So what's new? Well, for starters, and for those of you not particularly interested in football, I'm just going to get this out of the way. The Eagles won! And I am elated and overjoyed. I knew it, deep down in the core of my soul - this was their year. And going into the game, I knew it too. But I was quiet about it until we won because after three years of getting to the championship and losing, I didn't want to do anything to jinx it. And something worked because we walked off that field happy as hell, NFC Champs and Superbowl Bound.

One team, one city, one dream baby! We've been waiting a long time for this and that time has come.

And it looks as if we'll be playing you and the Pats in Jacksonville. I'm still tossed over who I wanted to win the AFC - the Steelers were the ONLY team that beat us this season (well, the only team that counted - the last two games we lost didn't REALLY count because we played the second string for both) and that was when Terrell Owens was healthy and playing. But looking at the way the Pats whooped up on the Steelers and their record for the past few years makes me nervous. We'll have T.O. back but it'll be a rough game, regardless. Ought to be for a good time and one last time for good measure:

Fly, Eagles, Fly .... E-A-G-L-E-S! EAGLES!

In other news, we got hit pretty good with the blizzard of 2005. I woke up Saturday morning to a steady snow falling and it didn't stop until early in the morning Sunday. I headed out around noon to buy milk and eggs from the store - oh so cliche - but I got the urge to bake chocolate chip cookies (which never happened!) if I was going to be stuck inside all day and realized I needed eggs to do it. It wasn't too bad then, the roads were just starting to get bad and the grocery store was packed!

I came home and cleaned the apartment all day - vaccuumed, dishes, dusted, folding clothes - all the fun stuff that being an adult asks of you. The snow kept falling and falling and falling. Steve came over after he got off work and we sat around for a little while, watching TV and just hanging out. Then we headed out in his Jeep around 8:00pm, when the storm was still going on. There were barely any cars on the road and people were just walking with shovels everwhere. It was kind of cool!

All in all I think we got about a foot of snow. The plows were out early so the roads weren't too bad. I still have to shovel my car out tomorrow so that might take a while since we drove Steve's Jeep around all weekend. It's freezing and icy out but it was a fun weekend. There's nothing like a foot of snow to give you an excuse to sit around and do nothing and not care or feel guilty about it.

The past two weekends were a vast contrast to each other. Like I said, this weekend, we didn't really DO anything. We had dinner at Applebee's on Friday night and just stayed in on Saturday night and snuggled under the covers.

Last weekend was a different story. A bunch of us from work had decided to get together on Friday night and have a few drinks. Well, I had quite a few drinks, enough to convince me that a shot of Jager was a good idea. It wasn't a bad idea but in the end, Steve came to get me at the bar and I was home and in bed by 10:00pm that night. The next morning, I wasn't sick at all, which was an accomplishment, considering what alcohol does to me. Saturday evening was low key - just went out to Applebee's because no one knew what we wanted to do.

But Sunday was a BUSY day. We went to the Franklin Institute in the city because I had never been there. It's a science museum with all sorts of cool exhibits about space, trains, weather, biology, etc, but I was disappointed because a lot of the exhibits didn't work and because the place was a mad house of little children. The museum is built to let kids touch the exhibits and make them work so they learn how science works. But it's like parents bring their kids there and just let them run all over. I couldn't try half of the exhibits because there were two or three year olds that seemed to belong to no one in particular just pressing buttons and banging on the levers and what not. And I felt really immature and selfish for wanting to pick up a little kid and toss them halfway across the room just so I could enjoy something I had never seen before.

We had a good time though. We took in a movie at the IMAX - Forces of Nature - which was about tornadoes, volcanos and earthquakes. That HUGE screen can really have some physical effects on your body. After leaving the museum, we went to Geno's and got a cheese steak. Then we headed home and Steve and I drove around to four different stores looking for an XBox he wanted.

After finding that and playing a bit of it at home, we headed out around 10pm to a couple of friends' hockey game. They whopped ass so we headed out to a local bar and celebrated with $2 Miller Lites. That special only went to midnight and we got there around quarter till so Steve and I were buying two at a time. I had about six in me by 1:30am and the boys had started doing shots so I guess we were all drunk enough to think it was a good idea when Steve brought up driving to Atlantic City. We gathered our stuff together and headed down and got to the Showboat around 3am. I continued drinking on the way down there so by the time we got to the parking garage, I had to pee so bad I could barely move. Steve got out of the van and was twisting back and forth going 'Look, it's icy!' and my stupid ass self was trying to get out of the vehicle so fast so I COULD pee that I didn't put two and two together and fell right on my ass on the ice. I laughed like anyone with a few beers then headed off to pee because I could barely walk.

I didn't gamble but a friend of mine hit for $250 within the first ten minutes. We were probably down there for an hour and we ended up getting home around 7am, then sleeping until noon. Thank god I had a three day weekend for Martin Luther King Jr day because there was no way I could've survived a day/night like that if I had to go to work the next morning.

So it's been an eventful two weeks but it should get even better. Next weekend is the Royal Rumble and the weekend after that is the Super Bowl. There's a lot of birthdays coming up so it should be some pretty decent times.

But I have to get up early to shovel my car out and head to work tomorrow so it's time to go to bed. Pour a nice big glass of milk, settle into bed with my Cosmopolitan magazine and go to sleep.

Go Eagles!!!!!

Blegh! I'm rather lazy and boring this week. Maybe more later.

We're supposed to get snow this weekend. Woohoo!

I got my apartment cleaned up on Saturday. It took quite awhile because I really felt like crap. It was raining and I had a headache and I just wanted to sleep all day. I still have to hang some of my clothes up and straighten the living room and clean the bathroom. So I'm not completely done but I can see the bedroom floor.

We saw three movies this week. On Wednesday, it was Life Aquatic of Steve Zissou and I really liked that movie. It was pretty and funny and beautiful visually. Just an overall good time. On Thursday, we saw The Phantom of the Opera which was glorious and magnificent, but be forewarned, if you don't like musicals, don't go see it. It follows the show very well and the opening scene is absolutely breathtaking. And on Friday, we saw White Noise which was hard for me, because the previews terrified me and the movie itself terrified me. From what I saw between my fingers and from under the hood of sweatshirt, it was actually a pretty good movie, but ghosts terrify me so I couldn't deal with part of it.

We've have some fairly good weekends. Last night and the Saturday before, we went to Atlantic City, which is always fun. Both weekends we pretty much stayed in the Taj Mahal and gambled away money (both nights I spent nothing!) but last night, we also went into the Casbah which is the night club in the Taj. I liked it and would've liked it more if we would've gotten drinks but the boys paid a $20 cover each and it was ridiculously crowded in there so we ended up only staying for about twenty minutes. I didn't mind because ladies are free! The rest of the time when we're in AC is spent driving the strip and laughing at the hookers - I know, we're horrible, but it's kind of fun.

We had a lot of fun New Year's Eve. We just went over to a friends house and drank a lot and counted down the New Year together. Alcohol and holidays and friends always make for a good time.

So since I haven't done this yet, I'd like to do it for 2004.

Proudest Moment of 2004: Buying my new car; taking on the responsibility of the project I've been working on at work; standing up to people I should've stood up to awhile ago.

Most Fun Moment of 2004: Our road trip to South Carolina in the summer; going four-wheeling; our shore weekends at the beginning of the summer; our Atlantic City trips.

Best Purchase/Gift of 2004: My new awesome mattress; my car; my XBox; my new TV from Steve; my DVD burner from my parents; and my new set of slippers.

Hardest Moment in 2004: Dealing with family issues; saying goodbye to my family everytime I have to leave; being really stressed at work.

Unexpected Musical Discovery of 2004: Shinedown (love their remake of Skynard's Simple Man; Jay-Z & Linkin Park's Collision Course (even though I'm sick of hearing it on the radio, you can't deny that shit is hot!)

Anthems of 2004: Breakway by Kelly Clarkson; 99 Problems by Jay-Z; Lean Back by Fat Joe, Mase, Eminem and L'il Jon; Paradise By the Dashboard Light by Meatloaf.

Best New Hobby of 2004: Photography and videography; playing XBox

Best Food Discovery of 2004: Lean Cuisine Chicken Alfredo; TGI Friday's frozen mozzarella sticks

Best Movie of 2004: The Incredibles, Collateral, Friday Night Lights, Shaun of the Dead, Spiderman 2, Dodgeball, Mean Girls

Biggest Movie Disappointment of 2004: Alien vs. Predator, The Village

Television Addictions of 2004: The Real World: Philadelphia, CSI, Growing Up Gotti, Charmed, America's Next Top Model, Trading Spouses, Wife Swap, Gilmore Girls, Nanny 911, RW/RR Challenge: Battle of the Sexes

Best 'Lack of Common Sense' Moments of 2004: My stunts with my car.

Goals & Looking Forward to in 2005:
• Getting back on the Weight Watchers program full force
• Reorganizing my finances and getting some stuff paid off
• Getting a new job or improving my financial situation somehow
• Improving communication with friends and family
• Getting more sleep and taking better care of myself
• Starting a fitness program to get in better shape
• Organizing the apartment, going through things and purging stuff
• Painting the apartment, refinishing the furniture and gettin some new furniture
• Going through my CD's
• Visiting my parents again in South Carolina
• Finishing up the project I've been working on at work
• Getting better organized at work
• More four-wheeling trips and making my own DVD's
• Spending another year with Steve

So that's that for 2004. Goodbye to another year and I can't believe it went by that quickly.

Finally, I'd like to wish my honey good luck. He starts school this week and will be in school Monday through Thursday for the next three weeks studying to get his State Inspection and Emissions license. I am so proud of him! Good luck babe!

And over my Christmas vacation, I went through about a year's worth of photos and uploaded around 500 or so pictures from 2004. There's everything from our trip to South Carolina, Fourth of July and even some of this Christmas. So if you want to check them out, hop over to the ALBUM and peruse the photos.

But for now, I need to get to bed. I am exhausted and work comes early!

My apartment looks like a bomb hit it. There's so much I want to write about with the passing of another year. There's so much I want to write about in the LiveJournal and it keeps piling on believe me (so those of you who have access to it, when I write it, better grab a case of beer and sit back and it'll all be worth it, promise!).

But Steve got me The Urbz for Christmas and a 27" inch flatscreen TV for my living room and for the past TWO fucking nights, I have been unable to tear myself away from it. There's is NOTHING like jumping from a 19" inch TV to a 27" flatscreen, especially one that requires no switching of cords and no RF adapter to play a DVD or the XBox. And there is nothing prettier than the color on a gorgeous new TV. And damit, I seriously cannot get away from it. I've been meaning to get into my bedroom to clean it up but there's a 13" in there that doesn't compare to the new one (Steve did buy me the 13" though, so they both are nice!).

I've got a to-do list about two pages long. General stuff like housekeeping and getting stuff back together after the holiday trip. And other "new year" things like organizing, purging and cleaning.

I'll be back with something more meaningful within the next few days. I really want to go see Phantom of the Opera this week.