I need spring, NOW.

Just another rambling before I fully begin this long, crazy hell of a day of back to back meetings.

I googled spring, wondering what images would pop up when I did this. Yup, all the amazing things I thought of too, way to go google!

Retraction

I am one lucky lady. I got my tulips. And I got them at work. And they were beautifulllllll.


But my wonderful hubbie did tell me one important fact and it warranted a retraction.

"might want to footnote it too, since I can attest, they are NOT cheaper than roses." hehehehe.

Wednesday Ramblings and Some Flowers?

So I'm sitting here at work, looking out my window waiting for the snow to destroy us. Ok, I can hardly complain, 6-10inches in BOSTON is not distruction. It's a mere inconvenience. I started to feel nostalgic and went back to my first blog post where I blogged about wanting summer and the foot of snow we got in March. Well ladies and gentlemen, I'm feeling the exact same way. I cannot wait for a business trip to Houston (HOUSTON!) next week for some sixty degree weather.

However, that is not the purpose of this blog post and I could go on forever about how much I hate winter. I'm stealing a page out of "My Husband Is Annoying" . And YES, this is very risky since the hubs does read this. ;-)

I'm reading a magazine and with Valentine's Day coming up, it talks about cheaper flower options than traditional red roses to save the hubs out there some money. I love flowers, but frankly, not roses and not red ones. I love hydrangeas and daisies etc. So they have this gourgeous vase with white tulips and I just melted. I would kill for some of those in my house right now.

So I turn to Jarrett that day and explain "Babe, IF you were planning on buying me flowers, I'd like white tulips and I'd like them delivered to work". Now there are a couple of problems here. 1) I hate that I had to ask 2) I have been asking for 5 years to have flowers delivered to work, once, just once. Vday? sure. Birthday? sure. Random day? sure. Point: I don't care when, just sometime.

This comes and goes and he laughs and says, well apparently I do need to get you flowers NOW.

Am I crazy for wanting this? It drives me nuts how much they overcharge for flowers, especially roses on V Day. But sometimes a girl just wants to have those beautiful flowers on her desk to look at and well, ahem, show off.

Pupdate

Since all my prego bloggers give you "bumpdates" I'm going to give you a pupdate. Don't say I didn't warn you, TOO CUTE.

Where has all the money gone?

Who remembers that movie "The Money Pit" with Shelley Long and Tom Hanks?


I loved this 80's movie. Remember they buy this house for a deal and it falls apart. Thankfully, no Jarrett and I did not purchase a money pit, BUT we still seem to be spending all of our money on our house. I find myself choosing mirrors and closet doors and granite countertops over new jeans, shoes and getting my hair died. When did I become so old? Is this what it's always like? I also want everything NOW, even though that is utterly rediculous and we can't afford it.

We have a contractor coming this weekend to look at the work we need done and get started on our projects...door for the basement, 2 new windows, new closet doors....and a quote for making the 3 season porch...wait for it, 4 season!!! :)

I'm pretty sure the $8K tax credit and all my tax money and commission checks are also going towards this house and our dogs. Because yes, it did cost us $400 at the vet a couple of weeks ago LOL. Man, this whole grown up thing....

And then there were two.

Lincoln has arrived! And the boys are beginning to get used to eachother. I snapped this picture on my phone the other night...it just makes me melt.

Hello 2010.

I'm excited to say today is January 4th. We had a wonderful weekend filled with The Joshua Tree at the Hardrock on New Years, some delicious Chinese food, movies and our couch on Friday, a rediculous amount of errands and shoveling on Saturday (followed by some killer bowling on Saturday night--but not by me) and then of course the Sunday night blues.

Boston got killed this weekend with its annual New Years snowfall and I'm not a fan of this new tradition. In total accumulation it's not terrible, but it pretty much snowed from Thursday-Sunday.



But I am also a little ancy about the arrival of January. We have a new puppy coming home on Saturday, Lincoln. We spent almost $150 at Petsmart preparing for the little guy and even watching a DVD about taking your puppy home. Poor Knight is in for a rude awakening and so are we.

We also have Jarrett's mother coming this weekend to visit, and his sister coming at the end of the month for some QT with us, our house, and the new puppy.

And we are off to Mexico for 4 days to visit Navarro and soak in a little sun :) And Wilky will be spending a couple nights at our house before she leaves the cold New England for sunny and warm Houston!!! All of these activities give me a little stress when i have to think about packing, cleaning, puppies chewing things, and a lack of time in my own house. BUT, all for good things and good reasons.

Welcome home 2010, welcome home.