The New Adventure Begins!

My wonderful hardworking husband is going to open his own store where he will sell pool supplies, chemicals, patio furniture and other things. I am so proud of him because he will finally get to be off his feet some, hopefully! The store will be on Millwood Ave. next to MillCreek Dogfood store. Wish us luck!

Time Warner Cable sucks

So We bought a great high def tv and called Direct tv to upgrade our sattelite. This was months ago, anyway a 13 year old came out to tell us no way hose because we live in a neighborhood with massive pine trees and they can't be cut down and the satellie can't see all of the other satellites for the high def channels. So we have to subscribe to Time Warner Cable and since the day we have paid them, months and months ago, the high def channels have never worked for more than 1 week. We have had 6 techs out here to rewire, reboot, redo everything and still nothing. So today I am going to take this frigging box to them and get a new one again and for a week hopefully we can see our TV! Oh and the surround sound broke, took to a place that charges 40.00 just to diagnose it and they tell us that they have to send it back to Sony and it will cost over 200.00, so hubby told them to trash it and now we can get a new one for about the same price! UGHHHHHHH! Well at least it won't rain this weekend so we can finally go out on the boat Sunday! Lake Murray here we come!

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Love these girls

Worst birthday ever

This is not me, but it is how I feel. Today is my birthday and nothing has been good at all, I mean nothing! I take TD to the vet for his annual visit and it costs me more than 3 haircuts(260.00). Then I talk to my dad whose dog that is the love of his life is in pain from his bones and then I get home and the 100 year old lady that used to live next door until they placed her in a home, son came by and said my dogs bark too much and they can't sell their house. I had to be really really rude and cuss him out and shut the door. Both dogs are sound alsleep not making a peep!!!!!! I am so over everything that if something good doesnt happen, I will split in two!

Ode to Bea

I have to say I grew up watching the Golden Girls and still find it absolutely hilarious. I still watch it sometimes, even this morning. I was laying in bed with Jasper and turned the TV on, and they are having a Golden Girls marathon, of course I have seen all the episodes. It is just sad that as we get older, our favorite TV icons and others get older too and it just makes you stop and think that one day it will happen to our friends and family too. Sorry didn't mean to be somber but wow.... Live each day to the fullest and hug and love everyone!

The weekend

So Wonderful neighbors and friends invited me over to hang out and of course when I get with them, I tend to "splurge" in the adult beverage department. But I do have to say it is always a fun time. We don't get naked or do shots or anything crazy, we just hang out, watch TV, and complain etc... Hubby is away hunting for Turkeys and apparently did not get one. Oh well it will be pizza for dinner then. Until next weekend then.....

Old houses

NIce top drawer where our silverware is kept. No longer, we will now have to get someone to fix it. The house was built in 1974, the year I was born, so 35 years old. We have been fxing things for 3 years now. But I love it, couldnt imagine living anywhere else unless the lottery goes our way, then see ya, new house with pool and new car, etc..But its frustrating that now the silverware is in its holder in the laundry room and we have this gaping hole and blah blah. Anyone want to fix it?

New dining for the Olivers

So I say to Hubby let's go out to dinner Friday night since he is going turkey hunting today. I picked a new restuarant I had heard about called Mint Julep. Its southern food with a flair like a Kentucky Derby feel. So we get there and atmosphere is good. She leads us to a table for 2 and says oour server will be right with you. Well, what does that mean? 2 minutes, 39 minutes? After 15 minutes, Jodi comes over and says our server is very busy and she will take care of us. Hubby says ok, we need alcohol. Check. We ordered our ususal fare, vodka diet with lime for me and crown and coke with lime for him. Oh and water for the both. The menu seemed to be abit of the tapas style. They ad 3 for 15.99. So we got 3 and a salad and after that we ordered more. However, it was really really good. The ceasar salad was awesome, they brought us water crackers with some sort of cheese and vinagrette instead of bread, that was great and then we had shrimp and grips, tilapia concoctions and a bourban flank steak with potatoes, all in all , it was great, would we go back? Yeah with more people and order and taste everything. Thanks hubby!!

Another Great one Leaves us!

So my hubby and sweet bro in law thinks it's great to send me things from Fox news online and TDO online about things I care about. For Instance, the famously, cute and sweet loving father of 2, Brad Johnson former Super Bowl Winner gets released from Dallas. They say its like putting a horse out to pasture. I think they are both just jealous that he is fabously cute and has a hot wife with 2 tall boys and that I adore him and he adores me(kidding). No, I have met him and hung out with him and his wife Nikki Richt, sister of the Great Mark Richt who coached the Ga Bulldogs. They lived in Tally and my roomate was like BFF with all of them. He has a great spirit and heart. He does tons of charity stuff for the Ronald Mcdonald house and he will be greatly missed by more than just me. Good luck Brad!!!

Holy Turkey

Hubby is leaving me to go turkey hunting upstate. His mom got the trip sometime ago, I just don't get the whole man hunting thing. Now I do like to fish but really, sit all day to hope you may kill a defenseless animal? Anyways, Ill be hanging out with the dogs and the neighborhood adults and their kids. Its springtime ,where the chairs come out on the front lawn along with some other things, adult beverages! Happy Hunting Hubby!

At the Masters 2009

So hubby decides on Weds that it may be fun to get a day babdge for The Masters out of nowhere! Well I grew up on the golf course with my dad and his love for it. I mean Jack Nicklaus was the shit back in the day. I actually played golf in high school and loved it, however I sucked at it. So Of course I am like game, lets go. So after 3 days of looking on the internet for badges, hubby texts me at work, we got badges, don't ask how much. I didnt and still don't want to know. It's kinda a bucket list thing. So we get up there at like 830, its chilly, I have on pants and a sweater, hubby has on shorts, but we are color coordinated. This place was amazing. So we decided to sit on fairway one where we could see everyone tee off and walk by us. About 1200 ish R. Imada hits a ball down the 9th fairway and clocks this guy in the head behind us. He is bleeding and people are rushing to him, not me, what can i do?? They gave him ice and someone called the medics and 10 minutes later he is still fine and the R.Imada gave him a ball. So nice, thanks millionare for hitting me in the headm and thanks for the 2.00 golf ball, meanwhile, he is going to the ER to make sure he doesn't have a brain bleed. So then Tiger tees off, oh my, hits it right over our heads into the trees also. Hubby not happy with rogue balls, Tiger has to walk right by us , like 2 feet away, he was huffin and puffin it was great. Then my man Phil does the same thing only longer. Well I could tell he was gonna walk all the way up and then cross, so I ran up to his ball and he was like 1 foot way and cam thru the crowd and birdied the whole. I love Phil!! I encourage everyone to go to the Masters or some sort of Pro golf tourney!

The name game

So TD and Jasper have about 6 names each per my wonderful hubby, as I do also. Jasper's real name is Jasper Bowden Oliver. My hubby calls him J, J ass, little boy, momma's boy and now JBird. Really can we all just have one name? TD's name is Tucker Dodge Oliver and he is called T, TD, TDog, daddy and big boy. My name is Niki Lynn Roland Oliver. He calls me baby, darlin, Nikilynn, Momma, my wife, and I really don't know what he calls me when I miss him off, don't want to know either. Come to think of it my nieces have about a hundred names too. Delainey Allen Oliver can be that or DD, or D, or precious or lainey or doodlebug! Jacqueline Marie can be that or Jac Jac or J or Jackie or Jacka, etc. So it must be an Oliver trait. This is a pic of JBird on the deck, him and T were barking at a squirrel and it was hilarious. They never bore me!!!

Jac turns UNO!

Gotta say Love me so Jac and DD. Had a great time at her number one. Wished Poppie was there, he would have adored her. He loved our dogs as much as his. Its such a shame that the good people go first and the bad people live forever......

Classic Ford Comments!

Okay so the guy called hubby and told him my truck was ready and to be there by 600 pm so I left work, stopped at a gas station to replace the gas, I had driven only 2.00 worth of gas off since yesterday and I was like WOW, cuz I drove to San Jose for some grub and work and back etc, so I am rethinking the whole SUV thing, maybe gonna want a car, not a FORD but a car. So I get there, I'm on the phone with my mom who has just had hernia surgery and has to pee alot and go inside to claim my POS and he notices I have a Tony Stewart lunch bag. Its the orange and black with 20 on it and says he is gonna charge me extra because he is a Jeff Gordon fan. Well, it is my fault that I carry a Nascar lunch bag, I mean I really am not that big of a redneck, it just holds a 6 pack for hubby to take to Darlington for the race on my birthday May 9th which we never spend together- anyways. Got the truck back and need a new lunchbox with the new 14 Tony Stewart red on it. Thank god, I didnt get a tattoo.!!!

AND AGAIN>>>

So I take my car to Ford today so they can test the transmission that they put blue dye in and ohhhh low and behold, there is a leak.. No really, so I am driving a midget ford focus that I can barely fit into and it has Ford courtesy car all over it. Seriously, and I have to pay more money to get it fixed. However after driving it, it does hall assssss and I think I may want a sports car, I mean I really dont need a SUV, no kids or anything. so well see. But it aint gonna be a FORD sports car!!! Thanks Laura for taking me to drop it off an to Alicia for taking me to get the rental car...I love ya.... i dont have a real pic, but its blue and lots of writing on it

Happy First Birthday!

This week my youngest niece turned 1. Today we are going to her house for a party at 500. I can't beleive how much they grow and so fast. Unfortunately Jasper and TD were not invited. Jasper is not well behaved when he goes over to see his cousins Buddy and Tiger! Ill bring them back some cake. Kidding hubby!

Gas and Water DON'T MIX

So hubby is out and needing gas. He pulls into a BP that he has been using for years and fills up. Well his chevy diesel filled truck decided something ain't right. He takes it to the dealership, they find water in his fuel tank. Nice, and he wasnt the only one so hopefully the incident will be taken care of by BP! If its not one thing with us lately, its; the other!

Ingown toenails be gone!

So that's not my toe, I am not putting a pic of my feet on this. For years, I have toenail issues. My friend Amy says that I need a toenail transplant, I just have ugly feet, can't help it. So 2 weeks ago, both big toes got infected and I was complaining at work and my coworker says go to her podiatrist and get them fixed. So I called on a thurs and got in Fri at 100. She numbs them up which hurts like the bejeeses and sprays this ice cold stuff on them which hurts worse and then cuts both sides off and they are gone forever. They are healing nicely, I have to put cream on them for 2 weeks and take antibiotics but hopefully it wont happen again!

FIX OR REPAIR DAILY

So my wonderful husband got me into FORD. My first car was a 1984 red chevy cavalier called the "Deer Slayer". One night my 16 year old friends and I were out headed to a party in Havana, Fla, and a huge deer ran out in front of me and smashed my car to pieces, needless to say we did not attend the party. I never got it prperly fixed, so one of my guy friends(can't remember who) named it the Deer Slayer. Second car was a 1985 blue 4 door subaru with a roll out sunroof that leaked and had no air condtioner. The 3rd car was a 1986 Honda Accord 2 door hatch back, loved that car until the ac died too. Those 3 cars each had over 78,000 miles and never ever did I have to spend 750.00 on it. The first car I bought out of nursing school was a 1997 green honda civic, 2 door sport loaded, loved it. Had it for 3 years and never had to repair a thing. Then I got into the SUV mode, so my dad was working at Jeep and they had that 325.00 month leasing thing so of course I got one. I loved that too, had that for 4 years and eventually the passenger door wouldnt open, and then I met FORD loving hubby. "Let's go to Ford and look at the explorers". Okay why not, he had one, his dad and his brother too. Ok!! So after driving one, of course traded mine in for the Explorer. It turned out to be crappy too because right before we moved here, the back glass burst out on me in the Publix parking lot and after my hubby researched it after paying 1000.00 for it, it was recalled and we never got the notice, so he got all his money back. Well at 50,000 miles everything started to go, so we traded it in for this POS I have now. It is the bottom of the line no frills explorer bought in Sept 2006 and this week the radiator died and cost me 750.00......I am so never ever buying a Ford again. Oh and hubby drives a CHEVY now!!!!!!!!!!

Happy 2 years baby!

So February 24th hubby and I have been married for 2 blissful years(hah). Instead of going to Ruth Chris again like last year, I let him decide. He loves Italian so we went to Moe's Grapevine on Rosewood. Our first experience led to some great things happening after alot of wine, so I thought hey why not. Second visit though, not so much, not many people there and food not fantastic and we both went home to sleep, it was a Tuesday work night. But it was great. I thank God everyday for him and for my cousin turning 21 and inviting him and me to his party and that I picked him up!! I love you hubby!!!!!

Finally a DOGGY DOOR!!!!!!!!!

My wonderful husband knows how much I love to have the doors and windows open. Well when Jasper the bird dog came along, we had to retire 2 screen doors(so far). The first one, he ate when he was a puppy and the one after that, well he broke that one too. He loves to be inside with mommy and daddy when we are home and if the glass door is shut and he can see you, he cries the whole time and it breaks my heart. So, daddy got a steel framed door installed with a doggy door!!!! The first night was a teaching lesson that made me rethink how smart I thought they were. They just didnt know what to do with it. Finally on day 2 they got it. It rained all day yesterday so they took turns just staring out of it. Now Jasper goes in and out about 600 times a day while we are home and the little door makes a noise so i hear it each time, it gets annoying as you can imagine. However I do like it. This morning I was cleaning the floors and I shut the glass door and did not put the while plastic cover over the door, do the geniuos that TD is tried to get in but quickly his nose was stopped by the glass. Sorry bud, I will not do that again!
Thanks again hubby, you are the best!

Jasper the Real Bird Dog!

So Hubby takes Jasper to the lodge on Friday and Jasper was successful in retrieving all 3 birds that daddy shot! Hubby was so proud of him, which is a rare thing since he has cost his daddy thousands of dollars!!! TD was not at all happy that Jasper got to go and he didnt, so Sunday TD will get to go and I will stay here with the new number 1 bird dog at our house!!!!

Not another Vet trip!

Serioulsy Td has been limping off and on for a week or so and now Jasper wont put any pressure on his right leg, paw whatever. I was going out of my mind because they cant talk, tell you what hurts what they did. I know they wrestle and fight, but not another vet trip. Hubby tells me to calm down and he will let me take them if on 3 days they arent better, well thankfully today they are, I just hate seeing them not in full force fighting mode. We are going to be oot this weekend so I just worry about them. Hubby things Jasper is milking it becaue in the morning especially he is stiff and doesnt really walk on it, but he still jumps on the bed, wags his tail and comes to get me for his 5 treats before we leave for work.! I love these boys!

We have batteries!

No more camera mishaps without batteries. I went to Home Depot, which in nowhere near me and purchased a 36 pack of AA and a 12 pack of AAA for 25.00. I love it, now I can follow Jasper and Td around and get even more photos of them. You can never have enough!!!

It's raining again!

So It snowed here Tuesday, It was wonderful for me, not so much for hubby and my 2 dogs who really need a bath! TD really doesnt care that it's snowing or raining because apparently squirrels do not take a day off. Jasper on the other hand wants to either be inside crying to out the front door or getting to go with hubby hunting. None of which have happened lately. He is asleep behind me now since it's raining and cold again! The boys get to have their favorite family over this weekend while hubby and I drive to Virginia to see his Nanny. Last time the favorite family came to visit, TD got smacked in the face by the mother shile they were WII bowling!!!!YIkes!!!! Hubby and I were in Tally and she called and told me his lip was bleeding and that she was sorry! I laughed and told her that he did that to himself or Jasper did that to him before we left! I asked hubby to take out the overflowing trash last night before bed and he didnt so we woke this morning to corn cobs and leftover salad and trash in the mud room and I can promise you Jasper had no part in it!

Thanks to a fellow blogger!!!

Thaks to one is not so lonely for giving me a shout out for an award. I truly dont get a lot of time to read, blog, anything really but work and my hubby keeps control of the computer and the remote!!! I do need my own, I will approach that maybe for our 2 year ann. in Feb. 2 years! I have had some eye/contact issues that are making me crazy! Jasper continues to eat the camper cover, and hubby is ready to kill him again, but that's not new. So, he is inside with me curled up like the little 54 lb booger bear that he his!!! Since I have not had a lot of experience with blogging I read the ones that you guys post and love them!

1. Just ask Beth!
2. My dogumentary
3. One is not so lonely
4. So happily us
5. Ashley unscripted
6. Clemsongirl and the coach
7. Caffeine Court
8. The Pink clutch

Thanks one is not so lonely for noticing us and counting down till sushi time!

Shout out!

This is just a shout out to hubby's brother who turned 30 on Saturday who has been married a hellavu lot longer than us! Happy birthday little brother in law-couldnt ask for a better family!

2 years

So on 2/24/09 I will have been married for 2 years, still not positive hubby has a clue, I didnt get the date engraved in his band that he lost 1 day after we were hitched. We got married in Negril Jamaica with our close friends and family on the beach barefoot. I bought his ring off of overstock becasue I new he would lose it or something. Well, the day after the wedding all the guys were playing volleyball in the pool and oh hubbys ring goes flying off, but thanks to a great cali friend, he found it. CRISIS solved. Oh and by the way me and my girls did the Tomahawk chop all the way fromt he room to the beach so I wouldnt faint or pass out or something.

Stitches be gone!

So today is the day for me to take Jaspers 10 stitches out. I will have no help because hubby thinks I should take him to the vet. Not gonna happen,he hates the vet. So I took him for a long walk and he fell asleep and kinda just held him down and did it, He is such a good boy sometimes! I think right now he is upset that his daddy took his real daddy in the big truck with guns "somehwere". I hope he won't rememember later that Td got to go and he didnt. However he did get to ride in my truck a few times to take care of his cousins yesterday, they dont like him by the way. Oh well, he'll live.

BENINE

Ok so Jasper's tumor is benign, no cancer at all, but I have to remove the 10 stitches with help to hold him down on sunday or monday. He is still crazy as ever and not slowing down at all, so all is good. If we could get him a job to pay the vet bills that would be nice. His uncle Steve is turning 30 this weekend, just 28 years older than him! Really no new fun news, just living the dream of cleaning up after them and hubby daily!

Tumor be gone!

Okay so Friday was the big day of the tumor removal. Thurs night we had to put up the food and water before bedtime. On Friday when we got up as usual Jasper is pacing from the bedroom to the mud room for his first of 34 treats he gets a day. Well,, not today son, going to the vet. So I call him in the mudroom and shut the door, because (you really should see a video of him when he thinks he is going for a walk), I get down the leash as he goes berzerk! He yanks my arms and shoulders and gets tied up around the bushes etc etc then he gets in the truck and has to hang his head out the window while I freeze to death and whine the entire 5 miles to the vet. Once we get there he knows where we are again and decides, not today mom, take me somewhere else. So Dr. joe goes over all the info with me and says he will have anesthesia, they will shave his face and one of his legs for the Iv and I can pick him up at 400. I tell him I love him, which he doesnt care at this point. I began to sob uncontrollably that I had to leave him all alone(kidding) I went to work, he called at 1124 and said J did great pick him up at 400. I texted my hubby and went on with the day. Hubby calls me at 300 and says he want to go with me to get him, I thought that was sweet because hubby calls Jasper "nutjob" instead of J. So we get there and after 10 mins of clemson football talk with DR. Joe, I can get my dog. He has 10 stitches that will need to come out in 10 days, so I thought well Ill take them out. yeahs, I woke up this morning and thought NOPE! So he is fine, He is on a pain medicine that makes him have the absolute worst gas I ever have smelt in my life! He and I slept together last night and I woke up choking from it. Seriously! Well now he is asleep and still doing it, but it doesnt bother him, only me because he has to be wherevever i am. I love this dog! Oh and TD too. Final bill lets just say for today it was less than we thought!