News flash

This may be shocking to some people, but I need to let everyone know that I live MY life for ME and only ME!!! I know that you may think this sounds horrible, but really at the end of the day it has to be that way. No one else is going to pay my bills, no one else is going to put food on my table, no one else is going to make me happy but ME. So yes I am going through this life doing for me what has to be done for me and I hope everyone else out there is doing the same. Does this mean I wouldn't bend over backwards for my family or true friends, of course not. I would do anything for just about anyone as long as it doesn't hurt myself, my life or my happiness, in fact doing things for people I love makes ME happy, so again, it's about ME. Is this selfish .... maybe, but why shouldn't it be? This is MY life, that I am living for....ME!! And until someone who I plan on spending the rest of my life with or children of my own come into my life, this is how I am going to continue to live my life. And I am tired of the judgment, lectures and finger pointing, because of the way I CHOOSE to live my life.

To be clear, MY LIFE consists of:

• Spending 88+ hours a month coaching and taking care of 65+ cheerleaders and being a role model for these kids.


• Spending 112+ night hours a month working in a hospital where I care for other people.


• Spending almost every weekend at one of my crazy busy jobs.


• Trying to get as much sleep as I can in between both those jobs.


• Spending time with my awesome family and doing just about anything for them & with them.


• Spending time with my true friends and doing just about anything for them & with them.

I think you can see I spend many hours of my life caring for, and doing tons for other people, some of which I don't even know!! So why shouldn't I spend the rest of my time doing what I want for me?!?!?! If you can't understand that my only judge is god, if you can't handle the way I choose to live my life, If you can't handle the fact that I am sometimes too busy and I am working too hard to give you a ton of attention, if you can't handle that I come first, if you can't handle that my family will ALWAYS come immediately after me and if you can't understand why it needs to be this way, well I am sorry to say you don't deserve to be in my life, AND I AM 100% OK WITH THAT.

You see I have made it this far in 30 years living my life for myself, doing what I want, when I want, wherever I want, and damn it I am happy about it!! Sometimes I do what I want and learn some very hard lessons the hardest way possible. But I am here telling the world that I did it my way and I don't regret anything I've done. Were some of my choices bad, probably, did I learn from them, obviously. Do I regret those choices and do I care what you think? ABSOLUTELY NOT!!

I am a good person, I am a beautiful person, I am a good family member, I am good friend, I am a good coach, I am good at my job and I am a good cook. I like to eat, drink and have a good time. I am funny, caring, loving, fun, the life of the party, and pretty damn awesome, and I know this 1000% and I don't need confirmation about any of this from anyone but myself. I know all of this because I live my life for me, doing what needs to be done for ME. Do I sometimes forget to live my life for me, yes, but I am usually quickly reminded of the reasons I live my life for me and then I remember who I am, and how proud I am to be me. Maybe, if everyone stopped worrying about what everyone else in the world was doing they would be a shit ton happier also. Maybe, if everyone stopped trying to be something they weren't and they embraced themselves 100% they wouldn't be so angry, judgemental, or unhappy.

"Walk a mile in my shoes, see what I see, feel what I feel, THEN, maybe you will understand why I do what I do. Until then, don't judge me"

Thank you for reading MY blog..... =)

2011 Update

2011 has come and gone, and it’s already March!!! I guess its time for my yearly update…..

January 2011 Starts in Florida where my family and I rang in the New Year at my Aunt Kitty & Michael’s condo. Florida was amazing!! It was sunny and soooo relaxing. I haven't slept in years, like I did in Florida. We visited Billy Bob's Gator Farm also known as Billy's Swamp Safari. We paid wayyyy too much money to see ZERO gators. The best gator we saw was at the gas station on the way to the farm. Seeing the other Animals was cool, but we really just wanted to see some gators up close and personal!! We took a water taxi to a bunch of different bars and restaurants and had a great time. We lounged by the pool and on the beach, ate at amazing restaurants and bars; we even got to "try" deep sea fishing with about 50 other people on a boat that was only made for 40 fishermen. We didn't catch a thing, but had a blast. I spent midnight on new years in my pajamas, on top of a 5 story building, with my family, sipping champagne and watching a 360 degree view of fireworks! It was a new years and a vacation I will never forget!

I was still working at NorthBay in Labor and Delivery as well as Coaching at Aerials All Stars and still living in my one bedroom apartment in downtown Vacaville. My neighbors sucked, but it was working out.

January – April were busy like always. Competitions 2 – 3 weekends a month, work 2 weekends a month. I was trying to maintain my jobs, my life, and my social life, and I was having a hard time. But I managed like I always do.

April marked another Nationals for Aerials. All of our teams did awesome & it was a blast like always. I have to mention that I hurt my shoulder after practice one night fooling around with some stunts; this will become important later in my story.

May – I turned the big 30! I threw myself an amazing party at Creekside. Amanda’s band sang, and all my friends came out to celebrate. It was awesome, definitely the best way to bring on my 30’s.

So remember that shoulder injury? Well it had been bothering me ever since. After I had to ice it pretty much all night at work I finally decided to go see my Dr. We took some x-rays and decided to try some rest (from both jobs) and a cortisone shot. I was taken out of work on June 27th for two weeks….This date will also become important later.

June was also spent preparing for Stephanie’s wedding. She married Blake on July 2nd in a beautiful catholic church followed by an AMAZING reception. I was so honored to share in their special day. Chris went as my date, and we had a blast.

The 4th, Audrey and I had a BBQ and watched fireworks downtown. The rest of the family was off doing different things in different places. We hated being apart and decided to never spend 4th of July apart like that again.

So remember the rest and cortisone shot….Yeah it didn’t work, I was still in a lot of pain. My Dr. and I decided an MRI and some osteopathic maneuvers were the next step….I was still out of work. I did go back to working at the gym as long as I promised not to use my arm at all….So the MRI happened and showed a torn labrum…..Awesome. Now I had to be referred to an orthopedic specialist to schedule SURGERY!!! Remember it’s now late July….I am still not working & starting to become slightly depressed!

Moving on….August, being that I was still off work and needing a little “uplifting” I got the opportunity to travel to New Jersey to visit my New Jersey family, thanks to my Aunt Kitty. It was an awesome trip and just what I needed. I spent a weekend on Keuka Lake with the now name “Keuka lake cookas” I got to be the first of the west coast fam to meet little Ashlyn. I shopped and shopped and shopped and even visited the Jersey Shore!!! On the final day of my Jersey trip I had learned a friend and a family member of a very close friend had passed away way too early….it was a hard time all around.

After I returned I met with my surgeon and scheduled my surgery for September first. But before that my sister, mom and I threw Allison the most beautiful bridal shower ever! It was a lot of work but she deserved every bit of it. It was an amazing time with some wonderful women……5 days later I had surgery……

After the surgery I moved into my parents place so I had a few “nurses” to take care of me. I lived in a Vicodin / Torradol haze for about a week…..after about a week I started to go a little crazy and finally decided I could move back to my house and return to cheer practice. I also had to live in this horrible sling for FOUR long weeks day and night. The damn thing started to give me anxiety!! needless to say the sling didn’t last very long…

Two weeks after my surgery we headed to Donner for Allison’s bachelorette party!! It was a great time as long as we stayed in our wonderful cabin….Apparently Truckee natives aren’t very welcoming to large groups of women celebrating the last days of being a bachelorette. We drank and ate and played some great games. It was such a great weekend spent with some amazing women……and yes I was still out of work!!

Two weeks after the bachelorette party came the day we had all been planning the last 10 months for. Allison and Kevin’s wedding day. They got married at Vezer winery in Suisun Valley on October 1st 2011. The wedding was beautiful and the party was awesome. After all the Giaquinto’s know how to party. Such great memories were made that weekend. The day could not have been more perfect. We had family and friends come from all over to celebrate their big day. It was amazing to see every one happy and most importantly healthy =) of course the party couldn’t just end, we had to wind down at the hotel bar complete with stumbles to In-N-Out for the late night meal! Breakfast the next day was equally entertaining as we watched our family and friends make their way down stairs to begin to recover from the nights events!!

Most of October was spent recovering from my surgery, the wedding and trying to get back to work….Yes I was still out….and NorthBay wasn’t making it very easy to come back…..But silver lining I had Halloween off!! I was Mario, Megan was Luigi we even had a Princess Peach (at least for one party)

November was fairly low key also. I spent most of it trying to keep my spirits up being that I was still out of work. Aerials had their first competition of the season. Our program had grown significantly since the season before and our teams looked awesome. We came home with 3 thirds, 1 second, 4 firsts, 3 grand championships, most entertaining & sportsmanship awards and a US Finals paid bid!! It was safe to say we were kicking ass and taking names.

Thanksgiving….Yes I was still off…. But the Giaquinto’s decided to spend the week in Disneyland, because who would really spend their Thanksgiving in Disneyland besides us? As it turns out EVERYONE spends their Thanksgiving in Disneyland. Of course we had fun, but it was crazy busy!!

So it was now December and I was finally allowed to go back to work. I went back on December 9th! I had never been so excited to go to work and I can honestly tell you that being off for 5 months gave me a new appreciation for having a job and receiving a paycheck!

Aerials also had their second competition coming home with 4 first places!!

Christmas was of course awesome because I got to spend it with my amazing family. New Years was equally as awesome because again I spent it with my family and close friends, just playing games, eating and drinking at the Giaquinto house.

Really 2011 had been an ok year. I had gained some new friends, lost some others. Had a way too long break from work, had a major surgery, celebrated a milestone birthday, a close friends wedding, my sisters wedding, and some great holidays & birthdays. I am thankful for my friends, my jobs, my home, and mostly my amazing family.

I already know 2012 is going to be my best year yet. I have family members expecting twins, friends also expecting new babies. Aerials is still kicking ass and taking names. And some amazing trips / vacations already planned. So far I have already had 3 mini trips (for cheer) to San Jose, Sacramento and Palm springs. This weekend will be spent in Napa / Yountville with the sisters, my mom, the Aunt Farm & 2 of the “Keuka Lake Cookas!!” Aerials heads back to San Jose and Sacramento this month. April is Nationals in Anaheim & then only a day after coming home from Nationals I head to WORLDS in Orlando Florida for the trip of a lifetime with Liz, Lexi, Ashley, Hannah, Kristie, Scott, and Jordanne. And the Giaquinto / Heitbrinks head to Donner for a week in August! I am very busy but I could not be happier about it. Here's to an amazing 2012!!

A reason to get rid of the funk.....

So here I am feeling all sorry for myself and I read this posted by my cousin......

"Let’s cut right to the point. On Sunday, Shayne got the reports back from his most recent scans. His oncologist couldn't wait until Monday to tell him that he was 100% disease free. Not, the tumors have shrunk. Not the results look good, but the cancer is gone.
100%!!
We’d never expected for his doctors to be able to tell him this. I honestly don’t think they even expected that it would happen. We thought there would just be reports of tumors shrinking, the disease being managed, and another scan down the road. We had settled into our new normal of managing his disease week by week.
But now, by some miracle, it’s gone! *poof*
Needless to say, we’re still in shock, but we’re looking forward to a spring of rebuilding our house and recalibrating our sense of what’s normal."

Miracles do happen.....and my funk is stupid compared to Shayne's fight. Gonna keep this in mind =)

The funk.....

With the first 2 months of 2011 over, I figured I should write an update. January and February have been crazy busy!! In the nine weekends in January and February, I was busy for six of them. I haven't had a weekend to myself in a month, and will only have one weekend to myself in the next six weeks.....Now if you are thinking this sounds "debbie downerish" you are 100% right....I am burnt out and it makes me sad, it makes me even more sad that I have been feeling this way for a few weeks.

Focusing on the positive:

• January 15th & 16th was the American Masterpiece competition where all of our teams finished in the top 4. We took 1 4th, 3 bronze, 1 silver, 1 gold and a grand championship. We also took the large program award. This means we were the highest scoring large program of the competition.
• February 4th - 6th I spent some time at my Aunt Sheila's cabin in Donner Lake.
• February 12th & 13th we took 4 of our 9 teams to Americas Best. We walked away with one third, one second, and two FIRSTS.
• February 26th we took all nine teams to JAMLIVE. It was a great competition for us. We walked away with a fifth, one second, and FIVE FIRSTS as well as two level championships. Energy won the "showstopper" award, Amp'd won "best music", Adrenaline won "best tumbling" and Hannah, Brianna and Brittany won individual awards.
• I started working out at Gold's on February 28th and have been every day since.
• I got an e-mail today from my boss at the hospital letting me know she thinks I am "The BOMB"
• I got a couple other e-mails from co-workers at the hospital praising some work I had done last week.
• I spent a couple fun nights recently with some non work - non cheer friends.
• My very good friend Amanda is helping me to plan a FABULOUS 30th birthday party

With all that being said, I still seem to be burnt out and in a funk. I can't even really put my finger on what is bothering me. It seems like things that's normally don't bother me are annoying the shit out of me. I am waking up with a bad attitude on days that I should have a great attitude.

I am very proud of my kids and their accomplishments, and I am proud of my accomplishments in the gym and at work. Working out is helping and being back at the hospital after my 5 days off seems to help, or at least its keeping my mind busy. I feel like I am needed at the hospital and that the work I am doing is appreciated. Nurturing my outside of work and cheer friendships is helping to lighten my mood, and having Amanda invest some of her own time in helping me plan really helps......Still the funk is there.

Normally when I feel annoyed by everything it means I am tired, so I sleep and it goes away. I think I am getting enough sleep but I still feel annoyed.

Whatever this funk is...It needs to go the funk away! I am not a depressed person and I don't let stupid little things get to me. I don't let people treat me badly or talk down to me. I've lived my life "doing me and being me" So what changed? When will it change back?!?!?!?!?

It's starting to annoy me that I am so annoyed!

Really, I'm a pretty lucky girl. I have a warm roof over my head, food in my fridge, a great car, 2 awesome jobs, & friends and family who love me....I really should remember that. Sometimes the funk is a little too strong.

Here's to hoping the funk moves on to someone else!!

2010 Update

This years update should be pretty easy since I have been blogging for about a year now.....Some of these updates are pulled from older blogs (mostly because I can barely remember what I did yesterday) Enjoy!!!

January 2010...I was scheduled to work on new years eve, but ended up being called off. So I partied at a good friends house and toasted to an amazing 2010. So far there hasn't been many eventful things happening in my life. I had paid off $5530.00 of my debt and I was hoping to move out into a condo in the very near future. I was still working at NorthBay in Labor and Delivery. Still coaching cheerleading at Aerials gym, and the school thing was put on hold in order to pay off my debts. All in all I was happy and moving forward with my life =)

February 2010...Alone on Valentines day again....This is starting to become a very bad trend =/

April 2010...Nationals....IT WAS AN AMAZING TRIP!! All of our cheer and dance teams placed in the top 4 in their divisions, we took home 2 national titles and a grand championship!! The growth in the kids in that season was amazing. These same teams were lower in levels and placing much lower at the begining of the season. I couldn't be prouder of the 63 kids we put on the floor that weekend. After two days of crazy busy competition I felt about 60 years old and looked almost as bad as I felt. But of course you can't keep me from Disneyland!!! I spent the next two days running around Disneyland with my coaches, parents, and kids. Of course we stunted and tumbled anywhere we could get away with it and had a blast!! 5 days later we started the new 2010/2011 season (That's right only 5 days after we ended the 2009/2010 season) Saturday April 17th was cheer tryouts and Sunday April 18th was dance tryouts. It took us only 13 hours over 2 days to place 102 cheerleaders and dancers & we were very excited about the season ahead.

April also marked my final payment to my debt. At this point I was DEBT FREE and it felt amazing!! Now the hunt for the perfect apartment was on!!


May 2010...29...Well the 29th Birthday came and went. It was fun....I had 2 great dinners with awesome company, 3 birthday cakes, 2 birthday cupcakes, awesome gift cards, window tinting, a new deck, 2 bottles of captain, many stiff drinks, 100's of birthday wishes & even got pepper sprayed. Don't worry it was by no fault of my own, I was minding my business and some jackass sprayed the area I was standing in. Let me tell you being pepper sprayed sucks!! I guess I will never forget this one huh?

May 26th I was approved for my very own 1 bedroom 1 bathroom apartment in downtown Vacaville. It's was perfect......perfect price, perfect location, perfect size...Just perfect!!! I had to admit though, I was a bit scared of the "grownup" part of it all. I had been kind of sheltered from the "life bills" for the past 2 years. My mom reassured me saying, I just didn't realize how much I had actually been paying to creditors, courts, etc. When all added up its around 10K........I paid off 10K in bills in just under 2 years. I also played ALOT. So at that point I knew I could do it, hell, I needed to do it. There is no way I was going to turn 30 living with my parents. It was really starting to cramp my style. I am thankful though, I would still be in debt, driving the beast, living god knows where if they hadn't been so helpful. I really am blessed. I learned so much over those 2 years, and I can say I did it, all by myself. I got myself into debt, and I got myself out.

June 2010...and only 3 weeks after turning 29, I posted this....I hear people say all the time "29 is not old", "just wait until you are 40", "you are still so young" blah blah blah....I just want to report that I have found my first real GRAY HAIR, I have noticed my eyes and ears getting weaker AND my crater wrinkle in my forehead seems to be a little bit deeper and more noticeable. All of this just seemed to magically start and/or appear in the 3 weeks that I have been 29. I just want to say that I don't like it, or appreciate it. That is all.......

The end of June marked my MOVE OUT date!!! Obviously spending the money sucks, but being independent out weighs the money by 100%.

July 2010.....4th of July week was spent with my AMAZING family at a cabin on Donner lake. It was such a wonderful week. We fished, boated, ate great food, and partied hard. The girls had a fun night out in Truckee. My cousins from Jersey, Allison, Kevin and I went to South Lake for an afternoon. We played games (some drinking, some physical, some card) and I played with the cutest kids EVER, as much as possible. We all crammed on our dock on the 4th, sat together with drinks in hand to watch Donner Lakes firework show. It was so fun, I wanted to go back immediately and do it all again. I am such a lucky girl to have such amazing family. I really have the most fun when I am with my family. They crack me up and I love them all so very much!!

July 16th 2010, Matt and Katie brought the beautiful Evelyn into the world! She couldn't wait and showed up a couple weeks early, and was/is just perfect!

August 2010...

• I was still working hard at both jobs. Choreography had started at the cheer gym....Exciting
• Emily and Cullen's 2nd baby, Chloe had finally made it into the world, she's the cutest little peanut. She arrived August 23rd at 0141.
• I got myself a real for real credit card from capitol one. I was very proud of this because of how awful my credit score was just a year ago, and I had and am continuing to promise myself to use this opportunity to improve my credit even more.
• I had my first major problem in my apartment.....my toilet blew up! It was horrible, but thank god for property managers, it was fixed after only a night of horribleness. It did however ruin all my brand new towels.
• People came into and out of my life...but that's life, and probably for the better anyways.
• I had a couple great nights out, one with Mike for his 30th birthday...Well it started out being a HUGE let down but we turned it into a super fun wednesday night. The other with my besties and their husbands (minus Emily who was home with Chloe) We had a great time together like always!!!
• I started on the DBC at work, pretty cool stuff with pretty cool people. Makes me feel like I am part of something bigger than just L&D.
• My parents celebrated their 32nd anniversary.

Kind of a slow moving August...

September 2010....I posted this....I have decided that I am quite bored with the same ol' same ol' This means I am going to start venturing out more and with different friends. Hopefully this will liven things up in my life. It's sad really when you are invited somewhere and you would rather stay home because that place and those people are the same....every night....every weekend. Maybe this is why I am still single......Still single.....hahahaha

October 2010......I had been crazy busy with both my jobs. Competition was finally here & I took another Disneyland trip. Of course it was amazing!!! Audrey, Adam and I missed the family like crazy, but we managed to have a great time. We rode all our favorite rides, ate all our favorite snacks, watched my favorite firework show...twice. Saw the amazing "World of Color" show...twice. Had fun glowy drinks, learned how to draw Chip of "Chip and Dale" and we shopped for hours. I even got most of my Christmas shopping done!!!! I went through a major withdrawal from Disneyland. My season pass expired November 28th and I was so very sad about it. I do plan on getting another one in April 2011 for our National trip and my family plans on going again in December 2011 for Christmas. It's just sad to know was not going back until April. To the normal human I am sure I sound crazy, but I can't help it. I love that place, and I love going there with my friends and family!!!

Next subject......I posted this October 29th, it needs to be shared again!

I realized over the last few weeks that I have a crazy ass schedule.....

• I work nights in a busy unit at a busy hospital, where I work a schedule that includes every other weekend, and I am on a committee where I volunteer to take on more work.
• I usually only get 6 hours of very broken sleep a day.
• I work 4 days a week at a cheer gym coaching 85+ kids.
• I take those same 85+ kids to 10 competitions starting in November and ending in April.
• Remember 3 of those months have holidays in them, where I like to spend time with my family.
• Adding to the above note. I have a very close family who likes to spend lots of time together, so I try to spend lots of time with them, but after I do all of the above I usually have very little time to do so.
• I have tons of friends who I love dearly who all have parties, bridal showers, bachelorette parties, weddings, baby showers, birthday parties, candle parties, jewelry parties, etc.... and I try very hard to make all of my friends events.
• I try to maintain a social life, but again, after I do all of the above I have very little time to do so.
• I also have to try to maintain my apartment, laundry, car, health, friendships, etc.....And AGAIN after all of the above, these are the things that usually get pushed aside.

I was looking at my schedule for this week and it looks a bit like this:

Wednesday:
Hospital meeting after only 4 hours of sleep 8am-4:30pm
Cheer practice 7pm-8:30pm
Try to maintain a social life, spend time with my dog & stay awake to get back on to a night shift schedule. 9:30pm-3:30am

Thursday:
Wake up at 8am, try unsuccessfully to get back to sleep
Get up at 4pm
Cheer practice 5pm-8:30pm
Work at hospital 9:30pm-7:30am

Friday:
Run home to sleep at 7:30am
Wake up at 4:30pm
Visit with friends & their kids at the halloween stroll at 5pm
Work at hospital 7pm-7:30am

Saturday:
Try to stay awake 7:30am-9am
Cheer practice 9am-5:30pm
Try to sleep 6pm-10pm
Work at hospital 11pm-7:30am

If you took the chance to read all that, I am thinking it is safe to say you agree that I am very very busy. I got a second text from a friend today (cause I never responded to the original text, I was probably too busy) trying to set up our traditional "Ho Thanksgiving" they had picked 3 Saturdays that I could choose from to set it up. Nov 6th, 13th or 20th.....I had to sadly tell them NONE of those dates worked!!!! Nov 6th is our first cheer competition, I am working a 12 hour shift on Nov 13th, and My Sister Allison has already scheduled her Birthday celebration on Nov 20th. I also missed another friends Birthday dinner this last Tuesday because I was at cheer practice. After all this I am not complaining....Really I'm not. Yes it makes me sad that I cannot do all the things I want to do, and It makes me sad that I can't always be as nurturing to all my friendships as I would like to be. But being busy like I am makes me very very happy. It keeps me out of trouble (kinda) and I love where I am in life.....AND I only want to make myself busier by furthering my education. I really am very very lucky to be this busy!!!

Sooooo with all that being said, I want to say a very BIG thank you to all my friends who stand by me even though I am sometimes too busy to call, text, facebook, or attend some of your events. I want to thank those same friends for being so understanding and not holding it against me when I am too busy and sometimes bad at keeping in touch. I want to thank you for continuing to invite me to your events even though I haven't been able to make all of them. I love you all for being able to pick our relationships up right where they left off and not giving me too much hell for being so busy =) I am so lucky that you are all on my side and in my corner when I need you all, and I hope you know that no matter how busy or crazy my life gets, I will always be on your side and in your corner when you need me. I hold all my friends very close to my heart and I am honored to call you all my friends. My true friends are the ones who are still standing by me when the dust settles, and for that I thank you all from the bottom of my busy ass heart!!!!! I also want to say as a side note.....The phone, texts, facebook, etc.....work both ways......Then again my friends, you all know that =)

End of Ocotber/November 2010...The San Fransisco Giants won the WORLD SERIES!! So very exciting!! A group of friends of mine, Audrey, Adam and I decided to attend the victory parade on Wednesday November 3rd. It was a crazy event, and an experience I will never forget. It took us 45 minutes just to get our Bart tickets in Concord!!! We packed, like sardines, into an 80 degree Bart car with about 1000 other Giants fans, all decked out in our orange and black. We took the hour plus ride to SF standing wayyyy too close to each other......but hey at least we were all in good spirits. Once in SF we waited in a huge line to get up to the Bart station, waited in another huge line to exit the Bart station, waited in ANOTHER huge line to walk up the not working escalators, just to arrive at mayhem!! (after all the lines, we were starting to wonder where all the cool rides were at the end) People were everywhere, in the trees, on the light poles, monuments, signs and statues. It was like nothing I have ever seen! We worked our way through the weed, alcohol and BO smelling crowd until we couldn't walk any further.........And........we never really saw much of anything!! But at least we can say we were there, on probably the hottest November day ever, right smack in the middle of the craziness. We were part of the 1.5 million person crowd who cheered on the World Champion Giants as they made their way through the streets of San Fransisco on cable cars. I kept saying "next year, we will know what to do" followed by us laughing, knowing this was probably a once in a lifetime experience.....or according to their World Series wins, a once every 56 years experience....I mean if they continue on that path I will be 85 when they win the World Series again. However, if they happen to do this again sooner than that, or if the Niners ever pull their heads out of their asses and win a Superbowl. I will know exactly what to do........

Plan a) Get a hotel room for a week so you don't have to try to get into and back out of the city in the mayhem. Bring a LARGE cooler full of beer, water and food, set up chairs and maybe even some sleeping bags right in front of the stage at least 8 hours before the parade starts and sit there all day drinking beer!

Plan b) watch it from a bar far far away from the city!

Now if the Niners do ever pull their heads out of their asses and win a Superbowl again in my lifetime, I don't think just attending the victory parade will be enough. So I have made a plan in case the planets align and pigs begin to fly. Not only will I be in a seat at the Superbowl, but I will fly home with the team and lead their damn victory parade myself!!!! I will name this plan "plan when hell freezes over"

November 6th marked Aerials first competition of the 2010/2011 competition season! All 8 teams placed in the top three in their divisions. Our youngest team in attendance that day even took home a grand championship!!! It was a fun day and we were all eager to get back into the gym to spice up our routines for our next competition.

The Ho's were able to get together for our annual "Ho Thanksgiving" It was fun seeing the girls and PBR and stuffing our faces!

November 20th we celebrated Allison's 25th birthday with a surprise party at my parents house , after the original "ghost hunting" plan was canceled. We partied HARD!!! So hard that we were all drunk and in bed by 1am!! hahahaha. We consumed lot's of wine, beer, shots, margaritas and some x-rated drink, played some fierce games of beer pong, and even ventured out to Huey's for some drinks and a great karaoke performance of "Gin & Juice" It was a great night.

Thanksgiving........I unfortunately worked, I worked the night before and I work the night of. I am Thankful for my job, but I really would have rather be with my family. I haven't even gone out for the traditional "night before thanksgiving" bar hop since 2007!!

December 2010....

December 11th & 12th was Aerials 2nd competition of the season. GSSA Super Six!!! We walked away with 3 Championships, 1 second, 3 thirds and the hardest earned 6th ever (felt like first)

December 18th...Allison graduated from Sac State .....She also got engaged the same day to Kevin. We of course cried like babies!!!!

Christmas was awesome, even though I had to work. I love spending time with my family. Allison and Kevin left Christmas night to jump on a plane on their first attempt to get to Florida, 2 days later my mom, dad, Audrey and I boarded our plane on our way to sunny Ft. Lauderdale. Allison, Kevin and my Aunt Kitty got stuck by a HUGE blizzard while in NY, so they ended up fighting the storm and driving ALL THE WAY to FL!!! They arrived at my Aunt Kitty & Michael's condo about an hour after the rest of us arrived. Florida was amazing!! It was sunny and soooo relaxing. I haven't slept in years, like I did in Florida. We visited Billy Bob's Gator Farm also known as Billy's Swamp Safari. We paid wayyyy too much money to see ZERO gators. The best gator we saw was at the gas station on the way to the farm. Seeing the other Animals was cool, but we really just wanted to see some gators up close and personal!! We took a water taxi to a bunch of different bars and resturants and had a great time. We lounged by the pool and on the beach, ate at amazing resturants and bars, we even got to "try" deep sea fishing with about 50 other people on a boat that was only made for 40 fishermen. We didn't catch a thing, but had a blast.

I spent midnight on new years in my pajamas, on top of a 5 story building, with my family, sipping champagne and watching a 360 degree view of fireworks! It was a new years and a vacation I will never forget!

I can only hope my 2011 will be as amazing as my 2010....With my sisters wedding planned for October 1st, I already know this is going to be a fabulous year =)

Update

To even start this update, I had to look at a calendar to remind myself what went on over the last couple weeks.

• Aerials attended their first competition of the 2010-2011 season on November 6th in Sacramento. All 8 teams placed in the top three in their divisions. Our youngest team in attendance that day even took home a grand championship!!! It was a fun day and we were all eager to get back into the gym to spice up our routines for our next competition, which by now is only 2 weeks away!!!
• The Ho's were able to get together for our annual "Ho Thanksgiving" It was fun seeing the girls and PBR and stuffing our faces!
• We celebrated Allison's 25th birthday with a surprise party at my parents house, after the original "ghost hunting" plan was canceled. We partied HARD!!! So hard that we were all drunk and in bed by 1am!! hahahaha. We consumed lot's of wine, beer, shots, margaritas and some x-rated drink, played some fierce games of beer pong, and even ventured out to Huey's for some drinks and a great karaoke performance of "Gin & Juice" It was a great night.

I have been fighting off a cold and some pretty bad back pain for about a week now. But I was lucky enough to have last Sunday & Monday off from both jobs so I spent them laying around the house and spending time with my family. It was nice and helped me recover a bit.

Today is Thanksgiving........I unfortunately am working, I worked the night before and I work the night of. I am Thankful for my job, but I really would rather be with my family. I haven't even gone out for the traditional "night before thanksgiving" bar hop since 2007!! I am making time and a half right now, instead of spending money so I guess thats the upside to working on the holidays right? I also get to work Christmas eve and Christmas night. I am really not looking forward to that........Christmas eve is a big deal in the Giaquinto house, and I hate that I have to leave the fun and come to work. But all this holiday work is gonna pay off when I board the airplane on December 28th to spend 7 days in Florida! I CANNOT wait!!!

Up next on Amy's calendar:

• Aerials performance at the Vacaville Christmas tree lighting "Merriment on Main" on November 30th
• Aharon & Maria's baby shower for Dreavyn December 4th
• Aerials 2 day GSSA competition December 11th and 12th
• Dad's birthday December 12th
• Aerials Christmas party December 16th
• Christmas
• FLORIDA for New Years December 28th - January 4th

I think that is it for now!

Happy Holidays!!!

I totally forgot....

Probably because I have been sooo incredibly busy.......
However, I did forget to update about my Disneyland trip. Of course it was amazing!!! Audrey, Adam and I missed the family like crazy, but we managed to have a great time. We rode all our favorite rides, ate all our favorite snacks, watched my favorite firework show...twice. Saw the amazing "World of Color" show...twice. Had fun glowy drinks, learned how to draw Chip of "Chip and Dale" and we shopped for hours. I even got most of my Christmas shopping done!!!! I am now going through a major withdrawal from Disneyland. My season pass expires in 22 days and I am so very sad about it. I do plan on getting another one in April for our National trip and my family plans on going again in December 2011 for Christmas. It's just sad to know I am not going back until April.
To the normal human I am sure I sound crazy, but I can't help it. I love that place, and I love going there with my friends and family!!!


On a non Disney note, the San Fransisco Giants won the WORLD SERIES!! So very exciting!! A group of friends of mine, Audrey, Adam and I decided to attend the victory parade on Wednesday. It was a crazy event, and an experience I will never forget. It took us 45 minutes just to get our Bart tickets in Concord!!! We packed, like sardines, into an 80 degree Bart car with about 1000 other Giants fans, all decked out in our orange and black. We took the hour plus ride to SF standing wayyyy too close to each other......but hey at least we were all in good spirits. Once in SF we waited in a huge line to get up to the Bart station, waited in another huge line to exit the Bart station, waited in ANOTHER huge line to walk up the not working escalators, just to arrive at mayhem!! (after all the lines, we were starting to wonder where all the cool rides were at the end) People were everywhere, in the trees, on the light poles, monuments, signs and statues. It was like nothing I have ever seen! We worked our way through the weed, alcohol and BO smelling crowd until we couldn't walk any further.........And........we never really saw much of anything!! But at least we can say we were there, on probably the hottest November day ever, right smack in the middle of the craziness. We were part of the 1.5 million person crowd who cheered on the World Champion Giants as they made their way through the streets of San Fransisco on cable cars. I kept saying "next year, we will know what to do" followed by us laughing, knowing this was probably a once in a lifetime experience.....or according to their World Series wins, a once every 56 years experience....I mean if they continue on that path I will be 85 when they win the World Series again. However, if they happen to do this again sooner than that, or if the Niners ever pull their heads out of their asses and win a Superbowl. I will know exactly what to do........
Plan a) Get a hotel room for a week so you don't have to try to get into and back out of the city in the mayhem. Bring a LARGE cooler full of beer, water and food, set up chairs and maybe even some sleeping bags right in front of the stage at least 8 hours before the parade starts and sit there all day drinking beer!
Plan b) watch it from a bar far far away from the city!

Now if the Niners do ever pull their heads out of their asses and win a Superbowl again in my lifetime, I don't think just attending the victory parade will be enough. So I have made a plan in case the planets align and pigs begin to fly. Not only will I be in a seat at the Superbowl, but I will fly home with the team and lead their damn victory parade myself!!!! I will name this plan "plan when hell freezes over"

Next subject......

In approximately 18 hours Aerials team 1 of 8 will be taking the competition floor for the first time in the 2010-2011 season! I am so excited to see these 85 kids take the floor! We have worked very hard this summer and I know it will all pay off on Saturday. Stay tuned for competition updates!!!