azwildcat

Oh my!

2008-07-31T20:34:19Z

What? Is it bad gallbladder season?
I wish you all, dtr_angel, ms_babygirl, and witherdin2ition, the best of luck in the talks about surgery, and the surgeries themselves.
Wow!

So...

2007-06-24T23:21:52Z

I'm what you would call

PREGNANT!!!

Happy Birthday Jess!!

Make it stop!!!!

2007-01-30T16:22:01Z

My neighbor has been driving me up the wall! He drums, badly. He's been playing for years now, but sounds no better than the first day he started. My theory is that because he's drunk (oh yes, drunk all the time) he doesn't remember what he's learned when he sobers up. Jason thinks that because he's drunk he thinks he's really good so he doesn't bother to try any harder. Either way it's frustrating and loud. I have the tv on relatively loudly and all my doors and windows are closed and I can still hear it!

SNOW!

2007-01-22T15:36:57Z

It snowed yesterday! We still have snow on the ground!!! : ) I will update with pictures later on when I can figure out how to upload to this computer.

Jason couldn't go to work as we're on the West side of the Santa Cruz river and the highway is East of it and the bridges are closed due to ice.

Wow. Snow, and somewhat measurable. : )

Bad sushi?

2007-01-15T15:29:44Z

So I had Sushi on Saturday night and since then I've felt yucky. I don't know if it's related, as it tasted fine (although the soy sauce smelled a little off, but it always smells a little off to me). Who knows. Either way I'm not feeling so hot at the moment. And it's so cold! It was 19 this morning!!!! Far too cold for Tucson. It was 13 for Jason on his way to work down near Nogales. Too cold.

I have a new laptop that can burn cd's. I want some music suggestions!

Yeah, that's all I have for now! : )

We found out!!!

2006-06-17T14:08:15Z

We're having a boy!!! : )

Posting job ad

2006-06-02T20:30:45Z

The weirdest feeling is posting a job ad for your own job!

Puppy Sitting!

2006-05-14T03:33:16Z

We're puppy sitting Jason's cousins dog! She's an all white english bulldog. Lucy isn't the biggest fan of her (she's actually ignoring her at all costs) but Petey is having fun with her. She's a biter though, luckily she has little tiny puppy teeth so it doesn't hurt. It's so much fun to have a puppy around! Especially one that we can give back tomorrow, haha! I'll put a picture behind a cut.

Sorry it's so blury, it's my camera phone.

ugh...

2006-05-13T17:44:43Z

I'm going to be a mom with a tramp stamp!!!!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tramp+stamp

I'm crazy!

2006-03-11T22:14:27Z

So I went out anyway, even though it's windy. From my kitchen window it didn't look that bad. I get out of my neighborhood on to the main street and their is trash everywhere blowing around (it was trash day here... lol lovely). I go north on that street to the main street to get to Target and there's dust blowing everywhere (we have a lot of new construction around for houses, that and we're a desert, it's dusty). I get almost to Target where we go over a tiny bridge for a river bed (it's always dry except for a few occasions of rain). You can't see the river bed at all, it's just dusty. You can't see more than two cars ahead of you when it gusts by. Target closed their garden center completely because of the wind. I had to really hold on to my car door when I was getting out because it felt like the wind could (and probably wouldn't, but I didn't want to risk it) rip it off. I'm a heavy girl I've been in a lot of wind storms here and Boston is incredibly windy, but I've never, until today, felt like I was almost blown over by the wind. The wind is at about 30 mph with gusts going to 45-50mph. It's crazy. I just hope Jason's trip home is okay...

Now here's the really crazy part. It's 54 degrees outside. Normally I'd be in sweaters and sweatpants and all bundled up. I'm sitting here in thin lounge pants and a tank top and I'm warm! I have socks on too and feels like I'm suffocating my feet. It's crazy. I had no idea that my body would change so fast when I got pregnant.

I'm bored.

2006-03-11T17:44:30Z

I was supposed to go shopping with my mom today, but she was feeling tired so we decided to postpone it. Jason's at work (one of those Saturday's he works so he has the two weeks off in December). It's actually cold today (we've had, quite possibly, the warmest winter this year) and the winds are supposed to gust up to 45mph so I don't really want to go out all that much.

I suppose I could clean. I just don't feel like doing that right now. Once I start I get crazy about it and it has to be *Perfect* and I just don't feel like it right now! lol

My dogs are nuts! They play fight for about five minutes, very agressive, and then they're pooped and laze around for an hour and do it again! lol Very strange.

Well this was a boring entry! lol

Still awake

2006-03-07T05:30:54Z

I don't remember if I've mentioned this before. In July, after we both started full time jobs, we set out a goal to be completely credit card debt free. I owed around $5500 total on credit cards, plus $3000 in student loans that did not have a locked rate (Jason's does at a little less than 2%). We set ourselves to a goal of having my credit card and student loan debt paid off by July of 2006. We thought a year would be good so we could adjust to the new bills of two car payments as well as higher insurance payments for the new cars.

Well as of Friday we are completely credit card and my student loan debt free! :) I also haven't touched my credit cards since July. I have no need to, unless an emergency comes up (which is why I have them) and I'm now aware that Old Navy will never be selling anything that is deemed as an emergency... Jason has one credit card that he puts all our monthly expenses (minus a few things that credit cards can't pay for) and pays it off before the finance charges hit (he's slightly crazy about it actually). It couldn't be better timing with the baby on the way.

My mind keeps racing. Hopefully I can go to sleep soon... lol

Doctor visit

2006-03-07T02:48:56Z

I had my first appointment today. I'm officially pregnant! :) My due date is November 1st. Which is the anniversary of my Nanny's passing... That will be fitting if we have a girl as we plan to name her Elizabeth because of her!

At first the woman in the office was looking at a chart and read it wrong saying that I'd be due September 1st... I was freaking out a little inside thinking how the heck could I be due then, that's two less months to plan! lol but she just read it wrong.

My doctor is Jason's cousins doctor and also the friend of one of the owners at work. I have to say it's slightly uncomfortable talking about one of the owners while I'm having a pap smear! lol But it went fine and the doctor is great! His office is lovely. I've never been in such a nice office, I kind of felt like I should be wearing high heels and pearls while walking in there! ;)

I talked to my sister and she actually seems very happy for us. I'm a little relieved, I wasnt' sure how she'd react, especially since about a day before she messaged me about wanting to talk about our plans to come out... SHe seems excited to be an Auntie!

Our moms are excited too! I really think my relationship with Jason's mom is getting stronger by the day. In the last four days she's called twice and one time she just wanted to talk to me, just me! And tonight when she called she talked to me for a few minutes before wanting to talk to Jason. It was really nice.

That's about all that's going on right now. I'm consumed with baby stuff right now. And I'm still getting sick and still smiling! All is good!

whirlwind

2006-03-03T03:13:31Z

It doesn't seem real. I can't stop smiling, my face hurts from it! I told everyone at work, and they were all very happy for us. I told everyone except one of the owners who's very much the plan ahead type. I believe I told him by saying "Here are the fedex quotes, I'm pregnant, and here's your mail" all in one breath... I was a little nervous. But he laughed and said congratulations! I can't believe how happy I feel! I'm normally a really happy person anyway, and it's so much more than that now!!

I have my first doctor's appointment on Monday. He's apparently a great friend with one of the owners at work. I was not aware of this before, and it's a little strange for me now... LOL It's not like I think he tells his friends all about his patients but I wonder...

So my little bundle will be here for Thanksgiving! And most of our family's birthdays! ;) I'm happy!

I'm....

2006-03-02T04:06:49Z

HAVING A BABY!!!!!

Update time!

2006-02-20T06:26:56Z

I don't think I've really updated lately. I don't know why.

The dogs started getting into things while were were gone. For almost a year they were good and never got into anything, then they started getting things off the dining room table (we're still not sure how they managed that) and china hutch. Jason bought an elaborate baby gate (for pets, but it's just a more expensive version of one you could get at Target for a toddler) and Petey jumped it and ripped up a few dvds. He has a thing about paper. Lucy has a thing about food, so we know who's at fault depending on what's chewed up. We were on a mission to find a cupboard to put dvds and cds in. We wanted a good sturdy piece of wood or super dooper plastic, and it also had to hold over 100 and be around $50 (we found a TON that were around $50 but only held about 60 dvds). We couldn't find anything. We wanted either a maple color, to match our other wood furniture, or black. Nothing. We went to two malls, two best buys, two circuit city's, two home depots, one lowes, three targets (they have cool stuff but it's really expensive for Target) and two Wal-Marts before we decided on upgrading our entertainment center. Then we complained because it was $88. We make over $70,000 a year and couldn't think to spend $88 on something! lol But now, with the new couches and furniture, our living room looks grown up! You know, besides the dog toys on the floor. The way we set up our living room it also looks much larger than it did, which is weird since we have our old entertainment center still in a corner, and our old couch in the other corner waiting to be picked up from a local donation center. It's going to look HUGE when they leave.

We saw Date Movie yesterday, ugh don't bother seeing that. We thought it looked really funny from the previews, but it absolutely stunk! The previews for Scary Movie 4 looked funny though, but I wasn't a fan of 2 and 3 so I don't know about that. It seems like if we see the movies in the cheap seats we like them so much more than if we see them at the regular theater, even if we see them at the cheap rate. Strange.

I have tomorrow off, for President's Day. I'm planning on getting up early and making Jason breakfast. Then I'll make a cake from scratch (this is mostly so I can practice decorating them and using all my new fun supplies). I also have a little bit of laundry left to do. I'll make dinner too. I'll feel like such a little Susie Homemaker! ; )

Oh, we got this lamp , not exactly this one, ours has 6 lights and only blue, red and yellow (2 of each) colored shades. Anywho we got this lamp for our wedding, but when you turn it on it lights up the same colors as the shades. We used it as a lamp in our guest room, which is painted pink, and it looked like it should have been in the red light district. But it's a perfectly good lamp and we wanted to be able to use it. So I came up with the bright idea to paint the inside of the shades black. It's almost worked. The paint hasn't taken to the plastic 100% so some areas are splotchy, but you can only notice when the light is on! lol Hopefully I'll be able to finish that tomorrow. I thought it was going to be perfect and we turned it on and laughed!

Okay I think that's enough.

I'm a follower!

2006-02-16T06:04:14Z

Everyone here and on myspace is doing this, and now so am I!
http://kevan.org/johari?name=DowningPonce

Thanks Emily

2006-02-12T06:04:09Z

HISTORY
*Where did you two first meet?: Online on ICQ, and then in person at his house.

*When exactly did you two first meet?: May 31, 2000 online, October 13, 2000 in person..

*What was your first impression of him?: Online that he seemed funny. In person, he seemed nervous.

*When did you first start to like him?: I liked him right away, but I knew I wanted to be with him in July of 2000.

*When did you two start going out?: November 10, 2000.

*What was your first kiss with him like?: Amazing, except for the fact that I kept slipping on the stairs that we were sitting on.

*Was he your first boyfriend?: No.

*Were you his first girlfriend?: Yes.

ABOUT HIM
*How much older/younger is he compared to you?: 1 year, 6 months and 8 days older.

*Hair color?: Black.

*Eye color?: Brown.

*Build?: 5'4", the best way to describe him is that he's built like a linebacker with short legs.

*Astrological sign?: Gemini.

*Skin color?: Tan.

*Race/ethnicity?: He's Mexican American.

*Religion?: Catholic.

*Glasses?: Yes.

*Piercings?: No

*Tattoos?: No.

*Chest hair?: No.

*Scars?: Quite a few.

*Know where's his birthmark if he has one?: He doesn't have one.

*Smart/not?: Sometimes too intelligent.

*Sarcastic/not?: Typically he's sarcastic..

*Humorous/not?: Usually he's funny.

*Possessive/not?: Not really.

*Patient/not?: Not the best at patience.

*Affectionate/not?: Yes

*Protective/not?: Yes

*Clingy/not?: No.

*Expressive/not?: He can be.

*Talkative/quiet?: Quiet.

*Outgoing/shy?: Extremely outgoing

*Party animal/Stay at home kind?: Stay at home.

*Sporty/not?: Yes, he loves to play soccer and basketball.

*Artistic/not?: hehe no.

*Practical or more of the dreamy type?: Practical.

HIS SKILLS
*Can he cook or bake?: He cooks wonderfully.

*Can he repair/fix things?: He tries.

*Can he dance?: No.

*Can he sing?: No

*Can he draw?: Some things.

*Can he play any instrument?: The Clarinet I think.

*Can he write well?: Yes.

*Can he make you laugh?: All the time.

*Can he make others laugh?: Yep.

*What is his talent if he has found it?: He has a lot of talent. If he puts his mind to something he gets it done.

*Is he good at science and math?: Very good.

THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT HIM
*What do you like about the things he says?: He's very straightforward and to the point.

*What do you like about the things he does FOR YOU?: He knows me so well, sometimes better than I think I know myself, so he always has a way of making me feel great.

*What part of his face do you like the most?: Eyes, his beak nose and lips.

*What part of his body do you like the most?: His hands, and his legs.

*What part of his personality do you like the most?: His determination.

*What do you most admire about him?: He doesn't give up, if things get hard for him it pushes him to succeed, I wish I could have an ounce of that.

*What part of him attracts you the most?: It's a good balance of it all.

*Do you know what attracts him to you?: There are some days I have no idea! lol

RANDOM QUIRKS
*Is he a pet lover?: He's a dog lover.

*Animal lover?: He loves monkeys.

*Is he environmental-friendly?: Not really. He recycles but will still litter.

*What are his views on political issues?: Quite liberal.

*Is he racist?: No

*Is he a vegetarian?: No

*Does he drink?: Yep, he loves beer and actually makes his own. But he doesn't drink to get drunk.

*Smoke?: No

*Curse?: Yes, especially while watching sports.

*Sleep around?: Nope.

*Abuse drugs?: Nope.

*Is he hairy?: Yes, everywhere except his chest and back though, his legs, by far, make up for it though! lol

*Is he neat/messy?: He's both. He'll get messy for awhile and then become obsessively neat.

HIS LOVE LIFE
*Is he a romantic?: Self-professed or closet?: He's a closet romantic for sure.

*Is he sentimental?: Sort of.

*How did he woo you?: He called me special one day and how he said it, and why he said it, made me melt.

*Does he give you flowers?: Yep.

*Does he lavish you with gifts?: Yes, but they range from expensive to a $1 winnie the pooh item.

*Does he pay for your meals/tickets/etc?: It all comes from the same pot.

*Is he okay with confessing his love for you in public?: Yep.

*Does he express his love for you in words or actions?: Both.

THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT HIM
*Any habits of his that you dislike?: He's starting to leave the toilet seat up again and when he takes out thawed food that was on a plate in the fridge he leaves the plate (empty) in there...

*Any part of his appearance that you dislike?: Nope.

*Any part of his character that you dislike?: He has a certain friend that is a complete ass and when he's around him he acts the same way, not a fan of that part.

YOUR FEELINGS FOR HIM
*So how long have you two been together?: 5 years, 3 months and 1 day.

*Do you truly love him?: Yes

*Does he truly love you?: Yes

*Can you envision marrying him?: I did!

New sofas!

2006-01-22T01:14:52Z

In our relationship Jason and I have only purchased a bed (which was just the mattress, boxspring and frame, no head/foot board), an entertainment center, and two tvs. We have an entire house full of furniture that we've been given by family. We've had two sofa's, a loveseat and a Lazy-boy. But the first sofa was a pain to move, so we donated it to a local school. We still have the love seat that matches in our office. Our lazy-boy, which was my step dad's, has broken, it's in two pieces. It looks fine propped against the living room wall, you just can't sit in it. And our couch is the type with recliners in it, however they stick a little bit and you have to keep your weight in your back to keep them reclined. It's very uncomfortable. Jason gave me the most ridiculous task of finding a couch for $300. Well, if we wanted new that's not very possible. We spent more than $300, but we bought a really nice sofa and loveseat today. Jason really liked it so I didn't have to push him to buy it.

The loveseat, but in black (the fabric has flecks of beige in it though)
The sofa, also in black.

I'm so excited about them! They'll be delivered next weekend and we're donating the old couch and throwing away the chair.

Interesting

2006-01-07T06:51:09Z

Republicans
Circle I Limbo

Scientologists
Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind

Parents who bring squalling brats to R-rated movies
Circle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & Snow

George Bush
Circle IV Rolling Weights

General asshats
Circle V Stuck in Mud, Mangled

River Styx

Militant Vegans
Circle VI Buried for Eternity

River Phlegyas

Osama bin Laden
Circle VII Burning Sands

Saddam Hussein
Circle IIX Immersed in Excrement

The New York Yankees
Circle IX Frozen in Ice

Design your own hell

Merry Christmas

2005-12-26T03:44:45Z

Merry Christmas guys!!!

I haven't posted in quite some time, and I won't make a huge one now. But I'll be off most of this week (only working Tuesday for payroll) so I'll make an update sometime then!

I hope everyone's holiday went well!!!

azwildcat @ 2005-12-06T20:10:00

2005-12-07T03:16:22Z

January - I think my body is finally allowing me to be sick, but it stinks.

February - My wonderful job is starting to be sad. My boss is leaving in less than two weeks. (Oh how I think differently about that now! lol)

March - I had such a long day.

April - It never fails that when Jason's mom is here we're left out of plans (even though we're part of them).

May - Livejournal's been acting crazy for me today.

June - I did an MSN search for new cars last night and emailed two local Ford (I'm looking at a Mercury Mariner, I'm a Mercury girl) dealers, although it's actually under the same head guy.

July - It's been a little busy around here, sorry for the lack of updates. Although busy doesn't mean interesting... so maybe you should be happy I didn't update! ;)

August - I keep having dreams where I'm nine months pregnant and no one believes me. They all say 'Emily it's all in your head, you're not really pregnant, you're on the pill!' But I'm clearly pregnant and hitting people with my belly. (more than a few, but funny! lol)

September - This past work week was really busy.

October - So yesterday I get a call, during work mind you, from my mother in law. She sounds pissed.

November - My Nanny died this afternoon.

December - How can I just forget my PIN number?

I don't understand!

2005-12-02T14:32:25Z

How can I just forget my PIN number? This is the second time, I'm just drawing a blank. Maybe it's something to do with this time of year (I forgot just before the wedding last year). I can't even think of what it is other than it starts with a 3, but that's not really going to get me anywhere!!! lol

Anywho I'll do a proper update this week. I have read all the posts, I've just been so swamped at work to actually do any more than skim for a few seconds as a break.

Overreaction

2005-11-22T03:44:08Z

I overreact too much I think. I also stress about things too much. Last week I made a mistake at work (a big mistake in my opinion)and one of the owners said we should talk about how make sure it doesn't happen again. I took that as 'we're going to have a talk and to make sure it doesn't happen again we're going to let you go." I was CONVINCED I was going to be fired last week. Nothing anyone told me made me feel any other way about it. I even cleaned my desk on Friday thinking I needed to leave it clean for the next person... lol

Well yeah, I made the mistake, but it didn't cost any money and it was my first. But until today's meeting where the owner that told me we'd talk (which we never did actually) told me what he sees as far as the company's future, and I'm a strong factor in it. It's crazy how I overreact.

I've been a bit stressed this past month or so with various things going on at work and outside of work. But it's becoming much better now. I only have two more work days (I have Thursday and Friday off and paid) this week and they're looking to be relatively slow. We may even leave early on Wednesday. Then we also went over our December/January holiday schedules and we will have a half day on Friday the 23rd, off the 26 (paid) and off Jan. 2 (paid), and then I'm also taking off Dec. 28, 29 and 30. I would also take off the 27th but that's a payroll day and it didn't seem fair to leave that up to the other ladies when I'll be gone the whole week. I think it's a well deserved break.

Other than that not much is going on. We've started Christmas shopping, but hopefully we'll be finishing this in the next couple of weeks before it's too close to Christmas. We already know what we need to get for everyone already. We're actually going to brave the mall on Friday, bright and early. I'm excited, Jason is not, but he did this to himself! lol

My birthday is coming soon... I've never really felt the same about my birthday since my step dad died a few years ago, but it's coming nonetheless and I'll be 23. I bet it won't be that different from 22! ;)

azwildcat @ 2005-11-16T12:07:00

2005-11-16T19:07:42Z

Happy Birthday Emily!!!!