what is up!

Ok I know I didn't keep up with the blog since vacation so... let me tell what has ben going on.
The floor has been installed and it looks wonderful.
Tim has been doing good at work, things were a little ruff for decemeber because he had so many people on vacation. I am sure January will go much better. I was an assistant manager at Bellsouth the term is called RAM for a team until they could hire another coach. That was a great opportunity. Bellsouth and AT&T merged today. Our Christmas was great. Very low key. I had a friend come over and eat with us. We had rib roast, it was a nice change from the usual ham.
I guess I have nothing else to report. What a very boring life I live.

Happy Thanksgiving

new day means new update...
yesterday I got the upstairs closet organized, cleaned the upstairs bathroom and vacumed the rugs up there.
Finished up last minute food shopping and baked a pie so that i wouldn't have to do it today.
I am now making pumpkin bread and getting the bread ready for stuffing.
Tim and his uncle are putting in the hardwood floors as I type this. It is going to look so good. Of course I will add pictures when they are done.
Todays Menu will consist of

Herb roasted turkey

stuffing

yams

Mashed potatoe...the real kind with the skins on

beets

corn

rolls

gravy

then apple cranberry pie for desert.

I think I am ready for a nap now LOL
I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving and spend time with your loved ones.
One thing I am thankful for this year is ....really everything. I am thankful that we have jobs and each other we have our health and even tho its a little on the tight side with some things i am greatful for that as well...it reminds me that i need to be more humble and not expect so much.
Tomorrow starts my christmas decorating. I normally go shopping on black friday however no money this year to do that. bummer

take care everyone,
peace, love and thankfulness
Tim and Sabrina

Day 2 of vacation

Ok so yesterdays list did not exactly get completed. Here is what I did get done

2 downstairs bathrooms cleaned

The kitchen was cleaned from top to bottom....that means fridge was completly stripped and scrubbed...I even sanitized it.

The long cupboard was decluttered and items moved to the pantry.

3 loads of dishes done

Kitchen table cleaned off ...yikes the most expensive cathall I have ever seen

I got on my hands and Knees and scrubbed the kitchen floor...my knees still hurt.

I made dinner
and finally
I put all the laundry away.

Today we
moved all the stuff out of the living room

Tim ripped up the carpet and foam underneath it

I removed all the staples and tack strips. ... my hand I think is permently bruised from pulling all the staples out.

Just a night of relaxing now.
I hope you all had a great day!

First Day of Vacation

Hello,
Welcome to the first day of vacation! I will try to update this everyday that I am on vacation so to keep you informed of how I am going to enjoy this entire week off. I have so much planned that I think I may have overdone it.. But hey that is what we as americans do....over do things.
SO Day 1
* Tim has left for work since he had to go in... but he will have the rest of the week off.
* I made my list for grocerys for thanksgiving.
* I went to the bank and deposited some money. Just in the nick of time since some checks are about to clear. PHEW!!!
* Went shopping I spent 90 on food however after my coupons and bonus card savings I brought it down to 69.00 I really forgot how much I love using coupons!!! look out grocery stores because i am about to put a hurting on you! LOL
That is what i have completed... here is what I have planned for the rest of the day.
* Put grocerys away
* clean out fridge... way to cluttered and i am running out of tupperware. :O(
* organize freezer both in house and outside. clean outside of outside freezer as well
* Clean all 3 bathrooms
* organize spare bedroom closet
* vacume all rugs upstairs.
* bring in christmas stuff ( might get put off til tomorrow)
* Start moving things out of living room so Tim and I can remove the carpet tomorrow. The hard wood floors go in on friday!!! I can not wait!!!
* make dinner... something simple I am making spagetti
I think that is enough for now, If I do more then of course i will update.
I know to some of you this sounds like a crazy way to spend a vacation...however these are things I never find time to do.... except clean the bathrooms and vacume I do that on a regular basis. sortof I am so excited to be spending a week at the house... not going any where. AHHH
we are not going to Ronnies this year for Christmas. Even tho we have gone the last 2 years I am glad we are staying home, we have done so much traveling this year that i am bushed. We went to Mexico in June then to Tenn in July then to NY in Sept I am tired of traveling. Well if I am going to complete my list I had Better get a move on it.
If I forget to say it later on...
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!!
Peace and Love,
Sabrina

So much fun

I went out with my friend Des tonight. We had such a good time. I met her at work and then we went to her house to let her dog out, then we went to olive garden for dinner and then target to kill time before the movie. We saw Flica. It was a friggon awesome movie. I cried twice. Tim Mcgraw plays the dad and I didn't even recognize him with out his scruffy goatee. However now it explains why i thought he was so cute.
good movie .... i highly recommend it!!!

A weekend all to myself

Tim is in the mountains this weekend with a bunch of his friends from Atlanta. I have the entire weekend to myself. I can do as I please...not that I usually dont already. I worked an early shift today and I loved it. I think I will do some scrapping this weekend...yes I have a swap I need to finish and 2 circle journals to get out. Tonights girls only dinner will consist of tater skins and a hamburger. yummy! Ghost wisperer comes on in about 55 min. I love that show. I watched Greys attatomy last night...good grief what is going on with those people. Izzie has a check for over 8 million dollars and she tacks it to the fridge...WTH? I would be doing things like crazy with 8 million dollars. my houses would be paid off thats for sure. Tim would definetly get the garage he wants. Cars would be paid off. the rest would be in the bank til I could think of something else to do with it after i traveled the globe.

its beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Does that one statement send you into a frenzy of nerves? It does me. I have so much to do...lets make a list!
things to do before dec 1

put hardwood floors down. I can not wait for this!

figure out what cookies to make this year to hand out

who am i buying gifts for this year other than Tim

Figure out invite list to Christmas party on Dec 10

Christmas decoration list ready

what to get Tim's team for christmas

menu for said Christmas party

put together a list of things i would like for christmas. Tim can't shop without a list HEHE

I know there is more...I just cant think of it right now.
I had a great chat with my friend Barb last night...we kept IM each other and she makes me laugh so hard I almost pimp! I really miss her and our weekly chats at the olympic over spanikopita, ahhh those were the days. Her oldest daughter Brandi is expecting in feb. Her youngest daughter heather's baby just turned a yr. Man how time flies. :O(
I wish they lived closer. Heck i would settle for a 2 hour drive instead of 9
ohh well one can hope right?

This and That

Just a quick check in. Nothing like sitting in the big comfy chair on a sat morning with your laptop....knowing you have nothing pressing to do. I am still trying to decide if i want to go back to school. Tim thinks I should go just so i can finish my degree. There are only 6 classes left until I am completed. It almost seems like a waste because I probably will not get a job in this field because the pay is so much less than what I get paid now. grrr do you take a job because you love the work or because you need the money and the job with all the money isnt so bad on most days. decisions decisions

We are back!

Tim and I went to Ny over the weekend. It was ok. It was great to hang out with my friend Carrie and Barb. Kasey...Carrie's little girl is so cute!!! Too bad she screamed her head off everytime Tim walked into the room. I didn't get my eyebrow pierced like I wanted. Tim did get his tattoo, he likes it. That about sums up the trip. Nothing new going on up there...everyone still doing the same thing.

OH boy

Well here it is 12:02 am and I am not sleeping. I have to get up in 3 hrs to get ready for a flight that leaves at 6am. I am going to Buffalo NY for the weekend. I can not wait to see my neice shavonne and my nephew Quinn. I also hope to see my other nephew Josh but who knows if my brother will bring him around. He currently is not speaking to me because he owes me 280.00. I should be the one not speaking to him. I am excited to see my sister. I am hoping to get a few photos of her and I while I am up there. honestly i am excited to see my whole family. The last time i saw them was last october I am sure the little ones have gotten so big. Shavonne is in Kindergarten for goodness sakes.
It will be nice to just hang out with carrie for a while too. Tim will be getting a new tattoo while we are there. (of course)
Things have been going pretty good at work. Carole is back and she had a great time in China. I did pretty good with her team while she was away. The whole thing was a very big eye opener for me into the mgmnt team. Makes me wonder am i ready for this full time? Can i handle it? AM i mature enough? WHo know. Lots of center changes coming up in the next month. More on that later I think I will go watch tv now.

Times are a changing

Well I have to drop out of school this semester. I will start back again next semester. I got a teacher i just can not please. I have yet to pass a paper I submit and the kicker is i have a cpa helping me with the homework. SO i have emailed my counselor and will begin the proceedings. It saddens me in a way however I am looking for a break. things are changing at work and I need to focus on that right now. I am hoping to apply for a coach position soon at work. Carole (one of the coaches i team lead for) is on vacation in China. So I will be running her team for the next 20 days. I am excited. My Ipod broke so i have to take that in tomorrow to get repaired. Time for dinner..

here it is 11:03 at night and i still can not sleep. I am usually in bed by now for at least an hour. We got highspeed internet this week. YEAH! its so much nicer than dial up. I really needed it for school this semester. Thats another thing.. i can not seem to get connected (mentally) for these classes. I dont know what the problem is. i just feel unconnected. i feel unconnected with the world. Whats my purpose? what am i supposed to do with my life? Certainly i wasnt ment to work at bellsouth my whole life. Can i tell you what i really want out of life? no. its always the same. i feel so unimportant. like i am just a teardrop in a very big puddle.

I was wrong

about how friends are an assett. If you read my previous post then you would have understood that last statement. The new friends I thought we made... don't talk to us. I have no idea why. I have emailed her and she doesn't respond. I am beginning to wonder if it's me. Maybe I expect too much from people. Maybe my standards are too high and noone can meet them. I don't know and I no longer care. I am off to go clean my carpets.

Home Improvements

Here are a few recent projects.
The kitchen got a new antler chandelere. I've been eyeing this one up for a while but it was $200. I continued to watch for a sale and got one better. Someone had mismarked the display for $82. Well, I didn't think I had a chance but asked to see the manager. He confirmed someone has made a mistake. I sighed deeply and said "gee, my wife has wanted this for a long time and our anniversary is next week..." (sad, dejected face...) I continued... "man, that was a real tease... she would have been so suprised..." with that the manager told the other employee to give it to me for that price and said "Happy Aniversary!" I was so shocked... I thought it was worth a shot. LOL It was a pain to install however, we love the look it adds. I also installed this new ---->
ceiling fan in the master bedroom. It's much bigger and way quieter. This was a pain to install as well considering the "creative license" the electrician took.... eeesh don't get me started!

I saved the best for last... Mom and Dad came for a visit... so of course I had a project for Dad to help me with.
The tile when you firs walk through the front door was in bad need of replacement. This pic is a bit dark. The tile is a 6" porcelin that resembles slate... the border will help tie in the new hardwood floors we are currently saving for... I'm leaning toward a natural cherry... something to slightly contrast the pine the house was built with. It took alot of prep however, was well worth it! This matches the house so well and is installed the right way! Which in this house is a rarity unless I do it myself! (with Dad's assistance of course...)

We are back!

Well as of a week ago we are back from Mexico. It was my first international trip and I think I set my expectation too high. I was not prepared for the poverty I saw when we left the airport on the way to our resort. I can see why they are leaving and trying to come to the USA. However it is crippling us because they have nothing to contribute to society. They take and take and give nothing back.
We flew into Cancun and stayed in Playa de carmen which is about 40 min outside of Cancun.
The resort was nice, very big and lots of marble. We originally went there for a wedding and we just turned it into a wks vacation so we were there with about 40 people. Trying to get 40 people together to do something is crazy! It is so hard to get people together for anything. The beach was beautiful. I got severly sunburned and had to stay out of the sun for 3 days. Tim got montezuma's revenge and was in the room for a day. He never did get to go 3 wheelin. We went to cozumel for a day. It was so much fun. Tim bought me a ring that is tanzinite and australian opal. very very pretty. it is proving to be a bit hard to get it resized.
all in all the trip was good but I am not looking to leave the wonderful USA for a long time.
It is amazing how much you appreciate something when you are with out it. I will be exspecially gratefull this 4th of July to be living in a country as wonderful as ours. I truly feel blessed to live here.
peace and love
sabrina

IN 5 days

In 5 days we will be in Mexico!! I can not wait. However when we come back I need to buckle down and get somethings in order. I need to get the one credit card paid off. That should take two wks of working 6 day work weeks. I also need to make sure I buckle down and stay on top of this homework. I dont want to lose my b average in school. It would be awesome if i could graduate with honors. I hate my math class. It brings back all the fears and irritations of math in high school. The professor of my IT class has a last name of FAIL. How am I supposed to take direction from a man whos last name is fail? LOL when we come back I have 2 extra days off and monday i will lay like broccoli and do nothing...well maybe I will do some laudry. On day 2 I will spend the day in the scrap room. I dont think i will get anything created but I will get it clean and organized... well time for work. SIGH>>> can i go to mexico now?

in two weeks that is. I find it funny how 2 wks sounds shorter than 14 days when it really is the same exact time. I am so ready to sit on a beach sipping a pinia colado or some other fruity drink. Tim has all this stuff he wants to do in Mexico, like snorkeling, swimming with dolphins, deep sea fishing, visiting the ruins. He also wants to go 4 wheeling thru the jungle and on the beach, swim with manatees. Jeeze he is going to need a vacation from the vacation. I really have no intrest to do any of it except visit the ruins and swim with the manatees. I just want to relax and do some site seeing and shopping.
So last week when we got paid...it was the first paycheck I ever got from bellsouth with no bonus on it. Man it sucked! I dont depend on the money to pay the bills but i do rely on it to do the extra things we like to do. I hate not being able to make a bonus as a team lead. I am going to ask teresa if i can work peoples 6th days at work so i can get some extra cash. we are not hurting by any means i just dont like haveing less than 1000 in the bank at all times. And i dont want to dip into either on of the savings accnts. It will work out so i dont really stress about it.
Tim is having a good time being a coach. Some of his people are testing the waters to see how far they can push him... they are realizing that its not very far. Ginnifer on Tim's team and I talked about doing a girls weekend in GA. or we might go up to TN or hang out in charleston. We havent figured out wich yet but she cant wait to go, neither can i for that matter. I have not spoken to corina in awhile. They live up by work and i just do not have the time on the weekends to go see her. Besides tim needs a break from her husband.
Sarah went to the groomers yesterday. We had her shaved and now we call her nakki dog! lol
She looks too funny but i am sure she likes it better. she also got a bath and her nails trimed and her teeth brushed because her breath was nasty!!!!
I will take a picture and post soon. I am going to close here.... i have cleaning, homework, and dinner to do... so .... adios

So much to catch up on....

Well so much has happened since I have posted last. let me begin...
Sarah and Star attacked the new screen door and it is completly ruined. I have never seen Tim so mad, not that I blamed him. So sarah has to stay locked up in the pen when we are going to be gone for more than an hr.
Tim had a BBQ for his team at work and we cooked for 2 days. Everyone showed up except for 3 people and then the one person had the nerve to get mad at us. LOL
At work we have now trained to be Universal service reps. I dont want to talk to people about their bills. Its way to confusing.
On 05-05-06 Tim bought me flowers and had them delivered to me at work. It was so sweet. He bought them because 5 yrs ago that day he asked me to marry him. On the card he wrote "the best decesion i ever made was 5 yrs ago today.. i love you with all my hear" I will post a picture of them once my camera finishes charging.
I didnt do anything for National Scrapbooking Day on 05-06-06, and i am ok with that. I really need to clean my scraproom and organize it.
as of thursday it will be exactly 4 wks till MEXICO!!!! WAHOOOO i cant wait. We went out and bought Tim some clothes for mexico. We are going to Ronnie and abby's for memorial day weekend. nothing big planned...just hanging out.
I got new glasses today and i really like them. They make everything look so much sharper.
Bye!
Sabrina

Screen Door

I've been lucky to have Chuck (cousin) come up a couple times from GA and give me a hand with some projects around the house! This screen door looks like any easy project huh? Ha... not if it's a Shaw project! :-) When the front door was originally installed it was totally wrong. So the first step to installing the screen door was to rip the existing front door out and re-install it correctly. Haha it get's better... well considering this is a log home, the exterior walls are solid yellow pine. Of course the initial opening was too small so I had to make a cut across the top of the opening to make it taller. This was accomplished with a saw-zaw. (Chuck always seems to find a tool I don't have! LOL My tool collection grows with each visit.) This was heightened to a new sense of fun as I sawed through many knots, standing on a ladder with saw dust in my face! (Chuck was kind enough to take the supervisorly role. hehehehe) It was an all day project and I was whupped by the time we cleaned the tools up! We've been enjoying the wonderful breeze. (I'm still wondering if all that work was really necessary! :-P) I just need to put some polyurathane on it and we'll be good to go. I've enjoyed the time spent with Chuck. He's taught me a ton in just a few short visits. I'm saving for hardwood floors next. Charlie you may need a vacation day to recover from the next project! hahaha

New Kitchen Table

We finally bit the bullet and bought a new kitchen table. The table top is solid red oak while the legs on the table and chairs are hickory, and yes the bark is still on parts. :-) It comes with 2 leaves and six chairs. Built by the Amish we paid... well... let's just say a little higher than we initially budgeted. ;-) However, at least we have room for company to eat at a table like civilized humans do! LOL We are hoping to possibly get a matching bed... dreading the cost.