Visits!!

I have so many things to blog about! But I am just going to make this brief. Chad and his friend came for a visit. Of course it was great having him here and to listen to his stories. He is such a... unique person! Great company. He got to check out the surf here which of course was not that great the few days he was here. I think he is coming again next week. Who knows! Still waiting to hear from him! Then one of my best friends, Christina and her boys came! They stayed right down the street! Was soooo good to see them all and to actually have a friend here. It made me feel good that her boys were happy to see me! My last visitors were my parents!!! I still can't believe they flew all the way out here and I am very thankful they did. It meant a lot to me that they traveled so far to see where I live. We had a great time and lots of laughs! They stayed at a really nice resort and they had a relaxing vacation. I am pretty sure they were impressed by our ocean view! I loved having them here and just hanging out. They surprised some old friends that actually live near me and we hung out with them and listened to hysterical stories of my dad and him being hooligans! The smile on their faces was priceless. I loved it. I am sure it felt good to them to recap all those times. (hey ma, that was 2 weeks ago today haha!!) But my parents visit here went by fast and of course I cried after we dropped them off at the airport. I am 32! Am I ever going to grow up?! I doubt it. In 2 weeks I will be on my way to Boston for a nice long visit. There are just some people I NEED to see! I am having withdrawals of people! The first that comes to mind is DESMOND!!! But really, I can not wait to see everyone that I plan on seeing. I bet that visit goes by too fast....

Agenda

I have quite a few exciting things coming up! My friend Chad is coming to visit next week! We are looking forward to this visit. The stories will be good and there will be plenty of laughs. Right after his quick visit, one of my bff's is coming out with her boys! She asked us to join them at the SD Zoo. Sometimes I don't agree with zoos and animals in captivity, but this place is not like that at all. It is truly amazing and it is huge!! The space and atmosphere they give the animals is perfect. I have always wanted to work there. I would be fine scooping elephant poop. Ok, I am getting off track. I am most excited for MY PARENTS coming to visit!! They have never been to Cali and I can not wait for them to see where I live. I can't wait for everyone that is visiting to see! It means a lot to me that my parents are going to travel the long way out here. Especially my mom. She doesn't like to fly, but give her some nips and she will be fine. I am pretty sure my dad will really like it out here. Maybe I can convince them to move?! Nah, I guess that would be tough. I hope more people come to visit. HINT HINT to readers ;) Anyways, lots of fun filled things to look forward too!

Go Sox!

I realized I haven't blogged in awhile. Not even sure what to blog about, but I just wanted to write something for my readers(the 2 of you?) HA! Of course there is always something going on in my life that is interesting. Maybe too much to tell? Who knows. But this is very exciting to me! I was getting very worried the closer it was getting to opening day for the Sox because I had no idea how I was going to watch the games. I figured I would have to call our cable company and see if there was a channel I could buy. I had doubts. Then a hero appeared! My brother! With a message! It said I have a way for you to watch the games. OMG! He purchased something to share with me, that allows me to watch games on my laptop. Phew, a big sigh of relief and the end of being upset that I was not back in Boston for the Sox. Ya, I am dramatic. I mean I do have the beach and nice weather constantly, sometimes we can't have everyyything... jeez. So a big shout out to my bro!! THANKS!

Eros (sp,not sure)

There is this couple that lives downstairs from us that has this big beautiful dog. He is a Great Pyrenees. He is a large dog with tons of white long fur. I want him as my own. We both want him. He scared me at first cause he was always barking at me and I realized it was because I would just stand there and say hi to him and all he wanted was a little petting, a little love. I have no clue if I wrote about this before but it was raining one night and he was left outside. For hours. I kept telling Tony, we have to help him. He is soaked and whining. But I was still scared of him at this point so Tony went down there with towels and dried him off. I went to watch. I swear the dog was smiling. That was when I first petted him and instantly fell in love with him. So now every time he sees me he comes over to his gate for a rubdown. We have been taking him for walks too! One day while petting him his owner said, "Any time you want to take him for a walk just go ahead." We laughed cause I had just said to Tony that I wanted to walk him! He is a very strong dog and kinda took me for a walk. We get all kinds of compliments on him when we are out. We just pretend that he is ours :)

Over the rainbow

I spent last weekend with my family to attend the funeral of a close, longtime friend of our family. Ron Magliozzi. Saturday was a rough day for all but the open bar helped ;) My brother made an amazing video showing the life of Ron and everyone was very impressed by it. We all know what it's like to lose someone we love. How much it hurts and how sometimes it's just not fair. Enjoy and cherish the time with the ones we love cause sometimes you never know when they will be gone....

Hello?

Inanimate objects, are you listening? It has recently been pointed out to me that I talk to myself. A lot. I just talk out loud and about what, who knows. Just last night I was in the bathroom and I guess I was talking. Tony said "What are you talking about in there?" I said "I am not even talking to you." Tony "Ok, who are you talking to then? Are you on the phone?" He knows I am not on the phone. He knows what I am doing. I look for my phone to pretend that I am on it but it is not in the same room as me. Ok I really didn't look for phone. But it would have been funny if I did! I mumbled to him I was not on the phone. I wonder what his thoughts were? I mean he sings and makes up songs but he never has these conversations out loud like I do. Do I have a condition? Is there a name for this and a reason? I am very curious to know. I guess from what Sarah says my brother does it too. I am not sure if I have noticed. Maybe someone that does this, does not notice this in others??!! Anyways, I am sure I had a few more talks before I went to bed.

Oceanside

I rush home from work to take my walk while the sun is setting. Every walk I think the same thing. Wow, this is just beautiful. It feels so good breathing in the ocean air, hearing the waves crash. There are always a lot of people out running, walking their dogs, having a drink, surfing. The other day I walked by this outdoor stadium and there was an exercise class going on and next to them people were skateboarding and doing tricks on bikes. It's not overcrowded, yet. I dread the summer crowd. The peace and quiet will be gone. This is just the way I like it, but I guess everything changes and I will just have to go with it! More people watching that means! This place does have its flaws. There are always some creepy people sitting on the benches, noticing me coming. Sometimes I have my keys on me and I get prepared to stab someone in the eye if need be. They usually just say hi and I always think do I say hi back? Will they think I am too nice and make me a victim? If I don't say hi will they think I am rude and come after me? Ok this wasn't where this post was supposed to go! I say hi kinda firm and continue on. Soooo besides that...it is clean and peaceful. I will hate to leave here someday. But this is a journey, an adventure, and those come to an end.

My lovie's bday!

I woke up Friday January 14th with major anxiety. My nephews first birthday was the next day and I still didn't have a ticket home. My stomache felt sick. I may sound dramatic, maybe I am dramatic, but I don't care. I felt like I had to be there. No, I wanted to be there. Later that day I booked a flight. I had been looking at flights for over a week. My mom was helping too. Found a great one when I first started looking but of course did not book it and the prices just went crazy from there. I took an over night flight that Friday night and didn't sleep. My awesome aunt Wendy who I miss so much picked me up, late I must add(haha). Oh duh! I forgot to say this was all a SURPRISE to my family!!! Only my parents, Wendy, cousin Kristen & Billy and Leah knew. This was so exciting to me! I could not wait to show up! Wendy said to me "You can't just walk in there. Here, wear this big coat and put the hood over your head, I am gona say you're my friend from work." Me "Uumm ok!' It was funny when we walked through my brother and Sarah's door to hear her tell my brother I brought my friend from work. I was sweating in that damn coat and laughing! I took the hood off and saw my bro and I was so happy I was there. He gave me a big hug and was excited to surprise Sarah so he said to take the coat off and he called to her. I am pretty sure I was teary eyed at this point from happiness and lack of sleep. She came around the corner and saw it was me and gave me a big hug also! Then I made my rounds talking to the families about my surprise. And when I held my lovie it felt so good! I got to spend a brief time with my him but I loved every second of it. We went out for lunch after his wicked long nap and that was great to spend time with just him, Sarah and my brother. He is getting so big and he is so freakin cute. I could just look at him forevaaaa. That face. I am trying not to feel like I am missing out on a lot of stuff with him but I know I am. Ya ya I was home twice in like 3 weeks but still! He is at such a cute stage. Thank gosh for skype so I get to see and hear him through all this!! He smiles at me when we skype and comes right up to the laptop! So funny! It makes me feel so good. I don't want him to forget me. OK! So when is my next trip back??!! :*)

Holy Crap

So the Napolean post I wrote, uumm ya, I went back and reread it a bunch of times and changed words a bunch of times. I was like, why did I write the word actually? The word so here? I can't stop! I kept minimizing my screen so no one (who?! Tony? Opie?) would see that I was back on there. Not like they would care. They know me. Yup, he just looked. Yup, I am on here.

Napoleon....

Tony is playing Scrabble(0n his phone) against some person he doesn't know and wants to look up letters. I look up the letters and we come across the word epaulettes. I have to look it up because I love words so I read the definition out loud. It means ornamental shoulder piece of rank in armed forces. So as I am reading Tony says, "Oh it's one of those things that Napoleon wore.." And he is touching his shoulder. I said "Napoleon Dynamite?!" All confused cause all I remember him in is his t-shirts. He starts laughing so hard and says "NO, not that Napoleon, the dictator!" Oopsie...

Home for Christmas

I went home for Christmas! I had so much fun and it felt so good to be with my family and friends. The time went by too quick but I enjoyed every second of it. Seeing my nephew and having him remember me made me so happy! Of course I cried. Geez. I spent most of my time at my brother and Sarah's house but also spent the night at my parents and visited my family in Townsend and that is always a good time! Also hung out with Leah, Christina and their boys. Too many drinks at that outing :/ Christmas Eve was filled with laughs like always and Christmas morning was spent relaxing and watching my nephew enjoy his first Christmas before I left to come back to Cali. Which of course I cried again with my goodbyes. My awesome parents took me to the airport and it was hard to say goodbye to them, again. But maybe all those goodbyes will be my last ones. They sure are hard to say. Can't wait for my next hello's....

CA vs MA weather

It rained today. Which is surprising for Californians! What is even more surprising is that it's supposed to rain for 5 days! I laugh when these people tell me this. Oh no, it's going to be 60 and rainy! Try 27 with over a foot of snow when you step out your front door, or your car is covered in ice and it's negative degrees and it takes foreeeever to scrape it off when you are trying to get to work. I love it cause they have no idea and this amazes me but I want them to know. I want them to experience it! All I can do is tell them and share my stories. I think I am kinda jealous that they have no idea of this weather. If I never knew about it, I wouldn't hate it.

Time with my other fam

I went to LA this weekend to Tonys sisters house. He left wicked early so I drove up a few hours later. My gps took me through a toll road, which I wasn't even supposed to take cause the other way was toll free and I forgot to ignore my gps and came to the dumb toll. I ask how much and she tell me 4.50! I thought she said 1.50, nope 4.50. I didn't have that much cash on me so she had to give me a card(this word causes great laughter in Tonys fam when I say it) and I had to go online and pay it. Jeez! I get to her and her boyfriends house and it's awesome. Just the right size, bathrooms that look like really cool hotel baths, and an awesome fireplace! It was gas and had black stones all over the bottome where the fire came through and the stones glistened. I loved it. His sister, Tiffany, had a garage sale that day and she gave me a bunch of clothes and other things like a huge cat structure for Opie! The thing is pretty cool and Opie loves it. Tonys parents where also there and we all spent the night and I had a great time with his family. They remind me of mine, silly, funny, and they are all very sweet. Well I don't know if everyone in my family is sweet, ha!

Can't think of title

I skyped with my family on Thanksgiving and it was awesome to see everybody!! Thanks brother! My nephew was so friggin cute in his Red Sox sweater. I CAN NOT wait to see him in person!! Of course I can't wait to see the rest of my family too :) It will feel good to be home. I will be staying with my bro, Sarah, Des and Neely and I am so excited to hang out and have a bunch of laughs with them. I am also going to stay with my parents for a night and visit family in Townsend(I hope!) and hang out with my girlfriends for a night. Oh also visit the twins!! Wow, they are going to be so different and I am already worried I am going to cry when I see them cause I totally still miss them. So many people to see in such a short amount of time but it will be fabulous!!
The weather here was warm for Thanksgiving and I sat out at the beach and got some sun. I had pizza and salad for my feast and I loved it! We saw Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows last weekend and it was awesome. I looooove those movies. We were so excited to see it. I can't wait for Eclipse to come out on dvd so Tony can see it! Well 24 days till my visit home...

My name is Jaclyn

and I'm confused. Tony likes to say this and tilt his head to the side. I never really thought about it much but I am a confusing person at times! So as I think about, I do confuse people and myself! I could almost find it funny. Actually I do. Example of this is, and don't let me confuse you, but tonight we went to Walmart. I had a gift card, cash, and debit card that was being used for the purchase and I guess I confused the cashier eventhough what I signed was the right amount for my debit card so now I am confused and have to go to customer service to get the money back and onto the gift card which has not been used but was supposed to be. I told the customer service lady that I hope I don't confuse her, cause now at this point I am confused and she was nice and patient and was just slightly confused. She went through my receipt and did what she had to do to make things right (took about 10 minutes and now I am sweating in this store). The whole thing that was confusing was that I was trying to keep some money on my gift card!! But I confused everyone in the process! Ok people! I definitely can share more stories about this topic now that I think about it. Not about Walmart, about me confusing myself and people ;)

Well...

Ya so I miss home. Bummer. The longer I am away the harder it gets(that's what she said). I am excited about going home for Christmas but will be sad to leave again. It is stormy and chilly here today. Sort of reminds me of home, except for the huge ocean out my window. It's so windy out there it looks cool. I have had headaches for the last 3 days. Not sure what is going on with that. I worked a lot this week and the kids are sick so maybe I am just tired and fighting an illness. We were supposed to go see Harry Potter today but because I don't feel well and Tony is working late, we are hoping to go tomorrow!!

Cherry Twist

I go to the gas station and cash in scratch tickets for my aunt. I bought her some for her birthday and didn't realize you could not cash them in in another state. So I decide to buy myself a few while I am there. I buy 3 $1 ones and a $2 one. I scratch them when I get home. I am losing!! I am upset!! I start to cry and be all dramatic..."Why can't I ever win??!!! I need the money. I need this!! WWAAAHHHH :*( " I am alone and I am talking to myself, or Opie, if she is even listening to me. I scratch the first row of Cherry twist and I win $100! Did I really?? Am I mistaken? No mistake. I actually won! I haven't cashed it yet. I am saving it for bills or Christmas gifts for when I go home. I might use some of it and buy a few more tickets. I spent $5 today and lost. I hardly ever buy those things but I am glad that day I decided to.

Not much to say..sorta

I wish I had something exciting to write about. I usually have funny stories or weird things happen to me. But lately, not so much. This doesn't feel normal to me! Ha! So now I am not sure if I am bored and just making things up in my head, but I feel like people have ulterior motives. People I hardly know so I guess this could be normal to think. Actually, I have always done this so it is not new to me. I never trust people at first. Sometimes I never will! I don't know what made me think of that. Anyways, I am working a few hours today which obviously I am not looking forward to but it is money for coming home for Christmas! Thanks to my brother who found me a good priced flight, I will be going home for a few days. I dread saying goodbye again but it won't be long till I am back there to live. Living on the beach though does not compare to the streets of the town I grew up in. Or am I supposed to say that the other way around? Hey it's early here. What I am trying to say is now that I have lived on the beach, I think I always have to! It will be cold in NE living on one but I don't care, it's always beautiful to me. Even without the palm trees.

Mr. Sun Sun Mr. Golden Sun...

The last few days have been so nice. Before these days the sun didn't shine for almost 2 weeks! I kept saying to myself "I did not move here for this crappy weather!" Some days I did not mind the rain though. I liked listening to it pound off of things outside the window, seeing it pour off of our huge living room window and make cool designs. It definitely got old and I am so glad the sun is back! The sunsets are back! So other than work, we like to just hang at our beach place. We watch the sailboats and surfers. Haven't seen the dolphins in awhile. Today was the Pats vs Chargers so it was fun being the only one in the complex rooting for NE!! Tony and I made a bet and whoever lost has to do the dishes for a week. Oh poor Tony. He is going to have such dry hands.

Beach Home!

We got a place on the beach!! It is amazing. I can hear the ocean from the living room as I type. I can see it too but it's just dark right now. It takes me about 30 seconds to get to the beach from here. When I go to work, I drive along the ocean almost my whole 15 minute ride. When I come home, I take the same route. It might take a few minutes longer both ways but that's ok. I just can't believe I am actually on the beach...it is perfect. Pics to come :)