Picture pages!

So now with easier blogging comes easier uploading of pics to my blog! Yippee! I had a hard time before because I am an idiot.

First, we have Donna, me and Jaime in Dewey for Closing Weekend.

Second and third...pics from Halloween with Jaime,

Paul, and the cutest 21st century flapper!

Upgrade! Oh my back

Apparently I just upgraded to bigger and better blogging. We'll see how this goes.


I'm officially old. I hurt my back. Saturday night I decided to give the party host a gracious good bye by not just giving him a hug but lifting him up. I bent back a little too far and felt it in my lower back. Sunday I was sore and was a little stiff in my lower back but didn't feel too uncomfortable. Monday was a different story. I sat at my desk Monday and throughout the day I could feel the stiffness creep up my back and even turn to pain. By the end of the day pain settled between my shoulder blades, just below my neck. I went home and relaxed. Tuesday was worse, and both days I even drove home a lunch just to lie down and keep my heating pad strapped to my back. By 4pm Tuesday, I had had enough and called a chiropractor to make an appointment for a realignment. I find any time I am sick or some how out of sorts that it is just another hurdle and a challenge to figure out how to fix it. Over the years I have felt stiffness in the same areas of my back but nothing I couldn't deal with or that would prevent me from exercising, sleeping or even just turning my head comfortably. Normally I look forward to sleep every night - my time to escape from life and dream about things I'll never have like Keifer Sutherland. ha! But this week sleeping has not been easily achievable nor does it last a solid 8 hours straight. And it landed me on my couch two evenings/nights in a row, which was so incredibly depressing. I was alone and bored out of my skull not to mention close to tears a few times because I felt so limited.

Last night I ended up going to watch Paul bowl - I couldn't take another night in my apartment, which I love but not so much to sit and stare at the walls for a third night. I made due with the hard, plastic chairs provided by the alley and coupled it with two frosty MILLER LITES! After bowling I was still feeling okay so we went for a long walk around town. It felt good to be outside and moving! I was feeling pretty loose (ha ha) until this morning. I opened my eyes and thought holy crap this must be what a post feels like! Then I spent the entire day at my desk....stupid chair is the worst one on Earth! That will soon be remedied - tomorrow we are picking out new office chairs...good ones! Not some stupid $50 thing from Staples. No wonder my back is out of whack! Then after that I have my very first chiropractor appointment. I am looking forward to it! Sweet relief!

Leg up!! That should be much easier after tomorrow!

I'm Getting Old

I think that is the problem. I was watching the American Music Awards the other night, and just shook my head at the disgusting displays on stage, namely The Pussycat Dolls. Seriously what a bunch of tramps. I am sick to my stomach thinking about what the AMA's will look like when I have kids old enough to want to watch awards shows that appeal to teenagers. It's un-freakin'-real!! Then the girls dancing on stage during Jay Z's then Snoop's performances?! OMG I don't get it. Well I do - they all suck so they have to distract the audience/viewers with T&A and keep people interested and coming back for more.

Today was Thanksgiving - what an awesome day! It was sunny and warm enough to play outside with the kids after dinner, and Paul was with me all day and got to meet the rest of Dad's side of the family. Things went very well and I think he gets a thumbs up from the fam! We ate a ton of food as always - that goes hand in hand with the holiday so I didn't even attempt to restrain myself!

Next is Christmas. I am not one for shopping too early for gifts, but I did look through a couple of flyers this evening and got a couple of ideas. Maybe I'll actually get my shopping done early this year! Ha ha yeah right!!

I did break my own rule of not buying anything for myself after November 1st. I bought the Chris Daughtry CD yesterday! Donna and Jaime both got it and rave about how good it is. I couldn't wait another day to get it let alone a few weeks! P-Diddy and I hit Walmart yesterday where the CD with two bonus tracks was being sold. It is a great cd but I must admit many songs sound similar, so until I listen to it about 5 times in a row, I probably couldn't tell you which song is "Crashed" and which one is "Home". I enjoy it nonetheless.

Well I am off to sleep. I haven't done any school work this week so I must get up early tomorrow...on my day off from work...to get some work done before ice skating, dinner and the Crunch game!

Leg up!!!

Back to school, back to school

To prove to Dad that I'm not a fool.

I just returned to class yesterday from another 4-week hiatus. If I keep taking four weeks between class it'll take another year to finish this program! Well if I stay on schedule with only a week between the five classes left, I'll be done on June 11, 2007. Then hopefully it's on to Vegas...but I'm getting ahead of myself.

That break was timely for a couple of reasons. First, it was the baseball playoffs and not just any team was in - my beloved Mets were in the playoffs. It feels like it had been not just years since they had been in the playoffs but YEARS. And it had been exactly 20 years since they had won the World Series. I was hoping this was fate. After they clinched the Division and went on to the Division Series, I knew there was NO WAY I'd be able to concentrate on school work. I'd be watching the games - that's all there was to it. So I called up my academic advisor and said give me the max amount of time until I have to get back to class.

The break also coincided with meeting and getting to know my new friend, Paul. :) "Friend" may be understating it. ha ha I was totally gung ho about going to Jill's wedding without a date, and as luck would have it, I met somebody. Weird. Was 8 months single all that was in store for me? We'll see. And if so, thank God because the guys I met in that time could really make a girl consider playing for the other team. ha just kidding!

Leg up!!