Monster High

So the husband and I decided to be big kids last week and went to Toys R-Us for the first time in years.

We gave each other a budget of $20 to pick out whatever we wanted then give it to the other to wrap and give it right back to us for christmas, may sound silly but it was fun :)

It's so interesting to see what toys stuck around as popular since I was a kid and all the new ones that have been added... but my golly did I find the coolest thing.

Monster High Dolls, there dolls that are the children of the famous monsters, Dracula, the mummy, werewolves, frankenstien, they even have a steampunk girl :D 

With all the hype over Vampire Diaries, Twilight, Teen Wolf, etc, it makes perfect sense, I just thought they were so cool, especially since they made them characteristic, and beautiful, not gross, or weird at all. The gargoyles daughter has speckled skin and wings, the sea monsters daughter has webbed hands and feet and some fins, some of them have fangs, and so on.

With my little budget I ended up getting one, I couldn't resist, and no I'm not going to be saving up for dolls all the time, but I do want Rebecca Steam (the steam punk doll) and maybe the gargoyle girl, I forgot her name but they're so fantastic :p

The Long Overdue Doctors Visit

The overdue doctors appointment was today, I haven't seen my doctor since march. Took me a long time for a few reasons, but I finally had to see her since all my prescriptions were up. Which for a diabetic isn't so great, thankfully the nurse practitioner signed off for enough insulin until I was able to get in with my doctor :)

It was a well needed visit but I was nervous out of my mind, my health hasn't been great and I had a list of problems to talk to her about, thankfully I was able to get a appointment at the end of the day so I could get as much time with her as I need. The visit went great, I got all my prescriptions filled, most my questions answered, some dosages and meds changed and thankfully she is really taking an interest in my health, because I'll be going back in a week, and maybe every week after that for a month or so to get things under control.

I'll also be getting blood work done in a month, and I got X-rays done after the appointment, because I'm having some trouble with my knee, and even though I have scoliosis, I seem to have an abnormality with my spine at my neck area... it may be from bad posture for too long, and it may be worse, but it is something that I am freaked out about, and needs fixing. So in both situations please pray they find something, I know most people pray that they don't find something, but I've been through a lot of health stuff and the most frustrating thing to go through is a bunch of tests and all come back normal, so they don't know what to treat, and/or they think you're lying about having problems.

Actually, not finding anything after tests is the second most frustrating thing, the first is doctors thinking you are lying or complaining about completely real problems. 

*sigh* but thankfully thats where my wonderful doctor comes in, she knows all-to-well how one problem leads to another and how my problems really are serious, she is the best!

and I am very blessed to have a docter that, even though is very high in demand, still has time for me and all my problems, and cares for me also. I've been through so many hospitals, emergency rooms and doctors... and 85% of the time, im been treated like trash while dealing with the medical staff... I'm not trying to be judgmental, I'm only trying to explain my experience, so you might understand why I'm a little doctor-phobic.

So finding the woman who is my doctor now, is very much so a blessing!

Hopefully I will have more news on my health next week, and that it will all work out and I will get help with the things that need fixing :) all-in-all it was a good day!

A Chance Encounter and the Intertwining Connections Thereafter

God always had a plan for us, sometimes he leads us on paths and we just go with it not knowing that something that started small, could ever lead to something big, meaningful and life changing.

Many many years ago after an enrichment day, everyone had left and my mothers car broke down, we would have been stuck there for hours, when Jennifer Hare pulled next to our vehicle (another homeschooled mother in enrichment days) and offered to take me home to play with her children (Elsa, Eliza, and Emma) until she could come pick me up. My mother took her up on her offer thinking that i was already friends with her daughters and i went off had had a fun day at the Hare's house. Even though my mother later realized she sent me off with strangers, that chance encounter started a close friendship with Elsa. Eventually when they moved i had a hard time with that, but a couple years later they came to visit, and brought there cousin Hannah with them, i had met Hannah briefly a joined birthday party for her and Elsa, but i didnt know her other then that, and that visit, in bringing Hannah with them, started the friendship between me and Hannah. we had a lot of differences, but god had a plan for our friendship that was unseen then.

After our friendship had blossomed, Hannah invited me to her birthday party where i met some of her friends(Jim, Ariel, and Ariel's siblings) , then seeing how we got along, invited me later to Becca's confirmation of her faith (if im not mistaken, it was awhile ago) there, my life was changed forever, because there is where i first met my husband Michael :) He became one of my best friends, and 2 and a half years later, we started dating. a little over a half a year later we were engaged, and a year and a half later we were married!

Its very interesting how god brings people into your life. Sometimes he takes them away, and its sad, but you should always remember that he has a plan, you just dont know what it is.

Thank you Elsa, for helping me find Hannah, and Thank you Hannah, for helping me find Michael.

Our Favorite Couples Bonding Hobby

These are a couple of the close up shots I took of our pumpkins.

Which I'm really glad we were able to get these photos, because at this time the bigger one is ca-put :p Actually making a little mess in our place, the little one is still intact, but its outside for now.

As far as our art projects go, Michael and I are working on something really special right now, but I can't talk about it until after christmas :( once christmas comes around I'll have plenty of pictures to share.

But there is a collage below of our past work, sure it's not art gallery worthy, but its a great couples bonding hobby we have :) once we get our own place were hoping to frame them. We have a few more that are a work in progress that need to be finished up.

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some of our past work ^

The Importance of Getting Out with your Spouse, and the Horrors of Dealing with Hairstylists

Saturday Michael and I decided to get out for a bit, get some fresh air and grab a bite to eat. We only really planned on getting out of our PJ's to grab some food, but we ended up finally taking photos of our pumpkins and some nice fall pictures of us. Had a nice late lunch at Hot Shots the local coffee shop up here in the mountains, then headed across the street to Starbucks to grab a coffee (I know we were already at a coffee shop but I like knowing what i'm getting myself into and I can usually trust Starbucks to produce good coffee). For the first time in a very long time I ordered A.) Something new that I've never had before, and B.) Something hot, which I almost never do, even in the winter I usually have cold drinks. But i love eggnog, and i was feeling adventurous, so i got an eggnog latte, and oh did it hit the spot!

Altogether even though we didn't do much it was very nice to get out with my husband. Really I think the little things really matter in a marriage, especially getting out, even if its just to take a walk in the park or take a random road trip. I understand that once you get older, and you're both working it can be hard to get out and do things together, but I think its really important to have date night at least once a month. It keeps things fresh, exciting, it also helps put focus and importance on your relationship and each other.

For people like my husband and I, who are free on the weekends, I would say even if you're not feeling it, force yourself to get out once a week. No matter what your doing, getting out and about is a great bonding Opportunity. My husband and I always have the most fun getting out, I mean we have fun at home too, but unless were super stressed we always benefit from getting out together, and with our new car its super nice to have a lot of the freedom to be able to do that whenever. Especially since I'm cooped up at home all week.

I ended up going out with my mom on monday, I wasn't really looking forward to it, but I really needed a haircut, and I just wanted to get it over with, since they stress me out... and for good reason, my history with hairstylist's lately have never seem to fully listen when I describe what I want done, even when I bring in pictures my hair gets screwed up, this time also, but it didn't turn out bad just too short. 

I was planning on going in and getting info on getting a perm, which the lady I got stuck with, was a bit rude, like i should already know what to expect, and was stupid for not... and its hard to know what to expect with a short haired perm since I know what a perm does and I've seen pictures of my mother when she had hers, but my mother and the lady kept telling me how many different perms there are and stuff, so i looked up loose perm and went through and downloaded all the pictures I wanted my hair to look like, then while I'm showing her, all the kept saying was, that's with a curling iron, that ones a curling iron, that one too... so every picture I had was not actually a perm at all, so naturally I was like... so do you have any pictures so i know what to expect? and she was like annoyed with me, like why should they have pictures... and she goes well people usually know what a perm is when they come in asking for one.........

THANKS that's SOOOO helpful!...not.

anyways after 15 mins of trying to get information about a perm, she finally tested my hair to see if the perm would hold, and apparently it wont, since I bleached my hair last march and it hadn't fully grown out she said all it would do is fry my hair.

so I just got my hair cut, which I gave her the picture of the length and style I wanted, I told her that with bangs, and she had such a hard time angling the back, and arguing with me, like I didn't know what I wanted, that another lady had to step in and take over because she understood what I wanted.

but even then she cut the front part of the angled bob like an inch and a half longer then the picture showed... so yea I'm not going back there.

I feel like every time I go to get my haircut this is the type of hairstylist I get...every time :\

but I'm getting used to it, it will for sure look like I wanted it to once it grows out a little more, so i'm making the best of it.

(phone photo, ill have more later)

After that me and mom ended up going to target and shopping for awhile, we didn't find anything good but Michael ended up meeting up with us there and taking me off mom's hands, (Since he knew we were in the area and headed over after work) so she could go grocery shopping and we could finish up shopping at a couple other stores. I did end up finding the shoes I was looking for but they were a bit more expensive then I wanted to spend at the moment.

Other then that I got a beautiful infinity scarf, and I met a new friend. At least I hope we become friends, she seemed real nice and like we would get along.

We ended up eating at the macaroni grill for dinner, which we had never been so it was a nice new experience, and since the waiter screwed up a couple things on our order we got free cheesecake :)

So it was still all in all a good day, and again...a nice time out with my husband :)

P.S. Sorry for my ranting, I just always seem to have a rough time when it comes to getting my hair done, and I wanted to explain what happened this time so you might get the gist on why I get stressed when I need a haircut.

Hoping for the Best as we Look Forward

Its finally starting to feel like November. Last month we had a couple days that went really cold and even brought snow, but since then its been quite warm and nice out. Yesterday it was dark and gloomy and cold enough to shut the windows, then later in the afternoon it started rainy, it was a beautiful gloomy day, but it rained all day and night from what I can tell, and this morning I woke up to find it start snowing a bit. Looks like its finally starting to get cold outside, at least cold enough to be considered winter.

(INSTAGRAM PHOTO!)
On a happier note, my husband noticed how down I have been, and how I had the shopping itch and gave me a little money to get myself some clothes, so yesterday I ordered a couple shirts and scarves from ebay, and I'm hoping to go down the mountain shopping with my mother next week for shoes. I need some, I do have a lot of shoes, but the problem is I have boots, I have heels, and I have sandals or gel flats, I dont have anything for everyday use anymore, the shoes I usually use for everyday use are these wonderful black flats, but they have little holes in them and there all rubber, so there not exactly something for colder weather.
and they're the only shoe I have for comfort other then boots, although I do need so new boots soon, the black boots I have, have gotten to narrow for the calves (they have always been a bit tight so with gaining weight it just made them worse) and since I've used them every winter for....idk over 5-6 years... so they're kinda beat up, I do have some winter ankle boots, but with the snow I wont be able to use them all winter.
But hopefully we will be moving down the mountain soon so I wont have to worry about that.
speaking of moving, we're continuing to look into places, Michael is supposed to check out a place today or next monday that might be a possibility. But I'm not sure its what we want, I mean the place looks great, and its a 13 month lease with the first month free, with $850/mo rent... but its still a bit far from my husbands work place, over the year we would only have (around) 5 thousand miles left over to do extra things... and as I've been told, it's not a whole lot. So we're praying about it, and continuing to look for places.

But... *sigh* ....its that time of the year when I'm antsy to do something, but nothing is satisfying to do.
Like, I wanna start up knitting again, but every time I do, a week later I get frustrated with how long it's taking and stop again until a month or a year later... I really want to finish the scarf I'm making. I guess we will see how it goes this time around, first I'm going to have Michael check the yarn for spiders though because they love the basement, they try and find warm places, and I haven't checked that place for awhile, and... I HATE spiders.
I'm really hoping I can stick to it this year though, and get it finished, I haven't finished a scarf it a long time. Sadly I gave the first one I made to someone who I'm not really friends with anymore, and really wish I had saved it for myself or a closer friend, but I did end up making one for my husband the first christmas we started dating. But ever since then I haven't been able to finish one, and I've never made one for myself, so I started one for me a couple years ago, just... haven't had the patience to finish it.
also my hands cramp up pretty easily doing things like the dishes, certain things on the computer, knitting, etc. so lots of breaks and good luck to me :)

Another thing, I've been meaning to finally take some pictures with my husband and our pumpkins, it took awhile at first because we have been artistically working on them and they weren't actually done until the night before halloween, but since then it's just been because were busy, and/or sick. but I'm hoping we can get all gussyed up and take pictures this weekend, not sure with this weather though, if it doesnt let up were not going to be able to, which has me a bit worried since... well pumpkins die and i want to get the pictures with them when there nice and strong and healthy...not squishy :p
so hopefully we get our butts off the couch and get these pictures done this weekend, even if were sick, or the weather is bad.

(another instagram photo, its the only one I have of the pumpkins right now)
As you can tell, we got white pumpkins, which before this October I didn't know existed, but they were perfect for coloring on.