Snow rant

ok let me preface this entire blog by saying the 6 inches of snow we received last night are BEAUTIFUL!!! we played in it, brents feeling a little better, its a unique suprise etc etc BUT i am just soooo over this week now

1. i have been cooped up in 615 square feet for 4 days now - my only escape has been a trip to kroger and a trip to target...woo.
2. my husband has been sick with the flu for a week now...which as the previous statement explains means i have been trying to not get sick in a confined space, washing my hands so much they are RAW, and sleeping on an f-ing air mattress since last FRIDAY!!!! im a tad uncomfortable and grumpy now
3. i can only work so long as a seasonal employee and now i have missed one full week of pay that i likely will not get to make up. thanks.
4. rachel and i have been planning a shower for Jennifer for about 2 months now for this weekend and its really the most ideal for many reasons but now thanks to this stupid weather we may have to move it....its def. doable to move the day b/c we WANT to throw the shower for her because she is so amazing and deserves it, its just this month is soooooo stinkin busy theres not that many available days to reschedule
5. we're trying to lease our current apt/pack the current apt/move to the new apt all as soon as we can and all this iced in business is not helping
6. did i mention my husband has the flu so i couldnt even snuggle with him on these cold long days- double ugh
7. and i could be done with my taxes, have almost everything done for school, etc except my investment company decided to take the stupid govnt extension so i have to wait now till feb. 15th to complete my taxes and fully submit my fafsa as "filled" so i can get money for school so now ill get it right in the middle of everything else we are doing
8. i found out some really annoying info regarding school...itll be fine...im just annoyed
9. did i mention ive been sleeping on air mattress for a week
ok im done ranting, im sorry for the vent but it makes me feel better to write it somewhere... i can only vent to brent so much when hes the only person ive seen in 4 days. :) thanks for listening, now back to positive Lauren

February blew in with a big frozen bang!

i have to apologize for my lack of blogness in...ooh over a month... its been mainly just work work work! but there have been some things going on!

#1 today is February 1st and North Texas has been hit with a huge Arctic blast of winter weather. As i sit here blogging i can look out the window and see tiny snow flakes breeze reminiscent of tiny white candy dots on a well greased conveyor belt at the factory. Or like cotton candy when its swirling around in the machine before it attaches to the stick....maybe im just hungry? The wind sounds very angry trying to get into my house through the fireplace. Ive got a porch cat meowing outside on my porch, upset that the jacket bed i fashioned for him is now blanketed in ice. I have to say im a little impressed with the weather people this time... their predictions via weather.com (not to discredit whomever it actually came from of course) were almost spot on... rain started about 12:30 am, sleet started about 3:30, and would turn to ice mid morning. nicely done. im sure many texas patrons are a little more upset than impressed that their predictions this time were so spot on but you gotta give people thier victories as they come right? Anywho, currently the actual temperature outside it says is around 19 degrees with a wind chill on 2. did i just write a single digit 2?!? i had to flip back and forth to the  site to confirm but that tiny lonely digit does in fact stand alone. Its not that people up north dont experience this on a regular winter basis but for us Texans... its never 2 degrees.... i mean i was literally wearing a TANK TOP on Sunday (it was 75)! work was called off, hardly any one is driving, and ive got potato soup in the slow cooker for whenever my husband wakes up. sounds like a good day to watch the snow, snuggle up on the couch, and watch SNL reruns on netflix :)



yep, thats 3 lanes of road perfect for the ice road truckers to come through... and while theyre here, drop me off some mac and cheese! :)

#2 my poor husband has come down with the ALASKAN WATER HOPPING BUG VIRUS!!! this weekend! Its a virus very comparable to the seasonal flu but for brents pride and sanity they've conveniently renamed it just for him :) He has the textbook symptoms and has, as a direct quote, felt like death for going on 5 days now. Just like with regular influenza virus, this AWHBV will likely make him feel that way for about 2 weeks unfortunately.  Hes gotten all the way to 104 and that temp stayed a few hrs.....that must be one hearty SOB to cause Brent to roast at 104 that long! Weve been together over 7 and a half years now and i have never seen him this sick, poor poor honey :( :( :( ( 3 sad faces are the equivalent to 3 exclamation marks...to stress emphasis and emotion of course ;) )

#3 I'm hosting, along with my friend Rachel, a bridal shower for my AMAZING friend Jennifer this weekend, at my house, where sickly brent is currently residing. I have been doing a lot of diy crafts for the shower and i think its going to be just great! aaaaand dont worry im going to sanitize this place like its a hospital waiting room. i will def. post some pics of the shower and the homemade goodies after Saturday so check in!

#4 just to make things even more exciting cough*stressful* cough cough for The Lows, we just singed on for a new apartment closer to Brents work/my school that begins in February. The tricky part is we technically have our current residence until JUNE!! unless we can find a new tenant to take it over. Everyone, including the respective apt offices, feel this shouldnt be too hard. Jan is not really apt shopping time so we are just being patient and praying someone wants it sooner than later! otherwise, Brent and I, in keeping with our "lavish" lifestyle will have a nice vacation home up North and a second home in the city ;) soooo if you need a great apt and a really cheap rent for the location hit me up, please ;)

#5 as promised let me show you one of the big secret crafts we were working on for Christmas this year. For our families we hand designed, constructed, decorated, and named all memebers of ......... drum rolling.......... The coalition of Friendly monsters!

From left to right we've got Cupcake, Nugget, Knuckles, Lumpy, Reptillabear, (Next row) Grimace, Lemonsquatch, paislycorn, snaggle, burnt toast, (next row) narwhalicorn, toast, blimpie, and aquasquatch! ta da!!!

On other exciting news Brents website for his photography business is up and running and it looks great! hes already got some bookings for some weddings and kid pics for the upcoming months! he is exstatic and i am so proud! check it out if you havent seen it yet! :)
Brentlowphotography.com :)

i guess thats about it for us right now! February will be very exciting and suuuuuper busy.... we've got moving, trying to sell apts, showers galore, birthdays, valentines, dog sitting, hopefully no more sickness, getting taxes done, and im sure soo much more! stay tuned!:)