Anything But Gray

So J found this on youtube and I totally ripped it off of her blog and am posting it here.
(thank you J!)

I'm LOVING what I'm hearing from this album so far!!
I cannot WAIT.

I am so, so, so friggin' HAPPY.
Bon Jovi's got a new album coming out and they finally announced the date.
June 19th. It's titled "Lost Highway"
First single to go to radio TOMORROW!!
Here's a link of him singing it….
I love it already…..

I just love him…..
Enjoy!!

Last week was insane. I'm still trying to catch my breath. It makes my head spin when I realize just how busy I can be, at times. It makes me wonder how the heck my sister does it. She does everything I do AND goes to school full time! I have a feeling that girl could run circles around me…lol.

Work is going super good. We got a couple of listings this week and I am listed as the second agent on the listings.
Wow. It's for real...I'm a real estate agent!! LOL I like it! ha!
One of the listings will sell really fast the other one, I'm a little worried about. It's in a moderate avalanche zone. Call me crazy but I think that tends to scare people off just a wee little bit. ha! Seriously, it sounds worse than it actually is and truth be told there are a lot of houses here that are in "moderate avalanche zones". Zachary priced it well, as always, so it probably will go quick. Fingers crossed!

We are about 2-3 inches away from setting the record for the most snowfall in one season. The record is 194 inches and we are sitting at over 191. Lovely! If we break it the record, in my time here in Alaska I will have seen the 2 wettest summers in the history of Juneau, the hottest summer and the snowiest winter. Cool, huh?

I talked to Kim twice this week, so that was nice. We actually don't talk all that much. We're the type of friends that just don't speak constantly and we don't need to. We keep tabs on each other through Tina and once in awhile one of us will really need to hear the other's voice and we call. It works for us. It was nice to hear her voice.

J sent me an amazing card. She always finds the best cards. The front of it says…"in a sea of wonders/ In a world where beauty is almost commonplace, there is but one face I long to gaze upon….YOURS."
Goosebumps? I got them. BIGTIME. It's perfect for us because after 10+ years of devoted friendship…10+ years of I don't know what I'd do without you kind of friendship…we have yet to lay eyes on each other. So that card is just perfect. I have it hung up on my clipboard by my computer so I can look at it constantly.

I went out last night. JR's band was playing and I went with Ceci. Jason came too and a couple other people showed up or were there. FUN NIGHT. JR had quite a few shots of tequilia and was feeling mighty nice. LOL. He kept giving me (and almost the entire bar) kisses and I kept trying to kiss Ceci, you know to give them to her…she wasn't falling for it though. lol. Jason scored because I figured I should share the wealth and if I was getting kisses I should be giving them too and since Ceci wouldn't let me kiss her, what the hell…I'll kiss Jason instead. LOL FUNNY. It's fun to just be crazy like that once in awhile with the people you adore. A couple of the guys that Ceci works with showed up and JR gave them a ride home. How we got on the subject I have no clue but I was in the front seat with JR and Ceci and these two guys were in the back. Ceci ran into the store and we all start talking and one of them says to me "So you actually work or do you let your rich husband support you?". I was just like whhaaat?? Cracked me up…..the assumptions people will make. I was like "ahh…yeah..1st of all I'm a Realtor and I work with Zak. Second of all, I have worked the entire time we have been together. In fact, Zak wanted me to not work and I always worked anyway…".  The question itself just made me laugh.
Rich husband. Yeah…okay. Very, very successful husband, yes…but honey let me tell you, if the man was rich I sure as fuck wouldn't be here.

And on that note, I'm off to window shop. Get it? Just browsing on the computer….so it's "WINDOW shopping".
HAHAHAHA….

tah!

It has been crazy busy this week.
I haven't had a spare minute to do anything.
Zachary was sick for a couple days, so it was just me and the kids.
I made a ton of cookies, I was trying to find a good recipe for her birthday cookies.
(I found one!)
I have been working my butt off at home, trying to write all of our marketing/advertising materials.

So it's just been nuts.
I haven't fallen of the planet…yet.

Hope everyone is well!

So Mom sent me a couple of boxes from her storage in Florida.
Some of our stuff is still down there and so she sent a couple of boxes of it.
One box was wedding stuff. WOW.
Blast from the past….and so many emotions.
I was looking through RSVP cards and quite a few people have passed away and that made me miss them. A lot.
It made me happy though to see just how many people I am still in touch with and I am still close to.
That made me feel good. It makes me happy that so many people that were there when it all began are still around.
They say it takes a village to raise a child and I agree with that.
I also think that it takes a village to make a marriage work.
It has benefited us so much to have the support system that we have.  We have such wonderful family and friends that truly root for us and are genuinely proud of our marriage.
We are blessed and so thankful for that support, no matter when the support came along. Some of you have been there since day one. Some came years later. Some people don't even realize the good they have done for our marriage.
No matter when, where or how…..we are thankful you were there.

Another blast from the past in the box was a teddy bear that I have had since I was about 15. I took it with me when I moved out at 16 and moved in with my friend, Shellie. Her son Scott was about 2 years old at the time and he used to take my teddy bear and play with it. Sometimes I couldn't find it when Shellie and I got home and went to go to bed.  I would make Shellie get back up out of bed and help me find it. LOL I honestly could not sleep without this stupid teddy bear! When I pulled that out of the box it just made me laugh, remembering Shellie and I hunting around her apartment at 2 or 3 in the morning, in the dark trying to be quiet so we didn't wake up her son. It was a real sight to see the nights we were a little tipsy. Try watching two drunk chicks trying to be quiet and looking for a teddy bear in the dark. Yeah….it was that funny.

Thanks Mummy, for sending the boxes. I know it cost you a small fortune. You're the best!

It's Kacey's birthday today! Happy, Happy Birthday Kacey!! We love you! xoxo

I just saw this layout at 2Peas….

Take my card layout

What an awesome idea and it got me thinking just how many titles women have.
I am…
A wife.
A mom.
A daughter/sister/cousin/friend.
An organizer.
A volunteer.
A caretaker.
A housekeeper.
A financial planner.
A Realtor.
A party planner.
A gift giver.
A card maker.
A graphic designer.
A bill payer.
A personal assistant.
A personal shopper.
A therapist.
A cheerleader.
A teacher.

I honestly could go on and on but I'll stop.
Just this is making me weary.
And making me wonder….why in the hell am I not a millionaire??
I mean come on....with that many jobs, I so should have way more money than I do.

Luckily, I'm in good company. So share with me,  what are all YOUR titles?

It's all good.
Things were discussed and we're good.

I'm happy.
We'll see how it goes.

Thanks for thinking of me.

J…I so hope you are feeling better today. You poor thing!
I wish I could fix it. Love you!!

This is from a song by Anna Nalick, "In My Head"

"under the weight of your wings/should ever we meet on your side of your stereo/I will pretend I know not of your thoughts/and even the way that they mirror my own"

and below is a quote from an interview Jon did recently.

"Asked about finding the inspiration for songs, he said, "The process
for me usually is just life experience. … Any writer realizes that
every day is a memory, and you just have to be aware enough to pen it.
Sometimes we put the blinders on because it's too much information and
you'll implode. There are other days you see something as innocent as a
baby's laugh and think, 'There's a song right there.' But for me and
for Richie, we usually work backwards. A title dictates the feel, and
then the verse and lyric fall in line. You come in with a great title
and everyone says, 'Oh yeah, got it.' Sometimes they're so obvious and
other times they're not. That's how the process works for me."

Very cool.

You have got to check this out. I have never gotten this excited over a performance during "Hollywood Week" on American Idol, but this performance was amazing. It gave me goosebumps watching it and I was on my feet applauding before they were even done. Absolutely brilliant!

Oh yeah….they got it.

I got AWESOME news yesterday.

I can't tell everything just yet, BUT I can say one of my friends that moved away is moving BACK.

I am beyond elated.
I adore this person and have missed her terribly.
(It's not Kim or Tina…although I would just die of happiness if either one of them came back…)

I can't wait until I can say more!!

I had to tell someone I love dearly tonight a few things I know that they didn't want to hear.
Luckily I'm mad enough about the situation that I was able to send the email.
But it utterly breaks my heart.

I am this person's biggest fan. When everyone else would have hung them or given up on them a year ago, I have defended and stuck by them because I love them so much. Because they are a good person, a funny person, with a huge heart who truly means well but has just gotten lost.
But I've done all I've could to help and it hasn't improved the situation. It's just wound up hurting me and my family.
I can't do that anymore. I can't let that happen anymore.
I know in my heart it was the right thing to do.
But it scares me to death because this person means the world to me and I think we might not talk anymore because of this. I don't want to lose this person. I desperately don't want to lose this person.
I hope they realize how much I love them and how hard this is for me.

I hate when something hurts me so much that I manage to get through the day without crying but when I lay my head down to sleep the tears fall uncontrollably.
This is that kind of hurt….

Hopefully it'll all work out. I'm really praying that it does.
Honestly praying.