Update on my boo-boo

Peek-a-boo! Just a little update on my eye...

I'm getting a lot of looks and since it was an accident that occurred in a martial arts class, I can't help but chuckle at people. Some look at me and when I make eye contact they immediately look down. So assume that I am get abused and offer things like their Green Beret (sp?) friend to "take care of him" to offering me a bat. Those in martial arts ask right away "Tae-kwon-do?" "Kickboxing?"... nope, MMA! But close enough

I've bee good and ice it every so often and I do it at work, too!

When my eye FINALLY opened, I saw the redness from the "subconjunctival hemorrhage" (it was on the emergency department chart sheet). It freaked me out because it's only on oneside. I look like a scary monster, well, my eye does.

Human Apple

This past Sunday the fam got together to celebrate my two older sister's b-day. The oldest wanted to wait for the 2nd oldest to be in town to celebrate. We watched Georgia Rules and ate veggie burgers and sweet potato fries. YUM! Before that we headed to the Brea Mall in search for our bridesmaids dress.

First stop was Windsors. I am a huge fan of the store, but it seems that everything on the mannequins looked great on them and not on me. My niece and I spotted this cool looking dress. When we put it on we looked like big apples! Look how short it is! And both of ours didn't zip up in the back.

We went to JCPenny and found the ONE! They had enough sizes for the entire bridal party and were on sale. My sister's wedding colors are gold and red, so naturally we went with a red dress vs. a gold one.

I liked one that was a dark red almost purple, but majority rules. Now I have to make an appt to get an updo. I feel like it is prom all over again.

Dear Spirit Sisters

Got this today and I thought I would share a bubble of thought ...

Woman Embracing Womanhood

There are many ways and myriad reasons for women to honor and embrace all that they are. And when any individual woman chooses to do so, all women collectively move closer to becoming what they are truly capable of being. By honoring her experience and being willing to share it with others—both male and female—she teaches as she learns. When she can trust herself and her inner voice, she teaches those around her to trust her as well. Clasping hands with family members and friends, coworkers and strangers in a shared walk through the journey of life, she allows all to see the self-respect she possesses and accepts their respect, too, that is offered through look, word, and deed.

When a woman can look back into her past, doing so without regret and instead seeing only lessons that brought her to her current strength and wisdom, she embraces the fullness of her experience. She helps those around her to build upon the past as she does. And when she chooses to create her desires, she places her power in the present and moves forward with life into the future.

Seeing her own divinity, a woman learns to recognize the divinity in all women. She then can see her body as a temple, appreciating its feminine form and function, regardless of what age or stage of life she finds herself. She can enjoy all that it brings to her experience and appreciate other women and their experiences as well. Rather than seeing other women as competition, she can look around her to see the cycle of life reflected in the beauty of her sisters, reminding her of her own radiance should she ever forget. She can then celebrate all the many aspects that make her a being worthy of praise, dancing to express the physical, speaking proudly to express her intellect, sharing her emotions, and leading the way with her spiritual guidance. Embracing her womanhood, she reveals the facets that allow her to shine with the beauty and strength of a diamond to illuminate her world.aspects that make her a being worthy of praise, dancing to express the physical, speaking proudly to express her intellect, sharing her emotions, and leading the way with her spiritual guidance. Embracing her womanhood, she reveals the facets that allow her to shine with the beauty and strength of a diamond to illuminate her world.

Another bun in the oven

NOT my oven, of course, but my older sister Karla. Congrat BIG SIS!

She has been wanting to be a mom for so long. Her first pregnancy was not successful and Baby Henry passed away in her tummy. She has a blood clotting factor that she was not aware of and a blood clot had formed in the umbilicord. This time around she is aware of it and will have to give herself injections or take some kind of medication every day.

She had called me last night, but I was already asleep on top of books at my dinner table. Late night studying.

I called her back because her VM said it was VERY important and then I got her VM. I received an email from my sisters saying that it is a special day because we are going to be aunt, so I piece the puzzle together.

I'M GONNA BE AN AUNTIE!!!!

Theme park madness

Disneyland was a BLAST! It's so cool to take people to a place they have never been before. My friend Lisa met us at the gate at 8:30AM and got us in for FREE!

Jay was so excited the entire time and was amazed of the size. When you pass it on the street it really doesn't look as big as it is inside. The first character we spotted when we walked in was Pluto! I called him by another character name when I first saw him. Oops!
Main Street is the first part you pass and we eye balled all the candy, coffee and souvenir shops. Can you believe that it is full decorate for the holidays? The Christmas decoration all over the place and some of the rides have been altered to reflect the holidays, as well. Most notably is the Haunted Mansion and It's a Small World. And YES, Jayla went on the Haunted Mansion and didn't get scared or cry! What a tough cookie!

The VERY first ride we went on was the rockets. The have a joy stick that you can move your rocket up and down. It was so much fun and gave be butterflies in my tummy!
During one of our breaks we went hat shopping! Jay is going to kill me that I am posting this picture, but I just HAVE to! He was all model looking and all. This is one of the ones I tried on.... Watch out! An alien is eating my head!

Jayla was our model for a lot of the hats. I love this picture! She ended up getting the pink version of this one.

This one reminded me of Marge Simpson
I was surprised that my big head and tons of hair fit in these hats!

In Mickey's Toon Town Jayla didn't meet the height requirement, but looks adorable under the sign.

We ate non-stop with ice cream, funnel cake, snacks, juices, chicken & veggie skewers, sweets and everything else that theme parks sell.

The park wasn't that full and the most we had to wait in line was maybe 20-30 minutes. It was a GREAT time and maybe next time we can go to California Adventure. It might sound funny that someone from CA wants to visit a theme park about CA, but I do!

Shiner

I can't believe that I am posting this but... this is the effect of rough sex!!!!!
JUST KIDDING
Yesterday was martial arts practice and this darn newbie tried a move on me at full force and so started my black eye.

We did a combo mantis block and with the same hand elbow falling down on the face. It immediately closed once the impact occurred.

David was cool made a trip to Target to get an ice pack and Tylenol and had sensei T drive me home. I put ice on it the entire night and this morning.

I couldn't drive to work today because I can't open my eye and I didn't want to be a safety hazard to my fellow drivers on the road.

My sister took me to lunch with my two nieces before taking me to the ER because my doc couldn't see me. The PA, Doc and two nurses opened my eye. he pain was so intense that I cried twice. They did sight test, made me look up, down, side to side while following their finger or pen that they were holding up. They took an xray, too. After almost 3 hours, I was give the "everything came back normal, do the RICE (Rest, Ice, C?, and Elevate) method and follow up with your PCP". It will take 1-2 days for the swelling to go down and my eye to open and a MONTH for the hemorrhage in my eye and bruising to go away.

Oh and it will get worst before getting better! So it looks like I got Veteran's Day off after all!

Today is my Friday

I'm a Monday thru Friday working girl and tomorrow I am taking the day off! So today is like my Friday and I am wrapping up a lot of stuff to let tomorrow run as smoothly as possible.

Where am I going you ask? I'M GOING TO DISNEYLAND! My friend works there and can let two family members/friends in for free each day. So you know who is going with me, right? JAY and lil Ms. Jayla! I believe there is no cost for Jayla because she is not even 2 yet, but I should check. It will be their first time there. I take it for granted that I lived near it my whole life and visited whenever I wanted. When I hear that someone has not been to the happiest place on earth, it's so shocking.

Burrrr...

Note: I wrote this a week ago and realized I never posted, so here it is... just a lil late.

Well this weekend was the big move. Goodbye apartment #13 and hello house behind a house or as the refer to it in CA, back house. I am not a fan of the term, but that's the name of it.

Moving was not a smooth sailing process. I got rid of A LOT of stuff. I never realized how much stuff I had duplicates of or never used.

I had a little tiff with my new landlord and can wait until 9 months down the road when Jay and I move in together.

The tiff with my landlord went like this. A lot of miscommunication because I was speaking Spanglish and he interrupted me asking if he had seen my dolly and me accusing him or his family of stealing it. I explained to him that it was probably in the mess of boxes, etc in the house and I just didn't see it. He said it MUST have been one of my friends that stole it because why would someone just come to the back and steal a dolly. I explained over and over that it was probably in the house and I was JUST asking and that the ones that helped me DID NOT steal it. Hello, it was my sister, sensei T and Jay. Why on God's green earth would they steal from me and out of all things a dolly?!?!

He got all bent out of shape over everything after that!

From me not calling 10 days prior, when we had arranged 5 days. Me talking to his wife and her giving me the ok to move in completely on Saturday and her not telling him and him thinking I was moving in on Thursday the 1st and just moving in big things on the weekend. Him being upset because when I saw him (which was Sunday) he hadn't received a rent and deposit check, which had he talked to his wife, he would have known that she told me that they were not going to be home Saturday. She gave me instructions to go ahead a move in, the doors would be unlocked and the keys on the stove, and to give her husband the rent check on Sunday when they rent. ONLY ON FREAKIN DAY LATER! Then I pointed out to him that we scraped the wall moving my fridge in and he lost it yelling :you have to pay for that" over and over. I told him "I know!" I am just showing you so you know and if you want to fix it now you can or later.

Anywho, things are better now.

That Monday following the cable guy was supposed to come and they never showed up. I had taken the day off for them and they never bothered to even call me that they ran over and couldn't make it out. I got a $20 credit on my next bill because of it. My Mom was kind enough to be at my house the following day for their reschedule. She said that's what mother are for. Aw! Good thing she was there, because when the gas company came to turn on the gas they found a leak and she could communicate it to the landlord and I didn't have to talk to him. The landlord sung another tune after that and was so nice to deal with! He was probably feeling bad that he did catch the leak before I moved in. He came home and fixed leak and apologized that I would be out of hot water another day. Yup, that's right, I have been taking cold showers for 4 day and now going on 5 and eating out or making stuff that does not require a stove/oven.

The next day the gas company came out and turned on the gas and all was groovy!

Nothing is gonna hold me down

I made it to the gym during lunch today. I've been good about going and if I don't go it for a good reason, not me just being lazy. I felt like there was a force trying cause me to have a crappy time at the gym today.

I went into the locker room and while getting ready realized that I didn't have a water bottle. I thought, no biggie there is water fountains and I could buy one if need be. I went on my 3 mile run. It was A LOT harder then last night's 3 mile run after class with Jay at my school's track.

After my run I realized I forgot deodorant, body lotion and sandals to wear in the shower. I couldn't skip the shower, so I decided I would use my workout towel on the floor of the shower and toss it when I was done. I could always go without body lotion for the rest of the day and could buy deodorant on the way back to work.

I headed to my usual shower and darn it! It was out of soap. *sigh*

So I headed to the one next to it AH! It was out of soap, as well! *double sigh*

I wobbled with my feet on the workout towel to the third shower and YAY, it had soap.

What a crazy turn of events in just 45 minutes! Leaving the gym I had that song that goes something like "ain't nothing gonna hold me down...oh-no... I got to keep on moving" and my day seemed brightened and just then I found deodorant in my car!

Operation upchuck

Friday, I was SO proud of myself! I made it to the gym during lunch and ran 2.5 miles between setting 6-7 (10 - 8:43 minute mile ). I got off the treadmill early so I could do some extra stretching since I hadn't ran in awhile and since I have a 11 mile run through MOUNTAINS, I thought I would do some injury prevention.

Later on in the day I started to feel sick to my stomach and was feeling cold chills run through me. Soon I felt like I was going to pass out. I made it to the restroom and put water on my face and got a cold drink. Right when I made it make to my desk I felt the urge to make another restroom visit, this time it was to commence operation upchuck! Funny, how when that happens EVERYONE assumes you are pregnant! But I am not. I take the pill religiously at 9PM. Anywho, I thought I had over did it on the run and maybe my stomach was upset. Then I threw up for a SECOND time. I started to analysis all I had eaten that day and the thought of food poisoning ran through my head. Maybe the cream cheese that was sitting outside for an hour before I put it on my Friday bagel was the culprit. Or maybe it was the sandwich meat in my sandwich that was out of the fridge when i drove to Jay's and then drove to work the next day. Then I puked for a THIRD time... WTH? The minute my boss left, I was out the door to Jay's. Right before I left I had a Sprite and Cheez-its to settle my system. My focus was wearing thin and I thought to myself how was I going to make it to Jay's and thank goodness I wasn't driving home, cuz that's a lot further. I should have NEVER ate the Cheez-Its and drank the Sprite! I'll spare you the details, but it's gnarly coming out and suck when a bunch of high schoolers are looking at you upchuck. I went to Jay's ans Slept Friday night and Saturday. Jay was a sweetheart and took care of me. Made sure I had a bucket my the bed, which came in handy during upchuck # 5. I don't see how I would ever have made it downstairs in time. He got me saltine crackers, soup, Ginger Ale and Sprite.

I missed the math lab Saturday that I needed to go to to study for my math midterm and missed turning in homework Friday night for my online class. Oh well... that's life! I slept pretty much all of Sunday too, which I was supposed to come into work and work on a project. I finished the project today, tho!

This morning at 3:00 AM I woke up to Jay puking. Poor guy! I got him sick! He went to work for 6 hours and got someone to cover for him and now is resting at my house.

I'm feeling better and now he is not!

I GOT A RING... YUP, HE GAVE ME A RING!

Jay told me that he had something for me. Before he went to his car he said it was "small." And then he got down on one knee...

Now, I am taking it too far. But he DID get me a RING!

It came of the cupcake he ate! Aw! Too cute!

Happy Belated Halloween

Happy belated Halloween!!! I was hoping to get out and go to a party, but that didn't happen :( I wanted to be the queen from the movie 300 sooooo bad, but me moving and with midterm, it just didn't happen. Oh well, next year! Unless, I find a happening party this weekend. Granted, I still have a midterm, essay and research paper to do, so maybe I will stay home. Oh, and I can't forget unpacking! I guess no Halloween party for me.

Last Friday my work had their annual "Fall Festival" where the building have a theme and decorate accordingly. My building went with the theme from the movie Monster House. Then kids come and go through out the building and get candy from candy stations, watch the movie that goes with the theme, and enjoy goodies along the way.

Jay came as Jay and Jayle came as a cute giraffe and scored on the candy. I can't lie, I grabbed so for myself too! They had my favorite - butterfinger.

We turned the corner and this employee was showing off his pet reptile. Not sure what it is, but I think it's a gecko. Had this been 20 years ago, I would have FREAKED out! I was not a fan of anything that wasn't furry and purr'd.

Hope you had a spooky one!