Halloween Party

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A little too quiet

Things are a little too quiet on the blogs these days. Does everyone have as boring of a life as I do? Or is everyone just soooo busy they don't have time to update the world with all the super excting things that happen to them daily?

My eldest brother Matt has gotten himself engaged to his super great girlfriend, Mary. They got engaged in Las Vegas a day after he made her cry when she asked if they were ever going to get married and he said NO, don't plan on it. He didn't want his plans ruined, but it was a bit jerky of him. I am excited for him. Hopefully this will be a great new start for him. With the economy the way that it is and her family mostly in Peru, they will be having a very small wedding, I believe. It still should be good. Nothing wrong with a small wedding. I'm going to talk to him and see if I can get them to have a big party reception, maybe at my parents? I'll be talking to him on Saturday at the latest, at the annual Dykehouse Christmas Party. At least the party is after Halloween this year, though not by much. I think almost all my cousins will be there this year. Should be a big, ever growing, group.

Who Needs Money When You Have Kitchen Supplies?

I just got the call. I am soooo excited. I applied for and received a seasonal job working at Williams-Sonoma. I absolutly love this store and often ask for birthday or christmas presents from here. Now with a great discount, I will be spending large chunks of my 'extra' paycheck here. At least that is the plan.

Woot!

So Sarah told me about woot.com the other day. One day deals and the such. Which is pretty cool. But I think I like shirt.woot.com better! It's a sister site and if we had more money, Matt would have lots more T-shirts. Though they have them in womens sizes too. I'm not really a "t-shirt" person. We'll see. :)

Losing my mind.

I mean I lost my keys. I got home from work Thursday, and now I can't find my freakin' car keys. I was ready to go to work Friday morning, got in my car and couldn't find my keys in my purse. Ran inside franticely throwing things around on the countertops, tabletops and dresser. Still nothing. Look on floor. Freak out. I'm going to be late for work if I don't leave NOW. Luckly I had a spare set stashed that I could grab and figured I deal with it when I got home. Matt and I have looked everywhere. Can't find them. Very frusterating. I don't know where else to look. I guess I'll just use my spare set until they show themselves, if they ever do.

Cats are Great

A Few Highlights

A few pictures from our party last Saturday.

Ted and JD always do something odd.

Tom doesn't want me to steal his soul. (take his picture)

Yes, JD is sleeping.

Ted singing on Rockband and Dave on Guitar. Isn't Dave looking good?

What was so funny?


It was a really fun party and we had alot of people actually show up this year. I'd say 20+ people. The meatballs were the big hit this year. I'll have to make even more next year. And not let Sarah knock over the slowcooker! Good thing all the meatballs were gone and just the messy sauce left to spread all over the carpet. It's mostly cleaned out, but I still want new floors so maybe I'll leave the rest. :)

Sidenote: I booked our tickets for Tucson. AZ here we come!

Mason's 1st B-day

I was surprised to see that Nisi had not posted pictures of Mason's Birthday party, even though she forgot her own camera. I'm sure once she gets pictures from friends and family, she do a birthday post for him. But anyway, here are pictures of Matt and mine's gift to Mason. The cake.

Updates?

Hmmm. I noticed I have not given any real updated since May or so. Not that I'm the only one slacking in blogger world. They cut down all our pine trees in front. A few weeks ago 4 of the 6 were gone, and when I came home today the last two were gone. It's sad really. I really loved those trees.

Matt and I did go to Wizard World in June again. It was nice to have a hotel connected to the convention center. Lots less stressful for transportation. Matt got to the finals in the Heroclix competition, but was out in the first round. So we got to wander around Chicago a little before heading back. We ate at the Cheesecake Factory twice and the Gibson's twice too. Biggest lobster tail I have ever seen at the Gibson's. We got the smaller one that was only 14oz. And the desserts! OMG!! They serve things family style there and a piece of cake is approx. a quarter of a 18" cake with 4 layers! Holy freaking cow! OH, and the martini's are great too. I think I found my new favorite restaurant.

We are leaving for Silver Lake Sunday for two nights. Which will be nice. Matt's dad rents a cottage up there and we all pop up for visits. It's nice and laid back. Very relaxing. Should be fun. And we have small wine opener in our car now, so hopefully this won't happen this year. (Opening wine bottle with screw and pliers)


Also Matt made the GenCon finals for HeroClix too and we will be heading to GenCon in Indianapolis this August. Just the weekend for me though. I can't take any vacation days at that point because other people in my department at work already have time off and two people aren't suppose to be gone at the same time. The cool thing about GenCon as compared to Wizard World is that there are events for the "gamer widows". Some pretty cool classes are being offered, though it looks like the pole dancing classes are full already. I'm thinking I'll just see what is still open when I get there and then plan better if we go next year.

Oh, and our yearly summer party is coming up August 2nd.

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Ha! That's Great!

Katy Perry Myspace Page

Ur So Gay

Wii Fit?

So Matt and I had actually picked up the Wii Fit last week sometime and I finally got around to hooking it up tonight and giving it a whirl. Pretty neat. My biggest problem is that with my height and weight I am classified as "Obese", so my poor Mii gets to be fat! She is really round from some angles. Poor thing. Anyway the Hula Hoop aerobic challenge and Super Hula Hoop Challenge have been my favorite so far, but I didn't try out everything available yet and I need to unlock a bunch of stuff. Tight-rope walking sucks.

Death Machines

Matt and I completed our Motorcycle Safety Class yesterday. It was two days of classroom work and then two 5 hour days of field work. It was really nerve wracking to start. Though I think I was more nervous the second day than the first. I kept popping the clutch, which is not a good thing to do. I just let it go completely all the time. Stalling out a lot. Two people failed by falling on the final evaluation, but Matt and I passed. All we need to do now is go to the Secretary of State and take the written test and we will be legal to drive motorcycles. Yeah! We just need to buy one now. Probably a street bike.

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So Tired...

Look here.

Shoes

I had a half day at work today and stopped at DSW, after lunch with a very busy Matt, to pick up some new shoes with some b-day money I gots. After Matt and I got home from dinner at San Chez, I took the shoes out of the boxes to show Matt what I got. We than put the shoe boxes on the floor for the cats to enjoy. This is what happened next.

Murdock insisted that he could fit him self in a shoebox that was too small for him.



Greta decides she LOVES my shoe pile and rubs herself all over my shoes.



All the kitties decide to come and check out the shoes and shoeboxes.