Work in Progress

Well, I've been wanting to play around a little with this whole blogging thing and see if I can edit our page at all...I'm new at this whole blogging thing! HOWEVER, we both have a lot of work to do this weekend so it might have to wait...for now, I did finally figure out how to add friends' blogs to our site!...but I don't have enough time to add them all! Im also trying to figure out how to add a picture to our header but its always too big..hmmm. Difficult. Well, keep reading and look forward to hearing from you!

Gemina Giraffe

This is a bit of a late post but I thought it was necessary. Some of you may know the sad news that Gemina the giraffe at the Santa Barbara zoo died at the age of 21. She was born at the San Diego Wild Animal park in 1986 and was brought to the Santa Barbara zoo when she was about a year old. What makes Gemina special is the near 90-degree kink in her neck.

The kink in her neck never seemed to impede her life. X-rays never showed what caused her neck to grow this way, but it never seemed to matter. It only made her a famous giraffe...at least to nearly everyone in Ventura County and Santa Barbara. She shall be missed as a "landmark" of the Santa Barbara zoo.
NOW, here is why I cared about Gemina Giraffe. Some of you may know that I have scoliosis and when I was 13 years old I started having to wear a back brace for 23 hours a day, everyday. It was really uncomfortable and it disfigured my body in clothing which was embarassing as a 13 year old. I wore it for 2 years straight and when my treatment was done I couldn't ever have been happier. My brother affectionately called me Barbie (bc the brace looked plastic like barbie) and Turtle (bc it was my turtle shell). I remember going to the zoo and seeing Gemina...and I always liked her because she had a crooked spine too! Also, I was born in 1986 and so was she...so she's my buddy. Plus...who doesn't like giraffes?

Daffodils and Dad

When I was younger I lived in a bedroom of my parent's house that looked over the side yard. I had a cute springy bedspread and a matching bedroom set with a pretty canopy. It was a little girls' dream. My dad planted beautiful daffodils because I loved them. Every early spring I could look out my window and there would be my own beautiful garden outside. Adam and I went home this weekend and I smiled to myself seeing the beautiful daffodils in the yard blooming. I love being married and living with my husband. Our apartment is cute and cozy...but I love the fact that I can look back at my childhood years with such fond memories and know that I truly am loved. When Adam and I started to get serious, my dad knew that it would be easy (and normal) for me to feel like Adam loved me more than anyone else in the world. My dad didn't want to lose that title though so he always liked to remind me that he loved me first. Thanks dad :)

Remembering when life was simple...like this picture

Well, the past 9 days or so have been pretty crummy in my book. Last tuesday I came home from school with a tiny cough and then by evening I was all out sick with the Flu...and probably was the sickest I have been in a few years for the next 3 days or so. When the body aches left, the cough came back which was so bad it left me with more body aches... (for the record...I'm still coughing). THEN last night (Tuesday again) at around 7 pm, my Honda which was parked in the parking spot here at our apartment was broken into. The robbers smashed my front window and stole a GPS system, Adam's electric guitar (a gift from his groomsmen at the bachelor party) and his brother's laptop. We found out because our neighbors heard the car alarm and they came to tell us and let us know. When we went down to see it the glass from the window was everywhere and the back door was open. UGH it was such a violating feeling...
We figure that they must have seen me driving into the complex and seen the GPS unit. My car is parked way in the back of the parking garage and so its not like out there for everyone to see. The computer and laptop were in the backseat with tinted windows so it must have been the GPS unit they were going for. The police verified that this was a hot ticket item...so ya. Anyways, the police found smudged prints so that didn't help much. We are still waiting for the window to be able to get fixed...which obviously causes a rough situation for me getting to class and adam to work during the day. Hopefully by tomorrow it will be fixed. Its frustrating because I missed so much class last week and feel just like behind anyways...now this is on top of it. And poor Adam is busy working at his new job so its not a good idea for him to miss work to help me out. BUT we are dealing for now.
On top of that, Im pretty sure I just got pink eye...which makes sense since Ive been so sick...so that's not fun either. I wasnt sure I was allowed to go to clinical tomorrow but it looks like I'll be able to after all! Phew.
Well, usually our posts are fun but seriously for now..we are just ready to have this week be over with and get caught up on life. Does one every get caught up on life? Certainly not on weeks like this.