A Quick Update and Picture

So, it’s been a while – I thought I might fill you in on all the happenings at the Guptill residence in the last while.

1) I did infact clean my entryway.  It looked beautiful.  For about 98 seconds – then AJ came home and ruined it; hence the no picture.

2) My “I woke up on the right side of the bed” goal has been going OK.  My mom and I have been walking together, which makes it more enjoyable.  I tackled the loop at Beulah this past weekend, and it really wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be Yay me! And yay Mom for keeping up!

3) I graduated again!  You may now address me as Shea Guptill, B.Sc, B.Ed.

4) AJ’s business is doing great this summer.  He’s has a few commercials, lots of weddings, and other jobs to keep him busy enough to be self-employed this summer!

5) I’m on TV!  I’m in AJ’s Excel Pest Control commercial.  I’m the beautiful lady bug.

6) My niece is turning one soon – bah! Where does the time go?

7) My laptop finally died.  My computer-genius father-in-law tells me it’s in the grave.  Frig.  I didn’t back anything up.  Oops.  I won’t make that mistake again.

I have been polishing up my piano skills.  I like it and wish I had more time and a Bösendorfer grand to play on.

9) Remember the Jelly-Belly tree?

10) I finally got my house sprayed for ants – Woohoo! Frig they’re annoying!

Here’s my Picture of the Week, which should really be Picture of the Month – this is the very first picture of me and AJ from 04 when we first started dating <3

Today I Tackle…

The Entryway.  Wish me luck.

I have no motivation whatsoever to clean that stupid room.  As anyone who has ever stepped foot in my apt knows, I neglect the entryway.  I hate it out there.  There is no room to store anything.  It’s like tortue everytime I enter my dungeon.  So, for motivation’s sake…here is a before picture.  Wait for the after picture because now I have to clean.  Wish me luck.

POW

My beautiful niece Ava.

Spring Selling Spree

Spring has sprung! WOOHOO! Despite the fact that along with spring comes a RAGING RAMPAGE of allergies, so does spring cleaning.   I heart spring cleaning.  I love finally being able to open the windows and BREATHE (at least for a minute, before the little allergens make it up my nose, then I have to close the windows again and live in seclusion…).  I LOVE having a clean house.  It pleases my heart.  But let’s be serious here, I always have great aspirations about spring cleaning.  I always make a list every year of the things I want to accomplish.  Truthfully, I’m lucky if I get 2 of those things completed.  But, this year, since I woke up on the right side of the bed, I am going at it with great ambition.  So I started today.  I started by digging all the crap out of Hatti’s closet (Hatti is our resident ghost who lives in the guest room).  As I did this I found wonderous things.  Craptacular things.  Things that were in my way.  Things that needed to be out of my way before I pull all my hair out and SCREAM!  So, I sold them.  I sold them all on Kijiji.  Within minutes.  And it made my heart glad.  I hate clutter.  And people buy my clutter.  I love people.  It felt wonderous.  And now, I will find more things to sell, so that someday I can buy more crap.  Thank you spring.  Thank you.

Today I woke up on the right side of the bed

Today I made a pact with myself (ha!).  I’ve noticed over the last, oh, 23 years of my life that I have no self-dicipline.  None what-so-ever.  Therefore, today I am challenging myself.  I have serious motivation (at least for today) to “get into shape”.  Ah, that phrase.  For myself, it means lose about 15lbs, and be able to survive the loop this summer with pride .  So, I’m doin’ it.  I’ve decided.  I’m goin’ there.  It’s gutta be done.  Any words of wisdom to keep me on track?

Things and Stuff

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged, mainly because I have nothing to blog about.  Life is pretty standard, so for those of you who care, here’s what’s going on in the Guptill household:

* AJ is off to Bolivia for a week and a half with the Devon Park Christian School graduating class.  He comes back next Saturday.  His ambitions while hes there: Eat a dirty street burger.  Yum…

* We’ve been taking the Financial Peace University at the church.  Love’s it!  So far I think we’re doing good.  Hopefully we can keep it up.  We’re not the most ambitious people in the world when it comes to money.

* I have no place for March Break because my husband abandoned me.  See what I mean by nothing to blog about?

* AJ bought a new camera – the Nikon D90.  It’s pretty sweet.  I don’t know how to work it but I do know that it’s a digital SLR that does HD video.  Sweeet!

* Work is lovely.  I’m getting a fair amount of work.  AJ is getting a great number of weddings for the summer Woohoo!  Both for video and photography, but he’s still looking for a job in between now and then.  Any ideas?

* I’m really hoping it doesn’t snow over March Break.  I am only a girl with a broken arm who can’t shovel   I’ll never get out if it snows!

That’s it!  No funny stories, no drama, no new pictures (mind you there will be when AJ returns…He’s only been gone 3 days and already has 807 pictures!)  Apologize for a boring post.

20 Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know

- I think I have anxiety issues

- I have worn the same ring since I was about 11 years old

- I have never taken my wedding ring off, and refuse to do so

- My new favorite show is called “Chef at Home” on the Food Network

- I have a chip in my front tooth

- I bake way better than I cook

- I could live quite happily as a vegetarian, if I liked beans or eggs

- My favorite book of all time is Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

- I have a passionate love for high heels

- I make the best spaghetti sauce on Earth

- I think I was supposed to be born in the 1700’s in Scotland..but only to a wealthy family, so I could have horses and wear big dresses :)

- I never win at Scrabble or Phase Ten

- I can’t eat chocolate chip cookies anymore because they always taste like shortening

- I always sleep on the side of the bed furthest away from the door – AJ has to sleep near the door so he can protect me from theives!

- I love to scrapbook

- If I could sit down with anyone for a day it would be my Grampie Ingersoll (I would prefer more than a day, but alas…)

- I have 13 fish and they’re all mean

- If I could put in an order for my future children, I would like to have twin boys and a girl

- It is a goal of mine to someday own a concert grand piano and have an entire room dedicated to its existance

- I wish I liked hotdogs

Updated!

Go check out my brilliant husbands website:

http://www.ajguptill.com

MOW and A Diet

This weeks Picture Of the Week is actually a Movie Of the Week.  This is a video of my husband, before we were even dating, trying to impress me by risking his neck…. Enjoy

As for the diet, I am now the owner of a treadmill.  AJ felt the need to buy one for his birthday.  It looks at me and makes me feel guilty, therefore I can’t eat anything good anymore, and I must use it.  Frig.

My Holiday Driving Experience, “The eagles did it to ya, didn’t they?”, and Other Tidings of Joy

I love Christmas.  I posted earlier about not being excited for Christmas, but the holiday spirit eventually got to me and of course, I enjoyed myself.  Many adventurous things happened to my husband and I this season, but none so interesting as our driving experiences.  It all started with the first snowfall of the year.  We noticed that the back end of our wonderful (thumbs down) car was sliding all over the road.  Not cool.  Or safe.  But way less cool than safe.  So we got winter tires.  Still with the sliding allllll over the road.  And it wasn’t your usual “no traction” sliding.  It was over the top, can’t drive faster than 35, constant left-to-right steering, all over the road sliding.  So we thought it might be the alignment.  Nope.  We got that fixed and it did nothing.  Boo hiss.  So along comes Christmas (some of the most exciting gifts consisting of new Paderno pots and pans!, an electric blanket for my bed, AJ’s “impact wrench” was his favorite, a beautiful new coat, etc.), and many drives back and forth to Scussex (AJ’s parents live there).  First drive up – road was clear, but everytime we went over a bridge, the back end went haywire.  Kinda scary.  Second drive up – clear roads, all was well.  Second drive home – we had AJ’s sister and her husband in the car with us.  It was freezing rain and snowing (not to mention, it was my birthday ).  We get to about Young’s Cove when the back end starts sliding.  Badly.  We can’t drive any faster than a whopping 45 km/hr, and we used our four-ways from Young’s Cove to about Oromocto.  Needless to say, it was terrifying.  We were alllllllllllllllll over the road and I was just waiting to slide under a transport truck and die.  It sucked.  It took us about 2 hours to get home.  Not cool.  So my husband, being the smart man he is, takes the car to my Grampies garage and uses his new impact wrench to save the day and fix my car!  I don’t know how, or what was wrong with it, but he friggin’ fixed it and I’m amazed and impressed!  He’s so smart!  So back to Scussex we go in our newly fixed car.  No problems!  And it even snows 3cm, and on the way home, NO problems!  I was so pleased.  Until Barker’s Point.  We drove over the little bridge, and saw TWO eagles sitting side by side on a branch.  It was really neat and AJ just HAD to stop and take a picture.  So he pulls into this little driveway like empty parking lot type thing next to the new apt. buildings in Barker’s Point.  Bad, frigging, idea.  We got stuck.  Real good.  Somehow we wedged ourself onto some ice and could NOT get out.  AJ dug and shifted and played around with everything he could think of.  I called every phone number and family member I could think of (THANK FOR NOTHING FAMILY! No one answers their phones in my family), but eventually a nice man with a mustash pulled us out with his pickup truck.  Thank you mustash New Years man.  As he left, he looked back and said to us “the eagles did it to ya, didn’t they?”.  Yes mustash man, the eagles and my stubborn, photographic husband.

Anyways, long story.  But it was a good holiday.  I’m now a certified teacher (yay!) and I’m looking forward to getting to work and paying off the holiday bills and working off the holiday fat!