Nick and Kendra: Coming Soon to a Blog near you

I was thinking about how to write about how we met and fell in love, ect. and decided that it is going to be a huge post and so... I am going to split it up a bit and leave you hanging for more since I don't know when I will write again.

Here is your teaser: Nick and I were not attracted to each other when we first met and did not want to date each other.

Jana tagged me

When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought?
I need to wash my hair today

How much cash do you have on you?
Zero monies

What’s a word that rhymes with DOOR?
Four

Favorite planet?
Pluto :) I still want it to be a planet

Bright or Dark Room?
I prefer it to be more bright but not blindingly bright

How many drugs have you done in the last three days?
Drugs... Aleve? This question is kind of ambiguous

What was the last thing you said to someone?
"Kaleb loves my computer mouse"

If you had to choose between a million bucks or to be able to fly what would it be?

The money, so I could help my family get out of debt and then it would be all gone :)

Where did you live in 1987?
I think this was the year we moved to somewhere in North Carolina

Where were you when 9/11 happened?
I was at my Aunt Robyn's house watching on her bedroom TV

If you had to get a tattoo, where would it be?
I have a tattoo on my left forearm of a Care Bear-like 4 leaf clover.

Would you move for the person you loved?
Of course, but I would wish to be warm.

Name three things that you have on you at all times?
On me? My glasses, my wedding ring and clothes of course

What was the last thing you paid for with cash?
Umm... a quarter gumball?

Your first love: what is the last thing you heard about him/her?
He is happily married with 2 cute little boys and a girl on the way and hopefully Nick and I can do something with them before their baby comes.

Does anything hurt on your body right now?
My jaw for some weird reason

Have you been burned by love?
Yeah, but I'm glad it happened cause I now I have my wonderful husband and adorable son.

Have you burned others with love?
I think I did but I couldn't lead him on when I didn't feel the same way.

How old do you look?
Not sure anymore, a couple of years ago I started working at the same place my 5 and a half years younger sister worked and they thought I was the younger one.

Are you waiting for something?
Waiting for the time to pass so I can see my husband after work.

Have you ever thought about converting your religion?
Nope

What was the last thing you drank?
Water

Who do you most look like in your family?
My Mom

Have your parents ever smoked pot?
Don't think so

What do you order at the bar?
I don't go to bars so :p

What is your favorite thing to eat with peanut butter?
I don't really like peanut butter so I guess it would have to be with Jelly in a sandwich

Where were you on July 4th, 2008?
Dublin Park watching the fireworks with my parents

I'm only going to tag my sister, Hannah :)

Online Journal

So my Mom suggested that my blog could be a sort of journal and that we should save them somewhere for "later". So on that note I'm going to cover a tiny bit of my past starting with how Nick and I met and got the ball rolling in our relationship, which is a funny story to me.

Side note - I recently covered my fireplace bricks with a blanket so Kaleb wouldn't bang his head on them and have blood everywhere (I could just see it happening) and now my cats think its a great place to lie.

Exhibit A

Family Fun Night

Somehow last night all of us siblings happened to be at the parent's house. Well, I guess its not that unusual since three of them live there, one practially boards her dog there, and I was spending the day there with the baby. It seemed like it was going to be the same ol' same ol' last night too. Cameron wanted to play a game on the X-box and Jared wanted to use the computer and Shannon was texting away on her phone.

So I finally gave into Cameron and let him use the TV thinking "Great, now I get to listen to him yell at his first-person shooter game". Instead he started playing a different one called Rise of the Argonauts. Yeah, as in Jason and the Argonauts. So he gets to be Jason running around on his quest for The Golden Fleece. And it kinda seems interesting. So I start watching him play - which is not unusual, I used to watch my cousin play Kingdom Hearts all the time. And then I'm asking him questions about the game and Shannon, who apparently has watched him before, answered my questions for him. And then I'm cheering him on. And then HANNAH starts to watch him and cheer him on. Hannah, the sister who (it seems like) is always complaining about her spouse playing video games and how much she dislikes them and how she wishes he wouldn't play so much. And then Jared comes over (cause he ran out of time on the computer) and watches too.

So in come Mom and Dad from picking Mom up after work to find all of us siblings on the couch watching Cameron play this game as if we were watching a movie. And we are shouting directions at him and telling him which mini quest he should work on first and so forth. And Dad joins in with us and we're like "Come on Mom, watch the movie with us" and she saying that she "doesn't find this kind of thing fun" but she does come in the living room and starts playing Spider Solitare.

So we spent a wonderful night as a family in my parents living room last night. And the only arguing we were doing was over which direction Cameron should go :)

(Oh and we only watched for like four hours and when Cameron died for like the fifth time fighting a boss, both Dad and I jumped on our computers to see if we could find hints or tips on how to beat it)

The power went out - Again!

So I really like the location of our home. Nice small neighborhood, big backyard, and the beautiful field which makes our yard look even bigger :) The only problem with our location at the back of the neighborhood, as far as I can tell, is that we are the only house hooked up to the power pole. So that means that when something happens to knock out the power for that pole we are the only ones in the whole neighborhood who don't have any power. And for some reason or another, I think that the stupid transformer box? (looks like a cylinder to me) is faulty. We have had our power go out so many times during the past year it is ridiculous. None of those times has our neighbors lost power, only us. In fact I cannot think of a single time when our neighbors have lost power since I moved here almost 2 years ago.

The reason for this rant is that on Saturday night/Sunday morning between 12 am and 2:30 am our power went out. We found the latest bill to call to get it restored and... "We're sorry, none of our representives are able to answer at this time. Please call again later." So Nick tried at 3 and 4:30 and 5 and 7:30 and each time got the same recording. Finally at about 8 we called the parents and had them look up a number for us online. Lo and Behold, it was a different number. Yes, our power is out. So, finally at about 12 pm our power was restored. Yay, happy ending right? NOT. I'm feeding the baby at 5 this morning and hear a huge POP and what happens? Power is out again. You have got to be kidding me! Hello, our power is out again and we just called yesterday and we don't want to call you ever again.  This time they were more prompt and we got it back in two hours.

So, since the hubby was unable to call the utility company (stupid work, always getting in the way), my dad called and was able to find out that they replaced our transformer and got us a direct number to call in case anything happens again. They also said that the neighbors across the street are on the same pole as us but they are wrong. I don't know how many times when we have not had our power, looking longingly across the street at their lights and wishing for electricty.

Hopefully now we will have a happy ending with no more power outages unless there is a major storm and everyone else loses power. If I have to suffer, I don't want to be the only one!

Hmm...

So I usually just plop down my finished dishes after my meal for the cats to get whatever they want off of them. And only recently did I realize that I was doing the same thing with Kaleb's leftover rice cereal bowl which is made with breast milk. I am unsure how I feel about doing this. On one hand, I feel a tiny bit weird about it and on the other hand, Neko seems to enjoy it very much. In fact when he notices that I'm feeding Kaleb, he will come over and wait for the baby to be done, which makes it hard to feed Kaleb because he wants to watch the kitty. The cat is even cleaning out the bowl when I add veggies to it. Tonight was green beans. Yesterday was sweet potatoes. Each night a cleaned out bowl. Hmm...

Rodents

So I have four cats. Four mostly good cats who are also good hunters. I would say that almost everyday I have some new "offering" that one of the cats has brought me and sometimes more than one. Maybe because we don't feed them as often as they would like, they think that there is a food supply problem or something. And yet in spite of having four good hunters living with me, we still have a rodent problem inside the house. Although maybe that is because everywhere we have found signs of these rodents, it is in a place the cats cannot reach.

We have managed to catch four mice in our house - 2 with a sticky trap not half an hour after we put it out and 2 because they were trying to live inside our sub-woofer (ick), and still there is something here. I was sitting in my living room, surfing the web, when I heard something on my stove going after some pizza crust I hadn't thrown out yet. Of course I couldn't get a glimpse of it and it is driving me insane knowing that it was walking around where I prepare food. We have set out traps, both the sticky and kind that snaps, and put peanut butter on the one. The food is disappearing without the trap snapping shut. It is very frustrating trying to figure out some way of getting this "thing".