A Touch Paranoid

Hello Mates! What's been going on? I've been working the girls 7A volleyball tournament all week. Fun times. I've worked it by myself which gets quite boring. It's all good though. I had lots of mags to keep me entertained.
My hubby just got back from San Antonio. He's been gone all week. I didn't share that info earlier because I'm worried some creeper will read it and come and murder me or something. I'm very impressed with my staying-alone skills. It literally terrified me to stay by myself in the past. The sorta sketchy hood in Fayetteville may have contributed. But now I feel safe and sound in my cozy little painted house. I actually got great sleep since nobody was in my bed taking up my space and stealing my covers. I have to leave my TV on when I'm by myself though because I wake up many times in the middle of the night and it's nice to see nobody is starring over me while I snooze. Am I paranoid? Yes. I am always that aware woman of 'what could happen.' I used to walk around the UofA campus at night with my mace in the air and my finger on the button.
I'm like this with many things in life. I get irritated with Scott if we're Walmart shopping and my purse is in the buggy and we split to look for separate stuff and I see him standing by the cart starring off in wonderland. Hello! Someone could steal the bag! Whenever I'm somewhere and a woman turns her back on her bag (or baby) for a quick sec I almost want to take it to prove a point that anything could happen in a second but that would probably get me arrested.
I hate to leave Holly in the car to run into a store real fast. I'm always worried someone will break into my car and take her! I've expressed this to Scott many times and for some reason he and Holly took a road trip by themselves between LR and Bentonville one time. He had to stop in Ozark and potty and he left Holly in the car. As he was deciding which candy bar to eat on the road, he suddenly heard his car alarm go off. Scott said he threw the Snickers down on the floor and sprinted out of the door looking foolish only to see Holly sitting in the car with a 'what's going on!!!!!' look on her face! HAHAHA. Makes me laugh so hard to picture that. He said all he could think was 'Kara's going to kill me because she always says not to leave Holly in the car even if it's only for a minute.'
Anyways, yeah, I'm paranoid. I don't find it to be a bad quality at all though and I contribute my equally paranoid mother and living in Memphis for obtaining this. That's all...

Scary Cars

Car's have been scaring me a bit these last few days! Last night I was walking out of Walmart with my cart of groceries and this car backing out of it's spot almost ran me over. Seriously not exaggerating. I let out a quite girly scream (kinda embarrassing) which the car heard and made it come to an abrupt halt! Everyone in the parking lot was gasping with their hands over their mouths then presumed to tell me they thought I was about to get run over by the lady who was not paying one bit of attention. Scary!
Then, this morning I'm getting ready for work and my brother calls me in hysterics! I'm freaking out thinking somethings happened to Landon. He tells me that he was pulled over on the side of the interstate shaking because he almost got hit by a car going 70 mph. There would have been absolutely nothing for Kyle to do but let the car plow into him. Thankfully the car noticed just in time and slammed on it's breaks creating huge marks on the road and clouds of black dust. The person was texting. It scared Kyle to death. And made him furious that the person was texting! I've had close calls but never on a 2 lane interstate where a person was totally not paying attention and I had nowhere to swerve to avoid it. It just makes you realize how quickly life can change. What if something terrible had happened to him? I'm so grateful he's okay. And now it's time for me to preach like Oprah and say don't text and drive!!!! Are you crazy? It's so so so dangerous!!
Alrighty, that's about it. Kyle's story was scary....mine was too but I have to admit I laughed out loud once I got in my car and relived the girly scream over and over in my head. I actually apologized to the Walmart crowd for the sissy scream explaining 'it was just a reaction!' So embarrassing....lata!

The Social Network

Today has been an easy and relaxing day. I love day's like that! I went to the movies this afternoon and saw The Social Network. Seriously, such a good movie. It was one of those where I'm still thinking about it hours later. I just had to learn more after it was over so I came home and googled the invention of facebook to death. I felt quite special knowing I was involved in facebook while it was still called thefacebook. Anyways, great movie. If you haven't seen it you totally should. You'll look at facebook very differently from now on. Not in a good or a bad way, just differently.
I went to the gym after the movie and ran on the elliptical while I watched Oprah. Today's show was heartbreaking. I had to fight back the tears.
Alrighty, it's 10:00 which means bed time. I'll watched my DVR'd Guilliana and Bill then hopefully fall asleep quickly after that. I'm pretty exhausted so it should come easy. Toodles!

Weekend Breakdown

What a weekend! Friday night Scott and I stayed in and made turkey tacos. They were yummy. We watched It's Complicated after dinner. I love that movie. So funny. We woke up bright and early on Saturday and headed to the hill. The game had perfect weather until the 3rd quarter. We really didn't get rained on at all though. Once the downpour came we were in the car having cocktails! Then we went back in to finish up.....the had to leave again. We finished the last 7 minutes of the game at Grubs. Scott and I headed home after that and I kid you not we were in the bed by 8:30 and completely passed out by 9:30 and didn't wake up until our alarm went off for church at 9! It was so fantastic. I laid in bed for so long my back hurt me! Fabulous!
We had our normal routine Sunday except for the fact that I had my cleaning lady make a visit! My husband has finally let me to talk him into letting her come every other week! Isn't that so romantic? I'm pretty pumped.
We had our first community group tonight since we joined the church. Scott and I are so happy with it. Great leaders, great people. It's a good feeling.
Alrighty, that's all I got. Until next time....

Computer Virus

Our computer has had a virus for a good 4 months now. Of course it's all my fault. Scott's always like 'What did you do?' Why is it always assumed that it's my fault? Rude! Anyways, the virus has been exceptionally irritating to me because I feel like I'm on this computer 24/7. Scott never really noticed it because he's on a computer all day at work so it's the last thing he wants to do when he gets home. Finally, after I threw out a loud ARGH!!! followed by a I'm taking this to Best Buy tomorrow because I can't wait any longer to get this fixed, Scott got the point and was like I'll fix it tomorrow. I didn't believe him because he's been saying it for 4 months but whatdya know, he fixed it! It must have been the ARGH followed by the attitude....
I would consider myself to be computer savvy but not when it comes to fixing a virus. This wasn't just any virus, this one was tragic. Good thing my husband is what I would consider to be a computer genius. Well, he's pretty much a genius at everything but he's really good when it comes to computers. Like, the dude knows nearly every key stoke out there. He rarely has to use a mouse. He always tries to teach me but I always forget. Anyways...back on track. Scott had to completely wipe out our computer and restore it so I basically feel like I have a brand new laptop and it's fantastic! Good story huh? Sorry, that's all I got. Unless you wanted me to complain about the game tomorrow for two reasons: a.) it starts at 11:20 and b.) there's an 80% chance of rain. That does not work for me. BOO!

Holly is 14!

Today is my sweet Holly's 14th birthday!!!!!! I cannot believe it. I've had that sweet little girl for over half of my life. She is my number 1. I love her more than you could possibly imagine. I feel so lucky that I've had the blessing of having her in my life for as long as I have. She just gets sweeter, smarter, cuter, and more perfect every year. I haven't seen my little doodlebug in 5 weeks and it's KILLING me. Mom and I are meeting halfway between LR and Bentonville on Sunday so I can have my turn of Holly lovin. I haven't gone this long without seeing Holly like....ever. I don't like it. She's got all kinds of birthday presents ready and waiting for her when she gets to my house so she better get excited!

Here's Holly the day we brought her home from the hospital!

Happy 14th Birthday Holly!!!! I fall in love with you more and more every day. You are my favorite puppy ever and I know you ALWAYS will be. Kisses!!