Yes, I'm still alive

So I kinda fell off the blogging planet, but then today, on my day off, I was reading some blogs and all of the sudden, I decided, I want to be a blogger! When I asked my Twitter peeps what I should do to become a blogger, my cousin Donna gave me some good advice - WRITE! So here I am! Feel free to share my blog with your friends and family! I'll try to keep you all entertained!

Some fun things have happened over the fast few weeks. 

1. I moved in to a new apartment - literally across the hall from my old one! When I moved in to my last apartment, it was kind of a last minute thing. My old roommate lost her job and got a new one out of state just a few weeks before our lease was up, so I was desperate for an apartment and ended up in a studio. For the first year or so, I was OK with it, then it started to get annoying. I wanted a living room and a bedroom - more than just one big room and a bathroom, so when my landlord called asking if I was staying when my lease was up, I inquired about one bedroom apartments. He told me he had one available right away, so a few days later I looked at it and started moving my stuff in the same day! I had some issues with getting my gas and cable all set up, but now Chip and I are all settled in our new apartment and we love it! 

2. I got in to graduate school!! WOO-HOO!! I applied to Master of Public Health programs at Cleveland State University and Case Western Reserve University in January. I heard back from Cleveland State in the middle of March that I was accepted. I waited until early April to hear back from Case, but then decided Cleveland State was a better fit for me and sent in my acceptance of admission letter so it's official! The Cleveland State program is MUCH more conducive to working a full time job and going to graduate school, as all of the classes I have to take are offered online, on weeknights or on Saturdays. I am super excited and can't wait to start in August! I would start now if I could!!

That's about all that's going on here!! I'll write more as fun stuff happens!!

Peace out!

30 Day Challenge - Day 23 — A video

This is a video of my adorable furry friend Chip! Despite my numerous attempts to buy him cat toys that he will play with, he insists on playing with the few stuffed toys I have (yes, I still have some stuffed toys! Don't judge!). This is one of his favorites - we call it Monkey Toy! This video captures his personality PERFECTLY!

30 Day Challenge - Day 22 — A favorite joke

I don't really have a favorite joke! I'm not that great at telling jokes! However, there is one that always stands out in my mind, if only because my dad used to tell it to me ALL the time! I guess that kind of makes it my favorite!


Here it goes!


A girl was reading a book in the living room when the phone rang. She picked it up, “I am ze viper, I know where you live.” Oh well she thought, it’s probably a joke. Two minutes later the phone rang. The girl picked it up, “I am ze viper, I am on your street.” This time the girl was a little scared so she locked all the doors and windows. Two minutes later the phone rang, “I am ze viper, I am on your driveway.” Now the girl was really scared so she took the phone with her and hid in the closet. The phone rang again, she picked it up, “I am ze viper, I am at your door!” This time the girl freaked out. She heard the doorbell, ding dong ding dong. The girl gathered up all her courage and slowly walked to the door, and opened it. The viper said, “I am ze viper, I am here to vipe your vindows!”


It's more an eye-roller than anything else. But that's my dad for ya! :-)

30 Day Challenge - Day 21 — A favorite recipe

A couple weeks ago, I said one of my favorite foods was homemade macaroni and cheese so today, I will share with you the recipe!

½ cup of elbow macaroni
3 tablespoons of flour
3 tablespoons of butter
2 cups of milk
1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 cup minced onion (sometimes I add this, but usually I don't)

Dash of pepper

2 cups of cheddar cheese

Heat oven to 350º

Cook macaroni. While macaroni cooks melt together butter and flour and cook for a couple of minutes. Add milk and cook on medium heat until sauce thickens, stirring the whole time (so it doesn't burn on the bottom). When sauce thickens and coats the back of the spoon, add cheese, onion, salt and pepper and stir until melted.  Add sauce to cooked and drained macaroni, pour in to a baking dish and bake until bubbly - 45 min. - 1 hr. Then ENJOY!

Kraft Macaroni and Cheese this is not! It is MUCH better!!

30 Day Challenge - Day 20 — A Hobby of Mine

Yes, yes, I fell off the planet I know! But I'm back!

So I'm sad to say, I don't really have any hobbies at the moment! The closest thing I have that comes to a "hobby" is playing golf and I haven't done that in MONTHS! Partially because the person I used to golf with the most is now my ex and partially because there are really only about 4 months in Cleveland that have golf-worthy weather (at least in my mind!)!

I must say, that as I write this, I kind of miss it! I'm not a huge fan of team sports, mostly because I sucked at them as a child, so when I started to golf I felt like it was right up my alley because I knew if I sucked I wasn't letting anyone down but myself!

Hopefully the weather will get nice soon and I'll be able to go to a driving range and hit some balls!

P.S. - One of the reasons why I love golf? This guy!



His name is Ryan Moore and he is NOT hard to look at!

30 Day Challenge - Day 19 — A fun memory

Wow...this is a tough one! I have had so many good memories with my family and friends!

I think some of my funnest memories though are the ones that center around watching TV with my parents growing up. With me mom it was L.A. Law...with my dad it was Married with Children (when I was too young to actually get what was going on and being said...that show is DIRTY!!) and old episodes of Dragnet. Dragnet was on Friday nights. My mom would usually work Friday nights so it would be me and my dad watching Dragnet waiting for her to get home. A lot of the time, she would bring home Chinese or pizza and we'd just hang out and eat and watch TV. My brothers were younger, so they'd usually be in bed already so it would just be the 3 of us. I loved that time with the two of them!

Another fun memory I have is when my girlie cousin's would sleep over. The three of us would sleep in my parent's bed and be giggly and goofy. Before we went to bed, my dad would read us a Berenstein Bears book...our favorite was Berenstein Bears Learn About Strangers!!

I have so many other good memories, but these are the ones that stick out the most!

30 Day Challenge - Day 18 — A baby photo

I don't have any pictures of me as a baby on my computer, so instead you're going to get a picture of me holding my friend's baby, my "niece", when she was just a couple of weeks old! It's hard to believe she was ever that small...she will be 3 in a couple weeks.