Rainy Days

I love a rainy day because it's an excuse to stay inside and cuddle all day and watch movies. And also play with my adorable dog and kitten. Evie has been especially rambuctious today, running around the house like a wild kitten. Rainy days also make me feel lazy too. I was going to mop the floors and do some laundry and guess how much of that has gotten done? None. Oh well, there's always tomorrow haha. The only thing I don't like about today is the temperature. I realize that rain usually brings a cold front with it, but it is freezing outside! I actually pulled out my uggs and my jacket to take the dog outside. Sad I know, way to send out August. Hopefully September will give us a little bit warmer weather before fall/winter sets in.

Anyway, I'm going to go enjoy my rainy day with some movies and junk food :)

Homemade Salsa

Ever since I've first eaten at Chipotle I have been in love with their fresh salsa, it has such good flavor and is perfect with their deliciously salty tortilla chips. Unfortunately, since moving to Washington the closest Chipotle is about 40 miles away. I've tried buying some of the fresh salsa from the grocery store, but it never tastes the same. One night I got a brilliant idea, why not add a little lime juice to the fresh salsa for a bit of extra taste. And what do you know, it was perfect! So i decided instead of shelling out for grocery store salsa I would make my own!




Homemade Salsa
4 tomatoes, skinned with seeds and juices removed
1/2 a large onion
some cilantro, I just pulled it from the bunch and chopped it up and threw it in.
1 jalapeno. I'm a baby and I don't like it super spicy, just a little added flavor
a couple squirts of lime juice

Voila! The perfect afternoon snack!

Who Knew?

That one of Evie's favorite places to play would be her litter box and that she would be even more of a begger than the dog. I sure didn't haha. It is very cute though. She hots into her litte box and tosses it around with her paws, creating quite the mess. I'm going to have to get a little mat to go under it so I don't have to sweep every time I turn around.

She's also a huge begger. Anytime you get any food out she comes running up to you and sits at your feet meowing and if you pick her up you can bet that she'll try to stick her nose in your food. Yesterday I was sitting on the couch eating some mac and cheese and she was clawing her way up my body and armys trying to get to my bowl. It was ridiculous. The dog doesn't even beg as much as she does.

We took her to the vet yesterday for a little checkup and she weighs all of one pound. She can jump down from the couch and climb up the couch. She hasn't mastered jumping that high but she does grab onto the couch and claw her way up. I suppose when she gets bigger this could be a problem. I definitely don't want my furniture ruined.

We also found, in talking to the vet, that there's this procedure where they do something to the muscles in the cat's paws so that she can't flex her claws anymore. It's more humane than declawing, so it's definitely something we're going to be looking into. Since we're renters, I'm worried about her ruining something in the house if we don't declaw her.

Sulley has been doing much better with her as well. Yesterday they were snuggling together and it was the cutest thing! I have pics on my phone but its being lame and won't let me upload them to facebook, so I'll have to post some cute pics later.

Introducing Evie!

She's a 6 week old kitten that was rescued along with 3 brothers and sisters by my neighbors. Evidentily their mom abandoned them and they were found malnourished under a house. Our neighbors have been nursing them back to health and bottle feeding them from 3 weeks. She is such a darling though! She's super curious and loves exploring our house.

Sulley is very curious about her, but he doesn't really understand that she's too small to play with. He's a little jealous of her too. Last night any time we were petting her and playing with her he would start whining like pay attention to me! I think once he gets used to her they will end up loving each other!

Pink Eye

Yup I have it.. I can't even count the number of times people have asked me who farted on my pillow. Mature huh? I just play along and tell them all that it was B. hehehehe. I discovered I had it Friday night, and went into the doc on Saturday morning. We ended up being there for over 3 hours, I cannot even explain to you how much I detest the doctor, this being one of the main reasons. So after waiting for over 3 hours for them to just say yup it's pink eye, here's some eye drops, we finally got to go home.

We went to Portland Saturday, and were supposed to be leaving around 9 am, but since the doctor took up our entire morning we didn't end up leaving until around 1. It was B's brother's 21st birthday, and his girlfriend hosted a little party for us and cooked dinner. It was the first time I met his brother and it went really well! We took him back to our hotel and we all went to the bar for drinks to celebrate.

Now we're back home all snuggle in on the couch while I catch up on my internet time haha. Sulley sure is happy to be home. He likes riding in the car, and just curls whenever we go anywhere, but he does get nervous being away from home for any lenght of time.

Tomorrow we take B's mom to the airport to send her back to California. It's been a nice visit, but I'm looking forward to B and I getting to spend some quality time together for the rest of his block leave.

Playing the Waiting Game...

I had my interview at AE yesterday and I think it went really well. Now I'm just waiting for them to call me.... I hope they call today and don't keep me waiting!

Good News!

American Eagle called me tonight and they want me to come interview. Well, it's not really an interview I guess since technically I'm still employed by the company since I'm still in their system, I just have to talk with the manager about what I did at my old store. I'm thinking it should go pretty well though because I knew how to do everything at my old store so I think the odds are in my favor :)

A part of me thinks it would be nice to keep staying at home, I don't mind taking care of the house, but at the same time, I need an income. Not because B can't support us, but just because I need a little independence. I hate having to rely on him for everything (financially at least) when we're not even married.

I guess my biggest concern is Sulley, and it may sound stupid because it's not like he's my child or anything, but I hate leaving him alone for long periods of time. We've only had him for a month but he's become so attached to us that he gets seperation anxiety when we leave him and he barks the whole time we're gone. I feel so bad for him. I hope he can get used to his crate and learn to like it.

But I guess I will be a working woman again here pretty soon, which means that I can buy the car I've been dreaming about :)

True Blood

I've heard people rave about this show forever, but since I no longer livedn in my parents house I didn't have the luxury of HBO, so I just ignored my sisters incessant requests that I watch it. Well, now that we have HBO here and season 3 is readily available to me, I have been itching to watch it. On demand they have Season 2 and all the episodes from Season 3 so far, and I'm sure they had Season 1 on there before Season 3 started, but we didn't move in in time. So I was faced with a dilema, do I buy Season 1, having never seen it before? What if I didn't end up liking it? I know I know, unlikely, pretty much every show I've ever watched entire seasons of I've gotten pulled into and ended up liking.

But then it would so happen, that B's mom came back from visiting B's sister in Walla Walla Washington (by the way, I love saying that!) and low and behold, she brought Seasons 1 and 2 with her! I was so excited! Finally I had Season 1 at my disposal and I would understand what all the fuss was about. I hate not being able to watch a show that it seems like everybody is talking about. I don't like being on the outside.

We started watching Season 1 Saturday night when she got here, and continued it through the entire day yesterday. We finished around 7 last night and decided to take a break. Now I'm sitting here and its almost 11:00 am and I'm itching to start Season 2, but of course SOMEBODY (B *cough* B) is still sleeping. I'm about to go ruin his sweet dreams and demand he wake up so that we can watch it :)

Vacation!

Tomorrow is B's last day of work before block leave starts! Woo for 3 weeks there won't be a single day where I have to wake up at 4:50 so I can take him into work. I am so NOT a morning person, so getting up this early is not easy for me at all! And after I'm up, I'm up for the day, so it can turn into a LONG day. We sort of have some plans for block leave, but nothing is set in stone yet. B's mom will be back here next Sunday for a week again, so I think we're going to take her up to Seattle one day to be touristy. And she wants us to go with her to visit her parents for a day, whom I haven't met yet, and it will be nice for B to see his grandparents. I don't think he's seen them in quite a long while.

I also really want to go down to Oregon again. We went to B's dad's over 4th of July weekend and it was so much fun! His family is really sweet and I felt really welcomed there. When we were down there, his dad mentioned that it would be fun for us all to go to Crater Lake at some point during leave, which I REALLY want to do! I've heard that it is absolutely beautiful down there, and I have been dying to do some hiking. We got a book on hiking in Washington, but have yet to go. *sigh* I really want to get out and explore the Pacific Northwest while we're here, since I really don't know how long we will be here.

I'm hoping we can also get to the theater so see some movies too. There are so many out that I want to see right now! I've heard Inception is incredible, so that's very high on my list, along with Eat, Pray, Love, but I need to finish the book first before I see the movie. B has been wanting to see Predators, and of course, The Expendables, which comes out this weekend. Hopefully we'll be able to get to see a couple of them at least.

It's so crazy that when he goes back to work, it's going to be September. Where has the summer gone??? I feel like it was JUST June, and I was just getting ready to move out here, and now all of a sudden it's the middle of August. I feel as though I haven't really enjoyed the summer the way I should be. I'm definitely guilty of not spending enough time outside, but especially since we got Sulley I've been trying to spend a lot more time outdoors. He's still getting used to walking on his leash, he does really good with that part when we're just walking around the yard of our complex, but he gets really nervous when we get closer to roads, so we haven't been able to go on walks yet. I would love to be able to take him out for a walk or jog every morning or evening, so hopefully we can get him used to it.

Hopefully during block leave I can really take advantage of the rest of the summer and enjoy it as much as possible before the rainy season sets in.

I'm getting a little frustrated...

I went into American Eagle over a week ago to talk to them, and they sounded super positive. The manager told me that they are currently hiring, and I'm perfect since I have 3 years experience with the company. She said she would talk to her store manager to see whether I qualified as a transfer or a rehire and they would get in touch with me. So far I've heard nothing, all they had to do was call the store in Rochester and talk to them.And it's not like my old store would have anything bad to say about me. They loved me there, in fact they told me before I left that if I was staying then I would be promoted to Assistant Manager. I don't understand what's taking so long, because now that I have this work mode in my head, I have my heart set on buying a car, and I want to start working so I can make that happen so bad! Not to mention the fact that I've gained some weight since moving here, and a job would keep me busier so that I'm less likely to snack out of boredom. I just want them to call me! If it doesn't happen by tomorrow I'm going to call them.