I'm Alive!

Note:  If you read both of my blogs this is basically just a copy/paste from Chrome's blog.  :)

I'm alive, I've just been very busy.  I'll try to make a quick run down of everything that's been going on.  The weather has been horribly hot so I haven't done anything with Chrome other than take care of him.  It is cooling off already though so hopefully I'll be able to get back to riding soon.  I also finally found a job.... it SUCKED!!!!!  I was working the opposite schedule as my husband, eight hour shifts with no breaks, no food and very few bathroom breaks (illegal by the way).  I only worked there a few weeks before I told them they could drop me from the next schedule (did I mention the coworker drama and LIES?)!  I found a new job working at a feed store that I'll start this week and it's the same hours as my husband so we'll have the same days off.  Yay!!!  Getting home while he was asleep and him leaving when I was asleep was really disturbing both of our sleep patterns and we never got to spend any time together.  I never want to do that again.  Ugh!

Other than the job stuff we also finally got the cabinets installed in our kitchen and the guys came out to measure for our counters.  It will be a month before we get the counters, but that's okay.  It's been nice actually having cabinets.  We also have one cabinet that was damaged so they sent a replacement, but they let us keep the damaged one so we hung it in the bedroom over our new computer desk that we put in today.  It looks great!!  I will get pictures as soon as it's all done.  :)

When I wasn't busy job hunting, working the crappy job or working on our house I've been spending most of my time drawing.  I finally discovered charcoal drawing and I love it!  I'll be sharing some on when I have time to get pictures and video (hard to get nice pictures of artwork I'm finding!).

I also had major computer problems and finally got a new one.  I'm still working on getting everything switched to the new one.  I also discovered the Window Live Mail feed reader I was using doesn't have a good way to export or import the feeds (okay I did finally figure it out... you have to export through IE....)!!!!  So I'm not using it anymore.  I have no desire to go through all of this every time I get a new computer.  I'm switching to Feedly.  It will take some getting used to but it will be okay.  I did have to mark everything as read though.... I'm sorry!!  If I missed anything really important just leave me a comment and I'll come check it out as soon as possible.  I will try to stay caught up on all of your blogs again too.

Last thing... and I probably shouldn't mention it since it's basically just complaining, is that my allergies are AWFUL!!!!!  I always have bad allergies in the spring and fall, but it seems too early!  Maybe the weather people are right and winter really is coming early... yikes!  The good news is that Chrome's sweet itch is already clearing up.  :D  Now as soon as I can breathe I'll have to start riding him again.  I don't want to waste any pretty fall weather being miserable.

I think that's all.  I've probably forgotten something, but the lack of oxygen from clogged sinuses is making me scatterbrained lol.  I hope everyone is doing okay and I can't wait to get back to updating my blogs and reading yours.  :D

Super Moon

I was only able to get a couple of pictures of the Super Moon last weekend because there was too much cloud cover.  What do you think?

Furry Friday (or snakey... you've been warned)

Yay I have pictures to participate in Furry Friday.  They aren't furry this time though!!  Anyone who is afraid of snakes has hopefully been warned by the title to not read this lol.

My husband went outside around dusk the other day with Jackal.  My crazy dog started running circles, barking and growling like he was possessed.  Hubby found this guy.

 Isn't he beautiful??

He's very venomous so I'm glad Jackal knows to keep his distance.  Hubby made him go inside, let me get pictures and then disposed of the snake.  We let the non venomous King snakes, Rat snakes, etc. live on our property, but we can't risk having these beautiful guys living here.  After hubby got rid of him my friends told me they travel in breeding pairs........ umm.... so yeah I'm keeping a close watch on the ground.  This snake was a foot and a half long, but I never would have seen him if Jackal hadn't alerted us.  He was even in open, short grass!

Since my camera is working I'll try to start taking pictures and posting more often.  We should finish our base cabinets in the kitchen this weekend and then the counter people will come measure, then it will be a month or more before our counters are installed.  I'm glad we don't have to do that though.  Hanging wall cabinets has about done hubby's back in!  We have to wait for a replacement cabinet for one the delivery truck messed up so we haven't even finished all of them.  I'm getting very excited about having a real kitchen again!  I'll take pictures when it's done, but it will be a couple of months because I want the counters in before I share.  :)