Busy Busy Day

Ok so yesterday I had the day off. It sounded great at the time but by the end of the day I was so tired! I was non stop all day. I woke up around 9:30 and got ready for my adventure. One I was ready me and my dad went to have lunch. That was really nice because we never get to go to lunch anymore since we work across town from one another. After we were done eating I went to go visit Donna. I was going to go get my books for school but I knew I wouldn't have time to go up to Bentonville before my doctors appointment. I visited with her at her office for about 30 minutes then went to my appointment. This was the appointment I was not looking forward to because it is the one where I was going to have to schedule a time to take my wisdom tooth out. Not fun! So While I was at the doctors office the doctor told me that I was 1 out of 3 people he has ever seen with only 1 wisdom tooth. I told him I was special. Well I guess my appointment is going to be September 5 at 9:30. :( Anyways, after I left there I had to go to Whitney's house because she forgot her car seat and she was up in Bella Vista to get her little girl Hope. So I had to drive all the way up there to give that to her. Once I did that I finally went to the bookstore. That was a nightmare! It was sooo busy. I guess everyone had the same idea I did with getting books. So for me to have 3 classes my total for books were $423!!! My mouth about hit the floor. That was even with some of them being used. After I recovered from that episode I had to go to Old Navy and the mall to return some stuff. That made me feel a little bit better. I decided at that point that I might as well go to Wal-Mart and buy school stuff. So that is done with. I do feel good about that. So I thought my day was over because I had ran all my errands. All wrong! When I got home I ate dinner and then my mom wanted to go shopping. I of course said ok. We soon left and ended up going to Kohl's and some other stores. We tried on I think about every pair of jeans and pants all the stores had. Guess how many we ended up buying? None of them. The only thing we bought the whole night was a shirt. Just 1 shirt for the whole night. We got home around 9:30 finally! So I had a very bust day. I loved the fact that I didn't have to go to work and I got all my stuff done but it was very tiring. To top everything off I could not sleep at all last night. I tossed and turned the entire night. It was horrible. So I am really tired today! All right I guess that is enough about my yesterday. I hope everyone is enjoying their day! Bye!

Steph

Lost Puppy

On Wednesday a coworker went to Sonic to get us some half price drinks. Little did we know he was going to bring back two dogs. They were the cutest things ever! One was a westie and the other was a mix but she was sooo cute. Dave ended up taking the mix dog home which by the end of the afternoon her name was Molly. The westie was a boy and I named him Bentley. I ended up taking him home but my parents said we could not keep him because we already have three. Bentley was so cute though because anything you told him to do he would do it. So we all knew that he belonged to somebody. On Thursday Dave and I called everywhere searching for his parents. Wednesday night me and my parents drove all around Tontitown looking for his home. Bentley got to hang out at the bank all day long yesterday because I didn't want to leave him with my dogs because I didn't know how my other dogs would get along with him all day long with nobody else there. Well this morning I woke up and I had a missed call from the Harps general office. I thought this was kinda of weird because I have not worked there in over two years. So while I was driving to work I called the lady back and she said the westie was her dog. She was soo surprised when I said we found both of her dogs. We talked for a little bit and decided she would just pick her dogs up at the bank. Well a couple of minutes later she called me bank and asked me what my last name was. So I told her and she said we were related! Shocker! She is my great grandmothers sons daughter. So she started talking about my mom and how it has been forever since we have seen each other. Small world to think that we found these cute dogs and it end up that I am related to them. If anyone knows my family we are very small so the fact that I knew them was surprising. I was really glad that they found their home where they belong. I know it was a relief to know that her babies were safe and not in danger. We at the bank were talking and Bentley was going to go to a family that lives in Little Rock because nobody could take him here. Now she was really sad when we called her today and said she couldn't have him but she was glad they have their old home back. For Molly we didn't have a family for her but I'm sure Dave would have ended up keeping her because all of his animals are strays. Well I guess I have talked enough about the dogs I fell in love with. Talk to you guys soon!

Sunshine!

This week as been very uneventful. Not much has gone on at all! I hate weeks like this because it seems like time just creeps by. Today is Lora's birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! We are all going to go out to eat tomorrow night at Granite City Grill. That place is sooo good. Nice pick Lora! So that should be a blast because it was the last time we all got together. Tonight I am going to Jose's. The one in Springdale have $3 frozen margaritas on Wednesdays! My favorite use to be the margarita swirl kind but I have found a new favorite thanks to Lydia and Tacara. Its mango!! It is the all time favorite now.

I had a great past weekend. On Friday I went to Downstream casino with my parents. Its the new casino that opened right around Joplin. I like it because its new and it does not smell like stale cigarette smoke. Of course I lost all of my money. I didn't take much though. My mom on the other hand won $250. So she was super excited. On Saturday I had to work but that was ok because it was only til noon. After that me and Taylor went shopping for Amanda wedding shower gift. I was out and about all day Saturday. Not a very good day at all to be pouring outside!! Later that night I went to On the Mark in Fayetteville. It was a lot of fun. It was a lot better than I thought it was going to be. The UFC fighting stuff was on so everyone there was yelling and screaming at the tv. Sunday was the best day! I didn't do much at all! I never get to do that so when the opportunity comes available I take it. It was so nice not to have to worry about everything.

I need to take all of this spare time in because its about to end. In two weeks I start school again. My life is going to be very busy when it starts because I still am going to be working full time. I am going to be taking 9 hours at school which will happen when I get off of work on Mondays and Wednesdays. Its going to stink! I like it busy though because my life is never boring. Always on the go. I just wish that I was finished with school already!

Well I got to go back to work. I hope everyone has a great hump day! Happy Birthday LORA!!

Happy Birthday Whit

Yesterday was whits 21st birthday. I was a little worried about going because I didn't know what it was going to be like. The past week or so we have had a differences and I just wanted everything to be normal again. To give you a little background information about what is going on with this drama is she went to the hospital about 2 weeks ago with a migraine. She ended up staying in there for about a week. They could not figure out anything that was wrong with her. The doctors out her on some medication but it did not react very well with her. It made her about to be a royal b****. She was yelling at me for no reason. She said a lot of things that I don't think I will ever forget. Anyway now she is blaming all of that stuff on the medicine. I think that some of it yes is caused by the medicine but not all of it. She was out of control. She has been off of the medication for about 2 days now. It seems like now that everything is fine. So that is why I didn't know how last night was going to go. It ended up being really fun. There were about 17 of us that went. We went to PF Changs to eat and it was yummy. I got this drink called the poolside something and it was sooo good. I had 2! That's how good it was. It seemed like she had a good time. I wont find that out until later though. It was very hard for me to look at her and other people that were involved and not think about the things that they have said to me. Oh well I guess that will just come with time. I guess that is enough of me ranting and raving. I hope everyone has a great day!

Steph

Drama

Why do some people not respect what you do for them? I have never understood that. I am the type of friend that puts everything before myself and it seems like some friends that I have just always take advantage of that. It is not right and I should not have to put up with it. The only thing is that I have been so close to all of their families for a very long time. I don't know how to place boundaries around that. I want to still be friends with the families but I don't know if I am going to be able to. I guess we will see. Its going to be very hard. You go from being one of the best friends to the worst enemy overnight when I know that I did not do anything wrong. That is how my week is turning out to be.

One thing that I do have to say is Bonnie's husbands dad is in the hospital. He went in last week because he thought he was having a heart attack. When he had all of the tests ran they found out that it was a heart attack but his gal bladder. He was scheduled to have surgery this morning but when they out him under his lungs collapsed. They had to be a respirator in and now he is touch and go. Larry (the husband) is now on a plane coming back from Florida to be with his dad. They doctors do not know if he will make it out of this. I need everyone to put him and his family in your prayers during this difficult time. I know this is hard on the family since they have been out of town.

Steph

Fun in the Sun

For the most part this weekend was great! I had soo much fun! On Saturday when I got off of work I went back to Bonnie's house where I am house sitting and I went swimming! Taylor, her parents, brother, and Grace all came over. It was the first time in a long time that we all got to hang out together. It was great! Grace was so much fun to watch because she is fearless. She would sand on one of the steps of the ladder and she would jump off to you. You would say, "do you want to jump?" and and she say, "no!" then here she came! No seems to be her favorite word but its ok because it sooo cute. Her swimsuit was also the cutest thing ever. Tanner and Taylor had wars in the pool. Everytime one of them would finally get on a blow up raft the other would tip them over. Haha!! Grace has trouble saying Stephanie and I don't blame her because its not the easiest name to say. She finally started saying her version and that worked for me! After we went swimming for a couple of hours we went and ate Mexican food. Yummo! That it the spot. Later that night I went to Wal-Mart to buy a couple of things and then rented some movies.

The first movie I watched was called Breach. It was just ok. I thought it was going to be a lot better than it really was. So i was a little disappointed. The next movie that I watched on Sunday was called The Last Time. I didn't like that one either. It had alot of language and sex scenes. It was not good. I ended up turning it off before the movie was done. It was that bad. I rented 2 others so I hope they are good. I don't know if I was just having a off weekend of selecting movies or if there just isn't any good one out there that are new releases.

Sunday was a lot of fun as well. I met Lora and her family at Ihop for breakfast/lunch. I think it was the hottest restaurant that I have ever gone to. The a/c was not working. Our waitress gave us a part of the menu to fan ourselves with. It was so hot that Rylee told our waitress "Its just way to hot in here." We died laughing. After we were all done eating we went back to Loras so Rylee could take a nap. That gave just enough time for me and Lora to have grown up talk. Don't get me started because there is a lot of drama that is happening in my life right now. Anyways, after she took her nap we all just dressed and went swimming! She lives in an apartment so we went swimming there. Oh course that was a lot of fun to. Rylee cracks me up. The water was perfect because it wasn't to hot or cold. It was just right. We swam for for awhile. It just felt so good not to worry about anything and just relax.

So this weekend was definitely a sun filled weekend. Summer is the time to just kick back and relax in the water and that is what I did this weekend. I had the best time!

Talk to you later,
Steph

Jumpin Crickets

This week has been kinda crazy. When I look back at the week there isn't much that sticks out. Starting today I am going to start house sitting for my boss. She is going to Florida for vacation. She is going to be back next Saturday. This will be a lot of fun because she has the cutest dog and she lives so close to work. It normally takes me about 20 to 25 minutes to get to work but next week it will only take me about 8.

On Tuesday I got off of work early because I have to work Saturday. When I work on Saturdays we get to have a afternoon during the middle of the week. So that is kinda nice. So when I got off work I went to Lora's houses and we went shopping. At the beginning of our adventure we had Rylee (her 4 year old) but she got to go spend the night with her grandma. She missed her grandma so she said she wanted to go and stay the night. Well while going over there she told me that she was going to get married Wednesday at 2:30 to a little boy she goes to church with. So I guess for now on I am just going to have to call her Mrs. Rylee. She is so cute. I just love her to death. Well after we dropped her off we met up with Lora's mom so we could go shopping. When you get all of us together you NEVER know what is going to happen next. We had the best time. We went out to eat and you should have heard some on the conversations we had. It was great!

Last night I went to a cookout with my mom. She works for a dentists and he had a little get together. He just moved into his house and it was so nice. I would love to live there. Anyway, after all of us ate dinner (which by the way the way it was sooo good) she gave every employee a wrapped box. The doctor had bought everyone a pair of Nike shocks. They were awesome. He was so nice for doing something like that. He just did it out of the blue. After we left there I went to my managers house to find out how to feed the frogs and hermit crab. One of her gran daughters for her birthday got these animals. Well she is also going on vacation so I get to look after them. I guess the frogs eat live crickets? They keep these crickets in this round tube thing. It has carrots and potatoes in it to help them live. I don't understand why but oh well. When Bonnie lifted the tube of crickets up the bottoms fell off of the tube. Crickets went everywhere!! It was soo funny trying to run as fast as we could to get all of the crickets out of the floor. It was crazy! There were probably over 50 crickets on the ground. We thought we got all of them but we didn't. We keep finding them the rest of the night. Her husband thought it was pretty funny!

This next week is going to be interesting because since my boss is on vacation that means that I am in charge. That is kinda scary since I was just promoted into this position but I will be ok. I know that I can call people if anything goes wrong. Wish me luck!

Steph