Mother nature

Mother nature is such a bitch. When ever i can finally start going out and enjoying the nice weather she makes sure to make me ill. I have terrible TERRIBLE allergies in the spring time. My eyes get red and puffy, my nose gets stuffy and my throat gets scratchy. Then i am forced to practically give up my kidney just to be able to purchase allergy meds, which leads me to 'rough it' as long as i can. (read: until im so effing miserable i want to shoot myself in the face). So after a great weekend filled with tons of outdoor activities i have spent the last 48 hours shoot myself in the face miserable. This morning i caved. My abs were starting to hurt from all the sneezing and i took my first allergy med of the season. Today i feel Great! im a little hazy from the meds, but my nose isnt stuffy and i havent sneezed at all! So you win this time mother nature, but i will still be out this afternoon enjoying your tease of the summer today!

Longing

This time of year is the absolute worst time to have a 9-5 job. Im sitting here looking at the sunny day and wishing that i was outside and not in. The next week is going to be even nicer and you guessed it, i will be here! Don't get me wrong, i am so grateful to have a job, but sometimes i just wish i had the freedom of rolling out of bed and out to the pool.

amazing

Its absolutely amazing what a beautiful weekend does for a New England girls soul. The weather this weekend was so nice and it was dan's weekend off. We def got the most out of this weekend. We had an awesome afternoon on saturday shopping in wareham and then stopped @ the farmers market to get some fresh fruit and veggies. Its great to be able to walk around and not be freezing. Sunday we reseeded the lawn, AGAIN. hopefully this time it takes. Last night we went for a nice walk around the neighborhood and it looks like everyone spent the weekend working on their yards. Everything looks so springy and i couldnt be happier!

Also last night dan and i tried asparagus for the first time. i was pleasantly surprised that it was good and dan liked it! I love to cook and a lot of spring time recipes call for asparagus so i am happy to know that we both like it and i can now expand my cooking horizons!

Today is Patriots day/ Marathon Monday, most of the state is off, but i am not. Although i enjoy the quietness of the day, i cant help but wish i was still enjoying the weekend!

i did it!

So lent came and went and i did it! i stuck to no gossip blog lurking! i was also able to remain meat free on fridays! Im pretty sure this is the first time i have ever been successful in either of these things. I am very proud that i actually gave something up that i missed. And even now that i can go back on the blogs, i really havent. I think i kicked my nasty gossip blog habit, once and for all :)!

galapagos

Ever since i was a kid i have wanted to go to the Galapagos Islands. I was fascinated with all of the marine life that lives exclusively on these islands. I had more or less forgot about it until i was watching Jeopardy and they are giving away some sort of trip to the islands! I decided to start looking up how much a trip here would be. After days of drooling over how breath taking these islands are, i have accepted that unless i win the lottery, this is as close as i will ever get to them. as amazing as this place looks, i can not spend 12K on a vacation trip.

So we shall add this vacation to the list of dreams that will never come true =(

my weekend

My weekend has been SO busy! We are in the remortgaging the house to save some money every month on our mortgage. What i didnt realize when i started this process was that someone would come and assess the house value. We literally have about 3 projects we are smack in the middle of that make the house look unfinished. So last week when the bank called to schedule our appointment i started to panic! i have sooo much work to do on the house. We have gotten a lot done over the weekend and as i sit here the house is in ruins, everything is a mess... And we still have a few more things to finish up. On top of all of this we are putting in replacement windows. i have spent every spare dime and minuet on fixing up the house over the past week. hopefully it will all be worth it. we have been in the house over 2 years now and we have done so much to it... sometimes it feels like we are never going to finish. I knew having a house would be a lot of work, but i just want my life back! Not helping matters is the fact that i have been super busy at work as well. By the time i come home during the week im too tired to do anything. I am looking forward to next weekend when i wont have to paint, saw, sand, hammer, vacuum or anything!