My family

Newest addition-My soon to be in April 2008 great Nephew


My nephew Casey James



My nephew Michael (soon to be papa)


My sister Kelly(older sister but not the oldest)


My sister Kim (The oldest)


My brother in law (my sister Kim's husband-married 25 years!)


My mom and dad (married 45 years!)


Eating fresh fish!

Some random pictures!

Griffin and daddy before daddy went to work




Griffin in Key West





Joe,my sister and I boating in Key West






Key West Sunset

Check it out now

It snowed here lol









It's a big deal in NC...for me it just made me happy and reminded me of home!

Getting Back to Normal

Invariably,everytime I go to Key West to visit family my brother in law (him and my sister live there) always ask me if I wish I could stay.I always answer no. Not because I don't have a wonderful time and don't absolutely love the weather but let's face it if we lived down there both of us would have 1-2 jobs a piece and when your working so much it isn't like you're on the beach or swimming or even enjoying the sunshine lol Many years ago when we first started going out Joe lived in Fort Lauderdale and we contemplated moving there but came to the same conclusion.I do admit however that as I've gotten older, I am no friend of cold weather.Having lived in snow all my life,the move to Northern North Carolina was a nice change.It is always sunny here unlike home in NY, where because of the finger lakes and the location of Rochester we get the "lake effect" snow and inevitably a gray sky 90% of the time.I guess it does snow here where we are in North Carolina but is laughably a "dusting" which isn't snow to me lol It is basically cold cold weather without the fight to drive in sleet and snow so it is a nice balance.

It is definately nice to be back home!I would love to join the Y here to take Griffin swimming all the time but it is $79 a month.I can't get over how expensive it is.Any gym around here is the same amount,I guess we can pay $5.25 everytime we go without being a member but geese.Anyways I did find a church pool we can go to and it would only be $18 a month with an 18 month contract but there isn't very many "open" pool hours.So I am still deciding and searching.It is nice to be back in the swing of things I guess so I will be a blogging.

Going to Paradise

Well I have been busy busy and neglecting this tiny aspect of my life.Monday the 31st we are off to Key West and will fly back the 11th!!! To everyone HAPPY NEW YEAR in advance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Joe's Aunt

Something she did really made me depressed.I am not looking forward to spending Christmas Eve and Christmas day with her and I am trying not to be like that and jsut ignore it so I enjoy the holidays but it is hard.I had suggested a gift one of her grandsons might like (cause she said she had no clue what to get them) and in turn she called their mother and said "I expected her to spend far more money on them than she planned".That wasn't it at all.I didn't intend for her to take it like that it was only a suggestion.They are rich and will never spend all their money in their lifetime and they only have their 2 grandsons to buy for and noone else.I didn't think a $100 guitar was out of the question and she said she didn't know what to get them.Apparently she said she only expected to spend $50 at the most in total on the two kids less if she could.She is getting them a Rubiks cube "to share" is one gift she told Joe's mom about.Whatever.Her and her husband are very very cheap and much of their life revolves around money,how to not spend it and how to amass more.It depressed me the whole thing-the fact that she called their mother and was offended and the fact that they are so concerned with "their money".It just gets me down and makes me not want to spend the holidays with them.It is supposed to be a happy time,a time when you get excited to see the kids open up their gifts.

I guess you'd have to meet them they are the wierdest people I ever met and extremly cheap and everything is about money to them.I'm depressed even typing this out...

We're Electronically challenged

So we've come to accept that this year Joe and I are electronically challenged.Two Tv's have gone caput on us.Then the computer (a new motherboard fixed that) and our awesome Toaster went a month ago and now as of last week our fancy DVD player went.I bought Joe that DVD player 4 years ago and it had all the bells and whistles but now it is dead.Sooo we are left playing DVD's in Joe's old Playstation.Hey at least we have something but what more can happen this year.Our garage looks like a storage place for old electronics.I have to pay to have most of them disposed of and can never seem to justify spending the money so there they sit.

I lost a day this week.I thought Tuesday was Wednesday and Wednesday was Thursday and it didn't hit me until 8pm on Wednesday night.I've been baking.My circus waffle idea didn't work all it did was make a huge mess but overall everything else went well with baking.I still have fudge and 7 layer bars to make but those are easy.I may make another type of cookie since I have an extra day this week (since I lost one lol).