Weird dream

I have to admit...I am a total blog addict. I feel like I know many of my blogger friends because I read about their lives all the time. But I think I have a problem. I have dreamed that I am visiting my blog friends. I spend time with them and their kids and I love waking up feeling like I just connected with a long lost friend. But a couple weeks ago, my dream took a different turn.

In this dream, I was the parent of a couple of children...a couple children that were recently adopted by one of my blogger buddies. I had one of them in my arms and the other at my feet. I felt their hair and heard their voices. Now here's the REALLY weird part. I told Honey that the adoption felt very anti-climactic because I didn't remember the adoption part. Hint---you don't remember because you didn't do it!! I woke up feeling confused and a little crazy. Granted, I have strange dreams all the time...very vivid strange dreams that I remember. But this one was one of the first that stuck with me for days. I didn't visit the blog of this family for a while because it felt wrong somehow. I felt like I had intruded on their life in a way that was just not right. I'm not sure if I should just stop visiting blogs for a while or what. I am not a stalker or anything like that. What should I do??

I've disappeared already?

I didn't mean to pull a disappearing act this soon with this blog. Honey and I went to New England last week and it was so wonderful! It still feels like home there...even more than this place that I've lived for almost 2 years. I can't figure out why that is. Our animals were happy to see us come home although the dog loved her vacation at the doggie hotel.

People at work are driving me nuts....customers. I am so tired of giving people everything they want just because they want it. There are limits. Example...my pharmacy has coupons in their advertisement for a $25 gift card for a transferred prescription. (don't get me started on the fact that the company refuses to allow employees to use these coupons). It says very clearly that people are limited to 2 gift cards per 6 months and people with medicaid and medicare do not qualify. But people demand gift cards. This one woman has received 6 gift cards and keeps getting more because if we tell her she has reached her limit, she calls our district manager and complains until he gives in and she gets another one. GRRRRRRRR!!!! And this woman also demands that we price match her prescriptions to Wal-Mart's $4 price even though her copays are only $5. So, not only does this woman get $25 per prescription, we lose money on every single prescription because we cannot process through insurance and price match. We just have to change it to cash and charge her $4. I have just had enough! I think maybe I need to change professions. Maybe I will end up teaching afterall. My mother would love my finally using my education degree. Kids are so much easier to deal with than adults that act like kids. :(

Cool news

When I first started researching international adoption, Ukraine really seemed to speak to me. A few weeks ago, there was talk about a bill coming up in Ukraine's parliament that would stop international adoption. It never happened, but there still seems to be talk that it might. If it doesn't, Honey and I are probably going to adopt from there. The only issue we had with adopting from Ukraine is Honey's age. A law was passed last year stating that adoptive parents could be no more than 45 years older than the child. That would mean that if we started the adoption process right after we married, by the time we got to go, the youngest child we could adopt would be 6. We want to adopt a sibling group (hopefully 3...I think I have him convinced) and I was hoping to have at least one little-ish one. Not that 6 years old is old...hard to explain I guess. Anyway, on to the good news.

I was on the embassy website the other day...not sure why. I read a provision I had not seen before. It listed the age requirements, but then said if only one of the parents is within the age limit, the adoption can be done in that one parent's name only. So, as long as there is a sibling group available with a younger child...we can adopt them in my name only. We would then readopt once we got back to the States. I thought it was amazing news. I guess I have to remember though that the kids that God wants us to have will be the kids that He gives us. If that means younger than 6, then it will be younger than 6. If not...well, I have to trust that He is in control and knows what is best for us....all of us! :)

Just a little longer

In 3 more days, my honey and I will be going on vacation to New England! Woohoo!!! The best part is that we are going to be able to get some of the best hot dogs in the world. McKenzie (spelling??) natural casing are the yummiest things ever!!! We will also be stocking up on real maple syrup. Our puppy is going to be spending the week at Club Pet. Gotta love hotels for dogs. She has so much fun there that I don't even feel guilty for leaving her.

Work was work today. The people who worked yesterday didn't do anything extra so I had a ton to do. It really bugs me when people do the bare minimum. It makes it so much harder on other people. Whatever...I do what I need to do and that's all I have control over, right?

I found out some really interesting adoption related news yesterday. When I get it confirmed, I will share it. It will be great news for me and honey! :)

Cooking

I am quite often a make-shift cook. I try to use what I have to make what I want...even if it is a little different that you would normally think. Here's the recipe for my peach crisp from tonight.

1 small jar of peaches
1 packet instant oatmeal..I used maple brown sugar
2 tsps flour
2 tsps softened margarine

Separate peaches out into 2 baking dishes (small 1 cup size). Mix oatmeal, flour and margarine in small bowl until resemble course crumbs type texture. Put this mixture on top of the peaches. Bake at 375 for 25 min or so or until oatmeal mixture is crispy. It worked really well for desert for me and my honey. :)

First post - lets try this again

Starting a blog is usually easy. Having to start over is kind of weird. Let me explain. I have had a blog for years. I was completely open and everyone who read it knew me....my name, the general location of where I lived, my fiance's name, etc. Then someone who I thought to be my friend used this information to basically stalk us and make our lives generally miserable. So, I have abandoned my former blog :( and am starting over with this one. My real name will not be used. Any mention of where we live will be very basic and nondescript. And to be honest...I HATE that! I am one of those "share too much information" kind of people, and I like that about myself. I don't hide my feelings or what I'm thinking. I don't hide who I am.

That being said, this blog is still about us. It is about our lives, our wedding (soon to be), and the adoption process we will be starting.

I took a "quiz" on facebook not too long ago called "what should your parents have named you?" The result at the end was Annie, so that is the name that I have chosen to use for this blog. I have always liked that name so it fits. Thanks for coming by! This blog will get interesting soon, I promise! :)