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No Butterfly Life For Me! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Ok - I'm ready to admit a story I have yet to admit is true. Whew... this is tough...(Takes deep breath)I saw the commercials for Butterfly
Life - you know that fitness center that is like Curves but has a ton of classes instead of just circuit training. There is one that opened about 1/2 mile from my house. I merely emailed for details and the next morning this overly chipper cheerleading monster of a woman called me to let me know of the great promotions. Truth be told they did have a great promotion - no enrollment fees, no contracts, and only $39.95 a month. Not bad for all you get, the circuit training, the classes, nutrition classes, etc. Then she asked the question of how much I want to lose.(Ugh, here goes - I'm opening up myself to you people, you damn well better appreciate this story, lol)I told her 100 pounds. Its more like 90 but I'm striving for 100. There was silence. Complete silence. So, I said "Do you have any people that big there because I don't want t
Alright, I give! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 For the many many of you that have contacted me about the Chocolate Strawberry Smoothie - here ya go...... 2 Cups 8th Continent Light Chocolate Soymilk (Use any chocolate soymilk if you don't have Continent)1 Medium Banana2 Cups frozen strawberriesPlace the soymilk, banana, and strawberries in a blender. Cover and blend on high speed for 1 minute or until smoothPour into 2 glasses and serveSee! Wicked easy to make and absolutely yummy!Last night I actually ate pretty healthy - I had a BOCA BURGER! Let me repeat - A BOCA BURGER! For anyone who has never heard of this, it is a vegetarian burger. This is something I swore I would never eat but it was actually pretty good! Put it on a wheat bun and serve with a salad and it is only like 350 - 400 calories for the whole dinner!I promise I will not have many posts about eating healthy because I know some of you really don't like to hear about weight loss because you're sitting there reading this in your size 6 jeans, but I will throw Read more:Alright
It's been a rough one 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I feel like I say that a lot, but today was B.A.D.What started out as a simple day at home to catch up on much needed work turned into a yelling match between Matthew and I all day long. Granted we weren't really yelling, but I came really damn close. Speaking of damn, that is now his favorite word. Damn this, Damn that, Damn you... you name it he says it. I was reading this blog - For the life of me I can't remember the name, something like GNP or GMP, it was something about parents. It was this article on playing with your children and how much enjoyment it brings, and quite frankly, how many of us don't actually do it. I try, I really do, but now that he is "older" I find myself saying to him, "Why don't you go play in your room for awhile?" and then I find hours and hours have passed without me even sitting down with him nevermind actually playing with him. So today I was determined to change that. We sat down to play games and his train and all that good stuff, and what
WTF! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Damn - For some reason I had no choice but to upgrade my blogger to the new blogger... DAMN DAMN DAMN. Does this mean that I won't be able to change to Wordpress and keep my previous entries?
Letter to Chili's 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Dear Chili
's,How I used to love you so. In fact there was nothing that made me happier than going into your restaurant and getting a nice hot bowl of chili. Chili is what made you famous right? Isn't your name actually called Chili's?Then why is that when I walked in the other night and tried to get a bowl of your famous chili did the waiter tell me that you no longer served chili as it once was? Why did he inform me that you now only have white chicken chili and chili that has chunks of meat and peppers in it? Is that what you now consider chili?I want the chili that made you what you are. Hamburg, lots of different beans, and a spice that made it so popular. You know, the REGULAR chili. I don't want chicken chili, I don't want chili with peanuts in it, damnit... I want REAL CHILI!I don't know how I will live :(Signed,A really pissed off ex-Chili's customer Say goodbye to Squirrel before she leaves us!! Read more:Letter
My Favorite Things Week 7 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I have some great ones this week - I'm so in love with so many things!! It is funny, sometimes I go through phases where I can't think of one damn thing that I HAVE to have, but today I can think of 1000... those damn hormones :)1. This is so my new addiction! As we know I'm starting a "healthy way of eating" and this fits perfectly and tastes incrediably YUMMY! Truly, if you are a fan of cheese - and quite frankly, who isn't... this is the snack for you. Only 150 calories per 32 pieces - Yep, you heard it here first, 32 pieces!2. My new fashion watch! It looks very "real" and it was only $13.98 on sale at Target - SCORE! It is so me I can't even fathom it, and if it breaks (like so many of my watches do) I can just go and pick up another one cheaply ;)3.Craigslist.com - If you haven't be privvy to the many many bargains you can find on Craigslist then I suggest you get your butt over there right now. As I mentioned I bought a $50.00 entertainment center which I'm going to show Read more:Favorite
Blah Blah Blah 1970-01-01 00:59:59 * Yes - I'm still upset about my Pats losing :(* It is funny to see all the comments on my recent addictions post - who knew that we were all so addicted to this damn box we call a computer??* I finally bought all the paint for my apartment!!! This weekend I'm taking tons of pictures - FINALLY* Furniture shopping really sucks - granted I'm doing it through Craigslist but it still sucks. I found this fabulous table and emailed her and she said I could have it but one hour later she emailed me back and told me she sold it! What happened to holding it for someone who says they will come by later this evening??* I did buy a kind of cool entertainment center. It is light wood which I hate, but for $50.00 you can't complain about it! It has recessed lighting and glass shelves to put knick knacks and pictures on and plenty of drawer space on the bottom to hold the DVD's my son seems to get in record bunches* I know people hate to hear this - but my son FINALLY did #2 on the potty to Read more:Blah Blah Blah
The anticipation!! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I know, I know... you all are getting really sick and tired of hearing me talk about football, but the good news is that it won't be much longer!! Considering we are definately not favorites in tonights game this might be our last of the season :(I'm still holding out hope though!I'm just enjoying the anticipation of it all though. No matter how long they play, or how much they win (3 superbowls in the last 4 years!) I never get sick of them ;) BUT... if we can't win then of course I'll be rooting for Indy. It is about time that Peyton Manning got rid of his curse and gets his ass to the superbowl - don't get me wrong, I won't be rooting for him in tonights game, just if we lose - which we won't ;)I have so many blogs to catch up on since I've been home - so don't fret, I'll be catching up tonight (after the game)!I wish I had more witty fun things to talk about but I'm at a complete loss today. I'm not even close to my 2 hour time limit on my computer time for the da
21 to 3.... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 It was 21 to 3......... now it's 21 to 21... enough said :(*EDIT* - WHEW!!!!!! Ok, I'm feeling a bit better now - 28 to 21 - GO PATS AGAIN!!
Shocked - Stunned - Stupified 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Yes - the sound you hear is me sobbing uncontrollably....Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa*sniff sniff*Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa*Ugly cry*Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Well onto a new day I suppose... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Ok - I am so not going to be over the Patriots loss for quite a while, but I figure I have to move on with my life... right?I posted a ton today and I realize that I'm just bored! I knew I was going to take a full week off from writing but I have found myself wanted to search for work just to relieve the boredom - but alas, my Patriots were playing and I couldn't commit to anything tonight!Giving up my online time has proven to be tougher than I thought. This morning I swore I could do it, I couldn't even find anything to do online, but now, here I am going on my 3rd hour... (slaps hand)I just can't stop!So that brings me to the conversation of the evening (or middle of the night, which ever you prefer)Does everyone have addictive personalities of some sort?I can name MANY things that I am addicted to. It all started back in school really for me, I was addicted to reading. Then it moved onto to dating. I was actually addicted to dating! I couldn't be without a guy for longer
Work, work, work 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I have been neglecting it, I have been avoiding it, I have been dreading it. So today I just dove right in like I had never written anything before in my life. 45 articles later - and a dinner out - and I feel like a new woman! Granted my fingers ache to the point they are shaking, and my ass is so sore from sitting on this stupid $3.00 yard sale chair but I've made some good money and I got myself back in the "habit" of writing. Thankfully it was made easier by the fact my son was out with daddy today and it gave me approximately 6 1/2 hours to type away. Do you know what today was though? It was the first day in 17 weeks - 21 if you count preseason (and I do) - without football :( It was a sad, sad day. I go through such withdrawal without my football. The anticipation, the love of the sport, the thrill of the game... ah I could go on forever. But alas, my season is done with only 2 games left - the superbowl and the pro bowl. Oh well, I always have next August to look fo
Conversation in the grocery store 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I'm sure all you parents out there will know exactly what I mean when I say I had one of those Parents magazines embarassing moments... you know the ones that they print every month that make you laugh out loud and scare your children?Well, yep, it happened to me. We were at the grocery store and my "smart ass" son was picking out his fruit for the week. We were having a great time and good conversation. He said to me "You get the bag and I'll put the apple in, that is my job" So I said "Sure, I'll get the bag because that is my job". The woman behind us giggled and uttered a "How cute!" and came over to pick some apples herself. We just looked at each other and gave a little "parents chuckle" to each other. I open the bag and my son starts putting the apples in. The woman says "That is so wonderful that you have a job and your mommy has her own job, what a responsible young man" and Matthew looks her dead in the eye and says"Yeah, but mommy's real job is to sit on the com Read more:Conversation
2 Years Already! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 It's funny, I was checking out my favorite blogs for the day before I actually sit down and do some much needed work, and I saw Mike at Absent Canadian had a post about where he was 10 years ago, and posed the question of what everyone was doing 10 years ago. So, I look down at the date to try to figure that out, and lo and behold I noticed that exactly 2 years ago today I was moving down to North Carolina! Literally today at this exact time I was somewhere in the lower parts of Virgina about to hit the North Carolina border. Matthew was 1 1/2 years old and really hating the drive, lol. We had a u-haul of the only crap that we brought (which wasn't much, lol), and we were excited to move into our new city.It was such a change in my life. I remember the minute we saw the "city limits" sign and I was just thinking - Oh F*#@, we are North Carolinians now! It really didn't compute. I have been a New Englander as long as I could remember. Even through the years I lived in PA and Fl, I st Read more:Years
A serious post 1970-01-01 00:59:59 This post is going to be far removed from my usual (hopefully) humorous post about little tidbits. This post is going to be about my health - which is horrible. Almost 3 years ago I was diagnosed with Diabetes 2. I have yet to tell anyone this (except my mom), I don't know why, denial or whatever. Yesterday I went to the doctor who said that I have passed the moderate stage of the disease and have entered into the severe stages. I have severe symtpoms such as dehydration and tingling of the hands and feet. She wants to put me on Insulin immediately. I refused, but not because I think I'm invicible but because of the fact that once you go on insulin you rarely come off of it, no matter how much weight I lose, or how much I get my Diabetes under diet control. So, here is my vow. I vow to actually do something about this. I have been blowing this off for years and have now come to suffer the consequences. Where to begin though? I realize that is a very easy question to answer Read more:serious
I wish I had more time! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I know, I know, everyone says it, but I really mean it :) I'm just plum running out of time, and I can't help it. I'm so badly organized. Take this morning for instance. I'm writing in this blog instead of doing another little project that I need to finish, and I'm writing this instead of writing for my job. Why is that? What does it seem like I never have time to do anything when I feel like I spend so much of my time sitting around and being bored? Is it that I'm lazy?Yep - it sure is!I admit it, I'm lazy. I will wait to the absolute last minute to do anything. No, I woudln't say I'm a procrastinator because I don't plan it out, I just get sidetracked. I would rather play with Matthew or watch tv or screw around on the Internet than work. I spend aimless hours looking through the Internet trying to find something to do instead of doing what I know I should. Is that just the truth about most people? We would much rather do nothing than something. At least in my
I'm late as usual! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Usually I have been trying to do a post late at night - technically known as the middle of the night - but if I forget I do one first thing in the morning. It is almost noon!I'm not sure where my day went to already!!! (ssshhhh, I was sleeping)I decided to stay home last night, even though I tried my best to get a babysitter and head out on the town, but alas, comfy pajamas sucked me back in. I actually played poker!EEK!I know, that is one demon I've been battling with for a while, but last night I gave in and let him take me over. And boy! Was it fun! Not that I'm going to remember the fun because if I remember that then I'll keep depositing more money which is a total no-no on a quest to have MORE fun!But - just as a sidenote - I didn't even have to deposit any money, it was all free because I had built up so many points for something, I can't remember what, but after being on hold for a mere 1 hour 2 minutes I was able to reach someone to credit me my $50.00!!! I'm up
A bitchy kind of post 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I'm so mad right now that I need to vent to my friends! As you all know I make money from freelance writing. It is actually pretty good money and I enjoy it immensely when it comes in. But my regular gig came to an end, but he had another website in which to add thousands of more articles to. So great! I understood there was a little downtime in between the 2 sites, and finishing up the first website with the editing and all that crap. But I kept asking for more articles from the new website because quite frankly I needed the money. I needed to have another 30 articles done by Sunday to get the money I needed for next week to live basically. Well wouldn't you know it she just sent me an email saying she was going away for the weekend and would be back on Monday. Well, I have to have the articles in by Sunday to get paid, because I get paid every Monday. So now I won't get paid until a week from Monday!!!!!!!UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGHThis has been running so smoothly until n
Superbowl Sunday 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Now, I'm STILL not over the fact that the Patriots are not in the Superbowl
, but at least while I sulk over that fact I can watch this years Superbowl commercials. So far I have not been disappointed, these things are hysterical! I particularly love the Auction Wedding commercial - that one literally made me laugh out loud. I giggled considerably at the Blockbuster commercial that the bunny was using the "mouse" to get online. Did anyone see the David Letterman and Oprah commercial? OH - and that rock, paper, scissors Bud commercial... And, not to mention that this is a really good game! I'm still bummed though :( Read more:Sunday
A blast from the past 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Weird, very weird. You may remember a couple of months ago I met a girl who used to date the same guy that my sister did back in MA. Well I thought it was a small world and a blast from the past then, but then just now another blast from the past came back. I was watching 48 hours mystery and forgot to change the channel before the news came on. So I was listening and heard "and now reporting, (insert name here)" I whip around only to see a girl who lived in the same city I did growing up - and I dated her brother!!! Of course I only dated him for a few weeks and then moved onto his best friend - a story in itself - but still... I was in this girls room as a teenager! I had spoken to her many times while calling her brother and then seeing her at all the parties when I was dating the best friend. We knew each other on a friendly basis, until she became a New England Patriot Cheerleader... and then she was known as a little stuck up, but still friendly enough when she was home.
What is this, Alaska?? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I hear those familiar beeps on my television, I look over and there it is...WINTER STORM WARNING - WINTER STORM WARNING - WINTER STORM WARNINGI think to myself, oh I wonder what happened, we must be getting more snow then I had previously heard. Suddenly I see the screen pop up and all the closings are announced. Jeesh, I think to myself, this looks serious! I again hear the beeps that announce that we have an impending snow storm. I am exhausted but force myself to stay up and watch the news. I wait impatiently while they are talking about the "big storm". Finally, the weather report starts. I listen intently and wait... Finally, the big announcement. Tomorrow we will wake up to treacherous weather, it will be 28 degrees, and yes, we will get (drum roll please)1 INCH OF SNOW!1 inch... I'm not exaggerating, we are getting 1 inch of snow. They showed the city workers getting ready in their plows, the EMT's are putting chains on their tires, people are stocking up on bread and milk, th Read more:Alaska
Validation 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I am sitting here watching our big wet flakes come down that are barely covering the ground, listening to the news reports break into every single show I'm watching. I'm thinking about a post I read over at The Emancipation of a Drama Queen - well it wasn't totally about validation, but still you get my point, it led me to my thought process.I spend a lot of time getting readers to my blog. For what you ask? For validation of course. I want to validate that my blog is full of entertaining reading, and something that might actually contribute to someones thought process like Drama contributed to mine. But what I'm finding is that I have pretty much the same readers that I have always had - and I love that! I love the fact that these people know me, they "get me", and they understand how I am.But yet I spend many hours doing the battle of the blog things, clicking, voting, challenging... and for what? I've lost like 28 in a row or something like that. I mean I'm not just lo Read more:Validation
I feel free! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Whew, one day without BOTB and I feel so much more free! I can write for myself, not to make sure that I have a winning battle - I'm so glad I did this! Although I did have 40 credits left over so I did one more yesterday morning, to which someone replied - Is this a joke or did you just lie? Nope, didn't lie, just wanted to get rid of my last 40 credits :-)Let me just say that it is now 5am in the morning and I can't sleep. It isn't like I haven't already slept, but now I'm awake and can't sleep anymore. That is what happens when one falls asleep at 9pm!! Which leads me too.......the latests Girls Night In!Lets bring you back to Thursday night shall we? Karyn - one of the moms - decided to host a moms night in party. Now, let me just say, moms night in has turned into something of a sorority party! We used to all just have a casual dinner or get together. But now, we're drinking heavily and sleeping over peoples houses... yep, I am officially 22 again :-) She had fo Read more:feel free
Just a little FYI 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Just thought I'd share this little
tidbit about Anna Nicole Smith's demise - The hospital that Anna Nicole Smith died in, was Hollywood Memorial (now called Regional Memorial I think). This was the hospital I was born in and the hospital that my mom worked in! Coincidence? I think not! (Not that there is any coincidence, but I think it is pretty cool since I have only seen a photograph of the hospital I was born in and now I get to see it every single minute of today)It is sad though, isn't it. I'm sure she will be found with lethal amounts of drugs in her system. I mean the woman was sort of cuckoo to begin with but add in the new baby stress, the death of her son, a lawsuit against her and TrimSpa, the paternity suit from some guy just looking for cash, and about a million people chasing her around for no apparent reason, I guess I'd be high and drunk all the time too!It is sad about the baby, she deserves to have a mother, even if it is her. Probably not born in Florida!!
What is going on in my life? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 The question of the day - What does it mean that I am dreaming about other bloggers?????This is going to be a confusing, possibly stupid sounding post, but I have to tell you all about this dream I had last night. I am now dreaming about other bloggers! Ok, is that weird? I don't even know you all but you had a huge place in my dream - and you all looked so good!I was in the house of Jenni from Blond Chick Bloggin and I do remember that is was a HUGE house - like mansion huge. I was in my pajamas because I just woke up. I was walking around trying to figure out why Jenni was so upset and the phone rang. Jose from Joe Cools Blog was calling to tell me that Jenni was upset that she didn't get a job that she wanted. We were talking and he told me he was coming over to get me to bring me to a party. It was like 7am but I told him that I was up for it. This girl opened the door and came running into this formal dining room that I was in talking on the phone. She demanded that I
Voila! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I did it! Finally, my living room is almost complete. You know how I've been threatening to paint and hang stuff up - well I did it. Now, I'm showing you pictures of empty shelves and an almost empty entertaiment center. Overlook that could ya?OH - And for some reason I have little white dots on all my pictures - it might be because of the light but I'm not sure because I cleaned it but it didn't make a difference...Anyhow, I rustled up enough money to paint and get furniture, but I'm still waiting on money to decorate with knicknacks - so it'll come soon enough. Yard sale time is almost here ;) So, with bare shelves and all, I present to you -MY LIVING ROOM!BEFORE AFTER
Proposals and Marriage 1970-01-01 00:59:59 As Valentines Day nears I feel like I am inundated with LOVE... Flowers everywhereChocolate everywhereDiamond ring commercials everywhereDid you know that Valentines Day is the most popular day to get engaged? Now, granted you probably assumed that, but I thought it was Christmas actually. Either way, I'm sick up it. SICK OF IT!Not that I don't love love... I mean who doesn't? The excitement, the new adventures, the falling in love - that part is the greatest! But the marriage part sucks, lol. Now, don't get me wrong, for some people it works out great but not for me. Let me tell you about my day and maybe you'll understand...Mike has always been a person who faints when he takes blood. Always has since he was a child. I always thought it was kind of endearing - so vunerable actually. So he asked me to take him to the doctor because he can't drive home after the fact because he is nauseous all day long with a wicked headache. No big deal, I pick him up from work and driv
Sign me up! 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Would you like to know what I should be signed up for?? Oh c'mon, I know you're dying to know!Sign me up for the worst mother of the year award! Yep - nominate me, vote for me, give me that award, because I completely suck.This morning we had a playdate with his two friends whom he totally loves. Deidre and I were sitting on the couch lounging about when Matthew and his little friends were upstairs in his room. The sounded like they were having fun, no fighting, everything was going wonderfully. Until about 2:30pm when I suddenly heard crying. As any mother would do I merely rolled my eyes and yelled up to Matthew to come downstairs because I thought they were having a fight. Then I heard the words no mother really like to hear..."I can't walk" he screamedSo, I ran upstairs in "slow motion" (moms you know the feeling), and I found him screaming on the floor telling me how much his foot hurt. He told me he had jumped from the bed onto the floor. Now, this isn't an ordinary
Sometimes you just have to laugh 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Today was not a day that made me want to laugh, but looking back now, I think MAYBE someday I can. Matthew woke up and again was screaming how much his foot hurt. I called back the doctor and set up an appointment for 11am. Until then he cried, screamed, and generally was completely miserable. I was rethinking my decision not to just take him to the hospital but 10:15 came soon enough and I went to get his shoes on. That took about 15 minutes before I decided that I would just leave the damn shoe off and quit the battle with that as he kept screaming that it hurt too much. I shouldn't have tried to put it on anyhow, but I am still vying for the "Worst mother of the year award" so I had to give it a go. We get out of the house - late of course. I drove very fast to get to the doctor on time - exactly 73 mph in a 50 mph zone. I know this becuase I got pulled over by a State Trooper. Yay - more fun for my day! Even after explaining that my sons foot was probably fractured or b Read more:Sometimes
When do we finally grow up? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Here is my question for the day...When do the "children" in us finally grow up? Do you remember what it was like in high school with your friends? You told someone something who told someone else, who then told someone else, and suddenly everyone was against you for telling in the first place?Well, it never ends does it? Why is it that when you get a group of women together bitchiness ensues? I don't understand that! Why is it that you can't tell someone something and not have the other person think you told them more than what you did? I know this is not making any sense to you all, lol, but trust me it does if you think about!You have 2 friends and you tell friend 1 something a 4th person told you about friend 1. Friend 2 already knows what was said about friend 1 because she was there. Then friend 1 gets upset and tells friend 5 what was going on. Big discussion happens and suddenly they are all distrusting you for telling friend 1 in the first place! Shouldn't your loy
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