Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween Bloggers! 

I blog to you tonight dressed as little red riding hood and handing out handfuls of candy to all of the cute trick or treaters! I have been horrible at wanting to do anything for halloween this year, so I did not decorate the house or anything. I was preparing for Jared to come home tonight and had a knock on the door. I opened it up to a beautiful princess and a winnie the pooh and I literally had no candy to give them. I felt terrible as I broke their heart by sending them away. SOOOOO I rushed to the store and bought several bags of candy so that wouldn't happen again. I even tracked down those beautiful little kids and gave them each a handful. Jared and I want to carve a pumpkin when he gets home so this halloween is looking up. I did however go to a party on saturday and had a marvelous time! I hope you are all having a safe wonderfully spooky time!

My house is prepared now!

Ryan

My shoes for the night

Ryan Dominating Beer Pong

Brant & Pearl

Sexy Vampire Nicole

Joker Nick

Little red riding hood. 

Nicole and I

Carving Pumpkins 

Jared's infamous cannibal  pumpkin

Making a haunted house

Our Door Step

Would you Like some Potatoes with that thumb?

WARNING....Graphic to some!

Last Friday I was privileged  to have a good friend visit me from Wyoming. I was so excited that she was coming to spend the weekend with me because I always enjoy spending time with her. When I was last in Wyoming I had promised her that I would make her scalloped potatoes if she were to ever come see me in Montana. I love the taste of scalloped potatoes and they are really easy to make, they are just time consuming. So In hopes to save me some time when I make the dish, I bought myself a mandoline slicer. For those of you who don't know what that is, it looks like this. 

After Michelle had arrived friday night, I started to make dinner while she made herself at home. I began to prep the potatoes and decided to try out my new slicer as seen above (yes that was the exact one I used.) I sliced the first three potatoes with ease and was liking how quickly the process was going. On the fourth potato I was down to the last little bit and suddenly the finger guard slips and Wham! There goes the side of my thumb. It happened so fast I didn't know what to think. Immediately I started bleeding because it took off probably 4 layers of skin (I had the slicer depth pretty low). I turned on the water and applied pressure so I wouldn't make a mess all over the kitchen. Michelle came in to see if she could help with anything and I told her that I just cut myself and it was ok. I remember saying that I was a little light headed but it was no big deal. She left to change her clothes and when she came back in the room I was laying on the kitchen floor passed. out. It was so crazy because I have never passed out before in my life and it almost felt like I was in a dream. I felt like I was in my bed and that I was just waking up, when I opened my eyes I was staring at the kitchen ceiling and michelle rushed in to help. I felt so bad because that isn't how I planned to spend our evening. Michelle called for pizza and I laid on the couch to try and stop the bleeding. After about 3 hours of pressure and elevation we decided to go the the ER. Hospitals are not my thing so I was not thrilled about this but I knew that the bleeding had to stop.

They applied a pressure gauze so I couldn't feel my thumb at all and left that to sit for about an hour before a doctor came to see me. I also hadn't had a tetanus shot since I was in elementary school so they said I had to have one. When they mentioned needles I panicked, I don't know why I am so afraid of them. They numbed me up, cleaned it out, gave me a shot, and I was on my way out the door. I had to keep gauze on for 48 hours and then change the bandage everyday. I'm just glad that it wasn't worse, and I am so glad that Michelle was with me. The next night I made the potatoes again, but I used a knife like I should have in the first place :) Needless to say that slicer will probably go to the trash. Now that it's been a week my thumb is healing nicely, but it still doesn't have a lot of feeling.  It was wild!

 a few hours after the cut

 pressure bandage

 after they finally got it to stop bleeding

 my 48 hour bandage

A few days after the cut

Good Bye Red

Back in May I sold my beautiful red :'(  I loved her to much to let montana roads ruin her. If I were still in California there would be no question to get rid of her. It was really hard and I struggled saying goodbye. Especially because she ended up going to Hillbilly Hell where she didn't have a garage and was going to get smoked in. I tried so hard not to cry all day. 

I am so sorry red wherever you are!

 She was so beautiful!

 I loved and was so proud of this car

 So sad! I was literally crying in this picture

can you see my fake happiness lol

Now I have Blue She is a 2010 Mazda 3.

We purchased blue from the same dealer that we got red from. John Patterson Tustin Mazda in California. If you need a car...call John! they are the best dealership in the entire world as far as I am concerned. They go above and beyond for their customers. We called him from Montana and said that we wanted a car. He found the car, gave us a great deal, and delivered the car to Las Vegas so we could pick it up. Then they even bought us dinner at Margaritaville to say thank you. It was so generous! 

Going back to a key was super hard. I had a smart key with Red so I never took the key out of my purse for like 4 years. I am happy with Blue though. 

Chapters upon Chapters

In this Jackson story...a lot of chapters have been missing that haven't been available for you readers to see. I'm sorry. Again, here is a brief update on life as we know it. 

Jared is still working in North Dakota at the Rig. Many days he works 24 hours or more. I think he is still enjoying it up here. The commute is long but he finally has been able to have 2 weeks off in between. He has been putting a lot of thought into it lately and has been planning to open his own business in the near future. I am so proud and appreciative of him. He is a wonderful man! Because of the time he puts into his job I have been able to take my time in finding a job that I know I will be happy at. That is so important to me and I am so grateful that he is understanding about it. Jared turned 25 this year, unfortunately on his birthday we had to spend it moving into our new house. He wasn't very happy about that. I tried really hard to make it special though, for instance we got him one of these...

In birthday cake flavor of coarse.. (isn't that the biggest snow cone you have ever seen!)

Then we spent a night out enjoying this...

 Beautiful sunset

 Bison Potstickers at Montana Ale Works

 Ribeye with blue cheese crumbles, sauteed mushrooms, and carmelized onions. Our Favorite

Fruit Crepe for Desert.

And we got him a brand new BBQ grill, fire pit, and lounge chairs for the back yard.

Then we did more of this...

 Scarying the shit out of potential renters when they toured the house while I was still packing.

And spending the entire day moving out of the condo.

We found this little guy while taking a break from cleaning the condo for 15 hours. Yeah it was spotless

Isn't like Alice in Wonderland :)

Then I spent time at the new house trying to make it home.

Here is the update with me lately.

On September 18th I retook my practical exam to get my cosmetology license. I promised to create a post telling about what happened with the 1st test and I never did. Basically the school didn't tell me that I had to prepare for the nail portion of the exam, so I was under the assumption that I did not have to do that part of the test. Needless to say I showed up unprepared and failed. I was livid! So I reapplied because no one cared to help fight my cause and I aced the test with a 98%! On the 21st I took my written exam and equally dominated it with a 92%. I was very proud of myself. I am now currently licensed for hair and nails in Montana and California. I have been able to take the opportunity to travel a little bit before starting a job. I have gone home to wyoming to see my family, and to Washington to spend time with my sister at her house. Now I am on a mission to find a salon, and do a little soul searching :)

Things are looking up