In Memory..

Silence can say more than a thousand words.

Typical Tuesday

Typical Tuesday here. Eli finally got to fly this morning before heading off to his regular job ( he was in a very good mood this morning and when he got home before heading off to work). We found out that we can get on my company's health insurance if E should decide to quit his job and fly full-time. That was a huge weight off my shoulders. Now we are starting to look into a second car..beater car actually. He will commuting to Riverside, CA and while I work from home, my job does require me to meet with candidates and clients. I have already managed to double book our current car a few times. So it will be nice to be a two car family instead of one.

So without us really saying YES, we are going to do this, I think we are well on our way to do actually having him quit. AHHHHH. kind of crazy.

On another note we are doing date night tomorrow. The Newport Beach Film Festival is going on right now. I went and saw Klunkerz on Sunday. It was great! All about how the sport of mountain biking started and its evolution. It is crazy to think that these name brands of bikes such as Gary Fisher and Specialized Bikes actually played a real life role in getting mountain biking to what it is now.

So E and I are going to see a movie at 8:30pm. I am not sure which one he picked out since he rattled off about 10 he wanted to see. I was working when he was naming everything, so nothing processed on what he chose. So I guess it will be a nice surprise. Should be nice to get out for a bit since our week days are usually all over the place with his crazy schedule.

Off to watch my latest addiction...Search for the next Pussycat Doll. I think tonight is the finale! Go Melissa R!!

6 months ago today we were married...

we were marrid on sunday, october 22, 2006 at 4pm. What a wonderful, happy, amazing day that was. What a road we have traveled since then. So far the road's been good. Filled with tons of laughter and tears (mostly my tears..tears of adjustment to my new surroundings). We are learning so much about each other. My mom was right that this move will bring us closer and closer. I already feel so close to him, even more so then the day we were married. I am learning so much about me and how I handle situations. We are trying to learn to adjust to Eli's opposite schedule to mine. And how that is going to be our life from here on out.

We are coming up on big decision on whether or not we can afford to have E quit his job to flight train full-time so that he can finish up his flight program in 90 days rather then 10 months. It is an interesting feeling to have on your shoulders that your earnings will be the one to sustain the lifesyle or rather pay the bills. I have a new found respect for men and women who soley provide for their family. I feel like one big ADULT.

The are many upsides to doing this and I have a feeling we will be able to do this once we take a look at our financial situation, figure out how we can get a second car and health insurance coverage. This does put our house search on hold for now and possibly our one year anniversary vacation plans. I do believe the sacrafice and compromise will be worth it.

it happened..

after 6 months of marriage it finally happened...

I screwed up dinner...bad! real bad.

Eli is on the phone with pizza man...I hope it gets here before Grey's starts.

Audrey's Email

Does anyone have her email? I didn't realize she was going private on her blog. Audrey if you read this, may I have an invite to your blog??? :)

Celebrity..what???

It was another crazy, hectic and very fun weekend. Friday night, Eli did his first night flight and ended up getting all of his hours in that are required for night flying. He is now up to 25 hours! To get his private pilot's license he needs 40 so he is a little more the halfway there! Saturday we got up, headed to the airport to fly up to the bay area for a wedding. The wedding was nice, the bride and groom looked so happy. There were a couple of mishaps...two bridesmaids fainted. One during the ceremony and the other afterwards. Both were okay. The reception was at a beautiful country club in Berkeley. The view was amazing! As the reception went on, it seems as though I was the only one who was enjoying the open bar. As a result, I became chatty Kathy! I think my solitude in OC has caught up with me b/c anyone that I could have a conversation with, i did and I kept talking and talking...oye!

Sunday the A's were playing the Yankees. We managed to score tickets and made a mad dash to the game. The seats were amazing! The day was amazing and the best part is that the A's won in the bottom of the ninth inning, 2 outs and two men on base and marco scurato hit a 3 run walk off home run to end the game! After the game we headed to the airport to catch our flight back down to Orange County. As we were walking, a guy behind us was chatting us up. I had my Nick Swisher http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=430897
tee shirt on and the guy was like, you guys big swisher fans. I turned around and nodded my head when E was saying yes but now she is starting to dig on Travis Buck
http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=459941
This guy was like, yeah, I know those guys, they are great. "T" is a stud and will be a stud for a long time. Now it didn't quite register with us what this guy was saying. For all we knew, he could know these guys and it didn't dawn on us that he was an oakland A player as well.

We get our seats and we were chatting with a guy in front of us about the game and how wondefully exciting it ended. The guy was like, did you see Bobby Crosby in the airport. We were like no! Then as we relived the conversation with that guy and how he was asking about us being Swisher fans, etc that was indeed Bobby Crosby! Both us of were like DOH! i can't believe we didn't recognize who were talking to. As soon as we got home, we logged onto the A's website and looked up Crosby. Sure enough, it was him. DAMN!
http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=425853

Not a good day for news

today was not a good day for news..in fact it was a horrible news day. I found out that two separate individuals who have nothing to do with each other may have cancer. In both cases we won't find out until next week until the pathology reports come in. Please keep them in your prayers..

Our Saturday Night

Here are some pics from the tailgate party before the A's game. We had killer seats thanks to craigslist! Though I managed not to take any pictures from our seats..damn! The A's lost :( but they did win today so they came out of the series two and two!!

E is working tonight and has to close..bummer! So no fun sedar dinner for us. He has to close all week this week so I am on my own for dinner. I feel like I am back to my single days. Now where are those take out menus!?




I need to figure out a way to incorporate this into real life...



our realtor Michelle and her husband,Elian


The "crew"




Us

Introducing Louie

Needed that...

I am very thankful it is saturday! I needed that extra two hours to sleep. Though poor Eli had to get up at 4:45am this morning to go into work at 5:30am. Fridays and Saturdays are the roughest for him since has to work the morning shift. He is not a morning person AT ALL.
Last night, we grabbed dinner at this Thai food place E has been chattering about for the longest time. I have to admit it was really good. We came back, curled up on the couch and watch the Oakland A's and Anaheim Angels play. We went to the game on thursday night and I had no idea what a rival these two teams have. You can just feel the energy in the stadium. Thursday night the A's won! WAHOO!!, last night they did not.. BOOHOO! Both nights were such great games, total nail bitters and even sitting at home there was that energy. Tonight we are off to the game..again! This time around, we have managed to get a crew to go with us. We have a couple that Eli works with at Southwest and their neighboors. And we included our realtor and her husband. They are about the same age as us and when we got together with her to talk about our housing woos, we got on the subject of baseball and I extended an invitation for her and husband to join us and they did!! YAY!!! So we are all going to meet up around 4pm to start tailgating and the game starts at 6:05pm.
Speaking of our realtor, we met with her on Thursday afternoon. She seemed to think we will be okay in terms of finding a place within our price range. I love that she has a total chill attitude about it. We are starting very early ( our lease is up at the end of October) and she gets it that we have time and she wasn't totally appalled at our price range :)
Tomorrow I am going to make a brisket in the slow cooker. E and I are feeling like bad jews since we were not able to have a passover sedar last monday and tuesday (e works nights those days) So when he gets off work at 830pm tomorrow night, we will have Matzo Ball soup, brisket, charozet, matza, all the yummy food that a passover sedar has.

Here is a picture from chicago last saturday night. The middle girl is my friend lindsay who just turned 30. We were wet from getting caught in a torrential down pour as we were trying to get into the bar.

No news is good news

Just another Thursday and not much to report. Definitely been a quiet week and i think I have mostly tried to get caught up on sleep. I am definitely not 24, when I used to rage all weekend long and bounce right back :( My body lives for the quiet weekends now :)
This afternoon we are meeting with our real estate agent to talk about our home search. She got us started on receving email updates on various places based upon our desires and we also met with a mortgage broker. Which was very helpful and very depressing :( We thought we could afford something more but unfortunately we cannot. We want to maintain the standard of living that we already have and be able to save money for trips and babies :) So I am hoping when we tell her what we are actually going to be able to afford, I am hoping that we can find something in that price range. The real estate in CA is outragous! I can't see us downgrading to a one bed one bath when we are renting a two bed two bath. hmmph!
Tonight we are headed to Angels and A's game. E is a huge A's fan so of course like the good wife I am, I jumped on that bandwagon! So the two of us and a co-worker of his and his girlfriend are meeting us here and we are heading to the game. E is going tomorrow night and then the two of us are going saturday night with more people! E and I were high fiving last night that we actually are hanging out with people that could become our FRIENDS and they actually live in OC. Most of the people we know live in LA is it is rough drive and so you have to really plan out what you are doing if either of us want to make the drive.

Good weekend ahead, I can just feel it!

What I have learned from the women in my life

I am on a list serve with 15 women all who I went to college with. I am so surprised that we have remained friends and continue to email each other as much as we do. All of us reside in different states...Washington, California, Ohio, Illinois, Georgia and New York. We've experienced the highs and lows of dating, many, many job changes,meeting the men who now we are married to, and now experiencing the joys and the sleepless nights of new mommies. A day doesn't pass that I don't learn something from them.

I look at my own mother who in her 50's has reinvented herself! She is on her way to building her own business. I have so much admiration for her to step out of her comfort zone and do something so outrageous that is it is so perfect for her to do!

The new women in my life that I meet on a day to day basis because I am a recruiter and the women that I have met through the nestie blog. I am forever in awe in each of one of them because they demonstrate professionalism, passion, desire, strength when things don't work out as hoped or planned.

This is what I have learned from each of you:
1) Fearlessness
2) Belief in oneself
3) Belief in G-D
4) Compassion
5) Inner Strength
6) Humor
7) to try and try again...again
8) Love
9) Forgiveness
10)Openness

Thank you with all my heart!

Sweet Home Chicago

I am going to try my best to write this even though I am so brain dead and very tired. I just got back from my weekend in Chicago and nothing has changed in the 4 months I have been gone!

It was a great feeling to be back in the city I lived in for 8 years. I walked up and down the street downtown like I owned the place..it was a great feeling to have that confidence back and knowing every little nook and cranny of the city. I still have my fear of revolving doors and chicago is the land of revolving doors! The El still smells like pee and puke and people still run to the train like it is the last one that will run again.

I remembered how to hail a cab but i did forget how to not be scared when you are riding with a cab driver that likes to speed race a big ole bus. I got called out for that one.

I was able to get caught up on the wedding planning for both of my friends. Saw one of them in her wedding gown and went with the other one to try one gowns. Both times I cried.

I saw so many people who are important to me. I feel like I accomplished a lot this weekend. I feel good about making the trip. I did cry so hard saying good bye again.

The best moment of the weekend was late night last night when I was changing into my pj's and my bf was getting the couch ready for me. I brought a tee shirt that I hardly ever wear. it is an orange ohio tee-shirt that I bought two years ago when Cari and I went to athens to visit. I walk out of the room and I see she has the EXACT same teeshirt on. We both took one look at each other and busted out laughing. Neither of us knew we had purchased the same tee-shirt and the factI traveled 3000 miles and brought that same teeshirt was priceless.