I can retire when???

Today I was sitting here at my desk working away when my boss came up and handed me a sheet of paper and he told me that it was my retirement statement. Not my 401k but my retirement from the credit union. He was telling me all about this stuff and pointing and explaining and pointing and explaining. My eyes were so tired by time he finished I just say the paper down and went back to working. Well then I looked at it and saw that there was a date bolded in the middle of the page so I called him back out to my desk and asked him what it meant and he told me that it was when I would turn 60 and I could retire…

The date, September 1, 2045! How depressing is that? 37 more years and I can retire, woohoo!

I wonder if we can change my birth date on file here to make me older and therefor I can retire sooner?

The joys of Skype!

Karmen and I just finished talking on Skype! I haven't laughed so hard in ages! There are voice effects that you can turn on and the person you are talking to when they talk it makes their voice sound different. Like there is a male voice so I can see Karmen talking but it sounds like a man. There is also a munchkin, which is hard to understand. There is a kid voice which is cute and there is "strange accents". I can't remember which one of the 5 it was but I was laughing so hard I was crying, it was hilarious!!!

So thanks to Karmen for the laughs this afternoon!

ASVAB, here he comes!

I am still thinking about the whole Army Reserve thing. But I did let Zach buy an ASVAB test prep book since he will have to take it if I decided to let him do it. I was looking through this thing and the English/Verbal sections seem pretty easy there is a whole section devoted to synonyms. Now the Mathematics section, it is a little harder.

I thought once I decided to leave UAB that I was done with school until I decided to go back to school. Boy was I wrong! I will be helping study for this fabulous test over the next few weeks...

On whether I am going to let him do it or not... I haven't actually decided. I talked to my mom about it today and I told her that he has wanted to do this as long as I have known him... I have always been against it but I don't want to keep him from something that he really wants to do. I am still worried about the possibility of him going to Iraq but I can't always worry about something that may never happen. So I have not fully made up my mind yet but that is where I stand at this point.

I still have questions, hopefully Lee can answer those tomorrow night at Family Dinner Night.

I will keep you updated!

So many questions...

Zach has been looking into joining the National Guard for the past few days. Tonight he went and talked to our brother-in-law Lee who is in the Army Reserve. Now Zach thinks that he would like the Army Reserve better because of the pay and education and all of that type of stuff... The only thing holding me back from saying yes is the fact that he could be sent to Iraq. And all of you that know me know that I could not handle that. The money would be nice to pay off bills and save but Iraq still lingers in the back of my mind. I know this is something that Zach really wants to do, so we just have to pray about it. We would appreciate your prayers too as we look into both the National Guard and the Army Reserve...

I will keep you updated on what is going on.

Sips-N-Strokes Photos

The three of us with our paintings...

My painting!

Be sure to check out my post below!!!

Sips-N-Strokes

First visit www.sipsnstrokes.com to learn what Sips-N-Strokes is...

Done? Good...

Karmen, Alline and I went last night for the first time. It was a blast! We carried in our large cokes and waited patiently for the class to start... We were painting the "Funky Tree"... and funky it was... Our teacher was GREAT, her name was Ginger and she was SO funny!

She showed us step by step how to do the background and then the tree... It was great to actually learn how to do it step by step instead of trying to do it from a picture...

I have to admit, I was a little nervous about it because I am not artistic at all and I didn't want my first experience to be one of humiliation... When we were finished I was SO proud of my "Funky Tree"! I was actually proud of all three of us! They all turned out really cute. I have some pictures on my camera at home that I am going to upload tonight and post so check back later for those...

I can't wait to go back and introduce new people to the wonderful world of Sips-N-Strokes!!!

Just a random picture from yesterday...

Mom and I went to Pepper Place yesterday and then we went to the Botanical Gardens...

This is some sort of Lily. I loved the scalloped edges! It looks so dainty!

Great News...

First, sorry this is a few days late...

I went to the dermatologist on Tuesday and Shelley didn't find anything that she wanted to biopsy. YAY!!! I go to see her again in November for my last appointment this year! Then next year I will go twice and then once a year for the rest of my life...

I was so relieved when she said that she thought everything looked good. She said that she was kind of upset that my scar stretched, but I don't care as long as I don't have cancer I am happy... When I had my stitches removed it was this nice thin scar and as time has gone on it has stretched because of the location of the scar... oh well, it doesn't bother me.

Anyways, T.G.I.F.!!! Have a great weekend!

Pictures

Our Room

The sunset the first day!
Zach doing what he did all vacation... fishing!
A beautiful sunset!
Our house that we stayed in.
The family!

Sorry, late vacation update...

On our first night out to eat we had a horrible waitress... she messed up all of our drinks and when she was taking our food order she kept repeating the wrong item back... Like Zach's dad ordered hamburger steak and she said "ok you want the jumbo gulf shrimp". Well we sat there and sat there and then she came by the table and said that they were plating our food and it should be out soon... well 30 minutes later we still didn't have our food so Mr. Larry went and found the manager and he went back to the kitchen and he came out to our table and told us that she had not even submitted our order but he just did and he promised to have it out in 15 minutes and that he was paying for everything... cool free meal! Not so cool when we got our food and everything was wrong because our crazy waitress had written everything down wrong. Like there were two kids chicken finger plates, we didn't have any kids with us! Anyways, not a way to start off our vacation.

Other than that the vacation was fabulous! We sat on the beach everyday and did nothing. Well Zach fished everyday and cought some fish... Most days we sat on the beach until the sun went down.

We ate in most of the time but we ate out a couple of other nights... it was great! We didn't have to worry about getting dressed to go out to eat and wait forever for a table...

I will post some pictures when I get home.

Yes I sat on the beach everyday and I sat out there all day. I kept my sunscreen reapplied and I sat under the umbrella all day... And I didn't get the first bit of sun... go me!

Anyways, I have to go for now! Have a great day!