That's just crazy talk!

So I know I'm copying Loin's idea here but I liked it. Here are my highlights of 2010:

January: Vader’s 2nd Birthday, Sammie was born, What would have been my dad’s 51st Birthday

February: Got a tattoo in memory of my dad, Super bowl party with friends at BWW

March: I graduated from Rasmussen College, Phil and I went to Florida

April: Made an offer on our house

May: Syttenia Mia

June: Found out that my Grandpa’s wife Barb has cancer :(

July: Moved out of the duplex into our house, camping trip near Chicago, floated down the Apple River with some friends

August: Started Jillian Michael’s 30 Day Shred, Miller Family Reunion/60th Wedding Anniversary for Phil’s grandparents

September: Finished Jillian Michael’s 30 Day Shred and lost about 2 inches off my waist!, Went to the MN State Fair, Started painting our new house, Comedy boat cruise for work

October: My 25th Birthday, Phil and I got engaged, Dexter was born

November: Phil’s 30th Birthday, Got a new member of the family – Asterix, Phil’s cousin’s wedding, Phil’s sisters came to visit from Portland

December: Christmas with my Monday crew and then Christmas with the family, closed on the house on New Year’s Eve, had a party at our house on New Year’s Eve (which I will blog about soon, I promise!)

I'm excited for what is to come in 2011. Phil and I are getting married, we just closed on our house so we can finally start working on it, and I'll be getting Winston soon. Skank is also pretty much out of my dad's house (she has until mid February) and then she will be out of our lives for good!!!!!! Yippy!! I have started helping Justen paint the farm house. We are painting every single room and will be working on the lawn/outside come spring. I just finished the living room last night and it looks great! My other close friends are getting married right before Phil and I and I will be in their wedding. I will also hopefully have a new "niece" or "nephew" this fall/winter and another one in the oven come this fall! So, it appears 2011 will be filled with weddings, babies, painting and landscaping! Yay!

I want to start off with the very end of 2008 because it was so wonderful and it feels like it was part of this year!

Here is my new tattoo that my boyfriend's sister Rachel drew for me! I absolutely love it! This one definitely hurt twice as bad as the one on my back and I can't wear socks for at least one week! But the pain was tolerable and it was worth it. :)

I know I haven’t written a blog in a long time but I just haven’t had anything to write about. My life lately has been rather boring. This is what my typical day consists of: waking up at 7 o’clock, getting ready for work, driving to work with Jewells, working until 5 o’clock where I then proceed to go home, eat dinner, work on homework for an hour or two and then watch a couple episodes of the OC and then go to bed. This has basically been my routine for the last week or so. Pretty boring huh? Well I actually have plans for the next couple of weekends so I’m hoping that they won’t be quite so boring. This Saturday I am getting my second tattoo. :) :) I’m getting it at a new place in Menomonie that my boyfriend’s sister, Rachel recommended. She is also the one who drew the tattoo! She is very artistic and talented and I wanted my tattoo to mean something so I asked her to draw it. I didn’t want a tattoo that someone else probably had as well. I will post a picture once it is all said and done! I’m slightly nervous for my appointment. I love the sketch but I haven’t seen it in the colors I want yet so hopefully the tattoo artist can show me before he starts. I’m sure he knows what he is doing though! So, other than my tattoo this weekend I have nothing else planned. I’ll probably end up doing homework, cleaning and watching the OC. …Pretty boring.

Next weekend however should not be quite as boring! Friday night my friends Josh & Lynsie are having a Halloween party and I’m quite excited! It sounds like there will be a good amount of people and some people I’ve never met before so it should be a good time. Then on Saturday it is my birthday! I will be turning the big 24! The number makes me feel old but I still feel like I’m only 21 or 22. I’m hoping to have all of my homework done by Friday evening so I can fully enjoy my birthday. I plan on relaxing and lounging around until about 5 o’clock when my friends come over! We are going to go out to eat at The Orchard in Baldwin and do a little pre-drinking there and at my house before we get ready and go out dancing! I’m very excited!!!!!

The next weekend I’m going to go up North to see my family. I’m hoping to leave on Friday afternoon and get there at a decent hour and spend some time with my little sister. She is almost 22 months old! It has been a few months since I last saw her and I didn’t get to see her for more than an hour. In the last few months she has changed so much! She is now talking (baby talk) walking around, dancing, etc. I can’t wait to see her! I’ll be sure to bring my camera and take lots of pictures! Then on Saturday I will go and see my mom who I haven’t seen in a month or two.

Then the next weekend I am assuming Phil and I will celebrate his birthday. He is turning 29! Wow. Hopefully we can get married before he turns 30. ;) (*cough hint *cough)

That is as far as my plans go so far! I have been thinking lately that I really want to take a vacation this winter. I would want to go sometime around February because that is when I feel like I just can’t take winter anymore and I want a break. And I want to go somewhere warm, like Florida, Texas or California. However, I am stuck between taking one or not because of the money. A vacation will probably cost somewhere around $500-800 each. That is a lot of money I could be saving! However, I also try to remind myself that I only live once and that I’m young and I have no children yet and I should do it while I can. Ugh... decisions, decisions.

Anyways, I think I made up for my lack of posts for the last two weeks!

There have been a lot of things boggling my mind lately. Lots of them are small things, some are very large things. Let’s start off with just the small things in life.

Should I start drinking coffee again in the morning? I quit drinking caffeine back in the beginning of January. I used to drink about 1 large coffee mug size coffee every morning and at least one pop per day. I gave it all up cold turkey because I wanted to be healthier. It was an exhausting 2 weeks but after that I felt better. Another reason I wanted to give up coffee and pop was because of what it is doing to my teeth. I put a lot of sugary creamer in my coffee and that is not good for teeth. It has been 6, going on 7 months without a cup of coffee and I still miss it very much. Maybe I could start drinking coffee again and just not drink pop still. That’s a good compromise right?

I read that if you eat fruit for three days and nothing but fruit it cleanses your body. I’ve been thinking about doing this. I’m guessing I’ll be spending extra time on the toilet because of this but who cares! I’ll probably loose some weight in the process too! Has anyone tried the 3 day fruit binge?

Should I spend a few bucks and get myself a nice pedicure? I think I deserve it! I’ve had a pretty rough month and a treat would be nice. Who would like to go with me?!

(By the way, I just took a small break while writing this to run over to Holiday gas station to grab a cup of cappuccino… oops! Just talking about it made my mouth water. I had to give in to the temptation.)

Do I cut my hair or leave it long and let it continue to grow? It has been annoying me like crazy lately! I want it cut and cut short. Shoulder length or less. I want to have my hair long when I get married but who knows when the hell that will be.

While we are on the topic of hair, should I continue to dye my hair a darker brunette or should I just let it grow out and go back to my natural color (whatever that is)? I think my natural color is a dirty blond/light brunette. I hate the hassle/money of dyeing my hair but I think it looks better darker.

Should I go and get my tattoo now? I know what I want and I just need a tattoo artist to draw it up. The only thing holding me back is the cost. I don’t know how much it will be but I’m guessing around $250. I was going to get it or my birthday but that isn’t until the end of October. By then it will be cold and I won’t be able to show it off since it will be on my ankle/foot. (PS- I just had a dream last night that I was getting a tattoo and I fell in love with my tattoo artist. Weird.)

Should Phil and I go on a small vacation or not? I would like to get away (obviously, who wouldn’t!) however, I’m trying to save every penny I can for a down payment on a house. So basically, if we went on vacation it would cost at least $300 each which is a lot of money I could be putting into my savings for the house. Technically I have the money to go on vacation and it wouldn’t put me that far back but it would put me back a little and we are looking to get a house by November which is coming up pretty soon here. Plus, if I get my tattoo that will cost as much as a small vacation! So I guess I need to pick between tattoo, small vacation or none.

Should I try to get Phil on board with getting our future Winston (Golden Retriever) within the next few months or do I wait until we get a house? I want this dog so badly! I should probably wait until I get a house since this is a big dog to have in a 1,000 sq ft duplex BUT we could, just maybe be moving in 4 months to a house. Then Winston would only live in our duplex while he is a puppy! But what if we don’t get a house and we end up signing on for one more year at the duplex? Plus Winston will cost roughly $250. Tough one… So I guess it’s between the tattoo, a small vacation, Winston or none! Jeezelaweeze!

Now for one of my big dilemmas and the only one I will share with you. Do I buy a house just to buy a house or do I wait for the right one to come along, even if it means loosing out on the $8,000 from the government? That is a hell of a lot of money to loose out on. I don’t want just any house. I want a unique house where I can see Phil and me in the future with babies and acres and privacy. Right now Phil and I are debating on just buying a house in town because we could find one for much much cheaper and only spend $100 or $200 more a month than our rent. This would obviously be just a “starter home” and we would move out in a couple years. We would do this hoping that the economy is better and hoping to gain a profit. So do we buy a home in town just because they are so much cheaper and save up some money for a house in the country and get that a few years down the road? Or do we just wait until the right one comes along in the country and hope that it doesn’t cost too much? It sure is stressing me out not knowing where I will be in 4 months.

Anyways, I just felt the need to get my random thoughts out there. If you have any opinions, please tell.

Here is what I've been thinking of lately. I want to get another tattoo and I know what i want because I have this picture in my head. I have time to think about this because I want to get it for my birthday and that isn't until October. I know that I want cherry blossoms and I know that I want it on my right ankle kind off like the picture below. I basically want the setup of the picture below but I don't want the flowers to look like that. I also want it to wrap around more on the top of the foot. It is hard for me to explain it to you all but I have a picture and I just need someone to take it out of my head and draw it! So picture this layout, sort off....

....I want the flowers to look like this!!! But this tattoo would obviously need to be changed and redrawn to have a layout more like the first one. Does anyone have a great talent for drawing? I could just go into the tattoo shop and have them draw me something but what if they don't understand what I'm saying and I don't like it? I don't want them to charge me for drawing this up. I guess I don't even know if they charge to draw something up? Opinions? Talent anyone?