In the words of Nancy Kerrigan, "Why Me?"

Yesterday and today is one of "those" days.

On top of my hair getting completely butchered and my toes murdered by the nai nai at the nail place; at the grocery store last night no one would help me load water into my cart, therefore I threw my back out again and this time the pills do not feel like they're helping at all.
Then, my friend brings up to me the fact that my license plate, that mysteriously disappeared off my car a few days ago, was probably stolen by someone who is out racking up charges my account running tolls with it on their car. Lovely. I can't afford that! So all day I have been trying to get in touch of the right office to fix this problem, but they're all closing early for the holiday weekend! What the heck?! Can they do that? I bet they were lying. I mean, if the mail man has to deliver in sleet and snow, I think the tax offices should have to work until the normal 5 on Friday. No one cares though! I then tried finding different offices on my own computer, but found I couldn't because it has a virus and doesn't work anymore.

Someone has put a curse on me, I just know it.

Hairy Scary

I remember as a teenager going to get my haircut and how great it would look the day that the hair stylist fixed it, but when it came time for me to do it the next day, how horrible it would look. I remember getting so frustrated, pink in the face, and sweaty and how I'd start crying thus making all my hair stick to my face as I'd run to throw myself on the bed to hide my ugly head under my pillow. The world felt like it was ending and I'd never be able to leave the house again.
As I grew older, this stopped happening. If I got a bad haircut, I got a bad haircut. It was what it was and I just went with it. But that isn't the case today!
I went in for a "trim" at a local beauty shop here in Rowlett after work today- I have some wicked crazy split ends lately and although I have been working at growing out my hair, I knew getting them cut off was the responsible thing to do. I asked the lady to trim 2 inches off. (This would leave my hair just slightly above my chest.) When she took off my smock and I looked at the floor, I saw that the lady had cut off around 5 1/2 inches of my hair. It now is shoulder length and I hate it! I feel like a boy. I need a bag to wear over my head.

She's Back!

After 66 days of having no car, I once again have my car back. It took 66 days, 2 mechanic shops, 2 German specialists, and dozens of guesses to fix my car. The shop where I took it no longer accepts Volkswagens for repairs and the man who owns the shop now looks as if he has more gray hair then when this all started. Buuuuut it's back. It's clean. And I hope it keeps running.

Zaijian Olympics!

Well the Olympics are over and although I'm sad, I'm also very excited that they will next time be held in London, England! I love London!

To celebrate the passing of the flag, I arranged 2 British meals for our Olympic enjoyment.

1st: Breakfast!

English muffins...er crumpets, pastries, jam and tomatoes.

Chocolate pastries. Matt's favorite....not mine. I didn't partake of these.

I'm only half awake since waking up early on a Sunday is not a regular occurrence for me, but I managed to find my sweat jacket from England and sport that puppy for our entire meal.

2nd: Dinner!Here we have jacket potatoes, baked beans, peas (I should have smashed them but I was lazy) and steamed tomatoes. MMM!

Matt posing with his jacket potato...don't ask what he put in his. Blek!

What good meal doesn't come with dessert? Farewell Olympics!

Freaky Deaky

Matt and I watched this movie the other day and I don't think we'll ever be the same....eeeessh!

Anyone for cake?

Sundays were made for experimenting with new recipes.

This week: 1 giant cupcake topped with ice cream and a cherry made of icing. Bon Appetit!

I Love Playmobil, Halloween, AND eBay.co.uk!

I love Halloween! I know it's a few months away, but I'm already getting in the spirit of it!

Recently while in Toys 'R' Us looking for Sea Monkeys (Matt and I grew Sea Monkeys for FHE, the closest things to babies we'll be making for a few years), I regrettably passed the Playmobil section.

I haven't told many people this, but I have an obsession with Playmobil. Granted, I only had one figurine as a child and it was of a crappy looking little Indian man in an orange dress; I always longed for more, but my parents had already started me collecting something different and that turned out to be a lot of fun too.

Anyhow, what I love about playmobil is that they basically have every life situation covered in figurine form! Who thinks of these things?! I urge anyone who hasn't ever checked out their products to definitely do so. They have pieces right down to construction sites with porta potties, vending machines, vultures eating animal carcasses (for the stranded in a desert scenarios one might make up while playing), hospital ORs, Babies in incubators, a metro sexual living room, and the list goes on! It's nuts!

Seeing the tiny selection that Toys 'R' Us had made me immediately go home and see what their site had for this season and what I found was that Playmobil also has holiday stuff! I found a nativity that was way too cool for words and on top of that, I found Halloween figurines! The only crappy part was that they weren't available in the states! Man!

But, with a few clicks through the UK's ebay, I found the entire set and won those puppies for only £16.00! It was way cheaper than the rest of the stingy Brits that were selling their sets piece by piece.

I am SO proud and can't wait to display my Playmobil ghouls!

The Olympics Continue!

Matt and my Olympic madness continued this weekend by kicking off Track & Field with little brownie track stars! Check it out!

Behold our lovely little track men!

Here I am posing with my favorite little Italian runner. He has a cute little mustache.

Here's Matt with the only brownie man who had his own Olympic flag that was made from the broken leg of another brownie man... Hey, we waste nothing around here!

Here's Matt eating that flag....MMM!

USA is #1 fools!

Matt tore this guy up!

And finally, our first guest during all our Olympic festivities! Kristi stopped in just in time to bite the head off of our Jamaican runner! Yuuuuuummy!

We love the Olympics!

Habits in our Habitat

There are so many things I love about being married, but I don't post them all the time because that might get annoying to other people.

However, this time I just really wanted to because this is my blog and I can!

I love how over the past year Matt and I have started picking up each other's habits. Not bad habits, not necessarily good habits, just habits.

I'm a very organized person, I was raised that way. I was raised not to leave my room until my bed was made and to this day, it kills me to walk out of the room without leaving it in an orderly fashion.

When Matt came along, I soon found he would be nothing like me, so I never even tried to institute my way of living on him, I just let him do his thing.

After over a year, I finally came home from work and walked into out bedroom to see this:

Matt's pajama pants for this evening folded and hung right next to mine.

I know it's not much, but I thought it was really sweet that he saw how mine were ready for me at night and made his the same way. He's so cute.

Not so Gouda

You know you’ve hit rock bottom poor when you’re at the grocery store, you see them sampling $15.00 a ¼ lb cheese, and without hesitation, you run and shove the expensive cheese into your lactose intolerant mouth just because you miss expensive things.
Saturday I spent the rest of the night on benadryl, blotchy, and sick…but I lived the rich life for .5 wonderfully, disgusting seconds.

Let the Olympics Begin!!!

It's Olympic time and this year Matt and I kicked it off big time!

We began our night with Chinese food (of course) and then when it was time for the parade of flags.... we had A PARADE OF COOKIES!!!

Check it out!

This is me preparing the icing for the Olympic rings!

Ta da!

Matt squeezing USA under the rings! He loves decorating things and he's good at it too!

Behold our parade of cookie flags! Look closely at our lovely icing detail....especially on Kenya flag! I'm not trying to sound conceited, but these cookies rocked my face off! I almost don't want anyone to eat them!

Chef Tiffany and Chef Matt!

USA is A-OK!

Beijing 2008 Baby!

I can't wait to watch gymnastics!!!