New is good.

So, I went to Kohl's department store today with two of the ladies at work. We went during lunch. Anyway, while I was there, I got a bed-in-a-bag. YAY! I know, I'm a nerd, but that makes me happy. I like new comforters. It can totally change the look of your bedroom, you know? Yeah yeah, I already mentioned that I am a nerd. But come on, isn't it pretty?

And no, the outer border is not white... it is more of a sandy beige color. But the flash made it look whiter - but without the flash it looked yellow. I guess that's what we get for having fluorescent lights everywhere. It's cheaper, so I can deal. Anyway, I love the comforter. Dan even likes it a lot, which is pretty darn amazing!

And it was ever on sale - 50% off! I love sales! I might have to go back to Kohl's this weekend for some more shopping! :)

Our Special Guest

Today at work we had a very special guest....

Sunbathing snakey

Yes, our campus is right in the middle of a whole bunch of nature. Three-hundred some acres of nature in fact. Apparently this little guy found the stone of our building a warm place to hang out. And I say "little guy" but it wasn't really little and I have no idea if it was a boy or a girl. With the "little" - it was almost 5 feet long and the gender thing... well, I sure wasn't going to get close enough to figure that one out.

No More Mrs. Housewife

Today was my first day gainfully employed since I left the airport. I really did enjoy doing occasional contract work at home and I really enjoyed being a housewife (it is amazing what all needed to be done around the house!), but since I can't do either of those two currently, this job seems like a good third choice.

A brief refresher: I'm now a Facility Coordinator for Jones Lang LaSalle at the Fidelity campus (JLL's client). Everyone so far at JLL seems to be very laid back. I think my biggest problem with this job will be potentially getting bored. But honestly, that is much preferred to spending large amounts of time in a panic, ala DFW Airport management style. Actually, I will have another problem: the facility is so freakin' huge, it will take me forever to know where everything is. But I can deal with both of those problems!

Come to think of it, the biggest problem I have with this whole "work" this is that the kitties will soon be alone all day - Dan's boss found an office that they are in the process of moving into - and it is in Arlington, so Dan's going to have quite the commute. And the kitties will soon be alone all day. That makes me so sad. I know they will be lonely. Shoot, Cocoa missed me so much today that when I got home, I squatted down to pet her and she crawled into my lap!

But one day I will get to be a full-time stay-at-home-kitty-mom. Oh yeah, and a good wife to my husband, too! (Speaking of which, I imagine that Dan will miss eating as good as he has the past month!)

Bundt cake - 1, Housewife - 1

Oh yeah. The Bundt cake might have pulled ahead at first since it didn't come out of the pan easily. Or in one piece. But on Friday, Dan and I were able to regain the lead...

And it was gooooood.

I am still keeping the score and 1-1. But I bought some more cake mix today so I'm going to go another round with the Bundt pan - and I am determined to win!

The Face of Evil

Yes, ladies and gentlemen - this is this face of pure, unadulterated evil:

Okay, maybe Princess isn't Satan or anything, but she is one of the nastiest cats I've run across.

Though I must say, she's only peed out of anger today, instead of the poop-and-pee combo she's been doing. But then, the days not over yet either. I've lost count the numbers of towels and such she's spoiled. Don't worry, future house guests! I wash them very well! Just make sure you used the towels that coordinate with the bathroom. Those are never kitty towels.

And before you ask, I was using the zoom, not harassing her with the camera to make her hiss. You are seeing her natural charm.

Sigh.

Awww!

I found this picture while going through some of the junk in our guest room closet. Isn't it cute? I just had to share.

Bundt Cake - 1, Housewife - 0

Well, I tried to make a Bundt cake today. It didn't go so well...

Half of it came out wonderfully. The other half didn't want to leave the pan. Dan was sweet, though. He reassembled it and we "glued" it together with powdered sugar icing. Well, powdered sugar and vanilla rum icing. Quite a lot of vanilla rum, actually. I was on the phone with my mom and tilted a little too much rum into the powdered sugar. Even when I added more powdered sugar to it, you could still tell it was made with alcohol! Which really helps cancel out how blasted ugly the cake is!

Hey! Ugly still eats!

Spring!

Well, I think it is official that Spring has sprung! Dan and I had to actually switch to A/C on Saturday - the house was 84 and that's just too hot.

But the coolest thing about Spring showing up is the flowers. I planted some daffodils this Winter (actually in late Winter so I didn't think they'd bloom since it was several months past when I should have planted them) and now they are popping up - I've got a good 5 or 6 daffodil blooms coming up.

But that's not all! The rosemary is blooming, too! Not the entirety of the two monster bushes, but the front left side of one of them. Still, it is better than last year when only a stalk bloomed a few measly flowers.

And wait - there's more! The Lady Banks Rosebush is starting to put off some blooms. Nothing big enough for me to take pictures of yet, but there are some spots of yellow on that big green mass!

I've saved the best for last, though. Those that have visited our house know that Dan and I have a ton of aloe plants. Sometimes we start to feel a little overrun by them, but that just means we have to meet more people so we can give them away. Hehe. Anyway, one of the big aloes is blooming! I've only seen this happen once before and that is on one of my parents' big aloes years ago. It has just started blooming, so I'm sure more pictures will come as the bloom actually opens.

Neat, huh? Blooming flowers make me so excited! Of course, one bad thing about the arrival of warm weather - I'm going to have to keep my legs shaved so I can stay in shorts! Oh well, I'll take it!

Putting the "fun" back in "funeral"

Hmm, that's a pretty disrespectful title, huh? I'm still keeping it.

Anyway, Dan and I got back Monday night from almost a week in Georgia. We were there, of course, for my grandma's funeral. Which - exactly like this post title states - was fun. Okay, the funeral bit itself wasn't fun, but it was really great to see family and visit with everyone. And people brought so much FOOD! It was wonderful - I had to ask for the recipes of a few of them when writing thank you notes. So yummy.

And even the funeral had some good moments - like when the second pastor to speak said that he had to used a different Bible translation because the NIV used "saint" instead of "believer" and "Miss Agnes, a saint you ain't, but a star you are." Everyone had to chuckle at that - she certainly wasn't what you'd call a saint. Strong-willed and feisty are good descriptors. Hehe.

Things have been kind of hectic around here lately, but it seems like things are starting to calm down some, so that's good. We have both Cocoa and Princess in our house now (Memaw's kitties). I even have their pages up in the Children section now. Cocoa is adapting wonderfully. Princess is still in the bathroom and every time we walk in there, she is hiding in the cat carrier. Oh well, at least she has stopped screaming and trying to eat us when we come in.

Also, I had a job interview Tuesday and accepted a job on Friday. So my unemployment lasted only a month - and I'm already kind of nostalgic. The job is a Facility Coordinator - what I was doing for TCU two years ago and enjoyed - and it is for Jones Lang LaSalle, a property management company, at their client's campus in Westlake. The client is Fidelity and it is a gorgeous campus. I am a little nervous about making another "airport-level" mistake, but I don't have that feeling that something is wrong that I can't put my finger on like I did at the airport. So let's hope it's a good decision!

Let's see, is that all that is going on? I feel like I've been a lot busier than that. I'm also working on some updates for my Book page. Fun fun!

Now it is the weekend and Dan and I have some furniture moving to do - we are getting my grandma's love-seat and Dad is getting our big blue chair. I wonder what Big Girl and Nibby think of that!