Hey Everybody! Can you believe it's really November?? Well, I have a few stories to tell you as to how we finished October off! Are you ready?
Well, I got a ton of Scrapbooking done last Monday and Tuesday while off from the Omaha SAC Trip. I was also tasked with getting a gift from our co-workers for our boss who has a birthday the day before mine. So that took some time on Tuesday, trying to find something she likes. Went to aerobics both Monday and Tuesday.
Wednesday was our day to celebrate at the office. We had these great nachos for lunch at 'the library' and after wards we opened gifts. The staff tricked me and gave me the terracotta pig bowl thing and potpourri. Then later on they brought out a gift certificate to the mall for $25, which was very nice. Then Cathy Cochnar, my volunteer lady extraordinaire, and her family gave me two rubber chickens, and a $15 Hobby Lobby Gift Card. Very generous! Wednesday night, without having aerobics, I was bound to begin writing on my scrapbook pages I created. I got quite a few pages done, and Thursday I finished the writing up through Christmas, and called it quits at 3 am. It was funny, because I only slept until 6:30 when my mom called, and stayed up through midnight, so I told Jeff that I loved my birthday sooo much, that I could only sleep for 3 hours of it! I worked a half day, and Linda brought in Pumpkin Pie for our dessert which was nice.
Friday evening, I cleaned, got all my pages in my scrapbook and we were visited by three people from TNT to give birthday wishes. Then we went to Red Lobster for dinner, had drinks and chicken strips, and had enough for 2 meals after wards for each of us! We got home, I opened presents...thanks everyone you all were too generous!, then cleaned until 1 AM. The house looked great! And I was ready to sleep! Oh, and Jeff called me in the morning to tell me he got pulled over for a headlight out and speeding and was given a what....warning of course. The guy's been pulled over about 5 times and gotten off with a warning, never received a ticket! It's weird because 3 years ago to the same day (easy to remember my birthday and all), I was pulled over because of the headlight out, and then 4 years prior, I got my one and only speeding ticket on Halloween. We just shouldn't drive this time of year! :)
Saturday morning was perfect, I slept in until 10, poured chemicals into the hot tub, and started on my taco meat. Pretty easy morning. Tim came around Noon, and Jeff and he bet on all the college games (Jeff came out with $10 ahead) and people started arriving right at the start to the Husker game. I'm sure the husker fans were surprised that they were evenly matched with non-Husker fans. We had here on Saturday, Tim Lens, Matt and Sara Pearson, Jan Miller, Jen Brown, Joey Rotterdam, Sara Whaley, Matt Hanson and Brittney, Brett Malchow, Dan Meyer, Nick and Tracey Vrba. We watched the Huskers lose while eating snacks and drinking slush. Then I got them going right away on the scavenger hunt. It was quite funny. They had to complete tasks such as make a Human Pyramid in front of the Girl Scout office, stand at attention in front of Air Force Recruiting, stand with the Wal-Mart greeter, Pick your nose with the scarecrow in front of our house, etc. And at each one of these tasks they had to take a picture, which I will send pics of our Oct. pics tonight. If I remember, tomorrow, I'll send an attachment of our scavenger hunt. It was quite funny, could easily entertain you over lunch! :) So when they all got back they were winded and laughing. I directed them to the taco bar that I had set up while they were gone for an hour and a half, and let me tell you the 7-8 lbs. of taco meat I cooked was gone quick! Crazy! Then following dinner we watched their pictures on our TV thanks to a cord we found during the week. They were sooo funny, and again, 2/3 of them will be in the picture e-mail, still waiting to get Dan's e-mailed to me.
New paragraph, then we played a game where I melted candy bars in diapers and they had to use their 4 senses to figure out which different kinds they were. It was funny to watch them eat out of a diaper. Then we ate the wonderful cake Jeff bought me for my birthday....it was the coolest cake I had ever seen...I will attach a picture of it. Then it was onto door prizes. Everyone seemed to like the crazy things they received. Funny again. Then into the night, some of the guys played poker, and the girls and a few guys played the guitar and made up songs. What a great way to celebrate my birthday! :) Fun times.
Then, after the time change, 2 am or before it would have been 3 am, we all hit the rack. There was around 10 people here to spend the night. In the morning, Jeff and Tim enjoyed their last golfing day of the year, and the rest of us ate breakfast and chatted until just about everyone left. Sara and Joey stayed on a while to do our ear candles. We got more out this time I think. Those crazy things! They left around 2:15 pm, and I got ready quickly to get to cookie training. I wore my cute little "get fit" clothes based on the cookie theme, to get there and find out they wanted me to wear a cookie costume. With my little shorts, not showing under the costume, it looked like I had no pants, which the leaders then named me "Sponge Bob No Pants." Meanwhile, in my costume, I came up with a song to the theme of "I like big butts" Ready? "I like thin mints and I can not lie, all the other cookies can't deny. I get in this place, I stuff 'em in my face, and then I gotta go to the Y" I ended up singing that to the 50 people there too. So kind of a fun training. I left in the dark at 6:30 and went home quickly to change and then Jeff and I went to TNT, where we watched the movie, "Signs." Ok, we made it through the weekend...wohoo!
So I will quickly try to tell you about our week so far, lessening the load for Sunday. So we went to work as usual on Monday. I did feel a little sick in the mornings...headache, I think with the weather change. Then Tuesday was Halloween and Jeff got all dressed up as Flava Flave and I took a picture. He said that a guy at work almost choked on a donut when he walked through the door in his costume. They all seemed to get a kick out of it! So glad he went in with a costume. I went in scrubs and was not a nurse, or doctor, but brain surgeon of course. I have lots of cute, skirt and dress costumes, but I knew I would be standing outside to get peanuts delivered and didn't want to freeze so went with something that would cover my legs. All was well, and we came home and hung out to have 4 trick-or-treaters. 2 teenagers, a little boy, and Carsten, a child of our TNT friends, who was a clown and he's almost 3...it was soooo cute! We watched "Click" late into the evening. What a good movie.
Then today was fairly uneventful. I got Jeff's headlight changed and went by Hobby Lobby for a little birthday shopping and to restock some scrapbook supplies after I worked so hard the last few weeks.
OK, so as for the rest of the week, Work tomorrow and Friday. Jeff plans to study all weekend as he takes another part in a few weeks. I have PA training from 5 on Friday until 5 on Saturday, then I have my first meeting for the SE Coast bus trip all of Sunday afternoon and into the evening. I plan to take a few days off next week to compensate for it.
I do have to say thank you for putting up with these things because when I was writing in my scrapbook it was most helpful to look back at these to determine dates, activities, etc. just as if it were a journal. So thanks for your patience, like I've said, it's cheaper than seeing a shrink...good therapy! :)
Have a great rest of the week and enjoy the pics :)
1) Flava Flave and New York
2) My birthday cake