NUFFIN'

I got nothing! Nothing to write! No inspiration! Went away for three days with Hip Chick to a conference on Applied Verbal Behavior and stayed with my family. She blogged about it but I got nothing! I am just not inspired to write. Probably because I feel like crap. To quote Liv, I think I have Sars or the bird flu (probably just the damm flu!) Maybe I'll get inspired later and write something to crack you people up. But for right now, I got nothing! I'm going to bed!!!

NEEDIN' SOME CHANGIN'

I've been needing a change in my life. I'm not sure what's up with me but I'm not happy. There really isn't a reason for the lull in happiness but I've just been feeling blah. Change is not something easy to do. It's really not even easy to figure out what to change to make things better.
Last year I changed jobs and it ended up being the best thing I ever did. I love what I do and adore Hipchick, Independent Girl, Belltone and the not-so-knocked up one with the scary stuff who make going to work pretty damm fun. If I could make changes and leave a job that I was at for six years then I can make other changes.

This years change.......I WANT TO MOVE!

I've decided that I'm going to move. Where to, I'm still deciding. Monday I picked up the apartment guide and started checking places out. I'd like to live in the city and experience that sort of life but I just don't think I can afford it. Maybe to Mt. Washington, outside the city but still close enough to make it fun. Maybe to White Marsh, just ten minutes away. Maybe to Pikesville (maybe I'll meet a nice jewish boy and make my mother happy). Maybe back to Cockeysville. I'm just not sure where.

All I do know is that I'm in need of a change and I've decided that moving may be the way to go. New place, new furniture (mine's falling apart), new nick-nacks, maybe I'll even make a decision and buy some art work for the walls. A new place, a new lease on life. Get away from the comfortable and maybe I'll be able to add some spice to my life.

HAPPY MOMENT OF THE DAY

- For about three weeks now I have been laying off carbs. No carbs for about 21 days. Plus I get up and go to the gym at 5am monday through friday and go a day on the weekend (sometime 2 if I can fit it in) plus I work out twice a week in the evening with a trainer. TODAY IT HAS PAID OFF!! Last night before I went to bed I laid out a pair of jeans to put on. When I got dressed this am, I saw that they were two sizes too small but decided to put them on since clean clothes are slim pickings around my house. (damm washing machine is broken). Keep in mind that earlier I could not put them on if you jumped up and down on my stomach and got the jaws of life to pull up the zipper. Today, I put them on and while standing up, buttoned and zippered them. THEY FIT!!! I was so excited, I told everyone! I have no shame in sharing my good fortune! and I love to hear about others.....So what was your happy moment of the day???

UPDATE ON BEING STRANDED

TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATION IN RIVERDALE, NY (SOMEWHERE IN THE CITY):
26.9 INCHES AND STILL FLURRIES ARE COMING!!! (FOR A VISUAL - I'M 5FT.5 AND IT CAME UP ABOVE MY KNEES - MID THIGH).

MY CAR: NOW UNCOVERED ON TOP BUT STUCK IN MY GRANDMOTHER/AUNT'S APARTMENT COMPLEX. MY CAR IS IN THEIR APARTMENT PARKING LOT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE HILL. AFTER I PLOWED THROUGH THE SNOW DOWN HILL TO MY CAR AND CLEANED, THE PLOW CAME DOWN AND GOT STUCK. THE DAMM PLOW GOT STUCK!!!

SO BASICALLY I CAN'T DRIVE TO MARYLAND TODAY, SO NO WORK TOMORROW AND HOPING WITH ALL HOPE THAT I CAN GET OUT TOMORROW.

FYI: MARYLAND SNOW ACCUMULATION (WHERE I LIVE)8-10 DAMM INCHES!!!

I HATE SNOW!!!

STRANDED AT GRANDMA'S

A month ago, I talked my mother and aunt into going away for the weekend to Atlantic City and I would stay with my grandmother. My aunt lives with and takes care of my grandmother who isn't doing all that well. Growing up my grandmother was the closest person to me. On school breaks, I would stay with her and my aunt. She was the one who would talk to me, listen to me and just overall make me feel good about myself. Now she's 85 years old suffers severly from depression, dementia, incontinence and a whole bunch of other ailments. So this weekend I traveled from Baltimore, Maryland to Riverdale, New York to spend quality time with grandma while my aunt takes some much needed R&R in Atlantic City.
The weather has been great this winter. I bought a new winter coat and have barely worn it. It's been in the 50's. We haven't seen snow since the beginning of December (or about then). All this past week there has been threats of the possibility of snow. Maybe enough snow to make a footprint or something like that. Thursday evening, before I left to journey to New York, there was definitely going to be enough snow to make a footprint but no more. So, Thursday at 10pm, I got in the car after a fundraiser and made the three and a half hour trip to New York. Not a problem, like I always say I can sleep when I'm dead (woke up that am at 5am to go to the gym and got to grandma's at 1:30am). Friday morning, the weather report says a few inches. Ok......not a problem..an inconvenience for my aunt and mother who left that morning for Atlantic City but no big whoop (snow to start sat. night and end sunday am).
NOW-A BLIZZARD WARNING IS IN EFFECT!!!! 8-12 inches are coming. My aunt and mother are headed back to New York a day early and I'm stranded at grandma's until Monday. This kind of sucks. I have doctor appointment on Monday at 8am and stuff to get done at work. This is going to be a kind of shitty reason to take a personal day on Monday. My only hope is that Maryland gets the 12-15 inches of snow that they are talking about and my office is closed. DAMM SNOW!!!

HELP! HELP! TECHNICAL SPAZ AT WORK

Ok....I'll admit it, I know nothing beyond the ordinary about computers. I can type without looking at my fingers, I can use my computer at work (most of the time), I can figure out how to do an excel spreadsheet, I've made a power point presentation but this blog stuff is driving me nuts. I'm trying to figure out how to make a drop down box so I can add all the peoples blog that I read and somehow the side information has now dropped to the bottom. Please help!!!!

1. How do I lift my side stuff back up????
and......
2. How do I make a drop down box for all you people who are blowing up your key boards from the tears falling into them because I haven't blog-rolled you (is that the correct term)?

***Just so you know I will update my blog this weekend with what's been going on in my life. I'm staying with my grandmother who isn't doing well while my mom and aunt go away to Atlantic City for the weekend. I always have these deep thoughts on long drives and I'm guessing that Thursday's four hour drive from Maryland to the Bronx in New York at 9pm won't be any different.

So....please help me figure out this blog stuff.

And to those crying into their keyboards....I am definitely going to add you this weekend (well, as soon as I figure this junk out)

have a great Wednesday! Interesting posts coming this weekend, I promise (well promise as long as someone in my grandmother and aunt's building has wireless internet so I can use my laptop. Somebody in a 10 floor building has got to have wireless internet that I can hack into, right???

Thanks in advance for all your advice. Love ya! Got to go get ready for work, saving the world one kid with autism at a time (Thanks to a dear friend for that great saying for what I do. I love that you get me!)

Changes in my mind

I've decided to keep on posting. Keeping a blog, in a strange way, keeps my sanity in check. I absolutely suck at confrontations and when I blog, I get to put my feelings, thoughts, etc. out there. More on this later!
So I've decided to keep going with the whole blog thing. I am trying to figure out how to make my blog a little cozier, including adding a list of fellow bloggers who I read. I'm just starting to figure out how to add a little spunk to my blog so if you have any computer ideas, leave them. I need them! It's taken me an hour to figure out how to make a blog roll (oh, if I miss your name on my blogroll, let me know so I can add you) Please don't get insulted if I don't add you right away, right now i'm trying to figure it out and tonight i'm only staying up through Survivor (it's 8:30 right now!)
Leave me a comment and help me out with this computer thing, okay!