Pulling my tiny hair out and Tom is still thawing

This week has been so crazy. Do you want to know why? We're being audited! Son of a B! There is nothing fun about this. I guess I should be grateful this is only for a select amount of invoices. I can only imagine if there was a full blown audit for the past 5 years.

How am I coping? I had Wendy's for lunch today. Not the correct solution to this problem.

Here's the positive note. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I'm so excited because my good friend and her hubby are coming down from MT to visit. Woohoo.

Tomorrow's the day it's okay if I eat more than I want to because honestly, who wants to count calories on Thanksgiving?

So my friends, may your tummies get full, may your cheeks hurt from laughter, and I hope you create many more memories.

Love ya!

Send them into hibernation!

Hey everyone! I'm super excited for this weekend because it's one of the best times of the year. I know I complain about the weather and how I don't want winter. Also, we all know Thanksgiving is next week so what could it be that makes this my favorite time? Well, it's the big football game between Montana State University Bobcats and the University of Montana Grizzlies. What makes this so special? It's one of the oldest revelries in college football and because I'm a MAJOR Cat fan!! Currently the Bobcats are #1 in the nation for college football. Yep, you read that correctly, #1 in the Nation!!! WOOP! WOOP! I'm very sad I can't make it up to Bozeman to watch the game, but so very excited about the satellite party here in IF. Here's my issue...I'm supposed to have Search and Rescue training. UGH! If this wasn't going to be ONE OF THE GREATEST GAMES OF THE YEAR then I don't think I'd be as sad. I guess I need to "get sick" or something.
Happy Friday!

Hair update!

Here you go everyone. I got my hairs done last night and I asked my friend/stylist to pause so I can take a few shots.

Here's the beauty when my hair is wet.

And this is what it looks like regardless if I try to cover it up.

The only solution is to where my hair 1/2 up in a pony. Booo!!!

My suggestion is the next time you have to take a drug test and they want your hair, tell them to take it at the base of your head.

Enough said!

Lesson learned

Do you remember when I took that second job this fall working for AB? You know, the one they shaved my head for? Okay, they really didn't shave my head but they gave me that nasty bald spot. Now you remember! It has been about 4 months and my stinkin' hair is out of control. SAD FACE! I'm going to bust out the camera at the salon tonight so I can show you all how my "free hair cut" sticks out.

I really am not posting about that. I must move on from the horror of the drug test. What I want to discuss this morning is how the 6 weeks ruined my fitness life. Most of you know that I've been trying to lose weight and change my eating habits for over a year now. Actually it's going to be two years in December. I've had my hills and I've fallen off the wagon multiple times. Finally this summer I felt like I had a great routine set up. Head to the gym, eat well, make smart choices. Yes! I had hit my lowest weight in YEARS! When I started working for AB my gym time was altered. I wasn't able to meet with my personal trainer. I lost motivation to go at noon. My eating habits went back to poor choices. It was just not a good time. Want to hear the worst part? I gained 10 pounds! That's right, 10! Diez! Dix! Zehn! En! (I just used free translation to help with that.) Back to the point. Gaining that weight was a huge slap in the face. It shows me that I'm not ready what-so-ever to have free reign over my life. Well I do have free reign but what I mean is I need to have someone hold me accountable to what I'm eating. Unfortunately because of the gain, I feel like I'm back to square one. I really have to push it to get back to where I was plus a little more. Ugh! I want to stop making excuses and get back in the game!

Here I gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

It's time to write some letters!

I'm feeling inspired today to get some serious blogging done. So please join me because it's that time again: LETTER TIME!

Dear Old Man Winter,
I'm not ready for you and your bad self. In fact, if you could just pass by without leaving your mark, I'd love that. Take this into consideration, we had snow until May and it didn't get warm until July. Get it? Thanks!
From (because there is NO love for you),
Grumpy

Dear Wind,
I hate you more than Old Man Winter. Go AWAY! Enough of this BS I want to walk outside without my eyes watering and my hair flying all over.
From,
Grumpy

Dear Pounds,
Stop creeping up on me. This is not okay! I want to eat that ice cream without gaining 4 pounds. Can you please let this happen? I don't like realizing that I will always battle my eating habits because you enjoy sticking around too long. Just go away.
Thanks!

Dear Gym,
Why is it that I like you but hate you at the same time? I love walking away knowing you kicked my butt yet again but for some reason I still struggle going to visit you. Maybe if we worked something out we could become best friends. Try to work out a deal with the Pounds and that will be a good start.
Love ya,
Sweat girl

Dear Search and Rescue,
Thanks for being so fun and allowing me to learn lots of cool tricks. I look forward to the time we will share. Thanks for the two code red call out that I've raced to respond to and then having them canceled. That's a good thing, that means the lost person was found. Also, thanks for the new friends that I'm making.
Always ready to respond,
#818

Dear New House,
I love you!

Dear Lane Frost,
Thanks for the XM radio for Clark. We both love you and the new tunes.
xoxo!
P.S. My biological clock is still ticking!

Dear 2011,
Why did you go by so quickly? Next year I'm going to be 28 and that means, only 2 years until 30! Goodness, I'm not ready for 2012! I know I can't fight time so let's make 2012 one of the best years of my life. That has to involve some bling though, better talk to Lane about that.
Love,
Me!

Dear Readers,
Thanks for sticking with me even though I'm an unfaithful blogger. As always, I will try to better my posts and keep you all up-to-date with my exciting life. Keep reading I promise it'll get more interesting!
Love,
ME!

Loving him to the moon and back

Have you ever read the book "Guess how much I love you?" It's super cute. Sorry that I'm going to give away the end but this is what it says:

Then he looked beyond the thornbushes, out into the big dark night. Nothing could be farther than the sky. "I love you right up to the moon," he said, and closed his eyes. "Oh, that's far," said Big Nutbrown Hare. "That is very, very far." Big Nutbrown Hare settled Little Nutbrown Hare into his bed of leaves. He leaned over and kissed him good night. Then he lay down close by and whispered with a smile, "I love you right up to the moon - and back."

That little bit at the end is something I always tell Shayne. "I love you to the moon and back." I think it's common between us women to say little catch phrases or have silly nick-names for our men.
You can imagine that when I was paroozing through Pinterest and came across a sign that someone made saying "I love you to the moon and back," my heart had a small palpation. I knew I could make this. After all, we just moved into our home and I could hang anything on the walls and it wasn't going to be an issue. So here you go, here is a step-by-step of making my sign. (Sorry for the glare on the photos, I was in the garage and had no interest in creating the best lighting for the pictures.)
1. Find a piece of wood. Got it! In the shed, I spotted it a while ago. However, when I went to pick it up I realized it was an old table. OOPS! Thus this masterpiece is about 20 pounds. Haha!
2. Take wood into garage and clean it off
3. Attempt to sand it down, lose interest quickly and give up.
4. Place it on an object that will support the wood and allow you to paint all around it. I found an old trash can. Classy I know.
5. Find paint. Obviously, I wanted to make this as cheap as possible so I got out our extra paint from the bathroom and bedroom.
6. Mix paint. Again, I was being classy by using a stick I found.
7. Paint 1st coat and let dry.
8. Go upstairs, take care of my sweets. Make dinner, do dishes, probably watch TV for a while. Forget about the craft project and go to bed.
9. Wake up, remember the project but don't forget to go to work. Come home apply 2nd coat.
10. I had the idea to use my friends cricut to cut out some vinyl and put it between the base coat then paint over it and peel the letters off. That plan didn't work out so I went with plan B. Stress over trying to free hand the sign.
11. Practice various fonts that will meet your demands.
12. Give up and say "Just do it!"
13. Use your amazing stir stick to prep the top coat paint.
14. Search the garage for a small brush.
15. Start drawing and become pleased with the outcome.
16. Stop 1/2 way through because Biggest Loser is on and that's more important.
17. Drag your feet back into the garage and finish the project.
18. Show it to said love, see their lame reaction but still love it yourself.
19. Find strong enough brackets to hang this beast above your bed. (we have yet to do this so it sits against our wall in the bedroom)

Then just be please and say "I did it and I like it" because really, that's all that matters.