Leavin' on a Jet Plane!

Today was great- Joe and I went to Bob Evans for brunch(where we ran into one of the girls from work- that was fun!), then on to Beavercreek to go shopping. Didn't really buy much; I did find a cute sweater on clearance at the Gap, but that's about it. We killed time there until we were hungry again and then went to Steak & Shake (I think that's my new favorite place to eat!!)
Then we came back home, I went to Kroger to buy my last minute vacation things, along with a new paperback for reading on the plane and I finished packing for St. Thomas. I leave Tuesday, but I'm working all day tomorrow and half day Tues., and leaving from work, so I needed to pretty much be packed tonight. I'll grab the last minute things tomorrow, but I think I'm ready. I've probably got enough for 4 weeks, rather than the 4 days I'll actually be spending there, but that's OK. And I tied a lovely yellow ribbon on my suitcase to make it easier to spot on the luggage carousel. Yup, I'm ready to go!!
Think happy airplane thoughts for me.....

SiLLy GirL

Kara and Rylee came over tonight so Rylee could pick up the new slippers I bought for her today. (She's modeling them in the photo!) She is SO funny!! That kid makes me laugh so much!! I've never met a wittier almost-three-year-old. She's got the quickest come-backs.
Rylee helped me mix cookies, and in true Rylee style, was sneaking cookie bites every chance she could- I'm pretty sure she was on a major sugar high by the end of the evening.
She's just great! Definitely my favorite neice.





(it's not the best photo quality, this picture was taken w/ my phone.)

More Birthday Photos

1. The paparazzi
2. Grandma on the phone with Jill
3. Grandma and me
4. Cake table

Weekend

Our weekend was fun: I spent Saturday night at Lisa's and then Sunday at Grandma's 90th birthday party; Joe went to game 1 of the World Series with his brother. Too bad the Tigers lost, but they made up for it last night, at least.
I don't have photos yet of Joe's weekend, but here's some of mine:
Happy b-day Grandma, Kara, and Payton!

My name was Lola...

Here we are, all dressed up for Halloween!

Go Tigers

So, the Tigers are playing in the World Series. Yes, it's true, I'm not a big sports fan, but I am a big Detroit fan, so GO TIGERS!! We tried to buy tickets this morning...we did get ONE ticket to game 7, if there even is a game 7. If so, we'll probably try to buy another one on e-bay before then or something. Or joe will go alone and I'll save a couple hundred dollars. :)
Anyhoo, I have some Halloween pics, but they're not yet developed. Maybe tomorrow?
We'll see. Happy Monday.

another rainy wednesday

It's raining again, so I'm doing my favorite rainy-day activity- watching it rain, drinking a coffee, light a couple candles, turn on some rainy-day music (Sarah McLachlin, today) and blogging. Joe's at his first guitar lesson ("Guitar for teachers: bring the joy of music into the classroom!" or something like that)
so I'm just hanging around with the dog.
When I'm done with this, I am going to go find some karaoke music on iTunes to download for this weekend's Halloween party.
Of course, Copacabana is right up there in the top 5 to find.

I had an odd dream the other night, for all you dream interpreters out there:
I was dreaming that my friend and I were walking down an old-time movie kind of a street (like our downtown, but back when it was booming) and we walked by the real Xanadu; it was a 2-story club, and my friend wanted to go in, but I said no, because the actual dance part was upstairs, and the first floor was all caved in and it was too dangerous to go over the caved in floor to get to the stairway to the second floor. Plus, I knew that Xanadu was inhabited by ghosts, and not real people.

Huh???

My, How We've Changed

I dug up a photo of my friends and I as seniors in high school to compare to one ten years later. I think this would make a great scrapbook page!

10 years

Here's some pics from last night: I'm glad I went. It was really fun! In fact, we had to leave the restaurant by 10, and we were having such a good time we all left there and went to the Mexican restaurant until around 1:30. Good times. I'd definitely go to another one. Oh, and I won for "most changed since 1996"!

Reunions are....

...so fun! I had a blast! More tomorrow.....

It's awfully quiet in Bloggerville.

I haven't blogged in a while; I've been elsewhere, running around like mad. So rather than go on and on about the mundane craziness (what an excellent oxymoron!) that is my life, instead in the interest of saving time, I'll sum it up in nice, neat haiku:

Busy and hectic;
I hate reunion planning;
New black scrunchy boots.

OK, I will offer one bit of a dilemma: I found a chocolate brown sweater, which I've been looking for to wear on Saturday. (To THE reunion.) However, I also found new black boots.
I feel like the brown is a prettier outfit, good color on me, etc.
But I feel....sassier, for lack of better words, in the black.

SO: what do I wear?!