Student Loans

I’m about ready to stab myself with a fork right now. I have been on hold with my loan provider (for last semester’s loans) for about 45 minutes now. Gotta get locked in before the rates shoot up to almost 7% on the 1st. I already consolidated my undergraduate debt last year. Now I wish I had done this months ago. Errrr…..I’m so last minute.

Did I mention I’m still on hold?

SURPRISE!

Ohhhhh the hideousness!!!! HA HA!!

Good times on the blog.

Don’t worry, I’ll change it back….soon;)

Yesterday (Sunday)

The last shot is from the Madison Heights Fireworks display. Jeff and I went (despite me sleepier than sleepy the dwarf).

So Tired…

I swear…..I think there is something wrong with me. I am so tired ALL the freakin’ time! I was sitting at work and my eyes wouldn’t stop fluttering as I was sitting in front of the computer. I drank coffee all day and it did NOTHING for me. I keep meaning to go to the doctor and get some bloodwork done, but because I’m tired…..well….I just never have the energy. I keep imagining the most horrible of things. It’s my thyroid. I’m anemic. I have sleep apnea. That lump I had checked out in my breast a year ago WAS cancer and they missed it. OMG! What is wrong with me?
Other than being a hypochondriac of course.

Crocs

I hadn’t checked Dooce out in a little while and was laughing at her postings about the crocs/clogs her husband has been wearing. I thought I was the only one in the world who didn’t own a pair nor want them. I can’t help but think they are meant to serve as some kind of water shoe. I guess I just don’t get it. That is not to say I did not feel pressured to try a pair on while at an R.E.I a couple weeks back. I mean they were comfortable….but nothing special. I do own clogs (some stegmans to be exact) and LOVE them, but they are black and minimal. I can’t imagine myself in some bright yellow rubbery looking shoes even if I did own an outfit to match. The reason I got my clogs in the first place was because I have Plantar Fascitis. So I originally wouldn’t have bought them if if weren’t for the fact that I am in such pain when I walk all the time. I recently bought some Birkenstock sandals (not the jesus walkers have you) and they are worn EVERY DAY. This was monumental because I have hated Birkenstocks ever since seeing them on everyone in Ann Arbor. It was seriously hard for me to even try a pair on a few months back. The pair I have are so different from what they traditionally carry that they aren’t even on their website (from what I could find). Boy are they comfortable though. Those and my Stegman’s are all I wear.

Update: I realized I wasn’t looking under the right Birkenstock line. The sandals I bought are here They are called Taboras from the Papillo line.

Girl Time

Okay, so we never made it to the zoo. Instead we went to Royal Oak, ate lunch, got appropriately tipsy (haven’t drank that early since St. Patrick’s Day 4 years ago), window shopped, and got a pedicure. This was only my second time getting a pedicure and it was absolutely wonderful. I would love to have one of those pedicure chairs in my house so I may use it all day every day. So NICE!

In the future, when the day comes that Jeff wants a Lazyboy chair to sit in while he watches/surfs TV (which won’t happen anytime soon, cuz our TV blew the other day), I will have a pedicure chair.

I can’t wait till I can say……”Honey. Can you pass the remote? My feet are wet.”

Stay Tuned- Pics from the day to come later.

Detroit Zoo Commercial

For those of you that grew up in the Detroit area, you should remember the great Detroit Zoo commercial of the 80’s. I personally LOVED it! As a kid, I would run into the room whenever it came on. “My lines….my lines….I can’t remember my lines!” Detroit Bazaar has the commercial up on his blog (from You Tube). Check it out to bring back those fond memories.
I just happen to be going to the zoo with my Ann Arbor gal friends tomorrow so it was really great to come across it:)

Pics

I posted some new pics up on my Flickr page.
They aren’t the best (like any of mine ever are) but they show some of what we have been up to in the last two days (outside of work/school). It has been craziness! Craziness I tell you!

Date 2…..I meet Hayden

Autumn and I had our second “date” together tonight. We took Hayden to the park. On the way home I pushed him in his stroller. Autumn and I’s relationship is moving awfully fast as you can see. So on Autumn and I’s next date I’m thinking Hayden might actually let me pick him up (despite the fact that he is perfectly capable of walking). He gave me a lot of shy smiles today so I’m expecting him to just put his arms out for me. Perhaps that is wishful thinking?
The boy is SUPER adorable. Biggest smile in the world and he has the most beautiful eyes I’ve seen on a kid this side of Texas. He’s certainly going to be a heartbreaker one day.
That’s it! I’m totally changing the name of my blog to Everything about Hayden.

Call us crazy but….

Jeff, Mitch, and I all rode bikes from Hamtramck to mid-town Detroit Saturday night. We called Mitch up because after a day of hard core cleaning, Jeff and I craved a nice cold beer. Mitch suggested we ride bikes; me on his wife Gina’s bike, Jeff on the old Ten speed, Mitch on his fancy new mountain bike. We left at approximately 10:30 pm headed for Downtown D. We took the side streets, carried our bikes over some railroad tracks, ended up on St. Aubin (south out of Hamtown), and biked on through what most people would call the “sketchy parts”. Abandoned houses, grass so long one could hide cars in its brush. However, it was truly beautiful. It wasn’t scary. It was just…. peaceful.
It was unlike driving a car through Detroit. We were on a bike, taking in every smell… some of dead animals….and some of the most fragant flowers you could ever imagine. The warm wind was blowing making it impossible to hear one another when looking straight ahead, we looked to our left and right to hear while also taking in all that we passed. We saw people having bond fires in the backyards of their house, parties going on in delapitated buildings, laughing in the distance….it was truly wonderful experiencing Detroit in a new way. I know how naive that might sound, I mean we know how dangerous it is to go riding at night (considering most people wouldn’t even do the same even in the suburbs). But it was sort of reassuring for us. Detroit gets a bad rap and while it is not totally crime-free (like any city really is) it was safe enough for us to go bike riding through at the scariest of hours. Just goes to show.

Eventually we made it to Cliff Bells. It’s a great new bar in Detroit. We stayed there a good while, drank a couple beers and listened to an old swing band before jumping on our bikes to ride through the city some more. We stopped into the Magic Stick for a slice of pizza before heading back to Hamtramck.
We made it back to Mitch’s at 2:30 am. I was pooped. 14 miles on a bike and I had no recent excercise to prepare me. I slept like a baby that night.

My rear end is still sore, but is was well worth it. A bike ride through Detroit at the midnight hour. Who would have thought it could be so sweet?