I don’t know what I’d do without Preston.

He always knows the right things to say, even if I don’t want to hear them. I’ve been stretched a little too much lately and today I finally got really pissed off (not at him) and he said something that just clicked and made everything make perfect sense. I went from really ticked off to feeling great again just from his one sentence reminder.

That’s one of the things that I just love about him. He’s doesn’t sugar coat things and tell me everything I want to hear. He gives it to me real and honest. I might not always like it at the time, but it always ends up being exactly what I needed.

I was helping a friend of mine in Houston look for places to get a tattoo removed recently and came across New Look Laser Tattoo Removal. I’m not sure if she ever ended up going there or not but I came across the site again today and they’ve completely redesigned their site. It looks really good. The clinic only deals with tattoo removal and has tons of info on the topic at their site. The before and after pictures are really neat to see. Most of them you can’t even tell had tattoos. You would never be able to guess this friend of mine had a tattoo after it was removed.

I don’t plan on having any tattoos removed anytime soon… in fact I want another one! But if it’s something you’re thinking about and you’re in the area, check out the site. It has a lot of helpful information.

Where was I?

So B and I got into Dallas and tried to get into our apartment and they had made a mistake and the apartment wouldn’t be ready for another week.

So. They were able to get us into a different apartment at the last minute, but we still had to stay in a hotel for a couple days. I was so sick of staying in creepy cheap motels but at least now we were in a big city with decent hotels.

The next 5 and a half months weren’t really much to talk about. We moved into our apartment and B went to school every day while I stayed home. When he wasn’t in school he was sitting on the couch playing football on Xbox or watching football on TV. In October I went to Vegas with my Aunt for my 21st birthday. He stayed home playing Xbox and watching football, ignoring our dog I always watched after and let him piss all over the carpet which in the end I had to pay to replace.

In most ways it was a pretty uneventful 5 and a half months. But in some ways it was the most important 5 and a half months of my life. When I was left at home alone all day and put 2nd (and 3rd) to football and the Xbox, I had a lot of time to think about what the hell I was doing with my life. Don’t get me wrong, B is a great guy. (Was? He’s changed a lot recently… ) We had a lot of fun together but when you got right down to it, we had zero in common. It was depressing to think that this was all that it was going to be for me. I couldn’t shake the fact that I wanted a family and all B wanted out of life was a truck and a boat.

So now we’re at December 2005. The first Christmas I would be spending away from my family. It was a hard month for me because I missed my family and friends so much. We did go back to WA that Christmas, but we went to visit B’s family, not mine. (His family is great, I’ve remained friends with his sister, she’s such a sweet heart.) So it was a hard time for me and if B had showed any amount of care for my feelings during that time, things may have actually ended up differently. On December 23rd we were in WA and we went out with all our friends who we hadn’t seen since we moved. To make a very long and dramatic story short, I had quite a bit too much to drink that night. You can picture it I’m sure… depressed girl in a bar the day before Christmas Eve drinking away her sadness. LOL! So after drinking way too much, I was extremely sick on Christmas Eve.

You would think that any loving and caring boyfriend of 5 years would be willing to take care of his sick girlfriend on Christmas Eve, especially since she was so sad and depressed and missing her family at Christmas. But…. B had tickets to the Seahawks game. In fact not only did B have tickets to the Seahawks game, his entire family had tickets to the Seahawks game… except me. They knew I didn’t like football, so they just didn’t get me a ticket. What on earth they figured I would do on Christmas Eve all by myself, I have no idea.

So I begged B not to go and to stay home with me because I was so sick I couldn’t even walk, literally. And do you think he stayed with me or went to the Seahawks football game?

To be continued…

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EDIT: Really Natalia, you don’t have to use the youhide.com proxy anymore. (Neither do your friends and family. Hi everyone! ) It’s not working, I can still see you. (All of you.) lol There you were first thing at 7:30am browsing all around… again at 9:10am… What are you trying to hide now anyway?

I was going to post something. But then I changed my mind. I will say though that I decided to unblock X’s IP because she was just trying even harder now to read my blog. Going to great lengths to see what I was saying. I thought maybe she’d get the picture and finally find something else to occupy her time… maybe start a rock collection or something… but I was wrong. So, read away. (Hi! Good morning!) I have nothing to hide here and you only continue to prove my point. Gosh, I just love when people prove me right. This is the last you’ll hear on my blog about this situation because I don’t even care about it at this point. It’s just funny to me.

Anyway, soooo… I guess I don’t have much else to say at the moment now that I deleted what I was going to say.

So maybe I’ll get off here and go work on the girls birthday party invitations that I’m making. No, I’m supposed to be going to bed earlier now so I can’t stay up and play with invitations. Maybe I’ll go get in the bath and read. Maybe tomorrow I’ll go buy a punching bag…

Well this was a great blog post, wasn’t it?! I’m telling you, this is the kind of stuff you need to check back here often for.

I think I’ll just go see what the hubby is up to…

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Well we aren’t going to Preston’s parents today after all because his mom is coming down with something. Hopefully she will start feeling better soon.
So today I’m cleaning house instead. Don’t you love how you clean the house and then it always seems to get messed up again as soon as you leave the room? Seriously, I will clean off the dinning room table and then the next time I come down stairs there is stuff all over it again. Mail, shopping bags, keys, cups, burp rags, toys, bottles… The dinning room table is one area I just cannot keep clean. I think it’s because right when you walk in the front door the dinning room is right there to the right. So it’s this area that collects everything.
Today I’m also planning on finding spots to hang photos and some engraved plaques. I have this really neat thing planned for above the fire place. I can’t wait to do it. It’s going to be very similar to this. I just need to find the perfect photos.
Anyway, someone is fussing, better go see what’s up!

I didn’t forget about posting the rest of my little love story, I’ve just been kinda busy this week. That, and just not really up to being at the computer much lately. I go through those phases where I don’t want to so much as look at my computer.
I’ve just been relaxing this weekend, we’re going to Preston’s parents house Sunday night and leaving Monday afternoon so I’m really looking forward to that. It will be a nice little break from the norm. But Tuesday will be back to new normal routine of things. I’ve decided that I really need to quit staying up so late every night, and I really want to work on getting tone again. When I stay up so late I am so tired the next day but I end up staying up late every night anyway. I think it’s just habit. But it’s really starting to take a toll on me. I haven’t been feeling well the last week or so, I just feel run down and have had several headaches. So I really want to get on a better sleep pattern and start working out. Every time I get on a good workout routine I feel really great and have a lot of energy so I know that will really help.
I could use the energy now that these two little munchkins are wanting to stay up more and more every day and not taking as long of naps. That and they are scooting along the ground getting into things, and they aren’t even crawling yet! They just pull along the ground with their arms, it’s so cute. I don’t even want to think of them actually crawling! I’m sure it will be 5 zillion times worse than it is now as far as getting into things goes!
I’ve also been browsing around for some budgeting software because I’d like to have some sort of way to lay out bills/savings/spending money/etc so that we can keep better track of what we are spending and where our money is going. All those little trips to the gas station or that extra thing we pick up at Walmart when we just went for diapers add up really fast and we end up wasting little amounts often. I used to have a program that was really good for this sort of thing but when I got my new Mac a while back it never got reinstalled for some reason and now I can’t find it.
Anyway, I think I’m going to get in bed and read. I’ll try to post part 3 of the story before we go out of town tomorrow. Oh and emails. I didn’t forget about all the emails I have to get back to!