Neglected

OK OK OK. I know I haven't exactly been the best blogger lately. Honestly, I probably wont be until school gets out. Life got crazy, but not any more interesting. How does that even happen?! If life INSISTS on keeping me super duper busy, it can at least keep  me entertained as well. 

{ Happenings from Fathers day weekend}

One day as I was walking home from work and was strolling past a gently flowing body of water I thought to myself, "self,it would be quite fun to float a paper boat down that." So I went home and typed up an official challenge to our friends. It would be a formal paper boat race. There were rules on the materials that were aloud, but nothing else. we would sail the following Saturday. 

The husbands took this seriously. At least mine did. I was in the kitchen making potato salad (for the BBQ we were going to have beforehand) and when I cam back he had crafted a skeleton for a full on ship! After making the skeleton, he fully intend to fold individual paper timbers for the side. I told him he was taking it too seriously, he didn't deny it so i said, "Fine. Then I'm going to make pirate ship sails." I sure showed him who the boss is...? 

{Proof that I'm not lying}

P.S you're not allowed to make funny of how stupid my faces are in any of these.

This was turned the right way till i put it on here and I can't change it!

That's not our baby by the way. He's cute as heck though!

Yeah, I don't know what my face is doing either...

The Husbands doing manly things... and supervising

Our boat. We named it the Colossis!

Did anybody else notice that the Colossis is much less colossal than  the other boats? 

FEEL FREE TO LEAVE A COMMENT OR TWO OR THREE OR FOUR. OK, four might be going a little overboard. (get it?! Overboard? this was about paper ships?... well, I thought it was funny.) 
{Moral of the story}
Life is as fun as you're willing to make it. 

Monthiversary

We've only been married for 2 months and ALREADY our marriage is riddled with fights, criticism, lying, and stealing.

But the fights are only tickle fights, the criticism is always constructive, the "lying" takes place in bed on lazy afternoons, and he's always stealing kisses from me.


We're getting this marriage thing down bit by bit. AND! Our apartment is actually coming together SLOWLY, all that's left are the details (and getting a microwave) and everyday, or at least every week we face a new and exciting challenge. Ok, so maybe the challenges are sometimes less than new and not exactly exciting. 
Either way, we LOVE being married. I can't wait to put a zero on the end of that two and change the "months" to "years" because although our challenges will be different, I'm certain they'll still be exciting. 

{MORAL OF THE STORY}

Don't worry about us, we'll be just fine. :)

Ya, Sure, You Betcha.

The only thing that is more DISGUSTING than a tick (like the itty bitty vampire bugs) is a tick that has latched it's filthy, gross, disease carrying self onto you. Why yes, I AM speaking from personal experience. Thanks for asking. 

{how this happened} 

This weekend Ben and I decided that we would make a quick dash (it's a 13 hour drive, so maybe "dash" isn't the right word...) over to Minnesota. (FYI: this is where Ben is from) Reasons for this Brilliant (< sarcasm)  Idea:

• He had a desk and a book shelf and a few other items stored there that would be nice to have
• I hadn't met his brother yet 
• See friends and meet the babies that they have had.
• See where my husband grew up

After getting to Ben's Brother's house in the WEE hours of the morning and sleeping for a short time we had breakfast and headed over to get the desk and other items. 

CUE ADVENTURE

On the short trip (...but anything seems short after a 13 hour drive.) between my Brother-In- Law's and Ben's old house the car broke down, naturally. We were almost there too. So we decided just to ride with Ben's brother and his wife the rest of the way and figure something out when we got to the house. We got there and I steped out of the car and started wading through the knee-high grass (guess you really have to keep on top of the lawn mowing there.) towards the house. After a short while of wondering through items and deciding what to do about the our car, I found myself taking water out to their car to pour in our radiator. On my way back I brushed my hair away from my neck and PANIC!!!! What is going through my head: " What is on my collarbone?! Oh my heck! It's not bushing off! maybe its mud... oh I just hope it's not a tick. I hope I don't get lyme disease. Ben. Where's Ben, he'll help."

Conversation with Ben:

Me: Pointing to a spot on my collar bone "What is this?"

Ben: Knowing that I hate bugs, especially ticks and leeches (which I have not yet encountered, thank goodness!)"Do you really want me to tell you? ...I'll say it's something I'm going to kill."

Me: Trying to maintain composure and doing a terrible job at it "Just get it off NOW."


I cannot adequately express in words my horror at even the idea of having a tick bite me, and actually having  that happen gives me the hebbie jeebies.

{as for the car}

Turns out that we cracked the timing gasket. (it's like having a hole in a radiator hose that extends into the engine) The good news is that the replacement part cost $18 and the bad news is that it was over $300 in labor fees. So we went with the $3 fix, a substance called fix a leak. So far it's working great!

{MORAL OF THE STORY}

Don't go to Minnesota, they have ticks (and snow and spring flooding).

Cheep fixes for crappy cars is the way to go. 

Oh, I forgot this little detail.
Shortly after the fore mentioned tick incident, now known solely as "the incident", I refused to walk on the grass until I absolutely had to set foot on it to help load things into car. However, at the time this refusal began I was in a poor location. SOLUTION: crawl, less than gracefully, onto my husbands back for a piggy back ride to safety. :)