I Don't Like Mondays...

However, this particular Monday was pretty good. I didn't have to go to work and went see a movie and have lunch with Karin. We went to see Step Brothers with Will Farrell and John C. Reilly. While there were some funny scenes and good jokes, it was mostly stupid and you definitely need to wait for it to come out on DVD. We then had a delicious lunch at the Winking Lizard. Yum!! It was good to see Karin, I miss not seeing her at work everyday!

Later in the day I headed over to Ray's house and we went to Melt for his birthday. Happy Birthday honey!!

My long weekend is officially over, back to work on Tuesday :-(

My Weekend Re-Cap

Just a little weekend re-cap: I didn’t have to work on Friday (yippie), so I had lunch with Linda, Crystal, my friend Laura (and also Linda’s sister), and Laura’s 8 month old son Dylan. He’s so darn cute!! We ate at Outback and then I ran some errands. Later that evening Ray (the fiance) and I went to dinner and hit the bookstore. He had to be in bed early so he could get up for work at 6:00 a.m. on Saturday!

On Saturday, I went shopping with The Boy (my little bro) at Wal Mart. A few weeks ago he announced that he was moving out of our parents house and in with 2 of his friends. He talked about this in the past, so I wasn’t entirely sure it would happen. Surprisingly, last Sunday he picked up a U-Haul van and moved his stuff 3 blocks away. All week he had been making a list of stuff he’ll need at his new place so on Saturday we headed to Wally World to execute the list. He was mesmerised by my vast knowledge of all things shopping and our trip was successful!! On Saturday evening, Ray and I went to dinner with Linda & Mark to celebrate Ray’s birthday. We had tasty steaks and my baked sweet potato was the size of a bowling ball!!

On Sunday, I didn’t even leave the house!! Most people that know me know how I love to sleep in, so I got up late, hung around the house, painted my nails, watched some TV, ate dinner with the fam and did some laundry. I was shocked by how chilly it was outside considering it’s August. Down the toilet with Al Gore’s theory of global warming, huh?

Here’s a pic of my betrothed and I having birthday cake:

My First Post!

Alright, so Linda sucked me in and now I have a blog!! She even named it for me, she's very clever!

I'll start with a few random things have happened to me recently:

1. I'm in the process of starting to plan my wedding. I'm waiting to get the pricing from the place I'd like to have the reception. They have the 2008 pricing, but due to the fluctuating cost of everything from gas to lemons she doesn't have pricing for 2009 yet. Linda & I met with the lady (Mary Jo) and took a tour. Then several weeks went by and I didn't call her & she didn't call me. I was ok with this since I didn't actually know how much anything would cost yet. Apparently Linda was not ok with this. Here's how it goes, Linda: "Marie, did you call Mary Jo yet and ask her to pencil you in?", Marie: "No, not yet, but I'm not worried about it, she doesn't have much on the schedule for 2009." Linda: YELLING and FIST HITTING WALL (seriously), "WHY NOT, SOMEONE IS GOING TO TAKE YOUR DATE AND THEN WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO!?!?" Marie: Slinking over the other side of the couch and curling up into the fetal position, "Ok, I'll call her first thing tomorrow." Apparently Mary Jo also heard Linda’s fist hitting the wall and she called me the next day and we penciled in October 3, 2009. Linda has since calmed down.

2. The Obama campaign called me! I'm not entirely sure why, but I think it's because I voted as a Democrat in the primary so I could vote for Hillary, per Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos directions. On Tuesday night the phone rings, I answer it, and some girl says "I'm calling from the Obama campaign, will you be voting for him?" I say, "God no!" and hang up the phone. Less than a minute later the phone rings again, I'm 99% sure it was the same girl and she says, "I'm calling from the Obama campaign, will you be voting for him?" So I say, "I think you already called me and by the way I'd vote for the devil before I'd vote for him." She says in the perkiest voice possible, "Ok, thank you for your time have a good night" and hangs up. At least she was polite...