what to do ...

...when you feel like your job is just going nowhere or going more downhill each day? what a slump. i wish i could find something else. i've been looking, but so far nothing's jumped out at me as something i should be doing. i wish i'd finished college, but i'll get there eventually. one thing at a time i suppose. my friends say i should write a book ... maybe i should haha. i don't really know what i'd write about, but it's fun to dream right? while we're already dreaming, lets dream about winning millions of dollars in the lottery ..that would be ideal right now. i hate stress.

miserable...

I've been feeling not so hot off and on throughout the past weekend. Nothing major, a little nauseous here and there so I took it kind of easy this weekend (not that I really do much anyway, ha). saturday i dropped saige off at her grandparents house, then went school shopping for her. had lunch with both of my parents (which was weird because we haven't done that in, oh, 11 years, since they've been separated since 1999) then came home and laid around. I went over to hinkle's house around 6, sat on the couch and passed out til about 7, took him to the fox then went back to my house and laid around some more. I picked him up around 10:30, dropped him at his house and went back to bed at my house. Still didn't feel that great but eventually fell asleep. Sunday i woke up feeling ok. I went to breakfast with jessica at irish joe's downtown and then we went to see Vampires Suck. Really enjoyed the movie, as a twilight diehard it was funny to see them making fun of it haha. After that I came home to a surprise visit from the comcast guy who was apparently scheduled to put in a house line that I had no idea about. At least he was pleasant and attractive to look at haha. After that Saige came home and we sat around for a few hours until we went to king of prussia to meet up with bryan and his mom at friday's for dinner. had a nice time there, it's always nice to see him, and I haven't seen his mom in a few years so that was nice. Came home, got saige to bed, watched true blood, got aggravated with a few things and went to bed. At bedtime my stomach was feeling a little weird again, but nothing major. 4:00 this morning I sit straight up out of a sound sleep and run to the bathroom. my stomach was hurting SO bad, and it's been a consistent hurt/cramp/sick feeling ever since. I guess whatever this bug was finally decided to totally show itself. So now i'm laying in bed praying it goes away soon because I HATE when my stomach hurts. Saige insisted on going to school because I'm way boring to stay home with I guess, so at least she's enjoying herself. I'd rather her not get this anyway so she's probably better off there for the day. Of course it's beautiful outside today too. what a waste of a nice monday.

saige through the years...

so as I've mentioned before, a ton of times, I can't wrap my head around the fact that Saige is now 5 years old and starting kindergarten in a week. I thought it would be fun to post a picture of saige for each year, including birth, and see how she changed .... so, thats what i'm going to do!

8-8-05 right after she was born


1st birthday


2


3


4


and finally, 5


time sure does fly ♥

a little bit of this and that ...

I don't really have much of substance to write about, I just really felt like writing a little bit, so bare with me here.

Is it friday yet? Geez what a week. Settling back into the usual routine back at home after vacation has proved to be harder then expected. Even Saige is having a hard time adjusting to being home, which is rare for her to have a hard time adjusting to anything at all. Work is crazy, but that's an every day thing. I keep thinking maybe it will become a little less stressful, even just for a day, but so far after 8 years that still haven't proved to be true. A girl can hope right?

Nothing has really happened at all this week besides going back to work. My car had issues, big surprise there. The battery kept randomly draining, but we unplugged my ipod docker and jumped it and so far it's held a charge fine since then. Hopefully it will stay ok, that battery isn't even a year old yet and I don't feel like buying another one.

I've decided I want to expand my hobbies ... because I really don't have any. That probably sounds kind of lame, but I really don't. I watch tv and movies, I read ... and thats about it. I don't have like a HOBBY hobby. I think I want to get into photo editing but I'm not sure. I downloaded the new photoshop and have enjoyed messing around with it so far. I'm considering purchasing the whole thing once my trial is over, but we'll see. I need to get back to exercising but I feel like once I start and get a steady routine of it going, something happens that throws it all out of whack and I have to start from scratch. I should start walking at night or something. Any ideas?

Well, I think thats a random enough entry for now ... I've gotta get saige ready for bed (thats always a good time). Tomorrow is friday, yay!

our stay at the house of mouse...

I just got back yesterday from a week long vacation in disney world! well, we stayed at a house outside of disney, but it still counts haha. the house was nice ... except for the world's most uncomfortable mattress that we're sure was from the 1970's on the bed haha. the house was a little crowded but it was ok. Otherwise it was a blast! trish, saige and I had 5 day park hopper passes and we definitely used all 5 days. We saw lots of shows, and I got to go on space mountain (which i loved!). We were there for saige's 5th birthday on the 8th, so we got her all dolled up at the bibbidi bobbidi boutique (she dressed as belle) and then went to lunch at cinderella's round table in the castle for a lunch with the princesses. The food was DELICIOUS and the whole experience was really neat. She got to meet all of the princesses there and have her pictures taken with them all. Throughout the week she met a lot of characters and had them all sign her little autograph book. We went to a few of the parades throughout the week. The electrical parade was the coolest! And the fireworks over the castle were beautiful! that was definitely one of my favorite parts of disney. We went to all of the parks (epcot, mgm, animal kingdom, and magic kingdom) but the magic kingdom was our favorite. I enjoyed the countries at epcot .. got some gelato from "italy" that was to die for hah. we ate at the rainforest cafe outside of animal kindgom one night. that was fun, I had never been there before. saige was afraid of the animals when they started making noise though haha. it's pretty hard to sum up the entire week because we did so much, but it was a great vacation. I could never live there though, too humid and I couldn't deal with all of the random rainstorms all week haha. I'm thankful that trish, cait, and dan came with us, that defintely added to the fun. I'll leave you with a few pictures and I'm sure I'll add to this as I remember more, I just wanted to jot some stuff down quickly while I was thinking about doing it.

what a day....

did you ever have a day where you felt like no matter how much you tried, things wouldn't get better, but just continued getting worse?! Welcome to my day! We started off the day by waking up late (always frustrating, but got to work on time surprisingly). Work was TERRIBLE. It was just one of those days where you wanted to either be invisible, or just leave and forget it happened. Then I come home with Saige and she's MISERABLE. I mean crying, whining, giving me the stink eye miserable. I hate hate hate "no nap attitude". I'm stressed out over getting ready for vacation, especially since I found out I have to work friday night til 9 this afternoon. My flight's leaving at like 8:30 am Saturday. I somehow have to get all of the washing and packing and what not done by Friday night. And on top of it all...did you ever just feel like sometimes you're being used? Like, I'm sure thats not the case, and I'm sure I'm just emotional ... but, I just hate how I feel right now. Whatever, I'm going to crawl in bed and try to forget this day ever happened and hope for a better day tomorrow. Thats really all I can do right?

weekend recap

This weekend I didn't really do much, but I'm a big fan of low key weekends, especially after a stressful week at work. Friday night I got done work around 4, came home to a fixed car (thanks pat!), and hung around for a while with saige. After she went to bed I went to see Charlie St. Cloud with Angel and then went to the grocery store. Funny side story about being out Friday night. While waiting inside of the theater for Angel, I saw this man wearing an orange and white Flyers t-shirt tucked into a black and white checked kilt. Express yourself all you want, but thats a pretty random outfit if you ask me. So I take a pic of him with my cell phone (because whats the point of having a camera on your phone if you can't use it to take fun pictures right?) and I go about my business. After the movie I go back to my town (10 mins from the theater) and I go to the grocery store. Who do I find in Giant? The same guy in the kilt! Random, but made my night haha.

After grocery shopping I went home and went to bed. Exciting.

Saturday I woke up early with saige (6:30, that girl NEVER sleeps in) and I hung around with her until her dad picked her up for the night. He picked her up around 1:30. After that I went to get my hair cut:
and then I spent the day all over God's creation shopping for various things. I finally made it home around 7:00 pm. I crashed for a good hour, and then was up just hanging out catching up on books and tv. Went on a late night McDonalds run (great for my diet right?) around 1:00 am ... was home and back in bed by 2.

This morning I woke up at 9:30!!! Thats so sad that sleeping until only 9:30 is exciting for me, but when you've got a child who wakes up at the crack of dawn no matter what time you put her to bed, it's definitely an improvement! I'd like to say I've been pretty productive today, but to be honest it's 1:30 i the afternoon and I'm still in my pajamas haha. I do need to get some laundry done, get a few things at the store and hopefully start packing before Saige comes home tonight, but who knows how much of that will actually get done. Back to the grind tomorrow, ugh.

feeling overwhelmed..

I'm leaving for my first REAL vacation on saturday morning. We're going to disney world for saige's birthday for the week. I'm so excited but I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. I've never really had to pack before for a long trip so far away. I've also never been on an airplane. I know everything will be fine but I'm feeling a bit anxious. I feel a bit silly since I'm 27 years old and have never done anything in my life haha. My vacations always just involved going to the beach somewhere along the New Jersey coast. All that being said, I am SUPER excited to be getting away for a week and very excited to see saige's face as she experiences disney world. I'm excited for myself to experience disney world! I'm excited to be sharing it all with great family and friends. Anyone have any tips/advice for a trip to disney world?