Slacker

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KYLE!!!

I hope you have a wonderful birthday!! I wish I was there to celebrate with you!

Okay, so I love my job, we all know that, I have said it about 10,000 times. And I do, I love my job. I enjoy the people I have met and the whole shebang. But as you can probably see coming – today has sucked. My day was going well, it is Friday – can’t get off to a better start to a day of work! Seriously, how can you not smile on a Friday? Well the day got worse and worse and worse. I have spent most of my day helping a very nice co-worker with something she doesn’t know how to do. And instead of taking the time, that we both don’t have, to show her how to do it, I did it for her. And I will show her how to do it when we have the time to spend on it. Now this other co-worker of mine, lets call him slacker, talks on his cell phone all day with his wife, family members, and friends. He is supposed to be our top sales person in our division, but you wouldn’t think so if you saw his work habits. Now he and I have our tiffs, and we can really work extremely well together. Well today, he has really done it. He has made me madder than ever before. I can almost say that our trust is gone.

So Slacker went to my boss and told him that he didn’t have time to do his own admin work. Now we all do our own admin work – that is part of the job. So my boss calls our division into a meeting to discuss Slacker, and how he doesn’t have time for this and we need to work together. Well the other person on our team has a show in three weeks – so she doesn’t have the time. Well Slacker got it all pinned down on me. So maybe a half hour after the meeting – does he not call me and ask me to update the verbage on his power point presentation and tell me he wants it in an hour. So I told him to do it himself!!!! My boss and I will be having a conversation. I do not have the time to do his “grunt” work just because he doesn’t want to. I will be a team player – but not when you go behind my back and get try to get me stuck with all your crap. I have my own crap to do!

HELP!

Okay, I need some help. Don't worry - not bad.
So my phone rang tonight, and I go to see who it is...it's Tim. Tim is a guy I went to college with, barely knew him in college - we just rememebered eachother, and I worked with him at Wegmans. So I see his name on the ID, and I answer. Now I haven't talked to tim in a couple months. When mike and I broke up, he was just starting to date someone - needless to say, we haven't talked since. Anywho, we are talking and he was saying it has been a while. Now when I first started my "new" job, he came over and I cooked him dinner because he was helping me out with the DVD project I had. (yes this ties in) So Tim was telling me it was so nice of me to make him dinner, and that he would like to hang out again. So he asked what I was doing this weekend, and just so happens, I am doing nothing. Somehow, we are going to dinner Saturday night before we go out with a bunch of Wegmans people. Now I am a bit confused. Now besides the fact that I don't have the money to go out in DC, I am confused as to why we are going to dinner and why he brought up me making him dinner while asking me to join in for the night. Plus he told me, I always look good when we go out. I am all over the place, but this call was random, and now saturday is random, and I am lost. someone help!

It is 5:30 yet???

I have been sitting here, staring at my computer all day. I don’t think I can do it any more. My eyes are so tired. I am supposed to get 50 formal letters of invitation out today. It is now about 4:00 and I have gotten 10 out. They take a little longer than you would think. Plus this morning I got stuck doing a bunch of other things. Tomorrow should go better. Someone, just please remind me to wear my glasses!

Besides work, things are going well. Bart is doing well. He has his own towel in the bathroom – he tends to get in the shower, then at night it is from a squirt gun! He is getting bigger, but he is still pretty cute.

This past weekend, I went to an UVa game in Charlottesville. That was fun. It wasn’t a Purdue game – but it was still fun. We did a little tailgating – which is always a blast. Had a couple cheesy burgers, a braut and a few beers. The weather was beautiful – perfect day for a ball game. UVa won – it came close in the end, but they pulled it off.

This weekend, relax with Bart. I have three more weekends home before I have to truck it back to good ol’ Rochester, and I am welcoming the break. I love being back there, but it is becoming a bit much. This next trip – I am not sure what to expect. It is the wedding I am maid of honor in, and there are many, many, many planned events. The closer we get to the day, the more planned events there are. I am beginning to think I won’t see anyone but the people are will be in or at the wedding. So I am considering getting a date. Yes, me take someone to the wedding. A couple weekends ago I went solo to mike’s wedding, and I hated it. It was the worst. I am trying to find Blakeslee’s number – I have seen him a couple times back home, but we keep forgetting to exchange numbers. We talk about doing it, but then things happen, and we forget. So I feel like a stalker trying to hunt him down!

Okay, enough ranting for me. Back to work. It has been whole five minute break!!

More Bart stories...

Two nights ago I am home, enjoying my time, playing with Bart. Then I had to pee - I know that is the last thing you want to hear - you'll deal. Anywho, so I had to pee. So Bart follows me in, I pee and flush. Bart was interested in the flush - he actually didn't run away this time. He slowly crawled up and was walking in circles around the toilet seat just watching. I knew right then I needed my camera - it was inevitable what was going to happen, and I had to catch it on camera. Well, after a few times circling the toilet seat, he slipped and in he went!! It was great, I had a towel ready and dried him off. Needless to say he was a bit scared, but boy did I laugh. Man, the small things just kill me!!

Every morning, Bart sits on the toilet (I keep the seat closed) while I do my make-up, and he just watches. He stays by my side. After work, I come home, and have to pee. (I know you are enjoying my pee stories!) Bart is always excited to see me every night! So I go straight to the bathroom and put the toilet seat up. Bart comes running, full speed into the bathroom and jumps up and right into the toilet!!! I was crying I was laughing so hard. He plopped right in and didn't even see it coming. Now he is a bit more careful before he jumps up on the toilet seat!

Well I am off to have beer with the girls from work!

Have a good weekend all!

Playing with the window shade strings! He is amused by pens and string! 

Bart sleeping in dad's tool box! 

Dad was babysitting Bart while mom and I went to Target. Bart was sleeping under his workbench. 

This is Bart after Dad got him out of the vent. 

Sleeping on my lap. (the camera woke him up) 

Update

Well, there has been a lot going on. First, Bart is feeling much better. I took him to the vet on Friday, and he had to go on a couple antibiotics to help his little kitty cold. Man does he hate taking his meds! After the vet, I had to pack Bart and my bags - I headed to Rochester and Bart to grandma and grandpa's for the weekend. Grandpa gets really good pics of Bart - those are his above. Needless to say, we are both happy to be home!

I was in Rochester for Mike and Kellie's wedding. It was a nice wedding, and Mike looked nice dressed as a penguin!! Although he still owes me a penguin dance. (Mary Poppin's) Now that Mike is married, things will change, and we both know it. I think it will help that I have changed jobs. I don't think I would have handled the changes well if we still worked together.

Work - work is going well. In two weeks I help out in a show, which will be fun. Derek and I are the two that get to kick back and have fun. Last show was my show, and I couldn't have the fun everyone else was having. This time - oh yea baby! I am in it to work and have fun. Derek is a good time - and since he lives in Baltimore he will know all the good places to eat and grab a beer! Other than that, work is work. Typical stuff, different day. Tonight I need to think about what I am going to say to my admin tomorrow. We are at her 45 day mark and at 90 we decide if we keep her or try again. So tomorrow is a chit-chat point. Fun times!!!

So, it is time to decorate for fall. I have been cleaning - well sean style cleaning. Picking up hear and there, and then well be the big clean job. But I was to get my fall stuff out. It isn't much, but it will be nice to have it out. I just can't wait to decorate for Christmas, jet my monkey stocking out, and now I need to get one for Bart! I love the holidays - even though they aren't like they used to be, I still love them. Although Kyle's face when he saw me on Christmas morning was priceless! This year, I am just waiting to hear what holiday I am hosting. No matter which one, it will be fun!

Okay, off to play with Bart.

Bla

Today I am just annoyed. Not sure at what - but everything is really annoying me. It is making it difficult, and I can't seem to snap out of it. I just want to go home and play with Bart. But I have to go home and pack, I don't want to go home and pack - I don't want to do anything! I am in need of a friend fix, and I don't know if this weekend will be the best weekend. Bla, who cares, I will go and return and go back to work. It is just getting old.

Phone

I was on the phone last night until about 1am last night. The night before it was 12:30. And I love my friends dearly, but I am really starting to hate the phone. But I can't not be there when they need a friend to talk to. So CP is shutting its doors with in the next year. Everyone seems to be in culture shock. Yes, they all have to find new jobs, but right now they are more in the phase "I can't believe it is actually happening." Yesterday I read a lot of the articles in the democrat and chronicle - I really shouldn't have. Some of the comments really make me made, but that goes back to CP being where you are treated like family. It is good to hear how much employees will miss the place, and how much they have enjoyed there time there! When I was there, I know we would all say that it sucks, and we hated what we did, but we all knew we loved it - or we would have left.

One more day until I truck it back to NY. I am really not looking forward to this trip like I was before. The only reason I am still going is because Mike really wants me there, so there I will be. Hopefully I will see Sean, Christine, Willie, and my brother. That will make the trip more worth while.

Well I best go get ready for work - I am being lazy, couldn't sleep - so that will make work even more difficult.

sorry - not in the best mood today.

News, news, and more news!

Today was another day, work was the same - nothing too exciting, but 5:30 hit and I was out the door. I took Bart to the vet today, got a clean bill of health, can't beat that!! However, on the way home from work, I got some unexpected news, Chase-Pitkin is closing it's doors. Now to those that don't know Chase-Pitkin (CP), that is the place I worked for 7 years. That is my "home" where I met all these amazing friends which are like family. Just think, I started to work there because my brother was there! This was something we all knew was coming, but I expected CP to last for another 5 years, not now. My heart goes out to all my friends that are still employeed by CP, they have some big changes headed there way. I know CP will offer them jobs at Wegmans, but take it from someone who knows - Wegmans is no comparison to CP. CP had the family sense to it, Wegmans lacked that family sense. CP is tools and home projects, Wegmans is food. What, are they going to ask the former lumber manager or plumbing manager if they want to work in deli?! I mean seriously, how does that compare? They have a love to tools, not meat! Anywho, that was that news. I have gotten over the shock, but the saddness is still there. Kinda odd - but CP was my Cheers! Everyone knew everyone, and I can still go back and walk in to see smiles of friends. Anywho, moving on...

I receive another call today - Josh. Josh was the bestman in my friend Renae's wedding, very funny, nice guy. Well I was very excited hear that he will be living here for 5 months! Then he asked where I live in the DC area - so I said on the Maryland side, not thinking he knew many towns. Well he went on to inform me that he will be living in Bethesda! YAY! I have a new friend living down the street from me soon! Five months is a long time, and that will give me time to start meeting new people, and he is coming at the perfect time. All the weddings will be over, and things will be settling down. Well that is all my news for today - I have one more CP call to return, then I am off to bed.

I have to say Bart is turning out to be the lucky one - he is sleeping through all the calls. There are a couple calls I just can't return yet - I just don't know what to say to some of my friends. I am just thankful I am not there and having to start over.

This is Bart, my new little kitty! 

Bart

Well now you have seen my new kitty. He and I seem to be getting along pretty well. Bart's first night here. Friday night, he slept in the kitchen and cried the whole night. On Saturday I had to be up early for the Burtonsville parade. I was there to support Habitat for Humanity. It was a great morning, and the parade went extremely well! That afternoon, I got home and took a nap with bart, but first we played a bit. I let him run all over our place so he could get to know it a bit. I am finding he likes blankets and pillows, he doesn't really care for his toys right now. After our nap, I decided to take him over to my parents house, I want Bart to adapt to where ever he is, that way we can go everywhere together. He liked playing in their kitchen, he likes to be where the people are, even though he hides from us the whole time. After a few minutes he decided it was time to see some other rooms...so I followed him to the living room. He seemed to like it behind the couch - and he was behind there for a bit, so I looked under the couch to check on him and as I do that I see his little butt go down the vent. We forgot that one vent cover was missing, and Bart found it! We spent a couple hours trying to get him out. After some time, I put tuna on my hand hoping I could grab his little body and pull him out. Well I was able to grab his little body - but there was no way I could pull him out. The vent went down about a six-eight inches and curved to go under the floor - needless to say, getting him out wasn't going to be easy. So my dad cut a hold in the vent a little farther down - trying not to scare him too much - but that didn't work. So he had to go closer to where Bart was, cut a hole in the ceiling of his workroom, find the vent, and cut a hole right near where Bart was laying. (Too small in there for him to sit/stand.) Eventually dad got Bart out. The poor thing was covered in soot and crying. So I dried his eyes, and wrapped him in a blanket, brought him home and he slept with me the whole night. It was a scarey night, but in the end, dad (to Bart- grandpa) saved my new little kitty. You can say, we all slept well after that!

Right now Bart is in my bed under all the covers happy as can be!

Motivation - Yea, not so much!

Staying motivated this week has been extremely difficult. I am not sure why, but I am still coming down from the past long, stressful weeks. I have things to do, and I am doing them, but I feel like I am not pounding them out like I could Maybe it is because I have so many hours and I don’t need to pound them out. I have all day, and if I get them all done – then what? I have already organized half of my inbox for emails. I already had things color coded, but now I have subfolders inside my folders. This way, it makes it much easier to locate an email if I need to do so.

OH! My big news for the week…and it makes me upset. I come to work on Monday to find that someone took my pen. I had Friday off, so have a good feeling who took it. But that was my pen. It was one I brought in from home because the pens her suck and don’t write. But why would someone take my good pen and not return it. If I find that pen on someone’s desk, I will be mad! I know it is just a pen, but it was my favorite pen. We had a good thing going. Now my pen goes home with me everyday, and that is just the way it will have to be I guess.

So I chose a name for my kitty. Now I just need to make sure when I get it, it is a boy. This name defiantly wouldn’t work for a girl. But I am excited! All I need to do now is get all the doll clothes I had when I was younger!! A kitty in a dress is the funniest thing. Hey dad – I guess some things will never change!

Stress Free!

Well I have been catching up on my sleep lately, and boy does it feel good. It was nice to have my first show go extremely well, then it was off to Rochester for a family wedding. Those are always fun. My cousin got married to a girl he stood me up for. He had called me a couple years ago and asked if I wanted to me him and some of his hockey friends out at a bar – now any girl in their right mind wouldn’t turn that down. So off I went to meet up with my nice cousin and his friends. We were supposed to meet at 10, around 11:30 still no sign of my cousin, so I headed to a different bar to meet up with some co-workers, and at midnight my dearest cousin called asking where I was. I informed him what bar I was at and he met up with me, come to find out he stood me up for a girl. So I asked the important questions: “Did you get her number?” and he did, so he was off the hook. And now those two love birds are married. It was a beautiful wedding and the reception was full of dancing and laughter.

So now that I am home, I am enjoying my bed. We are getting along very well. My bed will call my name, and of course, I will be there. It would be rude of me to ignore it, right? But then there is Mr. Alarm. We seem to be having issues again. Mr. Alarm says it is time to get up at 6:30 or 7, I say NO. For some reason, I have been getting into hitting the snooze button. I never did that, but the last 3-4 months, the snooze button and I have become friends and have come to realize it doesn’t do you much good. You fall back to sleep, all happy and warm underneath the covers and ten minutes later you have to peal yourself off the ceiling when the alarm goes off again. Now what fun is that? Okay, so there are days I would love to live in the dream world and pretend that I don’t have to get out of bed, but reality kicks in and so does the grumpiness. Although, I am glad I am not living with Kyle and Willie – they are two peas in a pod. Their alarms can go off for ten minutes before they hear them. How do you ignore that annoying buzzing sound? Well, I am off to think more about how to get back at Mr. Alarm – there has to be a way, and I will find it!

Success

Ah, I am home - well I am really at work, but I am heading home shortly. I was great to be back in my own bed with no wake up calls set for 4:00am. Every night when I had to make that call, I just felt depressed, 4am and at the time I placed the call it was usually midnight. There was only one night I was in bed before midnight - but when you away on work - work includes dinner and drinks, or for us, drinks, dinner, and more drinks!

The show in NYC was my first show. All the stress I had going into this show was worth it, and I was fully prepared. From what I was told, this was the smoothest Maritime show my company has ever had. My boss stayed calm the whole time, and during the prep days, I was told I looked very calm - little did they know I was freaking out on the inside! But all in all, I loved it. I left to go to NYC with a sore throat and as each day went by I felt worse and worse - but I made it though with no one really knowing how bad I felt. Although I must say it is extremely difficult to stay out socializing until midnight and wake up at 4 or 4:30 the next morning to keep going when all you want is your bed. This is one of those jobs, it doesn't matter how bad your feel or how bad you hurt - you have to look your best, smile and keep on trucking, and oddly enough I like that.

On this trip, at night I would have to say I ate like a King. Man, the food was good and the cost of the dinner was never an issue. Our company covered all of our expenses, and we took it to full advantage. Saturday night, it was just me and the operations manager there to GET wine and dined by some people we work with. We went to Little Italy and ate at La Mesa which was family style eating. Man, this guy tony we were with, he wouldn't let you sit at the table unless there was wine in your glass. Well I caught on MUCH quicker than my dear friend Bernadete. I drank that wine sooooo slowly that I made the water my best friend. Everyone was toasted by me. But none the less, I ate lots and had a blast. The second night, it was five of us from my company that went to a steak house for dinner. I got wonderful french onion soup and for dinner sauted mushrooms to go along with my blue cheese steak madallions! Yea, it is safe to say I was happy. The first night of our show, my boss took about 15 of us to dinner. Well, I have never had lobster before, and there was surf-n-turf for two, so I got that with a friend. VERY GOOD! But steak wise, we all agreed the steak house we had gone to a couple night prior was better. Even at the airport last night, we had found a great pizza restaurant - so no night went with out great food!

All in all, we all worked together extremely well and it was a great, well run show!

Can't Wait

Part of me can't wait for this show to be over. I am tired of my phone ringing every time I hang up, and when I am on the phone, hearing the pages informing me what lines my calls are being parked on. Half the time, the callers are nice and pleasant - but then there are your rude ones. This morning I was a crankie crankster, and that didn't help. If someone was snapping at me, I wanted to snap back - but of course you have to be nice and tell them, hopefully, what they want to hear. I love the people that call me to make a hotel reservation - "do I look like a hotel to you?" is all I want to say, but I wish them luck with finding one this late in the game. All in all, work is going well. I am doing good with staying on top of things. I am just stressed. My admin sprained her ankle pretty good and can't stand. I am just hoping she went to the doctor after work, I can't have her broken next week, nor do I want her broken (and I mean that in the nice way). Since this is my frist show with EJK, I want my boss to think I am on top of things, I want him to think I can handle it. Yes, everyday he throws more pointless crap my way, and I am getting to the point where I have to tell him what I can do and can't, usually I just say okay. He seems a little taken back when I say it won't be done before the show. (He is having me do stuff for a show that is in Novemeber of next year - yeah, that can wait!)

Okay, well I am off to clear my head and maybe read. Yes - I said read. Now this might be a picture book, but that still counts!

CHRISTINE & SEAN - FOUR DAYS UNTIL YOUR BIG DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (not that i'm counting!)

Frustration/Tried/Stressed

Okay - If you wanted to read a happy blog, don't read mine.

So things are going well, don't get me wrong. But I am tired. I have the largest show that we put on, and this show is my first show and I leave in a week. I am beyond tired, I am stressed, and I have no releaver. I go to work, and I work. Then I come home to eat and work or think about it. I just really wish my friend mike and I had day off together so we could watch stupid movies and have a beer. Or I wish we could have a beer after work like we used to. But between his work, my work, and him getting ready for his wedding, we will be lucky if we get to see each other once before his wedding. There is always exercise though, right. But when you run, or blade - you think. Usually when I blade for a long period of time it is when I need time to think things though. But I don't want to think. I am tired of thinking. I am tired of waking up at two in the morning and thinking about what needs to be done before I leave for the show. Well in a little less than two weeks I will be able to sleep and be stress free.

Okay, off to work on work. Luckely today, I am working from home.

"Cheers" - The Bridal Party having mamosa's just before we had to get our dresses on: Lisa (Maid of Honor), Renae (Bride), me, Emmy, and Sonia. 

Emmy, me and Sonia - YAY LOVE! 

The Wedding

Well, thanks to all who kept their fingers crossed! The wedding was beautiful. Now Emmy, Sones and I didn't talk to the maid of honor at all that day - to us, she didn't exist. But the day turned out very nice. Emmy, Sones, Renae (the bride) and I had fun. Spent most of the day picking on Renae for her farting - no matter how old you are, that always remains funny. The day went fast, and sooner than you thought, we were all in the limo heading to the wedding. I couldn't beleive how nervous we all were, and all sones, emmy and I had to do was walk down the isle. So one by one, we climbed out of the limo to smile and walk (not run). The vowes were beautiful, but what got everyone was a poem titled "Hands" - I highly recommend it for any wedding.

Reception was nice. We did the intros and stuffed our faces with food! Renae's dad, Mr. Cole, wanted pics with the Emmy, Sones, and I - he enjoyed us in High School. We were always at his apt for lunch. Then he spent his time trying to find me a guy. It was hysterical, he would introduce me to people and then share - during the intro- whether or not they were single. It would crack me up. I think he buttered up the bestman, Josh, enough to dance with me for every slow song after I made Mr. Cole dance with me. Renae had a collage of pictures, which I would have to say were rather embarrassing. But is was fun to reminice. As for the dancing. For most of the night it was just Emmy and I out there, the amazing dancers that we are, and after a while Sones was out there every song as well. Josh, and some guy named Brad would come out and show off for everyone about every two songs. During the band's last set, the wedding party plus the parents were out there. So all in all, it was a great day, and now our little Renae is married. Next will be Sones. As for Emmy and I, we are hopeless! Sorry em - but it is true.

Elevator Boy

Okay, Today may be a long day - but I just had to go to the lobby of our building and on the way back up to the office there was a real cute guy in the elevator. And he was real nice too! Not a back little break.

Okay - back to work I go. I will post pics later! (not of the boy - but of the wedding)

Drama

You would think that four girls would be able to get along for two days - right. It isn't even two full days, it was more like one and a half. Yesterday was the rehersal for the frist wedding I am in. This wedding, a girl I was close friends in High School is the bride, and the other three of us (there were four of us that were close) are bridesmaids. Then there is a girl that we barely knew as her maid of honor. Yea, the four of us are getting along GREAT! Which is rare, because after High School, we definatly have our moments.

Any who this maid of honor, we call her bitch. Now I know that is mean, but I a sorry, it is fitting. At the rehersal yeasterday, the wedding arty was at a table (we most of us) and the groom and bestman were talking to emmy and I, lisa was there, but she was keeping her distance. The bestman asking where is a good, laidback plae to go. So Emmy and I thouh, why do we start at the roost - quiet, pool, darts, lots of tables to talk, and dancing for those that like it. The bestman, since he was from Ohio asked if I would pick him up - Emmy and I were together, so we didn't see a problem with it. We thought we were doing something nice - and everytime we asked the Bride what she wanted to do, she didn't care. When we mentioned starting at the roost - she was game. So emmy and I go to Victor, pick up the groom, bestman, a groomsman and his fiance and head to the Roost.

Anywho, for some reason this made he "bitch" (maid of honor) upset and about 45min into our night, she went off on emmy telling her they her and the bride didn't want her there. DRAMA. So emmy gets up to leave, about to ball - I walk over and say "where are we going next?" Emmy mumbles something about with the bitch said, and I nicely informed the guys that emmy and I are leaving - the bride is shocked and runs after emmy and I go up to the bitch and say "BE NICE!"

Any way - it took an hour to calm emmy down. So we left - and I spent an hour talking to the bestman - who was tryign to help. But we just supervised, and butted in when needed. Anywho. Good thing I hada key to my brothers apt - because I need a place to go. Well off I go shower to go meet up with the grils.

Cross your fingers for a drama free day!!

Song

I love this song - although it doesn't seem to be optimistic, I think it is!

I Hate Everything

He was sittin’ there beside me throwin’ doubles down
When he ordered up his third one, he looked around
Then he looked at me, and said, “I do believe
I’ll have one more.”
He said, “I hate this bar, and I hate to drink
But on second thought tonight I think I hate everything.”

Then he opened up his billfold and threw a twenty down
And a faded photograph fell out and hit the ground
And I picked it up, he said, “Thank you, bud.”
I put it in his hand
He said, “I probably ought to throw this one away
‘Cause she’s the reason I feel this way
Why I hate everything.”

CHORUS:
Why I hate my job, and I hate my life
And if it weren’t for my two kids, I’d hate my ex-wife
I know I should move on and try to start again
But I just can’t get over her leaving me for him
Then he shook his head and looked down at his ring
And said, “I have everything.”

He said, “That one bedroom apartment where I get my mail
Is really not a home, it’s more like a jail
With a swimming pool and a parking lot view
Man, it’s just great.
I hate summer, winter, fall and spring
Red and yellow, purple, blue and green
I hate everything.”

REPEAT CHORUS

So I pulled out my phone, and I called my house
I said, “Babe, I’m coming home, we’re gonna
Work this out.”
I paid for his drinks, and I told him “Thanks.”
Thanks for everything

--George Strait

Chinese Bowling

Today was a fairly good day at work. I don't say that too often. Usually I was say it was tiring, and today was tiring, but I had a few good laughs. A co-worker of mine, George, works two doors down the hall from me. He buzzes me, now all he has to do is talk and I can hear him because he is so loud, anyway - he buzzes me to ask a work related question about some guy that will be at our upcoming show. I answer, then he replied "how was bowling last night?" and I informed him that bowling ended. Then he went on to ask, "what about the guy?" and I said that too. He immediatly went on to tell me that this guy he was asking me about is Chinese bowler, and he is single. I about died of laughter. To George, that is a good slam. So the rest of the afternoon he went on convincing other people in our office that we are going to have a Chinese Bowling Exhibition and Conference, and I will be the principle bowler, and of course I had to play along and show people the correct Chinese bowling stance. It made for rather humorous afternoon.

When I left work, I was back in my work-focus mode. So the security guard informed me that he thinks I need to date. I was shocked by this statement. Yes, he sees me every day, but he barely knows me. For all he knows, I could have a boyfriend. But I don't - so I was dumb founded, what do you say to that??? My co-workers Matthew and Derek were behind me and got a big kick out of that one. THANKS EDDY! (the security guard)

Oh and Willy - I thought of you the other day. While rotating my tires, I thought of the night we were changing your flat tire at our old apt! Ahhh, the good ol' days. :)

Radomness Part 2

Everyone honks their horns here. It is driving me nuts. The light turns green, and you have 3 miliseconds to hit your gas pedal - or you get honked at. Today, I am following this guy, and at every light he honked at the person. It got to the point I even wanted to yell at him. It is so inconsiderate. I understand if you are really holding people up, but seriously, have some patience.

When I got home, this lady had the front window of her car covered in beanie babies. Now that is a little too much, don't you think. Who would want to ask out a girl whose car is covered in that crap. Thank goodness I never did get into them. I feel bad I have a monkey fetish, but at least I am not crazy about it. I have monkey's here and there, but not EVERYwhere.

You know what I hate. All day, you remember that one thing you have to get at the store. Then on your drive home, you remember you need to stop, but for what - you don't know. So you don't stop. Now tomorrow at work, I will be going along with my normal routine - getting nothing done until about 4:30, and while you are doing what ever it is you are doing, you remember. You might think to write it down, but you will write it on a paper that just happens to be in front of you, so when you go home, again you don't know where you wrote it or what you needed. All well, as long as I have what I need, I guess I will be okay.

Another thing...so I am at a red light, again, driving home today and there is this homeless person asking for money. Now I am doing good paying my bills and getting by with everything going on this year. And there is this guy smoking a cigerette begging for money. And then it hit me...this jerk had enough money to buy a cigerette - something that will eventually kill him - but can't afford food. And he wants us to give him money. Get a job jerk! Haven't they heard of gas stations, McDonald's, etc.

Okay, well I am off to put one of my fly friends into an envelope and mail him to an exterminator to see what they are. I do feel bad, me and my fly friends are becoming such good friends. We eat together, sleep together, watch tv together, hey - we even shower together!! But it has been long enough, it is time to say good-bye!

Home Sweet Home!

Today was a long day, but not a bad one. I got up this morning to meet up with a co-worker WAY before the sun came up to catch our flight to NYC. The whole drive to Dulles airport we were dreaming about coffee, it was too early to talk or keep our eyes open. We get to our concourse and find a place to grab two coffees and two muffins. While we were sitting there, I noticed three couples having a grand ol' time drinking malibu pinapples and bloody mary's (yes, at about 6am). So I opened my eyes a bit more to see they are all in festive shirts, shorts and sun glasses - then to find out these poopers are on their way to Cancun. Barb and I were dying, we wanted to go!! Gee, let me think...NYC for work or Cancun?! So off to NYC we went!

The day went fairly well. We talked the whole flight there, forgetting we had yet to do our homework before getting to the show, so we winged it. We got to the Javits Center and walked around meeting people, and chatting whenever possible. It is interesting how many men were there compared to girls. For the most part, I would have to say Barb and I were the only girls there. As we were walking, I noticed all these guys had mini basketballs - I wanted one! I stopped one guy and asked where he got it, and off we went. We got to the booth, and you were given three chances to make a basket, if you make it you get a basketball. Now this sounds easy, right? Yea, try it in heels and a skirt - not so easy. It was amazing how much a suit jacket and heels can throw you off, but don't you worry, we both made it in two shots and got our balls! Once we did that, we were done with the expo and still had about three hours to kill before we needed to head back to the airport. We had a late flight - just incase it took longer to walk the show floor.

So shopping it was. We walked down 34th street, and we got plenty of funny looks, but I don't blame them - I would have to say we did look fairly odd walking down the street all business like then carrying our cool basketballs. Back to the shopping. I have to say, I am very dissapointed with the fall look this year. I am going to have to stay with my jeans and sweatshirts, not that I really ever strayed from that to begin with, but this 70's look coming back, yea I am not really digging it. Although, we did stop in Ann Taylor Loft, and there were some great sales. If I had any money, I would have bought some really cute sweaters. But I was content with my basketball.

The flight home was rather humorous. Barb and I had dinner before we got on the flight. Dinner included a beer, and since we were already extremely tired, that beer just added to our fun. We got on the plane - still getting weird looks, and it was like a sauna in there. We were dying of heat. So Barb starts fanning her face with the barf bag, then proceeds to read it. I am sorry, but I am never thought "hey, I should read the barf bag" while I am sitting on the plane. Yea, sounds odd, but it was funny at the time.

All in all, it was an extremely long day, but a funny one as well. Now I am home and the heels are off, yes my feet hurt like no other, but at least they are finally off, and I am off to bed!

G'night all!

Randomness

Today, I would have to say, I have been is a pretty cheery mood. Not sure what has gotten into me, but I need to snap out of it. I don’t want people to start thinking I am nice! I am completely overloaded at work, yet I am sitting here smiling about it, and taking the time to write this.

A co-worker just told me I am dressed dainty today, he said I looked like I was about to go out on a coffee date. Not sure how to take that given I have never been out on a coffee date, and if I ever did have a coffee date, I wouldn’t wear this. I would probably be in my jeans and a tee. Who wears a skirt and heels on a coffee date?? I have done coffee with friends, and the best I have worn was khaki’s. When he said that I just said thank you and kept on walking – then when I got into the hall, I laughed. Not sure why, but at the time it was funny.

Tomorrow I head to NYC for the day with a co-worker. I am looking forward to the flight there, eating lunch, eating dinner and the flight home. Not really looking forward to the show. I have no clue as to what I am doing. I thought I was just going to see what a show actually looks like, but now it sounds like I have to have verbage with me about our upcoming shows, and I don’t know what to say. I can tell them about the conference end, but booth sales – not so much. So I have lots to learn on the flight there.

Okay, so last night I get home from work, and I decided my place needs cleaning. I haven’t been home much, so it is messy. I cleaned for maybe five minutes until I decided I need to take a break!! All this traveling, and with work being so overwhelming, I have just been so out of it. So I crashed. I crashed hard. I think I was sleeping by 10:05!! This weekend is a low weekend. I am going to clean some more and not travel!! I will save my next road trip for next weekend.

Have you all read enough random thoughts?? I can keep going, but you are lucky, I need to get back to work.

Nice hat K! 

Friends together again! 

Kari and I had to get a pic with Kyle. Man, I can't tell you the last time the three of us were together last. 

Home sweet Home

Friday after work, I headed to Rochester. Even though Rochester is my "home" I was ready to come back to the DC area by Saturday afternoon. Lately, it just feels like I am never here, over the next couple months, I will be back and forth much more.

I can't really complain though. I do get to see my friends, friends that mean a lot to me. Although, on saturday I called Christine to find out she is back at her home and not in Rochester - you still suck for that by the way! This weekends trip was for my friend Kari's bridal shower. I haven't seen her in about a year and a half. We both moved out of Rochester on the same day, how odd is that. Any who, so I spent saturday with her. We had fun. At night we went line dancing at the Roost! I haven't been there in years, obviously, but it was great to be out there dancing again. We, Kari and I, made complete fools out of ourselves, but we had a blast doing so. We got there, dressed more prep and not in the typical linedancing apparel (jeans, boots, and a tee), so we had couple looks. But then the guys found us to be fun loving girls, out to have fun just like the rest of them. Well there was this guy that just would not stop staring at me, so I clung onto Kari. Finally, after an hour he came up to me and asked me to dance, I said no and thanked him for the offer - the last thing he needed was for me to step all over his feet trying to figure out the steps! There were twin guys behind us that laughed at my answer, and we stuck by them the rest of the night. When they went out to dance - we went and tried our best. I would have to say we did the best when we did the couples dances, I was the guy and Kar was the girl. yea - we sucked, but we are positive we will be receiving a call any day now asking us to go on a dancing tour!!!

Finally

Hopfully this will end with a dream come true...

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Men and Haircuts

ROADTRIP! Yay – or so we thought. We were scheduled to leave at 12. But thanks to our Prima Donna, we left shortly after 1. Now this hour delay had nothing to do with work – which would have been acceptable – no he had to get his hair cut. HELLO YOU HAD ALL WEEKEND! And he thought we were inconsiderate because when he returned our computers were off and we were ready to walk out the door. He is one that will never apologize for making us wait. To me, that is the rudest thing, make three people wait on your behalf because you can not plan accordingly and act like we are the jerks because we are a little annoyed that we had to wait over an hour because you can’t plan ahead. So needless to say, we were not all happy when we got in the car. I was lucky; I was in the back of the van, spread out and just dove into listening to the music. We got to the hotel in just enough time to clean up and go again. The whole time we were at the conference, it was awkward with our little Prima Donna. But we made it through. Us girls left yesterday, after day 1 of the conference, and rolled in at 11pm last night. Now we all feel like crap – I think we are all getting colds – but it is off to work I go. I have lots of traveling ahead of me, so I just need to keep my head up and truck on.

All my guy friends, even the few girl friends I have, please don’t hold up a group of people like that. It is very inconsiderate and inappropriate.

Okay, I have to go to work now.

My friend Vicky. 

Blast from the Past

Yesterday I was able to see a friend I haven't seen in about 10 years. Vicky, the girl from the picture above, and I went to school together when I lived in Colorado. She was one of my closest friends there, and yesterday I got to see her all grown up. All in all, she hasn't changed at all. Well, except for the fact that she is married, and lives on the east coast, but when it comes down to her personality – nothing changed there. She was always the girl that is very caring, sweet, and outgoing. I was excited to see her after all these years, but a bit nervous - what would we talk about, where would we go, and would it be awkward. I would have to say, we had lots to talk about, we grabbed a beer, and three hours flew by fast. I told her about my life in DC, she brought me up to date on her married life, we did the "how is the family" bit, and of course we had to talk about old friends - the best part. So we decided that we need to try to get the gang back together again. So many of my friends are married now, and I want to see them and hear about what they are doing. I have some digging to do! But it will be fun, and I want to see if it is still the same. Morgan - drama girl and loves boys, Kirsten - shy, Claudia - goofy, Katie - loud and carefree, Vicky - sweet and carefree, then there was me - quiet and willing to go along with any dumb thing we did. Man, I miss the good ol' days when we let Morgan talk us into spying on the guys, and ducking out of study hall to go watch the guys play soccer in PE (skins and shirts). Needless to say, Morgan would AWAYS root for the skins team. Then I would always root for Jeremy - the guy that never knew I was alive, in a class size of 24. Sad, I know. Well I think it is time to try to get out class back together, a class I haven't seen since 1996.

Vicky, thank you for the fun afternoon. I hope you trip home was safe, and I can't wait to see you again!

One Business Trip - 3 Kids

On monday I am heading to Philly for a conference management conference. Yes, a conference on how to manage a conference. Sounds odd, but I am very excited to learn all this new information that I can bring back, and kick butt with! Although, there are three kids going. Barb, Shane, and I. Yes, I am still a kid.

On tuesday, Barb and I went slipper shopping during lunch. Our office is extremely cold, and that my friends, make you feet VERY cold - so slippers was the answer. Now we were being good, looking for classic, black slippers. We went to hects and could not find comfortable, decent slippers, then I turned the corner and found our new slippers. There were four different styles to choose from! I love a choice in comfortable slippers. There were monkey's, duckies, cats, and poodles. Now these slippers had hands and feet that hung off to the sides and big heads with poofie hair - it took us a good 5 minutes to stop laughing and only 30 seconds to decide we HAD to have a pair. So we bought three pair, one for her, one for me, and one for our friend T back at the office. So we go back to work all gitty, and as soon as we stepped foot into the office - bam - professional. (You never know who is going to be there when you walk in!) So we make it back to our desks, throw on ours and run to T's desk to surprise her with her pair. Again, we laughed. I went back to work, but then I hear this quacking - I was like T, what the hell is that noise? She goes wizzing by me to barb's office and her face is beat red in laughter. I ran in after to learn that our highly professional slippers make noises! The duckies quack, the cats meow, and then there were my slippers - the monkies - oh my gosh, they let of the most obnoxious monkey cry that lasts at least 10 seconds. I was on the floor crying I was laughing so hard. Just imagine three girls, dressed in business apparel with these loud slippers - it makes our stressful, beyond hectic days fun.

Now, of course in the office we are professional, but outside the office, that is a different story! Shane is just loud and funny, and when you put Barb and I together when we are ready to have fun, we are like to 5 year olds and these slippers are going with us on our roadtrip to Philly, and Shane will be bringing his Taz slippers to fit it. Granted we will be on our game when we need to be, but we can not wait to have a little fun being kids together! It will be like giving three kids each their own hotel room for a night - with no curfew, and lots of soda and candy! ROADTRIP!

New Start

Well I am officially a Maryland Resident now. I know, very exciting. It really can't get much better than that. This all happened Monday morning. I got up and hit the MVA. Maryland likes to be different, they don't call it a DMV here like most states - no it is the MVA. That is Maryland for you, high class.

So all in all, the past three months have been interesting - getting used to new job, move to a new state, and now, back to the single life. All of my friends are either in New York or Virginia - so I have my work cut out for me. Virginia, it was easy to meet people - I worked with people my age. Maryland is a different story. I enjoy the people I work with - but no one is really my age to see out side of work. They all have their families to go home and care to - but I do enjoy all the stories I hear through out the day. Anywho - new changes bring interesting times. So now is my time to soak it up and make the best of it. This means - off to meet people, but where? Not at the bars, because then you just get the creeps? Ah, Virginia! Back to see all my friends who live 45 minutes away. Oh yea, and don't forget all the lovely weddings I have "back home" - I have my friends to catch up with there, and that is always a good time.

Well that is enough for me. I am off to be a professional again for another 9 or so hours, then back to being a kid!

Sean (5-6 years ago) after I found him, cleaned him up, and put him on a bed - THEN I told the entire extended family where to fine Sean looking his best for a good photo! 

Sean - last night lookin his best! 

Sean, my dear friend Sean

Over the years, you might think one would change - try new things. Well, Sean has proven this theory wrong! Sean, you know I love ya. You have been apart of my life for many years - and you know I hold you close to my heart. But Sean, what is this I am seeing? 5-6 years ago you came over to a family get together at my parents house to having a few cosmos, a few too many, tell dirty jokes only to fall asleep in the middle of telling them. From that point on, my whole family loves you and will never forget who Sean is. Now 5-6 years later, I am gettings photos of you that are very similar from the cosmo night at my parents house way back when. All I have to say, I am glad you haven't changed!

AHHHH

Things have been really good on my end, and I can't complain. Yea, we all have our days were things get you down. But I like my job, I am surrounded by friends and family, and I have a great place to live. I am still trying to finish up all the crap of moving, but tomorrow I should be all done - or so I hope. Tomorrow I register my car in Maryland. I can't wait to see how much this is going to cost me. These past two years have been big money years, and it is amazing how money can really bring you down. Last year I went from paying $335/month to paying $770 month, and buying a car to this year$1000 a month. Not only that, but then there is all the moving costs, and now this year - weddings. Usually moving is stressful enough, but now I have to add weddings to the list. Now don't get me wrong, I am thrilled my friends are getting married, and they have asked me to take part in it or attend their special day - but either way, it is freakin expensive. For the weddings that I am in, there is the dresss, then the shoes, then the hairstyle - oh don't forget about the bridal shower and bachelorette parties. All this adds up to A L O T. For the weddings I am attending, there is travel costs (none of the weddings this year are where I live, they are at least 300 miles away), then there is the gift, can't show up with out one of those or you look like a chump. I love my friends and my family - and I am so happy to see so many of them get married this year. Just right now, it is really wearing on me.

sorry guys.

Good Morning

Okay, so my alarm went off at 6 this morning, as it has most of this week so I can get to work early to prepare for vacation next week. So I wake up all happy as I was rolling out of bed and saying to myself, as I am turning off my alarm, "I don't have to wake up to an alarm for over a week!" Then reality hit not even two seconds later, and I was like "Oh, I have to wake up to an alarm tomorrow." Talk about a buzz kill at 6:30.

I hate alarms. They never go off when you want them to. You might wake up at 5:30am and be awake enough to get up, but its not time yet. You lay there and lay there watching the minutes go by. Then as soon as you are getting tired and you start to doze off, the alarm goes off. At that point you realize you will be cranky all day because your stupid alarm went off. Then there are the mornings it just goes of far too early. The alarm never takes you into consideration. I think alarms should pay more attention to their masters. We may set the alarm to 5:30am one day, but do we really want to get up that early?? But then there is the job factor. You need to be there by a certain time. Now there they go, trying to run your life by demanding this time of arrival. They are just as mean as alarm clocks.

Now I shouldn't be talking. I don't have to be at work until 9. But for the most part, I try to get there early. I like to go in, have my cup of tea, and slowly roll into it. Oh, and if my phone rings before 9:15 at work - it best be important. For some time, the same person was calling me at 8:45 EVERY morning. I finanlly got to know him well enough where I could say "George, it is 8:45, what are you doing at 8:45?" He laughed, and now he will call that early just to get a good laugh with me in the morning. SERIOUSLY though - no need to start work that eary!

Okay, now that I have blabbered enough, I have to get my butt in gear for work. I am going casual, today at 5:30 starts my vacation baby, and if you think I am staying ONE minute over - you're nuts!

Sean, Willy, Tim, and Christine - I will get a picture of Kyle not burned for ya! And I can't wait to see you all on the 29th. Oh, and my friends Mike and Kellie (my old manager and his finace) might hang with us that night. They will be "home" too!!

F'in B

Yes, that is me! As most of you know, I went to a wedding in Chicago with family this past weekend. I was wanting a relaxing weekend, at it defiantly was not anything close. I would have to say of the four nights we were there; we all had maybe 9-10 hours of sleep tops. The beds were horrible, but the company was rambunctious – and of course you became the same. We arrived in the “windy city” on Thursday night and left on Monday morning. It was family togetherness the entire trip – by Sunday I would have to say we were all getting a bit cranky! As I said, all together, catching up, staying up late, and the beds were soo bad that you couldn’t sleep when you wanted to. Any who, Saturday was the wedding. Wedding was beautiful, bride looked her best, and her sister, who has the most amazing voice, sang. I love hearing her sing, on those rare occasions that she does. The reception was at 6:30 and the dancing started around 8 and lasted until midnight. I don’t think most of us girls, including my uncle and my dad ever left that dance floor. Whenever my dad and my uncle tried, I pulled them right back out there. It was a blast. When it was time to leave, I grabbed the center piece to take to the bride’s house in the morning, and walked out to the shuttle (van) that took us back to the hotel. As I was climbing into the van I asked a groomsman to hold onto the vase and said “don’t spill it.” After I said that, he pours half of the water all over his girlfriend and tried to make it look like an accident. This girlfriend screamed, yelling “THAT F*#%ING Bitch!” I was laughing my butt off, I’m sorry, but it was hysterical, he just dumped it on her. So she proceeded to yell at me as if I poured it on her. By this point, I would have liked to pour the rest of it over her head, but I was nice and just sat there. This girlfriend is still rambling off about how I am a F#$%ing Bitch. I am not caring, just wanting her to calm down. Then she proceeded to swear at the driver telling him to F*#$ing Go, and he sat there – he was blocked in with no where to go. Then the bride and groom were walking over, and a Family friend that I was sitting with yelled at this girlfriend saying “can you stop swearing for 5 minutes, the bride in getting in and you need to behave!” The girlfriend went to speak, and my friend yelled “NO – STOP!” Once the bride and groom got in, it was like the past 5 minutes never happened, but we had a good story for the next morning. You may call me FB if you would like. I still prefer swampy or tubby – but FB works too. It is what I answered to for the rest of the weekend!

Dr. EVIL

I have a couple friends out there that think they are sooo funny. Well let me tell you, it is revenge time baby! Now those of you, who have seen this picture of me, might think it isn’t bad – but it is the story behind it. This is the picture that comes back over and over again to haunt me – THANK YOU DAD. You might have thought it was funny for each of you to post this picture on your blogs at the same time – but just remember I will be getting each of you back. And Christine – don’t worry, I will find something, something good, I have a great imagination! Willy – remember we lived together – I love numerous things I can do to you. Sean, we’re good friends – I didn’t need to live with you to come up with retaliation. Kyle – you’re dead! The sweet Kelly is gone! You best start watching your backs. I know where you all live, Charlie and P-Nut too!

SLACKERS!

We’re slacking People!! There are three people who don’t seem to understand how to create a post. It is real simple – you click on “create post”, type in that little box that appears, if you choose – spell check (I opt to overlook this option) and then click “publish”. I know I know, you three (Willy, Mike, Marty) have troubles with this, but really, it is simple. We just want to know how you are doing. What you thought of a commercial you saw or hear about your dream from that cat nap you took. Just a hello, we aren’t asking you to write a novel – just a little blurb here and there so we know you are still out there. Willy, how many times do we have to read “Pack your suitcase Alice, we’re outta here?” Mike, you could have been to Bannaroo and back three times by now. Did you ever make it back, if so, are you still recovering? Marty, you didn’t want to let Sean down, but what about the rest of us? We’re people too!

Okay, I best get back to wedding planning and work. After this year, I don’t think I will want to hear the word wedding for a very long time!

Love Fern

I have made a couple comments the past couple months and Mike didn’t pick up on any of them. Thursday night Mike came over and we ate pizza while we watched a movie – my pick! I took the opportunity to introduce him to “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.” Now Mike is big into sports, and in the beginning of the movie, at the basketball game, when Kate Hudson’s character, Andy, was thirsty and being sort of mean to Matthew McConaughey (Ben) Mike cringed. At this point, he decided he didn’t like the movie at all. To Mike, this was torture. But I got him to stick with it. On my side, I thought he would love it since this movie has 10 minutes tops of any sort of mushy crap – it is all humorous banter between two characters. He began laughing after a bit, and seemed to enjoy some of the horrible things that Andy would do to Ben. And in the end, he said I could call him Mikey Mikey moo moo, moo-moo-moo! (I would say he liked it!)

Friday, I invited Mike over for dinner, a dinner that I would be cooking. I go to the store and get chicken wings, and green beans. Since I have a grill now, I wanted to make wings on the grill with green beans and noodles. Now somebody warned me that chicken takes a long time to cook, so I should pre-cook it. I kinda forgot that part, but since these were wings, I figured we would be okay, it isn’t like they are breasts or thighs or something big, they were little wings. Yea, I was wrong – they took FOREVER to cook. The first batch of two came off the grill an hour later. So we each had one. Then about ten minutes later, another two came off, so we had that batch with noodles. The third batch we had with the beans. The fourth batch – noodles again. Fifth batch, just the two wings. Buy this point, we were getting a little full, plus the coals were getting cold. We ended up broiling the rest of the little wings and sticking them in the frig. I even had desert, so all in all, I would have to say, we prepared an elegant 10 course meal. OH! One more thing. Mike spilled my beer. Now that is just wrong. He has spilled water before, but beer, you just don’t do that.

Okay, Well that is about it for me. Off to bowl – I need to beat a 279.

Words

I would have to say, the conversations being had lately aren't the best. They have really been bothersome. At one point, it was guys complaining about girls. They take to long to get ready, they would like to know about things in advance, yet they want a spontaneous guy. Then it is someone being called stupid. So here is my post.

NEVER do you ever call someone stupid, or an idiot. It is completely unacceptable. That is something that will always stay with that person. I could probably tell you every person that called me stupid. All it does is tare apart that person's self esteem, and it makes them back off and never want to see that person or even think about that person again.

People are letting the most hurtful things come out of there mouths. What ever happened to respecting one another? Helping one another? It seems like all the meaningful things are going down the drain, and all that is left is the hurtful information that you will never be able to forget. Everyone has been told that there is no stupid question or the stupid questions are the ones never asked. Well each day more and more of that is proven wrong. You call someone by the wrong "name" and you have lost what could have been the best friendship/relationship that you would have ever had.

All I ask: Respect one another. Watch what you say; realize how hurtful things can be. Your tongue is the sharpest tool - use it wisely.

Summer Time BBQ's

If you came up and asked me what my favorite holiday is, hands down, it is Thanksgiving. To me it is Christmas without all the gifts. Christmas the meaning gets lost, but Thanksgiving - the meaning remains the same, no matter who you are with. It is time for family and friends to gather and just be happy to share a wonderful meal and each others company. To me summer is also the same.

Summer time is when the BBQ's take place. Who wants to grill out by themselves - yea, not me. What fun is that? You want to share a couple brews with your friends and family, share stories and enjoy a nice game of football or frisbee. Then of course there is a hug feast coming off the grill that everyone enjoys, how can you not?!

This morning I woke up very hungry, due to my HUGE dinner last night. Although, it was a delicious one. My parent's neighbor took us to this nice seafood restaurant for dinner. We all HAD to order our own appetizer (no sharing), then eat the salad and then meal that came. I was STUFFED! But I left with a smile on my face!! Anyway, back to my story...so I get up and decided what needed to be done today. I had to make a return at Target. Since I was there, I figured I should look around a little, it was the least I could do. I remembered I needed some tables for my patio - so I headed off to the outdoor section. Found the tables and the grills! I talked myself into buying a grill. It was a tough convincing on my part: "Kelly you NEED a grill. If I must, I must." So I bought a cute grill. I say cute, because, it isn't full size, but it isn't a table grill. It is the perfect size grill for my little patio! I came home and put my grill together, then decided I needed to test it! So I invited my parents over for a BBQ, after all - it is Sunday, and Sunday's are family days. We had corn, sausage, and hot dogs on the grill and grandma brown's backed beans to go with them. Then for desert I made a Southern banana pie. Very yummy dinner and it was a perfect test for my grill! It did extremely well!

On a side note - It was fun watching this bug fly right into the fire, and then go under the coals. You could here him screaming trying to find his way out. What a dumb bug! IDIOT!

I'M BACK!!!

I am 100% back. I posted a bunch of pictures. Some are new, some are old. The old ones are just classics. The new ones are from Mike's house party and dinner at mom and dad's. Fun times. I hope all the pictures don't bore you - but hey, it is MY blog, so I don't really care if I bore you!!! Yea! Now what are you going to say?!

My Baby!!  

Burger Down Baby! 

Three of my favorite guys lookin, well, there looking alright! 

Hey K! This is you NOT burned!! You're right. All those times you tell us that you don't burn, and we laughed, but you were right. We don't have any proof of you burnt to a crisp day one of vacation year after year. We just dream that up! 

Mike and Mike having a contest - who can finish theirs first.  

This is sowers - he is the one that makes the perfect margaritas! 

poo

My blog page seems to be down - not sure why, but it is. But I am going to write anyway.

The past couple days have been frustrating. I took 6 apointments with Comcast to get my cable and internet installed. The fist 5 they never showed up and neglected to inform me that they wouldn't be coming. They had difficulty actually hooking everything up and in the end Mike came over at 12:30 last night to install the internet and make help move my tv back to where it belongs since Comcast moved and and did not put it back. Anywho, long saga but it is now over with. I don't want to even call them or hear their name anymore.

Work is work. Nothing really new there. Lots to do. We are three months away from our Maritime show, so the stress is building again. Right now I can't wait to go home and go to bed. Make some mac and cheese, zweigles hot dogs and put of comfy clothes and do NOTHING! Sounds perfect. Man, I would leave now if i could.

Lunch today was interesting. Shoe shopping with the office manager Ana. I didn't want to go with her alone, so I made this new girl Kerry go with us. Kerry and I ended up looking all over Lord and Taylor for 45 minutes looking for Ana. We were hungry and wanted to head back to the office to eat - but nooooooooo sir - it was shopping whether you wanted to or not! Ana spent 45 min in a dressing room trying on clothes. It would have been nice if she told us. I am glad it is over, but it took all my enegry to go. Now I am just thinking about my couch!

Work,work and more work

Today has been a pretty stressful day. I got to work a little after 8:30 to meet up with Barb. Yesterday when we left, we decided that we were going to decorate our end of the office with the party stuff we used to decorate for our Cinco de Mayo party. So this morning we did that. (It took all of 10 minutes) Then Addy came in and saw us decorating our little hidden area of the office and the three of us ended up chatting until about 10:30. I checked my voice messages and my email - then decided I needed to check my home email as well, you never know who might write that one! I found more interesting emails in my home account - so I decided to keep conversations flowing there. That took me to about 12:30. At this time I decided I needed a break - Lunch time!!! Popped myself a nice big bag of popcorn and headed back to my desk. Now I am singing to the radio, eating my popcorn and planning my afternoon. At three our little end of the office is having our own private party! So that leaves me with close to an hour and a half to get stuff done. I will have to catch up on blog reading, and get some notes out to the fam. I hope I am not forgetting anything. Please let me know if I am. These days are so stressful, it is easy to let something slip by - you know how it goes.

Tonight - dinner. I am thinking pasta. I could go for some pasta. Maybe a little alfredo sause?!

Words of Wisdom:
Don't get so overloaded that you forget to stop and smell the daisy's.

Attack of the Spiders!

It has just been brought to my attention that I have gnarling spiders in my condo! Some may think that this is impossible, but let me tell you , it is not! I HAVE THEM! Although, I will have to admit, they have only snarled once - at least from what I have heard. Here is my story:

Mike and I had just gotten back from the three day weekend at his parents house. He helped me carry my suitecase into my apt and we got joking around. We were laughing over the lines from Madagascar - which, again, was very funny! As we were sitting there laughing, I heard this long, loud noise. Now to me, it sounded very much like the loudest fart I have ever heard. (Sean, louder than yours. Kyle, same to you.) I looked to Mike, and he then told me I have snarling spiders! I didn't know that! When I moved in, I didn't see any spiders of such sort - but I was wrong. I have them. Luckely when they snarle like that it doesn't smell, but man, I was about to blame Mike for what this loud spiders did. This was the first and the last time I have heard these spiders. I just hope that they don't show up again - man that noise was LOUD!

My Three Day Weekend

My long weekend was a good one. Very relaxing, which is what I needed! I spent my weekend at Mike’s parent’s house. The house, by the way, is a very cute older house that is out in the middle of no-where. Nothing but beautiful scenery. Now I know why he loves his home. On Saturday his aunt and uncle came over with his grandmother. We grilled polish sausages and pigged out! After an early dinner his family left and it was just Mike, Sally (Mike’s mom) and I. His father was out of town on business, although he was greatly missed! Mike and I walked around for a bit, and then the three of us decided to hit up a movie. After about an hour of choosing which movie to go to, Madagascar won. It was a GREAT movie! I still am laughing when I think about it.

Sunday we went to Church and lunch at his grandmothers. After lunch, we were ready to hit up another movie. We went to see Sahara, another great movie. After the movie was bowling. Mike and Sally bowled well, and then there was me! I love turning around after bowling two gutter balls to see Mike shaking his head and covering his face. He loves my bowling technique! Sally and I learned that when Mike wasn’t near us, we were able to relax and bowl much better. After three games of bowling we went and got a bit to eat just and made it back to the movie theatre just in time to see The Last Yard. That movie was good, but not as good as the other two.

On Monday, we all slept in a bit, ate a big lunch and hit up another three games of bowling before Mike and I hit the road to head home. It was a very eventful weekend full of nothing but fun. No thoughts of work, just smiles and being free of all sorts of responsibilities.

I hope everyone else had a wonderful weekend. Willy, I am glad you were able to see Billy Kidd; I hope you embarrassed him for me! I love embarrassing him.

Shhh – what was that? Oh, that was me again.

Remember Me!

A three day weekend is coming up! YAY. I am ready for a mini vacation. I was hoping to get out of work early today, but that isn’t happening. But the day has gone by pretty quickly. The morning I sent out speaker invites and in the afternoon I was working on a new shows contract. That brought me to about 3:30 and at that time I decided it was a great time to re-visit WhackYourBoss.com. I love this site. They added a new way to whack your boss. This killed about a 45 minutes viewing all 13 over and over again with the co-workers. Can’t beat that! And now here I am, writing my blog.

Other that my day, not all that much is new. I went to Wegmans last night to get food for my condo. I needed food! I spent a lot of money, but I hope it lasts me a while. Plus I got a 30 pack of beer. It was also good to see some of my friends again and get the gossip – who broke up with who, who is leaving, who is a new hire, all that crap. I don’t even work there anymore, and I still love hearing it. It is fun to hear about your old co-workers and friends.

I will hopefully have more pictures up next weekend of the condo. Well I best get back to signing to all my co-workers, I think they are really enjoying it!

My apologies

I have to apoligize to my blog friends. I do not have internet for the next two weeks, so I am not able to check your blogs as much as I would like. I will try to check them as often as I can. I am just doing it from work - so that can be difficult!

Moving is going well. I have all my crap in one place now - but if you need something in particular, don't ask. I will tell you more about it later. I am leaving work now!

Movin'

Movin’ Movin’ Movin’

Well it is going well. I have been getting work done. Dad mostly finished the kitchen on Saturday. I helped until about 3, then I went to meet Mike at the apt to help me bring a load over to the condo. That was exciting! As soon as we get on the beltway to starts to thunderstorm and hale. So there went my mattress, box spring, and dressers. As we are driving, I was following Mike – he is more worried about my stuff, and I am more worried about the thunder and lightning. My music was blaring and my hand over my eyes, never get in a car with me in a storm, especially when I am driving! All in all, we only got one small load in.

On Monday, I borrowed Mike’s truck and met mom and dad at my apt to do another load. The night didn’t start off the best, I had forgotten my apt keys in my car, which was about 45min to an hour away with traffic. Luckily dad say I left my window unlocked, so he pried the screen out and we crawled through. I like to make the move a little more exciting each night! We got his jeep packed with stuff and the truck packed up and was able to get a lot done. The best part – there is a papa john’s near me, and it is REALLY good pizza!

Last night, I did another load. I was able to put my room together, well put clothes away and start to put together the living room. Tonight I will hit the bathroom and hook the TV up to my DVD player so I can watch movies while I wait for cable and internet. So far, this is the first time I don’t mind waiting for cable and internet. It probably helps that I am on the computer/internet all day long!

Well I best get my butt in gear and work since I am at work.

I am due.

I am due. I due to see my brother. I miss him. I think about him everyday, and I am lucky if I get to talk to him once every couple weeks. We work different schedules, so we basically go by the “no news is good news” theory. I am beginning to hate that theory. The weather is getting nicer, and last year around this time K and I went to Canandaigua Lake together in the jeep with the top down. We lay on the docks while our feet dangled down towards to water and we just talked. We talked about getting a sunfish or even a little dingy to have so in the summer on our days off together we would go out on the water and sit. Both of us probably new that wouldn’t happen, but we liked the thought of it. Moving away from K was one of the hardest things I have ever done. And for a while, the longest I would have to wait to see him was two months. We are going on month 5 now – that is a long time. I don’t think I have ever gone 4 or 5 months without seeing him, not even when we were in college. Here is your heads up K, I would like a brother fix!

Some write on politics - I write about what I learn at work

I have been learning some interesting things here at work and I have decided to share them.

The place to go and chat about what bed/mattress you want to buy and who your doctor is or where you got your teeth cleaned is in the bathroom. Every time I go to the bathroom at work, I learn more about people than I really care to know. Girls share who their doctor is, so that is no biggie, but do I really need to know what kind of mattress you are going to buy, who your sales associate was and that the bed is so big they had trouble fitting it through the door – no, I don’t.

People seem to have a lot of free time, and when they are asked politely if they might being willing to help you it is like you are taking them away from finding the cure for cancer. What happened to team work? When you are in your office doing nothing but chatting on the phone with a friend about where you bought your shoes, you should be willing to help you co-worker.

One more thing – we have automatic toilet fluhers in the bathroom, and when they flush it sounds like a guy is screaming. It s really funny, and when you are in the right mood – you start cracking up. Then the others just stare at you, but it is well worth it!

Words of Wisdom:

Sit back, relax and enjoy the show. It really is amazing what you see at work.

My Drive In

I was driving to work today, and a song just popped into my head, you know how that goes. If you went to Camp Stella Marris, you know this song well.

"Shaving Cream, Feel nice and Clean, Shave every day and you'll always be clean"

Isn't that a great song. It just makes you want to shave in the morning!

The other song has to do with diarrhea, and I don't think it is as pleasant, so I will keep that one out of the blog.

I am going to get back to work, I just wanted to share my morning thoughts.
:o)

Future Husband

I just learned some news - my future husband is reading my blog. So I thought it is about time I brag about him. His name is Adam, and he is one of the BEST dressers I have ever met! I have only hung out with him twice, but that is all it took! It was love at first site. Don't you think honey bunches? He is my own Tom Cruise! The second time I saw Adam, he offered to make me a perfect margarita, now how can you turn that down. After I had a taste, I knew he was the one for me. So I proposed and he said yes. No ring, but the margarita was good enough. I am one lucky girl! When we set the date, I will let you all know. I will even post a picture of him!

This isn't the best picture...I will try to get a better one. But isn't he just dreamy! 

Kyle looked a bit chilly, so I decided to warm him up by dumping water on him. I know, I'm a sweetheart! 

The Weekend

The weekend was a fun one. I met lots of new people. Now will I remember all their names? Probably not! But I still had fun. I went to my first horse race and I only saw the horses run while I was waiting in line a the port-a-pottys. Ah yes, that is aways a good time, 100 girls haveing to pee - you can imagine. It wasn't the best day weather wise, but that didn't stop the fun. I will have to tell you all about it when I am not so tired. My bed misses me right now. Oh, and I took my camera, all excited to take all these GREAT pics, yea, batteries were dead and I left the spares at home. Way to go kel!

This afternoon was the final walk through at the condo. I have some pictures and I posted one. Tomorrow Mom, Dad and I are starting the cleaning process. BATHROOM FIRST! If fleece boy decides to stop over, 10 bucks he will have to pee! Mom I think you have met your match. Well I am off to bed and first food. I am in dire need for food.

One of my favorite pics with my uncle looking sharp! (I only wish I could be as snazzy as he) 

Here I am in my new place. I need to take better pictures - but I am excited. I start cleanig tomorrow after work!