Update - August 2011

Before begining this post, I hesitated for a few minutes - pondering how much longer I could put this off. lol. Yep, that's the procrastinator in me speaking! Shameful, yes, I know.

• 3 weeks ago today, Danny and I celebrated 1 year of living in our apartment together. I kicked myself for not having before pictures of our place when we first moved in. And then for not having cleaned the apartment to take pictures of what it looks like today. I definitely have had my moments of disliking the apartment, mostly because the kitchen is so darn small and cramped. But I've come to like this place, it's homey :D I will miss it when it comes time to leave.
• August 5th ended up being my last day of work at my super, cool, awesome and interesting job. Our company is closing down and they'd begun to make preperations to shut down. The office staff was one of the first casulties. It'd been up for sale for some time and when there weren't any big bites, the owner decided to close it down.  Right now, they have a limited amount of guys out in the yard-mostly for clean-up since the yard and everything on it is going up for auction on September 15.
• I  put off finishing my resume and sending out applications during that first week of being unemployed, mostly because I had high hopes of being called back for whatever reason. Or even that a buyer was in the process of making negotiations and wanted to keep the place running. Sadly, nothing to that effect happened. And I didn't really enjoy that week off. I felt annoyed, and I was a little mad that I was in this situation. Again. Looking back, I'm in the same place I was last year. Unemployed.
• I got to see Bella at my dad's house last week, after almost [or maybe even longer than] a month. It seemed like forever. Before that, I'd tried FaceTiming with her, and boy oh boy did she let me know she was mad at me! :( I felt so sad. Thanks to Audrey for kidnapping me that weekend because I got to spend some quality time with Bella and made sure to let her know she was my pooch! Love that punk!



Last week (08/14-08/20) I started helping my dad out at his job. They're couriers [kinda like the UPS] guys, out and about delivering stuff. They'd just landed a great contract with Staples so there was gonna be some extra work. I'd helped out several years before when my mom used to work there too and she went on vacation or whatever reason she couldn't work. It's not hard, it's just work. lol. Does that make sense?? Well, luckily for me I had Danny to help me get into it for a few days. And the true test came on Friday when he couldn't go with me. The biggest obstacle for me is going to be the cases of paper because they're so darn heavy! Just being in the warehouse loading up for deliveries is a work out so you know I'm getting my exercise on! lol. You sweat so much you need an extra shirt or two to get through the day. So for temporary work, I'll be ok. But I still miss my old job and being in the nice, comfy air conditioning.

Just today, [08/21] I filled out 2 applications, and sent out 4 more resumes. OOh and I baked a cake! How awesome am I?? ;) I kid, I kid. Seriously though, one of the applications is for a job that I really, really want. And I really did bake that cake ...  So say a little prayer for me while I go through this awful process of "job hunting" again. Please and thank you!

Smokey has been a lot more cuddly! :) Thank goodness, it's comforting and makes me smile.

Conversations with Danny

Danny: Wanna play [Call of Duty-Black Ops] with me?


Jessica: Nah. It’s ok, not right now. I think I’m gonna play tetris.

Danny: What?! I thought that’s what your "vacation" was for?!




Lol. So I've got some updating to do on here... A post on that definitely coming tomorrow!  Nothing too unbearably [is that a word? lol.] bad, but still enough that is update worthy.

Wishlist - The "Jim Shore" version

Is anybody familiar with Jim Shore figurines??

A couple of years ago I got turned on to them by my older sister Christina, and Audrey is in on the obsession too.

I have a Nursery Rhyme's collection going, and I also got a replica of Bonnie [which is almost scary identical to what she used to look like].

I haven't been to the website in some time, and Audrey sent me some links so I browsed around online for awhile and I've compiled a list of stuff I want to get already!!

These are the ones I want to complete my Nursery Rhymes Collection:

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Humpty Dumpty

And The Old Woman That Lived in a Shoe

I want these so I can set them out for Halloween:

There's a lot of neat stuff available on the website, so I encourage you to check it out!

Happy Shopping! :)

Conversations with Audrey

This is where Audrey, my little sister, and I were talking about having recently watched Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 and the end of the Harry Potter era.

LOL

Summer Beach Days

My older sister and her family vacationed at South Padre Island last week and Danny and I were able to go spend time with them a couple of days:)

I know I say this everytime we go, but we really need to make it a point to head out there more often! I forget how much I love the beach until I get there.

***It's taken me over a week because Blogger Picture uploader thing was doing something weird with my photos, they were all turned wrong when I tried to upload :( I don't have very much patience .. as you can tell. lol.

The view from their balcony - the water looked so blue!

Danny in the water ... we weren't prepared to get wet. Yeah I know, who does that? Go to the beach all unprepared .. smh. haha.

Our nephew Jack excited to be in the water :)

My Sister Christina and her husband Casey

Cool sand ripples - clear water too :)

We went to dinner at Blackbeards later [yummmmm :)] and then came back to the beach!

I have a whole set of pictures of Casey "Making a hole" but they keep showing as turned all wrong when I insert them :( This is the only one that is turned correctly.

Sunset :)

Danny and I were able to meet up with The Royer's again for dinner on Monday :) We had an awesome dinner at Louie's Backyard, yummmmm!!

There's a parking lot across the street that has several attractions, like bungee jumping and even has some things for little kids. Jack saw this trampoline jumper thing and was convinced he had to do it. He was talking about how he was gonna do all sorts of flips whenever he got on it.

Here he is getting ready in line

Ready to go!

Getting strapped in

Ready to jump!

Landing in the end that it was all over.

Here's a video clip of Jack jumping, he got so scared being up so high. Immediately after he got off he wanted to try again :)



Worless Wednesday :)

Apparently, Smokey likes having company over :)

My sister Audrey visisted us over the weekend and she brought her little pooch with her.

Wishlist

Look at me! 2 posts in 1 day! :D

Ever since I learned how to cook, I was accustomed to cooking enough for 4-6 people and then some!

Now that most days it's just Danny and myself, I still can't figure the measurements out. I know it's silly because it's simple math, but I have yet to master cooking just enough for us 2.

So once I finally got over my cold, guess who gets sick?!

Yep, that's right - the husband.

LOL, And since I'm all better now I was finally able to cook! I made "caldo de res", which is just beef and veggie soup.

Here's what the stove looked like while the soup was simmering:

I used all of my pots! The big pot had 3 steaks in there with a lot of the veggies, the medium pot had one steak and some veggies, and the tiny pot had some vegetables that couldn't fit in the other 2 pots.

This always happens to me when I cook!

 I had seriously considered only cooking enough for the night, but then reconsidered and thought about what Danny could eat if he was still feeling sick and so on ....

All in all - I used 4 shank steaks, 3 baking potatoes, about 6 small-medium carrots [one of Danny's least liked vegetables], 2 medium sized sweet yellow onions and a small head of cabbage [another of Danny's least liked vegetables] complete with a side of spanish rice .. served with limes and corn tortillas.

Oh yeah the point of this post! (ref. the title) HAHA - I need a tall stock pot!

Something like this:

LINK

Something with a 10-12 quart capacity would be perfect!

But until then, this is what I'll be dealing with.

Conversations With Audrey

On Monday Audrey [my little sister] had a final to take for one of her summer classes .. This was just right about when she was about to go in and take her exam... LOL

That's how we roll ;D

What's on your phone??

I "borrowed" this idea from another blog I read :)
She went through her phone and shared random pictures she had stored.

I actually went to the random number generator site and picked 6 random numbers out of the many photos I had to share with you girls ..

#14

My Mr. Smokey Pants. He really is a big softie deep down inside even though most of the time he refuses to show it. He likes to sit with me at the kitchen table sometimes, lol

 #48

JOSH GROBAN!!!

This was taken during his concert in Dallas on 05/16. Floor seats, 3rd row center!! WHOOOO!!!

What else can I say?! lol.

#65

Our dog Bella, she looks down in the dumps about 95% of the time. I really do miss her a lot :(

There's not a day that goes by that I don't think of her. Soon, hopefully really soon she'll come to live with us when we get out of the apartment and into a house! I'm always bugging my sister to send me pictures of Bella. Sometimes we'll even facetime and I'll spend a good chunk of that time trying to get Bella to look at the phone.

#21

Danny and I after his Dad's wedding in April. It's not everyday that Danny dresses in a tux or that I wear my hair down - it's just too HOT and HUMID in South Texas ... we HAD to take a pic :)

#16 

This one was taken on a weekend at my Dad's house after bathing all the dogs. A ladybug came to say "Hello" :)

#32

This was taken on a random weekday trip to South Padre. It took me awhile to actually be able to step into the water... it felt really refreshing that day.

What do you store on your phone? 

A whole week!

I know it's been more than a whole week since I've blogged :(

But a lot of that was to blame to the fact that I've been sick for a whole week. I'm just starting to feel like myself again! It started out as a really bad sore throat, which then turned into a sore throat plus a cough, which then escalated into a full  on cold, and then finally just a really weak cough and a lot of congestion.

I hate to be sick especially since it's so darn hot outside. Throughout the year I'll only get sick maybe 3-4 times which I think is pretty good, but then again I'm not a doctor. So for 2011, this makes the 1st time I'm sick.

I was such a lazy sick person last week and now I feel guilty, but that's just the overachiever in me talking.

I didn't go grocery shopping.

I didn't cook dinner.

I didn't wash dishes.

I barely picked up after myself.

I slept a lot.



I would just like to state for the record, no matter how sick I felt I managed to make it to work and stick it out all day everyday. I didn't go to the doctor so I didn't really have a "reason" to miss out and not come in. Just saying' ;-) And I managed to make my 40+ hours at work last week. See overachiever. lol.


But after that not so productive week I'm feeling much, much better.


And now I leave you with a picture of my pooch who I miss oh so much! Hopefully I'll get to drive over and see her this weekend. Love you Bella!!!

Thank you Audrey for sending this to me!