What if Wednesday

As you may or may not have noticed, I have been MIA in my blogging,Instagram and Keek lately. I am going to be quite honest with y'all. It is summer, and there is not much to tell or show. I thought I would sum it all up in a So What if Wednesday post :)



So What If.................

• I haven't posted pictures of anything exciting on instagram lately. If you want to see me reading on my iPad in my pjs just give me a shout. I'll be glad to snap one and send it to you,
• I can count the days on one hand of the times I have put on real clothes since school has been out.
• I lay in the bed all day and take two naps.
• Twinkle Toes and the Hubs have been sick and inflicted for about 2 weeks now and I want to dose them both up with the cough syrup with Hydrocodone (sp) in it so they will sleep and not cough. It is about to drive me completely and totally insane.
• Along with staying in my pjs all day, I don't bathe either. Ahhhh...the life of a school teacher.
• I am dreading the rest of the summer, because we literally have every day planned out after July 4th until I go back to work and it all consists of getting the Hubs settled in his apartment and ready to start the last 3 years of school. 
• I am pumped about a teaching conference that I will be attending in July. I will be going with Em J and we are going to solve the worlds problems, she is going to give me a quick Dave Ramsey course because I have no clue how to budget money, and we are going to lay by the pool. Yep...pretty pumped.
• I feel like a totally different person when I don't work. I feel good, stress free, and I hurt less. However, I miss going to work tremendously!!!! Can I teach part time??

There you have it folks. The school teacher version of What if Wednesday....

Have a Happy Worst Day of the Week!!!

~Tiffany~

Teacher Perks

Yep, it is 10:05 a.m. and I am still in the bed. To be completely honest, I am exhausted!!!! Twinkle Toes has had a terrible cough that she brought home from the beach and it is still here. So, I am getting up at 2 and 3 a.m. to give her cough meds. When I am not giving her meds, I am awake because she is coughing so loud!!!!! You would think since her room is upstairs and mine is downstairs I wouldn't hear her, but I guess it is a mommy thing.

So, we are at the beach going to eat supper, and the hubs says, "Do you feel that?" I am like "What?" Long story short, my transmission was getting hung around 30 mph and I didn't even notice it. (Do keep in mind that my car is less than 2 months old.) The next day, the hubs calls the dealership and they were like sure, bring it in when you get back and we will give it a look over. OK no problem!!!! Um, we took it in on Monday, today is Wednesday, and they can't tell me what's a wrong with it. What the crap!!!!!! If they can't tell me what's wrong with it today, I am going to ask that they give me a new car. I mean, if it is tearing up like this after two months, what's going to happen after a year. It just concerns me, ok it pisses me off!!!!

One more story........ We got home from vacation Saturday and the hubs went to turn on the TV and it was dead. Not only was the TV dead, but the satellite box was dead, the DVD player was dead, the TV in the bedroom was dead, and all the satellite boxes in the bedrooms were dead. Yep, lightning got everything. This is the 3rd time this has happened since we have been in this house and we moved in in April of 2012. We replaced our 8th TV on Sunday. Alabama Power came out yesterday, and determined that the surges are not coming through the power lines. We had already called Direct TV and they sent us another box. Of course, the box didn't work. Had to send somebody out to fix that. The fix it guy determined that the surge did come from the satellite, but because we didn't buy their protection plan, they are not going to replace our TVs. What a crock in my opinion. They determine it is on their end and they won't take responsibility for it. Just my luck!!!!

Ok, what is good about these situations?? I am a school teacher and I am able to be at home for when the dealership calls about my car, I am able to be here when the fix it people come, and I can read my book, The Proposition, all day!!!!! I am loving my job!!!!! 

Later Lupies

~Tiffany~

Sucking the Fun out of Life

Yep....that is exactly what lupus does. It sucks the fun out of life. I know that 99% of the time I am happy, upbeat, and positive, but every dog has its day, right? Well, today is my day. Lupus has taken away from me the thing that I have looked forward to every year since I can remember. My family vacation. Every summer my parents used to load up my sister, myself, and their friends up and we would all go to the beach for a week. I mean we played from sun up to sun down, came in, got dressed, and went out to eat somewhere nice (my mother, sister, and I had to always have matching outfits). After we got back to our condo, we would either play games or hunt crabs on the beach until the wee hours in the morning. Oh my goodness, it brings tears to me eyes just thinking about the good times we had.

When I met the hubs, I wanted that tradition to continue with my family. Every Spring Break and every summer we headed to the beach and did exactly what I did as a child growing up. That was until.....................I was diagnosed with lupus and began all the medication that makes your body so sun sensitive. We still have tried every summer to go to the beach and do all the fun things I remember doing as a child, but it never seems to work out that way. I am stuck under the umbrella with my SPF 50 and my PFG shirt watching everyone get their sun kissed tan and floating themselves to sleep in the ocean. I try to occupy my time by reading, but I catch myself watching all the families playing with their children in the sand or riding the waves. What happened???? Where did my fun go????

As I was sitting under the umbrella today at the beach while everyone else had gone to the pool, I saw this lady come walking down to the beach with a broken leg. Yes, A BROKEN LEG!!! She had that cast wrapped up in plastic and she was good to go. Good grief, people with broken legs get to have fun in the sun and me, who looks perfectly healthy other than the sun poison I got the first day, can't do Jack squat. Have you ever thought lupies, that at the end of the day we have nothing to look forward to health wise. I mean we are not getting a huge settlement from whoever rear ended us in that car accident, we are not getting a settlement from our employer because heck, we don't even make it to work half the time because we are too sick to get out of the bed, and there is not a pain pill strong enough to knock the pain out. It always comes back.

I would love to be at the pool (which by the way is absolutely gorgeous at this resort) with the hubs and Twinkle Toes, but I had to come in because the pain from the heat was unbearable. I would love to go shopping at the outlet mall, but the hubs says we are in conservation mode because we are getting ready for him to go to school (womp,womp).

So, for now, I will just lay here, turn the TV on, watch People's Court and call it a day.

Stay strong friends, happy, and healthy!!!

~Tiffany~

P.S. The hubs just came in my kid threw up in the pool...Lawd help me!!!!!

It's Raining on my Parade Photo Dump

If you follow me on Keek (tiffanyadonnan) or on Instagram (tiffanyadonnan) you will know that I am on vacation and it is raining on my parade. I am currently sitting in the condo listening to my father-in-law (I'm assuming because my husband knows better) cut his toe nails in the living room and eating my weight in sour cream and onion potato chips. Now how's that for a vacation?? Needless to say I am bored out of my mind and thought I would catch you peeps up on what has been going on over the last week.


Let's start off with the 911 Festival. Every year our small town has a 911 Festival because in our little town is where the first 911 call was ever made. It's a big deal with funnel cakes, red necks, and people trying to sell useless crap for more money than I make in a month. Now, don't get me wrong, there are a few things worth looking at, but for the most part it's like a yard sale.

The first thing we see when we get there is a Polaris Ranger pulling a cow train and Twinkle Toes just had to ride.

This is J.R. I have loved this kid since the minute I met him when he was in kindergarten. It is so hard to believe that he will be sitting in my 6th grade classroom next year as a student.

No Southern, North Alabama, festival is complete without Mardi Gras beads and a Rebel flag (can we say red neck capital?)

The hubs liked so he put a ring on it.....again!!! After I lost mine Darla Diving, he replaced it with this beautiful set. Isn't he a doll???

A large part of my week was spent with these two gals. These two gals, along with my 7 week old youngest niece, are my girls. LK stayed with us most of the week and we had the best time eating chips, Nutella sandwiches, and just hanging out. Aren't they precious??

Twinkle Toes survived her first spend the night party. This was right after we picked her up and were headed straight for the beach. She had to best time and was all smiles when we picked her up :)

And then this happened.....She must have been the party animal!!!

We got to the beach on Saturday, and this is what we see Sunday. It rained for 24 hours straight....therefore, I slept for 24 hours straight. Not the way I wanted to start my vacay.

The hubs and I after we got to finally get something to eat. We cannot get enough to eat at the beach. It is our favorite thing to do...

Finally, the rain stopped long enough for us to get to the car to go get some supper.

My first pair of Sauconys. Aren't they bright and fun!!! Now, don't get me wrong, I don't plan on doing a workout or anything, but I may go get on the bicycle just because I am bored.

Day 3. Still cloudy, but not raining....yet. We made it to the beach!!!

They just happen to be my world

Twinkle Toes and her princess turtle.

Here comes the rain.........again

And there you have it folks.....my summer so far!!!! Hopefully, tomorrow, I can show you beautiful beach pictures and happier thoughts. 

Until then, stay happy, healthy, and dry!!!

~Tiffany~