Month: January 2009
Crazy Sky
The sky was SO red this morning. These pictures really don't even do it justice, but what do you want from an iPhone?
Fridaylutions – Double up, uhhhn!
Happy Friday to ya and ROCO as well.
Did Friday sneak up on you? It snuck up on me. A four day week always throws me for a loop, though.
So, I'm doing Fridaylutions for next week and the following week. But first, a recap of the week that just flew by.
- Keep up the good work getting to the gym. Four days this week. WIN! I even went to Krav Maga which was fun, a good workout, and rather informative. I'm a tough little wench!
- Take down the tree this weekend for Pete's sake! WIN! The tree is down and the furniture is all put back in its proper place.
- Kick Kiddo's butt at Guitar Hero on Saturday WIN! Although we kicked butt together in our band's world tour.
- HERE WE GO STEELERS, HERE WE GO!! WIN! WIN! WIN! Pittsburgh's going to the Superbowl!
- Order this kick-ass jacket
ifwhen the Steelers win on Sunday. WIN! Ordered and it's been delivered. It's even sweeter in person. I may model it and take pictures. - Please get ahead with the school work! EPIC FAIL. AGAIN. I guess Saturdays are meant for homework.
- Schedule time for stretching and actually do it. Oh the FAIL.
- Joomla is STILL waiting! FAIL. It's still waiting.
- Get rid of two pounds. WIN! I am at a respectable (for me) 132. Around a 6 pound loss for the month so far.
Now for the week that is coming up (Monday the 26th through Sunday the 1st):
- Stay focused on the gym. Attend the Monday and Wednesday classes. Try to sneak in a workout on Thursday morning.
- Mentally will ADP to send my W2 so I can file my taxes already. Such a shame that the refund money is already pretty much all accounted for. Friggin bills.
- Prior to Thursday, finish all assignments for week 4 and 5.
- Find time for yoga.
- Get all pre-trip shopping done. (travel size crapola, etc)
- Thursday night, lay my head down here
- Friday morning, get on the plane
- Friday afternoon, pick up my free lift ticket and hit the slopes
- Friday night, sleep the sleep of the dead
- Saturday, enjoy snowboarding and crisp mountain air
- Sunday – Don my new jacket and cheer the Steelers on to victory in an official Steeler Nation bar
And the following week (Monday the 2nd through Sunday the 8th):
- Get on your board and ride!
- Be a tourist, take lots of photos
- Be extremely sad on Friday when we have to leave
- Be extremely excited on Saturday to see a Club Med friend visiting from Down Under (Double S! We're rocking it!)
- Get mentally prepared on Sunday to come back to work
And there you have it. My next two weeks in a nutshell.
Most posts during the Park City week will be from my phone and they'll probably be 99% pictures.
Wherever you may be today, tomorrow, next week, I wish you a ROCO Friday and a ROCO week!
Just stuff
I have a standing rule at home for Kiddo: If neither Lovey or I are there, no one is allowed in the house. Normal rule that I'm sure you may have had growing up too. Then again, maybe not since times have changed.
This past Friday, one of Kiddo's friends stopped by after school, let's call her E. No big deal, they were sitting out front just chatting. Later, Kiddo told me that E had said that the house smelled amazing: like cookies and candy and Christmas. (I hadn't taken the tree down at that time.) I have a thing about the house smelling nice, so I was happy with that comment. Apparently, E also asked Kiddo if she could come live with us. I laughed that one off at first. BUT. Later, Kiddo told me E's entire storoy.
<break out your hankies>
Her dad is just MIA. Kiddo asked where he was, but apparently, he's a non-entity, similar to Kiddo's own sperm donor. E said when Kiddo asked, "I ate him." Funny, but sad. On top of that, if I can totally take their word for it, E is currently living with her brother and step-sister who are in their early 20s because E's mom ditched her and left the state.
Does Kiddo get on my nerves every once in a while? Sure, what 15 year old doesn't? But to ditch your child and move across the country and leave her so unceremoniously in the care of your other child who isn't that much older? OMG, I think my heart just broke.
I haven't been able to get this out of my mind. Lovey asked if I wanted to adopt another 15 year old. No, I don't. I honestly don't even know how E is managing to escape Children and Family Services, but I am happy that she is at least still going to school. I feel terrible about this and I don't know what to do.
I think that the least I can do is allow E to come over on Saturdays and probably Sundays to hang out with Kiddo. Not that we're "normal", but at least for a couple days a week we can pretend to be so E can have somewhere where her life can seem normal. Ugh, the sadness!
And on a completely different note…….
Last night on my way to yoga, it was wonderfully cool and crisp outside. And maybe you'll understand this if you've lived far enough from a big city. The air tasted good. Like fall and leaves and, well, winter too I guess.
And one more completely different note……..
It takes a lot bring the sports world to a standstill, but there was no ignoring the magnitude of the moment. Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin pushed back his first pre-Super Bowl news conference one hour so it wouldn't conflict with the inauguration.
"What we're doing here today pales with what's going on in our nation's capital," Tomlin said.
Steelers principal owner Dan Rooney and his son Jim hand-delivered a game ball from the team's AFC Championship win to Obama on Monday, at a dinner Obama hosted for Arizona Sen. John McCain, the man he defeated for the presidency. Dan Rooney campaigned for Obama in Pennsylvania and surrounding states.
"He's a [Chicago] Bears fan first, he admits that," Dan Rooney said Tuesday, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "But he's a Steelers' fan. He's said it, and all his staff, they're rooting for us [in the Super Bowl]."
Are. You. Serious?
So, Vox, can we get a spam filter in our inboxes now? Because this is sheer silliness: