Okay, so I'm sitting at work reading everyone's blogs, and it makes me want to finally update everyone. I hate that I still don't have pictures, but eventually I'll just have one long blog of just pics so everyone can see what I've been up to. Since my last real blog was in October of last year I'll start out with my 1 year anniversary with Lance. November 5th. I'll never forget that date b/c it was 2 days after Leslie's wedding and 4 days before Brittany's wedding. He got me a James Avery ring, which I loved, but had to take back b/c I have the fatest fingers in the world and it was going to cost more than the ring was worth to actually get it sized to fit my stupid fat hand! That is one thing that this relationship has done to me, I have gained so much weight! I hate it! I've never weighed this much in my life! However, I'm seriously working on it now, and am starting to feel a little better. Our first float trip is in 3 weeks - that means bathing suit - which absolutely frightens me but people will just have to deal with the fatness until I'm finally in shape again.
Let's see... also in November we took Lance's grandparents to the Jenks aquarium, which was a lot better then I thought it was going to be. Nothing like some huge one in some beach tourist town, but for Jenks America, it is a good one. Lots of pics for this one. I went kind of "I'm a professional photographer" crazy!
December was full of family fun the whole month. My dad runs cancer treatment meetings every 3 months, so he was here for a week. It's always lots of casino time when he's in town, which is fine by me b/c it's not my money I'm losing when he's here! We also always get a lot of the house work I just don't know how to do done when he's here too. This time we hung my flat screen TV up in my bedroom. After a fight with the Best Buy managers for selling me the wrong TV hanger thingie and then not letting us return the stupid thing, and a couple of trips to Home Depot for some materials to make the thing work ourselves, we finally got it. It's always interesting to work on things with my dad b/c we are so much alike we tend to clash more then we should. Just in case he ever reads this (which he won't) but in case, DAD I'm always right, so just deal with it. So literally a day after he left, we went and picked up Lance's mom who had come in from Idaho to visit. Lance's brother is in the Navy Reserves, and has gone overseas once before when he was in the Navy, and got called back in again, he left January 1st, so anyway she wanted to come see him before he left. She's great, so it's always nice to see her.
So then for Christmas Lance and I flew to Atlanta to see my family, which then all flew to Miami to go on our first cruise to the Bahamas. (This has lots of pics too) Let me just say that once you go on a cruise, you will be addicted. I had only been back like a month before I planned another one for Lance and I for September to Mexico. I guess that is if the stupid Swine Flu doesn't take over and they let people start going to Mexico again. But anyway the cruise was awesome. It was pretty stormy, and we got stuck in Nassau for 2 days instead of going to the Great Stirrup Cay, but I mean we were in the bahamas so I think we were going to be just fine. Lance and I did so good in the casino on the ship that we paid for our whole trip with our winnings. Just all in all it was a fabulous trip!
2009:
This year hasn't been too exciting yet. Lance lost his job on Jan 2nd, but being in the gutter business found a job very quickly at an old place he worked, so thank God for that. On Jan 26th we went to the AC/DC concert at the BOK Center, which was absolutely amazing. I wasn't even a huge fan of the band, but it was definitely the best concert I have ever gone to. We had floor seats, and it was just one huge party. I really just can't tell you how fun it was, it was just great!! This is another one I have lots of pictures for. Besides that I've just been going to the gym a lot, and reading as many books as I can. I've also been trying to get a new car, but fell in to some really bad luck when I found out that Jim Glover had sold me a lemon almost 2 years ago, and now I'm stuck with a car that no one will give me enough money for trade-in. We are actually in a little battle with them to make them take the car back. There is a lemon law in Oklahoma that says it has to be fully disclosed to the customer before a lemon is sold to them. And of course they took advantage of a young girl trying to buy a cool sports car that she knew nothing about, and didn't fully disclose it to me, so hopefully it will end in my favor. On another note, I have started selling CUTCO knives again just as a side job. So if you know of anyone that needs good knives just let me know. They make great gifts too! That's the salesman in me! ha ha. That's it for '09 so far. But it's warm now, so I'll be up to no good for most of the summer and I'll keep everyone posted. Now that we are all going to be close we need to plan to do something together some weekend!!!! Be looking for the pics, now maybe I'll remember to get them since I finally posted the blog.
