catching up

hello. anyone still out there? My days of daily blog stories are long gone, so it seems.

that does not mean my life is not blog worthy.

I will number for easy reading, naturally, and include the subject matter.

You know, just in case you care.

1) Home Front: We are no longer for sale by owner - we have listed it with a legit agent. Who knew I would be so terrible at selling a home? Apparently a cute malte-poo and great candles are not all that sells a house. Our agent is great. In fact, I have been out of the house all day while she shows the house several different times. Awesome. I went to the gym, and now am at the coffee shop blogging. Notice I did not say shower. Which leads me to my next topic -

2) Death of a Chi - Remember my chi story from a year ago? Well, it kinda happened again. My Chi died yesterday. I told my boss I almost called in sick, but alas, I have a great work ethic. Dang my guilty heart. My hair was long last time this tragedy struck, so I was able to pull it back with ease. Well, now I have short hair. So it was an unfortunate sight. No fear, another Chi was overnighted, but has not come in yet. I shall wait to shower until then. If you are in the 'burg and see me today, I will go ahead and apologize now for the nappiness that is my hair.
To make matters worse, my hair dryer fried my hair last week. Really. Fried. I had an hour and half deep conditioning treatment at the salon to remedy this, with little luck. The only
hope: my chi, which is now dead. Trey says between my hair products and my speeding tickets, we are broke. Which is a perfect lead to #3...


3) Good cop/Bad cop - A few posts ago I told the story about my first speeding ticket. Whatev. I paid the ticket and went on my merry way. He was nice, and even though I peeled out in front of him, he wished me well on my way. Fast forward to last week: Enter bad Hattiesburg cop. I was heading to work, minding my own business, when I got pulled over. FOR GOING 21 MPH. get a life, cop. The limit was 15, and while I normally follow this rule, I
was on the phone with my mom and a bit distracted. I guess my lead foot got the best of me
and I hit the big 2-0. Pa-lease. This is when it happened: the tears started flowing. I was stressed anyway, and the mean guy was relentless. He demanded to know where I worked, and even put it on my ticket. Why does that matter? Was is it to him? I then witnessed him letting another woman go. Don't tick me off, cop. I called my state rep. (yes, indeed) , the city council, and the police station. To no avail. I had to go to court last week and pay up. FOR GOING 21 MPH. Next Tuesday I have driving school. Seriously, cop. Catch the drug dealers and robbers in the city. Leave me be.


4) New car - trey got a new truck. Not a big deal for some of you, but he was a bit attached to his old dodge. It was his high school truck. Yep. High school. Nothing else to say, except that I am proud that my husband was able to let go and move forward with a new car. He is growing up so fast.

(not his truck, but you get the idea. Looks like this:)

5) Baby mama - we had a shower for amanda last weekend in memphis. so fun. she is the cutest mama-to-be. All belly. Nothing else. I am not bitter, for I have never been with child, but fair warning, Boo: when I am large and in charge with a baby in tow, I will be bitter when my butt explodes and my face swells. Anyway, enough about that. It was so great getting to see
so many of my friends. I miss everyone so much! Let's do it again soon. At the birth of baby Kate, perhaps?

6) Terrible Twos - only not so terrible. Still a perfect angel. (I can say that, for I am the aunt) Henry turned two in december, but we had his party in November. It was a hayride. he loved it. Absolutely adorable. A few things of note: he can say his entire ABCs (even the LMNOP part) and adds the 'next time won't you sing with me'. He can count high. Like to
10 or something. And he will tell you that Christmas is here for Jesus's birthday. Cute kid. Birthday pictures courtesy of Laura.

Now you are caught up a bit in the life of Heather. I feel there is more to tell. I am forgetting something. Oh well, will think of it later.

Heading home to see if my chi has arrived. Wish me luck!!