Every Art Historian's Dream...

This Sunday, March 2nd I will be going to the PMA with my mom to see a show of Frida Kahlo's work. Sigh.... I have loved her work and have NEVER seen any of it in real life. This will really string at my heart.

CLAP YOUR FEET!

Yeah!! Just got tickets to see Tilly and The Wall in Philly in mid March with a new galpal Emily Rae who is J.'s and I friend Pawel's girl friend.

Hopefully I won't be a dork this time like I was when I met Jamie (the tap dancer). I purchased a sticker from her which I thought was a cool book mark. I told her I was a librarian and she tried to be kind about my mistake and didn't know what to say except "Oh, I guess you like books then. Thanks for coming, bye now!" Haaa..

YEAAHH!! TILLY & THE WALL!!:)

I wish I could be a California Girlllll!

Came back from my AWESOME trip to L.A. earlier this week. I will give a day by day run w/ photos in a few days. Including going to DisneyLand, San Diego, and the Getty Museum.

The only negative thing I learned on this trip is to NEVER EVER USE CHEAPTICKETS.COM EVER AGAIN!!! It should be EVIL Tickets.com.

Anyways... here is a photo of me with Orka Veer (http://www.myspace.com/orkaveer) AKA Mike whom was so kind to lend his bed to Emily and I while we crashed at Dave and his old place. I am trying out In N Out Burger for the first time in this photo - it was YUCKY!:P. But my photo buddy wasn't! Haaaaa. (U R HOT! Haaaa).

Today is my 27th Annivesary

You may be scratching your head by now and asking 27th anniv?? Do the caculation of my age (gulp, I will be 29 in March) and that comes to apx when I was 22 months old...

Today is 27 years since my open-heart surgery.

A great movie, which one an academy award, to learn more about blue babies is Something the Lord Made.

I went maternity cloth shopping...

So this afternoon after I challenged a pregnant woman to a game of "who can eat the most of all-you-can-eat-soup-and-salad at Olive Garden" (she won!) I headed to Macy*s with Melanie my 4 month old preg galpal. Her, her size D boobs, turkey and I went to go try to find her cute tops.

Who knew shopping with a preg girl could be so fun! Of course I totally love the clothes because they all are bigger in the tummy - would look great on me since it would hide my pouch!:) I was so determined for my girlfriend to get all the right clothes that I ended up stripping the pregnant mannequin in order for her to get the killer outfit it had on. The mannequin, when we left, was only wearing a white tubetop thing. I believe its something a woman wears around her belly to keep it in place?? It was fashion forward showing how preg women can totally wear see-through tubetops and matching mini skirts.

Who knew a non-maternal woman could love baby bum shopping so much?!

:0)

In one month I won't be in NJ....

I will be in L.A. with Miss Em visiting Disney Land, Hollywood and more...

Plans are to drive down to San Diego to spend a day with Diane S. whom I haven't seen in 4 years!

So the question I have is...

1. Any suggestions of things to do/see (ecspecially ones that don't cost anything!)

2. Suggestions of rental car companies! Any you recommend or don't.!:)

Thanks xoxoxox

Katie Holmes and a 500lbs man

So what does Katie Holmes and a 500lb man have to do with a personal goal of mine?

Simple...

I had read an article late last year about a 500lb man who was on his way to a better health and he had stated that his goal was to walk 5 miles per day for the rest of his life. I thought to myself, geez.. I am a lot healthier than this guy and can totally do that after some working out. Sometimes it takes someone off worse than you rather than better than you to really push yourself to think.

Then in November Katie Holmes splashed over the news by her running the 26+ mile NYC Marathon. It sparked something inside of me and I thought .... shoot I could do that. Well, not run 26 miles, but push myself towards a similar goal as she did.

For months I discussed this with Jeff and after getting a thumbs up from my doctors for health I decided to do it. I figured I need to a goal to get me off the couch and working on my health. Although it may seem silly to most of you that I should have a goal instead of just making a choice to be healthy and work out... but in order to keep with my choice I feel the need to have a goal that I can't turn my back on to help push me and keep me in line. So unknown to everyone in my life, only my husband, until now.... I signed up for the Long Branch NJ Half-Marathon. I have a little less than 5 months to be able to WALK 13 miles. My goal is to speed walk it and Jeff thinks I can jog it. But I want to keep to a realistic goal and if I am able to go beyond it then great.

Dear Jaimie :
Congratulations, you're officially registered for the Long Branch Half Marathon (LBH-13.1) scheduled for Sunday, May 4, 2008.