Tomorrow, girlie trip! Going to Indio, CA to see Metallica, Slayer, Megadeath and Anthrax. V. excited! We're going to camp out nearby at one of the Coachella recommended camp grounds. I'm excited to get away for a weekend. No school, no overtime. At least for a couple of days :)

Sometimes being a girl is painful..blah. I'm taking today and just be pmsy, and not worry too much about doing stuff. The new place is slowly coming together. I thought I would have gotten more done on spring break, but I just ended up working more. That's ok though because we need to $ from my over time.

I like that we live close to 2 big hiking areas though. Both are walking distance to the trail heads from the houses. Now if I could just make/find more time to eat healthier foods *L*

Birthday is coming up. I keep trying to do a little FB event thing to tell some local friends that we're going to head out to Sanctum on April 2, but the stupid thing keeps freezing on me when I think I've finished it and then it doesn't show up. Ass.

Ok, Spring break is over time to turn off (ok mute) the Harry Potter and pick up the school books again.

Very fruitful day of thrift shopping for Halloween costumes. Probably took 3x as long as it would have normally but we had 2 teenagers with us who kept chaning their minds on what to be *LOL* It's kinda fun to be able to loan stuff to my neice too.

Now we are watching scary movies and waiting for Joe to come back with Taco Bell for the texting queens and me.

Weekend was pretty good. Long in parts-short in parts *L* Long was being just bored on Sunday but not really wanting to do anything. The boy just wanted to relax, I have a hard time with that. I studied a little more then failed my first Rock 1, quiz (yup it's a class). I couldn't for the life of me hear the differences in the types of rhythem as required by the quiz. I emailed the teach for help, maybe there's another way to approach this.

First Friday was kinda lame, way too hot and not alot of peeps. I can't believe some of those galleries don't have any air. It's like walking into a sauna.

Starting low carb today. Gotta do something *L* A friend is signed up for a 5K Charity walk and I think I'm going to sign up and do that with her. Seems easier for me to do something when I have a goal.
We just got back from traveling to Denver then Vegas for fun weddings. The first was very Rocky Mountain hippie, the second was very not *L* Still need to see the Axel and Siobhan photos.
Almost didn't make it home on the bike yesterday. I forgot my water bottle, and was not sweating and had almost no saliva by the time I got to my gate. Today I think I'll hang inside with my treadmill and mounds of laundry.
We are going to meet our new neice today too. She's 13 and the older sister of the little boy my sister in law adopted a couple of years ago. I feel kinda bad for them though, there's still one sister in a group home b/c the system moves slow.

It's been a long week. BUT, submitted my last assignment for the summer semester and looks like the couple of bumps in my grade have been smoothed out! WOOT I'm crossing fingers toes and eyes that some other stresses go away soon.

I really want to be home fix-up, grillin' girl this weekend. This sinus infection is killing me though. I'm having a hard time trying to catch up on my filing at work, it's hard to stand and bend repeat. I'm actually sitting down right now due to a dizzy spell :(

I hope like hell that Zpack is going to help. I'm looking forward to sticking near to home and relaxing, but hopefully seeing a few people too. Sounds like some Tucson friends might pop up.

And the biggest suck...I can't find my itouch so I have music while I try to file. :-P

PS Sally the patchwork kitten is looking for a perm home. She's warming up very nicely to people, and loves Dapper Chapper, our boy kitty. She's obviously feeling much better after lots of rest, food and water and loads of petting. She's finally started to play and act like a kitten. I do need to get her into a vet though for some tests and a quick look over.

By animals! *L* Only been home a couple of days at I so overwhelmed. I still haven't made it to the grocery store. We rescued the kitten, now confirmed a girl and I'm calling her Sally the patchwork kitten. I still have some cleaning up to do from the other cats and our being gone, and now the kitten. Get to work and there are PILES of papers to go through not to mentioned the computer generated tasks I've not even touched yet. AND Mr. Fish's tank had to be cleaned *L* I came in early today to start on the mail that came in and clean the fish tank.

Not that I'm complaining about having a job, with obviously enough work, OR being surround by fish and fuzzbutts. Not at all. I just *really* miss pina coladas right now!

Oh and I did manage to get down to ASU and get the book for my summer class.

So for Cinco de Mayo, for this white girl, is a fabu opportunity for some Mexican food.
I'm trying to be healthy though so I tried my hand at a soup. Can I just say OMG NOM.
What I used: 2 Chicken breasts cubed up; 2 cans of black beans; one liter can of low sodium fat free chicken broth; 1 can petite diced tomatoes; 1 can enchilada sauce; 1/4 onion diced up and cummin to taste.

I don't normally like my soups, but this is really good *L*

We just booked our next vacation, to Jamaica. Going with Joi and Greg to an all inclusive resort in Montego Bay in 5 weeks. So I have 5 weeks to work out and diet *L* It's good because I work best with a ddln.

This weekend, leaving the boys at home and heading to a retreat. I'm guessing it's like camping with hot springs and mud baths :)

Starting training for my new position at work. I'm really excited at all the new stuff. It's been so slow and mundane for the last couple of months, it's nice to have so much going on.