The amazing Shred-O

Ok so I am a guilty Dog parent. I hate locking Jackson up in his crate when we are gone during the day. So I came up with this brilliant idea. I figured hey there has to be a way to block him off in the kitchen. So I took our gate and put it across the small doorway. We have a HUGE grill box in the garage so I brought that in and fixed it up so that it was a GREAT gate. I gave the pup his Kong and headed out the door. I thought about him sporadically throughout the day.

I had some errands to run after work so I told Josh to please make sure that he made it home on time to be with the dog. He walked into a MESS!!!!! Jackson had taken the paper bags we had stored along side the refridgerator and shreded them to smitherines. He also peed twice on the floor. I blame the peeing on myself becuase I am the dumbass who left his water and food on the floor. He managed to pee on one of the rugs. So Josh thought that he should take the rugs outside and shake them so that he could get the paper off the rug and he only managed to shower himself with dog pee. Silly boy.

I think that we will continue to try leaving him out in the kitchen. Next time we will remove the ONE paper bag we have left and remove the food. We will also make sure that his toys are in there as well. You know the rope bone, the chewy bone, his dental bone and something that he can shred so that he isn't bored.
You live and you learn

I am going to be a WIFE!!!!!

Go ahead laugh at me. I am used to it. In a conversation with Josh this weekend, I came upon a harsh realization. I am going to be someone's WIFE!!!! As Josh so sweetly pointed out not anyone's wife his wife. In unison awwwwwwwww!!!! When it comes to this wedding I know that I can handle the mishaps and the problems that come up along the way. I don't even feel overwhelmed anymore when I think of all of the stuff that we have to do because we steadily cross things off the list. What really throws me into an asthma attack is the fact that I am getting married. I am going to be joined to someone until death does us part...... I know if it doesn't work out we can always get a divorce but who goes into their married life with that comforting thought. I know that nothing in our relationship will change only my last name. But a wife, a wife cooks and cleans and wears cute little aprons. She always has fresh cookies in the cookie jar. She can make a Martini extra dry with a twist. I don't even know what a dry martini is. I still sometimes leave dishes on the coffee table or in the sink hoping the dish fairy will come. Then I realized oh I am the dish fairy now along with laundry elf, toilet gnome and dust bunny hunter. Being a wife means that I have grown up and that is scary!!!!!

I don’t' feel grown up. How is a grown up supposed to feel? I never felt a magical change. Where was that??? Who waved the magic wand and said ok she is a grown up?? Where ever that wand is I want to break it in two. I don't wanna grow up...................

3 months and counting......

It is now three months until the wedding. What can I say but ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We registered last night. That was a treat!! I love going shopping and not buying anything because that is what registering really is. We also met with our minister yesterday. It is really nice to have a minister that swears once in a while. This shows that he isn't perfect and that is ok. Other than that the favor putting together begins!!!!! Yeah!!!! I cannot wait to get that done. When we get that done we will have to start stuffing invitations. Then panic mode begins!!!!!!! Please PLEASE help me with my previous post. I need to help my girlfriend out. She has been there for me!!!!! I just need to know how to be there for her because I am at a loss!!!!

I need some help!

Ok so it really isn't me needing the help it is my girlfriend.  I need some advice.  I am the maid of honor in my friend's wedding and she is really going through a tough time.  I don't know what to tell her.  Here is the story.......

My friend and her future husband have been dating off and on since I don't know sixth grade.  So as you understand there is a lot of history with them.  The real troubled time in their relationship was about 3 years ago.  She was going through a phase where she was trying to find herself and find out what she wanted from her life.  As anyone knows your early 20's is a time of discovery and learning about yourself.  At this time in their relationship a lot of feelings were hurt by both parties.  So as it turns out they came back to each other and are now planning on getting married.  Happy ending???? 

Nope!!!  The problem lies in her future brother-in-law(bil).  Now three years ago when all this shit was going down he got very mad at her for the things that she had done.  Bil did not think that they should be together and he really let his brother(groom) know this.  He has all along made his distaste for the bride known.  Now that they are getting married things are really getting sticky.  The bride and groom have moved past their problems.  The bride is ready for this to be over the problem is the bil is not.  They are trying to figure out how/if to include the bil in the wedding.  The mother in law and father in law are starting to get involved and saying that the NEED to have the bil in the wedding because he is the groom's brother and it would look bad if he isn't.  The groom's family is really pressuring the groom to involve his brother and the bride really doesn't want someone in her wedding that despises her.  It is getting to the point that it is causing a HUGE rift not only with the bride and the groom's family but is really affecting the relationship between the bride and groom.  The bride has cried herself to sleep already three days this week.  Please Please help me by giving me some advice that can I tell the bride???  What can I offer as a solution??  How can I help her get through this????  Please help both me and her!!!!!!

D day

It is D day for more than one reason. First of all today was the day that I had to give my first presentation at my new job... The good news is this. Yesterday the head honcho of our group sent out an e-mail saying that he was unable to make it to the meeting today. He was not planning on canceling the meeting. So he just had a co-worker of mine run the meeting. My co-work is considerably less scary than him. So before the meeting I went through my slides again and practiced what I was going through. I really wish I would have procastinated a little more because I feel like I rememeber things a little better when you do things RIGHT before they are do. The united alliance of procrastinators would agree with me I am sure!!! So ANYWAY!!! I gave my presentation. It went pretty well I think. I was nervous so I rushed or atleast I think that I did. Everyone told me I did a great job. I guess I don't feel like it becuse doing these types of presentations is a new thing to me. I was never allowed to do anything like this at my old job. I really liked it. It was a little outside my comfort zone but hey that is what makes you a well rounded person.

The second reason is that my company's second quarter results came in and apparently they aren't very good. Stock prices for IVG stock have dropped significantly. I am not too big on the money mumbo jumbo, but as long as I still have my job I am ok. I didn't invest thins time around. Maybe I will get a lower stock price then when it comes around. Who knows.. Better get to work I am wasting company money...................