Vaction Adventures

Rich and I took vacation starting the 25th of October but didn't start our vacation journey till the 26th. We got up around 7am and left around 10:30am and drove down to Key West and got there after a 9-hour drive. When we reached the Keys the sun was setting and so it was nice to drive into the sunset. We were so excited to get there and we had a trailer reserved on base with MWR. We didn't plan to stay there, but they had an opening at the last minute for the next 3 days and so we were booked for Thursday, Friday, Saturday and we left the Keys on Sunday. We had planned this same trip last year but canceled it due to the hurricanes last year. We going down for this huge party called Fantasy Fest.. And let me tell you it was just that for us, a huge fantasy fest. All I can say is what goes on in Key West stays in Key West. We had so much fun walking up and down Duval Street and looking at all the wild dressed costumes or the lack of costumes for that matter. It was such an awesome time. The first day night we checked in to our trailer and then got a taxi ride that was latterly 2 minutes away within walking distance to the main street where we walked until we reached Fogertys were we had dinner and that was awesome. I feel in love with the way they made long island ice tea and so that became my drink of the night. The next few days we just hung out each night on Duval and ventured in to some of the clubs to dace ou booties off and then back to the room for rest, to get and do it all over again the next day. We had breakfast at a few hole in the wall places that were awesome. On Sunday we headed north to Miami to stay for a few days and that was like being in another world. Most people in Miami and not from FL, and speak no English. We stayed in South beach both nights and the first night I was on a mission to take Rich to his Birthday surprise and he was very surprised. We ate dinner at Nobu found inside the Shore Club hotel and we had the most relaxing sit and talk time at the Sky bar located right there in shore club and the feel of the Miami nights are just as you thought it would be, cool, relaxing and electric all at the same time. Let me see if I can recall what we had for dinner. For our drink we had a bottle of white wine from Italy it was #304 ehhehe. We couldn't read the bottle but Rich remembered the #.
For our entree we had Chilian Sea Bass Moromiso-yaki and Rock Shrimp Tempura (Ponzu or Creamy Sauce). We had some complementary shrimp appetizer and for dessert, we had the famous bento box, it's a chocolate soufflé with green tea ice cream. O my god I live for the bento box and wouldn’t be surprised if I try to make trip down to Miami every other month just to have it. We were going to go home but decided to stay one more night and have dinner at the place I’ve always wanted to go to, it’s called The bed. I saw this place many years ago on E TV and it just sounded like a neat concept. This place is set up with many beds all around the room and two beds in the center of the room. We had a bed off in the corner near the bar and it was just perfect for a quiet dinner out. I had a nice size 9oz lobster tail called Lobster Santos hence the name “Santos” its a
Caribbean Lobster, Baked Pineapple, Celery & Tomatoes with Coconut Cashew Ginger Sauce. It was mm mm good. Rich had the Filet Mignon Tenderloin with Herb Roasted Red Baby Bliss Potatoes, Shoestring Zucchini and Squash with Choice of Cabernet or Gorgonzola Sauce 36. We fed each other in bed and we also had a good bottle of red wine and to top it all off for dessert we had Fire and Ice Molten Chocolate Cake topped with Vanilla Rum Ice Cream with Carmel and Chocolate Sauces 12. The Fire and Ice was okay, the bento box defiantly puts it to shame. After we were done eating dinner we stuck around, because the restaurant turns into a nightclub and it was themed Al Capone night for a costume party. I was already dressed up a blond mistress, with my makeup done professionally by this lady down the street in a little spa shop. Rich was dressed in him Kenneth Cole from head to toe and it was looking hot. I tell you they do know how to party in Miami. I danced with a naughty nurse, Ali G, Lil John and Rich ehehhee. It was such a fun place to party. We got sleep and headed off to our hotel room, that was just down the way in what looked like little Spain or a Spanish town are of Miami. Over all we had a good time and those of you closes to us would love to hear all the juicy stories you know we have to many to tell and could never mention them in blogg. Eheheh. Yes life was full of fun and play for our vacation and it was long over due.

Stroke

Yesterday my aunt called to tell me that grandma had suffered a stroke. She is in the hospital now and they really can't pinpoint when it happen, but the day she went into ER she had been complaining that her head hurt and her arm hurt. My mom was the one that was with here and I'm not real sure if they called 911 or if they just took her in. My aunt says that she has had some damage and it's evident in her speech and she is incoherent. They ask her what is the first name and she can say Evelyn but it's delayed. She couldn't give them her last name, but moments later would just blurt out her last name. Some of her speech is all jumbled and making no sense at all. I sure hope she is going to be okay. My grandma just turned 80 this year and I just spoke to her on Wednesday and she was telling me all about her new kitchen. She really is a strong lady and so I hope she pulls through this.

Romantic

I'm telling you all,my hubby has got to be the most romantic man ever. He still continues to surprise me and it never sees to amaze me. The things he does for me are so little but makes me heart smile all day long, now thats some strong potion. It must have been a few weeks ago, he dropped by my job on base and gave me a little sticy note, that read, I was in your neck of the woods and just wanted to say that your my everything, "some thing like that, I actually took a picture of the sticky and still have it on my computer at work. This morning he had a check list by the bathroom sink and it said, Kiss virgi all over her sexy body. I smiled so big as I brushed my teeth. Then as I was walking into work this morning I heard someone say NO, stop , hey stay. it was my love in a distance, just jogging on base for the Navy 231st bday. He walked me to work and I was so turned on I just wanted to jump his sweaty bones that second, He loves me, that man really loves me. I love you Richie boy!

Numbers are haunting me.

I got off work today and decided to go grocery shopping and when it came time to pay the bill it freaked me out that my total was 166.66. I also got payed today at both jobs and it was 333 at one job and 777 at the other job. I'm just freaking out about the numbers and tomorrow is Friday the 13th. Maybe I should play the Lott, this might be a good luck thing and not a bad luck thing. I'm not real sure but I was the top seller that week at Bebe and my sales were 6666. I know this is probably all just silly, but I thought it was a little spooky, nex thing you know I'll gas my car and it will cost 33.33. I'm going to work tomorrow on my day off, but just to bring in some good over time money for our vacation we take in about 2 weeks. I need to get my but to bed, so I can get up at 5:30 and get ready for work, talk to you all later, have a safe Friday the 13th.

ICHNETUCKNEE SPRINGS STATE PARK

Last Friday we had the most serene and relaxing day at Ichnetucknee, where we went tubing down the river. I love that place and words could never describe the serenity that was felt that day. It was like we had the entire river to our selves as we tube down the river for over 1 1/2 hours. Along the river we enjoyed many turtles, birds and lovely wild flowers and it was just a priceless adventure.

Shades of Green

I know it has been such a long time since my last blogg. I forgot to tell you all about our fun weekend trip to Orlando. We stayed at our very own Military hotel called Shades of Green and it's located on the Disney resort grounds and it so special since it's only for military. We went down Saturday afternoon and stayed one night. The hotel is so beautiful and the pools are awesome. The first night there we went to Magic Kingdom and got on Pirates of the Caribbean first and then Peter Pan, Lelo and stitch and Space Mountain. After the park we walked around the Mall of millennia and then back to the hotel. We got up early Sunday morning and Mianna decided to sleep in, while Rich an I took a quick swim in both pools and sat in the Jacuzzi as well. We did go to that what we did after we checked in to the hotel and then we went to the mall to get starbuck and walk around a little bit. We had such an awesome time. Sunday we bought tickets to the water park, Typhoon Lagoon and had fun all day with all the water rides and we even road my favorite ride, over 8 times heheheh. We were just having so much fun it was a good family weekend getaway and we look forward to the next one.

1:02am

I'm up late and my head hurts, plus the entire right hand side of my body has been in pain and feeling funky. I need to get up around 7 and will get no sleep tonight. I need lunesta. ehehhe. O man.

My belt

I watched the VMA awards yesterday (recorded) and noticed that Paris Hilton was wearing my belt from my store Bebe! Okay the award was awsome with that new Sexy back song by Justin and all the performances were good. I'm off to a party with Rich, talk to you all later.

Relaxation

I'm home from work and off from the second job. I work for the the federal gov. At my first job and today was such and eye opening funny day. SOME one at work was dump I mean dumb enough to view porn on a government computer and it put some spyware on our system and messed up the system pretty bad and actually put and icon on one of our PC. hehhe. I thought the entire thing was stupid with a capital S! You all know I'm a perv, but never would watch porn on a gove PC or any PC at that. ehhehe. Love it........ It's the drama of the day. I'm at home now relaxing with my baby girl and watching my sweet 16 on MTV. Lord, I'll have to have a huge party for her 16th Bday.

Old and New

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Continuation

Continuation................
Sorry, I have been working like a mad woman ever since I got back from LA and today is such a rare moment for me, I only had to work at my regular job and so I'm home uploading my pictures from LA. I didn't take very many, but I'll post a few on flickr. So after we left the airport and headed back to Erins house to pick up her boyfriend Westin and then we went to eat at this cute Mexican returned. We had plans for the evening and headed back to the house to get ready for our night out. I wasn't sure where we were heading but after we got downtown Hollywood I recongnised the club was one that I had been too many years ago with Myke and Mary and now it was a not a rave but just a regular club. As we walked across the street to the club, we were crossing the street with Lloyd from Entourage. If you have no idea that is, it's one of my favorite shoes on HBO and Lloyd plays the secretary to Arie. Erin had recongnised him and asked if we could take a picture and so we stopped at that corner of the street while Westin took a picture of us. Lloyd was heading to the same club. We had so much fun , we watched DJ AM, that's the guy that use to date Nicole Richie off and on and he performed while the Parker dude, with all the tattoos played the drums and Too short rapped. It was such an awesome perforce and we stayed to watch the entire thing. After that we left to another club down the street and danced to 80 and 90's music, also some 60 and 70's. I was surprise I had so much energy since it was late, but really late for me since I was on east coast time and just couldn't believe how long my day was feeling. By the time we got home it was close to 3am and felt more like 6am for me and so I really didn't get to sleep at all. I was so jet lag, that I just lain in bed and stayed awake. The next day we had lots of running around to do and get things ready for the party the next day. We ate at this really good Cuban place and that was my first time to have Cuban sandwich and I really liked it. Later that day we just cleaned up at Erins parents house and got stuff ready or the party. I can't remember what else we did, but I think we ate out at another restaurant for dinner and it this was like an Irish place. After all that we just went home to rest up for the big day. We got up early Sat. Morning and we shopping at this ware house down town LA not far from China town and it was all vintage dresses. While we were shopping Erin pointed out to me that Michelle Williams from Brokeback Mountain was also in there shopping among us. She looks really tiny in person and her face is flawless. I can't believe she had a baby. I was really excited shopping in this huge warehouse with a famous star and everyone was getting undress right in front of one another since they had no dressing rooms. We had blast and Erin found a vintage 50's style bathing suit to wear for her pool party. I found a few dresses that were really brightly colored and cute. After all that the party was a success and I think everyone had a fun time. The taco guy she hired to cater was a THE BEST tacos and almost as good as my tacos ehehhe. I didn't want to get up the next mornig but I did and caught my flight to Arizona and had a 2 hours delay and was able to see Ron and Davina. I was so happy to see then since we haven't see one another in over 2 years. This was a rush story of what I did in LA, but I did mention all the fun parts.

Seeing Stars

I'm back from my short trip to Hollywood, but I've done and seen more than could possibly imagine in such a short time. My birthday was on Wednesday and Rich and Mianna got me new coach bag, that I just love. I know I'm such a coach bag lady. We celebrated my birthday by shopping by day with Mianna at the outlet malls and then we all ate dinner at my favorite stop, Outback Crab Shack. When we had got home from dinner, Erin called to tell me she was going to get my butt butt on plane pronto and fly me out to LA., So she had a private Jet by the name of Southwest. ehhehe. I love you Erin. She is the bessssteesss buddy ever. I flew to LA in a mater of 12 hours of talking to her and was on my way to LAX. From the time I stepped off the plane, I was trying to keep my eyes peeled for stars, but then as I sat on a bench to wait for Erin, guess who walked in front of me and stood for a second. That dark curly haired, dark skinned guy from Lost. It gets Better and I have more stories, but I'm too sleepy to type it all so this will be continued ..................

LA bound

Thanks to my buddy in LA, I'm now at the airport in Nashville and on my way to LA for the weekend. I took 5 days off from work to just relax and have fun. I didn't plan this trip to LA till the very last minute and Erin was a big help in getting me the flight to LA with her flight points she has earned from being a frequent flyer. Thank you Erin! and I love you. I'm in TN for about 50 more minutes and got an itch to get on the net and blogg a little bit. I can now picture all the things that Mianna went through just a few weeks ago, when she was in this same airport. I see a your traveler just like her and she is sitting on the floor by the boarding letter so that she gets a good seat and that is exactly what Mianna told me she did. I'm not sure what Miss Erin had in store for us this weekend,but I do know it will include lot of FUN!!!! I always mange to have too much fun with her and I plan to take plenty of picture to post of Flikr. Well fellow blogger, I'm off to surf the web and get settled in before we boart the flight. Peace! Ill update you all on my Bday in the next blogg. I did have a good day!

Fractured pinky toe

It had been such a long time since my last confession, HAHA, that's how I like to look at my blog, a short confession of my everyday happenings. Sorry to all my dedicated fans that loves to read this crap. ehehhe. I have been so buy out of my mind that it's really hard to keep up with my blogg. I work so hard at 2 jobs and hardly find time to sit at my favorite spot in the house. I'm happy to report that my baby girl is finally home. I picked her up from the airport yesterday and the story is quite funny. I went into work at CRC to do some overtime as if I don't work enough already, and I got off at 1. I knew that her flight would land around 3 and so I figured I'd go hang with Rich at the company picnic, but Mianna called and said, mom I'm here. I was like "what? Your here already" I told her I was on my to the airport. I called Rich to cancel meeting up with him and began my trip to the airport. I was thinking, boy that plane must have caught some major tail wind and hauled ass to jaxs with 2 hours to spare. DAM. As I was driving along the 295 north I got a call from Mianna again, this time sure she was already at the baggage claim, but what happen, was the plane stopped in TN and she got off, O LORD, her flight was scheduled to come straight to Jax and it said 1 stop only and it didn't mention anything about TN. Mianna called to say she was at the wrong airport, but with some help from the flight crew and an old lady that also got off on accident, they ran to get back on the flight. ehhehe. I was 1/2 way to the air by this time and was not going to waist gas and time to drive back down to the picnic so I just hung out at the airport and played bejeweled on my cell phone. So you’re wondering about the title of this blogg????? Well the day before all of this drama, I was on my way to work, wearing my cute open toe, really small, almost non existent heal shoes, that I just bought for 9 bucks at Ross. Well anyways, as I was driving I came to a stop and my left foot was resting on the rubber rest plate at the left side of the car, and my foot slipped off and banged into the rest plate really hard. O my god, the light was green and I could hardly press on the gas pedal to take off because the pain to so great. I did manage to make it to work, but I was in so much pain. I worked for 5 hours with a throbbing toe and then my boss let me go home early. I decided to go to the ER and have it checked out. They were really quick with the x-rays and sure enough my little pinky toe on my left foot is broke. It’s not bad broke, but just fractured. I left the ER with my toe wrapped up since there is nothing they can do about it and went to my second job. I worked at BEBE for about 2 hours with the funny looking toe and then they let me go home.
Mianna is still asleep since she is on west coast time and so I suspect she will be having jet lag for about a week. Just in time to get back on schedule before school starts back. I'm going to clean house a little and then maybe take Mianna to Kohl's to look at some stuff and then go to Dads friends house for this retirement party. It's to nuts with everyone around us retiring and we are almost there with 2 1/2 years left. Man time sure is flying by. We still don't know what we want to do or where we want to settle down. I love FL and do not want to sale my home. But by Sep, we should start looking for orders.

It's Friday!!!

O the joy of being off. I got up early this morning and the first thing on my mind, was to call work and see if they needed my help, but then I came to my senses and said. HELLO take a break. I'm actually off from BOTH jobs today and here I am trying make my self go to work!!!!! Silly girl, so here I am, enjoying the day and being lazy and, also catching up on some house work and getting things in order around here. I cleaned off the nook table because it became and catch all mail pile instead of a table and I shredded old mail. I vacuumed the entire kitchen and living area and now my feet are happy! The birds always have a mess around their cage and table so I cleaned that up and here we are only 4 hours later and its a mess again. They are so playfull today that they are just making feather fly in the air, you would think they had some type of bird nip thats making them act all crazy. I should put on my paint clothes and go to town in the spare bedroom, but I'm just not in a painting mood. I want the house to be spotless for when Richie gets home and that will make him smile. He always cleans up for me so I come home to a nice home, but it's rare for me to do it, since I'm usually working 50 to 60 hours a week with the full and part time job. The money is not even close to what I thought it would be but it helps out with the extras. The discount from shopping at my favorite store is nice as well. I try not to shop as much and so I buys stuff on sale. I only bough a hat this past week and it was like 20 bucks. It's like so Jlo about 4 years ago, but I love it. I have to make sure I keep the sun off my face so I can age with grace. eheheh. I feel Mianna will be dropping some major $$$ for school supplies when she gets back from SD and so I'm saving up for that. I think I might send her to AZ in a few weeks and let her spend some time there. She wants to come home early and spend some time with us, but I have to put in for some days off from the jobs. Duke is the only one that is so alone without her, we miss her so much, but he is really hurting from her being gone. He actually mopes around with sad eyes looking like he wants him mommy. I let him listen to her on the cell phone today and he kept looking around in circles, trying to see her in the phone, it was so funny.

1999 Meridian

The other night ( 6-17-06) Rich opened up a bottle of 1999 Meridian Cab that we had on the wine rack, and O MY GOD it was the BEST I have had, since the 1999 Rutherford we had with Kim back in Lemoore. the wine was what 7 years OLD. o man it was so good. I did a little research and the wine got press in all these papers. 1999 Cabernet Sauvignon, California
Dallas Morning News GOLD
San Francisco Chronicle Silver
New World International Silver
Tasters Guild Silver
West Coast Wine Comp Bronze
Pacific Rim International Bronze
L.A. County Fair Bronze

Nothings

I have spent the past few days, off from the second job and with nothing to do on my day off on Friday and Saturday. Mianna is in SD and it feels like I've lost my purse and this emptiness that is so hard to fill. I was so so board out of my mind and depressed the day she left that all I did was sleep. I couldn't even get happy windows shopping on the Mac .LOL. I still feel the same today and it's Fathers Day. My hubby is out BBQing and then we will be going over to some friends house for a gathering. I've been so depressed the past few days, I thinks it's because Mianna is gone and I'm not finding things to fulfill the void. I have been on-call at BEBE so much more than I actually work and that kind of stinks. I think I'll charge my camera battery and take plenty of pictures today. The weather outside is overcast and gray so that is how I feel today. I think we need to take a vacation and go some place fun.

ER room this morning

I got up this morning and started to get ready for work as usual when I found Rich in pain. He said he came home from work late last night and just started to have chest pains and then they started to get worst. He stayed up all night with the pain and it took me all morning to convince him to go in to the ER. The Dr did and EKG and chest x-rays and blood work twice. They found nothing wrong except one enzyme that was slightly elevated. They gave him some pain killers and told him to follow up with his Dr tomorrow. I called in to both jobs and got off since I had to take him in and just wouldn't feel comfortable leaving him, incase he had the pain again. This is about the 3 or 4th time he has had this similar pain and no one can really tell us what is going on. The Dr said it was some type of fluid in his cavity wall, but not in his lungs and that it just happens. I have no idea what these Dr are talking about, because they don't take the time to explain the situation well, and the nurse was actually more informative and reminded us of the Black Dr on Grays Anatomy, Dr Bailey. Rich is in bed resting since he was up for 24 hours and tomorrow we have to get up and head to the airport by 6am since Mianna leave to SD at 7:15am. My poor Richie boy scares me some times and I just hope he gets better.

2006 names

Alberto (currently a tropical strom) 6/12/06
Beryl
Chris
Debby
Ernesto
Florence
Gordon
Helene
Isaac
Joyce
Kirk
Leslie
Michael
Nadine
Oscar
Patty
Rafael
Sandy
Tony
Valerie
William

Mianna leaves to SD

I just can't believe how long it had been seen my last blogg. I usually have no time to do this, but it looks like I'll have plenty of off time this week and with my new work hours at CRC, I'll be home by 6 every day, But it I have to run to BEBE, then not home till say 10:40 or 11pm. I'm only scheduled to work 7 hours this week, so most of the time I'm off or on call. I was oncall today and they didn't need me. Mianna is leaving for SD this Friday and she will be gone for one month. I'm already starting to get sad, but I know that she will have a fun summer and love spending time with our family in SD. I'm not sure how it's going to work out with not having her here and Duke being all alone again, he is really going to miss her bad. I suppose I should use this time that I'm home to make dinner and clean the house a little and do some laundry. It's like my work is never done, we just work work work. UHHHH. I'm so ready to stop working. Today we are having bad weather and I just heard on the weather channel on my XM radio that there is a tropical storm called Alberto in the gulf and he can develop into a hurricane and this is the first storm of the season. Here is a clip I took from weather.com
Tropical Storm Alberto, which stengthened between Sunday and Monday, is holding shy of hurricane strength. As of 4 p.m. CDT, Alberto's maximum sustained winds remained at 70 mph, 4 mph short of Category 1 hurricane strength.
Hurricane warnings were issued today for a portion of the Florida Gulf Coast. A hurricane warning means hurricane conditions may occur in the next 24 hours. The warning area covers the Gulf Coast from Longboat Key to the Ochlockonee River. A tropical storm warning has been extended northward to the Savannah River on the Atlantic Coast.

There is a slight chance that Alberto could reach minimal hurricane strength before making landfall around Taylor County, Florida by early Tuesday, but the storm seemed to weaken a bit on Monday afternoon.

Locally heavy rains may induce some scattered flooding but the general area has been very dry lately. Many locales will pick up 4 to 8 inches of rain with isolated 10-inch amounts possible. A storm surge of 8 to 10 feet above normal tide levels can be expected in the warned area which extends from Longboat Key to the Ochlockonee River. Isolated tornadoes are always possible with landfalling tropical systems.

The Season Ahead

Experts say the 2006 season could be another very active one. The latest forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) calls for 13-16 total storms, 8-10 hurricanes, and 4-6 major hurricanes (Category 3 or higher).