Well lets see. I guess a few things have happened since my last 
posting. My parents got a pool.
Here are a couple of pictures of me in the pool. They didn't even have cement around the outside yet, but we swam anyway. The heat wasn't even working yet, but we swam anyway. It was purely breathtaking. And when I say breathtaking I mean that in the most literal way possible. You got in, and it felt like someone had knocked the wind out of you. Fortunately we had a couple of floaties, and it was really hot out and so it wasn't horrible. This is me in my "This is what Cool looks like" shirt, with the sleeve of the shirt on my head, my sister and I were being HOMIES, and the pups. they weren't to sure of the water, but the week after this, Mia was jumping in and out of the pool onto a floaty, and seemed to enjoy it! So needless to say we've been doing a lot of swimming. Well I have been, Kip is kind of a chicken and says that the water (84 degrees now) is too cold. HAHA! That's funny to me because everyone else thinks that it's almost a little hot. But it's great, and with the weather outside cooling down it's going to be nice to keep it at that temp. I will hopefully post some more exciting pictures when we take them of more swimming. So with that said, I started having this really icky pain in my right ear. I just started feeling better from a horrible one week cold. I don't know what it was but it was horrible. So I thought that my ear pain was just caused by a little bit of congestion hanging out in my head. Finally after using the phone for a week at work and going through this pain, I asked if Dr Lindsay would look at it, and sure enough I have swimmers ear. I have drops and hopefully they will resolve the problem, but I feel like such a goon. I should have realized.
My sister's foster daughter Amanda left us. She is now residing in Virginia with her Aunt and Uncle who plan to adopt her. I think that it's fantastic that she is now with family, however it's kind of strange and sad not having her around all the time. I know that the dogs miss her for sure. She would be the first one out back to throw the ball for them, and the last one out back (still throwing the ball for them) and then she would lay on the couch and cuddle with them while they all slept, exhausted from all the ball throwing. They loved it! So even though she's gone we still think of her often and hope that she's doing well with her new family and new school.
BreAnn is about to have a baby in Bellingham. I read her blog daily to catch up on the things that they are going through. It's nice to have insight and be somewhat close to someone even though they are so far away. She's going to have a mini-ZeeDaisy! I'm so happy for them. If anyone is interested their website is http://www.gilfillan.blogspot.com/. I can't believe she's almost to the end of her pregnancy, it feels like just a month or so ago she was telling me she was pregnant. It's so fantastic! Just over 3 weeks and she'll have a little one keeping her up allll night. Not that he's not already keeping her up, I guess sleeping when you're 8months pregnant isn't the easiest!
Business...UGH! Let's get down to it, even though I'm really really annoyed, I have to bring it up, because I just can't handle it all really...I'm so mad that Jessica and Eric aren't in the Big Brother House anymore. I really was hoping that one of them would go to the final 
two, if not both of them. I'm not happy with the remaining people in the house, I'm not sure at this point, that I care who goes to the final two, I don't want any of them to go. But that's not an option so here we are waiting for someone I DON'T WANT to win, to win. UGH! It's really quite annoying. And I know what you're thinking, Just stop watching, it's not that easy really it's not. This is a commitment, I started with BB8 from the very first episode, and now that I've watched so many hours of BB8 I can't count them all, I have to be faithful until the end. You never know what's going to happen on BB8, they always seem to have something up their sleeve. 
The other thing I'm hanging on to Big Brother for is because I can't wait to see Jessica's reaction when she finds out that Eric was America's player. I think that deep down she kind of blames him for her demise in the house. (Which she should), and I think that Eric is definitely somewhat responsible for it, because of how America had him voting to evict. I think it would have been a totally different game if Eric wasn't America's player. That's how it went this season though, and it made it pretty exciting. Hopefully Jessica will understand better and know that Eric truly did have her best interest at heart but just couldn't vote the way he wanted to. Maybe Eric will even share some of his prize money with her. We'll see!
Here's a little clip from a show that might be interesting to watch. It's on tonight (Sunday) on NBC's show Dateline. (I love that show)
"All across the country millions of innocent wives are caught in a love triangle, battling for their husband's attention with the players of their favorite sports teams.
Now, in a Dateline hidden camera challenge, the wives are fighting back by catching their unknowing husbands on videotape while they watch a game. Josh Mankiewicz reports."
So if that sounds familiar to anyone, watch the show. I'm kind of interested myself to see it! Although I don't really have to battle for my husband's attention, he's really good about still "seeing" me even though a game might be on. I'm trying to do better by not coming to ask him questions or talk to him when it's a big turning point of the game, and I know that sometimes I always show up right at the WRONG time in the game, so I'm trying to understand that that's frustrating to him, because he's has committed all this time to watch the game, and the moments that are exciting I'm ruining! Ugh, I'm just not sure I'd be all that happy if someone walked in on Grey's right when there was a huge turning point. So I totally understand and I'm really trying to be better! Ladies, if you are having this problem, especially now that Baseball is coming down to the wire, and football has begun, I've found that reading is really the best way to be together while still "watching sports" I just sit and read book after book, while Kip watches Game after Game, that way we can still be together but both be entertained!
Alright that's enough TALK for today, I'm going to go mow the lawn so my husband doesn't have to when he gets home from Golfing. I hope everyone is doing well, and BB8 is on tonight. YAY! (internal grunt...ugh). I just hope they show the sequester house!
TATA
