Oops!

I'm not doing a very good job documenting the death of my twenties am I? My last post was 2 months ago. Oops! Life was happening. I'm back though and will start posting new stuff shortly.

So, what have you missed?

• One of our dogs died at the beginning of June. She was the cutest thing in the world. Not sure what happened but she was fine one minute and within an hour she was gone. I couldn't find anything she got into so who knows.
• We moved. We are now living in Ashland, KY. It's about 40 minutes from our families but the house we moved into is the perfect size for us. No more paying to heat and cool rooms we never use. Yay for that!
  
• A week in Charlotte with Jenn back at the end of May proved to have more rain than we anticipated. We did get to meet several NASCAR drivers and even met some more Kyle Busch fans.
  

With the moving and everything blogging took a back burner for a while. Now that I have a stable internet connection and the desire to write again. I will be picking up where I left off.

I Have People! (347 Days)

Have you seen those H&R Block commercials where everyone walks around saying "I have people?" I too have people...just not the tax kind.

When we moved into this house back in January I was excited because the yard was flat. Our last rental didn't have one piece of flat land. It was all hill and was a pain in the behind to cut. If you weren't afraid of falling in the creek or getting smashed by the lawnmower as you fell down the hill it was fine but I hated it.

Photo credit: purplespid

This house has a completely flat yard and I was hoping to get in some exercise by mowing our double lot. There was nothing in the lease about lawn moving being provided by the landlord so imagine my surprise when one morning I woke up to a lawnmower right outside my bedroom window.

Yes, I have yard people! I wish they wouldn't come at 8 in the morning but I'm thankful to have them. They do a great job and cut most of the lawns on the block because our landlord owns a large portion of the block we live on. I love having people for this but at the same time it's not going to help me get any exercise in. I guess it's once more around the block for me. But hey, on the bright side my yard looks great!

I Swore I Never Would (362 Days)

My friends are going to love this. Go ahead laugh it up.

In the last year I purchased one pair of jeans, one pair of sneakers, and three t-shirts. That's it. Almost everything I own these days was a gift from my mom at Christmas time. I have three pairs of shoes, maybe 4. My wardrobe is sad....very sad. Maybe What Not To Wear is hiding in my closet. That's how sad it is.

I'm a jeans an t-shirt kind of girl. Even in the summer. I don't own one skirt or dress that fits me and the only pair of shorts I own is a pair of sweats I cut off when the AC was broken last summer.

I have one huge pet peeve when it comes to clothing. I can't stand it when a person sits down and their pants ride up. My friends think I'm neurotic and while that's true to a point this is my only real pet peeve. It's one of the reason's I can't handle watching David Letterman (when he walks on stage you can see his white socks. ick!) besides the fact that he's not funny. My jeans are always long and I walk on them to the point the bottoms are all messed up. That's okay though because when I walk or sit down you can't see my socks. That would be wrong.

Photo by brokenchopstick - This would make me crazy if I saw this person. My biggest Pet Peeve!

Anyway, like I mentioned I don't own a pair of shorts that I would wear out in public. I think Capri pants are the spawn of the devil and SWORE I WOULD NEVER OWN A PAIR. NEVER! NEVER! NEVER!

Guess what? Yeah, I now own a pair. Crap! (queue the laughing now)

I went out to dinner with my mom and sister for my birthday and we ended up going shopping. These occasional shopping trips are my mom's attempt at getting me to wear something other than my husband's t-shirts and sweat pants. Even though I don't ask for them I somehow end up with a bag of clothes. So there we were standing in Kohls looking at the plus sized shirts when mom points out this pair of denim capri pants. My first reaction is not in a million years. I would never wear them. They would just be a waste of money. I'm not sure how it happened (I will plead insanity on this one) but I actually decided to get them.

Yes, I now own a pair of capri pants. The world is coming to an end...I can feel it.

So, I get home and try on my new clothes so my husband can see them and what does he do? He laughs at me. He doesn't laugh because they look funny or bad but because of the look of terror on my face as I was putting the pants on. He said I looked like I was going to be sick. That's how much I hate short pants.

I'm not sure yet how often I will wear the pants or how long it will take me to leave the house wearing them but I'm willing to give them a try. I promised mom I would.

What's the one clothing item you swore you would never own? Did you give in?