There is something

so healing about a shower! Yeah I drug my cruddy butt off the couch and into the shower about an hour ago! Man did that feel good. I mustve stood there for a good 5 min under the hot running water, and chanted "Oh man this feels so gooood!" Washed my equally dirty hair, forewent styling tho as Im sure the blow dryer weighs way more than I can manage today. I may have a hair appt w/my Bethie tomorrow and I also may have a dental appt. I cant do both. No energy. So hmmm whats going to make me feel better in the long run? If you guessed the hair appt youre right. I just dont have anything to give you for a prize. Ding ding ding!!! Does that work?? Im still drinking coffee but I really need to eat. Anorange is on the counter with my name on it so I think Id better scoot and put something good into my nutrition starved body! Thanks for hanging with me!

sick insomnia

It happens this time every year. I can sail through most of the winter without a sniffle, but come the first of March I come down with what I now call the March curse. Its the crummy lung crud. Cough hack wheeze. The kind where youre trying to lay there and sleep but you can still hear the finel rales and rhonchi between each breath. Thats med speak for those funnt high pitched squeaks and rubs you hear! Unless of course youre blessed with no Asthma like qualities!LOL So I decided after a good dose of the poineer womans blog that Id at least try to make the best out of not being able to sleep when everyone else, even a sick dh and hte cats are sound asleep! so heres to a night of lost sleep. Good thing I dont work for a living!

where in the heck did she come from??

I first have to say that anyone who wants a pic will be disappointed!LOL Ok that said I grew up right here in Peoria. Born here too! I didnt know it at the time but the little "pre-fab" home was new! Bought from Sears! It csot my parents a whoppng 10k. It wa ssmall 3 br small living room no real dining room and a small kitchen like8x10 that held the neccesities and a huge conference table to fit the 8 of us! Yes we had 8 people in the house. My 3 sisters and I shared a room that for as far back as I can remember had bunk beds. I do remember my crib was right under a window and I was sad to go to the big double bed w/my oldest sister, Sue.The boys room was icky, think boy deposits, ie:boogers on the cieling! they were gross! WE had no basement but it held some love. Esp after a very crabby and frightening dad and boys left!The most fun was when it was just the girls, mostly Terry, my mom and i. Wed laugh play games till 1am on Firday nights. smoke cigs till we couldnt smoke anymore! Yeah those days are gone. No one smokes anymore, thank God! we never had AC. wed sleep on a sheet laid on the cheap asphalt tiles on a hot summer night. Mom included! a Typical summer evenng included a trip to a Cemetery In north P-town that had a lake, well really its a pond but when youre 6 it was pretty big. Wed take a cool bath and put on Jammies and go out there and cool off.Not in the pond though!LOL On the way home wed stop at A&W and get a nickel root beer. The total was 1.25. Wed then go home and try to settle in. Eventually wed wander to our beds around midnight, which was to me a magical time of night. It was quiet cooler and just made you feel so secure. So you want to know about my home now?? Its about 1 block from that pre-fab house. yeah its 50ys old this year and showing some wear but I can truly saw I CAN go home again!

something romantic

well Im doing this for extra points for the love crop! I dont really have one but Ill think of something. This may be the most romantic yr I guess. Way back in Jan I got the KOTM called the Greatest Love Story ever Told...yours! Im still in the thinking phases of this so itll b e a work in progress over the next week or so. Started putting the pages together the pages yesterday. Im thinking as Im going. I wish for sure that I had more pics of us from when we were dating etc... But I dont. I do have some old ploaroids of my little wedding shower and even worseyellowed ones from my wedding. Amanda is working on converting them to b&w, and cleaning them up a bit. Ill try to get pics posted sometime soon of the ginished product. Check back here and see what I ve come up with!

10 things I love right now!

I almost forgot about this! Here they are in no particular order:

1. butt cold days inJan where I dont have toleave thehouse!
2 Breakfast made by Ike!
3 said dh doing the dishes too!! Gotta love that!
4. drinking all the coffee I want!
5. Ike having alight week at work. This man works too hard all the rest of the year so its nice to spend time w/him
6 my new windows that are keepign the drafts out unlike my old windows
7 getting to psend the day scrapping, although I havent really done that yet
8 love that Olivia is over her little virus that shes had all week. high fever not sleeping
9 that AManda got to sleep all night for 8 straight hours!!
10 that Emi is finally back in her apt after it flooded!

Yep Im happy as a fat clam right now!

Well its better late than never so heres this weeks KaTIE BLOG CHALLENGE;try something new and blog about it! Here goes...
I know she probably meant something with the camera or settings with the blog but thats not me this week. I FINALLY tried the body step class! Ive been really bummed about the Riverplex cancelling my fav class of all time. Lots of reasons that it failed none made me happy! So I tried a new class right after Christmas called Body Jam. It was fun but too frustrating for me. i tried it twice but never felt the love like I did with the other class. Sooo I changed my PT time and went to the step class. I loved it! I didnt however use the step. Not sure that I ever will but its fine to not use it too! it was so good to move! And sweat! and burn calories that have been hanging round since Christmas! Another class I will try is Body Attack. Ive done it a few timesbut none on a reg basis. But Ill be there bright and early on Monday. I wouldve gone today but I want to scrap instead. And plus these classes arent new so no chance that theyllbe cancelled. NOw that makes me HAPPY!!!

Oh boy Ive been a bad blogger! Not even sure what the challenge for the day/week is? Ill have to look.

Ive finally started PT for my poor left shoulder. They thinkits some kind of rotator cuff tendonitis, and some other mumbledey jumbledy medical terms. It hurts but I can see a bit of progress. The best pat is the heat and e-stim at the end!

Ive beenmaking progress with my organizing book. I think Im going to start the organizing if possible at the end of each chapter while Ive still got ideas. Im for sure going to clean the closet of way old clothes and all of Ems stuff and use that! Ill be taking the door off so itll be visible therefore useable!

Today is the like 100th gloomy sunless day in I dont know how long. The sun comes out briefly for a few hours but slips back behind the next storm system! Yuck! Im so tired! I have to get back to the gym! Therapy is cramping my style a bti too! Ill work it out! Sat for sure! I have to get groceries too! I esp hate that!LO But trying new RR recipies that sound yummy! like Cowboy Spaghetti! Il le you know how it turns out!