daily grind

so- i'm picking up another job. i'm going to be taking care of one of the little boys in the class i teach in from after school until 5:30. I will take him to his house and hang out until I have to go to class at 5:30 and be there(at class) until 8:45. I think it will be fine because after tomorrow I should be completely caught up with my appraisal work, so that will leave me with the additional hours to work. i like that boy and let's face it, i need the money honey.
i'm about to take an hour break/nap from studying for my midterm that i'm taking tonight. that will leave me with three hours to study. i think that should do it?

nicaragua bitches

so we decided to go to nicaragua instead of thailand this summer. i’m excited about this because it means that mike and i will go alone instead of with two other couples which is how it was going to be if we went to thailand. i’m not big into doing things with couples. it just feels so freaking cheesy to me. i guess i should say it depends on the couple too, but generally it’s a big no. it’s going to be grrrreat. i think we’re going for 14 or 15 days. we are planning on backpacking for most of the trip and splurging for like 2 nights at a really nice place.
off to work!

i'm glad

since i wrote that last blog, things just got uglier and uglier, until late sunday evening when mike decided he wanted the standoff to be over with. i've got stamina when it comes to these things and i will let them go on for months and even years if need be. i realize that that is not a good thing, but i absolutely can not help it.
to make a long story short, mike kept digging his grave deeper and deeper on a daily basis from wednesday evening until finally on sunday evening when he decided to stop.
i'm glad it's over with and i hope it doesn't happen again.

i'm about to go for my every 3,000 mile carwash and oil change that i get every 3,000miles. i'm excited about this. it makes me feel grown up for some reason.

mindy and i are running in the march of dimes st.patricks day 5k on march 7th. i'm very proud of us. we fell off the wagon for a little bit there when we both got sick, but we jumped right back on. we are pretty sure that we wont be able to run the entire 3 miles yet. we still have 7 more training sessions before the event, so i think we can get to at least 1.5 miles without stopping and then we can take a walking breather and run some more.

disgusting

so- as i mentioned yesterday, mike and i were trying to decide where to go this weekend. well, mike decided that the selfish side of him is going to rear it's ugly head again. the whole point of this trip is that i have monday off and there for a long weekend to enjoy somewhere else. he let me know last night when we were trying to nail down where we were going that he was not going to take monday off of work. he has deadlines to meet that i just don't understand. i don't understand when a couple of weeks ago those self imposed deadlines went out of the window when he went to colorado for six days. he says it's a once in a lifetime opportunity to go to the x-games. you see, that's not true either. he went last year, this year, and will probably go next year. not a once in a life time opportunity my dear. that's what i call selfish. plain and simple. all i asked for was one day.
so the conclusion of this situation is that i am still going out of town. i'm going either with mindy or by myself. either one sounds just as fun to me. if mindy comes with we're going to atlanta. if she doesn't come with i think i'll go to jacksonville and check it out. or maybe atlanta. of course i'm taking candy and lewy with me too.
i had to vent my disgust with mike's selfish ways.

napsynaparoosky

we're trying to get out of town this coming weekend since i have monday off of work. we are trying to decide between atlanta, charleston, jacksonville, or myrtle beach. they are all within 3 hours of here and the weather is going to be about the same in all of the places. although, i'm leaning closer to myrtle beach since i've never been.
mindy and i are back on the 5k training schedule. we had a little hang up because of sickness, but that's all done now.
i'm going to go take a naparoo before class. i can't keep my eyes open. i'll just have to do my appraisal work after class. i can't efing wait!

fabulash

i ordered a pair of fabulash sandals from delias today. i can't wait to get them! they are gold and awesome.
i just tried to find a picture of them that i could put on here, but no such luck.

flip flop

i'm not going to class tonight. i just don't feel like it.
i want my mom to come visit soon. i miss her.
today was hot here and i want to go buy some flip flops.

my head still feels like it's full of junk.
i think i'll have some tea.

oh yeah

johanna's birthday diner:

mixed greens salad with champagne dressing

spanish fish in a sack served with safron yellow rice
parchment paper
1 pound ready-trimmed green beans, available in produce department, halved on an angle across
8 anchovy fillets, optional
4 large garlic cloves, minced
16 strips thinly sliced pimientos or roasted red pepper
1/2 cup pitted chopped good quality black olives, such as kalamata
2 pounds cod fillets, cut into 4 portions (get thick pieces from the center cuts rather than tail-end pieces) or, 4 red snapper fillets, 8 ounces each
Salt and pepper
4 scallions, chopped
1/4 cup flat leaf parsley, a generous handful, chopped
Extra-virgin olive oil, for generous drizzling
1 lemon, zested and juiced

sweet mascarpone and berries with marsala
2 cups mascarpone cheese
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
1 tablespoon orange or lemon zest
1 package ladyfingers
1 pint strawberries
2 teaspoons sugar
1/4 cup Marsala wine

guess i'll find out

i didn't go to work today because although i am feeling better, i'm still not up to dealing with two year olds. and also i don't want to get them sick. by better i mean i no longer have a fever and headache and bed/clothes soaking sweats. i just feel like i'm high and my body hurts.
so, tonight mike's mom is coming over for her birthday diner that has been put off since january 23rd. i felt bad postponing it again, so here we are. not only am i cooking dinner, but i'm about to mop and clean the house. i'm hoping that doing all of this shit doesn't postpone my getting better.

i can't help but wonder

it's crazy. it's been almost three and a half years since i broke up with my ex, but i still wonder sometimes if he cheated on me. i will never forget when he said, out of no where, "you know lisa is a slut. you were right." this was right after i got back from panama after being there for three months. lisa was his friend that i didn't trust.
i just wonder sometimes.

what goes around comes around

sooo-now i'm sick.
it's annoying.
i am so tired of being sick. i would like to go an entire week without being sick PLEASE. it's saturday and i want to do stuff. i think i can because i'm just feeling neck and back pain, headache, caughing, and stuffy nose. it's not as bad as it sounds, as long as i take the extra strength/rapid release/tylenol. it staves off the headache and the body pain.
mindy is sick too, so we are going to try to go to breakfast in about half hour so that we can infect others.

things i should do today:
make phone calls
put clean clothes away
do assignment for disablities class
buy a container for the dog food