I truly didn't realize it's been six whole days since we blogged! Sorry to all of you faithful blog checkers out there. You know we love you lots, so I'm gonna show some love with an extra long post. In the words of my fellow blogger ( and super great friend) Jessica, an EPIC POST! :)
Well lets see, first things first, I am so glad tomorrow is already Thursday! Gotta love those three day weekends! Makes for a four day work week. YAY! What a wonderful weekend it was. We left on Friday night after I got off work. Of course we had to leave late because it seems like every single time we go to Sturgeon I end up having to work the late shift so I don't get off until 6p.m. Oh well, we made it safely. Since we got that wheel bearing fixed on my car it was a much quieter and less scary ride. It was SOOOO great to get to see the family. We didn't get the chance to visit with any friends this weekend, but maybe next time. It was great because Matt and Nicole were there and Dustin and Jessica. We had a really great time playing video games and poker. It was a long night of poker Saturday night. Aacooley came out on top, though! Allen won the first game, and I won the second game, after a long head to head battle with Dustin. It was a good game, but I finally wore him down!
On Sunday I shot Allen's Glock for the first time. I definately don't have any aim, I will have to work on that.
Matt and Nicole brought their Wii over. They just bought Mario Kart so Allen, Phil, Matt, and Nicole played some hard core Kart on Sunday. I think they might have played for 6 hours in a row! LOL! It was nice for Allen to get to play the game with them. He doesn't get too much gamer time in with me...:( unfortunately, I'm pretty much video game handicapped, except for Guitar Hero, which might I add, Guitar Hero 5 is out and we bought it at Target this weekend. It was a REALLY great deal because we are getting two games for the price of one. We're getting Guitar Hero Van Halen for free, just have to wait to get it in the mail. So far we really like it. There are a lot better songs on GH5, more variety. The whole first half of the songs (there are 85) have been pretty easy, but Allen is in the living room playing now and he just failed like 5 times on a song. I can hear him cussing...lol! Can't wait to get to play with everyone! Now that we have this one, as soon as we get out Van Halen I think we really are going to throw a Guitar Hero party. I know I've been talking about it for a while. (Ummm..about two years now...) but this time I'm serious. I know someone else who needs to have a themed game night...Jessica, I hope there is some Beatles Rock Band in our near future! Speaking of themed game night...I would like to know how many people would be up for a Trivial Pursuit night. If you're up for it or have friends that would be up for it, post a comment the Chat Roll.
On Monday, Allen took me into Columbia for some shopping. I had a $10 off coupon for a $25 purchase at Fashion Bug that expires at the end of this month, and since we don't have any Fashions Bugs around here anymore, it made sense to take advantage of being so close to one. I couldn't find any shirts that I was dying to have. (I'm not sure what's up with these stupid shirts that make even skinny girls look pregnant...) So, instead I got a GREAT deal on bras. They were buy 2 get one free, plus I used my $10 off coupon. I made out like a bra bandit! WOOT! We ate lunch at a place niether one of us had ever been- Macaroni Grill. It was DELICIOUS. I didn't know it was only a pasta house, and a pretty expensive one at that, but it was soooo good. WE LOVED IT! It had a great dining atmosphere, would be a place to get dressed up and have a romantic date night at some time. Our server was EXCELLENT too. We went to the mall, but didn't really have any luck finding anything there. Our next stop was Pet Co. We bought Penny a new ball. She's been playing with an old tennis ball, but she's been also eating the felt off of it, so we bought a ball made out of rope. She really likes her rope bone. She immediately took to the rope ball too. Must be something about the texture. Oh, and I forgot to mention, on Sunday Phil smoked some beef spare ribs and some babyback ribs on the grill. As always they were delicious.
Tuesday it was back to work. It sucked for both of us. I had a hard time because over the weekend we had a system update that changed the way we take our phonecalls and record our notes. So everything was new, AND we had twice our normal Tuesday call volume because of the holiday. In fact so far all week the phones have been hectic, seems like I can't get anything done that I need to because the phones are so busy. Allen said work has been crazy for him also.
We were going to take a community education class all day on Saturday from 9-4 at John Wood Community College for first time home buyers, but the class was cancelled due to lack of intrest. :( We were looking forward to it too...hopefully Allen will get the job at General Mills and we will be able to start the process of becoming home owners. We sure would like to get in on the whole $8,000 tax credit before the end of the year. (We even kind of have our eye on a house sitting on 12.5 acres outside Palmyra, between Palmyra and Philadelphia, but still in the Palmyra school district) But if it's not meant to be for this year, it's not meant to be.
Hard to believe it is already September. We will blink and it will be 2010 already!
Well, hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day weekend and that the work week hasn't been too rough on anyone so far.
Oh, and there are new pics uploaded to Photobucket Summer 2009 from this weekend. Click on the picture in the sidebar to check em out! And if anyone is wonder what the pictures of everyone standing around and looking up are, we were watching a garden spider wrap up a cricket and move it around on her web. Yeah....we're nerds...
