100th Post

Wow 100 blog entries! I didn't think I'd make it this far.  I started January 7th 2011 and then took a hiatus in February - July.  What can I say I'm impatient when it comes to blogging.  I want followers instantly. So when I only had 3 come February I said forget it.  I got back into it in July and I can say I'm glad I stuck with it.  I've "met" some wonderful people on here and hope to meet more.  


Because this is my 100th post I feel like I need to do something big & not just some weekend review.  So after googling "What to write on my 100th blog entry" I found that some people do 100 facts about themselves, and I'm a follower of others and think this is a fun idea. Plus it will give you more information about me. I feel like I haven't shared much about myself here...so here we go!

1. My name is Jamie Lee and yes, I was named after Jamie Lee Curtis. I used to hate my name when I was little, but I've grown to love it.
2. I am the only child to Diane & John.
3. I have two step brothers from London.  One lives with my dad & step-mom. The other lives in London. We've never met.
4. I'm a Jersey Girl (obviously!).
5. I've been with Mac 6 years as of 7.16.11 
6. We're an interracial couple (he's Dominican) and we often get looks when we're out. 
7. We have a 10 month old pitbull/lab puppy named Sir Licks a Lot (Sir for short)
8. I've had an online journal since 2005 on opendiary.com and still write there.
9. Mac & I have never been on a real vacation together.
10. I've been with my company 5 years as of today.
11. I work as a dispatcher for a cable contractor. I love it. Most days :)
12. I went to a vocational school and have a certificate in Computer Programming & Web Design.
13. Minus minor dabbling in Web design, my $12,000 certificate is pretty useless!
14. I want to go back to school for Business Management. 
15. My favorite foods are chicken cutlets and mint chocolate chip ice-cream.
16. I love old shows.  I love lucy, Dick Van Dyke, Mr.Ed, Bewitched and Friends (if it's on Nick @ Nite, it's old!)
17. I'm stuck on reality shows. Mostly Real Housewives of NY/NJ/OC
18. I watched the entire series of Army Wives in like 5 weeks thanks to Netflix. Can't wait for the new season.
19. Crickets creep me out. More than spiders
20. My birthday is February 15th 1985.
21. My birthday was supposed to be April 22, 1985.
22. I weighed 4 pounds when I was born.
23. I've haven't been in the hospital since I was 14 days old.
24. I love iced coffee.
25. I despise hot coffee.
26. I'm a hot chocolate drinker.
27. I try and partake in my fiance's interests.
28. They often include going to watch WWE at the meadowlands.
29. They also include going to car club meets and car shows.
30. I made the dog the car club mascot.
31. I love photography. 
32. I want a DSLR one day.
33. I love shopping.  
34. On our days off you can find us at a park, movies, or the mall.
35. I love baking, but not as much as cooking.
36. I hate seafood, but never really tried it to know if I really hate it. Mom & dad hate it, so I must too, right?
37. is my favorite #
38. I LOVE empanadas & wish Mac's mom would make them more.
39. I've never been out of the country.
40. Unless you count Tijuana, Mexico (which I don't).
41. I want to visit Dominican Republic, England, and Austrailia.
42. I've traveled to NY, PA, FL, MI, CA, RI, MA and that's it. 
43. I want to travel to all 50 states one day.
44. I want 2 kids, maybe 3. 2 girls and a boy.
45. Yes, we already have our girl/boys named picked out.
46. I have a stationary problem.
47. It runs in the family. Grandpa had pens that outlived him.  Everyone needs 9 boxes of pens at any given time ;)
48. I wear jeans pretty much everyday.
49. I love not having a uniform or a dress up kind of job.
50. Sometimes I wish I had a dress up kind of job.
51. I love heels!
52. I do not have a drivers license. I will sometime in the near future 
53. I have a wide variety of taste in music. From country to pop.
54. I feel like only a woman should sing "Santa Baby".
55. I'm a nail biter.
56. I stopped for 3 weeks this year. Longest I ever went.  One day I'll try again!
57. Mac & I have been engaged for quite some time and have no plans of getting married anytime soon.
58. We live together,so it feels like we're already married.
59. I procrastinate a lot.  (Like right now I should be cleaning!)
60. I hate cleaning.
61. I hate when my house is a mess.  It's a lose-lose situation.
62. I keep my desk at work spotless. It's weird
63. I just started using my twitter account more and more.  I blame you guys! ;)
64. People think I'm quiet. Which is true to a certain extent. 
65. They also think because I'm not quiet, I'm not listening. Not true. I know more about people in my office than they think.
66. I love Christmas music.
67. Wonderful Christmas Time by Paul McCartney is one of my favorites
68. My clothes consist of colors in mostly black, blue, gray and pink
69. I HATE sports.
70. I hate going to the gym.
71. I have to go to the gym if I want to lose weight.
72. I will start tomorrow! I will. Promise.
73. I love watching scary shows. Ghost Hunters, Paranormal State
74. I won't watch alone though. 
75. Before this year, I never had gone to a funeral.
76. Death really comes in 3's. I sadly had my 3 between January 27th & March 27th.
77. I have no more living grandparents.
78. I often go to Burger King with my old-man neighbor.
79. I've dubbed him my adopted grandpa.
80. When I was little, they're used to be an old man down the street who I thought was mean.
81. I found out when I was 22 he wasn't mean. Actually very friendly. I would often go and talk with him.  He knew so much and had a HUGE garden that he kept up with himself. He died 2 years ago. He was nicknamed Duke.
82. I'm semi-claustrophobic. 
83. I will not sit inside a booth, or in a window seat. I don't like the feeling of not being able to get out when I want to.
84. My favorite color is pink, red & purple. 
85. I prefer Mac clean shaven.  He tends to stay scruffy on purpose!
86. I never have enough money.  One day..
87. I've never broken a bone. *knocks on wood*
88. My nickname from my dad is Monkey.  
89. Apparently I liked to climb furniture as a baby..
90. I had eye surgery at the age of 3.
91. My ears have been pierced since I was 9 months old.  I'm thankful because a)I'm a wuss and b) they never close!
92. there was is only 13 of us in my family.
93. When Mac & I get married I'll get a huge family with it!
94. I have very few friends. More acquaintances then anything else.
95. My best friend and I have known each other since 5th grade.
96. I'm glad I've started blogging and hope to continue for a long while.
97. I've never won anything until I came to blogger. I've won two blogger giveaways.
98. I miss having pen pals.  Anyone want to be my pen pal??
99. I LOVE diet coke..need to get stop drinking it!
100. My favorite charities are for the ASPCA, March of Dimes & Juvenile Diabetes

I congratulate you if you made it this far.  I hope you learned something about me! I want to thank all 44 of my followers for taking the time to read about me!

Here's to 100 more entries ;)

Snow aftermath

So I didn't get stuck at work last night.  I wasn't able to leave early because it took Mac an hour & a half to get from his job to mine.  It's okay because we rescheduled most of our customers for another day and just sat around. We don't make our techs work in really bad weather. 

We made out pretty good here. No power outages, no tree damage and we even got dinner at Applebee's. It was the only thing open since we were under a state of emergency. Only downside to this, is that Sir has been at the dog sitter's since Friday morning.  Her street was too bad to go & get him last night.

We got about 10 inches after it was all done.  It still looks like Fall.. 

This snow has made me want to listen to Christmas music (which I may or may not be doing as I write this) and watch Christmas movies (which I'll refrain from doing for a little while longer!)

If you got hit by this storm, how bad did you get it?

Snow?

Hope everyone is having a good weekend! I myself have to work today. Not looking forward to that...especially since they're calling for 6-10 inches of snow. It's too early for snow in NJ.  I just hope it doesn't make me get stuck at work later.

Wish me luck!  

What is everyone's weekend plans? Do you think snow before Thanksgiving is wrong?

November Goals

I think I'm going to try and start doing monthly goals. I try not to make goals in January because by February they're forgotten about.  So maybe if I blog about it, it'll help keep me going...we'll see.

So the first thing I'd like to try is this:

I know November isn't the best time to start this...but if I start 11/1, I'll be able to eat on Thanksgiving without failing. No cookies and no candy will probably be the hardest one of all..

I'd like to go & visit my mom for her birthday.  I haven't seen her since August.

That's the only 2 things I'm going to put down for this month..baby steps, right? I may have to start the 21 days thing come 10/31 so I can have golden corral when we go to moms

 What are your goals?

What I'm Loving Wednesday!

I'm linking up for What I'm loving Wednesday! You should too..Click here to go!

I'm loving this necklace that I ordered from Accessories Direct for free thanks to From Mrs to Mama's deals of the week

I'm loving my new fake uggs that I was finally able to find today. I had a pair, but some little doggie did something to one of them. Only cost me $15.  

 I'm loving this sparkling fruit juice/sparkling water that I found today. It *MAY* help with stopping my diet soda addiction...

I'm loving that I was able to get a shirt & a jacket at Old navy yesterday that would have costed me $60 before sales. Spent a grand total of $11.50..

I'm loving this pup even tho his smiling creeps me out

I'm loving this guy even though we had an argument over nothing last night

This totally shows how we are together lol

What are you loving this week?

Oh, How Pinteresting Wednesday!

As always, I'm linking up for Oh, How Pinteresting Wednesdays with Michelle.  This week I want to do places I want to visit. Right. Now.  Don't forget to link up and show everyone what you've pinned this week!

Where do you want to visit?

Happy 26th Birthday in Heaven!

You would have turned 26 today,
if you were still here.
Although you are so far away,
our hearts have kept you near.

The pain has eased a bit I guess,
yet has not gone away.
It will always stay a part of us,
until we join you one day.

We send our love to you,
from all our hearts to yours.
Just think, a birthday spent in Heaven,
means you'll spend it with The Lord.

Happy Birthday Brian! You would of been 26, instead you'll be 25 forever.

You've been on my mind lately. It's been almost 9 months since we said see you later. 

Love you and keep watching down on us. We'll see you again some day!

(For those of you who are new here, Brian was one of my best friends who passed away this January from Chiari Malformation. You can read about him here, here, and here)

Saturday Rambles

What is everyone doing on this gorgeous Fall Saturday?  Hopefully your plans are better than mine.  I'll be working 12pm-8pm with 5 less people than normal on Saturdays. I have a feeling this is going to be a long and stressful day. Hopefully I'll be wrong.

Sadly, tomorrow will be spent the same way as today.  I'm missing out on our nephew's 2nd birthday party (well Mac's nephew) because of it.  I was looking forward to it.  It was at a U-Bounce place in Long Island. There's always next year, right?

Happy 2nd Birthday little guy! We hope to see you soon!

Smiling dog

I'm sorry but smiling dogs are just creepy.  Sir does it quite often and to be honest it freaks me out. Mac thinks it's cute...

Need some examples?

(that's our dog for anyone that's new here)

I feel like they might as well have doggie dentures like these guys:

Does your dog smile? Does it creep you out a little?

I got the sickies :(

Well ladies, it's safe to say Fall is here because I feel like this today:

Right now, it's just a stuffy nose and the weird feeling in my throat. I plan on eating plenty of chicken noodle soup, drugging myself with cold medicine and trying to sleep more to beat this.  I blame my co-workers.

Hope you're all doing well on this Fall Thursday

Oh how Pintersting Wednesday

Pinterest is the place where you can catalog everything.
You'll need an invite to get on the site...I can help you with that!
Email me your email addy! I'll send you an invite!

Let's start pinning!!! 

(this one is soooo Mac!)

Yup....I've been there.

What are you pinning this week?

All pins can be found on my boards

What I'm Loving wednesdays

Visit Jamie to link up

This week I'm loving:

That Mac & I got these phones for free switching over to Sprint. I know everyone is all about the iPhone, but I like the way I can really multi-task & watch TV on the android. But I <3 my iPad

That I am pulling 6 days at work this week (ok that part I don't like) for roughly 10 hours of Overtime on my next check. Much needed.

That Mac FINALLY got paid from his former employer. All it took was me threatening to bring him to small claims court. Personally I would of loved to take him to Judge Judy. This guy is a jerk.

That I'm off today from work and get to see my dad & have pizza tonight with him 

These guys <3

What are you loving this week?