Somebody Call Batman For Me!!

Yesterday morning I was sooo sneezy from the rain, Kipper tried to make it better by smashing himself on to me!

"Let me in PLEASE!!"

Hello! Last night Jese worked and before he left he was so nice because he sent me into a panic attack!! He came down from upstairs and said he could hear bats fighting in the bathroom ceiling!!! Plus we could hear them all day long!! Needless to say I couldn't fall asleep then. So I turned on the closet light and the bathroom light and slept with those one :) Every time I heard the cats jump I thought they were going after a bat!! I wish the landlords would come find where they are coming in so I can sleep in peace!! The other night I heard on above my head when I was in bed, gross!! I just got done cleaning the fish tank, since nobody wanted it I had to clean it! Maybe all of the fish will die so I will HAVE to get new ones! Maybe I will secretly buy a cichlad and let it eat all of them, hehe!! I have also cleaned some windows, the screen door, done the dishes, and just cleaned in general this morning! So it wasn't a very exciting morning. Kipper followed me around whinning because he wanted to cuddle on the couch with me, baby!! I think I am going to play Sims 3 today, that would be fun! I am also going to pick up all of the dog poop that is outside, gross! Okay well I am hungry so I am going to find something to eat for lunch, then I am going to make rochester cookies!
Christa

The Perfect Blanket

All of my animals LOVE my kitty blanket that I stole from mother last year!! First Oreo and Pizza (mostly Pizza) would take it over whenever I wasn't using it, but now Kipper won't stay off of it!! I have to fight with him every night on the couch because he wants to use it but I do too!! Good thing I got the blanket so my kittens and puppy will snuggle with me!!

Yesterday Jese, Kipper, and I went to Dad's house to play games! Kipper didn't like being outside the whole time but since he didn't sleep there he was really tired when we got home and hardly made it to the couch to fall asleep!! We had lots of fun at Dad's and supper was really good! I will be heading back over on Saturday to butcher chickens. It is a good thing they are ready because we are all out of meat!!! All of the deer meat is gone!! I took all off dad's meat that he had left last night and it wasn't much. To bad Jese forgot to apply for a bear license this year so we won't bear meat either. Deer hunting is way to far away...I guess we will live off of chicken untill November :)
Jese was so nice this morning, he made me waffles!! Then I said oh we should have named Kipper Waffle, that would have been cute! He either ignored me or didn't hear me, I'm not sure which one! After breakfast I took a shower, hung out with my kittens, then we went on a walk with Kipper! Now he is tired out again!! Okay well that is all I know, have a nice day! I hope it rains out!

Christa

Post #651

Hello! I still don't know anything. I haven't been up to much, just my wifely duties and job searching! I finally got an email today about our fish tank, they just wanted to know if I still had it (it is posted on craigslist) I hope someone buys it! Jese just got done working out, now he is taking a shower. We are going to walk to the post office today to mail all of the stuff I sold on ebay! The video games went for more than we expected, but still not very much! We made enough money to pay for a bill or two though so that is always nice! We are doing good at saving our money still! Jese's first check should be pretty big because he doesn't have insurance taken out yet and because he has overtime on it, yea! On Friday we will no longer have insurance :( We will get some through Jese's work Oct. 1st though so we won't have to go to long without it. As soon as we get it back I am going to have to go to the dentist, one of my fillings is getting pretty old and isn't fairing to well! Of course it is one of my teeth in the front so if the filling falls out everyone will notice!! I don't think it will though. Okay well I don't know much else, have a nice day!!
Christa
I hope it rains out, I miss the rain!!

A day of peace and quiet!

Hello everyone! I have nothing new to report, sorry! I am shutting off my phone today, I am sick of talking on it!! If there is an emergency leave me a message or call Jese's phone! :) Have a nice Saturday!

Christa

Save, Save, Save!

Since Jese and I want to buy a house we are working to save more money for a down payment, which means a lifestyle change!! So in order to save money we are going to start doing the following things, wish us luck!

Ways to Save Money for a House
If it’s not on sale it doesn’t exist!

1. Do less driving
· 1 trip for grocery shopping a week
· 1 trip for visiting a week
· Ride a bike

2. Don’t use credit cards
· If the money isn’t there now, we don’t need it now

3. Only buy what we need, not what we want
· NO video games
· NO movies
· NO music
· NO books
· NO clothes
· NO shoes
· NO decorations

4. Stay home
· Don’t go out to eat
· Don’t go to movies
· Don’t go on trips

5. Sell whatever hasn’t been used in 3 months

Fish Tank For Sale

Hello everyone!! In order to save for a house Jese and I are selling what we don't need...which includes our fish tank! Our loss can be your gain!! If anyone is interested in buying it let us know, we are willing to consider all offers!!

Included is:

40-50 gallon fish tank (we aren't sure what the exact size is)

Fish tank stand

Heater

Filter

10-15 fish (not sure how many we have! The algae eaters are 3-4 yrs old!)

All the food we have

Rocks

Structures (Dragon, bridge thing, etc.)

Everything stored in the stand, which is everything you would need!

I hope someone wants it!

Christa

Kipper meets Cooper!!

Good morning! I am so happy it is a rainy day, I love the rain!! On Sunday we brought Kipper over to Alicia's house for a puppy play date. She has a puppy that is a month older than Kipper, they had lots of fun playing!! Kipper is a bully though and steals bones and toys from all dogs, poor Cooper wanted to play but Kipper got a bone and wouldn't play. When we got home he was nice and tired out for the night :) This morning Jese was in charge of him and he didn't do a very good job. Since it was raining out Kipper didn't want to go outside so Jese let him in before he pooped so then he went inside right as soon as Jese let him in. Then a little later he did it again :( We are going to make cookies today, yummy! That is probably all we will do because on rainy days you are supposed to be lazy!! Okay that is all I know!

Christa

Just a picture!

This morning I didn't want to get up to let the dog out but Pizza made it worth it because she was just so cute in the kitty house Jese made when he was a kid!! I think she was sleeping in it!

The house I want!!

I LOVE this house! It is in New Prague and I WANT it!! So, if you have a little bit of money sitting around feel free to give it to us for a down payment!! Or you can cosign a loan for us :)

Also, we just had a bat in here, GROSS!!! Jese killed it don't worry!

Also, Jese is calling to complain about our neighbor tomorrow, he must have gotten a new sound system or something because his tv is REALLY loud!! It is really annoying. He is also going to ask if they are going to put up a privacy fence because I don't like our other neighbor being able to see in our kitchen all the time.

Okay that is all for now!

Christa

Lost

Hello! I have decided that I am not going to go to MSU-Mankato this fall. I decided that I don't really feel drawn to teaching or writing either so I am not going to waste any more money going to school until I know what I actually want to do with my life. I know you all think I am nuts! I just haven't ever really known what kind of job would be the right one for me. I don't want to sit in an office all day I know that for sure! I think the problem is I have always known I wanted to be a stay at home mom until all of my kids are in school and that is as far as I have ever planned my life, seriously anyways! Even when I was at WSU I said that to people, that I didn't want to work when I have kids. That is how I was raised, well only until I was 5 but Cassie and Amy had Mom home much longer. But by then I went to school, when I got home mom was there, that is how I want to be. Once they are in school and older I would like to work, I just don't know doing what! But since I have no kids and won't for awhile I am stuck. I just don't know what to do. Nothing appeals to me and I don't want to dread going to work every day.
I have also decided that I don't like living here. I like our apartment and everything but it just doesn't feel right. I think I would have to say I like Winona better. Yes I know I complained for four years how much I hated it there, but when I compare it to living here, I think I like it there better. I thought that I wanted to live really close to family all the time but now that I do, I realize that I don't really mind being farther away! Don't get me wrong, I love hanging out with my family and I do it all the time. But now I kind of feel like I am under a microscope, everything I do, or don't do, is always being watched. I also like being able to go to the store and not having to worry that I might see someone I know when I don't look nice. In Winona I didn't know anyone so I never had to worry about that :) So I think I will stick out for a year here and then maybe, just maybe, I will give in to Jese and move a little closer to the cities, even though I still don't like the sounds of it! If we can find a place that has privacy then I would be okay with it. I don't want to live right on top of someone like we do now, but I don't want to drive 15 minutes to get groceries, like we do right now. I don't know, maybe I will never be happy with where I am at, I will work on it though!
I am still on the job search, so far not so good. The unemployment rate in Minnesota has gone even higher, which is bad news for me because that means more competition. When I find a job I will let everyone know right away so every time I talk to you, you don't need to ask me about it, it gets annoying and depressing every time I have to say, nope nothing yet! I guess that is all my whining for today! Oh yes, I would appreciate it if when you talk to me you don't make a joke out of this, that happens a lot, sometimes I do like to be taken seriously.

On to today...Today I went grocery shopping, poor Jese had to listen to the dog whine while I was gone, he was trying to sleep!! So far it sounds like his job is going good, he drank a little to much caffeine last night though and got a stomach ache, silly boy!! Right now I am sitting in the porch watching Pizza, she is outside, her and Kipper keep taking turns going out. She thinks every time Kipper goes out she should be able to go out also! I am also baking Jese one of the apple pies that we had frozen, it has been in for one hour so far! He won't be up for another 5 hours!! I don't like it when he is home but sleeping because I just want to go wake him up and talk to him!! Okay well Pizza just got stuck on a tree so I have to go help her! Have a nice day!!

Christa
Oh yes, I love this weather, I wish it would stay like this until Christmas, no more hot days, yuck!!

Yum, Gyros at the Fair!!

Good morning everyone!! So I discovered the bad thing about living in this town, my neighbor!! Yesterday she came and asked me to water her huge dogs because she was going away for the night so I said sure, then she decided to have be put them in the house last night and let them out this morning!! If you haven't been here to see my place yet you don't know how huge these dogs are. They are black labs and the older one is the biggest lab I have ever seen!! The younger one is super hyper and jumps a ton. So last night Jese helped me bring them in and they were hard to control. After that we decided taht I wasn't going to be able to put them out by myself so since Jese works tonight and wants to sleep in we got up at 6:00 to let them out, that way he could fall back asleep, which he did!! One of the dogs pooped and peed in the house but I didn't clean it up because it was gross and it was 6AM!! Plus maybe that way she won't ask me to do it again, I don't like big dogs unless they are a Newfoundland!! Kipper was so good last night!! I got him a smaller kennel yesterday because he always scratches at his cage and goes all over it. I think the smaller kennel was the key. He didn't wake up at all last night!! When we got up at 6 he whinned for a little while but then he went back to sleep. Yesterday he had a couple accidents in the house but he knew it was wrong. The last time he did he walked to the door and Jese got up to put him out and he peed. So he just needs to learn to give us more than a 2 sec. warning. I took him on a long walk in the afternoon and once Jese got home we took him on a super long walk to get him tired!! When we were walking we walked by the Kare 11 news filming, they filmed us walking away but we weren't on the news, we watched it, jerks!! I guess it is okay though because it wasn't a nice story, it was about some freak that had young girls come to his apartment, gross!! And to think we walked right by the apartment and didn't know anything about it!! I will have to keep an ear out for these things so I don't get lured into anyones apartment when I am walking Kipper by myself!!
Today I am going to the Waseca County Fair! I was going to go at 11:00 with everyone but Jese wants to go so I am waiting for him to wake up and then I will go with him instead!! He works tonight, it is his first overnight ever!! I hope he can stay awake. I am forcing him to sleep in, hopefully he can sleep at least untill noon. Okay well I am hungry now so I am going to eat!
Christa

BAD DOG KIPPER!!!

Pizza and Oreo were investigating the kitty house Jese made when he was a kid, it was too small for them!

Hello! Yesterday was a BUSY day!! I was tired after it!! We decided (well mostly me) to clean the apartment because I had been gone for two weeks so it needed it! Jese tackled the downstairs while I did the upstairs. I should have picked the downstairs because Jese ended up getting done way before me! He was nice though and helped me by cleaning the bathroom. I started to do our massive amounts of laundry in the morning and I am still not done!! After we were done cleaning we went to Waseca to meet Remi, Kipper liked playing with her! We also did some quick grocery shopping. Once we got home it was already supper time!! I was so tired, I went upstairs to see if I could get a picture of the kittens in the kitty house and ended up falling asleep on the hard floor for half an hour!! I would have been there much longer but Jese came up two times to wake me up for supper, so I gave in and went downstairs to eat!! My neck was sore from my nap on the floor with no pillow! After that we just watched some tv. Once it was bedtime Kipper went right to bed like always. For two weeks up north he only whinned 2 nights and that was for about 5 minutes, well last night was much different!! I was about to shoot him he was so annoying!! At 1:00 he woke me up whinning, that I could ignore since you are supposed to because then they will stop. Well he didn't stop and he started barking!! Around 2:30 after about my 30th time getting up Jese finally woke up, but I think that is only because I turned on the light! Around 3:00 I moved him to the bathroom and shut the door, that didn't drown out his barking. Finally at about 4:30 Jese got him to shut up! I don't know what his problem was!! I was in tears because I got a migrane and couldn't take excedrin because that has caffine in it, we had no other drugs because Jese took them all, and I was so tired I was delerius!! I would hear noises that weren't real!! It was a bad night!! Following that bad night was a bad morning! Kipper decided to wake up at 7:00 and start up again!!! We decided to just give up because we were both so tired so Jese took him out to go potty and then put him in bed with us just so we could sleep, I know a bad bad thing to do, but I wanted to sleep!! I didn't get up untill 10:30 and Jese is still in bed with the dog!! To make matters worse, when I got the mail this morning we got a notice saying our health insurance will be ending on July 31st!!! Apparently we either didn't fill out the renewal form correct or we didn't send in some supporting documents, I don't know which because it doesn't say!! Good thing Jese gets insurance at his new job in 60 days because now we wouldn't be able to apply for MN Care for 3 months, that is how long they make you wait to reapply. Okay well I guess I better start my day since it is almost lunch time!!
Christa

We're back!

I put Kipper in the tent before I went to the bathroom and when I got back this is where I found him!!
Liam is tanning with us!

I am back from up north! I had lots of fun and got really tan!! I didn't really do to much up there, mostly just tanned!! The first two days were not very nice but that was okay because then we got lots of rest! Kipper loved it up there!! Now he is tired out, this morning he woke up to go potty and then went right back to sleep instead of playing or eating!!! Oh yes, we changed his name again, now it is kipper, like Kipper snacks! We decided to come home yesterday instead of today because we have stuff to get done before Jese starts his new job on Wednesday. Okay well I am hungry now so have a nice day!

Christa