Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Are you guys having a killer time?

I am so excited... next Wednesday is JAMAICA!! We leave early in the AM on Wednesday and should arrive to the hotel around 1 (hopefully). I am so excited to go and also I am standing in my friends wedding. All last weekend I shopped and shopped for a dress but it was so hard to pick out 1 when I am not sure exactly what the wedding dress looks like so I decided to pack a couple of dresses and let her pick which one would go best.

Last weekend my roommate's parents were in town so we took them around the town a little bit. One place they really liked is called Harry’s Market... it's got a ton of fresh food and foods from around the world, a lot that you wouldn't find in a regular supermarket. It was a lot of fun to see them again.

We have another new roommate! Another former co-worker from Michigan has decided to move down to the ATL. He had been looking around Michigan for a while trying to find a job there but the market up there is so terrible that he wasn't finding anything (I can relate, it took me 6 months and a huge stack of resumes before I found the job I had up there – and in a month here had 2 offers) so he moved down here and is looking for something and he is hoping it will be quick... his wife and children are excited to be moving down here once he gets his job.

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

I don't feel very good...

The pollen count today is 5000+. If you ever have seen a pollen meter... what is considered extremely high is... 150. Which is totally ridiculous!! For those who are ever so lucky to not have allergies, what a 5000+ allergy count means is that I am feeling like crap. I took a shower just a minute ago to get some of the pollen off me and my headache has gone down some. What also stinks is that this is the perfect open window weather but with all of us having allergies none of us can really have the windows open.

Onto a much brighter note, the weekend trip to Florida was very nice. We left Friday night after I got out of work (around 7:30pm). We were going to take my car but one of the roommates just got a new jeep that he really wanted to take on the trip so we took that instead. He drove it out of Atlanta and then I got into the drivers seat and drove until about 1:30am. We stopped for the night at a Howard Johnson and the next morning we found out why you should never have the HoJo Breakfast! But, Saturday morning we drove the rest of the way to Cocoa Beach and spent a couple hours relaxing on the beach and jumping in the waves. The weather was fabulous!! It was probably about 85 degrees and the ocean was quite wavy which made for the perfect beach combination. And, we were not the only ones who thought the same thing... the beach was packed!

I talked to my mom when we got down there and found out that where we were was only about 1 mile from where my great-grandparents used to winter. I had been to their apartment once when I was 9 and remember loving the fact that their apartment was right on the ocean! After the beach we walked to the Ron Jon's and did a little shopping. It is such a cute store!!

After shopping we got back into the Jeep and headed to Orlando. We met a guy we used to work with back in Michigan, his wife, and their 2 year old daughter. We had a lot of fun seeing them all again. Saturday night we went out for dinner then to an outlet mall. But, this was unlike any outlet mall I had ever been to before... since it had company stores for such name brands as Burberry and Fendi. I had a lot of fun looking at those stores but shopping in some other stores that I actually could afford and managed to pick myself up some new skirts.

On Sunday we all went to Gatorland and saw a TON of gators! We were even able to feed some of them!! When we fed them there was a guide who showed us where to stand and we threw smelly, rotten chicken to the gators. But, when we were feeding them there were probably 20-30 gators wanting some chicken so it was really cool to see them all so close up.

After Gatorland we went back to the hotel and spend the rest of the afternoon at the pool. This pool was unlike most hotel pools that I have been in because it had a waterfall! I had a lot of fun swimming under the waterfall!

I there are a few pictures that we took that I will eventually get posted on the picture link but not tonight… its about time for me to go relax for the evening!

Thursday, April 07, 2005

I caught you a delicious bass.

Hello again! So, this past week has been gone by quite quickly.

I started out the week needing to get my drivers side window fixed. I don't remember if I said anything in the blog about it before but for about the past month or so it would not go up or down. I was telling one of the guys that I work with about my car and he said he knew a little bit about fixing them and he would help me out. So he narrowed down all the possibilities that it could be to the switch itself and thought we could find a new piece in the junk yard. We (well, mostly he… but I did call a couple places too) called around to different junk yards close to here without much luck.

He did find a dealership that had the part but it was more than he thought I should pay and if it didn't work they have a policy of no returns on parts so I would be stuck with an extra part. After talking to the dealership they said to just bring the car in and they would let us know if it is really was that piece and if so I would buy it from them. After taking it to the dealership the salesman also thought it was that part but took my car to the body shop to test the motor before replacing the part. When he came back he had gotten it fixed!!! I guess the whole time the motor was just stuck… they tapped the inside of my car door and it started working again!! I was so excited that it's working I have been putting my window up and down every day ever since! Another plus, it was fixed for FREE! I love that price!!

We will be taking my car down to Florida for the weekend getaway so that make the fact that the window is working that much better. I am excited to see some friends that I haven’t seen in a while and to get down to palm trees, a little warmer weather, and beaches!!

Also going on this week I have a couple doctors appointments. One of the appointments was to get my allergies tested again. So, to get them tested I couldn't take my medicine for the past week. Needless to say, I haven’t been feeling the greatest because of that. Well, the allergy appointment was on Wednesday. On Monday afternoon, while I am at work, they leave a message on my answering machine stating that the doctors hours have changed and he wouldn't be in on Wednesdays anymore and they would need to change my appointment. She also noted that they could have me come in Tuesday. But, by the time I got out of work they were already closed. And, with not being on medicine, I really didn’t want to go thru another week of feeling sick without medicine. Another side note, I need to go in at 8am so I don't miss work because it is a 2 hours procedure from getting tested to talking to the doctor.

So, on Tuesday morning I decided to take my chances and go at 8am just in case they still had an opening. I got there and they don't open until 9am!! I was soooo frustrated. So at 9 I called them (I also tried before that but they don’t have an answering machine, I could have paged the doctor but didn't find this to be that kind of emergency) to talk to them about my frustrations and luckly they ended up letting me keep my Wednesday appointment. I got all my allergies tested and found out that, yes, I am allergic to that. Basically the nurse told me that I am allergic to just about everything I was tested for. For being pollen season down here and because the pollen is all over everything I think I should be feeling a LOT more sick that what I am for all the allergies that I have but I will talk to the doctor about that next week when I see him.

So, that has been the drama of my life for this week. I am sure next week will bring more... hehe.

Sunday, April 03, 2005

"Your Mom goes to college."

So, since my last update I have been keeping fairly busy. It was cool enough and rained enough in the last week that I was only able to go running outside one day. The rest of the week I did weight training, pilates, and some other aerobics.

This weekend I haven't been feeling too good. Not really sick... but coughing a little and my nose and throat have been feeling funny. Luckily this week I (finally) have my allergy appointment! But, for now, I have been trying to lay low and relax. Watched a few movies... Napoleon Dynamite, The Whole Nine Yards, and Punch Drunk Love. I love Napoleon and the Whole Nine Yards... can watch them over and over! I hadn't seen Punch Drunk Love before but fell asleep half way thru so I don't remember too much of it. Will have to watch it again sometime.

Next weekend the roommates and I go to Florida!! We are meeting a people we all used to work with back in Michigan so it will be nice to see them again! It will also be fun to spend some time at the beach again!! We are going to Orlando but we are planning on going to the ocean since one of my roommates has never been there. Hopefully we will take some pictures and I will add them here.

Well, I am getting hungry... time for some lunch!!