What a long time!

It has litterally been over a year since I last wrote! Some things have changed, some haven't. A year is a long time so I'm not going to go into detail...just start anew! So, hello once again!

Happy Earth Day!

Hope you all did your part in helping earth out! I didn't drive anywhere today. I guess that helped a bit. Who knows. I hope it did. Ciao!!

day 3 until now

It's been so long since I updated last, there is no way I can go day by day. Things are pretty much the same though. We had a really good Easter dinner. My dad helped alot with that, which is very good.

My mom did go back to the doctors on the 19th. She didn't need surgery. Thank God. She is still in the cast though and the doctor wants to see her again on the 1st of May. He told her he isn't totally ruling out surgery, so I guess we will just see what happens.

That's pretty much it! Ciao!

day 2 --- tuesday, apr 03

my dad had to go to work, of course, but only worked half day since he had to come home and help my mom to the bathroom. we still had only the crutches at this point. in the morning she called the doctors and had an appointment at 4pm. at the doctors, she would find out whether or not she would need surgery. thank God...she didn't!! she did get a better cast and will have to be in it until she goes back to the doctor on the 19th. when she goes back, she will find out then if she still need the regular cast, a walking cast or still surgery. hopefully, she will not need the surgery. the breaks were really clean, so that's good. it was only 1 step and from what she has heard from people about falling off of 1 step, she is doing really good. like her friend fell off of 1 step and her ankle was so broken, the doctors thought they would have to amputee her foot. she can walk now. so, my mom has a really great chance at getting the walking cast on the 19th. you can only hope and pray!

i have now taken over the "mom" role! lol seriously though, i have to cook, clean, shop for food and then go home and put it away. it's not bad, but when she was able to walk, i would help her, you know. now, i get help but not as much as she got when i helped her. my father works, but when he gets home, he helps my mom, so i can't complain there. my brother helps when it's convienent for him. it's annoying, but when he does help, he does good. i definitely do feel like the "mom" now! have to make sure everyone eats and then clean up! lol

the bad part of all of this is that on monday, the day my mom fell, i got a call from a temp. agency. i was scheduled to go in today for some tests, but had to cancel my appointment because of the fall. it sucks because i have been looking for a job. i have mailed out resumes and never had anything! i was bummed and then decided to try out at the temp. agencies. i was starting to get bummed because it was about a week and still haven't heard anything! then i did and i was excited yet a little scared because it has been so long since i last worked. i was ready to go there though and just get out there, you know. then this happened with my mom's ankle. what could you do though? the lady was really nice though and told me to call back when my mom is all better, so that we could re-schedule. that's the end of day 2!

what a week!!!! day 1

what a week i have been having! well, what a week my whole family has been having. last monday, my mom, brother and me went to an outdoor mall for pizza. they were going to be closing in a few minutes but still allowed us to order the pizza. since they were closing we decided to eat outside. it was so beautiful outside with a full moon. but, as we were coming down the stairs my mom fell. we kept asking her if she wanted to get up and she so couldn't. the security guard came over and we all decided to have an ambulance called. that was a good idea, considering she broke her ankle. it was so bad. i felt so bad for her. i still do. i wish she was all better. so, the ambulance came and when they were leaving, i had to take my brother and meet them at the hospital. my brother was freaking out! it was horrible! i didn't know whether to take him home or just have him wait with me there. i decided to have him wait with me there, considering i didn't know how long it was going to take or if i even had enough gas in the car to go back and forth. at that point we still didn't know if she had broken or sprained the ankle. my brother is mentally disabled so even though he is 25, he has the mind of a 10 year old. i decided to ask the nurse if she could put on the cartoon network so he could focus on that and try not to worry so much. she told me i had to ask the security guard and when i did, the lady was a bitch!!! the security guard told me she couldn't cause it was the last game of the final four and all the people wanted to watch it. okay...i could understand that. majority rules...blah, blah, blah. then i looked around and noticed there was NOONE in the waiting room but me and my brother! i could understand if the people in the waiting room wanted to watch the game but you, ms. security guard is a SECURITY GUARD!!!! you should not be worried about a basketball game, you should be watching the monitors and doing your JOB!!! that pissed me off. i decided to ask the nurse again if she could talk to the security guard and ask her for me and she said ok. nothing changed, but just then the lady from the ambulance came and told us my mom was there and we could go see her. thank God! we could finally breath! we were at the hospital for about 2 1/2 hours! everyone was tired and just wanted to go home! my mom felt sick with all the medicine and no food! it was just horrible. after we left the hospital, we had to go get gas and my mom's prescription at the pharmacy. by the time we got home, everyone was trashed. my brother ran into the house to get my dad to help my mom up the stairs. she has a cast on her left leg, from her foot to the bottom of the knee. so, she is hopping on the crutches and then...she falls again. oh my God!! i freaked out! i ran and told my dad...hurry up! the hospital should've really given us a wheelchair instead of just crutches. it's ridiculous. so, we finally got her into the house and into her chair. finally...the day was over!

happy new year!!

so i'm late. hope everyone had a good new year. mine was nice. just stayed at home w/ my family and listened to music. i haven't even thought of resolutions yet. they'll probably be my same old ones that i never got around to doing. ;) have a happy new year everyone!!

what happened?

okay, i'm a little late w/ this post but i was looking at back posts that i wrote and thought of it. last october...13, october '05 to be exact, i wrote a post about all the ladybugs that were all over the place...literally. there were everywhere!! you couldn't open a door w/out at least 3 flying into your house. this year? none. well...that's not exactly true. i saw one! just one...on my birthday! it was on the windshield of the car for like 10 mins. then it was gone. it was super cute to see one on my birthday since i love them, but what happened? is it this crazy "el~nino" weather we're having? strange! ciao!

gilmore girls

do any of you watch 'gilmore girls'? i got into the show in like march i think. i love it!! i watch it with my mom every tuesday and any other day we feel like watching it, thanks to dvds and abc family!!

so, i cannot wait until next tuesday!! i so want luke to kick christophers' ass!!! luke and lorelai belong together! they are soul mates!! can't she see it? can't he see it? i keep seeing the coming attractions where luke and chris are stomping towards eachother and i'm like "go luke!!! kick his ass!!!! win back your woman and don't let go no matter how much she can't commit to a freakin' relationship!!!". can't wait, can't wait, can't wait!!! sorry, but i love that show and i so want luke and lorelai to be together!!

if any fans are out there and you read this...comment!! i want to know what other people think about the luke---lorelai---christopher triangle!

also, i have seasons 1, 2 and 3 up for sale on ebay! check it out!! if you click on the title of this post, it will bring you to my "me" page where you can see them and other items i have up for sale! ciao!!

crazy weather!!!!!

is anybody else having crazy weather? right now, it's 5:40am and 62 degrees...the high for today, which is usually reached at around 4pm is only suppose to be 46 degrees! hello? our high for today is going to be 19 degrees lower than it is right now! is that crazy or what? and! it gets worse! friday we are suppose to have a mix of rain AND snow! and by saturday it's all going to be snow!! yikes!! now it's raining! so rain---rain & snow---snow! that's our weather!

i know i talk alot about weather here! i love it...i really do! i can literally watch the weather channel for like hours. it's fascinating...to me anyway! had to share the crazy weather we are having here! ciao!!

going once...going twice...sold!!!

hey! i have some stuff up for sale at ebay. click on the title of this post and it will bring you to my page at ebay and you can check out what i'm selling. maybe there is something there for you or a friend? check it out!! ciao!!!

updates!!

i updated my blog. so cool. i hated this beta thing before, but now that i know i can change the colors and stuff, it's sooooo much fun!! it's like me and someone else can have the same exact template but each looks different 'cause we can change it to match our styles. or just colors we really love. i love it!! had to share. ciao!

random celebrity news

i don't usually talk about celebrity crap on here. i don't know why, it's kinda like my guilty pleasure. i absolutely love "best week ever" and "the soup", which i think should be on 5 days a week, but that's just me. wasn't joel so cute last friday (10/13)? his voice was totally going on him but he still managed to do the show! i guess there are just soooo many celeb. blogs out there i wouldn't talk so much about it. here are some things i wanted to comment on!

the mccartney divorce continues
on the front page of comcast, in the news section it says that "heather mills claims paul attacked and stabbed her." i can't help but laugh. i don't know him but he definitely doesn't seem like the kinda of person that would attack and stab his wife or anyone for that matter, unless it was in self-defense. this just seems like "i'm losing this and i want to come out of this w/ some money so what can i say? oh yes, he stabbed me!". pathetic!

i think that's it. probably more but i am literally falling asleep here! ciao!

66 more days!!!!

until what you might be wondering? until Christmas! yikes! this year has just been flying. i can't believe we are that close to Christmas! soon the snow will start falling. oh wait! that's suppose to happen monday! double yikes! too soon! so start shopping now! like i should talk. i'm always a last minute person or maybe this year not-at-all-person. the job Gods are just not shining on me! :( so, everyone else, start shopping now!!! lol it'll be here before you know it! ciao!

fall is here!!!!!!

i absolutely ♥LOVE♥ fall!!! it is the best season out of the four. i even have a list of why i love fall so much! here ya go!

reasons i ♥ fall

1. the changing of the leaves (gotta love those colors!)
2. halloween (my favorite holiday)
3. the way the leaves crunch under your feet when you walk on them
4. the sound the leaves make when they blow down the street after a gusty wind
5. the wind!!
6. the sound of the wind chimes outside
7. my birthday!!
8. the crisp air
9. the way the moon looks against the night sky (it's different in fall)
10. hot cocoa and spiced cider drinks
11. the way you have to cover up w/ an extra blanket
12. all of it...i love it all!

i really believe that fall is like a magic season. there is definitely magic in the air. the way the season just flows. i wish it just lasted longer. like do away w/ winter and summer. fall and spring!! that would be just perfect! not too hot, not too cold...just perfect!! i love it!! enjoy it all!! ciao!!

ooo...that smell

have you ever been outside right before a rainfall or a snowfall and the air has a certain smell to it? like you know it's gonna rain or snow soon. they each have different scents by the way. but you know, like you sniff and say "hmm...gonna rain soon" or "hmm...gonna snow soon". you just know. well tonite when i was walking out of the grocery store the air had that scent to it. i got in the car and said to my mom, "wanna hear something strange?". "ok". "the air smells like snow." she was now as perplexed as me. okay...it did get cooler here, way cooler. it was in the 80's on friday and today, tuesday, it only reached mid 50. that is a 25-30 degress difference, but the smell of snow in the air. strange. she noticed it when we got home. right now, it's 49, but still not cold enough for snow. too early too! they said it was gonna rain and i would understand the smell of rain in the air, but not snow. i like snow, but it's way too early! i don't think it's gonna snow, it was just way too strange. had to share. ciao!

finally!!!!

it's about damn time! that's all i have to say. about what you might be thinking to yourself. about time the pizza huts here in indiana got real breadsticks. i haven't had the real thing, the ones with the melted cheese on them since i was last in jersey, which was 5 years ago! 5---five! that's a long time. when i lived in jersey i went to pizza hut almost every weekend and got these delicious breadsticks. after we moved here, my mom and i decided to go get yourselves some and was so damn dissapointed when they brought us out these plain breadsticks with a cup of melted cheese to dip them in. what? and the cheese wasn't even mozarella, it was some kind of yellow cheese, not cheddar, i think it was american. ick...ick...ick!!! what the hell kind of crap is this? we were disgusted and majorly dissapointed. it was bad enough we couldn't get real new york style italian pizza (we did eventually find a place with real new yorkers) and there was nowhere to get a real italian sub (still haven't found) and there was a serious lack of cute unmarried guys, but we'll save that for another post, but this! we were so desperate that we tried like every pizza hut in the area. there's alot here and none! none! until now! oh joy! there were so good. i weep at their goodness! sad i know but if you didn't have something for 5 years and then had it again after that l-o-n-g time and it was so damn good...you'd weep too. don't lie! had to share and kudos! to you indiana pizza huts for finally coming to your damn senses. by the way, they are called "cheesy sticks" here if you want to try them. ciao!!

5 years later

Today, sadly, marked 5 years since the attack on the United States. 5 years! That is such a long time. It seemed like it just happened yesterday. It still kinda seems like a dream too. More like a nightmare but you know what I mean. I still remember where I was when it happened. I was at work. It was a year and a month since I moved from New Jersey to Indiana. I had also just gotten back from a vacation to New Jersey a few weeks earlier, by plane. I use to live in a small town w/ alot of people in Jersey. Sounds familiar doesn't it. 16 miles southwest of New York City and those Towers. I could actually see them from certain areas from where I lived. I use to stare at them every chance I could, wishing and hoping that one day I would live in that magical city. I wanted to be like those towers in a way...larger than life. Make a name for myself. It's silly I know, but it was my dream. August 21st would be the last day I would see those towers and everyone else I loved in New Jersey. They are all still alive, I'm just so scared to go fly on a plane. Still...5 years later! So, there I was at work and it seemed unreal to me. I just wanted to go home, be with my family. It was the longest 8 hours of my life. When I did get home, I was glued to the tv, just watching over and over again, wondering when I was going to wake up from this horrific nightmare. All those lives...gone. I feel so much for those people that lost loved ones that day from those attacks. I can't imagine what they must have gone through. I even had a nightmare that night. I was in a car with my Mom driving on the overpass in Jersey that we would always have to drive over and it a was spot where you could almost always see the towers. I looked over and said "Stop the car!". She stopped and we both got out, looked over and then a plane went into one of the towers. I woke up sweating and crying. It seemed so real. Even the days that followed seemed surreal. I live pretty close to an airport and not hearing any planes was so scary. Like the world stopped and it did in a way. I hope to God we never have to go through any of that again. I don't want to be scared anymore. I want to be able to go on a plane again and visit my relatives and friends. I can't let them scare me. 5 years later...I'm ready not to be scared. God Bless!

new blog!

hello all and happy late september! hope you all had a great summer and great labor day! i think summer went by way too fast but i love fall so i'm not complaining. i started a new blog. it's called "A lipstick or lipgloss a day". it's my journey through my many lipsticks and my attempt to wear them all. check it out. i posted the link. ciao!

happy august!

of course i'm still not sure what's so happy about it. it's the hottest day of the year and there are no holidays!!! none! not on the u.s. calendar anyways. are there any holidays for the rest of you countries out there? let me know! either way...stay cool! ciao!

something you wouldn't see in new jersey

hot summer day...children...lined up...outside...waiting for it to open...library. me and my mom saw actual children lined up outside the library waiting for it to open. a library!! i swear the people in indiana are so...different. you would never see that in new jersey. never! the only time kids went to a library in the summer is if there was nothing else to do and that was the only place they knew that had air-conditioning. and, they definitely wouldn't be waiting for the place to open! here's the kicker! they weren't just lined up at the front door. they were lined up at the back door too!!! i know it's good for kids to go to the library and learn...it was just strange. it's like seeing old people lined up outside waiting for the nursing home to open so they can get the good room. things like that just don't happen! had to share! ciao!