Trophy Wife

awesomeness...

that's what i have to say!

today marks two full weeks back at the gym with trainer...i am thrilled! i am excited. i am proud of myself.

i am sore...but just a tiny bit. no big deal. just a little deal.

just in my legs. we did some dead lifts and squats today.

that will certainly leave a little soreness no matter how often you work out!

but i feel the groove coming back and i'm excited.

i see the tone coming back already, too...and that is quite the motivating factor to keep going back.

plus...i know that it is all leading to my life longevity here on this planet.

i'm all for that, too!

i mean...we all have choices to make.

we can choose to die old at a young age.

or you can

choose to die young at an old age.

do you get it? do you understand it?

quite simply...the choices we make in food choices, vice choices, work out choices...all helps in determining our life plan.

so you have to undestand that if you make poor choices, then your chances of dying old at a young age are much higher.

if you make good choices most of the time, your chances of dying young at an old age are much higher.

kiroman is still out of town. mingling with some of the most awesome chiropractors in the whole profession. he has sent me a few pics of him with people and i like that it kinda keeps me in the loop. it's like being there...almost not quite.

i am so ready for him to be back home, though!

so i hit the gym this morning, stopped by the office for a bit and headed off to refresh the nails. just a little me time for the week!

so i went to a new place. a place i had been meaning to try out for awhile.

and it just so happens that this place was voted Best of Omaha, too!

so i mentioned to the gal doing my nails how cool it is that they were voted best of omaha while my husband, who is a chiropractor was voted best of omaha again...

so when the owner sat down next to her, she told him and we struck up a conversation.

and i was caught out without any business cards *gasp*

because he asked me for some of the cards because he likes to do business with people that do business with him. he is in several business networking groups.

so i will be stopping back by there with a stack of cards and make sure to keep this alliance going full out!

how cool is that?

pretty freaking cool if you ask me!

after the nail salon, i had to run by our insurance agency, then the dmv and then back home.

where i promptly got sucked back into my project life 2012 project.

and i don't mean that in a bad way...it's just that i know i am a little behind and i want to get caught up now.

then it was time to get ready for the lancer game and feed ponies.

i picked up teenager and bff and we headed downtown.

unfortunately, the lancers lost tonight :(

and then it was time to drop the girls off at the dorm and i headed home...whew!

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can you even believe that i forgot to schedule this post>

well, i did...so here it is now!

good grief!

i am grateful:

• to have kiroman home early
• for my dvr
• for everyone that kept kiroman company in vegas
• for an awesome mom that listens to my whining
• for a fireplace that starts with the flip of a switch

just breathing isn't living!

sincerely,

 

 

here i go!!

remember when i talked about this a while back?

well, i'm happy to say that i have been taking pictures and collecting ideas and product.

ya know, all the usual but today! today i finally tackled this project and got started! whew! i am really excited about it, too.

i feel a little panicked...like i want to just hurry up and catch up the first two weeks of the year real quick. and who knows, i may just do that. or i might take my time and do it the way i truly want it to be done.

but one thing i do know? the title page is done. i have my photos in a folder for the first 2 weeks of jan '12. i just need to decide what sizes to print them and get them printed.

and then i watch a video here or see some inspiration there and am thrilled that i still have a blank canvas.

but at this very moment, i feel pretty confident in the direction i think i will take.

here is the title page:

 

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i am using the cobalt kit. and all you see here is from the cobalt kit.

i will admit to downloading the full digital kit from jessica sprague. i have also purchased a few items from designer digitals...things that cathy zielske and ali edwards have put together. you can search the items at designer digitals or their blogs...i will let you know when i use their products in my pl'12.

 so...yesterday...kiroman was headed to las vegas for the parker seminar...with 4,000+ other chiropractors...you read that right! 4,000+. how cool is that?

so we dropped him off at the airport and away we went.

until...

kiroman texted me that it was past time to be boarding the plane and their plane was not there yet but they had flight attendants!

this was not good...kiroman had about 40 minutes to catch his connection in houston.

super long story short, the plane arrived, they boarded and away they went.

he barely made his connection - but i had been on the phone with continental and had him booked on a flight out thursday morning from houston to vegas...so worst case scenario, he would be a little late to the party seminar.

but he did make the connection and his luggage even made the connection! woohoo!

i'm bummed that teenager and i weren't able to join him but it just wasn't in the cards for this trip.

and kiroman has been gone for about 32 hours...just a few more days to go! we've talked a few times today and i missed a text message from him earlier tonight...he had messaged my yahoo! messenger from his phone but my window didn't pop open :( weird...but that's happened before too.

anyhoo...i'm about to call it a night and see what great things tomorrow brings...besides a trip to the gym :)

 

i am grateful:

• for a full day spent at home!
• for getting started on project life 2012 today
• for chatting with teenager off and on today
• for a warm coat and gloves on this chilly day
• for a new yummy recipe to try out soon!

just breathing isn't living!

sincerely,

 

 

 

the house is totally quiet right now...

except for the hum of the blower of the fireplace.

and that's right where i am sitting...in front of the fire place, with my laptop on my lap, watching pioneer woman's christmas special.

i know...i'm a little behind the times here but it's the first chance i've had to catch up on my dvr stuff!

teenager stopped by this afternoon with her bff and we all carted kiroman off to the airport.

it's always fun to have the girls in the house and today was no different!

teenager promptly retrieved francine from her confines and brought her upstairs. what teenager fails to remember: when you wake and play with a hedge hog that had been previously sleeping, she is going to poop three "logs", as quoted by the lady that sold francine to us.

so teenager is standing in the kitchen, holding francine - although i would like to call her francy or franky or something like that but i am eternally shot down - when, surprisingly, francine poops in teenager's hand!

and it's smelly. who knew that the tiny little hedge hog poop would have such a huge smell but it does!

and it's not very solid.

tmi, right? ya, i thought so but it's all part of the story.

so teenager is gagging and bff and i are laughing.

so francine gets put on my kitchen counter!!! and promptly begins to scurry away while teenager washes her hands and i baby sit the shennanigans of francine.

who is scooting her poopy butt across my counter...

this is where you can say: ewwwwwwwwwww, gross!

because i did.

but we got everything and everyone all cleaned up, thank goodness!

and on one trip downstairs, i peeked in to check on francine and this is what i saw:

 

 

i know the pic is dark but i didn't want to use the flash for two reasons: the first being that she was asleep on her running wheel and i didn't want to wake her. second: she was asleep on her wheel and it is nasty dirty and needs to be cleaned and i didn't want you, dear readers, to see it!

looks like cleaning francine's home space has been added to my thursday list!

I am grateful:

• kiroman was able to make his connection
• kiroman's luggage also made the connection
• teenager rode along to the airport
• my checks got here before i had to write the last one!
• for heated water buckets in the barn

just breathing isn't living!

sincerely,

ps...this post is late and i apologize but i kinda got sidetracked watching my dvr season of real housewives of beverly hills after i finished pw's chirstmas special...sorry ;)

 

 

 

 

i don't think i told you...

teenager moved out.

yep. she's gone.

out the house.

vaya con dios.

sayonara.

arrivederci.

buh bye.

actually, we moved her into the dorms on january 7th.

she got the key to her room on the 6th and she started moving her clothes that night.

saturday, we moved the "big" stuff...a refrigerator and a shelf. oh ya...the beta fish, snorkel went, too.

and a printer.

while i set up the printer - which was supposed to be wireless but apparently you cannot use a wireless printer if you are using the dorm building's internet - who knew? kiroman set up the shelf unit...i mean put together the shelf unit. i mean...he had to hand screw the shelf unit because i didn't think there were any screws to it and didn't mention to bring his electric drill.

but it all got done and we lived to tell the tale!

and then we headed to the walmarts to stock up her fridge and dresser.

yes, i typed dresser.

it seems that the closet is used for clothes. the shelf unit is used for more clothes and the dresser is used to store your non-perishable food items.

who knew that, too?

of course, i never lived in the dorms so i have no experience from which to speak from.

is it weird having her out the house?

nah, not really.

it seems she spent most of her free time there anyway...but i liked it better when we didn't have to pay the rent!

and living in the dorm is just part of the whole collegiate experience.

and i think it's really good for her!

especially this morning when her alarm was set for pm rather than am and her phone was on silent.

and i tried calling her for over an hour.

and she was 8 minutes late to class this morning.

lesson learned...triple check your alarm clock! maybe set a secondary alarm as a back up!

i am wondering if there is a way to shut off the sounds to your text messages while leaving the sounds to your iphone on? i'm thinking this might be something for her to check into!

in all honesty, i'm used to seeing her sparsely but i haven't seen her since sunday evening and it is kinda weird.

i mean...before, i saw her in the morning and then usually again later that night.

not sure the last time it was that i didn't see her for 2 whole days!

and no, there are no tears as i write this.

we all know it's coming.

we raise our children to be independent and go out on their own, right? this is exactly what she is supposed to be doing right now.

showing the world what a great job we did raising her! and what a great job she did becoming a superb young adult!

it's all good.

it really is.

she will be home tomorrow afternoon [which is really today for you readers!] to ride along as i take kiroman to the airport tomorrow afternoon to catch his flight to las vegas, baby!

there is a ginormous chiropractic seminar there thursday through sunday. i mean, it's the grandaddy of them all...just imagine over 4,000 chiropractors in one place! whoa! freaks my mind!

i wish we were going but it just wasn't in the cards this time...which totally bites.

but kiroman booked his ticket while rebound hound was still rebounding. so i hesitated in booking for me and teenager...just in case.

and then when i checked into the flights...they were outrageous. i have checked off and on since then but they aren't getting any cheaper!

besides...teenager and i have a lot of traveling ahead of us for horse shows...and some of those include flying and renting cars...so it was a pick and choose kind of thing.

this time we stay home so we can go to waco in a few weeks. and that's cool. next year will be a different story and different circumstances!

ok, i am going to wrap this up so i can hit the sack!

i have a very important date at the gym at 9am! and i think the legs are going to in for one heck of a workout!

i'll keep you posted!

i am grateful:

• for the security i have in my relationship with kiroman
• teenager still calls to check in...at least once in awhile
• for getting more things crossed of the things list
• for automatic downloads with itunes
• for heated seats and heated steering wheels this time of year!

just breathing isn't living!

sincerely,

 

 

 

{sweet home alabama is playing in the back ground...}

Garland Greene: "Define irony. Bunch of idiots dancing on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash."

that's from the movie con air.

i enjoyed that movie.

because it has nicolas cage and steve buscemi. love those guys.

but i digress.

the reason i post this is:

it comes to mind every.single.time. i see a chiropractor or someone related to the chiropractic profession post/comment/praise ron paul for president.

you all know that i swing very much to the right.

i don't have a favorite candidate yet. mine dropped out a while back. i don't really care for what i see in the current line up.

however, i take issue with chiropractors that prance around...wanting to keep prescribing drugs out of chiropractic yet they want to elect a medical doctor into the commander and chief position.

and that, my dear friends, defines irony to me right now.

i just don't think it's a great thing to get behind this guy.

i know there are some blatherings about his stance on vaccinations and whatever...quite honestly, i don't know it very well...but one thing i do know...mandatory vaccinating is not going to be at the top of the list of things to take care of should he win the nomination and ensuing election.

and because of that reality, i need to think more along the lines of things that will be on that list and who the best candidate is to take care of those things.

i'm just being real here.

there are a lot things broken in this country. we need to look at the sum not just one part.

i want to make sure our country is safe. and having the best military in the world is going to ensure that.

cuz guess what? if we have a weak military, it ain't gonna matter that our president isn't for forced vaccinations...because we will be ruled by someone who's name we can't pronouce in a language most of us will not be able to understand.

plain and simple.

just sayin'

i am grateful:

• for not being so sore after my workouts now
• for getting some things checked off the things list today
• for touching base with a few friends today
• for a short grocery list today
• for an awesome doorman

just breathing isn't living!

sincerely,

where does the time go?

i know that sounds like such a cliche.

but it really isn't.

it seems like life has been moving at 100 mph since we got back from the horse show in oklahoma city.

i feel like a have a better handle on things starting this next week off!

first of all, christmas decorations are all taken down and stored away.

that is a great relief in and of itself, right?

kiroman keeps reminding me of the year christmas decor was still up around valentine's day! i know, right?

i started back at the gym with trainer last monday...

that has been a process all by itself.

there are reasons you should not ever stop working out.

because starting up again is just painful!

i had taken quite a bit of time off. like 2 or 3 months in all seriousness here.

i was hit or miss from mid october through the end of the year.

i knew i was going to be sore and i was ready for it.

and it really wasn't as bad as i had anticipated.

i made it to every appointment last week...and let me tell you, friday was a tough one.

i was willing to skip it and let her charge me anyway!

and here's why:

wednesday night, a fellow chiropractor headed to our house. he was headed to ithaca, ny with kiroman. they were going to be speaking to the epoc group there.

we stayed up and chatted...way too late. i think we headed to bed around midnight, knowing we had to be up at 4:30am. i say we, because i was driving kiroman to the airport. then i would be picking him up friday and taking him straight to the office while fellow chiropractor would be headed straight home.

the dropping off part went as planned. then i went home and went back to bed for a few hours...got up, picked up the chunks in the house so the maids could do their job. dropped the jeep off at the dealership to get the wiper situation taken care of. back home to shower and head out for a few errands.

that's when flight track alerted me that the flight from newark to ithaca had been canceled. upon doding a quick search within the app, i also learned there were no other flights to get them to ithaca!

long long long story short, kiroman and buddy ended up catching a flight right back home that night. total bummer for all of them.

sooooo...they got in about 10:30pm and buddy chiro drove them both home and he stayed one more night instead of driving home tired.

once again, we stayed up way too late. this time it was almost 3am before we called it a night.

i had to be up at 7:30am to get to the gym on time. as much as i wanted to stay in bed, i made myself get up and go.

i was tired. i was dragging. i wasn't very talkative. i was more whiney than normal. but i was there.

and...

it was one of the few times i can say i was out of bed before kiroman!

yay for me, right? right!

it was about 4:15pm thursday afternoon when my stove decided it was going to light on its own. so i promptly called our home warranty people. and i knew that it was late in the afternoon with very little possibility of getting anyone out the same day but i had hopes!

so the appointment was made for friday afternoon. but the darn thing would not quit lighting...so i flipped the breaker to the stove, which in turn cut the power to half my kitchen. but the fridge still had power and that was pretty important.

when the service man arrived on friday, he showed me where the gas shut off valve was located and that my stove actually plugs into an outlet underneath...so there was no need to cut all the power after all! but that's ok...better safe than sorry, right? right!

found out that one of the burner control swtiches had shorted out...so i paid my deductible and they will replace all four switches when they come in - about 10 days. woohoo!

and then i asked him about taking apart the oven door so i could clean between the glass...from where the christmas ham juices had spilled from the top oven into the lower one. not only did he show me how to take the doors apart, he did it for me and helped me clean the glass! this guy was awesome! and so friendly and helpful. definitely a bonus round for me!

there were no home lancer hockey games this weekend...boo! so friday night, kiroman and i hung out and both fell asleep super early!

saturday meant a run to the feed store for grain then back home to meet mom. she came out and helped me prepare the chicken kiev for our sunday family dinner...super tradition we started in october! one sunday a month, we all gather at our house for dinner! i love it!

we made 22 chicken kiev and about 15 checken tenders for the kids. we got it done in record time. so much fun working in the kitchen with my mom! i wish i had done it more while i was actually living at home with her ;)

shortly after we finished, kiroman was skyped in to the epic accelerator training. kiroman and i are so flipping excited about kiroman being a part of this vision! dr david jackson, dr matt hubbard, dr jeff stamp and kiroman! woohoo! all together...on the same page, striving to improve the state of the chiropractic profession! i just can't help how excited and thrilled i am.

kiroman was not there live as he had committed to the ithaca epoc event before joining the staff at epic practice or else he would have been there in person!

after the call, we headed to the lake to check things out andmake sure all was ok. and it was. and i am so ready to get everything unpacked and put away and ready for a great summer on the water this year!

as is our habit, we drove the long way around when we left. to see what was for sale, what has sold and what is going on!

as we drove past the missouri river and saw all the ice floating along...i was reminded of this little story:

i'm not sure but i think it was christmas my sophomore year...i got a 35mm camera for christmas. i loved that camera and thought it was the most awesome thing ever! i also have the best mom in the world and here is why:

it did not matter that i took 20 shots of the same thing...she never refused to develop my film. never.

so, we headed to nebraska city one wintry day...to visit my grandma most likely. and here's the thing, when you went to ne city with my dad, it always involved a trip to the river. no matter the weather.

well, on this particular day, there were ice chunks floating down the missouri.

and i was fascinated by it.

and i took at least one full roll of 36 of those fascinating ice chunks.

i wish i knew where all those photos are...there are in a box somewhere i'm just not sure where.

but i assure you, they all pretty much looked just like this one i snapped on my iphone this past satuday.

 

as we turned our back on the river to leave our lake community, i asked kiroman to back up and drive me down into the dump so i could jump out and take a few photos of the fascinating ice chunks.

 

obviously, i had related my childhood story to him...i'm sure he's heard it before but he listened to me reminisce down memory lane like it was the very first time he had heard it...isn't he awesome?

then it was back home to watch whatever football games were on for the play-offs.

sunday morning was filled with baking my checkerboard cake:

 

please do not ask how i made it...it is an ancient chinese secret!

 

peeling potatoes and getting the chicken in the oven.

everyone was due about 1 for dinner. we were missing a few today and it ended up being a short afternoon as everyone had things they needed to get to.

but it was still nice to get together and break bread with family!

teenager headed back to the dorm and kiroman and i ended the evening with a little ax men action. he went to bed and i watched desperate housewives and now i'm blogging and getting ready to hit the sack myself.

so now you've been caught up on the last week or so of trophy wife life.

i am grateful:

• for another successful sunday family dinner
• for the mild weather...which translates to no snow
• for wireless printing ;)
• for being able to watch my niece and nephews pet the ponies
• francine was so calm with all the new people that wanted to meet her today

just breathing isn't living!

sincerely,

 

 

 

just to catch you up...

i know i know i know

i stated previously that i would be more consistent on the whole blogging thing and then promptly fell off the wagon.

shame on me, right?

so...the show in okc was awesome. the horse was great. teenager was great. and the company was awesome!

it's been a long time since i have been to a show that was that much fun.

and of course, we picked up francine on our way out of town tuesday.

we got home about 11:30pm and immediately set up her cage in teenager's room.

the doolittles were going wild and woke kiroman :(

i finally hit the sack somewhere around 1, i think!

last week was a blur.

it seems that i spent wednesday catching up on "stuff"...running errands and i'm not sure what else. but i know the day went by super fast!

thursday kiroman and i spent together...he had a hair appointment and when we got to the salon, there was a german shepherd trying to cross a very busy street. i sent kiroman to his hair cut and i went to catch a dog.

hmmm...not so easy...the closer i got to him, the quicker he ran away...toward the traffic!

i was able to get close enough to see that although he had a collar - a choke chain of all things! - he had no tags.

he wasn't mean. but he wasn't friendly either. i was never able to get close enough to him to catch him, though. he was well taken care of, so i am hoping he escaped his fence and found his way home!

but folks! please, do not leave your pet unattended with a choker on! that upset me more than him being loose!

after that, we headed to the office for kiroman to adjust a community member, then it was off to the dealership to pick up a check. then it was back to the city to hit the bookstore and the pet store and back to the office to hang some really cool things on the adjusting room walls :)

next it was lunch at a pizza joint. i suggested kiroman order a large so he could take it home and eat it for dinner too...i knew i was not going to feel like making dinner later :) he is so cool...he agreed!

hmmm...next it was friday and teenager and i spent the afternoon purchasing dorm room supplies...who knew you needed so much to take with you!

there was a hockey game friday night and we all three went. that was nice...teenager doesn't often go with us!

i slept in saturday. late. i didn't sleep that great friday night. for some weird reason, i was up a lot.

i got a few things done before kiroman got home around noon.

then we loaded the truck and teenager's car and headed to the dorm to get her moved in.

kiroman put a shelf together while i got the printer all hooked  up and ready to go. then we hung a few pics on the wall and made a run to the walmarts to get supplies for the room.

we ran back home, fed critters and headed back to the city for another hockey game. it was a great game too! we won both games :)

and today...well, kiroman met another chiropractor in lincoln and they spent the day masterminding while i packed away christmas at home.

once that was done, i decided i needed some retail rejuvenation and headed to the city.

a stop at sephora, archivers, petco, office depot and super target completed my trip!

i now have most of my supplies for the one little word 2012 class. just waiting on the 4x6 flip pockets. but my plan is to get busy on that tomorrow! honestly, i was going to start on it tonight but once i sat down, i was down for the count tonight! i'm sure you know how that goes! i'm really excited to get started on the album though!

so teenager and friend came home for dinner tonight and scooted back to the dorm...kiroman and i watched a bit of television then he went to bed but i had to watch desperate housewives...one of my guilty pleasures!

and now i'm blogging to keep you caught up!

and now a couple pics:

while at the hockey game, we ran into one of kiroman's community members! he is a huge lancer fan...this is their "action" photo since the little guy had his lancer jersey on! i think they were re-inacting a hockey play!
from left to right: kiroman, teenager, trophy wife. i just happened to look down and all of us had our feet up against the rail. i thought i was funny and took a picture...the rest of my family thought i was weird for doing so.

it's ok. i don't mind being weird.

i am grateful:

• to be back home and into a regular routine again
• the christmas decorations are all down
• to have gotten a few errands out of the way today
• to get back to the gym tomorrow morning!
• for left overs tomorrow night!

just breathing isn't living!

sincerely,

photos from home

teenager and i are still in oklahoma city.

this is our last night.

tomorrow, she shows her western pleasure class, we pick up francine and head home!

to see kiroman.

to see the doolittles.

to sleep in our own beds.

with no ghetto party going on across the hallway!

yippee!

and the cool part is that teenager still has some christmas break left!

although she still needs to get moved into her dorm room.

although she still needs to acquire her second semester text books.

although she has a dental appointment wednesday afternoon.

not really much left of a break, right?

so my mom makes these wonderful tootalings while we are gone.

and offers them up to kiroman.

she takes pity that he is not able to eat my fine home cooking while i bask in the wonderfulness that is okc!

and i love these tootalings.

they are yummy food! and they are a pain in the butt to make.

i can make them.

i choose not to.

why? you ask...because it is very time consuming.

first there is the sausage/hamburger mixture that must be browned with a egg thrown in along with some parmesan cheese and salt and pepper.

then there is the egg dough that must be made with eggs and flour. then rolled thin. and then cut into little squares.

then each square is filled with the meat mixture and pinched around your finger.

then the chicken broth must be brought to a boil and the tootalings dropped in.

it doesn't sound like much on paper, but let me tell you that it really is much!!

so kiroman had to rub it in and post a pic of his lunch from sunday.

nice of him, right?

while we are surviving on subway and horse show cafe food, he is eating the real deal!

then kiroman texts me this pic:

that would be my own personal doolittle. he is crashed out on our bed! i'm sure he is depressed and missing his momma something fierce.

so, those are the pics from home!

i'm not sure what time teenager will be done showing and what time we will hit the road for the trip home.

so, i 'm not sure if i will stay up to get a post together for wednesday morning or not.

but i am going to put my best foot forward and do what i can!

i am grateful:

• for my smart gloves...pretty warm and pretty cool
• for my true friends
• for my good health and wellbeing
• for bed head hair spray
• for the mi-fi that allowed me to work while playing this last week!

just breathing isn't living!

sincerely,

 

sleepless in oklahoma city

holy guacamole, people!

i know it was new year's eve and all but the night we had last night at the hotel was off the charts ridiculous.

seriously.

teenager and i went with the rest of "camp" [slang term for the other people that ride in our barn] to earl's rib palace downtown. great atmosphere. awesome food. after dinner, we stopped by the ice cream place and just about everyone but me got some ice cream with all kinds of stuff mixed in. then we headed back to the barn to put the horses to bed for the night.

teenager and i headed back to the hotel with a minor stop by the convenient store for some snacks:

and honestly, i don't want to hear any crap about the sugar the blah blah blah...wanna know why?

tangent: this kid hung out with me in our hotel room. she wasn't out partying. she wasn't out drinking. she wasn't out puking her guts out. she wasn't killing off precious brain cells. and i know there are people reading this blog that will totally disagree with her snacks and sugar. i know there are people that swear they never drink soda. they never eat  high fructose corn syrup. they never eat processed foods. but guess what? i know most these same people imbibe in alcohol and seriously kill of their brain cells...so no pointing fingers here, k? if letting her have the soda, candy bars, cookies kept her home, not partying or jumping in bed with some guy...then i'm really ok with it. oh...and she was off the streets and in no danger of being killed by a drunk driver or worse yet, being the drunk driver herself. i sincerely hope none of you drove buzzed new year's eve night!

at about 1am, i asked teenager to shut off the tv and turn off the lights. we were enjoying ourselves in the land of nod when all of a sudden there was utter pandemonium in the hallway.

it was loud enough to wake the teenager...and that's pretty bad!

teenager jumped outta bed, went to the door, slammed it open - yes, it's possible to slam open a door! - and told the group of revelers to shut up because they woke her up.

some smart ass replied with happy new year and some other jerk told her to take her ass back to bed.

surprisingly, teenager closed the door and returned to bed.

the noise never stopped and it seemed like the party remained in the hallway rather staying in the room. so i called the front desk and told them they had a problem up here and it needed to be taken care of immediately as we had to get very early. i was told someone was on the way up to take care of it.

never happened.

the partying continued so i called the front desk again and told jason that there had to be some sort of reciprocation. i am paying him for my room and i expected to be able to sleep through the night. and if he couldn't get it taken care of, i would simply call the police and have them haul everyone out of the room.

once again, he told me someone was taking care of it.

the yelling got so bad, that i got up, opened my door to find two ho's sitting on the floor, against the wall to our room...i told them to shut the eff up and go back to the room they were supposed to be. that's when ho number 1 got all up in my face, telling me that i can't tell her what to do.

really?

you just said that to me?

huh.

and when i turned back around, there was ghetto man...two inches from my face, trying to be intimidating...oh he totally got the eff off look and backed off. and then some guy came out of the room and tried to calm them all down. i told him to get these people back in his room and to quiet down or i was calling the cops.

they all panicked and literally begged me not to call the cops.

one more call to the front desk.

and then, i dialed 9-1-1. but hung up after the second ring...stupid, i know.

and then someone from the front desk finally came upstairs. and the revelers became even more loud.

and that's when i slammed the door open again! front desk lady came over to me and i told her, with the finger shaking in her face - and you know that's a bad thing - to get these people out of here, shut them or call the cops. i told her that i was not going to pay for that night. that the whole situation was out of control and ridiculous.

she offered to move us to another room...ummmm, let me think about it? i've been here 2.5 nights already...going to be here for another 3, these idiots are here for one freaking night and you want to move me? holy mother of guacamole! i told her no way. just shut these idiots up! then she wanted me and teenager to go down to the other end of the hallway and sleep in a room where her daughter was! are you kidding me? is this really happening right now?

i told her no, you stop this party now or bring in the cops. and i am not paying for this night. she ignored me every time i told her that. finally, after about the5th time, she agreed that i would not be charged for the night.

i slammed the door shut this time and went back to bed.

after a few minutes, i noticed the sounds of silence. ahhhhhhhhh...drifting off to sleep now...

and then there was a knock on the door followed by front desk.

teenager says mom, that's our door!

so i got up, looked through the peep hole, saw it was front desk lady and opened the door to find ho number 3 standing with her.

front desk explains that the situation is taken care of and everyone is gone except for the people that are supposed to be in the room. and then ho starts telling me how sorry she is and she didn't mean for it to be a wild night for her...umm...for you? i say. i point at teenager, who is standing behind me...what about her? we travel all over this country so she can show her very awesome horse and we've lost a night's sleep and she's going to be tired for her class on sunday because of your stupidity.

she started all up in my face again but front desk told her to be quiet.

i said one more time, with finger pointing that i was not going to pay for this night and told ho that she needed to pay for it because it wasn't fair for the hotel to lose out because she brought the bar home with her. and once again front desk told me that i would not have to pay for the night.

i just turned and slammed the door in their face.

i know, not very mature. but hello? we had to be up early. we weren't able to sleep off our hangover until check out time.

it was well past 4 before i was able to calm down enough to get back to sleep.

i texted kiroman and asked him to call me at 6:30am so i wouldn't miss my alarm...told him very briefly what happened and that all was well now and i'd fill him in.

he called at 6:30am and we were up on time!

so after my shower and while teenager was getting ready, i headed to the front desk to make sure the night was comped.

same lady at the desk. i told her, i want to take care of last night as i won't have time when we check out on tuesday.

she told me she couldn't do it.

whoa, wait. what? you told me last night that my night would be comped because of the drunks.

she said she did not have the authority to do anything and that i would have to talk with the general manager.

ok, and when does he come in?

not til monday between 7 and 8am sometime

his name is lucky!

seriously...l u c k y

a grown man, running a hotel goes by lucky.

gimme a break here, please.

umm, last night, you agreed that i would not have to pay for my room and now you are telling me you can't take care of it?

front desk tells me that it's up to whatever deal lucky and i make on monday!

you've got to be kidding me!

listen, that's not what you told me last night when i had to deal with all that crap in the hallway and losing a night of sleep over your ineptness at taking care of the situation.

i just shook my head at her.

oh yeah, the elevator has been urinated in.

she didn't believe me.

yes it has. it smells like an alley. she tells me she was on it at 6:30am and it was fine.

i gaped at her! no way it could have been fine at 6:30am...i'm sure the pee was from the idiots from the night before.

she told me no one else had complained but she would have the maids clean it up.

i also offered my never to be humble opinion. i suggested that she get her team together for a training for this specific type of problem. they needed to have a play book on how to handle it more efficiently next time.

front desk told me that it was only 45 minutes from the time she was notified until the people were removed from the property. and i told her that 45 minutes was too long.

she told me that they had to give them opportunity to quiet down first.

really? when there are 20 people packed into a room meant for 4. on new year's eve. and they are all drunk.

and ho's wearing grills.

seriously. that's what i'm dealing with here. like they were some rap posse hanging out hie!!!!!

i then told her that i can appreciate the thought process that prompted her to knock on my door 15 minutes later to have ho apologize...which she said was not her idea, but the ho herself wanted to apologize...i said, that probably wasn't the smartest or wisest thing to do...as you knew i was already angry and then you got me out of bed to let me know something i had already figured out by the silence on our floor.

i went back upstairs and waited for teenager to finish.

and that's when teenager pointed this little sign out to me that was in our bathroom:

it looks like, in their own words, i will not be paying for that night now, will i?

about 30 minutes later we headed out.

teenager dry heaved all the way to the first floor...that's how bad the urine smell was and it had not been cleaned.

ummm, folks this is not the quarters inn. this is not some fly by night motel chain.

we are at the holiday inn express in oklahoma city on meridian...right near the airport and the fairgrounds.

i will not be back here next year.

and when we came back tonight...about 8pm...the urine smell was mostly gone but the pee splatters on the elevator wall...still there...cool huh?

i am grateful:

• the ho's didn't shoot me when i was yelling at them
• the ho didn't throw her grill at me when she got all up in my face
• i kept y cool enough to not punch out one of these idiots...not sure where that filter came from
• for kiroman listening to me whine about his whole ordeal
• teenager made it through her day without a nap!

just breathing isn't living!

sincerely,

 

 

meet francine

but first...i know what happened to the photos from the post for paw...some how my settings in photoshop got changed and it was saving my pics at the lowest resolution instead of the highest...for web...guess i need to figure out that action that automatically does all that sizing ...i know i have it saved somewhere on my computer...just gotta find it, install and figure out how it works!!

so, back to our regularly scheduled programming!

please welcome francine to our household!

i think she's pretty cute...even if she is an albino...not my first color choice. but we found that beggar's can't be choosers in this hedgehog in the middle of winter situation! they are hard critters to find...this was the only to be found in a 5 state area!

it just so happens that teenager had a horse show in oklahoma city. it just so happened that she called every pet store in a 4 state area and everyone that carried them were out until after the first of the year.

while on our drive to okc, she began calling pet stores in the okc area and just happened upon this little cutie, who really wasn't for sale but they decided to let us adopt her.

teenager had the name francine picked out long before she even knew francine existed. she had already stated that whether the hedge hog was a boy or a girl, its name was going to be francine.

good thing we lucked out and francine is indeed a francine. a francine that is approximately 6 months old and may or may not be pg, in the family way, glowing, etc...we'll know in approximately 45-60 days.

and then we were told that baby hedge hogs are hard to raise and usually do not survive.

so we are crossing our fingers and toes that she is not having babies...i really don't want to deal with hard to raise babies! if you have any suggestions on raising hedge hog babies from infanthood to toddlerhood, i would appreciate them NOW rather than later...so i can be prepared!

now, the thing i really don't get...teenager desparately wanted this francine character but now is moving into the dorm and leaving francine behind. for me to care for! hmmm...how does that work?

i am grateful:

• for a very fun and enjoyable horse show
• for a happy show pony and teenager
• for fun people to hang out with
• for kiroman understanding this is what teenager needs to do right now
• for my fiji water!

oh, ps: i know i was a little mia here...and now i've been regular for 3 whole days. i'm not promising anything spectacular but i will tell you this: i was committed to taking a photo every day in december and log it into my iphone app and i was able to do just that! not every pic was taken on my iphone...i did email a few photos from the laptop to the phone so it could be recorded in the app...but the point is that i took at least one picture every single day. so that means for january, i can take a photo every single day and add a blog post in there too...i know! i was pretty good about it for awhile and then fell off the wagon and you know the old saying: once you get out of the habit, it's really easy to just keep not doing what you were doing but not doing anymore...get it? got it? good!!!

just breathing isn't living!

sincerely,