headache.

i went to bed early last night with a mild headache. 8pm early... then this morning when i woke up it still lingered. I took some more meds, had a great day at school, then came home and took a nap. I thought i was ok when i woke up but the more i do, the more this headache knocks around in my head. ouch. stop that!

going to veg and watch a little tv. only maybe an hour or so. hope your day was swell.

oh, and today was my parent's 35th wedding anniversary. i am very blessed to have parents that are not only still married, but still really love each other. our family has been through some rough patches financially in past years, but my parents have remained faithful to each other, supporting each other and caring for each other 100%.

i am lucky. well blessed. god is at the heart of it.

And they're off!!

I went to the Dog Tracks on Saturday with Eilene, her parents, and my sister and her husband and daughter. We stayed through all 12 races. It was a good time. Thanks Mayers for all the fun!!

Fun Fall Weekend!!

I had a busy weekend. Friday, we took our annual trip to the Houston Nutcracker Market. It was so fun. Angela and Macy came to my house and picked up me and mom. We drove to the light rail parking lot and took the light rail to Reliant. It was cool because that was my first time on. Super cool. The platform was right outside the gate of Reliant. It was super quick and so much easier than years past. We shopped from 10am until 6pm. There was so much to look at and we didn't even scratch the surface. Since this was our 4th or 5th year, we have our favorite booths and like to visit those first. We usually run into several friends and even family while we are there. If you don't have a Christmas tradition, grab some family and friends and spend the day at the Nutcracker Market enjoying the music, atmosphere and the friends!

Friday night, some of my employees had asked if they could have a slumber party at my house. So I let them come over. We ordered pizza, played the wii, make bracelets, and watched some movies.

The next morning, we got up and went downtown to volunteer with ACUTX [my employer] at the Houston Food Bank. We had a good group there and we really helped out with cleaning and seperating the foods out to be packaged. There were bent cans and bugs and other stuff. I'm not gonna lie... some of it was disgusting. BUT.... we had a great time helping others!!

Root Canal

yes. i got one. it was not fun. i show up at the office about 3:00 because i have an appointment. well b the time i get called back to the chair, it is 4pm. i was a bit frustrated. if appointment would have been 4pm i could have run home and let the dogs out [who who who who who?] yeah, let the dogs out... LOL ANYWHO... so then dr. eakin gives me the shots... ouch.... then the dental assistant starts to put a temp thing in my tooth... OUCH!![oh, you can feeel that?] me: YES!!! ummm dr. eakin.. she needs more stuff!! WHOO who!! so I get 2 more shots... awesome... NOT and then my mouth goes numb. niiiiiiiiice.

well they start the drill and and weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee noise... [annoying] and OUCH....oops... megan can feel that too!!! my body was so tense.... not a relaxed muscle in my whole being... so they decided to put more stuff in the actual canal... ahhhh i can still fill it a bit but it's not too bad. NOTE TO DR EAKIN.... give me lots of the good stuff!!!!!!!!

so we got done about 6:05pm. Seriously... wasted my whole afternoon. but i am not in any pain tonight. it was totally worth it... well not $1500 worth it, but worth it... :)

i met up with angela and the kids at casa ole. i couldn't feel or taste a thing.... lots of tingles.. but i enjoyed the evening. i also ran into the Deandas. It was nice to see them.

then..... i went to hobby lobby. i love that place. it makes me sooo happy. although, i am beginning to like michaels more and more... shhhh don't tell. hobby lobby has better sells... i bought a new cross. it's beautiful. i also got a picture frame thing.... awesome.

megan is happy.

i am happy.

i am thankful for family and friends.

Federal Holiday...

HAPPY VETERANS DAY!!

I had today off because it is a Federal holiday. Thank you military for serving and protecting our freedom. Be safe Felipe! Come home soon!

Last night, we went to Molly's and there were some Marines there in uniform. We clapped for them and shouted OoRah! it was super cool. Here are some pictures from last night...

This morning, I had an appointment at the dentist's office. I broke my tooth a few months ago and tried to ignore it...BUT it came back to haunt me. Now I have to have a root canal tomorrow and I am soo not looking forward to that. I am also not excited about spending $1,500 to get it fixed, HOWEVER I am getting my other tooth fixed so I won't have a stupid filling... and I have the pretty white ones on order.

Also, if you think about it, say a prayer for my friend Krystal. She has been in the hospital and is about to switch doctors and things are getting a little scary for her. Thanks friends!

Family

Family is so special. They love you when you are lovable... and even when you aren't. Today, we spent the day together. Today was special because like I said before it was Mom's birthday. We had lunch at Casa Ole with Uncle Mac, Aunt Karen, Austin and then us. [minus Mikey]...Several years ago... maybe 2001... I was at Texas A&M and I came home for my birthday celebration. If you know me at all, you know I don't really care for cake so I usually get cookies or a cookie cake for my parties... well we went to Pappasitos and Mom brought Ding Dongs!! When she was telling us what she brought, she told us she brought "Ding Bombs"... We have called them that ever since... so this year on her 56th birthday, we had "Ding Bombs"!!We played several games. The kids are learning how to deal with not winning every time... It's not easy being 7 and 4... is it?? We played Sequence, Hungry Hungry Hippos, and Sorry....
Then.... We busted out the Ding Bombs. We sang Happy Birthday to Mom and then she sucked in to get a big breath to blow out the candles and Brooke accidentally blew them all out before Grammie even exhaled... it was hilarious!!! So we lit them again and let Grammie blow them out. Brooke wanted us to put 56 candles on the cakes... Nope. Sorry!!Today was a great day. A terrific day of fun. Remembering good times and creating new ones. I love my family. The good, the bad and the ugly. I love them and wouldn't change them for the world!