my birthday= fun with friends and a very red sunburn

my birthday=goodtimes.

Happy birfday to me!

Not the kind of babies I like....

Look what decided to surprise me as I was playing on the computer tonight after getting home from work....


If anyone even remotely knows me, they know that I have this irrational fear of spiders.

And, to make matter worse, I had to get up, get the bug spray and spray this sucker, who JUST WOULDN'T DIE!!

And apparantly, she was female, and decided to leave behind a few little presents....yes, those brown spots are baby spiders! Oh how wonderful.




So now it's almost 3AM and I absolutely can not sleep. Every time I close my eyes I feel things crawling on me. Geez.


To show how phobic I am of these creatures, I almost started hyperventilating while trying to research what kind of spider it was. Something about seeing all the pictures on the computer screen.

Anyway, either it was a pregnant spider and the bug spray disentegrated the eggs and they hatched, or it was a Wolf spider and she was carrying the babies on her back. Either way, they are NOT welcome back at this house. My sanity is at stake.

My Immortal

I love Amy Lee. Listen to the piano and her voice. Gorgeous.

Getting there..

I've talked with several people about the nursery situation, and I've written down a good bit of concerns I have. If I can get everything written out and decide a nice way of saying it, everything should work out. I'll keep you posted!

Decisions

I've been trying to come up with some creative ways to organize the nursery at church. I love how the wicker baskets look and stuff, but I don't think they're very practical in a nursery. They tend to flake, and I'd rather not have that on the floor while little ones are crawling around. I'd love to have a corner of the room be a station and just have little stations all over. Like something with books and puzzles in one area, something with blocks and other stuff in another area, etc.. I think that would work out well. Any ideas?

Stephanie asked me at church last night if I was going to continue working in the nursery after I finished school. I don't see a problem with it, it's only 2 days a week, a total of like 5 hours. The only issue that could arise is that my full time schedule would conflict with Wednesday night church. I love spending time with the kids, and there are at least 2 more that will be here in the next 8 months or so, so I'm looking forward to that too.

Dane told me that since Jennifer isn't going to be teaching the 2's & 3's class starting in September, we're going to be combining them with the nursery. Supposedly I'll have a volunteer in there the whole time to help with the little ones, and I'll do a brief lesson with the older kids. I don't have a problem teaching, but right now there are kids older than 3 that go in that class. I"m not very comfortable having them in the nursery with a 5 month old right now, especially if my volunteer doesn't show up. For one, the room's not that big, and for two, it's just asking for an accident to happen.

I've been considering my options once graduation gets here. I've had to turn down numerous full time positions here at Ctel, so I have no doubt that I can get on once I do graduate. But...I don't want this as a career job. There are tons of options I have out there. There's a career placement center thing on campus that gives you a test of some sort, I'm guessing like an aptitude test (thanks for help with the word becca), and then gives you job opportunities that are available in the area. Then, I'm most likely going to take the civil service test at some point and see about getting a State job somewhere. I'm not opposed to moving off if it's a good job. Also, I've been thinking about maybe looking into what it would involve for me to be a preschool teacher. The program at ULM, TeachNortheast, is 18 months long and you don't have to student teach. I don't know all the details, but it's something worth looking into. It'd be nice to have a job where you get summers off :) And then, there's always good 'ole CenturyTel. We'll see. I trust God will put me where He wants me.

I finished my bed! Yay for me! I'll post pictures when I get some new bedding, which I have a feeling is going to be a birthday present. Mom's mentioned twice something about bedding from Target, so we'll see. I'm so excited! If I had been really ambitious, I would've ripped up the ugly white carpet from the floor, but I didn't have that kind of time. Plus, I didn't want to do a whole lot of stuff since I won't be there for too too much longer anyway.

Oh let me say that I am so very excited about this weekend. Besides being my birthday, a bunch of us are going to Caney to just relax on the lake. We're going to grill and just hang out. I think last time I counted there were 6 or 7 going, so it should be a ton of fun.

Anyway, I'm at work, so let me go so I don't get in trouble. Have a good night!

Okay for those of you who keep up with this thing, don't harp on me about not updating like I should. I've been so busy!

Mom and dad left last Friday morning for California. They were taking dad's friend Mr. Jim's (he died of cancer last year) big 4-door truck to Fresno where his daughter Skye (we went to high school together) is in graduate school. Skye drives a really small truck right now and wanted her daddy's truck, but her mom didn't feel comfortable driving it out there, so mom and dad offered. They had the time and love to travel, so it was a good excuse for them to get away. So they drove out there and got to Skye's apartment on Sunday. They checked in of course every so often, went sight-seeing, went to Yosemite and all that fun stuff, and then called today to say they were headed out of Fresno and should be home on Saturday.

I'll be the first to say that I have absolutely LOVED having the house to myself. I've even been cleaning and doing laundry and loading/unloading the dishwasher--something mom has to BEG me to do when they're here. It's kind of a necessity when you're home alone :)

For a while now I've been wanting to redecorate my bedroom. I didn't want to do anything too drastic since I won't be home too much longer, but I was in desperate need of a change. I've always said that when I got my own apartment I would want to decorate it with the style of Pier 1. I just LOVE their stuff! I love that whole sleek, modern look. Soo, I decided to take an old bed we got from Granny's house and paint it black. I love the look of platform beds, but I can't afford to buy one right now, and this bed has a really short footboard, so it kind of resembles one. So Thursday night I got mom to help me get it down from the attic. We got the footboard down and I propped it up against the garage wall. I thought I had propped it up well enough, but next thing I know it fell on top of my bare foot. Can we say OW! I had a cut right under my big toe, and it started swelling pretty bad. I cried like a little girl, I won't lie :) Anyway, today is Wednesday and it still has a pretty nasty bruise there. I've toyed with going to the dr to get it x-rayed to make sure I didn't break it, but I haven't decided if I'm going to or not. It still hurts a good bit, but nothing like it was.

So after mom and dad left I went to the store and got some spray paint and sandpaper. Laura (my sister Laura, for all you other Lauras that read this) said I probably didn't need to sand it down all the way, just scuff it a little. I did that, painted both pieces and let them dry. Afterwards I noticed that when I rubbed it, the paint came off on my hands. I didn't know what I was doing, so I got some sealer, or what i thought was sealer, and sprayed that on there. Didn't work. So tonight after church I went to Home Depot, got some gray primer and black paint, primed the two pieces tonight and will paint them tomorrow or Friday. Hopefully that will do the trick. My next decision is what kind of new bedding I should get. I thought about getting white sheets and a black comforter, but some stores have some neat striped bed-in-a-bag that are really cute. I don't know, I'm so indecisive!

Next Saturday, the 4th, is my 23rd birthday! Wow, I'm old :) A couple at church has a "camp" on Caney Lake and said I could use it any time if I wanted. I've been out there once before, it's a really nice 2 bedroom house with a kitchen and everything. A friend from work has a birthday at the end of this month, so we think we may see if we can use the camp in about 3 weeks and get a big group to go down there and just have a double birthday get-together. Stay at the camp at nighttime and go to the "beach" during the day. And if anyone that's going has a boat, that's even better :)

Let's see...what else....summer school is OVER! I finished up my final online yesterday, all I have to do is wait for him to grade it. I should end up with a very decent grade there. The regular semester starts August 20th, so I have a little break before then. And it's my last semester! My classes shouldn't be that difficult. I have the best schedule on Tuesdays and Thurdsays...only 1 class and it's not until 12:30! I will definitely be sleeping late those days, unless I decide to work an early shift. I may do that actually, that way when I get out of class my day is over. Sounds nice now, but it might not be that nice when I have to be at work at 6AM.

Anyway, it's after midnight now, so I need to sign off....'night all!