Hours away...

Well, moving day is almost here. Less than 12 hours now. Saying good-bye has been very hard, harder than I thought it would be (especially with Traci and Angi). But it's not forever, I will be visiting and other than the people at work I'll see everyone just as much as I always have. Or more in the case of my niece, she says I don't visit often now. :)

Thanks for all of the well wishes. We'll be offline for a couple of days. Yikes!! The thought of not having connectivity is just scary!! Talk to all of you soon!

Congratulations Steve & Marci!!

We had a great time at the wedding and Tom and I wish you the best. Have a great honeymoon!

Less than a week.....I'm sorry what??

Yes, that's right, it's less than a week till moving day. Ugh!! I swear we just looked at houses the other day. I realize that time stood still when I was in Philadelphia but now everything is here and things need to be done!!! Deep breath, just take a drink, I mean breath.

Landed just before the storm last night, thank god. Went into work this morning, trying to find a dress for the wedding, rehearsal tonight, wedding tomorrow, final packing, final office stuff, closing, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! I think I may just have reached my limit.

And to top it all off I'm missing the scrapbook weekend for all of this!! Have fun ladies. And Dana I hope you're winning big in Vegas!! I think I'll go lie down now.

Philadelphia

So I'm in Philadelphia on business. Haven't been all that impressed with the city but honestly I've only left the hotel twice since I got here on Friday. Pretty sad. Long work days and grumpy attendees is how I live my life. Fortunately I have been able to see the t.v. shows that are important. :)

Franklin is at home doing a wonderful job of packing up the house. I don't anticipate having to go home and do much, he's such a good hubby! I can't believe we move a week from tomorrow, time just flies by!!

Congratulations Katie & Christian!

I hope you and Christian are as happy as Tom and I! I truly wish I could have been there today, but unfortunately I had to be in Philadelphia. :(

Have a great honeymoon!!

Bittersweet

Tom had yet another "First" the other day. He bought a lottery ticket for the first time ever. Yes, I know, he's been sheltered. Not that it matters anymore anyway, I just found out someone in New Jersey won the entire jackpot. Good for them, sad for us. :(

It's okay Tom, you don't win every time you play. :)

Pure Romance

Last night Dana and I had a Pure Romance party. There was lots of new stuff and I think we all had a pretty good time! The lady who did the party was bad, I mean bad. The party and her both moved very slowly because of it. Dana and I could do a way better time selling the stuff than she did! Oh well, I think all of us who went away with silver bags filled with goodies didn't mind too much. ;)

Wild Weekend!!

This past Saturday was one that doesn't happen very often. I had two, yes two, bachelorette parties to attend. Some people told me to skip one, it would take too long to get between the two (one was in Southgate the other in Sterling Heights) but I didn't listen to them. I dragged Dana along and we had a wild time!!!

The night started at Katie's party. I was really happy to see her since I had missed her bridal shower and I can't go to her wedding (damn business trip). We were given name tags when we got there, but they weren't for our real names. We were given porn star names for the evening! And if we called someone by their real name we had to wear a flashing penis head band. My name was Angel Wet and Dana was Bambi Cummings. I never had to wear it but I did nail people who messed up the whole time I was with them!! It was a very fun game. After a drink and a shot we headed to Red Robin where we made the family environment not so family. A group of girls walking in with porn star name tags and penis straws, I don't think that happens very often. We did manage to embarass two waiters and created a lot of noise. All in all a good time.

After dinner Dana and I headed to Sterling Heights for Marci's party. As we were walking in I said someone smelled good and then ran into a guy in the kitchen and said "Oh, it must be you." Totally didn't give the guy another thought. Turns out he was the stripper!!! Needless to say we got there just in time!! After an AWESOME performance by the stripper and very good lap dances for both Dana and I, we headed to the Shelby Roadhouse. Dancing, drinking and puking (in Marci's case) concluded a fabulous end to a wild Saturday.

And to add some more fun, we text messaged Chuck!!

What really sucked was waking up on Sunday feeling like I had a hangover when I only had 3 drinks all night!!! Guess I'm getting to old to go to bed at 3:30am!!!

Congratulations to Katie and Christian! May this Saturday be the happiest day of your life.

Congratulations to Marci and Steve! May your day be the happiest day of your life. I'll be there celebrating with you a week from Saturday!!!

Beautiful Naples Florida

Tom and I just got back from a wonderful vacation in Florida. With all the craziness in our lives right now we really needed to get away. And who knows when we'll get to go away again.

We saw lots of people in bathing suits way too small for them. In fact Tom has now asked for a Speedo for Christmas. :)

After 4 days laying by the pool we've come back to the harsh reality of home. And work. And packing. Ugh!

It has finally happened

I remember when I first started driving and gas was like $.87/gallon and at that time my sister still saved change to get gas! When it came time that gas never went under a $1.00/gallon I was okay with that. And I even started to get used to the fact that gas was never going to be under $2.00/gallon. This morning was quite startling when I drove to work and passed three gas stations with gas at $3.19/gallon! I knew it was going to happen because they kept warning us, but it was still a shock. Thankfully State St. gas stations are behind the times and I filled up for $2.85/gallon! Who ever thought I would get excited about that price???

Even though the prices blow my mind and my wallet I still wouldn't trade my situation with someone who was hit by Hurricane Katrina. My thoughts and prayers go out to all of the victims.

Kenny Chesney

On Saturday night Tom, Jen, Mark and I went to dinner at Fishbones in Greektown. Had the biggest crab legs I've ever seen!! Then we went to the Kenny Chesney concert. It was a great concert!! Gretchen Wilson was one of the opening acts and she rocked. Of course, I say that because I see myself as a Redneck Woman. :) Then the crowd roared when Kenny took the stage. Uncle Kracker also made an appearance.

Even though it was a great dinner and awesome concert, the highlight of the evening had to be when we found out our friend April (we knew a whole group of people in the next section) went pee in a cup during the concert! The lines for the ladies room were the longest I've ever seen ANYWHERE!! I swear each bathroom it was 50-60 people deep. But to top it all off, as she was dancing to the music, she knocked the cup over!!!! So glad we didn't sit in the row in front of them! :)

Heather's Wedding

Last Friday one of my good friends from Central got married. Tom and I are both so happy for her and Dave. We didn't make it to the wedding (stupid 696 and 75 traffic!) but we had a great time at the reception. Nothing like the Hokey Pokey and the Chicken Dance to get the party started!!!

Congrats Heather and Dave! Hope you're having a great honeymoon!

PS - That was Tom's first time doing the Hokey Pokey. :)

Annual Camping Trip

So now that I've defended myself and my friends I'll fill you in on a little bit of the fun. :)

Obviously there were many funny things that occurred that probably wouldn't be as funny to people who weren't there...or are sober. But none the less, here are some things we learned....

1. Drinking liquor gets you drunk a lot faster than beer. A lesson learned for all future trips.

2. Getting drunk before noon is only entertaining for some. And as quoted by Bean..."I've heard alcohol impairs your judgement."

3. Making new friends by calling the wrong cell phone number is a lot of fun! We had an exciting weekend with Chuck over the phone. :)

4. Four drunk girls changing clothes in one room...not as hot as you'd think.

5. Drunk people should avoid playground equipment. It can be very hazardous and also swings can cause motion sickness. :)

I'm sure we learned many more valuable lessons, but they're just not coming to mind right now.

As always we had a great time. This year we bought matching shirts and wrote quotes on them that were said over the course of the trip. Such as.."Smells like wood," "I don't like white sauce," "I have a problem with beef juice," and "There are no words for the stupid shit I do." What can I say, we're classy!

"Roughing It"

For those of you who read the Price Crew blog you may have been told that we're no longer roughing it on our girlfriend's camping weekend. I have to disagree. Where we may have made some changes (cabin instead of a tent, beach instead of tubing down a river) for many people it's still roughing it. You try going to the bathroom in a bug invested trailer that smells funny and is humid as hell. We still cooked over the campfire and didn't take showers (Susan excluded)!! Most girls would rather spend a weekend at a hotel shopping and getting massages! So don't tell me we weren't roughing it! It just happened to have some perks this time, most of which we didn't even know about it until days before we left. So there.

Girlfriend's Camping Weekend

Well, once again I'm headed off into the wilderness with some of my best friends. Although wilderness may be stretching it a little bit for this trip. :) Normally we rough it in tents and spend a day on the river tubing, however, last year's 50-degree temperatures convinced us to skip tubing this year. So this year we decided to get a cabin at a KOA, which we recently found out has electricity and air conditioning. :) Normally we're not this girly, it totally surprised us that it had these features!!

We had a fear this trip wouldn't happen as planned because Susan's flight was cancelled last night. Fortunately she got a new flight this morning and is in the air as I type!

I eagerly await the arrival of my friends so that we can head out to Lake Michigan for "camping" and relaxing on the beach. Guess I should probably start packing soon....

Charlie & the Chocolate Factory

This movie rocks!!! Traci and I took Olivia to see this last night at the IMAX. It was so funny!!! Can't wait to buy it when it comes out on video. :)

Aloha!!!

Franklin and I hosted a luau this past Saturday and it was so much fun!!! Buying the decorations, fun....Cooking 24 pounds of Kahlua pork, not so fun...Having a bunch of little kids running through the house and backyard, lots of fun....Torturing your dog...priceless. :)

You know what's good...

ice cream sandwiches. Someone brought some into the office today and it was like ice cream heaven, which most ice cream is to me anyway since it's my favorite food, but these were awesome. Especially because I tried to make myself believe that my little piece of leftover steak was going to be enough lunch for me. Thank the ice cream gods!!!

Franklin's First Garage Sale!!!

We had a garage sale this past weekend with my mom and sister. This was Tom's first ever garage sale experience. He couldn't believe the way people try to haggle prices! It was very funny. And as usual, the garage sale always brings out the best of the public people. There was one crazy lady that came in and kept saying "nickel, nickel." We probably would have sold her anything for a nickel just to get her the heck out of there!!!

Tom won't say it was his favorite thing to do but he was quite impressed with the money we got for junk at the end of the day. :)

Whew!! Finally home!

Wow, things have been so busy!! I got back from Vancouver on the 22nd, had my family reunion the next day and then Tom headed down to Orlando that Tuesday. We just couldn't bear to be apart for another week :) so I flew down on Wednesday night. It was very warm down there. Tom could go into it much further for you, but you just have to imagine Orlando at the end of July...and it says it all.

The 3 Michigan teams that were in the Nationals didn't do well, but I had a good time! I got to go to Animal Kingdom one day and lay by the pool for 4 hours on another day! We flew home last night and now it's back to being VERY busy at work. Thankfully I don't anticipate having to fly anywhere until Labor Day weekend (which is vacation).

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer!