Here are some pictures from my trip

This is a picture of Bullard's Bar. It's a beautiful lake with water as warm as a bath. It's my favorite place we've gone.








This is Briana on her rock. Her family's house property line goes out into the middle of the river.... it's so beautiful!








We generally would take the boat and tie ie to driftwood, a stone or a tree... whatever we could find, when on Bullard's bar. If we couldn't find anything sometimes we'd just let the boat just sit and float - we could always swim to it anyways :)








This is Lake Tahoe. We went there for the 4th of July. We took the boat on the lake and saw the fireworks at King's bay. It was a pretty awesome display of fire in the sky!








...more Bullard's bar. I DID say it was my favorite - didn't I?!?!?!

To Camptonville I go!

So I am leaving now, going up north for about 2 weeks, I think. I will think of all of you. when you're out having a good time make sure to call me - i will be up :) I will take lots of beautiful pictures and be sure to share them with you when I get back from my adventure working with Briana in the Sierra Nevada mts! Love and miss you all!
Christine

New York New York, here I come!

So tomorrow I will be up at the crack of dawn and on my 12 hour journey to get to nyc. I'm really looking forward to it and can't wait to see Sean mostly. So my blog will be quiet for the next 4 days. I hope everyone has a great weekend!! :)
xoxo
Christine

Camptonville...

This past weekend I went up to Camptoniville, CA. It's just north of Lake Tahoe in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mt range. I found these pictures on-line to share with everyone a glimpse of what I got to see this weekend. There are supposedly mountain lions and rattle snakes out that way - but the only thing I saw was something that looked like a scorpian near the river. The house I stayed at is on the Middle Yuba River. There are loads of swimming holes along the river and it's about 5 miles from a very long lake that flows into a river. The water was so clean and clear! It was the most beautiful green-blue color. It reminded me of the sea when I was in Nice, France. Pretty much it is up in gold country where all of the mining took place during the gold rush. Lots of history up there. I can't imagine people living there year round though - they get the most snow out of anywhere in the country... even more than Buffalo NY! :) :P








These are both pictures of the Yuba river... this was pretty much at the bottom of the family's property. I spent a bit of time sitting near it.





Well only a few more days here and then I'm off on a plane to see Sean - I am getting so excited!!! The wedding will be SO much fun and to make it even better I get to see Sean so all will be great!!! :) 3 days... and counting!

The weekend is upon us!!

I can not believe that tomorrow if Friday. It feels like today is Tuesday so i'm all screwed up. Today we had a great day - had some delicious food made by the great mexican's in Pacifica. Anyone out this way should check it out. .. El Toro Loco. :)
One week til I get to see Sean!!! I am SO excited. It feels like I haven't seen him in a month - well, it will be 2 weeks..
Nothing else too strange going on... oh! The president of my class from high school contacted me and they are trying to plan a 10th year reunion for next summer... not so sure I care enough to go to something like that. What do ya'll think. I dunno - the only person I really would want to see is Amanda - and I could just skip all the drama and fake people who don't give a shit where I am in life anyways schmoozin'.
:P I don' think I'll end up going. It will probably just be the people that all stayed friends because they all got stuck in my hometown and never left!

So what's the plan for this weekend. Snuffy's anyone?!?!!? I'll be here... working and perhaps going to the line dancing place alone :( Oh well I'll just down a beer and dance the night away...

San Francisco!

This was Kristen, Mike and my first time stepping on a Pacific Ocean beach our whole trip.. what fun it was. We had Taco Bell on the ocean and after Kristen and I got brave and put our feet in the cold ocean water. What fun.. FREE FUN :)





This is a picture of a flower.. it was taken near Santa Barbara, CA. This is the kind of flower you find a lot out here.. very different than back east.






Last but not least... the transamerica building. It makes for a beautiful touch to the San Francisco skyline. Miss you Kristen and Mike.. come back quick... Now I am just waiting patiently for my other half to get his butt out here.. then I will be complete again. Who will ever go to the country line dancing place... Yee Haw Seaner...

The Cannery

These were all taken at The Cannery... it is a building in the fisherman's wharf area. I loved the way the light was shining in and out of places so I took a few pictures.

City Lights

This is the awesome bookstore near the Garden of Eden... bar.. ummm place :) that we took Marisa to way back in the day.. good times

The Fruth about the Elk... and the Ram's too!

So I would just like to set the record straight. When you are driving in New Mexico and Arizona there are signs for Elk... for like 60 miles! Now if you saw signs for Elk for a good portion of your trip - wouldn't you think the chance of seeing one would be HIGH?!?!?! Well I have something to tell you all.

THERE ARE NO ELK!!!

The FRUTH :) is that the Elk are no more... The Mothman has come and eaten them all up and he even took the time to get the ram's up near the Hoover Dam too.
Another thing - WHAT ARE RAMS DOING NEAR THE HOOVER DAM? Does anyone know how freaking big that thing is?!?!?! It is HUGE. You know - come to think of it I think the rams all fell into the dam. Yea... that's it! :)

Anyway I am in California now. We arrived yesterday after a very fun evening in Las Vegas.
That's another post.... :) to come

God Bless America!

What a beautiful country we have. Most people just take it for granted - but I am trying hard not to. We have had a very successful day today... from Arkansas... TOAD SUCK PARK none the less... to Santa Rosa New Mexico - we're flying. So I will put a few pictures up and leave it at that. I miss you all and keep checkin out out blogs - we will post more in the future.

christine

Who said Fruth wasn't the bomb?!?!

Got Fruth?!?!? Well apparently West Virginia does!!! Aren't you jealous?

We went to the Mothman museum... if you want info on that check out woody's.. umm i mean murphy's or mitch's blog... :) lol

I won't ruin it for him




Enjoy the videos that we made.... :) Stay tuned. Perhaps there will be more to come tomorrow or the next day.

Destination Texas tonight... :) Miss you all!!!!!
xoxo Christine

Pictures from last week...

Picnic Time!

So Sean and I went to Perinton Park yesterday for some good picnic food and fun :) We played some bocci ball and chased the kids around. Renee brought Louie along and he was just too cute to not get a picture of :) Enjoy!

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Fat... not PHAT.... ness

I am honestly sick of watching people at work. It makes me want to diet. Today I was sitting at lunch with all of the kids and one of my not-so-slim co-workers breaks out with this huge lunch. I mean - I could have had half and been stuffed! What is up with people and these unhealthy habits? My other co-worker always tries to shove food down my face and if I say "no thanks..." She responds with "c'mon - you can stand to gain a few pounds"... YEA if I want to become FAT LIKE YOU!!?!?!?!? Seriously - always bringing me cookies and pie and cake - it's just tooooo much. It bothers me when it gets pushed onto me. I don't think I'm a toothpick - I happen to be the size I am because I watch what I eat... and I don't mean watch it go in my mouth. The worst part - summer is upon us and all of my co-workers will be wearing thinner clothing and it will make me want to vomit. UGH I can't stand it! I am honestly to the point where I want to tell people to stop making themselves fatter... it's disgusting! Last time I checked a 200 lb woman is not sexy or hot.... just my friendly opinion though :)

On the pod....

So for all of you iPodder's out there I have some nifty information for you all. So if you have a file that is on your iPod but NOT on your library within iTunes - you can not simply drag the file from your iPod directly into your library and then have it back on your computer's hard drive... I guess Mac had to prevent that from happening so people wouldn't go and take their iPods to other people's computer and just drag and drop the files into another computer - therefore creating a copy. BUT there is a second way.... if you go into My computer (pc users, that is) and click on the iPod... then within Tools click on the box that allows you to view hidden files... then a folder will appear and that has all of your music. you can drag those into your computer and into your library. the ONLY problem with that is that each file is not named by song or artist - but by some arbitrary method with four letters. i.e. AFZY. So you can't just go find the one song you wanted as easily - but it CAN be done :)
There may be an even easier way but this way works for me :)

That's it for now.. how's everyone's weekend going? BEAUTIFUL - i say! :)

BORDOM at it's finest..

You know you're bored at work when.... you're sitting at the computer on-line and you're not supposed to be and you're blogging.
Today is way too slow for me. I'm so ready for my vacation it isn't funny.

I made a slideshow of Marisa's visit...

Marisa has come and gone.... what a nice vacation :)

Marisa arrived in Buffalo on Wednesday afternoon and I just dropped her off at the beautiful hour of 6:50AM.... EEK! I'm actually so freakin awake - it's very amazing. I am NEVER this awake at 8:30 in the morning - especially after only getting a 4 hour nap. It was well worth it. Thanks to everyone for coming out on Saturday night. Too bad Marisa and I could only make it until 1am. I felt fine and then all of a sudden it hit me - I was far past my limit and even though the bartenders must have given me tons of water ... i remember at least 3 glasses I downed... it wasn't enough - or it was just too late. Anyway, Marisa had a great time and thanks to everyone for making sure she got the true "Rochester" experience... she even finished most of her garbage plate and I had half!?!?!?!?! Damn girl!

Oh Mr. Sun... Sun.... Mr. Golden Sun...... PLEASE SHINE DOWN ON ME!!!!!!!!!!

:) Alright that might be a little cheesey and very 4-year old-ish but I don't give a damn :)

I loved yesterday.. every single freaking moment of it! Well .... I should remove the whole work portion of it... but besides that I loved it. It hit about 80 at one point yesterday!! Today isn't too cold either :) I'm not complaining. The weather better be good when Marisa gets here. There's SO much to show her. anyways... hope everyone's having a great weekend.

Christine

Life :)

So I thought I'd post a picture of my handsome husband... I love both of these pictures. Things are going alright here. The spring-like weather is HERE! I'm SO excited that the trees will soon be filled with leaves again. The warmth that I felt today was so reassuring that winter is out and spring is IN! I miss warm weather and it's just around the bend... this Friday is supposed to be about 60!!! I think that's freakin' awesome! Marisa comes in one week and I still haven't fine tuned what we're going to do. I'll get on that... before Wednesday :)
That's all. I guess I wanted to just leave a post. I feel like I have been in my own world and not online so much lately. How's life outside the DeChalais apartment?!?!?!?

Craziness in Cornhill!

So this past Friday when sean and I were leaving to go out I saw a car manual (I first thought it was a cd case) and just kinda looked at it and walked on to Sean's car. When we got home that night I went to take p-nut out and found all these cd's and papers outside where I normally take her. I picked them up and took them all inside. I found this time sheet for this guy that works at the ARC of Monroe. I had a feeling that it was his stuff and that he'd had his car broken into. So I emailed some HR person at the ARC and it turns out that this guy DID get his car broken into. Once he gets ahold of me I will give him the few cd's that I have and his car's manual. Loads more got stolen than this but at least he got SOME of it back. How sad is it that some person did this? It brings back all the memories I have of when this happened to Sean. This is the 3rd time I've known of someone's car getting broken into since we moved into this lovely "diverse" neighborhood. Why do these people do this? What makes them think that it is okay to take someone's personal belongings?!?!!? WHY?!?! It just seems so sad that this keeps happening. Know what I say? NO ONE SHOULD LIVE IN THIS SHITTY PART OF THE CITY! That's what I say. I'm very bitter at all of the ghetto trash that I see on the streets. Both the white and black trash of this city make me sick. They walk across the street wherever they want, walking slow - I mind you... and then when they are in MY way because they're not on a cross walk and I don't stop for them ... (I just slow down so I don't hurt them) then I am the bad guy here. Manners people.... MANNERS. I was taught them a long time ago and I wish other people would learn them. Imagine what a beautiful world this place would be if we all had better manners (me included)! Sorry ... I am just pissed off that this has happened again. This is why every day I just take everything out of my car. There is nothing of value in there... Even my cd face to my player gets taken out every time I am parked at home. How great is it that I feel SO SAFE in my own neighborhood. It's bull.

Doh!

Well I hope someone out there is experience a wonderful Monday. Today was long and stressful at work - but the kids were adorable and made it a little better. The one little guy who used to bite me keeps hugging me now and I'd rather that be his way of showing affection... :)
So today is quite grey and a little foggy too - I got home and hadn't heard lightning since I left for work and as soon as I got outside with p-nut the thunder started again - I hope she's not afraid of going outside again - we went through that already and that was NOT fun.
I hope everyone enjoys this lovely picture of Homer Simpson! It'll put a smile on everyone's fact that sees it!

Think Pink!

So my old template I guess had some work to be done on it and failed me so I've given up for now and went with the boring template. I thought I'd be daring and unlike my normal self and go with pink. I figured I could use a little girlying up :)
hope everyone had a great weekend! Check out Sean's site to see the awesome pictures of the fog we saw in Jamestown. When my dad e-mails me the pictures from this weekend I'll post a few. Alex is getting BIG!
Christine

Happy Friday to ME! :) (and you too!)

Hello world! I am SO happy that today is Friday. I just wanted everyone to know that. I hope everyone has an awesome weekend- wherever you may be :)
Christine

Gretta's a little sick

So for all of the people out there who do not know Gretta, she's my car :) I know it's an old lady name but I like it and I guess it just fits my car...
Gretta had some troubles today and I had to have her taken to the doc. Prognosis looks good. :) I was on my way to my last house for a meeting and my brakes started to feel odd. I gave Sean a call and let him know something was weird and that I might need help later - but didn't really think that I WOULD need help. (better to be safe than sorry...) So after my meeting I got in my car and the Emergency brake light was still on even though the brake was NOT on... I called my dad and he seemed to think the light on the dashboard was just malfuntioning. A minute or two after I got off the phone with my dad the brakes went on my car. I was lucky there was no traffic.. I was on Dewey ave and it was 4:30.... not a quiet street. So I was driving slow to begin with and happened to be near Will's friend's house so I went there and that's the end of the story.... for now.
If anyone wants to send get well cards to Gretta send them to me or to Farrel's Garage :) Hopefully they'll fix the brake line, which we suspect is why the hydrolics went and I couldn't brake, and then she'll be ready to go.
Keep her in your prayers, please :)

Christine

p.s. no pity cards for Gretta... she needs no sympathy - just to be cheered up :)

Blog off, Blog on!

Hi all! So I guess I haven't posted in a LONG time... almost a month. I guess since the weather turned bitter cold I've been in blog-hybernation. It's been nice but I guess I should come out and say I'm sorry for depriving you all with my wonderful pictures and stories. :P

Nothing too pressing going on. I learned the line dance to Will Smith's "Wild Wild West" last Tuesday and it was pretty exciting. Now will I remember it when we go next? - and that's IF they play it ;)


I think that's all of the fun things going on that I can think of - oh yea --- P-nut is sick still... I have to feed her a special diet :( I hope to God that she gets better soon. I had to bathe her in the shower today because she had crap all over her body. Disgusting!

Hope all is well with everyone :)

The Things I Do to Fatten Up Sean :)

So I made Sean a Peanut Butter Cup cheesecake.. thought I'd share my pictures with the world. This thing tastes as good as the Cheesecake Factory! :) I have over half in the freezer so we'll be enjoying this for a LONG time...

Blame it on the dot matrix printers :)

So yes, my thoughts lately have been negative. I feel so angry inside. Angry at the world for not giving me the answers that should come from inside... yet I keep looking at the world and blaming it. I just want to figure out what the hell I want to do career wise and JUST GO FOR IT. Sounds easy - right? I've been on college's websites and looking at programs and what kinds of jobs they lead to, to see if they can help point me in the right direction. Remember in high school when you took the stupid test that printed out on the dot matrix printer what jobs you'd be good at ?!?! They told me to be an accountant. HA! I SUCK ASS at math...
lol
I think they also suggested a musian or psychologist... no wonder there are so many students in psych programs around the world - the stupid dot matrix printer told them to! So that is my conclusion.. that's where my anger is... towards the damn printer.

Anyway - I'm keeping my feet on the ground but I feel like I keep stumbling. I wish things would clear up and I could go get what I want... once I figure it out getting it is the easy part. I'm good at that part. My indecisivness has reached a maximum and I am actually sick of it. I want to know. I need a bright light and God to come walking out from it and say "Christine... go do ____" or something. I told Sean tonight to pick a profession and I'd do it.. because I just feel so lost. I know I'll get by. Doesn't this ever end?

My job still sucks. Now talk around work is that someone's pay was cut because of budget concerns within the company... not because of performance. What bull shit. Who the hell cuts pay because of something they fucked up?!?! It's so rediculous. I have to look at all the admin people not vomit on them... it's hard. I know this sounds aweful but remember this blog is for venting.. so thigns are a little better than this. I love the kids I get to work with. One of them they just pulled me from so they can put me on two new kids that are new to the agency... I already miss her and stopped by today to give her new aide some tips. I wish I could bring each of these kids with me as I move along... kinda like Briana. Man I still miss her :(.

So I'll sit at the computer and listen to our iPod music (which rocks!) and search for an answer...

So I thought I posted... but I guess not.

Sorry - things have been busy around here and I haven't been on this much. I thought I posted a picture I had taken but apparently it's not on here - not sure what happened with that.

Work absolutely sucks right now. I actually could care less about the company I work for. I feel like everything they stand for is bullshit. Non-profit my ass. That's why the owners both have nice cars and don't seem to be financially struggling like the rest of the people who work for them. Great - they founded the joint - but share the wealth! The parents are outraged because the agency let go a social worker, music therapist and now a admin. assistant... who's next?!?! Could it be me?!?! I honestly would be happy at this point. Less stress on my back. I would rather work at Taco Bell. At least I'd have good lunches :) lol
Seriously though. If they don't cover their butts and start talking to the families and being open about why they are letting people go - they will have a lot of families pulling out of the agency and it's going to go down FAST. Then everyone will be out of a job and I will laugh at them... ha ha ha in THEIR face.
This week started out like crap and hasn't gotten much better. Yesterday was my day from hell. Nothing could go right yesterday. I'm surprised I didn't burn dinner. My doctor sucks ass and I'm getting a new one. I'm sick of my pill-pushing physician... Some people just like to get better and be better without taking 50 pills a day. Today would have been better except for the fact that everyone at work has a knot in their stomach and it just rubs off on you after a while.
I'm looking forward to things getting better. I enjoy days that makes me smile... dont' you?

Ohhhhhh moving... how i love theeee

So my dad sent me an email with this picture. This is Sean and me the day we left for California on June 1st 2003!!! I actually don't miss moving my crap around - but the excitement of something new and the adventure of driving across America - now that was fun... Except when we hit that nasty ice storm and I thought I was going to get into an accident - I could have lived without that one. So take note people - just because it is JUNE doesn't mean ice storms are eliminated from your trip... the rockies are not friendly at times.
:)

This actually reminds me of Hannah - who we're going to miss VERY much.... Good luck to you in NYC. Make the best of every moment you have because now is the time to live it up without any strings attached. Life is good...

The Number 1 song on my birthday was....

So according to this website,
1-What A Fool Believes - The Doobie Brothers was number one pop song in America and Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel was number 1 in UK! ...and here are the number one songs for my birthdays up to last year :)

2 yrs old.-Another Brick In The Wall (part ll) - Pink Floyd
3-I Love Rock ‘n Roll - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
4-Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
5-Footloose - Kenny Loggins
6-One More Night - Phil Collins
7-Rock Me Amadeus - Falc
8-Knew You Were Waiting - Aretha Franklin and George Michael
9-Get Outta My Dreams Get Into My Car - Billy Ocean
10-She Drives Me Crazy - The Fine Young Cannibals
11-I'll Be Your Everthing - Tommy Page
12-I’ve Been Thinking About You - Londonbeat
13-Save The Best To Last - Vanessa Williams
14-Informer - Snow
15-Bump N Grind - R Kelly
16-This Is How We Do It - Montell Jordan
17-Because You Loved Me - Celine Dion
18-Can't Nobody Hold Me Down - Puff Daddy featuring Mase
19-All My Life - K-Ci & Jojo
20-No Scrubs - TLC
21-Maria Maria - Santana
22-Butterfly - Crazytown
23-Ain’t It Funny - Jennifer Lopez
24-In Da Club - 50 Cent
25-Yeah - Usher feat Lil Jon and Ludacris




Want to know what YOUR song was on your birthday? go here...

New Years craziness

What an awesome new years we had! I think everyone will agree it was very MEMORABLE :) lol

Nikolai's birthdday party - he's eating his very delicious birthday cake - it was a chocolate rum or something like that cake. :)...and vanilla bean ice cream! YUM

Look at us... what a sexy couple we make!....this is before the drunkenness set in :)

Later on......Noooooo we're not drunk!
Hmmmm..... :) Hot guys, very hot!

My New Year's Resolution

So I've decided that I do not have a resolution this year. They're too long winded for me... Let's face it. Most of us come up with these profound ideas and then after a few weeks they're just ideas and haven't been materialized. So I'm just going to keep on truckin' and just do the overall always trying to improve my life kinda resolution.

Does anyone have a resolution this year? I'm just interested. I am not saying they're a bad thing - they're just pointless if there is no follow through...

by the way

HAPPY NEW YEAR :)

Brrrrrr it's cold in here!

Alright - this is a picture of what my apartment FEELS like right now. If I ever think being an eskimo is cool and living in an igloo is humane - SHOOT ME! Seriously - our heat had to be turned off yesterday because some major problem with our heating source. Basically we were all given a space heater from our landlord and told he was fixing it as fast as possible and that it might be a few days. So hopefully it'll go faster than expected. Right now our bedroom is the ONLY warm room. BRRRRRRRRRRR!

Christmas time is HERE!!! :)

Sean and I put up the Christmas tree :) I love palm trees and when we saw this in a store in California I knew we had to have it. So now we have it up again this year spreading our Christmas joy with a little spirit of California :) The last picture I really like because the palm tree is reflecting in the window... hope you all are getting in the festive spirit of Christmas!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS :)

Something very cool.. an internet time capsule!

So I saw this link on my email's website today and I thought I'd try it out. I highly recommend you all do the same. It's pretty neat! So remember making the time capsule that you bury into the earth? Yea if I did one when I was little it's burried at my parent's old house... I probably will never find it. So I thought it would be really fun if I tried this internet one because it's electronic and hopefully will work. Forbes teamed up with Yahoo to make this happen. Go to:

http://forbes.codefix.net/capsule/

to check it out... Let me know if you do one.... I did! I'm getting it back in 5 years :-P

It's almost turkey time!!! ...or Tofu if you're a veggie person

So I just wanted to wish everyone a happy early thanksgiving. What are you all thankful for? I'm thankful for my husband :), family and friends. I'm also thankful that today was the first day of snow.. and NOT a month ago. I'm thankful for global warming because maybe I'll get my wish someday and there will be no more snow :). I'm thankful that I live in America. I'm thankful I can go to other countries if I decide I am no longer into the America thing. I'm thankful for P-Nut. I'm thankful that the sun never fails me... even when I can't see it I know it's there! I'm thankful I have a roof over my head. I'm thankful I have the freedom to persue happiness. I'm thankful for garbage plates (2 days in a row baby!!!) I'm thankful for The Roost and Snuffy's ;) I'm thankful I've only gotten bitten ONCE since I started working at my job in May. and last but not least.. I'm thankful you took the time to read my lovely blog!

Yummmmmm I love cake!

I decided that eating our wedding cake (the top part) on our anniversary seemed silly. Yea - let's FREEZE a cake for a year and then eat it. I'm SURE it will taste DELICIOUS! HA!
So we have been eating it slowly since last week. It tastes delicious! :)

Sunday Stroll... :)

So this weekend Sean and I decided to check out the fall colors. Here are a my attempts at being a photographer. We had a blast with the leaves :)

Doesn't Sean look hot in this picture?? :)

Cobbs Hill :) The picture doesn't really do justice.. the colors were amazing!

This is in Penfield... we were looking for a place to get some "hilly" photos ...

This tree was very unique. Sean got a really awesome close-up of it too... you can check it out in his blog :)