An update on life.

Updates by numbers.

1. We have our moving truck booked for the 17th of June. We are leaving that night at like 8pm and driving all night for traffic purposes and will be home mid day on the 18th. We decided to come home a few weeks early than planned for Julie's open house.

2. I have discovered that moving gives me extreme anxiety. I mean we aren't leaving for 3 weeks still but I am still very anxious. I am definetly my fathers daughter, he is the biggest butthead when it comes to moving anything. Just annoying and grumpy, and I have discovered I am too. I mean i am so neurotic its ridiculous, I can't decide what to start to pack therefore I have packed nothing. I need to get my butt into gear with that one.

3. We officially have an apartment in Gettysburg, PA. Downtown gettysburg, which is a place that both me and Brent lovvveee! Originally I saw the ad in the merchandiser, then my mom went to see this apartment in this old gettysburg mansion, on the 3rd floor. Turns out, a larger much for cute apartment opened up on the 2nd floor, and I got it before she even got it in the papers :) It has hardwood floors and its just perfect, my mom and Diane picked up the keys today!!!

4. I am also in the process of trying to sell different things, since the apartment we have now is 2 bedrooms and our new one is a 1 bedroom. And its just a different style, so I am hoping to just basically sell some stuff and get some different stuff that will go better.

5. Work is still the same, I work like 5 days a week from 5am-2. Brent works Macys Monday-Friday from 7-315. Then Panera at night like 4 days a week, from 5-10ish. He is a busy guy.

6. Kitty is the same.

7. I am very excited to COME HOME!!!!! WOOO!!!!



thats it for now, I am going to try really hard to update from now on.

Life.

Okay, so blogging has been a bit on the back burner of my chaotic life lately.... Here are some updates.

1. Brent is officially registered for classes for the fall semester at HACC. He is very excited, he picked the classes himself and is waiting for the status of his pell grant.

2. I officially got news back from McDaniel college that I have 23,000 dollars in a scholarship from them for this coming school year, another 2500 in government grants, 4500 in the stafford loan(subsidized), with an additional 5,000 to pull(unsubsidized) if i absolutely need to. And.... that is very exciting seeing as my school is 32,000 a year... this makes the load more light.

3. I will be registering for classes in like 2 weeks, which is when my session opens up. Also very exciting.

4. I have officially paid for CNA (certified nursing assistant) training through HACC this july, where after the course I will be able to make at least $12 an hour, even more if i work through an agency. Its a 2 week course that I want to take so that I can spend less time working making the same money I would if i worked full time making minimum wage.

5. Brent and I are very excited to go home. We have the moving truck booked for June 2nd, so we expect to be home sometime early on the 4th.... the apartment search is still slowly trudging on.

6. I officially am I in the last month of my semester.... With all A's and B. I say B because I have a stupid B in Biology because my professor bites the big one. Not that I don't take accountability for my B but he really sucks, none of the material he lectures is on the test and what's on the test is the stuff he skipped over. He's impossible. I started out with a class of like 35, and now have like 15 left because all the kids dropped the class due to the fact they were FAILING, not like D failing but like in the 20's. So I have settled for my B compared to what other people have.

7. I have discovered that I love the French language. I could eat, drink, sleep French. Its my first class but I just love it. If all goes well I would like to minor in French, with my Bio-PreMed major. There is just something about the language that makes me want to learn it more.

8. Today something awesome happened!!!! I was walking outside of my apartment complex and I saw this cat with a collar on just roaming around and i was like OMG i have to catch this cat so it doesn't get hurt. I could see it was obviously domesticated my its demeanor and it had a 2009 rabies tag so I knew it was safe.... I took it upstairs (against brent's will i must add)... he wasn't opposed to it, he just thought i was being a bit ridiculous catching stray animals. Turns out it had a phone number on it's tag of a woman, who shortly called me back and was so grateful that we had safely caught her kitty. She was out searching for him for an hour, and was so relieved. He had got out through there patio by mistake. I was very relieved.... to me letting domesticated animals out there and not trying to help is like letting babies roam the streets and not helping. They are domesticated and could not fend for themselves, they could just as easily roam out into the road as could a baby.

---- On the last note, we all know how crazy I am about animal rights and vaccination. This is a lesson to everybody who doesn't have there animal vaccinated, at least with rabies and an up-to-date tag. I knew when I first stopped that animal it was safe due to the fact it had a new tag, without the tag even if it had a collar, most wouldn't get near it. Add to the fact, if your aminal gets out my mistake and bites anyone and they called the SPCA which they probably would... your animal would be euthanized due to your neglect to get a tag. They only way to "officially" diagnose rabies is a thorough examination of the brain, which happens after they are killed to make sure that the person has not been infected that was bit. So even if you go to claim your animal, you could not pick it up without proof of vaccine, if you aren't already to late.

I could "preach" (ironic word) about animal rights all day because THEY CAN'T. Its heinous to me how some people can get animals without the means to support them.... same with kids. They aren't just cute cuddle buddies... there babies!! Lets say your dog gets hit by a car, and you can't afford the surgery, so you "spare them the misery and pain" and euthanize them. Thats such a load. The day you can euthanize humans based on your personal opinon about there pain, is the day you should be able to euthanize animals.


And thats all folks... :)
Sorry for the longevity of my post.
leah.

brents bday

So I haven't updated this in awhile so here goes... lately has just been same stuff. work and school for me. work and work for brent. he had 2 of his friends visit this last week though, they had fun all together. AND TODAY BRENT TURNED 20! For his birthday I got him a PSP, portable playstation system. he loves it.. and most of our friends and family got him money so he could get games, as they are really expensive... and he is very excited. and i was a good wife and made him a cake, his favorite that his mom makes and it was awesome.

Brents itinerary for his birthday goes as follows...
1.Shower

2. Buy games from Game Stop

3. Go to the beach.

4. Workout

5. Watch movies

6. Eat dinner of Bagels Bites, Mozzarella sticks, and Sunny D.

7. Eat birthday cake.

8. Play with PSP


pretty ideal for a guy. lol.

Update:

Saturday was the last day that everybody was in town here. That night when everybody went back to my grandmas Joshy stayed here with me until we met up with the rest of the family. Basically so that we could hang out alone before they left. When we were together we went to Boomers which is basically a huge arcade/miniature golf place like 30 minutes from here. We had a ton of fun.....


Then that night when picked up Brent from work and headed to my grandmas to hang out with all the family. Mom, dad, kirsten and aaron where already there but we had to drive up. Sunday was Todd's birthday so the whole family and tim and todd all hung out all day at the grandmas and had fun. my dad cleaned our car and it looks pretty fabulous i must say... then that night we drove home. Monday I had a chemistry test, which I believe I did really well in and then I had classes all night, as well as a biology test at 630 pm so my dad was pretty filled.

Today I had work from 5-1 and Brent had work from 7-315 and 6-10ish. So he is a busy man. I had a horrible day at work... Basically my bosses are all bipolar. One minute they are like CLEAN THE FLOOR. GREET THE CUSTOMERS, the next minute they are heyyyyyyyy how are you, hows your day...then i say something to them and its like I'M WRITING YOU UP IF YOU THROW PAPER ON THE FLOOR! basically it drives me nuts when people are extremely moody. One minute they are your friends the next minute there jerks and I hate trying to figure out whether or not its okay to speak to someone and not get screamed at. They need to get a life and realize that Panera Bread... is a sandwich restaraunt, not real life... and to loosen up a tad bit before i throw them over the cliff.

And on a happy note... a hilarious video

An update!

So today was a fun day, for the first time this week Brent had to work all day and I had the kids all day. The day went pretty good.... in the morning we all watched Indiana Jones, mostly because I was really tired and lazy. But partially to see the movie. Then we had breakfast and Josh and I did schoolwork for like 1 1/2 hours. Then we all got all ready and went to my favorite restaraunt ever!!!!! FRIENDLYS!

Then we drove home and we ALL took a much needed nap before we picked up B-rent. Then came the park.... which was very eventful I must say. 3 things I have discovered today

1. Girls at the playground are VICIOUS! Basically I walked myself into like at least 3 conversations where they were like, um girl get out of here this is our space, and saying crap like you can't go down this slide and just bullying crap to kirsten. It hurt her feelings and it was just stupid because as soon as I walked over there were sweet as pie, girls are so gay.

2. Boys are also rude at the park. Aaron found a part of the park where there were picnic benchs and a bunch of boys jumping from bench to bench in some sort of game. Summary of the story is that Aaron eventually fell not exactly sure how, and this is what they say... "Thats why we don't let boys like him play with us, and how bout you cry about it" so Aaron cries and then they mock him until I walk up... The worst part about it is there was a mom there that was laughing as well. I could have hit her in the head.

3. My brothers and sisters are relentless. I really think that either A. Kids have the memory of a goldfish. Or B they just recover quickly. Everytime something bad happened at the park, they sulked for like 30 seconds then ran away as quickly as possible to a new slide. Kids are tough.


All around an over all okay park day....

This is the chase.... as you can see.


This is the timeout bench picture... a little cute if you ask me.


This is a pretty sweet picture here.
The end.

Family in town!!!

So this week has been as follows!!

Friday:: I had off work all day and basically everybody got all there stuff in the house. Then we went to beach and dad took a nap after his drive down here from Grandmas. Then we ate dinner and hung out here basically... i dont think we did anything else?? maybe we did.

Saturday:: I worked in the morning and when I went to get in the car I had a big teddy bear sitting there on my seat and a cute singing card... that was really cute and Brent had off of Macys. They went to the beach and I met them there when I got off. Once we were there for a bit, Brent and I went out for Valentines day. We went to the Cheesecake Factory and had some awesome food. I had chipotle pasta and brent had meatloaf, we split dessert. Then Brent went to work at Panera, and my parents went out on there Valentines date! Fun stuff...

Sunday: Josh and Dad went to the Daytona 500!!! They were very excited.

During the day Brent, Mom, me, Aaron, and Kirsten went to the beach. Then we had lunch there. Then we came home and had dinner later and just hung out. Me and mom watched tv while all the kids ran about and played. Brent had work at night.....

Monday: I had class pretty much all day. I have chemistry from 930-1215. Then chemistry lab from 1230-230. Then I came home and we ate dinner. Then I had French, where I had a presentation and a test from 4-545. Then I had Biology from 630-915, I was supposed to have a test... but my professor forgot it? Yeah... weird but whatever. While I was at class... in the morrning Brent took all the kids to the park and just hung out with them all day. Then at night he took them to McDonalds with a playland. Needless to say, Brent looked like he had been hit by a mactruck when I got home... It was cute.

Tuesday::I worked from 5am-1... Brent watched the kids while I was there. Then when I got home we all hung out together and had dinner. Then we took the kids to a park until we dropped off brent at work at 6. Then I took all the kids down to WestPalm and let them run threw these big fountains in the sidewalk, they were freezing but they had fun. Then we pit stopped at McDonalds and went home and SLEPT!!!

Today:: Was very fun... I had one class from 9-11, my Bio Lab. During that Brent did schoolwork with the kids and got them ready. Then Dale (our roommate) offered to take us to this beach of sorts that has a playground there. Basically it was a lagoon, where the beach is like knee high and the kids can play on the playground, eat at picnic tables or play in the ocean. It was great. We had a ton of fun there. Then we came home, it was time for nap. I had a French test at 4. Then Brent made chocolate chip pancakes for dinner. Then off to the park....

Needless to say it has been eventful so far, and bedtime is now here. My conclusion of the week is that Aaron adores Brent....

update of sorts

Basically... Brent has been working at his 2 jobs and keeping himself busy. He also recently bought himself some weights and protein shake stuff and wants to start working out. He is very excited, as is our kitty who despite all her houses and toys will only lay in the box that the weights came in HA...its like she finds the cheapest thing possible and makes a home out of it.
This week we have a bit of cleaning all my family is coming into town!!!! Which is so exciting, might be a little crowded but we none the less are very excited to be hanging out with them! The game plan is that the family will first go to grandmas tomorrow.......
...then come to our place over the weekend... then mom and dad go back to gmas on monday and get alone time while me and brent watch the kids till thursday! then parents come back and hang with us till they go home that coming weekend. last time they came aaron and kirsten weren't with them so i am excited for a bit of time with those 2 crazys (as well as joshy)

Anyways... needless to say there is a lot of cleaning to be done HAAAAA!! Once I found out they were definetly coming I have avoided all housework like an illness because I want everything to be freshly cleaning and my kitty always has a way of messing up things. ...
Needless to say, Thursday night is going to be an all out laundry/cleaning frenzy in this house and kitty is getting a bath.... a much needed bath.


I will leave you with a video that I find hilarious... hope you will to. most moms have so many children pictures, but my kitty is my baby, and that's why this post is pretty much filled with her.