It's been awhile since I've written just because. I feel like I'm just catching you up on the big events that are happening, mainly because I have no time to do anything else. Working both jobs has finally caught up with me, I got nasty sick for the better half of this week and just now am starting to get better from it. I've still got a nice nasty cough and am having trouble sleeping at night, but I blame that on the meds. I also have ringworm. Don't ask me how I got it. I'm still unsure of that answer myself. So my body currently is fighting off lots of fun stuff. The bummer to all of this is just trying to get back into a workout routine. With the days getting shorter and the weather getting cooler, it's nearly impossible to workout outside. I almost feel to exhausted when I get home and there is such a lack of motivation. I'm contemplating joining a gym, if I can find one for a decent price. It would be right across the street from my second job, so I'd feel like it would be used quite often.
Not much else is new in this crazy life of mine, but I guess that's ok. I know this has been nothing short of boring, but I just felt the need to write something. So there it was!
Peace&Love
~L
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Chicago Birthday
After much deliberation boy and I decided to go to a bed and breakfast in Rockton, IL for his birthday. We drove down on Thursday morning. With thoughts of what the town would be like we were slightly disappointed, but the bed and breakfast was indescribable. The property was so gorgeous. I'm so lucky to have been able to go with him. We did some antiquing before we checked in. We then took a tour of the grounds from the house itself to the apple orchards and everything in between. After a delicious homemade breakfast we decided to head out to Chicago which was about an hour from where we were staying. I haven't been to Chicago in quite some time and was so glad to have made it back. There is unbelievably so much you can do there, you honestly need more than a day to go there. We did as much as we could in a day: the Willis Tower, Navy Pier, Millennium Park and the Magnificent Mile. We rode taxi's and the train around town and did lots of walking. All in all it was a great day and a great end to a week with the best guy around. Happy 25th birthday! Here's to many more.
Peace&Love
~L
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| The barn/reception hall |
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| Apple Orchard |
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| Inside hall...so gorgeous |
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| Most of the property |
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| Our mansion |
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| Just one of the many rooms in the house |
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| One of the outdoor patios |
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| Hot tub barn |
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| Navy Pier, Chicago |
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| The Ferris Wheel |
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| Us under the bean |
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| Ha |
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| The Bean |
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| That's a hefty charge for vomiting |
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| Navy Pier |
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| View from Willis Tower |
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| The SkyLedge...scary |
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| The Chicago River |
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| Under the train |
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| On the wheel |
Peace&Love
~L
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Where Have I Been?
It's been quite some time since I have last been on here, but I knew that was going to happen working 2 jobs and just trying to keep a little bit of a social life around here.
I left off by telling you I was taking a trip to Michigan and boy was it a trip. And not in a good way by any means. I left early Saturday morning with nothing buy happy thoughts of a stress free weekend. Knowing that the only thing separating me from fun times was a 6 hour drive. And needless to say that 6 hour drive turned into a 12 hour one. You might think did she get lost? Get stuck in major Labor day weekend traffic somewhere? No. None of that. I was flying high and making good time. I made it to Indiana and was about 20 miles in, when I looked down at my temperature and gauge and it was on hot. I started to panic. I was literally in the middle of nowhere. I knew the rest stop was about 5 miles up the road, but decided to let my car cool, so I pulled over. I saw some smoke start to come out of my hood and realized that wasn't a good thing. I checked the fluids in every compartment I could think of. Everything seemed to be in working order. I called my dad and told him what was going on. He talked me through things and I decided an hour after I had originally pulled over to go on ahead and push my car to the next rest stop. I made it. I decided that I needed to check everything again and that's when I found that my radiator was completely dry. Obviously I had a leak somewhere and it was a matter of finding it. I wasted quite a bit of money at the gas station on oil, coolant and the like. After about another hour or so, a nice man came by and helped me out. He found the source of my problem, a major hose that was leaking coolant. Unfortunately, there wasn't much I could do about it. I tried to patch it up with some heavy duty tape and thought it would work. All this time I called my dad about 50 times and then had my sister and her husband coming out to meet me and pick me up. My dad thought I'd be able to make it to the next city which was about 15 miles away. I decided to give it a try only to make it about 2 miles away before my car gave out on me. So there I sat in the middle of nowhere crying hysterically in the pouring rain alone. Eventually my sister made it out and I wasn't alone, but I felt bad for them having to drive all the way out. My car got towed to a city a few miles back the opposite direction. I got the car fixed but we didn't leave until about 330ish and still had to drive another 3 plus hours. That set the stage for the rest of the weekend. We didn't do much but hang around, which wasn't horrible, but I really wanted to do some more fun things. I came back on Monday with no problems. Thank goodness.
I will fill you in later on details of my bosses daughters birthday party and a Packer party.
Peace&Love
~L
I left off by telling you I was taking a trip to Michigan and boy was it a trip. And not in a good way by any means. I left early Saturday morning with nothing buy happy thoughts of a stress free weekend. Knowing that the only thing separating me from fun times was a 6 hour drive. And needless to say that 6 hour drive turned into a 12 hour one. You might think did she get lost? Get stuck in major Labor day weekend traffic somewhere? No. None of that. I was flying high and making good time. I made it to Indiana and was about 20 miles in, when I looked down at my temperature and gauge and it was on hot. I started to panic. I was literally in the middle of nowhere. I knew the rest stop was about 5 miles up the road, but decided to let my car cool, so I pulled over. I saw some smoke start to come out of my hood and realized that wasn't a good thing. I checked the fluids in every compartment I could think of. Everything seemed to be in working order. I called my dad and told him what was going on. He talked me through things and I decided an hour after I had originally pulled over to go on ahead and push my car to the next rest stop. I made it. I decided that I needed to check everything again and that's when I found that my radiator was completely dry. Obviously I had a leak somewhere and it was a matter of finding it. I wasted quite a bit of money at the gas station on oil, coolant and the like. After about another hour or so, a nice man came by and helped me out. He found the source of my problem, a major hose that was leaking coolant. Unfortunately, there wasn't much I could do about it. I tried to patch it up with some heavy duty tape and thought it would work. All this time I called my dad about 50 times and then had my sister and her husband coming out to meet me and pick me up. My dad thought I'd be able to make it to the next city which was about 15 miles away. I decided to give it a try only to make it about 2 miles away before my car gave out on me. So there I sat in the middle of nowhere crying hysterically in the pouring rain alone. Eventually my sister made it out and I wasn't alone, but I felt bad for them having to drive all the way out. My car got towed to a city a few miles back the opposite direction. I got the car fixed but we didn't leave until about 330ish and still had to drive another 3 plus hours. That set the stage for the rest of the weekend. We didn't do much but hang around, which wasn't horrible, but I really wanted to do some more fun things. I came back on Monday with no problems. Thank goodness.
I will fill you in later on details of my bosses daughters birthday party and a Packer party.
Peace&Love
~L
Friday, August 30, 2013
Summer's End
Seriously? Where has summer gone? I feel like it just started and we are now at its end. It has been a whirlwind around here the past couple of weeks and I know I won't be able to fill you in on ALL of the details.
Do you remember back when I said I was taking a hiatus? How it was supposed to be relaxing and a time to catch up on some much needed sleep before I started my second job? Yeah well we were without power for over 2 days. And let me tell you when it's rather warm outside having air is quite nice. Now I had a choice to be upset about it all, which in the moments right after it happened, I was. But I decided to find other things to occupy my time with. It's amazing how much you take for granted all of the technology we have in our lives. After dealing with all of that craziness we finally got it back on and it was like Christmas around here.
As you know my birthday was last weekend, and unfortunately, it wasn't what I had in mind at all for my big 25th. I can never seem to get a good celebration out of any major milestone. My 21st fell on the day before classes started. My golden birthday was a dud as well. I had planned on going on a trip but that fell through when I realized I needed to save money. Boy had planned on whisking me away to a bed and breakfast, but never followed through with that plan, mainly because we were both creeped out by the floral décor. He then wound up working all weekend, which sucked. He did take me out for my birthday to a Brazilian restaurant which was delicious beyond words. I saw him a few more times that weekend just for a few hours here and there. I was supposed to go out with a group of friends on Saturday night to drink and dance, but no one seemed up for it. Perhaps that's what happens when you turn 25.
And as you all know I started my second job well over 2 weeks ago now and I feel all sorts of disheveled. I still can't seem to get a routine going as far as when to eat and when to workout and that is getting me more flustered than ever. I feel like I'm gaining more and more weight and that is making me upset. I'm not sure how much longer I can put up with having two jobs.
Here's to a 3 day weekend trip, which finds me traveling to Michigan to visit my sister and her husband.
Peace&Love
~l
Do you remember back when I said I was taking a hiatus? How it was supposed to be relaxing and a time to catch up on some much needed sleep before I started my second job? Yeah well we were without power for over 2 days. And let me tell you when it's rather warm outside having air is quite nice. Now I had a choice to be upset about it all, which in the moments right after it happened, I was. But I decided to find other things to occupy my time with. It's amazing how much you take for granted all of the technology we have in our lives. After dealing with all of that craziness we finally got it back on and it was like Christmas around here.
As you know my birthday was last weekend, and unfortunately, it wasn't what I had in mind at all for my big 25th. I can never seem to get a good celebration out of any major milestone. My 21st fell on the day before classes started. My golden birthday was a dud as well. I had planned on going on a trip but that fell through when I realized I needed to save money. Boy had planned on whisking me away to a bed and breakfast, but never followed through with that plan, mainly because we were both creeped out by the floral décor. He then wound up working all weekend, which sucked. He did take me out for my birthday to a Brazilian restaurant which was delicious beyond words. I saw him a few more times that weekend just for a few hours here and there. I was supposed to go out with a group of friends on Saturday night to drink and dance, but no one seemed up for it. Perhaps that's what happens when you turn 25.
And as you all know I started my second job well over 2 weeks ago now and I feel all sorts of disheveled. I still can't seem to get a routine going as far as when to eat and when to workout and that is getting me more flustered than ever. I feel like I'm gaining more and more weight and that is making me upset. I'm not sure how much longer I can put up with having two jobs.
Here's to a 3 day weekend trip, which finds me traveling to Michigan to visit my sister and her husband.
Peace&Love
~l
Friday, August 23, 2013
Toast to 25 years!
There has been a lot going on recently in my life and that relaxing hiatus I told you I was taking, was basically the opposite of that. But those details I will fill you in on in a later post. Today is a time for reflection. Today is my 25th birthday. And though months ago I had grand ideas and plans for this birthday since I never got to really celebrate my 21st in style and I figure being a quarter of a century old is pretty impressive, I have absolutely no plans whatsoever.
I sit here and think about how long 25 years is. In the grand scheme of things, its nothing. I look back on 25 years of living and question how much of it was really spent 'living'. I feel most of my life I have worked and worked and worked. Or gone to school. I think about how much I wasted away when I could have taken all of this time to do something amazing. But I'm not going to get hung up on that. I have time yet to do things. I'm blessed to have lived as long as I have...growing old is a privilege denied to many. I don't think about myself as getting older, in fact I never really have. I don't feel any different than I did yesterday. I haven't noticed any grey hairs popping in or more achy joints. I have noticed a bigger lust to enjoy life. I've been so busy working 2 jobs I haven't really had time to just enjoy some me time. Time to think about what makes me happy. Even though this weekend will go by in a blink of an eye I'm hoping that I get to spend it with the people I love doing things I love. Here's to the past 25 years of life and here's to the next 25 years of life!
Peace&Love
~L
I sit here and think about how long 25 years is. In the grand scheme of things, its nothing. I look back on 25 years of living and question how much of it was really spent 'living'. I feel most of my life I have worked and worked and worked. Or gone to school. I think about how much I wasted away when I could have taken all of this time to do something amazing. But I'm not going to get hung up on that. I have time yet to do things. I'm blessed to have lived as long as I have...growing old is a privilege denied to many. I don't think about myself as getting older, in fact I never really have. I don't feel any different than I did yesterday. I haven't noticed any grey hairs popping in or more achy joints. I have noticed a bigger lust to enjoy life. I've been so busy working 2 jobs I haven't really had time to just enjoy some me time. Time to think about what makes me happy. Even though this weekend will go by in a blink of an eye I'm hoping that I get to spend it with the people I love doing things I love. Here's to the past 25 years of life and here's to the next 25 years of life!
Peace&Love
~L
Thursday, August 8, 2013
It's That Time
It's that time again when I start losing my inspiration and have nothing of excitement to bring to you all. It's the same old boringness of my life. What I've done over the weekend, how work has been, etc. You get the idea. I'm not saying that my life is dull and boring, it's just that before I begin my new life with 2 jobs, I want to take every ounce of free time I have just to be dull and boring. I've been on this great high recently...maybe its the fact I will be bringing in a little more money, or the weather is great or I'm all around just happy and I want to savor that as much as possible. I know things haven't been perfect over here as of late and that's why I'm trying my best to just enjoy this time and moment.
So I'm going to be taking a little hiatus again. Just for some me/personal time, but don't you worry I've already got an idea of what I have planned coming down the pipeline. And I'm hoping by the time I return I will be on my own domain like with a .com and not a blogger.com.
Peace&Love
~L
So I'm going to be taking a little hiatus again. Just for some me/personal time, but don't you worry I've already got an idea of what I have planned coming down the pipeline. And I'm hoping by the time I return I will be on my own domain like with a .com and not a blogger.com.
Peace&Love
~L
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Welcome to August
I already feel like this month has flown by and we are less than a week into it. Unfortunately, August will fly by and summer will be gone here in Wisconsin.
Let me catch you up on what has been happening around here lately:
Saturday, boy and I went to the State Fair. As I've gotten older, I've realized how much less I like and enjoy going to the fair, but it is still a must do every summer. However, whenever the fair ends every Wisconsinite knows that summer is ending too. We went home and pretty much crashed right away.
Sunday, boy and I went to the lakefront and rented bikes and rode around our beautiful city. After hitting up the Third Ward as is traditional for us every Sunday we went home and crashed. Later in the afternoon we went to his mom's for our monthly Sunday dinner. We had tacos which was absolutely delicious. Unfortunately, I had a really bad headache most of the afternoon.
That headache spilled over into yesterday. No amount of medicine was going to knock that sucker out. I also felt like I was going to pass out. Today my head has sort of hurt on and off, but overall, it hasn't been too bad. I feel more lightheaded than anything. Either I'm dehydrated (which is sort of what I'm hoping for) or I might be seeing myself back in the hospital for some tests on my blood. You see, I'm anemic and if I'm not getting enough iron I feel light-headed and tired and tend to bruise easily which has been the case lately.
And to close out this post, I was offered a part time position at my old daycare and took it. But right now I'm concerned that I might burn myself out. 12 hour days aren't for the faint of heart for sure. I honestly don't know when I will fit in a work out or me time, but me time will come in a few months when I'm seeing the results of my hard work. Hopefully. It won't hurt to have an extra $600/month coming in.
Peace&Love
~L
Let me catch you up on what has been happening around here lately:
Saturday, boy and I went to the State Fair. As I've gotten older, I've realized how much less I like and enjoy going to the fair, but it is still a must do every summer. However, whenever the fair ends every Wisconsinite knows that summer is ending too. We went home and pretty much crashed right away.
Sunday, boy and I went to the lakefront and rented bikes and rode around our beautiful city. After hitting up the Third Ward as is traditional for us every Sunday we went home and crashed. Later in the afternoon we went to his mom's for our monthly Sunday dinner. We had tacos which was absolutely delicious. Unfortunately, I had a really bad headache most of the afternoon.
That headache spilled over into yesterday. No amount of medicine was going to knock that sucker out. I also felt like I was going to pass out. Today my head has sort of hurt on and off, but overall, it hasn't been too bad. I feel more lightheaded than anything. Either I'm dehydrated (which is sort of what I'm hoping for) or I might be seeing myself back in the hospital for some tests on my blood. You see, I'm anemic and if I'm not getting enough iron I feel light-headed and tired and tend to bruise easily which has been the case lately.
And to close out this post, I was offered a part time position at my old daycare and took it. But right now I'm concerned that I might burn myself out. 12 hour days aren't for the faint of heart for sure. I honestly don't know when I will fit in a work out or me time, but me time will come in a few months when I'm seeing the results of my hard work. Hopefully. It won't hurt to have an extra $600/month coming in.
Peace&Love
~L
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