This Perfectly Imperfect Life

day before yesterday i started watching sex and the city season 3. yesterday i watched the episodes when carrie's first with aidan ~ new love in spring in nyc! and that's when it hit me ~ i'll never experience that again with hubby! yes, i'm still completely madly head over heals in love with him & hot for him, but maybe i didn't savor that part of us long enough or try to make it last as long as it possibly could because we just fit so well together right from the first moment. i was a little startled at the thought, even a little sad. speaking of nyc! around the 3rd week of march, i'm going to spend the weekend in nyc with one of my longtime best friends, spirited singleton ~ (see my links section for her blog!) i can't wait! i've always wanted to live & work in nyc, even if only for a brief time ~ i so live vicariously through her! anyway, 2 spots i definately want to hit are 'the strand' bookstore and 'conways' clothing store...

i just finished spending the day with my mother. as i write this, i'm wolfing down 2 caramel chocolates, a devil's food twinkie and a glass of iced tea. NEED I SAY MORE?!?!?!?!?! anyway, it's such a long story, i don't know how to make it short! i/we wanted my mother to live closer to us. i was very unsure of having her live in the same complex as me given how the over 2 years went in the last complex we all lived in. i knew which full size 1 bedroom apartment she'd like in the complex we live in & run. but she chose a different one, a small 1 bedroom apartment. and she HATES it and the neighbors below her. she moved in late may of '06. she hasn't bought a new bed and sleeps on a blowup one in the living room. she gave us her sectional couch because she wanted a new one and i only took it because she promised me she was going to buy one. never did. she got rid of her dining room table before moving because she wanted a new one. never bought...

as i said in yesterday's post, i am going to give up wasting time for lent and now i've decided that i'm adding daily exercise. i've accomplished some today: got up early ~ finished cleaning the living room couches (did all the vacuuming, scooping the litter boxes, cleaning the bathroom, laundry & 2 loads of dishes, etc. yesterday) ~ went to the foodstore for a few things ~ invited my mom over and had her watch the oprah show i taped yesterday about how people live and decorate in small spaces (because she complains that her 600 square foot apt. is too small - tape showed people who live in nyc in 250, 265 & 550 square foot apt's !) ~ filled out a lease for an applicant who's coming by at 4pm to sign it ~ made a follow up appt. for hubby's sinus dr ~ tried calling my aunt but got her machine... what i still want to do today is: complete 2 exams ~ situps & stomach crunches ~ write ~ figure out if i'm going to schedule things for each day ...

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first off, let me say that yes, i'm religious, in my own ways ~ i think everyone should keep religion in their own ways and no one's ways are better than someone else's and no one religion is the "right" one or better one and we should all be tolerant regardless, though i am not in favor of pushing one's belief's on others and do not tolerate that. that being said, either sometime yesterday or this morning (hey i'm lucky i've remembered this at all without writing it down!), i decided that i'm going to give up wasting time for lent this year. before you scoff at me, if you've read any of my previous posts, this is something i struggle with daily and have for years. whether it's depression, learned or just laziness, i don't honestly know, but, i really want to make a concerted effort to change it. i don't know if i'm going to start with a schedule or just have a list of tasks for each day, i'll work that out on the compu...

2/14/07 ~ when the freezing rain started pouring down again in the afternoon, this little guy took refuge in the lattice above our patio! 2/14/07 ~ i know it's hard to see, but, here's our living room at the end of a cold & stormy valentines day! 2/14/07 ~ the beautiful strawberry ice cream colored roses hubby gave me a day early for valentine's! 2/14/07