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I haven’t been able to go through my vacation pictures. I refuse to go through them until I go through my wedding pictures otherwise I think I will NEVER go through my wedding pictures! I’ve got to let the photographer know which ones I want ordered ASAP. I’ve been a slacker in that area of my life.

I guess the biggest news right now is that Gene and I decided for me to stop taking my BC pill. I stopped about a week or so before our honeymoon and I was doing fine but the last 3 days or so I’ve been feeling really odd. Having a lot of period symptoms like bloating, stomach cramps and low back pain. I’ve had some pretty bad headaches and I slept from 7:30 PM to 5:30 AM yesterday. I guess the hormones in my body are all out of whack since I stopped taking the pill so I am really hoping my body gets itself in check soon and goes back to normal. So anyway, I am excited knowing that sometime in the [hopefully] near future we may be making babies! Hah. We aren’t going to “chart” or really plan anything. Just see where fate lands us.

I took Astro to the vet after work yesterday because his nose is all flakey and cracked. He’s been licking it constantly and now the front skin above his lip is all raw and gross. They gave me some prednisone and I gave him one yesterday evening after they ate dinner. Apparently last night he peed on the floor twice and then this morning I was startled awake by the sound of him peeing on the floor next to my bed. I googled prednisone for dogs and found that loss of bladder control is a side affect. Ugh. No more of that stuff for him! Going to keep an eye on his nose and hopefully it will get better. Otherwise he will go back to the vet and we can try something else.

We’re back! We actually got back really late (11:30 PM) on Thursday but have been trying to get back into our “routine” over the last couple of days. I think we’re slowly getting back. Coming back to work today was like a sudden jolt but I think I’m handling it pretty well.

We had a wonderful time in Florida. I fell in love with Disney World and now I want to live there! Coming back home was like some kind of punch to the face! I was glad to be back with my dogs and my family but I realized suddenly that I had to snap out of the Magical Disney World that I was once in.

I fell in love ten times over with my husband. Just when I thought my heart couldn’t possibly grow any larger, it proves me wrong. He is my best friend and the love of my life. I feel grateful that I have the opportunity to spend the rest of my life with such a wonderful person.

More on the trip and pictures later. I have a lot to get accomplished and a lot of “catch up” to play this week.

I just haven’t been writing lately because my wrists. They hurt. Bad. Sometimes I want to chop them off and just go wrist-less because it seems far less painful. Because The Carpal Tunnels. They’re painful. They really have been showing me no mercy. Ow. And there they go again.

I don’t use my computer at home because as much as I use it at work, I am in horrible pain by the end of the day and I don’t want to go NEAR a keyboard. I’m leaving on my Wedding Vacation (read: Honeymoon) on Thursday and I’ll be out of commission for a good week or so. I’m really hoping this time away helps to rejuvenate my spirit and also relax my wrists. Maybe even give ol’ Carpal Tunnel a kick to the wayside.

I’ll be back after June 26th. I’m going to be in Disney World. Having the time of my life with the love of my life. Riding rides, walking thousands of miles, taking pictures and doing, ya know, Honeymoon type things.

That is me, breathing a breath of fresh air! I don’t know what it was but I got in this funk and it lasted a good week or two. I was really feeling yucky about myself and it just snapped one day. And ever since I’ve felt like I was floating again. I’ve even had the energy to go on walks with the hubby. Short walks but still.. That’s better than no walk right?

So tomorrow I’m going to the Ringling Bros. Circus!! I can’t believe it. I am so excited because I haven’t been to the circus in years. I was very young when I went to the circus last. I wanna say somewhere around 10 or 12 years old.

Gene and I used some of our wedding gift money and purchase a reallllly nice set of pots ‘n pans. They’re Calphalon brand and they were somewhere around $400 retail. Of course we got a few discounts and we were able to get this 13 piece set for about $320 after tax! But, the point is that this is a VERY expensive set of cookware and after you cook up some bacon and it looks like this:

You tend to.. what is the word I’m lookin for here? Oh yeah.. FREAK THE EF OUT. I wanted to cry because I thought maybe I missed a step in the cooking process. Or maybe since I only read the pamphlet that came with the cookware 498 times instead of 895 that I missed something.

In the cleaning section of the pamphlet it says something about using Bar Keeper’s Friend to clean the cookware. I laugh because my first impression is: I’ve never heard of this before, which means it is going to be impossible to find in stores and second: What the heck kind of name is Bar Keeper’s Friend? This must be some kind of joke! They must have paid Calphalon big money to get their name in their little brochure.

Gene does what he does best and extensively researches this stuff online. It appears that it is some kind of miracle powder and that it can be found at The Walmarts. I almost crapped my pants! So we went to The Walmarts and were able to find some, for a measily coupla bucks ($2 in Okie Talk). I poured this magically powder onto my pant and scrubbed it (I’m sorry but I just had to leave the original first part of this sentence up here. It was TOO funny to pass up. Typos! Ugh) I poured the magical powder onto my pan with a few drops of water and scrubbed it with the recommended Dobie pad (Again, What the heck??)

All I’m gonna say is this:

P.S. I guess that wasn’t all I was gonna say. I just want to say here that this stuff is highly acidic and before pouring it on everything you own, you should read the cautions and instructions and all of that nonsense. It is GREAT stuff! It is really good about cleaning off that yucky black burnt crusty stuff on the bottom of your pots and pans too.

This stuff saved my life. See, I was going to have a full on heart attack and stroke when I thought I had ruined a pan that probably cost $100 on it’s own. So, in a way, this can of magical powder saved me from visiting The Dark Side a little too early.

I just got up a good 30 minutes ago. I went to bed really stinkin’ early too. It felt good to get an unnatural amount of sleep last night. It’s been a really long time since I’ve had OVER 8 hours of sleep, so I think I was due for a little sleep overload. And to not be woken up by an evil alarm clock. That makes a huuuuuuge difference!

This morning I am making healthy French Toast (with egg beaters and light bread) and turkey sausage. I gotta go get Gene up before I start the breakfast or he’ll sleep right through the yumminess. At 12:30 our pest control guy is coming to spray and at some point during the day I’d really like to watch the wedding slide show that our photographer gave us on disc.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!! Enjoy the weekend because before we all know it, it will be the dreaded Monday again.

First of all I wanted to mention that there is a customer at work who insists on calling me Candy. I’ve never once answered the phone with that name and I almost always go by Candace. The only people who have ever really called me Candy is The Husband and my little sister. She keeps calling and asking for “Candy” and when she leaves me voicemail she starts out with “Hi Candy, this is…” and so on. I find it quite hilarious that this lady I’ve only ever talked to on the phone a handful of times is already getting on such a personal level with me. I mean, what is the proper etiquette in this situation? Do I start making up cute little nicknames for her as well?

Second I wanted to mention that the elephant ear bulb I planted earlier this year is now blooming in my front garden. I planted 5 hosta bulbs last night and I am so psyched about that. I want to buy 100 more elephant ears and hostas and just be surrounded by their beauty. My plan for this weekend is to run by Walmart and pick up some landscaping items. I really just want to grab a few plants or flowers and some mulch. I’ve gotta get some of my front garden area under control. I think if I do a little bit this year I can do more next year. Anything is better than what is currently going on, seriously! It’s like a pile of disgusting weeds. I’ve also found that Walmart sells about the same stuff as Home Depot and it is sometimes 25-40% cheaper than The Depot. Love ya Depot but in a time where gas is almost $4 a gallon, I just can’t pay $5 for a bag of mulch that is $2 at The Wal*marts.

So I’m also planning on finally downloading the pictures off of my camera that have been sitting there for a week. And I also want to work with my sewing machine a little bit. And and and. That is my life, full of Ands. The Ifs and Buts aren’t really in the picture anymore but the Ands sure do tend to take over everything.