Chores

Yesterday was such a productive day, Ben came over, and said he would help me with my yard work that I had to get done. (yea!!! Thanks Ben!)
But before we started all that we stopped and got a squash, because I was in the mood for some nice tasty squash. We made it home, and I got out the edger, and weed eater, and started doing all the edges, and places that needed to be cleaned up while he got out the mower, and started mowing. We had it all done in about an hour, and it looked nice. However, I am not used to handling the edger, and weed eater, and now I am really sore.
Then I got that good squash, and peeled it, and put it in to cook while we did a few more things.
After this we put together a work bench that I had purchased a few weeks ago. When Landon moved out, he took everything in the garage, all the workbenches, and tools. He left me with a hammer, a screwdriver and an old rusted out small socket kit with a small rusted out tool box.
So a few weeks ago as I was trying to replace the fuel tank on the weed eater, and I needed pliers, and I was so frustrated that I had no tools, so I went and bought the basic tools, as well as a few that I used quite often that Landon also took, like a drill.
Then realized that I had no where to put them. So I went back to Lowe’s and bought a workbench that I could have to do things that I needed to on.
It was 100% not put together, so Ben and I had a great time figuring out how it all went together.
During all this the squash was cooking. When we were done assembling we ate, well Ben ate a grilled pork chop with the squash, which if he said so himself he did a bang up job on because it was delicious! And I had melted cheese and crab on toast with squash and broccoli all of which was mmm.mmm. good!
So glad all that got done this weekend!

Art Festival

Ben and I volunteered this weekend at the Frisco Arts Festival. It was an experience.
First they had just done up all the areas around the trees, and the areas where there were little bushes and such with treated mulch that smelled like fresh manure (eww…)
The Art Festival was where a bunch of local and or regional artists were selling their own art. There was a lot of really nice art. One couple designed their own jewelry, and they had some really neat original pieces. I really like quite a few of their designs. http://www.newmansdesign.com/
The shift we did on Friday night was a bit chilly, and we ended up having to use Valet parking, because that was just kind of how it ended up. The end of our shift came and went, and they were still using us, so about 10:45pm we finally got let go, and we walked to the car to find that the Valet guys had gone home. So we had no keys…
So we walked all the way across the festival grounds to where we thought there might still be people to see if they had left the keys with someone.
We did finally locate our keys, and got to get out of there.
Then Saturday afternoon after each of us had our separate Violin lessons, we went for our Saturday afternoon shift. Once again smelling like lovely manure, we sat at our post.
Saturday was a gorgeous day. And our shift went pretty quickly without any major issues cropping up.
After our volunteer shift, we decided that we had done our good deeds for the weekend, and we wanted to have a nice relaxing night, so we went to an Irish restaurant and had potato pancakes and fish and chips while we watched the Alabama North Carolina game.
All in all, a great weekend!

Quick, Run!

Oh man, I have been sick with some sort of stomach bug since Last Thursday…So tired of this! I was trying to stop with sticking with an all liquid diet, but that did not last, because it did not seem to help anyway. So I have gone back to eating normal food, and being sick! I went to the Doctor today and got blood taken, and have to go back in the morning for a few more tests, since the doctor agreed that a solid week of stomach issues with no fever is indicative of a problem that may not go away on its own very quickly…
But I hope that what ever they find it is something that will go away soon…She was saying the Giardia was going around…ewww. I so hope I don’t have that!!!

New Blog, for my new life. Here is to the start of it!

For some background...
Got Divorced in July.
Have started dating again, and have met the greatest guy.
It has been a struggle to transition from being married, to being a girlfriend. I have not been a girlfriend for 12 years, and then I was young and carefree and it really did not matter. I was not in the middle of my middle years; I was at the beginning, and fancy free.
Now I have baggage. Bad experiences from my past have hindered me, and it has been really hard to see past what I expect to hear, or see from my new beau.
His name is Ben, and he has been so awesome.
He has opened my eyes to what it really could be like.

The man I divorced was a good man. He had issues with which I had issues, and eventually ended our marriage.

But it is odd to be treated differently then you ever have been, and have someone who does things the way that you knew people did, but you had not thought it would ever be you having those great experiences.

Example, He ironed his own shirt. I know. Something simple, and non-important in the scheme of things but to me… I was not sure men could iron. (lol)

So I dont know what life will bring, or where I will go from here, but I am happy.