More Photos From Our Trip

I can honestly tell you that we do not miss Texas much. I love the state, it will always be 'home', but we love our new home so much, it's hard to miss the old one.

We both got to see old friends and were so glad we did! It's good to know that those who you hold dear still hold you the same way.

What did we do besides take care of my hubby's mom? We ATE. We ate everything! One thing I can tell you about North Dakota is the food sucks. No salt, no flavor, blah. Texas is where to go for good food.

The hubby, our friend, Bob and me at Montana's Steak House in Graham (I have just heard it closed...what did we do? LOL)

Me and my gorgeous Peruvian friend, Chari. I love her to pieces!

My sister-in-law and I had FROZEN margaritas at PK lake. They were so frozen, we couldn't drink them!

My favorite food at my favorite place. YUM YUM

Good ol' fried green beans and pickles!

The Trek To Texas

As many of you know, we had to make a rather hastily planned trip back to our former home of Graham, Texas last month. My sweet Mother in Law was diagnosed with breast cancer, so when we found out when her surgery was to be, we knew we had to be there for her. So, we had to drive there. No flying this time...our airport was closed!

Long, long, LONG drive! The first day was around 10 hours, and we stopped in Garden City, Kansas. I really do love the Comfort Inn there. It's always very clean, very well decorated (to my taste mostly), and the people there are always kind. We hobbled in at around 9pm (after getting up that morning at 2:30am) and were almost in tears due to the total exhaustion and the sweet guy behind the counter fed us and we relaxed and slipped into comas until the nasty alarm went off the next morning.

Here's some pics of our room:

The next morning, we left early again and drove forever and finally got to Texas

Going to Graham

We are making a trip to Graham and we are heading out Friday morning. Expect some photos and news!

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Nick's New Room Phase One Updated!

The boys have taken down a wall, and did some more destruction and I stayed the heck out of the way. LOL. Here's some photos:

This is the wall that was

The pile of wood and supplies that have taken over our garage

Madison came to help carry some of the smaller pieces to the garbage

Nick took some wall outside

The soon to be wall

New section of room

There used to be a wall here!

Another look

The soon to be room

This is the only original wall left and I don't think it's staying for long!

Oh what a mess!

I shudder at the mess but will love the results

A hole in the wall!

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Stupid is as stupid does?

Buster's truck has had some issues lately. We had no idea that it had issues until we were going downtown and were stopped by a cop. The brake lights didn't work. So, he tried to fix it at home, no luck. He made an appointment to get it to the local Ford house to get it fixed. He called them telling them that his brakes worked fine, but the lights wouldn't come on. They said "bring it in at 8am and we'll get it fixed." ok. I took him to work that morning after he dropped off the truck and he called them at lunch to find out if anything is done. "Haven't got it in yet.We'll call you in about an hour." Hours passed, no call. He called them at 4pm. "Yes sir, your truck is ready to be picked up. It's $197.00 for the new fuel pump." Buster said "%#@&*!!!! I didn't need a new fuel pump. I need the brake lights fixed!" IDIOTS.


The next day, he called them again "Did you get my truck fixed yet?" "No, we have 5 ahead of you." Buster then says "Look, I took my truck in when you told me to. I told you what I needed, you guys gave me something I didn't need and I expect this truck fixed TODAY. Get it done." So, they moved him ahead of the others and got it in.


After he gets home (he wasn't charged for the fuel pump), he checks the brake lights to see if they work.....NOPE! NOTHING WAS DONE!

So, the moral to this story is: DO NOT TAKE YOUR VEHICLE TO THE FORD PLACE IN WILLISTON, ND!

The Perils of Aggravation

Today, I had the day off since I worked all weekend at the library. My plan was to dress, take kids to school, go buy a bookcase or something that would work for a bookcase and rearrange the half of my room and then catch up on laundry and cook.

Well, let me tell you....that 'build it yourself' crap they sell at Wal Mart is a waste of money. I spent $15 bucks on what could have been a pretty good bookcase, and came home, attempted to assemble it and it was missing several parts and then it broke while I was attempting to put it together. Needless to say, I was NOT happy. I sorta threw it down and gave up on it. Mom and I went to get a ugly, plastic, 'use it for the garage' type of shelving unit and guess what? It worked great! Not the prettiest thing in the world, but since we still have mix and match and icky bedroom furniture, it kinda fits right in! I now have all of my books that aren't in storage on the new ugly bookcase and my half of the room doesn't look too bad.

Here's what it looks like now:

This is my half of the room. We have a very small master bedroom and we try to do what we can with it. Do ya see all of my autographs? I have a personal one from Anthony Zuiker, creator of CSI and writer of the Level 26 books, the final Charmed script, a CSI magazine, and Twilight Eclipse script. More to come as I intend on getting all of the Twilight Saga scripts autographed and framed.

These are my vampire books I have The Twilight Saga, The House of Night books and alot of the Sookie Stackhouse books. I'm adding to my vampire collection often. LOL

Here's my "Millennium" books (I still need the last one, grrrrr), my "Stephanie Plumb" books, my Danielle Steel collection and my Robert James Waller books.

These are just various vampire and supernatural romance books that I have. I'm wanting to get all of the J.R. Ward books, but only have one as of right now.

I have a wild variety of items here.....Water for Elephants, John Grisham, Lolita, In Cold Blood, Rosemary's Baby, Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, The Time Traveler's Wife, and various biographies.

Somewhere in storage, I have several books on my favorite films: Titanic, Wizard of Oz, Gone With The Wind, The Bridges of Madison County and Twilight. I will be a happy girl once all these things get out of storage, but my problem is, where to put them all....LOL.

Nicky's New Room Phase One

Phase One has begun! Here's some photos of the progress:

New walls, and getting rid of the old closet.

The old and the new

 New walls are coming!

Today they were going to work on the room, but since Buster finally had a whole day off, he just rested. Nothing wrong with that! Tomorrow, I think they'll work on the ceiling some more. Me? I'm staying out of the way!