Better With Practice!

Well i've been takin the bike out on nice days, and lately we've had alot of them. :-) I am loving this warm weather. Usually i just take it out on the roads that dont have alot of traffic on them, but today i decided to be adventurous and venture out onto yellowstone. lol. It went really well and i had a ton of fun. I still need to practice more on how to take off on a hill. he he he. I still roll back some when im on a hill and trying to take off, but it will come with time im sure. For now i will just avoid hills where i could get stuck with someone pulling up too close behind me and keep practicing on ones where i have no one behind me. lol :-)

Twice in 1 day!!

I took the bike out today for the 3rd time since i got it about 2 and 1/2 weeks ago. Damn weather has been not so good and kept me from riding it more. grrrrrrrr. oh well, i will take a good day whenever i can get one and today was DEFINATELY a GOOD DAY! i have realized i need to practice my starts so that i can get better with the clutch. i also need to practice taking off on a hill. . . cuz i dont wanna roll back into someone behind me. lol. so im gonna keep practicing riding it and working on those things in the next few days or weeks, depends on what the weather does. lol. but i took some pics today and i thought i would post them for ya'll.

Love At First Rev!!!

O My Goodness!!! Its finally here! I cant believe its finally here! I got it home yesterday thanks to my sisters friend Bryson! I was too nervous to ride it home in traffic the first time so he rode it home for me. lol. Then today i took it out for a couple laps up and down my street to get the feel of it and the word AWESOME doesnt even begin to describe it! I didnt drive it too much cuz i dont have insurance on it yet, that will happen tomorrow or tuesday. I also have to go get it registered tomorrow. I finally have my bike after 6 freakin years of dreamin of it! Can you believe it??? I am still having a hard time believing that its actually here and mine! lol. Well i'll keep you all posted on how the riding goes!!! FUN FUN FUN!!!

today was a GREAT day!!!

Okay so here it is!!! I went Bullet Bike Looking today and i found an awesome deal on a brand new 2009 Honda CBR 600. They are knockin almost 3000 off of the original MSRP price if its bought by the end of march. They can order it from the warehouse in the crate and everything and then put it together for me. They can also order my helmet for me too. Im doing some figuring about how to go about getting it by the end of march for this killer deal since my tax return of 11k probably wont be back by then. This is so exciting!!! i cant believe it might actually happen this year. Correction. . . IT WILL HAPPEN THIS YEAR!!! So hopefully i will have my bike and my helmet by the end of march. i'll keep you all posted.

. . . I shouldn't have knocked on wood!

Okay, so alot has happened since i last posted on here, but i'll try to catch ya all up quickly tho. So as you all know i started at convergys in september and i was able to go through with buying the house. I love it! There are a few small fixes but they are minor and its going to be a wonderful home for years to come. But these last few months havent been too easy. Convergys over hired so they were cutting hours. I am grateful to have parents that were able to help even tho i hate asking them to. But I just got hired on at Walmart which will be full time and i will make more there than at convergys which means i will be able to afford my bills again. And it will be a million times better than convergys. lol. So now . . . Walmart. . . Here I come! And here are some pictures of the house:

avove is the front view and below is the back yard view fron the right side of the house. I know i have a lot of work to do with the weeds but its just yard work so i can handle it!!

This is my new door handle that i installed myself. Wooo Hooo!!!

This is my living room. nothing is hung up yet tho. lol

And this is the dining/kitchen area.

This is the basement before the pool table got put up. i'll get more pics on here of it now that its up.

and this is the reverse view in the same room where the pool table will be going.

Hopefully i can keep this thing updated now! lol. Life looks like its back on track and things are going better so i will do my best to keep posting.

i think things are okay now (knock on wood)

So i found this quote and i just had to laugh. . . It explains exactly how i have felt these past few weeks. Now most of you know that i dont go to church at all, but i do say my prayers regularly. well lately i have been on my knees alot. I have been so stressed. Im right in the middle of buying a house and once again chaos hits. I lost my job at the first of this month and so i have worked my little fanny off trying to find another one so i wont lose the house. I FOUND ONE. it might not be everything i want, but it will do for now. Convergys here i come. I think i can handle it, at least until something else comes along and it will allow me to get my house and continue on with my master plan. :-) The closing date of my house got pushed back to October 15th tho due to a title issue, but that worked in my favor because of the whole job situation. So i finally feel like i am able to breathe again and that i have a little less on my plate than i did at the start of this month. Things happen for a reason, i just wish i could see why i had to go through this life lesson right now. lol. im sure someday it will be clear tho, and im just grateful to have found a job that will work with school and allow me to still make my dream of owning a house become a reality. Now hopefully everything else will go smoothly from here til october 15th. wish me luck. . .

Row Row Row Your Boat. . .

well my dad returned home from boise from a business trip on wednesday evening. when i stopped up at the parents to get my dog he asked me if i wanted to see a "pretty shocking picture"? so i said sure what the hell, not really thinkin anything of it. . . well i was completely caught off guard when he pulled up these pictures of him rafting down a river. HE NEVER DOES ANYTHING OUT DOORS!!! lol. WAY TO GO DAD! Im so proud of you for letting your adventurous side show. His boss had secretly planned this excursion for the end of their business trip and it was a surprise to all of them as well. My dad was a bit leery at first, but decided to go along with it and he said he was glad he did.

He is the one int he Yellow shirt.

I guess they had just passed a BIG rock in this one.

faster dad faster! you need to row faster!

Hang on for your life dad!

O crap here comes the water. . .

PADDLES UP!!!

HOUSE UPDATE!!!

okay so here it is. . . or at least this is what im planning to move into the middle of september provided nothing goes wrong. i finally found a house, YAY, and im so excited about it. its 4 beds 2 baths with a possibility of a 5th bedroom too. 1728 sq feet on .22 acres. the back yard is fully fenced for my dog, but i have a lot of work to do back there because it has been vacant for a while so there are probably a million weeds. no worries tho thats not too difficult to fix. it has a 1 car attached garage and my car will actually be able to be parked into it. i say this because right now at my current apt i do have a garage but my pool table air hockey and fooze ball table are in it. with this new house i have an upstairs living room and a downstairs family room. i plan to make the downstairs family room into the game room and that way my car will finally be able to be tucked in at night all safe and sound. :-) well i'll keep you all posted but im pretty sure its a done deal. i dont plan on backing out. lol. this week i have to start scraping paint so i can paint the exterior, its one of the FHA lender requirements for the loan to be approved. we are getting a cash allowance for the cost of paint so all we have to do is put in the time and labor. wish me luck, im thinkin it might be harder than i originally thought. lol.

ITS ON ITS WAY!!!

I ordered my laptop today!!! im so excited to finally have a computer again. the preliminary ship date is 8/14/2009 so it should be here by the 20th hopefully. these next 20 days are going to be the longest days of my life it feels like, but i cant wait to finally have a working computer. then i will be able to update this blog thing more regularly. only bad thing is now i have to figure out how to get all my stuff recovered from my old laptop to transfer to the new one. i know a couple people that might be willing to, so we'll see. well i will be back to blogging in 20 days. . . the countdown has begun!!!

Why. . .

does everything have to happen at once??? So here i am in the middle of trying to find a house and working on saving every bit of money i can to put towards it, and i now have had other things come up. First off i learn that i am going to have to have new back brakes and rotors which will be about $200. Second i find out that i need new tie rod ends on my two front wheels so that the car can be properly aligned, and both of those for parts and labor will cost total about $400. Third, this past sunday my computer decides to stop working. It just wont turn on, and through a couple of different calls and contacts i learned that it was the motherboard that had gone bad. This problem is by far the most expensive to fix at a total of about $500. Hell for that price you can get a new computer, but then i run into more problems. I have always been one to believe if your gonna buy something then buy what you want, and what i want (new computer wise) is like 1200. But i think its still worth it to just buy a new computer because mine is 6 years old and runs like a dinosaur!!! Im just tired of every thing happening at once and right when you dont need it to. grrrrrrrrrrrr