i went to bed at 7pm last night. well on the couch at 7. then at 8 pb woke me up to go upstairs. he was sleeping too. i was going to stay up. he said to go to sleep for the night. so we did. i woke up a zillion times in the night htough. it was hard sleeping through the night. then i was up at 7:30 this morning and out running at 8.

my first stampin up party was good and also a wreck at the same time.

my life lately

i stay up too late. then i can't fall asleep in bed anyway. then i dont' sleep well and i wake up because my allergies are so bad. then i go to work an am extremely tired and i'm busy all day at work but things don't seem to go right and my files get corrupted and i go home an am exhausted but i have so much to do and then i want to watch tv. and then i have more to do and then it's late again. and repeat.

Tuesday!

today i thoguth ti twas thursday.

then after that i kept thinking tomorrow was thursday.

neither of which are true. yet i keep making the mistake over and over and over...

it's been over a month since i updated my weight graph.

i fell asleep in my computer chair and on the phoen today. then i got off the phone and slept in the chair and after a few minutes i realized that was stupid so i went an curled up in bed and slept. but dave kept talkign to me and telling me about when he was going ot wake me up and stuff so i didn't sleep that well then i went to sleep hardcore and he woke me up like 20 minutes later for dinner. i came and replied to e-mails first. i was such a horrible typer but i fixed most of it.

the whole in my jeans is 3-4 inches long now. my toe got caught in the hole while putting them on today and made it bigger.

wow

so 2 years ago august someone i graduated high school with died in a car accident. this morning his brother died in a fire. at some point between 2 years ago and now the other brother almost died in a car accident. he was shot through the windshield of his truck and landed in a tree. they thought he would die. this seems to be a very unlucky family.

newspaper article

allergies

i couldn't sleep in today because my allergies were so bad. i can't breathe so i can't sleep. you know i always thought i slept with my mouth open well apparenty i don't and then i attempt to breathe through my nose. well when you cant' breathe through your nose it sure sucks. i take medicine and i'm still miserable.

oh i forgot to mention. it's a wedding scrapbook. and everyone knows everyoen jacks up the prices by liek 400% for anything wedding related.

please respond with something

i've been asked to make a scrapbook for someone for money. they'd buy teh supplies but i'd pay for the pictures and then my labor. for 50 pages (25 fronts and 25 backs) how much do you think a scrapbook would be worth?

i just gave dave a haircut. i didn't finish cleaning up the hair yet but i'll get to that after i finish this card.

the hole in my jeans keps getting bigger. perhaps i should have hanged into other pants.

oh boy

so the jeans i wear every weekend possibly both day sand then if i change my clothes after work i put these one on about half the time finally wore out to the point of a hole. i've been showing people how thin the fabric was getting and how some of the threads were visibly breaking. well i just looked down and on my thigh there is asmall hole. it's almost like a slice and how the hole is. it will get bigger i guess maybe i should get new jeans soon. my jeans are from 2003 or 2004. i think these are my 2nd to newest pair.

so i changed my last name. this involves me getting new credit cards. well discovered spelled my middle name wrong on the new card. so i told them about it and they said they'd send a new card. i got the new card. middle name is still wrong.

should i just leave it alone?

http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=318+Old+Haymaker+Rd,+Monroeville,+PA+15146&geocode=&dirflg=&daddr=427+Deauville+Dr,+Monroeville,+PA+15146&f=d&hl=en&sll=40.445671,-79.759287&sspn=0.010582,0.0262&ie=UTF8&z=15&om=1 6 minutes it says.

took me 18 minutes. I hate Monroeville and i hate sitting at lights for more than 2 turns. i hate sitting at them more than 1. bu tmore than 2 is rediculus.

stuff

i got a letter in the mail today from day chevrolet saying i was probably due for my 18,000 mile checkup. i find this funny since i'm only at 12,500.

tonight we watched 5 episodes of studio 60 and i finally got to relax. i just have so much to do it wasn't much of a relax but it was better than nothing.

i want to know why it takes from the 10th to the 14th for a package to go from new stanton to here. it shipped across country in 2 days and then it arrived at new stanton. it makes me mad.

ack

it gets so late so fast. this isn't fair.

my opinion

i think that if you receive an e-mail and do not respond to the person who sent it about the topic that was discussed that you do not have the right to talk about the topic with other people. even if you respond, you might not have the right to talk about it with other people. but if you can't even give the courtesy of replying to the person about it, that must mean it's not a worthy topic or why else would you not respond. things like this have made me mad. i've sent e-mails about a topic to person A. then person A does not respond to the e-mail or even with an acknowledgment and saying something that doesn't involve much thought but is a reply to the e-mail. then the next day i hear from person B about said e-mail. it makes me mad. so there was enough of a reaction to the e-mail to prompt discussion but this discussion was not with me. what was said. i dont know. do i want to know?0 yes. that is the whole point of sending the original e-mail. i dont just send e-mails with a story and with questions to not get anything in response. sometimes i even say that i expect to hear the persons reactions. i dont always get that.

more distractions

http://web.mac.com/colleenmccloskey

i am so busy yet i did this

hmmm http://web.mac.com/colleenmccloskey/Site/Blog/Entries/2007/9/8_Photo_of_the_Day.html

busy

shower then doing at least 5 things from my to do list. i miss things on my to do list that take 5 minutes. these things that take hours really bug me. i never get anything done. i need to start sleeping less than 7-8 hours. i seriously don't have enough time in the day. i don't know how to make it better. while i'm at work i just think about all the stuff i have to do at home. while i'm at home i think about all the stuff i should have done at work while i was thinking about all the stuff i had to do at home. it's a vicious cycle.

then i keep doing things at home that i kind of want to do and don't get the things done that need to be done.

sam's club

based on the size of my order, my 1 hour developing is going to take 3 hours.

this might be the last of the wedding pictures to print. these are almost all pre-photoshopped. i need to get rid of red eye. i need to crop. i will get to that eventually. i guess this way i'll have good copies in teh scrapbooks and i have have a generic photo album of all of these. these will be like the proofs i guess.

pictures

i'm uploading what i think is my last batch of pictures from my wedding. well my last batch pre-edited. then i'll go through and edit, do fancy things, and blow them up and print more to make like a real album

yay

i found my camera. i found it. yay yay yay

also when i open ijournal how do i get it to not be the mood and tags from the previous post.

houses

we looked at some houses today. wexford has some nice ones.

so i was a little scared when i saw the hookers

today we tried to go to the waterfront. dave checked online and it said the parkway was open. it said only ramps were closed. well they were wrong. then they had detours labeled but apparenlty that was before and didn't account for teh parkway detour and then they quit labeling them. and so we messed up and there were no street signs. then it became the ghetto. then there was a gas station and there was a hooker at each pump. it was REALLY weird.

luckily we weren't shot and we made our way back and then went to the waterfront the back way. but then we got there and the movie sold out AS we were in line.

sigh

so in ijournal it uses awake instead of a blank mood. so i have to fill it out. also i can't figure out how to edit last entry on this thing. oh i found it.

camera

so i still can't find my camera

iJournal

I journaled this with iJournal.

i don't know how to do anything on a mac except the internet and that took some figuring.

some updates

i have a new computer. i dont know how to use it. i dont know where to start. i dont know how to install anything or use anything that it has on it. silly macs.

also i need a second mouse pad. ok i just stole dave's he's downstairs anyway.

in the same day i was told i was gettin fat and i was told i was looking skinnier. (2 different people)

we need to go grocery shopping and have food in this house.

i have so many things on my to do list. and these aren't simple tasks. they will take forever to do. grrr.


how much heat does a mac generate. it's really hot in this room.

if anyone knows anything about macs and would like to tell me anything at all even basic things that one should figure out by playing, you can go ahead and tell me. i'd like to hear it.

also i keep hitting the space bar when i don't mean it. i attempt to fix all the spaces but here and at work it is pretty annoying.

i keep forgetting to go to sleep

i can't find my camera

i just woke up from a 2 hour nap. dave and i left work early. well we left after core hours ended so we didn't take sick time. then we came right home and went to sleep after taking medicine. now i have to eat some dinner.

allergies

my allergies are so bad. when i woke up, my nose was bloody. my nose is also raw. i can't find the vaseline (sp). i can't stop sneezing or blowing my nose. it's so awful. it's not fair.

i just spent what feels like 20 minutes trying to get this huge sticker off of something i bought. then i even used goo gone. it's still sticky though.

sometimes people are rude and it bothers me. then i think about if i'm rude and nobody tells me. people should tell me if i'm rude. to set me straight.

i visited gram last night. it was fun. she liked the wedding pictures. i need to print them all and order them all and then go from there. i hate having them out of order and i also hate not having them all and some that i don't have printed are really good but if people look at a lot then they won't look again so they miss out on some good ones. maybe i'll put in an order before i go to pat catan's and giant eagle today.

i've become a posting slacker.

tonight i finally got to give my dad his birthday card. i told him he has to take it to work to display it.

we went to bubba darius for dinner. and bubba came out and asked us how things were and we told him how we love it and how we love the bread. then he came out with 3 loaves of bread for us to take. how nice. no charge for those.

oi

do i have enough time to go to sam's club and pick up my pictures and go to the social security office and do the whole name change thing tomorrow during my lunch hour?

nobody will probably read this before then.

then after work, we're going to the pirates game. i still have to make a few thank you cards and i have a lot to write. i wrote 5 tonight instead of going right to bed. but that took 45 minutes. i really don't understand it. i think i'm spending too much time making pretty cards. but it's so fun and addicting. but the cards get prettier so then the older ones seem uglier so i have to write and send before i make more or i'll never get rid of the sucky ones. i think i'm sending 45 or so homemade ones and then like 20 or so store bought ones.

i was in bed for more than 2 hours last night before i fell asleep. it wasn't fun.

i have so many things i want to do and i can't decide where to start. so i decided to play sudoku instead of doing anything i need to do or want to do.

does someone want to go grocery shopping for me?

today i left work early and took some vacation. it ended up sucking. like the worst vacation hours i ever used.

i was extremely tired at work today. i didn't get much work done because i was doing so much other stuff like trying to change my name on everything at work. then i got home and reheated the dinner and then i napped for 2 hours. i'm still a little bit tired.

Wedding Photos

http://picasaweb.google.com/ColleenCherepko/Wedding : pictures from the reception

http://picasaweb.google.com/ColleenCherepko/WeddingCeremony : pictures from the ceremony

i put my athletic pants in the dryer. i think they got 4 inches shorter.

today i left the garage door open when i left. sigh

i think i slept about 11 hours. i was so tired last night i forget what time it was. i ironed the new sheets and the bed skirt so they looked pretty, then put them on the bed then went right to sleep. it sure feels nice. except now i have so little time left in the day and so much i want to do.

oh

my poor car. sad times. stupid garage door went on attack.

so tired

that is all

my feet have never been so sore. when i walk it feels like there's a ball under my foot but it's just my foot.

my brother, dad, and mom took pictures yesterday. i tried to get them printed today and walmart gave us trouble saying they wanted a release. they thought they were professional.

note to self: next time you make wrapping paper, don't use cardstock. just use regular paper.

pictures

i think i will use this now instead of the gallery i used to have.

i forgot to mention that i went to sleep around 6:15am last night (this morning...). so i really did stay up too late. then i woke up at 11 when timmy called on the phone. i'm kind of tired now but i want to do some more stuff. well anything really. i haven't done much. i did watch 3 episodes of tv. maybe 4. been watching tv since dinner. earlier today i did some errands. i haven't liked any of the guest books i've seen at stores so i decided to just buy a scrapbook and make my own. i have to make the sheets now. i tried to find dave a silver tie but they didn't have solid colors this time at burlington coat factory.

i made a to do list of all i have to do in the next 2 days. oh boy. i also hav eto watch the season finale of jericho.

i keep staying up too late. i'm addicted to making cards. it's better than scrapbooking but then i don't get to keep my work forever so then it's worse.

oh and last night i didn't end up going to sleep until 1am.

investigating

so today we got a wedding gift. it came in the mail from jcpenney. but then it didn't have any paperwork and only had the address label over the box like you'd buy in the store. i tried to find out online who it was from. that didn't work. but then finally i called and waited on hold for 10 minutes and learned. what an investigation

i'm so tired. i think it's bed time. last night bedtime was about 4am.

i won 3 ebay auctions in 24 hours. i lost a few too.

i decided i will be a stampin' up demonstrator. the problem is that i will need to find customers and people to host parties. any takers out there?

i'm getting fat. i told dave i was starting my after marriage weight gain early.

today it was way too hot for our summer picnic.

so i have 1 week to make chocolate chip cookies for the wedding. that seems like a lot of time but it's not. oh boy

ugh

i bought a new skirt Friday. i wore it today. the button just came off now.

oh and today i had on shorts with pockets like in most girls things. almost nonexistant. well i had my camera in my front right pocket. i had to no smoking sheet in my left front pocket along with coins. i had my abridged version of my wallet in my back right pocket. in my back left i had my food tickets and my cell phone. then when dave showed up i had his keys in my left front pocket too. now that's a lot of stuff.

amusement parks

i went to kennywood today. i went because jason and haley were going and asked if we wanted to go. then i found out it was my dad's work picnic so i had him get me cheaper tickets. then dave didn't want to go all day so i decided to go early with my parents have dave meet me for bingo w/ my dad's work then we'd meet haley and jason at 5 when they showed up. i only learned later that jason's ticket he already had was for a nighttime ticket. i was surprised how early dave showed up. that made me happy. well after i'm at kennywood in the awful heat i learn haley and jason aren't going. made me mad for many reasons. i spent maybe 3 hours walking around the park and eating w/ dave. we only rode the marry go round. then i rode with my parents, but mainly my mom sat on a bench while my dad and i rode. so dave was there for a total of 6 hours. in the hottest part of the day. he parked in the 3rd parking lot and then when he tried to get back up there the ski lift was broken so he had to WALK up. also after he got up there he learned they do shuttle busses too. i was only there for about 2 hours after dave left. my parents wanted me to spend the night at their house and not bring me home but i talked them into bringing me home since we didn't stay until the park closed. i barely rode anything but it was still fun. i need smaller friends. i need friends willing to go on rides. i need friends willing to go to the park. it's sad.

so today i learned a story about a time i was at an amusement park up near Erie. i was a year and a half old and apparently i could talk really well at that age. well my parents wanted me to go on the train but i wanted to go on roller coasters. so i kept yelling at them that i didn't want to go on the train. my mom said i was a wild little girl. they thought i'd be scared but i liked rides. now they don't let you on so young. kids are missing out. they used to have the you have to be at least 48" (or some height) to ride this yourself but if you were shorter you just had to ride it with an adult. well now they have a hight like say 36" so you have to be between 36 and 48 if you want to ride it with an adult but can't ride it yourself. i've also noticed that lots of rides don't even have the shorter restriction and if you are under 48 you can't ride it at all. also the enterprise (now the volcano) makes you be 54" to ride the thing. that was NEVER the case before. insane.

so today my food was
2 donuts from dunkin donuts
big strawberry parfait with frozen yogurt on it.
french fries with cheese
and ice cream sandwich
half a piece of pizza (dave didn't like it so i got half)
some bites of his strawberry parfait with cool whip
french fries with cheese
dippin dots (cookies 'n cream)

and now i'm hungry and i'm going downstairs to eat.

hot

it was too hot today. we applied for our marriage license today. then went and parked for the game. but i walked over to tall girl and bought pants and walked back to the car and then i went into the game. then i still had an hour to kill before the game. boring. then we left the game at the 5th inning. or something near the fifth inning. it was 2-2 when we left. it ended 6-4. pirates lost.

after much searching last night and being disappointed. today i found a strapless bra that fit my criteria. how exciting. except i wanted black or nude and ended up with white. at least it's something.

food 'n 'at

i made another batch of peanut butter balls tonight. well i made the balls but still have to cover them. i was about to go to sleep but i think i might go down and do round one of chocolate covered pretzels. i will do a new thing i learned a sam's club. it is you cover with the melting peanut butter then cover w/ chocolate after that. i don't know if it will work. but sam's club sells some like that. i guess it is too late and i only have about 8 inches of wax paper. i guess i have to wait. we need to make a shopping list. i don't know what to make. theni dont' know what to buy. last week we went and spent like a hundred bucks but we ended up not really buying any food food.

my advice

when you plan to get married, just elope.

i brought work home to do tonight but i think it might be better. i messed myself up by watching 3 episodes of the biggest loser. i love that show.

fyi

running on my knee makes it feel worse. icing it didn't help.

i stayed up until 5am last night.

the pirates won. the sky was so pretty that i wanted to go over to the other side of home plate to take pictures of the field and the skyline. i didn't though. i was lazy.

Angie came today and we made great cards. Actually one she made was cooler because she saw how mine was set up and we decided it wasn’t pretty so she altered the plan slightly

Then I went and dropped off the rest of the silk flowers at the florist. They were so busy. I didn’t get to talk to the main lady, Liz, so I had to give the message to another lady. I better call next week to verify that Liz knows what flowers go with what.

Then I tried to go to gram’s to get her mixing bowl she said I could have. Well my relatives must have heard how we break in through the basement (well we told them) so then they blocked the door from basement to kitchen so I couldn’t get up there. I was so mad. after I left I realized there was another door I could have sneaked in. that door is about 1.5 feet wide. There’s no way they thought to block that one off. i better not say anything though or they might block it off too. my parents are supposed to get a key but they don't get it to him

Then I got carried away at Pat Catan’s and bought tons of cool stuff. but it is really cool and some of the stuff was very similar to what i was going to order from stampin up. but then it was like 1/3 the price

what an injury

the other night i was trying ot get my leg out from under the covers when i was sleeping. well doing that made my knee hurt. now my knee still hurts. it's my bad knee that hurt for a few months before.

i lifted some weights tonight. my butt feels like it had a workout. i hate when i workout and i dont feel like i had one.

today i ate a salad for lunch but then i was starving later so i ate a few candy bars.

dairy queen

dave and i both got something. i got a medium vanilla cone with rainbow sprinkles. dave got a 10 inch ice cream cake.

fyi: the ghetto DQ behind the mall is about 40 cents cheaper per cone than the fancy plum DQ. their cakes are cheaper than the DQ on 22 in Murrsyville.

updating

i spent all day updating 2 sites on my webpage. my calendar site is now updated. it only has pictures from May, June, and July though. Jesse still has to copy over the past 2 years of pictures. i also updated my weight graph. let me know what you think of my addition of vertical lines to help show why certain things happened.

i put together center pieces today. we also worked on the bustle on my dress. i bought ribbon for scrapbooking too.

some more updates

so my knee is hurting again.

i went to my asthma doctor today.he's now my allergy doctor too. i think i left with 5 different things of free samples. it was like a giant eagle type bag full. he also told me about the half marathon that i posted about earlier. we talked about weddings some. i saw him jot down a few notes about my breathing tests. he told me they were good but his notes said something otherwise. some type of obstruction at the end or something. i was confused. i didn't ask. i told him how i started running again and i am so out of shape and i said about around Christmas when my knee hurt for so long. i told him how it hurt for 2 months before i went to the doctors. he said "you think that's bad. well i went 4 months before seeing a doctor about my ankles" ...he is a doctor.... 4 months... he explained his problem and fix too and last week was the first week he could run again.he won't be doing the half marathon this year. my mom doesn't think i can handle training for that and planning a wedding. i really want to do it to prove people at work wrong. they dont think i can. i never wanted to. i wanted to do a 5k. then this other person was going to do a half marathon with his gf and his gf asked me to do it and i didn't want to and she was saying how we should and this and that. but then their training lasted about a week so they aren't doing one. their half marathon is sept 2 in maryland. i guess whatever gives me inspiration. but i'm not sure i can really do it. i think it'll be really hard. i can at least finish but not do it in a good time.

i really need to work on drinking water. my feet kept cramping up today in the pool. i probably drank a total of 8 ounces of liquid today (all water) and maybe about 8 yesterday.

go me

tonight i did a pool workout and then i just got back from a jog

ok

should i do the 5k or the half marathon? i'm doing one.

now mind you i've only gone running a few times in the past year. and by a few i mean you can count the times on your hand. i've gone swimming a lot the past 2 weeks.

dave and i went running today. well we were both at the track.

i did my first lap of run 100, walk 100, run 100
lap 2 run 300 walk 100
lap 3 run 300 walk 100
lap 3 and on run 200 walk 100, run 200, walk 100, run 300, walk 100, run 100, walk 100

if my calculations are correct that's 6 laps. i did the first lap with dave. then the beginning of the 4th lap with him then the last 200 of the night with him.

it's a shame that it's so hot out and yet i have to wear a hoodie inside because it's so cold in here.

i don't get nearly enough e-mails.

i used my neti pot today. it didn't give me instantly allergy relief like it says it would. i've been miserable all day.

we bought numerous small things at ikea today. numerous small = spent a lot.

i slept about 10 hours. i have so much i want to do today but i probably won't end up doing most of it..

i stayed up too late. there was a the biggest loser marathon on. i even taped it when i left to go running. that show is addicting. now i wish i saw the first half the season.

hmmm

should i get a text messaging plan? would anyone text message me?

i got a new phone today. this one i don't know if i'll read the directions on how to use it but i'm sure having trouble figuring things out now. i'm not really able to handle the lack of how the things on the top part aren't real buttons.

more exercise

well the deauville park gym wasn't that good. the only weight machien for legs was broken. so i did 1 set of all the arm ones i have done before w/ the machines there. next time i might read the directions to do more. and then i did the exercise bike for 5 minutes at the end. the tv wouldn't turn on and i didn't feel like spending time fiddling with it.

exercise

dave and i walked for 10 min then i came in and folded laundry and changed. then we went to the track and ran/walked. we alternated almost evenly. with running and walkign except i ran an extra lap in the middle. i did 6 laps and dave did 4. it was close to 25 minutes or something. i wish my athletic watch didn't have a dead battery.

lunch went ok. i spent over an hour and a half solid cooking to prep. dave wanted me to mop the floor then got mad when i didn't. you can't do that in the middle of cooking. he's insane.

i keep staying up too late.

look at me

we played basketball tonight. 12 minutes. actual basketball players showed up that can shoot so we got scared and left. then we played catch with the football. we played sports for a total of 25 minutes.

our wedding cake will be unique

i fed the cat this morning. i sneeked out when she was eating so i didn't have to try to keep her in the door when i left. i felt bad though. she misses her owners and wanted some petting.