3 years married today…but have been together for 6 as of my birthday in May! Time sure flies. We are gifting each other our deck as our anniv. present!

Heading off camping on Thursday and cannot wait! We’ll be going with 4 other families and it’ll be the first “vacation” type of thing we’ve done in ages. It’ll be nice to get away and relax! We bought a new tent so we’d have more room and this one has a front screened porch along with a huge room that can be divided into 2 rooms. We are bringing Neeva with us and her crate, along with kiddos pack n play so those will take up some serious room. This tent should be perfect! We have been gathering up our camping stuff, making some shopping runs for misc. stuff we needed and then we’ll do a grocery trip before we actually go. Each family is going to be doing a breakfast or dinner so that should work out pretty easy and we’ll just have to do our own lunches. SOOOO excited!

So hey it’s a happy post, but I do have happy posts on the previous page and tons in the past. *shrugs*

Those are the sounds of my horn as the guy in front of me puts his car in reverse and guns himself into me. I’m sitting there behind this truck, waiting for him to get across the highway when I see this lady zipping along the highway and the truck starts to cross then she last minute decided to turn, no turn signal. The guy almost hits her, stops his car mid-highway and then throws his car in reverse, doesn’t look in his rearview mirror, oblivious to the fact that I’m sitting behind him, and slams his car into me. He immediately got out to see if I was ok and started apologizing. He was ticked at the lady and upset that he just hit me. I was upset to say the least but calm, despite shaking a bit. My car doesn’t look bad off, it seems the license plate holder took the worst of the damage with some minor damage to my front end, grill and lower part of my car. We exchanged all our info and he seemed to be a very nice guy, despite everything. (originally, I had called in to the police to make sure we didn’t need them to come out). My car is a lease and we have 1 year left before we get me the new mom-mobile so I really do not want any damage done because otherwise we owe money at the end of lease. (we have done great on miles so I won’t be owing on that at least) At least this guys insurance will have to pay for the repairs but still, it stinks! I was just relieved that it was a minor thing and Braysen wasn’t in the car with me.

This all happened after a long morning at work. My boss is on vacation both Thurs. and Friday of this week so I have come in at 8am both days, no biggy! On Tuesday & Thursday’s I have Yoga (surprisingly, this is even for college credit) so typically I leave at Noon to head over for that. Yesterday, I was supposed to have my work-study student in at noon but as noon approached, no student. 12:15 rolls around, no student! I was ticked. We did have another person coming in at 1:00 that is helping out for the summer so I wasn’t worried I’d be stuck here all day but I was ticked at this chic. She has been so unreliable; actually that’s an understatement.

Lots of things are going on as usual but I’ll spare the ramblings until another posting

This is basically the email I sent to Patrick venting and apologizing for being grumpy…..this explains my mood to a “T” atm.

Sorry I’m such a grump.
I left the house and it’s a complete total mess- dishes all over the counters/sink
and trash all over. Toys everywhere and things just a mess.
Had to fight with the dogs / chase them all
over this morning, had Braysen wake up to Pinot this morning. I got a
coffee and the people didn’t put the lid on well so I spilled that on
myself a bit. This is after trying to find something to wear knowing I
would have to wear my most “summer” type of clothes the rest of the
week..which I don’t have much to wear. I’m grumpy .I just want some new
shirts and I want my house clean. I don’t want to have to go out to
dinner or even cook dinner tonight or even clean for family to come
over.

We have to finish getting the house taped and ready for Wed.
Katie said we should just call up and have them reschedule but then they
have less time to fix their crap before the year is up (although I think
they have to fix everything regardless whether the year is up - based
upon what you find on the appt.) It’s hard enough getting them to call
back / schedule appts. Let alone reschedule.

I don’t want company tonight, I don’t want to clean tonight
and honestly I’m dreading having to go out to dinner or host dinner…
because either way we have to clean the house / cook or we have to entertain
kiddo at the worst place to eat at. Everytime we go to *name omited*
I don’t get to eat. I have to get my stuff boxed to eat at home…
which is NOT enjoyable. Kiddo eats like crap too because I bring
every sweet / non-healthy item with us that he’s
interested in just to keep him occupied long enough for the dinners to
come out. I can only imagine how long it’ll take for dinner to get to
us tonight with another person there.

I’m sorry to unload….this day just sucks arse so far and the afternoon
looks just as bad. I want to go home and take kiddo to the pool..not
worry about cleaning / dishes / toys / walk-thru appts. / family coming over to
get their dog / or having to find food to pack up for dinner out.

Woof Woof!

I woke up Friday morning to Patrick telling me Neeva was gone. We went in panic mode. He drove around the area calling for her and I went to work on emailing our neighborhood about her being lost. I made a flyer and headed into work. Patrick was watching Braysen Friday so Katie could have a day off and they headed off to Coos Bay early. I got into work, tired and groggy from spending all night sniffling and feeling like crap after sitting up on an allergy ridden farm (a beautiful view and farm but I was miserable) for dinner the night before and to top it off – we lost Neeva. I had planned on going into work and then leaving after to hit up the shelters, animal control, vets and then put flyers everywhere I could think of in hopes of finding her. Instead, I came into work and left shortly after with the go ahead from my nice boss. I made all the rounds with my flyers and hit up the vets / shelters with no word of Neeva. Around 11:30 (1/2 hour before the county animal control opens) I received a call from a neighbor, also a local police sheriff, who told me that he believed our dog had been picked up in McMinnville earlier that morning. We thanked him and at noon headed into to see if she was indeed the dog picked up. There laying quietly in the kennel was Neeva and $60 fine later we had our doggy back. They couldn’t find her chip (they didn’t scan low enough) but have written down where it’s located for future records. Hopefully, this isn’t a future occurrence. Patrick secured the area under the gate where she dug out by pouring concrete along the fence line so she can’t dig out through that. Now, we are in the hunt for a possible playmate for our Neeva girl. We think that’s a big reason why she ran off. She’s had a playmate visiting lately, a golden puppy that belongs to our friends. and she seems a bit sad after Lotus leaves. We wanted to wait until Braysen was older so she could help pick out his new puppy but we aren’t sure if we’ll wait that long after all. Finding the right fit for our family is the hard part. Neeva has an amazing personality and we want another doggy that can match that.