Desperately Seeking Gina

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….A Royal Friday Five

Five things I was thinking as this pic was being captured:

1. I am a pretty, pretty princess!
2. If I just humor him I can move on quickly…
3. I wonder if that feather boa would go with this new hat?
4. Changing her name to Queen Latifah worked for Dana Owens…hmmm…Queen Gina
5. We really are easily amused

…More Randomness

Happy Naked Wednesday! And because I have nothing new to report on and nothing exciting to share…. Here are a couple random pictures. Heather, Tihn, and I at the bridal show a couple of weeks ago

…and because I haven’t had a pic of food on here lately (hi, Lisa!)…lunch at Panera on Tuesday {and I did have a turkey sandwich that totally grossed out Thom}.

{Veggie Fiesta Con Queso}

Happy Hump Day, friends!
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…It’s Official

Turned in the form to vacate today. I’m {vacating}. Sounds scary when you put it that way. I think that it hasn’t been real until now. I’m a little nervous…actually I’m a lot nervous. But…I’ll get over it.

And secretly, I can’t wait to do the actual packing. For some reason I’ve always enjoyed the thought of packing all my prized possessions so lovingly and carefully and then unpacking them and remembering how and when I received or bought each piece. Appreciating each little thing all over again. I used to do that all the time when I was a kid still living with my parents. I used to play “pretend” a lot. By myself of course, lest my friends find out how weird I really was {nice now that I’m older I can admit these things and find myself funny & quirky}. When I wasn’t pretending that I was a dancer I was pretending that I was an older, more mature woman just getting ready to leave home and make it on my own {suddenly this sounding a little Mary Tyler Moore-ish}. Anyway…I would pack all my belongings into a suitcase {in those days all my belongings fit in one suitcase} and then I’d make the pretend journey to the big pretend city and start my exciting pretend life while unpacking my things.

Now pretend play is over…and I’ll be packing up and headin‘ out. No…not to the big city…but an exciting town just the same-where it’s warm in the winter and hot, hot, HOT in the summer. Where the people are different and the way of life is slower…and best of all…where my prince resides. {Yep…I know that sounds a little fairy tale-ish…but a girl has to hold on to some of her girlhood dreams…and he really is a dream}.
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…Sweet Saturday

Enjoyed a sweet afternoon with Thom today after a few hours at work and a short nap. We headed over to Montague to visit Wanda’s Pets & Supplies. They had the cutest, sweetest little kittens there. Thom wanted to see the parrots…which were really awesome. They didn’t talk much while we were there but Thom held one…and I tried to pet it, but it kept nipping at my fingers. Apparently they look like bird food.

After the pets we stopped for dog…i mean dinner at Chen’s Chinese/Thai in Whitehall. Lunch there was pretty good. And we indulged in an elephant ear afterward. It was smothered in a carmel sauce and was sticky and so sweet. Yum.

Thom dropped me off at Fisherman’s Landing to visit Mom and the girls who were enjoying a camping girl’s night.

Then…it was home and in bed at 9…exciting stuff, eh? I was back up at midnight though..catching up on my blog-reading and looking at some pics. Sunday is another free day…have some cleaning and laundry to do. Hope you’re having a great weekend 🙂

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…Still here


Bridal Show
Originally uploaded by ISOgina.

Hi friends 🙂 I am still around! Haven’t been feeling the greatest this week….sleeping a lot when I’m not at work 🙁

The bridal show last week was interesting. Heather and I seem to get ourselves into bits of trouble every now and then. Guess we shouldn’t have been knocking down some of the bridesmaid’s dresses…not everyone appreciates our humor, methinks (someone actually turned around to comment on our commentation..oops).

Anyway…not much else going on around here. Thom and I putter around the aparment and spend a lot of time cooking. Okay, Thom spends a lot of time cooking…I spend a lot of time eating. I had a phone call from my new Fit Blue health coach on Tuesday night and we set some goals for healthy eating and exercise. I’ve committed to start walking a few times a week on my lunch hour and such. Umm…..I haven’t actually started *sigh* The eating part is going well either…back to my old habits. Someday I will get it together.

I’m off to a Parish Life meeting at St. Mary’s…my friend Michelle’s church. It’s time to start thinking H A L L O W E E N 🙂

Hope you’re all having a great week!
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