Here are some truths:

~ Openness is overrated.

~ Sharing your feelings causes more pain and anguish than it’s worth.

~ One of you who are reading this will understand what I am referring to and will be mad that I posted this blog. But I don’t care.

~ I, for one, am going back to keeping my feelings to myself.

~ If you do NOT know what this is about, please don’t ask.

Gina is out, and is not very wise.

As you may or may not know, I will be turning 40 in a few weeks. Wow, hard to imagine! I remember as a kids counting down milestones……”when I am 12″, “when I am 16″…..that sort of thing. I even would say, “in the year 2000…..”

Well, I never really counted down to the big 4-0…..and yet, here it comes.

So I am sitting here on one of my last Sunday’s as a “thirty-something”, with the following dilemmas:

1. Having thrown out my neck earlier in the week due to sneezing, I am dealing with pain STILL even after having been adjusted twice by my chiropractor AND having a massage.

2. I totally threw out my lower back lifting a chair when I was visiting Mary in the hospital yesterday. Now, I look about 90 when I stand up as I can’t move…..sheesh.

3. I am so overweight and it really pisses me off.

4. Damn, I have wrinkles too!

Ah, the joys of getting old! How will I be in ten years?????

Yep, it’s 12:45 in Texas and I am up typing this blog because of HEARTBURN! I hate heartburn and yet it’s been taunting me all day. Laying down makes it worse, which sucks since I am very tired right now. And my cat, God love her, is hacking up a hair ball right now – perhaps it is sympathy for my condition or maybe not.

Maybe it’s the heartburn, but I feel really sad right now. Can’t put my finger on why really – I just feel it through every part of me…..a sadness that is unexplainable. And a sadness that is even painful. But again, maybe it’s my heartburn affecting the rest of me.

So, here’s to another post that really doesn’t mean ANYTHING!

This week may be harder for me (as was last week) because I didn’t update my log when things happened…..and you know my memory is NOT what it used to me!

“There’s always some damn lining on a cloud somewhere…..” Rona, after getting a flat tire.

“Girlfriend…I was born ready to PARTY!!!” Stephanie P.

“I am not intimidated by you…..you’re a girl!” Jim U.

Interchange with Sophia and Deana:
S: Mom, we forgot Gina!
D: Sweetie, we took her to the airport, she’s in California now.
S: She’s in California?
D: Yes, sweetie.
S: I beat her up!

Interchange with Sophia and Gina via phone:
G: Good morning Sophia
S: Good morning. You buying money?
G: Am I buying money?
S: Yes, you in California to buy money for my Mama?
G: Yes, I am in California buying money for YOU!
S: Good, because I want my Dora house.

“Since I owe you a true welcome, I will bring your favorite Starbucks in tomorrow!” Lori W. (and she did! yummy!)

Liz, after an evil interchange with me where we insulted each other quite well, explains to the new Sales staff, “We actually like each other.” I think my mentoring of her is almost complete! Sniff sniff.

Interchange with my family in Processing: Wanda, Rosie, and Katie:
G: Hey Wanda, do you have any change? I am starving.
W: Mi vida, I have some food….oatmeal, peanut butter crackers, peanuts…..
R: You’re hungry? I have a cup of soup if you want it?
K: I have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich!
I so felt the love and ended up with the soup, crackers, and peanuts after which I noticed there was a ton of free food in the galley anyway, LOL.

“Today is the day!” Deana, who is flying out TONIGHT!

“I am glad you called, Mom!” Kirstie, who I dialed on accident LOL. But we had a nice conversation.

“Lori, Rona, Deana…..where is my name?” Wanda, to whom I explained I was COMPLAINING in by post about them and – as such – could NOT include her name!

“Geen, buy me a computer.” Heather

“Geen get in your car and come to work I mees you!” Text from Liz that I received when I turned on my phone as my plane taxied to the gate in Ontario. She meant to – and accomplished – the Sophia tone perfectly.

Okay, I best start getting ready for work now! Have a great day!

Okay, I shouldn’t just mention Lori for bugging me – as I received an email from her today bemoaning the fact that this blog as well as Deana’s have not been updated – but Rona has noted that the quotes of the week lacked her name as well as Deana’s. Had I not arrived so late this morning to work, having just flown in from Texas, I think I would have heard more complaints from Rona. She is very bossy, you know!

In any case, I digress. First, let me quote Rona and Deana, to be applied to last week’s Quotes of the Week:

Rona: “Gina, you are amazingly intelligent.”

Deana: “How can I live without the best friend in the whole world?” referring to – of course – Gina.

Now, a quick recap of my Texas holiday:

~ Eating at Cantina Laredo which was so FREAKING good I want to go back just for more Prime Rib! 11/9 baby! Oh wait, maybe 11/10.

~ Down Under Pub & Grill. It was fun watching the band and the people in Halloween costumes. Sorry I was too tired that we didn’t stay to see who won (and Deana is STILL complaining about it!)

~ Bowling with everyone and beating Deana both games, with game #2 by only 1 pin! Ba ha ha ha.

~ Singing “You’re the One that I Want” from Grease with Josh.

~ Going to church and being amazed.

~ Me ready to fight the lady at Scotty P’s for the table, but instead hearing “I am so very sorry!” Deana, who was running to try to get to me, whispered “Gina, remember you’re in Texas….people are nice here!”

~ Watching Pan’s Labyrinth and Letters from Iwo Jima – both amazingly good movies

~ Looking for the DVD Elizabeth all over town and finding NOTHING

~ Devos with the kids

~ Playing at the park with the kids, including tackling Kenny

~ Getting a free evaluation at a MedSpa with Deana and Stepha, as I drank the free wine and scarfed the free food (SHRIMP baby!)

Here are some thanks for peeps in CA regarding my return:

~ To Liz, who was the first text I received when I turned on my phone as my plane taxied to the gate, saying something that sounded very much like Sophia

~ To Rona, who let me wear jeans to work

~ To Lori, who is bringing my favorite Starbucks coffee to worship practice tomorrow morning!

Okay, that’s it! It’s not that late here (9pm) but I am BEAT!

Ciao!

“Lady, laying like that is very inappropriate.” Sandy, to her dog Lady

“Hey girl, how are you?” Bob the Contractor, to whom I replied “Great, how are you?” before I realized he was talking to Lady.

“You better put a nice quote from me this week.” Liz

As taken from one of my MySpace surveys:
Did you get in a fight with someone today?
Yes, a stupid construction admin person that thinks she is smarter than everyone but she just says blah blah blah. (I stole the blah blah blah part from Liz, who often says that to me when I am abusing her.)

“You are too much sexy” Me, to Pete as I gazed at his cardinal red shirt.

“You should not say that too loud, it’s better to do it under your breath.” Jim, to me regarding my comment to Pete. Jim’s a manager now and hip on sexual harassment prevention! LOL

“Geen, can I get a haircut? My hair is funky.” Sophia, who has it in her mind that I hold her mother’s money. And yes, she got the haircut and I got the credit for it!

“Thanks for the email, Gina.” Liz, who really CAN be nice on occasion!

Conversation in the galley at work:
Wanda (?)- so Ryan, I noticed you were selling a lot of items in Personal Announcements.
Ryan – yeah, well I am getting new things so I am selling the old ones.
Gina- wow it must be nice!
Ryan – well, I’ve had a lot of weddings lately.
Gina (who, btw, is amazingly witty) – oh, I didn’t know you were a polygamist!
(Now, people, do you REALLY think Ryan is a polygamist?!?!!?! Perhaps he is a wedding PHOTOGRAPHER! Anyway, I didn’t want to be in trouble for starting a rumor, but believe me, it was very funny at the time. Even more funny than Rona usually is!)

“This is my mom.” Kirstie, to her friend Tasha, as we were eating sushi. Do you know that I LOVE sushi and Kirstie is a regular at the place we were eating????? COOL! We even had edamame I have no idea if I spelled that right, but it is soy beans. Per Wikipedia, edamame is a preparation of immature soybeans in the pod commonly found in China and Japan. The pods are boiled in water together with condiments such as salt, and served whole. Very yummy. I think I am addicted.

Okay, I am in Phoenix now waiting for my connecting flight to Dallas and we are about to board. I am posting these but will try to add more later……I need to remember something Deana and Rona said.

PEACE!

I like Joey Fatone very much. Not like Justin Timberlake, which is a superficial lust but PASSIONATE, but I think Joey is a good guy. Not only is he cute, but I have met him and he is not pretentious or a snob. Not sure why I brought that up other than his face is in the paper that is right next to my laptop.

Life is good for me – weird, but good. It’s still surreal that I don’t have homework at night. I fill my time alone with the computer, reading, chatting with friends…..and that’s about it. Weird. It’s also weird that I am alone. Not to be pity partying or anything – coming from a big family, getting married at 20, and having kids a couple of years later…..I don’t think I’ve EVER been alone! So it shouldn’t seem strange that I have a hard time getting my arms around this change in my life…..right? It’s cool. I am keeping busy. I will also have the next three weekends jam packed with fun – I go to Texas this weekend (yeah!), Deana is in California the next weekend (whoop whoop) and then I go back to Texas the following weekend (right on!). So the weeks will not be entirely tough for me, and for that I am grateful.

Otherwise, I have nothing new to blog about!