Overdue update

Am I the only one in the contest to see who can go the longest without updating?? Because that would mean I'm WINNING!
 June 14th was my last update... oopsie.

Since then, the babies have graduated from their Doggie Class:

  


I'm a little too tired to really do a huge one, so I'll just update on my 101 in 1001... it seems like that's all this blog is for right now!

Click HERE for the rest of my 101 in 1001

Complete:
#9. Go on a surprise super romatical date with my hubby -
      Our 3rd anniversary was in June- D surprised me (blindfold and all) and took me to the Melting Pot. 2 items marked off the list at once? Total WIN

#18. Figure out what I want to do when I grow up (or at least the next couple of years)
      I think I've figured it out. I guess we'll see...

#19. Get a tune-up for my car
      I don't think I need to describe this one. I got a tune up. Only 25,000 miles too late

#55. Dye my hair almost completely blonde

    ALMOST there! 

  
#69. Eat at the Melting Pot (again)
      See #9. :)

#79. Do all my Zumba DVDs
      Yeah, by far- the ones withOUT Beto in them are better. He just looks stupid and makes me mad when he's on the DVDs. I even got D to do the Abs one with me!

In progress:
#66. Read 12 books- I should probably keep a list, since I don't really remember everything I read... but I have read 1-2 more since last update. I have finished My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler, What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell, and The Help by Katherine Stockett.
Just a little gush- The Help was by far one of the best books I have ever read. I couldn't put it down and am torn as to whether or not I want to see the movie, as I am afraid it could never live up to the book.  I cannot say enough about how much I love love love this book. So much that I'm even going to BUY it! I know, crazy!

And that's all I have for now. I'm going to go try to update all my links and strikethroughs :)

And then to BED! So that I can be less grouchy at work tomorrow. I know what you're thinking-

 "You, Grouchy?! NO!"   Sadly, Yes. Yes, it is possible. 

Completed-12, 14, 45, 56, 68; 4, 30, 33, 55, 66, 73 in progress... TAKE THAT

Since we have been internet free, several things on my 101 in 1001 have occurred. I will try to update briefly!

The following have been completed:

12- Decide what to do with the extra shower in our bathroom. THAT SUCKER WILL BE A CLOSET. Of course, I haven't had this DONE yet... but I KNOW what I want to do with it! YAHOOO! :) I can't wait! I just need a plummer to move the pipes, put a shower in our tub, replace our tub, then tile in the walls of the bath tub... and we're IN BUSINESS.
Yeah- see why it hasn't been done yet?

14- Decorate our naked wall in our living room.

Check!  You can sort of see it behind Ms. SanDiego's fat head in the picture.

45- Take an entire week off of work STRAIGHT.
I did it and it was AMAZING. I did nothing. I went nowhere. However, during this week was when #71 also was completed. D & I went for pedis Mon March 28.

56- Go to a Preds game IN Preds gear.
I do not have a single close up picture of this, but I swear it happened!!

68- Get a new surround sound system.
Thanks to my parents, this was completed free of charge to me! haha Happy Birthday to me, new blue ray surround sound thing!

71- See #45 description


The following are in progress:
4- Pay off the truck.
Slowly slowly slowly but surely!

30- Figure out if Carmen IS deaf and HOW bad it is!
 We went to the Dr last week. There's nothing obscuring her ears, so it may be inflamed inner tubes. She's currently on drugs to see if that's it.
Cross your fingers!

33- Keep fresh flowers in the house for 2 months straight

Hopefully this will be easy. For my Bday I got some gorgeous flowers from D. Some are still alive miraculously! I have flowers outside that are now blooming, so hopefully this will be easy- as I really just have to go CUT something once a week to have it work!  Those are my ghetto irises. They're too heavy to stick up on their own, so yeah. I tied those bad boys up to the front porch!

55- Dye my hair almost completely blonde.
I don't know if that's going to happen. I'm starting to think blonde isn't my color! haha We're doing this in phases.

66- Read 12 books
I'm about 1/3 of the way there? I read Strengths Finder 2.0... and some other ones that I don't remember right now


73- I have Spring, Summer, and Fall!!! Just need winter and I'm DONE!

OK after that, I need a nap.

Here's a quick picture of my precious Tini since we have a fathead picture in here as well :)

Voluntary-Mandatory Reading List

Yeah! 3rd Post! Wow... Each post in a different month. I would consider myself a bad blogger if I cared a whole lot more... :o)

SO-

Today is my and Donnie's 2 Year Wedding Anniversary! (Go ahead, cheer!)

It's pretty cool... if you're into that sort of thing.

This is the reason that I'm blogging today- NO, not to talk about how much I love him and how he's my best friend and I'm so blessed to spend the rest of my life with him and build a family together and go through everything together... or to talk about how he somehow loves me even though I have days where I flat out just CHOOSE to be mad, or days that I don't bathe and refuse to get off the couch, or times where I'm consistently negating his every word. And I'm not blogging today to talk about how I have daily/weekly/monthly realizations that I am so incredibly blessed and lucky to have him in my life, and I have no idea what my life would be like without him (other than incredibly boring and unfunny...)

I'm blogging today about presents! :) You like that? How I snuck that lovey dovey crap in there?

He got me the following:

-Zac Brown Band CD

-My Horizontal Life, by Chelsea Handler

-The Lovely Bones

-3 Movie Johnny Depp DVDs thing- Benny & Joon, Edward Scissorhands, and From Hell

-Purple Daisies/other assorted flowers

and a super sweet card. :)

BOOKS! I LOVE BOOKS!

This feels funny to say, but for the first time EVER, I have made myself a VOLUNTARY Summer (and probably on into Fall and winter...) Reading List.

I am currently working my way (ever so slowly) through Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass'... LOVING EVERY SECOND OF IT!

then, I think I'll try to knock out the following:

- 'The Lovely Bones' -So I can see the movie

- 'Charlotte's Webb' -My dad found the book @their house recently and sent it home w/me bc I haven't read it since I was wittle wittle

- 'My Horizontal Life' ---Chelsea Handler is hilarious- I loved Are You There, Vodka?

- 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People' -Because I need to pick up some other habits besides nail-biting

- 'The Time Traveler's Wife' -So I can see the movie...

- 'Parenting the Hurt Child' - No, I don't have children, but I want to read it anyway!

- 'A Paradise Built in Hell- The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster' by Rebecca Solnit

- 'Yours, Jack' By C.S. Lewis

- 'Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang' - To complete my series of super-serious Chelsea Handler books

- 'The Shack' by William P Young

- 'Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry a Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office' - by Jen Lancaster

Annnnnnd that should do my til my 26th birthday.

PS- I've decided that I know what I want to be when I grow up:

A professional candy bar/junk food buster-upper... I mean, really- I would LOVE to be the one who works for DQ and breaks the Oreos and Heath Bars up to put in the Blizzards... I think I've found my calling!

-EM