I Miss My Daddy...

Today is the day that I set aside the full day to miss my Daddy. He passed away 4 years ago today. So here are things I loved about him:

His hugs - he would always hold me sooooo tight and soooo long. I loved it!

Him being there after some dumb boy broke up with me - he would always tell me they were dumb and not good enough for me and that there was some wonderful boy out there just waiting to sweep me off my feet.

His laugh - his laughter was infectious, loud, and wonderful.

His smell - he smelled like... a man. Outdoorsy, machine oil of some sort, and sometimes Brut.

His jokes - he told the BEST jokes ever! He used voices, accents, and he told them like stories from his day... you sometimes didn't know till the punchline that it was a joke.

His work ethic - he would work SO hard! I hated it sometimes, Saturday was always work day and LONG work day at that. But I inherited that from him to an extent and my employers appreciate it.

His love for my Mom - he would always hug and kiss her when he or she got home. I loved the visual signs of their love for each other.

His pride in his children - I LOVED pleasing him... with grades, good choices, art work, etc. I LOVED how his entire body would beam with pride and joy.

His love for the outdoors and nature - he LOVED being outside. He loved nature. He saw nature as a sign of God's amazing love for us... beauty all around in every detail, from a spider web to a mountain range.

His cooking - he was a great cook. Made awesome fajitas, cinnamon rolls, calzones, sweet and sour pork, sourdough pancakes, yeast waffles... DELICIOUS!

His love of his Heavenly Father and the gospel - he had an awesome, unwavering testimony of the gospel and always knew his Father in Heaven loved him.

and last of all... I just loved HIM. Everything about him. He wasn't perfect, but he loved us and we all knew it. That's all that matters in the end.

Happy Birthday Natalie!!!!!!!!!

Yes, today is Natalie's birthday, and of course, its one of the weekends that she has to work. No worries though because while some husbands would do really nice things and make their wife breakfast in bed on their birthday... I went the extra mile, or actually the extra 2.4 miles, in my car, in order to bring her some McDonalds breakfast in bed.

Also, I may have picked myself up a little something while I was there... good stuff! It took me 10 minutes to tip-toe quietly through the house, pull a jacket out of the closet, get the keys off of our very noisey key chain holder, and open three doors plus a garage door and car door without her waking up. I felt like a Ninja! Funny thing is, Natalie sleeps through anything (I could seriously have a 2nd life at night and she'd never have a clue) so she had no idea I was even gone. Little did I know that it was -4 degrees and FREEZING outside! Definitely might have cooked something at home had I realized that.

Anyway, when she gets off work, we'll be going to watch "The World's Toughest Bulls and Broncs" at the Iwireless center.

Natalie loves rodeos, and usually we get to them late and have to climb on a fence in order to be able to see what's going on, but we got great seats so we're excited.

1,136

... that is the number of drugs that I alphabetized today in my pharmacy. We were organized in an amazingly antiquitated manner, by the drug's BRAND name with it's generic equivalent sitting next to it. Meaning for example you would have Lisinopril alphabetized under Z for Zestril or Azothioprine under I for Imuran. It was all sorts of confusing to get used to and I finally got fed up and just started doing it without permission, then finally got permission to do the bulk of the pharmacy. It was a bit of a logistical nightmare, we were moving ALL the drugs in the pharmacy while we were open. Meaning that the people who were filling prescriptions had little to no idea where anything was... but we got it done... in 6 hours. UGH. But it was lots of fun for me... I have an odd love for organizing.

Holy Freezing Batman!

When we moved here everyone went on and on about how bitterly cold it gets here in the winter. Thus far haven't been too impressed, but yesterday.... holy cow! Our high temp was a balmy -8 degrees with our low being -25. OUCH! It hurt to breath, your nose hairs stuck together (I call that booger freezing cold) and steam was coming out of the sewers and off the river like crazy!

I had to work late last night and was having an awful time convincing myself that I wanted to leave. In fact there's this big project I need to do and I was telling myself that I should spend the night and do the project... that way I wouldn't have to go outside... and sit in my FREEZING car! But my awesome hubby showed up about 10 minutes before I closed and said "i'm here to be your remote start" seriously the greatest thing ever! I had a nice warm car to go to!!!

As a side note... Paul would like me to mention that if you include the windchill factor it was over 100 degrees hotter in SanJose CA, where the other Palmer campus is that he wanted to go to, but that I wouldn't let him. sigh... makes me want to rethink being to scared to study for the CA pharmacy boards.

BRRRRR!!!!!!!! Ok Iowa... I give in. I'm impressed!

Nostalgia...

SO....
This is Paul by the way, and I just wanted to share this video with you, because its about some wierdness going on in a small farming town in California called Greenfield... where I am proud to say: I grew up and walked the streets as a little-Paul, lol. Fortunately I found my bride in a different way than some people seem to be working it back home. I guess I don't miss weird culture-clash stuff like that... but I'd do anything to get my hands on a good Greenfield burrito again, like pay cash, or soda, or beef etc. :) Classic!

And now... story time with uncle Paul... When I was in middle school, I remember walking on a road a little ways out of town, which really isn't that far since Greenfield was like 2 square miles, and my friends and I saw what appeared to be a dead gorilla. Now, I know what you're thinking... you're jealous that you never found a dead gorilla when you were a kid. Yeah, I know, but what can I say, that kind of luck just runs through my veins. Seriously though, it really happened and I have no clue how it got there, I'll let you use your imaginations.

And so, there you have it, these are the fond memories I have of my hometown: human trafficking and dead gorrilas, hahaha I just hope this has been as fun for you to read as it was for me to write.

FINALLY!!!!

24 started again! And I'm sooooo happy!!! It does stink to have to wait a week in between watching episodes, but I'm not patient enough to wait for it to come out on DVD. Happy happy day!

Suprise for Paul

Tuesday I finally got my first quarterly bonus, hooray! Paul and I had big plans of using my bonuses to chip away at our debt, the store that I trained at got $2000 bonuses, so we figured it could make a pretty decent dent in our debt every few months. Upon receiving my check though, I realized that not all stores are created equal... nor do they bonus equally. My bonus was pitifully less than $2000... don't fret... I seized the opportunity to score major brownie points with my hubby. Paul had finally realized that after months of hinting and outright begging, that I was not going to buy him Guitar Hero World Tour (I told him we didn't have room... and we don't). But since we now had some extra money, but not enough to dent the debt... happy Tuesday to Paul... I got him Guitar Hero World Tour. I was sooooo excited all day, I had it all planned out: cashed the check at lunch, quickly went to WallyMart on my way home and then had him come help me with the "groceries". He was pretty shocked and happy, and I was giddy with excitement! For those of you who know Paul, he doesn't show a wide range of emotions, so basically what I got was... a huge grin and a "WHAT?!" and a big kiss.

So party at our house... feel free to come play. Paul's REALLY good, I stink, but we have fun.

P.S. for those of you who don't know Guitar Hero World Tour is a video game were you play music in a band, comes with a guitar, a drum set, and a microphone so you can sing along. Pretty fun stuff!

More My Christmas Decorations...

I've been meaning to take pictures of inside our house and figured now is a perfect time since it's cute for Christmas and no one is really gonna see it but us!

This is what you see when you walk in the front door


Living Room


Dining Room


Kitchen


I love my star above the kitchen sink so had to add it


And my gifts for neighbors and some people still here for the holidays (has buckeyes - pb and chocolate, pretzel kisses, and Andes mint cookies dipped in chocolate)


MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE!!!

So... I play guitar...

Hi everyone, this is Paul again... posting my second blog ever; you should all be so proud. Anyway, a few months ago I had this goal of recording some Christmas music on the guitar in the hopes that it would be done before December and I could send a CD to people. Well... it didn't work out, but a few days ago I did finish song number 4, and I decided to do some research to see if there was a way to post my own music on a blog. Well it is possible, but it takes about... three years. I did finish though so here you are. Let me explain a couple of things though. To listen, click on the player below, where it says posts... scroll down and pick a song. For some reason, it says christmas goodness 3 times, don't click those. Also, the song Jingle Bells is on there twice... I can't explain it, it just so happens that its the one song I would almost prefer nobody heard, but I convinced myself to add it anyway, and there it is... twice. You should listen to that song last because I sing in it, and you don't want to ruin your appetite for the other songs. :) Jenne, do you remember when I told you that I don't have a "church voice," and you asked what that meant? This is what it means... listen to jingle bells... basically... I suck! hahaha But that song was a lot of fun to do so I threw it on there so people could see what kind of weird things I do for fun. Also I added a recording I did of I am a child of god just for fun because a lot of people haven't heard it. Enjoy!

Don't ask me what it means where it says subscribe to podcast or whatever... I don't have a clue. But, should anyone feel the desire to download any of the songs... I don't really know how to do that, but email me and I'll email you the songs... for free, because I'd say they're pretty much worth... free. paulramos84@gmail.com



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My Christmas Decorations

My Tree:



If you can't tell from the picture (click on it to make it bigger if ya want) it has lots of oragami cranes, some of my Hallmark ornaments, plain ole balls, and garlands. I think it's super cute... but you don't have to take my word for it. ;)

More to come...