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Clarification

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Ok, for those of you who just saw me emerge from the restroom gagging and gasping for breath, rest assure, it was not as a result of anything I did in there. That damn air freshener that is set to randomly emit a toxic floral scent sprayed directly over my head as I was washing my hands. Ewwww. I have a serious love-hate relationship with the spray. It loves me and I hate it. For some reason the damn thing sprays just about every time I go into the bathroom. Which for a normal person, wouldn’t be that bad. But we all know I am not normal and my pea-size bladder requires I make frequent trips to the ladies room. Urgh. So now I smell like the spray, which in the past has been described as “old lady smell” thankyouverymuch.

Ta-Da!

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Are you ready for this?? We have pictures of the Finished Product.

Drum roll please…..


So that is the finished living room. How totally Pottery Barn are we? Ok, maybe that is wishful thinking, but I am really excited about it! I love the fact that I no longer have to scrub, in vain, that nasty carpet…at least in my living room/dining room anyway! Yippee!

And there is the dining room. Complete with new area rugs (courtesy of Tuesday Morning, thankyouverymuch). Doesn’t it all just fit now? I know I feel better about it. Now my house is all comfy and cozy, I never want to leave it. Which really makes coming to work on a Monday morning not the most fun thing in the world. Kinda makes the count down to baby time all the more exciting. 😉

There are a few more pictures in the Finished Product gallery. Since the room is so huge and kinda oddly shaped some of them are redundant, but you get the picture. Enjoy!

TGIF

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I am so tired this week. My brain does not want to function. I just drained my grande white chocolate mocha and am patiently waiting for that to kick in. It may be awhile. I slept like crap last night. I seriously laid in bed for like an hour listening to Simeon and Ellie alternate snoring when I finally decided to get up and read some blogs. I did that for another hour then went back to bed and tried to fall asleep. What felt like moments later, I was awoken by a lovely thunder and lightening storm at 4 am. (Now normally I am all over lightening storms. Love ’em. But not at 4 am! Come on, now!) So when my alarm went off at 6:30 I told Simeon that he was getting up first and I was gonna try to sleep some more and just get in to work a little late.

And here I am…..Still waiting on that mocha to kick in….

So my agenda for the weekend is to rest up as much as possible. I may even hit the Tylenol PM tonight to knock me out. My shoulders have really been bothering me at night and I think that has a lot to do with the lack of sleep also. Urgh. But Simeon and I are not ready to drop a couple thousand dollars on a new mattress, so I will bite my tongue for now. I was thinking about those mattress toppers, the memory foam ones. For like $70 its like a new mattress, right? Has any one tried them? Or have any advice? I am dying over here people….

Oh and since I am all over the place here and asking for advice. I am also in dire need of an area rug to go under our dining room table. Any one know of a place to get a decent looking one, reasonably priced, that is at least 8×8? I have had a really hard time locating one that is so big. Most of them are 5×7 and then the chair legs will be off of the rug, and that just will not do. I have looked at Linens N Things, Burlington Coat Factory, Target, Fred Meyer, and Mervyn’s. The closest thing I have found is an 8×10 at Tuesday Mornings for $199. But its just a really plain beige rug. I think I want something, if I am gonna be spending lots of money on it, that is glamorous. Makes a statement. Shows my personality. Am I asking too much for a rug??? This afternoon I am going to look at Meier & Frank, Ross, and a few other places. But any recommendations you all have would be great. Fire away!!

(PS I am still waiting for you slackers to finish reading HP6 so I can talk it over some more. Kiki is the only one sustaining me over here! Thanks, sweetie!!)

Wow. I mean, wow.

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Whew! So I finally finished Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Well, I actually finished last night but there was no way I was going to be able to blog about it. I was reeling. My head was spinning. (Not to mention the fact that I could hardly focus my eyes from reading for two days straight.)


As you can see, I made it to the Midnight Magic Party. I had such a fabulous time. Sometimes indulging your inner-child is really the key to totally enjoying yourself. But then it’s also good to indulge the grown-up in you and enjoy Happy Hour at T.G.I. Friday’s.


Yep. That is in fact a lightening bolt “scar” on Simeon’s forehead. You know, with his messy spiked hair, glasses, and of course, the scar he really is like my own Harry Potter. Hee hee hee.

Well kiddies, it’s getting late, so I better get to bed. But if you are in the mood for some more fun stuff, there are more pictures in the HP Midnight Magic Party gallery. Oh and I almost forgot!! I have pictures of our Flooring Project as well. ‘Night!!

Thinking…

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…Is it possible for my bladder to suddenly shrink? Cause I swear I have gone pee like six times this morning. Since I have been at work. And I have only drank one of my Dasani 1 liter bottles. What am I going to do if I ever actually get pregnant? Will I have to resort to working from the bathroom?

…watching Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban on the BIG SCREEN last night was amazing. It was a little hard to adjust to at first, but before long I was totally enthralled in the story. And I actually picked up on some details I didn’t notice the first five or six times I watched the movie.

…my Husband, being the dreamboat that he is, walked over to the Barnes and Noble we are going to for the Harry Potter Midnight Magic party and reserved copies of HPATHBP for me and all of my friends who are accompanying me. I realize he already deserves the Husband of the Year award for listening to me go on and on about all things Harry Potter. Good thing some of my friends are equally obsessed, or he would never get a break!

…I am going to the library today to get some more books on tape to listen to while Simeon and I commute back and forth to work. I have been trying to introduce him to all the books I loved over the years. We have listened to some classics (My Side of the Mountain, Bridge to Terabithia, Tuck Everlasting) some silly ones (Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, James & the Giant Peach) and we are on the waiting list for some others (The Chronicles of Narnia, Little House on the Prairie, Where the Red Fern Grows). Are there some I am missing? He hardly read anything growing up, and I spent the majority of my youth with my nose in a book. What are some of your favorites that you read while growing up?? (Keep in mind, we are trying to read light, easy books that are easy to keep getting interrupted since that happens so often in the car that is from Arizona Sedan and Limousine, as well as be easy to just jump back into without a lot of refreshing your memory.)

Random Thoughts

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My brain is overwhelmed today with all sorts of different things to blog about, and since I am feeling very A.D.D. today, I am just gonna do them all, rather than pick one and go with it. Brace yourself for all the randomness as it flows from my brain:

I am totally ready for the latest Harry Potter book to be released. In fact, I have a whole series of HP events this week to help pass the time. This evening a group of us (yes, all adults) are going to watch Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban at the Omnimax Theater. Then on Friday we are attending the Midnight Magic Party at Barnes and Noble. (You can find a HP Party near you by country, state, city, etc. here. Very, VERY cool.) Then I plan to go home and spend the remainder of the weekend reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Today I have a lunch date with Dodo, Heather and of course, Miss Lindsay. Ahhh, I love being one of the Ladies Who Lunch. It definitely helps pass the time.

I have been really busy lately and I haven’t had the opportunity to clean my house this week. Or do laundry. Or even cook a meal. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I went to the grocery store. My husband is going to leave me for sure. That is if I can find him behind all the take-out boxes and piles of dirty laundry….

My birthday is getting closer and closer (17 days and counting, Erin!!). For my present this year Simeon (with the help of his father and brother) are tearing up the carpet, linoleum, and old wood flooring on the main level of our house, to be replaced with a lovely laminate flooring. I am simultaneously excited and terrified. I love the idea of the wood flooring, what with animals and potential children being the mess-makers that they are (oh and husbands too I guess), but the process of installing the flooring is giving me mini anxiety attacks. I mean, we have to find a place to put all the stuff while we remove the current flooring. That includes my living room, dining room, and kitchen. There will be couches, tables and a refrigerator wandering around my house!! I don’t even know how to prepare for this. Any one who has been through this before, feel free to toss any tips into the comments.

My shoulders and knees are killing me lately. And there is only so much Advil a girl can take (well, my doctor assures me that I am well WELL within the safe limits and the probability of the bleeding ulcers is really minimal at my age. Grrrrrreat). The really sick thing is, a combination of doctors and a multitude of test have only proven that I am a very healthy woman. Perfect bones, excellent joints, superb mobility. Which to me means that there is nothing they can do to help me out. Nothing. One would think its just part of getting older and whatnot, but hello!! I am only 24. Ok, practically 25. This is just a tad young to feel this much pain. It’s not like I’m 80. Or even 40. I’m freakin’ 24 and it sometimes takes me as long to get out of bed, or up from my chair, as my 75 year old Grandma. Urgh. Pure frustration. Oh and the advice I get from my doctor? “Don’t do things that make it worse and take Advil when it hurts.” Really? Ya think?! So, then do you think that when I don’t want to get out of bed tomorrow, I can say its because my doctor told me not to?? Yeah, me neither.*Sigh*

It seems that everyone needs to have their own “Cheers.” You know, a place where you walk in and “everybody knows your name.” For Simeon, it’s the Starbucks by his office. He can pretty much be found over there at 10am and 3pm DAILY. He takes his breaks and walks over their. It gets him out of his office and clears his head. So they all know him. We walk in and they holler to him and know his drinks (there are a couple he rotates between) by heart. Its much more comforting and less creepy than it sounds. Well, I have found my own place like that. Noah’s Bagels. In fact I walked in yesterday to “Hey Carrie!” and “Feeling like a mocha or just coffee today?” (I opted for the coffee. Their Chelsea blend is to die for!) Then as I proceeded to check out, my two favorite gals had an adorable conversation about which one of them was my friend first and who knows me better. What an excellent start to the day. You gotta love it when people are fighting over who likes you more, right?

Ok. I think I am done. But no guarantees, ok? 😉

The Last Pill

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I have gone over and over this entry in my mind for a long time. Part of me didn’t know if I should write it here, as it may jinx me, but the other part of me demanded that this is MY site, documenting MY life and the things that are happening to ME. Well, that part of me won the debate. Besides, who am I to believe in jinxes anyway?

So Thursday night I took my last birth control pill. Yep, I am no longer on birth control. Well, technically I had two pills left, but we went away for the weekend and I left them at home (on purpose??) and thought that after three days of not having the pills, there was really no point in taking the last couple. So I am pill free.

I must admit its pretty scary. I have been on some form of contraceptive for the last ten years. TEN YEARS. And now, nothing. Nadda. I don’t even know if my body is going to know what to do with all that hormonal freedom!!

What I do know is that Simeon and I are ready. We are where we want to be and we want to start our family together. Over the past few years I have been watching Simeon and he rocks a friends baby to sleep or plays a game with our nephews, and I can see it in his eyes that he wants it too. He is going to be the best daddy there is and I cannot wait to create something that is completely and totally ours, a blending of us.

For those of you who know me, or have been reading my site for some time, you know that I am a planner and a scheduler. Well for me, 25 was the lucky number that I felt was perfect for having a baby. It’s still young enough that I am not going to be retiring when my kids are in high school and I will still have enough energy to chase them around. But still allowed me to feel like I have been out contributing to society for awhile and had a few years to really enjoy my husband. Simeon and I have been together for 8 years now, and married for almost 3 of those. There isn’t really anything I think I would be denying myself to start my family now. I have wanted to be a mommy my whole life and I am ready to take that step.

So its out of my hands now. I am no longer “preventing” anything. Like a friend said over the weekend, “we are done practicing.” Wish me luck!

10 Years Already??

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Wow. This weekend was a total blast from the past. Simeon and I just got back from his 10 Year High School reunion. For those of you who are new here, Simeon and I both attended Seaside High School. Simeon was a senior when I was a freshman, so I am very familiar with the people in his class. I mean, as a freshman, its imperative to know who the seniors are.

(This was Sim’s senior picture from the yearbook.)
So we timidly walked into the awaiting crowd at the Family BBQ on Friday night. Having not seen any of these people in, oh I don’t know, TEN YEARS, it was a lot to take in. But Simeon grabbed my hand and we walked into the crowd and started up conversations with all of Sim’s old classmates. At first it was all the typical small talk (what do you do, where do you live, do you have any kids, etc.) but quickly turned to tales of high school drama and “remember that one time in Mr. Hawes’ class…” and pointing out to spouses who used to date and who slept with who. Before long, it felt just like a high school party, complete with the red cups and the cops showing up.

Then on Saturday, we all dressed up and got together for a nice sit down dinner at the Seaside Elks Lodge. It was decorated like a high school dance, with floating candles in Seaside school colors and a giant balloon arch. Having gotten all the formalities out of the way the night before, everyone let down their guards and worried less about having to impress each other.

After dinner there was a classic slideshow of all the humiliating things any of them had ever done before and allowed to be caught on film. This only fueled the stories and the laughter. Then everyone discussed who changed the most, who hadn’t changed at all, who had the most children, who became a teacher/policeman/doctor, etc.

A few times during the evening, I looked around and felt like I had stepped right back into 1995. I don’t know if it was the non-alcoholic punch or the Boyz II Men and TLC playing in the background, but I kept feeling like I needed to get home in time for curfew! All I can say is the whole thing came out WAY better than I would have imagined. And now I have three years to get ready for MY 10 year reunion. This was just my practice-run after all. 😉


You can see all the pictures from the BBQ on Friday as well as the dinner on Saturday in the photo gallery. If anyone wants any of the pictures, just let me know. (Oh and I apologize for not putting titles and captions on all the pictures, but this is just easier for me. And really, do you care what their names are?? )

Ayden Thomas

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As promised, I have pictures of the latest edition to the Whisler family, Ayden Thomas. Simeon and I went over to visit them today and check on the new mommy and daddy. While they are already fighting sleep deprivation, you could see the pride and love in their faces for their adorable little boy. And how could you blame them??

As usual, Simeon went straight for the baby and cuddled up with him on the couch. They both set in for a good rest. In fact, Ayden slept the entire time we were there, which Chloe and Patrick assure me he ONLY does when its daytime.

But rest assure, I got my turn to hold the little guy as well. You can almost see the little wheels turning in my brain. Yep. Baby fever has set in. I’m surrounded by adorable babies. And I want one of my own. But its all good, cause the big 25 is just around the corner. And you all know what that means!!


If you want more pictures, there are some in the Ayden Thomas gallery and there are also some from the other day when Heather and Lindsay came over for a Wednesday Night Visit. Enjoy.

It’s a BOY!!

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Just a quick congrats to Chloe and Patrick on the newest member of their family: Ayden Thomas. He was born on June 30th at 10:12am. He was 7lbs 8oz and 19 3/4″ long. From what I have heard, both mom and baby are doing great, but I plan to find out for myself tomorrow when I go and visit them both. Oh and I hope to get some pictures of the little bundle of joy as well.