Sweet, Vonage

We saw an ad in the paper this past weekend that Circuit City is having a special on Vonage phone service, so I went by there today while Ann was at work and signed up and they activated it in the store and everything. Our handsets need to charge overnight, but we have phone service at the townhouse now. It got to be such a hassle using just our cell phones. If we wanted to make a call, we'd have to try to remember where we put our phone last, and if someone called we'd have to run upstairs or downstairs to find the phone before voicemail picked up. Ann will email everyone with the phone number sometime tonight.

Since Vonage gets phone access through the internet, we were able to choose any area code we want, so I figured since we both have family in the Wharton area I'd choose a Wharton number (they didn't have East Bernard or El Campo for 979). And the cool thing about Vonage is that since it gets access through the internet, we can take the phone adapter anywhere we can hook it up to high speed internet and hook a phone up to it. So if for some reason we had to move, we don't have to have the phone company do anything with our phone service, we just take the adapter with us and when we get internet, hook the phone back up and have a dial tone.

Halloween

We got a pumpkin from Market Street last week and decided this afternoon that we wanted to carve it. Ryan saw a picture online that gave him an idea, so we have a puking pumpkin with a hangover. now we just need to find a couple empty beer cans to put next to him. Star and Raider were unsure about the pumpkin at first, but after they got a taste they kept coming back for more. Ryan got the bright idea to put pumpkin guts on Star's back, and instead of acting prissy about it, she was turning around trying to eat them off of her back.
It is Ryan's birthday today, so we are going out to eat at Joe's. We spent all day just hanging out together and it was great. I hope he had as much fun as I did. We went by Kohl's and I bought some flannel sheets for my bed so I will be warm now. When he saw the fall decorations at the store, he decided he wanted to decorate our house some, so we ended up buying some amber candle holders and fall leaves to put ontop of the entertainment center. After supper we might run by Wal-Mart too and get a wreath for the front door. I love having a roommate that loves to decorate for the season as much as I do!!!

They blew the game....

That is right. The referees in the Tech game tonight blew the game. I was really excited to go and even more so that in the first half we were ahead 21-0!!!! It was incredible, but too good to be true. The referees kept on making calls in favor of UT and making up crap that really didn't happen. All in all it was a good game, even if we should have won. Ryan is cracking me up though. He keeps making comments like, "Why does my butt hurt so bad??? Oh wait, that's right the refs f***ed us in the butt!!!" I think it is funny.
I was off today for the game so I slept in. I have not been sleeping good at all and last night I finally slept hard! Since I have been cold in my bed, I slept on the couch and was more comfortable and warm. Tomorrow I am going to but some flannel sheets though. My plain jane cotton ones are not keeping me warm!

The family keeps on growing!

Yup, that is right...another Heimann. Gabriel Andrew was born today in Missoula, Montana. I heard he is too cute! I can't wait to see the pictures of the newest addition! For now though, I have to get some sleep. Night guys! Congrats to the happy new parents! We miss you guys.

Toliet Explosion!

Tuesday night I was going to take a bath, so I started the water running in the bathtub to warm it up. I went to the bathroom and then noticed a different running water sound than usual from the tub. Next, I felt water under my feet! The water wasn't coming from the toliet bowl(I didn't do anything to make it get clogged!!!) and it wasn't coming from the water line. I started yelling for Ryan, who is downstairs sleeping on the couch alredy. Luckily he woke up and started running upstairs and stumbled on the way! It was so funny! Anyway he turned off the water since I had no idea how to and then got towels to soak up the water. We couldn't determine where the water came from though. When we turned the water back on it was working fine.

We had the maintence guy come look at it and he didn't see anything wrong. SO Ryan looked and saw that the hose inside the tank was pointed straight to the top of the tank. Everytime you would flush the water shot up it the lid and then splattered out the side of the tank. He learned this the hard way while the tank ws open.

Same old stuff...study and work

Yup, that is all I have been doing. Right now I am at a point where I am so sick of the people that I work with that I am ready to quit. Actually next semester I will have classes MWF from 3:005:00 and then on TR from 4:00-5:00. THat means I will only be able to work from Friday Saturday and Sunday, but unfortunately everyone else is taking the same classes sine we are all nutrition majors and will all need to work those days. I could come in early, but everyone else would need to too or I could supervise, but then of course there is at least one other superviser taht is taking these classes too! ANyway, the basis of that is I might have to find something else to do. A big reason I am working there to begin with is the internship, but now I really don't think I am gong to do that right out of college, so it doesn't benefit me working there so much. I am sure all of this is gibberish to a lot of you guys, but believe me Mom has heard all about it lately! :) Love you MOm!!

Other than that I am studying like crazy for classes. I didn't do too good on my BIochem test this time around so I am already preparing for the next. The bad news is I don't have to have just this semester of the class. I have to take the second part next semester and it is only going to get harder, plus they are changing the teacher to make it even harder.

Ryan and I have found some new things to do around the house though that make us laugh and de-stress a little bit. We are still riding bikes. Plus, I play hide and seek with Raider everynight before I go to bed. Then there is the new game-Hut Hut. Ryan stands infront of me in the kitchen with his back facing me holding Star or Raider between his legs. When I say hut hut, he slides them to me. It is so hilarious!! We don't do it all the time since they don't like it, but just when we need an extra laugh!

Today I am off, but not without a fight or two. I was scheduled to be off since I worked all week, but people are having problems with it now and complaining a lot. To me it is all fair since I have worked there the longest and am still doing trayline. The two that are having problems with me are doing to easy jobs and smaller floors. Anyway, I have gotten a lot done already today and still have over half the day left! Yeah! I hope all you guys are as productive as me today!

This is all that I have been doing the past couple of days. Me sitting on the couch or chair reading and studying biochem and Raider right ontop of me somehow. He has always helped me study, ever since he was a puppy. I think it is really cute, but it didn't help my luck this time. My biochem test today was the HARDEST test I have EVER taken. I am not over-reacting either. The whole class thought so. Anyway, I am not done with the books just yet for this week. I have my other test Wednesday so I will study really hard again tomorrow night. Right now I am off to bed since I just finished my assignment for tomorrow and I have to be up at about six. Last week and this week have been really bad with assignments and tests. Next week I have another test too. At least I will have Saturday off to study for that one though.

Ryan and I have been continuing our bike riding. Yesturday we rode three miles. He was trying to get me to de-stress and unwind from all the studying. Of course, it worked. It added to the fun having to dodge rain puddles since it had rained all day and Lubbock doesn't have a drainage system! I had to make sure I was not near a low spot when a car drove by so I would not get soaked.

Who has a minute?

I sure don't! Things have been crazy at our house. Quala, Randy and ALlison were here this past weekend and we all went to the football game. Tech sucked it up realllly bad, but we all had fun going together. We also got to see Ryan's aunt, uncle and cousins. As soon as they left, I started studying and have not stopped. I don't have tests this week; just a BUNCH of assignments due...one everyday. I do have tests next week though that I am preparing for-Biochem and Stats. My stats teacher is a total moron though and so I have to spend this whole weekend teaching myself the info that he doesn't teach.

I finally got Ryan his bike. Sunday after we dropped off his parents, we went to get the bike. Little did we know that we would walk out of wal-mart to pouring rain! We both got soaked trying to get the bike on the bike rack. Then tonight we were able to get my bike and we went for a ride. It was great. I was stressed and it really calmed me down and now I am really sore!!!

Today we spent most of the afternoon driving around looking for a chevy dealership that would actually help us. We went to three and on the last try, I got someone to the car to check out my seatbelt on the passenger side. Apparently chevy does not have a lifetime warranty on their seatbelts, so it looks like I will be replacing my seatbelt tomorrow. For some crazy reason Satruday when we picked Ryan's parents from the airport, it just locked up. It worked for me on the way there, but Quala could not get it to work when she got in the car. Really strange.

Sorry it took so long to write something. It might now be awhile again since I have tests and no days off.

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I guess I owe you all an update. I have been keeping myself pretty busy with putting my homework and projects off to the last minute. There really isn't too much to say though....Ryan's birthday is coming up and I have an awesome idea! I thought about it for months and came up with three ideas, but I narrowed it down to just one...a bike. We talked about it when we moved here and since he has gotten two stolen just at our old apartments, I think he deserves another. This time he has a safer place to keep it though. I am hoping that by buying us both one, we will go riding around the neighborhood we live in and to the park. We both need exercise outside of our daily routines!! He is really excited about it too....I couldn't hold it off until the end of this month to tell him.

Ryan's parents will be here this weekend! I am super excited. Of course the house will be kinda messy since I have been doing other stuff. But I get to see both of them and Ryan's aunt and uncle that are sitting just two rows behind us at the football game.

Sorry I am rambling and have homework still. This is all boring anyway! I don't have a new nephew YET like other people! :)