Let's play "catch-up"...

I can't believe it's mid January already! Man, time flies!

Let's see...Summer was great. Rachel decided to move in to her boyfriend's place and Becky decided to move into our friend's house to help out with their baby. Sort of a nanny position. Nice and quiet in my house! John is the only one left in the house right now. He misses his sisters, tho.

Fall- Sue and I were lucky enough return to The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO for another great Darkness Radio event! What a beautiful place! Dave and Tim from Darkness Radio always throw such a great event with lots of interesting speakers.

Christmas was kind of quiet. I'm not really a "Christmas" kinda person. Give me Thanksgiving any day! No trying to figure out the "perfect" gift for someone, no crowded stores...no spending money you really don't have. Yeah, give me Thanksgiving any ol' day. The Macy's parade, lots of food, great desserts and just hanging out with the family.

Well....that's about it for now. Keep warm wherever you are!

Well, I did it!

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Come out, come out wherever you are!

Well...this TOTALLY sucks!

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OMG!! It's August already?!

Time flies..

All is well here. Kids are out and about. Rachel decided to stay at her boyfriend's house for the summer. I suggested it because she and Becky CONSTANTLY argue and I need a break from it. Becky's been in cosmetology school since May. John is just hangin' out this summer. He's a senior this school year...I can't believe it! In May I told him to find a job for the summer. Has yet to happen. He has, however, been extremely helpful around the house. He does the dishes, load/unloads the dishwasher, vacuums, straightens up..etc. Of course he expects to be compensated.

Herman and I are doing well. Took a few trips down the shore. Hung out. Went to Atlantic City for a night. A few of our friends got married this summer so we've been to their respective parties. Looking forward to vacation- last week of August. We hope to do some camping in PA at Ricketts Glen State Park. There are 27 waterfalls! We'll also head to VT for a quick visit with my parents.

Went to see Dave Matthews Band in June with Becky, my sister and her family. We had lawn seats and it rained. My brother in law was arguing with some kids about their behavior. Becky was arguing...her favorite thing to do. So, I bought tickets for just my sister and I to see Dave at Madison Square Garden in September...no one else is invited! Can't wait!!

Was in the hospital for a few day in late June. Food poisoning or salmonella...not sure. I'm all better now!

Sue and I are heading back to Colorado in early November to The Stanley Hotel for a Darkness Radio event. Jason and Grant (of Ghost Hunters fame) will be there. I hope we get snowed in!

Ok..well, I guess I got you all caught up.

Back to the show...

Peace...

 

Just checking in

Yeah, I guess it's been awhile since I checked in on my journal. Not much is new. (A very good thing!)

Kids are all behaving. John got his driver's permit last night so he keeps bugging me to drive. Becky still doesn't have her permit..a good thing. Rachel is out looking for another job...YAY! We don't see too much of her lately. She has a boyfriend that she spends alot of her time with.

Becky and I are headed to Vermont on Saturday.  We're taking the train! I can't wait. We're going to my parent's so that I can drive my mom back down here to help care for my sister when she has her sinus surgery next week.

Herman got to spend a few days in Forida a few weeks ago. He had a great time. He went with his brother in law. They did alot of partying. And they spent time with his parents, aunt and cousins. I'm glad that he went. He needed it.

Well...that's about it.

Peace!

The Giants

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

BIG BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WE'RE GOING TO THE SUPERBOWL!!!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

***slapping my wrist***

I'm still here.

Things have been fairly quiet here in my world. And that's cool.

TSPR: We took on 2 new members recently. Did an investigation at the Paterson house. Going back on Saturday. (Can't wait!)

Life (in general): Good. Everyone is behaving. Went back to the gym last night.

Me: Was sick on and off lately. had a really bad flare up of my fibromyalgia. ( I had stopped drinking tonic water, which had quinine in it. Quinine helps with the pain of fibromyalgia. So, I started drinking it again. Symptoms subsided within several days.Go figure.) Had bad stomache thingy. Not sure what was wrong with me. Feeling better today.

Travels: Nothing to mention. We went to Pt. Pleasant on Jan.6th. Watched the Giant's game. (They won!) Otherwise, we've been close to home.

Holidays: We had Christmas here...22 people for dinner! I have to day that the steam tables I bought a few years ago are the best investment I have made in awhile! So, menu: Ham, lasagna, green bean casserole, balmi (like lo mein), can't remember what else I had!! New Year's Eve I was "home alone"...Herman worked his security gig that night (couldn't pass up the $$) and I stayed on the couch with heating pads and a single serve bottle of champagne. A nice quiet night.

Babies: Our niece had a baby girl on Dec. 25th!. Heather (a close friend) had her son, Bob, on Dec. 27th! and finally, Samantha, our neighbor, had her daughter Jocelyn on Jan. 4th! We had a babay shower for Samantha on Dec. 9th. It turned out great! I cooked most of the food. "Sam" got alot of stuff for the baby.

Other crap: Rachel is considering moving in with her boyfriend of 8 months. We'll see. I'm torn. I'd like to see her become more independent but I'd really miss her. Becky is still Becky. John is doing well. He played (with his band) at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park last week.

Ok..I think that brings us up to speed.

Peace...

Babies

I'm such a bad blogger!

Hi all! ("All"...like there's anyone reading...lol)

Spent last Saturday night at Ft. Mifflin...freezing my ASS off! But the fun we had! Sue, Terry and I (Ali was supposed to go but had been sick prior..) spent last Saturday night at this amazing fort! The staff couldn't have been more gracious or accomodating. Hot and cold beverages ALL night and a full breakfast in the morning. We were so happy to see John Zaffis and Adam Christian Blai! What a surprise! (If you don't know who they are, google their names.) I have to go thru my evidence. Sue and Terry got some interesting stuff.

Sunday Sue and I were lucky enought to attend a Tourette Syndrome benefit in Westfield NJ. My boss's wife is a teacher in the same town that Dave Tango from Ghost Hunters is from. Dave Tango suffers from a mild case of Tourette's. His dad Bruce held a benefit dinner for the cause. Dave, Steve Gonsalves, Jason and Grant were all in attendance. So was the Amazing Kreskin and The Party Dolls! We had a great time but we were so tired that we left early. We had some really cool people at our table, tho. Hopefully we'll be interviewing some of them this week...they want to join the TSPR ranks!

Anyway...more later...

Peace!

Time flies....doesn't it?!

Yeah, I'm still here.

No news is good news..that sorta thing...

Herman and I celebrated our 20 year wedding anniversary in August by going to Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City for two nights...NICE...lol..

Everyone in my family is doing well...and doing the "right thing"..whew...much relief..

Spent this past weekend with my TSPR friends (Sue, Ali and Terry) at Univ-Con in State College, PA...Penn State..we had alot of fun! But I was tired...still am..

Work is ok...I was out for a couple of weeks..had my gallbladder surgically removed..

Then I hurt my shoulder/back...no gym for a few weeks...but I went back tonight!

Anyway...

Peace

Damn!! July already?!

Sue, Ali, Joel and me

The beautiful Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Co

Jason Hawes, Sue, me, Ali and Grant. Sue and Ali bid $$$ for this cool picture taken by Adam Christian Blai. Cool, huh?!

The 3 of us with John Zaffis, one of the nation's leading demonologists. What a great guy he is!

I can't believe how time flies!

The Stanley Hotel trip: March 29th thru April 1, 2007 What a great time we had! It was Ali's very first plane trip. (She's 60!) When she got off the plane, she exclaimed, "This is what I was worried about all these years?! It's scarier driving in a car!" So much happened in the 3 short days we spent there. We got to hang out with some pretty cool people and we even made a new friend, Joel. Joel is a paranormal researcher from Colorado. Hopefully he'll be able to meet us in KY next spring for our anticipated investigation of The Waverly Hills Sanitorium. One of the most interesting (and upsetting) presentations was given by Adam Christian Blai, an exorcist who is sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church. He really gave us (paranormal researchers) alot to think about. It was alot to digest. Many people left that presentation in tears, Ali and I included. We also went on the ghst hunt in The Stanley Hotel. What a great time we had! We investigated from 9pm until 2 in the morning! We were DEAD (pun intended!) tired. The food at The Stanley was fantastic! We ate like Queens! All in all we had a wonderful time and we hope to return in the future to do some more investigating.

Life in general: Becky graduated high school on June 21st, 2007...her 18th birthday! We had a big party for her that weekend. Her plans are to attend a local county college for a couple of years, so that she figure out what she'd like to do with her life.

My parent's are getting married next weekend, the 14th of July! There will be about 58 people at the wedding, which will be at one of our favorite restaurants. I'm thinking that I should prepare a toast of some sorts, huh? What doyou say at the wedding of your parents, who have been divorced for 30 years?! Anyone?

The kids have been pretty good. Jackie is visiting for the weekend. She hopes to head into a three quarter way house on Monday or Tuesday. She spent 5 months in a halfway house, where she did very well. Seems like she needs some sort of supervision in order to stay clean. So be it.

Well, that's all I have time for right now. Hope everyone is well (if anyone is reading this, that is!) and enjoy the pictures!

Peace!

Tags: The Stanley Hotel; paranormal research;

I'm alive and well

Hey!

Just wanted to update and let everyone know that I'm still alive. I recently started a myspace site for myself and for TSPR. You can check them out at:

http://myspace.com/tristateparanormal

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=148981861

Things haven't been so great for us recently but we're hanging in there. I'll update once I get a clearer head.

Only 3 more weeks til Sue, Ali and I head to CO to The Stanley Hotel with the guys from TAPS, Patrick Burns, The Dave from Darkness Radio, John Zaffis....I CAN'T WAIT!!!

 

Tags: The Stanley Hotel, TAPS, myspace, TSPR

Yikes! Has it really been 2 months?!

Ok..here we go.

Life in general has been ok with some very upsetting exceptions. Without going into too much detail, Rachel has joined Jackie in using heroin. Rachel is currently in a rehab and will step down (maybe today) to a partial hospitalization program. She doesn't want to go, but it's an insurance issue and also a progression issue. We found out about her using heroin (snorting it) the day before New Years Eve. We spent that whole night (Saturday) watching her detox and then she finally got an appt at the rehab on Sunday, New Years Eve day. Herman and I spent NYE on the couch at home, by ourselves, in varying degrees of shock/anger/sadness. New Years day we spent on the couch with John adn Becky, curled up watching movies and sheltering ourselves from the world. We didn't answer the phone for a few days. That same Saturday, earlier in the day before Rachel's admittance to using, we found Jackie on the upstairs bathroom floor, half dead. She was supposed to have been getting on a flight to Phoenix to go back to the half way house program that she had attended last year. Hermn picked her up off the floor and threw her into my truck. I took her to the local ER, where they admittted her into the ICU for a few days. Apparently she had been using (with Rachel) the entire week that she had been staying with us. She started to detox and because she is a diabetic, once she started vomitting..it was all over. She's out of the hospital now and staying with my mother until she can legally travel to AZ. (Court issues that I really don't know too much about other than the fact that if she goes to AZ without first going to court, she'll be thrown in jail should she ever come back to NJ.) We also received very sad news this past Saturday. A year or so ago I wrote about my friend's son (Anthony) who had osteosarcoma. This past Friday night Anthony passed away at the age of 16. He fought a brave and valiant fight.

OK...enough "debbie Downer" crap.

Me, Sue and Ali are headed to The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park CO on March 29th! We are going on a paranormal retreat with the guys from TAPS, John Zaffis and Darkness Radio. You can go here to see the details. We're sooooo excited about this trip! Ali has never ever flown before so it will be that much more exciting!!

This past Saturday Herman and I were able to enjoy the Tiki Bar in Point Pleasant due to unusually warm weather we've had here in the northeast. It was 73 freakin' degrees out!! We sat on the pier overlooking the Atlantic sipping a Corona! Jan 6 and we were sitting at the Tiki Bar enjoying a beer! It was kind of surreal, tho.

Ok...I have at least 20 loads of laundry to do and meatballs to make and sauce to cook...better get going.

Peace...and Happy (belated) New Year!

Tags: Stanley Hotel, paranormal retreat

Way to go....!!

WAY TO GO, RUTGERS!!!!!

WOOOOO HOOOOO!

So much has happened...some good, some bad..

Where to start...

I guess we'll start with the "good". Last Saturday night I was able to catch up with my girlfriend Diana. Diana and I were best friends throughout high school. We shared many an adventure! Diana moved to CA when she was 17. Last time I saw her was about 12 or so years ago. (My kids were really young.) So, what did we do? I met Diana, her daughter Jesse, Jesse's friend Ashley, Diana's sister Vera, and Vera's daughter Dana at Penn Station around 7pm on Saturday night. It was too funny. Diana and Vera both looked at me and exclaimed "Oh my God! You look EXACTLY the same!!" (Is this good or bad?!LOL!) I cannot tell you how happy I was to see Diana again! She and I were tighter than sisters at one point of our lives.  So...anyway...We proceeded to Chinatown for dinner. Dinner was good. I had chicken in curry sauce. We all kind of shared what we ordered (pork fried rice, sweet and sour pork, pork lo mein, beef and green peas, etc...) It was all pretty good. (Just some hole-in-the-wall place we found walking down Canal Street.) From there the younger girls wanted to do some shopping so we obliged them. Finally we wound up in the Lower East Village at Coyote Ugly! WHAT A BLAST! We had a great time! The younger girls danced on the bar in true Coyote Ugly fashion! They earned the shirts that they either received as gifts form male patrons or bought themselves. (Please, search "Coyote Ugly" to see what this place is all about!) Ok..the place was a tiny hole-in-the-wall but what alot of fun we had! Herman drove into the city to pick me up, as taking the train home at 130am by myself was totally UNAPPEALING. I was the 1st to leave. (Side note: Vera was soooo f'n pissy that night...but she's always been this way. I told her daughter (Dana) that Id go to the city with her anytime she wanted to go.) I had hoped to see Diana before she left (earlier today) but it never worked out that way. I'm hoping to take a road trip out to CA ( Martinez, 30 miles northwest of San Francisco) in the next year. This way I can spend time with Diana, no distractions!

Ok...now on to bad news. I recently received an email from my mom that totally BLASTED me for being a terrible mother to Jackie. I received this email about a week ago and have yet to get over it. This email was totally inappropriate and completely uncalled for. Prior to this email, my mother had IMd (didn't call, didn't have Jackie call)  me to ask me to pay for Jackie's medication yet again. I signed off before I had to answer, as I was taken off guard. The next day my mom emailed me to say that she was waiting for my response. My response was, 

Hi Mom,

    I'm sorry but I cannot afford to pay for Jackie's medications. Jackie should be checking into programs that the drug companies offer for people who cannot afford medication. It's unfortunate that she waits until she is completely out of her medication before she worries about where the next prescription is coming from. This is something that Jackie needs to take care of. As long as she knows that someone is going to pay her way, she won't be forced to take care of herself and her needs.

Love, Sharon

 

The next day I received such a scathing email from my mother that I was unable to read the email in it's entirety. I deleted the email before I was able to read it through. It was so awful. Such accusations. Calling me a bad mother. Telling me that Jackie was a "victim". You know what? I don't like anyone who plays the "victim" card. In any case, this email has caused me such grief that I am not planning on spending the holidays with my mother and sister. They have turned this into a situation that makes people choose "sides"...There are no sides to this. This has nothing to do with us loving or not loving Jackie. My mother is doing Jackie such a disservice by enabling her. In my mind, my mother is helping Jackie kill herslf. You provide for her so that she has money to stick a needle in her arm?! How are you saving her?!! I have never told my mother that she cannot help Jackie...that's up to her. Then tonight Becky received an IM from Jackie, who told her that she had totalled her car yesterday. She said that something fell behind and got stuck behind her brake and she plowed thru a red light. I suppose this means that the cars she crashed into will be seeking compensation since the accident was clearly her fault. She's supposedly in a methadone treatment program. Should she be driving? She's "under the influence", because it is a drug. When will she ever learn? All we want is for her to be back in a program that makes her become responsible for herself. When she was in AZ, she was atotally different person. She was self reliant, responsible..in charge of her life. We offered to send her back but my mother (interfered) talked her out of it. And yet, my mother claims that we don't care about Jackie. All we want is for Jackie to be healthy and happy. And we feel that this is NOT going to happen back here in NJ. She has too many people (my mom and my sister) who will allow her to lay around the house and watch tv all day long...in other words, enable her.. When does this all end? I can tell you that we have no hope for her as long as she stays near my family. They think that they are helping when in actuality they are really only helping to speed the process of her killing herself. They just don't get it. There's just so much going on with Jackie that I cannot even begin to explain...

 

Sorry to vent..I just needed an outlet. I just want to scream at the top of my lungs. And it doesn't matter, because my family still won't get it. They won't get it. They'll blame me for the rest of Jackie's life.

 

Can't write anymore.

Peace.

Yeah, it's been a long time..I know..

Ok...where do I begin?

Been doing really well at the gym. I curled 25 pounds with my left arm tonight!! (Ok..I could BARELY curl 10 pounds when I started so 25 lbs. is a miracle! Also, I couldn't curl it with my right arm becasue my right arm isn't as strong as my left arm.) So, yes...progress is being made daily. I've been averaging 3 days a week for the past few weeks. My weight is up but I think it's because I'm getting more muscle mass. ( I love flexing my biceps! LOL) Elisa has been keeping up with me, even passing me up in the upright bench press.

I've been pretty busy the past few weeks. Oh, I caught a damn head cold that kept me down for a few days. I hate head colds! Give me the flu any ol' day! Lay in bed, sip soup, have people take care of you, call out of work for 4 days!! A cold, well...no sympathy, no soup, no calling out of work. ::ugh:: 

TSPR news: We are getting new shirts and a new jacket this week! We (me, Ali and Sue) went back to do a follow up investigation last night. One of our ranks resigned today. This saddened me. I hate to see this person go. On Wednesday night we are going to see John Zaffis (a demonologist) at a local college. Can;t wait! We (me and Ali) were very fortunate to meet John at a paranormal conference in CT 1 year ago. He's fascinating!

Jon: Maybe you know Jon, maybe you don't. He's a good friend of Brian and Kathleen's. A week or so ago he lost his dad to a massive heart attack. Jon's entries are heartbreaking , to say the least. Please hold Jon and his family in your thoughts and prayers. If you read thru Jon's journal a bit, you'll see that a friend of his is missing and has presumably committed suicided. (He left a carefully placed note.) How much can a person endure? You can feel Jon's pain when you read his blog. (Side note: Jon is an incredibly talented and witty guy. Read his journal. I think you'll agree that he has a way with words. And he's as sarcastic as the day is long...and I like that in a person!)

John: My son broke his wrist 2 weeks ago today. He was skateboarding and when he fell, he smacked his wrist against the wood and broke it. He's in a cast for 1 more week and then a wrist splint for another 3 weeks. When I originally took him to the ER, they said that it wasn't broke and that it was sprained. An hour after we got home, they called back and said that the radiologist saw a break in his wrist. So we had to go back to the ER and get it splinted. Then we had to go to an orthopedic dr and get it casted the next day. Aghhhhh...

Ok...I guess that's it for now.

Peace.....

What I did this weekend

Me, Ali and Sue (all from TSPR) attended UNIV-CON in State College, PA this past weekend. It was a gathering of all different sorts of people who are interested in the paranormal. I think I speak for all of us when I say that a great time was had by all! We attended a few really great lectures/presentations and a few really awful ones, too. (I feigned an asthma attack to get out of one particularly bad presentation. I'm sure that I'm going to hell for that one!)

We were pleasantly surprised when we met Jason from Ghost Hunters. He was a nice guy, down to earth. We had a nice time chatting with him. Several of the guest speakers were very nice. Patrick Burns from Court TV's Haunting Evidence was one of the nicest guys I've yet to meet. He did a presentation on EVP work that was wonderful. Ali and I learned a great deal from him. Ryan Buell, a Penn State student (or graduate, not sure) was there. A&E gave him a show of his own titled Paranormal U. It airs in 2007. He was a doll, too. Most everyone there was very nice. There were some exceptions to this, but I'm not naming names.

It was a long ride...4 hours from here. But what a gorgeous ride! The leaves were spectacular on the way home. Too bad I was driving. I would've taken pictures for ya! I didnt bring my new camera with me as it is bulkier than my old one and wayyyyy more expensive. I wasn't comfortable leaving it in the room, either.

Well...I have to get back to cleaning up the mess that awaited my return.

Peace!

Oh c'mon...get over it!

Hey! Life has been busy for me! Sor-ry! (LOL)

Herman has taken the past few Mondays off. Last week we took a hike in the beautiful Bushkill Falls in PA. Yesterday we took a ride to Horsham PA ( a suburban area of Philadelphia) to see where we lived for 2 1/2 years. Then we went to NYC to walk around and grab a bite to eat. (PA and NYC in one day??!! Don't I live in the BEST PLACE ever?!) We've spent a great deal of "quality time" together recently...and you don't see me complaining!

The kids are all back to school. (Can I get a "hallelujah" everyone?!) Rachel has already had strep throat, Becky has had oral surgery resulting in an infected lymph gland and John has had to make an emergency trip to the dentist for a root canal gone bad. They have ALL been on antibiotics for the past week or so. Hopefully this isn't a sign of things to come.

Herman bought me a new camera! I got a Sony DSLR 10.2 mb camera a few weeks ago. I'll post photos when I can figure out how to take a great pictures. Give me a couple of weeks. I took the camera on a recent TSPR investigation. Again, I still have to figure out all the settings. It DOES take beautiful pictures, tho...

Speakimg of TSPR: My good friend Gary recently joined our ranks. He'll be a great contributor to our group as he is an audio editor for a national women's cable channel. (I'm not namin' names.) TSPR recently did an investigation in northern NJ. We'll update our site when we have everyone's report. Our website is currently undergoing MAJOR renovations so not everything is current. We're re-grouping and overhauling the website...which is exactly why I'm not linking to our site right now. I'll let you know when it's ready to be unveiled....

I received a phone call today from an old friend from church. I haven't seen John in a very long time...going on a year or so. Considering that I live in a very small town (pop. just above 13,000) it's quite odd that we haven't run into each other. Anyway, he sprung some unsurprising news upon me today: he's getting divorced. I say unsurprising because, as awful as it sounds, I saw it coming. Still, it's very sad as there are young impressionable children involved. Divorce rarely, if ever, has a positive effect on children. (I say this from my own experience...and I've been both a child of divorce and a divorcee. But...this is just my opinion.) I wish John well...he sounds a  bit , hmmm...happier and less stressed than before.

Well...that's about it on my end.

Peace!

Opinions, please!

Whaddaya think of the new color scheme? Anything I should change? Are the links too white? All opinions thoughtfully considered!

Thanks!

Pictures

I'm sitting here listening to the winds of what remains of Tropical Storm Ernesto, praying that my front tree won't be felled by the heavy winds. What a sucky day! It's been pouring since last night.

Herman and I celebrated our 19 year wedding anniversary on August 30th! I can't believe that the time has flown by so quickly! We went to dinner at the Barge, where, as usual, I had the "Special Shore Dinner" that consisted of a shrimp cocktail, a dozen steamers, a cup of chowder, salad, potato and a 1 1/4 pound lobster! I ate every last bite! Instead of the rice pudding that came with my dinner, I had creme brulee. When we came home we shared some champagne and strawberries. All in all, a very nice way to celebrate our anniversary. I'm hoping to be drinking pina coladas on some deserted beach in the caribbean for our 20th, though. (Keep dreaming, Sharon.)

The gym is going well. I made it there 4 times this week. Elisa and I have stopped the circuit training. We are doing some cardio (to warm up) for about 10-15 minutes and then we lift weights. We do 2 body parts (legs, back, shoulders, chest, arms, etc) 3 times a week. Today we did 30 minutes of cardio. I'm going to see if I can get to the gym every day and do cardio. I'll let ya know how THAT goes..LOL!

Well, that's about it for now. I hope that everyone has a great holiday weekend, in spite of the sucky weather!

Peace!

Random stuff

Herman and I were on vacation 2 weeks ago. Instead of going away for a week we decided to just do day trips. Monday and Tuesday were really crappy (rain) so we just hung out at home. Wednesday we took the kids and our 10 year old nephew to Dorney Park. Thursday Herman and I went to Pt. Pleasant, Friday we went to Atlantic City amd Sunday we headed to New Hope, PA. (Saturday we had to attend a party in NY.) All in all it was a nice vacation. We spent the majority of the time alone, just the two of us. The kids all had stuff to do so we just took off without them. Which was kinda nice! Atlantic City (a 2 hour ride for us) was alot of fun! We suck at gambling, though. We'd be up by $2 and we'd cash out! LOL! I have no stomach for losing money, so we only played around with $40 or so. We walked along the boardwalk, hit a few bars along the way, checked out the casinos. For dinner we did the buffet thing at the Trump casino. Buffets are wasted on me. I only ate the turkey and mashed potatoes. Damn...for $19.95 I could buy a whole lot of turkey and mashed potatoes! LOL! Anyway, we had ourselves a grand ol' time. Going back to work was hard, though.

In October our group (TSPR) has decided to take the 4 hour trip out to State College, PA for a paranormal conference. It should be alot of fun! Sue (our newest member) has never done a trip with us. The conference will have all kinds of seminars, lectures, investigation opportunities, etc. The guys from "Ghost Hunters" will also be there.

The gym thing has been going really well! I've been averaging 3-4 times a week. I've actually gained weight as opposed to losing it. But that's ok because there is a noticeable difference in my body shape. I've been told that while I am burning fat, I am also gaining weight from muscle. So this isn't bad. Eventually I will lose some weight. And that's ok with me. My friend Elisa has also started going to the gym with me. She's making great progress! Once I reload the photo software I'll get some pictures up. Which leads me to...

Our computer has had so many issues as of the past month. Poor Herman has had to do alot of work on it. He wiped out the hard drive, reinstalled the recovery cds...crashed again..wiped everything out. This was beyond frustrating. The computer has been running fine the past week or so, but trust me when I tell you that I will be backing everything up from now on!!

School starts on Sept 11...I can't wait for the kids to go back to school. I'm off from work on Mondays and Wednesdays...and I like those days to be peaceful! Rachel starts college on Sept 5..how exciting!

Well...I should start dinner soon. I hope that all is well with everyone...and I'm sorry for the delay in posting (Dar!)!!

Peace!