you've got eyes in your head" by The 88. Its from a free song on iTunes this week. Interesting... I have to admit that I haven't listen to the whole song yet. So we'll see how I really feel about it. I have been having some issues lately. It seems that I cannot have rice milk anymore as well. I have had some really bad problems with it the last two times I had it, so I am kind of avoiding it until I see a doctor. I want to see an allergist and find out all the things I am really allergic to. And find out why I am having so many problems with other things. So hopefully I will get to one soon. Jake and I are still not in our own place. But its not that bad. The family we are staying with is actually on vacation for the week so I have set up my computer in their nice and sunny kitchen. Its much less gloomy here. My room gets kind of dark unless I open the really heavy curtains and I don't want to brake them so I am just going to use the kitchen while they are gone. I have been working on making my best friends (hey Heaven!) christmas gift this past week. I am pretty excited for Christmas. My next task is to probably get my moms gift or something. I am still making the cards, but I am almost done. I have bought some treats to give away at Christmas time so I need to make little cards or holders for those as well. Its a good thing I like keeping myself busy because theres not really much else for me to do right now other than the little crafts I think of. I have not scrapbooked at all lately. I have photos and I have lots of new products, but I just haven't done anything about it, lol. Maybe tomorrow I will bring some things out here to the sunnier parts of the house and feel more like making something cute. I get so tired and bored in the room sometimes all alone. So I could come out to the kitchen where it is more open and bright and put on some music and feel more inspired. Plus its a new area for me, so maybe I won't get stuck in a rut. We'll see. For now I am listening to my iTunes and blogging :P Today I am supposed to see one of my good friends Bethanne. Its her birthday and she is coming to San Francisco for it. So she said she will visit me a little bit. I haven't heard from her yet today, so I am pretty much just waiting around. I just got done watching last weeks episode of ANTM and WHOA when Tyra announced the last girl the way that she worded it I thought it was the other girl going home until I saw the photo she was holding. I really wanted Elina to stay anyways, so that made me happy. This year is not very captivating to me. But I still really like looking at the photos. Thats my favorite part. I LOVE PHOTOS. Ohhhh I just starting listen to another free song I got from iTunes this week. I really like this song called Be Ok by Ingrid Michaelson. Its got a cute beat to it. Plus I love her song The Way I Am. I just might check out some more music from her in a few minutes :) Well, to be honest, there is not much that I want to say... I am pretty much doing the same things as before. I walk to the library, rent a good book, read the book and either love it or not. I want to Starbucks. I visit a 92 year old lady from my church three times a week. I craft, and drink tea. I have bought two new pairs of jeans since I last blogged. And I bought a pink hoodie. I trimmed my nails short again. Which inspires me to blog and write messages to friends because I am freshly reminded of how nice it feels to type with short nails. I go on walks to get some sun and fresh air. Sometimes I got on a hike, get a movie, buy some chinese or japanese food, watch tv. Just the norm, you know?
~Vanessa
Monday, October 27, 2008
Friday, October 3, 2008
I think I've got you figured out
Hola, I have been so lazy with this blog. I am so sorry to all of my readers! I have been not feeling well off and on for a while now. But I think I am getting better now. I have stopped trying to figure out ways to still have some dairy. Now that I have been off it for a while it just becomes more and more apparent that I cannot have it without getting sick. So goodbye dairy, hello good health! Mmmmm I have recently been guzzling down green tea. So very yummy in the morning! It just makes my morning 'bounce'. LOL, I know that seems silly. But first of all I am a MORNING person. I LOVE walking out into the fresh air bright and early and get going at my day. But then I relax in the evenings. This morning I woke up, got dressed, ironed Jakes work shirt (didn't make him a lunch because we planned on eating with his coworkers today), made myself some iced green tea at home, and then went out into the fresh air and felt so energized! I think everyone should drink Zen green tea in the morning, lol! But seriously, if you like Starbucks tea, you should just buy a box of tea from them and make it at home because its WAY WAY cheaper that way! I can make myself more than 20 cups of tea at home for the cost of 2-3 cups from Starbucks! WHOAAAAA. So yeah I finally got my butt in (sounds likt button, lol) gear and bought the Zen tea and Classic syrup and now I just make it at home. And guess what? It tastes just the same, and better yet, if its too strong or weak or not sweet enough, I can just fix it myself now. So yeah I am happy about that. I also sometimes make vanilla iced coffees at home too. I have been on such a rollercoaster lately. Its not even funny. Happy, tired, anxious, restless, lethargic, worried, annoyed, upset, silly, hyper, creative, stuck.... blah. I finally found a great scrapbooking store here in this area! Well... not really. I have to go to work with Jake if I want to shop there, because its in Berkeley. But its a really cool one. Its called Scrapbook Territory. And they have the store all organized and sorted by colors and themes. Its pretty neat. Plus they have SALE bins, 5 sheets of paper for $1!!! You bet I made out with a stack of sheets! And they are CUTE ones, not some lame ones like most of the ones on sale at Michaels that I usually go to. Now that I know where a scrapbook store is I will probably venture there more instead of Michaels. I really want a watermelon Jolly Rancher right now! Garrrrr. Oh well. I don't really want to buy a whole bag just to get that ONE WATERMELON jolly rancher. But if anyone had an extra one, I would take it, for sure! My scrapbook is coming along nicely. I need to buy some more page protectors. And I want to scrapbook some more photos of me when I was a baby and a little kid. But my parents have them boxed up in storage, so I can't yet. I don't really know when I will be able to actually. Because apparently there is a TON of their things in storage and who knows where the photos are... Over the past few days I have been on the search for a pretty scarf like the one that my best friend Heaven wears. Anything like it. I think that style is so cute. But I have never owned any scarves, so I don't want people to think that I look weird. So I have a hard time picking one out. Plus I don't want to spend that much on it either! I found one today that I LOVED but it was $40, umm I'm pretty sure Jake wouldn't like it if I spent $40 on a scarf! OHHH and by the way, incase you don't know, I GOT BANGS! Here is a photo of what I look like now...
So what do you think? They will stay for a little while, haven't decided if I am going to keep them any longer than it takes for them to grow out. I guess we'll just wait and see. Jake really likes them, so I might keep them at least for a year or so. I really really really want to visit with some of my friends and go to a flea market or thrift store shopping! I have never done either and I think it would be so much fun :) oh my goodness, I wanted to laugh so hard (oh wait, I did) a few minutes ago. When I was parking my car I looked over at the guy in a car three cars over and he was just sitting in his car drinking a gallon of Sunny D. It was so funny looking. Of course it reminded me of Juno. I love that movie :) Speaking of movies, I have really really been wanting to rent some movies and watch them. But it seems like something comes up every single night! Like last night, we had to leave the house with Jakes little sisters because the cops came over to talk to Jakes dad and his other two sons. WONDERFUL. Yeah, I really want to go into how that was and how it made me feel, but the thing is, I don't want to gossip about them on my blog. So we will just say that I was really mad and it just made me very aggravated. Especially because we had to do a "favor" for Jakes dad and that meant that we had to leave for a while, well the whole time the cops were there, and that was annoying to me. Ach, ok I will not talk about it anymore. But lets just say that there have been several things that have been stressing me out lately. AND I NEED TO BUY STAMPS, but they are so expensive now days! The child that Jake and I had been sponsoring for over 2 years moved so we got a new child to sponsor! His name is Si Thuat Ho. He is 5. Here is a photo of him
His mom and dad are farmers. He has 1 brother and 2 sisters. He lives in Vietnam, 149 miles from Hanoi. And I guess he is not even in school yet. So it says that he likes to play hide and seek and he likes to help out around the house. I am happy that he is so young because the probably means that we will get to sponsor him for several years. It made me so sad when I lost Suresh. So hopefully we will get to keep Si for a little longer. I am going to email him a letter today (World Vision prints out a copy of the letter and mails it to his village). Ohhh and the other day I painted my nails like a french manicure but with sparkles..
How do you like it? I really like the way it looks, but it feels kind of thick. So I think I will put some glitter in the polish instead of pouring it onto the polish after its on my nails.
Ok well, I have made this entry pretty long, so I'll sign out for today. I will try to write again sometime soon! Maybe tomorrow, but no promises, I still don't know what I'm doing tomorrow :)
~KISS KISS~ Vanessa
So what do you think? They will stay for a little while, haven't decided if I am going to keep them any longer than it takes for them to grow out. I guess we'll just wait and see. Jake really likes them, so I might keep them at least for a year or so. I really really really want to visit with some of my friends and go to a flea market or thrift store shopping! I have never done either and I think it would be so much fun :) oh my goodness, I wanted to laugh so hard (oh wait, I did) a few minutes ago. When I was parking my car I looked over at the guy in a car three cars over and he was just sitting in his car drinking a gallon of Sunny D. It was so funny looking. Of course it reminded me of Juno. I love that movie :) Speaking of movies, I have really really been wanting to rent some movies and watch them. But it seems like something comes up every single night! Like last night, we had to leave the house with Jakes little sisters because the cops came over to talk to Jakes dad and his other two sons. WONDERFUL. Yeah, I really want to go into how that was and how it made me feel, but the thing is, I don't want to gossip about them on my blog. So we will just say that I was really mad and it just made me very aggravated. Especially because we had to do a "favor" for Jakes dad and that meant that we had to leave for a while, well the whole time the cops were there, and that was annoying to me. Ach, ok I will not talk about it anymore. But lets just say that there have been several things that have been stressing me out lately. AND I NEED TO BUY STAMPS, but they are so expensive now days! The child that Jake and I had been sponsoring for over 2 years moved so we got a new child to sponsor! His name is Si Thuat Ho. He is 5. Here is a photo of him
His mom and dad are farmers. He has 1 brother and 2 sisters. He lives in Vietnam, 149 miles from Hanoi. And I guess he is not even in school yet. So it says that he likes to play hide and seek and he likes to help out around the house. I am happy that he is so young because the probably means that we will get to sponsor him for several years. It made me so sad when I lost Suresh. So hopefully we will get to keep Si for a little longer. I am going to email him a letter today (World Vision prints out a copy of the letter and mails it to his village). Ohhh and the other day I painted my nails like a french manicure but with sparkles..
How do you like it? I really like the way it looks, but it feels kind of thick. So I think I will put some glitter in the polish instead of pouring it onto the polish after its on my nails.
Ok well, I have made this entry pretty long, so I'll sign out for today. I will try to write again sometime soon! Maybe tomorrow, but no promises, I still don't know what I'm doing tomorrow :)
~KISS KISS~ Vanessa
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
yawn
I cannot believe how long its been since I made my last post! Sorry to anyone who actually reads my blog. I know, I know, I kind of fell of the world for a little while. So what have I been up to lately... Well Jake got his first paycheck! Wahoooooo MONEY. Jake and I went to Antioch to spend some time with our cousins. We were only going to go for Tuesday night through Wednesday evening. But we stayed from Tuesday night until Monday evening!!! Wednesday Heather, Keri, (two of my cousins) and I did a whole day of scrapbooking! It was so much fun. I have never really done a scrapbook like this before and it was so much fun. I will share photos of it on my craft blog in a while. I can only do so much in one evening :) Then on Sunday and Monday we went to Jackson Rancheria Casino!!!!! We had a lot of fun and came out with more money than we went in with, and thats what I call a good trip to the casino! We both had so much fun with our cousins Heather and Robert (married), that we both want to go back and visit again soon! Other than that, I have had some DRAMA... but I cannot blog about it, blah. And I have not really made many cards lately. I've been spending more time reading which is probably why I haven't been bloging as much lately. Oh, and I have FINALLY figured out an ice coffee that I make at home that I like just as much as going to starbucks! That is a HUGE money saver for Jake and I. Because I {LOVE} my iced coffee. And more than I love that, I love VANILLA iced coffee. So today I went down to starbucks and bought a bottle of vanilla :) Now my homemade iced coffees are perfect. I have been thinking about getting my hair cut and maybe getting bangs. We'll see I guess. And I want to go get a manicure done sometime, that'd be so nice. I recently got a lot of new clothes and lost 9lbs! Thats been ther biggest change around here I would say. I got some new shirts and skirts and a dress, and a jean jacket, and some new shoes, and some new jeans! What fun fun fun. Last night Jake took me out for dinner. We went to Red Lobster and we both had the endless shrimp special. Yum yum yum. Then we bought Hero's Season 1. We bought Hero's season 2 a few days ago :) Well I should get going because we are going to have dinner and then go to Bible study :)
Monday, August 11, 2008
strike midnight
So Jake has a job now! I am so happy. We might be able to get our own place by Nov. Plus Jake was able to do some temp work a few weeks ago, so that will help with our bills for this month. He is probably starting work on Monday, one week from now. Once he starts work I am not really sure what I am going to do all day. I am putting off finding a part time job until we get our own place. Because I want to see where we are going to live, and look around there for a job. Since we are in the city, I am really hoping to get a job somewhere that I can walk to. Gas is so expensive! I have been really really tired lately. And I have been irritable, and impatient... bad Vanessa. So I have kind of been in a stinker mood for the past week or two. Still happy sometimes, but kind of just down and not wanting to do much with Jakes family. But I am better now, see :D Anyways, Jake and I have been so blessed, not only recently, but our entire marriage. Right when we are in a spot that we don't know what we are going to do, God blesses us with everything we need and more! There have been times when we didn't know how we were going to make rent, at all, and all the sudden a student loan that we were supposed to get some months before (that we didn't even realize we were missing from back then) shows up as being deposited in our bank account! And then just a few weeks ago we had some bills that we needed to pay and we had no money since Jake was out of a job and I hadn't found one yet either, and one of our elders gave us some money that a family from Michigan sent over to our church for anyone who needed some help! God is so amazing. After Jake got the official offer from his new employers we got a gift of money for work clothes for Jake! So we were able to go out and get him the work clothes that he'll need to start out. Then we can get him some more after he gets paid. Anyways, I am just so thankful for all the gifts that we have been given, and for Gods provision! I have not been crafting too much lately. I think mostly because I have not had a table to do it on. When Jakes family went on a one week vacation I took over their dining room table and made cards all week with the two girls that are staying upstairs with the family Jake and I are staying with. We made so many cards that we ended up going out to the local craft store to get some more cardstock for us! They made such wonderful cards too! I made my first mini craft book with some book marks, mini cards and tags inside. I really like how it turned out. I might make some more as gifts for some other friends. I gave that one to a wonderful woman in our church as a thank you gift for all the hard work she does. I also made some little felt purses/bags for the two little girls to put all their cards in, because they are traveling back to Holland soon and I wanted their cards to stay nice! I will post photos of all my recent creations on my crafting blog :) Well Jake and I are taking the day off from his family. Because I realized that I need a break every once and a while, and I need Jake to take the break with me, otherwise I feel really lonely and lame. So today we are resting together. We have both skipped breakfast in order to have a really nice lunch out together :) And my tummy is GROWLING! So I think its about time to go get that yummy food! TFR! (thanks for reading)
~Vanessa
~Vanessa
Sunday, July 27, 2008
here's your change
ok so I have more news to tell than I can remember...
Well... Jake is still looking for a job. I have started looking for a part time job as well. The family reunion was so much fun! I met Madeline and Elisabeth my twin 3 year old cousins! At one point in the camping trip all the parents went out for a nice expensive dinner and Tiana (my older sister) and I took out all 17 other kids!!! It was not nearly as bad as it might sound. The only problem we had was the older kids getting a little too loud while we were waiting for the check to come after we finished eatting. But all the little ones were so well behaved! I was so proud of them. And I was SO happy that the parents let us borrow their kids for a nice time out. Many of you who know me know that I LOVE doing things like that. Spending time taking care of kids. Its my thing.
Anyways, I am going dairy free for about five weeks!!! "WHY?!?" you may wonder, well I am trying to find out if the reason I have been feeling sick has been because I am lactose intolerant. I found out that it might run in our family (my grandmother is lactose intolerant). And I have all of the symptoms of it. So we will see. It has been only five days so far, I am going to try to go 3-5 weeks without dairy. And let me tell you its been a little bit of a challenge! I have since realized that I LOVE LOVE LOVE so many things with dairy in them. I never really realized how many things use dairy. I had a hard time finding a loaf of BREAD without milk in it! But most of all I have missed cheese. My husband and I have grown to love lots of cheese... and now I cannot have it. However I have noticed a change in my body. My stomach has felt better, I've lost some weight (!), and my runny nose is not so runny. Perhaps by the full 3-5 weeks most of my health issues will have gone away :) I will let you all know how it goes.
Speaking of all this dairy free stuff... I have since started drinking SOY MILK. To replace the milk in my diet. It seemed to be going well. I didn't mind the taste of it, in fact in some recipes I liked it better with soy milk anyways! I did miss my milk, but it was alright with soy milk. But then last night... I had one of the most firghtening experiences of my life. I had what I believe was an anaphylaxis shock reaction. It was so scary. I'm not trying to just be dramatic, or get attention from my friends. But I really feared for my life for a moment. I couldn't force any air in my throat for a little bit, I just couldn't breath. Finally after I threw up for a minute or two I was able to stand up and gasp in a small amount of air just in time to start throwing up some more. Once I was done throwing up I was still having a very hard time gasping for air. But I was able to breath. Last night when it happened I didn't know what caused it. But the only thing that Jake and I could think of was the half a banana I had had that night, or the soy milk. I assumed it was the banana since I used to be allergic to them. But then today when I had a little more soy (I had just a little to try it again because I was worried) it bothered my thoat again. So I think that I am allergic to soy milk... Tomorrow I will run off to the store to get some rice milk to try. Hopefully my body will react well to it, and that I like the taste of it :)
Ok well I am really tired... and I know there are many more things to talk about.. I'll save them for later! Sorry, I must get some more sleep :)
Goodnight!
Well... Jake is still looking for a job. I have started looking for a part time job as well. The family reunion was so much fun! I met Madeline and Elisabeth my twin 3 year old cousins! At one point in the camping trip all the parents went out for a nice expensive dinner and Tiana (my older sister) and I took out all 17 other kids!!! It was not nearly as bad as it might sound. The only problem we had was the older kids getting a little too loud while we were waiting for the check to come after we finished eatting. But all the little ones were so well behaved! I was so proud of them. And I was SO happy that the parents let us borrow their kids for a nice time out. Many of you who know me know that I LOVE doing things like that. Spending time taking care of kids. Its my thing.
Anyways, I am going dairy free for about five weeks!!! "WHY?!?" you may wonder, well I am trying to find out if the reason I have been feeling sick has been because I am lactose intolerant. I found out that it might run in our family (my grandmother is lactose intolerant). And I have all of the symptoms of it. So we will see. It has been only five days so far, I am going to try to go 3-5 weeks without dairy. And let me tell you its been a little bit of a challenge! I have since realized that I LOVE LOVE LOVE so many things with dairy in them. I never really realized how many things use dairy. I had a hard time finding a loaf of BREAD without milk in it! But most of all I have missed cheese. My husband and I have grown to love lots of cheese... and now I cannot have it. However I have noticed a change in my body. My stomach has felt better, I've lost some weight (!), and my runny nose is not so runny. Perhaps by the full 3-5 weeks most of my health issues will have gone away :) I will let you all know how it goes.
Speaking of all this dairy free stuff... I have since started drinking SOY MILK. To replace the milk in my diet. It seemed to be going well. I didn't mind the taste of it, in fact in some recipes I liked it better with soy milk anyways! I did miss my milk, but it was alright with soy milk. But then last night... I had one of the most firghtening experiences of my life. I had what I believe was an anaphylaxis shock reaction. It was so scary. I'm not trying to just be dramatic, or get attention from my friends. But I really feared for my life for a moment. I couldn't force any air in my throat for a little bit, I just couldn't breath. Finally after I threw up for a minute or two I was able to stand up and gasp in a small amount of air just in time to start throwing up some more. Once I was done throwing up I was still having a very hard time gasping for air. But I was able to breath. Last night when it happened I didn't know what caused it. But the only thing that Jake and I could think of was the half a banana I had had that night, or the soy milk. I assumed it was the banana since I used to be allergic to them. But then today when I had a little more soy (I had just a little to try it again because I was worried) it bothered my thoat again. So I think that I am allergic to soy milk... Tomorrow I will run off to the store to get some rice milk to try. Hopefully my body will react well to it, and that I like the taste of it :)
Ok well I am really tired... and I know there are many more things to talk about.. I'll save them for later! Sorry, I must get some more sleep :)
Goodnight!
Saturday, July 12, 2008
sparkle
So as things turned out, Jake ended up going to the A's game! He felt better, and he REALLY wanted to go. I thought he should stay home and rest, but in the end it was up to him. And he wanted to go. So that way I didn't have to take everyone by myself. The game was pretty good, but we lost! Oh well, you can't win them all. Then on Friday all the Rothenbuhler kiddos went to Great America with Monika. Except Micah stayed home sick :( Jake was looking for jobs most the morning and I was making some cards for a friend. Then Jake got a call from a friend of his for an A's players signing in Oakland. So Jake and I took the Muni and the BART (the bus and "subway" type things here) to get over to Oakland and we were there 10 minutes before it was supposed to be over and they were alreay gone! So instead we just went out for lunch with the friends. It was a nice time visiting , but we spent too much money on it all! LOL. We spent $17 on just the Muni and BART in order to get there! Then when we got back Jake did more job searching and I did more card making :) Then today we went to the bbq party for our friend who's baby girl is 1 now! It was fun. I had a yummy burger, some salad, and some potato salad :) Some people played frisbe and football. Even Elisabeth played along! She was so cute trying to throw the frisbe straight! My allergies were really bothering me though! So I pretty much just watched all the action. After the party we had some pizza for dinner and I got Jake to go on a walk with me down to the store to get some Half-Half so I could try out a recipe for 5minute ice cream in a bag! It was SO YUMMY and SO easy! I made two batches, for all the boys that are over playing video games into the wee hours of the night! I took some benadryl tonight, and it didn't work for my allergies. It just made me tired, but restless. Does that make sense? Anyways, tomorrow we have morning service, lunch, a little break, and then evening service! Surprisingly I didn't make anything today in the craft department! Well unless you include the ice cream creations! I don't know if I will tomorrow or not. I have so many cards and letters I want to send to my friends, but I have no stamps!!! Argh... Well its getting really late here for me and I am at the point to where I am not making much sense.. so goodnight and God bless!
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
coffee grinds
So I think that Elisabeth is the only one that started her morning off the way that she wanted to this morning! She started it off with a cupcake! Of course as soon as Monika saw what she was doing told her that she cannot have that for breakfast. Elisabeth tried to plead her case saying that it was her "after lunch dessert", which Monika simply replied to "but its not after lunch yet, go put it away". I can understand Monika's frustration, the kiddos have been having lots of sweets the past few days. And much of those sweets have been right at breakfast time. Of course it does seem like a great way to start your day ;) Much better then how Jakey started his day! He is sick :( He has thrown up four times so far today! I walked down the street to get him some Gatorade by his request. But he is mostly just falling in and out of sleep sitting up in the living room chair...
Poor guy! And I started my day by waking up alone in the neighbors room. Ok wait, that sounded wrong,... we are staying in the neighbors spare bedroom and since Jake was sick he woke up at 5am and went over to his families house, and I was still sleeping in the neighbors room. So when I woke up I was alone, in the neighbors bed. So yeah. I got up and made the bed and got dressed and went over to the families house. I started getting things taken care of for my community service that I have to do. But after I already made three phone calls and paid $20 to get my papers and community service transfered to San Francisco from Los Angeles I was informed that I would still have to come back to Los Angeles before September 29th (my due date for the amount that I owe) in order to turn in my certificate of completion for the community service. So after I talked to the manager about it some more and found out that I really couldn't just mail the papers there that I had to go in person. So I finished that phone call and got online to find the cheapest plane ticket. And then I was talking to Jake about it and realized that I would also have to rent a car. Then the lady from the Los Angeles community service called me and had my papers transfered to San Francisco (so far I have paid $20 for this) and she told me that at that office they are going to charge me an administrative fee. Which would be at least $30. Ontop of that because I had a snippy judge I had to pay $100 out of my total fine (he didn't want me to be able to pay off the whole thing with community service). So so far we are up to $150. And then to fly there and rent a car it was about $275! So now we are up to $425! And my fine is for $319. And that doesn't even include the gas I will need to get to and from community service and for the rental car in Los Angeles, and for the food that I would need while I was out taking care of all of that. So I called back the courthouse to ask them if once the judge has granted me community service if I can just pay the fine instead. Or if there would be some complications with that. Once I got to the part in the automative message where I could put in that I wanted to talk to on operator I was told that there were 79 other people on hold before me waiting for an operator!!! So I put the phone on speaker phone and make an early Christmas card! What fun that was :) Anyways so I FINALLY got to talk to someone and ask my one little question. And then I had to call back the community service office and ask if they could give me back my $20 since I am not going to go to the San Francisco community office to do the community service anyways. Thankfully the lady there was really nice and refunded me and called me back when it was all done and taken care of to let me know. So we have that all taken care now except for mailing in the check. And I don't know if I can still take traffic school. Because the judge set it up with my paper work so that I would get awarded traffic school if I finished my community service on time. Well now that I am not going to do the community service I don't know if I am going to be awarded the traffic school. ARGH!!! Oh well, I am just not going to worry too much about it. This is life, things like that happen. So we will see if after I send in my check they give me traffic school or not. If not, then oh well. I am pretty much done stressing about it. And while I was taking care of all of this all the ice in my iced mocha that I made this morning had melted and made my drink really watery! So I just dumped that and went outside and took a photo of the cute Christmas card that I made while on the phone so that I could post that on my craft blog over at http://craftsbyvanessarothenbuhler.blogspot.com/ ! Then I went to have some lunch and all the roast beef was gone, and all the chicken was gone! So I had to have a BLT without the tomotoes! But it was alright :) Then I updated my card blog and now this one. It appears that tonight I am taking all the kiddos over to the game since Jake has fallen ill today! So that will be an adventure for SURE!
Poor guy! And I started my day by waking up alone in the neighbors room. Ok wait, that sounded wrong,... we are staying in the neighbors spare bedroom and since Jake was sick he woke up at 5am and went over to his families house, and I was still sleeping in the neighbors room. So when I woke up I was alone, in the neighbors bed. So yeah. I got up and made the bed and got dressed and went over to the families house. I started getting things taken care of for my community service that I have to do. But after I already made three phone calls and paid $20 to get my papers and community service transfered to San Francisco from Los Angeles I was informed that I would still have to come back to Los Angeles before September 29th (my due date for the amount that I owe) in order to turn in my certificate of completion for the community service. So after I talked to the manager about it some more and found out that I really couldn't just mail the papers there that I had to go in person. So I finished that phone call and got online to find the cheapest plane ticket. And then I was talking to Jake about it and realized that I would also have to rent a car. Then the lady from the Los Angeles community service called me and had my papers transfered to San Francisco (so far I have paid $20 for this) and she told me that at that office they are going to charge me an administrative fee. Which would be at least $30. Ontop of that because I had a snippy judge I had to pay $100 out of my total fine (he didn't want me to be able to pay off the whole thing with community service). So so far we are up to $150. And then to fly there and rent a car it was about $275! So now we are up to $425! And my fine is for $319. And that doesn't even include the gas I will need to get to and from community service and for the rental car in Los Angeles, and for the food that I would need while I was out taking care of all of that. So I called back the courthouse to ask them if once the judge has granted me community service if I can just pay the fine instead. Or if there would be some complications with that. Once I got to the part in the automative message where I could put in that I wanted to talk to on operator I was told that there were 79 other people on hold before me waiting for an operator!!! So I put the phone on speaker phone and make an early Christmas card! What fun that was :) Anyways so I FINALLY got to talk to someone and ask my one little question. And then I had to call back the community service office and ask if they could give me back my $20 since I am not going to go to the San Francisco community office to do the community service anyways. Thankfully the lady there was really nice and refunded me and called me back when it was all done and taken care of to let me know. So we have that all taken care now except for mailing in the check. And I don't know if I can still take traffic school. Because the judge set it up with my paper work so that I would get awarded traffic school if I finished my community service on time. Well now that I am not going to do the community service I don't know if I am going to be awarded the traffic school. ARGH!!! Oh well, I am just not going to worry too much about it. This is life, things like that happen. So we will see if after I send in my check they give me traffic school or not. If not, then oh well. I am pretty much done stressing about it. And while I was taking care of all of this all the ice in my iced mocha that I made this morning had melted and made my drink really watery! So I just dumped that and went outside and took a photo of the cute Christmas card that I made while on the phone so that I could post that on my craft blog over at http://craftsbyvanessarothenbuhler.blogspot.com/ ! Then I went to have some lunch and all the roast beef was gone, and all the chicken was gone! So I had to have a BLT without the tomotoes! But it was alright :) Then I updated my card blog and now this one. It appears that tonight I am taking all the kiddos over to the game since Jake has fallen ill today! So that will be an adventure for SURE!
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