4 day weekends are da bomb!

 I was lucky enough to have a 4 day weekend this past Memorial Day weekend and it was phenomenal!  The best weekend I have had in a long time!  It was filled with all the things that I love.

It started out with a lovely evening of drinking my back pain away (see previous entry) at the Michael Jackson sing-a-long.  That’s what I said folks – Michael Jackson sing-a-long!  Thank God the GFB is training for a triathlon and can’t drink much – hooray for her being my DD!  Turns out all I needed was a little alcohol and the back pain was virtually unnoticeable.  Needless to say – we got our dance and sing on.

Friday I slept in late (I was feeling the pain of drinking the pain away) which was wonderful and happens so rarely it seems! I drove up to the padres on Friday afternoon and we inspected some of the tornado damage – there are LOTS of trees down all over the place.  Then we went to eat at my favorite Mexican food place – Little Mexico!  Tom decided that he wanted to see the new Indiana Jones movie so we went to the new theater and check it out.  Don’t get me started on the customer service at the theater.  I will not add my movie review here because I would like you to be the judge of the movie yourself.  (But I will add – BOO!)

Saturday I basically woke up and went straight to the pool where I stayed all freaking day!  The weather was great – it was hot but not too hot.  I was a total bum and I LOVE IT!  Yeah for getting real tan!  We did have to track down some of the missing cows that night.  The fence lines have been down and the grass is always greener.

Sunday was the big party day!  The Blair fam came out to Salado for some swimming and BBQ.  Just about everyone made it!  I left a little early to go to a friend’s house for their BBQ.  They also had home made beer – I was 3 hours late – the party was in full swing!  The beer was GREATNESS!  I did not know homemade beer could taste so good!  (The triathlon training must have been on hold that day.)

Then Monday was a pure veg day with some house work stuff thrown in.

So all and all – best weekend!  I got to sleep, eat, dance, sing, see the fam, drink beer and get a tan – what else can you ask for.  I think this photo of Biscuit just about sums up the 4 day weekend. 

I am ready for the next 4 day weekend!

 

** CHS people – this is why I am not mad that you had a big travel party without me!  But I will NOT lose attendance points!!!  If I had sat around with nothing to do I would have been really pissed.**

Can working out be bad for you – or is that just me?!

 

For real!  So my work started a boot camp for employees.  It is a 6 week course and we are meeting twice a week.  This is week 1!!!!  I am not a huge exerciser – but I go through phases where I work out regularly.  The last month has been pretty good for me.  I have done some sort exercise 4 days a week – I am on a roll.  So I sign up for the boot camp like a dumb ass!  I am thinking “I can do cardio no problem.  It would be a good idea to add some resistance training into my workouts. Right?!”  Wrong!

 

Day one of the boot camp – Monday – no problems, work out was fine.  It was actually pretty easy.  So of course I go back for day 2!  Day 2 – work out was harder, that is for sure – but I was still able to do just about everything.  As the day goes by yesterday my back starts to hurt more and more.  I am thinking that it is a lower back problem because we did a lot of ab stuff and I am not used to doing the abs workouts.  So when I got home from work yesterday I iced and heated my back for about 3 hours straight – thinking that had to help right?!  Once again wrong.

 

Today has been horrible – my back hurts so bad that it makes me want to throw up– NEAT!  I have had a heating pad on it all day and it has not even gotten a little bit better. So I am literally walking around like the hunchback of Notre Dame – it is SO embarrassing.  My friend at work sees me in the parking lot today and it is like “man you sure are walking funny today.”  GREAT!  That is just what I needed to hear.

 

This is the 2^nd time I have tried to take some sort of boot camp type class.  This first time I ended up with a stress fracture – now the hunchback.  Is working out really worth it?  Why do I HAVE to do resistance training?  What is the matter with just regular ole cardio?  Damn all those people that make me feel guilty for not working out and then I do and now look!  Right before Memorial Day weekend too!

 

Needless to say – this pain has put me in a VERY bad mood today.  Dear Lord I am such a baby!  Thank God for 4 day weekends.  Enjoy yours!

The worst part about having pets is letting them go. Boo

One of the best dogs ever passed away last night and the whole Blair clan is just sick about it.  The Joe Blair’s lost their wonderful dog Tucker.  I just wanted to take a short moment to remember him.  He gave us all 15 years of greatness.  He has a wonderful loving family and led a very happy dog life.  We will all miss you Tucker!  See you in doggy heaven!

 

I am 29 and still not an adult – really

So on Friday morning I woke up very ill.  I tried to force myself to get ready for work and got about half way there (trying to save the vacation days for better things than being sick)  I went back to bed but was so dizzy I could not even sleep – not good!  I felt like I was the bad kind of drunk.  You know after you have passed the – “everything is so funny” or the “I love you man” stage and are at the “please kill me, kill me now” phase or the “I am never drinking again” phase. 

I am laying in bed thinking about how I need to go to the doctor but can’t even get out of bed to get my phone to call anyone.  (I was in no condition to drive.)  Eventually I got out of bed and called the GBF.  Being her loving self she was half a foot out the door before I even told her what I needed. 

I called the doctor to make an appointment and of course the only time they can get me in is right when the GBF has an appointment that she HAS to go to – ok so it was getting her haircut – but I was not upset because she has not had a haircut in a long time and was in a wedding this weekend – hence she could not take me.  I completely understood and would have done the same thing.  So there are no bad thoughts – she did offer to change the appointment but I told her no.

So….I am going through the LONG list of family that I have here in Austin thinking about who I can call; aunts, uncles, grandparents, many cousins (I am close with all these people) and the only person I want to come and get me is my mom.  Yes I know that is sad – mainly for the reason that my mom lives over 45 miles outside of Austin.  My mother being the wonderful person she is jumps in the car and drives ALLLLL the way to my house in south Austin to pick me up and take me to the doctor.  She literally wasted over half her day to take her 29 year old daughter to the doctor.  How sad am I.  But honestly – I just wanted to be sick and have my mom there.  I am not ashamed of this scenario!

I love my mom – she is the greatest.  Mother – thank you for always being there for me no matter how old and lame I am – you are for real the best mom EVA!  Boo for being sick – YEAH for my mom.

One of my HUGE pet peeves!

Indifference!  Seriously – drives me nuts.  I am one of those people that probably tries and cares too much about how other people are feeling.  I am a sensitive person – so I try very hard to be sensitive to other people’s needs and feelings.  But seriously when situations happen to me and the other person and/or people around me could give a crap – it really freaking drives me crazy!  It is 9:23 and is has already been a really rough morning!  I hate days like today!  All I can say is BOO!!!!  I need to learn to separate my personal feelings from the office – how does one does this?  Suggestions are welcome.

TheBooBlog

Not to be confused with TheBoobLog.  No this is not a blog about my boobs – Boo is just a word that I use all the time and way too often!  It has become my signature though.  Somehow this time last year the word boo was glamorized in my vocabulary – so you have – TheBooBlog.  My favorite is that people who hang out with me for a certain amount of time (I am saying one week) will start to pick it up and say boo whether they want to or not.  It is rather hil-ar-ious to catch them doing it.   Please see these photos that illustrate the boo well.

 

 

 

 

Peer pressure

Ok so literally like half of my high school friends have started blogs for one reason or another.  Strictly to keep up with them I have also started one.  I am pretty sure that Josh Kryzak is the only person on the planet that will read it – but as long as he is happy – we are all happy.  I am giving this blog thing a test run anyways.  Hope you enjoy it because honestly – I need to be liked!  Welcome to the biggest middle child blog EVA!