See the torn ACL? It's the frayed one....
The 2 bottom pictures are the repaired one with the hamstring!
Pretty Cool.
Where's the blood?
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Four Perfect Pebbles
Today Marion Blumenthal Lazan came to speak to the 7th and 8th graders. She's a holocaust surviver and wrote the book Four Perfect Pebbles. She told her story - just horrific! Tears a flowing the entire time. She is a very strong, powerful women who has the incredible ability to be able to talk and share her experiences. Others in her family can't. Her message was clear - don't just follow along because everyone else does. She came with her husband, Nathaniel, who has obviously been an amazing support.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Weird Coincidences....
Ok - so here's a list of randoms that have happened in my life:
1. Walking down the street in Hong Kong ran into my friend Lisa who I had known since 1st grade, but had no idea that she was living in Hong Kong at the time.
2. Walking just off the beach in Bali ran into another friend that I knew since first grade - from the same class as above! I had no idea she was living there either.
3. On a business trip in Madrid hanging out with Miguel from our Madrid office in a random bar - ran into Emilio and Melinda!
4. In Florence, late one evening I was dying...I had to go to the bathroom so I ducked into an alley (yes, this was ages ago) and I ran into my cousin (non blood - by marriage) Seth doing the very same thing!
5. In Puerto Vallarta spring of my junior year in college I ran into Torrence - someone I knew from my gymnastics years!
keep checking for more...as I remember them I will post them!
1. Walking down the street in Hong Kong ran into my friend Lisa who I had known since 1st grade, but had no idea that she was living in Hong Kong at the time.
2. Walking just off the beach in Bali ran into another friend that I knew since first grade - from the same class as above! I had no idea she was living there either.
3. On a business trip in Madrid hanging out with Miguel from our Madrid office in a random bar - ran into Emilio and Melinda!
4. In Florence, late one evening I was dying...I had to go to the bathroom so I ducked into an alley (yes, this was ages ago) and I ran into my cousin (non blood - by marriage) Seth doing the very same thing!
5. In Puerto Vallarta spring of my junior year in college I ran into Torrence - someone I knew from my gymnastics years!
keep checking for more...as I remember them I will post them!
Friday, May 2, 2008
One Stop Shopping
Mark had his surgery today. All went well. He's just been moved to the recovery room. He'll be there for an hour or so and then moved to a waiting area where he will stay until they release him.
And we have time...
The mini van broke down on the way down here to Rutland this morning...I called AAA, told them where it was, left the keys under the mat and told them to tow it to the closest Chrysler dealership. So - should we hitchhike or call a taxi? Before we had a chance to put our thumbs out - the people, whose driveway we were at the end of, happened to be leaving and asked if we needed help. Why YES! We said, can you give us a ride to the hospital? We crammed into the jump seat of the pick up truck... And they drove us both to the hospital...
We were only 20 minutes late!
I tell you...why do I always have these little 'bumps' in the road? Drama. It always has a way of finding me. I guess life would seem so boring & mundane without it!
I called the dealer and the coolant lines had corroded and therefore leaked...hence the overheating engine and massive amounts of black smoke that bellowed out from under the passenger seat side of the car...so much that for a moment there we thought the car might blow! $329 and I can get the car between 3 and 4...which will be just about the time Mark will be ready to go home. The timing is perfect and the parts were in stock!
Note to self: figure out how to get the dealer and where it is!!!
And as I always try to see the good things in any situation... All I can say is thank goodness the minivan didn't die on the way home....
Can you imagine???
And we have time...
The mini van broke down on the way down here to Rutland this morning...I called AAA, told them where it was, left the keys under the mat and told them to tow it to the closest Chrysler dealership. So - should we hitchhike or call a taxi? Before we had a chance to put our thumbs out - the people, whose driveway we were at the end of, happened to be leaving and asked if we needed help. Why YES! We said, can you give us a ride to the hospital? We crammed into the jump seat of the pick up truck... And they drove us both to the hospital...
We were only 20 minutes late!
I tell you...why do I always have these little 'bumps' in the road? Drama. It always has a way of finding me. I guess life would seem so boring & mundane without it!
I called the dealer and the coolant lines had corroded and therefore leaked...hence the overheating engine and massive amounts of black smoke that bellowed out from under the passenger seat side of the car...so much that for a moment there we thought the car might blow! $329 and I can get the car between 3 and 4...which will be just about the time Mark will be ready to go home. The timing is perfect and the parts were in stock!
Note to self: figure out how to get the dealer and where it is!!!
And as I always try to see the good things in any situation... All I can say is thank goodness the minivan didn't die on the way home....
Can you imagine???
Thursday, May 1, 2008
The Over 30 Crowd - Yes That's ME!
you know me - I am such a nerd that some of these email thingamabobs I get I just have to post so that I can enjoy/refer to them again. Here's another:
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tearswith their tedious diatribes about how hard things werewhen they were growing up; what with walkingtwenty-five miles to school every morning ... uphill BOTH ways
yadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up,there was no way I was going to go on about how hard I had itand how easy they've got it!
But now that... I'm over the ripe old age ofthirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.
You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to mychildhood, you live in a utopia!
And I hate to say it but you kids today youdon't know how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have TheInternet . If we wanted to know something,we had to go to the library andlook it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!
There was no email!! We had to actually writesomebody a letter with a pen!Then you had to walk all the way across the street andput it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!
There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted tosteal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!
Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ' d usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed!
Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no on screen menu and no remote control! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! There was no such think as channel surfing! You had to get up and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons.
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove or go build a fire . Imagine that!
If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tearswith their tedious diatribes about how hard things werewhen they were growing up; what with walkingtwenty-five miles to school every morning ... uphill BOTH ways
yadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up,there was no way I was going to go on about how hard I had itand how easy they've got it!
But now that... I'm over the ripe old age ofthirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.
You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to mychildhood, you live in a utopia!
And I hate to say it but you kids today youdon't know how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have TheInternet . If we wanted to know something,we had to go to the library andlook it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!
There was no email!! We had to actually writesomebody a letter with a pen!Then you had to walk all the way across the street andput it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!
There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted tosteal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!
Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ' d usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed!
Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no on screen menu and no remote control! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! There was no such think as channel surfing! You had to get up and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons.
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove or go build a fire . Imagine that!
If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!
C'est Moi & The Story It Tells
Ok so scanned in this photo last night...for various reasons....
It tells so much! It was taken in Greece in the summer of 1988 in Athens. Notice a couple things that crack me up:
1. It's 20 years ago. Am I really that old?
2. The sunglasses
3. No bra
4. The necklace - the long one - was a gift purchased by Mark on Santorini that trip
5. The HUGE scab on my left shoulder - we had a bad motorcycle accident on Ios and I kissed the payment
6. No wrinkles
7. Still have those puffy eyes
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