Zira, doin what she does best

FREAKING OUT!! Good night. Poor Zira was neglected and didn't get brushed as much as she should of the past month (or 8!) and she got so matted we had to take her to get shaved. This has happened to her a few times so by now she doesn't seem to mind it as much. What she does mind though, getting her picture taken! I tried for no joke 10 minutes and these were the best ones!



Honestly, she would sit there so perfect looking at the camera, and my camera takes SO long to take one picture, by the time it took the picture she would hurry and look away! Plus, I really wanted to capture the ridiculousness of the bows in her hair before Chris comes home and makes me take them out. They just crack me up, and I didn't even have to ask for them!


I also just could not resist putting on this video, Zira and I went for a walk, and it was pretty cold today and since she lost about 5 pounds of fur ( hey, the vet said she needed to loose 5 pounds, he didn't specify where!) I made her wear her sweater outside, which she HATES so she won't freeze. And this is her, trying to in combination, get the bows off her ears and some how manage to get off the sweater in the process.

Our house.... in the middle of the street......

Well, our house isn't really in the middle of the street but it sounded good right? Well there have been some good things happening in our house the past couple weeks. We're not done yet, but it suddenly seems a whole lot closer....

This picture ended up being kind of weird dust in the air or something, but you can see our new countertops are in, the fridge and freezer (hiding behind the plastic so they won't get scratched, and my favorite, the black chandelier. I've always wanted one and Chris hasn't always been too jazzed about the idea, but he let me get one because he knew I loved it!


Just wanted to add a picture of the railing/banister that Chris built. I think it looks great, it's not quite done but I really like it. He did such a great job!

Here is our master bathroom with the new counter top, snks and faucets. It looks so nice, I'm glad in the end we decided to do it this way. I love the vessel sinks


Wow, this is a really not so good picture, but this is a really cool light fixture that we got for the front entry. We had our eye on this one for months but we had already got our fixture. Finally we broke down and returned the other one and got this one last minute and I am so glad we did.

Well, thats all I have for now, but seriously we hope to be in within the next couple weeks. Carpet is supposed to go in probably next week or so, so after that were HOME FREE!

The Zira Chronicles Volume 3: Zira and the Fur Coat

Well the picture pretty much says it all.... I can understand why Zira simply could not resist the awesomeness of this coat....
It all started when my brother, Telden, and I went to Savers to go find things for our Halloween Costumes. We wandered around the store for quite some time and we both found things that would be ok. The original plan was that I was going to be Cher and Chris was going to be Sonny Bono. I found a dress that was pretty ridiculously good but I needed to find something to go over it, so we went to the coat section. As we both walked up we instantly starting laughing so hard at the fur coat. Telden begged and begged for me to get it and I couldn't really pass up a gem like this baby.
We continued to laugh about all of the many possibilities for use that the coat might have as we got to the checkout line. As I was getting rung up, the lady who was ringing up my items couldn't get over how nice of a coat it was and she thought for sure it must be a really fur coat, Telden and I laughed about it and for $15 neither of us thought it could be real. We finished up at the store and I went home.
Upon arriving home I did the same thing I always do with bags, I just set them on the floor, Zira knows to leave things alone (most of the time). I pet her for a minute then turned around to go into the kitchen, which really is only a few steps away in our apartment, to wash my hands. As I was walking into the kitchen I could hear the bad rustling as usual. But, when I came around the corner I found Zira in the huge Savers bag, clawing, biting and attacking the fur coat! By the time I ran, which I couldn't run very fast because of my laughter, and grabbed her out of the bag, she had a big piece of fur in her mouth. I was laughing so hard, she continued to stalk it. I had to take it upstairs and hide it from her. Throughout the day Zira would continue to run upstairs and try to jump and grab it off the top of the bookcase. The attacks and stalking of the fur coat continued all night and the next day. When I finally decided to look at the tag to see if it was real fur and if that was why Zira was going crazy, I found a tag that in fact put truth to the matter that the "fur" coat, was really real rabbit fur.
I guess we know what would really happen if Zira caught a bunny......

October

Well, I really meant to post alot more this month, but its been a very odd month. Chris and I are doing well though. Chris is still busy working on the house as usual and right now I'm not working. Its nice in one aspect to not be working I guess, I've had time to kind of relax and me and the Gilmore Girls have really strengthened our relationship.
All in all, were doing good!

September

I can't believe the month is already almost over! I haven't hardly had any time this month to post.
Nothing new really has been going on in our lives. Chris has been busy working on getting the house done. Its so close these days, were just trying to get closed so we can finish it up. Closing takes so long and is such an annoying process! We've trying to be patient but I don't know how much longer I can last!
It is looking good though, there really is only a few finishing touches to finish it off. I'm so proud of Chris and all his amazing hard work, sweat, time and pain (there really hasn't been many injuries since the nail in the hand, thank goodness). I think at this point we're all ready to be done with it.
I've been quite busy with work. September we had 2 Orientation classes going which I was involved with both on almost any given day. Orientation is when we have new students that are starting school for the first time and when we have a group of students "graduating" to the next "class". I think I am just as glad if not more glad than the students are that it finally finished Friday.
Good news for me at work this month, I got a promotion which I have been working towards for a while. I'm the Director of Marketing at the school I work at called Acaydia. I'm really excited and its been really fun the little bit of time that I have been able to spend working on marketing.
I hope I'll have more time next month to post and hopefully I'll be able to put up pictures of the house up with us all moved in by the end of the month! (Keep your fingers crossed!)

Gardening

Chris has really been trying to make an effort to help out around the house lately because I have been so crazy busy with work. The other night he even decided to go out and do some gardening, he really did such a nice job.

Thanks honey it looks great.

Kangen Water

Yesterday a friend and I spent pretty much the whole day in Midway at a conference for Kangen Water. Basically what Kangen water is is Ionized water. It's something that I have been very interested in getting a machine lately.

The water is run through the machine and is charged by titanium plates that seperate water into alkaline and acidic water. They say that the Alkaline water can contain antioxidants which can fight against free radical damage- therefore prolonging aging. It makes sense how it would work, I definately don't think I'll stay looking 21 forever though.

I'm really interseted in getting the machine because you can create several different "types" of water at different pH's. Such as, you can create "drinking water" which is a perfectly balanced pH of 7.0. You can also create "acid water" which can be used to disinfect and santize surfaces and clean.

The president of the company is actually from Okinawa Japan, which is also very interesting because people from Okinawa have the longest life span of anyone in the world. Basically they contribute alot of that to the fact that the water the people consume is alkaline which helps prolong their lifespan.

Of course there is alot of conflicting evidence saying that consuming too much alkaline water can actually be harmful to your body because most of your organs have different pH levels and range on different levels of acidity.

I really want to get one but Chris isn't very convinced about it, so I have to look into it more. If you're interested check out the website to find out more about it:

http://www.kangenwaterusa.com/