restful weekend

i had a good weekend....despite the absence of vodka....oh wait we met up briefly last night...all kidding aside, i had a great weekend because I kept it low-key, caught up on personal stuff, caught up with friends, and spent some much needed Q-T with the boy....I also got to spend time with my nephews - a time I value so much because they are awesome - they are kind-hearted, funny, genuine, and they fill my heart with lots of love and can ALWAYS make me smile, and more importantly I love making them giggle!!! On a more reminiscent note I am just finding it very funny - well not hahaha funny - but maybe just weird - how you can go from extremely close to people and within a shore amount of time you are like strangers how know nothing of what is going on the other's life....this saddens me, yet I know life brings us to exactly where we are supposed to be. right?

sangria.

some people discuss "creative juices" ...as in I need something to stimulate my creative juices......well I have decided sangria is my creative juice. literally. it makes me laugh and more importantly it makes me make others laugh, as depicted in the picture to the right...yes that is a lampshade that we found on the street...Myself, Lilia, Kim, and Alison - all graduates of the fine institution known as THE Mary Louis Academy decided to get some dinner and drinks (obviously) at Pio Pio....I have known Lilia since I was 4 - we went elementary school together...and Kim and Alison I both met at TMLA...they are a year ahead of us...well the food was delish, the Sangria - AMAZING...and the laughs were non-stop at dinner.....as we walked back the car the Sangria I guess flowed throughout our body and caused us to rummage through garbage along the sidewalk....where aforementioned lampshade was found, along with a coffee table, broken mirror, and a boombox.....I was official named Miss Yackson Heights 2008....it was a great night with great girls, and LOTS of laughs.... And to end the evening I went to a Ciao! party for Chris, Greg's co-worker at Sirius - whom i adore...he makes me laugh!! I clearly love people who make laugh. (P.S. I did actually make it to the gym this morning but it was empty and therefore I do not have any fun stories....and right now I am to tired to go into a past story) . I am excited to wear my Ferragamo rain boots tonight. They are the reason I LOVE rainy days. :) xxoo

work out. (i love that show btw)

So this morning at the gym (side note: i will be discussing my journey along the fantastic fitness journey i have embarked on since last April periodically) i ran into this woman who I used to see when i first started going to the gym (a gym which shall remain nameless mainly because I have so many wondrous tales from said gym and wish to not be sued)....well anyway, when I sued to see this woman we would smile, nod, say hello, etc....when you see people everyday you give a friendly gesture - well at least I do - many do not - especially the skinny bitch who decided to cocoa butter her 90lb body in the sauna - or the lady who slams her body into the walls of the sauna while massaging her body and sticking her ass in my face - true effin story.....once again, I digress....anyway the woman I saw this morning gives me a big smile and acknowledges that we haven't seen her in a long time...She then proceeds to say how much awe she is in as to how much weight I have lost....it felt really good to hear it, I have to tell you.....Well this woman USED to have the biggest badunka-dunk - I am not being mean just stating a fact....well let me tell you this woman looked fantastic and i had to tell her....She was beaming from ear to ear and it felt good to see that because I know that feeling..... My attempts to lose weight have been tough and I have worked hard to get where I am at....throughout the past year I learned that not only did I want to lose weight, I wanted to become healthier....Well the latter of those two has not been so successful. I abuse my body with many different vices AKA vodka, and believe that by working out 4-5 times a week I negate the effects of alcohol and other vices I impose on my body. Laugh. Disagree. I don't care. This bitch has cardio-ed her life out in the past year and I feel damn good about it. This is where i have to give a shout-out to three people who have helped me immensely with enhancing my love/hate (more love than hate believe it or not) relationship with the gym : 1. Greg- he has been there to support me and encourage me, despite his "I love you no matter what" creed: 2: Kim aka Kimberdoodle - my gym partner....she shares my desire to have a hot body and has been there to laugh with me at the gym as we observe the daily whackos (more stories to come - I PROMISE): and lastly 3. Dominick....he has been there to encourage me to work out, even on Saturdays when we decide to go together or to go to a class at night (more stories from the night crew), he has helped me to learn about good food/bad food - although I cannot give up ANY food that i LOVE - i just cut back...sometimes...lol.... I really have to say without the support of these 3 people and my family (namely my brother Michael who tells me that I am a skinny bitch - fyi I AM NOT...well a bitch, sometimes, skinny I will never be)....I would not have been able to feel better about myself. Ok here's one of my first gym tales: Yoga class at 8pm....about 15 people in the class, I position myself on my mat in the back of room directly behind mesh shorts boy....he looks straight to me - average looking - t-shirt, long mesh shorts...nothing fabulous, if you know what I am saying....well we are doing that pose where you get on all fours and lift one leg straight back and the opposite arm directly straight in front of you - the instructor then tells us to focus on a point in front of us to keep balance - so I look straight ahead - right at Mr. Mesh Shorts where I then notice that a pair of underwear was not in his outfit decision-making plan for this fine evening . Why?????????????????? I don't get it. Unless he was hoping that it would attract whoever he was trying to attract. gag. I vomited in my mouth that night, but I also laughed a lot. When I read about using balls at the gym to help me gain core strength that was not what I expected.

A beginning of a blogger

So kids I have decided to start blogging....why? who knows? well, actually, I have 2 human inspirational bloggers - one who I know very well....Ms. Melissa Trentadue - I have been reading her blog from the start and enjoy it...It helps me keep up with her when our lives don't allow us to see each other as much as we like.....The other person is Jenn Lancaster....an author who I have never met personally but whose books I LOVEEEEEEE LOOOVEEEEE reading. The biotch is funny and I laugh out loud at her books. Sooooo I have decided to start writing things down....basically anything and everything.....funny, happy, sad, serious, whatever. If it strikes my fancy (who says that anymore ?!) I will write it down. If you read it, great!! If not, I won't ever know....so really it doesn't matter...lol. yay for Dawn moving into the 21st Century 8 years later.