Bracketology

So it is that time of the year again.....March Madness! My one co-worker wants to know why we keep talking about mounting things on the wall, or what we want to support. So I wrote my good friend kmoka yesterday and inquired about the pool this year. She informed me of the same $5 cost and said it had to be in today to account for the play-in game tonight. So I handed my bracket off to Josh as usual last night. He has been doing my bracket for 4 years now. We won 2nd the first year and have done poorly the next 2. I still trust him to fill it out. That is until I read it this morning. Any expert bracketologist knows you have to learn the art of the upset. You have to pick which teams are going to come out of no where and shock the nation. Josh picked one upset. It was a 10 over a 7. I wasn't too sure about this. I decided to hand his bracket into my friend kmoka and go with it. Later this morning I received an e-mail from a co-worker announcing our pool here at work. So I took matters into my own hands. I filled my own out. This is going to determine who the bracketologist is from this point on. I'll keep you posted.

Sunday, Sunday

Where to begin? I cannot believe there is sun!!!! I am way excited about this. It is giving us hope that winter maybe over soon. Second, our old apt in Spring Green got rented. So we don't have to trouble Wal-Mart for another month of rent. Plus when we get the security deposit back that is another $500 that goes in the House fund. We have had a good first couple months of the year here as far as saving goes. I am happy with that. Maybe we will have enough money by the time Josh moves next time to buy a house!! That would be nice. I am starting to get claustrophobic in this apt. Yes we have only been here for 2 months but I am ready to have a place of our own, where we don't have to hear the guy upstairs walking his pet elephant.

Thirdly, we are heading to Florida in May to visit the grandparents. My Grandpa called today. He seemed disappointed that we were only staying for 4 nights. That is all that I have for vacation now. Josh has a week. He can use those 2 extra days somewhere else. Next year we will both have 3 weeks of vacation. Yeah!!! He told us not to rent a car, that we could use theirs when we are down there. It isn't as though we were going to be going too far anyway. We are there to relax and spend time with them.

My great-aunt Ruby passed away this week. She was the only sibling of my maternal grandpa's still with us. Now there is only one great-aunt left. My grandma's sister. That is really sad when you lose a whole generation of your family. It makes you wonder if you learned everything that you could have from them.

That is all for today!!! See you soon!

18 days... I am sorry

Well it has been 18 days since my last post. I know. I am slacking. I just haven't had the urge to write. I don't think that I have felt creative enough to do it. It is that time of year. How can I write when it is so dark and gray outside. I actually started writing posts several times and haven't got up the gusto to do it. I don't know what about today has spurred some sort of ambition. Maybe it is the pretty snow flakes fluttering by my window. Maybe it is the lack of sleep due to staying up to watch the Oscars. The thing is I haven't really seen any of the movies that were nominated. I just didn't want to be left out of the Oscar Buzz.

On a more focused note. My Chinese Carrot is almost ready to be picked. I can actually see the carrot poking out of the top of the dirt. I am debating on when I should pick it. I am definitely waiting until after this week. My co-worker is in Mexico and I am sure that he would like to see the carrot. So I will definitely wait until he comes back. I hope it actually tastes like a carrot. My biggest fear is that I watered it too much and it is going to be a mushy carrot.

Let's see.....Josh is liking his new job. Today he traveled to Sheboygan to the Wal-Mart store there. Why I don't know. This new job has him traveling a little more between stores. That is fine, but it would be nice to tell me when he travels. This morning when I got out of the shower he was on the internet looking at mapquest. I asked him what he was looking up. He practically yelled "I needed to know how to get to Sheboygan from here. I told you a long time ago I had to go there today!!" My first thought is, ok so you told me and I forgot. The second thought is maybe you could have dropped that into some conversation yesterday instead of yelling at me now. There were several lulls in conversation he could have filled with. "Oh yeah, remember I am going to Sheboygan tomorrow." But No, that never happened.

We decided that we are heading down to Florida this May to visit my grandparents. I haven't seen my grandparents in close to a year. My grandma was in a lot of back pain last fall. Now she is better. What a fighter that lady is. So Josh is looking forward to that. Josh hasn't been able to spend very much time with my grandparents. I just hope that he will talk. I have a very tough time getting him to talk, he better talk when he is around them!!! He is looking forward to fishing with my grandpa. I am looking forward to some time with my grandma. I grew up spending time with my grandma Chase and Grandma Dorothy. I miss that!! I cherished all those times. The picking apples, making applesauce, fishing, gardening, making 'sghetti sauce and all the times Chelsea and I played dress up! Oh to be a child again and have very few cares in the world!

So What's New With You?

I got a phone call last night from my friend Annie from high school. I haven't talked to her since christmas time. I meant to call on her birthday but that was the week that we were moving. So that never happened. In fact I feel like the most awful person at keeping in touch right now. The problem is that I don't feel like I have anything to say. Before the wedding I had plenty to talk and complain about. I can't/don't want to bitch about work. Side Note: Dooce was on ABC nightly news yesterday and I missed it. A little peeved about that. I can watch the video if I subscribe to RealOne player at $12.95 a month. I am not planning on doing that so I have to reside myself to the fact that I can't/won't ever see it.... :(

Now we are settled in and live regular old boring lives. Except on two separate occasions this week we have hurt ourselves while playing with Jackson. On Tuesday I was playing with Jackson. In the middle of it I picked him up to pet and tease him. He got REALLY wild and threw his head back into my lip. My lip swelled up and it is still sore. Then last night Josh and Jackson were playing on/near the couch. The way that we have our living room set up Jackson can jump over one of the couches. Which he has a lot of fun doing especially while playing go fetch. So he and Josh were horsing around and all of a sudden I hear Jackson yelp. I turn to see Josh rolling on the ground and Jackson licking his face. Josh ended up with a HUGE goose egg along his hairline. It is surprising that such a little dog can cause so much pain.

Dooce-iversary

One year ago I was informed of an awesome blog. My friend Kmoka was taking a class on blogs. She told me about this blogger. This woman had just given birth to a beautiful little girl named Leta. I read one post and I was hooked!! Dooce (aka Heather) puts a funny spin on parenting. You know it is everything that every mother is thinking but doesn't have the guts to say. Or that they don't know how to put it into words. So check it out if you have the time. I thank kmoka for introducing me to dooce!! Check out kmoka to it is her blog birthday!!!!