Monday, August 30, 2010

Time Flies: Xanga Edition

Hello! I am blogging live from Cincinnati! That's right, I had my very first business trip/conference. Also, this is my first time being away from Dan since we have been married. Which, for those of you that don't remember is almost a year ago!

Time flies...
I was trying to think what I was doing a year ago to get ready for the wedding, then I was like what was I doing 5 years ago?!? Then I remembered my Xanga site. Xanga is pretty much one of the first blogging sites. My friends and I each had one in college. I think a lot of it had to do with Carrie Bradshaw's influence on us and we all thought we should be bloggers...Anyway, it really fascinates me to be able to go back and read what I was going through 5 years ago. I pretty much had no idea what I would be doing with my life or where I would be. I will be honest, working at a law firm in Columbus, Ohio never crossed my mind..I must say it is reassuring to know that even though I had no idea what was going to happen, it all worked out. There is no point in me trying to obesess over the uncertainty the future brings, because it will all work out!

I thought I could share some posts with you!


My first blog ever:

Monday, October 18, 2004

Currently Playing
Commitment
By Lucky Boys Confusion
Ordinary
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Xanga

Hey! yeah i am doing it too......but everybody else is, so it must be cool! Yay for conformity!



One of my favorite posts ever!

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Currently Watching
Sex and the City - The Complete Series (Seasons 1-6)
By Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon
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In class today we discussed the phisiological changes your body goes through when you experience fear, your body tenses up, heart races, pulse races, adrenaline rushes, the urge to pee your pants is also strong....and then we discussed what your body goes through when you experience love, your body tenses up, heart races, pulse races, adrenaline rushes, the urge to pee your pants is strong (ok not for some people but for me yes)....now I never thought I have experienced love, and I still don't think I have, I have endured infatuation and all of its precursors, and the phisological symptoms are much like love's.....The funny thing is that the body naturally reacts the same to both fear and love...which made me wonder....how can something so wonderful have the same reaction to something that is so horrible? Is commitment phobia more than just mental? and should I wear depends when I fall in love????
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I think this may have been the night I met Dan...
Friday, August 26, 2005

Currently Listening
Calendar Days
By The Rocket Summer
Saturday
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I had fun last night :).....I can't believe I am a senior, things are so crazy. where does the time go? I don't know what else to say so I will leave you with this!


Another one (I haven't changed that much!):

Monday, September 19, 2005


Currently Listening
Parachutes
By Coldplay
YELLOW!
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Where do I begin??? seriously folks....hmmm...work was insane and I am sick of making sandwiches for awhile luckily I won't be doing that until Wed. Supposedly writing one's thoughts is "theraputic"...I have a lot on my mind lately and I am becomming easily annoyed ..so to vent...I am going to make my list of 5 things that bother me so.

1. Knock off designer purses--what's the point, everyone can tell it's fake which makes you look like a skeezy cheap ass
2. Louis Vuitton/Dooney and Burke purses-wow you can spend $700 dollars for a purse which is infact a walking advertisement...I also hate when these purses show up walking out of walmart or dollar general....it doesn't make sense to me...
3. Sweet Sixteen/Laguna Beach especially when it is on after an MTV special about the unnecessary poverty/death....It really bothers me....
4. Selfishness....get over yourself...seriously
5. Lack of manners and respect....people are different...it happens...COPE IT UP...what happened to "please" and "thank you"...in the words of Jack Johnson ( my good friend)...where'd all the good people go?

well....that's better.......

I will write about coldplay soon!! it was SMASHING!


Ignore the typos!!


Tuesday, October 18, 2005


Currently Listening
Donavon Frankenreiter
By Donavon Frankenreiter
butterfly
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Ok ok so here is the deal...I know you are dying on the inside, wanting to know what is going on with me and a certain someone...ok maybe not...but anyways a few people told me they can sense the tension and they know we both like eachother, which is nice! But I like that things are going slow and that I am friends first with a person before things get serious....I am happy and I don't have to try to explain his actions and my friends like him, and if we stay only friends I am fine with that too. :) anyways that is the update...and i will keep you posted...well maybe...muhahahhaahaha!

The moral: of the story... Life is good, I am happy, I have the most wonderful friends on earth, and my car is a piece!


I knew it!!!

Friday, November 25, 2005


Currently Listening
The Best Of Rent: Highlights From The Original Cast Album (1996 Original Broadway Cast)
By Jonathan Larson
:)

Barack Obama, who is going to be president someday, had a glorious quote on this event...did I mention he is going to be president someday??

I really knew it!!!
(this was a private post)

Wednesday, December 07, 2005
I LOVE DAN MCCURLEY and...........I THINK I AM GOING TO MARRY HIM :)! I AM HAPPPY!!!!
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On my way to MKE...


Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Currently Listening
Amos Lee
By Amos Lee
Colors
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Well... I guess it is time to update this site. Well since I last posted I have been accepted to the LVC and I am going to be placed in Milwaukee as a legal advocate for the Task Force on Family Violence. I am really super excited! I don't leave until August 15th and will be in Cedar Falls all summer living with Abbie and the people we are subleasing with! I am probably going to work a "crappy" job and then back to Eldora at the end of July until I leave! http://www.tffv.org is the agency's website!

I am considering taking a May term class, about Intimate Partner Violence....but not sure if this is really something I want to do since I will FINALLY BE DONE with school!

I met the parents last Friday and it went well, they were super nice people :). Which, in turn makes me glad. I guess you could say we are "serious." But most importantly I am happy. We are planning to stay together and let things work out! It is going to take alot of work but I am willing to do this. I really care about him! I guess if it was meant to be it was meant to be, right?

Thank you all for your support and being such great friends and support! I definatley need you all these next couple of weeks as the senioritis kicks in!!!

This is the last one:

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Currently Watching
Friends - The Complete Ninth Season
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WELL---I am done....and that's about it.....



Wednesday is our 6 month anniversary!!! I can't believe it...I am so thankful and these are the happiest 6 months of my life :)!

that's all I got for now!
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And we are living happily ever after....

Monday, July 12, 2010

Bend it Like Beckham!

First of all, Congrats to Spain! And to my good friend David Villa, for winning the World Cup!!



I think I will maybe get this shirt to help celebrate =]



I really never used to get into soccer so much. In fact, I really didn't like all that much 4 years ago when Dan would make us watch the World Cup when we would visit each other. I remember I would bring big stacks of magazines and read through them, or sleep a lot when games were on. I never played a whole lot of soccer until I moved to Columbus. Dan would get together with people from the SPPO department and play, then he told me I should go along. Then we started to play FIFA on PlayStation...So I learned the game, and I learned to appreciate it.

I joined a league with a co-worker in the fall of 2008 and had a pretty good time. It was fun to go out and play. WE never did win a game. Now, Dan and I are playing soccer in my work's rec league. This is a co-ed C league.

Anyway, with that said, I am normally not a super competitive person. I am pretty timid when I play, because I am not super skilled at soccer. I like defense because I like to take the ball away rather than control the ball. I am not super aggressive when I play. However, if you try to push me around, that gives me the green light to push you back.
Most of the time I will throw an elbow or knock into someone to throw them of course from getting to the ball.

Now, as I mentioned before this is a C league, meaning the bottom league. But there are some super competitive teams in this league. Just a little over 2 weeks ago, we were playing one of these teams. There was a man, bigger than me, who was pushy! I was trying to stay between him and the ball and I was pushing all of my weight onto him. I am not sure if he tripped, or just moved, or fell but all of the sudden he was not there anymore. Next thing you know I am on the ground trying to get up off the ground so no ref or anyone would come over. The only thing I remember was hitting my right elbow really, really hard. It is almost the same memory I had when I broke my foot. I remember landing wrong and how bad it was, and that is the only thing I remember. Dan said it also looked like I was in shock a little bit.

It felt like I hit my funny bone really hard. My fingers went numb and it HURT! But this is soccer and you don't need your arms, so I kept playing. Towards the end of the game I just held my arm up close to my chest, and I couldn't bend or extend my arm fully.

On the way home, I was in the car trying to use my hands when talking and I had a shooting pain in my arm. Of course, Dan and I planned a cookout for that night and saved the cleaning for after the game...I discovered I am pretty good at one armed cleaning.
I was in the shower when I realized how bad it was, because I couldn't reach my hair or face to wash. I couldn't squeeze the shampoo bottle.

The next day we went to urgent care. The X-rays were probably the most painful part of the whole injury...
We found it was probably fractured, but I had to go back to the sports clinic and make sure.

The gave me the sling. This helped a lot! Plus I had a lot of help from Dan! Who has become a master at dressing me! I was able to type and use the computer mouse at work. I could also ice it throughout the day. It was really swollen for about 5 days or so, then the bruise started to show! I had most of my range back, but I couldn't fully extend my elbow.

I went to the sports clinic and the showed me the X-ray, and this is what it looked like:




The arrows are pointing to Fat Pads. Which, according to the doctor, you should not be able to see both. this means I have a radial head fracture.

The also told me most of the soreness I was experiencing was from my arm being in the sling, which was causing tennis elbow.
They forced my arm to extend, and thought it wasn't excruciating pain. There was a lot of pressure and it was uncomfortable.

Since I have a good range of motion and the sling as starting to hurt my the said I didn't have to wear it anymore. I guess you don't need a cast for elbow fractures!

I still can't fully extend my arm and I feel like Quasimodo. I try to work on it at night when I am at home. Last night, I tried to to do a work out video (which you can stream on Netflix), and realized my arm is not quite at 100% yet.

It is still a little sore and weak. But hopefully I will be good to go in 2 weeks!
We still have a few games to play =]

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Busy Bodies

Yikes! I am horrible with keeping up with the blog...It doesn't help that Dan and I have been going non-stop for the last month...

In May-We went to Milwaukee for Talitha and Darren's Wedding! It was blast and I am so glad we got to go! We got to do a lot of dancing and had some great food! It was great to see Milwaukee and my friends from TFFV.


Then, we got to see Conan O'Brien's tour that came through Columbus. It was amazing, and I am glad I finally got to see him in person.



Then we went to San Antonio to see Jamie, Katie, and Derek. It was a lot of fun and great to see our friends from UNI. We saw the Alamo, River Walk, John Cena Rapping, Mario Kart, Fast and Furious and Blade. We also saw SATC 2, and it was horrible and pretty much made me hate rich white women.




I also got a promotion to manager of my department at work and was very stressed, but now I am getting the hang of it :).

In June-We drove to Iowa for Kristy's wedding. We got to see a lot of people and the wedding was beautiful!! We even got to see Dan's Aunt Anne, Sally, and Kirsten in Illinois. It was great trip and it made us homesick to see everyone, and knowing it would be awhile before we saw everyone again...



We joined my work's team in a soccer league and had our first game yesterday. We lost but it was fun. We realized how much out of shape we are..We are also watching the World Cup and are going to minor league baseball game this week.

Dan is still playing in the community band and might join another band.
I am thinking of taking an improv class again. I miss it a lot and realized it would probably be less painful than joining the roller girls. I really liked it in college, so hopefully I can find my niche again!

Other than that it is same old same old here....

Monday, May 10, 2010

She's Like the Wind!


Long Story Short:
Once upon a time, I used be a runner. A pretty decent, hard working runner. I loved running! Then I broke up with running. Then awhile later, I got engaged (to Dan, not running) and had to fit in a white dress in front of a lot people. I started running again, because I didn't really like other forms of exercising all that much. Then I got married and Christmas came (along with winter). Running and I were on a break. I wanted to prevent gaining "marriage weight" as I worked so hard 9 months before. I started doing workouts in my basement. Then spring came.Running and I got back together, and I started running again....

On May 1st I ran in the Capital City Commit to Be Fit 5k. I signed up because I failed to do so last year, and said I would this year....

I really didn't train a whole lot, but I wanted to make sure I didn't die, so I started running 3 weeks before.

It was an interesting race, considering there were a lot of people...
(On a side note, if you decide to walk or walk/run or wog (walk-jog), please stay to the side, so I can get around you without feeling like I am on an obstacle course. I don't care how fast you are, but I care that you are in my way. Start with the 13 milegroup not the 7....To the lady in the mint green sweatsuit that I flat tired, I am not all that sorry that I did that, you were in the way....)

My goal was to run under 30 minutes and I made it in 28:18 ( 9:08 pace).The Amanda from 10 years ago would probably of cried at this time, but I was pretty happy with it. I was 15th out of 217 in my age group (25-29)! Which is pretty good considering I was "just trying to finish under 30 minutes." You can see photos of my finish here!

Later I found out that I had the fastest time out of the 51 one people on my work team :).

There were quite a few people that did the 1/2 marathon. That is 13.1 miles. I don't think that sounds like fun at all. I don't think that is something I would like...at all...but it is pretty impressive, plus they get neater medals...

I was a little disappointed I didn't try harder, but there is always next year....and maybe Dan will run with me!

I am still running and finally got a new pair of shoes, as I retired my other pair after the race (they were about 3-4 years old, oops)!

**If anyone in the area is doing any other races this summer/fall let me know-I am up for it!**

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Basketball Diaries/Love and Basketball

Warning this Blog is really long...but it makes up for a month of not blogging!

College Basketball is my favorite sport. March Madness is my favorite holiday. I am serious, I look forward to it more than I do Christmas or New Years and probably my birthday. I know you are thinking, that isn't a holiday, but trust me it is...

This year I prepared for the Big Dance, by listening to the ESPNU podcast. I became buddies with Andy Katz and Doug Gottlieb, and listened to them go on and on about the Big East, ACC and DUKE....I watched bracket busters and talked about basketball a lot (sorry Kim).

I made three brackets (one was mascot themed). One had Kansas wining it all and the other had UNI taking Kansas down (I knew they could do it).

I don't know if you remember last year or not, but the tournament was not super exciting. Three number ones and one two made it to the final four...I knew this year would b different.
We went to Hooters for the first round game, with our friends Mark and Sarah, who also are UNI alums. We had some deep fried food, drank some beers and watched Ohio Beat Georgetown and most importantly UNI beat UNLV. Next year I am contemplating taking the Friday of March Madness off work...
It was an awesome first day.



Saturday the four of us went to Bdubs in Grandview. We had some deep fried food, drank some beers, and most importantly watched UNI beat KANSAS....It was amazing. I was getting nervous towards the end and even yelled at some randoms saying Kansas was going to come back and win. Our waiter brought us purple and gold shots and let us fill in the brackets in the restaurant. It was the BEST. GAME. EVER.

I was so excited! I read every article, watched every clips show and special, listened to every interview. Finally people knew how great the Panther are and where UNI was =].

I even wrote Doug Gottlieb a letter when I got home:
Hello!
My name is Amanda McCurley, and I have been wanting to write you for awhile. I have been listening to Andy Katzs' and your podcast for awhile. I like it a lot, however I find that you mostly talk about DUKE, the Big East and ACC. I feel the the MVC and PAC 10 were greatly ignored and talked down about, and have been performing enormously during the tournament, Maybe next year, instead of oogling over Duke (who always chokes, trust me they destroy my bracket every year), The Big East (who only 4 of the 8 teams made it to the second round)...you can talk about other conferences who are severely neglected and under-rated. Yes, I may be an alumni of UNI (and a little tipsy) , but I would listen to your show every week in hope of talking about them more than 5 seconds and it never happened. Maybe next year the MVC and the Pac 10 will get more respect...Just a thought.

Thanks!
(yes I know Duke won...but I HATE them)

The game on the next Friday was not so exciting..however I am still proud of the Panthers. We went back to Bdubs, and they remembered us =].
The rest of the tourney was great...despite the fact Duke made it to the final....
I will say this, I am glad I did not pick them...I just could not do it...

My bracket was destroyed (yes, all three of them), I didn't when any money at work, but it was still the best Tournament in awhile.
I am glad that Butler made it to the final and ALMOST won. I am glad a number one got knocked out in the first round. I am glad there were upsets throughout the tourney.

I bet you are thinking, wow, you are obsessed and crazy about basketball, poor Dan. But trust me he is almost just as bad (maybe even worse). He bough multiple copies of Ali's SI cover, watched the three point shoot out on ESPN about 4 times, created this years UNI team on his NCAA game and plays a game everyday, bought some memorabilia, looks at the player's facebook pages, and even made O'Rear into Wolverine...What can I say? I love him!!


And now my favorite time of year is over...and to top it off baseball season is here....womp womp

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

What's UP with that?!?

Maybe you have seen one of my favorite SNL skits , that asks the question: What's Up With That?

I have been asking this a lot lately myself.

Especially with all of this going on:

Shrimp Tacos
at Taco Bell?? What's up with that?

Chuck Norris is 70???

Remember when The Office was funny?

UNI may be a 8 or 9 seed meaning they will have to play the number 1 in the 2nd Round of the tourney... What's Up with that?!?

We caught up to HIMYM on Netflix now have to wait a whole week to watch new episodes....

How does this guy have his own show on CNN? Also when did the "news" become interactive? Meaning, having people call, tweet, or facebook message in to voice their opinion on something...

Jay Leno is still on TV...

Movies like this keep happening...

THIS is the number one comedy in America...

What's Up With That??

I could probably go on, but I won't...
In other positive news, we have been selected to be a nielson ratings tv family...We filled out the intial survey and there were $5.oo in the packet =0)

The weather is gorgeous here! Bye Winter!


Also, March Madness starts Sunday!