So Tired :(

Mood Tired

Ugh. I know I am weanie for being so tired, but I really AM! I have gotten up early pretty much every morning since last Thursday, which is a first for the summer (lol). The problem is I still can't fall asleep until after midnight...and, most of the time, not until well after 1am. So, getting up at 6am is no good :(



So this weekend, I felt the need to go book hunting (inspired by Katie, hehe). We went to Half-Price Books (I LOVE that place!) where I bought a hard-back copy of LOTR by Tolkien and a paperback copy of The Hobbit. It will be my first time reading them (sad but true). Then, when we were done there, we went to Barnes and Noble where I searched through their clearance bin for about 90 minutes. *grin* Normally when we go, Jay and I will get a couple magazines and sit in their coffee/Starbucks section and just read and hang out for an hour...well...I have really gotten back into reading novels again so I just kept walking around looking at books...not realizing Jay was sitting in the coffee section by himself with a couple of magazines and books waiting for me to return. 90 minutes later I walked by him, still sitting there, glaring at me because I was clueless. I felt so bad!!!! It was kinda funny seeing him there though just staring off into space while others looked at him sitting all alone :( Poor baby!



Oh! But I did buy "Sammy's Hill" by Kristin Gore and "Shut the Door" by Amanda Marquit. Haven't started reading any of those yet though, as I am still rereading "Deathly Hallows" :)













Sunday we were in Oklahoma since we will be too busy to go back for awhile (to visit Jay's family). While we were having lunch, Liz (Jay's sister who has a job traveling around the state to people's houses for insurance claims) said that she went to a woman's house the other day who asked (upon seeing her nametag) if she was related to Jay Harvill (my hubby). Liz said that she was, and the girl said that her sister had been Jay's high school girlfriend, Keri, who just recently went through a bitter divorce. Keri's sister then proceeded to ask about Jay's "situation" and when Liz said that (lol) he is six years HAPPILY married, the sister said that Keri thinks about him all the time and would love to see him again. Liz was like, "Uh, don't think that would be okay" hehehehe....That girl has no idea what she would be in for, if she ran into me ;) J/K



Today was the first day of volleyball camp *joy* and I am really tired from herding kids from station to station across campus and working with them on drills they have no clue how to do. But, that's my life, I guess!


Hope your week is more restful than mine is!! :-)



God Bless!

Lazy Days of Summer

[mood okay]

Well, the last couple of days have been pretty boring. I have finally had time to check out my Mom's new favorite show, "Flight of the Conchords" on HBO (the first 4 eps are on the On-Demand channel which was nice, lol). It's odd, but BRILLIANT!!! Every character is hilarious...Definitely one to check out.

I also had time to play on Photoshop :)

--BEGIN HARRY POTTER NERDINESS--

I love playing with exclusion on that program because it does such cool things with the colors. It's hard to find good caps though. You can see how much I like the Weasleys. Don't have any of Snape, but I haven't found any I like yet.

--END HARRY POTTER NERDINESS--

Well, not much else has happened, except I did get my car windows tinted...YAY!!!! It looks pretty sweet now ;-) hehehe...

So, okay, here's my list of current favorite songs I think you should check out:

1) Rehab RIHANNA

2) Easy PAULA DEANDA

3) 21st Century Meltdown FEEDER

4) Umbrella (cover) SCOTT SIMONS (www.myspace.com/scottsimonsmusic)

5) When You're Gone AVRIL LAVIGNE

Okay, I'm off to do some more procrastinating :)God Bless!!!

Cars, Hallows, and In-Services

[musicIn The Air Tonight - Nonpoint]



Hello :)



Well, it has been a few days since I've written and I need to catch up!!! Friday, Jay and I called our friend Billy who works in the Service Dept. at a Kia dealership in Ft. Worth and told me that they had a whole bunch of Spec5's at the moment, if I wanted to come look. So we got there around noon, knowing that if we found one for the price we wanted, we'd buy. We told the salesman (a friend of Billy's) that we wanted one that had NO MARK-UPS on it except for a spoiler. And we really liked black. So, he took us to the back to the cars that were FRESH off the truck. It still had protective tape over the paint job, plastic over all the seats, and the radio had not even been setup!!! hahahaha...We took it for a test drive and fell in love!!! It is such a fun car to drive! We were so proud of ourselves because we got the price knocked down quite a bit with our mad haggling skills ;) HA!!! Plus, Billy is gonna do the $600 tint job (the dealership usually charges you for) FOR FREE!!!!! WOO!!!!!! And, any accessories we need, we got the hook-up ;) YAY!!! Here's a pic of it:


















So, all last week, I tried to reread "Half Blood Prince" (the 6th Harry Potter book) and only got about 200pgs into it. So Friday night and Saturday morning, I kept reading, but was so anxious about listening for the postman to deliver book 7 that I could barely concentrate. Oh yeah, it probably didn't help that I was watching Sorcerer's Stone (the only HP movie I own) and Goblet of Fire (which I have now watched 5 times while it's been on HBO On-Demand channel, hehehe....I'm a dork!) while trying to read HBP **grin** I told my friend Ashley that I'd go with her to Old Navy once the book came, but by 4:45 it STILL wasn't there!!!! So, she came over around 5pm and we went to look at the house she's having built down the street from me (YAY!!!) and then I made a quick return to my house where Ashley opened the mailbox (it was on her side of the car, lol) and THERE IT WAS!!!! Well, since I only became a Harry Potter fan this year, it was my first-time getting a brand-new book on the day it came out. Wow!!! It was pretty cool!!! The box it was delivered in (from Amazon) had HP stuff all over it and was just really cool looking. So, we went shopping. I just got two white undershirts to wear under blouses because I didn't like the rest of their clothes. Plus, I'm pretty much broke right now, hehe...I got home at nearly 8 and started reading and didn't stop until 2 because I wasn't really supposed to stay up late since I had to work Monday and was trying to get back on a sleep schedule. So I got about 13 chapters in :) Sunday I read the rest of it...finishing around midnight.



She is *the* most AMAZING storyteller I've ever heard of. I am a pretty darn creative person, if I do say so myself, but I couldn't have DREAMED of half the stuff in there. It was beautiful, sad, hysterical, lovely, horrible, and just flat out: UNREAL!!!!!!!!! I am about to go and read it all over again!!!! I cannot WAIT to see what they do with this movie!!!! It needs to be about 4 hours long AT LEAST to get all the....well, you know what I mean if you've read it ;) I am busting!!! There's so much about it I have to say but I don't wanna spoil it for anyone. My husband (who has only seen movies 1,4, and 5 and has read none of them) has really become a fan, too and is BEGGING me to tell him what happens. He went and found out what happens in 6 which I was SO MAD at him for. He totally spoiled it for himself, when he could have just READ MY COPY!!! He's a genius, but not big on reading which I make fun of him for since my dream is to be a famous writer.



Oh my goodness, my legs are on FIRE!!! I have like 13 mosquito bites on the worst places on your shins and feet a person could have them. Friday night when I cleaned out my SUV (which is now Jay's since he traded in his truck for the Spec5) the bugs were EVERYWHERE around my lawn and I was barefoot. They are on my sockline, toes, calves, shins, anklebones, etc.....SO IRRITATING!!!



Anyways, today, I had to go to a special Teacher-Inservice which was GT (gifted and talented) training just for coaches since when the rest of the teachers do it we will be coaching...lovely, isn't it? Us coaches work twice as much as the rest of the teachers, but our pay does not NEARLY show it :( Oh well, it *is* for the kids, who I absolutely adore. I love my job, for sure!!!!

So, tomorrow, I am taking my car back to Billy to get it tinted...Sweet :-D I got a request from someone who watches my vids to make one to the song I'm listening to (see above). It's ironic because splodge04 gave it to me and told me of its amazing-ness :) And this is like the longest post ever!!!! Sooooo, I'M OUT!!!! Have a great and blessed day!!!

Pretty Good Thursday

This whole vegetarian thing is much easier than I thought it would be! Like, last night, I went out for girls night to TX Roadhouse in North Richland Hills like we usually do on Wednesdays. I had two rolls w/honey (yum!) and macaroni and cheese...and sweet tea, of course! See, that was not hard ;-) Then today, Jay and I went to the local Chinese restaurant and I order the Triple Mushroom Plate (which is exactly how it sounds...the brown sauce they serve it in is to die for!) w/fried rice and noodles, plus Hot&Sour Soup (my favorite!).

After that, we went to the new Kia dealership in Arlington. We wanted to check out the Spec5'sand Rio5's. They are so cute and the gas mileage is amazing!!! We are gonna trade in Jay's truck cuz it is like 10 years old and falling apart on the interior but the exterior is still in good condition. So, we'll see how that goes.

Then I got home and talked to Mom on the phone for over an hour. She is amazing at finding new tv shows that I will fall in love with like Extras (which is now one of my favorites) and recommended one on HBO called "Flight of the Conchords" which is supposed to be really funny comedy about a "rock group" that's struggling to make it. Anyways, so I'm off to watch the ep I tivoed :)

Hope everyone had a great day!!! God Bless!

It was a pretty good day :)

X-Files 2 Movie is coming!!! For real....I think

Okay, so the last couple of days I've been pretty lazy. Just sat around the house, procrastinating from procrastinating (that's sad isn't it). I'm trying to organize some stuff before school and reread Half Blood Prince before book seven gets delivered to my house on SATURDAY!!! WOO!!!!!!!!!!


So X-Files 2 news has been keeping me happy in an otherwise depressing week. I got passed over for a head coaching job by someone 3 years younger with next to zero coaching experience. It would have been two minutes from my house making an extra grand a month. Jay knows the people at that school really well (he WORKS in the district for goodness sakes'!!!!) and I didn't get so much as a phone call or interview. Pretty crushing considering my resume and contacts. Oh well, God knows what He's doing, so I'll just have to get over it.





Big personal news: I HAVE GONE VEGETARIAN! Well, almost anyways. The only meat I'm continuing to eat is fish and shellfish. But that stops as soon as it is all gone from my house (the stuff aint cheap, ya know). Why have I done this? Well, believe me I'm no eco-nut or anything. The idea started when I kept feeling really sad driving to and from work because I pass by several cattle ranches and they just look so ridiculously sad. I know it sounds silly, but I'm just being honest. My mom, who has just recently quit being a vegetarian after a three-year stint, lost about 90lbs being one. And, it's true, simply being a vegetarian won't make you lose weight. I mean, ice cream and candy don't have meat in them. But it is a WHOLE lot easier to avoid fast food places this way. Plus, I never feel very good after eating meat and that's my last reason for becoming one. We'll see how it goes ;)





Okay, the dog hair in my house is rolling around like tumbleweed so I'm off to sweep :) Hope everyone has a great day!

Long Week (original post on July 14th)

Current music:Athlete - Yesterday Threw Everything At Me

Well, the past week has been so long that Monday seems like it was two weeks ago!!!! First of all, my sleep schedule is really screwed up because it is the summer. So, I tried and tried last Sunday-Tuesday night to be in bed by midnight and asleep. Yeah. That didn't work. Tuesday night I tossed and turned until around 2:30am. But I had to wake up at 5:45 to get ready to leave for coaching school with Jay in Austin (3 hours from Dallas/Ft Worth area where I live) . So, we get on the road, make it to Austin, sit through lectures about our sports (mine are volleyball and softball), hang out with our coaching buddies (aka "Family"), and check in to the hotel. At 5:30pm we met Family at Brick Oven (a brick oven pizza joint....YUMMY!!!), went to the all-state/all-star volleyball game, then back to 6th Street in downtown Austin (aka. PARTY CENTRAL)...lol...It was absolutely a BLAST to relax and hang out with friends in a casual laid-back atmosphere as opposed to the stressful one we are usually in. I tried to get pictures but the clubs were too dark :-( Ah, well!The next day, 7:30am came WAY TOO EARLY since I fell into bed at 1:45 and CRASHED!!!! Jay turned on every light and opened every window in the hotel room...GRRRRRRRR....He then proceeded to hand me three ibuprofen, lol, and ushered me to the shower so I would be ready to go in 45 minutes. What a good hubby ;-) We sat thru 3 lectures (I was sooooooooo close to falling asleep in two of them...emmmmmmmbarrassement!) then left to go back home. All-in-all we had a good time and learned lots of helpful things :-) Then, yesterday (Friday) Jay was a trooper and sat thru the new Harry Potter movie with me :-)


***SPOILERS***
I liked it alot, but it did leave me feeling a little down because they left out some of my favorite parts...like QUIDDITCH!!! WTF??? But, if they had put in everything I wanted, it woulda been like 7 hours long. Was still very cool and everyone should go see it :-)
***END SPOILERS***



Today, I've been cleaning. Have found more than $20 in loose change lying around the house, lol....Crazy, right? Alright, I should stop procrastinating and finish cleaning and work on my latest vid (yay!!!)Love you all and hope everyone has a blessed and safe weekend :-)