happy feet

i'm going to write more later, but i'm thinking of "resolutions" of sorts, right now. I guess i have one, and that is to cram as much as i can into this year. not in a hectic, chaotic kind of way, but in the hopes and thoughts that i may start school soon...i'm thinking i may not have a lot of free time in the next 5 years to do these things that are "extras".

i'm doing a marathon. this is funny, you see, because as you may have remembered, from previous posts....i don't run. or maybe i didn't, until October or so. I'm doing this one and i'm really excited, except for the 4am part.

i find that as the year ends, every year, i want time to slow down a beat. o.k., I know we get an extra second this year, for some reason, but there is so much fun and festivities...i think we should have this feeling ALL YEAR.

this weekend t's family is coming to Colorado for the first time, I'm throwing a baby shower for the first time, and they are meeting my parents for the first time. whew. i'm going to need a nap.

i found that i'll spend my 34th birthday without my parents or t...that is good, i guess, in a way. we'll see what fun i can come up with.

christmas

yes, that IS a whoopie cushion on the table...do you have a problem with it?

conversations at Christmas

there were many different topics at Christmas this year. I find that when t is around...there is no sacred topic, no stone unturned:

1. we had a striptease that after this year was dubbed an "annual event"
2. had a penis measuring tape
3. Had a thong that was crocheted
4. had a whoopie cushion that was opened at the dinner table
5. wore crowns
6. talked about the significance of boobie tassles
7. reminisced about "big/little dicks" and "giganticocks"


i know...

the thong pt. 2

I can't really do this blog correctly to give you the full effect, mostly because I kind of had to remove myself from everything because i was doing all of the following: 1. turning purple 2. crying 3. laughing so hard i couldn't breathe.

anyway my cousin whips out the thong and in the process says that she wanted to start my mom off on a project that her mom had started her off on and voila...there is the thong. it is multicolored and well..it's not delicate. it's thick. she held it up in front of my mom's face for at least 30 seconds before my mom asked what it was. she looked at my cousin, then at the thong, then at my cousin....she just "didn't get it".

we asked her afterwards what she thought it was....

a nose warmer, she replied

The thong

my cousin is going to teach my mom and i how to crochet. she has known how to since she was 10 and is really good at it...if you can be a great crochet-er. anyway, the other day, she wrote and asked me what i would like our first project to be.

um...does she not know me? you don't open a topic like that up to me and expect a serious answer. I wrote back one word....

PANTIES

after spitting out her coffee at her desk and snorting til she turned purple, we talked and schemed and came up with a spectacular joke to play on my mom. it involves lying, scheming, crochet hooks and this.....

the presents

i bought everything online this year. it was so fun. Most of my things came from etsy.com and then one came from ebay. this one is t's. it is such a great gift, that when i bought it on december 4th, i wondered to myself, "how will i ever top this?" i got up at 3am to buy this thing because it was listed from portugal. i thought to myself..."how organized am I that i am buying his present WAY far in advance?"

it hasn't gotten here yet.

quite obviously, i don't have high hopes for a delivery today.

i'm so bummed. there is just something not as good to give someone a picture of what you bought them.

i have never....

had this happen. I have never had the occurrance where you tell someone one thing to relay to someone else and they tell them COMPLETELY the opposite thing. Putting the other person into a depressed tailspin and self-loathing angst. some people's kids.....(shaking head)

the weekend...or was it?

this weekend makes me tired just thinking about it. i would say that it's one of the first that I remember, anyway, thinking that i didn't feel like i even had an ounce of relaxing thrown in there. early saturday, i went to the grocery store, met mom for shopping close by, then came back, and got ready for dinner. Saturday, we took a doc out to dinner just for fun. it was a good time, what a smart man and he gave me recipes....always a good thing. he gave me this recipe and i will say, it may be my most treasured yet. he watched Julia child back in the day and one day, she did a bread recipe. he wrote it down right then and there. they have never published it again, so it truly is one of a kind. i'm excited to see what it's like....or for that matter what my first loaf is like. I will photograph it

sunday was just as nuts. i ran around all day getting groceries for dinner Sunday night when we were having friends come over. we after going to kmart, target, king soopers, whole foods, qdoba, back to whole foods and then home...i was done. we went to a neighborhood christmas party were we found out that all of our neighbors thought we were 20 years old. and it was a great time. but, i had to leave, go back to the house, make 10 million meatballs for our soup and then entertain the rest of the night.

i went to bed at 9, i think.

we are old...ish

t and i were talking about my birthday that is coming up and the fact that i'll be 34. i was just shocked. i feel like i am half that...if that. then, we started talking about how old he was. i about drove off the road. my guy, who sings songs every mornings about tacos, cheese, and birds knees....is getting up there. i said, "oh my gosh, we will have to decide in 3 years if we are adopting" t thought that was no biggie, of course we could decide by then. i was just, well, speechless. life is going fast. we had better be living it well.

the drive in

this was so cool today....reminded me of Little Pea's last post. usually when i drive to work, I see mountains, sun is shining, trees are everywhere. this was today:

biggest loser...it needs to be me

i'm still in a funk. it's not that things are sad or depressing, but i've just not been feeling right lately. after last weeks events, (see fridays blog), i'm just still off kilter. then yesterday, t's girlfriend from high school wrote to him, some more weird stuff happened in the office...just enough stuff to make things "unsettled" in my head.

so, i decided that the perfect thing to do would be to go and work out....for three hours. i went to my usual spinning class for an hour, then prepared myself for the great event that only happens every once in a while....the finale of the biggest loser. This show is so inspirational to me, NOT AT ALL for the weight loss, but for the mental flowering that goes on during it. The girl who won, is who i would have chosen...there was a nasty lady on there too, that i literally would have cried if she had won. this girl was beaten down...her parents had divorced and her mother took the other kids and left her with her dad. she loved her dad, but still....her mom left her. she was devastated. she was ready to quit half way into the show, not because she couldn't do the physical, but she couldn't get past her mental roadblocks.

so, i sat on an elliptical machine and treadmill for 2 more hours while i watched this show. i am happy to say, all is back to normal and all is good. were most people watching me instead of their own TV's. Why? Well, every now and again, i would cheer out loud. t was embarrassed everytime i would yell. but oh well

Get rid of the roadblocks, people.

The coolest site...or one of them

I need to get some glasses. not for anything crazy, like i can't see my pencil in front of my face, but just for driving. I had lasik about 7 years ago and while it has held up just fine, my night driving leaves a little to be desired. i was reading Kiplingers magazine the other day, not because i subscribe to it, but because the nicest person gives me a copy of it every month just to read. he is 89 years old and doesn't "need" the advice they are giving because he is past retirement age.

i look in there and they have a page on where to buy cheap glasses online. They name a few, but i go to 39dollarglasses.com. i'm thinking, "that sounds great, but they can't be that cheap" $19.00 baby! they are cute, i don't care if i can't try them on, i'm so getting them. on top of it, you can input your picture in and see what they might look like on you. I'm so doing this.

the winter

The weather is so cold right now. -5 degrees. but i love it. it makes you just want to be home with the fireplace on. speaking of which, we just got our fireplace fixed today, so i decided to skip the gym and come home. i walked into a clean house, that i had not cleaned, to the christmas tree, lit up, and the fireplace on. ahhhhhhh.................................

the hat

i think i posted before about how "fashion forward" my mom is. she is hysterical. everyone comments on it when they know her...the local hairdressers think she is the s^#%.

anyway, we were at this store a few months ago and apparently...(I did not know it at the time) but, I NEEDED THIS HAT. She got it for me and it is the warmest, best hat ever. i love it. tony and his dad make jokes about me being Casey Jones....i would laugh, but i have no idea who it is...other than possibly some railroad conductor. ha ha...

hideous christmas

my friends and i donated this tree to this fundraiser. it was so cool and so much fun to be a part of. long story short....we've gone to this fundraiser for years. it's for a school in the area that helps disabled children. it used to be really small, now it is upwards of 300-400 people. you go to this event and magical people have put together trees with lots of goodies on them that you can put raffle tickets in and win. this year there were 80 trees. it was awesome. what was awesome too, is that for the first time, my friends and i decided to try to be magical. we had to think of a theme for our tree. at first, we thought, "sex and the city". then, after visions of dildos hanging from the tree, we opted out of that one. we chose "girls night out" figured....there were plenty of girls there and hey, maybe they needed a night out. My friend margie went out and knocked on every storefront she could find, getting donations. she got: massage, 3 hair cuts, microderm-abraison, two girly movies, a beijo wallet, dinner theater tickets, etc. it was a haul. people went nuts over this tree. my cousin handpainted martini glasses. it was awesome. o.k....i do realize, honestly, that the tree is hideous looking. it hurts my eyes. but it was for a good cause. and we got to be elves for a day

bootcamp pt. 2.

i forgot to write about my feelings about bootcamp soon after i had done it. I thought it was a great thing....until i couldn't straighten my ARMS afterwards. no joke...i tried two days later. couldn't do it...without intense nausea coming over me. it was horrible. i drank a lot of wine that night and was fine the next day :)

ebay

HA HA! I love winning things. i love the fact that when you get something from ebay, they tell you that you have WON! in your head, it almost makes it free or something.

well, i did my best ebaying this morning at 3am. i found something for t on there that i was thinking he needed. it was pricey originally, $370. i thought, well, if i can get it cheaper, then i would buy it. if not, he didn't need it that badly and a Heart Rate monitor would do him just fine.

i got up at 3 and found that someone had last bid late last night. this item is in Portugal. I thought, well, no one in the US is up at 5am (east coast) and bidding on this thing. so, 5 minutes before the auction ended, i put in my high bid. then 3 minutes before it ended, SOMEONE BID. What the heck....didn't they know that item was mine?

so, i waited and waited, 3 seconds left. i got it.

i do love snow

i do love waking up and seeing this.

that was nice. what is NOT nice is remembering that in february of this year, you traded in your 4wd jeep for this nice, fuel efficient car. oh, you think, i'll be fine, i don't need 4wd to drive the 45 minutes that it takes to get to work.

WRONG.

i do not know if the tires suck or if it's just the car in general, but after having to be pushed up hills because my car was skidding backwards....i'm getting a different car. i wrote to t, he is in AZ right now, and he agreed. when he gets home, we are car shopping.

finally

well, i'm here....

My bootcamp experience, you ask? well, it was hard....in a good, bootcampy way. We did a few minutes of cardio, then went to work...

1. did "self-assisted" pull ups. i don't know if the words "self-assisted" were supposed to make us feel like we were getting help of some kind, but don't fool yourselves.

2. Stationary bike for 2 min.

3. Did chest press for 2 min. i have not done a chest exercise for 5 years due to a medical reason. obviously, i couldn't finish the 2 min.

4. did elliptical for 2 min.

5. did hamstring curls. one min. each side

6. did stationary bike 2 min.

7. did step ups with 15 pound weights in each hand. yes, it's insane

8. did triceps one way and then back another way

9. did biceps

10. did abs

11. threw this weighted ball on the ground. THIS WAS HARD

12. did squats with hand weights onto a little bitty ball on the floor

13. more chest.

then...A WHOLE LOT OF AB STUFF.

I think this is giving me a once a week work-out that i need. the rest of the time i do things that i'm comfortable with...that i love to do and that release me. this will help my butt. that's all i can say about it

the tree

i love trees. i have loved decorating christmas trees since the year i left home to go to school in texas. when i got home that year for the holidays, my parents said i could do anything with the tree that i wanted. so...it was all white that year. it may have even been flocked (i know....70s throwback). it had crystals and sparkly things all over it. not a ONE single homemade ornament from when i was little was on there. it was great. after that year, i was in charge of the trees. each year, we had themes based on colors.

last year, we moved into our house, and didn't have a tree. we got one after the holiday sale that was 90% off. we put it up, just to see what it would look like in the house....and left it up til March. i guess we liked it. we bought TONS of ornaments and everything and thought, YES, it is time!

well, our tree is frankly boring. we did a bow on it that just looks like a stupid bridesmaids dress gone bad. it's terrible. i bought some glittery eucalyptus and branches that seemed to help out somewhat, but still. we will buy a star instead of the bow (which was so bad, i couldn't take a picture of it). but, as of now, this is our tree.

bootcamp?

in the past few weeks, i decided that i needed an exercise makeover. i exercise all of the time, but i tend to stick to only a few things. like spinning, i love it. cannot get enough, so i would do just that for 2 hours a day. it's my latest theory that changing it up will be the thing that helps me accomplish my goals. i think i've noticed a difference since running and also doing the elliptical. enter bootcamp.

my cousin's girlfriend teaches bootcamp, as they call it. i'm going at lunch today, which is why i'm writing now, in case i cannot physically move this afternoon. she's a machine and so is my cousin, so they will have plenty of entertainment for the afternoon. i think they may have just asked me to come, for just that reason.

the altar

i was explaining last night, the tradition that we do to celebrate someone after they have died. it's been two years since my grandpa died. it really seems like it was yesterday. i still can't erase his number or email from my phone and computer. i can't really talk about him still to people in person, because well, it just seems too real then. when the minister was talking last night and saying things about him, it was all true. i mean, she was saying really nice, giving things that my grandpa had done and it wasn't just lip service towards him. he was just that cool. it has been, and likely always will be, one of the greatest losses that we could have had. what a guy...

we had a service at my aunt's house last night for him. to be honest, i think it was just to eat, as are most things with my family. but the minister gave a REALLY good talk. it was about the "prisons" that we put ourselves in and the people that we surround ourselves with that make us more comfortable in those prisons, but do not help us to get OUT of them. it really struck me. WOW