No Room... My Life is Full

Master Bathroom Project

I have issues I wish I knew how to deal with.  Enough said....

My latest painting project is about to take place.  I'm painting my master bathroom.  Walls will be a color called "Lime Mousse".  Basically, it's a light lime green.  Nothing neon or too bold....the bathroom is too small for that.  I am painting my vanity cabinet black and my shower curtain is white/black.  I know it sounds a bit tacky, but I have seen it done and it looks pretty nice.  I am going for a "happy calm" feeling.  Anything has got to be better than the lavendar and olive green that is in there now.  ICKY!

Here's a picture of the shower curtain:

 

Maybe this bathroom project will get me out of my funk.

Tragic Day

Today has been a very sad day.  Today I had to go to a good friend's husband's funeral.  He was only 37 years old and leaves behind 3 boys.  He was in a bad truck accident...lived in and out of consciousness for 3 weeks and passed away this past Wednesday.  What a tragic funeral.  I've been teary all day long thinking about it. 

Other than that, just cleaning my house.  It's raining outside, so not much going on.  I may try to scrapbook a little later.  I haven't scrapbooked in months.

4th

Happy 4th of July!  Austin woke up this morning and immediately wanted his birthday present:

 

We're going out later for BBQ/Ribs.

Today I cleaned the filthy nasty dirty gas station bathrooms!  Then, I cleaned myself up and went to my friend's husbad's visitation.  It was so sad.  He was only in his 30's.  He leaves behind 3 boys.  The funeral is tomorrow afternoon and I am going to that as well.  I feel bad for my friend.

On a lighter note...anybody going to see fireworks tonight?  Ron bought a few that we will do tonight.

4th of July Weekend 2009

Happy 4th of July weekend!  What are your plans????

Tonight an old high school friend of mine is having a big ole cajun themed party to celebrate the 4th.  It's down in the country and I'm making that Tex-Mex squash recipe I posted the other day.  Hope it's good.  It's not cajun, but it will be spicy!!!

Saturday, is Austin's birthday.  He'll be 17 years old!  OMG, cannot believe it!  He wants to go out for ribs, so we will be taking him out to a bbq place and then home for homemade chocolate birthday cake.  Mmm.....delish!  I think he may be bringing his girlfriend, too.  They have been friends for a couple years, but just recently have started dating.  I haven't met her yet.

Speaking of dating, he's been staying out very late and so Ron and I had had to set down some curfew rules.  He isn't happy at all.  Give me a break....everybody has a curfew when they are a teenager.  Deal with it!  So, he's mad at me these days, but I don't care.

Well, I am off to my favorite coffee store, as we are out of yummy coffee.  Can't wait to smell the coffee beans!

Squash!

I've got squash and zucchini like crazy from my vegetable garden!  So, I'm making this yummy recipe for the 4th of July (on the 3rd) party I am going to:

Tex-Mex Summer Squash Casserole

http://food.yahoo.com/recipes/eatingwell/308/tex-mex-summer-squash-casserole

Update

An update on that situation of the missing boy at the lake:

I've been searching the internet for days trying to find out what happened and I haven't been able to find a single thing about it.  This lake is an hour away from my home, so it's not local.  I am assuming maybe he was found and therefore no story?  I hope and pray that was the case.

Heartwrenching Day at the Lake

Yesterday at the lake started off very fun and nice.  The weather was perfect, the kids were playing in the water, me and my mom and brother were chatting on the beach.  Then, around 1:30 pm the unthinkable happened.  An 8 year old boy was missing...his parents were frantic.  The police were all over the beach on a megaphone calling out his name.  They weren't sure if he had been abducted, drowned or just wandered off.

They made all the people get out of the lake and they began the search....combing the water for a body.  It was the saddest thing I have ever seen.  The busy loud happy beach suddenly came to a deafening silence and calmness, as people watched on, hoping that the child would not show up drowned, but at the same time hoping the child would show up so the parents would know where he was. 

An hour later we decided to leave because they weren't letting people back in the water and it was just heartbraking to watch the parents in agony over their son.  As I was walking back up to the car with my beach stuff I saw bloodhounds and more police driving in with sirens.  A big rescue/search boat was pulling in, as well.  The mother of the boy was walking around barefoot in her beach clothes........It broke my heart. 

As we left the park, the rangers checked our car.  They were checking all the cars.  I cannot stop thinking about this.  I tried to look it up on the internet...the newspapers for that area, but I cannot find a single thing on it.  I need to know what happened.  This morning in church during communion meditation, that is what I prayed for.  I prayed that those parents know where their baby is tonight.

 

During the time when they made everybody get out of the water, we took the boys to the snack bar and I took this photo of them.  In the background you can see that there is nobody in the water...and people are staring off watching. 

Yesterday was much more of a productive day than the rest of the week has been.  I didn't have to work today, so I went to the gym, ran some errands, grocery store, and Camden helped me pick some hot peppers off the pepper plants outside.  I made some awesome homemade hot/spicy salsa with the peppers!  Good stuff!

 

We went downtown to a brewery that has this awesome deck for some after dinner drinks.  I always love going down there and sitting on their deck in the spring and summer months.  Ron had the beer special and I had wine.  Camden had a plate of colored torilla chips.  What a warm perfect evening!  It was nice to just sit there and chill out after a week of stress.

I got up this mornig early and went running and now I'm getting ready for a day at the lake.  My mom is picking Camden and me up at 9 am.  My brother and his son are also going.  Ron and Austin are doing some volunteer work building homes today at our church. 

Well, I should get going..coffee is calling my name.......  ammmmmmmyyyyyy  ammmmmyyyyyyy..............  LOLOLOL

Sigh...........

Today sucked.  Another long day of too much work and stress and this time I DID cry at work.  What a shitty day.  Then to hear that Farrah and MJ died.  What a crappy week.  I am very very down this week.  I feel like I have lost something and can't get it back. 

I just wish I could find true happiness again.  Why is it so hard?

Tomorrow I will be running errands and then working from home on my office laptop.  This weekend will be quiet, as well.  Ron and the boys are going to the Indy car races Saturday night, so I'll be alone. 

Work is Rough

My job is getting out of control busy.  I feel like I am on a merry-go-round and cannot get off.  I'm having to add more hours again.  We are in the middle of changing broker/dealers with our partnership and all of our clients are having to be transferred over.  Because of this, we are having to fill out mounds of paperwork on each client.  Unbelievable the amout of work that is having to be done.  I almost started crying at work yesterday.  It was rough.

I wish they'd pay me more.  I don't make very much money, and all this extra work is making me wish my salary was higher. 

Austin is flying home as we speak from Texas.  Ron is going to pick him up at the airport later this evening, while I am at the gym.  I hope he had a fun time visiting his dad.