Blackberry drivers!!!

Blackberry drivers = people who drive while checking/responding/parusing their blackberry devices.

These people are officially on my black list, this morning I had to hink at a gentleman who was so engrossed in his email (or whatever else) that we missed a light not once, but twice.
So overall I have decided that this is even worse than people or just as bad as people who eat, read, talk on the phone and drive at the same time.

I apologize for the lack of information today. I am busy after all I need to keep my job to feed brutus and toby.

Try me!

I have had some trying days at work recently. Although I refuse to go into detail, many of which you already know, I have decided to make the best of it for the time being.

Tonight I am to attend the Chairman's Award winners dinner. Yes, I am one of the winners for the Chairman's Award. For the most part I do not feel like a winner, but for once I will go and accept the honor of being a winner. I guess if this had happened at a different time I would have been more excited. But enough of this...

I had trouble blogging yesterday... so here is what I was going to say.

Dave and I had the most amazing weekend. We decided to take the weekend off. No yard work, barely any house work, no folding laundry, and no stress. Sometimes I think we are so in-sync we think exactly alike, we just looked at each other and said: "don't we deserve a weekend off." So off we went to sit by the pool with our books all weekend, it was one of the nicest days I have had. On Saturday night we had date night. Sometimes, I find it amazing that time with Dave goes by really fast, yet whenever I am not with him time drags by. I am constantly entertained by his humor and his interesting perspective on life.

I hope you all have a great day!

I look forward to sleeping

It is funny how we wake up on Friday mornings looking forward to sleeping in Saturday and Sunday. This morning was not a good morning to wake up, as I keep thinking it is darker out in the mornings.

I am looking forward to a quiet weekend relaxing with Dave, so I wish you all a happy weekend.

And for those of you waiting here is a picture of Pedro Ignacio...

To change or not to change

Most of you know me as Elaine Pons also known as Elaine Marie Pons, known in Puerto Rico as Elaine Marie Pons Licha. Elaine Marie Pons Licha was given to me by my parents some 29 years ago. It is the name used in my drivers license and my passport, as it is common for those of Hispanic descent to use our father's name and our mother's maiden name. Soon enough I must decide whether Elaine Marie Pons Licha or Elaine Pons (shortened for US) will continue to be my name. I have the beautiful choice of changing it to Elaine Marie Lynch. However, if anyone calls me Mrs. Lynch (which kids in our neighborhood have, and got sneered for) I probably will not respond. As Mrs. Lynch will always be Dave's mom to me.

In all of this I should be asking Dave what his opinion is, but right now that is not a factor as this is about me.

Pons Licha may not sound Puertorican, but it is the name I inherited there. Maybe I am afraid changing my name will make me less Puertorican, like anyone would know by looking at me. I know I will never leave my roots behind as I am proud to be from Puerto Rico and I will probably never forget my food, language and customs. But does changing your name really change you?

I think Elaine Lynch will probably be the suburbia mom, I may or may not be in the future. All the same considering it an honor to carry the Lynch name. Although I will remind myself that Lynch Castle in Galway, Ireland is now a bank. However, leaving behind the Pons Licha doesn't seem to be an easy decision. I guess soon enough we will know...

Toby is depressed

Monday blues are gone, but it is only Tuesday. I am really impatient lately. For one summer is going by way too fast for my liking, second I really want to leave for Grenada now, but we have about 100 days left, and that means fall is here. So I am torn.

Toby is officially depressed, or so I have declared him. Anyone who knows Toby knows he is a little neurotic (well maybe a lot), but poor dog, he was abused as a puppy. Granted, I have owned Toby now for almost 4 years, and he has been spoiled every day from a warm/cold house to sleep in to food, treats, peanut butter and a large yard. Ever since we had those storms a few weeks ago he has not been the same. Granted maybe it doens't seem strange to him but hiding his head under the bed, while the rest of his body is on the floor, because he can't fit his whole body under the bed is not normal. The worst part was this weekend, we had tons of people in the house and he wanted nothing to do with anyone, he just wanted to hide. Now, he does go outside (which is not the norm for him), but his has managed to dig a hole in our yard and that is where he spends most of his time. So last night I headed to Whole Foods to buy some herbal remedy for his anxiety/depression that was recommended to me. Now, I go in to WF and I am thinking to myself these people are going to think I am crazy. So I ask the lady at the herbal area if she can help me find these drops, she says "ohh did your vet send you?", no my vet did not send me I have yet to slap the $300 vet bill for her to tell me to buy this product. So she explains to me how to use it and pretty much that is it.

Once home I give Toby the drops and hope he reacts to them. We take them for a nice warm walk and then jump in the pool. He acted normal for most of this, even pulling me all the way home once he realized how hot it was outside. So we will see how the new herbal product works... cross your fingers I want my neurotic dog to be normal again.

Titi Elaine

In the words of Pedro Ignacio "titi Merci tiene un bebe en la panza." I was very happy to find pictures of my new nephew/niece today.


I am very excited about Merci and JP having a baby!!! I know they will make the best parents. Although, I am sure said nephew or niece will have a lot of fun with titi Elaine and uncle Dave.
I can't wait for the arrival of "le bebe."
Knowing le bebe's grandparents this kid will have more clothing than Merci and I together. It was funny going over there for dinner last weekend and getting a look at le bebe's drawer. This baby isn't even born yet and it already has more pairs of shoes (booties) than I do. I'll have to get the picture of the drawer, I just hope Merci is ready for the kid over taking all of their closets.
Have a wonderful Friday!

PostSecrets

A long time ago I read about this in the Washignton Post, today I will share the blog for it:
http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

Enjoy!

Run like the wind (take 2)

I lost my post this morning so I am trying to recover from my mistake.

This morning I decided to resume my running at bootcamp. I have never been a runner but have made huge attempts at it since I joined ADF. Many days I wondered why in the world I wanted to endure more pain, so I gave up running for some time. Somehow today seemed like the right day to pick it up again. I will pay the price...

Since this is my fifth attempt at posting today I am going to give up and be done.

Some wedding news

So I will share with you all that I finally bought my wedding dress. The one I will wear while we make it official on the beaches of Grenada. It has been exciting and weepy all at once and I am very happy. Now if only I could just skip time and be there. I just don't have the patience to wait until October 30th.

Now if you would like to see the dress I expect you to be in Grenada on the 30th or you will have to wait for pictures afterwards. I am not going to spoil the surprise by posting pictures beforehand.

It is Friday and although I have only been at work for 2 whole days this week, I cannot wait till this week is over. Happy Friday!

why at 4:00 am it is the middle of the night

We spent a lovely 4th of July weekend in St. Simons Island. Now we are back, happy to see our brutus and toby.

So here goes my wisdom, every time we got somewhere we always beat ourselves up for taking the first flights out, what in the world is the difference. I'll tell you what the difference is... waking up at that awful hour of 4:ish am. You try to go to bed at a resonable hour but it just so happens that your body doesn't want to go to sleep and then most of the night you wake yourself up to make sure you haven't missed that alarm clock. So then what happens is that at 4pm this afternoon we would both love nothing more than going to sleep, but that is not how normal people are so eventually we will make it till eight o'clock tonight and then allow ourselves to fall asleep.

I personally love early morning flights, althought I still don't like getting up that early. Early morning flights ensure that I will either fall asleep through most of the flight, making the flight seem shorter or depending on the travel date it ensures that I have time for missed connections etc etc.

And I cannot believe airlines are still using the excuse of "we don't have the right tool/part to make the aircrafty leave on time" when does this stop being a reasonable excuse??

So off to slumberland we hope not to go yet, but I am sure if you call me after 8pm tonight you will get yelled at.