Sometimes I wish I were adventurous. Sometimes I wish I were one of those folks who enjoy going to the lake and being on the beach and all manner of things outdoorsy and water adventury and whatnot.
But truthfully, the thought of being outside in the blistering sun in dirty lake or ocean water just sounds dreadful to me. My idea of a blissful time outdoors is fully clothed, in the shade, with a big hat on and SPF 70 all over me, sitting on my can in a chair not directly in the sand, with an amazing book.
I am not a spur of the moment person and as much as I like to take trips, I hate packing and preparing for them and it almost takes the fun out.
My idea of adventure is having multiple books that I'm reading at the same time, or buying something that is not on sale (which really just isn't sensible), or putting my sunscreen on AFTER I'm outside. Sometimes I like to get crazy like that.
It's almost like I'm 90 in a younger body. I basically love it but just sometimes I wish I liked things most people like. Ah, well.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Day Tripper
I have taken two outstanding and fantastic trips in the last month. In late September, I went to New Orleans with three of my sisters, mom, and auntie. We had the best time and went to all the fun little N.O places. Had beignets (sp?) at Cafe Dumonde, went to Jackson Square, trolled around the French Quarter and walked Bourbon Street at nite. Not advisable unless you like a lot of dirty nonsense but it was fun to hang out w/my fun family anyway. Everything but Bourbon St. I would do again.
We didn't get to a plantation (sadness!) but we wouldn't have made our cruise ship if we had, so next time. Our cruise sailed to Cozumel, Mexico where we spent one horribly hot and humid day. It was plenty. We all did the zipline and it was so freaking fun!! Nothing like going to a different country and sailing through the air on a zipline. It was mine and my mother's 2nd time ziplining, the rest were doing it for the first time. Fun fun.
The entire cruise was a blast and we all had such a great time. Lots of dressing up, fancy dinners, laughing like lunatics and fun fruity drinks on the sun deck. We also spent a lot of time shooting down water slides up on the top deck - so so much fun! What fun to water slide our bodies out in the middle of the ocean. All in all a great fantastic trip! Have not uploaded pics yet becuz I am a Slackin Jackie.
For my birthday last weekend, I went to Seattle (again leaving my husband and child behind - he's such a good sport) to spend the weekend with 21 of my mommy frenz. We had an absolute blast. We rented a big huge house in Port Orchard, WA and it was basically a big crazy slumber party. I so love these girls to bits and pieces and had such an amazing time with them. One of the girls has the same bday as me, so it was fun to spend "our" birthday together.
We did a lot of jabbering nonsensically, drinking, being goofy, playing games, and more jabbering in each others faces. So much fun!! I am very lucky to have a great group of girls in my life and love each of them so very much.
Now just have to plan a family trip to make up for taking three girls trips this year. I have only ever gone on 1 girl trip before, it just so happens my board girls and I decided on this year to do two get togethers and my family decided this year to do a girls trip. Luckily, I have a wonderful husband who is a great sport and was very happy for me to have these opportunities.
Random pics of me and my girls
We didn't get to a plantation (sadness!) but we wouldn't have made our cruise ship if we had, so next time. Our cruise sailed to Cozumel, Mexico where we spent one horribly hot and humid day. It was plenty. We all did the zipline and it was so freaking fun!! Nothing like going to a different country and sailing through the air on a zipline. It was mine and my mother's 2nd time ziplining, the rest were doing it for the first time. Fun fun.
The entire cruise was a blast and we all had such a great time. Lots of dressing up, fancy dinners, laughing like lunatics and fun fruity drinks on the sun deck. We also spent a lot of time shooting down water slides up on the top deck - so so much fun! What fun to water slide our bodies out in the middle of the ocean. All in all a great fantastic trip! Have not uploaded pics yet becuz I am a Slackin Jackie.
For my birthday last weekend, I went to Seattle (again leaving my husband and child behind - he's such a good sport) to spend the weekend with 21 of my mommy frenz. We had an absolute blast. We rented a big huge house in Port Orchard, WA and it was basically a big crazy slumber party. I so love these girls to bits and pieces and had such an amazing time with them. One of the girls has the same bday as me, so it was fun to spend "our" birthday together.
We did a lot of jabbering nonsensically, drinking, being goofy, playing games, and more jabbering in each others faces. So much fun!! I am very lucky to have a great group of girls in my life and love each of them so very much.
Now just have to plan a family trip to make up for taking three girls trips this year. I have only ever gone on 1 girl trip before, it just so happens my board girls and I decided on this year to do two get togethers and my family decided this year to do a girls trip. Luckily, I have a wonderful husband who is a great sport and was very happy for me to have these opportunities.
Random pics of me and my girls
Monday, August 10, 2009
Disneyland
We took Cal to Disneyland for the first time the last week in July. He had such a great time on the rides and just being there and it was so fun to watch his excitement. Of course, we had a fair amount of our own excitement. It's Disneyland after all.
The longest we had to wait in line for a ride was 40 minutes and that was for Peter Pan's flight, which is always a long line. Several of the other rides, we got right on w/no more than a 10 or 15 minute wait. It was awesome.
Curtis and I got to fulfill a lifelong dream and got to eat at the Blue Bayou in New Orleans Square. It's the restaurant you pass while on Pirates of the Carribean. We have both always wanted to eat there and we finally did! Food was amazing and now we can cross that off. Yay.
We met up with my friend Katie and her family on our second day there, which was so fun. They are wonderful and we had a blast hanging out with them. Cal and Will are only a few days apart and were hilarious to watch.
Cal lost his shoe somewhere between the Winnie the Pooh ride and the Haunted Mansion which sucked cuz they were cute shoes but we still threw him on a few more rides before calling it a day. He didn't NEED shoes, he's still little.
All in all, it was a great trip and so much fun and we plan on going back soon! Okay, probably next month. Disneyland is the best.
Cal and Curtis in front of Snow White's castle
The longest we had to wait in line for a ride was 40 minutes and that was for Peter Pan's flight, which is always a long line. Several of the other rides, we got right on w/no more than a 10 or 15 minute wait. It was awesome.
Curtis and I got to fulfill a lifelong dream and got to eat at the Blue Bayou in New Orleans Square. It's the restaurant you pass while on Pirates of the Carribean. We have both always wanted to eat there and we finally did! Food was amazing and now we can cross that off. Yay.
We met up with my friend Katie and her family on our second day there, which was so fun. They are wonderful and we had a blast hanging out with them. Cal and Will are only a few days apart and were hilarious to watch.
Cal lost his shoe somewhere between the Winnie the Pooh ride and the Haunted Mansion which sucked cuz they were cute shoes but we still threw him on a few more rides before calling it a day. He didn't NEED shoes, he's still little.
All in all, it was a great trip and so much fun and we plan on going back soon! Okay, probably next month. Disneyland is the best.
Cal and Curtis in front of Snow White's castle
Monday, July 6, 2009
Speed Racer
It seems that I am the fastest driver in Vegas. Last nite, I got pulled over for speeding for the third time in a year. Curtis finds this quite laughable, as I am basically the slowest driver ever in the world. I'm the one on the road in the slow lane that people can't wait to get around. Yes. That is me. Don't hate.
And yet, somehow I seem to fall into these speedtraps where I am going like 10 miles over the speed limit, with everyone else mind you, but they happen to have 57 cop cars lying in wait to just nail everyone. Seriously?
This makes me mad on so many levels. Like there is not anything else going on in VEGAS that we need multiple officers sitting in their cars waiting for the nerdy van w/the lady and tiny child chugging by. Come on.
I'm like a race car driver. Who knew.
And yet, somehow I seem to fall into these speedtraps where I am going like 10 miles over the speed limit, with everyone else mind you, but they happen to have 57 cop cars lying in wait to just nail everyone. Seriously?
This makes me mad on so many levels. Like there is not anything else going on in VEGAS that we need multiple officers sitting in their cars waiting for the nerdy van w/the lady and tiny child chugging by. Come on.
I'm like a race car driver. Who knew.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
East Coast Union
Last weekend I had the opportunity to fly to Pennsylvania and spend a long weekend with some of the most fabulous girls ever in the world.
I joined an online mommy board back when I was pregnant w/Cal in 2007 and a group of us banded together and formed our own forum. Okay, we got kicked off basically becuz of our matter-of-fact manner of conversing but that's neither here nor there. It has now been 2 years of "knowing" these girls and I finally had the chance to actually meet their faces.
What fun! I can honestly say every girl was just as I knew she would be and was just as wonderful as I already knew as well. We had so much fun, stayed in a great house on Lake Wallenpaupack in the Poconos, drank, danced, chatted our faces off, played games and just enjoyed each others company. It was really nice to be carefree and only worry about myself for a weekend and was seriously the best girls weekend I could imagine.
I am so glad I had the chance to go and that my sweet husband took over all family and home duties in my absence.
Cyn, Susan, and me
the view from the cabin - beautiful!
dressed like we're going to a big group Sadie's
my Cyn and me
Sara and I laughing like little trolls
So much fun! Can't wait 'til the next one!
I joined an online mommy board back when I was pregnant w/Cal in 2007 and a group of us banded together and formed our own forum. Okay, we got kicked off basically becuz of our matter-of-fact manner of conversing but that's neither here nor there. It has now been 2 years of "knowing" these girls and I finally had the chance to actually meet their faces.
What fun! I can honestly say every girl was just as I knew she would be and was just as wonderful as I already knew as well. We had so much fun, stayed in a great house on Lake Wallenpaupack in the Poconos, drank, danced, chatted our faces off, played games and just enjoyed each others company. It was really nice to be carefree and only worry about myself for a weekend and was seriously the best girls weekend I could imagine.
I am so glad I had the chance to go and that my sweet husband took over all family and home duties in my absence.
Cyn, Susan, and me
the view from the cabin - beautiful!
dressed like we're going to a big group Sadie's
my Cyn and me
Sara and I laughing like little trolls
So much fun! Can't wait 'til the next one!
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
I 5K'd my body!
Hooya I forgot to say, I have finally run a 5K in my life! Two, actually. I ran my first one on May 9th out at a horrible bike trail at Red Rock where I just like dodged 9 1/2 million boulders, as well as bikers, cactus, and other slow goat runners while running in 97 degree heat up and down some crazy hills. I made it through though and came in at 46:08 (music from Price is Right losers would play here). Yes, it took me 46 minutes to run 3 measly miles. Don't judge me. I did it though!
My second one was much better. It was the following Saturday - May 16th and was benefiting the Ronald McDonald House. (Woo woo) It was earlier in the morning and on flat terrain so I was able to shave off 13 minutes w/a finish time of 33:32. (Pause for applause)
Both runs were completed to Bruce Hornsby's "Mandolin Rain." I couldn't have done it without you Bruce. I listened to other music along the way but must finish to Bruce. I had to scroll frantically through my iPod to find him at the second run so he could take me home.
Cal and I before the run at Red Rock
My second one was much better. It was the following Saturday - May 16th and was benefiting the Ronald McDonald House. (Woo woo) It was earlier in the morning and on flat terrain so I was able to shave off 13 minutes w/a finish time of 33:32. (Pause for applause)
Both runs were completed to Bruce Hornsby's "Mandolin Rain." I couldn't have done it without you Bruce. I listened to other music along the way but must finish to Bruce. I had to scroll frantically through my iPod to find him at the second run so he could take me home.
Cal and I before the run at Red Rock
Donna Martin graduates
Okay she did but mostly I'm proud of my sweet husband who graduated from his academy on May 15th. He was in the top 10 in his class of 47 (my smartie) and looked quite dashing in his uniform. Cal and I are so proud of all his hard work and all he has accomplished. It was very nice and could only have been better if a video montage of just Curtis would have been done. Otherwise, it went well and yay for our new officer!!
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