What Would Jen Do

Archive for February, 2008

Dinner was SO GOOD. Icey got the chilean sea bass which was the best fish i’ve ever had and I had the filet mignon that was actually cooked rare. not fake rare, really rare and came with purple cauliflower. I stole a few pictures on my camera phone, not of the food because THAT’S weird.

The place was very tiny and very cute.

Last night the Voo had a really bad sneezing attack, he could barely breathe. It was awful and of course all he wanted was his momma. He even let me clean off his face in case it was something that he got his head into that was making him sneeze. but as soon as he was feeling better, he was off liking Dad a lot more. again. as usual. until he got hungry and wanted dinner, then back to me.

still haven’t made it to the gym, and I’ve got a lot of pretty good excuses.  Just trust me on that one.  They include sports bras, and water bottles,  deodorants, and one fat arm etc.  

But Monday is a new day and the beginning of a new week and the perfect time to start a new routine.  I just have to make myself go that first time.   Once that’s over, I think I’ll be good to go.  And because we’re pretty enthusiastic about the whole thing, and that’s only because we haven’t gone yet, Icey and I made a date to work out every Friday together.    aren’t we cute?

I’m pretty excited to go out to dinner tomorrow night, it’ll be my first time having french foods.   I keep looking at the menu planning what i’m going to get, and so far i’ve only decided on dessert.  

any day now they should be calling me about the new bed, and once we finally get it, i’m spending an entire day in it , just me and my laptop, the tv, my nintendo DS, hopefully a dog or two, some gummy bears, assorted movies and recorded shows, extra pillows, some wine and………..that’s it.

today we signed up for the gym.   It’s very nice and they want it to have more of a Spa like atmosphere than some rough and tumble gym.  so there is a nice cafe and a spa and saunas and steam rooms.   so you go work out, take a steam in the eucalyptus steam room, take a shower, have lunch, get your hairs and nails did and then get a massage.    And since the whole thing is connected to Icey’s credit card….well let’s just say he’s never looked too hard at what he’s being charged for.

I am still completely terrified at the thought of working out in a gym.  in front of people.   but taking the tour and walking thru the place, there were all shapes and sizes of people with varying degrees of fitness.   it made me feel a little better.   Except I think Icey was traumatized at the very large very naked black man standing in the locker room.  just kind of standing there letting it all hang out.    I just heard about this, did not see it.

i’m still on my kick of ‘doing new things’ and trying to improve myself this year. i think i’m doing a pretty good job so far and it’s only mid-February.   I just hope that this gym thing works out for me and if not, i gave it a shot.

We had a great anniversary, or at least I did. I took the day off and bought sheets for our present to one another, which is a king sized bed that we don’t have yet. But I wanted to be prepared for when it finally arrives. It gets made when you order it (fancy). 400 and 600 thread count, i’m going big time. Nothing left to do but go for the 1000 thread count next. It’s a super thick mattress and half the sheets I wanted to buy wouldn’t have fit it. So we still don’t have any flannel sheets, which are our favorites.

I also finally found a nintendo DS, it’s blue and fun and I got it at Wal-mart. Watch out, I’m busy playing Brain Age and am going to be real smart soon.

We went out to lunch and then we went to AJ’s and bought some nice steaks, potatoes and asparagus for dinner. I got a tiny little bottle of champagne for myself and a wee bundt cake. It was called a bundtlet and it was very tasty.

We’re going out for dinner next Friday to keep celebrating to a restaurant we’ve been meaning to try for a really long time. It has something like 10 tables and is ‘french fusion’. I may have to buy a new outfit.

Today the dogs get groomed, FINALLY and tomorrow we’re hopefully going to join the gym. I am still gym scared, but as with anything, once I get comfortable, i’m fine. I just have to form a new habit with going to the gym and trying something new and learning not to be afraid of scary new things that are out of my safety zone.

Last week it was so hot we had to turn on the AC and for the past two days it’s been effing freezing in this house, we can’t win. I had a fire going last night and am wearing a sweat shirt right now.

Also most wordpress themes don’t work properly in internet explorer.  Apparently you all should be using Mozilla anyway, according to popular geeks, anyway.   That’s why if you’re viewing this in IE then the sidebar isn’t’ a sidebar anymore but a bottom or part way down the page bar.

out of all the guys I’ve ever gone out with who have the nickname Icey and were born in December and had a black dog named mojo, i like you the most.

the usual dog picture has been interrupted for this announcement

I know you are confused, is this WWJD? this is in honor of my boyfriend, because it’s our 6 year anniversary this month and that makes me moist in my bad place.  Don’t worry, once February, or possibly even the day after our anniverary, I’ll go back to girly stuff.

I’ve been meaning to add some music to my page and I finally remembered to resize the box so that I can have it in my sidebar. Of COURSE it’s Bon Jovi to start, but it’s not your ordinary hair metal band Bon Jovi. It’s the same music player people use on MySpace so of course it’s apt to stop working for no reason and stutter.

Much to do this weekend. I got all my tax refunds back and momma needs a new bed, maybe some shoes, has to pay rent even tho she thinks she should live here for free, and has lots of misc shopping to do. And I need to get these hairy beasts in for a grooming because the big one is walking around dropping tufts of hair all over my house and his face still stinks.

ACK, Mojo is skurry

Kim is 99.99999% moved in.  I had it pretty easy helping her since I’m mostly the unpacker and Kim and her brother had already moved most of the boxes over to her place earlier in the day.  We had a shopping spree in Wal-Mart, where Cat met us and then we were off to buy adult beverages, order pizza and finish unpacking.    Thankfully I don’t anticipate any more friends moving any time soon.

Today is Fran’s birthday.  He is 32 going on 33.  I spent a lot of time thinking he was older than me.  I guess in my head married and taller = older.   Happy Birthday anyway Fran.

If you have an extra five minutes………..

First you have to watch this

And then you want to watch this