To sum up September:
still working away at Weight Watchers, thus far I have lost about 25 pounds, yay me! I am still getting to the gym at least four times a week - unless we are traveling, then I try to squeeze in workouts when I can. I helped make the food for a luncheon bridal shower for a family friend. We made it over to Las Vegas once to see Jackson, he is still the cutest baby in the world. He will always be the cutest baby in the world to me.
October:
In one way it seems like a lot happened in October, in another way it seems kind of like a slow month. A good family friend got married at a very cool venue in Newport Beach, se we all headed up to Newport to get onto a boat that cruised us around for several hours while we saw the ceremony and had the reception on the boat. Friends from Washington were able to make it down for the wedding and I was able to pal around with my friend Maddy. She's 4...and AWESOME. She did ask me if I would come to her house to play, how do you explain: she lives in Washington, I live in San Diego?....makes for a tough play-date but hopefully I can visit them sometime....we will have to have a dance party to re-live the wedding reception.
I managed to get through another birthday, hard to believe that I am 37 years old - holy crap. The funny thing about going through an accident such as the one I miraculously survived is that I no longer fear getting older. I am simply ecstatic to still be here and turn a year older. In my confused time after I woke up from my coma I was apparently telling people I was 26 years old when they asked how old I was....needless to say I was WAY off - I turned 35 while in the hospital, a few weeks after I had woken up...26, 35, whatever. This year a few girlfriends treated me to breakfast at World Famous in Pacific Beach which was lovely, we had the valet take our picture but it didn't turn out so hot - on this you will just have to trust me. I helped make the food for Danielle's baby shower: Laura provided a lovely Fruit Display with a yummy Fruit Dip, we had a Roasted Corn, Black Bean and Jicama Salad, Caprese Salad, Turkey Salad, and Pumpkin Cupcakes with Mascarpone Cream Cheese Icing. All in all it was a lovely day and Danielle brought a beautiful baby boy into the world towards the end of the month!
At the end of October we went to Las Vegas so we could be with Jackson for his first Halloween. He was a monkey, the cutest darn monkey you have ever seen. We went to a kids neighborhood Halloween party at a new local mall, we also got to see his music class - so cute! He is a little Maestro and a 4 person band plays music for the class (of sometimes 1, sometimes 2 children). We don't get to go to Vegas in November but we are going twice in December, first for Cowboy Christmas (and the Rodeo Finals) and then again for Jackson's first birthday, followed by Christmas.
This toy dances to the Monster Mash, Jackson likes to dance with him |
November
Time is just flying by...I guess the holidays will do that to you! I went to Oakland with my dad to see a few specialists, both of whom were so nice and so smart....I also found out a few things I hadn't heard before in regards to my injuries. Apparently the reason why my right side always feels so cold is because I am lacking so much feeling on the right side....which results in it always feeling cold. I asked if anything could be done to change that....I got a big fat "NO" as my answer - bummer. They also did some testing with my vision and found that I can see things with my left eye, but the brain injury has made it so I cannot transfer information that I see with my left eye...I can transfer the information if I am using both of my eyes...weird. Is there anything that can be done? Nope...just keep on truckin' I suppose. We were in Oakland when the Occupy Oakland mess reached its peak, the city was majorly affected but luckily we were able to get to my doctor's offices and we were able to get to everything we needed. I also got to see my friend Jacyn who I met back on the Big Island of Hawaii. We worked at the same restaurant and shared a great group of friends. We went to dinner, had a glass of wine and just spent some time catching up, it was awesome and I cannot believe I did not have someone take our picture!
We spent Thanksgiving with dear family friends in Vista. Dana and John made a fabulous turkey and it was a very nice way to spend the day.
Let's see...what else? Were going to Las Vegas again at the beginning of December, I promise to write about December soon.
Love and Aloha, Nikki
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