Author: lfranza

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I’ve decided to invest in a humidifier for my sinus headaches. This crazy cold weather is making my head all congested, and a humidifier is heavenly in times like this. Peter laughed at me, because I sat at the table with a towel on my head whilst I humidified. I may look stupid sitting like that, but it helps with the headaches. Hey, you gotta do whatcha gotta do.

Work this week seems like it’s going to be plentiful yet not helpful. Lots of work, little of it that will actually help me a lot. I have to meet with Best Buy to schedule a Job Shadow program for high school students and give several presentations to a local credit card company to try to recruit volunteers for local elementary schools. Normally this sounds fun, I am in super need of volunteers in other areas–not these 2 things. I know every little bit of getting the name out there will help my company with volunteers and the students’ programs, but it’s always funny how the things with deadlines come during times of work-a-plenty.

This weekend we went to see a Norfolk Admirals hockey game. That’s right–AHL. What does that mean? Bad greasy food and lots of punching. Oh, and a guy with a cool last name. Matt & I spent the whole night trying to get a clean photo shot of this guy’s jersey. Every time this guy came around and stood still, my phone camera took years to focus. It took a while, but it was worth it. Number 44, this is for you.

It is freezing today. Or at least it feels that way. It is 36 degrees and windy–especially when there are no windows in your house, only holes that lead outside. Yesterday, we got a call that informed us that our windows are finally ready to be installed. While the guys are installing them, we’ve turned the heat off, since it would literally be going out the window.

Let me tell you what. Bayoooteeful! We have nice, white windows now with little grids on the front ones. Apparently the 20 year old windows we had before basically fell out during installation because of the rotten wood. Yay for new wood!

I’ll take a picture of a window sometime soon and post for all to see. And for those who don’t care about new windows, it’s probably because you don’t own a house. You wouldn’t understand the joy yet.

🙂

When you hit your 20’s, something terrible starts to happen to your body–indigestion. You hear about indigestion when you’re little, and you just think, “Must be something that happens to old people.” Well, I guess I’m official “old” at age 26. It started around age 24ish and reminds me that peppers might taste good going down, but then I’m going to have to taste them all night long coming up. Bleh. That’s pretty much the noise I make everytime I burp after a meal now. So, folks, keep a spare TUMS in your desk at work, in your car, or in your pocketbooks, because apparently old age doesn’t care where you are when it strikes.

So I really need to get back into blogging again. I enjoyed it and blogged from my sophomore year in college 2002 to about 2007ish. I had a good time reading about other people’s days, and it was fun to type about my own–then my friends and family don’t have to hear about some of the lame things that happen to me each day. You know what I’m talking about. That trip to the grocery store when you ran into the glass door and the security guard shared a laugh with you. Yea, husbands don’t need to hear those stories all the time.

Goals for the New Year:

1. Listen more.
2. Be healthier.
3. Post more blogs and/or take more pictures.

I think these are doable goals.

Story for the New Year
I decide to call my parents at 12:01am to wish them a Happy New Year, and my phone number is similar to 555-0001. In the midst of dialing and chatting with friends while I dialed, I forgot how many times I pressed 0 already. I assumed it was only twice, so then I finished with 01. Ring, ring, “Hello?” “Happy New Year!” I said as the voice on the other end sounds giggly and said, “Happy New Year to you, too!” I proceeded to ask what she was up to, who was over, what they were doing tonight, and asked, “You sound silly tonight. Have you been drinking? Are Burt and Donna over?” The lady starts laughing and says, “No… it’s Stephen and Amy.” Then I realized that I may have dialed 0000 by mistake. The woman confirmed my mistake, and we laughed hysterically about the situation over the phone. We wished each other a Happy New Year, and then I’m sure we both ran to our friends to fill them in on the other half of the phone conversation that they didn’t hear.

It was a great way to start 2010! A phone call to a stranger that makes you mutually laugh with each other.