My Life: The Construction Zone

Okay I've been a little out of touch for months. I havent meant to be a stranger, its just that well...my blog sucks. I've tried to give it a little bit of a facelift...so let me know what you think...ill get there eventually. I've become quite frustrated with my life. I left a job, that well, wasn't my career path, was in fact, in this sorry excuse of an economy, a check-paying and in turn, bill-paying, cash-in-hand job.

Yup, one of those.

Since moving to New Hampshire, I havent had a lot of luck. I am happy to say that i just found out ( I feel like a retard for not finding this out sooner!) but New Hampshire is quite relaxed when it comes to substitute teaching. So i've signed up for several districts and am in the process of signing up for more....I plan to blanket this commuity with my availability to substitute... you will accept me in the job market New Hampshire.

I've also applied to everything under the sun, but i won't get into that right now. It frustrates me and frankly gets the obscentites rolling right out.... (several gestures come to mind, but ill stop here...)

As for the rest of my life, when im not filling out applications and doing annoying online job searches and even more embarressing and irritating, door-to-door "are you accepting applications or hiring" stop-ins, I've been helping work on my apartment. It feels like its taking forever, but honestly, its amazing at how fast things really have gotten done. What took us several weeks was leveling out the subflooring to the kitchen addition that was built while the exterior wall was still up in between the apartment and the new addition. WHAT A PAIN. But now that is done....along with 90% of the insulation, backing behind the kitchen cabinets, electrical work, plumbing in the kitchen (the bathroom still has yet to be touched)...
OHHHH we've been busy!!!!! And here is some proof!!

Here is some of the kitchen plumbing as well as the electrical work for the garbage disposal and dishwasher:

Here is some of the electrical work for the backdoor lighting, Back flood lighting, 3 way switch in the kitchen, dining room chandelier...etc :)

Some of the lighting...highhats in the kitchen/dining area:

The Kitchen and dining room, rough layout, kitchen sink cabinet is moved in front of the picture window but will not stay there, its just there for plumbing access..

View from the backdoor, the kitchen sink and cabinet will be located underneath the small window, dining room/eat-in kitchen area will be right in front of the large picture window area to the right of the picture

Large picture window and the great view of the stream and woods behind the house

The beautiful view looking out of the picture window:

We have made quite a bit of progress since these pics were taken, but i havent taken my camera up in almost two weeks! More to come I promise! I have lots of design dilemma's coming up so i'll need your help!!!!! Keep checking back..

Here's Your Sign

No...im not talking about traffic signs or astrological signs. Im of course refering the Blue Collar Comedy Headliner Bill Engvall who famously spouts off hilarious redundancies made by poor unsuspecting idiots who lack the common sense to THINK before they SPEAK.
After a day of HORRIFIC events (insert stories of dumb dogs, credit card fraud issues, student loan repayment issues and cleaning the whole house as a nice surprise to Larbear's parents before they came home from their trip)...Larbear just informed me of a couple funny stories that happened to him.
He is a native New Englander and works at a home improvement store while he goes to school...today a customer came in and asked him,
"Scuse me sir, do you carry tahps?"
"Tahps?"
"Yes, Tahps..."
To which he had to really pause before it came to his head..."Oh....taRps....!"
Gotta love the accent.
It amuses me EVERYday!

Next, which brings to me the title of this blog, walking up and down the aisles hauling big equipment and merchandise wearing his BRIGHTLY colored work attire he encountered someone that pulled him aside and asked,
"Excuse me, do you work here?"
LOL
HERE'S YOUR SIGN....
Im sure that dude sure felt like a dumba$$!
BAHAHAHA!

In other news...if you havent noticed ive been trying to figure out a new look for this blog...I'm quickly losing patience with blogger so i am considering moving to wordpress and setting up a new blog...i promise i will leave the link and keep you up to date!
KEEP READING! I promise to keep writing about all my new england adventures!

And VERY IMPORTANT! Happy Veteran's Day to all you Vets out there who have served our country! Hats off to you and thank you for your service!!!

HELP!! I HAVE CODING PROBLEMS!!!

Hey!In an effort to make my blog more appealing to the eye i decided to get ambitous and find a new template...for some reason though it wont let me upload ANYTHING...any template i choose i get the same error message and i cannot figure it out....so here goes...Im asking for anyone who understands this lovely mumbo jumbo to HELP!!!
The template im trying to upload is here: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/esther#post-209
and the error message i keep getting is:
Please correct the error below, and submit your template again.Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.XML error message: Content is not allowed in prolog.
Alright all you smarties....PLEASE HELP ME!!!Thanks a million!Mucho love!xoxoxo

Amazing Wedding Cakes!...and other tasty snacks;)

In my new "New England Life" things haven't exactly ventured out of domestic yet. So, in my conquest to organize, launder, and re-arrange my life into "settled" I came across my new FAVORITE show!! I promise I'm not the kind of girl who sits around watching lifetime, the oxygen channel and WE tv but this show happens to fall on the WE tv and completely captivated me! Its called Amazing Wedding Cakes. They are so impressive, at times outlandish and its just awesome watching the creativity that goes into these genius cakes! Click HERE for a preview to see what they are all about. More so, they aren't just wedding cakes like the show is called, there are fun birthday cakes for celebrity clientele, engagement cakes, and of course the shows namesake, Amazing Wedding Cakes!!!

My THURSDAY THIRTEEN is back!

Thirteen New England Word Pronounciations that make me Laugh (and that I LOVE!) 1. Caw (Car) 2. Manchestah (Manchester) 3. Brawr (Bra) 4. Vaniller (Vanilla) 5. Sephorer(Sephora) 6. Lobstah (Lobster) 7. Stoah (Store) 8. Birch Beah, Root Beah, or just plain Beah (Beer) 9. Weinah (Weiner) 10. Fuhnacha (Furniture) 11. Sofer (Sofa) 12. Ideer (Idea) 13. Cawpet ( Carpet)

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USMC Ball 2008

So I left Michigan last Thursday, October 30th (unfourtunatly on my Bestie's birthday:( )
SORRY BESTIE!!!!

One of the biggest reason for leaving when we did was so that we could make it back in time for the Marine Corps Birthday Ball. It's a very important tradition that takes place every year on November 10. Larbear's reserve unit hosted their chapter of the Birthday Ball on the 1st of November so we hustled butt to make back in time to rest up after our long drive and get all gorgeous for the ball!!

There was a small fiasco with my dress being stuffed into my tiny red honda and having some slight creases pressed right on the a** of my dress. Thankfully one of Larbear's best friend's mom is a professional dressmaker. She saved the day and steamed my dress just in time for us to get all primped and pressed.
The ball was in the Radisson in Nashua. It was a very nice reception with cocktails and hors d'oeuvres for a couple hours then the ceremony followed by dinner and dancing.

We met a really cool couple over dinnerin a funny way. Thankfully, they had been evesdropping when they came around with dinner tickets and heard me saying something about mine being a vegetarian dish...they came around with dinner when Larbear and I were away from the table so Haley stepped in, explained that she was pretty sure i had a vegetarian dish and saved my dinner! Larbear and I spent the rest of our night exchanging stories and talking about common interests with them and I made my very first New Hampshire friend! Haley and I have plans to go shopping sometime next week where she will show me around. Her and her husband are a little new to the area as they just moved here a month ago. So im totally excited to have a new friend and go out exploring!

And of course, Larbear and I were the HOTTEST couple at the ball!!!

East Coast Update

Well...Im sure most people completely stopped reading my blog since Ive barely posted in the 2008 year....it seemed just as people started reading my blog life happened and I quit blogging...

SORRY!

As I write this, I'm sitting in a cafe in New Hampshire, sipping a steaming cup of java and working on updating my resume...

I HAVE MOVED FOLKS!

Yes...that's right. West Coast girl moves to La France, then to the Midwest, and now to the East Coast. Holy crap. Could I settle down already?!?

I'm still getting adjusted.

Having lived in the abyss of my college town for about 4 years too long im now finding out what its like yet again to not know where the heck im going. I have managed to find a few important things:

• The closest mall that possesses my favorite stores such as: Sephora, Banana Republic, Virginia's Little Secret (known to most as Victoria's)& other fun shopping stores!



• Walmart, for all my daily (& unpacking) essentials



• Lowe's where Larbear works so I can meet him for lunch or bring him in goodies to share



• Panera for my favorite soup and salad moments!!!

Now if I could just find a job.....

New England is charming. They have cute houses, welcoming people, yummy food (disregarding their love affair with seafood--blech!). New Hampshire is charming in that it has NO INCOME TAX and NO SALES TAX! W00Hoo! So yes, Ive already loved my purchases that ive made so far and to my calculations, buying them here instead of in michigan or indiana like previous has saved me close to about 12 dollars so far!! Hey im sure it totally adds up after awhile! And my gift cards that ive used will go farther!!!

So im just getting settled in...im re-arranging my new room, un packing my little red civic which practically needed a crow bar to pry all my crap out with...who knew you could cram so much stuff into such a teeny tiny little car!?!?! Amazingly, I dont think i forgot anything important either. Except my teapot. I wanted my teapot. It unfourtunatly was at my parents house, which was a whole 2 hours OUT of our way on our drive to NH.
HoHum. I can wait til christmas I guess.
So wish me luck on my new adventure in New England! Im looking for lots of fun things to do and explore and for a new job!

How scary & Exciting!!!