Happy Valentine's Day

"Happy Valentine's Day"

Six Word Saturday

"So Glad This Week is Over"

Although, I have learned next week will probably be just as stressful and busy as last. It will be some of the same crap and some new crap piled on top.
Maybe my six words should be...

"I Want/Need Some Happy Pills"

or

"One Week With No Stress, PLEASE?"

If you want in on the "Six Word" fun... go check out ShowMyFace.com you can read what other have to say in Six Words or join in and link up.

"Mom, you didn't say that?"

First I have to say, I really wish I was a writer, I have all these things about me and my life I would love to get out onto this blog. I think my lack of skills and confidence hold me back. I don't want to sound like I'm rambling on.
(ya know, like I am now) But here I go anyway.....

I will try to make a long story , short.. About 12yrs ago in 1997 my husband and I moved back to New York (near the town where I grew up) so he could take a full time job on Wall Street doing his Audio/Visual techie crap. I was so happy to be back on my "turf" , around my friends and family. I got a job as a secretary in a very large Orthopedics office. It took some getting used to, and after much moving around the office at different positions, I landed working for the "Pain Management" Dr. He had a very different personality as me, but we got along very well. He just wanted things done his way, and as long as I did that we were "good". In 2000, I got pregnant with my youngest son and my husband's job got moved back to CT. It was hard for me to leave the job, family and friends again.
While I worked at the office , my mom became a patient of the Dr I was the secretary for. She still sees him to this day as needed. She has been having back issues and had a visit with him last week for some shots. After she came home from her appointment, she called me and said "Tina, you have to go visit Nick" ( yeah, we had cool dr's that they let us call them by their first names) "every time I go in, he asks how you are doing" Which I think is so sweet, considering I have been gone for almost 10yrs now. So I said to her " awww... I will have to take a ride down one of these days and have lunch with all my old friends" To which she says, " yeah, I tell him you are a really good mom, with two really great kids but that you have a really hard life".
WHAT, you said WHAT?....... omg, how freakin embarrassing! " Mom, you didn't say that, did you?" Guess I WON'T be going back there for lunch anytime soon....
Thanks Mom, Love you too..
xoxo

Mamavation Monday

Well it was yet another stressful week for me, it's pretty much the "story of my life" lately.
It was a horrible week with "Aunt Flo" visiting....... the older I get, the more of an aggravating bitch she is! I tell ya, I am thinking I would much rather have "Uncle Flash" come and hang-out. (stole that one from a friend on Facebook ... LMAO) I swear all week, all I could think about was a friggin cupcake! Ok, confession time..... I think I really wanted the frosting, so to stop the obsessive thoughts of a cupcake. I just took the damn tub of frosting and had 2 spoonfuls and then threw it out!! ( glad that is off my chest.... )

Moving right along..... My husband had his gallbladder taken out on Wednesday, he is better now. Still a little sore, but he has been through way worse. This surgery was a "piece of cake" in comparison to his 3 previous neck surgeries. ( jeez, did I just say "cake" again..... SORRY)

With all that said , I am down 1lbs 1 oz this week ( weighed in on Sunday morning ).

This week I want/need to concentrate on eating more veggies , make sure I get my water "in" everyday ( I think last week I fell short a couple days ) , eat slower ( learned that from some of Sista's posts last week) working-out ( even if it's just doing the Wii Fit )

Hope to see everyone at the Mamavation Show tonight at 10pm EST . Don't forget it is streaming live on Stickam for now, not MomTv. I hear Tracey Mallett is the special guest, plus I can't wait to see how Lisa and Katie did this week! Leah has some more awesome giveaways for everyone too. whoooo hoooo

Winter Fun

Saturday I took Thomas to our town's Winter Carnival and boy did we have a blast. It is held at a park, with a playground, baseball field, a man-made ice skating rink and the best sleigh riding hill EVER! There were carnival games, several bonfires, hayride, pony rides, a DJ playing some awesome tunes and an indoor building that must have had crafts, food and some exhibits ( but Thomas and I never made it inside, we went on the hayride and then right for the sledding fun! )
At first Thomas didn't want to go to the top of the hill, he would only walk half-way up then sled down from there. By the end of the day, we was walking to the tippy-top and sledding down like a pro. It was cold, but it was so much fun.... we didn't even feel it.

Above: Thomas went down with his friend Ulani on her tube.

Below: It was "the mom's turn" my friends and I had a ball going down
(we linked the 3 tubes together and went for it)
from left to right it is Jackie, me, Yaneth and Dora
We took out Dora's son Bryon half way down, you can't see him but his tangled up in that mess somewhere.

I am so glad Yaneth called me Friday night to remind me about the Carnival, we had a blast hanging out, sledding and laughing with eachother.

Six Word Saturday

Hi , I have been MIA on my "Six Word Saturdays" lately......well I guess I have been MIA on blog all together. Not sure why, stress tends to get the best of me and instead of writing, I tend to detach myself. ( no blogging, no tweeting, no facebooking ) Although I still lurk around and read what is going on, I don't engage. Trying to change that about myself, it is a hard habit to break. So I have a couple Six Words for this week :

"Life's Stressful, Get Used To It"

"Looking forward To A Fun Weekend"

I will post about my fun weekend, tomorrow and Monday..........

For more Six Word Saturday fun, go check out Cate at Show my Face.

Mamavation Monday

It was a good week for me, food wise that it is. Still not in a working-out groove, can't find the umph I need to do it. So, today I am going to go to join a gym Planet Fitness. I figure I used to spend about $40 a month going to my Weight Watchers meeting ( and all you do there is sit in an uncomfortable chair in a church basement for 45mins.) I have been to enough meetings to know what I am supposed to do (and not do) with my diet. The gym membership is only $10 a month and I figure with my foot injury , if the treadmill hurts too much I at least can move to a bike or something.
I weighed myself Sunday morning and I am down 1lb. So that it a total of 5.8lbs total. I was hoping it was going to be more, but I can't complain cuz that is with no working-out at all.
If I can't come up with the money soon, then I am definitely getting the Earth Footwear sneakers for my Birthday (unless I can win some around Twitter *wink wink*) I figure if I get pair of them , even my trips to Walmart and the grocery store will count as "working-out".

I want to thank everyone for the sweet , supportive comments and tweets after my post last week. I just love all the Sistas so very much, glad I got involved with Mamavation.

Don't forget to tune into MomTv tonight for the Mamavation show , there will be more giveaways and Peter Cohen is going to be there too. YAY

Thanks
xoxo