The Passion of Christ

After work today Lisa and I went to see The Passion of The Christ and it was amazing. Left me speechless, there are no words to describe this movie. The whole theatre was crying and so were we. They mention in the reviews that the graphic violence is overwhelming and it is, it was hard to watch at some points but I barely blinked the entire movie. The 2 hours felt like 30 mins because it just captivates your attention. This a must see. This is perfect timing as a reminder why we celebrate Lent

Angels & Demons

I'm reading Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons, which is the precursor to The DaVinci Code and its REALLY Good and would be pretty scary if it was real! I’m enjoying this book. I wanted to read this book before I started The Davinci Code. 2/23/04 UPDATE: this book is really REALLY GOOD! and a bit scary 2/25/04 UPDATE: I'm pissed off now! I was going to finish this book last night but it seems that my book is screwed up ??? my book goes from page 528 back to pgs 17-48 then back to 561. This makes no sense to me page 528 gets cut off in mid-sentence, if this book was meant to do a flahback why would the page #'s change and then pick back up on pg 561 in a totally different mid-sentence. I have to go to B&N today and see if all these books do this or if I picked up a defective book and see if I can replace it. FUN!

Family

Are you aware that if we died tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter of days. But the family we left behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives. We pour ourselves more into work than into our own family, an unwise investment indeed, don't you think? What is behind the story? Do you know what the word FAMILY means?

FAMILY = (F)ather (A)nd (M)other (I) (L)ove (Y)ou

Busy Day

One guess where we went again today : ) We hung around home the first part of the day trying to clean up toys, then we went to Scottos and had a meatball sub, went bowling, they were having their galaxy bowl while we were there so Jimmy thought that was cool. I couldn't tell you what our actual scores were 'cause Jimmy kept bowling on my turn, but I can tell you after not having bowled for many years I did pretty good - 3-4 strikes (no turkeys) and 3 spares, AND JIMMY!!!! got himself 2 strikes and 2 spares YOU GO LIL BOY! He Loved bowling I think we're going to have to make this a regular thing : ).

The last time I bowled I used a 8 so I started with an 8 this time but I guess my fingers got fatter lol I tried an 11 that was too big I tried a 10 I think that one worked well for me, but I had already hurt my knuckles on the 8 before I switched so I probably could've bowled better if they didn't hurt. After bowling Jimmy wanted Ice Cream, then we drove out to B&N again, Jimmy asked to go to the bookstore again so I wasn't going to say no to that - he can read all the books he wants. Then after we went to Walmart I had to get another storage thing to keep his ever growing collection of toys in - and of course he got a new monster while we were there - a 2 headed purple dragon. My co-worker babysat for my boss tonight so we stopped to visit her for a while with dinner - Italian subs - yum!

VH1 & MTV

I have to say, I love VH1 lately, the shows they are doing are great! funny and true. I love all the "I Love the (70's, 80's & the strikebacks)". The new show they're doing, I just watched, is The Best Week Ever, it goes over the week's entertainment and other stuff & the commentary is funny.

I believe MTV & VH1 (if they haven't officially merged) are definitely collaborating on shows, they've been hosting event/shows together. MTV is still good but I'm not really liking them much lately and its rare that you see any actually music videos anymore.

Spending time w/my kid

I started out the day, yucky and aggravated; everything was getting on my nerves at work today on top of me not feeling good - glad we get out early on Friday. After I ran some errands, picked up Jimmy from school, we went to B&N again (got some more books for Jimmy) : ) and relaxed with my boy as he munched on a BIG choc. chip cookie, apple juice and roamed the kids section (I'm glad he loves to "read" and loves his books)..so now I'm relaxed.

Sickypoo : (

I'm feeling a lil queasy 'n sick today, I didn't go to work, I hate missing work but there was no way I was dragging myself out the door today.

Jimmy and I just stayed home reading books and watching movies.

So of the other books I bought at B&N yesterday: Everyone Poops, The Potty Book: For Boys (we're still working on potty training as you can see), Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, and Pickles to Pittsburgh (the sequel to Meatballs) These are obviously for Jimmy, but ..Meatballs was one of my fav's when I was younger, I didn't know they did a sequel book to it.

And for me a little bit more challenging books : ) I bought a while ago The DiVinci Code (its a novel, hence fiction) about some theories in the Catholic religion. I have not had a chance to start it yet, but I've heard its an excellent book with a lot of controversy (and that it should be read w/a dictionary a lot of words are derived from the French language). Branching from this I bought The Gospel of Mary Magdalene and All the Women of the Bible. I need to reconnect with my religion again, I've forgotten a lot, but I thought I would expand my reading outside of the bible to other books and the extension on women in the church/bible history.

Weird NJ

Went to Barnes & Noble today and I found this really cool book called Weird NJ. 2 NJ guy's started back in 1990 by sending out a newsletter to family, that turned into a yearly mailing to whom they're family shared it with, to a self-published journal and into a magazine that is sold throught NJ also called Weird NJ. (I've never heard of this before I wish I had). I've just briefly flipped through this book and its very cool. I'm gonna have to see if I can find some of these places, they'd be awesome to photograph.

V Day <3

As I have no life outside of work and my son(currently) : ) I am babysitting for my boss tonight.

I gave James a new game for V Day then we went to lunch today and to Target to buy some new movies we got Lion King 1 1/2, 102 Dalmations and The Aristocats, new ones and classics :)

Now I'm at my bosses house from 6-12am. He called me yesterday to ask if I could babysit cause his sister bailed on him so since I had James this weekend and won't be going out I said sure. He pays very well - he usually gives my co-worked a few hundred when she watches the kids - not like I can't use the money either. So we'll be watching kid movies, making cupcakes and VDay stuff for their parents tonight.

Forgetting Vday

I wasn't aware that at Jimmy's school today they would be having a Valentine's Day party and it didn't dawn on me to buy valentine's and candy for his classmate (this is his first year in preschool) I felt bad when I picked him up and all the kids had bags full of stuff from everybody and there wasn't anything from James in their bags. So we went and picked some card and candy up and we'll have to drop it in everyone cubby on Monday - I'm sure they won't mind getting candy another day too :)

Girls Perogative

I found this blog --> What I want in a Man (via Blogger.com) by Redhead - I LOVE THIS - I think I'll make a list like this, maybe it'll help me really figure out what I want, I mean I know what I want, but sometimes things get "lost" in thought - find the guy I should be with - actually write down what you want - to make you think about it more in depth.

Anna part III is all you!!

Say Hola!

James came home around 5pm from his fathers this weekend. We cuddled and watched movies, he missed his mommy :), took his bath and read some books he fell asleep when we were reading "Say Hola in Spanish" he loves it and its a great book to introduce Spanish at a young age.

I recently signed him up for Spanish classes at his school through the Muzzy learning system, he'll have 3 - 20 min sessions each week starting this week so he'll have an easier time learning Spanish then I have since his brain's still in sponge mode :) We already have touched on it at home through videos and books so I wanted to extend it at school since they were now offering it.

Winter Blues

I got a pedicure today to cure my Winter Blues. Speaking of winter blues, I just heard the stupidest term: Seasonal Affective Disorder a.k.a. SAD, are they serious?? Why is it today "they" have to come up with these "technical terms" to describe or "diagnose" everything. Now people who are suffering from "Seasonal Affective Disorder" can get a prescription for it so they're not SAD anymore - give me a break.

Punk'd out Scooby!

Wednesday is our normal day off, but I went in to get some paperwork done, I was in from 9:30-3pm and I did get a lot done. I added another day to James' school schedule so now he'll go to pre-school 5 days a week. Now I'll have time to run errands, make appts. etc. He went to school today in his PJ's they had a pajama party today so he wore his Scooby Doo jammies and he thought that was just great! :)

I got my hair highlighted again this past Friday- Plum/Red, the last time I had it highlighted it was a Mahogany/Red. The color finally faded out a little bit so I don't look so "punk" anymore - it was pretty bright purple :)

About Me : )

A bit about me - Janine, I'm 26, Virgo, Jersey girl born n raised, Divorced/Single, I have a nearly 4 year old son who's awesome, I'm a dog person - I have 2 boxers.
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