New Years and other stuff

Ok, I guess I'm making two New Year's Resolutions:

1 - which I've already started, to lose weight. Actually my real goal is to be healthy, I'd like to lose weight, but my goal is to by the end of the year to walk 3 miles a day, 3 days a week, and to be eating 5 servings of veggies 4 days a week. I think I can accomplish that, and if so, its probably a good start.

2 - to make/restart more friendships. Either online or face to face. I'd like to meet people, and have more people to interact with. I'm going to look around and maybe find a book club to join, or a local exercise group by the end of January. I'm also going to try to meet people online, join some message boards maybe - I just went and checked out IVillage, I'll see how that works.

Back to my life. LOL. In November Andrew Dave and I went to the Big Apple Con in NYC - across from Madison Square Garden. It was really cool, actually Law & Order Criminal Intent was filming right outside the hotel, which was neat to see, since I love Law & Order. Anyway, Andrew and I went on Friday, and Dave went with us on Saturday. One of the people we met, Scott Schwartz, was pretty awsome. I have a pic with him, which is also posted below in my photo album (bottom of the page, where it says VIEW MY PHOTO GALLERY.) He is a nice guy, and according to his bio on his site is 6'10" - pretty tall. And for those of you who don't realize this, he's also 2 feet taller then I am - pretty scary, huh?

and yes, I have on cat ears in that pic. And a batman shirt, since later that day I met Adam West and Val Kilmer

Sigh

so I ended up feeling horrible last night at my mother in law's. Andrew's Cousin and his uncle are visiting so we went over for dinner. I was fine, and then after eating I felt like I was going to throw up, and feverish. So Andrew and I left to bring me home. The good thing is I felt better after a few hours, and feel even better today, but still not fantastic. I'm still planning on going out tonight though, but we'll see about drinking, depends on how I feel later. At least we really have nothing planned for today, so I can rest up.

Stuff

So I got to sleep in some today, which is nice, maybe I'll feel a bit better today. Anyway, last night was neat, I ran into a woman I used to work with, Linda, at CVS. She seems to be doing well. Andrew is still enjoying his ps3, which is good, after all the work to get him one. He registered it online last night, that was an involved process. But he found that they had a free downloadable game for Sudoku he got for me. I haven't tried it yet.
In other exciting news... ok I don't really have any. LOL.
Later

ugh

sometimes I hate being me.
For those of you who don't know I have Fibromyalgia. This is a chronic pain condition, which also involves alot of exhaustion. Anyway, was having a decent day, got alot done at work, then went shopping, got some storage units, came home and cooked and cleaned a bit, and now feel like I'm going to fall over. Bah, it sucks.

Anyhoo... there is a guest map now at the bottom right, so go ahead and mark off on the map where you are in the world, and there is a lovely poll at the top which should deeply reveal your innermost thoughts.

Oh, and in case you don't know Buni, a Klondike Bar is chocolate covered ice cream, I have no idea if they sell them in Germany.
ok, I'm off to finish cooking and sit around like a lump, later all.

CAT

HEEEEEEEEEEEEEREEEEEEE'SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS BOOKER.

PS3 and other stuff

Yay Andrew finally has a PS3. Evidently his brother was in Best Buy today, and heard a guy say that he thought they had them in the mall at EBX(no I don't know which mall). So he (Matt) ran over to the mall and got the last PS3 for Andrew. YAY!
So in other exciting news...
I walked to the mechanic today to get my mom's truck. I figured it was a good distance for walking. Turns out it's .98 miles, which is good, and I used my new weights.
Last night I got some new books, I've been reading tons of romance novels before I go to bed, so I went and got 5, Borders had a buy 4 get one free, and I had 10% off AND like a $2 and change credit, so it was really like getting 2 books free. Plus I had the gift card to use.
Now I'm waiting for the Aquarium people to call me back. I wanted to find out some more details about my special "meet your adopted penguin" visit which will be February 3rd. I'm not sure if we still have to pay admission to the Aquarium and stuff. Andrew and I are going to go down the night before, stay in a hotel in that area, and be there for our 10 am parent time LOL. No idea what will happen, but its a nice aquarium, and its supposed to be a behind the scenes visit, what ever that means. By the way, down in the bottom right of my blog should be a penguin painting - as in painted by a penguin. its so cute. LOL.
Not alot of news about Gene - he won't be out until tomorrow the earliest is what I understand. I'm still praying for him and his wife Marie.
So I guess that's all for now - later all.

Gene

I just found out Gene is in the hospital, and that's all I know. I am praying for him, and hoping everything works out alright.