True Blonde

The owner of my company once called me "the smartest blonde I've ever met." That ladies and gents was before the past weeks debacles.

While driving to work last week, I kept feeling my clutch stick. Yep I'm cool and drive a manual! Anyway said clutch feels like it's sticking, so I text the Hubs "must take car in to shop." Two days (yes, two days) later, I discover that the sticking is do to the floor mat being in an awkward position. Doh!

This Monday I gave myself a minor concussion. Mom's a nurse - she concurred that it was a minor concussion. How did I do this you ask? On the microwave! Yep the microwave door was open, I bent down to pick up the food off of the floor that had just gone flying off the plate being pulled from the microwave; stood straight up (at full speed) forgetting that the microwave door was still open, and bam, my head massively connects with the corner of the microwave. 24 hours later my eye socket and right side of my head FINALLY stopped hurting.

Please feel free to laugh at me...the Hubs, my boss, my bro and my besties all have laughed at me! I'm just glad I could help bring joy to other people's lives, even if it requires the sacrifice of several hundred of my brain cells.

Inspired Jewelry

While being sandwiched to my couch for the last several days - stupid cold, I stumbled across Lisa Leonard Designs.

(my heart)

I'm especially in love with the "my heart" necklace. "i hold your heart" by e.e. cummings was read at our wedding so it holds an extra special meaning to me.

(be still)

The "be still" necklace is so whimsical and simple that I think I would wear it everyday. This is a mere sample of the beautiful babbles to be found at Lisa Leonard Designs. Check her out!

...but Starbucks said so!

The holiday season is upon us. You know how I know...the Starbucks red holiday cup is back. So enjoy your first day of the holidays meal (Thanksgiving) in a couple of weeks and get to shopping.

In all seriousness, I love getting my first red cup of the season. This truly is my favorite time of the year. I love Thanksgiving and Christmas - as separate holidays. To me it's the happiest time of the year so bring on the family, good food, friends and lots of shopping!!

Nuggets

Wifey: The nuggets? As in their mascot is a guy running around in a chicken nugget suit?

The Hubs: No the Denver Nuggets - like the gold rush.

Wifey: Nope I think it's they are the chicken nuggets.

The Hubs: You're a chicken nugget.

Wifey: No I'm not.

The Hubs: How do you know?

Wifey: Because I bleed

The Hubs: Then you're an uncooked nugget.

Wifey: That means I'm just raw chicken - that's gross!

What can I say, we have intelligent, mature conversations. P.S. For those of you who don't know, we were watching basketball. ;)

A Special Thank You!!!

To all the men and women that have and are currently serving in the military. As the granddaughter of a Vietnam vet and a Korean vet and the wife of an OIF vet, today has a special meaning to me. Veterans give up so much of their day-to-day life in order to serve our country. I would like to say a very special thank you. I would also like to say how very proud I am of my own sexy man in uniform - the hubs! I love you very much and am so proud of all that you have accomplished.

You know it's home when

(the view from our dock)

- you love having people over to your house

- you don't mind the next door neighbor having band practice in their house (we share a wall)

- the "crazy cat lady" has become an endearing character

- you would rather spend money on something for the house instead of an article of clothing (this is a huge deal in Wifey world)

If you can't tell, I love our new townhouse.

When life gives you lemons...

grab a bottle of tequila. Unfortunately tonight I have no tequila so tonight writing shall be my tequila. If serious isn't you thing this evening, you might want to skip this post.

For the last 10 weeks, I've been the a listening ear for a friend who's hubby has been going through trooper school. S and I are childhood friends. We've literally known each other for over 20 years. Gasp - hey I'm not that old! We just have known each other since birth. Without getting into all the details, it had been a while since S and I had talked. Not because of anything other than life just taking us in different directions. This past summer, S and I met back up at another childhood friends wedding. Since then we have been staying in touch a la facebook.

Now that you have the Reader's Digest condensed version of our friendship, I can get back to my point. S messaged me today about how things are going with her and her hubby. I had told her that the hubs was gone with week. She responded that she couldn't imagine and that as soon as her hubby got home she was never letting him go again.

In that moment, I wanted to ball my eyes out. You see the thing that I try not to talk about on here is personal things about my life. Specifically the Army side of my life. Yes the hubs is in the Army, but we do the best that we can to just live life. The Army dictates enough of our lives that I can't let it control every aspect. But today when my friend said that, this life we chose overwhelmed me. As long as the hubs is in the Army, I will forever be letting my husband go.

This week it's training. Soon it will be a school that will take him away for longer, and after that, down the road at some point, there will be another deployment. And from day to day, I don't think about any of it. I enjoy each and everyday, because today is what we have.

Dilemmas

This weeks dilemmas:

- three days in a row of rain, is it wrong to call in sick and watch movies all day instead of going to work?

- how short should I get the pups hair when she gets groomed?

- new hairstyle without losing my current length? (Is that even possible?)

- Is it bad to let the dog chew on the hubs socks? (Answer: It's better than her chewing on my bra.)

- Sleep an extra 10 minutes and shower at night or get my butt out of bed on time?

These are the things that I think of while the hubs is away for 16 days. Random, huh? Can you imagine what kind of conversations we have? The mind reels. ;)

Happy National Mad Hatter Day

Hope you are having a very merry unbirthday!

i can read

Tonight I discovered "i can read." It's a website with fun and sweet pictures with sayings like the one above. Definitely need to check it out, it's great!

T9

Dear Phone,

While I find T9 super useful, if you do not learn some important words we are going to have to go our separate ways. Seriously, how did you not know how to spell "bagel"? Please get on this asap so that we can stay friends!

Love,

Wifey

HomeGoods

How I love thee, let me count the ways. I'm always thrilled to go home to see my parents, because besides the town where they live has a HomeGoods. I always find the best items in there. From the bedspread that we currently use to the most adorable pear cake stand for my Mommom's birthday, I always luck out. The prices are incredible also. But HomeGoods has upped the ante, they have a blog!! How did I not know this? The only thing that could make the store better - if I could shop online!