Spring Is Here.

 

Even though it has been warm for the past however long, Spring is finally here for me because today when I went out to my car(my internet won't work so I have gone to McDonalds to use my computer), it was covered in pollen.

And as my husband text me, he called me a 'rebel' cause I brought my route 44 Sonic drink inside McDonald's. hehe Hope I don't cause trouble.

 

But it's official...10 Days left and then I turn 20. I'm so beyond excited! I don't know what we will do but my sister-in-law said she really wants to hang out, I miss her and my brother so bad! I used to hang out with them all the time but since I moved and just started working I don't have the money to drive up there all the time but I'm hoping to hang out with them soon! Maybe they would want to come see the movie 'UNFRIENDED' in theaters with Derick, his sister and I.

It's a movie about five friends that are Skyping and scary things start happening when someone they don't know joins the call and starts doing sorta supernatural things to them and they think it is the ghost of the girl who shot herself at school because of something that happened at a party. It's supposed to be awesome and it comes out the day before my birthday(the 18th).

 

So some machine in McDonalds is like freaking out because it will not stop beeping. I thinks it's lost its mind.

My Lapse in Blogging.

 

        I Don't know if anyone actually reads this or not, but if you do and are interested in what I write then I give you my apologies! I get into a grove of doing something I like, hoping to do it daily but then if I don't have something or someone forcing me to keep going I tend to slack off till I have stopped in all. So this post is going to be filling in some things I missed, but it's going to be random and probably not in the order of when they happened, just that they did happen. lol

 

         It's almost my BIRHDAY!!!! I'll be 20! I know it's not the big one but hey I'm won't be a (teen) anymore(but when I do turn 21, I will not go out drinking like most. I will be going to get my carry permit and the gun of my liking). Only 14 days to go! I won't be having a party on my birthday cause we work and my parents are across the country...so I'm going to wait on them. But my mom said I get a goodie package on my birthday :) yay! I love packages!!!!

      I got a job!!! Finally! I had been unemployed since the wedding and it was high time I got a job, after applying to what I think was 12 jobs and being told I didn't get some I applied at Academy Sports & Outdoors...they called and I got it! I am a cashier, it's a little different than being a waitress, I stand still more than I walk around so my feet hurt quickly and just get worse as the day goes on...I'm working on finding some shoes with amazing comfort! So far it is going pretty well, I get along with everyone, it's really relaxed and it gets me out of the house :)

        So to go along with the job story, I have gained some unwanted weight after the wedding and was wanting to start the Squat Challenge along with my new job...well not too long ago I had been doing T25(till I slacked off :( I know I'm bad at that!) but other than that I wasn't doing anything so after the first day of the challenge (60 squats) I could hardly move the next day, my quads were in so much pain and I could hardly walk, let alone go on stairs! But none the less I tried to do (40) more the next day and barely made it. Lets just say I haven't done any since, but I should, I want to lose this weight!

I don't remember if I have mentioned this before but Derick and I will be moving soon, hopefully. We will still be in the same town but a home of our own! Yay!! We are renting a two bedroom mobile home from a family member, we are just waiting for repairs to be done then we can move in. We have to paint it, lay down flooring and fix flooring where there was water damage and change some plumbing but hopefully it will get done soon. I'm sooo excited to have my own place, I'll get to decorate it the way I want it and I will be in charge, (I'd say large and in charge but I don't want to be large lol) We are turning the second bedroom into an office/game room, I say that because my half will be the office and his will be the game room.

          Again, I don't know if I mentioned it before but we have Poodles, little toy poodles. Buster, the all black one and Homer, the black and white one, he kinda looks like a cow. haha They are cuties but they don't listen worth a lick! Oh and we can't get mad when Buster barks because it's this little one, it's so stinking cute! Derick and I really wanted to buy Buster but Wendi is really attached to him. He knows we love him the most though. lol

                In the middle of February I started a bible study, I hadn't been reading my bible like I should or even at all. So I was looking on Pinterest for a "Read the Bible in a year" plan, then I found, #365SheReadsTruth. I downloaded the app so that I have it on my phone. Just go the 365 day plan, it says what the current date is and what you should be on for that day but I just started from the beginning. I got my self some new pens and a new journal. I sectioned off the journal for Study, Prayer, and Sermons. They are pretty self explanatory, and I just write the day, date and verses at the top of each study page and I use it for notes as well as I underline and write in my bible. I'm currently using only a blue pen, I don't know if anyone cares about that or not. But recently since I started my job I have missed a few because I'm just so tired and then the day is gone, so whenever I do the next one I just do the one I missed too. There is always a prayer day with each study, and when I miss a day I just combine the two days prayer to one page and write the dates at the top. I don't have much in the Sermon section, I try to get as much as I can out of them but I just don't glean much from the sermons. Right now I'm going to a Baptist church, yes I grew up in a Baptist church but once I got older we started going to an Assembly of God church and that is where my heart belongs...There just isn't one near me :( I miss my old church! I miss the amazing band(my mom, and sister-in-law are in it). I miss my pastor, I always got something from his sermons, I could fill up almost two pages worth. Now I'm lucky if I get half a page. I'm not dogging the church I'm going to now, I just wish it was an Assembly church.

 

Side note: I'm writing this outside, it's bright and sunny, it used to be warm but the wind has picked up so it's starting to get kinda chilly. I think I'm about to go inside.

 

I'm so glad Spring is here and Winter is gone!!

 

P.S. about a month or so ago I decided to not have my Lifeproof case on my phone when I went out...I dropped it at the gas station and cracked the top of my screen, it's up at the ear speaker so I can still see everything perfectly but lets just say I keep my case on from now on. lol

 

                                                                                                        STSL

 

 

 

 

What Did You Make for Dinner?

As a wife we make the dinner, whether it be just for our husbands or for the family of our husbands.

What would be your favorite dinner to cook?

I don't know if I, myself have a favorite dinner to cook, but none the less I love to cook.

My Chicken and Rice Casserole.

It's really simple and cheap!

 

 

 

 

 

Ingredients:

 

Two cans Cream of Mushroom

Two cans of shredded chicken

One cup shredded mild cheddar cheese

Two cups of dry rice

Crushed Ritz crackers

 

Instructions:

 

Bring four cups of water to a boil, pour in rice, stir, drop to a simmer and cook covered for twenty minutes.

Pre-heat the oven to 350

Mix together cream of mushroom, chicken and the rice.

Spread into 9x13 pan, lightly cover with Ritz crackers and smother with the cheese.

Place in the oven and cook till the lightly browned on top. 

 

Serves about four to six people.

Enjoy!

 

 

                                                                                             STSL

 

 

 



New Day, New Week, New Year.

 

It's a new week and that means Christmas break is over so we go back to our regular lives. We start work and it's no longer an everyday vacation.

Derick, my husband went back to his second/third shift job, I'm looking for us a new home and starting to look for a part time job. I'm 19, only had one real job that lasted almost a year and a half (it only ended because I got married and moved out of state) so I'm a little nervous about getting another one. What's it going to be like? Will I get another serving job or will I go for retail? There are so many questions that are running through my brain about job hunting.

Getting another serving job means I have to memorize a whole new menu, learn the lay of the land and get to know all new people. Which getting to know the people won't be so bad because I also need to find some friends, I know I've probably said that before but it's true!

 

One a different note...

 

One of my new years resolutions was to keep a journal for the year, a page a day, at the least. And so far I'm going good. I'm not a big journal keeper but I want to have something to look back on when I'm older and be able to relive the memories. Last year I ended up putting the journal on a shelf and I forgot about it and didn't complete it, so this year I'm going to keep it out in the open to ensure I complete the journal.

I always write in cursive, I think it is so beautiful. Do any of ya'll write in cursive? When I was younger I hated to write that way but one day I saw a friend writing cursive and I was like I have to write that way, her notes look so much better then mine do.

 

 

                                                                                                  STSL

The End of 2014

 

Well, 2014 is coming to a close with only two days left.

Last year when you made your New Years resolutions, did you complete them? Did you at least put forth effort towards doing them?

One thing I tried to accomplish was to make a 2014 journal, I would write something down everyday. I tried to make each about a page long but around March I kinda stopped. I guess when I put it away and it wasn't in plain view I would forget about it and not write anything...till around October...I know, I kinda missed a lot of stuff. Since then I've tried to write in it some more and I did, but this year will be different. I will write in it everyday so that at the end of the year or years later I can read what happened to me.

This year I'm a married woman and working towards having a home with my husband, I'll be starting a new job, when I find one and just everything is different than this past year.

This year I plan to post more on my blog, I want more people to see and interact with me and my blog. I want my blog to be something people want to read and to look forward to reading, something interesting. Even though I don't think my life is that interesting, but I hope for a different outcome.

I plan to save up money and buy myself a good camera, not a really big one just a decent size so it can fit in my purse and go everywhere I go so that when the perfect shot arises I can seize the moment.

I want to read more and have a perfect spot to read. One where I have a plush chair with lots of natural lighting and just something that uplifts my spirits.

I plan to meet new people and to gather friends to hang out with on a regular bases when my husband is at work. People who are loyal and truthful with you, people who have your back and I don't mean with a knife...

I know just like everyone else I'm making a resolution to become healthy. I make it every year and I always fail. This year is different, last year we bought a gym membership and we have used it but I plan to use it a lot more, a daily routine. Even if it's just to go for a run.

When we get our home I want it to have a big kitchen so that I can cook big meals with lots of room,  the whole place will smell delicious and there will be bunches of leftovers.

I know I'm rambling about different things, but hey, that's what this is for. It's like an online journal where your can have an audience who just might care about your ramblings.

 

 

                                                                                                             STSL

The Best Day of My Life ie. My Wedding Day

 

Most people say that their wedding day is the best day of their life and well they would be right, it really is the best day of your life, the happiest of them by far!

Because I was busy planning my wedding it hadn't really sunk in that I was getting married until I was waiting at the top of the hill (my isle). It had hit me a little bit while I was getting ready and while I was hugging my mom and we were both crying but on the hill, I could see people being sat, they girls waiting to go before me, the happiness on my daddy's face and the music playing, that's when it really hit me! 

I couldn't see it but we had the groomsman ride down the other hill in my dad's F350 and walk up to the alter.

They had a specific song play for when the girls walked down the isle. ( Wonderful Tonight ) That one song will bring back so many memories because that is when everything started. When everything became real. I was about to walk down the isle with my father into my new life. I was about to say I Do and become the wife of a man I loved with all my heart, a man who would protect me with all he had. I was going to try not to cry and well I didn't succeed in that because I did cry, I struggled not to, but I did.

I will forever wish I could relive that day, over and over again. That I could relish in that feeling and see/do it again. It was so amazing! I almost cry every time I think about it or I hear the song Wonderful Tonight, it just all floods back to me and I relive it, standing on top of that hill. Laughing with my dad down the isle, him trying to help me not to cry, one of the best moments of my life. My dad truly is my hero. I'm about to cry right now as I typed that last part about me dad.

Even though my parents travel a lot and I didn't get to see them a lot in the couple months before my wedding, it's so different knowing I don't live with them anymore, that I'm starting my new life and I won't see them all the time or get to hug their neck when I want, it makes me sad, I miss my parents, they mean the world to me!

(I know that wasn't on the subject of my wedding but it kind of went with it and I felt like putting it in there.)

 

                                                                                                                      STSL

 



Bad Tippers

 

I think the name in itself says it all.

Isn’t it common sense to tip the person who worked their butt off to serve you with a smile even though you were a jerk? I attend to your every need; I’m kind to you even if I feel like I shouldn’t have to be. I just don’t get it. Is it that hard to leave a 20% tip on a meal? My thing is, if you can come into the restaurant I work at and order an expensive meal but you can’t/won’t leave me a tip, whether you think it’s because you don’t have enough money or whatever, but you can spend money here then you can leave me a tip, plain and simple. 

Personally I haven’t had anyone say anything bad to me when they tip me bad or stiff me, but I’ve seen pictures of receipts that waitresses/waiters post of the crazy rude customers.

I’m outraged by them!

These are all comments on receipts with a $0.00 tip.

“I give God 10%, why do you get 18%?” and that was by a pastor!!!!!

“P.S. you could stand to lose a couple pounds.”

I make more than you do, my time is worth more than yours.” Like really???

“Get a real job.” Could you do my job?!?

“BOO, you fail.”

“F--- you.” Like is that really appropriate??

 

Like do you think this is right? Do you think I or any of us deserve this?

I don’t! It’s not fair!

Do you realize I make $2.13 an hour? I have to live off tips. When you decide to not tip me or to give me a dollar for your forty dollar meal that I struggle more? That you made life slightly more difficult for me? Maybe the seven dollars you didn’t leave me could have finished paying my bills? But because you didn’t, I now have a late fee charge that I have to work harder to get?

Just please from now on, tip me, tip us! Be kind to us because we are being kind to you.

You may not want to but please see it from our point of view!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       STSL