Craig's Unexpected Day Off

Well, last night we had an unexpected delay of coming home. I picked Craig up from work and he noticed he had 2nd degree burn on his shoulders. Oh yippee. So we went to the hospital (my FAVORITE place - gag) to see if there was a medicated ointment, besides Aloe Vera, that we can put on it. Get this - he got steroids. My husband has now turned into a druggie ;-) It's suppose to help with the swelling and then there's also another pill that he's suppose to take. They just loaded him up with medication. It was hilarious, but it was kinda scary when he was driving home. He was drowsy from the Benadryl (spelling?) they gave him. It was somewhat scary because he's driving and he's like "I'm so sleepy" and I told him "Hang in there for 5 more minutes. We're almost home." THANK GOODNESS we made it home.


Craig took the day off today, which was a good thing because his shirt was rubbing against his shoulders and causing him pain. So we've just been relaxing. Well, sord of. This morning we went to get his medication and we also went and got gasoline for the car. Now I know some of you live where it's "cheap" but we only paid $3.53 a gallon!! So that was pretty fantastic :-) I love when gas prices are cheap like that up here. Now I know some of you are like "Well it's not that cheap" but to us it really is. So we got a great deal for our gas and now we have almost a full tank. It has been FOREVER since our car has had a full tank - or even close!! But gas prices have been horrendous so it was impossible.


Right now, we're just relaxing, watching television. It's been very nice to just have a day of relaxation with my husband. :-) Right now, we're watching Big Bang Theory. It's pretty funny. Sheldon just made a Scooby-Doo reference!!! YES!! :-) I officially love Big Bang Theory even more than I originally did!!

Another one of my drawings :-)

Sunburnt

Oh that dreadful time of year....the first sunburn!! Yes, yes, I know....most of you have already gotten your first burn and are working on your second right now. However, I have just gotten my first. And here's how it happened.


Yesterday, Craig and I went with a couple of friends to go boating before Craig went to work. I put on sunscreen because I know how my skin is. Horrendous pale skin. Anyway, I loaded it on and put it on the boat so that way I could put more on later. Craig, silly boy, opted out. As did the other guys. (Boys will be boys) Well, we were only out on the water, or in the water, for an hour and a half before we headed back to go to work and such. I was burnt, but not too too bad. I had to put on the Aloe Vera stuff to soothe the skin, however. And my thighs, which NEVER tan or burn and always look like they don't get any sun, got BURNT!! I'm pretty sure that's the part of me which hurts the worst with the burn.
Craig, however, was severely burnt. Not as bad as he's had before, but he was definitely burnt. We got home last night and he was getting ready for bed. His entire back was as red as a lobster. And apparently his coworkers were calling him "Lobster"!! Well, I put the gel on his back as well so his burn could heal. I almost cried due to him moaning and gasping when I touched his back with the gel. Now, for any of you that have had a sunburn and put on the medication ointment or Aloe Vera gel know full well that it is FREEZING cold when you put it on a burn. So, I squeezed some of the gel onto his back and he freaked out. "THAT'S COLD!" He objected. Well, there was nothing else I could do! The lotion his mother gave me to put on his back was just as cold!


This morning, my burn isn't bothering me quite as much - thank goodness. My thighs still hurt pretty bad so I wore basketball shorts today after getting ready. I decided I didn't care how I looked - I just wanted to be comfortable. Have any of you ever felt that way? Oh it is so nice to just calm down every once in a while and not care how you look. It's a wonderful feeling.


Well today I'm doing laundry (Ohh the joy) and relaxing at the same time. Taking care of my burn and not letting it defeat me!! And then later on tonight I will be at my mother-in-law's church for the Cola Clash - helping out in the kitchen. Last night was definitely fun helping out! It reminded me so much of Camp Joy listening to all of them cheer and seeing the red side and the blue side. It was so nice to watch the teens have fun. I only hope that tonight will be just as fun!

Drawings!

Aladdin

Eagle that I drew for Craig

Fox

Chipmunk

RJ from Over the Hedge (without the wagon)

Tramp

I doodled this on the way to Chicago. Title is: "The sun will come out tomorrow"

Garfield

Iago

Koala

Mike from Monster's Inc

Scooby Doo

Sully from Monster's Inc

White tiger

Wolf :-)

Rambling a Bit...

Well, yesterday I tried to upload the pictures on my blog site, but it didn't work correctly. If anybody has any suggestions, I would be very grateful. I'd like everyone to be able to enjoy the drawings, however, I cannot do that without some help. *blush* So if anyone can tell me how to get the slideshow to work, that'd be awesome!! :-)

Well, Craig is getting some MAJOR overtime this week. Which, yes will be a tremendous help to us right now, but it's going to be one long week. But at least he has the opportunity to work overtime. His work doesn't always offer overtime, so he's really snatching it up.

Last night, I went to volleyball all by myself since Craig was at work. Let me tell ya, it was the strangest thing going by myself. I'm used to going with Craig to the volleyball activities. It was still a great deal of fun, however. There were only three of us girls playing with 7 guys. The teams were less than we normally play with, but it was still pretty competitive. It was pretty intense, but all of us had fun.

Today, my mother-in-law was suppose to come over and hang out for a while. She was also suppose to bring her niece with her so she could play with my kitties. However, something came up and so we had to reschedule. Good thing I didn't tell the kitties they were having a play date, eh? Wouldn't want to crush their feelings.

Since my plans didn't really work out today, I've decided to watch the marathon of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. This has to be one of my favorite shows! It's sad, but it's pretty good as well. What is your favorite show? I'd like to read comments saying what your favorite show is and why.

I'll start :-) My favorite show is NCIS. The reason I like this show so much is because of the chemistry in the group. You have the jokester, Anthony Dinozzo. You have the geeky nerd (in a good way), Timothy McGee. You have the kick-butt girl who takes a lot of crap from her partner but can easily get back at him, Ziva David. And you have the awesome leader who can smack his team in the back of the head and get away with it, Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Even though you have all different personalities in the group, they all work very well together and I look forward to watching them solve their cases. It is definitely one of the best shows out there right now, in my opinion.

Please comment below with your favorite show and why :-)

I Hate Mondays....

Normally, I hate Mondays. But, then again, who doesn't? This morning I was rudely woken up by JD (as per usual) by him trying to steal my pillow while meowing loudly in my ears. Rude little bugger. So, I got up, took my shower, and got ready for the day. Craig made tacos for lunch (YUMMY!!) and we watched some TV.


At 2pm, we headed out to go to Craig's work. I took him today since I have volleyball at church tonight and I really wanted to go. Tonight is going to be REALLY different going without him, however. This will be my first time going alone. That will run pretty much all night, just in time to go back to Craig's work and pick him up.


Well, I have some of my drawings on my computer now...I will try to load them up onto my blog....but please be patient with me. I need to figure out how to get it to work!! :-P


Sometime soon, my niece will be coming to stay with Craig and me. I haven't seen her since March - so I'm pretty excited she's going to be coming to stay with us. I just need to contact my sister and ask her when she'll be coming and work out times with her. I felt kind of bad, because my niece was begging and asking "When can I come stay?" So hopefully we can get this taken care of that way she can come stay with us. That would be really nice.


Alright - time to go figure out how to upload the pictures!! Blog to y'all later! :-)

Day-at-Home

Well, today has been pretty good. We've been hanging out at home watching movies. We had egg biscuits for brunch, and I made Italian Pork chops with rice for dinner.

Well, yesterday, my mother-in-law came over. Craig, her, and I all went to Ikea and looked around. That was my first time ever going there. It was definitely different but I got some pretty good ideas from going there. They had some really neat ideas, and I'd really like to use some when Craig and I get our first house.

Well, we've been trying to leash-train our kitties. Craig's mom gave us a good idea. We've been putting the leashes on the cats and then letting them run around so they get used to them. One of them will be walking or running around and the other races after the leash and attacks it like crazy. It is quite hilarious to watch them. JJ was racing after the laser pointer and then JD was racing after her leash. He would pounce on it and hold it to the ground so JJ couldn't move. She'd pull and pull and try to get him to let go but it didn't work. So then she'd get mad and growl at him and try even harder. A couple of times, she wound up pulling her collar off of herself.

Has anybody seen Robots? It's' been out for quite a while but it's hilarious. It's also a bit strange watching robots running around trying to save the world. The movies that Pixar, Disney, and other places come out with now a days are weird, but some of them are really good. I'm not sure what they'll come out with when my kids are around...but I guess we'll find out. But I will always have the movies I grew up on so they can watch those as well I suppose. It'd just be nice if we didn't have absolutely strange and weird movies out when I have children (and who knows when that will be).

Hopefully this week will be better than Friday and that Craig and I will get everything straightened out. We will need prayer though. I'd appreciate it if y'all would pray for us. Thanks guys!!