I hate it when I don't have anything to blog about...

So it's been a few days since you have heard from me. Alas, I left you hangin' with B-rad's bloody face - sorry about that!

You can just assume that from now until... uhm, perhaps mid-November B-rad will be combining. That's all...just combining. I on the other hand, well I'm just a rolling stone people. I gots things to do, places to go & people to see!!!

Saturday was not one of those days, however. I got to stay home all.day.long & watch.dvr'd.shows. Bliss! Absolute bliss! I did have to take B-rad lunch at the barn, but the bean dust was flying & I was still recovering from my bronchial blockage so I told him, "I gotta go! I shouldn't be breathing in all this dust."

Sunday I had a jewelry show in Pleasureville, KY. I was really trying to get away from that area because it takes an hour & a half to get there & the shows weren't good at all. Now, I know it's not all about the moo-lah I make blah, blah, blah, but it was actually costing moo-lah to do those shows. PLUS I was doing them during the week after work & not getting home until late. (And we all are painfully aware of how I feel about getting home late & having a lack of sleep!) Then I had an epiphany (& every weekend wasn't taken up with 'going to the lake every single second of every single weekend') & I decided I could do those shows on Saturdays or Sundays. Genius of me & it worked out quite nicely. Bad thing was I left the house around 12:30 & didn't get home until around 8:00. Sigh... However I wouldn't have been doing anything else except laying around & watching tv. And I had watched all my dvr'd shows Saturday! Score!

I have been working super hard to get more jewelry shows on my calendar because my goal this year is to pay cold, hard CASH for Christmas. I (we) have a bad habit of spending beyond my (our) means when I (we) swipe that little plastic card that has no limit. So I've decided that this year if there's $500 bucks in the jewelry account, that's all I have to spend on Christmas. Period. Exclamation point. Now we'll see if I can go through with it.

B-rad's face is healing really nicely. The bloodiness inside his eye got WAY worse though. The blood was from the corner of his eye & went all the way to his color. Barf-o-rama. He did send me a text last week entitled 're-enactment'. At least he has a sense of humor! There's lotsa drama going on with B-rad too. That's another reason I'm trying to stick to my guns & pay for Christmas with cash. He's extremely unhappy at his job. It's a long story that none of you care about, but his dream is to stay home & farm full time. (Sounds like a nightmare to me, but whatever.) He's sick of working himself to death & I don't blame him for that. They'd be able to get the crops planted & harvested faster & that's always a good thing. Bad news is is that my salary just won't make the cut for all our bills. Brian & B-rad have discussed him staying home & farming & collecting a salary. But we haven't worked out all the details yet. It's getting really bad at B-rad's work though & there have been questions of 'how much money will you need to get by' until we work everything out? Ahhhh, flying by the seat of our pants... I hate that...

In other boring news, my Explorer hit a big milestone this week:

The weekend coming up is an important one! Erin's getting married! Yay! I'm going over tonight to let her & Lora browse through my 9 zillion pieces of jewelry to see if there's anything they wanna wear for the rehearsal dinner & for Lora to maybe wear during the wedding. I really enjoy letting other people borrow my jewels. It makes me feel all warm & fuzzy inside - like I'm helping in some way. Silly, I know - but I do love the attention!

Tomorrow night after jazzercise I have to run 'in town' to get B-rad a shirt for the wedding. I bought him one but it was HUGE on him. Turns out I didn't check the tag inside, just the size on the hanger, so I got it one size too big. Oopsie! Then I have to close my jewelry show from Sunday & THEN I'm painting my nails. Oh yea-I'm goin' ALL OUT for Miss Erin. I don't EVER paint my fingernails. But I'm pretty pumped because I'm painting them black. It's very in-haven't you heard?

Friday is the rehearsal & dinner & I was sad because I didn't think there was any way I was going to be included. But my favorite niece was able to find a backdoor way to get me in! They only have 1 hour at the venue for the rehearsal so the lady told them they should have someone who isn't in the wedding party there to put the rose petals on the table! ME!!!! ME!!!!! I told Erin to have a prototype done before I get there so I can see how she wants it done! Hopefully I won't screw it up! (Fingers crossed! But if you come to the wedding & make any sort of snide remark about how silly the rose petals look - be prepared to have them shoved down your throat.... just sayin'....)

Saturday is big for 2 reasons: Erin's wedding that night & I have a birthday par-tay for a very special kiddo. THEN, Alicia says I can stay & take a nap with them before I have to go to the wedding! (I just LOVE her!) I will be at the venue early to help watch the girls so Erin & Lora can do their thing without having to worry about Payton & Madelyn. Best birth control in.the.world: chasing a 26 month old & 10 month old!