hello there...

I figured it was time to do an actual post, it's been a while, but what else is new right?  I haven't been up to much really, just the usuals (work and saige).  This past weekend was fun though.  It started out interesting, but worked out haha.  I was supposed to go out for two friend's birthdays with hinkle for dinner saturday night.  My dad was going to watch saige for me until my mom got home from work.  Saige ended up not feeling well and I didn't want to stick my dad watching a sick kid, so I didn't go to dinner.  Later on that night a bunch of us were supposed to go to rock n bowl (bowling from 11-2 am).  I called to reserve lanes and the guy told me they had changed their hours and weren't doing that anymore.  Awesome.  We decided to drive a few towns over to another bowling alley that does 12-2 am bowling.  Trish called and reserved two lanes for the 8 of us.  She had to pay ahead of time to reserve the lanes so she shelled out over 100 dollars on her card (we were paying her when we got there).   We get there around 11:30 and there's a line out the door.  We stand in line until about 12:20 when we finally get to the register.  What do we find out?  The jerks had charged her card and not written down her name for any lanes and they were all booked.  All of that waiting and we didn't even get to bowl!  After Hinkle ripped the guy a new one for a good 15 minutes Trish got her money refunded and we left.  We got back to town and went to the local dive bar (lol) to pick up beer and went back to Hinkle's to hang out.  Some of them played card drinking games, but I just hung with Trish and watched.  My night/morning didn't end until I went home around 4:30 am ...only for saige to be up by 7 haha.  it was a rough one, but good times were had.  It's always nice to see everyone, especially those I don't see often enough.

As for the rest of the week so far, it's the same as always.  It's only Tuesday so I haven't really done much but work.  I started eating better and working out (again) on Monday so we'll see how it goes this time.  I really need to stick with it, summer is approaching way too fast for my liking!  How are all of your weeks going so far?

OH, I can't believe I haven't posted this here yet.  If you're one of my facebook friends you've undoubtedly seen this link 50 times by now haha.  I'm doing a walk for Organ donation awareness in April.  I've already reached my donation goal thanks to some very generous people, but I want to continue raising as much money as I can.  This cause is important to me because one of my close friends has been waiting for a heart for 6 months.  I can't do a whole lot to help him specifically, so this is what I'm doing instead.  Did you know that 1 organ donor can save up to 50 people?  That's fantastic.  Organ donation is something I encourage everyone to do.  Anyway, here's the link to my donation page DASH for Organ Donation Awareness, every little bit helps so please consider donating if you can!  Thanks!

Also, if you haven't already, don't forget to enter my giveaway in my entry here, it's pretty fantastic!

Alright well, I'm off to read.  I'm in the middle of reading the Pretty Little Liars series ... and I'm pretty addicted to it!

a lot about nothing...

As I write this blog (which has no particular direction it's going in, so I apologize ahead of time for the rambling) it's snowing again.  I've lived in Pennsylvania my entire life, and I remember getting a decent amount of snow when I was a little girl, but in recent years not a whole lot.  This past year?  RIDICULOUS!  I think it's beautiful, but i'm so sick of driving in it!  Tonight is 1-4 inches and then turning to sleet/freezing rain.  Saige already has a 2 hour delay for school tomorrow.  Driving into work at 7 am should be fantastic.  ugh!  Ok, I'm done throwing my temper tantrum now, but enough is enough sheesh.

Anyway ... I should probably update, but I don't really have much to update about.  My weekend was the same as usual.  I had Saige all weekend so I didn't do a whole lot.  Went to the fox like I usually end up doing on Saturday nights.  Ate, hung out, and watched football.  Sunday I grocery shopped in the morning and then did laundry and watched football.  Are we seeing a pattern with my weekend?  haha.  Oh yeah, Friday was my mom's birthday.  I also ended up with bronchitis friday so I stayed home from work and went to the doctors, but later that night myself, Saige, my sister, hinkle, and my mom all went to Maggianos for her birthday dinner.  She had never been, so we took her there.  The food was delicious as always.  After that we all just sat around the house til like 12;30 hanging out and talking.  I just realized I reviewed my weekend from sunday-friday instead of friday-sunday.  interesting, ha.  I blame my nighttime cough syrup :)

I don't think I've got much more to talk about here really.  I should probably go to bed now because I have a feeling tonight may be a long night.  Saige is coughing a lot and that always means no sleep for me! the work of a parent is never done I suppose...goodnight everyone.

birthday weekend...

I have to say, my birthday really was fantastic this year! Everyone was great, and I had an awesome time. I also have to say that this was the busiest weekend I've had in a long time haha. I'm exhausted! I can't wait to go to sleep tonight! :) so here's a recap:

my actual birthday was thursday (nov 18th). it just so happened that day at work was our thanksgiving feast, so I stuffed my face with turkey and stuffing and green bean casserole (yum!). my co-worker also was nice and made me a cake, which was delicious. i had a few parents/children give me birthday cards, which was very sweet. Also a few work friends gave me cards/gifts. It was a nice day. Thursday night I went to dinner at the Olive Garden with my mom, sister, sister's boyfriend, Saige, and Hinkle. Also delicious. After dinner I went home and my mom/sister gave me my gift ...love them!!

after that I went to Harry Potter at midnight with Trish, Angel, and Rob.  Angel left halfway through because she was tired haha, but the rest of us made it through.  It was a good movie, missing a few things from the book that I thought should be in there, but otherwise good.  By the time I got home and settled and relaxed I finally fell asleep around 4 am ... and was back up by 5:45 to get ready for work haha.  

Friday I worked until 4 and then I went out for dinner and drinks with one of the parents of a little girl from work.  We always talked about hanging out but never got around to doing it, so it was nice that we could.  We went to Iron Hill for dinner and drinks (more then a few drinks, that is hah) and just talked and laughed and had a really awesome time.  Around 11:30 we left Iron Hill and went to the grid iron for a few hours to meet up with Hinkle and his friend.  Went home around 3ish, fell asleep around 3:30, was up by 7 with saige on saturday.

Saturday i dropped Saige off at her grandparents house around 10:30 (she had an early date with seeing santa) and then I came home and took a much needed 2 hour nap.  After some technical difficulties, we ended up at the Fox & Hound in King of Prussia around 7:30.  My friend had been there for an hour and told us we had an hour wait.  Well, by 8:30 we still had no table, the hostess was crazy rude, and my friend asked for a manager and reamed him out.  Hinkle also sat down with two men who decided to steal a table that was supposed to be for us and got them to move haha.  It was an interesting night, but ended on a good note after a rough start haha.  After dinner some of us went back to hinkle's house and played games and hung out.  Those of us that stayed at his house called it a night at 3:30. 

Today I was up at 9:30, went to breakfast at irish joe's with hinkle, cait, and dan, and then hung around until I came home.  and then I came home and did nothing haha.  I've got zero energy.  I did buy saige her first christmas present for the year (leapster explorer, wanted to get it before black friday came around and they all sold out forever).  now i'm just counting down til bedtime.  OH, and saige lost her first tooth today! so the tooth fairy has to come visit tonight.  

All in all I had a great birthday, I got some amazing gifts from some awesome and generous friends and I couldn't ask for better friends, thanks for everything guys!  I'll post pictures of the gifts I got, because I think it's more fun that way :)

I can't find the right color pic but mine is black and white 

Funny story ... my eye was really hurting and I told saige and she looks at me very seriously and says "hmm ... i think you have a fish in your eye." what! the mind of a 5 year old haha.

this weekend i'm just relaxing, which is nice as always. i had bronchitis last week so i'm still recovering but doing much better then I was tuesday and wednesday. saige is home with me too this weekend, so thats always nice. we're just laying around watching harry potter movies. earlier we had lunch with an old high school friend.

next week i turn 28, on thursday to be exact. i have mixed feelings about it, but there's not really much you can do about aging right? haha. we're having our thanksgiving feast at work that day, so thats nice. that night we're going to the midnight opening of the new harry potter movie, so i'm definitely excited for that.

christmas is coming up, i bought my first present last week and it got delivered during the week. i'm getting anxiety over christmas this year, i'm not really sure why.

I wanted to post another recipe while I was thinking about it. I made these banana muffins last night, because I had some over riped bananas sitting around and needed something to do with them. I found this online at www.catcancook.com and then came out DELICIOUS. let me know if anyone tries them!



Banana Muffins (makes 12 muffins)

3 or 4 Large bananas, mashed (the more bananas the moister, so I use 4)

1/2 cup white sugar (original recipe calls for 1 cup, but I don’t like them too sweet)

1 slightly beaten egg

1/3 cup melted margarine or butter

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 cups flour

Mix the mashed banana, sugar, egg and margarine together. Set aside. In a separate bowl, mix together baking soda, baking powder, salt and flour. Mix wet and dry ingredients all together! Pour into greased muffin tins, and bake in 350 degrees F oven for approximately 20 minutes. Enjoy!

*These are much more flavourful the next day, and they freeze very nicely too!

update about a lot of nothing...

so I logged onto blogger and realized it says my last post was September 26. Given the fact that it's the middle of October, I figured it was time I update, even if I don't feel like I have too much to update about.

I'll recap the weekend first. Friday I worked til about 4:30 and then went grocery shopping with Saige and Trish for our dinner we were having at hinkle's house. The dinner turned out delicious and it was nice to spend time with good friends, especially Trish since I don't see nearly enough of her these days. Around 8 we all parted ways and I went home to put Saige to bed and catch up on some TV. Saturday Saige had a tball game at 10:15 (in the crazy wind, ugh, talk about cold) and then we went to kmart (where we ran into jamie, kenzie, and autumn). After kmart we headed up to the Charlestown Sale for a little bit. I need to go back there at some point this week, shopping with Saige at a flea market type thing is never an easy task. After the sale we went home. Saige's uncle unexpectedly called me and asked if they could have her for the night so she could play with her cousin, so he picked her up around 6:30. Stacie visited for a little bit and then headed off to a beef and beer. I didn't feel like doing much so I literally layed around in bed all night, which was nice. Around 1:30 I got a phonecall begging for frozen pizza so I dealt with that (ha) and then came back and fell back asleep around 3:30. Today (sunday) I woke up around 10, went to get breakfast with hinkle at mcdonalds and then came back to my house to eat. He left, I himmed and hawwed over my fantasy team for a while and just kind of sat around the rest of the day. Pat stopped over and now saige and I are just relaxing. Back to work in the morning ... yay.

This is probably my 100th post about this but tomorrow i'm getting back on the weight wagon, AGAIN. Did you ever feel like your life is just kind of out of control and you need to grasp a part of it? Well, thats kind of how I feel, so this is my way of gaining control of something. keep your fingers crossed that I actually stick with it this time.

My car is getting inspected and fixed thursday, so I'm having a mini panic attack over that because I dont have a lot of money for costly repairs and that car is falling apart. I wish I wasn't so poor, ha. Keep your fingers crossed that it doesn't turn out as awful as I think it will please, ha.

Well, thats enough for now I guess. Hope everyone had a nice weekend!

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I've opened this a hundred times since my last post, but I've closed it each time not knowing what to say. I hate when i get "blocked" like this. However, I've been nudged to blog so I'm going to do it :)

Where to start ... lets see. It's now Sunday night at 10:30 and I just ate my first "meal" since friday evening. When I say meal, i really just mean I had a cheese stick and some pretzels. What a weekend it's been. Friday night I went out to dinner at Lonestar with Stacie and Saige (as a belated birthday present for Stacie's birthday, which was Monday). After dinner all was well until around 11:00. I was laying in bed reading a book and my stomach started feeling very uncomfortable. Uncomfortable quickly changed to crampy, which quickly changed to feeling beyond sick. I spent the next 10 hours in the bathroom getting sick. When i say sick, I mean I just couldn't stop. It got so bad that I was dry heaving because I had nothing left to throw up but my body still felt like it needed to take that action. It was a terrible night. I was chalking it up to being sick from the steak I ate at dinner, but then a parent from work commented on my facebook telling me that her daughter started throwing up around 9:00 that same night. That same little girl insisted on giving me "goodbye kisses" before i left work that night (she's 2, love her), so thats obviously where it came from, because her mom ended up with the same thing the next day. Apparently Stacie ended up sick at 5:30 am saturday with the same thing, so we're figuring she got it from the little girl she carries around a lot at work who had it on thursday, because her father is sick today (co-worker). I felt a little better knowing it wasn't food poisoning of ecoli, but I was just praying for it to be over. I finally stopped getting sick around 9 am, but I was freaking out because saige had to be at tball by 9:45. Normally I would have just had her skip it, but of course it had to be picture day AND I was snack mom, so there was no way i couldn't go. I was practically in tears trying to figure out how I was going to make it through the next hour and a half outside, when my mother saved the day by telling me she'd heard me up during the night and had cancelled her plans to take saige to t-ball for me. Talk about a life saver. After tball was over my mom drove her to her other grandparents house for the night, who thankfully were already planning on taking her for the night, so I just laid in bed for the next 10 hours. After I stopped getting sick, the tail end of the bug kicked in which apparently is awful body aches and a fever. So i dealt with that until around 9:00 that night and I finally felt better. Around 7 I had attempted my first "food" of the day, which was a handful of dry plain cheerios. Those stayed down but didn't feel that great so I didn't push it any further with more food. Around 10 I decided since i felt better that I needed to get out of the house and get some air, so I met hinkle at the sly fox. Probably not my best idea, but it was alright. I sat there less then 2 hours, sipping on water (because I couldn't even handle my diet coke that I usually drink 10 of while i'm there) and then called it a night.

Thankfully today, sunday, I woke up feeling much better. I took it pretty easy for the first half of today. I finished my book ("safe haven" by nicholas sparks, good book) and watched some jersey shore reruns (grenade grundle chodes, bahahah, it just never gets old) and then I did some shopping (kmart and the dollar store) and came back to tackle this DISASTER of a bedroom. When I say disaster, I don't necessarily mean there's trash everywhere and stuff, it's just clothes clothes and more CLOTHES. and most of them are saige's, so thats even more frustrating haha. I decided last week that I'm having a yard sale this coming saturday so I started sorting and pricing everything. It doesn't look like I did much, but I really did accomplish a lot for once. In between all of that, Saige and I did her homework project (she had to make a number book, she used an ocean theme, it was cute) and then she watched the new tinkerbell movie.

Saige herself had a good weekend. She went to the grandparents house and then her father actually decided to spend the day/night with her. They went to a fall festival at her grandmother's school and then they cooked out for dinner and then saige, her cousin, and her father "camped" out in a tent in the backyard for the night. He said her cousin went inside around midnight because she woke up and wanted to go inside, and then Saige made it until 2:30 until she decided she was over it and woke up and wanted a real bed haha. Today they went to one of those home depot kid workshops where she build a wooden sailboat and got a cute apron and stuff. She came home around 5. I'm glad she had a good weekend, she definitely deserves it after last weekend. I'd like to think that he'll keep this up, but I'm not holding my breath. I guess we'll see what happens.

Well, this blog got crazy long! it's almost 11:00 so I should probably get ready for bed. Get to start another wonderful week at work tomorrow morning. keep your fingers crossed that the stomach bug doesn't come back and hit me a second time, it's flying around work (obviously) and I know a little girl who's had it twice in the past 3 days so apparently you can get it again. UGH, awful.

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.

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!

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.