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[May. 13th, 2008|07:20 am] |
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so I had a guy friend in college some years ago that at the very end he threatened me, scared my roomate making call after call screaming and then flipped me around while i was in conversation with a friend at a party screamed at me and dumped his drink on me. (i returned the favor on that one :)) his roommate actually seeked me out that night to tell me this guy was searching for me. anyhoo, it's been 13 years HOLY COW since i've seen or spoken to him and contacted him on a site and to my surprise he responded. I was really shocked but pleasantly surprised. I know i described a bad guy to begin with but he really wasn't. Looks like he ended up doing well which i'm not surprised at all since he was a smart one. he's supposed to email back to do a little catching up so that should be nice. i'm glad we could leave the past behind. like they say...you take the good you take that you take em all and there you have the facts of life right?? |
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[Apr. 30th, 2008|01:17 pm] |
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i got a promotion today. nice way to start out the day. now if i can get a raise at the gym everything would be perfect. |
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| a little more |
[Apr. 28th, 2008|11:04 am] |
ok, here is the most recent addition to the back. Just couldn't sit more than 3 hours so we'll have to wait for the other side.
kinda strange to think that's my back :) after the other side is finished i guess we'll decide to see if we want to add anymore. |
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[Apr. 14th, 2008|11:44 am] |
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stupid Miss Saigon soundtrack still makes me cry. well most any show i go to like that usually does make me well up. How i miss the feel of performing sometimes. such an amazing feeling. even hearing a good choir doing Requiem just gives me a certain feeling. Hard to believe i dont do it anymore. ah well, life goes on i guess. |
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| ouchy |
[Apr. 11th, 2008|09:34 am] |
i shall not tell a lie. The crane hurt a bit more on the back BUT we got that portion done and Maya and I will have to figure out how to incorporate or figure out the rest before she leaves. CRAP! i dont have much time :( i think the free time this weekend will be searching for ideas.
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[Apr. 7th, 2008|07:51 am] |
had one of the best weekends this past weekend. Friday was fancy friday as usual. we always have a nice dinner with wine together. then movie afterwards. we will rarely make any plans on a friday unless we have to so we can have our night together. it might get a little harder once we start building the studio.
saturday started off really hectic with my appointment being cancelled and rescheduled and then 20 mintues later being back on, so my dear hubby had to drive me because i'd be even later trying to find parking and afterwards we went to a fitness convention in Rosemont. he normally goes to those with me anyway so no biggie. picked up some fitness shoes, few pairs of pants and a couple books, 1 dvd to add ideas into my classes and for my own workouts. we even got to stop at Gene & Jude's! YUM!!!!! watched the other movie we got which was really bad so we had a few more martinis.
Sunday was the most wonderful day out of the 3. Sassy sunday is mine and i make brekky. got dressed, we cleaned out my car then drove down to our ofice and left the car there. we walked down to the lake and sat a bit then walked to Navy Pier and walked through there. Mike has never been there. We walked back to the office and walked around the area a bit so we know what's around. Stopped at a bar in the area, really bad service and we'll never go or send anyone there but it was nice to have a break and a beer. Got home, started dinner and shared a relaxing bath with stress relieving crystals. only enough hot water for one bath so we had to share. Boy did it feel good ont he feet. Dinner was then ready, ate and i believe we both fell asleep around 9:30.
that was a great weekend. planning our walk for this weekend coming up. should be nice. |
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[Apr. 2nd, 2008|07:13 am] |
Had a pretty good weekend. Fancy Friday wasn't too fancy. pizza and beer but it was good. we tried watching one of our movies but the DVD was bad so we got Mr. Woodcock from OnDemand. it was pretty funny.
my pop came into the city to go to Wicked. We had a great time, i still wish my mom could have come home with him to see the show. hubby picked us up and went to Due's for dinner, got tomato sauce spilled all down the side of my new dress by the waitress which was no bueno but whatever. stopped for a drink on the way home and then we all hung out at home and fell asleep watching a movie. Sunday mornign we all went to breakfast with the chongs which was nice. we were finally able to spend a couple hours with them. pop was off for home after that and we spent the rest of te weekend really just relaxing.
didn't eat totally great over the weekend and i just had a donut so i'm kinda kicking myself AND it's making me sick to my stomach. i cant really eat this stuff anymore. i really need to focus a little more though. i HAVE upped my cardio and i think with the addition of all the pilates i'm going to be doing soon will help tremendously. Hoping to get to spinning soon we'll see how the schedule looks. maybe a little swimming at the Y might be nice too. again. we'll see. |
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[Mar. 28th, 2008|07:19 am] |
so last night was the last night for me to teach Zumba on a regular basis at the Y. Kinda weird since i've been teaching there almost a year. I've always heard bad things about Y's adn the people and participants here have been absolutely friendly and fantastic. I'm so glad that the coordinator understood why i had to take a break right now for my training and is keeping me on the sub list. Hopefully i'll be able to step in for them. i know i'll at least drop in and take a few classes.
i know a little off subject but you know you'd think it would be easier to find someone these days with the internet and all that jazz. I'm trying to find an old friend of mine and cant. Eric Roy from East Leyden if you're out there, please contact me. |
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[Mar. 27th, 2008|11:35 am] |
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I found some eating disorder livejournal and it just about broke my heart, sickened me, and made me feel like a huge cow at the same time. How sad is that? wow i just cant believe how many people actually DO starve themselves and have friends and family who support it and help them. UNBELIEVABLE! i almost feel ashamed about the weight i am trying to get to HOWEVER it IS in my healthy weight range. if i could just get to the 15% BF i dont care if i'm over my goal which would be totally normal anyway. i guess just wow i dont know what to feel right now. they spoke about having 500 cals for the whole day! |
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[Mar. 26th, 2008|06:54 am] |
Class went well last night. I really enjoyed it. Hopefully i'll be able to fit that into my schedule as well. I'm guessing only once every other week since i have to start taking Pilates class on thursdays as a normal thing since i quit teaching my thursday ZUmba class to do it, study, get about 10-15 more privates in before certification training in Sept, 3-4 days weight lifting, spinning class every or every other week, getting the other cardio done and everything else. HOLY COW! Can't wait until i can have my own studio or something some day.
have to make some time to see some friends soon. I've enjoyed having a few days every so often on the weekend just to be home and spend with the hubby since we dont get much time together. we've been going non stop and it wont be slowing down any time soon BUT things are good so no worries. :) |
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| Bar Method Yay |
[Mar. 25th, 2008|09:02 am] |
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So very excited to get to the Bar Method studio tonight. I hope my back is up to it. FInally there is a studio in Chicago though. i neever thought it would happen. I'll be curious how different being in an actual class vs doing the video will be. Can't wait! I feel bad i wont be taking pilates but i'll be there weekly soon enough, i've been waiting for this forever! rock on! |
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[Mar. 19th, 2008|06:52 am] |
cut off my hair last night, very strange to have it short again. Hubby has to get his sleep apnea tested today :(, and i'm not sure if a friend of ours is safe and ok or not talking to us since we haven't been able to get in contact with her for over a week. Hoping everything is alright.
Wish this week was over. I'm tired, still have a bit of a cold and just want to get some extra sleep. i HOPE i can get some friday or saturday.
on with my boring day |
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[Mar. 17th, 2008|08:12 am] |
dont know what happened but i've had a bit of laryngitis. Started Thursday morning and it's still a little stressed but much better than it was. The last time this happened as bad was almost 13 years ago when i had problems for about a week and just before i had to perform in Into The Woods. I'm taking it easy and not really speaking again today. Friday night was the worst trying to yell over the table at the ladies for ladies night but it was nice getting to know a few more of the Mason's wives. i guess our next ladies thing will be at a spa. It should be interesting. Dinner is one thing spending a lot more time at a spa is different BUT it's on the lodge so hey why not? :)
not too much else going on. I've been going to the chiropractor to see if we can fix this problem. I've been a little lax this last week on my workouts but every now and again i need a break. Trying to figure out if we can take a vacation this year. It would be nice but it depends on how what is going on with the studio and film. I also need to start studying for my Pilates training starting in September. SO MUCH TO DO!
k, so i'm going to get to it. have a good day |
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[Mar. 10th, 2008|07:42 am] |
the past few weeks i've been suffering from back problems and decided to go to a chiropractor. The first guy was such a waste of time and was all about sales and the scare tactic. DOnt think they really care about the people coming in. i was shocked to have them measure my hips with my shoes on. 2 inch heels on the boots too. very different from what i hae experienced in the past. They have blaring music too which to me is strange. Found someone else and juts a few block away from our place and we really like him. my back felt great after he worked on it.
Saturday we took it easy. i went for a massage to see if i could loosen up the shoulder and upper back area. the chiropractor thought it would help too. felt pretty good afterwards and we decided to just relax a bit. we were going to pick up a little but we watched some movies instead. the hubby took a long nap and we stopped on down to see a friend on set of Debra Messings new film. the were filming down the block so we stopped over, unfortunately Debra wasn't there :( after we stopped in to chat we decided to stopo and have a drink over at Atlanta. 1 drink led to about 7 or so apple martinis and we were pretty tired yesterday. Boy we dont recover like we used to. Dont know how we did it all the time.
this week i need to figure out where to take mike for his bday tomorrow night and then my baby chris is in town. it's gonna be a busy week. |
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[Mar. 3rd, 2008|02:49 pm] |
over the weekend my back was feeling better (still a little pain) but i decided to take Mat class at the studio. It was going fine until we got to shoulder bridge and my back said NO NO NO!!!! Did what i could to finish and was almost in tears by the time i got home it was hurting so bad. SUCKOLA! so i opted to rest for a bit, we had already said we would stop out to see our friend Charley play at an openeing so we stopped in for a short time and i went home, rested a little more, took ibuprofin and then a bath to see if it would release at all. It's a different problem that i've had in the past so this kinda sucks big time.
tried meeting up with some friends at a local restaurant but that didn't quite work out, we'll have to try again. My back was happy that i was able to go home and lay down again.
Maya stopped over to go over ink ideas and such and of course we always watch a movie of some sort :)
rested for the remainder of the night trying to find a comfrotable position with the back and nexk and went to bed. i know so exciting isn't it. Hoping this chiropractor can do something nice for me tomorrow. we'll see. |
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[Feb. 28th, 2008|08:44 am] |
Feels like every day just melts into the other right now. would love to take a small vacation right now but we just cant. hopefully in the next few months before we have absolutely no free time at all.
stupid busy schedule. I will be done with my thursday night class at the end of March and i'm happy about it because it's time i'll be able to spend in the Pilates studio but sad at the same time since i enjoyed teaching it. i had to do it though and starting to study for my certification. I've a lot to learn in a short time with not a lot of free time so i have to find it.
anyway that's about it for me. |
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[Feb. 20th, 2008|06:57 am] |
Well this past weekend we took it pretty easy especially with the cold. We went to the Christening for our God Daughter. She did really well no crying and thank goodness becasue i was holding her :) Maya stopped over monday and shared some news with us that she'll be announcing soon, i've recently decided to continue my education with Pilates and will start training on the apparatus in the fall. Unfortunately i have to give up my latin dance class that i teach becasue i need to focus and get into the studio for class. I'm staying on their list for subbing but it'll be harder for me to get that hour of cardio. i guess i'll actually have to get to the gym for that darned spinning class.
Found out yesterday my sisters knee surgeries yes plural ended up being a little worse than they thought. It was supposed to be easy in and out for both knees but found in her "good" knew that the ACL wasn't attached so it creadted a little but more work so now instead for 7 weeks being out and easier physical therapy she cant even be ON her feet for 2 weeks and about 4-5 months of brutal therapy. i'm hoping that she just sells the house and comes back home. i think it will be too hard for her and her knees to continue in Montana but who knows. They said she'll probably be getting knee replacements BEFORE 50. dang she's only going to be 35. i feel so bad for her.
In other news my back is still bothering me after about 2 weeks andi wish i knew what i did but i'll push through continue with what i can of my workouts and eating well which we've been doing really good with. love love love my snack of natural PB and graham crackers. YUM! |
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| weekend |
[Feb. 12th, 2008|07:23 am] |
Had a fanastic weekend. we actually pretty much turned off the phones and relaxed. watched about 8 movies maybe between friday and sunday. we also braved the cold sunday morning and a frozen shut fence for pancake breakfast with the Chong clan. Man those kids are cute!!!!!! looking forward to officially being able to be a bad influence and talking Baby M to dying her hair blue or something when she gets older :) hahahaha MB are you sure you made the right decision with us? :)
Still staying crazy busy and been trying to keep up my workouts. so far so good for the most part. I've been working through lunches some days and it's difficult to always get the workout in but i usually try to make it up on an off day or the weekend. Since i'm hooked on the biggest loser i know i'll be doing some extra cardio on the elliptical while watching. Not sure that i'm too crazy about this cottage cheese stuff. used to love it but that has kinda changed. oh well lots of other good stuff out there.
have a lovely week. stay safe! |
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| crappy weather and other stuff |
[Feb. 8th, 2008|08:14 am] |
so yeah it's been pretty crappy out lately. my car broke down on my way to work the other day, well kinda hard to explain and had to call the lovely hubby at 6:20AM to come get me. He took the car and i took the truck the rest of the way to work. Car gets fixed and oh lordy the weather isn't lokoing nice so i called in to let my boss know i brought work home and wouldn't be in. he was totally fine with that. Glad i made that decision since when i got to the office Thursday i found out the company closed at 11:00 and sent everyone home. good thing is since i actually worked and didn;t know they closed i'll get some extra time off. Been having to take the truck to work though becasue it's 4 wheel drive, better wheels and of course the horn :)my car doesn't have a horn. :(
have a christening coming up soon and very excited about that. Pancake breakfast sunday which will be my cheat day. We've ben sticking to our guns pretty much on the eating healthy thing and although it's tough we otta do it. been keeping up with our workouts too and it really does irritate me when i have to miss one and make it up. I'm also using saturdays to work on the pole to work muscles in a differetn way plus i still hope to do a little something in the film. we'll figure it out.
other than that we're staying busy with meetings, calls, work, errands, pricing studio stuff, flooring, paint, etc. SO MUCH! the good thing is we've enjoyed doing it all together and that's what counts. cant wait to start seeing everything happen and transform.
ok back to work. have a good weekend! |
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[Jan. 30th, 2008|06:39 am] |
Things are going well still crazy hectic. unfortunately not enough time to visit with friends lately but we need to make everything is going the way it's supposed to with the studio and hopefully everyone understands adn i think they do.
Still getting to work at 6:30 so doing the summer hours without getting off at 11:00 fridays :( but i'll use the extra time to leave early a few days and such. Just so busy in the office right now and get to even busier after work. Maybe we'll go down to Nashville sooner than later to visit friends. who knows.
adding one more class to teach but it's the same night as another so thats' fine with me and it's a class i'm really happy to bring back Stretch and Strength. Hope this gym likes it as much as the first one. we'l see starting next week.
I'm also going to go through System 1 training for the pilates studio and start training on the reformer. It doesnt' start until september so hopefully with the studio being open for a few months by then i'll have the time to study. we'll see. i have to do it sometime. i'd like to get out of the gym or be abe to work one on one with people.
so yeah that's really it. nothing too exciting. on to paperwork today. :( |
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