Yay Babies!!! (and other ramblings...)

So my Aunt finally had her baby on St. Patrick's Day!! A little boy! His name is James (after my Grandpa) Michael Phillips. I have yet to see him, but I'm sure he's absolutely adorable! It will be exciting to have another baby in the family again, since our youngest is almost 5! No doubt that this will be the last baby of the family until us grandkids get around to it. so YAY BABY!

EDIT: Saw the baby last night! He's Perfect!!



Also, the coming of spring is exciting me :-) I enjoy the warm weather and all the flowers blooming! I highly doubt that there will be any more snow this year, although the past few years I believe we've had it well into April. We shall have to see. Happy First Day of Spring everyone!

St. Patrick's Day this year was AWESOME! I went with my friend Phil to see Flogging Molly at the Congress Theatre in Chicago. It was absolutely insane! The mosh pit was a much needed energy/stress relief for me. I'm surprised I didn't drop 10 pounds from all the sweat dripping off of me when we left. It was seriously nasty, but fully worth it. I did come away with quite a few bruises, which look terrible, but again, just all part of the moshing experience.

And as a good end to a good week, I found out that I do in fact have a job next year. The district is cutting a lot of jobs, and I happened to be on the bottom of the seniority list for teacher's aides and other support staff, but I somehow got lucky. I get to stay with the teacher I am currently working with too, which is an added bonus. Now I just need to find a part-time job/night speech pathology grad school program. I'm not sure that night programs exist for speech... I'm having trouble finding decent full-time programs. We will have to see.

I hate it... but I LOVE it

So in the past two weeks my work-out routine has suffered, as is reasonable. Of course the stress and depression have added to my snacking... as well as all the wonderful people who made delicious stress food for our family (ie sending brownies, cheesecake, cookies, fried food) And I accept all of that as natural. Although it took some time and a little slacking off... I did finally get my ass in gear. I realized I truly do enjoy sweating and the soreness that comes with my workouts. And I find myself feeling better about me, even if I haven't really noticed any results (nor the wii fit noticing any either...) I'm finding myself wanting to push more in my workouts and some of it is getting a little easier, or I get through more of the workout. I suppose I don't know why I waited so long to actually work out. I really cannot wait for summer and for all the bike riding and frisbee playing that will ensue :-)

In other news, our trivia team finally won on Wednesday! Horray Disasterous Raptors! This means $50 of bar fun next week! (and hopefully another win!)

Other bar related excitement: I found a bar that is now serving Murphy's stout (and red) on tap! I think I scared the bartender last night with my enthusiasm over it. Mark suggested they may be starting to sell it here in America, which would really be an excitement to me :-)

And my last tidbit of blab for the day... the Illini are losing to Purdue... but I suppose they have time to come back. I-L-L I-N-I!!