In case you didn't already know....

I WANT TO MOVE!!!!!!!!!

I'm soooo cold!

How did I EVER live in Wisconsin for 21 years of my life!???? Seriously I literally froze today...not just a little cold, but every inch of me was purple from being frozen. Not cool. Not cool AT ALL! You def get acustome to the beautiful Florida rays. I love Florida and could and would never go back to dairy land. I have to put up with this for the whole rest of the week, and I only have one sweater to wear to work and I wore it today! What's a girl going to do??? Maybe I just need to tell them I have to stay home cause I dont have anything warm to wear....will that go over well??? It's been just over 4 years since I've joined the BBB team. Good thing I like it there cause it seems that's where I'll be for some time now....yeah, so I just found out today that all the classes I wanted to sign up for for next semester are only available next fall. How much does that suck?? Just when you think your almost done, you hit a bump in the road. I can only take 2 classes next semester which leaves me haveing to cram in 6-7 classes next fall. Who wants to do that?? Yeah no me. I don't know that there is anything else I can do to move forward faster. Why dont they tell you these things before you register. I think that meeting with a counsler should be mandatory or else your going to end up like me. This makes me soooo mad I can'd even begin to tell you. I'm pretty much on hold now for a year. This sucks.

Vote for Obama! =)

I know, I know. Its been forever since I've posted anything. So I thought I would entertain you all once again with my boring life. Lets see...Its almost halloween and too bad I have to work because Shannon is having this big halloween bash that I would have like to have gone too...eeh.

It gets pretty lonely around here with James working the grave yard shift and it sucks cause we can never go and do anything. He's off Friday and Saturdays but I always have to work friday night and have been working a lot of saturdays too. We like to sleep a lot so if we're not working or if Im not at school you can bet I'm napping.

I can't believe we only have about 5 weeks left of the semester, it always goes by soooo fast. I'm excited for it to be over tho so I can start the next semester and be one step closer to graduation.....which seems like forever away.

Have I told you that I can't wait to buy a house!? I just want my own place, my own space where I can decorate and have a scrapbook room and storage and a bigger bedroom and closet....the many wishes of a female. Love Jon to death, but I can't wait to get away from him too. I'm tired of cleaning after both of the boys. And I don't really like the late night sex sessions that Jon brings home....haha.

Vote for Obama!

Curses!!

So, the alarm buzzes at 7 'clock this morning, but I snooze about 3 times before I actually get up at about 7:20. To the shower I go, I do my thing get out, towel off and begin the getting ready process. Now mind you, I HATE mornings, I would so rather sleep until noon everyday that I can. As I'm gettting ready Jon comes back home from work to rise Susie out of a dead sleep. "Get up we have to go fix the buggy he yells!" Oh boy, here we go. So now Susie is going to have to get in the bathroom to get ready too, so I take 'all' my stuff into the bedroom to finish while she still lays in bed. (I HATE having one bathroom!) Shortly after she does get up as Jon is honking the horn out in the driveway. About 2 minutes later the door slams and Susie is gone. Back to the bathroom with 'all' my stuff. I finish getting ready, throw some coffee in the machine and brew me a fresh cup to go, hop in the car and I'm off. But now it's about 8:10 and class starts at 9-sharp. I HATE driving during this time of the day, you have 'everyone' on their way to work and there are about 3 school crossings where you can only go 20mph, don't go a step faster or the motorcycle cops will be at your side in a split second. Stop and go, stop and go traffic for about the next 10 minutes...arg! Then I go to change lanes and this lady totally wants to get in the same lane as me at the same time! So I get back over and she gives me 'the look' like it's my fault. Listen lady....so I point in front of her cause now she's about to hit the car inf ront of her....ha, maybe SHE needs to watch the road. Take that! So finall I get through the 20mph zones and I get behing the SCAT bus. Oh here we go, I try everything I can to get in the other lane but the cars in the 'fast lane' are going the same speed as the bus. Don't you HATE that?? Finally the SCAT bus comes to a screaching hault and I'm finally able to jump to the other lane. Finally about 20 minutes later I arrive on campus. I circled the parking lot to find the spot closest to the door as we all do, and not to my suprise there isn't one, sure enough I have to park forever away. Once in the buliding I venture up the flight of stairs when I could have taken the elevator, but the power goes out so often here in FL who wants to get stuck in one of those?? I'll setttle for the stairs. I round the bend to find the classroom door labeled photography all locked down and dark, and a girl sitting on the floor to the right of me. Hmm....I say and the first thing you wonder is....do we have class today?? I've had this teacher before and he is never late. So we wait and we wait as more and more students show up we wait somemore....Now we're all thinking what the rule of thumb is when a teacher doesn't show up...do we wait 10...15...20 minutes. I thought 15. We wait some longer.....Finally after 15 minutes the first student leaves....then 5 minutes later 2 more leave....then finally at 9:30 this girl and I leave....still wondering where our teacher is.....I walk the 3 miles back to my car and head back home only to find an e-mail in my box saying that class is canceled today the teacher is sick!
Are you kidding, I just spend 45 minutes driving here for nothing now I have to drive 45 minutes back.....oh heeeeeell no.
I went back to bed unti I had to work.
Curses to that!

first week of school

Week one is over and it's looking good. Photography is going to be a BLAST as it usually is, Mass Communications is going to be 3 hours of conversing over whatever is in the media, and graphic design basics is going to put my little creative brain to work. Our first assignment is to re-create a magazine ad. I freaked out tho when I walked into the classroom and there wasn't a single computer in the room....eep...only desks that look like they are for drawing... holy crap, I'm doomed again. Shoot! Well all is fine and dandy now because we can either draw our assignments or we can use the computer to do our work for us. All I was thinking is 'jackpot'. There is no way that I would be able to draw for another semester, lord knows that I'm not an artist...hints the self portraits I had to draw and paint....TWICE!!!!

So, that's that. Looks like it will be a great semester, which is good cause I'm finally getting into the fun stuff. :)

I like my new roomie

Pretty boring hurricane day. No school, no work and I didn't do a thing today. Suzie and I went to the store today and cooked dinner for our boys, but that's about it. Suzie is Jons girlfriend who's just moved into our house. I was a little unsure about it at first, but it's ok. Someone else to cook and clean, and pay the bills who can complain with that? But one bathroom for 4 people might be tough. I hope we don't all have to be somewhere at the same time, that could cause a problem. I think we'll get along tho, she seems like a pretty easy going person.
So the first day of school was canceled due to the storm so my first class this week is Friday morning. My photography class, I'd better get working on getting me a new camera soon!
Dylan started his first day of school too and had a blast. He is growing up sooooo fast. :(

anyone out there???

Hey people, I write, you comment....isn't that they way this works??? 'Everyone' wanted me to post a new blog yet has anyone read them??

did someone say BaBy?

Who's having a baby???
Well my sister-in-law is expecting....
A girl at work is due in a few weeks.....
Some poeple 'look' like their prego but really not...I don't think anyway....
Well you guessed wrong, I'm not with baby, no bun in the oven for me.
So when is a good time to have children??
If it were up to my mom and James' granny, we'd already have them.
My mom keeps saying...'ya know, you should think about kids soon'.
The pressure!! AHHHH!!! :)
With that said...

So I am finally getting over a huge sun burn. I say it like I've had it forever, but when you have a sun burn it seems like forever, especially when you can't sleep and people at work think it's cool to tap, hit, caress, or even just look at my poor burning shoulders...make them poor things hurt...it is now at the itching stage in which I can't wait for that to be OVER!!!!

The news is finally out, Brett is not coming to the Tampa Bay area, which would have been cool. It's just going to be so weird to see him with another team, like he's cheating on them or something, don't ask, but the Pack just isn't going to be the same without him that's for sure. Nicole's right.....'how could he?'

I really wish is was 2010 so I could be up in Wisconsin for homecoming having the time of my life with my friends. I can not wait! I just hope it's not a disappointment when it actually does come about. James and I are going to drive and he hopes by then we'll have an RV to either drive us there to for us to pull behind, if not we'll have to settle for his grandparents for the time being.

Some friends and I 'were' going to walk in the 3 day breast cancer walk up in Tampa and I was very excited about it and couldn't wait for it to come. But it costs $90.00 to register and you have to raise $2,200 before you can even walk, and if you don't raise that amount of money by the time the walk is, you don't get to walk. Well I really thought about giving it a try, until I got to the $90 fee in which I so cannot afford at this time. Then I was thinking how am I going to get 2 thousand dollars raised, with the economy the way it is people don't have the extra money to give out, and I totally understand that, so we're sad to say we 'gave up'. I hate those words because I really don't like giving up without even trying first, but there is always next year. Maybe folks will be more established and can fork out a few Lincolns here and there. :) Best of luck to the people who are strong enough to pull through for this great cause.

School starts on the 18th. I don't think I'll ever be done. I thought I was seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, but then it got dark again. I'm taking 3 classes this time; graphic design basics, mass communications, and photography. Now fortunatly for me I have to buy a new 'good' camera to use for class. Darn I know. I'm sure James is really dissapointed too. He's been wanting to get one for some time now and this is our excuse, for I think is a GREAT one! Don't be jealous Nicole, you'll soon have one someday too, tell Mike that's what you want for x-mas, so he can start saving his pennies now. :)

Well I hope I've updated you all for the time being, I must go check me meatloaf that's bubbling over in the stove. :)

Birthday Buster

So I pretty much had the worst birthday in all of my 25 years of life. Yes, it's true. I woke up happy with the intent of doing something FUN, only to remember we have no money. My husband had to work, my mom had to work and my sister had no car to come see me. I got up took a shower, wished I had some cereal to eat, but settled for a toasted pb&j. I did wake up to my nephew Dylan singing to me 'happy birthday'. That made me smile. Later James comes home from work, wishes me a happy birthday and soon takes a nap. We had thought about going out to eat, but I can't see spending $40-$50 on dinner when you dont have that money to spare. I would rather spend it on scrapbook supplies :) At least I'd get me a nice selection of loot. :) But that didn't happen either. Then Jon comes home and the boys start fighting, I get irritated and go lay down in my bed. ( I cant wait to move out ). Finally we order dinner and have it delivered which costs just about $30 anyway. Then we arguing about this that and the other thing, I start crying, bla, bla, bla and leave to go get myself a birthday ice cream cone. While I'm out and about doing that, my auntie Patti calls and I tell her all about my horriable day. Then to find out that James' family was having a birthday party for his dad and I the next night that I wouldn't even be able to attend because I had to work. James claims he told me, but I think I would remember. The best and only gift I got was a T-shirt from my Nicole and an awesome necklace, and a few 'happy birthdays'. I hate birthdays. Lets see what next year brings....Boo!

catching up..

Soooo I attempted to learn how to swim today....yeah didn't go so well at all. I have to get over that fear of being in the water. This has been my goal every summer, but yet I fail at it each year. Why can't I just jump in like everyone else??? This is all thanks to Ralph Burbank. For I will never be normal again. I can't get over the feeling of water going up my nose and when I do manage to get under the water I panic and open my mouth, and it's all down hill from there. Arg, it's annoying and embarassing.

James starts at Venice Hospital on the 14th, what a great birthday present! haha. I can't wait. We are looking into buying a house here pretty soon. After we pay off some of those never ending credit card bills. That is also very exciting for us.

Cross your fingers...

James goes to take his State Nursing test Monday the 23rd. He will pass! He will find a job! We will make lots of money! :) lol. Cross your fingers and wish him lots of luck!

Thanks!

I hate being short!

Who would have thought it would have been so hard to find a couple pairs of pants to wear to work that have pockets!!? Good Lord! I went to Old Navy, Ross, Marshals, Bealls, Target, Walmart, Bealls Outlet and only found 2 pairs. I would have gotten more but they are all tooo long. Ya know, not everyone in the united states is average height. It gets annoying to go to every store only to find pants that puddle on the floor. Oh yeah, I went to Stein Mart too, only to find nothing in my price range or my style. I think they forgot the 'misses' section. I did enjoy my day out and about even tho I now have to hem one pair of pants, but I just couldn't pass them up! I know you girls know the feeling.

Wednesday is my two husbands birthdays. So with no money, what does a girl get them?? A card is as far as I got, and probably the farthest I'll get. James and I are going to go to Bone Fish Grill for dinner. Never been there before, but I hear it's delish. Any other suggestions I'll take them.

On that note, I'm starving. What's for dinner?

arg.

I can't stand not having any money.

what's a girl to do....?

So as you all know I've been at the Sarasota Store for the past few months as a front end manager. It's all good, I go do my job and go home and start over the next day. Some days are better than others, but it all works out at the days end. I am working on getting a college degree in graphic art and design as well at working full time at BBB. I've signed up for 5 classes this semester even tho I'm not sure how I'm going to pay for them, for times are tough right now. I could rack my credit card up as I've done before, but who want's to be in debt for the rest of their life..? So, with that said. I just got this job offer. It's still with BBB, but it's 'thee' customer service manager... so your probably thinking, isn't that what she's already done, and your correct. When I was in pPort Charlotte I was indeed the customer service manager, but this time I'll actually get paid for the title. It's a salaried postion which means I'd work 47 hours a week, 10 hour days and get paid the same each week. Well that doesn't sound so bad. But...theres always a butt...when I took over that position in Port Charlotte I really disliked the job, and I'm just wondering if it's going to be any different being in a new store, new people, new atmosphere. I'm thinking more stongly about taking it, but i dont want it to end up the same way it has the last 2 times I took it. What's a girl to do??

crazyness

• A gallon of Milk in Hawaii is $10.00.
• A loaf of bread in Hawaii is $4.00.
• Regular gasoline in Hawaii is $4.23 and going up.
• A house on the ocean in Hawaii is $ 6-$700,000.00.
• A house accross from the ocean home in Hawaii is $400,000.00
• A regular 2 bed 2 bath home in Hawaii is $300,000.00.

Who wants to move to Hawai'i!?

Ha, that's what I thought.

Crazy huh?

succcesss!

So ladies and gentlemen it is official. I passed my classes I was so devestated to learn that I had failed. Yup, I FINALLY got ahold of the teacher and she reassured me that infact my grade was entered incorrectly. Well hells bells. Thank god! I couldn't have been happier! So congratulations to ME! :)

Aloha!

I still feel like Im rocking back and forth on the cruise ship. I find myself stoping to catch my balance, when in fact I'm not moving at all...funny. Hopefully that'll pass soon. So, we made it back, safe and sound. We are soooo glad to be home. Sure vacation is nice but so is sleeping in your own bed and not having to stablize yourself as you walk around. But where do I even start.... to my Hawaii was a bit of a dissapointment. I know your probably thinking 'WHAT, YOUR IN HAWAII'. I know, I know. Well lets make this fair, only 1/2 the time was dissapointing. The ship was not all it was cracked up to be. I guess they were in dry dock for a while until we all got on the plane, plus they sold The Pride of Aloha so there were all those workers who came to The Pride of America to work and had no idea what the heck they were doing. There wasn't hardly any entertainment on the ship, so while we weren't out touring the island we really didn't have much to keep us busy. Sure there were a couple shows here and there but they didn't last long at all, only like a half and hour. There was a comedy show and that guys was AWESOME! We laughed from the time we got there until the time he was done, that was probably the highlight of being on the ship. I'd love to see him again. You may have seen him on Comedy Central and the Late Show, his name is Chris Alpine and I highly recommend his work. Well we got there on Saturday and was pretty much going non stop until we left. We had excursions that we went on an every island starting with Maui. We took the Road to Hana which is not recommended for people with motion sickness. It was probably the best tour that we went on. To me seeing those views of hawaii is what it's all about. That was a looong 10 hour day so by the time we got back to the ship we were sooo exhausted. We also went to Kona and went in the submarine which was a waste of a lot of money. I thought it would be cool and we'd see all these cool fish and that it would be colorful but it wasn't anything like what we had thought. It was boring and we hardly got to see anything and what we did see was all the same fish over and over again. We were 100 feet down into the coral reef. We also went to Pearl Harbor and Hunolulu City which was interesting to see the USS Arizona and to see all the names on the wall, it was sad and emotional for some. In Hilo we checked out Valcano and Rainbow Falls. In Kona we hoped aboard a pinzgauer to travel up to the cool and misty lava scaped slopes on an off road rocky adventure, we went from sea level to 6,000 feet, it was freezing up there! Not my cup of tea thats for sure. James loved it, but I would have been better off at the gift shops...lol. We enjoyed a 45 minute helicopter ride over East Maui, that was the best even tho I did get a little sick torwards the end, but it was well worth it. We were pretty much going all day, most of the excursions were 3-8 hours long, some days we had more than one to go to. This is all I can think of now, I'll continue later.

vaca.

so in just one more day i'll be basking away on the cruise ship with a Zima in my hand working on my fake tan so I wont be embarassingly white. (lol Trish).

wish me fun!

peace and quiet

so the family has departed and i have my house back to the way I like it. the air is at the right temp, not to hot and not too cold, I have my comfy recliner and most of all it's quiet. the constanzers are sooo loud. there is no need to talk to someone like they are a block away. i guess they have hearing problems or something because when i talk they don't even hear me. oh well.

so i e-mailed my professor to get a breakdown of my grades from the very beginning of the semester, if you ask me this is a bunch of crap! i was devestated and still am. i just hope she answers my e-mail or i'll have to get on the phone to get to the end of this.

on a happier note....hawaii here we come....5..4...3...2...1.. the countdown begins.

Mother Effin class

Yeah, so I just pretty much failed my computer graphic class. I knew I hated that teacher, and I knew I should have dropped this class. She was soooo unfair through the whole class. I worked my butt off to try to understand what the H was going on. Curses to her and everything else. I might not even go back to school. Thanks for ruining my night.

are you kidding!?

Yeah, so don't EVER take it apon yourself to take off your gel nails in the comfort of your home. Holy crap! I must have sat there for about 2 hours soaking and prying, soaking and prying off the thick goo of gel. Sure they are pretty for the time being but then you get them filled once and it only goes down from there. But I do have to say it is MUCH easier to do daily activities with those suckers goooone! I'll never do that again. Wait....I said that last time and here I am again saying the same thing. So, don't mark my word.

Well I received the most wonderfullest gift of all today. :) My sister had a wedding picture of James and I made into a woven throw. It was forsure the coolest thing ever. It's like life like. That's kinda scary as I sit here now and glance up at the wall and it stares back at me. But nonetheless, I'm in love with it. I always wondered out those blankets turned out when you had them sent out to be processed, now I know. I recommend this to anyone, mothers day is right around the corner, maybe this is the prefect gift for your mommy.

What else. Well it is official, the semester is finally done! Good thing I can't say I can walk away from this last course feeling comfortable in thinking that I learned something. Sure you learn a little bit, but I would love to learn much more, but I need someone to teach me, vs doing it on my own. I'm better when someone teaches me. So, it's off to Bradenton next semester in August. Arg. I've registered for 5 classes. We'll see if that really happens. I'm not seeing that as being sucessful. I know that's negative right off the bat, but when you have to work full time and go to school full time and try to make a marriage work and whatever else life throws at me. I just want to get as much done so that I can move on and do what I want as a career. James took his last final today and thankfully he passed, so graduation here we come! Finally we'll be making some money. After our trip to Hawaii in....10 days he'll come back and take the state test and if all goes well he'll be working at Doctors Hospital in Sarasota. Show me the money! :)

mmm...coldstone..

yup, this is officially my most favoritest icecream place on earth! if you like icecream this is the place for you. but it's funny, because I really dont care that greatly for the cold stuff. i mean it's ok, but it just seems to make me cough for some odd reason. not sure what it is, but i know that this place just north on 41 is delish! i'm wanting to go everynight! i create this great receipe of freezing cold chocolate icecream with a warm fudge brownie, chocolate syrup drizzled about, reeses pieces and snickers bites, now common', doesn't that sound like it's to die for!? so next time you people visit, that's forsure the place we'll have to go. :)

Geliophobia

Your probably wondering what the heck is geliophobia, well it's the fear of laughter, yeah, so I have to create a poster about the fear of laughter for a school project. it's due thursday so I really only have one class day to work on it. Any ideas? Any pics you have of scary laughing people or things?? I'll take any ideas i can get!

Just another day in Paradise

it's a beautiful sunny day in south west Florida. just got home from class and now have no idea what to do with the rest of my day. i've got this itch to scrapbook my wedding album but all my loot is put away until, well, we move i guess. not that that is in the plan or anything, i just have no place to put anything to be ceative. our son jon takes up the other bedroom and until he's out of the house (which will probably be never) i'll be lacking in the creative world for some time. so can you imagine that i can't find a thing to keep me busy today. i mean it's florida, there are thousands of things to do, help me pick just one..

talk about "High Class"

haha. so this is a goood one. James and I got a gift card for a resturant down on Siesta Key (which tells you one thing right there), so we thought we'd go check it out for dinner tonight. We pull in and this place looks like a hole in the water, but to our suprise offers valet parking, which is a must! Ok, that's different we thought, and we hand over the keys. We enter the building and are seated at our table. The wine menu is brought out along with a loaf of bread. Ok, so no wine for us, but the bread is exellent! As we are looking through the dinner menu, not one thing is under $30.00! I can't even imagine what the heck I'm about to order, so I got for the cheapest thing on the menu which is considered an appetizer which is $17.00. James gets an dinner for $31.00 and a crab cake for $17.00! One single small round itty bitty crab cake for nearly $20.00!!!! Are you kidding! Oh no, their not kidding. So we order and are waiting and waiting for our dinner for about 40 minutes, the finally here comes our child size portioned meals. I almost fell over. So I gobbled up my 3 chunks of shrimp and set the fake flower aside. So after that was over, and we made the decision not to have desert the bill came and was nearly $80.00 for the 2 of us! That's nuts! The $25.00 gift card didn't even put a dent in the bill. Then on the way out we remember we have to tip the valet guys a couple dollars. Cheers!

in a nut shell

aww....finally relaxation. Pretty busy week. Trying to get all the thank you letters out to those we are thankful for.. once again I find myself searching and searching for something to make for dinner...soultion...Beef O' Bradys. :) That's probably the cheapest place James and I can eat for under 20 dolla. That's what I'm talking about. Tomorrow I'm traveling the 40 miles to Port Charlotte to get together with my girls from BBB, we're having a ladies cookout, in which that reminds me, I need to get to the store and get all the fixins for something to make and bring. Hawaii is approaching quickly, in less than a month we'll be sailing the tropical seas with our umbrella drink in our hand basking in the sun in which I will for sure be a lobster when we arrive back home. James and I should be at the mud hole this weekend. We had a blast last time we went, except for the fact that it was freeeeezing! This weekend would have been much better, we just need to get ourselves a little tinker toy to play in the mud with. :) and a potty where you can pee anytime anywhere. So, i'm in the market for a new car and I have been ever since I've seen the G6 crusing down 41, so who wants to buy my car? Any takers?

Until next time.

coffee...good.

I don't know that I could wake up a morning without a cup of joe in my hand as I walked out the door. Never used to enjoy the full flavored pick me up, but it's for sure growing on me. I'm not sure if part of it has to do with the new coffee maker we got as a wedding gift or what, but whatever it is.....it's working.

Oh, totally off subject. Nicole, do you remember if Coney is open Sundays?? Ask Mike, I'm sure he knows. lol. It's a good place, glad you enjoyed.

all in a days work

so here's how it went down today. i did decide myself and go ahead and make the sugar cookies, not because i wanted the sugar ones, but because i didn't have all the special touches for the peanut butter ones. curses to that. me looooove peanut butter. but all in all their still excellent of course! so all day i did typical wife dudies today. cleaned house, cooked, laundry, baked, how boring is that. now im off to writing thank you cards. BYE!

pick one..

peanut butter or sugar cookies?!.......or both! :)

Cookies~

So i've finally got a 'real' day off to do, well, absoutly nothing! Well nothing that involves driving in the car. The house needs to be cleaned (boring) and I have to write about 100 thank you cards (time consuming) and I've been dying to make some sugar cookies in that new Kitchen Aid stand mixer we got from Aunt Brenda for our wedding. Now I'm making meat loaf, in which I'm very excited for. I'm trying out that new loaf pan Nicole and Mike got us. :) I bet it's going to be perfect, just like them! :) Other than that, just waiting for my husband to get home so we can eat dinner. mmm..mmm...mmm..

Kari Rae Constanzer

It's Kari. I'm newly married to my husband James. Grew up in a very small town in Northern Wisconsin for 21 years. Moved to Florida with my family where I attend college for a degree in Graphic Art and Design, in hopes to work for a magazine company someday. Pretty boring, but it works.