Frustration overload

My project did not go as well as planned today.  I was having a hell of a time covering the "wings" of my chair.  I also bought the cheapest and crappiest sewing machine which I will have to return because it is worthless.  Hopefully once I borrow a real sewing machine from a friend all will go as planned.  I will post pictures of the whole ordeal once I have some good news to share.  

Home Improvement Mania

It has been quite a while since I've posted anything.  Last week was pretty busy.  I spent the last week of our Clinical Pharmacology class making a massive easy to reference outline for our open-notes final.  It was a really hard test even though we could use any resource we wanted.  It took my 3 full hours to finish and I was one of the 1st to leave.  Several of my friends took 5 hrs to finish the test.  Monday I start CPC prep and ICU/Emergency.

This has been a really exhausting but fun weekend so far.  Friday Barrett and I went out to dinner at the deli and then bought Guitar Hero World Tour for ourselves.  We then played it all evening until his parents arrived around 11:00 pm.  Today Barrett and his dad started building a shed in our backyard.  Shortly after lunch Barrett got one of his really bad headaches so his mom and I took his spot and worked on the shed with his dad.  We didn't get as much done as we had hoped to but we have the foundation done and 2 walls up.

Before we started helping with the shed Lynda and I went to a fabric store downtown so I could look at upholstery and buy some really cheap fabric.  I am attempting to re-upholster our living room chairs and I wanted to get some cheap, crappy fabric to practice with before I bought the expensive stuff.  The store also let me bring home some swatches to hold up to my chairs and see what I like.  I found some great stuff but I can't decide what looks best and I can't decide if I want to do both chairs the same or not.  On Tuesday I'm going to go to a fabric store in Columbus to see if they have anything different.  So far I have the back of the chair completely de-upholstered.  I'm going to take the upholstery off the rest of the chair tonight and recover it tomorrow.  I will post pictures of my finished product then.  Hopefully this will work because it will save us approximately $350.  That was the estimate I got for a professional to do it, plus the cost of the fabric.  

Check back tomorrow to see what the chair looks like.  If this works maybe my blog will have to become a DIY blog :)

Diets suck

Some people might look at me and think she looks pretty good (at least I wish they would), but to tell you the truth, I am not feeling so good.  I am very frustrated with myself.  I weigh more right now than I have in a long time and I am very very unhappy about it.  If any of you have tried to lose weight you know how difficult it can be.  I have been working out just about every day for several weeks and haven't lost a single pound!  I HATE IT!!!!!  Anyway, just thought I needed to scream about my non-weight loss for a bit.  I will keep you updated and hopefully my weight will decrease.  

Planning Pro

I have my first client (thank you Ashley) in my new field of wedding planning :)  I think this will be an awesome side business for me.  Although I am just doing this for friends because I love it I think it would be fun to make this into a money-maker someday.  We'll see...For now I am having fun looking at wedding stuff again since my own was long ago

If any of you need a wedding planner you know who to call!  

I have Stress

I have stress in my life, so please pray for me.  Here are the reasons why I am stressed:

1. Barrett has headaches and has to go for a CT Scan tomorrow morning

2. My dad is in the hospital

3. My computer is having problems

4. I just spent a lot of money to register for the NAVLE and Navle related items

5. Money...I don't have enough money to deal with any of the above issues

Home again, Home again, Jiggity Jig

Barrett and I have been enjoying a super lazy/relaxing weekend together.  Last weekend he and his dad played in a Father son golf tournament in Jackson and I flew home to Pennsylvania.  

After the first 2 days of play Barrett and his dad were tied for 1st place in their division.  Sadly they finished 5 under par (which is good but the winners were 40 under).  Man, Shankapotamous!

I went up to PA because my mom just had surgery on her food and I want to go home to visit and help out a little bit.  I had a great time.  I got to hang out with my mom and watch a ton of movies.  I also got my hair done at my mom's good salon (I am now a red-head), I had coffee with Leah, and got to visit my old vet clinic.  It was a good relaxing few days that I got to cut class for.  

We've been busy since coming back to starkville.  I love leaving town but then I always have a bunch of cleaning and laundry to do once back.  I finally got that all done today and I got caught up on some school stuff.  

We also took a cue from Wimbledon and played some tennis this evening.  Barrett always beats me, usually by a lot.  Tonight he still beat me but it was 6-3 instead of 6-0, so I guess I'm improving.  

On a scary side note about school, I spent $179 today on the VetPrep study site.  This is scary not only because of how much money i dropped but because I realize that the NAVLE is only 6 months away!!  I am going to have to drop about $700 more getting registered for the NAVLE and the MS state boards.  This is stupid because I have to sign up for MS state boards in order to take the NAVLE here even though I know I'm going to be practicing in another state, probably Ca.  Please pray for me because I am terrified to take this test (as I'm sure everyone is).  

Names

Just wondering...why do so many girls keep their old name as their middle name once they get married.  I didn't know people who did this until moving south.  I kept my middle name.  Its a family name and means something to me.  Do other people just not like their middle names or is there more too it.  I just thought you were supposed to change your last name, not keep one and add another.  Anyway, just wondering...