Its a Blisterer Saturday!

The weather men were right for a change, ugh! It started to rain last night about 7pm and really hasn't stopped. It is not a steady down pour (thank goodness), but the winds are unbelievable! Most of my daughters "spooky" decorations are down! I can't believe we didn't take pictures yet. booo whooo. The winds are gusting up to 50mph! It's not very nice out. I was going to go for my walk this morning since it really isn't raining too bad, but the freakin' winds are terrible and I think it would be impossible to walk in. So on to my next plan.

I really need to do my journaling for about 10 layouts that are still waiting for me down stairs. Plus, I really need to finish a Circle Journal for "Whirled Peas". Its a cute journal and really the only thing that needs to be done is my journaling. I've gotten very lazy with the journaling lately. I usually have that done right away. Sometimes I wonder why I take so long to do something. Is it because I don't like it? Possibly. Is it because I really don't want to finish it, if I don't finish it and put it away I won't look at it as much. This are the little things that rac my brain. Anyway today they will hopefully all be done!
Well blogger has finally let me post these photos. Unbelievable. This is DJ (17) and well.. as posted yesterday, he is trying to get down to 135 lbs for wrestling this year. I don't know if that is going to happen, but he is already down to 145.Here is Joseph (15), and as you can see... he needs to gain weight to wrestle.lol... The absolute lowest weight for High School Wrestling is 96 lbs and he weighs 100 with all his clothes on. Plus, they haven't even started really training. I'm not sure he is going to make this year again. Last year the coach stepped on the scale with his toe just so he made it. lol This kid eats, and eats and eats, I wish I had his metabolism I would be a stick!

2peas challenge for today:What are you fixing for Thanksgiving? re food: Well it is just me, hubby, and the kids. No one else is ever here anymore because they all live in Las Vegas. My dh's sister always goes to her one of her friends for the last 9 years and we haven't talked to his brother in about 7 years. So whats for dinner? Well of course we have Turkey, Stuffing, Potatoes (mashed and sweet), gravy, broccoli, asparagus, corn, cranberry sauce, of course there is apple cider, biscuits and dinner rolls. When everyone was here I would also do Italian foods.. Lasagna, meatballs, sausage, chicken cutlets, garlic bread. But I don't anymore. Then there is the desserts: we have chesse cake (I make from my grandmothers receipe), chocolate cream pie, and a walnut cake. I would make pumpkin pie, but no here likes it.That is pretty much it. My dd is already hounding me to make walnut cake it is one of her fav's. Thats it for me! Have a great Saturday!

The day after

If you were here yesterday you would know that I went for my Remicaid infusion last night. It is a 3 1/2-4 hour infusion normally. Last night we had a few complications in the room which made this time longer. I was the last one done (figures) and was finally out of the office at 8:45! My friend Jessica kept blowing her veins so they had to keep trying. And there were 3 of us that needed to be pre-medicated. ugh... I'm one of them. I know it sounds weird, but I actually enjoy going. I don't know if its for the social asspects or the medicine part,lol. We do normally have a lot of fun just sitting there and talking, sharing our lives. Its really very wonderful. Jessica and I have been going together for the last 1 1/2 years. We are both on a 4 wk cycle. Most people are on a 8 wk cycle. You get to meet new people and then there are the ones that you get to see every other month and you get to catch up with whats been going for the last 2 months.

Now the dr's office is a good 45 min drive and I was already late with my infusion so I raced home so I wouldn't miss much of Grey's. How disappointing!!!! to get home and find out that it was a repeat! They have some nerve. Not only was the 9pm airing a repeat, but so was the 10pm airing! How rude. Then more disappointment. CBS decided to air a repeat of Shark! I couldn't believe that I raced home (btw.. took me like 30 mins to get here, lol) for nothing! Outraged.

My plans for today are: work.... come home and relax a little (hopefully), I am hoping I have energy after the infusions I don't for a day or so. Then I really need to clean this house, but we are suppose to get huge rain storms all afternoon thru the night. I also really, really need to get my nails done. Its been 3 wks and they just look and feel horrible! So that is a must before 4pm when they get flooded. Then to decide whats for dinner. DJ is killing me because everytime I turn around he is looking in the frig for something. Wrestling hasn't even started and he is driving me nuts. Thank go the little one doesn't have to worry about his weight and eating. He is underweight and needs to eat right before getting on the scale. lol ( I was going to post photos, but blogger is being a pain this morning and won't let me)

Since it is going to be raining out tonight and they say tomorrow. I am planning on getting all my journaling done that I just haven't time to do. I will also be taking photos/or scanning them so I can finally post something. I think I have like 10 layouts down there waiting for me plus the circle journal that I really want to get in the mail tomorrow.

2peas challenge:Describe your gift wraping style regarding Holiday presents. Anything special or unique? Believe it or not I'm not a big fan of wraping presents. Especially for little kids! I just put the paper on and a little bow and that is it. They don't care. They just want whats inside. For adult gifts (except my DH, he is just like the kids) I will usually do something special. I do like to add lots of ribbon. Maybe flowers for my mom and sisters. Thats really it for me.

No Time

Today is going to be a short entry as I hardly have time to breath today. AS for yesterday, it was just crazy. I did everything that was posted and when I got home from the 2 classes I was just pooped! I crashed out by 9:40! Pretty much slept right through the night, boy did I need that!

Today is another whirl wind day. I'm getting ready for work (have to be there by 8:30am) get done at 2:15pm. I'll race to the grocery store, because I won't have time or the energy to go later on tonight. Then jump in for a shower (yucky, cafeteria food is sure to be all over me, lol), then off to get my infusion for 4 1/2 hours. It takes 40 mins to drive to the doctors office, 4 1/2 hour infusion, then the 40 min drive home. I should get home by 8:40pm tonight. Again... pooped. That is it for me today. Hope everyone has a WONDERFUL day!

Sleepless on Long Island

It is 5:27am est. What the heck am I doing up? Well for starters I woke up about 2 hours ago! Why?, you may ask. Ummmmm.. I think I heard my dog,Lacey, licking her foot and thought something was wrong and then couldn't fall back to sleep. Maybe its because I just have soooo much to do today my brain won't let me sleep. I'm not sure but I would love to sleep and now I'm afraid to go to bed and not be able to wake up in 1 hr from now. This is crazy! I just hope that I can get through the rest of my day with only 3 hrs sleep.

Today my day will start off by getting Joseph up for school at 6:30am, because at 15 he still can't manage to wake up by the alarm clock!ugh... then I will have to get dressed right away and be at the High School for slicer training class by 7am. From there, I will head over to my Elementary School to start my day of work by 8:30am! Ok... today would be Taco Wednesday! One of the messiest lunches in the world. This is a horrible lunch day. A lot of heavy lifting that I really am not used to yet. At about 2:15pm my day in the lunch room will end! thank goodness. Then its home for a little r&r... but not much.

By 3:30pm the boys will call me to come pick them up from weight training. Then I will need to start dinner. DJ is on a very strict diet right now. Dropping weight already for wrestling season which starts in about 2 weeks. He is doing everything right this year, which makes me very happy. He is doing high protein and little carbs. Eating 6 small meals a day. He is right on target. He really has only 8 pounds to lose before weight certification which is in about 4 weeks and then over the course of another 4 weeks he will drop 5 more lbs. Well try to. He is usually pretty good at it. By 4:30pm I will have to have dinner in the oven. Porkchops, fried rice and veggies tonight. Then at 6pm I'm off to my 2 classes. 1hr of weight training and the 1 hr of body sculpting. hmmm I don't think either are really working but this is only week 4 today. I will get home at about 9:15pm and then I think I will actually crash!

With this new job, I just feel like I never have any time to do what I'm used to doing. I hate it that I can't go for my walks in the morning anymore and I never have any time to scrapbook or just sit here and take time to write on my blog. I just don't know how most of you do it. I've been home for the last year, not working and I guess I just got into a routine. Now I need to start a new routine. We will see what next week brings me. I like my job, but I also need to take care of me. I will have to see if my RA can handle it. I will tell you that yesterday was a killer. I do go for my treatment on Thursday and hopefully that will help. My last treatment only lasted 3 weeks. Hoping this month it will last the full 4 weeks. Nothing else too exciting is going on here. It is very cold here lately. I don't like the cold! Its been about 40 in the mornings and this morning (right now) it is only 37! Freakin' 37!!! What the heck. I told my husband I don't know how much longer I can do these damn cold winters. I just need warmth!

Ok... I'm getting off here to attempt to do some situps and stretches this morning since I can't walk(tooo cold). I have to do something or I'll just blow up! Hope everyone has a terrific day!

MIA

I've been MISSING IN ACTION for the last few days. I just haven't had the time to do much of anything. This new job is very hectic and it seems that after I'm done working during the day that I just don't have any energy left to even get on here. Its hard to just sit here for 10 mins in the morning and try to get everything on here. Like right now! It's 6:50am trying to get the boys ready for school and get out of this house in 15 mins. IMPOSSIBLE!

On a little brighter note I did manage to get some scrapbooking done over the weekend. yeah,,, finally. Hopefully one day this week I will be able to either scan or take photos and post them.I also worked on a CJ album that needs to go out by next Tuesday and it is almost done. Just need to print out my journaling.

Its starting to get pretty cold here, especially the evenings and early mornings and with the new job I really haven't been able to do my walks. Just not enough time in the AM for it and I don't have the energy at 5pm to do. I don't know if I'm going to be staying at this job for too long.... It is just a little too physcially demanding on me and with my RA flairing up its not a good combo!

I hope everyone is doing fine out there in blog land and on 2 peas! I really have to catch up on everyones blog. I think that will be something to do tonight.

Hump Day

Yesterday I just couldn't get myself together. I went to work (new job) and it is longer hours and a little confusing. I am the new cook, lol. I really didn't want to be a cook, but I will try it out and see what happens. I am also not sure about the hours, I have severe rheumothyoid arthritis and if it gets worse with all these hours then I might not be able to keep working them. I am trying it out and we will see what happens.

It rained here pretty much the entire day yesterday and boy it was cold also. Maybe that is why I just couldn't get it together. Who knows. Today, it is suppose to be warmer and not rain. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

2peas challenge for today:Blog about the things about the Holidays you are looking forward to....... no matter what they are: Well, with the holidays so near I look forward to spending some time with my family. I am trying to get back to Las Vegas next month so that I can spend some time with my parents, sisters, and my son. I just love being there.... and can't wait to get back there. As for here.... Its spending time with my dh and the kids and of course decorating the house for christmas and I love to cook so there's that.

Oops.. got to get my butt moving here.. didn't realize how late it was.... Have a great day everyone.

What in the World

Ok.... it is 3:30am and I can't sleep! What in the World am I doing up? I have no clue. I have not been sleeping good lately. Not sure exactly why. At first I thought it was just from allergies, but that has seemed to cleared up a little. I just can't get comfortable enough to sleep through the night. I didn't even fall asleep until 12:30 and then I was wide awake by 2am. I can feel it.... I'm going to crash and burn soon if I don't start sleeping through the night in the next few days. I'm getting very irritable also.

Saturday was my DH's birthday. Being that we were not talking, no one, not even the kids, knew that he was leaving the house at 2pm and not coming home! The kids had planned a little B'Day party for him and sat here waiting for him. They tried calling him, but he didn't even answer his phone. Finally, Joseph called him at like 7pm and he picked up the phone. Told Joseph that he was out in Montauk fishing and was not coming home until after midnight! What nerve! So.. last night we ended up having cake (which we, the kids and I were dying for, lol). It ended up being a nice day. I guess that is what counts.

As I've mentioned in previous posts... I started working in the schools here in the lunchrooms. They offered me a permanent postion in one of the Elementary Schools to be the cook. This will be from 8:30am-2:15pm. I accepted and start today! I hope I will be able to do this physically. They know that I have medical problems and just said, "If you feel you can not do it just tell us and we will put you back on subing". That made me feel pretty good. I have to say that with these new hours of working I now have to change my walking from the mornings to the afternoons (not sure that is going to work out so well). And it is not leaving me enough time to do squeeze in my scrapbooking! That is a little disappointing. I still need to finish up a circle journal. I still have 13 days, but I really wanted done buy this weekend and that didn't happen. Hopefully, I will have it done by this Saturday and out in the mail early.

2peas challenge: What gets you through Mondays? I have to tell you.. not much lately!lol. I think I just muddle through my Mondays. We will see how I do today especially with a new job position.

NO TIME

It just seems like for the last few days I hardly have time to even breathe! I'm always running around like a headless chicken. Today is going to be some of the same. Squeezing in my 2 1/2 mile walk and then racing home to shower to race some more to work. I'm not sure I really like this 9am shift. I might have to reconsider this.

Last night was my 2 ... 1 hr classes. I'm taking a weight resistence class and a body sculpting class. OMG! I might not be able to move in 2 days.They both were tough last night. Lots of leg work. I just keep saying to myself... NO PAIN.. NO GAIN!

Yesterday when I got up it looked like rain. It got more gray and almost black out by 9 am... At about that time I started to get a severe headache! It just wouldn't go away. I thought I would cut off my head that is how bad it was getting. I came home from work at 1:45pm and just laid down thinking that would help. But no. I really thing it was because of the pressure in the air. When it did start to rainout it was about 5:30pm and my headache started to go away. How insane is that?

Oh well... I'm looking foward to Greys Anatomy tonight and I'm pretty pissed off that Fox has the baseball on. I haven't seen House in 2 weeks now! Hope everyone has a wonderful day.

Travel

2peas challenge for today: What in your life do you wish you would have done that you haven't yet?

Well I know that I would love to do a road trip to everystate in the US (of course I would have to fly to Hawaii). I think that would be very exciting.And I would love to travel to Italy. I really love to travel. My husband does not and that is why I hardly ever leave Long Island. The only time I do leave is if I'm going to visit my family (Las Vegas) or my best friend (N. Carolina). Oh.. did I mention... he does not go!

Ok... thats it for now.. I have a very hectic morning here. I got called last night to fill in for someone at the Middle School. So I have to be at the school by 9am. I have to fit in my 2 1/2 mile walk before that, and of course shower.lol. I'll try to get back here an update more later. Have a Great day!

2peas challenge

2peas challenge for today: What is your style of Christmas decoration? I honestly don't think what I do has a name, lol. It is a Style all of its own. We have some traditional, and some new but it is mostly stuff that my kids made for me growing up. I will always put that stuff out. I just love everything from Kindergarten stuff all the way up to I guess 8th grade stuff. I have tons of stuff that they've made me. If anyone has a name for that let me know.

It's Columbus Day! It is also my sister-in-laws B'Day! We are probably going to get together later on today for some cake and presents. My kids are home from school today and I have no work today. yeah! DH has a bug up his butt for the last 2 days so I'm staying far away from him. This is his time of the month. lol Just love those 5-6 days with him!

Other news..... I was invited to a crop that a lady holds at her home every couple months. I had posted a while back on 2peas that I was looking for something local and she wrote and said that she would let me know when the next one was. It was on Saturday and we had a very good time. I have to tell you that I didn't get much done.. 2 layouts. ugh! But I got to meet some great people and really got some good ideas from what they were doing.

Well.. I have to tell you that DH and I went to see the movie "The Departed" Friday night. All I can say is "OMG" it was terrific! I don't want to give anything away... you just have to go see it for yourself. Jack Nicholson was terrific, Leo was just so Amazing and ohhh so cute, Matt was awesome! You couldn't turn away because you might miss something. Just a GREAT movie.

2peas Challenge for today: If you could ask for only 3 things for Christmas what would they be? Lets see... hmmmmm.... I really want an ipod or some other mp3 player (just because I'm tired of holding a walkman while I'm walking everyday), new luggage (all my luggage is garbage), gift card to a scrap store.

Its a Cold one

Here it is Friday and I have to say that I got up and it is pretty darn cold out there this morning. It is about 51 degrees and very windy. I do not like the cold weather and hate it even more if it rains or snows. It is also supposed to rain later on today, which kind of explains why I could not sleep well last night. I might have to double up on some meds for today. It is not going to warm up really either the weather people are saying. Our high today is only getting up to 56!

My plans for today are to go and attempt (I say attempt, because it is so cold and windy) to do my 2 1/2 mile walk this morning around 7am. Then come home... check out some blogs, eat breakfast. Of course shower, get dressed and go to work until 2pm. My husband and I are going to go to an early movie. I've been waiting for today for so long. I want to see "The Departed"! It stars Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, And Mark Wahlberg! I hope it is going to be as good as it looks to be. And then we will probably grab a little dinner. I really don't like to eat dinner after 6pm but this time I will. I can't wait to tell you all about the movie!

For this weekend, the only thing I was going to do was a crop in the neighborhood. Not sure I will still be going. I really have to decide today though. And then I just want to finish some layouts that I need to journal on that I did last weekend at the all night crop. That is really it for me this weekend. I hope everyone has a great weekend.

Working out!

Last night was my first classes for the Body Sculpting and Resistance Training. OMG I know that by tonight I'm going to be feeling it! I was happy that my friend actually showed up (she is the one who was... my walking partner and stopped all together back in the beginning of July). Both classes are only 1 hr each and once a week, so this should not be difficult. It has been some time though since I've worked with weights and done some of these exercises. I am hoping to complete my weight lose doing this. I've been stuck at the same weight not for almost 3 yrs! This sucks... and it doesn't help much when your doctor tells you that with your medical conditions... you probably won't lose anymore. I'm working my butt to try to get this fat off me. Ok..I've slipped the last few weeks with the eating habits. But I'm walking 2-2 1/2 miles everyday! I think my body has just gotten used to this workout so now I'm going to pump it up a little.

Other news..... We got those storms that were making their way east late last night. Some lightning and thunder, some downpours and drizzle, but I have to admit....... its the winds! It is still windy as heck out there. They said up to gusts of 5o mph! And it looks like it.

I was also invited to neighborhood crop for this Saturday. Not sure if I'm going to go. I really want to go, but I feel bad since I went to the Unslumber crop last Saturday night 6pm-6am. and my dh was all by himself. We will see though, this one is only for 4 hrs and its in the afternoon. I know I still need to post my layouts from last weekend. I promise to get to that hopefully by tomorrow.

2peas challenge: What is your fav. halloween candy? I really don't have a favorite halloween candy, but my all time favorite candy is M&M's Plain!

Mother Nature

How funny that todays 2peas challenge is: What is the last thing you created? This is exactly what I was going to talk about today!

Now I have to tell you that this is my very first Circle Journal. I had no clue really what to do. I did however browse through the pea gallery for ideas. I love pretty much everything outdoors (except the fall clean up,lol). So I decided to do an album all about Mother Nature. I hope when I get it back in 9 months that it is full of beautiful and wonderful photos of mother nature. This
This is the album cover. I really didn't have a clue what to do... Next cj I do I think will be better.These are my sign in cards. I asked each lady to please decorate and embellish any way they wanted and to please add a photo on the back. Of course I made 10..all different colors.This is my intro/instruction page. I was going with a natural theme...
this is one of my fav pic's! The quote on the bottom says " Nature can survive without man, but man alone can not survive without nature". I know they are all ocean pic's but I just love them.And this one is a little out of the box for me.. I've never used ribbon before. I like how it turned out. If you have time ... let me know how my very 1st circle journal came out.

Have a Wonderful Wednesday!

Shadow boxes

Here it is Tuesday and I can't believe that I am able to get on here this early today. Yesterday was ohhhh fun filled. My friend Lynn came over with her 4 year old (who btw, is a typical 4 yr old. can't sit still for even a min.) anyway, my friend call yesterday and asked me if I would help her put together a shadowbox. This would include items from the 4yr olds dance recital. I say ok, come on over. Now I need to tell you she came over with a ton of stuff. I go through it and we decide what will fit and what won't. I (yes me alone) puts the entire box together. Also, I am constantly intereputed by the 4 yr old who wants somethng to eat,drink,play with..you get the pic. It ended up taking me 2 hrs! because I had to keep stopping just when I was on a roll. It did however come out very cute.
Now I should also tell you that this is my first time doing a shadow box! I think it came out pretty good. Sorry the pictures are not any better.

So after all that I now had to go to my great-nephews b'day party ..... can we all say more 4 yr olds! Plus my 10 month great -neice was attached to me yesterday which is always fun. My neice rented one of those bouncy houses for the kids...after a while I kicked the big boys out and put the 10 month old in... well she didn't want to get out! She was having a BLAST!

2peas challenge: Talk about your fav TV show. ===Mine is HOUSE! My sister got me addicted to it in April and now I have to watch! I'm so mad because I missed last week. But I will be watching tonight at 8pm!

Hope everyone has a Terrific Tuesday!

A Wonderful Monday

Good Morning, I am feeling great today! This is a wonderful day. I woke up a this morning feeling a little stiff, but got dressed and went down to the track and did my 2 mile walk. I felt pretty good afterwards. Hopefully I will continue to feel good.

Ok.... Saturday night I went to an Unslumber crop! It was held at a lls and was from 6pm-6am. It was great. I didn't get as much done as I really wanted to, but I did manage to get 5 layouts completed and started on 1 more. It seemed to take me forever to get motivated. I hate when that happens. ugh.... I have not taken any photos of my layouts yet. Hopefully today I will be able to get around to that and then post them.

My to do list today is pretty high. I have to do laundry, sweep the floors, clean off the diningroom table (this is my catch all) clean the blinds in this house (they are disgusting!) take the boys to the dr., take hubby to the dr to have his stitches looked at.. forgot to tell you that he cut his hand open while I was at the crop and had to go to the er for 7 stitches! He didn't even call me to meet him there. And then decided what to make for dinner. Thats it for here.

2peas challenge: List 10 things that you are thankful for in no particular order

1. My life... Had 2 heartattacks at the age of 28 and was pronounced dead at 30 from going into Thyroid Storm and everything shutting down

2. My family are very helpful and supportive

3. My house (even though I really don't like it)

4. That I have food on the table

5. My health

6. My vehicles

7. My job

8. My ability to try to help others when in need

9. My friends who help me all the time

10. A very caring, loving, supportive husband.

Its Friday

It is a very gloomy day here on Long Island today. Light rain since the weeee hours this morning and cold out..well cold for us right now. I really don't feel like doing much when the weather is like this. ugh..I just want to curl up in my nice heated bed and pull the blankets over my head!

Ok... I went for my infusion last night. Very good to be back there with my wonderful nurses and friends. Some of the people go every 4 wks.(like me),some go 6 wks, and some go 8 wks. So eventually we end up seeing each other at least a few times a year. When I got there one of the nurses came right out and said "Lynn we have to pre-med you" I was like why??? I never got pre-med before. Well my doctor ordered it because he doesn't want me to get any infections and because I was on this for so long before I had to stop for 6 months it can cause infection when re-started. I was like ok if thats what he says. Well pre-med takes an extra 45min-hr to get done and it is done before my remicaid. I felt bad for my friend who I drive because that means she stuck there for extra time. It did end up ok though.. they started my pre-med about 30 mins before they started her remicaid. Then I find out the doctor ordered for all my infusions!ugh!!! It ended up being a very talkative group.. The nurses (Mary and Doreen) said that was because I was there, lol. They said that when I was gone... no one talked! ugh.. how do you do that for 4 hrs! I just can't!Hopefully this treatment will kick in really nice and fast so I can be semi- pain free. My next appt is Oct. 26th.

Other news... I'm supposed to go to a slumber crop tonight. It is from 6pm-6am. I don't know if I will be able to attend. I will see how I feel later on. I was also invited to a crop in my area for tonight..I just might go to that one. We will see.

Ok.. I've got to go... Hope everyone has a Wonderful day and great weekend!

Todays the Day!

Today is the day that I get to start (re-start) my Remicaid treatments.This is going to be a high anxiety day. I've been praying that I would be able to start getting my infusions for 5 months now! It has been a very painful 5 months also. I hope that my body will respond quickly to the treatment. This is like my last hope for now. I will update you all tomorrow on how it went and maybe I will take a few photos to share my 4 hours of killed time.
This is an old motorcycle and side car. My husband and I love theseDanny standing in front of a beautiful old war plane. This plane is all chromed out. Has a wonderful picture of a beautiful woman on the front. (see below)Sorry,, I know that it is hard to see the picture but it is so Beautiful! I loved this plane. I think it was my favorite at the show.

2peas challenge for today: Complete this sentence: I have numerous passions in my life. They are___________,________________ and ________. (elaborate if you wish).

My passions in my life are my family. They are wonderful, loving, annoying at times, supportive, creative, funny and just keep me on my toes all the time. I am also very passionate about wrestling. Not that crap that is on TV (that is just garbage). I mean Olympic wrestling, greco-roman wrestling,freestyle wrestling and scholastic (folkstyle) wrestling. I just love it! It is something that my kids have been doing since they pretty much could walk. I also love scrapbooking, this is a time for me. It is peaceful in my room where I can hopefully be creative for me. It gives me joy.

Wishing everyone a TERRIFIC day!

Middle of the Week

Yes, it is Wednesday again and boy it still seems like I have done nothing all week. I don't know what it is lately. Could this be a sign of depression???? I don't think I'm depressed. I just don't feel like my normal self. Maybe its the weather changes. Maybe I'm just tired. I'm not sure what it is but I need to snap out of it really soon. Wrestling season will be starting in about 5 weeks and I'm not even prepared! This is not like me. I usually have everything all printed out, everything organized. Lists ready. I'm behind. Need to catch up.

Now this is not the only thing I'm behind in. I need to complete my CJ that needs to be mailed out by Saturday. I'm almost done... but it's still not all together. Just another thing on my mind that is not finished. I really haven't spent a whole lot of time cleaning this house either. It might start walking on its own soon. lol.

I did however order all my photos the other night. Can we sale awesome price!!! I them done for 1 cent each plus shipping. I did 205 prints and it cost me $9.80 including the shipping! Can't beat that. I'm actually going to go on this site again and see if my coupon will work again to order about another 300 prints that I should just get done especially at that price! Can't beat it! If you are interested in the site and coupon code let me know....
This is a marine helicopter that actually goes on missions. Stand next to this thing you won't believe how huge it is. It can carry 19 people, has machine guns on the side. Pretty awesome to look at.Here are 4 planes putting on an air show. Incredible how close they are to each other.

Tomorrow I will try to load some more pictures of dh at the airshow. Blogger is being picky today.

2peas challenge: What are you in the middle of lately? Well... pretty much everything. I'm in the middle of cleaning. In the middle of doing my cj. And in the middle of trying to get my wrestling stuff organized for the up coming season.

Hope everyone has a wonderful day.

Its going to be one of those weeks.... I see it now. Yesterday just seems to be a blur, and not sure what the rest of the week has in store for me. I do know that on Thursday I am going to be getting my Remicaid infusion for the first time in six months (due to insurance problems). I am actually looking forward to this. I'm supposed to get it every 4 weeks. It will be like starting over. ugh....

The new part-time job is going pretty well. I am just substituting for now with hopes of a permanent postition in one of the schools. This is fine with me. I just needed to get out of this house for a few hours a week. (remember dh is home 24/7??) Right now I'm working 3 1/2 hrs a day. Perfect.

Remember 2 weekend's ago Hubby and I went to the air show??? Blogger wouldn't let me upload the pics. but today they have. So here are just a couple of photos.Me and hubby on the shuttle ride to the airshow! (I look horrible,lol)Hubby sitting in an actual glider. The other guy is an instructor for gliders,(which my husband is thinking about doing)Hubby sitting comfortably in the glider. When the hatch is closed and you are not in the air gliding.. it gets very hot in there.

Hoping tomorrow I will be able to post more photos.

Hope everyone has a Wonderful day!

Where did the weekend go?

Here it is Monday and I'm still not sure where the weekend went! I do know that all day Saturday I was in pain so I pretty much laid in bed the whole entire day! The only time I got up was to run to the bathroom or to get a drink of water. It was a pretty sad day. I just couldn't move my body.

Then Sunday rolled around the corner and well even though I was still in some pain.... I had stuff that needed to be done. Like freakin' 7 loads of laundry! Those boys.. I swear. Plus, I needed to sweep/vacuum the floors and clean them. (those babies haven't been done in 5 days. ugh). Clean up the kitchen... You get the idea. Everything I neglected to do during the week. By 7pm last night I was exhausted. I plopped my body down on the couch and ended up watching The Green Mile. boy I hate it when the weekend flies by in a blink of an eye.

2peas challenge for today: What are some of your favorite candle scents? I just love cinnamon & apple... but I have found a few times this Mango scent.. Awesome. I also have a really good black cherry candle that is really nice.

I got Tagged!

The other day I got tagged by Sofia. So here we go:

Four jobs I have had in my life:

1. I was a Bank Teller 2. I was a school bus driver 3.I worked for the DMV 4. I was a receptionist for a local newspaper.

Four movies I have watched over & over

1. Over Board 2. Dirty Dancing 3. The Cutting Edge 4. Just Married

Four places I have lived...

1. Miami, FL 2. Okeechobee, FL 3. West Palm Bch, FL 4. Lindenhurst, NY.

Four TV shows I like to watch...

1. House 2. American Chopper 3. Greys Anatomy 4. Stand Off

Four places I have been on vacation...

1. Orland, FL 2. Las Vegas 3. Cozumel 4. Grand Cayman Island

Four blogs/web-sites I visit....

1. Two Peas in a Bucket 2. Addicted to Scrapbookin 3. Ebay 4. Your Happy Place

Four of my favorite foods...

1. Baked Ziti 2. Chocolate 3. Ice cream 4. Chicken Cutlet Parm.

Four places I'd rather be right now...

1. In Las Vegas 2. In my scrap room 3. In NC visiting my best friend 4. In my nice warm heated bed

Four people I would tag:

1.Melissa 2. Denise 3.Tracy 4. Bonnie Rose
2peas challenge for today: Blog about your hair! I love my hair most of the time. I love everything about it. I love my curls (lots of them) I love that I have a lot of hair and it is very thick. I can't say anything really bad about my hair..... It does have quite a bit of gray so I do have to color about every 4 weeks. It grows like a weed and I really should get a trim soon.

How Did I Meet My Hubby?

2peas challenge for today: Blog about how you met your significant other. I was 18yrs old and my parents just uprooted the whole family from West Palm Beach, FL to freakin' Long Island. I did not know anyone in the area except some cousins that lived 3 towns away. I immediately went to seek a job. I noticed that a local Donut place was looking for help on the grave yard shift which I had no problem doing. My very first night there some guy (not my husband, but his close friend)comes up with a motorcycle and is trying to bring the darn thing into the building. I politely tell him NO WAY! This guy leaves and I don't really think about him again until he comes back with 2 friends at 4:30am! They were out at the bars and were coming in for breakfast. Now I'm thinking what is this guy doing. I go around and start asking what I could get them. The first guy says breakfast special and coffee. The next guy says the same thing. Now I walk over to my husband and before I say a thing he grabs my hand and starts kissing it and going up arm! I was like excuse me,,, but that is my arm and could you let go please. Hearing my very southern accent he just looked up at me and said, "I'm going to marry you!" Just like that. I don't even know the guy! I was like " I don't think so" He kept hitting on me and then he became a stalker.lol... I finally broke down after 2 months of him hounding me, following me, and sleeping out in the parking lot just to make sure nothihng happened to me. We've been married for 23 1/2 years! Sure good times and bad... but I will always remember that first night for the rest of my life.

Thanks for the challenge... I really should do a layout all about that this way it can continue to be cherished.

How Did I Meet My Hubby?

2peas challenge for today: Blog about how you met your significant other. I was 18yrs old and my parents just uprooted the whole family from West Palm Beach, FL to freakin' Long Island. I did not know anyone in the area except some cousins that lived 3 towns away. I immediately went to seek a job. I noticed that a local Donut place was looking for help on the grave yard shift which I had no problem doing. My very first night there some guy (not my husband, but his close friend)comes up with a motorcycle and is trying to bring the darn thing into the building. I politely tell him NO WAY! This guy leaves and I don't really think about him again until he comes back with 2 friends at 4:30am! They were out at the bars and were coming in for breakfast. Now I'm thinking what is this guy doing. I go around and start asking what I could get them. The first guy says breakfast special and coffee. The next guy says the same thing. Now I walk over to my husband and before I say a thing he grabs my hand and starts kissing it and going up arm! I was like excuse me,,, but that is my arm and could you let go please. Hearing my very southern accent he just looked up at me and said, "I'm going to marry you!" Just like that. I don't even know the guy! I was like " I don't think so" He kept hitting on me and then he became a stalker.lol... I finally broke down after 2 months of him hounding me, following me, and sleeping out in the parking lot just to make sure nothihng happened to me. We've been married for 23 1/2 years! Sure good times and bad... but I will always remember that first night for the rest of my life.

Thanks for the challenge... I really should do a layout all about that this way it can continue to be cherished.

What a CRAZY Day!

Yesterday was one of those CRAZY, hectic days in my life. It started out like normal. Get up at 6am... get Joseph up for school... get the boys out for school (I really don't have to do anything since they are 17 &15) I just want to make sure they go, lol.Then at 7am I finally get dressed, take my med's, and get into the car and drive down to the Middle School track and I proceed to stretch out and then do my 2 mile walk and then of course I really stretch out after that. I then drive back home and I had a phone call to see if I could work. I call them back and say yes (that was stupid, but I need the money).

So I jump in the shower, get dressed and now I'm off to the doctors office. He called me Monday afternoon and needed to see me. Now that doesn't sound good, but in my head I already know it is about my bloodwork from a few days before. I get there and then about 40 mins later I get to be seen. He is always sooo busy. Well.. I was right.... my cholestrol was high again. He doesn't like it. Now I do have to mention that the bad cholestrol is 175 (yes I know that is bad), but my good cholestrol is pretty high also (75). Apparently, that is offsetting the bad and it brings me down to an average cholestrol level. But of course he doesn't like it. Now he wants me to exercise more! I'm like holy crap, I'm already walking 2 miles plus I watch what I eat. I rarely eat red meat anymore, I try to stay away from junk food (it is hard sometimes), but I'm doing as much as possible. Ok.. maybe I should try a little harder with the ice cream. He can't, or should I say won't, put me on any meds for the cholestrol due to the fact that I'm already on so many meds. So we are going to watch it.

I leave his office and head on over to work. I got hired as a temp. p/t for the schools. This is perfect for me. I just wanted to get out of my house for a few hours a day (if possible). Remember DH is home 24/7! So they asked me if I could be there everyday at 10:30am-2:15 until the end of October. I said sure. It is really cute being with all those little kids again. I forgot how funny they are and the stuff that comes out of their mouths is priceless.

After work, I have to head over to the Rheumotologist! They have to do a tuberculosis test on me so I can get my infusions again. Like I said it was a very hectic day.

By the way,,, still having problems with blogger, if you haven't noticed. Everything is all messed up on here. Still hoping they fix it. I also still can't post any photos. This really stinks!

2peas challenge for today: If you could change 1 thing in our world today what would it be? Be silly or serious, its up to you. This is a touchy subject for me.... I would have to say ANY type of abuse. This could be spousal, child or elderly abuse. There is not a person in the world that has a right to hit or abuse in any way another person. This has gotten complete out of hand and most of these people who are doing the abusing are just getting a slap on the hand. There need to be tougher laws and law officials need to act accordingly. They just can't sit there and let it happen. They don't like to respond to a spousal disruption call. But they need to. Too many people (mostly women and children) are dying at the hands of their abuser because law officials don't want to get involved. This needs to be STOPPED!

The air up there.

This weekend my hubby and I went to the Air Show out on the Island. It is about a 30 min. drive from our home. It was perfect weather for the air show. This show had a bunch of old planes and also some war planes and helli's. It also had a couple of old police cars, armed forces vehicles and just a few old motorcycles and cars (not as many as we had hoped for). We stayed out there for about 4 hours. I wish the show was better than it was. It really was not worth the 18.00 admission per person. When you hear Air Show... you think you are going to see alot of planes and helicopters actually in the air doing flybys and stuff.... not here. It was actually pretty boring. We did walk around and look at a lot of the planes on display though. The old planes are actually pretty big. I would post some photos,,, but blogger is not letting me. ugh this thing lately.. It still has my whole template screwed up I don't know how to fix that either.

2peas challenge for today: If you become a scrapper-for-hire, who would you want to work for and tell their life story? why? This can be a distant relative,friend, celebrity or historical figure, living or not. Hmmmm... I would have to pick my grandfather. I would love to scrap about his journey as a young boy from Italy over to America. Growing up with my grandmother and then marrying her. Once married living in the home that my great-grandfather owned and my grandmother grew up in for the rest of his life. Being a NYC train conductor. I'm sure he would have some incredible tales to tell that I wish I would've gotten to paper before he passed.

Wacky Sunday

Since I really did not have anything to show today I decided to do the 2 peas challenge:

How do you take your coffee/tea? I love mine with a little International French Vanilla Creamer.

How do you like your eggs? Either scrambled well or as a cheese omlet.

Favorite breakfast foods: French Toast!

Coke or Pepsi? Neither

You're feeling lazy. What do you make? Sandwiches

You're feeling really lazy. What kind of pizza do you order? 2 large cheese pies with extra cheese!

You feel like cooking. What do you make? Chicken cutlet parm. with baked ziti

Do any foods bring back good memories? Yep, Farina.

Do any foods bring back bad memories? No, not really.

Do any foods remind you of someone? Certain Stella D'Oro cookies and biscuits remind me of my grandfather. He had them right before he went to bed.

Is there a food you refuse to eat? The list is longer than my arm. but right off the top of head,, No fish! No green veggies.... NO liver!

What was your favorite food as a child? A dish my grandmother made all the time called "pasta and peas" still my fav.

Is there a food you hated as a child but now love? Hot dogs

Is there a food you loved as a child but now hate? Cant think of one

Favorite junk food: Anything chocolate

Favorite dessert: My famous chocolate cream pie or Double fudge brownie ice cream

The perfect nightcap? Water for me

Do you have any weird food habits? I use NO mayo or mustard on anything! I hate those things.

Hope everyone has a terrific day and evening.

Gloomy Friday

Here it is Friday and it is awfully gray and rainy. I truly hate this kind of weather. It gives me the blahs! I don't want to do anything, I mean nothing. I wish I could just stay in bed the whole entire day. I will say that this morning I forced myself off of the couch (I couldn't sleep again) got the boys out, made coffee (haven't had any yet) and put up a load of wash. So I guess I did do something today.

You may have noticed that blogger is doing to something again to my blogspace. Everything has been moved around since last night. They did this once before about 2 months ago then about a week later it went back to normal. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I was going to attempt to move my slide show as a permanent bar across the top of my page, but noticed something was wrong already and didn't want to add to it. Still trying to figure out where it should go in the template (thanks for the info girls yesterday).

Since it is so horrible out there today I've decided to try to get down to scrapping today. I know what a horrible day, but it was either that or clean! I really don't think cleaning is in especially since I know they will be bringing all the mud in today. No big plans for the weekend either. Just a boring time here. Hopefully, I will get inspired to actually finish a layout. Thats my goal for this weekend. I really need to get my butt working on a circle journal that really has to go out in 2 weeks and I've done nothing to it. The ideas are there... but its not leaving my head to my hands. Ohhh well....

2peas challenge: What kind of simple things do you like to surround yourself with? and why? This was very hard for me.... I do not have anything elaborate. Nothing expensive (except the tv???) Everything in my home is pretty simple. I like to have candles but my kids lol. At christmas time I need to have my collection of santa treetoppers out. I display them on shelves, on top of the tv, centerpieces. I just love them.

Ok... I'm off, Hope everyone has a wonderful Friday and great weekend.

Today is Thursday 13

It is Thursday! One full day away from TGIF! As some of you many already know this week has not been a very good week for me. I hurt my back, have not been able to a thing around this house (it looks like a hurricane's visited), have not done one stitch of scrapbooking (booo whooo) and pretty much just even feel like doing a thing lately. I don't know if the weather change has something to do with all this, but that is what I'm blaming it all on!

So here is my Thursday 13 for today, something to cheer me up:

My Favorite things to do!

1. I just love to travel

2. I love to sleep in, under the covers, in my warm bed in the winter

3. I love going to Wrestling Tournaments and meets

4. I love to talk to my sister every single day

5. I love driving in the country

6. I love cuddling up with my hubby and watching a great movie

7. I love on rainy days and the kids are home, we all lay on my bed and watch movies

8. I love to take long baths

9. I love to hang out with good friends

10. I love getting together with my sister-in-law

11. I love to do my scrapbooking

12. I love to go fishing (don't like to eat it though)

13. I love to have get-to-gethers with family and friends

these are not in any special order

Now I could really use some help from anyone that has added a slide show to their blog. I made one up last night (check out below), but I would like it to be a permanent showcase at the top of my blog (like melissa's,strawberry fields) and I don't know how to do it. If anyone can help me, please help me, that would be so awesome. I'm a complete idiot when it comes to this stuff. I really should take some classes.

2peas challenge for today: What do you do for this season around your home? To be honest with you... I really don't do much. Of course we are raking leaves almost every other day. I don't decorate much for the fall. I but out some wonderful pumpkin candles and I add lots of orange, red and yellows. My daughter and her boyfriend always decorate outside. Haystack, cornstalks, pumpkins very nice.

I created a Slide Show! Check it out!

Fall is coming

The fall season is creeping upon us now. The last few days it has been very crisp out there. At night it is dipping down to low 40's. I'm not so sure I'm ready for this. I'm more of a hot and dry weather type of person. Why I'm still living here on Long Island I'll never know.. .. ooops, I do know.. My husband was born only 4 blocks away and we live 4 blocks away from the house he lived in his entire life until we got married. My husband does not like change. He claims he needs his ocean. We hardly even go out on the boat anymore. I personally don't really need it anymore. It is nice to look at and be around but I'm done with it, I think.

My back is starting to feel a little better. I'm going to my family doctor today and see what he wants me to do. I know he is going to tell me to go to the Rheumotologist. I already set up an appt. for tomorrow. If that doesn't work... its off to the accupuncturist. I'm due for that anyway. I haven't been for almost 3 years. They fixed me up the last time in 2 visits!

Todays 2 peas challenge: If I had a motto, it would be:

Live life like there is no tomorrow!

Have a Wonderful Day!

Terrific Tuesday!

Good morning to all! It is a wonderfully beautiful, crisp morning here on Long Island today. The sun is shining, the birds are chripping and everything is good. Well almost everything. I don't know what I did yesterday morning but I can barely move! I did something to my lower back and boy it is bad. I am supposed to go on a job interview at 10:30 and I just can't get myself moving. I hope I make it there. It is just for p/t work about 18 hours a week. I just need something to get out of this house for a few hr's and get away from dh who is home 24/7! I'm sure you all understand.

I'm going to make this post short and sweet. There is so much going on here this week I will be happy if I get to blog everyday. I have many dr's appts that I'm catching up on this week. That means alot of time just sitting in waiting rooms. What was I thinking making them all for the same week. I'm losing my mind!

That is it really. Hope everyone has a terrific day.

The Toga Party

My sister-in-law has a toga party every year. It is a celebration she has for her birthday (which is in Oct.) Every year she has a terrific turnout and this year was no different. Lots of food, drink and song! Everyone had a wonderful time. The party started at about 5pm and the last guests to leave left at about 2am! I stayed afterwards to help clean up and we were done by 3am! What a night.

Here are just a few photos. It is a lot of fun.This is me and my son Joseph. This one is of Joseph and my sister-in-law dancing together. Too cute.
And this one is of my sister-in-law and 2 of her close friends, posing ...too funnyCan you tell there is a party going on? lol.

Today is a day of reflection for most of us. My heart and prayers are with everyone who was touched by this tragic event 5 years ago.

TGIF!

All I can say is :"THANK GOD ITS FRIDAY!" I don't know why I just couldn't wait for this week to end! It is a beautiful day out there again today. I do have some cleaning that needs to be done but who knows when I will get to it. It has been pretty boring here the last few days (with the exception of cleaning,lol). I can't wait until Wrestling season is in full force. I am just starting to get all my papers organized this way there won't be any surprises last min.

Yesterday, I was able to get a 1 3/4 mile walk at the High School (which I hate) and then ran into the chief of security for the school (I know him) and asked when they were opening the resurfaced track at the Middle School? He said that it should already be open. It wasn't. So last night my dh wanted to go fly his airplane and I decided I would try to get a mile in and see if the track was open. It was!!! But apparently not for long. No lines yet and they said they might do them next week. OH BOY!

2peas challenge: What do you do when you are feeling down?.... to get your spirits lifted?- I do a lot of different things. I will walk sometimes and think happy thoughts. Sometimes I will just take a drive and then go down by the docks or the beach. Other times, I will take in a funny movie.

Its a Wonderful Day!

Good morning! I can't believe it, but the sun is finally shining and it is a beautiful day today. I might even attempt to soak up a few rays. It is only supposed to get to about 72 today, but heck I'll take the sunshine anytime I can.

As promised yesterday, I got pictures of Joseph in his favorite outfit. You've got to love the hat! He is so funny.
Other than that there is nothing else going on here. Oh, btw, I was able to clean my entire kitchen yesterday and even the whole frig! It actually looked like a brand new frig! lol

Ok, I'm off to put up a sauce/gravy for my baked ziti for dinner tonight and I still need to make my meatballs. Hope everyone has a wonderful day.

First Day of School!

Yeah!!! It's the First Day of School here on Long Island! I could not wait to get the boys out for the day. I know that seems mean, but I'm sure once your little ones get to be 17 and 15 you will love that feeling also. lol I can't wait to show you pictures of the 15 year old from this morning. He is so funny. Forget about the 17 year in pictures (unless he is flexing his muscles, lol). So this morning I asked Joseph (15) if he was going to school with DJ (17) this morning, (DJ now has a car). Joseph's response was a big HELL NO! I took that as a sign that he didn't want to be seen with big brother. lol

I am happy to report that I did 1 1/2 mile walk today. They still don't have my track open. They were re-surfacing it over 3 weeks ago and told us that it would only take 4 days... Yeah ok. So I had to walk at the high school which I'm not fond of that track. NO CUSHION. The paved track makes my whole body ache.

Today is dedicated to actually cleaning my entire kitchen! I need alot of help with this. I refused to deep clean this summer when my kids came in after I just cleaned the whole kitchen from top to bottom and spilled stuff all over the place, left stuff all over the counters and didn't and wouldn't clean up after themselves. So basically, I went on STRIKE! I did not do dishes unless I used them. They were looking for plates, glasses, spoons and forks all the time. Heck the sink was full of them that you used I told DJ. He just looked at me. Hey I warned them that I would strike, and I did. Now that they are in school... no mess around.

As for the 2 peas challenge today: What handmade items are you making for Christmas this year? Anything? Any ideas? Well, I think I'm going to be doing handmade scraves and hats for my neices and nephews. That is all that I can think of right now.

More Tennis?

As you can tell, I did not get to blog yesterday. Nothing really exciting going on here. Just all the hustle and bustle of trying to get the boys set for school (which starts tomorrow!).Can you hear my EXCITEMENT!!! My house will be clean for more than 5 mins. It will be truly amazing. Plus, I have to tell you, being that they are 17 and 15, I'm so tired of them always looking for me and hunting me down even when I'm trying to hide in my scraproom. I know that my days will be a little more hectic with all the running around that I do for them with school, but I can't wait.

I've been pretty bad (well the weather has helped) I have not been doing my daily walk since I got back from Las Vegas. I really have to get back into the swing of things. My body is killing me and I think it is because I have been very lazy! It is use to walking at least 2 miles everyday and doing 200 sit-ups! I've also had a very hard time getting up in the morning, ugh! I am usually up by 6:15am lately I'm not getting up until 8am (this could be bad for tomorrow, I better set the alarm). Could I be depressed????? I wonder what I'm depressed about??? Oh, boy... Let me stop.

Tennis news....... I'm sure you've heard that Andre Agassi lost the other night to Benjamin Becker (so sad). He is my favorite player and I'm very sad that he won't be playing anymore, but I do understand. At the age of 36 it is hard to keep up with all these young guns coming onto the circuit. As posted in previous posts, my husband and I went to the Open on Thursday and we got to watch some great tennis. Here are a few more pictures.
This is Justine Henin-Hardiene. She is ranked #2 in the world right now. She is from Belgium. Justine has been around for a few years now. She is this tiny little woman, and very fast. Not my favorite womens player (Lindsay Davenport is) but she is ok.

As for the 2peas challenge for today: Think of one of your best friends, what is the first thing people would notice about that person? This was pretty easy for me. My best friend has been my best friend (non-relative) for 30 years! I think the first thing people would notice is that she is very caring, loving person. She listens to what you have to say. She is a shoulder to lean on when needed. Sandy is the first person to go out of her way to help you when you need it. Heck, that is why she is my best friend. We lean on each other in times of bad. We laugh with each other in the good. It is sad that we live so far apart (not across the country, but far) we don't get to see each other like other best friends but we do try to talk to each other all the time. She lives in NC and of course I live in NY (Long Island).

Well that is it for me today. I hope everyone has a Wonderful Day!

More Tennis?

As you can tell, I did not get to blog yesterday. Nothing really exciting going on here. Just all the hustle and bustle of trying to get the boys set for school (which starts tomorrow!).Can you hear my EXCITEMENT!!! My house will be clean for more than 5 mins. It will be truly amazing. Plus, I have to tell you, being that they are 17 and 15, I'm so tired of them always looking for me and hunting me down even when I'm trying to hide in my scraproom. I know that my days will be a little more hectic with all the running around that I do for them with school, but I can't wait.

I've been pretty bad (well the weather has helped) I have not been doing my daily walk since I got back from Las Vegas. I really have to get back into the swing of things. My body is killing me and I think it is because I have been very lazy! It is use to walking at least 2 miles everyday and doing 200 sit-ups! I've also had a very hard time getting up in the morning, ugh! I am usually up by 6:15am lately I'm not getting up until 8am (this could be bad for tomorrow, I better set the alarm). Could I be depressed????? I wonder what I'm depressed about??? Oh, boy... Let me stop.

Tennis news....... I'm sure you've heard that Andre Agassi lost the other night to Benjamin Becker (so sad). He is my favorite player and I'm very sad that he won't be playing anymore, but I do understand. At the age of 36 it is hard to keep up with all these young guns coming onto the circuit. As posted in previous posts, my husband and I went to the Open on Thursday and we got to watch some great tennis. Here are a few more pictures.
This is Justine Henin-Hardiene. She is ranked #2 in the world right now. She is from Belgium. Justine has been around for a few years now. She is this tiny little woman, and very fast. Not my favorite womens player (Lindsay Davenport is) but she is ok.

As for the 2peas challenge for today: Think of one of your best friends, what is the first thing people would notice about that person? This was pretty easy for me. My best friend has been my best friend (non-relative) for 30 years! I think the first thing people would notice is that she is very caring, loving person. She listens to what you have to say. She is a shoulder to lean on when needed. Sandy is the first person to go out of her way to help you when you need it. Heck, that is why she is my best friend. We lean on each other in times of bad. We laugh with each other in the good. It is sad that we live so far apart (not across the country, but far) we don't get to see each other like other best friends but we do try to talk to each other all the time. She lives in NC and of course I live in NY (Long Island).

Well that is it for me today. I hope everyone has a Wonderful Day!

Hitting the Stores!

Today will be a day spent sneaker shopping for my son Joseph and returning the clothes that I ordered for him on-line from Old Navy. He needs a bigger size! I can't believe he finally grew! In April I got him all 12's so he said that they were getting tight. I ordered last week size 14's and they are still tight. So we are going to stop at the Old Navy stores and see if we can exchange them for the bigger size. He wanted 3 pairs of jeans and 2 pairs of jean shorts from there. Going shopping with Joseph is an experience! Oh boy..... and forget about sneaker shopping. So I figure this to be an all day thing. It will be fun.

As promised I have few pictures from the US OPEN that I want to share today.
These are of Raphael Nadal he is #2 ranked in the world right now. He was on the practice courts when we got to see him. He recently turned 20 years old! Very cute kid. He is from a little island in Spain. Nadal is very exciting to watch. He is now one of my husbands favorites! (My favorite is still Andre Agassi). I will try to get more photos up tomorrow.

2peas challenge: What would you do today if you could do anything you have a deep desire to do? If you had the means, what would you do? Hmmmm.. If it is something for just today, not like a vacation that lasts a week, then I would say go to the US OPEN and be able to sit in the box seats at Arthur Ashe Stadium. That is what I would do if I had the means.

Tropical Depression

We are getting hit with the leftovers of tropical depression Ernesto! Yes, this means that tennis is probably not going to happen today and if it does it is already really delayed! This could be good for Andre Agassi though. I hope he gets a chance to rest one more day.

The wind has been horrible all morning and early afternoon. There are quite a bit of tree branches down. WE really haven't gotten much rain since last night/early morning. Maybe a little drizzle. The weather channel is saying that this will pass by late evening.

Here on the homefront there is nothing much going on. I really hate days like this, they make me just want to stay in my nice warm bed for the entire day. I don't want to clean... the boys and Danny will be tracking in all kinds of mud and rocks with their shoes.It is useless to clean on a day like today in my house, but boy does it need it. While I was gone they did nothing. Typical.

I think I might finish editing my US Open pictures from Thursday and order some so I can do some Layouts with them. I haven't done anything scrapbook related since I got home from Las Vegas Tuesday night. I also need to finish up getting a few things for Joseph for school, thank goodness it starts on Wednesday! Yeah for me! Hopefully I will be able to get some of this house clean!

Oh well, until tomorrow! Hope everyone has a GREAT weekend!

Tennis Anyone?

Ok, Danny and I decided the last minute on Wednesday evening to go to the US Open yesterday for the entire day! It was the most perfect day! It was a little cool in the morning but boy did it heat up by 2pm. The tennis was awesome! We got to watch: Kuznetsova, Henin-Hardiene, Shaugnessy, Hewitt, Monfils, Nadal (practicing), The Bryan Brothers, Mauresmo, Martina Navratinova and then Bagdahtis and Agassi! It was great. We are trying to see about getting tickets for Monday now. The weather is not supposed to be the greatest. Hopefully it won't rain on Monday. They are calling for rain the whole weekend. Stinks! I have lots of pictures that I have load up so be prepared. I'm also hoping to scrapbook some of them also.

2peas challenge: Blog about the relationship you have with your parents.

I have a great relationship with my parents! We are very close. My dad even calls me like 10 times or more a day. lol. My dad is a little nuts right now because he is bored out of his mind since he retired about 1 month ago. I actually just left there. I visited with them and my sisters for 10 days. They live in Las Vegas and I live in NY (Long Island).

I'm Home!

Ok....I made it home. I left Las Vegas yesterday at 10:30am and landed in Chicago for 50 mins and then headed to Long Island! It makes for a very long day. I landed here in Long Island about 8pm.

Being home actually feels pretty good this time. The weather is sucky but it feels good. I have so much to do and don't know where to start. I really need to get some laundry done and get these boys to school shopping. I just don't have any energy to any of it right now. It is already noon time and I've pretty much done nothing! I guess that is the way this day is going to go. It is very gray and gloomy (makes me sad). I love the sunshine, it gives me energy most of the time.

2peas challenge for today:What does being a good friend to others means to you? What do you look for in a good friend? I think being a good friend is being a good listener, a person who will be there in good and bad. Someone to lean on when needed. I look for a person who will listen and not judge. They have to be fun to be around or at least make me laugh. They are thoughtful and sincere. Do any of you have a very good friend? One that you are not related to. I do! We have been best friends for 30 years! We have the same interests (not everything the same), we know how to make the smile, and we are always there for each other when needed. Of course my best friend is my little sister and well... we've been best friends for almost 37 years now! lol

I'm leaving on a Jet Plane

Todays the day. I'm leaving Las Vegas heading home. If you have visited here at all this week you will already know that I am disappointed with most of my trip here this time. I really wanted to get loads of pictures, that didn't happen. I really wanted to just sit out in the sun and relax, that didn't happen. I did however accomplish spending time with my mom and dad, sister, neice and more time than I thought I would get with my son.

My sister and I did get some scrapbooking done. Which I'm very pleased with and can't wait to get home and take photos of my lo's so everyone can see them! I am pretty pleased with the way they came out.

I will be heading for the airport at 8 am. My plane takes off at 10:30am and then I land in Chicago for 50 mins and then on to Long Island. I land in Long Island at 8:15pm. This makes for a very long day.

2peas challenge for today: What is your most fav part of scrapping with others? What is your least fav part? My favorite part of scrapping with others is the great ideas that these other ladies have. They inspire me. They make me look at my photos a little more and think out of my little box. I also like the socializing part. I like to get to know them. My least favorite part is that there is never enough room to spread out it seems. I think I am a table hog! lol But I think most of us are, because I'm not the only one spreading out.

Hope everyone has a Terrific Day!

Alleys first day of school!

It is my niece Alleys first day of school. She is soooo excited it isn't even funny. Alley is going into the first grade now. Her teacher from Kindergarten moved up with them to 1st grade and she is even more excited that she gets the same teacher from last year. She is so funny. She was jumping up and down like a crazy girl when she heard the news. Hopefully, I will get some pictures of her first day of school.

This has not been the best trip to Las Vegas for me. I'm disappointed in myself for now putting my foot down and doing some fun stuff for me for a change! I did get some scrapbooking done with my sister, but that is really it. My dad has been way to needed this trip! I just wanted to take photos and have fun. But no.... he would rather just sit either in a yucky casino or sit at home doing nothing! That just makes me mad. I even told him that I don't know when I'm coming back. If he doesn't get a pt job soon we all may hurt him! He is driving everyone crazy already and he only retired 3 weeks ago!

Other than that... its been pretty boring like I mentioned yesterday! I fly home Tuesday morning and then the school madness begins at my house.

Hope everyone has a Great Day!

Just Another Sunday

Its just another Sunday here in Las Vegas. I am going out of my mind. I still have not gotten to do anything that I really wanted to do. I did however get to Scrappy-Do the lss here that is going out of business. I scored some great foam stamps, basic grey pp and mono's, got some assorted colors of bazzill, some ribbon, some really cute dragonfly brads, and adhesive. Everything was 30% off. I think I did pretty good ended up spending about $40. Not to bad.

Today will be another boring day spent with my father. This man needs to go back to work! He is driving everyone crazy. He is bored so he calls at least 20 times a day and then begs for someone to hang out with him so they can be bored also! OMG! I have to tell you.... this trip has not been relaxing in any way and I almost can't wait to go home!

Last night we went to Cosmic Bowl! We had a lot of fun Bowling. I have to see if any pictures (which would be the first pictures that I'm getting from this trip) came out. It was very dark in there and they also have like disco lights, so I'm not sure how good any of them are going to be.

2 peas Challenge: List 5 vacations that you liked and 5 that you would like to go on.

Vacations that I've been on:
1. Went to FL when my best friend got married and took my dh (we were not married then) and then we went to Disney World afterwards. That was great.
2. My Senior Class Trip! That was a 7 day cruise to the Bahamas! AWESOME
3. My 2nd trip to Las Vegas!
4. My cruise that I won from a local radio station. We flew to Tampa, then went to the port and cruised to Cozumel, Grand Cayman Island and New Orleans. That was 2001
5. Would be again to FL for my 10 year reunion! We had a blast!

Where I would like to go:
1. I would like to go to Hawaii.
2. I would like to backpack through Europe
3. I think I would like to go to Alaska
4. I would like to take a road trip to every state in the US (48)
5. Maybe take another cruise. (not sure where)

Cosmic Saturday!

It is Cosmic Saturday here. We are going to be going to Cosmic Saturday Bowling later tonight. This is bowling at Sunset Station. They have this bowling from 6pm-2am. My sister,bil, son, and a bunch of friends are going. This should be loads of fun. I'm not a very good bowler. I can not lie about that. It should be lots of fun though. Hopefully, I won't forget my camera! I can't believe I still have no pictures from this trip. That is not like me at all. I usually have 7 rolls done by now! I don't know why I left my digi at home. My husband begged that is why.

Oh well, I am going to this scrapbook store here that posted on 2 peas yesterday that they were closing down and everything must go! My sister and I are there at 10am when the doors open! I'm hoping that they still have stuff for us.

So, this trip to Vegas hasn't been exactly what I thought it would be. I was hoping to get to the strip and do some walking. Thought I would see some of the new things since April. I still might get down there, but it doesn't look promising. I hate it when things don't go the way you expect them to. I was so looking forward to coming here and I have to tell you... I'm so looking forward to going home. I just feel like I'm being torn in tons of different directions. My dad is mad because I haven't spent the whole trip with him. I've seen him every single day! For hours a day! Se he retired and is bored out of his mind, but I don't want to just sit at his house for hours on end and do nothing all day long like him. If he isn't just sitting at home he wants to go and play some slots. I really don't enjoy that! I can't stand all the smoke going right in my face.My sister is like who cares what daddy wants. You do what you want. So like I said a few days ago, It has just been hectic and then my dad calls me at least 20 times a day to see what I'm doing. I just can't seem to relax and that is what I wanted to do!

Anyway, I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

Its Friday

It is Friday. So much going on today. I know that I said that I was going to relax, but that really hasn't happened yet! I also haven't done much. I did however get to Red Rock Canyon yesterday. But you won't believe it. I forgot my camera and my sister forgot she took her mem. card out of hers. So NO pictures!!! I can't believe how dumb I was.

I just love Red Rock. It is so beautiful out there. We drive the scenic route which the drive is about 13 miles long. The mountains are just breathtaking! We've been there about 15 times. We love to walk the trails for some of the stops along the way. You can very easily spend the entire day there.

Last night we were taking my neice to her Brownie Troop meeting. It is at a church. We (my sister and I) were only in there for about 10 mins and someone decided to break her drivers side window and steal her purse! I could not believe it. It was towards the backseat and inbetween the two seats. So lots of excitement. My sister has to go to the bank to report her cards and get new ones. (We tried to call them in last night and they told her she doesn't have a card, oh did I mention that the call went to India). And she needs to also go to DMV to get a new license. So there go the plans for today. I'm babysitting.

Hopefully tonight we will be going out for dinner.... I'm thinking Cheese Cake Factory. I need something like that right now. lol

Well that is it for today. Hope everyone has a terrific day!

MY Thursday Thirteen

It is Thursday Thirteen again. I was sitting here thinking of the things that I am thankful for. So here they are:
1. I am thankful for my husband, he takes care of me when I'm ill.
2. I am thankful for my kids because they have fill my life with laughter, sorrow and joy.
3. I am thankful for my father, because he is always the one person that I can run to when I need to get away.
4. I am thankful for my sister Tra, she is always there when I need to talk.
5. I am thankful for life that I've lived, it was difficult at times but it was all mine.
6. I am thankful for the most caring and tender sister-in-law.
7. I am thankful for the most wonderful, loving, pet (Lacey) in the whole world. She just lights my life.
8. I am thankful for the health that I have still remaining. lol
9. I am thankful for the house that I have for shelter. My husband pushed and bought this house behind my back. I didn't like it, but I'm happy that I have it.
10. I am thankful for being a very strong, independant women!
11. I am thankful for being able to be a WRESTLING MOM to over 100 kids!
12. I am thankful for being ALIVE! (I was pronounced dead at the age of 31 and they brought me back)
13. I am thankful for being ME!

Its Hump Day

Hello, How is everyone doing? It is about 8:15am here in Las Vegas and it is already 89 degrees out. It is really nice though. I'm sitting here thinking about what I need to get done today. I want to go for my walk and do my sit-ups sometime today. I also want to do at least one lo. I have to start taking some pictures of my visit. It has been a very hectic visit so far. Hopefully all the drama is over and now I can just sit back and relax.

I am going to a crop on Friday I think with my sister. This will be fun. She has a ton of photos from Disneyland that she wants to do some lo's of.

This is pretty much it for me for today. Hope everyone has a great day!

A very Hectic Day!

It has been a very hectic day here in Las Vegas. I needed to take my mother to have a stress test done today. She was irrate since yesterday because she was not allowed to have any coffee or products with caffeine in it for over 24 hours. We get to the office where the test is given. We wait for 45 mins to be called on. They tell my father and I that she won't be done with the first part of the test for 3 hrs. So we leave, get something to eat and well... play a little slots. We go back 30 mins earlier than what they said and my mom is just sitting in the waiting room waiting for us! So we ask what needs to be done next? They tell us .. not once but two times that she needs to go eat and then come back for the xrays. We say ok and go eat lunch. We go back and tell the receptionist that we are back, please let them know, she in turn says to just have a seat they will be with you shortly. So we sit. We wait. We keep waiting. Now we have waited for about 1hr and 45 mins! I get up and ask "what is taking them so long? Did you tell them she was back?" She looks at me and says "WHAT!" I repeat myself. Then someone else stepped up and asked what was going on. I told her. She went into the back to see what was keeping them so long. She comes out and says "OH, she was all done. You didn't need to come back" I thought I was going to kill someone. I have found that many doctors offices lately have the most inadequate staff lately. I just don't get how they can sit there... look at you... keep seeing you sitting there and not say a thing. No one apologized. They just didn't care. I'm sorry that I had to go off today, this is becoming a problem with our drs. offices.

On a higher note, I spent most of yesterday with my son. It was good to see him. I miss him when I'm home. He has lived in Las Vegas for over 2 years, but I still miss him around the house. Never thought I would say that, but it is true. I visited with my sister last night for a few hours. My niece Alley was so excited to see me. She thought I was going to be sleeping over though last night and I had to tell that I could not and that I would tonight. She was actually pretty good about it. Thats all for now. I really am going to try to relax for the rest of the night. Jet lag is starting to catch up to me.

Vegas Yahoo!

Here I am, Finally! I really don't have much to post for today. I got in and tried to relax a little but you know how that goes. Not to sure what we are doing today. Thats what I like about coming by myself. I don't have to do anything if I don't want to. Don't forget... I come here about 2 times a year, so its nothing new to me. I don't have to be on the strip to have fun. lol

2peas challenge for today: What song or cd makes you:

dance: hmmmm.... I like dancing to all kinds of different music, but I would have to say I still really enjoy dancing to a lot of the old music. Like from the 80's , ok... if you really must know.. I love to dance to SHOUT! and Celebrate,(not all disco either,lol)

happy: most music makes me happy but for some reason... my cd by Joshua Kadison, Painted Desert just makes me happy.

sad: I don't really get sad from a song

remember/reminisce: I think the title is "This is my Playground" by Madonna. Its from A league of their own. It just makes me think about me and my best friend every time I hear it.

sing out loud: I sing most oldies.. I know the words, lol.

Hope everyone has an Awesome Day.

Yahoo!!!

Viva Las Vegas here I come! I can't wait. I have been looking so forward to going that I just can't wait. I'm going to leave a little earlier today for the airport because I know the lines are going to be extremely long with the new security. It takes a little over 5 hrs to fly there. That is the only downfall,ugh.

I'm up pretty early today. I just couldn't sleep. My back has been killing me the last 4 days. So I really haven't slept in 4 days. Just very uncomfortable. I kept tossing and turning. I even moved myself to the couch because I didn't want to keep my husband up. I hate it when I can't sleep.

I really have nothing planned for today. Just finishing things around the house before I leave. You know like the laundry (which I did 4 loads yesterday),clean the bathroom,kitchen, etc. you get the picture. I'm sure I will come home and it will just be a disaster! While I'm away, I will still be posting and blogging. Hopefully, I will be posting some photos along the way also. I hope everyone has a great weekend.