Hangin' Tough in 2008!!!!!

grab your 80s gear, NKOTB t-shirts, and cassette tapes



My friend Julie and I have been chatting all day (yes, during work hours) about the possible reunion of New Kids on the Block. We fully support this venture and will probably do about anything to get tickets to this momumental event! As we chatted, memories of the NKOTB days came rushing back to me. The t-shirts, the dolls, the buttons, the pillowcase, the books, the lunchbox, the trading cards... I had it all! Well, I always wanted more, but I really did have a lot of stuff. The photo below is of the NKOTB Dolls. Alicia had Jordan and I had Joey. Mmmm.... our Barbie's just loved their new friends. :)



The next picure I found is a T-shirt that I actually had back in the day! I went looking through Ebay to see if they had pictures of anything I had as a kid and sure enough, there it was!

I can remember listening to the Top 10 Countdown on Oklahoma City's KJ103 everynight at 9 hoping to hear a new song. With my radio/cassette player ready to go I would wait and press RECORD just at the right time so that I would have the new song before anyone else.

I can remember getting the call from my friend Amie when she got tickets to the concert. I was sooooo jealous and mad at my parents. I remember crying and telling them how bad I wanted to go and asking them why I couldn't go with her. I even remember saying, "Well, if Debbie Gibson or Amy Grant comes, can I go see them instead." Little did I know that my parents were making me go through this torture because they had tickets for me all along and were waiting until Christmas to give them to me. I really thought they just wanted me to be the most un-cool person ever because I didn't go to the concert, haha. On Christmas Day it was the last present I opened. It was placed at the bottom of a clothes box and it was covered with packing peanuts. I remember opening it up and thinking, "what the heck is this?" Low and behold at the bottom of that box was the "Golden Ticket"! I remember asking, "I get to go? I really get to go?" My mom laughing replied back, "well, you have a ticket don't you." I screamed and danced around the living room... it was the highlight of my 3rd grade year!

Jordan, Jonathan, Donnie, Joey and Danny... will you please let it be the highlight of 2008 too?! :)

Cause my Southern Belle tagged me...

Just for you Mar Mar

4 Jobs I've Had:
1. Senior Prevention Specialist at Greenbush
2. Staff Writer at the Morning Sun
3. Vision Therapist at Coleman Vision Improvement Center
4. Customer Service Clerk at Dillons

4 Movies Watched Over and Over:
1. Grease
2. A Few Good Men
3. Anchorman
4. Top Gun

4 TV Shows I Watch:
1. American Idol
2. Days of Our Lives
3. Sell this House ( I need all the tips I can get right now)
4. Rock of Love (I don't care if he is a man-whore... I love Bret Michaels)

4 Places I've Lived:
1. Moore, Okla
2. El Dorado, Kan.
3. Pittsburg, Kan.
4. Girard, Kan.

4 Places I've Been:
1. New York City
2. Las Vegas, NV
3. Baton Rouge, LA
4. Paln Springs, CA

4 People Who Email me Regularly:
1. Misty
2. Mike
3. Sherry
4. Melanie

4 Favorite Things to Eat:
1. Mexican Food
2. Pasta
3. Chicken Quesadillas (see #1)
4. Anything I don't have to cook (I agree with all of Marla's!!!!)

4 Places I'd Rather Be:
1. at home working on the house
2. anywhere but work
3. sleeping
4. Bahamas

4 Things I Look forward to This Year:
1. Moving to Indiana
2. Starting a new career
3. My one year wedding anniversary
4. Possibly making a baby :)

4 People to Tag:
1. Sherry (cause she's new to blogging... and she loves these things as much as I do)
2. Sarah (cause, I miss that gal)
3. Don't know anyone else who blogs
4.

Another one bites the dust

and there goes another plate

I've often heard people say that if you have an expensive pair of sunglasses you will lose them, but you will hold on to cheap pair for years and years. I have a feeling that goes for dinnerware too.

For the last 6 years Jared and I have dined off of hand-me-down dishes my parents gave us. The design looked much like the couch on "That 70s Show" but by golly they were sturdy pieces of stone. Never once did we break or chip any piece of this dinnerware. Some of it was already chipped, however we never broke one ourselves.

As a wedding gift, several members of our family bought us new dinnerware. Beautiful stone red plates and bowls, just like I wanted. I take a lot of pride in this new set, placing it ever-so-gently in the dishwasher and buffing all the spots off the dish before placing it in the cabinet.

Within the last month, we have lost one bowl and chipped a plate. One of them was Jada's fault for knocking a vase off the top of the cabinets that fell into the sink and busted a bowl. The other one was my fault for dropping a knife and butter tub on a plate and chipping a corner off.

I guess that just goes to show that sometimes the cheap stuff is better!

A busy weekend

what a crazy, busy weekend

Jared and I got a lot done this weekend. Friday night we headed over to Pittsburg for our friend Eric's birthday party. It was a lot of fun, especially since we hadn't been out in a while. I got to see a lot of people that I hardly get to hang out with anymore, like my best gal Chesney! Here are some pictures from our evening. The first one is Jared Hicks... we will be rooming with him for a little bit in Indiana. He is a lot of fun and it will be nice that Jared and I have at least 1 friend when we move up there, haha.


On Saturday my dad came to town to help Jared re-frame a few doors and fill a few cracks in the walls before we put the house on the market. It didn't take them too long at all and I think Jared learned a little from my dad, which is always good. This man has so much knowledge and Jared and I need to learn as much from him as we possibly can.

That was about it, besides packing, packing packing.... which I did a lot of that! We are slowly, but surely getting the house ready. I hope to have it listed in a week, but we'll see how that goes.

Playin' around

trashbags make great toys, apparently

So, here's a few pictures of Jada getting in way. I was clearing out some clothes and putting together a bag of clothes for Amanda (or Aunt Amanda as Jada refers to her). Well, I guess she wanted to go home to Amanda's house with the clothes cause once I told her where they were going... she hopped right in and started playing. She just loves her Aunt Amanda and she will miss her a lot! :(

Because everyone needs a laugh once in a while

it has been a horrible week

Jared and I have had a horrible week filled with worry, doubt and questions about our financial future.

They say laughter is the best medicine and this video has always made me laugh. I thought I would share with all of you.