Friday, July 31, 2009

I am not seeing Rent one final time.... :'(


Gaia finally lost a tooth! Woohoo! How cute is this picture?! ;)

No I'm not in NY right now. My friend that I was going with to see the show is sick in the hospital with Swine Flu they believe. She has a 103 fever and isn't too well at the moment. =( Her friend was like still come and I'll go with you and its like no thanks! LOL I'll stay home rather than get sick myself before going to the beach next week. :( So it totally sucks, but I hadn't paid for my ticket or anything, so its all good. I hope they do another tour like this again. :)

So Gaia lost her first tooth on Monday, so what did the the tooth fairy bring her? NOTHING! Yes I said nothing. What kind of fairy lives at her mother's house?! Ugh! Well she didn't have the tooth under her pillow, because she lost it at school. Thats when you sit down and help the child write a note explaining what happened, but no instead she got nothing. But don't worry, the fairy got lost and made an appearance here instead and she'll get something when she comes next weekend. =o)

So thats it. The weather has been unpredictable here the whole week. Yesterday was the most I swam the entire week. LOL I went early thinking it was going to storm at some point, but it just rained a little bit and that was it.


So I am off to clean out my closet, YIKES! Wish me luck! LOL

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

The weather puts me in a bad mood!


I love the pictures I snapped of Gaia sleeping. My brother use to sleep like this, its hilarious how Gaia did this when she was here. ;)

I am so ready for this weekend!!!!! :) Ugh I so can't wait to see Rent one final time. =) So excited, minus the flying part. Arg! To that part! They had better find out what is causing all of these random crashes, I'm just not looking forward to getting there and getting home. LOL

So when I get home on Monday, that weekend we are taking off for our next family vacation. LOL Jeremy and Gaia are coming in on Saturday (the 8th) and then we are leaving to go to Somerset (PA) to go see the Flight 93 memorial and then making the track to the beach. I'm excited for both trips. I am finally going to pay my respects to the heroes in the air on 9/11/01. I told Deborah that I am going, and we'll be missing her by a week up there. One thing is not knowing how to explain it to a 7 year old, if you know what I mean. She sees 9/11 as my brother's birthday, not as something where 3000 people died in a single day in a terrorist attack on our country and that these 40 specific people foiled the hijacker's attempts.


I will have been to 2/3 of the memorials after this....I still haven't been to the one in NYC, but that won't be till after its completed.

So yesterday we had the pop-up storms early in the afternoon, right, well later on in the afternoon it was NICE and well they closed the pool. That is the 3rd time they have done that in the past 2 weeks and its STUPID! Some one really needs to complain about it, they need to re-evaluate the weather conditions after the storm passes, if it does pass. Ugh, whatever!

So today I am meeting a friend down at the pool at 1:00, so lets hope it doesn't STORM the second I walk out the door! ROFL!

I finished Chamber of Secrets yesterday, I just might get Prisoner of Azkaban done before leaving for the PA/beach. I want to so I don't have to take 2 books and having book 4 or 5 will last me the entire week, well watch I will finish it at the beach. LOL :) I have read Harry Potter 1 and 2 and now onto 3-7! ;) The movie was good by the way. ;)


Thats it. Till next time....

Monday, July 20, 2009

There is a wrong and right way....


The little miss after we made chocolate chip cookies. ;)

Well Gaia went home on Sunday and boy was it ever quiet around here. It was too quiet around here on Sunday. I went to the pool and turned around looking for her when I walked up to the gate, and she wasn't there. LOL It was weird not having her there on Sunday. LOL


Sunday night I went down to the lake to swim with Karissa. The funny part is we both are trying to get the butterfly stroke and on Saturday Jen was like Karissa has it, but Cortney you don't. So I got to where I was trying it multiple ways and I was doing it the way Karissa was doing it and its like well is that it?! LOL


So today it was cloudy and cooler, but I met Karissa down there today. So I was determined to work at the stupid thing. I kept practicing it Jen's way and I even did it the pool length and then half way back! I was damn proud of myself, I tell you that much. ;) I am not doing it anymore the way I use to do it; I'm doing it big kick, little kick, stroke and kick at the same time. NO CLUE IF THATS IT, BUT IT FEELS RIGHT TO ME! ;)

So I went home and had dinner and then went back to the pool this evening. So I NEVER got back into the pool because it started thundering! LOL My luck, right?! So anyways, rewind to before I even got to the pool, my mom called me and goes where's the SIM card that holds the extra # that we have and its like its wherever you put it. It was never in my phone. She SWORE up and down that it was in mine, but it never was. So after telling her to look in her own old phone she found it. UGH! The moron!


So anyways, Marci called me and I was laying on a lounge chair watching Danny set off potato bombs or whatever they were. LOL All it did was make loud noises and I thought at one point the last one he did was going to land on me! So I was looking around and the lifeguards were putting stuff away and I told Marci that I needed to get up off the chair so they could get my cushion and the other one that my stuff was sitting on.


Well I thought I could back up on it, where your head is suppose to go, and I was doing that and all the sudden the chair like flew up and I fell off! I am amazed that I didn't throw my phone, but I was laughing so hard. Marci, poor you didn't have a clue what happened other than hearing me scream! It was a GOOD thing that the cushion was still on the chair because it wouldn't have been pretty. LOL The funny part is looking around and seeing the look on people's faces and its like it would only happen to me! ;)


Oh I was waiting to see if it would QUIT thundering and well instead got caught in a terrible storm! Ugh! I got almost home, like 2 streets away from the turn-off and it started pouring down rain, like a monsoon! It was crazy!


So that was the past 2 days....not much going on now without Gaia here. ;)

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

The past few days!


Sleeping Beauty....oh oops its Gaia. ;)

So the past few days Gaia has been here, yes that is true. ;) She has been great this visit. Which has been wonderful.


Sunday we basically spent the day down at the pool. She couldn't wait to get down there, I tell you that much. She asked me at 9:00am if the pool was open and its like, nope.


So after she went to bed at 3:00am Saturday night, she woke up at 8:00am on Sunday. I was on little sleep for the fact that she slept smack dab in the middle of the bed! So we ran into town to go to the grocery store and all that fun stuff. After that we came home and got ready and headed to the pool. :) Gaia was down there from 1:30-4:00....it was a long day! I got a break from 4-6pm though, which was nice for me.

So Monday she started her Tennis camp, but it looked like it was going to be cancelled because of the yucky weather. Well it wasn't, so she went there at 12:30 and I stayed home and relaxed. With the luck I have the sun came out just in time for her to come home. LOL Well it wasn't raining or storming and she wanted to go swimming at the pool. So off we went at about 5:00 and walk in and lol Natalie and Morgan were both there, which was hilarious. Cause it was Morgan Gaia talked about all year, but yet she knew Natalie right away. LOL :smacks head: So she played with Natalie, I didn't even realize what was going on until I saw them both in the pool together and I wasn't getting in, well that was the plan. I got splashed until I got in. Natalie got me to do 12 laps with her and its like ugh shoot me. I was like I can't, cause of Gaia and so Morgan was like I'll watch her. I was like teach her how to dive, LOL! So yes I made it through 12 laps of swimming and staying at the pool until 9:00! Woohoo!


Today Gaia went to Tennis camp again and I went down to the pool at 2:00 to swim by myself and have some me time, if you know what I mean. ;) I met up with a friend of mine down there and she stayed until 5:00. Then Gaia turned around and came down soon after. Of course, Morgan was down at the pool. OH before this, Morgan was trying to get me to do a pike jump, toe-touch into a dive. LOL Out of 7 tries ONCE I got close. ;) I quit after 7, lol. Of course too there's like a wasp nest by the diving board, and stupid things were out harassing me. LOL Ugh!


So anyways, Gaia is really wanting to go swim at Morgan's house again this year. Well my mom was like she can go only if you stay with her and I had e-mailed Morgan through facebook about it last night and I talked to her today about it. But its a wait and see, but Gaia told me tonight she didn't want to go to camp Thursday. So whatever, we'll see what happens. So anyways, when Morgan was trying to leave, Gaia didn't want her to go and jumped up and wrapped herself around her waist and leg and I am standing there like, oh my gosh! Its like the poor girl is trying to leave!

So Gaia and I are sitting here watching "Goblet of Fire" and then I am going to bed here soon. I have a headache. Later!

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Owwww.....



That's from the so-called dead squash plant we have! It grew in its own area.


So its Saturday....Gaia is coming today. Well they are finally in North Carolina and about 2.5 hours away. I'm so glad I knew before I went swimming that she wasn't going to be back in time. But she'll be here for the week and soon enough I will be counting down the days until she's back in Ohio. ;) hahaha

Can you guess why my title says Ow?! Ugh yesterday, my luck I have...Jen was working last night and yeah she never EVER forgets. LOL At one point I heard her say my name and I was in the deep end and was like I heard my name and don't want to know what was said! LOL


So it was either adult swim or getting close to it. Jen was trying to get me to work on Butterfly and its like no! LOL Well before that she said something to Morgan and I think it was about if I showed her the day before and she was like I had her do 2 laps. Ugh so adult swim her and Natalie both were trying to get me to do it and one point we were going to race and its like HOW THE HELL WILL THAT BE FAIR?! LOL I gave up half-way through the first lap, lol!


I called it all getting a swim lesson, lol! I needed to have kept my mouth shut about never having lessons! =p Butterfly is just a mental thing with me as to why I won't do it. But as I have said, I have made more progress with it since I moved here. LOL 3 or 4 years ago I wouldn't have tried it and it took many weeks of convincing to get me to do it.

My arms and back are killing me from it too. :( Ugh, today it killed me to do it short-ways and I did it once and that was it.


So this afternoon I went back and ugh the water was cold. I went over to the diving board after Alexa got on the stand, because of Danny and Allyson acting up and being stupid. Oh get this, I asked if I could a back dive and got the OK to do it. Well I did it and came up and Alexa was like I thought you were going to back flop and its like huh?! Apparently when I did, I dunno if I do it everytime, but I went straight back and arched at the very end. I have never back flopped since the first time I tried it by myself the first time ever. She said it was cool to see, but I have never been told that before.

So I am listening to music and typing this. :) I am off here. TTYL!

Friday, July 10, 2009

Just go ahead and shoot me!



Just another random picture from July 4th.


So tomorrow is when Gaia comes into town....can anyone just shoot me now???? I dunno why my parents think we need a fricken DVD player in every car, but thats this new kick they are on and I think its a waste of $$. Well they tell me I am jealous of it all the time and its like you dunno how wrong you are.


They keep this shit up, they will be entertaining her on their own.


So yesterday, after getting a nice e-mail Jen about my butterfly...lol to make a long story short, I had sent her an e-mail saying she missed it and she was at the pool when I went back! LOL Anyways!!!! It was cool here, but it was like near 80, so I went for a little bit. I walked in and Jen was like show Morgan your butterfly and its like what the heck?! Why?! LOL I look like a drowning rat, well not that bad now, but still. Of course Morgan was waiting to see it, lol and I did it short-ways and she was like now go do 2 laps of it. I was like WHAT?! I wanted to smack my head on the side of the pool at that moment. I did it anyways, even though by the end of the 2nd lap I was ready to just go under and never come back up! LOL My arms are still hurting from this.


So yes I survived doing 2 laps of it, but yet I am not saying I did that to Jen or she will have me do it again! NO THANK YOU!!! Karissa, this girl that is here visiting, we finally got to dive off the diving board the day before yesterday and I was like if I do this, you have to go dive off the board and she was like thats not the lifeguard that was here yesterday and I was like no its her sister and she's worse! LOL =p She didn't dive off the board, but she did go off the side. :o)


Karissa tends to do this where she starts to dive and turns around and does it as a pencil. Well to be funny I did that off the diving board, except it wasn't too funny when I got yelled at for doing it! OOPSY! LOL


So anyways, thats it. :) I am going to enjoy this final day of no 7.5 year old pulling me around. LOL Later!

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Why do people do that?!


Ok this is a random picture, but thats the view I had watching the fireworks and you can see the North side's in the distance. :o)


Ok so I am like so tired from the past 2 days. Swimming, and yet the weather is going to turn crappy tomorrow again. :( Oh well, as long as its decent when Gaia's here. ;)

One thing I am not getting about being here still after 5 years just about is why is everyone in your business?! Well and another thing its none of their business and how I see it. I am so sick of it! And the never-ending of putting words in my mouth drives me crazy! Ugh!


Marci this next part is for you to read.....I am finally putting 1 and 2 together with the Butterfly stroke, still don't have it right, but I finally am getting the kicking part right, have the arms right, can put them together, its doing the 2 together and doing them the correct way. Does that make sense?! I have no clue what I am doing wrong still, but at least I am trying. I still have the flashbacks of my step-cousin pushing me down and holding me under, but its MENTAL more than anything. (the fear that is) But its a hell of a lot more than I was doing 3 years ago, or 2 years ago, whenever it was. LOL


But there's another part to that whole thing also, but I am not going there. I was talking to some one I went to middle and high school with and she was telling me that some one we went to HS with died of cancer. I was shocked to hear that! We were talking about a group in Columbus performing "Rent" and mentioned one of the songs and that it was played at his funeral. (I'll Cover You Reprise) It was sad to hear that, and knowing now who he married, I knew the last name and such, but she said they got married 4 months before he passed away. So sad.


Well thats it. :) Saturday Gaia comes....how many more days till Saturday....2????

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

I am ready to see the sun!!!!


For you Marci---Caroline dressed up for the 4th. :)

It is 6:15am on Tuesday morning, I can't fall back to sleep. =( I did this one day last week and fell back to sleep eventually, but ugh my back is itching like crazy at the moment and driving me up a wall. =(

So the question of the day is will there be more than an hour of the sun shining today? Not that I am complaining about having some rain, but I HATED the last 2 days of not really seeing a bit of sun!


So this weekend, Gaia is coming for her yearly visit with my parents. =o) She's going to be doing a Tennis camp when she's here from 12:30-4:00 Monday-Thursday, with Friday being a make-up day if it rains. There's a girl that Gaia knows from last summer thats doing the same camp. LOL So it will be nice, if she likes it. The other thing I wanted to do was take her to go paint pottery at Colors N Clay, so that if we do it will be Friday or Saturday. I am YES looking forward to her visiting, but its like a brace yourself situation. She can be as sweet as a daisy, but as mean as a bumble bee. It takes so much out of me when she's here too and this year if she mouths off or something, she'll be sent home.

Ugh the joys of having a 7 year old niece. ;) Well thats it, I am going to try and fall back to sleep.

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Update on Weight-Loss


There's a picture from last night's fireworks!

I have lost 5 pounds basically now! Woohoo! Only 45 more to go to the money and 15 more till I earn that massage! =p hehehe

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Happy 4th of July!


Happy 4th of July! That's a picture from last year of the fireworks. :)

So other than going to watch fireworks and swimming, nothing going on here. My parents went to the beach for the day, which I swear is stupid! :rolls eyes:

I realized something though yesterday. A little kid was in the 4ft area of the pool, he was there with a group of people that consisted of his parents and cousins and such. Our pool you can easily go from having your head above the water to not. And for a kid, that scares them to death. Well I was in the shallow end, but not near where this little boy was, but I came up and the thing I saw was the lifeguard jumping down off the stand and into the water. As I turned to see what was going on, this little boy was flailing his arms and my heart just jumped to my throat. It scared me to think it takes a split second and a kid can be under water. It made me think about Gaia's upcoming visit, and I know she can swim, but it could've easily been her. It could be her one day and that little event made me think how quickly a kid could drown.

I've been in that little boys situation before. I have heard the story so many times, but I jumped in the deep end when I was 3 and couldn't come up. But just like this little boy's mom did, my parents made sure I got back in and wasn't scared. Usually an event like that will scar a kid, but its one thing you have to do in that situation.

So a week from now, Gaia will be here visiting. Scary to think, huh?! ;) I am looking forward to it, but hoping the weather doesn't interfere and we are stuck inside the entire time. ;) hahaha


Stay safe tonight. Later!

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

The never ending HEAT!!!!!!!!!


Well here's a picture of flowers that have probably now died thanks to the dang heat!!! =p

Ok so where have I been lately?! Apparently I can't update this blog anymore. LOL I am getting really bad about doing it.

So the past what few days I have been swimming and going through crap and throwing out stuff, deep cleaning my room...etc! Nothing too exciting, right?! LOL

So fastforward to today....Kate called me this morning before 12:00 and asked what I was up to and if I wanted to go hang out at the pool. I was like yeah sure, I have to SLOP on the sunblock and such before I come and such. Took me about 30 minutes to get out the door. LOL I wound up getting down there at 12:30 and saw Kate's car in the parking-lot, but couldn't find her when I first walked in. I finally did after being asked why I was up there that early and its like why the heck does it matter?! :smacks head:


So Kate and I hung out, talked, swam and such. I swam probably a total of an hour and 15 minutes....maybe just an hour. I hate being out in that sun at that early hour. So I really wanted to go see Peanut (Kate's new kitty) and they were having Chinese for lunch and that sounded really good. LOL So I went over to see the kitty, and she's as cute as ever. :) I was going to stay, but I really wanted to go home and rest.


So on my way home, I got a phone call from my mom asking me where I was. I was like I am almost to the front gate, why? Thinking she was going to have me pick up the mail or whatever. No she called to tell me my aunt that lives here has her two grandsons and they asked if I was going to be up at the pool. So Cole's lesson got done at 2:30 and it was already about 2:30 when I was passing by the pool. No point in me going home.


So I grabbed my stuff and towel and started walking in and looked down and saw I forgot the keys to the golf cart, so I had to walk back to get them! I would loose my head if it wasn't attached, I swear. So again I walked in, I am sure the lifeguards were sick of me coming and going by that point! ;)


So Cole and Chandler jumped in the pool and my gosh have these two ever grown. :o) I can't believe Chandler is 13 now, I still remember when he was a baby! Cole didn't like the pool on this side because of not being able to touch in many places. :( It was funny, Chandler and I were over on the diving-board and Morgan was on the stand giving us suggestions on what to do. Chandler asked me what he should do and Morgan said something, I suggested something too. I was like who are you going to listen to your flesh and blood or the lifeguard?! LOL That got Morgan, I was like he's my cousin. LOL She told him not to listen to me and its like Chandler don't worry I know her, LOL.


So finally at 5:00 I left for home for the final time, with no turning back. ;) LOL I am tired from swimming on and off all day. It was great seeing my cousins and aunt down there. =) I found out Corey and Jade are naming their girl Cailyn Jade and going to call her Caylie for a nickname. Jade is due the 11th and then Tiffany and Tommy's girl will be named Kathleen Paige and going to call her Kate, and she's due Aug 14th. Two granddaughters for my aunt and uncle who have all boys! Woohoo!


I am off here. My poor foot is still SORE from cutting it on the diving board on Monday. =o( Ugh! Night!