Hair Color

Hair is pretty interesting. I had my hair colored right before Christmas. The colors I picked were golden brown a dark brown and then a few pieces of blond (bleach blond). The girl that did my hair was a little worried about the blond, but it took fabulously. The blond looks like blond, not orange or any tint of orange. However, the golden brown did not come in as it should have. It came in almost a reddish. The color has toned down a little, but in looking at it you would think I tried to go red! Hair sure is funny.

Too Young

Matt got a phone call that nobody wants to get. His friend who is 31 and has been friends with Matt since Jr High died. It is hard to see someone you love cry.
Know I had only met this guy once, but Matt and him were inseparable before we met. Jerome (his friend) was on a different path than Matt so they did not hang out a whole lot, but still talked. I was not quite as sad as Matt since I did not know him that well, but it hit home.

I am 31 and 31 is way too young to die. I know when I turned 31 I thought wow I am old, but when you think of it in terms of a life ending, it is really young. Then I thought, that would leave Patrick motherless. Can you imaginge at the age of 13 losing your mother? Kind of sad to think.

After thinking this I gave Patrick a big hug and told him I am glad he is my son. He did look at me like I was crazy, but I siezed the moment. That moment could have slipped by and I would have missed it. Life is way too short and for some it is shorter than others.

School

What I miss about school....
The end of the semester in December. That means that we were heading into Christmas and I did not have school for 2 sometimes 3 weeks. While I was working at Big Brothers Big Sisters I didn't have to work that week if I did not want to so that meant a 2 week break.
So now that I have joined the working world and no longer have the Christmas break I am thinking "what the hell did I do?" why did I ever graduate???
I am finding it pretty hard to stay motivated this week (hence the writing on my blog, I am doing it at work). It took me a while to think about it, but I am usually done with school and enjoying the break. Why would anyone ever graduate?
The working world is not all it is cracked up t0 be. I think in my next life I will never grow up. (no I don't believe that I will have 2 lives)

Pets

Who would have thought that I would have been one of those people who are so attached to their pets? How do people get that attached?

Last night about 11PM Bogie decided he needed to go out. Well I did not want to go with him so I let him out leaving the door open. He had 3 tags on him. One with his name, one from his rabies shot and one from the pound for his city registration. These tags jingle pretty loudly. So he is outside and I can here him jingle. The jingle gets a little quiter so I call him name. I can here him but barely so I figured he has stopped to do business and that he should be coming back inside soon, which he normally does.
He never comes inside. Behind our house is an alley so I run out there and yell his name, he does not come, I look down the alley and there is no Bogie, just some guy at the end of the alley in the street. It is not like Bogie to not come when I call him. So I run inside to the front door. Sometimes he waits at the front door for someone to let him in. No Bogie.
So I get my shoes on and run out into the alley yelling his name. No jingle, no bogie, nothing. So I run to the end of the alley and around the block yelling his name. It is windy and cold and I am yelling pretty loudly.
When I get back to the other end of the alley I think I am going to have to wake Matt up to have him help me. I am scared and sick about loosing Bogie. I get to the back door and there is Bogie sitting on the steps. He is scared and shaking and thinks he is in trouble. He would not let me stop petting him because he thought he was in trouble. But it was a little scary!
How did I become one of those weird animal people who go crazy over their dogs?

Laundry

For those of you who were in Awe...
Yes, Matt does laundry and quite well I must add.

October 11 2008

I know most have you heard about it, but here is my story about Saturday October 11, 2008


It had been so nice in Burley up to that point and for some reason it was freezing that week. There was talk of a snow storm coming our way. Matt moved to Burley that weekend. He loaded stuff in his truck. His dad told him not to wait, just get on the road. Well he makes it with out a problem. It is still freezing and he keeps saying it is supposed to be warmer here!

The next morning, which was Saturday we wake up to snow. Not just a little skiff of snow, there was a lot of snow.

Patrick had Saturday school so I bring him and everywhere I drive I am burried. It is snowing so think and fast. It was snowing like it did on Christmas eve last year. We are thinking that in time this snow will stop so we go get breakfast and plan to go to Twin Falls. We got on the freeway and it is horrible. You cannot see and there is traffic bumper to bumper and we are all going 35 MPH. So we get off at the next exit and go home. It snowed this way throught the night and into the morning. There were 15 to 18 inched (the amount depended on where you were) of snow that fell that day. By the end of the week we were having 70 degree weather and the snow had all melted and we have not had any snow since then. It was a little crazy.

We were told that Burley will get freak storms like that or drop into a really cold temp for a few days then back to mild temps and nice weather. It was a little weird.



Patrick standing in the front yard Saturday night. All of this snow was from one day and it was still snowing when we were out there.









Matt shoveling for the 100th time


Snow coming down


The next morning.

Cell Phone

Matt decided to wash his cell phone yesterday. Now Matt is the best at washing clothes. He always hangs up what needs to be hung up and washes my nicer clothes separate. He has never shrunk or ruined anything and always empties his pockets.
Well yesterday he did not.
So we went to Altell to get him a new phone. He was quite angry. His phone was expensive and it was going to cost even more to get a cheapy one since we are just beginning our contract. We get there and the girl tells us that the price is full retail price and the cheapest on they have is $150. This phone has no features. Then she tell us that we can go to Wal-mart and buy an Altell prepaid phone and they can hook it up. They just happen to have one for $25.
This put Matt in a better mood, so to Wal-mart we went. There was the $25 phone along with other phones that were better, but so much cheaper than they would have been at Altell. We bring this cheap no frills $25 phone back to her and in a matter of minutes Matt has a new phone. He lost all of his contacts, but he has a new phone.

Now I had no idea that this was even an option. I wanted to share with you all so you don't go to the cell phone dealer and pay an outrageous amount for a phone. Go buy they pre-paid phones!! At least with Altell this is an option.

Band

Patrick has joined band. Now this is never what I imagined my son being interested in, but I am glad to see him get interested in something. Right now he is learning the percussion. At the concert he played the triangle and the bells. He has a trumpet and will soon be getting private lessons. So the next concert he should have more of a part in.

They had a concert on Thursday. I am a bad mom and did not bring my camera so I had to use my phone to get pics. Here is one of the pics.

Tagged

1. I hate to be touched. We went to a spook alley and I was more freaked out by them touching me than anything. I even get to a point with Matt where I have to ask him for space.
2. I have this huge space bubble and I despise when people get into it. If I sit at a table I need to be far enough away from everyone else. If there is too many things on the table as well as sitting really close I get a little claustrophobic and have to move.
3. I am a big fan of Disney/Nick teen shows. (Hannah Montana, iCarly, Suit life of zack and cody)
4. My dishes have to be put away in their correct spot and in a certain way. I get very irritated when I open the cupboard and they are in the wrong spot I get very irritated. This may not seem like a big deal, but I do not care about order on very many things. (dresser drawers are the only other things that HAVE to be put away a certain way in a certain drawer)
5. Like Jennifer, I cannot stand to not use Q-tips. I have to use one every time I get out of the shower.
6. I hate shortened names. I hate when people call Patrick Pat. I think that if a parent wanted to have their child go by the shortened name they should have just gave them the shortened name. If I wanted Patrick to go by Pat I would have just named him Pat
7. I watch reality shows. My favs are Biggest looser & John and Kate plus 8

Since everyone else had already done their tag all I have left to tag is Rachel

Houdini

Bogie had figured out how to do magic! Or he grew opposable thumbs.
The other morning about 4:30 Matt gets me up and asks me where Bogie is. I tell him he is probably under the covers. Matt tells me he is not. So I tell him he is probably in Patrick's room. So I get up and wake Patrick up. He does not have Bogie either. So I go back to our room and start ripping the covers off the bed. That little dog can bury himself pretty good. Well no Bogie. I start to yell his name, no bogie. I go to the front door (which is locked) and open it. In comes Bogie. Matt begins with oh poor Bogie you guys left him out all night! He has got to be freezing. Well he is not. His body is still warm and his metal tags are still warm and he is not shivering. That little dog has not been out that long. Well we jump back into bed with little more thought.
After Matt gets off work he calls me and I tease him about letting Bogie out while he is sleep walking. He says no it was Patrick or it was you and I tell him it must be the underwear Gnome (family joke). For the rest of the day I called Bogie Houdini.

Well as it turns out Matt had this dream that Bogie was scratching at the door and in his dream bogie says to him "let me in" so what I think happened is that Bogie scratched on the bedroom door just before 4:30. Matt has to be to work at 5:30 so he is somewhat awake. Not realizing it he lets Bogie out and goes back to bed. Well in his subconscious mind he knows he still has to let Bogie back in, hence the dream. When he realizes Bogie is gone he does not remember letting him out.

So either Matt sleep walks or Bogie is Houdini!