot of money from here on out with diving… (disposable cameras are expensive and not good quality, and renting a camera from a dive shop is ridiculously expensive, not to mention getting the CD and prints of the pics you like), so the housing will probably pay for itself in its first trip if we take a lot of great pictures! Curt also invested and bought us a couple diving knifes and scissors, which will make me feel better about diving in general… always have to have a plan and be prepared!! Here is the housing we bought… we’re SO excited! We’re hoping to see a ton of sea turtles, and I have a feeling the cenotes will be so amazingly gorgeous… this will be just what we need before we start this new chapter of our lives!
I hope everyone is having a great day – speak soon.
xx
Monday, June 12, 2006
GRRR
I totally just wrote this huge entry that covered the weekend and everything, and it is officially lost in time... I just don't even have the energy to recreate... sorry :-(
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR - there's a nice 20 minutes of my life wasted!
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR - there's a nice 20 minutes of my life wasted!
Friday, June 09, 2006
So glad it's Friday!
So this week was full of business, fun, and sometimes not so fun things like work - well I'll take that back, not that work isn't fun but it's not AS fun as hanging out at the pool or something! We had a ton of meetings this week but will have our tasks lined out very soon and get going on the report writing! I did well with working out this week and woke up early on T,W,TR so that was an accomplishment though I'm exhausted with no weekend catching up in sight, so oh well....
Curt had his first softball game this week which was a blast – they won 24-8 and really had a ton of great plays!! He's really excited about his team except for the burnt orange jersey! Don’t worry, I bought some white letters and stuck them on (then Curt ironed them) that says Gig ‘Em Aggies so it was a big hit despite the color!
This weekend we're hitting a comedy club, having a moving sale tomorrow, going to see the Da Vinci Code with some friends, and getting the house ready and other *great* chores! The ball is officially rolling!!
So leaving the office and ready for the weekend, I hope everyone else has a great one! :-)
xx
Curt had his first softball game this week which was a blast – they won 24-8 and really had a ton of great plays!! He's really excited about his team except for the burnt orange jersey! Don’t worry, I bought some white letters and stuck them on (then Curt ironed them) that says Gig ‘Em Aggies so it was a big hit despite the color!
This weekend we're hitting a comedy club, having a moving sale tomorrow, going to see the Da Vinci Code with some friends, and getting the house ready and other *great* chores! The ball is officially rolling!!
So leaving the office and ready for the weekend, I hope everyone else has a great one! :-)
xx
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
We have some news!
So... last week Curt got an offer to go work for Baker Hughes in The Woodlands, so we will be making the move to Houston! It was a really sudden happening, but he's had his feelers out for awhile though not actively pursuing. We are so excited about what this move will mean for his career, and it's for an amazing job with an awesome company that we both hold very highly... so he'll be starting there in July, and I'll be staying up here to finish up my project and coming behind him when that happens. In the meantime I'll be trying to get the house ready and keeping it clean while I'm up here so that hopefully it won't take too long to sell. So we'll see - going to be a lot happening here in the next month but it's exciting for us so it will be great! I do get *really* sad when I think about having to leave our house and the area, b/c we really have made so many wonderful friends here and it will be hard to leave this life we've built here behind...
Anyway, thought I should share the news!
We are excited about another new development, too, as a result of this - we are taking a quick vacation over the July 4th weekend! We booked a trip to Playa Del Carmen so we could scuba dive away so that Curt could have a mental break before beginning his new job, so that will be a BLAST and satisfy some of our scuba cravings. We're going to dive the Cenotes 
and do a night dive as well - I had just better see a turtle, though, because we didn't see ANY in the Bahamas! So we'll let you know! Here's a couple pictures of the Cenotes (not my picture - from the web)... these are like shallow caves and were formed from running water, so there are a series of them. Those of you who know me that I am a little antsy about cave diving, so this is really the best place to start as there is ALWAYS a way out to the surface which is my condition on anything in life, not just diving! :-)
So we are very excited about our upcoming adventures... we're of course pysched for the trip, and we're very proud of our spontaneous booking (though don't worry, we did our research!) and deals that we got for it... now Curt will just have to find out if he can come to Europe with me this fall!
Hope everyone is having a great day -
xx!
Anyway, thought I should share the news!
We are excited about another new development, too, as a result of this - we are taking a quick vacation over the July 4th weekend! We booked a trip to Playa Del Carmen so we could scuba dive away so that Curt could have a mental break before beginning his new job, so that will be a BLAST and satisfy some of our scuba cravings. We're going to dive the Cenotes 
and do a night dive as well - I had just better see a turtle, though, because we didn't see ANY in the Bahamas! So we'll let you know! Here's a couple pictures of the Cenotes (not my picture - from the web)... these are like shallow caves and were formed from running water, so there are a series of them. Those of you who know me that I am a little antsy about cave diving, so this is really the best place to start as there is ALWAYS a way out to the surface which is my condition on anything in life, not just diving! :-)So we are very excited about our upcoming adventures... we're of course pysched for the trip, and we're very proud of our spontaneous booking (though don't worry, we did our research!) and deals that we got for it... now Curt will just have to find out if he can come to Europe with me this fall!
Hope everyone is having a great day -
xx!
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Wish it were still a holiday weekend!
So back to the daily grind... am writing this on my lunch break and I wish it were still the holiday weekend!
Yesterday was pretty relaxing - did some chores in the morning and went to the store, and then in the afternoon I went running (it was SO hot so I didn't get my full three miles in, was only able to do two, but I walked 2 to make up for it). Then we met up with Kim and Kevin and took the puppies to a dog park which was a TON of fun! There were probably about 10 dogs there, and they all loved it and had a blast playing with each other. They tired out quickly, but as adults sat chatting and since the shade was lovely and it was very scenic we were content to pass the time outside. After that we dropped the dogs off to get in the A/C and we went for some ice cream! Yum...
So now back to work and the life of being a grown-up... got lots going on and Curt and I are trying to get back on our diet/exercise regimen! I'm even waking up early in the morning to go run/walk with the bible study girls - it's our new running club to get these great legs that a magazine showed! So having someone meeting me at the track should be goal enough to wake up in the 5's... :-) Maybe if I can do that I can convince myself to do it every morning and save some time in the evenings!!
On the agenda for this week: finish DaVinci code so Curt and I can go see the movie with Kevin and Kim (I've read it more than twice, this is my third time, but Curt's first so we can't spoil it by going to see the movie!)
Other than that just waiting to hear on some of Curt's stuff and getting ready for Mid-Year Reviews with my company! Cross your fingers for us!
xx
Yesterday was pretty relaxing - did some chores in the morning and went to the store, and then in the afternoon I went running (it was SO hot so I didn't get my full three miles in, was only able to do two, but I walked 2 to make up for it). Then we met up with Kim and Kevin and took the puppies to a dog park which was a TON of fun! There were probably about 10 dogs there, and they all loved it and had a blast playing with each other. They tired out quickly, but as adults sat chatting and since the shade was lovely and it was very scenic we were content to pass the time outside. After that we dropped the dogs off to get in the A/C and we went for some ice cream! Yum...
So now back to work and the life of being a grown-up... got lots going on and Curt and I are trying to get back on our diet/exercise regimen! I'm even waking up early in the morning to go run/walk with the bible study girls - it's our new running club to get these great legs that a magazine showed! So having someone meeting me at the track should be goal enough to wake up in the 5's... :-) Maybe if I can do that I can convince myself to do it every morning and save some time in the evenings!!
On the agenda for this week: finish DaVinci code so Curt and I can go see the movie with Kevin and Kim (I've read it more than twice, this is my third time, but Curt's first so we can't spoil it by going to see the movie!)
Other than that just waiting to hear on some of Curt's stuff and getting ready for Mid-Year Reviews with my company! Cross your fingers for us!
xx
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Fun in the Sun for the Holiday Weekend...
So Curt and I tried wakeskating yesterday - very fun and quite challenging! It's such a great workout and we had a ton of fun with Courtney and Ben on the boat.
But rewinding a bit, Friday night we got Kendyl on the road to Tyler, Mom, Dad and Mam on the road to Georgia, and Curt and I went to the house and took naps, I read some, and then we got up and going to have a fun night at Market Street! We got some yummy ice cream and did a few laps around the area, went into Borders and fed our brains with some good knowledge (I bought a GREAT book that's an illustrated encyclopedia of the kings and queens of Britain from beginning to present day!) and then went and saw X-Men! Was great... we enjoyed it! Saturday morning we slept in and got on the road to Curt's mom to go have some more fun! We met up with Courtney and Ben in the afternoon and went to Chocolate Bayou to join some of their friends on a boat. We had a great time watching all the "pros" go, and then took our turns at the end... I got up on my third try and then again on my sixth... was really a lot of fun so we'll have to try again! I had some great wipes though, but today am not feeling as sore as I imagined I would coming into it... Curt was *really* great! He took a little longer to get up, but once he got it he was good to go, and even went over the wake and did really well so we were all excited! After our fun wakeskating adventure we went back to Carrie's, showered up and grilled out - Courtney and Ben came back over with Roxy and Tyson, and we had a great time visiting. Slept *GREAT* and now we're back at my parents' packing up and getting ready to head home! The dogs probably miss us and we're excited to make it to our bible study's cookout tonight! Should be great... reading the Da Vinci Code to Curt on the way, so that should pass the time pretty well, and we can't go see the movie until he has read the book, or rather, had the book read to him - LOL! :-)
So that's all for now... maybe Curt's quest for a boat won't be so hopeless now...
xx
But rewinding a bit, Friday night we got Kendyl on the road to Tyler, Mom, Dad and Mam on the road to Georgia, and Curt and I went to the house and took naps, I read some, and then we got up and going to have a fun night at Market Street! We got some yummy ice cream and did a few laps around the area, went into Borders and fed our brains with some good knowledge (I bought a GREAT book that's an illustrated encyclopedia of the kings and queens of Britain from beginning to present day!) and then went and saw X-Men! Was great... we enjoyed it! Saturday morning we slept in and got on the road to Curt's mom to go have some more fun! We met up with Courtney and Ben in the afternoon and went to Chocolate Bayou to join some of their friends on a boat. We had a great time watching all the "pros" go, and then took our turns at the end... I got up on my third try and then again on my sixth... was really a lot of fun so we'll have to try again! I had some great wipes though, but today am not feeling as sore as I imagined I would coming into it... Curt was *really* great! He took a little longer to get up, but once he got it he was good to go, and even went over the wake and did really well so we were all excited! After our fun wakeskating adventure we went back to Carrie's, showered up and grilled out - Courtney and Ben came back over with Roxy and Tyson, and we had a great time visiting. Slept *GREAT* and now we're back at my parents' packing up and getting ready to head home! The dogs probably miss us and we're excited to make it to our bible study's cookout tonight! Should be great... reading the Da Vinci Code to Curt on the way, so that should pass the time pretty well, and we can't go see the movie until he has read the book, or rather, had the book read to him - LOL! :-)
So that's all for now... maybe Curt's quest for a boat won't be so hopeless now...
xx
Friday, May 26, 2006
Yea for the first post!
So here is my new blog... thanks to Vicki for getting me on this bandwagon - sigh... I don't really have a ton of time nor a ton to say at the moment... getting ready for Memorial Day weekend which WILL be a blast! Curt (my loving and new husband - yes, we are newlyweds - how long do you get to be a newlywed for?) and I are heading to Houston for some fun in the sun.... Have to work today but we will be joining the ranks of "those who have tried wakeskating" after tomorrow. Curt's sister, Courtney will be taking us out on Clear Creek and teaching us how to do this "wakeskating" business, which we are very excited about but have already warned our chiropractor that we will be in next week for some tune-ups! :-)
Unfortunately, Mom, Dad and Mam are leaving for Georgia tonight so we don't get to hang with them, and Kendyl is off galavanting on an oil rig somewhere near Tyler... so just Curt and I to our newlywed-selves so we'll see! Don't worry, the dogs have a pet sitter so they are accounted for and should be fine without us, though no doubt they will be excited to see us in a couple days...
Anyway, back to work and will speak soon!
xx
Unfortunately, Mom, Dad and Mam are leaving for Georgia tonight so we don't get to hang with them, and Kendyl is off galavanting on an oil rig somewhere near Tyler... so just Curt and I to our newlywed-selves so we'll see! Don't worry, the dogs have a pet sitter so they are accounted for and should be fine without us, though no doubt they will be excited to see us in a couple days...
Anyway, back to work and will speak soon!
xx
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