pics of the NEW baby!

i was just forwarded these pics of the baby! they were taken on a camera phone so they are very small, but here he is ! baby

Baby Jacob Noah Schumacker!

we welcome another one to the family

hello! well, i have some exciting news. if you have been following what has been going on, my brother and his girlfriend were expecting a little boy. They decided to name him Jacob Noah Schumacker. well, wednesday night, i received a voice mail from my mom. Cheryl had gone into labor and they were at the hospital. i called the appropriate numbers and was able to talk to bob. seems she was in labor. We were able to talk for a brief time, and then Cheryl was in a lot of pain so he got off the phone. an hour later, i received another message that Cheryl had to go in for a c-section because the baby wasn't in the right position. An hour later, Jacob Noah Schumacker entered our family! he was born AROUND 9 pm. 8lbs and about 17 inches long (its not the exact numbers, but you can ask bob about it) he has to stay in the hospital for a while cuz he was a full month early (she was due the 19 th of January) so baby and momma are doing fine. he is bummed because "i cant play with him for a couple weeks cuz he has to stay in the hospital" but merry Christmas to them! if you would like to send them a card just email me at sobeejoe@yahoo.com and i can give you his address. i am so dang excited!! i cannot wait to go see them in February with my mom!

Rant of the Week --> THIS JUST IN!

LOS ANGELES - It seems like only two months ago that Pamela Anderson was aglow with happiness over her quickie Las Vegas wedding to Rick Salomon.

Actually, it was.

But the 40-year-old ex-"Baywatch" beauty has filed for divorce from her 38-year-old husband after just two months of marriage.

Anderson cited irreconcilable differences in papers filed Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. The documents were first obtained by the celebrity Web site CelebTV.com.

Anderson and Salomon wed Oct. 6 during a break between the 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. shows of "Hans Klok's The Beauty of Magic" at Planet Hollywood resort, where Anderson was starring as a magician's assistant. The couple separated less than 10 weeks later, on Dec. 13.

Salomon is best known for making a sex videotape with Paris Hilton, his girlfriend at the time, and was previously married to actress Shannen Doherty. Anderson was previously married to singer Kid Rock and Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee.

all i have to say is "are you FREAKING serious?" this is just an example of how famous people are idiots. as i raise my cup'o'bean and roll my eyes, this, is my rant of the week!

crawlin was a success

Saturday night was, well great. as i mentioned before, you must dress like santa and hit as many bars in downtown reno as you can. the catch, well, instead of just stumbling around like a drunk, a portion of the proceeds went to the food bank. so we were doing a good cause as well. We dressed up like santa and his "helper" my costume actually was FREAKING AMAZING. yeah. except i wore the tall boots. yeah, my feet really hurt. but we met up with some friends.

This is Erika (a friend of Kristi's) she was dressed like a Reindeer Yaay!

Andy and Kristi. They were mr. and mrs. liberty clause. andy's says he is the one that sneaks back down your chimney after you get presents and takes 10%

this strapping lad is Billy. He was "dirtbag" santa.
but we all called him biker santa.
complete with chaps and all.

and we come to MATT. he is in Andys band. He is grumpy santa.
no, just angry cuz we had to wait 3 hours for a beer!
someone GET THIS SANTA A BEER!

we started at the CLUB UNDERGROUND. there were some people there, not too many, so drinks were pretty easy to come by. that was about the only place though... next door is a place called "BLISS". as we were getting ready to go into the joint, we hear "i just wanna dance, and THAT looks like the place to be" if anyone has ever heard the skit that dane cook does about "Dancing" well, you will find this hilarous. Joe and i did. we are still laughing. and this place WAS the place to dance. sadly, it was NOT the place to get a drink. who only has one bartender on when there are 5,000 santas running around? hmmm. so we headed over to the next place.

It was PACKED! good thing it was still early in the night, so people dont smell like BO and vomit. we had to worm our way in. I already had to start going to the bathroom (looks like its going to be a long night) so while i am waiting in line, two people (woman AND man) come out of the girls' bathroom. hmmm. wonder what was going on in there? "oh you were just fixing your hair? "RIGHT. so, i do my business and get to the bar, and Joe is STILL waiting. seems the guy before him put an order in for about 50 drinks. so i put on the charm. as he is trying to figure out who he bought drinks for, i say "me me!! you got one for me remember?? yeah. drunk santa and a hot elf, i so got a free drink! "mmmmm. tasty!"

Joe ended up having to drink the two that he got for us. i bet he was happy about that!

"yes, mmm. very happy!"

Next Bar PLEASE!

we go to the next one on the list. (i cant even remember the name) we get situated with the beers, and its time for a drink shot! yeah. mmm. we are living the life!

its time to dance, or just time for joe to stick his big white head in my face. i am STILL pulling white hairs outta my teeth.. we stayed long enough to drink our beer, and listen to the band, and it was on to the MENS CLUB. yeah, they let us in. sadly, i was NOT able to take pictures (guess the strippers dont like their naked bodies on the internet.) so we drank our drink there and watched the "entertainment" Joe was in heaven. but after we finished out drink, it was time to skip outta there and head to the downtown cue n cushion. where, i ordered the best margarita i have ever tasted!"its so good once it touches your lips"

there was also a "mini" bowling alley, so matt and andy decided to play a few rounds. i forget who won. i think andy did. by this point, i really didnt care!

"me hungry! get me a cheeseburger!"

after i finished savoring that delicious margarita, it was time for some pics. here is kristi and i

Joseph and I

Billy, Joseph and I

and then it was time to go to the next place. Next on the list was Shooters. but we opted for McDonalds since our tummies were rumbling. (oh yeah, food. thats very important when you go drinking for 8 hours straight) while we went to mickey d's the rest of the gang went to shooters. they had a VERY hard time getting a drink. (once again, who only staffs one bartender on a night like THIS?)

don't we look positively EVIL in this picture?

so, it was on to the eldorado. we tried the next 3 places on the list. and after waiting in super long lines, we said screw this! "LETS GO TO THE NUGGET FOR OYSTER SHOOTERS!" we head down there, and the bartender didnt have ANYTHING we wanted! GRRRRR! so we went to a bar NOT on the list, we walked over to the harris. THEY had drinks galore! even Smirnoff :)

as we are enjoying our beverages, Andy comes back in and says all the santas are waiting under the arch. so we "cuff" our beverages, and head outside. all you see is santas EVERYWHERE! in the meantime, we totally lost my group. it was like the sea of santas pulling us apart! joe and i got seperated, so we took some pics...
unfortunately, since my batteries were dying this is the only that turned out! the rest of em look like this




so, i couldn't locate my friends. we went into the next bar, and well, i think we were one step either ahead or behind them. i received a txt from them, and that was it. with a dead camera and just each other, we got into some mischief of our own.. i will save that for another blog though.

Santa Crawl-- in less than 3 hours!

i sit here with my cup of "bean" as a good friend put is, and i am waiting for my mate to get off work. we are participating in the annual "Santa crawl" there are 3 rules to crawl by.

1. dress as Santa (or some other "Christmas" character)
2. hit as many bars in downtown reno as you can
3. don't drink and drive

this year, i am going as an elf. i really really wanted to be the gingerbread man from shrek. but, i am a chronological procrastinator, so they were sold out by the time i got around to ordering my costume. a trip down to party city ensured, and alas, they had the elf costumes still available. (i was going to be an elf last year, but it was cold, and my costume was a bit small, my bum hung out of it.) this years costume covers the bum, and i purchased some racy red tights to wear. i shall be "santa's helper" next year, we are going to find great costumes, way earlier than 3 days before the crawl!

well, things are going. i am working on a lot of projects. i have sold everything out of my store, so i must work on stocking that up in the upcoming year. at work, we are going in on a weight loss challenge. more people than i thought were entering. for 20 bucks you get to enter, and whoever gets closer to their "target" weight, well they win the pot. this may give me the drive to get my butt into shape!

as the holidays arrive at a locomotive-barreling-toward-a-stalled-car-on -the-tracks kinda speed, i sit in my cozy home and stay away from all the weirdos that seem to come out of the woodwork this time of year. really, the traffic gets worse, every day the calendar announces "10 more shopping days left before Christmas!!" please, just give me a nice mug o coffee and a fresh piece of paper. shopping? bleah. i shall just make my gifts.

at work, we decided to do a secret Santa. except we put a $10 limit on the gift, and the theme is "make it interesting" hell, i can make a whole lotta stuff for 10bucks. in fact, those were the first words outta my mouth. i was going to get a bunch of cans of jalepenos for one person. Jalepenos and playing cards. the ultimate gift.

well, it seems my break time is over. please feel free to check out my store www.happyhourcards.blogspot.com. yeah, yeah, i know its empty, but please feel free to add that "subscribe to atoms" thingie, and it will let you know when i add more stuff. or, you can just check it out often. i probably will have it stocked up by the end of January.

ta ta for now, and try as i might, i hope we hit at least 11 bars tonight. oh yeah, its for a good cause. 10% of our drunken proceeds go to the food bank. so i am doing good, not just being an drunk tonight...

work is not entirely all.... work!

A lot of people know i work long hours. (12 hours, days or nights) but its not all work. We do our share of goofing off (somehow the endless hours have to pass) sometimes, our press runs really good, and as the motto at work is "run time is fun time" so, here is some of our antics.







this is Renee. she works on the press next to mine. at 3 am one morning we were, well, bored. fresh outta bean, we found a mop head to amuse us. it was hilarious. that is what you get when you are dog-tired though.

initiation ritual

the girl in the following picture, is my partner. she is a VERY tiny girl. when she first came to our shift, we were all very wary of her. well, one day, just playing, the offend comment came out that we should saran wrap her to the pole. the other guys took my comment serious, and to this day, she doesn't know that i am the one behind it. i was just an innocent bystander, taking pictures. they are a bit fuzzy, since she is so feisty.

Billy, my boss

this is the guy who is in charge of me. yeah, he is my boss, and this is his "sexy" pose.

and we come to pat. he used to work for us. he was my favorite person at work, since the most off the wall stuff would come out of his mouth. Billy was yelling at us one day, and out of no where we all hear "shut your wh*re mouth" yeah, we had a lot of laughs with this guy around. His nickname when he first came to our crew was "grey shirt temp" since all he wore was the same grey shirt every day. (later we found out he has about 100 of em) he ended up going to my news years party with val, and well, we all had a blast.

and we come to the guys playing poker. at 3 am, when i have a pocket full of quarters, (as does everyone else) i will walk into the breakroom and there is a pickup texas hold em game happening. when i was addicted to RockStar, i went in with 50Cents, and walked out with 3 bucks. so i cashed it out, and bought pat and i a RockStar. mmmmmm.

Booda gets some new toys

While out shopping, "uncle" Martin found the perfect toy for our pup. He said he wanted video of booda trying to take it out the doggy door. too bad the poor lil guy cant even drag the bone! watch as we give him his "gift"





These pictures capture his excitement perfectly, i suppose. He was very excited to have something new. the 2nd picture is my favorite. He is just staring off into la la land. (which he often does when the mood strikes me, and i have the urge to CREATE! he stares out the window and watches traffic go by.

We took a break from the excitement of getting a new bone to take a semi- family picture. The only thing missing is Joe. (i think he is in the other room playing gutair.)

NOW, On to the LIPS!

Booda received these enormous lips from my dear Aunt Mandy. "uncle" Martin had won them at some kiddie game at the circus circus midway. He gave them to her, and she, gave them to booda. (funny how everything turns out to be his in the long run).. He also was given a bright pink pillow with the word DIVA scrawled across the front. (as of this moment, he has NOT destroyed the pillow)

Well, i came home from work one morning, and every day I walk the house to make sure he hasnt gone potty anywhere. I get all the way to the spare bedroom, and i find THIS.. He has destroyed the lips. Now, only the bottom lip has any puckering power.

and he looks at me like he is going to get into trouble. i told him " im not going to spank you, its your toy. if you wanna tear em all up go right on ahead." the next day, he did.

Rant of the Week!

I hate it when people come to work sick. if you can afford it, then stay home! DO NOT bring that to work. and if you DO decide to get dressed and bring your sick butt to work, STAY away from people. don't share their food, don't get into my "bubble" to talk to me, and WASH your hands. most of all, i hate it when somebody does take the decency to stay home, everyone else at work complains that they are missing work. if i had a nickel for every time i heard "we only work 14 days a month. blah blah blah, you need to come to work" well, id have a buttload of nickels. you don't get to pick and choose when you get sick, so that it comes on your day off. so if you need to take a couple day to recoup, then do it. and those of you who complain that the sick person stayed home, good, because if they come to work sick, they infect everyone else. and then MORE people are out sick. then its a epidemic. so my rant boils down to this. STAY HOME IF YOU ARE SICK, and quit complain about the ones who actually care about other peoples' health. and if the complainers get sick, well, i will laugh at you, so be prepared!

Ah, another day, another move!

Okay! so we had to move again. some of you know the story. its a pretty long one. basically we found out that we couldnt have the dog. even though in the rental agreement it doesnt state that. So we called on a house for rent down the street from where we were. The lady was VERY nice. and the place was BEAUTIFUL! i fell in love with it when i walked in the front door.


this is the view when you come in the front door! the staircase right in front to the left takes you upstairs to the bedrooms and the loft. straight ahead is the living room, dining room and kitchen.

this is the view looking up that first set of stairs. the closet looking doors is actually a laundry room with OUR OWN WASHER and DRYER! YAAY! now we can do laundry at our own time, and if it has to stay in overnight, owell! at the top of the stairs, to the right is the master bedroom, and to the left is the spare bedroom.The spare bedroom is pretty big! it has enough room for my craft desk, and it will have enough room for a bed for company.

it also has its own bathroom. which i thought was really neat! now company has their own place to shower and stuff!

then if you get to the top of the landing and turn around, there is the loft.

here are a couple pics of the loft. we decided to use it as an office/lounge. we put the computer and all the movies up there. along with the ottoman, and his gutairs. now he has his own place to jam. (there is booda as well! he follows me everywhere!)


so going back down the stairs, this is a view again from where the front door is. it is just past that first set of stairs.

this is looking down into the living area, and the pic below is our coffee center. (it was the first thing i set up!)



here is a pic of the dining room table and nook area. we are eventually going to get bar stools for the counter. (that comes way later !) i still have my wine rack. but i did away with some of the extra stuff. we have boodas kennel in there for now, cuz we cant really leave him out if we leave. but he does good all day and at night.

this is a view coming in from the garage. its the kitchen area. VERY small, but its okay!
looking into the kitchen from the dining room

more kitchen. we have a gas stove and i really like it!


this is the living room. we have a gas fireplace. its SO cozy! and we have so many windows!
this is the view from downstairs. i am standing at the coffee area. that first landing you see with the tile takes you to the front door, or you can keep going up to get to the bedrooms.



here are a few pics of the back yard! this is the greatest thing about the place! we just leave the door open enough for booda to get in and out, and he goes in and out all day! (when he isnt running up and down the stairs)



and the View from the loft!

we still have a ton of work to do, things to set up. the master bedroom to clean since we just threw all the clothes on the floor in there. but its a nice project.and a great place for us! we now have plenty of room for company, and no one complaining about us. so far our neighbors are really nice! so i invite you to come by for a cup of coffee and to chat sometime!