Merry Christmas Everyone--thanks for reading!
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Sunday, December 21, 2008
The Curse of the Holiday Happy Hour
Friday night at 5pm once again began the start of the Holiday Happy Hour, hosted this year by Bernard and Kenneth in Verona. After another snow day (yay no work), Jeremy and I were looking forward to heading over for the Holiday Happy Hour. We loaded up the Focus and headed out. When we got there--we quickly realized we were the first ones there!! Woohoo!
The drinks began flowing, people started arriving and the fun started. Kenny had made a $hit ton of jello shots and the Teter's brought some apple pie shots. After having one of each (and I do mean, one of each FLAVOR), the dreaded flip cup began....girls vs guys!!
Holy crap we kicked ass. We had some newbies on the team but the girls dominated. Of course, when boys try cheating (a.k.a Bra elbowing me and pushing me over because he knew I was going to beat him) we still win!!
Now, I think this is where the trouble for me began. Let me explain....usually, a normal person plays flip cup with beer. I do not drink beer, so I was playing with bacardi and diet coke. Hmmm, this was really a great idea.
We ended up back upstairs and I started feeling like I might need some fresh air. This has happened to me before at last year's holiday happy hour. I told Bernard I was heading outside to possibly release some tension in my tummy, but once I got out there, I immediately felt better (and for the record, did NOT get sick!!). However, my trouble was already in motion...after deciding to head back inside, I turned to step up on the step in front of the door, when all of a sudden, I'm down! Now, I take full responsibility for having decided to wear my black pointy shoes but damn that concrete was slick...
I slowly stand up thinking "Oh shit, did I hurt my back" because seriously, how many freaking times am I gonna fall down AFTER HAVING BACK SURGERY?!?! But luckily my back felt fine. I head in and see Bra and Lundo and of course they thought I was out there puking my guts out but low and behold, I was rolling around on the ground.
I came into the house, sat down at the kitchen table and started to fell the intense pain in my foot. OMG why does my foot hurt so bad?? The tears immediately begin...completely out of my control. Jon Coffey sees me start to cry and then I think motioned to Jeremy or something to come over and check on me. At this point, I let him know we need to get the hell out of there because my foot hurts like hell! In a flash, Holiday Happy Hour 08 was over....
See, when I fell outside, I hit the top of my foot on the concrete step. What I didn't know until I got home and took my shoe and sock off was that I had gashed my foot in three places and it was beginning to bruise and swell up. I was pretty sure it wasn't broken but wow, it hurt.
It has gotten better each day so I'm sure i'll be fine, but I must seriously be the clumsiest person EVER. So thank you B and Kenny for a great party. I had a ton of fun until the end of the night. Next year i'll wear full padding gear so no injuries will ensue!!
The drinks began flowing, people started arriving and the fun started. Kenny had made a $hit ton of jello shots and the Teter's brought some apple pie shots. After having one of each (and I do mean, one of each FLAVOR), the dreaded flip cup began....girls vs guys!!
Holy crap we kicked ass. We had some newbies on the team but the girls dominated. Of course, when boys try cheating (a.k.a Bra elbowing me and pushing me over because he knew I was going to beat him) we still win!!
Now, I think this is where the trouble for me began. Let me explain....usually, a normal person plays flip cup with beer. I do not drink beer, so I was playing with bacardi and diet coke. Hmmm, this was really a great idea.
We ended up back upstairs and I started feeling like I might need some fresh air. This has happened to me before at last year's holiday happy hour. I told Bernard I was heading outside to possibly release some tension in my tummy, but once I got out there, I immediately felt better (and for the record, did NOT get sick!!). However, my trouble was already in motion...after deciding to head back inside, I turned to step up on the step in front of the door, when all of a sudden, I'm down! Now, I take full responsibility for having decided to wear my black pointy shoes but damn that concrete was slick...
I slowly stand up thinking "Oh shit, did I hurt my back" because seriously, how many freaking times am I gonna fall down AFTER HAVING BACK SURGERY?!?! But luckily my back felt fine. I head in and see Bra and Lundo and of course they thought I was out there puking my guts out but low and behold, I was rolling around on the ground.
I came into the house, sat down at the kitchen table and started to fell the intense pain in my foot. OMG why does my foot hurt so bad?? The tears immediately begin...completely out of my control. Jon Coffey sees me start to cry and then I think motioned to Jeremy or something to come over and check on me. At this point, I let him know we need to get the hell out of there because my foot hurts like hell! In a flash, Holiday Happy Hour 08 was over....
See, when I fell outside, I hit the top of my foot on the concrete step. What I didn't know until I got home and took my shoe and sock off was that I had gashed my foot in three places and it was beginning to bruise and swell up. I was pretty sure it wasn't broken but wow, it hurt.
It has gotten better each day so I'm sure i'll be fine, but I must seriously be the clumsiest person EVER. So thank you B and Kenny for a great party. I had a ton of fun until the end of the night. Next year i'll wear full padding gear so no injuries will ensue!!
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Steelers Post
Congratulations to my Pittsburgh Steelers for an awesome win on Sunday and AFC North Champions!! Its been a pretty exciting year being able to watch the Steelers on tv.
I've been a Steelers fan since I was very young and still am to this day. They are playing the hardest schedule in the NFL this year and are doing great!
Keep kickin ass this year boys!!
Monday, December 15, 2008
Jeers and Cheers
Cheers to Tyler for starting his first day at Gingerbread House today. Good luck buddy! Don't bite anyone, its not a good way to start off making new friends.
Cheers to Steve. Happy 29th bday buddy. It was good seeing you on Saturday.
Jeers to the freezing cold temperatures today.
Cheers to the godfather for scoring THREE bottles of Absolut Los Angeles, and only charging me cost for them!!
Jeers to Tina and Curt for having to change their wedding date in Hawaii...ok, just jeers to the military for MAKING them change their wedding date.
Cheers to Bernard for finally getting his balls back after I took them from him at the Avenged Sevenfold concert. Way to go B!
Jeers to my dad's house for having the hundreds of christmas cookies that I baked still sitting in the house.
Cheers to Sasha, Grade's dog, for only sniffing my crotch ONCE on Friday-we are making progress.
Cheers to Angela for winning Rascal Flats tickets yesterday. Who ever said you weren't lucky?
And finally, cheers to only having one more full week before the fun two weeks of weird work schedules is here.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Argh...
Busy at work = No new blogs
Maybe Santa will bring me a laptop and high speed internet for Christmas!
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Monday, December 1, 2008
Disappointment all around
Black Friday = Complete Disappointment this year!!
My sister and I have been going out at the ass-crack of dawn to go get some super good deals and get ALL of our Christmas shopping done in one day! This year...it totally sucked!!
Our first stop was Kohls-we arrived at 3:45am, waited in line, got in, got our stuff we wanted, checked out by 4:50am. Not bad...I was still optimistic at this point.
Next we swung over to American to try and get one of the red laptop deals advertised in the flier. Now I'm not completely naive to think that I was for sure gonna get one of these but I knew there were lots of TVs on sale so I was hoping people would be going to get those. We got there and were 12th in the 'Laptop/Computer' line. I was still hopeful at this point. AFTER 1 hour of waiting, I get to the front thinking, well there's got to be one of these left considering there were only 12 people in front of me, what are the chances they ALL wanted that laptop--well apparently those chances were really good. SOLD OUT! Argh--I walk away from American, 1 hour later, empty handed....
Now i'm just pissed, but yet, we press on. Next stop, Target. Since we were delayed at American, we get to Target 15 minutes after opening. YIKES. I have NEVER seen the parking lot as full as it was this year. In all the years I have been coming to Target, this was the worst I had seen it. Guess how many of the items I wanted were sold out.....THREE. OMG now i'm really just pissed. I can hardly control myself. We check out there (the line moves rather quickly here thank god) at 7:15am.
Next stop, Walmart! I scored one here by getting the LAST bag of extra big lego blocks for $10 for my nephew. I thought they were sold out but after pursuing the toy aisle, I stumbled upon the blocks in the wrong spot. Score one for me! However, the remaining three items on my list at Walmart....GONE.
Final stop before breakfast, Farm and Fleet. My favorite part about Farm and Fleet is the parking lot (can you sense the sarcasm here...). All I could muster up to buy here was a shovel...
Breakfast break at McDonalds....then around 10am we head to Michaels to get me some Christmas decorations for my new pad. Nothing eventful happened here.
Break time--nap, wrap gifts...head to ShopKo and Hobby Lobby. Break again, dinner, we head BACK out to the mall, grab a couple minor things and we finally arrive home for good at 9:45pm!! Whew what a day!
Overall, the deals were disappointing and I have to say it was the most crowded Black Friday I have ever participated in. However, in the end, my sister and I had a chance to hang out all day and enjoy some time together so even though I didn't get all my deals (or hardly any of them!) it was still worth waking up at 2am (I woke up early because I couldn't sleep, too excited I guess!) and shopping all day.
I look forward to next year....
My sister and I have been going out at the ass-crack of dawn to go get some super good deals and get ALL of our Christmas shopping done in one day! This year...it totally sucked!!
Our first stop was Kohls-we arrived at 3:45am, waited in line, got in, got our stuff we wanted, checked out by 4:50am. Not bad...I was still optimistic at this point.
Next we swung over to American to try and get one of the red laptop deals advertised in the flier. Now I'm not completely naive to think that I was for sure gonna get one of these but I knew there were lots of TVs on sale so I was hoping people would be going to get those. We got there and were 12th in the 'Laptop/Computer' line. I was still hopeful at this point. AFTER 1 hour of waiting, I get to the front thinking, well there's got to be one of these left considering there were only 12 people in front of me, what are the chances they ALL wanted that laptop--well apparently those chances were really good. SOLD OUT! Argh--I walk away from American, 1 hour later, empty handed....
Now i'm just pissed, but yet, we press on. Next stop, Target. Since we were delayed at American, we get to Target 15 minutes after opening. YIKES. I have NEVER seen the parking lot as full as it was this year. In all the years I have been coming to Target, this was the worst I had seen it. Guess how many of the items I wanted were sold out.....THREE. OMG now i'm really just pissed. I can hardly control myself. We check out there (the line moves rather quickly here thank god) at 7:15am.
Next stop, Walmart! I scored one here by getting the LAST bag of extra big lego blocks for $10 for my nephew. I thought they were sold out but after pursuing the toy aisle, I stumbled upon the blocks in the wrong spot. Score one for me! However, the remaining three items on my list at Walmart....GONE.
Final stop before breakfast, Farm and Fleet. My favorite part about Farm and Fleet is the parking lot (can you sense the sarcasm here...). All I could muster up to buy here was a shovel...
Breakfast break at McDonalds....then around 10am we head to Michaels to get me some Christmas decorations for my new pad. Nothing eventful happened here.
Break time--nap, wrap gifts...head to ShopKo and Hobby Lobby. Break again, dinner, we head BACK out to the mall, grab a couple minor things and we finally arrive home for good at 9:45pm!! Whew what a day!
Overall, the deals were disappointing and I have to say it was the most crowded Black Friday I have ever participated in. However, in the end, my sister and I had a chance to hang out all day and enjoy some time together so even though I didn't get all my deals (or hardly any of them!) it was still worth waking up at 2am (I woke up early because I couldn't sleep, too excited I guess!) and shopping all day.
I look forward to next year....
Thursday, November 27, 2008
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