It’s Monday and I had to get up at 5:45 AM this morning which was terrible!!! I am NOT a morning person, and if it hadn’t been for the fact that I wanted to start my physical therapy appointments for my back as soon as possible I would have slept right through everything. I am glad that my gym has a PT office though, and it’s covered by my health care which is even better. Now they can give me a plan to work out and I won’t end up hurting anything, and will be more likely to stick with a routine. I actually don’t mind getting up to get the 7:20 train, but 5:45 AM – this can NEVER happen again!

Today is cory’s birthday. I just have to say that he is great! I’m about to call him up and sing happy birthday to him (off key) and try to embarrass him, but he’s probably still sleeping. He’s 17. Wow, that makes me… old (hehe).

OK, so I didn’t include my brother atermis is my list of important people who read my site. Now I will click here to read him putting me in my place. He does have a point about that guy who asked about the rodenticide posters. Hello Rodenticide guy if you’re out there.

I had a great 4th of July vacation, had lobster for the first time, and visited some very nice towns on the way there and back. Pictures will be coming soon so keep coming back.

Ellie wants me to write more, so I have decided to make an effort to try. I feel very reserved because so many family members and friends read this site (who am I kidding, I shouldn’t flatter myself), but I do know that two important people do regularly… Jessica and Ellie, and even if just those two read – I guess I AM flattered.

Today I am proud of how I have been eating. For breakfast I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich (actually that was at about 5AM this morning when I woke up and I was starving cause it was too hot to eat last night. Then I had part of a bagel with cream cheese (bad) but then for lunch I had a very sensible chicken sandwich (and a chocolate chip cookie – bad). So maybe I’m not so proud – At least I’m not eating fistfuls of chocolate from the nice ladies in the front of the office. That was last week.

I have been printing out lists of galleries and instructions for submitting work for display. As soon as I actually think of starting the process of dropping off my work I get paralyzed. I can’t seem to get past that point. I have a major self-confidence crisis. MAJOR. Got to work through it.

I definitely ate too many Hershey’s kisses today – well actually they were Hershey’s hugs, but either way I ate too many. I did good for lunch though. I ate half of a turkey sandwich with lettuce on focaccia. I’ve also been trying to snack on these wheat crackers. They actually aren’t so bad.

I’ve been adding more pictures to my collection online. It’s fun. There are some very nice ones of Jeff up there. Please check them out, send me an e-mail with any comments and I might add them to my website.