Loathe
- sleep....total waste of time
- The traffic through Boston on 93. Freakin' scary!
- Being afraid of the traffic. Alaska turned me into a complete wussy when it comes to traffic. I swear I need a valium going through there.
- My almost empty liquor cabinet
- Regular season football is over.
- Patriots didn't make the playoffs.
- sleeping so late that I didn't get any "me" time this am
- cold feet
Love
- Champagne
- My birthday
- New Year's!
- Going to my cousin's house on the cape
- James getting my text messages again
- Driving on the section of 93 that runs right behind the neighborhood I grew up in, in Boston.
- Seeing long ago acquaintances and friends, via facebook
- Talking to friends that I haven't gotten a chance to talk to in a long time
- That my mom isn't working new year's and she said she'd watch Thing 1 and Thing 2 for me and Zak so we can go to Shelly and Scott's party. yay!! My mommy rocks!!
- Getting new contacts and glasses because of very generous Christmas gifts. Thank you!
- My living room being back to normal.
- My mommy living right next door with my sister. The kids are over there playing and I love it! Yay again!! My mommy rocks!!
So I finally have uploaded some pics from Thanksgiving.....I will get the Christmas ones up as soon as my cousin gets them to me. We actually got some really good ones while we were visiting the Cape over the weekend and I can't wait to get them!
Our visit down there was awesome, as always. I adore going to my cousin's house. It just screams "home" to me and everyone was there and I love that. Her house is actually kind of small and when you fill it up with our family, it makes it feel like it's absolutely filled to the max. I love it!!
The kids got a few more gifts while they were there and they were gifts that were just absolutely perfect for the kids! I was impressed...seriously! I love when my kids get a gift that I know they will love and play with endlessly. That makes me happy....happy for the kids and happy for the person that gave them the gift! lol.
Here's the pics from THANKSGIVING. lol.
Me and my sister.
This is my cousin's (Billiejo) daughter, Josslin..(the one in the blue/green shirt) and Amanda is my mother's cousin's (Christine) daughter. So like my 3rd cousin or something...I don't know....but they are both hysterical.
Ben, Jaime, Juan and Gabby girl. :-)
Enjoy and hopefully I'll get the Christmas pics up soon!
We're heading to the Cape today to have our Christmas and Christmas dinner with my family down there. I am really excited. I so love going to my cousin's house. It's warm, it's cozy, it's inviting, it's loud, it's funny and I just love it there.
Zak is going and it'll be his first time down there since we've moved here. He's looking forward to going, too.
Which is nice to not feel like I am dragging a grumpy husband who'd rather be home with me. lol.
Not that I have a problem doing that, it's just not as much fun as a willing participant.
:-)
As a fellow crafter....I wanted to post this.
And the fact that mainstream media hasnt' hardly talked about it and I think it's a big deal, so...doing what I can to spread the word....
So I'm looking through some facebook flair on 2Peas.
Lots of the ladies have their flair in their signatures and I came across this.
It took me by surprise...so completely unexpected.
But I love it!
Is that not hysterical???
Let's try this again! LOL
Loathe
- Ice storms! (this is new...I did not know I loathed ice storms until last week!)
- no power
- not having as much money as I would like for Christmas
- not seeing or getting to talk to people I adore
- my hair
- feeling like a second choice
- not writing lyrics anymore
- not getting to read anymore....a new Patricia Cornwell novel is out "Scarpetta" and I want it so bad and I just want to devour it...like sit and read it in an entire day and just lose myself in it, the way I used to do with books.
- losing something
- Jaime having friends over
- Christmas!
- feeling missed by people I miss so much
- living next door to my sister and her family and mommy
- second thoughts
- Shelly coming over to visit even though she lives an hour away.
- My Friday nights out
- the song "Live your Life" STILL. ha!
- getting to see family you don't see a lot.
- that my pictures are all up in my house. I'm surrounded by the people I love again! Love it!!!
- Brainstorming with Zak. We are such a good team and we think so well together.
- My sister starting her new job
Ice storm struck....we survived.....everyone is saying they have never seen anything like this....I'm getting really tired of showing up in places and experiencing "holy shit! That hasn't happened in 60 years!" or "Holy shit! We've never seen anything like this!" weather....
- go to Alaska...proceed to experience the 2 wettest summers in history, back to back. '91 & '92.
- Move to just outside of Pensacola, Florida...promptly get hit by 2 hurricanes. Pensacola hadn't had a direct hit from a hurricane in 60+ years.
- Move back to Alaska...experience the hottest summer ever and the winter with the most snowfall, ever.
- Move back home....and experience this ice storm...not to mention the abnormal t-storms everyday for weeks this summer.
But let me digress....I have never lost a home to fire or flood...nor a loved one....and I have been witness to people who have...so I have to consider myself lucky.
I just like to bitch. <wink>
Thousands of people are still without power!!
Unbelievable!!!
Guess what?
I got my first order from At A Glance Graphics!!!
How awesome is that??
I'm psyched!!!
:-)
There has been so much going on that any time I have had time to blog, I feel like there is so much I want to talk about, I don't know where to start! I hate that feeling!!
I have pictures I want to post, news I want to share and just day to day stuff I want to chat about....it's crazy to feel like I have too much stuff to say! Since when has that ever been a problem for me? lol
I'll just start with last night....
Jaime joined the Girl Scouts and last night was the parents meeting. My sister is leading the troop and I am a Co-Leader. (Whoo-hoo!! Anytime I get to have "leader" by my name, that is a good thing! ha!) I'm really excited about this and I think we are going to have a lot of fun with it. I'm just beyond thrilled to have Jaime involved in something, finally. There is definately at least one girl from the troop that goes to Jaime's school, so that is good. Hopefully they get along well and become friendly.
My mom emailed me a link to the public library calendar and it looks like there is some stuff that I could take Ben too. Yay! I am just dying to get him involved in the something. I am going to print out a bunch of my "Mommy Cards" and hand them out to Ben's teacher and see if she can give them to the kids Ben seems most friendly with. I need to try to get some play dates going or something for the poor kid. There are just no kids his age in this neighborhood, so I need to get off my butt and get him involved in some stuff.
It has been really cold for the last few days and now today....it feels like spring! I love it!!
It's like a random warm day....and it works out really good because I have to go to the base to grocery shop with my mom and sister and it's just nice to go out and do things when it's warm out.
I go to this site a lot...Juneau Webcams
I like to "see" what it's looking like in Juneau at any given time.
For some reason, it just makes me feel closer to the people I miss there, to actually see for myself what it looks like.
And they are getting some SNOW right now! lol. I actually love the first big, big snow and I think this is the first one for them. The first snow in Juneau is always so awesome, it covers up the gray of the fall and makes everything beautiful. Until it rains again, of course. And then it's just dirty snow, which isn't so beautiful....but that first snow....that is awesome.
I can't wait for our first big snow here! :-)
And I'm off to get the morning started.....
Hopefully I'll have more later!
Talk about neglect!
My gosh...
So Thanksgiving was FANTASTIC. Aside from the stupid bridge I had to drive over to get to and from Saco, Maine, it was awesome. And there was a minor issue in the morning that left me crying at my dining room table, but I got over it and the day went fantastic!
We went to my mother's cousin's house. (Are those apostrophe s's right? I am so bad with those...) I have met her maybe once in my life. lol. But all my family went...me, Zak and Thing 1 and Thing 2, my sister, Gabby and Trevor (Rick had to work..) Billiejo, Mikey and their kids, and my Auntie Phyillis. So it was not an awkward I-have-no-idea-who-these-people-are thing. It was wonderful. We ate, watched football, played football in the street....me and my 3.5 inch heel boots felt that the next day, but I can't resist throwing a ball around....we visited and drank and I got to say grace! Until my cousin Billiejo said to me from across the table...."Jo, it's grace, not a sermon." Ha!! And I really wasn't even going on and on....yet. LOL Totally cracked me up. I love that girl.
But I was so very thankful and I couldn't say it enough. Thankful to be part of my family's Thanksgiving. Thankful that my kids were so excited about Thanksgiving. Thankful for the beautiful sunshine. Thankful that I could drive 2 hours and go to another state! (aside from the bridge....) Just thankful and happy to be where I have wanted to be. It was a wonderful holiday and I already can't wait until next year. Yeah, it was that good!
I wound up not taking pics with my camera but we took a bunch with Billiejo's and I'll get some posted a little later.
My mom has them and she is getting them to me today.
:-)
It's been too long since I've done this and I want to get back to it.
Let's start with loathe...
- Being too hot. I get super irritable when I am too hot.
- My hair lately. Looks like crap.
- waiting....
- missing my Alaska people.
- birthdays when money is tight..it's been a card and no gift kind of year.
- being late with cards for JR and DJ's birthday...and I know, try as I might, I"ll be late for Ann's and J's too. unreal.
- falling asleep during football...what the HELL is up with that?? I am so not used to these late games.....lol.
- needing to lose 20 pounds.
Love:
- that my sister and mommy went to Jaime's play last night.
- The teachers telling me how fantastic my daughter is. Whoo-hooo!!
- Seeing Jaime preform very well in front of a crowd. I hope this trait stays with her for a lifetime.....not being afraid to talk in front of a crowd or preform in a front of a crowd.
- Sleep overs at my girlfriend's house!! I cannot WAIT for Saturday! lol
- Holidays with my family.
- Christmas!!!!
- Waiting for the first snowfall....
- that it's NOVEMBER 25th and it hasn't snowed yet!!!
- That it's not pouring, sideways rain everytime I step outside.
- sunshine.
Jaime had her play last night and it went great!! :-)
I was super proud of her and my mommy and sister came and I brought Gabby with us, which was so awesome!
I got some pics and I"ll try to get them up later.
It's another crazy busy day......
