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It's over 90 degrees outside today. *fans self* It's so humid too. I got my garden all planted a couple weeks ago but gosh dang it is so hot and humid I'll be surprised if any of the blooms live. My seedlings from last year are sprouting and blooming again. Though it looks like I may have more wildflowers than morning glories this year but I don't mind. I finally got the hanging baskets up and they look so pretty! In one I have violas, annuals and salvia blooms and the other is only rainbow salvia blooms. I did buy a third hanging basket, the kind with a hook, and it's fuschia bleeding hearts. They look so pretty and colorful!

This year I've also added a few potted plants to line the outside of the garden bed. There's two pots of elephant ears, a pot of lavendar and a glass pot with orange gerbera daisies. The elephant ears are ginormous and catch all sorts of condensation, bugs and random outside things. The dogs seem to like them best because when we water the garden they'll drink off the leaves and eat whatever bugs are trying to eat the leaves. Sammy doesn't understand the concept of "don't eat Mommy's garden or she'll yell and I'll get a bath" yet, but he's at least learned not to stomp on the seedlings and not to roll in the dirt.

Speaking of dirty dogs, today is bath day! Yay! Now that Sammy has all his stitches out and everything he's been getting exercise again and today I can finally give him a real bath. He is hella dirty! He thinks it's runny to stand under the runoff from the hanging baskets when we water the flowers and ends up covered in muddy water and muck. Sadie thinks it's hilarious and will just watch him and wag like crazy.

Anyways, I should probably go get the bathroom ready to bathe my dirty furbabies. I have some gift cards to use for EdenFantasys if anyone wants to recommend what I should spend them on.

I got ALL my chores done!!! Booya! And yesterday I managed to find a replacement easy chair for $20 at Goodwill. I ordered some cheap but decent work desk replacements on Walmart for under $50 too. Now all I need to do is find a replacement couch and my to do list will be officially done! Yay!

School, ahhhh I forgot how much I absolutely HATE homework. I hate it with a burning passion. Nothing makes me more snappy and crabby than homework. I find almost all of it petty, useless and a waste of time. So why the heck did I think getting a degree would mean anything? I don't know. *facepalm* I have exactly one year left until I graduate and Friday I found out that I'm getting slapped with an $1800 fine because of a major miscommunication between financial aid and VA. Yay for me! They only have one payment plan and it's $225 a month. O.o That's double my internet bill and quadruple my grocery bill. Looks like it's time to rethink my budgeting!

Not everything is awful though. I do have my own membership site now. *happy dance* I'm pretty stoked about that. I just got it launched fully last night and I've got a good feeling about it. I'm way behind on my blog though and need to post sometime tonight.

Though, that will have to be after I clean out the utility closet, gather up all the extra boxes we have to give to a friend, finish the dishes, vacuum, clean the bathrooms, clean the kitchen, put away the laundry, declutter the house, finish my homework and cam. This ALL has to be done by tomorrow too! I swear, there's is just not enough of me to go around and still get enough sleep at night. Oh yea, almost forgot I have to find replacements for my couch, easy chair, work desk and pillow (I'm not even sleeping on a pillow at the moment because Sammy ate BJ's so BJ took mine) too. My furniture is just falling apart faster than I can fix it! Lol. The couch broke through on the bottom so when you sit on it you fall through to the floor, but I've got it propped up with old soda bottles right now. It's uncomfortable but I think it was a pretty smart fix. There's no repair for the easy chair, lol. It literally just fell apart when BJ sat on it (think of a table chair that just collapsed.) The leg on my old camming desk cracked off in the middle so aside from duct taping the leg together, there's no fix. It was a piece of crap anyways so I just threw it away.

So here's my plan for finding new furniture so we don't end up in an empty house again. Search amazon, walmart.com, craigslist, freecycle and ask friends on facebook. What I can't trade for or get for free I'm going to see if I can buy for cheap. Walmart.com has a $40 rolling computer cart that looks like it may be an excellent replacement for my desk (can't really cam from my lap) but I'm not sure what to do for the couch. Maybe a futon or pull out couch for when my sister or friends stay over. I have no clue how to replace the easy chair either. For the pillow, I'm probably just going to buy the first one I see when I go to walmart for groceries tomorrow. If I can, ideally I'd find a pull out couch/love seat combo. I have enough in savings that if I really wanted to I could go out and buy some crappy cheapo furniture to replace everything, but that would deplete my savings and with all Sammy's puppy boosters and stuff, I'd like to keep that money there in case of emergency. (Plus it helps my credit by not spending it.) Though if anyone finds links to some decent but cheap replacements, please send them to me! Lol.

Ahh, didn't mean to write a book! Sorry! I've been awol because I've been trying out my hand at being SuperWoman lately. I'm moonlighting as a super hero who controls the world and does everything without help. I'm just missing a cape. Sammy and Sadie are great and have been getting plenty of sleep and exercise too! I'm back on my meds so most of the crying spells have stopped, but I'm still not quite evened out yet. Once all my hormones and cruddy stuff is smoothed out I'm going to try my best and schedule a show. Here's hoping that comes quickly! And now, I'm off to save the world and clean my house! Up, up and away! Someone dry clean my cape please!

I'm so sleepy. O.o I feel like a zombie. I'm not sure this will come out coherently but let's give it a go anyways.

Sammy's losing teeth! He's already lost 4 that we've been able to count from the empty holes in his mouth. Poor boy is miserable but he's already got a few cutting so I'm sure his big boy teeth will be in quickly.

Today was the start of new classes for the semester! I have creativity class and photoshop 2 on campus and english online.

BJ has decided he's bored and wants a job so he called up his old boss and got the position he wanted before he quit last year. It pays better, has better hours and seems like it will make him happy. Our savings seems to be cushy enough for now so we're probably going to use his paychecks for bills and mine to put towards an actual house with a yard (or maybe a second car or something, we're still undecided.) Anyways, he got the job and he starts Friday. With any luck, this job will lead into a career farther down the road.

I planted some more flowers in the garden, but haven't gotten pics yet. And now I'm going to go pass out face down in bed because I'm achey and exhausted.

It's been brought to my attention that my last blog post was offensive to some. I've removed the offending comment and hope those who were upset can forgive me. The comment was not aimed at anyone and was made flippantly.

As I type this, I'm dying my hair back to red again. The blonde just wasn't flattering. I tried to leave it long enough to see if it would grow on me but it just seemed to grow off me. Maybe my skin is just too yellow. Either way, it just wasn't awesome so back to red. Let's hope I got the dye right or I'm going to look silly!

(If you laugh at me or think it looks stupid, just don't tell me. Feel free to whisper when my back is turned. :P )

I probably won't be around too much this week because tomorrow at 8am little Sammy goes in for his snipping. We get to pick him up at 3pm, so hopefully everything goes smoothly and he comes home a happy, healthy, ball free little boy (we couldn't adopt him without promising to get him fixed).

We'll be spending the day with my mom while he's in for surgery. Here's hoping I come back sane and in one piece too! Lately every time I spend time with my mother I come home bawling because of some judgemental comment or some criticism. I've spent most of today crying because of some issues so with any luck I'll just be able to pass out on her couch and not deal with her. O.o I love my mom, but my emotions are so haywire that any little criticism from her sets me off and I'm crying for hours.

Being off my meds is hard. :S I'm a hormonal crybaby. Here's hoping things smooth out soon. In the meantime, I think I'm going to console myself window shopping on amazon.

By now I think everyone has seen my new piercing. Yes! I got my tongue pierced! The piercing itself wasn't an ordeal at all. It was my attempt to prevent swelling that caused a seriously dumb string of events that I honestly deserved for making retarded choices without thinking. First I froze my tongue to some ice cubes, and like an absolute ass, ripped them off instead of letting them melt like any other normal person would. Hooray for my first idiotic act! Next, I decided it would be a smart idea to have hot soup for dinner! Cue scalding of my tongue. Can you hear how dumb I was?

My tongue piercing is fine and actually seems to have healed up really quickly. There's no swelling, bleeding, oozing or any of that yuckiness. It doesn't hurt anymore either. The ice/burn spot on my tongue did not fare so well though. Rotfl. I had 'inflamed tastebuds' for the last 4 days and haven't been able to practice relearning how to talk, eat, swallow or any of that stuff your tongue controls. It's been all body language and liquid meals. Fun! The burn seems almost healed now and doesn't hurt hardly at all so here's hoping it's all cleared up by tomorrow and I can start learning how to talk properly again. I'll try to post some better pictures today since all the swelling is gone.

(I added some tongue rings to my wishlist too. *hint, hint* :P ) http://amzn.com/w/SNWBI21HRW5G

Sunday's are usually chore days in my house but we've been lazy the last couple weeks due to finals. Everything started piling up and I pretty much exploded last night because of it. Lol. Commence bawling Rose because the house is messy. So today I've been doing a clean sweep. So far I'm halfway through the downstairs but I'm taking a short break for a bit. Once I'm done posting this blog I'm going to do today's work out (fruit ninja on kinect! ), then shower, eat dinner and finish where I left off cleaning. Tonight's dinner is going to be homestyle mac and cheese. Yumm!
Chores left to get my house back to working order: get the second load of dishes finished, declutter, vaccuum upstairs, sort the laundry, clean the bathrooms, clean the kitchen counters, take out all the trash, strip the old caulk from the shower, re-caulk the shower and some other chores that I can't remember at the moment. That's only half of what was originally on the list!

I've spent part of tonight tweaking my blog. It's always been so so and nothing fancy so I decided to start tinkering around to see if I could make it more interesting. I've added a content page and a "stalk me" page. They're basically exactly what they sound like. The content page lists all the videos I have for sale and the stalk me page has all the links for places you can find me. The prices for my content are listed in dollar amounts so that way if you see something you like, you can tip here without needing to sign up for another site. I tried to keep it simple for now. BJ and I are going to work on some self shots this week though so once that's done I can add some sexy stuff to the pages to spruce them up. I'm not sure what other pages or stuff to add though so if anyone has any suggestions just send me a message. I'm not super skilled in html and setting up webpages but I can learn. Anyways, that's it. Just wanted to share my updates and show what I've been doing to keep myself from having hormonal spikes tonight. http://blackxxxrose.blogspot.com Check out the sexy pics bbs!