Happy Friday!

Posted on October 25, 2013 by sghamer

Happy Friday Reader’s!

Puppy and one of his many balls.

So happy today is Friday. It is my favorite day of the week! I love knowing that I have two whole days where I am in charge of what I am doing, when I am getting up, when and what I will do. It is a chilly day here in the ATL. The sun is out but it is cold. I just got in playing ball with Timber and my hands are freezing. Timber loves to play ball. He loves to jump in the air and catch the ball. He loves to try to catch the ball before it hits the ground. One thing he doesn’t really love however, is giving you the ball back. He loves that dam ball. Due to this, I have to use at least two balls when I play with him. That way I always have one I can get and throw to him. Today I used four. I had that puppy running his little heart out!

Passed Out Puppy

The past few days I have been working on financial plans for work. I have been busy but I feel good about the amount of work I got done. I went into the office today and had two conference calls, finished a financial plan and caught up with my assistant. We ordered Christmas cards today! Christmas cards!! It is coming up fast.

Me and My Man in Quebec City.

I have heard from a lot of people about the great attitude I have had during the cluster f@*k I have been going through. Well, yesterday I broke a bit. I was a depressed. I am tired. Tired of being bloated and bald. Tired of being tired. What set me off was when I went to the gym to work out with SK. I was in the locker room getting ready and I saw my reflection in the mirror. You know how you feel you look like one way and then there is how you actually look? Yeah, well I did not like how I looked in the mirror yesterday. I have written before how I forget that I am bald and bloated. When I saw myself, I got really depressed. Thank goodness for SK. I told her how I was feeling and what did she do? She basically told me she was happy to se me depressed (she was getting worried I wasn’t human) and that it was ok to feel depressed. She reminded me that I will grow my hair back. I will lose these extra pounds I have packed on. She then made me hurt and sweat. It was great. I did feel a little better after the work out. But I am ready to be done with all this shit. I can’t even remember the last few months. Where did the summer go? The last thing I remember, I was in Quebec City with My Man. We had such a good time. That being said, we are already looking at places to stay when we go back next year. Yes. We are going back. We are looking to stay in a condo this time. I love going on VRBO and looking rental homes. It makes me feel warm and fuzzy and forget everything else going on. I have found a few places I love and am going to e-mail the owner about pricing and availability.

Condo In Quebec City

Question: What is your favorite day of they week and why?

My Hotel Yorba Give Away!

Posted on August 24, 2013 by sghamer

My Hotel Yorba Give Away!

Room 206

Reader’s! My Hotel Yorba and doing its first ever giveaway! Woot! Woot! Over the next three days, three people (total) will have a chance to win their own Hotel Yorba key chain. I know right!?!

Here is what you need to do:

1. Comment on the next three days posts. You can comment as often as you want. Tell me what you like. Don’t like. What you want to see more of on the Blog. Do want to see an interview with Timber or Turbo? You tell me…as many times as you want.

2. I will remind you each day to comment. The contest will end Tuesday night @ midnight. On Wednesday morning, The Boy will randomly choose one person from each day’s comments as the winner. To make it fair and scientific, he will have his eyes closed.

One of these could be yours!

3. Once the winners are picked, I will announce it on the blog. Now go enter to win!

Look what we got!

Doesn’t the sign rock? My Man’s Dad, Bob, sent this to us on Thursday. We were all excited when it came but had to wait a day to come up with ideas where to put it. I think The Boy wanted to put it into his room. Uh No. My Man suggested we drill it to the basketball post in the driveway. I pointed out that he hates that basketball post and has wanted to take it down since the day we moved in. Plus that would in tail a drill and who knows if we have one of those. We decided to hang it up in the screened in porch. I think it fits in perfectly.

Bob has sent us almost all of our Hotel Yorba items. We even have beach towels! I love that he gets it! Thank you again Bob!! You need to come down and visit us soon.

Hotel Yorba Landscape Project Update

We got our first quote from Green Acres Landscaping, Inc. yesterday. At first it wasn’t as high as I thought it would be but then I realized it did not in include the new fence, removal of a tree or the chicken coop. So who knows what it will cost. We also have a few questions for them so I am thinking a second meeting is warranted. I am impressed with their turn-around time. We have yet to hear from WDesign Landscape Inc. I am planning on giving her till Monday before I e-mail. That will give her a week and unlike Green Acres Landscaping, Inc., she is planning on sending us a mock-up design. Which we also want from Green Acres Landscaping, Inc! We have one more meeting set up for Tuesday with Dream Scape Designs.

Timber and Pandora

Getting closer

Timber and Pandora’s relationship is slowly moving a long. He whines whenever she comes is the room and she flops down and shows him her belly. They are getting closer and closer when napping or chilling in my office. I know Timber so badly wants to snuggle up close with her but is being a gentleman.

Shout Outs

Amy & Tommy A.- The dinner you made was off the chain! My Boys loved the beef brisket. Even I had some and it was so good. The potatoes and corn salad were wonderful! Thank you for thinking us!

Andy & Dee B.- Tom’s Mom’s Cookies?! Directly from Harbor Springs! I can still remember waking up to the smell of their cookies a few years ago. Love Harbor Springs and love you two more!

The ‘Rents Rock!

Posted on August 15, 2013 by sghamer

The ‘Rents Rocks!

Some of you have met my dad and know he is an active guy. I know he like likes to come visit but if he didn’t have his bike or computer, the man would go insane. So when he does come visit I always try to plan on having something for him to help me out with. A win win, right? He has helped me paint The Baby aka The Boy’s room, an office, a few walls, put a chicken coop together, re-do a bath room, the list goes on. Well, during his most recent visits, I am no help but I still wanted him to have a few projects to he would stay sane. We have a screen in porch and the door to the outside has been needing fixing/replacing for a while now. Plus, Simon, the wonder cat, has been able to get out of it, even though it was “locked”. I can’t tell you how many times that has happened. So, when my parents came in town this visit, I told my dad I wanted a Red Door. Why red? Hotel Yorba= Red, White and Black. It’s true, look it up.

Bad Door

The bad icky, non Simon proof door. To the trash!!

I won’t tell you how long we lived with it like this…sad

Red Door!

My Red Door!! Isn’t awesome??? I love it! It screams Hotel Yorba!

Top Lock

Simon Lock!

And the locks! Ha Simon! Try to get through that you little awesome, scare me to death, fuzzy escape artist! Not only did my Dad rock the red door, he fixed three “running” toilettes and replaced two old gross (embarrassed to admit) moldy registers in our bathroom. Those look so nice. Next time, I might have him replace a few more!

Now, don’t go thinking I forgot my mom. She was playing ball with Timber, keeping the three fur kids fed, keeping The Girl’s fed, cleaning my bathroom, cleaning the fur off the floors (!), cleaning the rec room (next time we both hit the storage containers), washing dishes, keeping the boy dressed and feed and don’t forget the laundry! So much laundry!

I like to think I was a pretty easy kid growing up. Never got into drugs or drinking, didn’t stay out late or dated too big of assholes. I did have a mouth on me but really that was my mom’s own fault. Over the past ten years though, I have put my parents through a lot of shit and I can’t say enough to express how much what they do and have done for me and my family means to me. So I will just say this… Thank You.

Talented Family…

Posted on August 8, 2013 by sghamer

My Talented Family

My Dad!

I have some really talented people in my family. I am going to tell you about two of them today. First is my Dad, Kerry J.Grinkmeyer. He has written a children’s book called The Christmas Web. The following is an explanation on how the tradition came about.

The day after Thanksgiving, 1992, we introduced the Christmas Web in our home with the placement of Magic Wands into their socks that had for years been hung at the fireplace mantel. Attached to each Magic Wand was a piece of yarn (a 70 yard piece of yarn). When our two teen-aged children came down Christmas morning, they found that the yarn was wound through the house – around window latches, door knobs, chairs and doors. It ended in a closet or cabinet which held their special Christmas gift from one of Santa’s elves, an elf who had been looking out for them for the past year and knew of their desire for this special Christmas gift.– From The Christmas Web website.

The Christmas Web

He has been chosen by Wal-Mart for their Get On the Shelf contest and he needs your help! Please go to the website daily and vote! If he gets enough votes, he will move on to the next level of the competition. The link will take you to the page where you can vote daily.

My SIL, Ginger!

Next is my sister-in-law Ginger Grinkmeyer. I have known Ginger since we were both 17, so really she is my sister. Anyway, she has always been very talented. Getting a gift from her, is an event. You feel bad opening them since the wrapping it’s a piece of art on its own. She has a thriving business down in Santa Rosa Beach, FL, called The Workshop. Her website, Spools of Twine, also sells some of her art.

She was recently featured on the SolWal website. It is a wonderful article about her and the workshop. There is also a great video at the end of article. Please go look at it. If you are down in Santa Rosa Beach (50 Uptown Grayton Circle, #3, Grayton Beach, Florida 32459) or near the area go check out her store. You will be happy that you did!

I love my family and you should too!

My Hotel Yorba

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