from the leah

Well not much has been happening lately. Friday, Brent and I went to Panera Bread for dinner. Saturday early morning Brent left early morning to go visit with his brother Matt and a friend from wayyyy back, who is about to go on a mission. So he is still up in Orlando having fun with them, he said he is having lots of fun.
So yesterday since i was carless I rode my bike to the library and a friend of mine/ a few other people left me messages telling me that a best friend of mine from middle school overdoesed on drugs and died a few days ago. Her name was Carly DeVage, she is from Abbottstown. She was my first friend when I went to New Oxford middle, we were both new and didn't know many people. Needless to say, if you knew me then, I was NOTHING but trouble. Me and her got ourselves in so much crap it was ridiculous, suspensions, detentions, and all that crap...... but to me it was like 7th grade. I knew 7th/8th grade didn't realllyyy matter and I still had years to pull myself to together. We were a tag team haha... my mom actually wrote the school principal, or whoever she wrote to say that we were not to communicate, so we passed notes constantly and skipped class together whenever we could. Then at the end of my 8th grade year, my mom pulled me from school into a cyber school because I got the last suspension she said that I would ever get and I got kicked off the cheerleading squad for stuff me, Carly, and a girl Danielle Smith did. So me and Carly go way back... she was always a smart girl that just got into the wrong shit time and time again. I got pulled from the situation (New Oxford High School), but she didn't and look where she turned out. She has a 10 month old son and shes gone. Most of my other friends from school are either pregnant, have kids, drug problems, or just never got off their ass and did anything with themselves. Needless to say, I am happy to be where I am. And I wish when I left, New Oxford I could have taken her with me. That school is down hill in a handbasket and it gets worse everyday. After I had time to absorb it all, I just feel like there is something else I could have done to get her out of there... not that what happened can be blamed on that school, but seriously the kids there are no good (most of them) and the drugs in that school are ridiculous... God only knows where I would of been if I would have stayed. And when I left in 8th grade I got better, me and Brent got together and now we are married and we live in a beautiful apartment and are really happy. When I left Carly in 8th grade, she got worse friends in worse shit and then she got pregnant, then she died. It's weird that even though I haven't talked to her in about a year except for maybe running into her in the mall and saying hi... her being gone would stir up so much in me. I am just grateful to have what I have and am soooo sorry for not trying a little bit harder to pull her out with me, and i am so sorry she is gone.
sad post today. sorry.

picture time

This was what all five of our chairs for our table looked like before... then i re-upholstered them... and heres what they loook like now!!!

how cute is that! :)

This is me and mom at Duffys, a popular sports bar/grill down here.



This where I work at the vets office.

leah

a quick one i guess.
we havent posted in a while because we have been pretty decently busy. my parents were in town all last week and we had so much fun. we took them to a whole bunch of different places all over west palm and our house was finally not so quiet. also, they came baring presents from amy and matt... 2 SYSTEMS, A TV AND A DVD PLAYER. It is amazing finally having something to listen to. and.... they bought us groceries/numerous house things that we desperately needed. and one of the days we went to boomers(which is like a huge mini golf/arcade thing) for joshys bday and had so much fun. and we went to the beach like everyday. that was a ton of fun. i will put up pictures soon. so as far as any other news, i still really love my job, the girls that i work with are great and i really like the environment. it can get stressful but there is still a lot to learn. and... brent still likes his job. and we both have weekends off. i am pretty much done macys... because it stank. but thats all in the job area.
as far as anything else goes we have a number of visitors coming. we have SAM coming next tuesday and staying till december. then we have brents parents coming from november 1st to the 5th and ben is coming but we are not sure of the dates yet. and to help us out, one of the girls that i work with is getting a new couch so she is giving me and brent her sectional sleeper couch, so we can have more people here. its going to be great. but anyways. i am excited. AND i am painting my dresser... its hideous, like wooden and chipped. so we are painting it a white sand color with blue border detail, the color of our bedspread. i started this morning. but i had errands to run so i took a break. but anywho. loveyou missyou peace. angelia

News from Brent

I started macy's on tuesday and I like the job a lot. It's actually very easy and there is practically 0 stress when I'm working. They don't rush you at all and everybody seems really laid back, almost lazy. I did have to end Panera and Target which I felt really bad about. I really didn't want to quit (I hate quitting things). At least I left panera on good terms and target on fair terms though.

Lori, Lonnie, and Josh are leaving right about now I believe and they will get here tomorrow evening/night. Leah and I are so excited to see family and be able to show them where we live. Leah has been making plans for the week and I'm sure much of them include the beach. There is a waterpark here that looks like a ton of fun so we are planning on going this week. Also, Sam is coming on September 30th and Ben is going to try coming for halloween. We're all going to go trick or treating! AWESOME!

That's all for now.
-Brent

another one from leah.

so i told brent that he has to blog more, i think hes going to come blog tomorrow. this morning i dropped him off at macy's to start his NEW FULL TIME JOB!! he is so excited. anyways, i don't have to be at work till 12 on tuesdays so i am just chilling around. i put a card in the mail today for arch. (arch is my grandpa's brother), he doesn't have any kids so i am his adopted grandchild. hehe. he was in the hospital for a while, so hopefully my card will cure him! ha. it was a pretty good card. and... life is pretty mellow right now, just work, work, work. I AM SO EXCITED FOR NEXT WEEK! my brother, mom, and dad will be here so its gonna be fun. then SAM IS COMING at the end of september. then BEN is coming in NOVEMBER! its just an exciting time for all this fun! so... love everyone. miss you. peace. angelia

an update from leah.

so basically heres life guys.
I currently work at the vet full time and love it. I love the animals and the job does not suck at all compared to Macy's clothing. I mean its not a cake walk, but I like to learn new things so learning about the animals and medicines is something I enjoy and hope to do more of. I feel like I am actually accomplishing something by working there, rather than organizing clothes, which quite frankly makes you feel like a pretty big POS if you ask me. And on the subject of Macy's, I did finally decide to the job, except in fragrances... the comisssion is different there. Basically in clothes you got paid 9 an hour to sell 1700 in clothes. Anything extra you sold (which barely ever happens) you get 5%. In fragrances you get paid a base hourly of 7 dollars. Then you make 3% on everything you sell. And its nicer in that department because instead of fighting over customers, basically you have an alternating system, its just every other person rings the next sales. So its always ends equal. My first day part time was Sunday, I worked 11-7 and sold 1565 so I made like 13 an hour with my comission. Its worth the money. And they work around the vet, and they are letting me off the week my parents are coming into town... so i will only be working the vet that week. I am happy about that one. Sooo.. and I went on a diet. Not a unrealistic one, but I eat salad for lunch and don't drink soda. I also joined Gold's Gym, which is in the same plaza as my job at the vets office. I am so relieved... it feels so good to be trying to get in shape. It buils my confidence. And they have all these free classes that are way better than the YMCA, there is no signup... You just show up on time and take classes. So I like it, when I got off the vet office today I took a class called PUMP. It kicked my ass, and I can barely move. So I guess thats a good thing. The rest of this week is crazy for me though. heres the schedule.
Wednesday- 8-5 at the vet 530-930 at Macys
Thursday- 8-830 at the vet
Friday- 8-5 at the vet and 530- 930 at Macys.
Saturday = Macys
Sunday = Macys
So I dont forecast any days off for me pretty much until my parents come into town, then I will have off weekends because I wont be working Macys. So thats life for now. I will post as soon as I can, but my time is pretty limited. So love you miss you peace. angelia.