It's all over?!?!

I can't believe the summer games are all over. I looked so forward to watching them on TV and now it's all over. I so enjoy the summer games better then the winter games, better events. How about Micheal Phelps, all those records he broke. He is a true athelete. I watched the track & field events when the men's & women's relay teams both dropped the baton to be disqualified. How much of a jerk would you feel like if you dropped the baton in the race of a lifetime. A race you trained your whole life for?? I also watched the women's beach volleyball match when we won the gold, that was a great match. Those are just some of my highlights. I guess I have to wait until 2012 to see it all again, I can't wait....GO USA!!!!

And so the journey begins....

As some of you know for the past 5 years or so I have been doing a part time job working in the education department of 2 different product lines that we carry in the salon. It was a lot of fun going into other salons, meeting other sylists, traveling a little but at the beginning of this year in talking to the manager I worked under she said it was going to be a slow year. I decided to step away from the position for a while, maybe find a different company to work for. Here it is August and I still don't have a part time job.

As some of you also know I am a little...you might say obsessed...about going to the gym. I can say that I like going, I feel good when I go and I think I need to go. Three times a week I take a group cycling class(some gyms call it "spinning") and I love it, the other days I run on the treadmill or at home outside. So I get this in my head to ask the fitness manager what I would have to do to get certified to teach classes and she says they do it all there. She would train and certify me for whatever I wanted but they need more people for the group cycling classes. PERFECT!! because I love that class....I have thought about it before but I thought you had to have some other kind of backround. So today I made the call to get more info and get the ball rolling on my new part time job, I hope I can do it!!! So, let the journey begin on a new path, wish me luck, I might need it.......

I Got Nothing

Well, I don't have too much to blog about this week. Work is quiet but busy, not too much about the homicide now that things have calmed down. And, life, well that's pretty quiet as well. Of course, when I have exciting news about something I will surely let everyone know about it. The last blog I apparently offended my husband so there won't be anymore talk about him because as you all know I will NEVER hear the end of that...so I apologize to him.....

Home Sweet Home

Ok, so we built our home about a year and a half ago in a development, much to Shawn's dismay, in a good location for both of our jobs. The development has a homeowners association with rules and even a rule book. So one of the rules is NO FENCES of any kind. So I had high hopes that when we got Sam that I could train him to stay in our yard. Yeah, that's still a work in progress. He runs out of our yard every time and of course, right into the neighbors yard that are less then freindly to us. So,I got an estimate for one of those invisible fences. I wasn't thinking it was going to be $1350.00. So now our only hope is that I can train Sam to stay in the yard while we are still "thinking about it". We have a little trouble spending that kind of money at one time.

While we are at it, we got some other estimates as well, I had a landscaper come out and see how much it will cost to continue around the house with the flower beds. He's going to send me the paperwork in the mail in a few days. I can only imagine the cost based on how much it cost us to do the front. Just so you understand where I'm going with this, Shawn is not a "handy" kind of guy if you know what I mean. I also had someone come out and give me an estimate to stain our deck out back. That will cost us about $800.00. Yeah, that's too much work for Shawn also. I even offered to stain the deck but that didn't even get a second of thought before a "HELL NO"came out of his mouth--it can't be that hard, right. Neither can the landscaping around the house but that also got the same response. So I guess we have to spend the money if want these things done. This homeowning thing is going to get expensive and why didn't you guys tell me I was marrying a deligator instead of a laborer oh , that's right Shawn only likes to be a laborer for everyone else.....

Life in the small town

Well, I just got the news today that the local police made an arrest in the Roseboro homicide. I can't believe it, they arrested the husband. This just can't be!!! He always seemed like such a nice guy when he came into the salon. He seemed respectful to his wife and family, I can't see it. It came out last week that he had been having an affair, OK that doesn't prove he killed his wife...but in this small town I guess it does. There are so many poeple in the salon that were convinced that he did it, people that didn't even know him or the family. People that are just hungry for some kind of drama, checking the news and papers everyday, having something to say about it. I felt like just saying to them"Just Shut Up"it was like whisper down the alley you used to play as a child, everyone added their own thought to the story and made it as though he brutally beat his wife and drowned her in the pool because he was having a passionate love affair behind her back. PLEASE!!! The only people that know how the marriage was is the two of them and you know what, that's how it should be. I feel the most sad for the 4 children who have to go through this whole thing. They arrest the Dad, who gets to explain that to the kids. What if he gets aquitted, who gets to explain that to them. They lost their mom and now they might lose their dad as well. It's such a gut wrenching situation for everyone involved.....