I made a new recipe last night.  It was sweet red pepper ziti.  It was pretty good although I think the peppers may be what has been causing my migraines lately. I thought I’d take a picture of it cuz I always feel like I’ve conquered something when I try something new and it doesn’t turn out horribly.    I also had to make Chad’s lunch for today, tomorrow and the next day.  But I do that all the time and it’s always the same.  But he claims they are the best sandwiches ever.  I don’t think so though, I prefer Quizno’s.

Last night I carved my second pumpkin ever! Yay! Yes…I was not allowed to celebrate Halloween at home. Anyways, it turned out pretty goofy looking, just like the first one I carved a few years ago. Oh well.  It’s sitting out on the front porch now. Chad says someone will come by and smash it.   One of the best things about carving pumpkins is baking the seeds, yum! So we did that last night too.  They turned out much better this time since I actually salted them right.  May have put a little too much salt on though. Blah.  Oh well, they’re still good. Just can’t eat too many of them at one time. Chad keeps sneaking them. Hmph.  Let’s see, what else did we do yesterday?  I sat out on the front porch with Kaden for a while, he loves to be outside and looking around at stuff.  He also likes to try stealing drinks from you, including beer.  He’s sneaky like that.  You can read more about him and see more of his pictures on his site. I’ll probably post on it later tonight.

Here are a few pictures from yesterday.

As of yesterday(October 19th) we’ve been homeowners for a year.  Yup, we moved in a year ago yesterday exactly.  We were gonna celebrate by having pizza since that’s what we had the night we moved in, but we forgot.  Dumb.  We took a bunch of pictures of the house and stuff.  They’re all on That Smith cuz Chad posted it yesterday and there’s too many pictures for me to post again.  You’ll find me in a few of the pictures looking stupid as usual.  But Chad failed to post one of the most important pictures so I’ll post it here.  I think it needs to be posted since I painted it and it took over 4 months to do.

So not a lot has gone on really.  I surprised Chad with a candlelit picnic when he got home from work.  It was too windy and cold to have it outside to I had it on the floor.  The first thing he did when he walked it was get mad that there were candles on the floor on a blanket.  I guess he looked right past the glasses of water and plates…he’s kind of slow. But oh well.  I thought it was nice anyways.

Last night I fixed Asian food.  I don’t really like Asian food so I’ve never made it before.  I think I did pretty good though.  I made gingered chicken and cheesy broccoli and rice.  Both were new recipes.  Didn’t turn out too bad.

I came across a few very old, very painful pictures of me and friends at camp. I have no idea how I was so…large. Hah. We’ll see if you can pick me out.  Christen, you’re in them too! Mwahaha!

So it’s been somewhat eventful since I posted last.  I actually passed the clerical abilities exam for the post office, not by much though.  I didn’t even think I would pass cuz I’m pretty dumb.  So I go back on the 15th to take a typing test.  I have to be able to type 35 words per minute.  I’m not real worried about that test, I should be fine.  I met with a lady from Models and Images about doing some modeling.  But I would have to drop $2,000 for 5 months of “training.”  So I guess I can scratch that.  Plus I would have to take out my piercings.  She didn’t see my tattoo, but she wouldn’t have been fond of that either.  So I don’t want to have to change who I am and the things I like because it wasn’t good enough for someone else.

But anyways, this last week we dog sat for my mom’s giant dog for almost a week while she went to Colorado.  Small dog annoyed him, like she does most things that she comes in contact with.  Rudy (giant dog) is big and was in the way a lot.  He also left a ton of clumps of his hair all over the house.  The dogs made Chad angry and he said we are never dog sitting again.  So it was nice for Rudy to go home.  But we got a Chili’s gift card out of it though.    But on top of that, we found out the day Rudy was coming over that small dog is not spayed…so she’s been leaving mess all over the house. I put a diaper on her but it keeps falling off.  So I try to keep her outside.  Still not many people have called about her.  I don’t know why.  I made flyers to put up but now I don’t know where to put them cuz no one has public bulletin boards anymore.

The other day I went out to get the mail and there was a dead cat laying kind of up by our front porch.  I was like, how nice.  So I called animal control to come get it. They said put it in a bag and put it by the curb and someone would be by to pick it up. So we did. No one came.  So I called back the next day. Again they saif someone would come get it and again, they never came.  So we had a dead cat in a bag out by our mailbox for almost 3 days. I’m sure the mailman and neighbors where a little confused as to why we had a dead animal in a bag in our yard.  So finally we threw it in our dumpster..which is in our garage. Trash day isn’t until Monday so we’ll have rotting cat in out garage until then. Lovely. So until Monday, I won’t be going in the garage…

Yesterday was Chad and I’s 2nd anniversary, hooray!! We didn’t do much.  Mom came over to watch Kaden and we went out to dinner at Sweet Basil.  We had always wanted to try that place when we lived over there in the apartment but never did.  My food was good, but Chad ordered spaghetti and meat balls so he wasn’t real impressed with it.  Oh well.  We didn’t know what to do after dinner so we walked around the mall for a while.  Wasn’t much to see there so we came home.  And that’s about all we did.

Today is Kaden’s 6 month birthday! He’s getting old haha. Hmmmm. Not much else to say though.  Nothing exciting has gone on. We were in Overland Park last weekend for Chads dad’s birthday.  I posted pictures and stuff about that on Kaden’s site though.

Guess that’s all.  Sorry this was boring.

I know I had everyone vote on what I should get, but I ended up not getting anything that was pictured on the previous post.  I got it done at Addictions in Ink Tattoo.  It’s a fairly new shop on Tyler and Kellogg.  He did a good job and have very fair prices.  He quoted me $60 for a tattoo that all the other people in town told me would cost over $100! So if you’re wanting a tattoo you shoudl go there hehe.  I let the guy design it himself.  I got a lotus flower on my left shoulder blade.  I didn’t really tell him what colors I wanted it because I am incapable of making decisions.  But he picked the colors of the flowers we had at our wedding.    I really like it.  I’m getting more done with it eventually although I’m not sure what.  I told him he can play around with the design.  It really didn’t hurt as bad as everyone said it would.  My sister told me I was going to cry. Haha.  I guess I’m just tough like that, haha.   Chad still isn’t too fond of it, but it will grow on him just like all my piercings that he didn’t like did. Now he likes them.  I’m still trying to talk him into getting something pierced or tattooed, but he’s too much of a “professional business man.”   I’m like, you’re only young once, you can be old and boring later.  Oh well I guess.  I guess I’ll be the cool one.

Here are a couple pictures.

K, if you know me at all, you know how indecisive I am. I am completely incapable of making decisions on my own.(thanks to my mother who never allowed me to make any) SO, that being said, I need you to vote on which tattoo you think is best.  Here’s my ideas.  The last 2 i really like, but I think are too much for this time.. Just take the poll at the bottom when you’re done. K thanks. 

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I know I haven’t posted in a super long time.  There really hasn’t been much going on though. We’re getting used to Kaden teething and being a grouch a lot. Norma Jean is still the same–annoying.  Chad’s still the same–works a lot and trys to get rid of Norma Jean.    I guess I’m still the same too.  I don’t do anything except sit at home and take care of Kaden.  I did finally finish painting the basement family room, yay! It only took about 5 months haha.  So now I’m in the process of stripping the wallpaper in our bedroom and master bathroom.  It’s not fun.  I’ve got one small wall in the bathroom done and that’s it.  Pretty slow going.  Plus every time I try to get some work done, Kaden decides he needs more attetion and starts crying.  Go figure.  Chad and I had our 5 year anniversary of the day we met on August 15th.    We of course, did nothing to celebrate. How romantic, I know.  Our actually wedding anniversary of 2 years is coming up on September 23rd, so he had better have something planned for that at least.  I don’t care what it is, but something halfway nice would be nice.

Nothing else to write about really. So then, I guess that’s it. Here’s some random pictures.

You might think it weird that I actually miss living in an apartment.  Most people in apartments would much rather have a house.  And I did too when I lived in one.  But now that we moved to a house and it’s much bigger than any of our apartments, I miss the coziness of the apartment.  The house is so much bigger and there’s so many more doors, windows and entry ways that I always worry about someone breaking into.  In our apartment we had one window and that was in our room and 2 doors, one of which only lead out to the balcony(which I miss as well) so I never really worried about that door.  Plus, the small quarters made it so that if anyone ever did try to come in you would hear it no matter where you were in the apartment. The apartment was on the 2nd level so that also made me feel safer.  It was kinda like a little castle fortess hehe. I always hear noises at night and wonder what they are and then I can’t sleep because I feel like I have to make sure no one breaks in. Seems silly, I know but I can’t help it.  So I miss the coziness and sense of security of apartment living.  I also miss the closeness of neighbors.  Sometimes I didn’t like it cuz you could almost always hear them.  But I do miss it sometimes and I miss the neighbor friends and going over and chilling with them.  We haven’t really met any of our neighbors at the house. At least most of the people in the apartments were around the same age as us.  The neighbors here are all old which isn’t fun. So no one ever really comes over to hang out and there’s no one close to just go chill with anymore.  Another thing I miss about the apartment is that when something breaks, we didn’t have to fix it.  Here, we’ve already had to tear a hole in the basement wall and have a plumber come out to fix the plumbing that was backing up.  We still have to replace part of the pipe which isn’t going to be cheap.  We didn’t have a yard that had to be tended to either.  That takes up a lot of time that Chad and I can’t spend together.  Even though the appliances all pretty much sucked and used a ton of energy because they were so old, I still miss my apartment.