Wish Me Luck!

Without going into details, suffice it to say that I have something big (but exciting!) going on in my life tomorrow. So cross your fingers, toes, etc. and say a little prayer for me tomorrow morning (if you are the praying type)!

I will update as soon as possible - have a nice weekend, everyone!

ABCs of Me

I "borrowed" this from Debby, who got it from Laura, who got it from someone else... thanks!

A is for Age - 28
B is for Booze - light beer (preferably Coors Light in a can); Mike's Hard Lemonade (cranberry); anything frozen and made with strawberries
C is for Career - career? My current stop in my road to greatness is a somewhat unfulfilling communications gig, but I want to be a writer for Days of our Lives or a rich housewife someday
D is for Dad's name - Bruce
E is for Essential Item to bring to a Party - booze and dessert to a friend's house; anything made with Jello to my in-laws (I love to see them roll their eyes at the fact that I can cook with Jello - how uncivilized!)
F is for Favorite Songs at the Moment - hmmm, I guess the remake of "Under Pressure" by My Chemical Romance/The Used (for working out); Coldplay's "Fix You" (for wallowing); The Killers' "Mr. Brightside" (for singing at the top of my lungs in the car)
G is for Goof off thing to do - dancing and singing made-up songs to my dogs (trust me, I am awful at both)
H is for Hometown - I live in NJ, but upstate NY is the place that I call "home"
I is for Instrument you play - I used to play the trumpet
J is for Jam or Jelly you like - Grape Jelly; Strawberry Jam
K is for Kids - not yet, much to my mother's despair - but hopefully someday soon!
L is for Living arrangement - Ari and the pups (Daisy and Stanley)
M is for Mom's name - Karen; "The Ren" (hubby's nickname for her); Maaaa
N is for Names of best friends - Marie, Jen, Jen - and Ari, of course
O is for overnight hospital stays - nope!
P is for Phobias - dying; sitting in the passenger seat of a car; being stuck in the same job for the rest of my life
Q is for Quote you like - Everything happens for a reason (now I just have to believe it!)
R is for Relationship that lasted longest - Ari - dating for over six years, married for a year and a half
S is for Siblings - younger brother, Bryan
T is for Texas, Ever been? - I was in San Antonio during what was probably their coldest March on record - it was 60 degrees in NJ, and we were wearing winter coats and gloves there - have also been to the Houston airport
U is for Unique trait - hmmm - maybe it's the fact that I can say the snarkiest things to people, but everyone thinks that I am so nice, and if I do it with a smile on my face, they just laugh and say "you're so cute!" Little do they know...
V if for Vegetable you love - I eat a cup of carrots every.single.day. Other than that, mushrooms, broccoli, brussel sprouts, spinach, lettuce - anything but uncooked tomatoes
W is for Worst traits - I bite my fingernails, am obsessed with my weight and counting calories, and would smoke like a chimney if I could (I only smoke when I drink now - Ari hates it, and I ended up becoming like the poster in the student health center, where everyone was inside at a party having fun, and I was outside in the rain, alone with my cigarette - it really lost a lot of its charm)
X - is for XRays you've had - teeth, chest, back
Y is for Yummy food you make - hmmm... one of my 2005 resolutions was to make a new recipe every week... I make a great meatloaf, quesadillas, lasagna (pretty much any Italian food) but I am no good at baking (I just asked Ari what I make that he likes and he ignored me...)
Z is for Zodiac sign - Aries

In My Head

There's a lot of things swimming around in my brain today - I don't want to talk about most, but I feel that I need to get something off my chest.

Ever hear The Offspring song, "Why Don't You Get a Job?" Love the sing-song way it expresses its angst, but it gets stuck in your head so easily.

So, everyone who knows it, sing along (maybe it will move out of my brain into yours):

My friend's got a girlfriendand he hates that b***
He tells me every day
He says "man I really gotta lose my chick
In the worst kind of way"

She sits on her a**, he works his hands to the bone
To give her money every payday
But she wants more dinero just to stay at home
Well my friend, you gotta say:

I won't pay, I won't pay ya, no wayna, na,
Why don't you get a job
Say no way, say no way ya, no wayna, na,
Why don't you get a job

(Can I also admit that I am secretly jealous of the girlfriend in the song, who gets to sit at home all day while her boyfriend works to give her money?)

Have a nice weekend, everyone.

Oh. My. God.

My building has had no power all morning, and although the lights are back on, the air conditioning is not.

I am sitting on the top floor, wearing my long-sleeved shirt (since it is usually about 50 degrees in here all summer) and a skirt - with pantyhose, just chugging some water.

The sad thing is that it is not even that warm out in Parsippany today, only about 75 degrees, according to weather.com. I bet that it is warmer in here than it is outside.

I'm melting...

Just procrastinating...

I've been feeling a little burnt out lately - I think that the hubby and I need a vacation. Now, we will be spending an entire week in California next March (my parents are taking the whole family on a Disneyland/Knott's Berry Farm trip), but if I have to wait until March to go somewhere warm and sunny with the hubby, I don't know what I will do.

So, we originally thought about doing a road trip to Cedar Point this summer. But the summer is not the best time for us to go on vacation - July is always a busy month for us, my boss takes off every Friday during the summer (which usually means that I have to be there), etc. - so we passed on that idea.

So we have decided to wait until October (the one weekend where the Giants have a bye week) and were originally thinking about a Sandal's resort, since we had such a great time on our honeymoon in St. Lucia. Maybe the Royal Bahamian? While it would be nice to chill on the beach with some frosty drinks, it can get expensive and October is still technically hurricane season.

Next option - which Ari brought up, might I add - would be to spend another few days at Disney World. I am a Disney addict and truthfully, it sounds like a perfect vacation to me... spending some time with the Mouse, riding some roller coasters (hence our original plan of going to Cedar Point)... but Disney is also expensive, and again with the stupid hurricane season.

Other ideas - maybe going to Paradise Island, going on a cruise, going to Alaska, spending some time down the shore? Texas? Seattle? Nebraska?

Anybody have some ideas? Due to work schedules, we really can't do more than four days, but we are up for almost anything.

Questions to ponder...

As you may know, hubby and I had an awesome time in Rhode Island. Here are some questions that came up during the course of the weekend...

Why is it that ice cream from the Ben and Jerry's store tastes WAY better than the B&J ice cream from the supermarket?

If you are a 28 year old woman at a party who doesn't drink, why does everyone assume that you're pregnant? (Okay, maybe that's because you have been a drunken lush in the past... but whatever...)

How on earth do I score a freaking 90 (or so) in MINI GOLF, yet I can manage to get the hole-in-one for the free game?

Why is it that every time hubby says that it looks like the rain is stopping, it starts raining harder?

Where do the women who work at Hooters buy their shorts?

Do you know any woman who would proclaim that they want to "get some @ss tonight" to a table of people at a wedding? (obviously, we do!)

On the same note, if your husband told you that he wanted to "tap that married @ss," would you find it a turn-on... or would you laugh you @ss off?

What more can you say about a friend who buys you a TIARA every time you visit her?

Oh, the memories...

Deep Breath...

How pathetic is it that I have to talk myself out of closing my door, putting my head on my desk and crying my eyes out - at work? I am such an emotional person - and I often find myself defining my life and my self worth by my career - so when things are looking dismal and I am having just a really crappy day, I actually have to mentally calm myself down before tears come streaming down my face. My face gets hot, my eyes start to water, and I have to tilt my head back and just pray that the tears stay in my eyes - where they belong - and don't start falling.

Okay, enough of that... When you have made a stupid/wrong decision - whether it deals with relationships, careers, or whatever - and you are doing everything you can to make it right with no success, what do you do? Do you just give up and continue living an unhappy existence in your current relationship/career? Do you say "screw it," dump the boyfriend, quit the job, and figure things out as you go along? Or do you keep trudging along, trying to fix things, not knowing if there is EVER going to be a resolution? And how do you get over making that wrong decision without having it eat you up inside every single freaking day?

For those of you who know hubby, this has nothing to do with him... purely (somewhat) hypothetical. Some days, I just want to go home to my mom and dad's and just have the two of them take care of me, so I don't have to worry about these things anymore. Shopping trips and home-cooked meals are cures for everything.

What a Weekend!

Well, we're back to the daily grind, but it was one fantastic weekend!

Saturday started with the Pam Miller 5K in Rockaway.... Ari and I ran it, and we had an amazing time. Pam Miller was a girl who lived in our community who passed away at age 17 in her high school gym class from an undetected heart condition. She was a competitive runner until her junior year of high school, so now they hold this event in her honor and to raise money for a scholarship fund in her name. This is the second year they have done it, and there were around 600 people there - it was awesome! We got to run all through our small town of Rockaway - down Church Street (where all the bells on all of the churches were ringing), through a bunch of residential streets, down and around Main Street, and around Parks Lake. I was really in the groove for about 3/4 of it, but managed to run every last step of it. I made it to the finish line in around 32 minutes (Ari finished in just under 40), but we were proud of ourselves.

That afternoon, we went to the Chester Craft Show with our friends and their son. It was a gorgeous day, and we just had a great time walking around the town, catching up (and buying some lovely things for the home, of course). We went out to dinner, and then spent about an hour waiting in line at Denville Dairy for some ice cream.

Sunday should have been a day of rest, but it really was a day of catching up. I was up at 6:30 - went to the store, the car wash, ran some errands and had lunch at Moe's with Ari, did some shopping, cleaned the house top to bottom, made dinner, and just spent a few minutes of relaxation time together. I felt so productive!

I just feel so blessed to have such a wonderful husband and friends... such a rich life.