Retraction

Ok, Chris has called me out. He didn't really lead me to believe that he and Emily would get engaged this summer. However, seeing as he said they would at least date a year...and the year would be up this summer...I concluded it might happen this summer through deductive reasoning. Pretty good for a non-scientific mind eh? LOL

I'm actually in science class right now! Hey, don't judge--I'm getting good grades too (Chris), for the most part (stupid Spanish). So I feel I can slack off sometimes in certain classes. Ok, I slack off all the time in this classes, but hey, I'm still going to have an "A" at the end of the semester, so who's gonna blame me?

I mean, if you KNOW a professor doesn't really expect anything but that you are in class on time, why exceed his expectations if you're getting a good grade?!? I'm no over-achiever. If I can ride under the radar and get good grades then why not?! I don't do this in every class. I'm the star of both my English classes and one of my education classes as well! And to say something for my science class, I do listen generally and comment if need be...and I'm ALWAYS early. So, my prof. likes me well enough, and I guess that's good enough for me! Anyway, I'm going to stop justifying my way of life to you all, I'm gonna start listening now! So there!

GOOD DAY TO YOU!

P.S.

For those of you who care--Chris Spicer has blogged!!! I know it's a miracle, and if you don't believe me you can check it out yourselves! (link to Chris's blog on right--->)

I have two papers to write today and a play to see tonight. The papers really aren't that bad though and I'm really looking forward to the play! It is Shakespeare's "Much ado about nothing"...or something (sorry I never read this play, so I forget the name...lol). I'm actually dragging Dave to the play too so you can ask him how he liked it.

I had the pleasure of talking to the one and only Daroline DaSilva today on the phone! She called me and we spent a wondrous 45 minutes talking of things that are going on in our lives. Thanks so much for calling Dee, it really meant alot to me.

Well, I'm off. I would love to get into the gym today at some point. I've been saying I'm going to start exercising all semester but I've only been to the gym twice so far. So, we'll try again today.

On an "up" note it stopped snowing and is getting back to "Spring-like" temperatures.

Chris

Spicer may have dropped out of our lives, but I learned this weekend that he has not forgotten us. I was privileged enough to catch Chris on IM and talked to him for bit. He is still in school and enjoying learning and looking forward to teaching. Of course you are all wondering if he is engaged yet...so I will post that part of the conversation.


myself--->stuffed up and running says: (4:41:37 PM)
so any proposals yet??? or up coming?

Spicer---->Hello End of the Term, Wasn't Expecting You So Soon says: (4:42:44 PM)
Business proposals? Hmmm. . . maybe I'll start up a deli shop

Hello End of the Term, Wasn't Expecting You So Soon says: (4:43:02 PM)
I could use the money for school but I doubt I have the capital to get it started

stuffed up and running says: (4:43:41 PM)
lol....that's Chris I miss...no no...ya know...the diamond ring kind...???

Hello End of the Term, Wasn't Expecting You So Soon says: (4:44:35 PM)
hahaha. . . it's been talked about but we sort of agreed at least a year of dating was a good thing

So, he's not engaged yet but after talking to him that may change in the summer? or later...not starting any rumors, but of course we all know Emily and Chris will be engaged eventually. ~sigh~ lovebirds.
Chris also sent me a recent pic. of himself and Emily and I told him I WOULD post it on my blog so people would know he's still alive but just love-struck.

Snow in the Spring

March the 20th was the first day of Spring. Today is the 25th...and it's snowing. Yes, you heard right, snowing. I am sitting in a coffee shop/book store in Asheville and watching the snowflakes fall outside the window. Granted, it's not a blizzard, but it is white. It's also pretty freakin cold! I am in thick jeans and a pretty thick hoodie and my teeth still chatter outside. Last week I was wearing tank tops and flip-flops! This week, Dave has once again donned his down jacket. Mother Nature is definitely getting a kick out of watching us get all ruffled over the weather. Well, I'm off to refill my coffee cup and indulge in some good ol' celebrity gossip. Thanks Pink is the New Blog!

IMPORTANT GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!!!!
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**warning** this will not cure addiction and may cause it to get worse.

~brrrr~ toodles!

Here's the "buddies" aka my older sis's twins. finally figured out how to put larger pictures on. Don't ask me which one is which cause I have no clue unless they're wearing different things! Aren't they cute though! Gotta love the cheesy grins!
Gotta wash clothes then I think I'm gonna straighten my hair for the night. Peace!

the other side

I thought since I posted my brother's kid's pictures I should post my sister's as well! Here are her two oldest. I had pictures of her twins as well but they were too big to put on. I think that you can only have 140 kB's, Sis. Maybe i'll be able to post them later. I'm in class so I better start paying attention. Have a great day!

new table

Dave suprised me the other night with a new table! See, we had gotten our other table from my grandmother's basement. The old table was 50's style brown and metal. It did the job but it wasn't pretty. The new table is a gorgeous color of brown and it can even get bigger! I'm very excited about it. He didn't actually buy it but got it from one of our friends neighbors as they were getting a new one, or something like that. Either way, the table is beautiful and I love it! Thanks sweetie! I gotta go though. I'll post again soon.

HAPPY ST. PATRICKS DAY!

I have my "I ~clover~ Ireland" shirt on today--V. cute. I've got my green earrings and a green ring and even some green eye liner on! I'm ready yo! lol Dave and I are having a St. Patrick's Day party tomorrow night. It was a night when more of our friends could come over, so we're doing it then instead of today. I'm excited about buying decorations today! yay! Maybe someone that comes will have a digatal camera and I can post some pictures on here from it. Anyway, I gotta print this paper out and get to class. Here are some St. Patties Pix for ya! The green river is in Chicago! They actually dye it that color every year for St. Patties! gross looking huh? And the other one is what they do for St. Patties in Ireland--DRINK GUINNESS! Yes, that IS a Ken doll, but hey, they start young over there, lol.

New niece/nephew

I'm going to be an aunt AGAIN! I found out last night, via a REALLY cute picture through e-mail (the one I posted), that my brother and sister-n-law are having another baby! It's due in October! I started crying immediately in the middle of school! I'm sure everyone thought I was having a nervous breakdown or something. Anyway, I'm VERY excited for them. I called them immediately to say "congrats" and can't wait to find out what the baby will be (boy/girl).

To update you since Dave and I got back from the road trip, I'm in school again and trying to survive a few late midterms. Our road trip was amazing and we had a blast driving all over. We did run into a bit of weather while we were driving out of Arkansas and into Texas (hence the monsoon bit in the last blog). We did get through it unscathed though and hung out in the town of Texarkana (yes, that does border Texas AND Arkansas). It was a cool town, very windy, took some cool pictures on the border of the two states that runs through town. Then we spent the night in a the middle of nowhere in Louisiana and decided to drive all the way home the next day. So, we drove through most of Louisiana, the middle of Mississippi, Alabama, and the top of Georgia. Then we stopped in Chattanooga for coffee w/ Adam and his girlfriend Julie and then continued on home. We arrived home about 2 a.m., but it was worth it to sleep in our own bed that night. So, great trip. I think we've decided to make it an annual thing. Who knows where we'll end up next year!

Texas or bust

Enjoyed the hot springs in Hot Springs, Arkansas--stop Now in Texas in town of Texarkana--stop Survived flooding of tent, monsoon while driving, and tornado watch--stop Will continue into Louisiana tomorrow--stop Update you later--stop Texas is hot--stop

Alabama and beyond

So we didn't end up leaving Chattanooga until around 3 pm on Monday afternoon. Then we drove straight to Alabama to the little town of Gadsden. In Gadsden there is a campground that has a 90 ft. waterfall in it--very picturesque. This is where we camped for the evening. Took some pictures of the waterfall, we'll post them when we get home.

On Tuesday we drove out of Alabama and through the top corner of Mississippi into Memphis, TN. On the way to Memphis we stopped at "the longest Natural Bridge this side of the Rockies." It was an out-of-the-way-small-hike into some beautiful wooded areas. Then, there it was, this MASSIVE piece of rock bridging a fairly good size gap in the mountain. Definately the best stop we have made so far. Dave really wanted to climb it, but I told him if every person that saw it climbed it, it wouldn't be there in a few years. lol

After that we spent the afternoon and evening in Memphis and saw some pretty amazing things there. We have OFFICIALLY seen "Graceland." For all you non-Elvis fans that's the home of the artist formally known as Elvis, lol. Pretty sweet. Then we drove into the center of Memphis. Did you know there's a pyramid in TN? We also saw the Mississippi river during sunset and ate at a little pub where Justin Timberlake, U2, Santana, ZZ Top, along with every other famous guitarist/artist has played. It also had all these guys guitars hung all over the walls, all signed of course.

After Memphis we drove into Arkansas to a very remote campground (but pretty terrific if I do say so myself). We set up our tent by the light of the headlights (and our new Propane Lantern). This morning we cooked breakfast over the fire and are now heading to, you'll never guess......a HOT SPRING!!! We get to bathe in this hot spring this afternoon!!!!!

So, I'll get off of here so Dave can get on. We're currently in a cafe' on "Clinton Blvd" (lol) in Little Rock, AK. Tomorrow we're headed into Texas and then probably home through Louisiana. We'll keep you updated!

Chattanooga

Hello from the state of Tennesee! Dave and are I still in Chattanooga at the moment but are heading to Alabama (we think) tonight. We may try to go to Memphis, TN this afternoon before we head tl Alabama for the night, but aren't really sure yet. We left Adam D.'s house this morning and are now at Panera Bread Co. blogging to you! This weekend we just hung out in Chattanooga and Dave and Adam did some rock climbing yesterday. Don't know if I'll be able to post any other pictures for this week, but we took some with Adam's digital yesterday, so here are some of the highlights. Catch you guys later! We gotta get back on the road.

p.s. Shannon, you misspelled the word "hence" in your mass e-mail the other day. You spelled it "hince." Jeez, you woulda thought you were homeschooled or something!

First day of the rest of Spring Break

YAY! Today is the last day of classes for the next week! I don't even have any homework to do during the break. I'm pretty pysched. By the way I DIDN'T fail the Spanish test I had on Tuesday, but I'm pretty sure I DID fail the one I took on Thursday. Ah well, that's not gonna get me down today! I have 3 more classes and then a bit of homework to finish. Tonight we're having our small group over for some pizza and games. Should be a good time. Just thought I'd say hello and good-bye to you all for a few days. I may check in from time to time during Spring break if we find an internet cafe'. So, adios amigos! Here's some fun pictures to send you on your way. So THIS is what pets do when we're away huh?

a very ugh day

It's only 11:30 and I already feel depressed. I think I've failed another Spanish test. I don't think I would feel so bad if I didn't have ANOTHER one on Thursday. Midterms REALLY suck. I am currently working on a exam paper that has to be turned in tonight--Very nervous about that one. Then I have a paper due tomorrow and two on Friday. Fun stuff. Hopefully the week will pass quickly and SPRING BREAK will pass S L O W L Y. Speaking of Spring Break that's NEXT WEEK! Oh man, SOOO ready for that. I'm getting a "Road Trip America" book today and hopefully we'll "plan" our roadtrip tonight.

We have FINALLY gotten cell phones people! If you are someone that needs to have our phone numbers, or just wants them, then e-mail me and I will e-mail you the numbers. We are getting rid of our home phone line this week and getting internet when we get back from our road trip. So, love you guys lots, but I gotta finish some papers.

toodles!

SHOUT OUT AND LAUGH OUT LOUD

I want to give a shout out to my friend Adam Delezene as he has FINALLY replied to my comments on his blog. Thank you VERY much, it has been a long time in the making I'm sure, lol. Considering I am the one and only person who comments on your blog I feel privileged to be the one you replied to.

I also wanted to point out something else to all of you who also know my husband (yup, think that covers everybody).
Please note his last two blogs have included these sayings, and I quote, "I learnt to snowboard in West Virginia," and "we overhere this women." I seriously am NOT teaching him this stuff. He's gone country (as the country song says), but he doesn't have the boots yet. lol I'm trying to teach him how to speak regular English but I think he's learning it too quickly from his mountain buddies for my teaching to do any good. Just thought I'd point those things out. They sure made ME laugh!

Adios! I am off to study Spanish and write a science paper.

SINGING IN THE RAIN!

Well the snow melted and now it's hotter than 60 degrees here now. Ugh, I miss when winter was 4 months long. So the interview went very well and Dave is now a conditional permanent resident. YAY! This means that we can travel out of the country again! Well, I could before, but Dave can come with me now. So, for all of you Canadians we love so much, we'll hopefully be seeing you later this year! And, for our family in Ireland and other parts of the U.K. we'll be seeing you this Christmas! YAY YAY YAY!!! Traveling again! Speaking of traveling Dave and I have decided what to do with the time I have off for Spring Break. We're going on a ROAD TRIP!!! Wuhoo! I've actually never been on a proper road trip before. Sad huh? We haven't planned it out yet but it will be the March 4th through the 11th. Just in case you were wondering or were trying to find us during that time. HOPEFULLY by then we'll have cell phones, so we won't be COMPLETELY cut off from the world. Well, just thought I would give you an update. Gotta get home and work on my lesson for tonight's girl's small group. Love ya!

p.s. I'm wearing my KICKIN rain boots...oh yeah baby!

snow and Valentines day

Dave and I celebrated Valentines day last Saturday because we were both busy on Tuesday. When I woke up Dave handed me two strips of paper and told me to pick one. He said I could choose the one I picked or vito it and choose number two. I opened the first one and it said, "receive roses." I picked that one. Then he brought in a breakfast menu that he had typed up. I "ordered" pancakes and bacon with hot chocolate and whipped cream. Then he brought me another two slips of paper. One said "breakfast in bed." The other said, "breakfast by candlelight." I chose candlelight. We had an amazing breakfast and lounged around for a bit. Then we decided to go sledding! It snowed all weekend (Friday through Monday) and we had gotten quite a bit of snow. Well, we drove up to the church and decided to sled down the big hill behind it. Well, that would have been ok, except we really didn't look at the bottom of the hill before we got on the sled. Right before we got down the hill I noticed that there was a ditch at the bottom. I noticed this a few seconds before we hit it. It didn't feel good to me, but I wasn't badly hurt. However, Dave wasn't so lucky. He scared the living daylights out of me! So, Dave is quite sore. He compressed his spine pretty good when we hit the ditch. I think we'll be utilizing the chiropractic services here next week sometime. So, we didn't do all that much for the rest of the day. We stayed in and watched a movie and pumped Dave full of IB Profin. He was feeling a bit better that evening, I think the medication was helping, and we went out to dinner to the Italian restaurant in town. We had a great dinner, very nice.

For the rest of the weekend we played in the snow and babysat the Pastor's kids. Dave helped their lil girl build a snow fort while I entertained the baby. The baby wasn't too keen on eating his baby food, so I got to wear quite a bit of it, good stuff.

Yesterday Dave got his Valentines presents. When he woke up he had a scavenger hunt through the house to find all his cards. His cards had coupons for different things he likes in them. One of them was a long back rub, another his pick of the movie next time we go, and another his choice of home cooked meal, among other things. Then, when he came home from work he had a card and some slippers. He kept wearing my pink bunny slippers, so I thought he might want some more manly ones, lol.

Today we're heading back towards my parents for the weekend. Tomorrow is Dave's visa meeting in Charlotte. Please pray for a good outcome. We're quite nervous about it. It's 8:30 tomorrow morning, so remember us during that time.

Ok, I've got to start paying attention to my Environmental Health class. See ya later!

OH! One more set of good news. We're going to get rid of our home phone and get cell phones...FINALLY! We're also going to have internet through our cable company, so we'll be able to talk to our overseas family whenever they are on the internet through Skype (the internet will always be on since it's through cable). We'll start this process in the next couple of weeks, but we'll make sure all who need to know know our new phone numbers.

check these out!

Thought I'd post some pretty funky pictures that my lil sis sent me. The first one makes me dizzy just looking at it!

78

I MADE A 78 ON TUESDAY'S TEST!!!! That, is freakin awesome. We had the other part of the test today, dunno if I did as well, ugh. Guess we'll see next week! OH! It snowed like crazy here last night! We had a couple inches of snow on the ground when we woke up and all the schools were closed for the day. Schools not including universities that is, cause I'm at school now. But oh well. I gotta get home and study for my environmental health test tomorrow. Should be a breeze, it's ALL mutiple choice!!! Also, I'm starting to to get pysched up for Survivor tonight! Yes Candice, I AM watching it!!! WUHOO! Wouldn't miss it for a blizzard. toodaloo everyone!

This picture describes how I feel right now

p.s. I had amazing chicken and dumplins for lunch....good stuff