Cockcoach!! June 30, 2006

Hey guys I just thought I would tell you something that happened to me yesterday. So her it goes…
Yesterday I was in the shower well the bathroom washing myself off after another hot day and I looked at the shower nob and there was a big fat cockroach…. there are always cockroaches around the house and we have to swat them like flies. Even check our beds at night to make sure you don:t have an uninvited guest. Well anyways I was like Oh my gosh! and I grabbed a towel and ran to the door and screamed Yuki!! Airi!!! get the cockroach killer and they both came running. Yuki grabbed the swatter and was swatting it and she couldn:t reach it so it would just run and me and Airi were screaming the whole time. Then Yuki finally knocked it down but it landing in the bucket and she was wacking it and we were screaming. This whole time I was soacking wet and my hair had conditioner in it and my body was all sudded up….It was hilarious but finally it plopped on the floor and Yuki swatted it. Then as when took a sigh of relieve the neighbor came to the door of the house (shiro) and was all worried asking us if we were ok. So Yuki and Airi had to explain the whole story in Japanese about how the cockroach was interupting my shower time. Haha it was soo funny but i think it might have had to be there. But I hope you guys enjoy that story cause it was a funny one!!
Stacy

Day Five June 29, 2006

Yes, I made it to the gym for the fifth day in a row……I think that might be some sort of record. It wasn’t easy. Class started at 6 today, and it was closer to home, so what to I do, go home. The second I walk in the door, I start moaning…..”I don’t want to go.” Thank goodness I have a husband who gently reminded me that he isn’t suppose to let me off the hook that easily. So, grudgingly, I walked up the stairs and got ready and man am I glad I went. I absolutely love the instructor of this class. My 30 minutes of Step today, pushed me further than the 60 minutes yesterday and then we still had to do walking lunges, some other butt/leg excercise I don’t have names for and 15 straight minutes on my abs……ahhh. But it was good, came home soaking wet, sweat still dripping down my face, but with a huge smile. I guess that’s what it’s all about, huh?

Well, Zach and I have tried something new this week…..eating the food we have already bought. What a concept! We had ravioli twice, I think I’m a bit addicted and it is like five minutes from start to finish. Yesterday we had penne pasta with garlic sauce, but today…..today I was adventurous. I wanted something in a tortilla, so we had burritos. I took one can pinto beans and one can black beans poured them in a pot with a ton of spices (although it turned out, no enough spices to eat the beans alone, but that’s okay). Then I made rice, but in the water, before I put the rice in, I put some taco seasoning, the end result was pretty good. Of course we both put bean, cheese, rice, sour cream and salsa in our burritos, but I had to laugh when Zach asked desperately, “Do we have any chip?” And proceeded to the pantry to get chips to crush and top his burrito off. The whole chip in the burrito then started at my house when I was growing up, the first time Zach and I made burritos he thought I was crazy to smash some chips and put them in my burrito, but I made him try it and now I guess you could say, He’s a believer. Then, even better, I made a deal with Zach, I said “You do the dishes and I’ll put everything away (and let me tell you, the counters were covered with “stuff”). So, we cleaned the kitchen together and both finished at about the same time and now the kitchen is avaliable for use again whenever we need, not like most nights when we leave it and then don’t want to use it again, because that would require clean BEFORE cooking.

Anyway, it was a good day…..well, except for the gas prices, but I seem to be rebounding nicely. Hope everyone else had a good day. It’s Wednesday……only two more days till the weekend……anyone want to help sand the banister?

PS…..the spell check thingy won’t work, so don’t count me off for spelling.

16 cents!!! June 28, 2006

Okay, so you probably know I have a HUGE issue with gas prices. Over the last few months I’ve been doing pretty good not getting stressed out over gas prices, but this morning I feel the darkness coming to sit with me again. Yesterday most gas stations prices that I pass were at $2.71, a few at $2.75, but today, every last one of them was $2.87! That’s 16 fricken cents in one day. Ridiculous! I wish I could boycott gas, but little good it would do and I’d be stuck at home. Aghhh…..it just annoys me.

Again, again! June 28, 2006

I went again. And as much as the hour of Step kicked my butt, my arms, chest and sides still hurt was worse from yesterday. Ahh…..tomorrow is my normal 30 min Step, 15 min Abs and 15 mins Butt…..at least I know what to expect. I’m so proud of my self……four straight days.

Not quite sure what to call this June 28, 2006

Here’s an update on my “newly found” relationship(sorta). So me and my girlfriend hung out today. That’s all fine and dandy, but her parents thought she was with a friend of hers for lunch the whole time and not with me. The wierdest thing about everything, is that it feels like the two of us are meeting when the parents don’t want us to date. My mom’s fine with the two of us and as far as I know her parents are as well, but it seems like I was climbing the ladder to her window late at night because we aren’t supposed to see each other. The only thing wrong with today was that when we were talking on the phone tonite, she said that her dad figured it all out. I don’t really know what he knows or thinks he knows yet.
The crazy part of everything, is that my love and affection is REALLY REALLY hard to earn now days. And she seems to have found a way to earn it in just a short perioud of time. This goes back to my question of in what way have I cared for her all this time? For me, love is earned not given, it has to be stolen so to speak, and she’s already become something that I’m crazy about. I’ve only been this crazy about a girl ONCE and that took WEEKS (literally) to transform into something that is more than just the typical boyfriend and girlfriend.
I can tell how much this is starting to mean to me because I usually don’t like talking on the phone with my gfriend unless its to set up a movie date or something. I don’t know why that it but it is. With her I can hardly wait to call her or her to call me. The best part(s) of my day is when I get to hear her on the phone, and the worst part of my day is when she says goodbye and I automatically miss her the moment we hang up.
Back to the original point, I find myself curiously amazed at the lengths that I’m willing to go through to be with her. Usually i avoid pissing the parents off even if they are willing to face them, but with Ryann, I’m okay with the deception as long as I get to see her even for just a minute.
So I’ll keep climbing the later to her window and try not to wake up daddy, because its just to hard not to.
Cody
I know this may not be very well organized but I HATE ENGLISH (sry jenn-its just not my forte)

Three Days in a Row June 27, 2006

YAY!!! I went and worked out again today! SET class……strength and endurance training…..ahhh…..I can hardly move. Especially my arms, but I guess that’s good. Tomorrow is 24Step I think. I like the classes……60 minutes and I can’t give up.

Purple Heart June 25, 2006

So, for those who read my old myspace blogs, you heard me tell about my Grandpa’s plant that I loved in Arizona and that he decided to bring cuttings for me in the airplane in his suitcase. Anyway, I’m quite thrilled with the plant and it seems to be growing, not dying like I thought it might. Anyway, just thought I’d share some photos. Isn’t it beatiful?!? You can see some of the damage from the plane travel, but it seems to be growing.

On another note, I didn’t make it to the gym last week, but I manage to go yesterday (for 35 minutes and a few minutes on my abs) and today (for 30 minutes and a few minutes on my abs)!!! Aren’t you all proud of me? Anyway, I was planning on going for an hour both days, but I got bored and then I was so sore today I decided I shouldn’t over do it today or I might not get there tomorrow. Anyway, it’s an improvement. I’ll keep you posted.

Blessed are we! June 23, 2006

OK, so last night I was flipping through channels and I stopped on this show on TLC called “My Skin Could Kill Me”, and it was about this couple in Britain who had a baby that had a disease that basically makes you boby produce too much skin. When their daughter was born, they could not distinguish very well where her eyes were or many other features on her body because they had been covered by all her extra skin. In one day, she grows as much skin as a normal human grows in two weeks! Every morning she has to take a hot bath in which she has to scrub off layers of skin. After that, she has to cover her self from head to toe with this oily cream so that her skin does not dry out. She has to do this three times a day. Before ahe goes to bed, she has to take another two hour bath again to scrub skin from her body. All of this just to keep her self alive. If you see the show, it is much worse than I am making it sound, but you get the point.
This show got me to thinking, how miserable of a life that must be and here I am with a good job, great family, awesome friends, and overall a pretty good life. I felt a bit ashamed of myself because I don’t think I appreciate what I have in life and perhaps as a result, don’t deserve it. I have an amazing wife who cares for me and keeps me going. I have a wonderfull although somewhat disjointed family who is always there when I need them. My friends are too good to describe. I have countless opportunties to further my education, career, and overall happiness. And I know I don’t deserve all of it. I am not saying all this to show off or gloat, but just because I think maybe we all need to look around at what we have sometimes and see what’s good. We have bad days, bad weeks, or whatever but there are those who have it much worse.
Look at what you’ve got and thank God that you are blessed with the life you have, in all honesty, you probably don’t deserve all of it (I know I don’t). Or maybe you do, but still, recognize it and be thankful!
Just something that was on my mind.

Favorite Funnys June 22, 2006

I have noticed that a lot of these blogs are serious and meaningful, which isn’t bad at all but I just thought we could all use a laugh here and there. So, I am asking you to post your favorite joke(s)! I can only think of two at the moment. The answers are encoded backwards at the bottom! Here they are:

1. What is the bottom at the top of?
2. What did Tennesee?

1. (!sgel)
2. (!sasnakrA gniht emas ehT)

June 22, 2006

Hey guys! It:s me Stacy again I didn:t get a chance to read all of your blogs cause I:m running out of tie but I just wanted to say hey so…hey. Everything is soo cool herre or do I mean HOT…haha well I saw I mongoose today!! That was awsome but I wanted to make sure that if anyone has a request from Japan to tell me now! cause this is there chance. Alright that:s all the time I have. I love you all!
Stacy