End of Vacation or T minus 3 weeks until the next one!

Thanksbirthdaygiving was great! Thanks to my fabulous friends for hosting us at their home. As usual it was an engaging day. From cooking together the day before to ending the night playing balderdash an all around awesome time for tay and I. We got to see old friends and eat WAY too much. I'm still having leftovers 3 days later. In fact, I saved a lemon cupcake for me to remember the day. I will admit to bringing my own tupperware over to bring home leftovers.

After that long day I dropped off the kid at her friends and met jean and robin at Walmart at midnight for a night of shop til we drop. We started at wal mart where jean wanted to get some doorbusters. She got some great deals, things I don't need but man what great prices they had. We ended up getting a wristband for the doorbuster by 2am so we were able to pay and leave and head over to Kohl's, which opened at 3am. Just as we pulled into the center Starbucks opened...hallelujah! After getting a hot beverage, we got in line at Kohl's. I didn't need anything but I got some new towels for the house at a fabulous price. Finally a matching set for each bathroom. We headed to target next for their 4am opening but their line to get in was ridiculous. So back to walmart to pick up the doorbuster at 5am. Back to target, but again foiled by a riducuous line to pay. There was no way I was standing in that! Then off to sports authority to get myself the best workout pants at a discount and sam's club, who was feeding everyone breakfast, for an end to the night. I picked up tay and headed home to take a nice long nap!

I woke up friday afternoon and realized the cold I had been fighting all week had won. Probably shouldn't have stayed out all night. Way too old for that at my advance age, LOL. Basically spent the rest of the weekend hanging out on my couch. Clearing the DVR and watching some rental movies. It was nice to just chill out.

Now, I haven't worked out for a week as I was fighting a cold and didn't want to get worse. HOWEVER, I bought myself some new pants and sweaters and guess what...they are all a size smaller than before and fit! So I guess this gym, diet thing IS working. What a deal! My new gym opens tomorrow and I am excited to go and start working out 4 miles from my house. I definately plan to go tomorrow. There are lots of classes that look good to me.

I am fighting with myself to decorate for xmas. I have no visitors this year and laurie and bec are headed to hawaii (lucky) so I am going to cook at my aunts house instead of mine for xmas eve and go to moms for xmas dinner. I don't know what tay is doing as her dad is still working out their plans. My kid wants to come with me for both but it's really not fair to her dad so she will have to figure out what to do. I'm hoping she can just spend xmas day with them and come home to go to gmas but we'll see.

I hope all your decorating or not decorating goes well. Happy holidays to all!

Thanksbirthdaygiving!

Yeah, today is thanksgiving and my birthday. It only rolls around on the holiday every 7 years so it's extra special today. We are celebrating this day with friends. I like to call thanksgiving my anti family day. I love my family but it's fun to have a great dinner with friends and just chill, catch up, laugh, watch the kids run around etc. Yesterday we spent the day doing prep cooking for today. Got alot accomplished too. There's alot of good food coming my way tonight.

Other updates for our house..tay fininshed soccer placing second in her division. Same place as last year but different division. She tried out for winter soccer and did great. Unfortnuately there were 60 7th and 8th graders trying out for 15 spots. So no winter soccer this year. Bummer? (not to mommy)
Tay also tried out again for competitive volleyball and made the team. She's already started her practices and was excited to find out and old friend made the team with her. She is also playing basketball at her school. Due to our gym renovation we only have one team this year but tay is having fun with the girls.

We are planning another trip to dland so I guess I should have bought that season pass. Looks like I'll be purchasing it in 2011. I've never spent new years there so it ought to be fun. I'm looking forward to bringing in the new year with my baby bro too.

Happy Thanksbirthdaygiving to you all!

Back home and pondering...

Just got back from a weekend with the mouse. There were some suprises at the park...like ElecTRONica...LOVED IT! Glowjitos rock and the music was great. I was dancing all around California Adventure. It's so nice to have kids old enough to go on rides without me.

Once again, though, I am suprised at my actions. Had some very interesting things go on during the weekend and normally I would have been all up in it letting them know that I am pissed but I found myself biting my tounge to save the weekend. In the end I am extremely disappointed with myself. I let some things happen that were disrepectful. Now I sit in my house pissed. The only way to let it go is to put it out there. I don't know why I keep these feelings inside. It just eats away at me and gives me stress. I don't need any stress in my life.

Overall the weekend was great and I, once again, realize that I LOVE disney. LOVE LOVE LOVE. Toy story is the best...I totally rocked the score! Best in the car....TWICE! I went on grizzly twice and splash mountain twice. I never go on the water rides and they were so much fun. Got drenched the second time..like I took a shower. It was 11:30pm and I was FREEZING. but so much fun. My two fav moments were friday night at electronica/world of color and saturday night espn zone to the end hanging with the bono group!

Time to go to disneyland!

Is it wrong how excited I am to go to disneyland tomorrow? I was sitting with the 7yo I'm going with the other day and the excitement on his face was making me burst with excitement. He wants to ride everything, see everything. His eagerness to get there and go is contagious. I love going to my favorite place with people who haven't been or in he and his brothers case, have been but weren't old enough to remember. He told me that two summers ago he went to San Diego and his favorite part was Medival Times, which made me laugh since it's really in buena park..close to disneyland! He wants to leave disney and go to dinner there..telling me I'll really like it, but I said next time.

I am still contemplating the season pass. It would not save if we only go down pre cruise. I'm not sure if I want to go down in the summer too. I guess I'll make up my mind when we get there.

I'll post pics later...

Making Plans and hanging out

Is it wrong to be a planner? There are worse things I can think of to have as a bad habit. Why is it that I can't handle not knowing the intimate details of an event coming up but I am fine with last minute invitations. There is no middle ground. On that note I have made my ressies for our pre cruise disney trip to Disneyland. I am currently in a dilemma of whether I should get season passes for DL or just continue to buy tix to the park. We are going down this month and again in April but will we be going again? Not sure so I hesitate. I have time to think so I'll just sit on it for a bit. I have also checked on my points needed for our planned Hawaii trip next thanksgiving. So far away but since everything is being done with miles/points I need to know now. Planning IS a good thing.

I would love to add another trip in the mix but I think that is being greedy. I think I'll just save up for tay to go to camp again next summer. I'm hoping next summer I can spend some more time at the beach with her in cali. Another fun trip to central coast would be worth it. I hate that I wasn't able to get away this past summer. Hopefully next summer this eating right exercising thing will produce results to help me feel more comfy!

On that note...the gym is going great. I really enjoy and quite frankly feel a need to go to the gym. Every opportunity to get there during the week I take and if I can't get there I go on the weekend. I love taking the classes. It's like dance class but harder. I love dancing and miss it so much. Not necessarily going to the clubs anymore, but wouldn't it be great if we could just dance all the time. I think people would be much happier if they could just dance it out.

However all of this gym time is severely cutting into my tv watching. I would like to say that's a good thing because I'm not a couch potato but I'm still recording in the hopes that I will sit on my ass and do nothing and watch it all so not quite a changed woman yet.

Volleyball at school is almost over. All of our games were cancelled this week which is a bummer since it's our last week. The only thing we have to do is the parent/student challenge and our end of season party. My team was 1-2 and tays team was 1-2 and 8th grade was 0-3 so overall kinda sucky. Tays soccer is winding down too. It's been a tough season this year. Quite different from last year. She is starting to shine but it's late in the season. She played a great game last week. On FIRE! She is having a great time in 7th grade but still struggling to handle all of her responsibilities. It's a work in progress for sure.

We have some fun stuff coming up this month and next. I look forward to the adventures. Planned or not..but preferably planned :)

Is there anything Jersey can't do??

Is it wrong how much I love all the reality Jersey shows? From Housewives to drunkens sluts and hairdressers. This is pretty much all of the TV I have paid attention too this summer and early fall. I have a dvr that is FULL! I need to clear out my regular tv but I have no time to watch. Having no time is good. I am really sticking to my work out regime in between tays sports. It's all good. I have been using that money I spend every month on the gym.

School is chugging along. I have almost finished my volleyball coaching responsibilities. We lost our first 2 matchs but won our final match. It was very exciting. Every year I learn a little more about what to teach/show and how to coach. I really like getting to know the new 6th graders. They are so cute and sweet.

Taylor's team is 1-2 also. They have one more game and they should win. We shall see! Her soccer team is faltering and it's pissing me off. It's hard to go from 2nd place to the bottom. I'm hoping tomorrows game will be awesome, we shall see. She really enjoys soccer so i'm keeping my fingers crossed that her team will pick it up.

Club Volleyball is starting soon. Clinics start now and tryouts are in a month. Tay is ready for try outs but she is not really into the clinics. We are going anyways. She needs the extra help for try outs.

So there's the update from our house. Everything else is pretty boring. Peace!

We made it!

Well the first week of school is officially over and I'm proud to say both tay and I made it through. The start of a new school year is exciting and exhausting. It's so wonderful to see all the old faces again, how big the kids are getting. All of the hugs and smiles and so many new faces. It's exhausting to constantly be "on" laughing, engaging while trying to get work done! Tay said she had a great week. She's happy with her homeroom and advisor. She started volleyball practice in the hot sun outside and made it through. Soccer is going along. We had our jamboree and didn't do great but it was good to see the issues that need to be worked out. I was chastised by a dad for not having only positive comments...i didn't realize it was his daughter that made the mistake..now i know she sucks! LOL. I'll just go back to reading again. I have alot of summer reading that didn't get done this year.

I am coaching 6th grade volleyball again. This year I have 16 girls that have come out! So exciting. Most have had some experience and I hate to brag...not... but my team is awesome! We are going to start working on game practice this week. Our first game is not for a while so we have lots of time to master.

I am also a room mom but so far have sucked in my duties. I have missed every event and meeting due to work responsibilities. I keep apologizing and thankfully my other mom partners are very kind and understanding.

The balance of my summer has been spent working and hanging out at my house. The neighbors grandkids have been here all summer so tay (when she was home) spent all her time over there. I picked up a bad habit of beer drinking. I have resigned to stop drinking..well beer anyways.. so that my work outs can be productive. I also have been staying faithful to the gym and eating healthy. Each week I am successfully losing weight. It's been frustrating because i want to lose alot and it seems so slow. BUT my friend reminded me that each week I am LOSING and that is what is important. AND I feel fantastic. This is the most important part.

My tv watching has seriously slowed down due to all of this activity. However I still have found time for true blood, weeds and all my real housewives. True Blood is amazing as usual. I am about 2 books ahead of the show and am enjoying how HBO and alan ball are changing it up.

There's the update from our home. Enjoy your labor day weekend. I need to vaccum.