Early morning Saturday~Late night Pit Party

Dearest Blog,
I had the best chicken wings last night at a place called Grille500. Yum yum. Paul and I went there because we are sick of seeing all the same people at the Kettle Ho and Jenna was at a sleepover at Gina's house so it was just a nice quiet night for us. Then Paul had to go to Logan at 3 in the morning to take his dad to fly out to SC at 5:30. He's home now sleeping and I am about to go run, then tutor, then bank. I was pretty good about food last night but today is the day I start. No white bread if I can help it (in other words, if a burger is all I can have for lunch or dinner than I will have it type of thing without worries), and no fries, no chips, no cookies.

And today is the Pit Party at Jamie's. He has an awesome firepit in the back of his house and will just have it going all day and night. People come and go. It's really cool...especially because we live right across the fairway from him so we can REally come and go. It should be fun.

Starting a diet for health and tank tops

Hello dear Blog,
I have just taken some DISGUSTING pictures of my belly and back-fat (at the hips) to show everyone a before and after picture of me on January 30 and will reveal the new and improved Ellen belly and hips on March 1. Thirty days. Why do I give myself 30 days? Because I want to be ready to wear a couple of pretty tank tops and jeans when I get down to Miami to visit my Mama and sister. In the winter, it's pretty easy to fool myself into believing all the people who say I'm "skinny"...but I'M SOOO NOT. I might be petite and I run so my legs are ok but OH NO, DICK TRACY. I ain't skinny.

Another thing I would like to add while I'm here. I have decided to be ME. The real ME on these blogs and Twitter and Facebook and all. It gets tedious to worry about what people think all the time when more often than not I get just a little bit disappointed in the human species. I will write more about that later. Maybe even in about 5 minutes....who knows. Who cares. I am just glad I started blogging again and have decided that this will help me in my quest to quit eating stupid A$$ WHITE FOOD and get down to the pretty stuff like yellow and orange, and green. Thanks for reading. Bye for now

Good Luck Mr. President Part 2

I am so proud to have President Barack Obama as my president. His speech was so cool. He wants us all to come together to be the strong nation that our forefathers (and my father) worked so hard for. I hope everyone jumps on board...I'll pull you up when you are ready.

Good Luck Mr. President

Hmmmm, how do I put this not to sound like a liberal zealot. I am sooo excited about today. I don't know what it is about Obama, but whatever it is, the energy in Washinton DC is contagious! My students are riveted to the coverage...talking constantly about different things that concern them, excite them, make them feel special. I watched the HBO Inaugural concert the other night and was so impressed with the excitement generated by the hundreds of thousands of people who are there to witness history. Granted, Obama hasn't done anything yet, and heaven forbid if his policies don't gel with Joe or Josephine Public but RIGHT NOW, on this day, I say Halleluia and God Bless America!!!

Winter Hibernation

I am just like the animals. Don't want to do much in the winter but relax in my home after work and on weekends. I don't really want to socialize or go out too much unless it is just with my husband, Paul and daughter, Jenna for a quick meal before vegging in front of the computer or tv. In the summer it is a whole different story. Paul runs a par 3 golf course with a snack bar and bar for our members. There are a bunch of tournaments and events that I have to attend so I get into it and really enjoy the members and the people who visit our club. It is so much fun and CONSTANT.
But enough of that until it rolls around. Time to run (I only run 2 or 3 miles in the winter) and then get my daughter from volleyball, tutor, shop, and then watch the football playoff game AT HOME!!

I'm baaaack

So, here I am again. Just waiting for 14 year old daughter to call to pick her up from watching boys soccer practice. It's been a long time since my last blog. Thank you Google for keeping it around so I could start up again. Funny how I wrote four years ago about Bush and now i am awaiting the awesome inauguration of B. Obama into the presidency. I am so excited as is my sister and sons. My mom and other sisters....not so much. But I am sure they appreciate the historical aspect of the whole scente. HOW ABOUT THAT PLANE CRASH AND THE SURVIVAL OF ALL ON BOARD. Sooooo cool! I even cried out of sheer happiness. If everyone died I would have said stuff like, "Wow, how sad. How F'n sad, etc". But I wouldn't have cried. Weird, huh?
Daughter just called. Gots to go.
I'll try to write more for alllllll of my followers (Hey, I have three followers on Twitter...I ROCK!_)

Blogs from Iraq

The reason why I'm here, writing this, is because of the soldiers in Iraq. I clicked on my Yahoo HomePage and saw the headline that mentioned something about how the soldiers in Iraq had their own blogs. Without needing to read any further I realized that what was written in these blogs would give everyone a much better detailed account as to what goes on over there. Not only would these soldiers explain what they had to do where combat was concerned, they would also be able to convey feelings and opinions from the war front...something our media is not allowed to really cover because of ratings or censorship or respective policies from the big corporate newscasts. Soooo, I clicked on the article by Ellen Simon and found a few links about those blogs. I read so much about their plight, realizing the war at a whole different level and then it hit me that I could do the same thing; create my own blog and let others realize my world (and theirs) through the "community writing". I guess I'll stop now. I promise to explain more about my title as time goes on.
SEE ya!
ellen