A Moment of Silence

I am sorry to announce that this morning around 7:30am on a beautiful day in Texas a poor innocent squirrel lost its life by a vicious Siberian Husky on Chippenhook Court.

Since I am very sadden by this occasion, and can not bring myself to go back into the yard and pick up the poor little guy, the dogs will not be able to use the bathroom until Ian gets home from work. Maybe the stupid dog will learn for the future.

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I decided to add a picture, but just remember what it is of, so dont look if you dont want to see it.

Stuff

I just thought I would just post a few of the things going on in the Richardson household. Nothing really exciting, but since no one is forcing you to read this, I dont mind so much then :)

1) Everyone at work is talking about their upcoming vacations, and it just makes me sad because we were supposed to have our fun 9 day vacation to California, but no, I had to go switch jobs. Stupid me..

2) Speaking of vacations, Ian will be taking one in June. He is gonna head back to Btown and see some of his college friends (who are also all coming in for the trip). He will be gone from June 11th to the 15th (I think those are the dates, I'm supposed to take him to the airport but he wont get me his trip info). I will be at home chillin with the doggies.

3) On the subject of Ian, he will also be going to Missouri on business for 1 week. We still arent sure the exact dates, but most likely right before he leaves for IN. So there is a chance he will be gone for almost 2 weeks in a row.

4) Back to work, but this time mine. We just got a new GM, he has some goals and doesnt mess around, but I think he will be good for the property. I was supposed to have my 1 on 1 with him today, but he got behind and its been pushed to tomorrow. I am looking forward to sitting with him and getting to know him a little better and of course for him to know me a little better too. Coming in, he didnt seem to get the best view of the catering team (he thought we were a little too serious, which is so funny), so we are looking forward to changing his view of us.

5) On the work subject again, I won the sales contest last week and won a giftcard to Starbucks! I am very excited that I won, but not soo much about where the giftcard is too because as you might know, not a big coffee fan. But it was great to win because I'm still new, my GM is trying to figure out who he needs to fire to make a point, and because it was based on how many new leads we got, how many contracts we got out and how many we got back over a 2 day period, and I was only there on one of the days (since I'm always off on Wednesday). Go me!!

6) I changed the background and stuff on the blog, like it??

7) So my days off are Sunday and Wednesday, so its rare for me to work more than 3 days in a row. Well, I am now going on day 6 before Im off again on Wednesday, and I'm not liking it. I keep trying to tell myself its ok because I'll also have Friday off this week, but I think I would have rather not worked both Saturday & Sunday to be honest.

Well, I could write more, but Im gonna start making dinner since its almost 8pm. I'll try to post some more updates on one of my days off this week.

I am not a gardner!!

As the title suggests, I am not good at gardening. Not sure if its not having the time, not having the patience, or perhaps just not being able to plant things in the first place, but either way, I am horrible at it.

So these 1st 4 pictures show my 2 weeks of hard work trying to make the garden pretty. I pulled up some ugly plants the builders planted, took up all the old mulch, planted all the flowers (different sizes & color of zinnias) around the edges and then put down all new mulch. We also had a drainage problem when it rained (it would come pouring down from the corner of the garage & dining room roof) and it would displace all the dirt & mulch, so I got rocks to cover the area, it has been working very nicely. Doesnt it look pretty, I worked HARD on this.









Well, these next 3 pictures is what happened about a month after all my hard work. Isnt it sad :( Now to explain, the mulch is still black, its just that the huge tree in our yard is dropping those little yellow things like candy, I tried to pick them up but do not have the time or the patience for that.







As you can tell, the flowers are DEAD!!! Everytime I got home and would pass them on my way inside I would get really pissed off, so I wanted to just pull them up and replace them with rocks (which Im guessing I cant kill), but Ian told me that I had to shock them back to life. So I tried, I went and got flower food and was really trying, but amazingly enough, they actually started dying faster!! So this weekend I gave up and cut off all the dead stems and pulled out any big chunks that had no hope of making it. I would say I threw away about 2/3rds of the flowers, but the 1/3 that is left is actually blooming now, but Im having to really pay attention to them. Im gonna wait about another week and if they still look good I'll take some new pics and post them so you can all see my progress!!

Cute Annie

So I know I've already posted some cute pics of my annie girl, but in the past week she has been attacked by Ian and then just given up, and the end results were so cute. I hope you enjoy (and sorry for the scary yellow eyes, I dont know how to fix them.)