Sunday Funnies

Short and to the point. I love laughing. I love to share jokes or something funny. If you need a pick me up, I assure you these links will at LEAST cause you to chuckle slightly :) Enjoy.

I LOVE unnessecary censorship. Love it.
Unneccessary Censorship

And, just to stay with the Jimmy Kimmel theme.. I find this funy. Being that I work for an ABC station and have the...joy... of watching Oprah almost every single day.. I can totally relate to this clip.
Almighty Oprah

Happy Sunday!

Out of the loop

Wow. It's been forever since I've blogged. There really is no excuse other than I've had other priorities as of late and couldn't wrap my brain around handling any more than I already am. So pardon me for this potentially painfully long post as I attempt to catch up.

Thanksgiving was insane. I felt so lucky to have lots of family and friends at our house for the holiday. My dad, grandmother, mother and father in law, three brothers and sister in laws, grandmother in law all stayed at our house for several days to celebrate the holiday. On Thanksgiving day the men worked on frying the turkeys, while my mother in law and I went to work in the kitchen. Luckily we had done a pretty good job of planning ahead and making things in advance so the kitchen wasn't nearly as hectic as it could have been. For whatever reason I was an idiot and didn't take a single picture, so unfortunately I have nothing to remember the 14 people in our house making the day all sorts of fun. Of course, I had to work that afternoon but luckily I swendled my dad into going with me and that made it infinitely more fun to show him what I do every day.

Shortly after Thanksgiving I found out that I was pregnant. At first the hubs and I were fairly shocked. I was quite late on my period and had gone to the doctor to hash out the reason. I was convinced that I had PCOS or something, but ended up having a positive pregnancy test. For a few days we just sat around thinking "what are we going to do", but slowly but surely we began to get excited and conjured a cute way to tell our families the good news on our trip back to Texas for Christmas. At this time my sister had announced that she was pregnant and just a few days after I found out I was preggo, my sister in law called to tell us she was pregnant. It was just crazy to wrap my head around the fact that there would be three new family members to welcome all in a matter of no more than 2 months apart.

Unfortunately, it has been proven to me once again that as soon as I allow myself to get excited about something, the rug is pulled out from under me. When I was about 8 weeks along, I woke up one morning to severe bleeding and ended up spending the entire day in the emergency room to be belittled by nurses, forgotten by doctors, and ultimately told that no one knew anything. One nurse had the gall to look me in the face and say (literally) "Well, you know, if you are having a miscarriage, there's nothing we can do to stop it". Umm, yes... I'm well aware of that fact. I could have hit her. Just because I'm younger doesn't mean I'm stupid thank you very much. I woke up the next morning to unbearable pain and knew without a shadow of a doubt that I had miscarried. No matter how hard I try, I can't shake that image. I don't want to be gross, but I honestly wish that I could just delete that image out of my mind so that it won't creep up on me and take me by surprise anymore. Nothing was more painful that having to call family members to not only tell them I had been pregnant, but that I had miscarried. Not a single family member knew and it was just awkward and difficult all the way around. My husband amazed me through the whole ordeal. He was so strong and yet opening showed me the hurt in his heart. It definitely reminded me of how amazing he is and how lucky I am to have married such an awesome man. To make matters worse, two days after I miscarried, my sister miscarried and then two days after that my sister in law found out her pregnancy was ectopic and had to have her entire tube removed. Needless to say, that week was incredibly emotional. Not something I want to ever revisit, yet is somehow theraputic to write about it.

Anyway, Christmas came and we were able to jet off to Texas for an entire week. I don't think I could have enjoyed that week anymore. It was fabulous to have something else to focus on other than our collective losses. It was so nice to spend time with our family and not feel rushed. I would have liked to have seen my mother and sister more, but I understand how life can be tricky at times. My dad and I saw Baylor, my alma mater, play in their first bowl game in about 15 years, we visited with friends we hadn't spent time with in years maybe, and just hung out with our families. It helped heal my heart to be surrounded by people I love in the state I love.

The new year brought a new life for my husband and I. We realized that we had been living in a state of denial for many months. We were so disconnected and so checked out that we had lost sight of almost everything. We feel like we're dating again. Spending lots of time together, several dates, and making plans again. My heart is happy and I'm feeling better than I have in a long time. Life still has difficult moments, but we feel more united than ever. We've made a pact to go on at least one big date a month and so far this month we've already had two :) We're being proactive in our goals and really going for them. The hubs is working on enrolling in school so he'll be able to finish his bachelors. I'm going after a major job promotion that I'd give a limb to have. We're finally getting ever more settled in our house and reeeally enjoying the changes. Unfortunately we're also on the car hunt. Hubs' almost 14 year old truck fought the good fight and dead the ultimate death a few weeks ago. Luckily he's on swings for a few months and we're FINALLY working the same schedule. (Which has helped witht the spending time together, and allowed us to carpool with no problem)

So, to wrap things up... along with the changes we're making in our married life, I'm going to try and be better about blogging. I used to really enjoy it and want to get back to that place. I will post a picture update of the past few months once I get home and can get them from my computer. I'm painfully making my way through my dreaded Sunday shift and will rejoice once 3 pm rolls around. Anywho, enjoy your Sunday! It's good to be back.