Happy Memorial Day!

Well there's Gaia in the pool last summer, but guess what its already that time of the year! Time for the pool to be open! :o)

So today we remember those who gave their lives for our freedom. I am remembering my grandma's cousin who died in Pearl Harbor, my grandpa who fought in World War 2 and Korea who has since passed away.

So yes the pool opened and I swear its a different world up there now. NOT KIDDING! Saturday I went up there and walked in and was looking for the sign-in paper and it wasn't there. So waited for some one to come over and give me the thing to sign in on or whatever. Well they now take your membership card and hold onto it until you leave. I am just like, ok what the heck ever! So yeah now thats routine to walk in hand them the card and go your merry way.

So Saturday I spent a good amount of time down there and basically I asked the manager that was up there if we could do whatever we wanted on the diving board and he said yes go ahead. Ok, well I did a flip and back dive before the shift change happen and then I did a back dive and the lifeguard was like nothing backwards. Ok, I can deal with that. So I did the flip and then she was like no flips either. Ok what the heck?! So the main manager was up there and so I asked her about it. I got it all explained by her.

So in the past 3 days I have done 3 flips and 2 back dives, but the manager said I could and it was ok with whoever was watching the water. I don't think I will be comfortable with doing it when I am there alone without the main manager being there, because she's the one that told me I could do them as long as like no one else was there, basically. I may've gotten that totally wrong, but I won't do them unless one of the three lifeguards that were there to hear that are there or she's there to OK it.

So today I literally spent 2 1/2 hours swimming in the pool not stopping! LOL The water was as cold as ever and it took me 30 minutes to get use to it basically! LOL One of the lifeguards that worked last year was there and I knew the other one also. :) So it was nice knowing them at least. LOL Even before I left, I was the last one in the pool and totally expecting her to get down off the stand and I went under and came back up and looked up and she was still there. I was like do you have to stay up there just me being in the water? Well thats changed since last year too! They don't get a break, apparently!

I feel for the ones who have worked there in the past years going up for their first shift this week.

So thats it. I have Pilates 4:30-5:15 tomorrow, so if I go swim, it will be toward 5:30 before I even go, or may go before and leave from there. Dunno, depends on the weather also! ;)

13 tomatoes and what is the point of the diving board???!!!

4 of the 13 tomatoes that are growing on the plants already! Woohoo!

Ok in part to asking Natalie if she is working this summer....she brought this to my attention. They have changed the diving board rules! WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT OF THE DIVING BOARD IF YOU CANNOT DIVE?! Seriously some one tell me that! I understand the no flips, yeah, but come on diving?! ITS A DIVING BOARD!!!!!!! Ugh! :smacks head: No one at our pool has ever, to my knowledge, gotten seriously hurt doing dives or flips unless you call smacking your body the wrong way from messing up! And we can't use the other pool unless we pay $5 a visit!!!! NICE! Natalie said they keep changing the pool hours and rules, so we shall see. Its stated being open 9a-8p Mon-Sun the entire summer, so I guess we will find out this weekend?!

That is my RANT of the night! Ugh how annoying!

I am happy to say I was a gymnast!

THERE ARE THE CHAMPIONS OF THE SEASON 8 OF DANCING WITH THE STARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am so proud at the moment to say I was once a gymnast. I did dance for maybe a year of my life, 2 at the most, but my love was in gymnastics.

At the 2008 Olympics Shawn flipped her way into the medal stands in Beijing including a gold medal on the balance beam and a silver in the all-around. She took her talents to the dance floor becoming the youngest competitor on the show.

Partnered with Mark Ballas, who won his first time with another Olympic Champion in my OTHER favorite sport, Kristi Yamaguchi, I knew from the start Shawn would make it to the finals and the top 2. When I saw her name on the list I told my dad that she was going to win it! I just knew! I knew it with Kristi! LOL

The past 11 weeks watching her make it to the next round time after time, the past 2 nights were the longest and the not knowing. When it came to eliminate one of the final 3, I kept saying over and over anyone but Shawn....and jumped up and down when she was in the final 2! I ran upstairs and told my parents TOLD YA SO! LOL Even though they were still saying Gillio was going to win it. Hah!

I was thrilled to DEATH when Shawn and Mark were called as the champions and I knew she was going to do it! Less than 1% was the difference between her and Gillio! All I can say is wow there, but when I heard that, I knew Shawn was the winner. Something told me right then and there. ;)

Congrats Shawn and Mark!

Happy Birthday Colin, Julie and Marci!

The flowers in bloom on a plant I planted last year. :)

HAPPY 25th JULIE AND MARCI! HAPPY 3rd BIRTHDAY COLIN!

Monday seems to come and go by so fast anymore! It seems like it was Saturday yesterday. LOL

So over the weekend basically was blah. I went to Greensboro with my parents on Saturday and Sunday they went to the beach and I stayed here. Kate and I went to wal-mart together and went to dinner and came home. She's letting me borrow her Grey's Anatomy DVD's to get caught up. I watched all of season 5 this year and watched season 1 over the weekend and bought 2 on Saturday and she has all of them and so she gave me 3 and 4 to watch. :) Yes I am hooked and I am PISSED about the ending of this season! Ugh!

So I had ball today. I was saying to myself I'd better not be the only one there and its just like Helen had better be there! LOL Well lucky me, Helen came. :) So we were talking about the summer schedule and I am like I don't know right now. The only thing I know is my mom's friend being interested in doing the reformer class is all and June will be the time it will happen. Its like I don't think I will be coming this summer. I some how got talked into coming to dance tomorrow night. Its like I got two of the saddest puppy faces I've ever seen in my life that dragged me in. ;)

As to if I will be sore tomorrow, I don't know at the moment. It wasn't too bad, minus the wall squats. LOL I hate those things!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well thats it. I gotta go brush up on the 4 dances that I have known so I am not clueless at least some part of class tomorrow!

Where has the week gone?!

Another plant we planted. :)

I cannot believe tomorrow is Thursday! Where has the week gone?! It was just Monday, I swear. I dunno where the time has gone this week.

So Monday was ball class. All by lonesome self, minus the instructor. LOL Not my first time, most likely won't be the last time. LOL Well anyways when I got there, the door was locked. Oh goody! So I looked at the sign and saw they would be back at 4. Ok, well it was 10 till or so. I stood there with this huge green ball and waited. I about sat down when some one let me in. hehehe

Of course being by yourself could either mean you will have an easy time with it or a HARD time with it. :) Well I think age has something to do with it, cause she didn't go easy on me! LOL It wasn't that bad, and didn't have too hard of a time with things. I had giggle fits mostly! LOL I laughed myself right off the ball, LOL! Well thats cause I couldn't get my footing down for some odd reason! LOL Oy!

So my mom's friend is wanting to try the Pilates Reformer class when/if she comes in June. So I did ask about that if she could try it and we could take a class together. For me it would be reviewing and for my mom's friend it will be learning all the basics and such. I said I wouldn't mind retaking the intro class, but she said she could work with me and her both on different things. But heck I wouldn't mind redoing the intro.

So Tuesday was just working-out on my own. Today was Pilates. It was weird going back to the mat exercises especially after doing 2 weeks basically of the reformer. ;) So we did this thing of series of 5, which surprisingly the 3 I didn't know were easy to learn. But she first said we were going to over them and I was like wait a minute when did we do the other 3? Its like did I miss a class there?! Hahaha Thats me for ya! So we went over that and some of the primer moves also. :) I tell you what though. This class has become more involved than it was at the beginning! LOL Now its more of a work-out, than just a class. Get what I mean?

So thats it! This weekend my mom and I are going to Gastonia for a day. Woohoo! :) Can't wait to see my grandparents and KoKo! He's 11 months old now! Where has the time gone?! =O

Happy Mother's Day!

Look! The tomato plant has flowers on it! In total on the 4 plants there are 10! Woohoo! Our pepper plant has 2 flower blooms on it. Not too much longer!

One thing first....Anna is in town for the summer and showed me our tickets to see Rent in August. Woohoo! I have no clue where the seats are located other than they are 5 rows back and in the center section. So if they are dead center in the center or the left or right, I will find out in August! Yahoo! Except the 4th ticket she got was for a friend of mine and I told her who it was for and its a friend she can't stand and hates and at the moment she's not giving her the ticket. So I am STUCK with paying for my ticket and also this other ticket, unless she changes her mind! Ugh! My Luck! At least its only $40 and not $70 like they were in NC.

I'm so glad its May and we're less than 3 weeks away till pool season! :) hehehehe That last week of May is going to be hectic. I am finishing the classes till the fall, have my massage on that Thursday and that Friday we are going to Ohio for Gaia's gymnastics thing. Busy month! LOL

So the weather was a bit more nice this weekend. Except tomorrow its suppose to be in the 60's. What in the world is going on there, I dunno! LOL It was suppose to rain yesterday, but it didn't. Gee for the first time in what a week?! LOL

So thats it. This weekend was great. :)

Its finally Thursday!!!!!!!

Caroline and Crystal again....did I post this one already?

So guess what? I am not all that sore from yesterday. I am in places, but its not terrible soreness like I can get after some classes. My hips are a bit sore and my one ankle, but thats it. :o) That one ankle is the one that I stepped up on the machine with too when it slid across, so that could explain that pain.

Ok like I said at the end of the post I called there last night and forgot my cell #. I was hoping they didn't get the message, seriously. LOL Well, nope I got a phone call back this afternoon. LOL ;) I got my ?'s answered! LOL One was setting up my next massage on the 28th! hehehe Well I think its going to be the 28th, I forgot we are going to Ohio that weekend. I think we're leaving on the 29th, but now I gotta double check the dates. LOL I go back on Monday, so I will confirm that its an ok date then. ;) Hah! No I'm not addicted to them. I don't want to waste my $$ on something stupid, and I already had this sort of planned back 2 weeks ago. ;) The other part is going toward classes for May. The week of Memorial Day will be the last week of classes and till the fall/winter. ;) Just depends. Summer time is too busy to go there and such. Plus I think everyone is taking the summer off that have been doing these classes lately.

So yes my parents come home today and I got the house cleaned up a bit and bathed the dog and now relaxing for a bit. LOL Its hot out there today, we need a thunderstorm this afternoon to cool it off for a bit. ;) hahaha

So thats it for now. =o) Can't wait for Gaia's gymnastics performance at the end of May! Woohoo!

No storms today.... =o)

That was a cloud when the tornado warning came up yesterday. It was just thundering and lightning and was dark. But that cloud looked really interesting!

So yesterday we had warnings, but nothing came out of it at all. We had thunder and lightning for the most part and some rain. And yesterday morning my wake-up call was thunderstorms. What am I talking about?! ITS BEEN THAT WAY THE PAST 5 MORNING'S!

Ok yesterday was Dance for the first time in a month. LOL Helen was kind enough to pick me up and we headed to class. Well get this we had a train that decided to go forward and backwards for like 10 minutes before finally going in one direction! So after arriving 5 minutes late and a phone call about us going to be late thanks to the train, we arrived for class! LOL So we went over the 4 dances we learned in Feb and March and did those as a warm-up. Oh my gosh! It was the first time I was able to do all 4 without stopping and I was trying not to! Oh but it was an achievement to get through the last one. I was happy but worn out after it! LOL So we did learn new dances, one called Zumba (you tube it) and belly dancing. My mom's friend has tried to get me to try Zumba and its different but I liked it! =o) It was hard to catch on, but caught on after awhile. ;)

So today we were suppose to have Linus, but that was cancelled. So Kate and I just hung out and shopped a little bit. I had to be home before 3:40 to let my dog out and such. So I got home about 3:00 and took care of the dog, got changed and went to take Sadie out and she saw me take the keys to the golf cart and wanted to go for a ride, but as we pulled out Sharon pulled up and I was like wait a minute its not 20 till yet? LOL

So today was the reformer class! Yay, right?! You have to admit it wouldn't be a ME post if something drastic didn't happen, right? LOL

Well we got there and I was beginning to wonder if the class was at 4 or 4:30. I swore it was 4:00, but we got there at 4 either way. LOL So there were 3 of us, and we basically did more rather than watch and listen. Alot of it was from last week. But we did more of each set of things and thats where it was complicated for me. LOL I don't multi-task that great, and its shows sometimes! But I was able to connect everything pretty well. I had problems that had to be fixed, it was NOT perfect! LOL But I enjoyed this very much.

So where's the catch about this being a typical Cortney?! Hah! I am getting there! LOL I first at one point couldn't sit back up and I was kind of trapped between where your head goes and your these things for your shoulders. LOL It was just like great, HELP! LOL The other thing was these things you use for your arms, I had my hands in them and ready to go, and Ellen said something about my hair getting caught again and that made me drop the straps and get my hair out from the machine. LOL So the FUNNY part of all was we were doing a version of "Downward Facing Dog" from Yoga, except on the machine. Well she was showing us and said ok lets try it. Well she was demonstrating on the other side of the room and I didn't see her adjust the machine. Well I went to get up with the way it was, well lol I put one foot on it and tried to get up and wham there went the thing you were laying on. I am thankful I was holding onto the bar and also for some balance! LOL Or I would've flown forward onto the other side. It scared me, I tell you that much!

So I know I will be sore tomorrow, I already am sore. Oh yeah, I called them after I got home because of a couple of ?'s, left a message and I started to state my phone # and forgot my cell #! LOL I really hope I don't get a call back from them tomorrow! LOL

Night!

I am so sick of storms!!!!!!!

Sadie slept like this a part of the night last night. LOL She was hiding under the blankets at one point.

I am SERIOUSLY sick of storms!!!!!!! Everyday we have had some sort of storm since my parents have been in Florida! I am sick of the dog and cats waking me up in the morning anyways to let them out at 7:00. Well this morning it was the cats meowing and the dog clomping down the steps when it started thundering at 6:30 this morning! So Sadie whined to get up in bed with me and so I put her in bed with me after quickly letting her out to run and pee. I stayed up till about 7:30 and started to fall asleep again and it THUNDERED once more! Ugh! I slept through that storm, but the dog and cats were making noise about it. LOL

Anyone know what to do with a stray kitten? Two days ago there was a little orange kitten out in the yard and I try to go grab it and he/she ran off and I haven't seen it since. =( My friend suggested that I not feed it because the mom could be around and might abandon it. I talked to the neighbor about it also, they said haven't seen one and its not their's. She said if I saw it and got it to bring over there cause her husband is president of the ASPCA in our county and would take it if we didn't want it. I just hope nothing happened to him with the weather being so bad. =o(

So yesterday Kate and I spent the day basically together and I had dinner at her house before she went to work. =o) I love going to her house. I love her parents. Tonight I have dance at 5:00 for the first time since March! LOL Woohoo! =o) Hopefully it won't be storming while I am there. hahaha And yes, back to having 4 left feet I go!

Later!

Day 1: Stormy End...

Sadie going when are mom and dad coming home???

Well day 1 of being on my own started with a wake-up call this morning at 7:15. My mother texted me to tell me they were boarding the airplane and its like I didn't want to be WOKE UP this morning. Apparently she didn't hear me last night.

So went upstairs and fed Sadie and came back down. I tried to go back to sleep, but it didn't work at all. So I laid in bed and watched Nick. LOL It was Sponge Bob and Fairly Odd Parents. LOL =p

So this was a long day. To top that off, Sadie didn't want to go outside or go for a walk. So I tricked her and said my mom was outside somewhere and it got her to go finally! LOL We went over and saw Ollie and Willie. Ollie drove Sadie crazy, what else is new there! She's getting so big. =)

Mom and Dad spent their day at Epcot. Ugh! Its like rub it in and make me mad, ya know? They went on a ride that made them both sick. I about fell over laughing. My dad use to be able to ride Space Mountain without any problems and he couldn't do a simple simulation ride! LOL Thats not good, because he has to take Gaia on her first Space Mountain ride like he did my brother and I.

So tonight we got rain and storms. I mean they were pretty bad storms, but the funny part was looking out in the backyard the sun was setting and it was dark clouds all around, but looking through the trees the red of the sun made it look like devil eyes. I tried to snap a picture of it, but they didn't turn out as well as I thought they would.

So thats it. I talked to Amanda tonight, her and her crew made it to her grandparents house in Texas. =o) Next stop will be North Carolina for them, yay!!!!!

Let the 6 days of boredom/fun begin! ;)

Its 11:00 at night almost and I put Caroline and Crystal like that on top of the decoration pillows and it was funny to look over there and saw how cute it was.

So this was a long day. First I got a phone call from Helen saying she wouldn't be able to go to class on Monday and she was sorry about forgetting about a prior engagement. I said it was fine, not to worry about it. If I could get another ride, I would go. But I couldn't get a definite answer from anyone about Monday and so I was just like go ahead and tell them I won't be there also.

So a little bit later I got another phone call from the massage place and it was the instructor calling to confirm I wouldn't be there and I said I wasn't. I mean in my mind she could possibly go home early if possible and the more I thought about it, the more its like its dumb to have the class when I can't 100% say I will be there at that moment in time. That's how I am. So being the goofball I was, I had mentioned to Helen that maybe we could see about doing it on Friday if we both could be there. JOKINGLY! LOL But she said she would mention it with her message and when I was called I brought it up and we'll know something this coming week. Its just a crazy idea, if you ask me, but if it happens it does, if not, I will have an extra class to use at some point.

So minus all of that today, my parents are leaving for Orlando tomorrow. What SUCKS is that I still can't drive, won't find out if I can till the end of May (actually the day after Memorial Day...the 26th???) So being home alone this time will majorly suck because of being stuck in the house. Wednesday I know at the moment I will have Pilates at 4:00 and hopefully Linus also from 10-3, thats a wait and see. Kate said she plans to go, but its a wait and see. So minus dying of heat this week, lol I love that the summer weather is sneaking up already, I will be taking care of the dog and not much else. LOL I wish I was going to be in Florida, my mom's work is having a thing at Universal Escape where they are going to be at the park after hours. I would love to be there! LOL Oh well, I'll be earning $15 a day while they are gone, and at the moment I need that money. ;)

So thats it. ;)