Missing me

I haven't seen someone for almost 1 week and let me tell you she was pretty upset. Tuesday night I had to got out for dinner with the auditors and Miss El gave Grandpa a piece of her mind how he was hiding Grawma on her. She cried and cried and didn't want to leave until her Grawma got home, she was sure that Grandpa had something to do with it.

Tonight I came right home after work and this is what I see as I drive in the garage.

That sad little face broke my heart, I'm not sure how long she stood by the door waiting for me. She usually sees me everyday so this was toture for her to go since last Tuesday without getting her Grawma time. Since I missed Self Portait Tuesday here is what I got lots of tonight.

I missed her as much as she missed me.

I have to say there is a special bond between her and I and I'm not so sure it will ever change. She needs her Grawma and I need her!

New Junk Book

I have to keep it short tonight, I got a new junk market book and I can't wait any longer to flip through the pages over and over again wishing for garage sales to start and bring home some treasures that John will ask "What the hell are you gonna do with that rotten piece of junk"?

The cover with Sue and Ki, the dream of mine and Jeannies.... if only we married rich husbands instead of good looking one :) we could have been these two girls.

Here's a couple of pictures from the inside (Jeannie these are for you)

Pretzel Ring

Today I had Lynn go through some of her things that she said I had to store while she moved across the country. Now 5 years later some of the items can get tossed, sold at a garage sale, given to Vinnie's, or saved longer by mom. Here is a glimpse of something Lynn chose to keep 5 years ago .... Megan does it look familiar? You and Lynn gave each other these during a Christmas holiday about 13 years ago..... any guess yet?

Here is a photo of it, it's the tan ring hanging on the front petal....

It's a pretzel ring! Yes a real pretzel.... you wore them all night long and Lynn has kept hers all these years - where is yours?

Prom Night

Here's Adam with his prom date, "S". He got into his tux at 1:30 in the afternoon and has been running from house to house per many request to see him in his monkey suit. They finally had time to stop by here after 4:30. They were with another couple and the 4 of them were having a great time, they were enjoying the entire Prom process from the dressing up, the nails done, the pictures taken, the dinner reservations they are running late for, and after 8 hours of preparations they finally get to the dance.

John and I didn't go to Prom but now all of our kids have. Adam wasn't going to go but I think he's glad that he did after all it is his Junior Prom. After 2 girls and their 3 Proms, boys are much easier but I think the nervousness in them was about the same and my empty feeling of them growing up into young responsible adults sat heavy inside me the same for each of them.

It may be harder for me with the last one growing up but I think I will adjust to Adam spending more time with the girlfriend than us but I'm not so sure his Dad will. Adam has been in his truck just like a puppy dog for 17 years, Dad would pick up the keys and Adam would run to the truck so he wouldn't get left behind. The only place Dad got to go alone was to work. Here's our little boy all grown up

(Looking like his Uncle Wally) WOW is he an Emmerich!

Almost time

Stay tuned for the handsome boy who is going to be wearing these shoes.

Mexico again

I'm back in Mexico for work again, this time it was a rush trip. I found out at 3:30pm and the plane was leaving at 6:00am. Not too much to say other than it's 92 degrees here and it feels great. I didn't bring a camera this time so you get a picture that was on my computer from last year.

Weights

I have been using weights for a couple of months now and got pretty comfortable in the fitness classes with the smallest ones. I read about this book The New Rules of Lifting for Women. They tell me IF YOU ARE NOT READING THIS YOU SHOULD BE. It explains everything in painful detail, such as:

1 - Pick up those heavy weights, ladies. Pick them up NOW
2 - Why you can't crunch your way into a flat stomach
3 - Why "what are some good lower ab exercises" is NOT a good question, as is "tell me about core exercises" (hint: I found out everything that hurts is a core exercise!)
4 - You need to eat more calories to lose weight, despite what you think BINGO!

5 - CARDIO IS NOT WHAT MAKES YOU LOSE WEIGHT

Well boys and girls, I crawled out of the gym yesterday after a 45 minute Boot Camp Workout and 20 minutes on the elliptical. My butt cheeks hurt, my stomach muscles were sore, and there is some evil thing called "crunches" that we did at the end of the workout that made me cry. I got very good at lifting my safe weights but I guess I have more to learn about my body. Today my hamstrings are killing me I can feel every new muscle that was used and all from picking up heavier weights. I have not gone shopping for this book yet but I'm thinking I may have to check the library and see what it has to say. So I guess it's time to put the 5#'s away and break out the 8's.