I Heart Peanut Butter

So here we are at Coachella, Hot as hell outside…
In the AT&T Blue room taking a break from the warm wait HOT California Heat.
Funny how I tanned to a nice crisp bronze the last few weeks and I still was burned today which should make the 60 lb pack on my bag even more enjoyable.
So it is about the 3:30 time frame and the most worth while act today has been Hybrid w/ Perry Ferrel. The beats/bass went through my body like a drill on your teeth.

So now that I have a few minutes to cool off I can write about the weekend thus far.
Well We jumped on our nice early plane on Friday morning to Phoenix….Gloomy and Cloudy not the Phoenix I remember….We made our way to Enterprise and waited in a very long line for the car rental, upon getting downstairs to pick up the Chevy Aveo we were expecting they realized they didn’t have any and wanted to upgrade to a SUV. Knowing the amount of miles we needed to drive we realized that was not the best of ideas. So the upgrade was a Dodge Stratus…

So we were off to the desert…..

Stopped at Old Chicago in Meas, because there Artichoke Dip is the best of the best and I needed a fix.
Then got on our way of our 250 mile journy to Indio, California…

Poor Neil, his first experience with Cali was Blyth which looks like an old mining town and has nothing but one set of lights…

At this point we wanted to see if we could find a Wal-Mart or Target…..Took the short detour to Palm springs and found a Supercenter Wally world…
Picked up the last of the things we needed and headed to set up camp at Coachella

Last night was very much a fun night of mingling and drinking…..Feel alseep after 22 hours of travel and fun….Woke up very early to start today…..

I think besides Hybrid the other best experience was the kid who thought no one was watching and decided to take down his pants and take a shit right on the lawn….Some people…..
Anywho was just told I had 5 minutes to wrap this up because there is a line for the internet usage…..
Till Tomorrow….

Well we are in Cali a day in the car and airplane….lots of fun….I just got bite by a misquito…damn forgot the bug spray….
Can’t wait until tomorrowe….The music will begin…

Off to the airport and then to the west coast…..Coachella and Josjua Tree here we come…….

What a damn slacker I have been.
Seems I have been to busy with LIFE to write anything worth anything.
Well we head out west on Friday, I have Thursday off to fight a damn speeding ticket and to do laundry, clean the house and make sure we are ready to go,is it programmed in a womens DNA that they are the one to be organized. They are the ones to pack the first aide kit, the toothbrushes and anything else that may come into play.
My whole life I have packed to move, packed to travel and so on. Learned all my packing skills from Mother Packer….Named Debbie.
So as I check items off the list I feel like I am accomplishing things yet I still feel the need to unpack and repack…..Which will be done until 3:3am when we are leaving for the airport.
See this is not your everyday vacation, we are not sitting by a pool all day sipping on cocktails and working on our tans, playing tennis and having crazy vacation sex all day.
No we are roughing it, well Coachella will be cake as we decided that we will spend the money on the 4 dollar bottled water and 15 dollar breakfast on the onsite camp ground, instead of thinking food ideas and ways to smuggle in alcohol and other unmentionables…
But after that we are going back to the Chevy Aveo that we are renting, hell with Cali gas prices we can’t afford any more of a car. We will repack our packs with all the backpacking equipment and head to Joshua Tree. The first night will be easy and relaxing since we are going to camp at Jumbo rocks and party it up with Grace….But then Tuesday pack up the tent, and all the belongings and hike to Keys View…1 mile above sea level and a world above the desert we will take pics, relax and set up camp for the night.
Wednesday we will explore and travel around the park and then head back to Arizona..
So overall it will be an experience I can’t wait for. Time with the man I love and no work….MUCH NEEDED
The countdown is almost done….

Anywho the life of “Ms. C” has been overall crazy.
Neil is all moved in and life is good……..Taking getting use to a new life that I share with this wonderful guy. Getting use to cable in the house, and a new routine.

Neil took some pics of me this weekend, like the one above and I was like wow I am tan….And wow I am not the chubber I was even a year ago, hell even 6 months ago…
See been very critical of myself in the last couple years because I let myself get to the point I never wanted too. But I am well over halfway to where I want to be.
Focus on diet ( WW is great but I need to eat things that make me feel fantastic and are yummy like more Ms. C’s Smoothies….) and stick to the workout routine that was put together for me…plus step it up a bit.

But hell I will look hot this summer…..Maybe

I am such a slacker…
Friday and the last time I wrote anything was on Monday.
Where did this friggen week go…
Well I am exhausted, not sure why between a pretty crappy sinus headache and not enough sleep anymore I think I need a nap.

So this week was just busy and crazy, only 6 more days until we leave for our trip and everything is coming together, slowly. This weekend we are packing the 1st round and getting the little things like Batteries and matches..

Really not much going on getting use to there being cable in the house, taking alot of getting use to . I have not watched TV in about 7-8 years and then last night I caught a glimpse of “The OC’ and it was more then I could handle. I like watching “Big Love” and “Sopranos” but besides that I really could care less. I think it is funny I will sit on the couch with Neil while he watches his “SHOWS” and I sapce out, read, and just want to be touched while he is enjoying his show.

But all and all not much else is going on….

Everything I just wrote got wiped away…computer malfunctioned and it is gone.

I do belive it happened for a reason, the reason being that it was something only I should read and I think typing it got alot of things off my mind. It is like the letter you write to your love and never give to them. Or the venting email you type and never send.
It was for me and it will now forever stay that way!!!!!!!!!!!!

So 13 more days until the grand old trip….Upon chatting with a co worker, what else do you do on Good Friday when your customer base is Schools. She thinks that I am crazy for the trip that is coming up and seems Neil thinks we will need a vacation to recover from the vacation. As long as I do not overheat like a 20 year old car with a radiator leak or break a leg I think I will be 100% rested for the one day of work upon arrival back in the bay state.
So MissGrace sent me some info on Joshua Tree and the littature that you receive when you first enter any national park. We plan on meeting up with Miss Grace and her crafty unicyle riding man. She is a Buzznet friend, we comment and chat via email and picture comments. Should be fun…
Tomorrow it will be warm and beautiful so I think we will go for a little hike and play some tennis. Sunday we will be running around like crazy to visit both of our not very religious parents for the Easter holiday…
Not much up but a slow day in the office…..

I was almost made to look like a fool today for wearing my spring skirt and open toed shoes…Why you ask because it is New England and April. I was given the “I don’t start wearing things like that until June” well been tanning and my legs are always skirt ready since I seem to have the smoothest softest legs on the planet and I can thank the $100.00 worth of lotion I go thru a month..
So with my tanned and toned legs because of the amount of work I do on them at the gym I feel I have the right to wear a skirt with heels in April if the day will be around the 70 degree mark.
I am tired of black pants, knee high boots and sweater…

I will start adding each week one thing that I am simply in love with and must have..
First MUST HAVE for Spring

Hype “Hamlet” Slide
These are must have….I LOVE THEM AND they will work with almost anything…….. For a mere 150 dollars I will have them and be paying for them for a couple months…

So I am over excited for the warm weather and wearing of fun spring/summer clothes…
Can you blame me…

Shadows………………………….

Well this weekend seemed a very active one…

Saturday we chilled at the house a good part of the day but I did get in a trip to the Saturn dealership to get a part fixed, while under warranty I will milk anything that needs fixed. Funny is I will use my 3 year warranty in about 1 1/2 years because 36 miles in just over 10k miles away.

So far no major issues with the engine or other mechanical problems but the car has been involved in two very small accidents and I am awaiting insurance money for the one currently.

Next year once what I owe is what I will get on this car, it is going…I was so hard up for a new car that I purchased this Saturn ION and I really just don’t love it. For the last couple years my next car was going to be either a Mini Coupe, a Toyota Prius or Mazda 6. They are in my price rnage and they are all great with gas. See total in the last hum lets say two year I have drove almost 80k miles. 2 years time 80k miles. My last car I drove 55k in one years time. So economic is good for me.. If I lived in the city I would so be driving a cute SmartCar at this time.

I LOVE THEM!!!!!

Neil is thinking about getting a Prius and I told him there is a good chance we will have twin cars next year , cause I have been thinking for some time that would be the best bet for me..I built one online a while back and they have a red on that will come to about 24k….

But if we move to Vegas or Phoenix next year I am thinking a smart car is the way to go …..

Bumble Bee Smartcar…

So Saturday I left the dealership and meet up with Beth for a bit…We shopped in Millbury and then I headed home to Neil seeing the cable guy had no arrived yet…Stayed waited for the cable guy and then headed to the gym and tanning….Came home with enough time for Neil to do what he needed to do while watching the Red Sox game. So friggen weird for there to be cable in the house…I have not had cable in some hum since I lived at home that was about 10 years ago…I have never been interested in much and the only thing that keeps my attention on the TV is HBO and movies….

Sunday was the day I have decided we are a very active couple. We got up had coffee and then headed to play tennis…I lost but then again I am still learning…Then we went tanning and off to Wachusett Mountain to do some hiking. Not your normal day hike, we need to be ready for the trip in a couple weeks so we put a shit load of weight in our packs and wore them hiking. I felt great afterwards and it was a worth while hike in my book.

But Crystal then ruins 90% of the workout we had by really wanting Rota spring Ice Cream, first time for the season and there ice cream is made there….Oh so yummy. So I had a large Sunday with Peanut Butter Cup Ice cream , peanut butter sauce and cookie dough….OHHHH so good.

But overall a very good weekend…..At work on this lovely Monday and ready to go home already…..

The funniest that is the past year.
Amazing keep finding, remembering and wanting to catch up with people that were my past. See yesterday on the nice hike back down from Ross’s cliffs with my babes I was talking and thinking about future and the greatness of fate and things happening in the same exact order that they did in order for you to be where you are at this exact moment.
When I was like 18 I use to break it down to skipping a summer school class in order to meet someone that became a very much important person as far as the layout of my life.
Every single breath and moment in my life happened just the way it was suppose to happen. Sometimes it was shitty and sometimes it was wonderful but overall it has made me to be who I am today…
I worry about things that in the past I had to worry about…I love things because of the past and I hate things because of the past.
But walking in the woods yesterday I truly realized that without every second of my life going the course then I would be somewhere else at this moment it could be a better place or somewhere I couldn’t wait to leave.
This weekend I found old contact info for an old friend who I so badly wanted to contact and put his name in MySpace search and there he was…In the Army and in Germany but we were connected once more. Emailed with him this morning and it makes me happy to know he is doing well and so on…
But life has been a whole lot of reflection these past few weeks. Not 100% sure why but maybe this week I am PMSing and I over think everything.

Was also thinking this morning while emailing with my sweets via work email that we are living our own Blogger reality show…Meaning we have the big time A-Bloggers that we watch there life, what they write about and the relationships that occur between them..Maybe because we so love blogging and reading but we are not them. Somehow we never got that cult following such as people like Tony Pierce or Raymi. Sometimes I wonder how they got the following because most men’s blogs bore me and people who just post pics of themselves seems rather silly. But somehow we are transfixed on these people and there lives….We are like the geeks in the high school watching the cheerleaders and football players just being popular……
Seems rather strange when you think about it..