FOUR!

Four shows I watch:
1. GLEE
2. Modern Family
3. Cougar Town
4.Grey's Anatomy/Private Practice (They count as one because they are spin offs)

Four things I am passionate about:
1. BRENT!!!
2. HURLEY
3. Shoes (only at #3 out of respect for the hubbie and the dog)
4. Gymnastics

Four Phrases I say a lot:
1. "So, I have officially decided that..."
2."Yeah, No."
3. "So, ummm"
4. "I like my room dirty."

Four things I have learned from the past:
1. I don't hold grudges, but others do.
2. If I use the puppy dog face I can get whatever I want from Brent.
3. Men are very easy to scare...especially in business

4. If you don't want it repeated, don't say it.

Four places I would like to go:

1. Europe

2. Anywhere tropical

3. New York

4. machu pichu

Four things I did yesterday:

1. Cheer competition

2. Breakfast with Monica

3. Spaghetti Factory

4. Ate rock candy...YUM

Four things I am looking forward to:

1. Spring

2. Vacation!

3. Going back to PGH

4. massage

Four things I love about winter:

1. Candy Canes

2. Peppermint hot chocolate

3. My Sorel boots

4. snowboarding (in warm weather)

Four things on my wish list:

1. Volvo XC90

2. A big girl job

3. Brent to graduate

4. Move out of the cold weather!

Four people I tag:

1. Heather

2. Lori

3. Adrienne

4. Allyn

Lofty Ideas...

Lots to talk about and I think that I have a decently short attention span for blogging, so we will have to do this quickly...at least I think.

As most of you know my new place of residence is Coraopolis, PA. It is a small town just outside of Pittsburgh Like 5 miles no joke, but you would never ever guess because all you can see from my apartment are TREES! When you venture into Pittsburgh the city is really pretty. There are bridges everywhere, because of all of the hills and rivers here. It makes it so hard to get around because you get there one way and have to go back the other.

We haven't had a lot of time to do anything super cool lately...it rains way too much here so our time off is typically spent indoors or getting soaked! We have BBQ'd a couple of times but really our PA summer has been uneventful and soaking wet. Plus most of my time is spent at the LOFT in the mall. A couple of the girls all got jobs there with me and it has been pretty fun except for the fact that the manager is new and hasn't quite figured out how to schedule to the benefit of all. I am supposed to be working 15-20hrs a week, but I have been working 27-40 hours lately. There seems to be a very large disparity between what I was told and what I have been working. Luckily I won't be there for long. I have reached the end of my attention span so I will have to fill you all in another time.

Pictures that make me smile

Amazon Queen Dianne in her War Hero outfit!

Uncle Fancy Lancey! He stole that hat from the restaurant that we went to New Years Eve.

Hole in the Wall!

This morning I woke up...who am I kidding..this afternoon I woke up and was instantly in a terrible mood. I have been in a bad mood for two or three days, I like to think that this is because I have had killer chest pains lately, but it isn't. For some odd reason my bad mood is my way of coping with the fact that soon I will be completely useless. You see this is my last semester of college. I will be graduating with a Business major ( emphasis in Marketing) in April. It has taken me six turbulent years to get to this point and now I have nothing left. I can't go and get a job because we move every summer, and I can't go to the grad school I want because Brent is still not finished with his undergrad here. I will be completely in limbo, and I absolutely HATE the idea of being useless.

Anyway, now you know the reason I have been mean to you or yelled at you recently I have to tell you about my little breakdown today. So I was sitting on the couch watching Jersey Shore (i know) and eating the rest of the box of fruit snacks that has been calling my name since I started my diet, when I decided that I had watched enough tv for the day. I walk upstairs and look to my right and there is a hole in my wall the size of a quarter. Not kidding! I freaked to say the very least, and the second that my hubby gets home today he is going to get grilled! This totally pushed me over the edge and I decided to take it out on the bathroom. For those of you who know me well, you know that I will do almost anything to get out of cleaning the bathroom, I just don't like it. I think that my brain just shut down or something. Two hours later it is sparkly clean and I feel a little bit better. Maybe cleaning will get rid of the useless feeling .... is that why housewives clean, because the don't want to be useless?

Four Years!

So today we have officially been married for four years! Crazy! I love looking at the pictures and seeing how little Brent looked. We were such babies, who am I kidding we are still such babies. As angry and frustrated as this boy makes me I would never want to spend my life with anyone else.

Thanksgiving

This year was Brent's family's turn to have me grace their presence for Thanksgiving and believe you me I was psyched! Mostly for the warm weather (75 degrees!), but I always enjoy time spent with the Whipples. It was a packed short trip that started with a 15 hr drive. I hate road trips, but I wouldn't call what we did a road trip. It was more like a road marathon, very few stops, but at least it was during the night so I could attempt to sleep a little.
We got to see Ryan and Katie's ADORABLE baby Straton! Seriously he is beautiful...I will have to try and find a picture so that you all can see him. We ate Thanksgiving dinner OUTSIDE in t-shirts and then went to see New Moon! We all agreed that the take off your shirt to wipe the blood part was a little cheesy, but it was appreciated ;) Allie couldn't stop talking about how sexy Jacob was, it was hilarious! Friday we went paintballing, enough said. Hope everyone else had a wonderful start to the Holidays!

Back by popular demand! hehe

When Engulfed in Flames...(of fury!)
Sometimes I feel like the island nation of Cuba; everyone loves to hate and have serious firepower pointed at me, but in reality I pose a very little threat to the well-being of others. Sometimes I put up a stink and like to prove that although I am only a little threat, the size of a pin perhaps, constant pin-pricks are annoying and occasionally make you bleed. If I am lucky enough one day, maybe just maybe someone will get tetnis and die slowly.Normally I am not this angry or at least this blunt about being angry, but after sitting in a small undecorated room for 3 months pretending that I love my job more that anything in the world I am tired of the pretenses. There are a few things that have pushed me over the edge lately one being the fact that my husband stands up for everyone except ME, 2 there is a massive poop in the toilet in the office that has been sitting there FOREVER, and 3 a little prick that came our way via Miami.

I love my husband don't get me wrong, but sometimes (mostly in the summer) I want to KILL him. Often I think that I wouldn't miss the things that he does like leave the toilet seat up at night which subsequently means that when I have to pee at 3AM I fall into the toilet. Lovely. OR the way that he folds clothes, Really Nadine? But the biggest thing that I would not miss at all not even a little, would be the fact that he takes everyones' side but mine! I HATE IT! When I am trying to make myself feel better about this little fact, I say to myself and I quote " It is only because he thinks that the other people need to be protected because they are weak, HE thinks that I am strong and capable and that I can do it on my own!" Which if I do say so myself...is true. I am independent to a fault, but that doesn't mean that I wouldn't like my husband to be on my team every now and again. Just once I would like for him to hit the stupid piece of trash that decided to catcall me, or the ignorant prick that was mean to me. But apparently those are just day dreams because all I get for my troubles are phrases like "Dana, you should be nicer" or " I am sorry that he was mean to you, but life isn't fair!" WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WANTS TO HEAR THAT!? Not me! I want blood and guts and gore, not some pansy excuse as to why he will do nothing. I married a PACIFIST, great! He has redeeming qualities too. He cooks and for that I am greatful.

Moving on to the POOP. So about a month ago (give or take), someone takes a huge crap in the toilet and clogs it. Instead of the normal human reaction to lock the door, buy a plunger, fix it before anyone else notices something wrong; He covers it with toilet paper and LEAVES it!!!!! Now I realize that I have very little proof in the matter of naming the pooper, but this is not the first time that this someone has clogged this exact toilet and left it clogged thinking that someone less important will clean up his feces. Luckily the first poop dissolved and one day ( a week later) the toilet flushed! WHOHOO. Unfortunately this time we have not been so lucky. As mentioned before our pooper covered his mess with tons of toilet paper and the left the bathroom door open. Boys being boys and having abnormally small bladders decided that it would be a good idea to pee on top of the mess in the toilet, regardless of the fact that the toilet no longer has the ability to flush. RETARDS! I have asked and begged and pleaded and poked and prodded the Pooper to clean the mess. All he say is that there is no plunger and so he can't possibly clean it up. RIDICULOUS! He asked Brent (my pushover hubbie) to go and purchase him a plunger. He went to Wal-MArt and they didn't have one, Kroger didn't have one either. Now this load of crap has been sitting in toilet connected to the room that I have to sit in ALL DAY LONG, and it smells. It smells like a poorly maintained Zoo. Heather and I have kept the smell at bay with the bathroom fan and 2 bottles of Glade, but now the noxious fumes are escaping through the door! Pooper, we would appreciate it if you would please clean up your S#$& so that we can all breathe again. Just so you all can get a wonderful visual of the mess our pooper has created, I took the liberty of taking a picture (while dry heving). This picture is graphic and not for the faint in heart! Please someone have mercy, and clean up this toilet. There are flies! Vomit.

Finally, the Prick. So Heather and I were working late (aka not getting paid) and we get a semi not so nice text message. The conversation went a little something like this:
Prick: "Hello!?? Did you get that!? A response would be nice......."
US: "Get what?" (very politely) No response for like 10 mins. so we thought that we would be a little mischievious.
US: " Hello!?? Did you get that!? A response would be nice........" Hehe we got an immediate response
Prick: "WTF...If you were trying to be funny you just failed miserably! That and you never answered my first question!!!!"
Well we didn't think that was very nice at all. So we meaning Me decided to do something about it. I called him and it went something like this
ME: " Listen small child! You do not get to behave in this way it does not help your situation in the least! We did not recieve whatever message you are freaking out about and if you were really so worried about it then you should have called us to verify that we had it!"
Prick: " I don't have your numbers!"
ME: " Bull! our numbers are plastered all over this office and have been since the beginning of the summer. It is not our responsibility to spoonfeed you everything! Plus you have a partner and they should have our numbers. Stop being an incompetent prick!"
THE END
Now I realize that I should not have spoken sternly with the prick, but he pissed me off late at night which everyone knows is a bad idea. Plus he sent Brent the text message and not us. poopoo on you. Maybe I should make him clean the toilet!