Summer Vacation

Shaun and I went to San Diego for 5 days to have some fun in the sun!! We spent time with his sister Justine who I adore. She is such a sweetheart and I love spending time with her. We went to four different beaches, Old Town San Diego, Coronado hotel, shopped and went parasailing. Parasailing was a great new experience. I could do that everyday and love it!! I was ready to get back home after our trip to see my dogs and come back to my nice big house. I love Cali but I won't be living there ever again-it's too freaking expensive but it is gorgeous. I think visiting a couple times a year is all I need. I love the desert and I love Las Vegas. This is where I belong.

Update

So I haven't been as dedicated to updating my blog as I said but I'm back!

Update on my life...I quit my job one month ago! I cut my hair off again and I LOVE IT! I have been enjoying my carefree life just working on my house. I am starting to work with a volunteer org called Stand Up For Kids. We help homeless kids and runaways here in Vegas.

I went to Safford for a week and got to see my wonderful family. I had a great time just hanging out with them and being out in the country. I didn't get too homesick because I was able to bring my two baby girl dogs Mia and Leila. Leila brought a nice little flea back to Vegas with her. EEWWWW!!

My niece and nephew are the cutest kids in the world to me. Ella is so unbelievably smart and very empathetic to people. She has a understanding of things that I don't believe most 3 yr olds have. Owen is so calm and sweet. He loves to play with cars (just like his Dad)! Lani and Jered are really great parents. It's cool to see them with their babies. I can't wait until I have that someday. My parents are doing great. My dad has had a couple strokes, one of them was major, so they went to get tests done but the doctors still can't find a cause. I am just thankful we still have him around. Everyday is a blessing. I love my family and I will be coming home again soon.

A New Day

Hi Everyone! It's been a while since I have been able to write but I am going to start making time to do it more often. As soon as I get my computer fixed I am can upload more pictures that are recent so you can see what's going on here in Las Vegas weekly ;) !!! I know, just what you dreamed of...to see me!!! hehehe Anyways.....Life has been good here in Vegas. Although, it is very stressful with the economy crashing so hard here in the last month. Hopefully that will all get better with time. I am just taking things one day at a time. Like a lot of companies, my company has let people go and it is always stressful wondering if you are next but I have come to a point where I just tell myself "what happens, happens." Take one day at a time and make sure there is extra money in the rainy day fund 'just in case' and that's all I can do. Since I have come to that conclusion I feel very happy!! I have been hanging out with friends on the weekend here at my house and at a local casino down the street. We like to go to the casino bowling alley and have drinks at the bar while we lose a couple bucks or win a couple bucks at poker ;) We always have fun no matter what we do though...it's the company that counts. It's nice to have people here our age that we can still have fun with on a weekly basis and most important to know I have people here that care about me. Being so far away from all my family can be hard but it makes it a little easier being surrounded by people that really know me and care about me. I miss my family SO SO much though! Awww now I got a tear in my eye...that's enough! :( SHOUT OUT...I love you Jered, Lani, Ella, Owen, Mom & Dad!

Monday 12/15/08

Today was a pretty crappy day. I have a cold so I'm not feeling very good. I am still sad because Daisy is gone and I miss her. It's the coldest day it's been in Las Vegas all year. It's raining and even snowing all freaking day. It never stopped. Freezing! I had to go run an errand for work but it didn't go as planned so that pissed me off. I got back to work and had to deal with inconsiderate people. Since I wasn't feeling good all of this just seems so much worse then is really is ya know? On a normal day I would just deal with it without even letting it bother me at all but today I just couldn't take it!!! It seems like when it rains it pours. Not too many good things have happened the last 3 weeks and it really sucks because it's Christmas time....people are suppose to be happy around Christmas yet every year it seems to be when everything bad happens to me. I was looking forward to having a happy Christmas in my new house with Shaun and hopefully that can still happen but so far it has been a rocky start. I am excited though because my parents are coming down this weekend and they are staying for a week. That is so cool because I don't see them very often and I miss them very much. That is my light at the end of the tunnel right now. Hopefully tomorrow will bring better things.

The Late Great Miss Daisy

Death

Death is such a sad thing that every single one of us will have be faced with several times throughout our lives. How do we cope and keep going on? How do we stay happy and positive after we lose someone we were close to? It seems impossible to me right now. Even though I have a very strong spiritual belief that all my loved ones are in heaven or possibly already reincarnated back to earth....either way their spirit still lives and they have moved on. The hardest part is we are still here in the same situations having the constant reminder they are gone. Everywhere I look another memory or picture. It's so hard because for the rest of my life they won't be here. I wish I could see them on the other side and talk to them any time I wanted. I think that would make me feel better. Even though I truly believe they are okay I still miss them terribly. Even the people in my life I never really got to know I miss terribly because I wanted a chance to know them and for them to know me but that never happened because they were dead before I could remember. In all this sadness I have faith that God has put the people in my life for a reason and that is the same with the amount of time I have with those people. The way I look at it when someone dies they are going on to do bigger and better things that God wants them to do.

For all those friends, family and pets I have lost I love you and you will always be in my heart. I especially want to express my love for my dog Daisy that just passed away. She will always be my little fluffers.

For all my loved ones reading this I love you so much words can not express it. If I haven't talked to you for a while please pick up your phone and call me. Life is too short.