Carnival Ride

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I just recently got Carrie Underwood’s new CD Carnival Ride. I absolutely love it. It’s almost as good as her first album, if not better. This album is more country than her first with hints of banjos and foot stomping tempos. You know its a country album when there’s a song about being drunk at the alter and you don’t know your new last name. It’s similar to Alan Jackson’s song “I don’t even know your name”. Then there’s the song about how the more boys she meets the more she loves her dog. My brother didn’t seem to like that song but I love it. Beofre I met Jonathan, that’s how I felt. Over all it’s a great album and I’m already ready for her third!

Christmas

Okay my peeps we need to talk! The order of holidays is as follows: Halloween, Thanksgiving and then Christmas. You have to have one holiday to move onto the next. So for all you people with Christmas trees up and lights out, you can keep them up but don’t turn the lights on until Thanksgiving is over! How can you be focused on Thanksgiving if you are worried about putting up the Christmas decorations? Okay, that’s my rant–Have a happy Turkey Day

Painting the kitchen

Friday night Jonathan and I started painting the kitchen…I’m lucky I finally got him to do it! For some reason he doesn’t want to paint anything….he’s afraid to put holes in the wall because “they are permanent” and I guess he’s afraid of permanency? So he’s scared to paint a kitchen for fear he won’t like it but he married me for the REST OF HIS LIFE –hummmm odd ball! Anyway we finally wrapped it up and it’s all finished. Below are the before and after pictures. Well I forgot to get a before picture so it’s just one we took before we moved in.

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painted kitchen

Relaxing

The other day someone asked what I did to relax. Most people say read a book, watch TV or soak in a tub…well for most people that would work but not for me. I’ get bored doing all that and not relaxed. My mind just wonders to all the things that need to be done or I want to do and that’s not relaxing. So while most are reading a book to relax, I’m out doing something in the yard or painting–not on a canvas–you must be joking, but a room. So this weekend hopefully I’ll be able get atleast our kitchen painted. Now I just need to get Jonathan on board–I don’t expect him to paint, I don’t mind doing it all. He’s got a CWF show Saturday night anyway so while he’s donig that, I can relax while painting the kitchen. I think I’ve picked out a color but not quite sure yet. I’m thinking sage green, oh it’s gonna look good! I’ll post pictures when I get a chance.

Halloween

Halloween, the day little kids get dressed up as a princess or cowboy and go trick or treating. Well atleast that’s what it used to be about…I remember when we were kids there would tons of kids out in the neighborhood trick or treating–mainly little kids and not as many teenagers. Last night I was looking around the neighborhood and there weren’t too many kids out, or atleast not as many as there used to be….it was more teenagers just in regular clothes…if you don’t have a costume you don’t get candy–that’s my rule. But then again I have to pass out candy to have a rule i guess–owell. I don’t know what it is, but over the last couple of years I have learned to dislike Halloween and basically just ignore it all together. But, Jonathan won’t let me and I have a feeling that he won’t let me keep my kids from trick or teating. Now there is no harm in dressing up, I’m all about that–as long as it’s fun, cowboy, princess, lady bug, whatever–but no ugly, scary costumes. My parents have a Fall Harvest Festival the weekend before Halloween and I’m all about thigns like that–my kids can do that all they want but not the whole Halloween thing. Call me crazy, I just don’t like it. Any thoughts on this??

Wow

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My mom emailed yesterday to tell me that my 6th grade science teacher, Mr. Reyna, was named teacher of the year in region 10. He is the first teacher in Garland ISD to be awarded this and it is a great accomplishment. You can read the article about him at www.garlandisd.net, there is a picture of him on the front page and a link to the full article. Mr. Reyna is the reason I am a science nerd today. Ever since taking his science class in 6th grade I have loved science and have been thinking about teaching it. Congralutations Mr. Reyna, you deserve it

iPhone prices slashed

HAHAHAHAHAHA–I can’t stop laughing, sorry, that might be rude to all those people that stood in line for a day or two just to be the first to have an iPhone and pay $600 for it! It’s been probably 2 or 3 months since it came out and according to The Dallas Morning News, “Apple Inc. slashed the price of the iPhone by $200 Wednesday — a rare move for the company that typically discounts only older products.” They go on to say “The 8-gigabyte iPhone will be $399 — $200 cheaper than the same model when it went on sale in June. The 4-gigabyte iPhone, which sold for $399, will be phased out.” You might be in shock when I say this, but I never really wanted an iPhone. Ya, it’s cool, but I tend to drop things and I have a feeling the iPhone isn’t very durable. Maybe when it’s slashed another $200 I’ll get one. It’s ever harder to believe that I didn’t get one because it’s a mac product and I love Mac. I just think it’s funny that Mac decided to cut the price not just a little but by $200! So go out and get you an iPhone.iphone

Weird

So we were watching the news the other night and there was a story on about a soldier killed in Iraq from Ennis. They were reporting from the cemetary in Ennis…all of a sudden we looked up and there was my grandad’s grave marker on the channel 4 news. Big as can be “Mosshart” I thought that was kind of odd but neat. As I had mentioned in a previous post, My grandad was a military man too so it was kind of cool to see that they used his grave marker.