Reset2Zero

:: vita-licious baby ::

I recently started the WW points YET again. Now, I know,, DUH, I'm leaving for Florida in 9 sleeps for a 5 day conference in Orlando at Loews Royal Pacific Hotel at Universal. 4 Restaurants there with one being a Luau. Uh yeah,,, I'm not going to count a single point while there. But figured it would hurt to start before I go. I have a few dozen single serve 100 cal bags of popcorn, I have about 60 water bottle green tea packets and just ordered about 3 dozen Vita-licous products. I'm trying to be pro-active and plan ahead. 1 of their products that I ordered:

Cause c'mon,,, they're brownies!!!
I also ordered:

Fudgy chocolate flavor with peanut butter chips, I want one right now!

Work hasn't been good. In fact, it's been pretty bad for me. Like I said earlier. 9 sleeps. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. Have to start planning what type of clothing to bring. Rose and I already plan to rent a cabana at the hotel, to sit in the warm Florida air and do absolutely nothing for some point in time while we are there. Nada, Zero, Zilch.

Some recent 365 photos:

Pretty flowers. Surprisingly enough, taken with my Blackberry. Am loving this phone. Just for the convenience of this camera.


Iced Coffee an absolute necessity when I'm working. Think it's funny how two months ago I barely drank it,, thought it was eeewwww.


Taken again with the BB while driving this time. Driving on Ocean Pkwy in Brooklyn. Saw this plate and thought, hey does that say what I think it says. Yep,, apparently this man is driving around NY in my toy.

Finished another 365 scrap page too.

Time to fold a load of laundry, get a naval orange (yum they're super sweet) and read some before sleep. Just finished catching up on Grey's Anatomy and the latest episode of Little Dorrit (a PBS movie classic). Lex has been waiting for me to watch them so that we can clear them off of the DVR.

Night all! Lots of Love! xoxo

:: hope lives ::

Last night, was wonderful. Good times,, definitely good times.

This was actually the last photo I took of the evening.

The large screen at the stadium was AWESOME. crystal clear, beautiful. We should all have TV's that work as well.

This was the first picture I took and it is what I chose for yesterdays pic o' the day. Yankee fans should be proud to have such a nice place to watch their team. Sorry Eagle, I know you are a Met fan,, if I get to Citi Field I'm sure I would say the same.

Everywhere you looked there were signs of why we were there. This was early on when not all guests were seated.

There ya go. Much fuller stadium, look at all those Christians! :)  Everyone there to simply listen, support each other and take the seeds of faith he planted within us back home.

Anne and I discussed early on what we thought a person coming to take part in this would look like. Turns out, every person you could possibly picture, from all walks of life was there. Even the bunch of guys that looked like they were coming to watch a ball game, yep, even they were there to listen to Joel.

This is a picture taken of the the main video screen. Again the geek in me was just so impressed by this. It is 59 feet high and 101 feet wide. It is apparently a True HD LED screen. I mean come on this picture was taken from across the field with the zoom lens on my point and shoot camera. No photoshop magic. That's the rock star for the night, Joel and his two children. Forget their names, the daughter sang and the son played with the band. Anne's comment,, what a good looking boy,, if I was 14 I'd have a crush. I have to agree with her, the kid has amazing eyes. 

So off to do some chores. Hang up a hook I bought for my bathroom that I never put in, plus a new shower curtain rod and curtain. Been planning on doing this for a few weeks. Hopefully I will get some scrapping in tonight as well. Keeping cool since my living area is on the lowest floor of the house. Everyone else in the house may be feeling the heat. Thankfully not me. In fact, in the winter its nice and toasty down here. Yay for me.

edited to add: ** check out my 365 album,, added some photos,, there is even a borrowed pic in there. Thanks to Eagle for the Syfy heads up.

Aloha, love to all. XOXO

:: not earth shattering new to report ::

BUT, I am going here tonight:

and here in 13 days:

WOOHOOOOOO!!!!

Love to all! XO

:: aloha blog world ::

Got caught up today on posting my 365 pictures and I posted two new pages to my Scrapbooking page album. I hope to do two more pages before I go to bed tonight. Of course I did just jinx myself by typing that though.

Hmm, what have I been up to? Lost another nurse this week at one of my houses. One particular residence just has a revolving front door for nurses.

My boss and about 5 others including myself taught a class at Kingsborough College this week. Their two nursing classes attended the Healthlink for Nurses class. It's a class to teach nursing students about Developmental Disabilities Nursing. It was particularly interesting for me because the professor for the classes was one of my Nursing Professors from Curtis High School where I took my LPN classes.

At the beginning of the class each of us get up and say a brief little nugget of info about ourselves. I said my name, how long I've worked for the company and mentioned that their Professor was one of my professors back in the day. Of course I didn't say how long ago "back in the day" was.

I've discovered that Bacardi Mojito's (premade ones) are awesome. Especially the pomegranate ones. I've rediscovered that rum and coke really is a good drink, thanks to Rose for reminding me while a bunch of us were out at the Marina Cafe. By the way, their new menu, the flatiron steak. Very good. Highly recommended.

By the way if you haven't checked out my facebook page go look at the old family photos I posted. I will continue to scan a few at a time. I have hundreds. Sat Mom down on Easter and made her let me know who was who. Of course, I can't promise that I will remember everyone when time comes to posting them. So that means you Lorna,, will probably have to help me.

Now try not to fall of your seats folks but I'm retiring the iPhone.

It's cool, I love it, BUT I can't stand the touch screen keyboard. Sorry Apple. Sorry cute little iPhone.
So what am I waiting for AT&T to deliver to me tomorrow?  Not that you all probably care but I am waiting for a cute red Blackberry Curve to get here.
 
Isn't she pretty. Since I hope to post more from my phone since it has a real keyboard, I will need to name it. B names will be easy, not like when it was something to go along with iPhone. That was just impossible. Betty, Betsy, Beatrice, Bertha (hey Bertha is my Godmother, don't go trashing that one!), Bernice, Benny, BamBam, (ala the Flintstones) or maybe Bob (which women know is a multi use name).

:)

So, time to go catch up on DVR'd TV, drink some more Redcat (picture of the day below).

:: maybe she wanted more fiber in her diet ::

Today I came home from work. Placed some mail and a bank deposit receipt on my bed. Changed me clothes and proceeded to go upstairs to eat dinner with the gals. Had yummy hot wings. A little while later I returned to my bedroom to get some laundry done to find this:

A few things came to mind. Either she was angry that I put all the money in the bank and didn't buy her some goodies. Maybe she was mad that I was upstairs eating hot wings and not sharing with her or maybe she simply needed some extra fiber in her diet.

Crazy Cat.

I was on the phone with the x today talking about refinancing our mortgage and know what I heard? I heard Babydog barking in the background. :( 

I was like,, ooohh!!! BABYDOG!! I asked the x to put him on the phone but well, ya know. He's a dog, He would probably eat the phone or at least chew on it like a toy. I miss my Babydog very much. Have to figure out how to arrange a visit. I'll probably cry like a baby when I see him. That's pretty much why I haven't been to see him lately. Just too difficult to leave. After all how could I say goodbye to this face?

Besides the emotional roller coaster I've been on, my psyche couldn't really handle visiting the dog, too.

Time to fold some laundry and look forward to tomorrow being Friday already. Yippee!