Here are the dogs in their new jackets.

Jeremy's mom and sister came into town yesterday and Jeremy made them grilled stuffed burritos when they got here. I had nachos:)

Then we watch V for Vendetta, which we got for Christmas from Mona. It was really good but Jeremy's mom didn't like it. Mona did though. Then we made a run to Starbucks for a late night drink and came back and watched Ice Age 2. man, that squirrel cracks me up. It is hysterical! They spent the night and Jeremy cooked them breakfast in the morning and then we headed to Old Navy. EVERYTHING in the store is on sale, including little doggie outfits. They were normally 24.50 and they were on sale for 6 bucks. Totally cute. And they had them in Maybe's size. So, we got matching outfits for the dogs. it is really cute.

Then we went over to Victoria Secret which also seems to have everything in the store on sale. I got two bras that were on sale for $20 each. One was a B and the other was a C. And they fit the exact same. Now, I've never been a C kind of gal so I'm convinced the label was wrong or they just want to make B girls feel special.

Then, we went to lunch and had a very crappy waitress. The food was ok though.

Then we came home and waited for Halley Berry to arrive. Yesterday Jeremy got a phone call from a friend from Transy who is now living in Virginia. Apparently her sister is living in Lexington but was out of town for the holidays and the friend she got to watch her dog went crazy and freaked out and basically told the sister she couldn't handle the dog after having it for a few hours. So, they had to go into search mode to find someone to take the dog and somehow we made it on the list. The girl was a big bitch about it. She wouldn't even drive it out here to us from Richmond, KY so Sarah had to ask another friend to do the favor of going and getting it for us. The friend couldn't keep it because her boyfriend is really allergic to dogs. Anyway, the dog is really cute and is sweet as can be and she's been playing really hard with Maybe. I think that Perhaps is jealous.

So, tomorrow, I am going to sleep really late and be relaxed. Maybe straighten up the house a little. I still need to clean up the kitchen floor sometime before i go back to school. I'll post pictures of the dogs in their little outfits later.

Yesterday we went to dinner and a movie with Chris and Lissa. The movie we saw could only be appreciated if you were born with a penis, so Lissa and I just shrugged our shoulders when we got out of there. Give me a romance anytime I guess. Especially if Patrick's butt is in it.

I spent all day in bed watching TV and cuddling with turtle. Then we Jeremy got home we went to Circuit City to spend his gift card from my mom and to Babies R Us to return the baby's present that didn't work.

and now we are at home. I'm going to try to pull Jeremy away from the computer long enough for us to watch one of the new DVD's that we got for Christmas but I think that it may be a difficult challenge.

Virginia Fields, Rebecca Bartlett and Christy Shaw on Christmas 2006. My favorite women.

Pictures for Mom and Dad's picture frame

Merry Christmas Eve everyone! I hope everyone is doing well.

• Virginia and I cheated and opened our presents a little early. I think we both did very well this year buying for each other. I'm sure Virginia will list the present breakdown later.
• She managed to surprise me on a couple counts, but I think I suprised her more.
• Virginia bought Perhaps an adorable sweater that fits her perfectly.
• We watched the Holiday at the movies today (Virginia's pick). It was quite enjoyable and entertaining.
• We inadvertantly will not be buying body wash anytime soon.
• We're watching A Christmas Story on TBS right now. There are many subtle, funny nuances in this movie that I haven't noticed before.
• Go Irish! Beat Tigers!
• Old school Nintendo rules!
• Playing Nintendo on your pc using a game emulator is even better.
• Is it me or does holiday traffic seem even crazier this year. Maybe it's been bad luck on my part, but I've seen some serious craziness these past few days.
• Go Cardinals (begrudgingly... well, it's not too bad to say since we beat them in basketball ) Beat Wake Forest.
• Christmas lights that go bad (even though you checked them) after you put them on your tree and cover them with tinsel and ornaments really suck.
• Dogs are the most cudley in the first few hours after a thorough bath, once they're dry of course.
• Washing pillows can be quite treachorous. Do so at your own risk.
• The only thing more entertaining than seeing the Holiday on Christmas Eve is going to Meijer at 6:35 pm when it closes at 7 pm and watching the melee. I could have set up a lawn chair and popped some popcorn.
• Virginia's cleaning spree has been most impressive. I'm very proud of her.
• Her 4.0 is even more impressive!!!
• Go Big Blue! Beat the Tigers!
• I've been in my new job a little over three months now. Number of times I've come home and been all stressed out: ZERO!!!!!
• Needless to say I love my new job. Things have worked out quite well in my favor, though it took a few years steadfast patience with putting up with endless crap.
• I believe this year was a very pivotal year career-wise with far -reaching ramifications.
• I feel like I accomplished a lot this year.
• I love Virginia.

modified post from an email I sent to someone

I'm not taking it too easy.... I've been cleaning the house room by room, one a day. I only have the kitchen and another guest bedroom to take care of. I've been playing sudoku and old school nitendo. It's funny because I've been thinking that yesterday was Christmas Eve all day and I was excited about staying up until midnight to open presents. Then Jeremy tells me otherwise around 3ish that I was wrong on the day and it made me all sad. sniff sniff.

Today, Jeremy and I are cleaning the rest of the house together and then going to see a movie. If you guys are free, you're more than welcome to join us. I think we are seeing the Holiday in Hamburg at 3 something. Most likely, you'll be with family I'm sure.

Christmas we are heading to my parents in Louisville and then Tuesday we are going to Ashland to see Jeremy's family. It will be strange dynamics there. One year ago was the last time that we saw Jeremy's sister alive and Zoie (our niece) is finally getting taken by her father to go live with him in Louisanna after she's been living with my motherinlaw for the 7 years. It may be the last time that we ever see her either.



Talk to you soon! and have a wonderful Christmas! I hope you get everything that you want!

Yesterday was my "clean bookshelf in living room and scrub the bathtub day". It was Jeremy's scrub the bathroom floor day. I also did a load of dishes and three loads of laundry. I folded the laundry this morning. Today, I'm going to tackle a closet or two. we have five of them, so maybe I can get to all of them.

Unlike most people, I don't bother with my house plants when it's warm and you can do the dirty work outside. I take care of my plants in December. Everyone of them has new dirt and has been pruned and I only had to clean dirt off the floor 4 times. It helps me to remember my mother-in-law and all the wonderful things she taught me about plants and life. I really miss her this time of year.
Then I decided to play the rest of the day before the RCIA meeting and went to the zoo. The weather was perfect with a coat on. It was really wonderful. The sun was out and the animals were frisky and it wasn't crowded at all. I still ran into someone I knew by the wallabies. The baby whose picture I posted awhile ago is out of the pouch now. It's still cute. It seemed like they were posing for pictures. I love my digital camera. You can take bunches of pictures and not worry about film and developing costs. Thanks to Virginia for letting me borrow her camera when we went to Hawaii even though it made me buy one of my own. It's almost paid for itself in saved costs.
Last night at the sister-in-laws dinner, Father Joe was eating at the same restaurant and stopped by. It felt strange to talk to a priest outside of a church setting. Usually they just say "Hi" when you see them somewhere besides church, but Father Joe had a whole little conversation going.
Sunday at the Jolley family party the kids got to run outside in the back yard and I got some of Mims' cake. I brought home presents for Virginia and Jeremy from their aunts and uncles and her sister Christy. (Christy says you're getting something else, too)
At St. Rita's school's fundraiser breakfast, I bought chances on a Christmas basket and I WON.
That's most of the good news I know. Later gators.

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I have a very productive morning. I got up and cleaned for an hour straight. I guess it would have been even more productive if I cleaned for 5 hours straight but oh well. It's better than nothing. I figure I will take a room of the house a day. Today was the backyard, even though that may not count as a room.

Well, I guess not much is going on. Jeremy and I are still up. He got a new video card for his birthday and has been pulling out some of his old computer games to play. I was watching him for a bit when I fell asleep on the bed in the computer room. Then, when I woke up, he was taking a nap on the couch. It sucks that Jermey has to work tomorrow. I want him to be off the entire time that I'm off but that's not going to happen.

I'm done for the semester!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy

Birthday

Jeremy

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sadly, our heater broke this weekend and it cost $150 to get a part to fix it. But now it is all fixed.

I had two finals today and I think they went pretty well. I'm very tired now though. Four more days and then I'll be done with the semester, so that's exciting. I'm going into all my finals with at least a 94% in all my classes, so that's good. I should get all A's again this semester, no problem.

I'm sleepy. I got alot done today. I'm going to miss Jeremy tomorrow. 3 more classes and then I am done completely for the rest of the semester. I told a teacher he was unprofessional and disrespectful today. My legs itch. I drank 3 (3!) liters of water today. I've also peed 8 times in the past 2 hours.



laters!

Well, I didn't get all the things that I wanted to get done, but I got a good junk. I'm sure it will all fall into place.

So, I gave Jeremy the task of making the tree topper this year and can I just say I am very, very impressed. It looks great. I don't know how we will "top" it next year. hehe.

Tomorrow I have a class at 8, then 11 and then a checkoff station thing at 3 which will only take 15 minutes. So, I'm going to spend the rest of that time trying to finish up studying neuro. I really need to finish that because I need to start on old Endocrine tomorrow night.

I dislike smoking so much. I used to not mind it, but now I feel like whenever I'm around it, it's sucking the life out of me. It's so gross. I couldn't imagine living with or dating a smoker, which Jeremy has done before. He thinks it's gross now, but I wonder if he just thinks that because I think that.

It's funny when you're married it's hard to remember who had the original thought first. The husband or the wife? Jeremy told me that he never really cared about being doing illegal things on the road or being jerks until he married me. And I never cared about amusement parks until I married him. Alas, I will never be converted to watching the history channel for "fun" nor will he ever feel the urge to write an update unless I bug the crap out of him... but we've still rubbed off on each other.

earlier this afternoon, I went into the back bedroom and Zippy, Turtle and Maybe were all laying on the bed together. Zippy started cleaning Turtle and Turtle started cleaning him back. It was really cute.

I forgot to write about some more weird dreams I had.

A few nights ago, I dream that my biology of aging professor (who sort of creeps me out) was my swim coach and we were at Mary T and I was wearing a speedo swimming laps.

Then, the night before last, I dream that the new neighbors that moved in next door were murderers. They burned their backyard to the ground and it was all blackened and stuff. I was in our backyard and I found all these fingers that were cut off. And I looked over into their backyard and saw this really blond hair that looked like a wig but I knew it was someone's scalp. And in the corner of their yard back by the fence there was a well (like the one in the ring) and I went over to look in it to see if there were anymore dead bodies in it and when I was over there the neighbor came out and casually tosses the hair into the well and asked if there was a problem. I said no and ran back to the house to call the cops. But, before I left, I saw that all around the edge of the well were cut off penises! Well, they could have been really swollen fingers, but I didn't go back in look in my dream. I ran inside and there were alot of people and I yelled for someone to call the cops while I tried to clean up the house because it was really messy and I didn't want the cops to have to come to a messy house.

Now, that's a freaky dream.

I took a nap until Jeremy got home from Cincinatti (is that spelled right?) and then I woke up and started studying. 7 hours later I look up at it's past midnight. That's the most productive I've ever been on a Friday night. In fact, that's the most productive I've ever been at home before. I was very impressed. I wrote up my studying schedule for the next week which I am well aware that that is the most type A thing any one person could do. regardless, I have everything planned out. today is all of old neuro, which is a CRAP load of material. Hopefully, I can get through it all.

The animals have been really bad the past few days. I don't know what has gotten into them. They are all on my "you're going to leave outside in a van down by the river if you do one more thing" list.

I'm going to go brush my teeth and then go start studying.