2013 so Far, and My Own Personal Angel.

Happy 2013 everyone! I hope that this year has been wonderful for you and your family so far.

 

My year started out (literally New Year's Day) with a trip to the ER. Oh yes, you heard right. Somehow I had managed to get something under my contact that went to town, and literally cut my cornea. Yes, it is as painful as it sounds. Once we found the ER room, (seriously, we got lost and Trevor wheeled me around in a wheel chair for 10 minutes looking for the dang place) it took only about another 10 minutes for me to get into an area for a Doctor to see me. Once seen by the Doctor, he informed us that we were going to do a saline flush. Hmmmm, that didn't sound too bad...hopefully that will clear all this up.


 I was so wrong! It was TERRIBLE! They put this really thick contact like thing in your eye that has a small tube attached to it and literally flush saline into you eye. It felt similar to a small samurai sword being stabbed over and over into my eye. After I started crying and withering in pain in the bed, they decided to turn it down at least to a drip, which was slightly better, but still painful. When Trevor asked how long I would have to endure this torture treatment, they nurse told his they wanted to go through a liter of saline. A LITER?!?! SERIOUSLY?!?! I don’t believe that we made it through the liter before I was nearly bawling. Finally the Doc came in and put some dye in my eye and did a light test which is when he informed me that I had a severe cut on my cornea. At that point, I was given some pain medication, two prescriptions and told that we could head home. The Doc was confident that we got everything out in time and that surgery wouldn’t be necessary. I was told eyes heal very quickly, which was great news because other than getting a shot in my head when I busted it open in 5^th grade, this was the most painful experience I had ever had.

 

The first few days after the accident I probably slept 85% of the day because that was the only time I wasn't in pain. I had to miss the first two days back to work because I couldn’t see, much less operate a vehicle. I ended up attempting to go back to work on Friday and immediately after sitting down at my desk regretted that. Looking at a computer screen was sickening. I managed to make it through the day and get out a bit early before returning home for another nap session. After a relaxing weekend and more time to heal, Monday and Tuesday of this week were much better than last Friday. Now here we are a week and a day later, my eye has healed! It’s still slightly out of focus if I look down quickly but for the most part I am better.

 

Now, I’m not one to go on a tangent like this because I know some people find it annoying, but I had to say that I am so blessed to have Trevor in my life. He was amazing last week with my eye and was also smart enough to force me to go to the ER, despite my protests. He was an angel, constantly checking on me, making sure I was taking my medicine, even calling my work for me to let my boss know the situation since I was knocked out New Year’s Day. And after all of that mess last week, Monday morning I wake up to find my battery in my car dead. (UGH 2013, why???) Trevor took me to work and also picked me up Monday, even though we work nowhere near each other. Tuesday morning we jumped my car to get it started and Trevor let me take his car, while he took mine to work and also to the dealership during his lunch break to have it fixed. He truly takes care of nearly any problems I have in my life. There are so many days that I can’t believe how lucky I am to have him.

 

Well dolls, I hope that your week is going wonderful so far. I hope this new year is filled with love, joy, happieness, laughter and spent with those you love. No eye injuries or car issues. ;)

Mr. Tubby Tubs and the Green Tin-Can on Wheels

Once upon a time...Life got extremely busy for me!  I apologize for the lack of blogging the past month and a half, but I will be making a conscious effort to blog lots and lots this December.

My job has really become time consuming lately. We had a woman in our department leave very suddenly for a new opportunity and in turn, it has made those of us left to become very thinly stretched. BUT HEY! Lots of people don’t even have good jobs, so I am thankful for even the busiest of days (and the paycheck that follows).

Speaking of being thankful, I have a very serious question for you all. Is it even possible for you to be angry before 6:30 AM? Now of course, there are those extreme cases where, for example, your car got broken into, or something similar, where anyone would be angry. But I am talking about just waking up on your daily routine and being pissed off! Me personally, not possible, I’m hardly awake at that hour, much less able to conjure up any sort of real emotion. This morning, however, that was not the case for the gentleman behind me on my morning drive.

I pulled out of my neighborhood to, what is a very busy street in the mornings ready for the day. Actually, more than ready because for a Monday, I knew this one would be great. (More on that later) As I head towards to toll-way that I take every morning, I noticed that the driver behind me driving a hunter green (ew) Pontiac Grand-AM was awfully close to my bumper.

Now, mind you, the road I am traveling on is very busy on weekday mornings and cars usually don’t go past 45 MPH and the road also lots of lights.  The truck I was traveling behind was a little bit slower driver than normal but again, who gets angry before 6:30 AM? I didn’t care if he was following the car in front of him a little bit more back that I normally would. His chosen driving speed wasn’t going to make me get to my destination any slower because of the lights we have to stop at every few miles anyways.  Clearly though, the grand-am gentleman thought that I was driving way to slow and that following right behind me would be a really good idea. I tapped my breaks a few times to kindly suggest for him to back off my bumper. He did not get the message I guess because he only continued to follow closer and then he decides that he is going to turn his brights on at me! At this point, I’m getting a little irritated because I truly have no idea why this guy is so angry at me! Lucky for me, his piece of crap car didn’t have very bright brights and I also drive and SUV and he was so close I couldn’t see his headlights anyways…idiot. I manage to finally switch into the left lane to get away from him and when he passes me he flicks me off with his fat finger! (Just for visualization purposes he looked like weight about 300 pounds)  Color me shocked. I was truly flabbergasted with his behavior. As he passed me and got behind the slower moving truck, and I moved onward to the freeway, I giggled. His impatience and rudeness was getting him nowhere, and I hope he realized that. Now I don’t know if he was just late and frustrated and decided I was the traffic angel screwing him over, or if he was a bitter longhorn fan that didn’t like my Texas A&M Century Club Member/blinged out aTm, but he seriously needs some Jesus in his life. I will never understand why some people lose their minds when they get behind the wheel. Moral of the story, don’t be that guy on your drive home today.

As for me and the rest of my morning, Mr. Tubby Tubs in the green tin can on wheels did not ruin it for me. Oh no! Tonight some of my wonderful girlfriends and I are having a Girl’s Christmas Movie night and I am hosting it at my home. Every girl is bringing some sort of treat in the form of dessert or wine, and we are going to watch the holiday classic, “The Holiday”. (Which just happens to be my favorite movie of all time) This week is definitely starting off right; Christmas movie, pizza,  girl talk, wine, and sugar. J I hope that everyone is having a better morning that Mr. Tubby Tubs and remember to drive like a sane person today.

Happy Monday Dolls!

Catch Up Time & Friday Favorites

Hello!

Wow, it's been a good minute since I last blogged. I feel like everything has been moving so fast that I have barely had time to breathe!

I noted in a blog back in September that I would be going on an 8 week stint with every weekend having something to do, and I am excited to say that, ALAS, this is the last weekend in the marathon. After this weekend, we have three weeks of NOTHING! I feel super old saying that but after traveling out of town for the past 6/7 weeks, I will be delighted to spend a weekend in Houston. Heck, this weekend will be the first time I've slept in my own bed (Friday-Sunday) for the past two weeks.

So what's been going, you ask? Well a little bit of Birthday celebrating, Aggie football, Labor Day lake trips, more Aggie football, and lots of wedding festivities.  

It feels like million moons ago, but at the tail end of August I celebrated my birthday! It was an awesome, perfect night with the best friends a girl could ask for. I have pretty good luck with my birthdays getting better each year and this one continued on that trend.

The whole group at Rebel's in Houston. Seriously love all of these guys.

Trevor did such an awesome job bringing everything together on my birthday. I am very thankful I have celebrated the past 5 birthdays with him by my side.

These girls...I love them. They are all such great friends. Hell 4 of them will most likely be bridesmaids in my wedding (if I ever get married<insert crying emoticon here>).

 In other news, my friend Heather FINALLY got married. I say finally because they were engaged for a good 2 and 1/2 years before they  had the wedding. (They were saving for their elaborate 3-week honeymoon in Europe.) The weekend before last we had the bachelorette party in Austin and last weekend was the big day. Everything turned out really great and I think all the waiting was worth the wait.

The group of girls at the bachelorette party.

The Bride and her dedicated team of bridesmaids. This was at the reception and it was time for us to let loose.

All the bridesmaids. I really enjoyed getting to know all of these wonderful women.

SO it rained...but it actually held off for the ceremony. This was myself, HW, and two other bridesmaids attempting to stay dry while the formal pictures.

My hott date...go figure I've had the same one for all four weddings that I have been in. I'm a lucky lady.

As previously stated, taking up a lot of our time... FIGHTIN' TEXAS AGGIE FOOTBALL! Or shall I say, Johny Football. What a season it has been so far. After our first loss to Florida, we have gone on to win every game. However, this weekend we play LSU and I am not naive. I know that LSU has linemen the size of NFL players and that they are a damn good team. But I am not counting us out with our super star Johny leading our team, and the momentum the Ags have coming off of two road game victories. This is going to be a hard fought game by both teams and it really could go either way. Since the game starts at 11 AM (WTF ESPN?!?) Trevor and I will be leaving Houston at 7 AM (the things we do for Aggie Football) so we can make sure we are there with plenty of time for tailgating, especially since our tailgate is sponsored by St. Arnold's Brewery. Yeah, DAT CREW Tailgating is some serious business. 

Dat Crew Tailgating at the Arkansas game. Come rain or shine, we'll be there!

Alright guys, I have to get back to work, but hope you enjoyed the catch up post and I promise to post again before Christmas.

Have a great weekend dolls and GIG'EM AGGIES!

-Danni

It's Okay...

A Complete Waste of Makeup  Brunch with Amber

I've been completely MIA from my blog the past few weeks. I am sorry. :( I have been so busy with work and social things that I feel like I have barely had time to breathe. So with that being said, I decided to dip my toes back into the blogging waters with an "It's Okay" Thursday link up. :)

It's Okay...

To worry about your grandfather even though the Doctors are saying it's going to be fine.

To have drank two Diet Cokes and a jave chip frap light today after this very long and stressful week.

To take a muscle relaxer (of your own) when you screw up your shoulder muscle working out...even if it makes you sleepy all the next day.

To be excited that everyone in your department is off tomorrow. No one around = an easy Friday.

To be so excited about Grey's Anatomy that you plan on blocking out the world when it comes on tonight. (Unless it's the G-pa)

To miss you BF when she lives in another city.

That all I want to do when I get home is sleep until Grey's comes on, then drink a LARGE glass of wine.

To be mad at the NCAA or whoever's fault it is for scheduling the Aggie game for 11 AM on Saturday. I love going to Aggieland but am not looking forward waking up at 8 to be at the game on time. >:(

and lastly....EVERYTHING is okay

BECAUSE MY GRANDFATHER IS GOING TO BE FINE!!! All the Glory to God!

What's okay with you???

A shout out to Taylor @ Goings on in Texas for posting her link up of "it's okay" and giving me the motivation to get back into things.

Have a wonderful Thursday!

"There's a spirit can ne'er be told..."

Howdy All!

As I sit here and type up this quick blog, I am giddy with excitement. Now far warning, if you are neither an Aggie nor an Aggie Fan you most likely will not understand this post one bit. You may even find it comical, but I can promise you I am completely serious. J

As most of you know, I graduated from Texas A&M in 2010. To say I am an Aggie “fan” is the understatement of the year. Hell, I even have an A&M tattoo..., yes, you read that correctly. :) Spending 4 years in Aggieland changed me as a person and A&M became deeply rooted into my soul. I became a part of something much bigger than myself, The 12th man. A quote about A&M that is widely popular is "From the outside looking in, you can't understand it. And from the inside looking out, you can't explain it." I find this so incredibly true. People make jokes all the time about A&M being a cult and that fish camp is just a means to brainwash the incoming freshman class, but Texas A&M University is so much more than that. Besides their stellar academics and extremely high rankings among public universities, the comradery among the students is unlike anything is this world.

Tomorrow is A&M's first football game of the season and also our first game in the SEC. Trev and I are season ticket holders, along with a large group of our friends. Being in Aggieland on Game day is almost unexplainable. You can feel the excitement in the air. Walking up Kyle Field and hearing the crowd steadily increase in volume with the rising numbers of Aggies finding their seats is sweet music to my ears. To see a stadium of 86,000 plus completely sold out, covered in maroon, yelling in unison is a sight you will never forget as long as you live. It is pure sensory overload for any true Aggie; The flyover, the war hymn, the football players running out, the fightin’ Texas Aggie Band, the yells, I could go on and on….Bottom line, if you haven’t ever experienced Aggieland on Game Day Saturday, you are truly missing out.

Being at A&M for 4 years was by far some of the best days of my life. The experiences I had and the people I met there would change me and mold me into the person I am today. Although some of those people aren’t in my life anymore, I will always hold on to the fond and irreplaceable memories until the day that I leave this earth. As for those that still are, well, they are family, one is even the love of my life. J Gratitude is what I feel towards Aggieland and Texas A&M, complete gratefulness for my education that supports the life I want to live, for the people who make life living for, and for allowing me to be a part of something much bigger than myself.

Have a great weekend dolls and CHEERS to the Aggies BTHO florida! J

Thanks and Gig’Em!

I have no problem admitting this video brings tears to my eyes.