Chicago

I am getting excited for our next trip/mini-vacation. We sure seem to be traveling alot this year. Up next is Wizard World in Chicago. We are going down on Wednesday evening, I think, and coming back Sunday at some point. I hope to hit Ikea and hopefully the zoo and aquarium while we are down there. I also have some old high school friends that live in Chicago and I am thinking of seeing if they want to go out for dinner or something, maybe when I get sick of the convention. Should be tons of fun.

Babies!

Well, Marc and Nisi had their latest baby 5:42pm July 22nd. Healthy baby boy, Mason Jay. 7 lbs 5 oz 19 1/2". It bit of a surprise I believe, getting here a few weeks early. That's really all the info I have so....Congratulations!! I'm sure when Nisi is feeling better we will all get a full detailed story. With pictures!

Matt and I had gone to my Grandparents for coffee Sunday morning and Kydra was there with my mom and found out that Nisi's water had broken at 4am. Typical time, middle of the night. Than Matt and I headed up to Silver Lake to the cabin that Matt's dad rents, which has very limited cell phone reception, especially for our ancient cell phones, 2+ years old. After dinner I walked out to a reception area and got the message a very tired sounding Marc had left me. I was good to know that everything worked out OK. With hopefully no complications.

We are hoping to head back up to Silver Lake on Friday, but I don't know if we will be able to. I would need to use a half day vacation, but my boss will be on vacation Friday too. Normally we are not both gone on the same day. Matt may go anyway, without me.

I Try So Hard...

Well I got kicked out of my band this morning. This bites. I had just started excepting my place in the band and telling people about it and I get kicked out. Just like last time. Matt says I can never tell anybody again if I get in a new band. :) Maybe that will work. Apparently I don't have a good enough voice to sing 80's hair band music. Like the great song by Poison - Talk Dirty to Me. Maybe this is a sign that I shouldn't sing 80's hair band music anymore. I also don't have all 20+ songs memorized completly, 100%. Even the ones we just added 2 weeks ago.

The only good thing is that the guitarist will probably be leaving too, and the bassist and drummer have no clue. He doesn't want to sing all 80's hair band music either.

I just wish they would have communicated their issues at some point before kicking me out. Some things they have issue with are easily fixed. Oh, well. I got some more experiance and learned some new things. This just makes me question if I should continue. Though I think I will, I did enjoy it while it lasted.

Party

It was a great party. Not as many people showed as I hoped would, but that happens every year. Sangria was great. I added some extra brandy this year for a little more kick. My mom had two glasses and was a little buzzed, and nice and red. Should have gotten a picture. Oh well. I also forgot to take a picture of all the food. I am told it was my best spread yet. I always try to improve. Oh, and I used my brother Marc's jello shot recipe and had some kick ass jello shots. Tasty. JD got trashed and started groping all the men and than starting wrestling. Our friend Tori got an interesting picture of Ted and JD getting pretty friendly. I got an interesting picture too. I kicked some ass in fooseball. People played some Wii. Catch Phrase started fights, especially with some newbie players. Can't wait for next year.





I posted most of my pictures on myspace, but you have to be my myspace friend to see them.

I'm Dutch.

About twice a year a get a hankering for rusk. I had grown up with rusk, now apparently labeled as 'dutch crispbakes' at the store. Matt thinks I am pretty weird for liking this. I eat it with a layer of butter-type spread and than a layer of jam. It is tasty. I bought some tonight, just for me.

On a separate note, we watched the new Harry Potter today. I thought it was great, having never read the book. Matt wished they included more. This is one of the reasons why I haven't read the books yet. I don't want to be disappointed when I watch the movie.

Sweet.

I am so going to by one of these as soon as it comes out.

I speak English

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Inland North You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."
The Midland
The Northeast
Philadelphia
The South
North Central
The West
Boston
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Planning

I am having a hard time party planning this year. Our annual summer party is only two weeks away and I don't have the menu all figured out yet. Also I really want to by our own copy of electronic Catch Phrase this year. Such a great party game. I hope lots of people show up too. I always have so much food left over, we eat it for days. Should be interesting. I invited 3 of the 4 other band members as well, though I have my doubts that any of them will show. Other plans and such. Our bass player's wife had a baby last week so he's pry out. Dummer's son's birthday. Guitarist works until 7 or 8 and he has a real life with friends and everything. The second guitarist hasn't made a practice in over a month, but his grandma just died and he had some things to deal with. I hadn't invited him yet. He may not be in the band much longer though. We'll see. I think I might invite some cousins too. And other random people who I don't see very often. But anyway, if you read this, know where I live and can make it to my house July 14 starting at 6pm, your invited.