Our new dining room floors!

We finally finished the floors in our dining room. We're still working on the kitchen though.
After finishing our floors we realized the the paint (not pictured in the before pictures) was too similar to the colors of the floor so we decided we needed to re-paint as well. The colors we chose are a little bold but I felt like spicing things up a bit.

Here's the before pictures - remember this isn't really what they looked like just before we finished them as these pictures are actually pics from when we first bought the house a year and a half ago and I hadn't moved in or painted anything (the first time yet) but you can get a prety good idea of how ugly the carpet was.



This was actually the night we bought the house, please don't mind how pitiful I look, my hair is disgusting and YES, I do know that navy blue and black don't match. It had just been a long day folks!


Okay....now this is what the floors look like now! I have to say I like the "after" pictures much better.


I think the dog even likes them too!

Funerals and a Dentist.

I'm ashamed to admit that it's been since I lived in Texas since I've been to the denist - roughly about 7 years. Miraculously I am still completely cavity free! That's right folks - to this day I have not yet had one cavity ever. That's the good news.
The bad news is that that last week when i went to the dentist he was very concerned about my jaw. You see it pops.....a lot. Almost every time I open my mouth actually. Sometimes it locks up too and I can't even open my mouth. I've had this problem since I was in high school so I haven't thought much of it although it can be very painful and annoying at times. The dentist was more concerned than I was and sent me off to an oral surgeon.
All that leads me to yesterday morning.....

Upon arriving at the surgeons office for an evaluation I was told that neither my health NOR dental insurance would cover any of the expenses that came along with jaw problems. Well....I almost lost it.....not out of anger but because of the money these little visits were going to cost me a lot.
The assistant led me back to the little dental cubicle to wait for the surgeon to come in to evaluate me. I saw there in the big ol' chair, knowing that I'd probably be there awhile before the doctor came in. I started thinking and got upset. In just the last week alone steve and I have put over $900.00 on our credit card to pay for getting our car fixed and other medical stuff (steve got his wisdom teeth out). I then started thinking about just how expensive my little trip to the oral surgeon would be....not just on this day but to fix the problem in the long run. Needless to say I got depressed. I actually started crying a little as I sat there in the dentists chair thinking about all these expenses and the lack of money we had in the bank. I was feeling sorry for myself, but I admit I felt a little justified.
There happened to be a window in the little room I was sitting in that was facing the the street outside. In the midst of feeling sorry for myself I looked out the window and saw a hearse drive by followed by a lengthy funeral procession.
In that moment I felt I got so much perspective. Yes, I'm still a little stressed about some of the bills coming in, but I'm not lying in the back of a hearse on my way to be buried in the ground. Neither am in in a limo grieving the loss of a loved one.
I would MUCH rather be worried about my finances than having to deal with either one of those options.

No matter what I'm facing in life I can pretty much almost always think of someone that's going through something much worse than I am. It's in those moments of realizing that I really don't have it all that bad off after all that I feel grateful for God's grace. I am so grateful that He never gives me more than what I can handle. It not only gives me hope for the problems I face now, but it gives me hope for the future too.

my whirlwind of a weekend

We had a nice weekend. Friday night Steve and I went out for dinner and then to check out books at borders for awhile.
That probably doesn't sound special to ya'll but for me it was like therapy! I've been missing Steve a lot lately. Of course I see him every day but we always have something going on. It's not that I don't like our friends but lately our house has been like a circus. Despite the fact that everything in disarray because we're putting in new floors we've either had someone over or been out with someone every night for the last 2 weeks. Needless to say it was nice to just spend some quality time with Steve and go on a little date on Friday.
Saturday the whirlwind of life started again. Steve went out earlly in the morning to go to one of his friends house to pick up a dog they were giving away for Dale and Missy. Dale's been wanting a dog for a long time and he just had his 30th birthday so Missy decided to cave in and let him have the beagle he's been dreaming of for the last few years.
After that we had a hang out night for the people on our worship team at church. Of course after that was over all the young single guys decided to come play video games at our house until the wee hours of the morning. I woke up sunday morning to a sea of young guys sprawled out across our guest room and living room floor. At least it was all guys though so I didn't have to fight for the bathroom!
Sunday was a day similar in fashio to the previous days. Of course we did the church thing and then went to the park for ANOTHER birthday party for Dale (this is the second birthday party we've been to him this week). We played softball and hung out for a few hours and then went back to Dale & Missy's for our weekly Sunday night BBQ .
Not to say I didn't enjoy myself but sometimess I get so frustrated with myself on Sunday around the time I'm getting ready for bed when I realize that once again our entire weekend was packed full. I like fun, don't get me wrong but isn't the weekend supposed to be a time to rest and prepare for the upcoming week? It always seems like I go into Monday feeling just as tired as I do when I go into Friday at the end of the week. Life has just gotten to busy and everytime I think things are going to slow down they don't.
Anyway....dont' mind me, I'm just rambling on and whining a little. That's it for now folks!

bored, bored, bored, bored, BORED!

WHATEVER! I've decided that's my new favorite word. I don't really have a reason for liking this word so much, but I just feel like it and so therefore I think that's okay.
"Plethora" is another good word. I just like it. It's fun.
Think I'm stupid if you like, really, it's okay - I give you persmission.

Anyway....on to brighter topics.....like the sun. It's FINALLY shining. About time mr. sun!

I'm not drunk in case you're wondering. This is why I need a new job. I'm really this bored at my current job. This is why I write stupid blogs. I've already done my browsing on ebay for great bargains for the day, also I've checked out the "free" section of craigslist SEVERAL TIMES this afternoon (you know in case somebody adds something 5 seconds after you left the page) and I've come up with........absolutely nothing.
So...here I am, just writin on my blog about.......absolutely nothing.

Yes folks......I really and truly am THIS pathetic. So pathetic in fact that I need a new job. Hopefully I'll get one soon. My most recent second interview went okay. Hopefully I'll hear something soon. I would prefer to hear something now, but I guess good news on Monday is better than bad news on Thursday eh?

Okay....that's all the energy I could muster up to write on my blog for one day. I think I'll go catch up the latest hollywood gossip on another site now.
Have a better day than me ya'll!

Interview #2

I got called in for a second interview at the company where Steve works! I'll be going in on Wednesday at 12:30 so please keep me in your prayers! I'm REALLY nervous! I'll go in and take a personality test and then I'll meet before the management team which consists of about 8 people! Yep, 8 whole people will be interviewing me all at once! Needless to say I'm freaking out cause I'm not good with interviews at all - not even with one person let alone 8! AGGHHHH!

I REALLY want this job though so i'm praying that it will all work out! This would help so much with some of our financial struggles and it would be a GREAT work environment. I could even ride in to work every day with my husband, how great would that be????

I've had a few other interviews in the recent months and after all of them I left the interview just feeling yucky because I realized it really wasn't a place that I wanted to work, but this one is different. I will be really dissappointed if i don't get it. I really have a peace in my heart about working here.

So that's the update on the job. I'll let ya'll know how the second interview goes.

justa job interview

I haven't been in to blogging lately, probably mostly because there hasn't been to much to blog about.
I did have a job interview this morning so hopefully something will come of that. The interview was for a position at the same company where Steve works and it's a GREAT company - they are not only good to their employess but they also provide a really nice work environment so I really, really, really hope I get this job.
This morning I had to take all the computer assesment tests and then sit down for a one on one interview. If it get asked to go back I will have to have an interview in front of all the deparment heads of the company so it's bound to be a little unnerving.
I'm not good at all at interviews so the thought of interviewing in front of mutiple amount of people makes me want to pee my pants.
I've only had 1 job my entire life that I've actually had to interview for and every other position I've held has been offered to me so I'm not too up with the whole interviewing process.

I know though that it's time for a career change and I'm really ready for that to happen NOW! I'm trying to be patient and I know that God is teaching me a lot through this time but it's not so easy. Ultimately my life is in His hands though so I'm trying to remind myself of that and gain perspective from the fact that how miserable I am at the moment in my current position really isn't a catastrophic event when looked at in the scheme of the big picture of life.

Anyway, please keep me in your prayers that something wil work out!