Misunderstood

I just did my yoga so I am chillaxin right now. Before that I scoured the bathroom that needed it badly, all fresh and clean now yay. Tomorrow I have to grocery shop and do massive amounts of laundry. Any grocery suggestions? My boss finally got a new microwave for work, so I am thrilled beyond belief about that. I honestly can’t stand eating a lot of fast food, even though I stuck to Subway, but it makes me feel sick after awhile. I guess I prefer my own cooking.

I am so proud of everyone out there right now, working on themselves, changing to a healthier lifestyle. It’s SO DAMN HARD but so worth it.

GRAVITY

I finally bought my son’s costume for Halloween, which… of course he is wearing like 24/7 now. I also got myself an excersize ball although I have no clue what to do with it or how to use it!

I was almost in tears yesterday when I came home to find a package from Lisa Marie that even included the new Weight Watchers cookbook! It was just what I needed after a hellish stressful week.

Speaking of my hellish stressful week, suddenly my son’s father contacted me twice about sending our son some clothing (he needed sizes apparently). Why after months he contacts me now and tries to act like a concerned parent worries me. Something just… isn’t right with him (and by this I mean mentally).

Work wise, I set us up with a new domain for my job to reflect some name changes so I need to work on that this week. I also have to finish a site for my friend Kristina.

I really want to plan on going to the Morton Arboretum as well as the Chicago Botanic Garden and take some photos soon with all the leaves.

I got in the mail this afternoon from my mom a lovely flower themed calender, the New Cook Book (Better Homes and Gardens Test Kitchen), and Memoirs of a Geisha! How awesome is that!

My sister and I went to Sam’s Club, got tons of chicken, shrimp, laughing cow light cheese, and fresh mozzarella cheese. I am leaning towards pasta with the cheese and shrimp for dinner.

MY LAST BREATH

Yeppers, new layout for OSN featuring my son at the forest preserve yesterday. Full sized images are up at Imagine.

This weekend… I didn’t really do much. I napped away Saturday after work, Sunday was the normal farmers market, laundry, walk/bike ride with Daniel, yoga before bed. I didn’t sleep very well though, kept having just the oddest dreams. Today I just plan on putting away the laundry this afternoon!

Not sure if anyone noticed, but in my about blurb to the right, I keep an updated status of my weight loss. As of yesterday, I am offically at 25lbs lost! I bought an excersize ball (under $12!) although I have no clue what to do with it.

I got my Moo cards in the mail this weekend, so cute and lovely. I have no clue what to do with them!

I will add more to this entry later!

Later

It’s a bit annoying when you’re doing downward facing dog and your child keeps crawling under you to “relax”.

LET IT SNOW

First off, thank you SO much Crys for the awesome birthday gifts! I was so surprised and so full of glee and was reading them all night feeling giddy… glee and giddy!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

Tonight we (my son and myself) are having dinner at my sister’s tonight, I was being all sobby about how crappy I have been with dinners lately so she offered this actually really good idea. Each week choose a cuisine and every night have a dish from that cuisine. So one week could be Mexican food like chicken tortilla soup, enchiladas, tamales, etc. Another week could be Italian, chicken parm, lasanga, shrimp pasta, etc. So I am going to go through my cookbooks (and especially my new cookbooks from Lisa Marie and Crys) to start building my menus!

Oh and thanks to Heather and Melissa, I am like addicted to hummus. Minus the tahini paste because oh dear god the fat grams alone scared me. Plus it is too expensive still… chickpeas, tons of lemon and garlic, a bit of sour cream… it’s all good!

Oh my GOD it is SNOWING! WEE FLURRIES!!!!!! SNOW! SNOWING! FLURRTASTIC!

I so need mittens. ahaha Mittens. I have word issues!

ETA Imagine has been updated with a ton of photos.

COUNT ON ME

I am SO cold. Last night I updated Imagine with a ton of photos. Daniel and I had dinner at my sister’s. Greek chicken and rice. So nummy! Then they made peanut butter cookies and she gave me some clothes that eventually I will fit into and other stuff.

Tonight I am going to sit down with my cookbooks and come up with an ethnic cuisine menu for the upcoming week for dinners. This morning for breakfast I tried the Quaker Oat’s Banana Bread Weight Smart Oatmeal, whew say that fast 3 times! I should have added more water, who knew oatmeal was so absorbent? It tasted ok, I’ve never really eaten oatmeal before. Let’s see if it keeps me full until lunch time! What I wouldn’t do for some starbucks right now though because I am still so cold!

So Daniel’s father called me yesterday, he apparently shipped a box of some clothing to his son so I am going to be on the look out for that. What bothered me during our conversasion, well a few things actually. First, how he said he planned on doing something mean to me on my birthday, I’m not sure exactly what… something about sending a card? Then he started complaining about how he might not have a place to live (he could live at his mother’s but he doesn’t want to, not that I blame him, it’s a disgusting house) and all this other stuff… but… he still finds time to go online and do gods knows what. I guess it just bothers me that I work my ass off to support our son with zero financial help (one or two boxes of some clothes a year isn’t financial help) from him and he still feels the right to complain how HIS life sucks to me? When he is the one to put himself in that situation? Then tells me how he basically cussed out and went off on his friends? It’s just… I’m tired of it. Like I don’t have enough to deal with I have to have that all laid on me.

On to other perkier thoughts… this past episode of Veronica Mars was awesome, just for the part in the “prison” where the “guard” played the Pina Colada song and Logan is all “I will tell you what you want to know” and the guard comes up and Logan says “Yes I like pina coladas and walking in the rain”. Ok maybe I am the only one that died laughing but still…. BUT STILL!

Seriously. It’s really cold. “Real Feel” is 15 degrees!

Someone, warm me up!

EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE

We haven’t done much today, took a very long walk in the forest preserve, about to go to a different one for more photos and such.

Daniel got a box of some clothes from his father today. I still can’t believe my 4 1/2 yr old needs clothing long enough for a 6 year old.

Tonight we are going to Sweet Tomatoes and grocery shopping with my sister since starting tomorrow it will be Mexican dinner week (the week after will most likely be greek) so any Mexican dinner suggestions would be great! Also, she is selling a Gold Amethyst Crescent Moon with a Diamond Star necklace on ebay so check it out!

I also got the cutest birthday card from Lisa Marie yesterday! This birthday is actually turning itself around from years past I am beyond surprised!

Oh and *waves* HI! I feel like I’m losing contact with everyone!

Strong Enough

Yeppers, yet another new layout.

I’ve had a migraine since 1pm yesterday afternoon. I’ve taken 6 excedrin since then. I am in agony. It didn’t help that I didn’t get much sleep because of the pain but to come into work and to smell that the office is flooded in natural gas (apparently the heater pilot light was out so gas was blowing all weekend) and my boss merely told me to “air the office out”. I had every door open with below 50 degree weather blowing through here for over two hours. So I am not only cold and with an intense migraine, but I had to panic for two hours that I was going to die. I am not in the best of moods.

Tomorrow is my birthday. I will be 25 years old. My twin sister and I will be going out to eat at BD Mongolian for our birthday dinner. It’s an awesome resturant.

Imagine has been updated with a ton more new photos. Actually, there will be even MORE photos late tonight since I have over 40 to wade through this evening from the forest preserve yesterday.

So lastly, I need a hug and perhaps a neck rub because of my agony. I am not dramatic in the slightest heh.

Seriously. Agony! PITY MY MIGRAINE!

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Happy 25^th Birthday to Me

Today I am 25 years old.

With or Without You

Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes!

I’ve been really introspective tonight, doing the not so good dwelling on my past. I’ve led an interesting and dramatic filled life for 25 years. Not to mention being a single mother to an almost five year old. It blows my mind. I think I’ve trapped myself the last couple of years. 2003 was a year of transformation for me but since mid-2004 I’ve been doing the exact thing every single day without trying to progress in my life. Can anyone relate to this?

So I’ve been pondering what other tutorials (expression engine, css, or other!) I can add, any suggestions?

I’ve joined a bunch of random social bookmarking sites today and made it so you can simply add my entries to those sites (as you see under the title) and I re-joined Technorati so good times. I also added live comment preview on the comments page. So let me know what you think of all the wee little tidbits I’ve been doing!

Tomorrow I am going to the library, any suggestions for fiction or non-fiction books I should pick up?

It is so very difficult to find a decent digital video camera for under $80! I’ve been wanting one for awhile because my old camera had a video function so I used it alot for Danny videos. I miss that.

My son is rocking out to “Queen — We Will Rock You” right now.

Forever Young

What is the best way to respond to comments? Responding to each one via email (which is what I currently do), respond inline on the comments page, responding on the comments page AND emailing the response, or not responding at all? I am curious what people find to be the best solution and what they personally do!

So here’s a list of what I’ve added to this incarnation of OSN so far:

• Live comment preview
• Social bookmarking links on every entry
• Search area
• Why I Love blog
• Snippets blog
• Wee additions to the posted comments
• Recent comments on red sidebar

I will probably be adding more stuff in the next few days as well!

I would very much appreciate any suggestions for tutorials I could write up, any entries I could write for subjects that aren’t large enough for a full fledged tutorial, or anything else in general for that matter!