13 posts tagged “chuck”

here are just a few of the pictures i took when i was in the outer banks for dawn's wedding.  i just saw that dawn started posting some of her wedding pictures, so i won't post any of the bride... i'll let her post them first, and then i'll put mine up.  don't want to take her moment to shine away from her! :)

here's a few pictures from before the ceremony and during the reception...

i've realized that i really only update my vox when chuck is gone.  i think it's because it's the only time i really have to myself.  a lot of times, i'll start a post, but before i can finish it, chuck will ask me what i'm doing, and then he'll come over and cuddle and kiss me so i can't do anything.  then we'll get distracted (not necessarily by sex, gutter brains), and i'll leave my computer behind, forgotten... by the time i remember i was composing a post, it'll be the next day and it's no longer relevant.

so chuck left for toronto this morning.  he's only gone for a few days this time, he'll be home wednesday night.  this is nothing compared to him being in germany, but i'm already putting off going to bed because i know i'm going to have trouble falling asleep.  annoying.  i have to be up early tomorrow to get into work and take care of business, and i just know i'm going to have a rough time waking up.  i need my beauty rest!

my dog has been sick.  i think he's got it all worked out of him now, but he had some SERIOUS belly problems, and we were cleaning up messes all over the house for a day and a half.  luckily he hasn't had any 'accidents' since chuck left, because i tried to help chuck clean some up yesterday and hello, gag reflex.  i'm a sympathetic puker, but this wasn't puke and as helpful as i was trying to be, i couldn't take it, and had to run out of the room with my hand over my mouth.

i had a complete binge day today.  i had ice cream for breakfast, leftover macaroni and cheese for lunch and another bowl of ice cream for dinner.  i guess that wasn't all that bad.  i really don't pay attention to what i eat when chuck isn't here.  he often yells at me because i don't take care of myself.  at least i'm eating!  it's not as though i'm allowing myself to starve.  just because when he leaves i suddenly become a lazy lump that doesn't want to cook anything for myself, doesn't mean that i'm not taking care of myself.

speaking of lazy lump, i spent the ENTIRE day today watching ANTM on MTV.  and then turned it off halfway through the very last episode.  i had already looked up online who was going to win and i was getting bored with it, anyway.  it was a rainy, gloomy day, so my original plan to do yardwork just didn't work out.  i wasn't completely unproductive though.  i did spackle and sand down all the holes/defects in the bathroom walls.  i'm going to re-spackle some of the spots in the morning, sand after work, and then hopefully start putting up the primer tomorrow night.

so here it is, and update from me.  i'm actually feeling a little bit tired right now so i'm going to put away the laptop and see if i can't fall asleep.  oh, crap, i remembered i haven't brushed my teeth yet.  i'm going to go do that, but i bet it's going to wake me up, and then i'll be laying here all night trying to fall asleep... chucky, come home!

its now gone from being a diary of my daily life to being a publicly displayed list of things my dog has destroyed.

please add:

- a baseball hat
- a pack of tapestry needles
- an empty birth control box, which i was holding on to for the literature inside of it
- a handful of paint samples
- some thing that chuck uses for archery, i think its to hold his arrow tips

he did all of this this morning while i was still sleeping.  my mom thinks its him acting out because chuck is gone this weekend, but he did all of the other destroying BEFORE chuck left.  i think its because chuck and i have become more and more busy and because its getting colder out we're doing less outside.  i took him for a long walk yesterday to relieve him of some of his boredom, but i guess that was just a temporary fix.

but when i found a piece of the package of tapestry needles, and saw that they were missing from the table, i flipped.  i was so worried.  i called my mom crying because i couldn't find the needles anywhere, and i let our dog eat needles and i didn't know what to do.  my mom said to just watch him and see if he was acting weird.

so i called my baby to me, and he snuggled me and rolled on his tummy and i was crying and petting and hugging him and he would snuggle me more and i was talking to him and asking him how he felt (like he could answer me) and then i glanced to the floor... and there were the damn needles, still in their holders, just missing the packaging.

I WAS SO HAPPY.  my puppy isn't going to die because i left tapestry needles on the coffee table! 

but anyway, must go, must clean... ryan, my brother, is coming over for lunch to watch football and see the house and meet the dog.  and chuck will be home sometime this afternoon. hopefully it will be a nice day, i'd like to get some things done outside this afternoon.

the past couple of days have been too much to digest or post about, so i've been sticking to the safe QOTD questions until i had some time to sit down and catch up.

chuck got the job.

i'm so happy for him, but ever since he told me, i feel panicky.  he's going to be working further away, we're going to be moving within the year, he's going to be more stressed out, he's going to be home less,  things are going to change.  this is our first big change as a couple, and i'm not really worried about it, but i am concerned.

he has to go to germany for two weeks.  we thought it was going to be in november, but now its going to be in february (thank god). 

i don't know why this whole situation is making me nervous.  i never thought i'd be the kind of person to get all weird and nervous and stuff about change.

ahh, he wants to talk to me now, i'll post more later.

... that make the biggest impact.

so as i stated in an earlier post, i did in fact travel to my mother's house today to pick up said VCR.  when i got it back to the house and chuck got everything set up, we realized something i had realized before but since forgotten... there was no remote for the VCR.  the remote, in this case, was critical to setting up the machine, due to the fact that i'm using it to tape television shows, and needed to set the timer.

oh what a conundrum!

so in the face of extreme disappointment, with the beginning of one of the shows i wanted to tape looming near, i turn things around with a simple statement: 'i'm going to go buy one of those universal remote thingys.'

la di da, i travel to the nearest k-mart (2 minutes up the road, wahoo!) pick up a remote, deny the sales clerk the opportunity to sell me a service plan, and spend a grand total of $20 picking up the remote and an 8 pack of AAA batteries.

come home, spend 20 minutes setting up not only the VCR, but the television, the DVD player, and our sound system to all work on this one wonderous piece of electronics.

i handed it to chuck, who had a skeptical look on his face throughout this whole thing.  as always, he asks me a million questions... 'but does it turn on the TV?' 'and can you tape shows on the VCR while you're watching another one on TV?' and then he gets a smug look on his face like, i got her now, little miss know-it-all! and he said 'but can it turn down the volume on the sound system?' and i happily replied YES!

so he tries it, sees i was right, and exclaims 'WOW!  i haven't been able to do that since i bought the thing, because i got it for half price as a floor model and it didn't come with a remote!'

and he just sat and smiled at me.  he was SO HAPPY!  all because i went out and got that stupid little remote.  i made my boyfriends WEEK with that.

yes, i know, i'm wonderful.  at least for the day, anyway...

so here's our little entertainment center, all set up and beautiful.  it brings a tear to my eye... mostly because that entertainment center is hideous and its going as soon as i find a nice corner unit that i can stand.

 

 

and i'm really glad that this whole remote situation put chuck in such a good mood, because, although he may be unaware of it, he's about to embark on a journey of no return... because something else came home with me on my trip to my mother's house... something wonderful, yet dark and incredibly addicting...

 

 

if you can't tell what that is, that's all 7 seasons of buffy the vampire slayer, my friend.  chuck has no idea what he's in for.  mwuahahahahaha!

one last note, i taught my puppy to play hide and seek today.  if i hide a treat in one of my hands, and say 'which hand, boone?', he'll sniff both hands carefully, and then put his paw on top of the hand that he thinks the treat is in.  and he's always right!  even when i rub the treat on both hands to confuse him!  what a smart smart puppy!

okay, time for bed!  goodnight!

i've had a horrible headache since yesterday.

yesterday we went to six flags and i had a horrible lapse in judgement and decided that i wanted to ride not one, but two wooden roller coasters, which successfully jolted my neck and head to the worst headache that i have ever experienced.

oh dear, erika, what have you done?

i had the day off today because of columbus day (woo bank holidays!) and spent most of it sleeping on the couch.  my headache will go away for a bit, but then it will come back full force.  its horrible.  chuck and i were out walking tonight and all of the sudden it came back so badly that i couldn't see right and almost lost my balance.

chuck thinks i'm dehyrdated so he's been making me drink like 5 glasses of water now.  it'll be a wonder if i don't pee myself in bed tonight with how full my damn bladder is going to be, and i keep telling him to remember that he sleeps with me.  he seems to have faith in my urinary tract or muscles or both.  i hope he's right.

speaking of chuck, he's got a HUGE second interview with a company in york tomorrow.  if he gets it, that means more money for us.  if he gets it, that means we will be moving to a new home within the next couple of months, because its too ridiculously far for him to drive to york everyday from where we live now.

crossing my fingers... this would be a great opportunity for him, and he needs to get out of his current job.  its a bad situation and he's just getting more and more frustrated about it.

i start my new job on wednesday!  i spend tomorrow at my old branch, tying up loose ends, and then i get to go to my new (old) branch and sit at my new (old) desk.  i'm going back to the branch i started at, only now in a different position.  i can't wait to get back to working with people who know what they're doing.  people i can learn from, instead of everyone learning from me.  it'll be a new and great experience, and it'll make me a better employee in the long run.

anyway, i think i'm going to head to bed.  i wanted to stay up and make sure all of my laundry was dry and folded, but its all dry, so i think that's enough of an accomplishment.  plus my stinkin' head hurts.

oh please let my headache go away by tomorrow morning....

i've officially moved in with chuck and we've been so so busy moving things around and making it comfortable for both of us to live here.

we're finishing the downstairs bedroom and turning it into a den for him so he can move his desk down there.  then we cleaned out his current office's closet so that i can have my own closet.  we're bringing furniture over from my mom's, taking furniture back to his mom's, going to either walmart or home depot at least once a day... what a freaking process.  we're having so much fun though.  its fun doing home repairs with my honey.  its nice to be working together to accomplish a goal like this.

we're heading over to my mom's house now to get a jacket that i can wear on the motorcycle because its getting chiiiiilly out, and labor day's not even over yet.  goodbye summer! :(

oh and i need more hangers.  i should have pictures to post tonight because we're heading to his friend mike's house to hang out with some of his college friends.  i asked him if any of his ex girlfriends would be there so i can glare at them, and he said 'no, i don't think so, and why would you do that?' and i said 'well what else am i going to glare at?' and then i collapsed in a fit of giggles and he just shook his head at me.

i'm silly.

okay, chuck keeps asking if i'm ready yet, so that probably means it was time to go about 5 minutes ago.  toodle-loo!

he got me sick.

he passed his miserable, sneezy, sniffly, coughy miserableness off to me.

and i'm very upset.

so my plan for the rest of the day is to curl up on the couch with my laptop, my knitting, my book, a hot cup of tea and a blanket and look as pathetic as he did when he was sick so that i may be coddled like he was when he was ill.

think it'll work?  i might get a foot rub out of the deal.  here's to hoping!

on another note, i think i need to move to a branch with more regular hours.  swing shifts are killing me.  i need a regular schedule, not a schedule that allows me to sleep in some days and not others.  a non-predictable work schedule does not a happy erika make.  i've realized that most of the stress i've incurred since moving from my old branch to this new branch was not due to it being a new branch, but due to the schedule change.  give me my 8:30 - 4 and 8:30 - 6 on friday schedule back.  please?  i'm asking nicely, damnit.

ah, well, back to my tea and my book.

so chuck and i are kinda going over things like me moving in, and how we're going to spend our money, and where we want to move to eventually, etc.

so today, on my day off, i decided to practice being a housewife.  i had such good intentions.  dusting, vaccuuming, toilet scrubbing.  i got the bedroom clean and did a bit of laundry.

and then i sat back down on the couch and here i've been ever since.  i think cleaning would be more fun if i had a swiffer product to play with.  the people on the commercials seem to have such a blast with them.  plus it would rock for picking up all of boone's doggy hair, yuckkkk!

i still have 3 hours until he gets home from work, so hopefully i'll get a bit more done than i already have.

so i went to borders the other day and purchased a bunch of books with the intentions of once again becoming a bookworm.  i was always a book worm growing up, and i love love love reading, but lately it seems that i haven't gotten much of it done.  i guess i read a lot on the internet, but that's not the same as reading a book.

anyway, bought four, just finished the first one.  Me Vs. Me by Sarah Mlynowski.  i'm beginning to love her.  i read a book by her called Milkrun sometime last year, loved that, and that's why i bought this book.  i was equally as impressed.  looking forward to buying a new one to enjoy.  i'm quite the chick lit fan, it seems.

next on my reading list?  the last anniversary by liane moriarty.  anyone read this?  give me some input.  i plan to start it before bed tonight.

anyways, off to fold some laundry, and then maybe i'll take a stab at cleaning the bathroom.  i bought thick yellow gloves yesterday just for this purpose, so i might as well get some use out of them.

I've totally meant to update this more often, but because I was off all last week, we did a lot of traveling, and I didn't set up my mobile VOXing abilities until just NOW, so its made it kind of difficult.

We were all over this past week.  Last Wednesday we drove to Virginia and dropped some stuff off at Chuck's sister's house, and then went to Virginia Beach for the afternoon.  So nice, glad I got to go to the beach this year.

We were supposed to go to Six Flags on Thursday, but it rained, so we didn't.

Saturday morning we left for Pittsburgh.  My stepmom paid for the whole family to drive there and stay in a hotel so we could go to the Pirates vs. Cardinals game on Saturday night.  The Cardinals lost, and Chuck was really, really sick.  He suddenly developed a sinus infection, and spent 80% of the weekend wiping his nose.  Poor guy.  I told my parents that I was so sorry my boyfriend was so snotty, that the next time we take him away somewhere, I'll make sure he adjusts his attitude before we leave.  Everyone got a kick out of that.  I know, I'm hilarious.

So I finally got to see PNC Park.  I've worked for PNC for a little over a year now, and it was neat to see the home office.  You could see the main PNC building from our seats in the park.  I spent a good 20 minutes trying to convince my step-brother that my office was on the 115th floor, but to no avail.  That 8 year old is too smart for me to mess with.

We got lost at one point coming into the city and found this place where you can stand and look over the whole city.  I got some nice shots of Heinz field, and Chuck has the bragging rights to being able to say that he blew his nose while overlooking the city of Pittsburgh.

So we got back on Sunday, and we are officially sick of driving.  No more driving for the rest of the summer.  Well, for me.  Chuck has to drive to New York tomorrow.  And I'm back to work now, and officially stressed the hell out.  Way too much to catch up on.

So there's a slight update.  I have to go get ready for work now and drop Chuck's prescription off at the pharmacy.  Poor guy is still sick, so I made him go to the doctor's last night.  Men can be so stubborn.

Hopefully I'll have some time tonight to post some of my pictures from Pittsburgh.