It's FRICKEN AFRICA HOT!!!!!!

I haven't been exercising in over a week! Mostly due to the fact that I was recovering from food poisioning last week, and then all of the sudden it got super hot. I hate it. I kind of miss running, but I'm not dumb enough to do it in the heat!

The baby has been completely irritable too! She's either whinning or cranky, because she's tired. It's too hot for her to get a decent nap in. Really, in a house with no AC it just feels like everything is a pain in the ass. I grew up in houses with out AC, I'd like to think I can tolerate it pretty well, but I guess everyone has their breaking point.

Annaleese and I have caught some relief from the heat by taking a swim, but I can't keep her in the pool for long periods of time, so the relief is short lived.

Allright, I guess I'm through venting.

just a little something.

It's been a while since I've written anything. So here goes. The last week has been trying. Good and bad things have come to light, mom and dad moved out, Cortney graduated Highschool, and my best friend came for a visit.

I'll expand a little on the things I care to mention.

After sharing our home with my parents for the last month, they decided it was time to go live in their trailer, while they wait out the escrow of the house they just got. Their plan is to stay in there while they get the house up to par. Tend to any small repairs it might need, and some painting and other odds and ends.

It was nice to have their company. Mom helped me prepare dinner most nights. And helped out with all the cleaning and what not. Dad helped Scott and Joe install our windows, and scrape the cieling in the living room. Mom helped me paint in the living room. It was good to have help getting small and big improvemtns made to the house.

My little sister graduated on June 10th! 6 years and 1 day after I did. I really can't believe it's been that long, I don't feel old, but it definately puts things in to perspective. She was accepted into San Jose State to study Forensic Science. I am so proud of her and all of her accomplishments.

Jessica came to visit. It was nice to see her, and talk to her one on one. We had discussed going out to do something before she got her, but we ended up just sitting at my house, going to lunch and just talking. It was nice. I really do/have missed her.

Other than that I've just been going through some personal stuff.

In the last four weeks I've lost 8 pounds! That makes a total of 35 since Annaleese was born.

Whew...what a weekend.

Well this past weekend had, Mom, Dad, Joe, Scott and I working pretty hard. Scott, Dad, and Joe, tore out the old windows and installed the new ones! The whole process took 2 days! Now we have to start the second phase, of putting in the new window casings for the interiors, basically we have no window seals and the studs are exposed. I'll get some before and after pictures soon. The second phase will also include getting the front and back stucco replaced, and painted. To match the house.

Saturday, Mom and I started painting the front room. We got three of the four walls done, we are waiting on the TV wall to be retextured before we can do it.

There is still a ton of dust and some glass around the house. I'm working on it little by little, but I'm out of pledge! LOL

Enjoy the pictures!

http://picasaweb.google.com/tara.alarid/Windows#

Moving on... Good Bye House.

I said GOODBYE to my parents house yesterday. There was a ton of good times that we shared in that home. We moved in just before I gradutated highschool. We celebrated big family Christmas Dinners, pool parties, Mom's 40th birthday Luau, Cortney's first High School formal, Scott proposal to me, we had our Wedding Rehearsal Dinner there, my Baby Shower for Annaleese, and so much more.

The summer after highschool graduation Jessica, Matt and I lived in that pool.We swam for hours. I put off looking for a job so long during that summer. We would play endless games of uno. Jess and I baked cookies and took them to Matt at Golfland.

I brought Scott home for the first time to meet my parents.

I'm sure the house my parents move into next will have many great memories too, especially because Annaleese has so many memories waiting to be created.

Some Success!

Well I had to share with someone. In the last two weeks, I have lost 3.5 pounds, and about an inch around the bust, waist, hips and theighs!!!!! Last week I started going for walks, I did it for 4 days during the week, and plan on increasing that to between 5 and 6. I have some exercise videos and equipment at home I should start using. I believe I am making progress. I'll be super excited when my current jeans are too loose to wear at all, and I can shimming back in to the size i was wearing before Annaleese was thought of.

Small goals are easier to achieve!

The office is...

I don't know what possessed me this morning, but whatever it was resulted in a cleaner more orginized choas in the office. Sadly the office is the only room in the house that hasn't been completely unpacked. It's Scott's room to do with what he wants, as far as decorating and what not. But I guess I got a little tired of the clutter of boxes in the room. So I opened a couple of the boxes and realized that most of them had been gone through, to get whatever it was we needed at the time. So there were 3 half empty boxes. One was full of bridal magazines... lol. So I condensed the boxes down to one. There are still a few other boxes, full of glass ware from Scott's bar. I'll leave that be. But all the boxes are neatly stacked against a wall and out of the way. Now the room looks clean with the door open.

Well I'm gonna go get ready for a walk. It's supposed to rain tomorrow, else I would for go the walk in order to stay in this cleaning mood. I have the kitchen to tackle now...oh and maybe the dreadful laundry.

(Sush...don't tell Scott but I hung a couple of his pictures...he's free to move them where ever, but now the walls aren't totally naked.)

Well, I'm beat!

I started off the day tired, which is why I'm feeling less than energetic now. I needed some stamps- so I could pay the bills- always fun. So after Annaleese and I had our breakfast, we packed up and took a walk to Safeway. It was a nice outting, it was warm out but not hot and took about an hour. It was nice.

When she went down for a nap I went outside and started cleaning up the weeds. Again it wasn't hot out, but hard work under the sun makes it feel hott! And I think the sun drained me! I feel accomplished, and happy that I finally worked in some well needed exercise also.