Buying a house

I am starting the process of buying a house. It is so much to do and I have almost no idea what I'm doing, I'm lucky I have some friends at work that are helping me. I am looking for some foreclosures that are under $100,000.00 which aren't very many in the areas I want to live. I hope I can find something soon.

Our New Family Member

This is Dusty our newest family member. We've had him for awhile but I'm just getting around to taking pictures and such. I'm glad I finally learned how to post pictures on here. About 8 or 9 months ago I kept hearing this noise and meowing in the garage. I finally figured out it is coming from behind a bookshelf in the back of the garage. I managed to squeeze my head behind the shelf and I saw it was a cat. I coaxed him out and it turned out to be the sweetest and loudest cat ever. I have never heard a cat meow so much. He is so attention starved that he meows all the time unless you are petting him. I named him Dusty because he was always rolling around in the dirt. Since this was an unusually cold winter we decided to let Dusty come inside, Bella hates that. I don't know if Bella will ever get used to him.

Celebrating a Wonderful Lady

February 17 was Mrs. Bee's Birthday.

Mrs. Bee was the director of the Hinds Hi-Steppers for over 55 years. She is the most amazing lady. She has always been about teaching her girls to be kind, courteous, graceful young ladies. Her years of community service and performing for fund raisers are more than I could ever hope to accomplish in my lifetime. I wish I could have leaned more from her when I was a Hi-Stepper, but I was selfishly more preoccupied by other now unimportant things in life. Now that I am older I know the importance of her lessons and wish I could used them more in my life now. My years as a Hi-Stepper were not all wasted; it helped me grow out of my shyness and helped me to make some of the best friends that will last a lifetime. I think it was said best by the current director that Mrs. Bee is a Living Legend.

New Orleans Trip

This past weekend Bruce and I went to New Orleans since he had a Saturday off for once. We really needed to get away and just do something together besides stay in bed most of the morning and waste the day. I really had to bug him to get him out of bed, he said he changed his mind and wanted to stay in bed and sleep, but I managed to get him up and in the car. I get so tired of weekends just laying around the house all day, especially if he is off I think we should do something. We really had a lot of fun, but next time we should get a map and plan a little better, there were several shops and things that we couldn't find that I would have liked to have gone to. We ended up acting like tourists that have never been there, we bought to many souvenirs.

Part Time Work

A couple of weeks ago I started working part-time at the Frog Head Grill doing their bookkeeping. Bruce is head chef there and I've known the owner since I was about 8 years old. Josh(the owner) knew I did accounting and asked me to help him out with his bills and stuff. He wants me to enter payroll, pay some of the bills, and enter all the money they spend. I wasn't sure I would be able to do it at first cause I'm not really an accountant and I'm terrible with math, but it's not hard at all. I have a great schedule and can make a little extra money. I pretty much have to come in on Sundays because there are certain things I need to do for Monday, but during the week I can basically make my own schedule which I love. It's nice to work when you want to and get paid for it, and it's something that is fun so I don't dread working. It's a fun environment to work in and I'm getting reacquainted with someone I used to know and getting to know his wife. As Bruce says, he lucky he has a great boss and made a good friend too. Check out the restaurants website http://www.frogheadgrill.com/

I love Spring!

I just love spring, when everything starts to grow and the weather starts to really change. It is absolutely one of my favorite times of the year along with Fall. I'm so glad Spring is finally here, I've been anxiously awaiting this time so all my plants can really start to grow and I can leave them outside and not worry about them freezing.

Friends

Last night Bruce and I went and cooked dinner with friends. This is Bruce's best friend and his girlfriend. They can be a little dramatic and she gets upset about the littlest thing. Well last night wasn't any different, about an hour before we left she got upset and they ended up behind closed doors arguing over something silly. We have such interesting friends. So Bruce and I cleaned up the kitchen while they fought.

Such a small world

Bruce found out yesterday that the drummer we met was married to one of his ex-girlfriends. She is from Clinton, MS and became a Teen Magazine model. Last Bruce heard she was married to Steve Blaze from Lillian Axe. That is so weird. It's so amazing who you run into that knows someone you know. Like with Bruce's best friend Jason, his sister in law is someone I went to high school with. It's strange how you can move even several hundred miles to thousands of miles and find someone you know or someone who knows someone you know.

When I met a Rock Star

A week ago today I met Craig Nunemacher the drummer from Black Label Society one of my favorite bands. One of Bruce's friend's knows him cause his brother used to do sound for them. Craig now lives in Brandon and we've hung out several times. He is such a nice guy doesn't act like some big rock star. Since on his next tour he will be with Ozzy Osbourne I told Bruce it would be cool to get his autograph, but I don't want to ask him to get me a bunch of autographs. I'm sure he doesn't want to go around asking everyone for their autograph for me. That day we celebrate Valentine's since Bruce had to work all night on Valentine's. It was the best Valentine's I have ever had. I got to meet some one famous and then got the most incredible meal cooked for me. Steak with seafood sauce on top, lemon spaghetti and squash and zucchini. Bruce is already a great chef but even he said that just about topped anything he's ever made before.