Just for Mrs. Montgomery

A Tag from Emily :

5 places I go over and over- the gym, central market (groceries), The movies with Blake (almost every Friday), the massage place... ahhhh, and Target, I just love it there!

5 people who email me regularly- My mom, Spam, the ASPCA, the "good to go" pass people, and my brother.

5 favorite places to eat- Poulsbo Deli, any place Thai related, Central Market salad bar (yummy AND huge), big town hero, Jimmy johns..( damn I really like sub type sandwiches)

5 places I would rather be- Connecticut, Hawaii, Spain with my Bro, Having a day at the spa, or gettin' frisky with John Mayer (yummmmmm)

5 TV shows I watch all the time- Grey's Anatomy, 24, Lipstick Jungle, Moving up on TLC, and One tree hill.

And the 5 peps that I tag . . . Allison, Shalyse, Tasha, Jessica M., and Sarah Y.

The big white one.....

Have you ever had a moment in a conversation where you think what you said was clear but, to everyone listening you just seem crazy???

let me fill you in.
So, I was watching Animal Planet and the show was "growing up polar bear".
For those of you that are unfamiliar: it's a show about orphaned animals adopted and raised by loving zoo keepers/farms/etc... (depending upon the animal of course) They show the growing up process and at the end they either 1) release the animal back to the wild, or 2) find it a permanent sanctuary or zoo to live in.

Okay, so in the case of the polar bear he was going to be in a fantastic zoo in Canada AND even better there were two female, sister, orphaned polar bears coming to share the same enclosure at the zoo. The hope was that they would mate since polar bears are near extinction.

So, Blake and I are watching them finally be release into the beautiful enclosure.

**** remember their are 3 polar bears all released at the same time******

our conversation goes like this:
S: "wow that is so awesome and look how big he's gotten!"
B: "yeah, it would be cool to have a pet polar bear"
S: "yeah, until it attacked you"
B: "Yeah, that would suck"
S: (having lost track of who was who during the release to the enclosure)
"which one is he?"
B: "the Big white one"

JUST LIKE THAT!!! now, I about died laughing.. he kept a straight face and had no idea what was so funny....
Come on. THREE polar bears and I am supposed to know which one is the boy by the description "the big white one"...
So funny and please remember my hubby is an engineer with a Masters degree in Nuclear engineering... (meaning, he's no dummy)
ahhhhh, life's little joys!!!!

The trouble with life is...

So, I have taken to writing in my blog to help release some stress.

Now if you are waiting for fun pictures then stop reading now.

I am unsure of who actually reads this, I am guessing maybe 4 or 5 people, and those 4 or 5 of you THANKS!!! If you are someone who I do not speak with regularly I am going to fill you in on something I wouldn't normally like to discuss.

Blake and I have been trying to have a baby for a while now. I was officially off birth control in November of 2005...Now that sounds like a realllllyyy long time to be trying so, I would also like you to know: Aprox. 18 months of the afore mentioned time Blake was out to sea or Deployed for about 15 of them. AND we didn't apparently have good timing for the other 3 months.... So it has been a year and four months of really trying and at 12 months we saw a fertility specialist... which would have been great, BUT we have NOTHING wrong with us. NOTHING keeping us from having a baby... In fact all the specialist told us we are two of the most fertile people around!!! how can this be?!?!? NOT a good thing to hear...what am I (or we) doing wrong?!?!?!
yeah it's great we are able (apparently) but why hasn't is happened?!?! I had to go through some fairly painful/uncomfortable stuff to find out nothing is wrong! WHY???????? WHY NOT really???

The reason I am asking is.... if any of you lucky mommas or aunties or females with ideas etc... have any ideas or advice on how to accomplish the, oh so, exciting and (in our case) frustrating task of getting pregnant, I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to hear them!! I am usually not one to whine but, my husband is going to be going back out to see in about a year and I would really like to make this work so he can be there for the birth. I know it may seem stupid to some, but I think that moment must be magical and I really would like him there to share in what we have made...


ANY advice would be oh so very much appreciated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for reading!!

NEW BATHROOM!!!

BEFORE: sorry only one pic....
but you get the idea.... really boring! DURING:


The Klinedinst Master bath is now complete!!!

What I was told would take a few weeks took almost four months. Luckily, we have a guest bathroom so it wasn't that bad. At our last house I had to shower at the gym when they redid the only full bath in the house~
All the above pictures are DURING!!!!! and Below is the finished project!!!!!! YES!!!
Blake did the entire job all by himself. I am so proud!!! the only thing left is to up an outlet cover on the one outlets to the left in the photo below...
I love my new cubbie for all my bathroom stuff!! the vanity isn't very good for storage!!!
Pretty pretty shower, no more cheesy insert for us!!

This is where we..... you know...... GO...
Mondo 12 inch rain shower head. No worries, the shower has two separate shower heads, the other is normal and average in size...
I hope you enjoyed my tour of our new bathroom. It;s been a LONG time waiting for this.... now onto the guest bath to make them match!!!

Tag me up butter cup!

I've been tagged...

Christina said all Sara's so here we go...

Four jobs I've had:
1) Sam Goody (all though high school)
2) Bank teller (all through college at Purdue)
3) regional Account Manager (for AIM) auditing hospitals in CT
4) Marketing Programs Manager (recently laid off from... lame job)

Four movies I've watched more than once:
1) The Holiday
2) Legally Blonde (DON'T JUDGE)
3) Crash
4) Goonies

Four places I've lived:
1) Corvallis,OR
2) Quaker Hill, CT
3) Charleston, SC
4) West Lafayette, IN

Four TV shows I watch:
1) Greys Anantomy
2) Gossip Girl
3) Moving up on TLC (EVERY Saturday night)
4) Top Design on Bravo... I should be on that damn show!!

Four places I've been:
1) Australia!!
2) Guam
3) Japan
4) London for Christmas!!(does that count?....it's booked)

Four people who email me regularly (doesn’t include blogging comments):
1) My parents of course!!
2) My cousin Adam
3) Valerie in CT
4) Spam

Four of my favorite foods:
1) ANY thing Thai
2) Poulsbo Deli roast beef sub... so good..
3) pink lady apples
4) broccoli

Four places I would like to visit:
1) Ireland
2) Spain
3) Thailand
4) the maternity ward if I could ever get preggers

Four things I'm looking forward to in the coming year:
1) moving maybe....
2) hoping to have (or be in the process of having) a kiddo
3) paying off all our debt (except the house of course)
4) Being with my hubby!


Four friends I'm tagging:
1) Sarah
2) Tasha
3) Shalyse
4) Hillary

Ripley+Klutz= staples

For those of you who haven't met Ripley... Here he is. Typically he is happy, excited, well behaved and loves to play. He has been a part of our family since before we were a family.
Blake proposed with the ring tied around an eight week old Ripley's neck. It was perfect!!


As I mentioned Ripley loves to play. He is a daddy's pup and loves to wrestle with Blake ALOT!
So, last night while watching Ugly Betty the two of them were playing in our room and Ripley got a little too excited and without looking ran straight (HARD) into the door frame in our room. He shook it off and we thought nothing of if until we saw blood on the carpet. Upon further inspection we see that Rippers has busted his face wide open. I was so sad and immediately brought him to the veterinary ER. He was such a trooper and only barked when they put him in the kennel for a few minutes. He was sedated and a flap of skin was removed and FIVE staples are now in my little babies face. I was so sad I stayed up all night checking on him. Which was rather pointless since he was so sedated he was all but unconscious.
Below: After having to carry Ripley up the stairs and place him in his bed.... he didn't even move.
I hope he was comfortable. :(


Close up of poor Ripley's staples.... He is so tough but sometimes he needs extra love.
AWWW I know I am bias but he is just so dang cute!! I love my Ripley Believe!!!

worst week ever

So, long time no blog. I got back from New York early....not by choice....and had emergency surgery to an area I would rather not discuss (lets just say a female issue) It sucked.
Strike ONE.
So, I am recovering from home for a week and I go back to work finally after getting the clear from the Doctor..... only to be told, our company has been restructured and I no longer have a job. Well, they felt bad so they offered me a crappy admin job which was rather insulting considering I used to be their Marketing Programs Manager. I said "no thanks" and took my severance like a champ.
Strike TWO.
So, as I am at home wallowing in what a bad week I am having and thinking to myself.... this could not be any worse... WRONG, then my Grandpa died. AND since I had just had surgery I was told it was not a good idea for me to fly.. thus I missed the funeral.
Strike THREE and I am outta there.

But, I am really just blogging to vent and I am actually quite happy with how things turned out.
1. My job was crappy... not great people to work with, not creative enough for me and kinda boring and not my idea of an ideal job.
2. My grandpa was 91 and hada great life which toward the end was riddled with Alzheimer's. So, it was better that he go with dignity then to go later when he would have been with less.
3. surgery sucks.. but my pain tolerance is insane so I'm good!!!


thanks for reading... Sorry to vent.... I have very few friends here in WA.....