Flights Canceled!

So my flight was canceled which means I won't get to come home until Saturday! I am upset and mad!

Got to love snow!!!

10 - 15 is nothing lets try 20-22!

YES! My hour and a half drive may be 3 hours leaving at 8am for a 1:20pm flight!
Everything is closed around the area!

Happy Holidays!

Frosty ~ more snow means he might live til August this year!

More snow 10-15 inches! Frosty may live until August this year!

Snow Snow and More Snow ~ more than a foot!

It started snowing Friday morning around 8am and it stopped this morning around 6am! Lots of snow around town! Will post pictures of the our first snow storm later!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Decorating a little early...

So I got the decorating bug this weekend. I know it's early for Christmas decorations but I only decorated the porch! Here is a pictures at night. Once I decorate the inside I will post some day shots. Happy Thanksgiving!

Neighborhood Update!

So I came home on Thursday to find a note from the Postman saying I had 2 certified letters that could not be delivered. I could not think of why I would be receiving a certified letter but actually the "Occupant" of my condo received them. Since we are a small town I new the postman would leave them even though he is not suppose to. I walk to the mailbox to find a foreclosure notice for around 20 of the units in my building including mine. Yes ~ I know I should own something and this sort of thing would not happen. Anyway, if you have roughly 3.8 million dollars you can be the proud owner of 20 one and two bedroom condos.

I called Jamie at the property management company who said that nothing is changing. Right, the bank wants all the money they can get until they go up for auction in March. I think the universe is trying to tell me something since I had to move from my last place and maybe have to move from my current place. I hope it's not trying to tell me something since I have air conditioning and most places do not have air! I don't want to move!

Update on neighbor upstairs ~ When I called about the certified letters I asked about the guy upstairs since he has not been home since he got the letter except to stop and get something. Jamie stated that he decided to move as he did not want to cause any issues. HOW NICE of him! I think I could of handled him but not the kid and wife on the weekends when I am at home during the day. The women who's boyfriend was in the fight in the parking lot moved out this weekend. So it has been REALLY QUITE in the neighorhood!
Have a great week!

Piece and quite at last.....

I had some piece an quite for the last several days. My neighor has not been here since last Sunday. I have been so relaxed this weekend! I caught up on my TV shows on Friday night and Saturday I went to a Christmas Gift Show and had dinner in CDA. Today I have a sore throat so I hope I am not getting what my co-workers have had the last week or so. Below is a photo from the parking lot at work I took Friday and thought it was eye catching to see the moon just behind the mountain.

I have to say there is something to the comfort of a childhood memory.
Why you ask?
Today I have watched a couple of old movies like The Seven Year Itch. I remember watching old movies with my mom when I was younger on a Sunday and having a hamburger patty and fried potatos with onions for dinner! I am not having the meal but it would be nice but instead I am going to make some chili.

911 on Pine Street!

So if the new neighbor drama is not enough then read on ~ I was sitting on my couch the other night watching John and Kate plus 8 and heard alot of noise outside. I just thought it was someone on the porch next door and until I heard the door open so I knew it was not them. So naturally I looked outside and then opened my door. I could not believe what I saw and said "what in the hell?" I saw 2 guys beating each other to a pulp! Yes can you believe it? The new neighbot drama was not enough! This went on for about 5 minutes and I said to the girls next door "I don't think this is going to stop"! I have never (knock on wood) had to call 911 but I can't say that now! I decided it might be best if I called! The operator took my information and then while I was talking to the operator a woman came out to tell the 2 guys to stop (the girl was one guys girlfriend). By this time I could hear the 2 guys stating one had a broke nose the other had a broken tooth, ect.
As I was waiting for Sandpoint police to show up they move to the back of the building. The first of 3 cop cars show up (slow night in Sandpoint) and a young skinny kid and yes I said kid gets out of the car and the first thing that came to my mind was "what is he going to be able to do"! So the next 2 cars pull up and the girls next door tell me that those 2 guys and the girl are from unit 5 since they went to the back of their place to see the action. I had already figured this out already since every Saturday the boyfriend and girlfriend have a fight around 1am out on thier porch and everyone can hear it. So I think they are going to carry off the 2 guys but to my surprise they carry off the girl. An hour late the ordeal was over or was it?
Of course not.......
I am in my room ready for bed and hear a guy on his phone out in back and then hear a woman yell at him letting him know she hated him and then proceeded to slammed the door to their condo. The police had let her go. This was not enough for her and since the entire neighborhood knows the routine by now she came back out to yell at him some more. Since the guy in the end unit in front is in bed by 10pm I know what is going to happen next so I just got in bed and waited for him to yell at them to be quite. To my surprise he not only yelled at them stating "that's enough" but then hit the back wall of his unit so hard I heard it 3 doors down. At that very moment we had silence on Pine Street!

The following day I returned the call of Jamie at Sandpoint Property who manages the property for the condos about the new neighbors above me. I told her about the 911 call. Jamie did not believe me and then told me that the girl was moving so we would not have to listen to them much longer or have to call 911 in the future. Thank goodness!

Update on the neighors upstairs ~ Jamie sent them a letter telling them they needed to fix the noise level! To my surpise she said the hand delivered it to work. The best part is apparently CWC pays for this place so he does not have to drive home in the winter but Jamie told me he told them that he would be going home on the weekends! I only wish!!! The big part is he called me at work! He left a message stating he had some questions and I don't deal with him with what I do so it had to be about the noise. I called him back and left a message but he has not called me back. Stay tune! Hopefully this weekend will be uneventful! I would like to go to Seattle before the weather turns bad! Maybe if the neighbors return I will flee!

New Neighbors ~ Good or Bad you decide!

About a week ago I came home from my Trip to Arizona to find I had new neighbors who moved in up stairs. It seems that there is NO insulation between the 2 floors bad news. One would think that you would hear some walking but definitely not what I am about to say....I now have heard the man upstairs PEE ~ yes you heard me right and blow his nose twice the other morning. So I went to work telling this story and someone said at least it's only a man and not a small child. Well, I came home Friday and sat down on my couch to hear small foot steps RUNNING across the floor not once but back and forth. I could not take it and went upstairs to see a lady and a small child in the living room since they have not put up blinds yet. I knock on the door and tell them that I live downstairs and that there is NO insulation between the floors and I can hear everything. I also asked if they could turn on the fan in the bathrooms when they are in there as I can hear everything thinking if I tell them this it will be a big enough hint and that I can even hear him blow his nose. The lady stated that her and the little girl are only there on the weekends and the man is only there a couple of nights a week as they live in Spokane, Washington but he works at CWC.
OK ~ to be honest the first thing that came to my mind when she said they were only there on the weekends was great I am home all day on the weekends and like to relax with very little noise and this can not be good! Was I right?
Apparently, they can not sell their house but I would think it would be cheaper if he drove home each night or went home on the weekends!!!! If he went home on the weekends I would be happy and not want to shoot myself!
Apparently, my visit was not a big enough hint as to the noise level! Saturday it was cold outside and like each morning for the last week I was woken up at 6am. Ok it's Saturday and I think I might be able to go back to sleep but NO! Little feet running back and forth for hours or dropping of the toys and then running!! I can deal with the adult feet since the steps are wider and sometimes not as loud and Adults will finally sit down but little feet do not! So today comes which is Sunday and again up at 6am and little feet back and forth. Remember it's Sunday and not even 10:30am and they decide to vacuum on the hardwood and I would of thought she was in my house vacuuming! At that point I have lost it and gone outside on my porch in 50 degree weather trying to get a glimpse of piece and quite! Finally, around 10:30am they go to the park as I was outside and heard them leave! Yes I am venting because I have not had a good nights sleep in days! I have to get all of my sleep or I am a bear or what others would say a Bitch! The one thing that sticks out in my mind is when I knocked on the door the woman said of we are going to be really good tenants. Well, I don't think we are on a good roll! The property management company will be hearing from me tomorrow! I will end on the kicker ~ As I stated above the man works at CWC. He works with the wife of someone who works in the same department as I do. I am trying to be nice but when all your hear every 15 minutes for hours is BANG, BANG, BANG of footsteps, dropped toys, and ect.

Oh did I leave out when the girls next door had someone live above them one of the girls heard a small child cry over her room and then in the other room she heard the parents and I will leave the rest to your imagination.

SNOW ~ Already?

A couple weeks back it snowed up in the mountains but since we are at 2000 feet Snow has come early this year! Last year it did not Snow until the day after Thanksgiving but this year try November 6th! It has been raining a lot lately but who would of thought that it would SNOW so soon? I am just not ready for it to SNOW this year and I certainly am not ready for our 2 way streets to become one way streets like last year seeing the city did not have anywhere for the snow to go. The plus is that the snow did not stick so maybe if everyone prays a little for us in Sandpoint the snow will not be as bad last year!!! Schweitzer ski resort which is about a 30 minute trip from my house up the mountain now has a snow maker so they can open early and stay open later in the season. Last year they were open until June an I thought that was late have a ski resort open ~ Yes I said June!
Let's face it I like to watch it snow but would rather not deal with driving in it. Several of us that are from the South which include Lindsay and myself who are the only ones that have been through only one winter so we were definitely not excited about the snow! I took a video at work so check it out below!

President Elect- Obama!

Can you believe it? History has been made! At the time of this post 333 vs. 155 in electoral votes!!!!

I don't think I have been as passionate about an election since I was able to VOTE for the first time ! Thank you to everyone who voted no matter who you voted for! Getting involved , getting out and voting is the key. Now we will all need to come together for HOPE and CHANGE!

It is truly moving to see those such as Jessie Jackson, Oprah, and may more so moved at the outcome and the possibility of CHANGE! I give it to McCain for saying that Obama did light the hope in those who might have once believed and then disbelieved in the election process and with Obama being able to bring so many out to vote and believe again in the election process. Even though McCain stated that the failure is his it really is not true. We need change!

I can't wait to see what the future brings!

VOTE!

So tomorrow is the day! Please make sure you exercise your right to VOTE! Here in Idaho you can register the day you VOTE and I know in Tennessee you need to already be registered!
Lines may be long but please stay and VOTE! If you have already VOTED in Early Voting ~ THANK YOU!
Have a great day and make sure you put time on your calendar tomorrow to VOTE!

Happy Halloween!

Get Out and Vote!

I am not a very political person however, I feel that this is the most important election of our time! Remember to VOTE on November 4th!
If you need to VOTE by mail or if you have early voting in your area go ahead and VOTE!
As you can see on my blog I support Obama! Even if you are a McCain supporter just get out and VOTE!

NOVEMBER 4th ~ VOTE!

July 4th Parade in Sandpoint!

It was a nice July 4th, not to hot! Mickey's husband owns a art gallery in town on the main route of the parade so we had great seats to watch! I was in Sandpoint last year for the parade and it was so hot I decided to watch from my hotel room; I had only been here about 2 weeks at that time. So this year it was exciting to see the parade up close! The children's parade was first and basically it is a parade of children dressed up in Red, White and Blue. I told Lindsay, one of my employees, that she would have to dress her son up next year and pull him in a wagon. After the children's parade we had about an hour until the main event. Mickey had set up a small breakfast of fruit and cheeses for us to eat before the parade. The parade started off with the local law enforcement and then on to the other floats and participants. Check out the photos below.

Local Bagpipe Club ~ they were really good!

Had to take a picture of the kids sitting next to us. They were so cute and excited about the parade.


This float had the kids building the flag as they drove through the parade



Smokey kept loosing his pants and sat down as I took this picture. The next one is a little better.


Just like Smokey apparently there is a mascot for the waterways. He is a chipmunk. I can't remember his name, sorry.

Zany Zebra, a store in town had a lawn mover brigade.

These pups were just too cute! They had about 12 of them.

A reminder of home. The Shriner's had the moonshiners come out and entertain us.

The police was caring off one of the moonshiners

The moonshiners official vehicle

Here are some kids after the parade playing in the water fountain in town.

After the parade I went home to get my new bike and ride into town to see Lindsay's new house and let her know we had been invited to Mickey's for a BBQ that evening. Sandpoint has some great fireworks but this year I thought it would be nice to relax and not be in the mass crowd. So off to Mickey's we went, she lives in a neighborhood of about 20 homes and they have lake access which includes a nice lawn with a small beach for all the residents to use. It was like having the lake right in your backyard. We had hamburgers and hotdogs, I made pasta salad which everyone seemed to like. Once it got dark Abigail wanted to start the fireworks they picked up earlier that day. It is illegal to have the up in the sky fireworks in town but you can get them on the Indian reservations. Across the lake from where we were was Georgia's house,who is our President and CMO, in the area where her house was they had some great up in the air fireworks as well as the house next to where we were on the lake. However, the best fireworks were the ones we set off ourselves. Abigail was so excited. It reminded me of when we used to gather as a family at my grandparents and the whole neighborhood would come over for a BBQ and fireworks. Thanks Mickey for a great day!

Lost in the 50's Weekend Photos

As promised when I found my cable for my camera I would post the Lost in the 50's photos.


Everyone came out to the parade. Here is Joe G taking photos of some creekers kids.





We had great seats to view the parade in front of the gallery but I think this young guy had the best seat.

This old truck carried some Sandpoint High School Football players.

After the Lost in the 50's Parade they had a Dance Party. As you can see some of the kids and adults dressed up in 50's attire.

The parade was on Friday and then on Saturday they closed off the main road and re-routed traffic and had all 550 cars parked on the street so you could get a up close of all the cars. Each night they had a concert at the fair grounds with a 50's act.

Sorry ~ I have not posted in a while!

Hello from Idaho! It has been cold here and yes it is June! Summer is not here as of yet. We have been in the 50's and lower 60's on some days. It snowed on the mountain last Friday. It was nice the weekend of Lost in the 50's which is a huge car show. Remember this town has a population of around 8300 and the car show had 550 entries. WOW! It's a Big thing for this little town. I will post some photos of some of the cars that were in the parade when I find my camera cord.

Hope everything is going good in your world. Till next time!

Finally!

Hello all!
It is finally starting to feel a little like Spring! It is suppose to be in the 50's ~ Can you say WOW that is warm? Yes, we still have snow in big piles around town and in front lawns but hopefully it will melt someday.

Busy Month here at work we have our Training Store Managers coming up next week and yet another CWCU which is our University for new Managers, we also have our Regional Managers coming up at the same time as CWCU! WOW! Yes, I have to present at these functions in some way so I will be busy.

On another subject is anyone watching the bachelor? I am and I have to say he needs to get rid of the actress. I had seen her somewhere and once she let him know who her Dad was I knew I had seen her on some "my parent is" type show. She is way to high maintenance for him.

I will leave you with another crazy show to check out which is High School Reunion on the TVLand Channel. I was flipping channels and started watching it and I laugh at how the people on the show have changed but yet not really changed. I just had a thought and I am 3 years away from my 20th reunion. I did not go to the 5th or 10th so maybe the 20th will be the one or maybe not. I guess we will just have to wait and see.

Have a great day and keep it real!

Is it Spring?

Did someone say Spring? Not here my friends! It snowed on the first day of spring and again on the second day of Spring and even though it did not stick to the pavement it still snowed. I will say at least I can now get into my correct parking space at my condo since the snow 5 ft of snow has now melted.

Life is good in Sandpoint now that it is in the 40's. The mountain received 5 new inches of snow the Saturday before Easter. WOW if only I could ski! I have decided that I really don't want to brake any bones this year so I am waiting for Alana (one of my co-workers) to have her baby so she can get out there and teach me how to Snowboard but that really looks like next year.

Hope all is well in your world until next time....

Did someone order snow?

Snow Snow and more Snow! Here are some photos of all the snow around town and near where I live. Enjoy! I can't wait till it melts. They finally decided to try and truck some of this snow out of town, thankfully!


Check out the ice coming off the roof!


Here is the front of my new place.


Pile of snow in my parking lot. Just a little snow don't you think?


Here is where they have plowed the sidewalk and still we have snow on it. I can't believe how much it snows. It is like rain but in snow form!!!


I now have a carport instead of a garage and this is the house that I look at where I park. Check out the amount of snow they have in the back of thier house. They have not even shoveled thier roof.

More Moving Drama!

The big move has come and stayed! I have moved into the smallest place I have ever lived! All the stuff from my gararge is in my 2nd bedroom and I have more to get out of the garage. My friend, Jenny and her husband, Dave and his little brother helped me move the big stuff! Since moving to Sandpoint I have bought some new furniture seeing my taste has changed from the last time I lived in a house! Remember when I moved to Sandpoint all my furniture was in storage. So this meant that some stuff I had in my loft area at the old place had to go!! Jenny had told me her brother needed some furniture since his roommate had moved out with all the furniture. So Christopher came and took the famous Wylie blue plaid couches which I have had forever, a desk -$20 when I worked at staples, an old entertainment center (that old sauder furniture - country style wood), 1 coffee table and end table my nannie had given me the first time I moved out in 95 or 96 and a high breakfast table the wylie's gave me. Christopher made out like a bandit! I was just grateful I did not have to find someone to come take it off. I will miss the couches ~ Dave's brother said I have too much stuff for someone who is single. I told him his girlfirend Cat who works at CWC can thank me later seeing he will never say a thing to her again about having too much stuff. SO MY GOAL for 2008 is to get rid of anything I do not use!

I still have some clothes to move and some boxes in the garage otherwise, everything is all at the new place! Once everything settles down and I get everything in it's place I will post photos as I sit in front of my new gas fireplace! It is so pretty!
Have a great week!

Moving and only after 6 months!

Here is my new view from my living room!

So I came home from Knoxville to only receive a call from a lady whom I had never spoke to before asking me where my rent check was...well it took me off guard and I said to her it had been paid to the Property Management Company. Only to hear her tell me that she has broken the contract with them and my rent should have gone to her seeing she is the new owner of the property. She also stated that she would not be renewing my lease because she said she was moving in. I could not believe my hears. Previously I had asked the previous owner and builder if he was selling and if so are the new owners keeping the property as a rental ~ WOW is this really happening to me! So, the good part was I could stay until she sold her place and then I would have a 30 day notice and would have to move. It is hard to find something in Sandpoint, ID that is descent. I called the Property Management Company who told me legally if I moved out now she could not do anything because I no longer had a lease with her or them because she was not requiring me to sign something new. Now the Property Management Company was hot on finding me something else that is until the lady who owns my property decided she could not afford 2 mortgages and wanted to list the property with them again so, my Property Management Company wanted me to stay and they would be on the look out for something when my lease was up. Well, As I said before I would have to sign another lease. I did not want to be looking for something in the summer because even though we are a ski resort we have more people in town in the summer! I decided it was time to look and that I was moving. I found something and called the Property Management Company to show it to me and found out that the person who was helping me is now out with a broken leg for the next 3 weeks. So I took matters in to my own hands and had BOB another guy who works at the Property Management Company show me a couple of condos in town and decided I would have a better view and it might not be as quite since I will now be closer to the railroad tracks but at least it is new, has air conditioning (I did not have air in my current place) and best of all is cheaper and I would not have the hassle with not knowing when I would have to move. The funny thing about this is that the house the woman is trying to sell is listed for $749,500. Yes you read that right! It is not on the lake, it has not been upgraded and does not have a pool. It is in a small condo community with about 10-12 houses where they have lake access and a community pool but really you can get a NEW house on a golf course or on the lake for that amount of money. I think she knows she is going to be sitting on it for sometime.

After all that I have found a nice place in town about 2 miles from my current house. Here are some photos I took today when I got stuck in the snow trying to move some boxes. There is a small hill going in to the parking lot and the plows had not touched the hill so a nice guy stopped and pushed me up the hill. Yes, I had my 4 wheel drive on but still got stuck and could not even back up.

Photo of the kitchen and the fireplace in the living room. I already started taking items from my current kitchen over to my new kitchen! I will miss my frig it has ice and water in the front and the new one does not! Most of all since I am talking about missing things will be the Garage!!!!

The front windows in the living room!

Bedroom ~ Not much of a view from the backrooms. I look at the 1 bedroom units and a sidewalk.

Guest Bathroom ~ it has a tub!!

Master bath ~ no tub just a shower and 2nd closet in the master.

Laundry Room and it even has a sink and lots of cabinets. It comes with a washer and dryer but I already have a set.

Living room and view from to back hallway.

Sandpoint ~ before the Snow!

Since I have not added to my blog in sometime. I decided to make up for lost time and get all of the photos I have taken on my blog. Enjoy some photos of the local area around Sandpoint.

Here is the view of Sandpoint and Pondary from Schweitzer ~ Our Ski Resort ~ and nothing like Ober Gatlinburg this resort has a front side and back side and ski in and ski out homes.







We have trains everywhere! We are less than 60 miles from the Canadian border and I don't think you can live in Sandpoint with out being near one.








Lastly, Here is where I work!