luxe chandelier

September 2008 – taken by Jason Gervase

I’m behind with Google Reader and my TV shows. I really don’t want to know what I have been doing instead. I think it has to do with being way too addicted to Super Mario Bros. I can now say we finally finished it so I’m done with video games for a while! I don’t know how Tyler can play video games all the time and not get sick of it. I guess it’s something I’ll never understand…

Recently I have been trying to figure out what I want to do with my life right now. Tyler and I need to take advantage of it now while we are still young and do not have children. We do want to have children some day but right now we still have things we want to do for ourselves. I do not want to have children until I lose weight first anyways. When we do start a family we want to be able to say we accomplished things we wanted to before becoming full-time parents.

I recently discovered that they have a boxing club in the area. Their website and FAQ page has me convinced to join. I’m going to check it out on Monday anyways. Trust me I’m not joining to become a professional boxer…that’s not my goal. I love their insight of how you can lose weight and become fit with punching bags, exercising with kettlebells, jump roping, drills and conditioning. Both my parents are interested too but I’m not sure which one of them is going to join me. On the other hand, Tyler loves dodgeball and unfortunately they don’t have a team here at our community center. He is going to look into trying to set one up though and I hope it works out since I want to see him do something he loves.

I’m excited to see what this month and upcoming months will bring for us especially becoming more involved in our community.

“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.” – Harvey MacKay

We tried getting rid of Tyler’s forehead lines before taking pictures.
He swears he’s stuck with them forever.

- I cannot go to bed unless the door is closed & locked and the closet has to be closed. If it’s not closed I’m going to wake up in the middle of the night screaming thinking that there is someone in closet and force Tyler out of bed to close it. Fortunately he never remembers doing this the next day.

- The window blinds has to be faced down because I would rather have stalkers, robbers, or serial killers get on a ladder to look down through the blinds than easily look up. Sometimes I have Tyler go outside to assure me he can’t see through them.

- I cannot wake up the first time the alarm goes off. I’ll set the alarm an hour before I have to wake up and reset it every 5-10 minutes and then I’ll finally get up! This drives Tyler crazy!

- I have long hair so that means it takes longer to dry my hair. After I shower & put make up on I always crawl back in bed and sleep for 10 more minutes to air dry my hair a little bit before I blow dry it.

- My current food obsession is a fried egg sandwich! I love the yolk!

Do you have any obsessions that are random?

Tyler wanted hamburgers on Friday night and put the meat in the microwave to defrost. He held the meat as he tried to slice it in half and you can guess what happened….

The knife went through and cut himself in between his fingers.

Unsure of what to do… we got in the car and immediately started driving to my parents’ house. We had to stop at the gate to be able to enter the country club and I saw this same lady who always like to start up a conversation with me instead of just asking me who I am coming to see and making sure I am on the list and open the gate for me to go through.

I was thinking to myself… should I just show her Tyler’s bloody hand and say, “This is why I do not have time to answer your questions or talk with you. Let us go through NOW.”

But I didn’t. I just nodded as she talked while she was putting my name in.

Dad was home and came to our rescue. After debating if we should go to the hospital or not.. they did not think it was necessary and wrapped up his fingers together.

The next day, his cut actually looked deeper and worse. Tyler assured me he was fine and has been replacing the bandages throughout the day. It’ll probably take a month before it fully heals. I apologized for not being the wife that can heal an injury without being grossed out.

My parents are now prepared that I’ll be bringing our children over for all of their injuries if Tyler’s not home.