Housewarming Party Fun

Before I get into the housewarming party fun, here is the stupid celebrity "news" headline of the day:
Abigail Breslin gets $1 pay raise.

Of course this caught my interest, since she's made several hit movies w/ paychecks closer to the $1-2 million range than the $1-2 range. Apparently she now earns her age ($13) weekly (up from $12) for her allowance from her mom and dad. Her new chore which caused the pay increase? Feeding her cat.

BTW the rest of the news was about the Oxyclean guy's death, Kendra's wedding, Michael Jackson's death and Michael Jackson's family/BET tribute. Actual news. Again.

Also, I'm going to forgo my planned blog about MJ. I think, at this point, it would serve as nothing more than overkill and I've said enough via facebook and private conversations. I hope he has more peace than he ever did on earth. That's it.

The housewarming party was awesome! We had about 30 people, give or take, and it was a blast! Thanks to everyone who came out. I don't think a lot of people understand how much work throwing a party really is. It's all I worked on for almost 2 weeks. Plenty of people made long drives to get here, and we really do appreciate all of you. Luckily, all the food was long gone at the end of the night (too bad Adam and I never got any!)...but strangely enough there were at least 3 cases of beer untouched. Oh darn! :) I think the cleanup is going to be a hell of a lot easier than the set up. How weird is that? Then again, I may be blogging tomorrow about what an asinine statement that was, so we'll see!

WTF is going on around here?

First it was the infamous "shoelace" incident.

Yesterday, we came home from Larry's to a particularly foul smell lurking outside the garage. Bella must have noticed it too because, before we pathetic humans could see where the stench was coming from, Bella ran up to the garage door with a feral dead squirrel in her mouth. LOVELY.

Problem is, Adam threw the squirrel out into the tree line across from our driveway...not 5 minutes later, we were inside and the coyotes seemed REALLY loud all of a sudden. How much ya wanna bet they were in that tree line scarfing squirrel guts? Just great. As if the damn things weren't close enough. 2 weeks ago there was one in the ditch across the street. Those lurking little bastards!

Today, I am forced out of the house because there is yet another mouse problem . A new mouse is in town...visiting the INSIDE of my house...inside of my blanket closet, to be exact. So what do I do instead? Text while mowing the lawn at the old house. I think texting while driving is still ok if you're only driving a lawn mower. Keri says everything is legal in Mason County, so I think I'm ok.

This just in: Adam said I was being cynical. Apparently he has not quite mastered the art of shutting his mouth when he has nothing nice to say. Doesn't everyone want to hear (as soon as your husband walks in the door), "why haven't you cleaned the...I'll shut up now!" He's learning, this one. Slowly, but surely. Sort of like the little engine that could.
Back to cynical me.
After the previous comment about cleaning the raspberries smashed all over the refrigerator, he said I was being cynical. Since I hadn't said anything, I had to ask..."do you even know what cynical means? "

"No."

Welcome to my world.

The Farmer Takes a Wife

So this is where we begin...

In the last year-ish, I:
-Married a farmer
-Moved out of the suburbs
-Became a member of rural America
-Got a puppy
-Quit my job
-Purchased my/our first house

And here I am.

If judging by nothing other than the sheer volume of questions I get regarding farm/rural life, this should be interesting. I hope.

Sooner or later I will have more updates, but it's been killing me that this blog has been sitting around unmanned. Feel free to send your questions/thoughts...just be sure to spell check them first! :)