8 Unknown Facts

Okay I've been tagged by Tashina Horn to tell you 8 unknown facts about myself... haha, here goes:

1. I have birthmark just to the right of my belly button, and if you put your finger over just one part of it, it looks like a heart. My mom used to call me her little care bear.

2. I like to take pictures of the sky. Sometimes I just think it's one of the most magnificent things ever. People (Jared and my parents) often get mad when they get a roll of film developed and I have taken more than one shot of the sky.

3. I tell everyone that I don't want kids, but secretly I want like six. haha, I don't know why I tell them I don't want any, I really do!

4. I LOVE LOVE LOVE looking through old photographs. I especially love the ones of Jared's mom, it helps me feel like I know her a little better.

5. This is wierd.... It drives me absolutely INSANE when I'm in the shower and I realize that the shampoo is almost out but there is still a half a bottle of conditioner. WHY DON'T THEY MAKE THE SHAMPOO BOTTLE BIGGER, OR THE CONDITIONER BOTTLE SMALLER?!?! (I don't like to throw away half a bottle of conditioner, but I always change brands, so I usually end up with five or six different bottles of conditioner.)

6. I drink a lot of water, but only bottled watter! I'm super spoiled. I refuse to drink from the tap. Our water is hard, tastes gross, stinks, and leaves water spots. I refuse. But I drink bottled water like a camel. I drink 5 or 6 bottles a day.

7. I'm deathly afraid of hospitals, funerals, and planes. Hospitals stink so bad it makes me want to throw up. People are sick and dying there. I think it's safe to say I'm allergic to hospitals. I don't like funerals, I don't understand them. I don't even want my own when I die. And planes... we'll I don't need to explain that one.

8. This one is probably the most serious- I secretly worry and have panic attacks that I wont be able to save the world. That I can't bring so-and-so back to church, or that I wont be able to feed all of the starving children on the planet, or that I have to pant 45 trees to give back all of the oxygen that I have used. I really do worry about all of these crazy things on a daily basis. I guess that's what God is for. =)

So I am now supposed to tag a few other people to post their 8 Unkown Facts, and I'm supposed to tag 8 people but I don't know that many, so how about just Four:

1. Heather Bratt

2. Ethan Bratt

3. Peter Boling

4. Matt Horn

Life with a rental

So, I'm only going to be able to give a little update today, as I'm in a hurry.

Jared and I are still working out the details with the Insurance company about my accident, so while we wait for them to take care of everything we have a rental car. The Honda's alternator went out, so now it won't even start, and the Caddy of course has been in the garage for a few months. So right now, we are working with G-ma's car and the rental which isn't terrible, but I can't wait until we are back to normal. I found the pictures of the accident (Of course, like a dork I only took pictures of my car) :

Right now we're driving a pretty new Nissan Sentra, which is really nice, I'm considering getting a car like that. Although, in a few months, when business picks up, we'll be buying a new Honda CR-V, I love that car!

Let's see, what else...

My grandpa isn't doing very well right now, and my parents and Matt will be going out to California to see him. I'm trying to make it work so that Jared and I can go too, we won't be leaving until the middle of June, so I still have time.

Jared is looking at getting a new job with Verizon Wireless. It would be a great job, especially beter than the one he has now. I'm getting excited, I'm looking forward to a change for him. My business is doing well, mom and I are working hard and trying to get our business built up again. It's a lot of fun, and things are starting to progress, we are begining to see the fruits of our labors. =)

We bought the Kitty's a new toy, it's a hideaway nylon box. It has strings hanging in the inside for them to play with, and the floor of it has a piece of tissue paper in the bottom between the two fabrics to make noise. For the longest time I couldn't figure out why either of the cats wouldn't go in it, and it really started to bother me! Jared reminded me of a story that explained it: When Kanye was a little kitty, he was playing with a plastic grocery bag, and he somehow got his head looped through one of the handles. He coudln't get it off, so he started running around the room, with it like a parachute on his neck (thank goodness we were there to help, but it was hilarious) ... but the sound of a plastic grocery bag ever since then has always bothered him. So that is why he wouldn't get in the box, the tissue paper sounds like a grocery bag. I put a blanket in the bottom, so he can't hear the tissue, and now I can't get him out.

Matt finally got his drivers license this week. He was so nervous to take the drivers test, but he did great!

It was really funny because my dad kept saying, stop taking pictures! lol And yet, my mom and I knew these would be pictures he could smile at in years to come. And when his kids are license age he can pull these out.

My garden has bloomed a little bit more, I'm really enjoying having a yard that I can plant flowers in. I'll leave you with a few pictures of those, and then I will see you again soon.... Have a great week!

Last 3 weeks...

Hello Again! Days pass by, between entries... I know I should be better. However, I do have some good stuff for you today. Wait until you see what has been going on these last three weeks...

First of all, I got into a car accident. Yep, that's right, I got rear-ended by a dump truck. Oh yeah. I was okay, thankfully. But the Honda didn't make it. I have pictures around here somewhere. The whole back end was smashed up really bad, and the insurance company just decided to total it. It was sad to let Mr. Putters go. --- It was such a good car, it was 16 years old, and the only thing that was broken was the knob for the AC... That's pretty good if you ask me. I guess now we are going to be getting another Honda since they seem to be great. I'm looking at the CR-V... they are great to take clients around in, but we will see.

My mom and I are are finally working together!! After a year of working a part, she finally came and joined me at Keller Williams Realty. YAY!!! We are working out the kinks now, and trying to figure out how to merge our businesses. This is going to be a good first year, our goal GCI is $1 Million. Pray for us!

Here's for the really good stuff...

Jared and I went with Grandma and Tyler to French Lick, Indiana. It was so much fun! We gambled, ate ice cream, spent one day drinving around in no-wheres-ville, Indaiana, and so much else! Grandma was the only one who came out on top, the rest of us all lost our money... Boo! This is a sideways picture of G-ma counting her money... she turned $5 into $85 in just a few minutes! That's what we call a great gambler.

How about a little history on French Lick, Indiana. While we were there we were told that in the early 1900's people used to come to French Lick to bathe in the Living Water. They believe that the water there would heal. People would come to bathe in the Wishing Well, and they believed that they would be healed from any infirmity that they had. People still believe in the healing powers. (But boy does the well water stink!!!!) This is a picture of the well...

Jared at the well! While we were there, we could barely breathe because it smelled so bad. lol We thought that this would be a good opportunity for a picture... hey and we got the stinky well in the background! We had so much fun on this trip. We aren't big gamblers but we sure did enjoy ourselves.

This is the last picture of the trip, it's of the beautiful garden, it was a water garden. It truly was beautiful and calming. It was such a great three day vacation.

I also in the last few weeks, have made a lot of adjustments to the house. This is the most exciting to me since our home is one of the most important places. We have painted the kitchen a dark chocolate brown, which looks good since the rest of the house is a light blue... it looks really crisp and clean. Since the kitchen and living room bleed together with only a half wall seperarating them, the blue and brown looks really good.

See? Doesn't it look nice?? Jared and I like it! =)

I've only made one other small adjustment to the house, and that's in the front yard. Jared found these wonderful rocks, so we used them to line the flower bed. We think they look nice, especially when all of the flowers are blooming.

The rocks, that line the flower bed, he pulled out of a big construction area with my dad. They got all dirty for my garden! (And the firewood they were getting... )

This is pretty much all I have for today.... But I hopefully will have more information as the days go on. I'll keep you updated on the car situation, and on how working with my mom will be. I'm sure it will be another fun post, the next time I get online. We will see! Have a wonderful day!