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

Starting From Scratch. . .

okay so, about this house thing. . . yeah. . . um. . . NO DEAL! i have withdrawn my offer on my house and am now going to be starting this whole looking-offering-accepting-buying process all over again. :-( First off i ran into issues with my down payment and other funding that i needed to come up with. My dad was getting a home equity line of credit and was going to gift me the money for what i needed and i would just pay him back. All was going as planned until last thursday he got told he had been Dis Approved after being approved only due to the fact that his house sits on 2 lots. . . WHAT THE HELL?!?! that doesnt make any sense at all because the increased lot size should only increase the value of the home. I immediately called my realtor and told her and the mortgage loan officer that i was working with about what had happened, and i said i couldnt go through with it cuz i now had no down payment and didnt know how long it ws going to take for the city to come out and remeasure their lot as 1 big lot for the line of credit to be able to go through. At that point i thought that the contract had been terminated based on my inability to meet my financial requirements. . . i guess i thought wrong (even though i told her i was not able to follow through with the purchase and the inspection and everything else had been cancelled at that time.) So yesterday when my dad got good news that he had been approved through a different financial institution for his home equity line of credit i called my realtor and asked what we had to do now and if i needed to put in another offer on the house. She said no and that i was still set to close on the 26th. . . (again) WHAT THE HELL??? i havent even given notice at my appartment and cant afford a mortgage payment AND a rent payment in the same month. Then i also found out that since rates had gone up and i had not been locked in at a lower rate that my house payment was now up to almost $850/mo. NO!!! I REFUSE!!! Also it was past the deadline to have the home inspection done and count towards the purchase of the house, and so if i still chose to have one done then no matter the outcome i would still be obligated to buy the house. this made me mad as i didnt know what the outcome would be and i didnt wanna get locked into a house if it had a lot of problems. so i withdrew my offer and im now starting from scratch :-(

New Little Sophie!!!

Here she is!!! this is Sophie, mady's new little pug. she is the cutest, most playful, spunkiest thing you will ever meet. in the top photo she was about 4 weeks old, and in the bottom photo about 3 weeks. i guess pug moms arent very good at taking care of their babies so mady got to take her home early. she is now off of the baby rice cereal and milk and eating soft puppy food. she is so funny just to watch when she plays cuz she will head butt things. she also likes to pounce when she is playing. i miss the puppy days, and seeing sophie only makes me want another puppy, but i have to wait til i get my house before i can get another dog. i would really like a lab or another german shepherd. o well we'll see what happens down the road. welcome to our family Sophie, you are helping to heal a broken spot in mady's heart, but zoiee will never be forgotten.

Mady and Tyesen headin to the prom!

i know im late gettn these pics up, but here they are. Tyesen and Mady went to highland's prom together, and at first they had a good time but the didnt end too well. :-( but everything is okay, it was just the group that they went with that caused stress for everyone. I also think that mady was still struggling with loosing her dog that week so she was a bit on edge.
it was really cute tho what mady told me what tyesen had said. "im sorry mady, i told you this was a rough draft and that i wasnt very good at these things. Next year will be better i promise!" he is really a great guy and i hope they are together forever. i already treat him like family and so does my mom and dad. I think he even considers himself as part of our family.

Mady's dress was almost exactly like mine from when i went to prom. she was so beautiful and i got to help her POOF her hair. lol. im sorry that you didnt have the night of your life mady, but dont worry there will be more proms for you to go to. :-) love you tons.

So much to catch ya'll up on. . .

Okay. . . Where to start. . . first off, mady had an okay time at prom. her night didnt go as planned but her and tyesen are still doing great. he's such a great guy and he treats her well, and im glad that they are there for one another. I took some pics and i will post them later tonight or hopefully by this weekend at the latest. Second off, Mady got a new little pug!!! She is so adorable, and her name is Sophie. Right now she is only 4 weeks old, but we had to take her because the momma pug wouldnt feed the pups anymore. The lady that was selling them had started feeding the puppies just baby formula and baby rice cereal, so we took the little thing and started feeding her the same stuff. She's doing really good, and again i have pics of her that i will get posted by this weekend at the latest. Lastly, I PUT AN OFFER IN ON A HOUSE!!!! :-) i am waiting to hear back on my offer, but as soon as i know if i have a house or not i will post it!!! well i think thats the short "sum up" of what has happened in the last 2 weeks, but if i've left something out i'll fill ya'll in on it later. :-)

IM PRE-APPROVED!!!

Alright, so about a week ago (on monday may 11th) i put in a mortgage pre approval application at the credit union where i work. They told me it would be about a week before i would hear anything due to a couple other applicants ahead of me . . . so thats cool no problem there. well yesterday i get to work and i still hadn't heard anything so i called the loan department to figure out the status. then i hear that there are even more people ahead of me and that it will be a least another week. Plus once i were to get pre approved and then find a house i get told it would take 45-60 days to close. EEEEEEKKK!!!! i dont have that kind of time by the time i find the house because my lease ends at the end of July. So i called up a couple of my friends to get some different names and numbers of new places to go. Long story short i ended up getting ahold of Advanced mortgage at around noon. . . and BAM! by 4pm i was pre approved for $100,000-$110,000. now really people, that wasnt that hard! lol. mostly i chose to go a different rout due to the amount of time it would take to close on the house once i found it. So now for the fun part!!! HOUSE SHOPPING! i will keep you all posted and let you know when i find my first dream home he he he. :-)

The absence of little foot steps :-(

Today was a very sad day! okay we'll back up a couple of days or weeks even maybe. For the past few weeks my sister's dog Zoiee has been not her usual self. It started out with what we thought was an injury to her neck. The vet put her on some pain meds and she seemed to get a little better. well after the pain meds ran out it was back to the "non usual" Zoiee. This past weekend it only got worse, and she wouldnt really interact too much with the other two dogs. Then monday and tuesday of this week she deteriorated even more. My mom finally took her to the vet, for yet the 3rd or 4th time since all this started, on wednesday. Well they wanted to keep her over night cuz she was extremely dehydrated and they were going to get her some fluids started. they thought she might have a bowl obstructions due to a shadowed area in her lower tummy/intestines. The plan was that she would spend the night to get up some strenght and then they would possibly do surgery. . . sadly she didnt make it through the night. :-( I got the phone call this morning from my sister who could barely catch her breath since she was crying so hard. I cant even begin to put myself in her place. I would literally die if anything happened to reina. . . so i dont know how she is going to get over the pain. Hopefully time will help heal her, but it will be a long time before her smile returns to normal. I was also a wreck after she told me what had happened. i was pretty close with zoiee too, and i dont know how reina is going to handle it cuz they were the best of buds. I found the following poem that i thought i would share:

Memories are golden

They say memories are golden.
Well, maybe that is true.
We never wanted memories.
We only wanted you.
A million times we needed you,
A million times we cried.
If love alone could have saved you,
You never would have died.
In life we loved you dearly,
In death we love you still.
In our hearts you hold a place
No one could ever fill.
If tears could build a stairway,
And hartache make a lane.
We'd walk the path to heaven,
And bring you home again.
Our family chain is broken,
And nothing seems the same.
But as god calls us one by one,
The chain will link again.

Zoiee, We love and miss you with all of our hearts. your memory will never be far from our thoughts every day! you were the spunkiest little thing i had ever met, and i am devistated that you are no longer hear with us. My only hope is that you are in a better place now, and that you are free to roam and jump with all of the other "Angel Dogs". We miss you a great deal down here, but we know you are no longer suffering and you are free of any pain you were in. please continue to be by mady's side and give her what comfort you can. we will always love you.

kiss the ground you walk on. . .

this was the theme for how mady got asked to prom. Tyesen had been contacting me all day saturday while mady and i were in utah. him and i were planning on how to get her home and how he would surprise her. Thats where i came into the plan. . . i had to let him know how far we were from poky so he could light the candles and hide in the closet. Then i had to get her into the house and downstairs to her room without her suspecting anything. . . i think it kinda worked. she said she thought somethin was up tho, but i dunno. lol

the lights were off in her room, and he had all the candles lit and this sign was sitting on her bed with a bowl of hershey's kisses sitting in front of it. the sign read, "i would kiss the ground you walk on if you would go to prom. . . " and then he stepped out of the closet and said "with me". it was so cute.

I absolutely adore him. he is such a sweet boy, and he is good to her. they are just good for each other. . . but i swear if he ever hurts her i will put him through a severe torture procedure!!! lol. hey what else is an older sister suppose to do. but i dont think he would ever do that.

he had the tea light candles placed everywhere in her room. it was so beautiful. the fun part was that i got to see the whole thing. when she opened her door she stopped dead in her tracks. i think it caught her by surprise a bit. who knows, she might have suspected somethin was up, but she didnt know what was up, and that was the fun part to watch. and there i stood with my camera in hand!!! im such a good sister! :-)

Her dress is really pretty too, in fact its almost exactly like mine! their prom is this saturday and once again, i will be there with my camera for when they take off to the dance! I NEED PICTURES! what can i say. and as soon as i have them i will post them. congrats tyesen and mady. you two will be the hottest couple out there!

Mady! Bust a Move would ya!?!?

okay so this past weekend i had the pleasure of taking my sister to her last dance competition for the season. Well of course i recorded all of them, but as you might know there are too many to upload here, so if you wanna check them out go to http://www.youtube.com/user/ReinaInABlueBug there you will be able to view all of her dance videos that i have uploaded. they will be in the play list titled "Mady's Dances" i know shocking huh? lol. i also took a couple of cute pictures of her and her and i together. here is one:

she is just so beautiful! she is becoming quite an amazing young woman, and i am so proud of her for that! she has no idea how much i look up to her. i love you mady and you did a wonderful job this past weekend in dance!

Im a "Fender-Bender"

Alright so today was not fun at all. well it started out okay. . . and by lunch time it was doomed to be a horrible day. I was stopped at a stop light behind a green GMC Sierra Pick up truck. i had just got done having one of my sneezing fits from my allergies when the light turned green. So i did what everyone usually does. . . start to roll with the slow flow of traffic as we pick up some speed. i dont even think i was going over 5-10 mph. well right after the light turned green, i looked down to get my inhaler because i couldnt breathe from all the sneezing i had been doing. i literally looked down for MAYBE two seconds, and when i looked back up the GMC was stopped dead in his tracks right in front of me. i slammed on my breaks but it was too late. He had a hitch and that is what cause these dinky dents in my front bumper. but apparently fiberglass is now stronger than metal because i bent his metal bumper down and all i got were these two little marks. the hitch didnt even go all the way through my bumper. Now i ask you, if i hit him hard enough to bend his bumper down, wouldnt you think that i would at least have a hole to show for it??? lol. well im greatful i dont, but it makes you kinda wonder if his bumper was already previously bent down. i also thought about this because the bugs ride low, and hitches (you would think) would hit my hood not my bumper, but it didnt in this case. well who knows, all i know is it was a sucky day. but at leas both of us were okay i guess. my sister texted me shortly after it happend and said, "hey jordyn be happy, at least you didnt total your car like i did a few weeks ago." LOL. she does have a point.

Curly hair with the new color

okay so i told you all i would put up a pic of the new hair with highlights after i brought the curls back. :-) here it is. i like it better curly anyways. dont get me wrong it is pretty when its straight, but it takes forever to straighten with the flat iron so i dont like to do that too much. but here it is. i really like it still. THANKS AGAIN SONIA for doing such a great job! :-)