I get older.

This week I am feeling old.

First, I put my hair up and that lovely little grey hair I seem to get at the corners of my head popped up. The good news is that it was curling ever so nicely with the rest of my hair so I didn't pull it out.

This time.

Mostly thought, my joints hurts. Either I'm paying more attention to it or all my joints seem to make noise when I move. In particular my shoulder has been bothering me more than normal.

So a few years ago I had a sledding accident. During this accident I messed up my shoulder pretty bad. No surgery but I created a cosmetic defect and had 6 weeks in a sling followed by a month of physical therapy. That was back in 2009.

For the most part that shoulder has been doing pretty good. I can still do pretty much anything I like. Rock climbing, serving, swimming, classes at the gym, and if I really felt like it, probably some push ups that I should be doing.

Over all, even though not the same as before it has has healed well.

However, last week, I was really having some problems. It just hurt, like all the time. Just an achy not working thing. It mostly flared up when I was trying to sleep too.

My work has a nurse practitioner come and visit and if we have any issues we can go ask her. Well, I like talking to doctor type people and was tired of being in pain, so I went and had a little talk with her.

After a few minutes and moving my arm in some random positions, she said that I have bursitis. Awesome.

She told me a little sack that keeps your bones and tendons separate is probably inflamed and just take a whole bunch of ibuprofen. That was the moment when I had to admit that I am getting older. It isn't the grey hair, or everyone being so young, or thinking about career and family and big life events like that. It isn't paying all the bills, and food, and taking care of the house and stuff, it is the aches and pains.

I haven't figured out if this is just something that will come and go or if it will be a constant thing yet.

However, instead of holding me back, it kind of makes me want to do all of my other physical goals and keep on going. You cannot guarantee days or you body staying a well oiled machine. So now I'm thinking of adding a Tough Mudder to the list. What do you think?

This shoulder thing and the problem of getting better at swimming, will put a damper on my goal of a triathlon this year but that is what next year is for right?

Anyone else have this pain? What to you do to help it?  Ice or heat?

I booked a trip.

Now to start this off, this isn't a bragging thing. This is, yet again, I had no idea what I was doing, fumbled around with a nice person, and made it work.

So my friend V. and I have been going on random trips now for about 3 years. We pick a spot, we go visit, we do something random, and call it a day.

The first time we did this it was a cruise.

Last year it was camping in Pennsylvanian.

This year, we're going to Jamaica to an all inclusive resort.

I'm super excited for the drinking on the beach and the playing in the water. So much so I'm already looking for some sun screen.


We also are using a Groupon. I have used these before for other random adventures, food, movie, horse back riding, you name it I've been using them. I think they are kind of awesome. However, a trip? With a travel time of about 8 hours? Really? We'll well just see what happens.

After figuring out the dates that we would like to travel, I went to go book this trip so then we could try and get our tickets. I wrote down the dates I wanted, the code from the group, the name of the resort, and walked out into our parking lot during my lunch break so I can make this clearly personal phone call.

While I sat waiting on hold, just for a few minutes, my mind started to wander. What  happens if they have a really heavy Jamaican accent and I have no idea what they are saying? I was starting to hit panic when a super nice lady, with little to no accent at all comes on the line. I think she was actually from Virginia originally.

So right out of the gate I'm my worst enemy. I had it planned out all in my mind she was going to ask when would you like to stay? Instead she was asking when I am arriving. Arriving? I hadn't I haven't bought the plane tickets yet so I don't know. After a polite excuse me I don't understand she clarifies she wants to know what days I want to be there.

Alright cool.

I can handle that. I tell her the dates. She is like okay. And what kind of room do you want?

Room? Um, I don't know. I know I had a Groupon, it was $xxx and I had a room with a view and mini bar? I don't know. I'm still pacing around the parking lot trying to remember what the Groupon said when I realize, I have a smart phone! I can look it up through my e-mail.

As I'm waiting for my e-mail to load I'm answering other information, giving her my contact information and things like that. However after about 5 minutes it isn't coming up. I cannot find this e-mail so I start to walk back to the office.

I'm half walking half running to my desk. I open my computer and the e-mail is pulled up, which I'm assuming is why I couldn't see it on my phone. I then also grab my my credit card.

There was a few more minutes of questions, answer, terms, conditions, prices, and things like that. This painful ordeal is almost over. I ask her how the shuttle works. She explains we call them back with the plane information and when we're at the airport there will be a desk that we go to right after customs.

I profusely thank her for all of her help and told her I had never done this before. Which, after this rough conversation she probably didn't need to be told that. I was that obvious.

Kicking, screaming, and royally sounding like an idiot the trip is booked.

My only other shock was when it came to booking my plane ticket. I was getting so freaked out by it that I asked V. if those prices seemed high. She has lots of extended family and has traveled WAY more then me. She said that was about what they cost, so I said okay.

So now, we're both booked both for our room and the plane. Now I just have to stumble one more time through the conversation to give them our flight information.

In summary, when booking at a resort, know the dates, room name/type, have your credit card with you, and the code for the Groupon. That will make everything go SO much smoother.

Has anyone else had a problem like this before? If so let me know below! Thanks!

Pop's Ice Cream & Soda Bar

Store Front

So I love to be a tourist all the time any time. This means pictures, this means bringing people along to try these new things with me.

Well in my town we have a little place called Pop's that I had heard nothing but good things about. Not only was the food suppose to be good but they had a real soda fountain. I kept wanting to go visit but never actually put forth the effort.

Well the other day, I told New Dude that is where I wanted to go for date night.

So after circling the block just once, I was able to park. There had been spots, but due to some people on a scooter not paying attention, they got up on my tail and did not leave enough room for me to parallel park. 

We walked in the door and saw a small little shop with lots of people. Looking lost and unsure a guy cleaning the tables told us to seat ourselves and once we know what we want to order at the register.

So we opened the menu and it took several minutes to decide. The drink options, ice cream options, and food options were plentiful. After some debate and agreeing to split things, we made our oder. They asked us where we were sitting and they would bring us are our food.

So we started off with our waters, an vanilla and cream soda. They make their own syurps with sugar cane. New Dude thought it was good and even the non-soda drinker like myself really enjoyed it.



We also had a cup of tomato bisque soup. I miss heard New Dude who wanted potato, but it was still a win. He had never had tomato bisque, and we were about to enjoy some grilled cheese, who wouldn't want a little tomato soup. 

The food arrived and it looked great! For being different kinds of grilled cheese, these were huge, great and filling. I had a three cheese deluxe and he had a pizza grilled cheese. The side was pop corn and some smiley potato cake. 

I was enjoying the sandwich so much I didn't pause long enough to help take a good picture.


We saved enough soup to dip some of the sandwich and it was amazing!










We saved enough room to split a sunday. This was a coffee chip ice cream with hot fudge and caramel sauce topped with whipped cream and a cherry. It was so good!

This was a picture of the bar that I took right before we left. The chalk board in the background has all of their ice cream flavors and the soups for that day. It was going for a classic feel and it was. 

It is defiantly a nice little gem that I will be sure to share with more friends and family when they come to visit.

Is there any little gems in your area that you love to visit? Or is there a place that you've heard of but have yet to make it too? I suggest you make it a date night, with friends or your better half, and head out and go discover it! Places like Pop's Ice Cream and Soda Bar are what makes the area that you live in unique and fun. Go find it!

To find out more about Pop's Ice Cream & Soda Bar you can visit their Facebook page.