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Interesting/ Scary Day

Oh my gosh. What an interesting and scary thing to experience today. My husband, daughter and I went to our bank to make a deposit. We came out of the bank and see a lady who is kinda freaking out. And then we see a car who is driving in reverse at full speed out of the parking lot, and then turns really fast driving forward. We stay around to find out what the heck happened. The lady called the police and so we overheard some of what happened beforehand. In my mind I thought that it was her boyfriend or something who threatened her or something. Man, I was completely wrong.
This man apparently came to the bank after running like 3 or 4 stop signs or it could have been lights. He took a bat out of his car and threatened a worker at the bank. The lady who called the police told him to leave and that is when my family and I saw him drive away.
That man has tons of problems and thank goodness no one ended up getting hurt.

My husband got the car's license plate number from other witnesses so that when we got home he could also call the police. He called the police and left a message. They called back and asked him what happened and what we witnessed. The police told my husband that they are taking care of it and that the crazy driver will face some charges and I think they said some jail time.

So I am so hoping that they caught this guy and that something like this never happens again while I am around.

Weekend at Estes

On Saturday my family (husband, daughter, and mom) headed up to Estes. A much needed vacation after the craziness of the holidays but a destination that is close enough that we don't have to pay for plane tickets or for gas. When we arrived we went to the grocery store to buy some last minute food and then headed to the condo to get settled in. Ate some pizza for dinner and then headed for the hot tub.
Sunday we headed into the National Park. It was my first time for snowshoeing. Lots of fun!! However for being a first timer when taking them off it felt pretty weird.
Monday walked around the VERY deserted downtown Estes. We got bored by walking by all of the stores that said "closed" that we all decided to head to Boulder to eat lunch and to walk around Pearl Street. We ate lunch at the Boulder Tea House. TOTALLY RECOMMEND IT!! Also if you go there try the hibiscus cooler. Walked around and had dessert at The Cheesecake Factory. Yum!!

So that was my fun-filled weekend!

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3 Weeks

Holy cow, three more weeks of having a cast on. Hopefully I will be able to have two "working" hands then. I don't know how much more of this I can take!!!

I want so badly to get started on cooking my way through the cookbook. I am looking forward to learning how to cook a lot of different foods that I normally would not cook. I know that I'm getting WAY ahead of myself but once I'm finished with the cookbook I want to cook "with" Paula Dean. I looked through one of her magazines that has recipes in it and they all looked so yummy. But I can't do so much cooking right now with just one hand. Heck I have a hard enough time just getting a jar of peanut butter open.

So hopefully in just three weeks I will be able to start cooking up a storm in the kitchen. So cross your fingers that three weeks will be the end of having "one" hand.

If only....

Huh, that is definitely something that comes across my mind quite a bit lately. I know that I keep saying that I want to lose some weight and get fit. I make excuses of "If only I had more time...etc." I of course can always make the time to do that. I just need to stop being lazy, get off my butt AND DO IT!
I guess though that I'm trying to find some form of exercise that I really enjoy doing and that won't cost me an arm and leg to do. I would really enjoy taking some dance classes but those can definitely get pretty pricey. My mom bought a Wii and I enjoy doing the boxing on that which is fun and is a bit of a workout but I do think that if I want to continue going that direction of using the Wii that I should probably get one of the actual workout games for it.
I have enjoyed reading everyone's blogs that I follow because of the determination they have for themselves. Some day I hope to just have that for myself without giving up on myself.

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So I finally have a real cast. It doesn't go around my elbow like the splint did which I am glad about. The doctor said that I fractured my wrist that is close to the cartilage and that it goes almost all the way from one end to the other. So as of right now I have a short cast on. I chose purple for the color. I have to in next week to make sure that it is all healing properly and I pray that it will.

On a different note...I'm VERY happy to say that my husband is going to go back to school. Right now one of my worries is how it will be paid for but I know that it will all work out. I think that it will be cool that we will both be going to school at the same time.
Right now I'm looking forward to going to school but worried at the same time at the moment because of my wrist. It will all work out though and I know that I will do well!