the start of feb

today braden is 11 months old! i cant believe how time is just flying by! we ran some errands today and bray got to ride in the big boy carseat! first time and he did awesome! no fussing and he talked to us quite a bit. hes starting to get another tooth! that will make it his 5th!
as life goes we are still waiting for brandon to hear back o nteh union job. Val (my kinda bro in law) works for the union and was told that brandon is on the list and will get the job they are just waiting for an opening. they told him that is could be anywhere from 2 weeks to the 1st of april. 2 weeks has already passed. the union has a list of workers that need to be put back to work the list was 22. my sister told me that about 6-8 were getting ready to go back to work, 4 quit and they were going to fill those jobs and this week they were getting a new job and going to put the others to work. so hopefully sometime super soon they will call and tell brandon he has a job and needs to start classes! my fingers are still crossed that it is sometime this month.
jiffy lube is not a concent place right now. brandons new manager is dumb and her boss is just plain stuid... sorry but he doesnt know anything and needs to get fired. brandon is no longer excited about his job and i dont blame him. this chick goes in changes everything and gets all over brandon's case about being friends with his coworkers. brandon has been having a rough time since his buddy chris left. chris was called back to the army just shy of his waiting period. he will be headed over to iraq in the next few weeks. chris's fiancee is still working at jiffy lube and brandon tends to give her a hard time and they joke around quite a bit and that isnt fair or something. hes looking forward to the day he can call her boss and tell him to f** off and turn in his key.
i am excited tho because we should have our taxes back this friday which means i get to go shopping! mostly for food and braden's birthday but i'll take what i can get. i dont spend much time out in the real world anymore, i just dont have reasons to go out most days when it is chilly. plus with braden in his carrier is was hard to get from one place to another in my lil 2 door car. however with him in the big boy seat we will be able to get more things done.
this fall we will be looking for a house to rent. brandon talk to the office today and we are in out lease till nov. which i'm still pissed because we were screwed out of one month. on our old lease. we shouldnt have had to resign till dec but they made us resign in nov. which means our new lease started in dec instead of jan, like it was supposed to.... anyway... hopefully we can put some tax refund in to a saving account and leave it be till then. that way we have money for rent and all the other fees... brandon and i were talking about that and it looks like we will be staying in colorado next holiday season instead of going and spending a week in cali with his fam. which makes me excited cuz then we can have thanksgiving with libby and her mommy again! one of my fave traditions started when i was in high school. 8 years i had only missed on and that was when i was in hawaii and there wasnt anyway i could afford to go home then. it was something i looked forward too and was dissappointed last year when we went to cali. it was great seeing everyone but it just was not the same. libbys mom makes the best turkey dinner and i am not afraid to tell anyone that!
alright i think that is all for now before i go off onto another thought that wont make any sense. thanks for reading.