The Move is ON!

Okay so it's on, 11 days and counting till I move. I just wanted to pop in and give you all an update.

I gave my notice the beginning of last week, this Saturday is my last day. My boss took it better than I thought. She's only mean about it behind my back not to my face, lol, gotta love petty women, right? So but really it's not that bad, who knows maybe they'll actually give me a best wishes card this weekend....

I start the new job on Tuesday, exactly a week from now! I'm really excited. I just can't wait to be back. I don't know if I mentioned I worked in this store before, the entire year it was first opened. So it's kinda like I'm moving back home to live and work. lol.

We signed our new lease this past Saturday and should get our keys the beginning of next week. So then we can slowly start moving some boxes and stuff. The big move though is 6/2, we got a HUGE truck so we can do it all in one big move. Since it's a 40 min. drive we don't want to be going back and forth. I'll take a ton of pics and post them of my new place. I'm so excited.

So after all that.....thank you all for wishing me well and routing for us to find the right place and for me to get the nerve to give my notice. lol. Don't know how I'd have gotten through. ha.

I'm sure I won't be around much now with all the packing and all. So I'll see you when I see you. But don't worry....I WILL BE BACK!

~ Nicole

WE GOT IT! WE GOT IT!.....We're growing in leaps and bounds!

Remember I told you all that the house we wanted to rent fell through? Well we've been looking like CRAZY ever since trying to find something to move into by 6/1....well we looked at a few this weekend and saw one we REALLY liked.

It's a townhouse, 3 bedrooms (large ones!), 1.5 bathrooms, living room, dinning room, eat in kitchen, family room, wash room, yard, and garage. It's two levels and I loved it at first site! Josh was a bit weary when we pulled up cause there seemed to be lots of people out (it's on a culdesac) but I love that. Neighbors you can talk to and know, kids to play with ours. And Josh said it didn't' look like it was going to be big enough. He was pleasantly surprised. We both ended up loving it. It is a block and a half from the school Jordon will be going to (he'll be a walker), and the school is a good one.

The landlord just called 10 minutes ago and said it's ours! WE FREAKING GOT IT!!! We sign the lease this weekend and move in June 1st! I'm sooooo happy, excited, and relieved. Come on everyone...big sigh of relief!

On other news. This past weekend I went to a surprise birthday party for two of my aunts. One was turning 40 and one 50, the one that turned 40 lives in Florida and came down for the surprise. So in talking to Missy (40 yr.) I told her how I keep in touch with her son and my other cousin from Florida via myspace. She then asked me if Anna (my cousin) showed me pictures of her sister. I just looked at her...NOBODY even told me my aunt was pregnant again! I was so mad! This is the conversation we had:

Me: Uh, this is going to sound really bad...but I didn't' know Cookie was pregnant.
Missy: Oh nobody did.
Me: (thinking it is really odd that she kept her pregnancy a secret, what is it? A love child not from her husband???) Ummm, okay. Well how old is the baby?
Missy: 19
Me: What?
Missy: 19
Me: (looking at her like she's nuts) What are you talking about?
Missy: Cookie had a baby when she was a teenager and gave her up for adoption. She just found Cookie about 6 months ago.

Yup, can anyone explain why I was like the only person in my family that didn't know this! When I asked my mom why she didn't tell me she first acted shocked that I didn't know, "how did you not know that?", I mean the obvious reason is because SHE is my mother and she didn't tell me. Then she says "don't you remember me telling you that all Cookie's friends thought Hannah (my youngest sister) was Cookies baby and I took her to raise her since they look alike?" Me, "NO, I think I'd remember that!" Sheesh!

So I just found a long lost cousin, I've been myspace messaging with her since this weekend. My cousin's girlfriend had a baby last weekend, my other cousin's wife is due any time now....AND I found out another aunt of mine gave a baby up for adoption awhile ago (she/he would be around 21 now) my mom's step mom gave a baby up for adoption before (she would be around 35ish, or younger) and I knew my cousin gave a baby up about 7 or 8 years ago. OMG! Is this not all a bit crazy?!

Let me just tell you how big my family already is, and this is just my mom's side! My mom is one of 10, all my aunts and one uncle have kids, there are 28 cousins in all, and there are 6 great cousins. I guess that's what they'd be called. Actually there are 7 if you count the one my cousin gave up for adoption. Sheesh. Oh and the cousin that just found my aunt is pregnant, so there's another one. lol.

Thank God I don't buy for everyone in my family for the holidays, huh? I'd be more broke than I already am. But in all honesty? I love my family, and I love that it's a large one. The more the merrier.


*the baby is my cousins baby girl. the picture of all the women are my aunts, my mom is the second in from the left. the other pics are of me, brother, sister, mom, and cousin.*

~ Nicole

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~ Nicole

Seriously!

I have lost all respect for George! He was never my favorite character, actually for all of the first season and most of the second I couldn't stand him, but he's grown on me since. And to think after all that he has to go and actually believe Izzy's STUPID and so unbelievable LIE about not having feelings for him. Okay yeah, that's not completely a ploy to get him to stay. WHATEVER! Which by the way I don't want him and Izzy together.

Oh shit! And did you see the tension at the end when Izzy was talking about having the man you love love you back. And Kallie was all twitching, you know she wanted to go Latina on her white ass! lol. No offense, just saying. Also Izzy has been pissing me off beyond words lately. What a skank, have some freaking respect, for both herself and her 'best friend'. If she really cared about him she'd respect his marriage and leave him the hell alone.

Oh and I'm sorry but I am so over Meredeth. Yes it sucks what an ass her father was to her, but I'm tired of all her drama. And you know what? I think Derek deserves better. She pushes him away and then when he gives her space she wants him back. Then he comes back and she ignores him and pushes away again. Make up your damned mind girl!

I soooo want to know what is up with Alex. Not really him and memory girl, although I like her in the show. But him. We don't really know anything about him. I want some deets!

LMAO! And how about the previews for next week? Christina has no eyebrows! That has got to be one of my worst nightmares. Which would explain why I have bushy eyebrows (always forgetting to clean them up with the tweezers, to busy), and won't get them waxed!

And lastly...(since I don't care enough to discuss anything else that happened tonight) WTF happened on that mountain?!?! I think I am more pins and needles over that than anything else. Do you think they'll follow through with it next week? I am all about it!

~ Nicole

Can anything simply workout right?

Okay not to complain all the time BUT.....

My boss that pisses me off has been working for the past two weeks sick, and guess what? I freaking can't breath out of my nose, and am hacking all the time with a sore throat! Thank you, thank you very much!

The house that we were going to rent with an option to buy? Yeah well that fell through. After over a month of "it's yours, it's yours. we just need to meet all together to sign the papers" it turns into "well we just don't know what we really want to do." And it's off the market. Yeah, that guy got a freaking ear full from me. I mean seriously, your telling me you own 15 properties and THIS is how you run your business? I want to hurt someone!

Not to mention my landlord has our condo in the paper to rent out by 6/1 or 6/15 the latest. So I need to find something like yesterday!

Then I need to find Abby a preschool. Not living in that area now makes it really hard to know what is where. And even more annoying is I need monday and friday from 8-2 and wednesday from 2-6, guess when nap time is? Either 12-2 or 1-3 depending on the school. This really annoys me because I'm paying for a freaking half day and she's going to sleep for one to two hours of it? She can nap at home! Grrrr.

Then the custom jewelry party I had, then my mom had? Well two of my bracelets had to be restrung because they were either messed up or wrong. Then I was told if an order was in by 5/8 it would be done for mothers day. Well now she's saying she didn't know my or my mom's order was for mothers day so it won't be done by then. YET a party she had just last friday was all done. I'm all WTF! Nobody said it had to specified that it was for mothers day, she just said 'order by 5/8 you'll get it by mothers day!' I'm all beyond pissed.

So anyone have anything good going on? Cause I sure don't.

~ Nicole

Your making me mad!

Okay so not all of you, lol. I know, actually I don't know if you all know, but anyway, I started a book blog by myself, Escape With Me. It's fun, it's cool and if you like books you'll love it.

But that's not my point. The other day I wrote something up about some books I took out from the library and I needed help with something, and nobody is helping me! So if you read get you booty over there and answer this post!

Oh and while your at it, enter this contest too.

Thanks, love you all! lol.

~ Nicole

To My Husband, I love you babe!

Have any of you heard Beyonce's new song, Flaws and All? Well it's new to me, I'm not big on music. I mean I listen to the radio when I am not listening to an audio book but even then I rarely know who is singing the song or what the title of said song is.

Well the other night my sister was over and she pulled up her myspace page so I could here the new song she had on her page. This was it and OMG I loved it! After the fist few sentences I knew it was a song for me and Josh.

I'm a train wreck in the morning
I'm a bitch in the afternoon
Every now and then without warning I can be really mean towards you
I'm a puzzle yes indeed

.......

You see the picture clear as day
I don't know why you love me
and that's why I love you

My sister immediately agreed with me, especially after she heard the part about being a bitch. lol.

See you all hear my complaints about my husband, cause really why would I come here and tell you all the things I do wrong? But in all honesty? My family is constantly yelling at me to be nice to my husband. Don't get me wrong, I don't set out to be Queen Bitch, but more often than not that's what happens. And to admit it afterwards? Nah, that'd be to big of me.

So every now and then I have a break down of sorts and I'll tell him how much I love him that I am so sorry for being so bitchy and moody and he's a great husband to me. I do love my man with all my heart and I want to tell all of you that and dedicate this song to him.

Love you babe!



But this DOES NOT mean that I am going to stop posting all my complaints when I have them! lol. I'm not that nice of a wife! hahaah.....And hey, I was a bitch when he met me and he fell in love with me. I wouldn't' want to disappoint him by changing all that up! Right?

~ Nicole

Brothers and Sisters

Does anybody besides me watch this show? And love it as much as me? I'm obFREAKINGsessed withe this show!

Okay, how slutty and skanky are Holly and Rebecca, what a team of mother and daughter. Huh? I was totally on Rebecca's side and was pissed at Joe till the end of the show last week when we saw what really happened.

Which is something I want to talk about. I know Joe and Sarah are having problems and what Joe did was totally wrong, but would you forgive him? And don't you think Rebecca was more in the wrong? It's like she's trying to pull apart their marriage. I think she wants to sabotage the entire Walker family any way that she can. I so don't like her.

And Kitty? OMG she is such a funny drunk/druggie! lol...and Kevin just can't keep his mouth quiet about a damn thing can he?

Why was Nora laughing with Holly at the end? She should have bitch slapped her while she was throwing all that food at her. Oh boo hooo, I don't feel bad for Holly at all.

But I am all stressed over what's going to happen with Tommy's wife! I don't want her to lose any of the babies! I was in tears at the end of the show.

Okay, my wrist hurts, that's all for tonight. TTYL....

~ Nicole

Psycho Cat

Stop following me!

You know how some people are afraid of dogs? Or mostly big animals? Well I thought I was pretty much the same. I guess not.

Tonight as I was walking down the side walk from my car to my front door a cat came from my neighbors porch over to where I was walking. I thought it was going to just go past me, I've seen the cat around before, well it didn't. It proceeded to walk right behind me! All I kept thinking is that my legs were bare to it and I kept imagining it pouncing on me, claws and all.

I mean isn't it strange that the thing wouldn't leave me alone? It followed me all the way up to my door. I had to yell at it to leave me. Ask Holly, I'm not lying. She was on the phone with me.

Then about 2 hours later I went to walk outside to talk on my cell.....you guessed it! The freaking cat found me and followed me again! So I got all freaked and went in the house and out on my patio, all I heard the entire time I was out there was the cat crying.

What the hell! Why is it following me and stalking my patio? Why isn't it afraid to follow so close to me. And most important....WHY AM I AFRAID OF A CAT????

~ Nicole

Thank God for the Internet! So what do you think???

So what do you all think of my new layout??? Me loves it! MUCHO! I don't know what my thing has been lately. My last three layouts have been black, white, or grey. Or a mix of them all. And they've all had a girl on it.

See it's kinda like my book cover issues. I like to see a person I just don't like anyone to tell me what they look like. Here her face is covered, my last one was a side profile, and the one before her head was down.

I don't know, whatever. All I know is I LOVE THIS LAYOUT! I'm still trying to tweak the side bar though. Not everything is there or in the order I want it. Baby steps though. Right?


I just got done watching One Tree Hill's new episode online! Woo hooo! It was good too. Except that Brook and Payton so wouldn't have REALLY gone to prom wearing their bloodied ripped dresses, with blood and bruises all over themselves too. That was stretching it a bit much don't ya think?

Oh but I did like how Lucas didn't realize it was Dan but they threw that girl in there. That seems like a good twist.

Was it me or did Hailey seem kinda like she was hiding something from Nathan when they were at the place where they took the brick from the wall?

Lastly...how dumb is Mouth??? That's all folks...see ya Monday.

P.S. Why do I feel like I am way to old to be watching this show? I'm only twenty freaking five! Sheesh. And don't ask what is up with the P.S. shit. I don't know. haha.

~ Nicole

Help. And a give away....

I have a dilemma I need help with. So put your helpful caps on and give me advice. But first let me say Nikki over at Now What the Hell do I do? Is giving away a peice of her Homemade Jewelry for Mothers Day! So go enter.


Okay now back to my problem.

As you all know I am leaving my current job at #1 Jewelers, where I am a part time sales associate, and going to work full time as an Assistant Manager at #2 Jewelers.

Also something to know is the Regional Manager for #2 is the former Regional for #1. So without getting into all the drama it's not a comfy situation between my current employer and my soon to be employer. And the RM for #2 is married to the boss I had before the boss I have now. The boss I have now doesn't really like her .

But anyway I'm getting distracted with all the details.

Obviously I am going to give my two week notice, I would never just quite. But I don't want to tell my boss where I am going. And if I knew I could get away with not telling I would. But the Jewelry world is kind of small with people from both stores knowing and talking to each other and I'm sure it'd come out before my two weeks were up and there for be worse than if I just told her.

The thing is my boss is a very ..... well she takes her job very personal. And I know she'll take it as a personal slight that I'm leaving, especially to work for my previous boss.

I mean my boss now kinda views herself as a motherly (abet a mean one) to me. She's always buying me dinner and giving me clothes. Yup, I'm not joking. She spends to much money all the time. Then she'll tell me she doesn't like it anymore and give it to me. She's given me $150.00 boots, Ann Taylor clothes, Nine West shoes. You know I won't be wearing anything from her when I give my notice. lol.

I just don't know. What should I do? Me and my boss have kind of a love hate thing going on. I mean she is a horrid bitch a lot of times, but so am I. And I know in her way she cares about me and this will really hurt her.

And not to mention one of my closest friends is my Assistant Manager now and I know she's gonna take a lot of shit when I leave. Our boss is going to assume she knew the whole time and kept it from her and there for she'll get the shit end of everything for awhile. Our boss can hold a grudge.

I don't know that there is really any solution to my dilemma but to be honest...but I just thought I'd ask for any advice that might be out there.

Come on I need help here. Where are all my peeps? I feel neglected here.

Oh and I am taking a big chance here, maybe a stupid one, cause I was looking at my Active Meter and there are two readers from my exact area of home and work....hmmmm....what are the chances???


~ Nicole

WHY, WHY....OMG I wanna cry!

EVERY FREAKING WEEK I WATCH AMERICAN IDOL AND IF I AM NOT HOME I RECORD IT! AND EVERY FREAKING WEEK WHEN I RECORD IT I ASK JOSH TO WAIT TILL I GET HOME TO WATCH IT WITH ME! AFTER SAYING THAT CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHY HE WATCHED IT WITHOUT ME LAST NIGHT AND THEN WATCHED BASEBALL WHEN I GOT HOME FROM WORK?????

ALSO.....

My DVR is on the floor in our room since we are moving and everything is everywhere. Josh has to walk over it to get to his dresser. WHY THE HELL DID HE WALK ON THE CORD SO IT THEN PULLED OUT OF THE DVR AND MOST IMPORTANTLY NOT RECORD THE NEW EPISODE OF ONE TREE HILL LAST NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So does anyone know when I can catch a rerun of tonight's show?

Okay and how sad is it that Chris left???? I was soooo sad, but I gotta tell you I was so scared it was going to be Blake, with the risk he took this week. Thank God it wasn't. The whole time they were up there I was going "omg omg I can't look" and Abby was covering my eyes going "it's okay mommy don't look" lol. She is sooo cute.

I really hope we see Chris with a CD out soon though, I think he's good enough. Here is his performance from this week, I think he did great:


And although Phil wasn't my most favorite in the show I wasn't ready to see him leave. He was just starting to get really good in the last few weeks.

Here is Phil's performance from this week, I think this was one of his best performances:


I really wish Lakisha would leave. I can't stand watching her. lol, Josh was almost gagging when Simon kissed her. It was soooo funny! Take a look:


I persoally LOVED what Blake did to the song he sang. I love him!!! Here he is:


~ Nicole

Pimping out new Jewelry!

Hey all, since I wasn't blogging for awhile I'm a little behind on the happenings with my blog buddies. But I am rectifying that now. One of my favorite bloggers Nikki, from Now what the hell do I do?, is starting her own Jewelry line.

It's called Delvii Creations. Her pendants are unique, fun and one of a kind. They are made using polymer clay, after baking, each form is sanded and buffed and a clear matte glaze top coat is applied. Every month she'll offering a new sale special.

So check it out and order if you like them!


~ Nicole