Okay Let's Try This Again

Okay so I'm gonna try and be better about this whole blogging thing. Life's been so crazy lately but it's finally starting to calm down a bit.

So....about 5 weeks ago...my very talented self....broke my damn leg! I was walking out to my car and the snow shifted beneath the outside of my right foot and my ankle twisted in pulling part of the bone away from the leg. This is the second time I've done this...same spot...same leg. Well it hurts alot more this time let me tell you what! What really sucks is now I can't exercise very easily. To add insult to injury, about 5 days after the break...my new 5 pack of Richard Simmons DVDs came in!!!

I've been keeping up with my Weight Watchers and I've lost almost 20 pounds now. I'm going down to NYC to get my second fill on May 8th. Hopefully I can keep the stress level down now (don't know anything that could be more stressful then the last 8 months), and the fill will do wonders for me. I'm just so sick of being fat. Not to mention I have to look hot in a maid of honor gown in 7 months.

Only other thing going on right now is the major room renovations. I've finally decided, I'm too damn old, to be so damn messy. I bought 3 bookcases and a new desk (although I exchanged it for Britt's old desk) and have been hard at work on my bedroom. I also brought in the bureau I've had out in the garage for about 3 years and put that together. My bedroom is looking really good, all the furniture is constructed and arranged, now all I'm down to is the nitty gritty stuff, going through all the little crap I have and organizing it.

All I can say is Thank God for my Aunt Lynn!!! Jeeze Louise can that woman clean. I never would have been able to get everything so perfect without her. About a week or so ago she came up and helped me put together the first of the bookcases and the new desk, move stuff around, and start the organizing. I put together the second bookcase and organized some of that, and put together the bureau. Then yesterday she came up and helped Britt and I go through Mom's old room (now the entertainment room), and she helped me get the bureau in here and get my TV all set up.

Man is it ever hard having to go through someone's room when they've passed away. It was an emotional time for all 3 of us. Not only had that been my mother's room, but it was her and my grandmother's room before that, and my grandmother and grandfather's room before that. There was two generations of stuff to go through, all sad, and nostalga inducing. All 3 of had a breakdown at one point or another, I don't remember Brittany's but I started crying when I was holding one of my mother's nightgowns, and my Aunt started when I gave her back a "Wish I Could Be Sick One Day for You" book she had bought my mom....it was such a nice but sad book and so fit the situation my mother was in. I think Brittany's started when we were talking about how Mom won't be there for her wedding...poor girl, November 1st is gonna me such a happy and sad day for her.

As sad as that all was there was also some fun had, good memories shared, old things remembered. My Aunt and us went through alot of Non and Pop's things and Britt and I kept some beautiful things to treasure. Some of the things I kept were one of my nonnie's nightgowns that she so loved, a hankerchief of my grandfather's, some of Pop's cologne, and a picture of Pop with this 20 dollar bill Nonnie and I found after he'd passed away that said "Doris, Love Lyle". All wonderful, memory evoking mementos that I will cherish always.

I still say though that cleaning is the devil's work!! And I will be so glad to get it done. Well I'm gonna go get to bed, it's late as I only have a few more days off work, then I get my cast off and my 5 week vacation is over (I couldn't work because I can't drive...I broke my right leg...you can't have my job if you can't drive because you have to be able to take the kids to the ER if there is an emergency). So goodnight all, and I'll work on keeping this site updated. Can't wait until May 8th.