Guilty Pleasure

So I bought a bottle of wine tonight.  Because I did so, it made me want to watch my guilty pleasure show....
Cougar Town.

I know, I know what you are thinking:  'You actually watch a stupid show called cougar town about a 40 something hitting on younger guys??'

WRONG!  You are wrong my friends, because that isn't what the show is about. (Admittedly, that was the direction it went for prolly the first 5 episodes, but they scrapped that concept).
It is simply about a group of friends who like to sit around and drink wine and do ridiculous things.  No other show has ever made me laugh quite so hard.  Not even Friends, or How I Met Your Mother, or the Big Bang Theory, or anything.  There is without a doubt something that makes me laugh out loud in every episode.

So I am not the least bit ashamed to admit that Cougar Town is my guilty pleasure show, and you should definitely not knock it till you watch it.
One example of the hilarious ridiculousness:

LOVE IT!

I am an immigration genious!!!!!!!!!!!

I know this may not be of any interest to any of you, but this afternoon I made a breakthrough!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As you know we are trying to get Mark into his brothers company (which will happen as soon as they have the cash flow to pay him...prolly by January).  So what Mark and I had to figure out was how we would be able to get Mark into the US legally by then!!!!!  After a couple of confusing days and hours on the US Immigration website I FINALLY figured it out!!!!!!!

To make a very long story short, as soon as we file a certain form and it is received, we can file another to get a visa for Mark.  That should only take about 6 months!! Which puts us at December 2011!! Perfect timing because we were told that January is the latest that it will take for the company to have the money for us. 
You have no idea how excited this makes me!!!!!!  By the start of next year we could be moving back to the US!  It is such a relief!!!  I feel so less stressed knowing what has to be done!! YAY!

In other news I talked to my sister for a couple minutes today and heard the cutest little squeaks coming from baby Colin.  I can't wait to meet him!  Anyway, that is all and I am sooo excited!

TODAY is your day!!!

I haven't done anything particularly special today, but I am in an extremely good mood and just thought I would try to share that with you all.  Today we went to meeting then out to lunch with the brother and sister in law.  Talked to my family when we got home, then I went to the gym.  Came home and cleaned a bit and made some dinner.  Have been laying in bed reading all evening.  See?? Nothing special.

I am thinking that that gym membership was exactly what I needed.  All those endorphins that exercise has brought me have been fabulous.  I am feeling in general much happier than in the previous weeks.  I admit that I did have a breakdown last week at the fact that I couldn't be there when Colin was born.  But as Mark pointed out to me, I shouldn't be sad that I wasn't there, I should be happy that he is here and everything went well and he is healthy.  Smart man that guy I married. 

So I am just happily sharing that I am feeling very happy right now.  Would like to share the new Shania Twain song if you haven't heard it, it is sure to put you in a good mood or provide some motivation. 

Have a happy day loves.

Colin

Welcome Colin James Riegle!!! 7 pounds 15 ounces 19 inches long.
Sweet baby boy!!! Can't wait to meet him!!

Major prayers

Hi all.  Just thought I would put a request out there for some major prayers for my sister and her baby.  Ann was admitted to the hospital today cuz her blood pressure went up.

So her Dr. is monitoring her and everything should be okay.  Said they will induce her tomorrow.  But it is definately very nervewracking for our family especially with the blood pressure situation.  So I would appreciate it if you could send up some prayers for her.

I am excited to hear the news...but hate being so far away.  Definately making me crazy emotional.
All for now my friends.

The cowboy in me

UP UP UP!  At the moment I am completely exhausted and it feels great!!  I am now once again officially a member of a gym.  After a good conversation with Mark I came to the conclusion that having some sort of structure to my day would help me straighten out my head.  That structure is now coming in the form of a gym membership.  It not only gives me something to do each day, but it will also help me (obviously) work out cuz let's be honest that has gotten away from me over the past couple of years.

So things are looking up!  Today was also spectacular because I found an amazing deal that I couldn't resist!  Tim McGraw is coming to Hamilton, Ontario in 2 weeks for a concert.  Mr. Sexy pants himself, and I (and mark) will be close enough to touch him!  Thanks to Canada's mediocre country following we got 2nd row tickets for 200 bucks(total)!!!  Like I said, a deal I couldn't resist, and one Mark was happy to go along with.

That's right, I said SEXY PANTS!!!  I am definitely very excited to see that up close and personal!

Other news from today is that Ann could go into labor any moment now cuz she is at 3cm!!  I was excited to get that news today.  But it is super bittersweet.  I have kept it together and am trying to avoid thinking about it...but I know that as soon as she does go into labor I am going to be a wreck and so sad that I won't be there to welcome our new little man to the world. (I am getting choked up just typing that).  Nothing I can do about it, but it still makes me sad.  Have been trying to distract myself all week long.

Anyway...focusing on sexypants Mcgraw.  It is good to have something to look forward to that will distract me.

Couldn't wait to get out

Yesterday and today have definitely been me battling my brain.  I woke up the past 2 days feeling really depressed and unmotivated to do anything.  You know how it goes...constantly putting myself down.  Lot's of negative going in and nothing good happening.  After a solid 2 hours of this yesterday I finally got up off my butt and went for a run.  Today same thing.  After a long while I finally got myself going because if I didn't something was gonna give.  I feel like I woke up and was just festering forever.  I know I've got to work hard to make the changes that need to be made.  I want to try very hard to get myself to a better place.  NOT EASY!!!!

So this morning I was scouring youtube to watch some music videos to help me get going.  No doubt is good for that, and Sugarland is always good for a bit of a laugh. 

I am still upset about having to miss when Ann has the baby.  But I am trying to accept that there is nothing we can do about it. So as sugarland says "LEARN TO SMILE EVEN WHEN I WAS FALLING DOWN"
Trying to find my happiness through all of the mess.  At least Mark and I had a nice night out for our anniversary on sunday. 

Watch this sugarland video that was making me laugh today.  I know it is long...but so worthwhile.

NEVER immigrate

Having a horrible day that was supposed to be good.  Mark and I were going to go down to Niagara today to go to the border and renew my visitors visa, then stop in Niagara and have dinner to celebrate our 1st anniversary.

So before we went we decided to look online and get info about renewing my visa.  Then we took a closer look at my actual visa and found out that you have to actually apply to renew your visa and it should be done at least 30 days before your visa expires.  My visa expires on the 12th. 

This made us mad because when we first got my visa the guys told us we could just go to the border and they would take care of it.  From what we looked at online we saw this was not the case.  We could have still gone to the border to try and do this, but Mark was afraid that if we did they might not let me back in.

So long story short, we did the application online and then found out it is going to take 60 days!!!!!  If I leave Canada now they aren't gonna let me back in until this goes through.  So that wouldn't be a big deal if I hadn't been planning on going back to Indiana when Ann has her baby in a few weeks!  So now I am going to miss him being born!  And it is making me soooooo upset!  Ann is high risk, her having a baby is a big deal!  I am just soo disappointed and soo sad that I can't be there to meet the little guy.  Not to mention the fact that if I don't have a new visa by the time hanover comes around once we leave for Hanover I won't be able to go back to Canada with Mark.  At the latest it should come through the week after Hanover.

Here is the moral of the story.....DON'T immigrate!!  Don't let your kids immigrate!!!  It is a nightmare!!!!!!!!!!!!  In the end it is our own stupid fault for not looking at my visa closely enough and leaving it to the last minute.  It just sucks and I am seriously upset about it all.

-Needless to say neither of us are in a mood to go out for our anniversary which just makes things suck even more.  Maybe tomorrow on our actually anniversary.