Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween all!!! We celebrated our first Halloween in the new house. There are decorations on outside and a Sign on the door that says "the witch is in - treats inside". Daisy Dog dressed up as a little piglet. It was quite apropos considering how she snorts like a pig.

half of the neighborhood kids thought she was adorable, and were scared of her bark. She did a REALLY good job. Ms. Maureen gave her a yummy bone last night, so she gnawed on it most of the night, as well as informing me of when kids were at the door. She didn't run away and she was just all arou good. NOw she is absolutely exhausted, and passed out on the floor from all of the excitement.

We had well over a hundred trick or treaters - I quit counting around 70 at 7:15ish. They came in droves with parents towing trailers up and down the road with bales of hay and kids in costumes. Some of the kids were adoreable. Lots of princesses and spidermen and pirates. I must have given out almost $50 in candy!

I also got ding dong ditched twice tonight! The catch is - I knew exactly who it was! The Preston and Travis from up the street were ding dong ditching their parents the other night. Daisy and I walked up on them when they were running from Prestons dad - who was in full army camo chasing them down! So, I knew it was them this evening. Still, they were good - and they are cute kids.

All in all, a positive first haloween in the house!

Best Saturday Ever

This is the way days were meant to be! It is so the best Saturday in a while.

It sounds lame, but my weekend has been mostly great. I got up this mroning and watched my boys in orange and blue beat down on ball state. today was our homecomming, although i did not come home. but, we played ball state at home, and we won! great job to rashard, juice, vonte, jay, and all ofour boys. i love having the big ten network -- how else would i get to watch these things? the bad thing: the announcers on the BTN need to get with the program. they are with the BTN, they should know a little bit about the schools in the big ten. all i'm asking is that they not spend the entire first quarter calling illinois the orange and white, and don't call our mens basketball coach bill webber. seriously peeps, get with it.

then, i decided to start stripping wallpaper this afternoon in celebratin of the game. i was going to work ont he bathroom next, but decided that i didn't want to be working on painting it when kate is here at thanksgiving. i knew that the bathroom wallpaper was really tight - it would be scraped off in centimeter sized pieces. so, i decided to start working on the hall. i expected it to be much of the same. well, apparently i got luckly! i was pulling down entire sheets of wallpaper without much damage to the drywall. I have a couple of spots that will require a bit of repair, but otherwise, all apears to be well. Instead of taking two weeks to get rid of the wallpaper it took about two hours. there is a little more cleanup required, but we could totally have this painted up ahead of schedule! Fab!!

The only bad thing to happen today, during out walk Daisy Dogg got attacked by one of our neighbros dogs. This was another hard attack. We were on the street, on the other side of the street from their house, and this dog came out and barked and there was definite teeth on her booty. THis dog is a member of the County's K9 unit, so I can't just get him thrown out. We are going to need to figure out where we can walk - because the lake is not working for us.

Time to watch Penn State and Ohio State in Happy Valley.

lunch time buddies

I lunched with my friend Angeal and some of her friends who I know by association. They are all really nice people. Most importantly, we got to play with Sasha, the shitzu during lunch. Sash is a 6 week old puppy who is as cute as can be. I could take her home and just love on her all day long. She can't weigh more than 5 pounds. Terry-Ann (who is married to Terry - that isn't confusing!!) has been bringing her into work becuase she is in the puppy stage where she needs to go out often and she needs to eat often because her little stomach just can't take it all in.

If I could play with a puppy every day at lunch, my life owuld be super fabulous!!

it's getting cold in here

Sort of the opposite of getting hot in here. let's put on all our clothes. We are enjoying a VERY cold week. Temps have been between highs of 55 during the day and lows of 45 at night. very very chilly! Not the weather we expect here in MS. This cold front is nice, but i need to get the fire going. i have a feeling we might need to fire it up this weekend!


In fact, it has been incredibly HARD to get up and get out of bed in the morning. Daisy Dogg has been totally smart and lucky dog! In the mornings she has been hanging out on the bed. She doesn't get up and go out until long after I get up and started. She sits on the bed in her warm spot until I have gotten out of the shower and am ready to get the day started. Even now, she is sitting next to me on the couch. She is REALLY good at keeping my feet warm.

Also, if you aren't on the up and up, my FAVORITE show is Ugly Betty. I hate to say it, but I honestly feel little too close to her. She is quite the clueless character. If I only watch one hour of TV all week, I hope this is the hour. It was nice to see Hilda being a real mother and aware of her son. I was happy to see Alexis get her memory back and realize how horible her dad was and how they were just as screwed up and dysfuctional as the rest of us. Even better yet, it ws great to see Marc go on a date with a normal guy. My new favorite phrase - instead of calling a hottie 'eye candy' i will now call them 'guy candy'. Most imporntatly, it was adorable to see Henry tryto rescue Betty when her jerky date took off on her. i mean seroiusly yellowhead, give the girl a break. Was your bachelorocity profile really ALL that great either? She is nervous. She just wants to impress you. She is a sweetie if you jsut get to know her. (se where the similarities come in?).

For all 2 readers out there: what is your one hour (or half hour) that really just makes your week? feel free to share and post. it will make me feel special!

BLOGGER"S NOTE: I was thinking about this today. I dont' want to admit it, but i have enough experience iwth selecting screen names and signins for e-mails, webstites etc, so I am in the know on this one. Betty went into this long draw out diatribe on why she was unable to pick IloveBunnies as her screen name because it was taken. I can agree to that one. However, IloveBunnies is taken but CutieInQueens wasn't? Yeah right.

Frogs and Dogs

Ok, Nikki has given me a new theme song. Apparently, despite being amazingly hot, skinny, a natural blonde, and dating Tony Romo, Carrie Underwood knows my life quite well. The chorus goes something like this:

"I close my eyes and
I kiss that frog.
Each time finding
the more boys I meet
the more I love my dog."

WHo knew Carrie and I had so much in commong. A huge THANK YOU shout out to Nikki for finding that one for me!

In other news, It is 5:45 and I'm still at work. Sadly, I will still be at work for a while longer. After spending my day in a meeting, I'm feeling behind. So, in the light of the old, work-a-holic Sarah, I will be staying here to get a little something accomplished before leaving. On that note, breaktime is OVER.

Happy 1st Birthday Virginia

This post is a little late, but better never than late. This Saturday was Virginia's 1st Birthday Pary! She actually turned 1 year old last Thursday, but I'm a little slow lately. Virginia is the daughter of my friends Amanda and Stephen. They live over in Delhi, and she is precious. You may recall her from earlier this month where I babysat on a Friday night. She is one of the best behaved babies I know. Either Amanda is in trouble with her later, or else her older sister is giong to be a handfull later in life. Or, Amanda i just REALLY lucky. If you would like to see some pictures from case desicration, check out the link to Amand and Stephen Young! It was Cute cute cute!

Friday night was happy hour. Mad Props go out to Tom Borrowman for showing his chops. Actually, Tom is always game to go out, the real props go out to me for hanging far longer than normal, and for actually showing as opposed to the rest of the possee!

Other good news: while it is raining like crazy, Daisy dogg can't get her walk. Lately, this has been keeping her down Today, it eally has her down. She has gotten her puppy back and is wanting to play play play. She is even playing with toys around the house!!! Yay!!!

Yoga-licious!

i've always wanted to try real yoga or real pillates. i think i would enjoy them. i love walking. i love running, i just can't do it. i think that yoga and pilates would give me a lot of additional benefits. the problem is that i'm too cheap to spend the money to join the Y here in town. the free classes at the gym at work are at the most inconvenient times, i.e. lunch. the other places that offer them are way expensive, or filled with size zero ole miss girls who make me feel out of place since i'm not a 7th generation vicksburg resident. yesterday i went to yoga at the pee wee workout world for the first time. gail, who is my work neighbor and my home neighbor now, has been trying to get me to go with her for a while. i finally remembered my stuff, so i went. i'm in LOVE. it was fun! i felt great. i'm totally going to start going more regularly. hopefully every M and W that I'm in town! today i'm a little sore. or a lot sore. i really wish that sven, my hot, swedish, imaginary personal masseuse was actually real. i could definitely use him today.

in other news on the homefront, we went to see dr. brogdon at the animal medical clinic again this morning. she is very happy with daisy dogg's progress, but we are not totally uninfected. so, 2 more weeks of drugs. the bad news: 2 more weeks of waking up in the middle of the night to let the poor drugged up dog out to use her personal princess pad.

it looks like i'll be traveling for work at the beginning of november. i'll be going to the northern NYC burb's. this is a new place for me, although it is a state i've hit before. should be a fun and interesting little trip. i need to get new batteries for the camera before heading that direction!

may the luck be with me

wish me luck.
tonight is my first yoga class! we'll see how sore i am tomorrow :c)

Today's Theme Song

Ok, La Ti Da is now my personal theme song. http://www.theicicles.com/pages/listen.html
It is amazing what a good night's sleep will do for you!!


Things are lookin alright today
The sun is shining I'm feeling okay
My chin is up , my spirit is high
Pretty sure that I could fly

So I sing la ti da ti da

Things are finally right for me
The sun is shining, I'm feeling free
My heart is whole and I can finally breath
The horizon I can finally see

Things are finally going swell
The sun is shining, I'm feeling well
My mind is totally clear
I can feel the happy coming back to me

Things are looking brighter and I'm feeling better

la ti da

i LOVE the target comercials with the song that goes la ti da. it is sung by the icicles. google taught me that one. i LOVE the song. it makes me want to party!

the house is looking hot. the closets are white instead of the icky yellowed almond originally painted in 1979. now it is just a mattter of slowly replacing the clothes in them and hanging a million things on the wall.

i'm also amused by this new show "samantha who?". it is cute. christina applegate and barry watson from seventh heaven are on it. i like the concept of waking up ahd having to figure out who you are. it seems cute.

finis

last night. trim finished.
tonight. moving in.
yay.
'nuff said.

there is still tons of work to do, but my bed calls my name. i will post pics once the room is put back together.

The dukes of vicksburg

when i woke up this morning, i had no idea that today would wind up quitethe way it did. i figured it would be like an other columbus d. Nothing big to report. i was wrong.
this morning i worked around the house, big surprise there. i got the first coat of paint onto the trim and the vanity. it looks nice. it needs one more coat, but it is starting to look good. then, i went over to jackson. all was well, i went to the new mall, which isthe nice part of town. it was a little rainy, but all was loking good. I droped a bunch of money at the petsmart buying dog food a new dog bd and toys (how spoiled is she). The good news,I shouldn't have to go buy food until t-giving if not christmas. i wnt to the car, and it woulnd' turn on. arg. what the hey. so, i thought i needed a jump. i walked over to target, did my target shopping and got a set of jumper cables. a nice guy helped me out, and we jmped my car. it started up and all seemed well. i'm a dumb girl when it comes to my car, but i know to keep it running for 15-20 minutes. so, i went over to hobby loby (my last stop) and sat in the parking lot with the car running. it just stopped 5 minutes after being jumped. so, i went into hobby lobby to find out where the nearest auto zone was and to get scurity to jump me again. well, this strip mall had no security. but, a nice woman heped me out. we jumped it and i was about to head out. i put the car in gar and it just DIED. so, we tried again. disaster ensued. it wouln't start up. it kept making this bad noise, and not the type of noise i associated with trying to turn over. so, i wound up haning out at the strip mall for a whlie longer while my friend kirk came to pick me up. he and his roomate brought a trailer and we brought my car back to vicksburg. right now it is sitting at the shop. it may just be the battery, but i want to get it checked out since it went from having no problems to being unable to take a charge.

the best part of the story
we had to jump it to get it on the trailer. then, when we got back to vicksburg, it was dead again. so, we had to uhook the truck from the trailer and re-jump it. note that the car is about 12 inches smaller than the trailer, so kirk had to do the dukes of hazard thing to get in and out of the car. we jumped the car. then they started to re-hook up the trailer so we could get the car off. as soon as the trailer got hooked up the car died AGAIN!!! so, we were going to have to unhook the trailer, pull the truck around and d it again. we wound up "engineering" it and hooking my jumpers and their jumpers and getting the car started. what a disaster!!!! i feel like only me.....
OK, hopefully that gave y'all your laugh for the day.

Tuesday's Update: My car is fixed. It was just the battery. We so could have just gone and bought a new battery and not gone through all of the trailer issues. But seriously folks, that MADE the story.

the corn and the cheese part 2

this weekend was a double battle of the corn and the cheese.

bears 27 the pack 20

'nuff said

The Corn and The Cheese

Hi ho the Dairy Oh, The Corn and the Cheese. Corn 31, Cheese 26. And, I watched it from the comfort of my own home. Granted, i would have LOVED to ahve been at memorial stadium on Saturday, but if I couldn't be there, at least I could watch it. It is great to see the Illini finally getting a chance. They aren't just winning, but they are beating teams who are in Division 1!!! I must say, I do enjoy listening to the announcers. They drive me crazy. They talk about these players and how they are so great but no one has heard of them until today. They imply that these guys sucked for the last several years. For instance, Rashard Mendenhall is the running back no one has heard of - hello, in Champaing we are VERY familiar with his name. This isn't something new. Same with J. Lehman. You are just finally giving us a speck of attention. Ron Zook, you did us proud. Thanks for all the hard work to you and your boys.

I will admit, I look forward to stoppin by the office of the one Badger fan I work with an needling him a little. I wouldn't be doing it, except when I saw him Thursday he decided to give me a hard time :-)

I also need to add this one to the pot. this is the Second time this type of thing has happened. During undergrad we were a part of the 0-11 years. The year after I left we went to the Sugar Bowl. Likewise, it is looking like a repeat. Last year was full of losses and we are practically bowl bound already!!! Also, congrats to them on joining the AP top 25. Once again, first time back in there 2001. So, I think what this says is that if I start spending every other year as a student of the U of I, they will have really good seasons every other year!!

In other football news, I watched the LSU game Saturday night. It was absolutely AMAZING. If you didn't see it and you are like me and don't watch Sportscenter, you need to read about it. The last quarter was so great. Talk about a fatal combination of talent and luck. Les Miles made 5 or 6 huge gambles, and every single one paid off. It was the type of game that made it worth your while to watch. I can't immagine being a tiger or gator fan and watching it though. i would have made myself sick!

The rest of my saturday night was spent giving Daisy a bath to try to de-blue her butt. Some girls stay in and wash their hair on Saturday nights. Me, i stay in and wash my dog's hair. What that says about me, I'm not sure. For one thing it definitely says I'm lame. But, i'm OK with thtat. Note taht the blue got out. Then she got some white on her whiskers yesterday. We just can't win!!! :c)

Attack of the Blue Butt

It's been a while since i've posted, so i thought i should put out a little update. Things are crazy here, as usual. I honestly could not tell you what keeps me busy, but something does.

I've been continuing work on the house, as always. My latest project continues to be my bedroom. Saturday afternoon was spent painting my ceiling. It is amazing how gross and not white the ceiling gets over several years time! In fact, gross is a good word for it. Just refereshing the ceiling alone was a great step. Sunday night I moved on to working on the actual walls. Since then i've been trying to do a wall a night. it has kept me busy. it is amazing how long it takes to get each wall properly taped and then painted. or, perhaps i am just my father's child and i'm anal and want it done right, so it takes forever. last night i finished getting the first coat on the last wall in the bedroom. meanwhile the vanity area has two coats on it already! This weekend we'll finish getting the paint on, thank goodness! I'm tired of sleeping in the living room. I miss my bed. Actually, i tried sleeping in the spare room one night. i quit after that. it was HORRIBLE. i don't know where my parents got the matressses for kate's bed, but i pity the fool who gets stuck sleeping on them!

Speaking of painting, we had an incident the other night. Daisy Dogg had done a GREAT job. She was just keeping out of the paint, just sitting in the closet watching what was going on. Well, the other night she decided to be a little more proactive and help her mama out. She decided the best way to help was to use her butt and her little tail to spread paint. She backed herself up on the wall and got a blue butt! I tried to take a picture, but she stay still long enough for me to take a picture from behind. I guess she is enough of a lady to know that the camera adds ten pounds, and she didn't want phots of her butt circulating the internet!

I'll say it again. Thank you Big Ten Network! I got to watch the IL-Penn State game while i painted Saturday. Go Illini! Keep up the good work!