Merry CHristmas!

I hope all my dear friends and family had a wonderful Christmas this year!
As the year comes to a close... i can't help but be a little nostalgic. How fast the time flies! I am going to make a New Year's resolution to see my friends more often.. I don't think I made it up to MN once this year, nor TX either! I do appreciate ALL of you and will try to do better in 2009! Please take a moment and look around you. Count your blessings! I just got caught up on all the blogs and am so glad everyone is doing so well!!! God Bless!

Holiday Festivities!

First let me start off with 10" of white fluffy snow on Tuesday morning!!! Boy was I surprised! Lake effect... didn't really know it was coming. I guess the weather person warned it "might" happen but 10"!!! Crazy! It looked so beautiful! Would have been perfect for snow angels but first thing on Tuesday morning ... not so good! Took me an hour of shoveling to get a path so my car could get to the street! Quite sore the next day.
Here is a picture from my first holiday party of the season! I was well-behaved! Can't say that for everyone else who was there. It was nice to kick back, relax and enjoy fellow co-workers.









Here is a recent photo of my brothers, sister-in-laws, and all my nieces and nephews!

Trials and Tribulations

Well Hello! Life sure is interesting... here is an update on me.
My love life is in mass confusion and maybe I am having a commitment panic?! or midlife crisis of sorts. I have been told that I am an "over-reactor" and this might be true... I do love to exaggerate!!! Anyway - this past week was horrible. If you think yours was rough - just wait. My house has a leak, my computer is broke, my dishwasher and other appliances are not working quite right, my car has a power steering leak, i lost my new and very expensive watch, fender dented my car, and the packers lost by ONE point!!!! UGH!

So- I need a new laptop.....any suggestions? Going to buy a new one tomorrow!

Paddle for your life

All Fun and Games

I was down in West Virginia last weekend doing some white water rafting! Whoa! It was awesome!!! Check that off my list of things I wanted to accomplish this summer. I am so glad I went - even though it was exhausting!
Man- the raft guide scared the crap out of me with the survival instructions for each rapid, but once you were through it- you felt like you owned the world! Very exhilarating!! I will post some photos soon. THe photos crack me up too!

Anyway- I was suppose to finalize the old employer BS on Monday but somebody didn't complete their end of the deal! Imagine that! Utterly disappointing! And frustrating!

Also disappointing was the packers vs cowboys football game on Sunday night! Ugh! Didn't get to watch it but I listened to it on the drive home....made me sick! My team has got to do better than that!

It is officially fall but up here in the north we are having an indian summer! 80 degrees all week!!! MAkes me think of that Kid Rock song "all summer long" Good theme for this summer!!!

Notre Dame and Rain

First off- we have been able to secure tickets to Notre Dame football for the past two weekends. WHat a great time!

This past weekend we were hit by Hurricane Ike!! Hard to believe -I know but we got hit by the leftover rain storm and it wasn't pretty. We received 10" of rain in two days. Lots of flooding in my area. Streets closed, houses taking in water, etc.
No harm no foul for me. And, I was 20 minutes into the trip to work today when the office called and wanted to know if they should cancel my day since they assumed I was stranded by all the water. I could have had a "free" day. A skip if you will. Man- that would have been great but i am honest and told them I was already on my way! The water is so bad in certain areas that part of I94 is closed in both directions!!!

YEah FOOTBALL

I jsut have to say...I have some luck! I finally drafted tom Brady in our Fantasy Football league and his first game... he tears his ACL and is out for the season!!! WHat is up with that???
Anyway... Favre won with the Jets but Rodgers brought the Packers to victory over interleague Minnesota Vickings!!!! Awesome! Great game...we have some work to do but feels good!!!