All I want for christmas...

Is to have the whole store all to my self...No stupid clerks asking if they can help you with anything...No retarded shoppers to get in your way or take up over half the isle and know that someone is waiting behind them to get by but the still won't get the fuck out of the way!!!! My GOD, What chaos! I, a.k.a. WE, got our most of our shopping done this weekend. We drove to Grand Forks on Saturday and shopped for a couple of hours and only went to two bookstores. Then we went and watched Aiden while April and Kevin went to Kevin's work christmas party. I can't get over how big he's getting...Aiden, not Kevin! Silly readers, don't be goofy. Aiden has four teeth now and is just the cutest thing ever! April asked me to make his birthday cake and I've already got a few cool ideas. I figure it's the least I can do since she's gonna take some family pics of us and Derek's little sister and their cousin. We're gonna do that on Saturday, then I'm gonna do Aiden's cake for his party on Sunday. So, Doug and Karissa, we'll be in forks hopefully early Saturday, I'll call ya and see if you want to do anything.
Oh yeah, so I'm not the greatest critic, definitely no Doug, but I said my next post would have comments on the movies we saw; here ya go:
Beowolf 3-D: I'd never been to a 3-D movie before so it was pretty good, very cool graphics, it really did feel as thou things were jumping off the screen, the characters were awesomely drawn (or computerly animated, whatever), sometimes they looked so real and other times they'd look so cartoony, I'm not quite sure how well I would have enjoyed it if it wasn't in 3-D since a lot of the frames were made to be cool for 3-D but not lame old 2-D!
The Golden Compass: I actually enjoyed this one a bit more than I thought I would. It was pretty good. Nicole Kidman did pretty good as the "bad guy." I've never really like any of her movies, so this part suited her in my opinion. I loved the idea of having you soul be a companion that walks through life with you as a counterpart. And being based off of another trilogy of books, they left you hanging for some closure, so now you're stuck seeing the next two.
That's All Folks!!!

What's new with me?

Absolutely nothing...nothing exciting anyway.
I'm sick again. This is like the 4th time this season already, which is definitely out of the ordinary for me. Normally I only get sick 2 or 3 times every winter. My immune system must be really out of wack this year.
I haven't done any of my christmas shopping yet. Mostly because all our extra money seems to be going to the garage lately. Hopefully I'll be able to get it done this weekend or next weekend. I'll have to make a trip to Grand Forks or Fargo because shopping here sucks balls!!! I hate it.
Garage Update: STILL NO ELECTRICITY!!! That's all I will say about that. Derek is driving me nuts because he is so board but has no where to go to tinker with things. It better be done by next weekend. Stupid electricians! Grrr!
Work is the same old work. We've really slowed down now. We're at our 10-15 rooms a night during the week and if we have and hockey or wedding groups then our weekends are at 20-30 rooms a night. Sundays, if we're lucky, we'll have 3-4 rooms. Very quiet times. On the upside of that, I am able to get a little bit more done. This week I put up all the christmas decorations. And I am training Lisa, my boss/owner, on doing manager stuff so she'll be ready when I decide to leave.
Yes, we do still plan on moving. But it's probably going to be next fall instead of the spring. My bosses offered me a really good deal to stay at least thru the summer. It's going to be a very hard decision to make. I make really good money here and I know that I would continue to make more good money with them. But, I wanna have babies!!! And I don't really want to do that here. Reasons: 1-Doctoring in forks would be much more comforting than here, 2-We would already have daycare for our baby with Karissa, and 3-I'm not to keen on having a baby in a hotel room! It would seem a little trashy. Plus, I really want a house of my own. I really, really, really, really want a house of my own. I have been waiting for, like 5 years to have a house. And I'm tired of waiting. But it wouldn't make much sense to move away form a really good paying job without having a pretty good job lined up. So that's the next step, I suppose.
We'll that's enough for now. My next post I'll tell you about Beowolf in 3D and The Golden Compass.

What we did this weekend...

I worked on Friday til 3pm and had a very frustrating week with my desk clerks. My boss and I had a unannounced meeting with our night auditors, because they seem to think that we are paying them to watch movies and play on their laptops and only do about 50% of the work that we ask them to do. Our full timer, I think is just retarded...he doesn't do even the simplest of tasks; like taking out the garbage in my office, making a new bucket of wash water of the breakfast room-cuz I love to wipe down tables with 3 day old cold water, and stocking breakfast supplies...OMG I could go on forever, but I'll spare you all. Then one of our evening clerks isn't very happy with us either. She complains because she doesn't get enough hours, but then you offer them to her, she says yes, and then the day she's suppose to work she call 3 hours before her shift and assumes that myself or my boss will work it for her because she wants to go to Fargo....uh, NO...I DON"T THINK SO!!! I finally said that we are not working for her, so either show up at 3pm or don't work here anymore. She said "Well, you guys make it seem like it's such a big deal!?" I said "Ah, Yeah! It is a big deal! Your scheduled to work, so show up and work!!! It's as simple as that!" She was all pissy and I didn't think she'd show up. But she did and she didn't even say anything about our conversation! I hightailed it out of there like 5 minutes after she showed up.----Sorry for the rant!
So Friday after work, I took a nap, then Derek and I stayed up late watching TV and went to bed again later. Saturday was filled with housecleaning. I spent 3 hours doing laundry, but I cheated because I did it all at the hotel and got to use the big huge washing machines and dryers.
Then it got exciting when Doug and Karissa came over on Saturday night and hung out with us. We hung out at our place for a little while and then ended up going to the 11th Frame. Karissa was fairly tuned before we even left so she made it lively. Her and Doug are so funny when they're "arguing." It's just hilarious...Sorry guys...the drinks I had may have made it more funny than it really was, but who cares. We left there around midnight and I made Cheeseburger Macaroni Hamburger Helper when we got home. It was a pretty good night.
Sunday was pretty boring. I got called in to work at noon because our battery backup was flipping out and constantly beeping. I found out it was because the breaker for all the front desk outlets got flipped off and then on again. So I got that fixed and then Derek and I moved his pickup from the hotel to our garage. I know exciting, right? Now I'm kinda being distracted by Family Guy. So I'll check ya all later...Peace Out!

Farnum's 9th Birthday Cake

My nephew turned 9 years old on October 28th. Oh my god, that make me feel so old! Anyway, we were in Fargo for the Rob Zombie and Ozzy concert on the 29th, so I hadn't had a chance to make his birthday cake yet. I have made his birthday cake for every birthday he's had, except his 3rd birthday when Derek and I were living in Laramie, WY. "tear, sniffle" So better late than never! This was our dessert for our early thanksgiving dinner that we had on Sunday, 18th. My mom and my grandma came to town and Wendy made an awesome turkey dinner. It was delicious. I can't wait til Thursday, when I get to eat more with Derek's family.


These are lego blocks, if you can't tell. Made from 2 13" x 9" cakes.


Frosting was a little difficult because I almost ran out. But I think it came out ok.


Can anyone guess what the little knobs on top are made out of?
Hint: They're edible.

Here it is, in all it's Glory!!

View from the street...Exciting, huh?


Derek saying hello. He finally has a place to call home!


Crappy garage doors and an old time wood stove


An awesome work pit. A lucky workman crawls in here and someone else drives a car on top of him so he can work underneath the car - or - it could be used to bury a body!?


It's a 3 ft wide, 6 ft long, and about 5 ft deep...Creepy!

These pics were taken before we did any work on it. I'll have to get some new pics this weekend and post 'em . I'll keep you updated.

Finally, we're property owners!!

On October 23rd, we closed on a small residential lot with a 24'x34' garage on it. I'll post some pictures later. We started this process back in August and of course, nothing is easily done, so it took two months to finalize. Now we need to rewire, insulate, and cover the inside...all BEFORE snow falls. We don't have electricity in there right now because the wiring is pretty old and we need to get it replaced. But all the electricians are not available for another two weeks. So Derek borrowed a small generator so we could work on tearing out the windows and framing and boarding them up. We finally finished that last night. It's hard to get anything done, when you only have 2 hours of light to work with. Frickin' Winter!!!!
Anyway, I am going to Fargo this weekend with April and Karissa for a Girls Weekend Out. Only now I have caught myself a good cold. And I'm hacking and blowing and not feeling too well. I'm just gonna make myself better, so I can go and have fun. Hopefully, I don't pass my illness along to them.

It's been a long, long time...

I've been super busy lately, but I'll try to get everything posted sooner or later. I'll start with a follow up to my last post....

Karissa ended up not coming to Devils Lake with Doug on Oct. 19/20 cuz she wasn't feeling very well. So we just hung out with Doug for a little while on Friday and Saturday night. We just stayed at home and watched tv, surfed the internet, and I painted my toenails (orange with silver stripes, for the Halloween spirit)...exciting, I know! Derek and Doug discussed building a stand up bass out of a cardboard box and possibly one out of aluminum. They got there guitars out and had a nice little jam session. Sounded pretty good. I got a few pictures until my camera decided to crap out on me. It only turns on and works when it wants to...suppose Ill have to get a new one soon.

Derek and Doug jammin' out

Kitty wanted to play too!

Mr. Pumpkin meets Ms. Kitty

Ms. Kitty likes Mr. Pumpkin!

And his friends!!