Anywho, I keep staring at this towel and I see sunglasses and a mouth and a nose.  Not sure if it is really obvious to everyone or just to my sleep deprived braincells but wanted to share it with the world.

Yes the time has come once more to try and shed a few unwanted pounds.  (Oh who am I kidding I need to shed a TON of unwanted pounds).

I hate dieting just about as much as I hate cleaning house.  (which is A LOT)  I just hope that I will remember to be nice to the folks who love me lumps and all because they deserve a medal for sure.

It would be nice if they could invent a pill that would just delete 10 pounds but since that is not possible I must do it the old fashioned way.

My plan is an easy one:  Eat Less – Exercise more – drink more water and the hardest part SLEEP MORE!

Tomorrow is weigh in day and once a week I will post my progress.   I shall post my triumphs and my tragedies.

Wish me LUCK!

November is fast approaching and I have to endure yet another birthday for the 43rd year in a row. Apparently if I stop having them it is a good indication that something has gone terribly wrong – so have them I must.

This year I have decided to embrace the aging process and work up a wish list of things I know I will never get but desperately WANT. (did you hear that? I could have sworn that I just heard my moms voice telling me that I was getting my wants and my needs mixed up. lol)

1st on that list is adobe CS5 Master Collection. This puppy costs more than a good used car ($2,599.00) but that doesn’t keep me from wishing I had it. I figure I would be just as happy with the Design Premium version which only costs $1,899.00 on adobe or $980 on eBay but since I am dreaming I figured I would dream big.

2nd on the list is a good digital camera. A few years back I invested in what I thought was a good digital camera (cannon powershot S3 IS) but like the dude that was looking for the challis in Raiders of the lost ark – I chose poorly. All I want is a compact digital camera with a good zoom, great macro abilities, and good pixel quality. If there is such an animal out there – I WANT IT!

Last but not least – I would love to have a new desktop computer with the memory of 12 elephants and enough hard drive space to save the world. I have been looking at Dell and drooling over this puppy.

That’s it for the stuff that costs money…. now for the priceless stuff.

A) I would love for my family to be healthy and happy for a VERY LONG TIME!

B) I would love to lose some weight (if I got out of this chair more and ate less it would probably happen but I wouldn’t stake my life on it)

C) I would love to win the lottery so I could spend every last cent of it on my family, friends, and a boat load of people that I have yet to meet. I think it would be such a thrill to be in a position to just pay off a strangers mortgage or buy a working mother of 3 a new mini van. I don’t know how folks like Bill Gates can hang onto the billions of bucks that they have – The thought of all that money just sitting in a bank somewhere doing nothing is a bit depressing to me.

D) Last but not least – I would really love it if my dog would STOP WAKING ME UP EVERY 20 MINUTES!!!!! lol

Well that is it for the birthday wishes. If I just get the first item on my priceless list I will be a happy birthday girl.

Here is hoping that your birthday is filled with friends, family and of course CAKE!

I was listening to Andy Roddick’s day one interview at usopen.org today and as he was describing how he felt about James Blake I was nodding my head in agreement.

Anyone who has ever watched James Blake play or listened to him give an interview will agree that this man is amazing.  He is just one of the many players who plays from the heart.   He has a kindness about him that makes it impossible to not like him.

With all this going through my head it reminded me of a photo I snagged off the TV last year during the US OPEN (2009).   Blake was between sets and I noticed that his sweat had formed a heart in the center of his shirt.  I thought it was so fitting because he is such a sweetheart.

Then of course the weird part of my mind kicked in and sweetheart turned into sweatheart and well…. I will let the photo do the rest of the talking.

I am glad to see that he is playing the US Open this year and I wish him all the best.

GOOD LUCK JAMES BLAKE!

Seriously?

There are folks in this country struggling to make their mortgage payments or living on the streets and these folks are smashing this stuff for shits and giggles.

Instead of destroying the items why don’t they donate them?  Give them to a shelter or a family in need.

This world would be a better place if there wasn’t so much waste.

Ohhh and before you start sending me hate mail – I understand that these folks are probably lost and that they are on vacation (and a bit distracted) but they have to remember that getting to your destination is not the most important thing when you are behind the wheel of a 4,000 pound hunk of steel.

In some ways it is kinda funny…. like when a local reporter snapped a photo of a woman from PA pulled over on the side of route 90 next to the sign that said “check your headlights”. She was standing in front of her car looking at her headlights. I am not sure what she was expecting to find but sure enough her headlights were still there.

Unfortunately the funny stuff is few and far between. I can’t count how many times I have seen a driver from PA. make a left hand turn out of the center lane (in fact my little sisters car was nearly totaled when this happened to her.

Are there no 3 lane highways in PA?

Anywhooooooooooo if there are any drivers in PA who want to shed a bit of light on this subject feel free to do so. Who knows maybe in PA the Maryland drivers are horrible. LOL

5:55pm.

How many times during the day do you look at the clock and see a string of the same numbers? For me it is almost every single time and it is starting to freak me out a little bit.

I kinda feel like that part in the matrix where Keanu Reeves sees the cat walk by and then it walks by again.

Granted it never happens between the hours of 6 and 12 but I can’t count how many times I have looked at the clock and it was 2:22pm or 4:44pm.

If I was susceptible to delusions I would probably think that the universe was trying to tell me something but since I am not I am just going to be thankful that there are only 60 minutes in an hour… therefore making it impossible to ever be 6:66pm.