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!!!

Update

Let's see....I don't think I really have anything to update. I have been crazy busy with both my jobs. Competition is finally here, we are down to our last 3 practices!!!

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 =)

Old "Say what you think"

This was posted on my Myspace blog in September 2007....Some things never change & some of these I can't even remember who they were written about. It's funny how similar some of these are to the 2010 version, and I know for sure they were written about different people.....Maybe I attract & are attracted to the same types of people??


Let's see if you know who you are....

1) I love you to death, I am lucky to have you, your husband and your child in my life. I need to be better at coming around. Thank you for being my friend.

2) Our past was rocky, but I am honored to say that we are such good friends now. I consider you one of my best friends and I know you will be there at the end. You are an amazing person and so much fun.

3) I place our relationship in a very dear part of my heart...but...you don't. You are a shallow pig. You use me, I am only your friend when its convenient for you.

4) I have been shitty to you in the past. I was young and dumb. I thank god you have forgiven me. You are one of my best friends. I am so lucky to have you in my life. Thank you for being a part of mine. I love you.

5) I love you. I wish I trusted everything that came out of your mouth. I always think you aren't telling me everything, or judging me, or not telling me the whole truth. I don't know why I feel that, however, I am lucky to have you in my life. You are my rock. You are a beautiful person inside and out. You deserve only the best in your life. I know one day you will see that and one day it wont hurt so bad. You are a strong person. But even the strong fall down and cry.

6) You are the coolest ______ a girl could ever have. I admire you. I look up to you and I love you very much.

7) I love you so much, I only wish we were closer. I wish I had your money handling skills, and your self respect. You have your head on straight and I admire that.

8) I respect you so much, I wish I had your strength. I have so much fun with you. And that thing still bugs me, but you mean so much to me. I love you

9) I wish you looked at me like you did that first night we met. I wish I wasn't so jealous of your relationships with others. I wish it would have worked out. I wish you wanted to be my friend, I wish you would invest the same amount of time I do into our relationship.

10) You are young and I hate that. But you are cool as hell

11) I love that you will always care about me even when I forget to call or come to a party. I know I flake, and I am sorry. I love you so much. Thank you for still being my good friend.

12) You rock. I effin love your dancin ass!! You really are one of my best friends

13) I love you, new you, old you, single you, relationship you. I love you always. You have passed candle girl...hehehe

14) Your apologies are fake. You lie. You talk shit. You have no personality, you act on reactions. You are looking for approval. You are a follower. You do things only because you think others will think higher of you. You don't care about anyone but yourself

15) You are the sweetest, coolest, funnest (yes funnest) friend ever. I admire you. You are so strong. I am so proud of you.

16) You think the world is out to get you, when really you are whats making your life crumble. Stop saying you are nice when you are not. Try being genuinely nice to people and stop talking shit

17) I wish it never happened. I would love it to go back to the way it was.

18) Grow UP!! you are not 15, stop acting as if.

19) I miss you so much. I am glad you were part of my life for a while.

20) You judge, You think to much, You can be lazy, You don't want to work for what you want. You live in denial. You don't TRULY like yourself like you say you do, however, you stay genuinely happy. You genuinely try to be a good person but you do gossip alot. You like drama, as long as it not your own. You are hysterical and a good friend. You complain alot, you become attached wayyyy to easily. You can be clingy and very jealous. You need to be stronger, stop letting other peoples ignorant juvenile actions affect your life.

~ That was fun & very therapeutic.
~ to my friends, I really mean what I say
~ to the ones who I was negative about....I am sorry I'm not sorry

Semi-censored

Have you ever wanted to tell people exactly what you think, without negative repercussions? You want to tell them your true feelings without things turning for the worse? That's where I am....Disclaimer: I did get my "no babies" shot today, so I think I am more hormonal. Due to my hormonal imbalance, my need to be "uncensored" might be slightly escalated, however, I have been feeling this way for a while. I want so badly to just scream my true feelings out all over the place, good or bad. I just don't want to deal with the backlash or consequences. Soooo below is what I want to say....No names attached.


"I think I might like you and I would like to get to know you better"

"get over yourself....at the end of the day your opinion of me (or anything for that matter) doesn't matter to me. I think your need to shove your opinions about everything down everyones throats is really your way of covering up your own insecurities"

"I miss the old you"

"you talk too much and about nothing....Please be quiet"

"You have no opinon or individualities, you take bits and pieces of other peoples opinions and individualities and make them your own"

"Thank you for being such a great friend to me....even when I suck at being a friend"

"you and I are so bad together....but I miss your crazy ass"

"I am so happy for you, dispite what others might say"

"You are a pig"

"Thank you for making me better, without your motivation I would still be stuck in the same ol' same ol"

"I don't want to do that so stop asking me, and don't try to make me feel bad about doing what I want to do"

"I was only being concerned. I miss you so much"

"I can't stop laughing with you, that's what real friends are all about"

"You are the best girl friends, what would I do without you"

"thank you for not judging me, I promise I will never judge you"

"Stop judging me...I don't care for your opinions"

"I think your decision was a bad idea"

"Your relationship is a joke and you are a bad boyfriend"

"You may have been an asshole, but I'm glad we are where we are today"

"I have so much built up animosity...it will never work, I'm ok with that"

"It's time to let go, its for the best"

"I'm still sorry that I'm not sorry. I knew it was never going to work, I just liked the idea"

"You are an amazing person, don't ever forget that"



I think that is it for now.....Good therapy....reminds me of an old Myspace blog I did a few years back. I should look that blog up, I bet it's pretty similar.

Time to let it go..... =)

Update

Let's see...Since my last post...Nothing much has changed. Kind of sad really, hahaha. Here are the major things that have happened in the last month:

• I am still working hard at both jobs. Choreography has started at the cheer gym, exciting!!
• Baby Chloe has 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 am very proud of this because of how awful my credit score was just a year ago, and I have promised 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.

This is really it.....with that, 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.

Looking forward to Disneyland on October 8th and Florida with my entire family for New Years.

This post was so boring I don't even think I will share it on my FB.....hahaha

Update

So the end of June marked my MOVE OUT date!!! My apartment is great and is finally starting to come together. Spending the money sucks, but being independent out weighs the money by 100%.

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 want to go back already 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!!

Since the vacation I've been working both jobs, trying to save a little money and staying kinda low key. I had a great night visiting with my ol' friend Shurll for her 29th b-day. It was good to spend time with her. Emily had baby Chloe's baby shower, it was fun seeing all the girls. I can't wait to meet her!!! AND...on July 16th 2010 Matt and Katie brought baby Evelyn in to the world. Finally, a west coast baby cousin for us to spoil!

This upcoming Tuesday I have a fun night planned with great friends. Charmaine, Rob, Amanda, Mike, Tim and I are going to Oakland A's stadium to be extras in the movie Moneyball starring BRAD PITT!! Should be a fun time.

I'm looking forward to seeing my cousins Shayne and Rebekah this upcoming weekend and hopefully meeting baby Evelyn.

Also looking forward to:
DISNEYLAND in October with the fam, competition season starting in November, the holidays, and hopefully a trip to Florida with my Mommy for New Years!

Life is good =)