Hello Readers! All two-five of you! :) I have to figure out how to "tag" people for this, but I figured I'd follow through since it is my first time being "it". ENJOY and hopefully I can FIND five people to tag!
I've been tagged by my friend Dana in the game of Meme.... Still not entirely sure what that means, but apparently it doesn't matter, because here i am! Here is what you need to know:
The rules of the game get posted at the beginning. Each player answers the questions about themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5-6 people and posts their names, then go to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog.
1. What was I doing ten years ago? I had just completed my first year of gradschool (if memory serves me) at Purdue in Indiana. I was studying Rhetoric & Composition and feeling way in over my head! I also was just two months from marrying my husband! :) We'd known each other for a while at that point--I think over two years.
2. Five things on my to do list for today: Rest, go to the doctors (I'm sick), clean some, grade some papers, stop at the grocery store for a few odds and ends.
3. Snacks I crave: anything SWEET. I have a crazy hyperactive sweet tooth. Baad!
4. Things I would do if I were a billionaire: Pay off our debt, build a great house in a great part of town, buy a condo in NYC for visits there, buy a hybrid along with many stocks in oil/gas futures, go back to personal training (but have my sessions in my new home gym not at a public gym), put away for our retirement and establish a great trust for Elena's college and beyond, help out family with debt and with college...man, there really is no end to this list!
5. Places I have lived: Texas, NY, NJ, Indiana, PA
6. People I am tagging: Elysia, Helen, Chris, Nelly and Melissa!
Enjoy peeps! :)
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Monday, June 16, 2008
Seeing RED!!!!! WARNING! Vent begins....
NOW!!!
I am so angry I can't see straight!!!! (So excuse typos, errors, etc! I have an excuse today! hehe).
SERIOUSLY!!! I hate this apartment complex. Lots of promises and some perks but none of it is worth the crap we have to deal with on too regular a basis.
In the past few months they have been prepping various vacated apartments for re-habitation. One time last month I was stiff led by an overwhelming strong chemical smell that was pumping into my apartment (I guess via the air vents). This smell was so strong that I worried about my daughter and left.
I immediately complained, quite loudly, to the apartment complex and all they did was apologize and swear up and down that that is *not* how they are supposed to do things when prepping apartments. Apparently, it is protocol to cover/close vents, open windows and THEN use the highly dangerous chemicals that are used to clean, paint, treat walls and floors. "We are so sorry and promise it will never happen again!"
Well here I am. It is happening again. I am already feeling under the weather with enough phlegm in my throat to choke most people, congestion like no one's business and this smell is SO potent that within a minute or two I had a slight headache! WHAT THE HECK IS IN THAT APARTMENT that they are using to treat things with? Turpentine? Paint thinner? A combination of those with a few extra chemicals mixed in for fun?
I am so angry that I could barely find the number and dial it. My favorite employee (seriously) answered and I was fighting off TEARS when speaking to him. I'm mortified that this is happening. MY daughter is sound asleep in the other room and I can only feel the slightest bit of relief because it hasn't infiltrated her room yet. It seems to be limited somehow to the living room. Weird.
Anyway, I'm livid and will tell everyone I know to avoid this complex! It is a wonderful place to live if you don't mind your A/c issues being ignored, fumes coming into your home ever couple of months and then lingering for days, gates for our safety that are ALWAYS opened or broken, maintenance people who don't return calls and most things being outsourced to companies which are less than professional and do a crap job of "fixing" things, often times leaving a trail of paint and spackle in their wake.
I have been waiting for 20 minutes for a call back and as soon as my daughter wakes up, I'm marching over there and giving them a bigger piece of my mind if I can hold it together! I also want to take her OUT of this stinky apartment now. I can hardly wait for her to wake up and may go wake her up just to get myself out of here! :(
WHY ARE PEOPLE SO RETARDED????
I am so angry I can't see straight!!!! (So excuse typos, errors, etc! I have an excuse today! hehe).
SERIOUSLY!!! I hate this apartment complex. Lots of promises and some perks but none of it is worth the crap we have to deal with on too regular a basis.
In the past few months they have been prepping various vacated apartments for re-habitation. One time last month I was stiff led by an overwhelming strong chemical smell that was pumping into my apartment (I guess via the air vents). This smell was so strong that I worried about my daughter and left.
I immediately complained, quite loudly, to the apartment complex and all they did was apologize and swear up and down that that is *not* how they are supposed to do things when prepping apartments. Apparently, it is protocol to cover/close vents, open windows and THEN use the highly dangerous chemicals that are used to clean, paint, treat walls and floors. "We are so sorry and promise it will never happen again!"
Well here I am. It is happening again. I am already feeling under the weather with enough phlegm in my throat to choke most people, congestion like no one's business and this smell is SO potent that within a minute or two I had a slight headache! WHAT THE HECK IS IN THAT APARTMENT that they are using to treat things with? Turpentine? Paint thinner? A combination of those with a few extra chemicals mixed in for fun?
I am so angry that I could barely find the number and dial it. My favorite employee (seriously) answered and I was fighting off TEARS when speaking to him. I'm mortified that this is happening. MY daughter is sound asleep in the other room and I can only feel the slightest bit of relief because it hasn't infiltrated her room yet. It seems to be limited somehow to the living room. Weird.
Anyway, I'm livid and will tell everyone I know to avoid this complex! It is a wonderful place to live if you don't mind your A/c issues being ignored, fumes coming into your home ever couple of months and then lingering for days, gates for our safety that are ALWAYS opened or broken, maintenance people who don't return calls and most things being outsourced to companies which are less than professional and do a crap job of "fixing" things, often times leaving a trail of paint and spackle in their wake.
I have been waiting for 20 minutes for a call back and as soon as my daughter wakes up, I'm marching over there and giving them a bigger piece of my mind if I can hold it together! I also want to take her OUT of this stinky apartment now. I can hardly wait for her to wake up and may go wake her up just to get myself out of here! :(
WHY ARE PEOPLE SO RETARDED????
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Looking Back...and Forward!
I thought THIS was touching.
Having a girl, I do think about what is ahead and what will happen in her lifetime that I may not live to see myself. I thought this article was a refreshing interpretation on recent events from a different persective.
Enjoy! :)
Having a girl, I do think about what is ahead and what will happen in her lifetime that I may not live to see myself. I thought this article was a refreshing interpretation on recent events from a different persective.
Enjoy! :)
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
So much to say, such a short attention span! :) The news TODAY!
There are so many things I'd like to write about today, so I'll just have to be quite brief in order to get a few things off my (heaving) chest:
First the Headlines 
* McCain doesn't care when we pull out of Iraq or if we do. I just said there were many flubs to come and not a day later he has another one!? Man he delivers! Gotta love that. Imagine four blissful years of great comedy! So funny we'll all be crying, no doubt!
*Possible VP noms for Barry are all the talk. Their names are swirling the airwaves, some are so top secret they have no names! They range from Hillary to Gore to people we don't know about and won't care to know. My guess is he'll pick one we don't care about who is a nobody really so that he is the big kahuna of the ticket. Have I told you lately that I'm not impressed? WELL..I'm NOT!
* I LOVE LYNN SAMUELS! YES she may not be a looker and YES she isn't 100% right all the time (in my opinion), but she says things that need to be said and isn't apologetic. She's also easily distracted by shiny objects in a way only a gal with pretend ADD could appreciate! :)
* THIS just IN: Obama is a politician! Speaking of Lynn's favorite new presumptive nom, Barry seems to be a bit of a hypocrite. Do as I say and not as I do? Funny how he hammered Clinton and McSame for more "tangential" relationships. So it really *is* politics as usual, huh? SUPRISE! Sorry! No refunds or exchanges!
* WTF is up with the WEATHER? Tornadoes, floods and heat waves DAILY it seems? Everywhere there is something strange going on. Did they finally perfect the weather machine to help control the weather, hence raising the prices on all forms of energy, INCLUDING our damn food? I know I said it already, but WTF?
* WTF is up with the WEATHER? Tornadoes, floods and heat waves DAILY it seems? Everywhere there is something strange going on. Did they finally perfect the weather machine to help control the weather, hence raising the prices on all forms of energy, INCLUDING our damn food? I know I said it already, but WTF?
* Where's Waldo (in a pantsuit)? You know it wouldn't be a complete round up without my girl mentioned in there somewhere, right? Where are you Hillary? We miss you already! It is almost like she fell into an abyss right after giving that "consession" speech. Well at least people are talking about her--some in a positive light!
* Don't leave your kids in the car, asswipe. How do you forget you have a kid in the car? How do you leave him/her in the car for hours or OVERNIGHT? Some people really should be taken outside and shot. Repeatedly. Then left to die in the heat. I would do something far worse than this to those parents! :(
* Don't leave your kids in the car, asswipe. How do you forget you have a kid in the car? How do you leave him/her in the car for hours or OVERNIGHT? Some people really should be taken outside and shot. Repeatedly. Then left to die in the heat. I would do something far worse than this to those parents! :(
* I work hard for my money! So don't charge me for crap! I won't go into too many details but I won't be visiting one of the local coffeehouses here again after a fiasco regarding my coffee tonight. I pay quite a lot for this coffee and it should be fresh and a refill should be filling of the cup AGAIN, not a topping off. I'm angry and had to leave because I couldn't see straight! I know you are trying to save money, but I WORK HARD FOR MY OWN dang MONEY! Again, words fail me where acronyms do not. WTF?
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Lets go Yankees!!
We will be headed out to another part of Texas in just a couple of days! A chance encounter at Panera Monday morning (yesterday) led to me investigating Astros tickets for this weekend. They are playing the Yankees, its father's day weekend, and dh is a hardcore yanks fan. You do the math! :)
Needless to say, I ended up paid way too much for two GREAT tickets (behind visitor's dugout--4th row) and now need to rush to find a hotel! We are only going two nights, three days, but it should be fun and I know Josh will be happy and grateful! I'm shopping with my mom and daughter while he'll take in the game with my father. Should be a fun time!
This means that my packing job is half done since we just got back from Austin. One week, three cities. Not too shabby for this homebody! :)
The Austin trip was great and the convention was memorable and interesting. I learned a lot and I'm sure its not my last democratic convention. Hillary's campaign won't be my last either. I already am interested in a few other local candidates and look forward to doing what I can locally until the next presidential campaign is upon us.
While I will very likely unhappily support the democratic candidate for president in 2008, I won't be knocking on doors or making phone calls for him. I'll do what I have to do, but little beyond that! :( Sad, but I'm just not feeling it. There is one thing he could do to show me, and millions of others, that he is a true uniter, but I know that won't happen. I hold out a little bit of hope that it will, but I'm 99.9% sure it won't be a headline I'll be reading anytime in the near future.
Speaking of headlines, anyone see this doozy? I found it hilarious given how his wife's family made their millions!
McCain: 'I will veto every single beer'
Posted: 11:32 AM ET
(CNN) – John McCain issued a promise Tuesday that may cause a bit of unrest with a broad swath of voters: He'll veto every single beer?
In a slip of the tongue while railing against excessive earmarks at the National Small Business Summit in Washington, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee inadvertently pledged to veto the popular alcoholic beverage.
"I will use the veto as needed. I will veto every single beer — bill with earmarks," he said, as rumblings from the crowd could be heard. "And every single bill that we have come across my desk I will make them famous. I will veto them, you will know their names."
The first of many doozies to come, no doubt! :)
Needless to say, I ended up paid way too much for two GREAT tickets (behind visitor's dugout--4th row) and now need to rush to find a hotel! We are only going two nights, three days, but it should be fun and I know Josh will be happy and grateful! I'm shopping with my mom and daughter while he'll take in the game with my father. Should be a fun time!
This means that my packing job is half done since we just got back from Austin. One week, three cities. Not too shabby for this homebody! :)
The Austin trip was great and the convention was memorable and interesting. I learned a lot and I'm sure its not my last democratic convention. Hillary's campaign won't be my last either. I already am interested in a few other local candidates and look forward to doing what I can locally until the next presidential campaign is upon us.
While I will very likely unhappily support the democratic candidate for president in 2008, I won't be knocking on doors or making phone calls for him. I'll do what I have to do, but little beyond that! :( Sad, but I'm just not feeling it. There is one thing he could do to show me, and millions of others, that he is a true uniter, but I know that won't happen. I hold out a little bit of hope that it will, but I'm 99.9% sure it won't be a headline I'll be reading anytime in the near future.
Speaking of headlines, anyone see this doozy? I found it hilarious given how his wife's family made their millions!
McCain: 'I will veto every single beer'
Posted: 11:32 AM ET
(CNN) – John McCain issued a promise Tuesday that may cause a bit of unrest with a broad swath of voters: He'll veto every single beer?
In a slip of the tongue while railing against excessive earmarks at the National Small Business Summit in Washington, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee inadvertently pledged to veto the popular alcoholic beverage.
"I will use the veto as needed. I will veto every single beer — bill with earmarks," he said, as rumblings from the crowd could be heard. "And every single bill that we have come across my desk I will make them famous. I will veto them, you will know their names."
The first of many doozies to come, no doubt! :)
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Another month...and a Process nears its end...
Wasn't it just the start of May? Now its JUNE? How did this happen??? ;)
Obama is close to clinching the nomination by winning more than 50% of the delegates up to win. I'm going to be up watching the Obama speech, although probably not in its entirety, and all of Hillary's speech tonight. Both should be quite history-making as has this entire primary season. I'm excited to have been a part of it and am still looking very forward to the Texas State Democratic Convention happening this weekend.
I'm not sure which genius decided to schedule this event sometime *AFTER* the primaries were over, but that is when it happens. It is probably moot, but as I've realized in the process, it isn't *merely* about selecting a president, but about selecting our leadership in the democratic party and possibly bringing about change for how the election takes place. Perhaps most importantly, the convention is about laying the ground work for the future elections in our country.
Those in leadership are often times super delegates. Could not a future election come down to the Supers as it has this go round? If so, I'd like my picks making that decision! For too long, not enough people took part in this crucial part of the democratic process, and I'm very proud to be in a position to learn this year and to start a tradition of representing my precinct at the state level and in future years, perhaps beyond that! :)
Yes Mrs.L, I'm really big into this political thing! :) I've always been this way, just dormant for the most part. The excitement and grave importance of this election woke me from my slumber! :)
So in two days, off I go, with my husband and daughter in tow, to spend a few days in Austin. Getting there a day early and leaving a day late and hoping to have a little bit of fun in between the work that will be done. Wish me luck! :)
Obama is close to clinching the nomination by winning more than 50% of the delegates up to win. I'm going to be up watching the Obama speech, although probably not in its entirety, and all of Hillary's speech tonight. Both should be quite history-making as has this entire primary season. I'm excited to have been a part of it and am still looking very forward to the Texas State Democratic Convention happening this weekend.
I'm not sure which genius decided to schedule this event sometime *AFTER* the primaries were over, but that is when it happens. It is probably moot, but as I've realized in the process, it isn't *merely* about selecting a president, but about selecting our leadership in the democratic party and possibly bringing about change for how the election takes place. Perhaps most importantly, the convention is about laying the ground work for the future elections in our country.
Those in leadership are often times super delegates. Could not a future election come down to the Supers as it has this go round? If so, I'd like my picks making that decision! For too long, not enough people took part in this crucial part of the democratic process, and I'm very proud to be in a position to learn this year and to start a tradition of representing my precinct at the state level and in future years, perhaps beyond that! :)
Yes Mrs.L, I'm really big into this political thing! :) I've always been this way, just dormant for the most part. The excitement and grave importance of this election woke me from my slumber! :)
So in two days, off I go, with my husband and daughter in tow, to spend a few days in Austin. Getting there a day early and leaving a day late and hoping to have a little bit of fun in between the work that will be done. Wish me luck! :)
Saturday, May 3, 2008
May and more...
May is here! I cannot believe another month is underway and we are *that much* closer to another summer and then fall and then another holiday season. Time sure does fly these days!
I find as you age time seem to go by faster. At this rate i'll be 60 in just a few years! Or at least that is how it will feel! :)
Today I went to the craft store with my daughter and husband to purchase some odds and ends for a project we are working on for moms day (for my own mother). That was a fun trip! I hadn't been inside a craft store for a long time and it reminded me of all the things I always want to do but never get around to doing! I used to crochet a bit but never really formally learned and that went by th wayside. My scrap booking started, stopped then started again and I haven't picked up glue or scissors to scrap in about two years! Sewing classes were never at convenient times when we lived in NJ (working around my husband's work schedule) so I never got to learn! I've wanted to try a handful of other things but just never tried or followed through in the promises I've made myself!
Maybe this summer I can finally take a class or two on my own to enjoy some free time diong something I want to learn. Sewing or a crochet or knit class would be a great place to begin. I hope I can find something at a time that works for me not too far from home. The hurdle would probably be my daughter. I'm certain she'll want in on any "project" i begin, so it may be hard to ever "practice" around her! Hmmm....this could be a challenge! :(
Aside from that, we are all doing quite well. Dieting has fallen by the wayside. We still have pretty good habits but indulge in the delish from time to time and probably too often. I'm weaning myself off caffeine as well and with more classes to teach lately, have been making it to the gym less frequently than I had been. I have high hopes to start heading back there more regularly SOON! Next week should be a little less hectic. I have to *make* the time, but it sure can be difficult when you are pulled in so many different directions!
IN OTHER NEWS:
Posted: 01:10 PM ET
(CNN)— Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is gaining on Barack Obama’s lead in North Carolina’s polls, three days before the states May 6 primary.
The latest CNN poll of polls out Saturday shows Obama has a 9 point lead with 50 percent to Clinton’s 41 percent among likely Democratic voters.
The new average consists of four surveys: Zogby (May 1-2), ARG (April 30-May 1), Research 2000 (April 29-30), and Mason-Dixon (April 28-29).
Both candidates continue to campaign hard in North Carolina ahead of Tuesday’s primary, where 115 delegates are at stake.
That is about all from the homefront! I hope all is well with everyone who reads this! I have a lot to do and some quiet time with everyone else napping now, so I better hop to it!
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