so..... it's been a while, actually its been a VERY long while...... I need to start blogging more...... Well, whats new? I started my first college class this past week in over 10 years. I was so terrified to go back to school, but so far, so good....... It's amazing how different school is when you are a grown up(ish) with 2 young kids. It's way harder than when I was 18. just the fact that I am always thinking about if the kids are ok, and if Bob remembered to pick them up on time is enough to give me a nervous breakdown. I also assumed that I was way older than everyone in the class on first day (they all looked super young to me) but as the week went on i discovered that I am not entirely that much older that everyone ( i am still pretty old) but not as old as i thought......
Never mind the fact that I am in a class where there are no voices allowed, and I have no idea what is going on most of the time. I have always been fascinated with sign language and actually signed up to take a class when i was pregnant with jordan, however, it got cancelled so needless to say that never happened. well 6 years later i am finally doing it. If i dont completely fail this class I will hopefully continue to take classes for the next few years and possibly maybe by the time jack is in high school be an interpreter...... we will see, that seems like such a long term goal, i cant even really think about it right now.
ummmmmmmmm time to go walk the dog, and go to bed..........
seriously, I AM GOING TO BLOG MORE FREQUENTLY!!!! I swear..........
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Saturday, March 6, 2010
locker room maddness
Right so i didn't get to go to the gym as much this week, because i was helping to prepare for an education fair that we were participating in for Jordan's preschool. However, I did get to go on Monday, and then again on Friday. So everything was fine until i got out of the shower and walked back to my locker. Well here i am in a towel and there is a lady just standing near my locker but ass naked. Now I know that people change in the locker room, HOWEVER, she was not changing and standing there just kind of totally naked. As if this wasn't uncomfortable enough for me, she proceeded to have a conversation with me...... um ok you have a tattoo on your inner thigh- not that i was looking it just kind of jumped out at me.......
So FINALLY she puts on a towel ( with her ass hanging out) and goes to take a shower, at which point i finish getting dressed, and Jamie walks in from her workout. So i tell her about my new friend in our locker section, and notice that she (not Jamie, the new friend) has the animals on her shoelaces that eat the laces, i didn't even know that they still made these contraptions let alone for grown ass women. I think that it is wonderful that people are so comfortable with their bodies, however, I really do not want to look at your naked ass, or any other sagging park of your body. this is not a nudist colony, its a locker room, get changed and move on with your day please......
So FINALLY she puts on a towel ( with her ass hanging out) and goes to take a shower, at which point i finish getting dressed, and Jamie walks in from her workout. So i tell her about my new friend in our locker section, and notice that she (not Jamie, the new friend) has the animals on her shoelaces that eat the laces, i didn't even know that they still made these contraptions let alone for grown ass women. I think that it is wonderful that people are so comfortable with their bodies, however, I really do not want to look at your naked ass, or any other sagging park of your body. this is not a nudist colony, its a locker room, get changed and move on with your day please......
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Jack, Jack, Jack
Not a bad pic considering a three year old took it.....No one ever tells you how hard it is to be a parents. They also forget to tell you how different your children can be until after you have them. For some reason i thought hey I did this once, it wasn't too bad, why not do it again, how bad could it really be? I mean don't get me wrong Jordan is not a perfect child by any means, but we had (and still do) a lot of fun with her, she was (and still is) cute, the only real problem is that she didn't sleep so well, but if that's the worst thing about her than that's fine with me. So along come Jack, and our world has been turned upside down. Jack is the exact opposite of Jordan, I should have known that it was going to be different on the day that hew as born, the kid came out SCREAMING ( so different thank Jordan's delivery, but it was such a nice and calm experience , whereas Jordan's delivery was scary and didn't go as smoothly.
Looking back (not that I have been doing this for too long, but anyway) I rarely post pictures of my son Jack. Why is that? It's not that I don't love him, he is just the second child and for some reason things aren't as exciting with him. Every time that Jordan did something or even still does something for the first time its so exciting and i feel like i have to get out the camera to document it ( not that anything happens past that, we are lucky if the pictures ever get uploaded).
Jack's new(ish) jacket (thanks so much Maria and Owen!!!!)
Jack and I have been doing tiny tots (mommy and me) at Jordan's pre school (the best pre school in the world by the way), I was not originally going to do with jack, however I started to feel bad that he was spending the majority of his day in his car seat. He still the youngest in the class ( since its really a class for kids that are 15months- 2 years) but he seems to enjoy being free of his car seat and being around other kids. He also usually (ok sometimes, maybe not) sleeps a little bit better that night because he is so tired from being so busy for the 2 hours that we are there.Here are some pictures of Jack, just Jack.......
Beep Beep- Gross motor time at Tiny Tots
Thursday, February 18, 2010
my life
this was an e-mail forwarded to me by a friend(thanks Angela), there really isnt a better way to describe my day to day life......
If You Give a Mom a Muffin
If you give a mom a muffin,
She'll want a cup of coffee to go with it.
So she'll pour herself some.
The coffee will get spilled by her three year old.
She'll wipe it up.
Wiping the floor, she will find some dirty socks.
She'll remember she has to do some laundry.
When she puts the laundry in the washer,
She'll trip over some snow boots and bump into the freezer.
Bumping into the freezer will remind her she has to plan supper for tonight.
She will get out a pound of hamburger.
She'll look for her cookbook. (101 Things To Make With a Pound of
Hamburger.)
The cookbook is sitting under a pile of mail.
She will see the phone bill which is due tomorrow.
She will look for the checkbook.
The checkbook is in her purse that is being dumped out by her two year old.
She'll smell something funny.
She'll change the two year old.
While she is changing the two year old the phone will ring.
Her five year old will answer it and hang up.
She remembers that she wants to phone a friend to come over for coffee on
Friday.
Thinking of coffee will remind her that she was going to have a cup.
She will pour herself some.
And chances are,
If she has a cup of coffee,
Her kids will have eaten the muffin that went with it.
Written by Kathy Fictorie
Based on If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
If you give a mom a muffin,
She'll want a cup of coffee to go with it.
So she'll pour herself some.
The coffee will get spilled by her three year old.
She'll wipe it up.
Wiping the floor, she will find some dirty socks.
She'll remember she has to do some laundry.
When she puts the laundry in the washer,
She'll trip over some snow boots and bump into the freezer.
Bumping into the freezer will remind her she has to plan supper for tonight.
She will get out a pound of hamburger.
She'll look for her cookbook. (101 Things To Make With a Pound of
Hamburger.)
The cookbook is sitting under a pile of mail.
She will see the phone bill which is due tomorrow.
She will look for the checkbook.
The checkbook is in her purse that is being dumped out by her two year old.
She'll smell something funny.
She'll change the two year old.
While she is changing the two year old the phone will ring.
Her five year old will answer it and hang up.
She remembers that she wants to phone a friend to come over for coffee on
Friday.
Thinking of coffee will remind her that she was going to have a cup.
She will pour herself some.
And chances are,
If she has a cup of coffee,
Her kids will have eaten the muffin that went with it.
Written by Kathy Fictorie
Based on If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Naked old ladies
I have been very happy with my decision to join another gym in the area ( please see previous blogs) however, with everything there are some downfalls to the new gym as well. I have decided to write briefly about some of the ones that have bothered me the most:
1. Now i am the first to admit that I am not only a prude when it comes to (public/semi public) nudity, but probably just scared of it all together, and it being an uncomfortable situation. You would NEVER catch me walking around naked anywhere, especially in a locker room. Those of you that know me know that when i had Jordan I was OCD about giving birth. I was so concerned with people seeing my vag that I literally obsessed about it from the time that i peed on the stick and found out that I was pregnant. The videos that are shown in Lamaze class only heightened my fear because the women were completely naked ( i still ha vent figured out why- obviously you have be naked form the waist down but these women were national geographic naked) while giving birth.
Those of you that have known me even longer know that when i got my gallbladder out i cried to the surgeon in my pre op consultation and begged him to allow me to wear underwear into the operating room. For some reason ( he is a very very nice man) he agreed, and allowed it. All that I care about was that they( the underwear) were on my ass when i went into the operating room, and still on my ass when i woke up after. So weather or not they stayed on the whole time i don't really care- but in my head they were on the ENTIRE time, and I do not wish to hear otherwise.
Now back to to the locker room, these women just strip down and go about their business and do not care who is there or what else is going on. Good for them i guess, but i really have no desire to see granny walking around with her saggy boobies and putting on her hanes her way white granny underwear. I am 29 years old and have had 2 children and should be able to handle this, but im sorry to say that I cant.....I can handle a lot and i can be mature and adult on a day to day basis when I have to be, unfortunately this is not one of those things that I can be a grown up about..... It was so bad today that I looked up to ask Jamie a question at the other end of the bench in our locker cluster and had to look down immediately before completely losing it and laughing(out loud) in the lady's face. I guess good for you that you are so comfortable with yourself that you can walk around like that.
2. There are 4 regular sized showers in the locker room and 1 handicapped shower. I got into the last available shower and realized that I had forgotten my soap in my bag. So i left all of my things in a plastic bag hanging int he outer room of the shower stall and ran back to my locker ( with a towel on of course) to grab my soap. I also closed the shower curtain which i thought would deter anyone form using my shower ( its not like there was line or anything) and the handicapped shower was still available. well in the 30 seconds that it took me to get the soap, my shower was poached from me. I actually went to go get back in and saw someone through the crack of the curtain, and then looked down to the floor and saw my plastic bag on the floor with all of my things in it. Boy was i pissed, however, being the confrontational person that I am i just stood there in a towel waiting for another shower to open up. I was really pissed though. When I told Jamie about it after the shower, she said that i should have said something i just pictured myself going back there(with my soap) and ripping the curtain open and screaming at the lady that this was my shower and my turn. However that would never happen, because i have no balls and would be scared that i would be asked to leave the gym and never return again.......
3. The showers all drain into a little river and go to a drain at the end of the shower row. Now because i had my shower stolen away I wound up in the last shower where all of the water drains to. I looked down and there was so much hair in that drain i wanted to puke, i really feel bad for the person its job it is to clean that drain. it was really gross.....
4. You can only leave your child in childcare for 90 minutes. This was never an issue at my old gym because all i did was work out and then i was done got jack and went home to try to take a shower and hope that he didn't wake up, but here there is so much more to do, after i attempt to do my cardio ( these machines are hard core and are going to take some getting used to) i then like to walk on the track for a while, and then go in the steam room, take a shower, get dressed do my hair, and makeup. Now forget about doing a class as well. That's a lot to do in 90 minutes and even really humanly possible. I feel like if i don't use the childcare for one of the days during the week they should credit my 90 minutes to another day, or spread it out over the next few days. And what if someone had 3 kids and they each get 90 minutes a day, and really i only bring jack (except for Tuesdays when I bring Jordan) I should be credited her 90 minutes as well. I know that this isn't realistic and that i could really spend like 5 hours at the gym ad that wouldn't be fair to the child care people, but i can dream can't i???
Overall, i think that i am going to be able to deal with these small issues but they seem so major while happening. However, all i have to remember is how AMAZING and relaxing the steam room is ( with the eucalyptus scent) is that it makes it all worth it. Is it wrong to go the gym just to go in the steam room and take a shower without screaming kids? Because don't think that i haven't thought about it......
P.S.- Sorry that I have no picture to share with this post, however i don't think that it would be appropriate for this post, and i would rather not get escorted out of the gym ( and on the 5:00 news) for taking nude pics of granny in the locker room........
1. Now i am the first to admit that I am not only a prude when it comes to (public/semi public) nudity, but probably just scared of it all together, and it being an uncomfortable situation. You would NEVER catch me walking around naked anywhere, especially in a locker room. Those of you that know me know that when i had Jordan I was OCD about giving birth. I was so concerned with people seeing my vag that I literally obsessed about it from the time that i peed on the stick and found out that I was pregnant. The videos that are shown in Lamaze class only heightened my fear because the women were completely naked ( i still ha vent figured out why- obviously you have be naked form the waist down but these women were national geographic naked) while giving birth.
Those of you that have known me even longer know that when i got my gallbladder out i cried to the surgeon in my pre op consultation and begged him to allow me to wear underwear into the operating room. For some reason ( he is a very very nice man) he agreed, and allowed it. All that I care about was that they( the underwear) were on my ass when i went into the operating room, and still on my ass when i woke up after. So weather or not they stayed on the whole time i don't really care- but in my head they were on the ENTIRE time, and I do not wish to hear otherwise.
Now back to to the locker room, these women just strip down and go about their business and do not care who is there or what else is going on. Good for them i guess, but i really have no desire to see granny walking around with her saggy boobies and putting on her hanes her way white granny underwear. I am 29 years old and have had 2 children and should be able to handle this, but im sorry to say that I cant.....I can handle a lot and i can be mature and adult on a day to day basis when I have to be, unfortunately this is not one of those things that I can be a grown up about..... It was so bad today that I looked up to ask Jamie a question at the other end of the bench in our locker cluster and had to look down immediately before completely losing it and laughing(out loud) in the lady's face. I guess good for you that you are so comfortable with yourself that you can walk around like that.
2. There are 4 regular sized showers in the locker room and 1 handicapped shower. I got into the last available shower and realized that I had forgotten my soap in my bag. So i left all of my things in a plastic bag hanging int he outer room of the shower stall and ran back to my locker ( with a towel on of course) to grab my soap. I also closed the shower curtain which i thought would deter anyone form using my shower ( its not like there was line or anything) and the handicapped shower was still available. well in the 30 seconds that it took me to get the soap, my shower was poached from me. I actually went to go get back in and saw someone through the crack of the curtain, and then looked down to the floor and saw my plastic bag on the floor with all of my things in it. Boy was i pissed, however, being the confrontational person that I am i just stood there in a towel waiting for another shower to open up. I was really pissed though. When I told Jamie about it after the shower, she said that i should have said something i just pictured myself going back there(with my soap) and ripping the curtain open and screaming at the lady that this was my shower and my turn. However that would never happen, because i have no balls and would be scared that i would be asked to leave the gym and never return again.......
3. The showers all drain into a little river and go to a drain at the end of the shower row. Now because i had my shower stolen away I wound up in the last shower where all of the water drains to. I looked down and there was so much hair in that drain i wanted to puke, i really feel bad for the person its job it is to clean that drain. it was really gross.....
4. You can only leave your child in childcare for 90 minutes. This was never an issue at my old gym because all i did was work out and then i was done got jack and went home to try to take a shower and hope that he didn't wake up, but here there is so much more to do, after i attempt to do my cardio ( these machines are hard core and are going to take some getting used to) i then like to walk on the track for a while, and then go in the steam room, take a shower, get dressed do my hair, and makeup. Now forget about doing a class as well. That's a lot to do in 90 minutes and even really humanly possible. I feel like if i don't use the childcare for one of the days during the week they should credit my 90 minutes to another day, or spread it out over the next few days. And what if someone had 3 kids and they each get 90 minutes a day, and really i only bring jack (except for Tuesdays when I bring Jordan) I should be credited her 90 minutes as well. I know that this isn't realistic and that i could really spend like 5 hours at the gym ad that wouldn't be fair to the child care people, but i can dream can't i???
Overall, i think that i am going to be able to deal with these small issues but they seem so major while happening. However, all i have to remember is how AMAZING and relaxing the steam room is ( with the eucalyptus scent) is that it makes it all worth it. Is it wrong to go the gym just to go in the steam room and take a shower without screaming kids? Because don't think that i haven't thought about it......
P.S.- Sorry that I have no picture to share with this post, however i don't think that it would be appropriate for this post, and i would rather not get escorted out of the gym ( and on the 5:00 news) for taking nude pics of granny in the locker room........
Monday, February 15, 2010
More snow..... REALLY......
OK come on...... I thought that it was a joke when i heard that we were getting another 3-6 inches of snow. I am in a serious state of denial when it comes to snow. I just kind of hear what they are saying on tv, and pretend like its not happening, and then act surprised when i leave the mall at 5:00pm and my car and parking lot are covered in snow.The roads were completely awful, but what else is new...... i think that i left at the exact moment that the snow was bad enough to cause people to drive 5 mph but there wants enough time yet for the plows to be out and making a difference (if they were even out at all). Let me say that if i ever doubted the purchase of our Land Rover, today made me 100% sure that we made the right decision in purchasing such a monster vehicle.
What else happened today? Well, Jordan had her first full day of pre school in over a week, but i am very thankful because she was supposed to have off today, but because the parents asked if we could have school the wonderful director and teachers at her pre school agreed to have school today. Jordan then had swim class, as she does every Monday afternoon, and I decided to join the Y. Now this is something that I have been putting off for a while because it isn't really so close to or house and its a lot more expensive than my current gym. However some of the following things were taken into consideration:
1. There is a locker room where I can actually shower if i choose to after working out, this didn't originally bother me at my gym, however now that Jack is getting older, its really hard to come home and shower with a screaming child and limited time to get ready, so i can now leave him at the child watch at the y while i shower, which is nice. Also, in this locker room is a suana which bob told me before i use should check to make sure that no one else is using by checking on craigs list for any creepy posts.....
2. I have numerous friends that work out there at different times of the day so there will always be someone to work out with if i so choose to.
3. they have some classes that seem like they would be nice to take.
4. i waited 10 minutes to use the cross trainer today at my gym and i got really angry that the gym has become more and more crowded over the last month. I really don't like that all of these people started coming during my time at the gym, and are actually sticking with it. At the if a machine is taken that i want to use, i can go do a lap or two on the track until the machine that i need becomes available.
5. there is an indoor as well as outdoor pool at the Y..... however if you know me, you know where i stand on public pools- that is a totally different post in itself.....
After swim we went to the mall with Jordan's friend Lucy and her mom (andrea) and baby sister (zoey). we were looking for snow suite things for the babies since they are now in bigger car seats and not enjoying jackets, however we apparently are int e wrong season, since you need to buy all of your winter clothing by November..... so i guess jack will have to wear his too small winter coat or no coat at all, and when the ladies at the supermarket give me dirty looks bc my baby isn't wearing a jacket i will let them know that they didn't have any the second week in February when i went to buy him one....... seriously if i wanted to buy him a bathing suite though to play in the snow in i wouldn't have a problem at all.....
Another exciting milestone for us (well more for Jordan) is that Lucy is sleeping over tonight, making it Jordan's first sleep over. The girls decided to take every single one of Jordan's stuffed animals out of their holder (http://www.booninc.com/products/OvalAnimalBag/802) best invention Ever BTW..... and put them in their two beds.....
I am exhausted, and as much as I would love to write more, i am going to go try to get myself to bed in the next 20 minutes or so...... but before I go why the hell are the Olympics still on? don't they have a curfew or something in Canada? go to sleep ice skaters, i dont want to watch you , i know that Conan isn't on anymore, but i would rather watch coco reruns than watch an Asian man with ball tights on skate around an ice rink.... ok really goodnight......
What else happened today? Well, Jordan had her first full day of pre school in over a week, but i am very thankful because she was supposed to have off today, but because the parents asked if we could have school the wonderful director and teachers at her pre school agreed to have school today. Jordan then had swim class, as she does every Monday afternoon, and I decided to join the Y. Now this is something that I have been putting off for a while because it isn't really so close to or house and its a lot more expensive than my current gym. However some of the following things were taken into consideration:
1. There is a locker room where I can actually shower if i choose to after working out, this didn't originally bother me at my gym, however now that Jack is getting older, its really hard to come home and shower with a screaming child and limited time to get ready, so i can now leave him at the child watch at the y while i shower, which is nice. Also, in this locker room is a suana which bob told me before i use should check to make sure that no one else is using by checking on craigs list for any creepy posts.....
2. I have numerous friends that work out there at different times of the day so there will always be someone to work out with if i so choose to.
3. they have some classes that seem like they would be nice to take.
4. i waited 10 minutes to use the cross trainer today at my gym and i got really angry that the gym has become more and more crowded over the last month. I really don't like that all of these people started coming during my time at the gym, and are actually sticking with it. At the if a machine is taken that i want to use, i can go do a lap or two on the track until the machine that i need becomes available.
5. there is an indoor as well as outdoor pool at the Y..... however if you know me, you know where i stand on public pools- that is a totally different post in itself.....
After swim we went to the mall with Jordan's friend Lucy and her mom (andrea) and baby sister (zoey). we were looking for snow suite things for the babies since they are now in bigger car seats and not enjoying jackets, however we apparently are int e wrong season, since you need to buy all of your winter clothing by November..... so i guess jack will have to wear his too small winter coat or no coat at all, and when the ladies at the supermarket give me dirty looks bc my baby isn't wearing a jacket i will let them know that they didn't have any the second week in February when i went to buy him one....... seriously if i wanted to buy him a bathing suite though to play in the snow in i wouldn't have a problem at all.....
Another exciting milestone for us (well more for Jordan) is that Lucy is sleeping over tonight, making it Jordan's first sleep over. The girls decided to take every single one of Jordan's stuffed animals out of their holder (http://www.booninc.com/products/OvalAnimalBag/802) best invention Ever BTW..... and put them in their two beds.....
I am exhausted, and as much as I would love to write more, i am going to go try to get myself to bed in the next 20 minutes or so...... but before I go why the hell are the Olympics still on? don't they have a curfew or something in Canada? go to sleep ice skaters, i dont want to watch you , i know that Conan isn't on anymore, but i would rather watch coco reruns than watch an Asian man with ball tights on skate around an ice rink.... ok really goodnight......
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Valentine's Day Weekend
So we had a really nice not too snowy(thank goodness) valentine's day weekend. On Friday night I got my hair highlighted especially for Valentine's Day ( hot pink highlights). It was very nice to be out of the house ALONE for a few hours......
On Saturday I went to a friends bridal shower (ALONE again!!!) and had a really nice time. When I got home we got the kids ready and went to Nakama for a family Valentine's day dinner..... The southside SUCKS in the snow, it's really nice to know that the city of Pittsburgh is doing a great job plowing all of the snow away..... Jordan really enjoyed herself, especially when the nice Waiter brought out a huge bowl of ice cream for her without asking if she could have it...... nice......
Then today we went to a superhero birthday party for one of Jordan's friends from school. Bob and Jack came also (a first for Bob) because we had people that came to look at the house at the same time, so it worked out well. The feedback from the potential buys is that she really likes the house and he is not feeling it as much, hey thanks for the feedback douche bags, unless you are putting in an offer, or giving me some advice on what i can do to get you to buy my house, i really don't care if you like my house or not, so when you are ready to make an offer get back to me. I cant even begin to express how much i dislike people that come waste my time looking at my house and then have nothing more to say than "they like it" well good for you, thank you for wasting my time.......
I would also like to comment about how quickly my house goes form "showing" quality to total disaster area. It literally takes less than 5 minutes for the house to become a total mess again, I am not really sure how this happens, but it just does. I was getting jacks bottles ready for tonight( i know he is 9MONTHS) and still waking up to eat but i cant even deal with it, and if shoving a bottle in his mouth shuts him up and lets me sleep I really don't care if he is 15 and still drinking from a bottle in the middle of the night. Right, so i was looking around the kitchen( while assembling and filling his bottles) and taking note of what a complete disaster the house is. pretty impressive, too bad making a mess isn't an Olympic sport because i am pretty sure that the mason family could be gold medal winners......
Anyway, back to the superhero birthday party.....they really ran those kids around, because I haven't heard a peep out of her yet and she has usually woken up at least once by now to tell me that he leg hurts ( her injury that only seems to bother her at night hmm.......)
We then got a new car seat for Jordan (a convertible one for up to 100lbs) and jack a new stroller ( a bright green one)....
OK so not such an exciting post, but i am really looking forward to getting back into a routine (and the gym) this week. Hopefully all of the weather people are lying and there will not be 3-6 more inches of snow mon. night into Tuesday.....
ok time to go Jack is crying (what a surprise.....)
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