seeing grey

so i finally watched grey's anatomy this afternoon before i went to Mass and then work. i really love our DVR - i get to watch my grey's all over again. i didn't like one episode this season - the one when momma burke came and cristina wouldn't talk to her. but all of the rest of them have been great. so this afternoon i watched grey's and i cried like a baby. especially when bailey was talking to george about things being in black and white. marriage or any relationship can't be black and white - they have to sometimes be gray or grey in this matter. it's kind of where we're stuck and you have to see things from the other person's point of view. like bailey said, it takes two. now what side the other person sees is up to the other person. maybe they don't want to see gray. i don't know if i like the izzie/george storyline too much. i like that dr. hahn is back and there will again be a ct surgeon. and i don't know what i would do if i needed a heart transplant if i could take my child's - that must have been so hard. and that callie and cristina have somewhat bonded. i guess they have a common bond. wasn't sure if i liked the alex/ava thing because that was a bunch of adultery too. so i don't know if i like that part but so far it's been a good season. there's so many other things that i need to write about. congrats to dorothy and henry on their wedding! i have to post up pictures soon. and the housing market sucks right now but that's a whole different story. anyway, my break's done. talk to you later.

signs

so i've asked myself if i believe in signs ... not the mel gibson movie that i saw with the o's and dana years ago, but kind of like real signs. i guess i should explain. there's two instances right now that i can think of. i was at work last week and talking to one of the girls about going back to school, maybe i think i'm ready to start again. and then i went to pick up my mail at my parents' house and lo, and behold, there's a flyer from the ucla school of nursing for their applications to the bridge program. i brought the mail home and we've had a lot of mail that hasn't been sorted through so i told joey to take a look at it on his day off and to see what we need or what we can throw away. i told him i had a question for him and he says "you want to go back to school?" i said, "how did you know?" and he said that was the first thing at the top of the pile. we have to see - we're not sure yet because we need to think about family planning.
our next sign was a conversation with gomez the other week. he said he had a proposition for days. he asked if we would be interested in going on a mission trip to jamiaca - similar to what mustard seeds do. actually, going down to the mustard seed place in jamaica. i thought about it. and then joey and i were at Mass yesterday and the homily was about prayer and action. how we could pray and pray but if there was no action to what we were doing, then what are we really doing. so what do you think guys? anyone interested in going on a mission trip? we would have to do some fundraising but it would be "fun"draising! think about it and let me know

fires across the southland

it's crazy how one fire starts and then it just spreads. first it was malibu and agua caliente, and then irvine/ portola ranch / santiago canyon, and then ontario. i called my sister to see how they were and she said that they could see the flames prety far away so they were ok. apparently you could see the fires from our stairwell at work last night. then when i saw the news where there was a fire in ontario off of schaeffer i thought about our house (schaeffer is about 4 main streets away from us). so i called joey and he said that he didn't see or hear anything. so he took a stroll outside and it was mass wind and dust/ ash but he didn't see flames but all of the little trees that they planted in our neighborhood have blown over. as i was driving home this morning, the sky was completely gray - it was so nasty. and then the sky was red again - just like in lord of the rings - when legolas notices the red sky and says "blood has been shed this fortnight" he's so hot when he says that ... anyway, hopefully these things get contained because it's seriously getting hard to breathe.

these are a little delayed.... sorry

i haven't been posting on gbox lately because my hard drive crashed and we only have joey's laptop right now so i can only really go online when he's home. and when he closes, i don't really use the computer until after midnight and then i'm too tired to post hence the lack of pictures so that's why you've been seeing more pictures on this thing ...
this was joey's 29th birthday ... if you've been following along, we usually play poker. i think joey's last 3 birthdays have been poker parties, ever since he got chips at the penn house. so it was no different this year, we played poker, if you lost you played wii in the loser lounge, and then there was flip cup during the intermission so you could get lightly tossed before playing the second game. i really sucked at that game so i don't know if i'll ever play that one again =)

hawaii in a nutshell

our week in waikiki ....
weddings and birthdays in paradise ... good times ...
these pictures posted all out of order but i think you get the picture ...

congratulations!

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Rob Duran!




Welcome to the club!

Happy Birthday Hubby!

Happy 29th Birthday Bubba!!!






Hope you have an awesome birth week! Love you!

happy one month!

wow! i've been married for a month ... time really does fly when you're having fun! i tell joey every day "it's fun playing house!"
and he always looks at me and says "playing?" well, you know what i mean.
i've been amazingly blessed with great family and friends and a wonderful husband to share the rest of my life with. in two weeks will be the anniversary of our engagement. i asked joey if he thought that when he proposed last year, did he think we'd be married and playing house in a year. he said no. i had no clue either. but God has really blessed us. so much happening still ...
joey turns the big 2-9 tomorrow ...
we leave on thursday for hawaii ...
rob and lauren get married on saturday ...
then finally next week the real work starts again ...
i've been playing way too long. it's been fun =)