Thursday, April 12, 2007
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..
Sunday, April 08, 2007
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
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
Saturday, April 07, 2007
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.
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.
Thursday, April 05, 2007
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!
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!
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
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!
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!
Sunday, April 01, 2007
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.
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.
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