melissa and i decided to do a puzzle
one afternoon.
and it took us 6 hours.
and then we had the world in our hands.
literally.
and we played with the babe too, of course.
fantastic day.
18 February 2011
RR
so this morning as I was driving home from the gym,
i saw this:
that's right.
a Rolls Royce LIMO.
enough said.
14 February 2011
SAD - Single Awareness Day
Considering I don't have a true Valentine this year,
(or any year, really)
I am going to celebrate this day
as a reminder of my status:
S-I-N-G-L-E.
I am acutely aware of this fact.
So now I'm going to curl up in the comfiest chair in the house,
grab a plate of red velvet cake with a
ginormous dollop of whipped cream,
and read the book
Torment
by Lauren Kate,
which seems aptly appropriate
considering my current status,
today of all days.
Afterwhich, I am going to go to a big
Singles gathering where I will gorge myself
on red and pink heart-shaped cookies
and chocolaty-goodness
in an much-failing attempt
to rejoice in my SADness.
(PS - Thanks Sarah and Brent, for sending me a V-Day card and asking me to be your Valentine. It was greatly appreciated).
04 February 2011
january recap
January was a blast.
and instead of doing a million posts
(which will take too long to write)
i just want to share some awesome moments
that covered a great birthday month.
(because you can't celebrate your birthday on just a day.
the party has to last the whole month).
and it did.
1. playing with juliet (and seeing her try to walk--it's so dang cute!)
2. fantastic friends enjoying my birthday at El Cholo
3. and then afterwards at the Greenfield girls apt...
with cheesecake...
4. trying out a Diner, Drive-in and Dive restaurant.
Gloria's Mexican & Salvadorean Restaurant.
Gloria's Mexican & Salvadorean Restaurant.
OUTSTANDING.
I got the pork adobado. Delish.
5. Bryan's band concert.
he's my little renaissance man
(somewhere in the last row more on the right-hand side).
6. hanging out with my gorgeous little sis, Marie
7. DISNEYLAND!
(I know, I know.. I've done it all before...
but it just never gets old!)
Kenny and Ali gearin' up to go..
"Captain EO" *i.e. Michael Jackson in 3D
(if you haven't seen this, you need to).
This was my first exposure to Michael Jackson as a child.
It is the classic 3D movie Disney showed in the 80's and 90's
before "Honey, I Shrunk the Audience."
Kenny with his cape... of course
the Wonderful World of Color
was absolutely spectacular
8. Dutch Date on the roof
(this is my date, Stephen... and i'm not telling you what roof
because we probably shouldn't have been up on it... lol)
9. trip to San Luis Obispo.
scenery on the way...
we stopped in Solvang (of course)
gotta have something from Mortensen's Bakery
Grandma sportin' her short hair...
the view from the front of President and Sister Andrus' home in SLO
and I got to see Brittany while I was in SLO...
(this is an old pic of the two of us, but I've missed her and I'm really
excited that she's moving back to Simi Valley)
we went to dinner at a fabulous restaurant.
firestone grill.
yum
So basically, as you can see, I feel like all I've been doing this month is playing.
Good food, good friends, good family, good scenery, good fun.
What a birthday month.
I don't think it'll be easy to top 2011's January.
03 February 2011
i ♥ spring
...which it isn't yet. but it is still a beautiful day.
and because it's a beautiful day
i wanted to share some pictures of gorgeous flowers
that make me smile.
02 February 2011
ouch
So despite the fact that this story will make me seem one-hundred percent more pathetic than you ever thought me to be...
...i want to tell it. because it's kind of funny. in a pitiful/miserable kind of way.
so the other day i was in the shower minding my own business. i was washing my hair and singing. and then the water had the audacity to go cold (such a temperamental water heater) so i reached behind me (i admit, at an awkward angle) to turn up the heat, and. dun dun dun. my back spasmed. yeah, i know. kind of anticlimactic. but seriously? pain. like, how-am-i-supposed-to-stand-back-up pain? so i stood there clutching my lower back slightly bent over thinking, "alright. ouch. so how am i supposed to rinse out my hair? and turn off the shower? and get out? HAHA. figures this would happen to me!"
so, how did i get out? let me tell you: with extreme difficulty. i wish someone had been there to share in the hilarity of me clutching my towel in the most awkward position to turn off the shower (awkward--as in the only position i could find that didn't bring pain, to reach the stupid shower controls made for abnormally small people). and once that chore was done, i walked into my room (down two steps, i might add) and realized that all my clean clothes were on the floor. (bad habit, i know). i laughed out loud and then yelled for my grandmother. i would have thought that my face would be burning with shame or embarrassment, but this is not the case. i was laughing at my situation at the same time that i was tearing up from the pain. quite pathetic.
thankfully, my cousin is studying to be a physical therapist, my aunt is a nurse, and my mom has had this happen to her. so between the three of them, i was under strict instructions to basically do nothing for the next three days. to ice my back. to lay on the floor with my knees up. and to take lots of ibuprofen.
probably the most pathetic moment of the last few days was the first time i tried to get up off the floor. my grandmother had gone to the grocery store (i couldn't stop her --how could i when i'm completely incapacitated?) and my back had started to hurt from being flat on the ground for so long, so i decided i needed to get up. but every single position killed my lower back. i mean, every. single. one. i gave up a few times, staring up the ceiling, half laughing, half crying at my pathetic situation. but don't worry, i totally got up on my own without hurting my back more. i just did it really slowly and carefully. whew.
you don't realize how grateful you are for a body that works until something like this happens. i mean, one small muscle spasm (it could have been a herniated disc) made it impossible for me to sit, stand, walk, even move without pain. but, thank goodness, it's getting better. my back aches a bit, but there is no more pain. and i can walk again without having to stand ramrod straight (although i'm still doing that because i'm super-paranoid about tweaking it again).
regardless, i have had a few pathetic days the last few days, but i am thankfully on the mend. thank you cousin melissa, aunt martha and mom! (And grandma for not laughing at me when she had to do some ridiculous things that I couldn't do on my own!)
ps- the picture of the old lady i used in the previous post now applies to THIS post. for real, that is exactly how i looked when my back spasmed. even the wrinkles... ;D
...i want to tell it. because it's kind of funny. in a pitiful/miserable kind of way.
so the other day i was in the shower minding my own business. i was washing my hair and singing. and then the water had the audacity to go cold (such a temperamental water heater) so i reached behind me (i admit, at an awkward angle) to turn up the heat, and. dun dun dun. my back spasmed. yeah, i know. kind of anticlimactic. but seriously? pain. like, how-am-i-supposed-to-stand-back-up pain? so i stood there clutching my lower back slightly bent over thinking, "alright. ouch. so how am i supposed to rinse out my hair? and turn off the shower? and get out? HAHA. figures this would happen to me!"
so, how did i get out? let me tell you: with extreme difficulty. i wish someone had been there to share in the hilarity of me clutching my towel in the most awkward position to turn off the shower (awkward--as in the only position i could find that didn't bring pain, to reach the stupid shower controls made for abnormally small people). and once that chore was done, i walked into my room (down two steps, i might add) and realized that all my clean clothes were on the floor. (bad habit, i know). i laughed out loud and then yelled for my grandmother. i would have thought that my face would be burning with shame or embarrassment, but this is not the case. i was laughing at my situation at the same time that i was tearing up from the pain. quite pathetic.
thankfully, my cousin is studying to be a physical therapist, my aunt is a nurse, and my mom has had this happen to her. so between the three of them, i was under strict instructions to basically do nothing for the next three days. to ice my back. to lay on the floor with my knees up. and to take lots of ibuprofen.
probably the most pathetic moment of the last few days was the first time i tried to get up off the floor. my grandmother had gone to the grocery store (i couldn't stop her --how could i when i'm completely incapacitated?) and my back had started to hurt from being flat on the ground for so long, so i decided i needed to get up. but every single position killed my lower back. i mean, every. single. one. i gave up a few times, staring up the ceiling, half laughing, half crying at my pathetic situation. but don't worry, i totally got up on my own without hurting my back more. i just did it really slowly and carefully. whew.
you don't realize how grateful you are for a body that works until something like this happens. i mean, one small muscle spasm (it could have been a herniated disc) made it impossible for me to sit, stand, walk, even move without pain. but, thank goodness, it's getting better. my back aches a bit, but there is no more pain. and i can walk again without having to stand ramrod straight (although i'm still doing that because i'm super-paranoid about tweaking it again).
regardless, i have had a few pathetic days the last few days, but i am thankfully on the mend. thank you cousin melissa, aunt martha and mom! (And grandma for not laughing at me when she had to do some ridiculous things that I couldn't do on my own!)
ps- the picture of the old lady i used in the previous post now applies to THIS post. for real, that is exactly how i looked when my back spasmed. even the wrinkles... ;D
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