Relax people!!

Good gord. I don't post for a week and suddenly there's a coup on the blogger horizon. Sorry all!! I've been BUSY!!! The first week of school is the worst. Ummm... no real good stories yet. Nut update: the kid who wore the nut shirt on the first day wore another shirt about nuts the second day. Our principal had a little chat with him and now no nut shirts.

In other news... Tim is buying a new truck! And I mean "new" in the "used but new to us" sense. It's red. I'm not exactly thrilled. Everyone in T's family has a red vehicle. The joys of having the color in our last name. But it looks like the truck is in great shape and T is happy. We are trying to move off the lease track. My explorer is up next july (hooray!! happy dance!!) and we'll not be leasing something after that. So this weekend we will be trekking to Jackson to pick up the new ride. :)

So does everyone have big plans for the long weekend? It looks like Kelly will finally be able to move into her new house so I'll be helping her. Tim is putting in a new wood laminate floor at my parents' house so I'm sure I'll be there too. I accidentally forgot to water a bunch of my mom's flowers while they were in FLA and so now I need to help her with them. Dirt. Yuck. We're also going to T's parents' cottage for the annual "summer is over, out comes the dock" party. Other than that, ummm... nothing else going on. So how about YOU, random blog reader!?!?

school schmool

School started today. Yes, there is a law in Michigan now that says school must start after labor day. Did I miss Labor Day?!? NOPE! My school district is one of five in the entire state that already had a contract calendar negotiated for this school year. Oh joy, hooray for me. I had a great first day. I think I'm going to have a good year! :) I did have a couple interesting t-shirts that were worn by some students. One boy wore a shirt with a squirrel and 3 acorns that said 'Protect Your Nuts'. Appropriate for 3rd grade? I think not. I'm such a square. Then a hispanic girl wore a shirt that said 'Blondes Do It Better'. And she's not even blonde!!! She's not so good with english yet, so I don't think that she even knew what blonde was. Expect more funny stories courtesy of my precious little angels. :) Thank GOD tomorrow is Friday!!!!

Attention Ladies

This is my good buddy, Matt. He's a fun-loving guy. Here we are at Melinda's halloween party a few years ago. Matt is in need of a girlfriend. Seeing as how I am totally out of single friends, I am petitioning to the blogging world to see if any of you know anyone we could set this nice Asian up with. A little info on Matt: I met Matt in the dorm at WMU, he is a very smart guy, tells REALLY good jokes, he's good with computers, he lives in Grand Blanc and has his own house. He will probably come over and kick my butt for posting this, but he deserves a nice girl. So, any ideas- email me!

school

Sorry for the long delay in posts, but it's been busy busy around here. Last week I took the whole week to be at home - well, kind of. I was done with summer school and I just didn't want to go to that building for a week. So, I stayed home and recuperated from the wedding weekend and paid some attention to things that had been neglected around the house - including the dogs! :) Tuesday, K and I went to the new IKEA. I LOVE LOVE LOVE IKEA!! We spent about 3 hours there and got a truck-full. Then we went to Somerset in troy for some rich-people shopping. I always feel so poor there. But they have the Brighton store and Crate and Barrel. Fun place! :) We managed to make an entire shopping day and didn't get home until past dark. Good times. This weekend we had T's nephew with us to stay overnight and go play golf. He's just beginning, so I took him to the driving range in the afternoon. After he left the "hit it as hard as you can" mentality and actually started listening, he was doing pretty well. We played more golf Sunday with K & T up in Fremont. Their son is a little over a year old and now going through major separation from mom. She's a teacher too so she's home in the summer. I can't even imagine how heart-wrenching that must be to leave your child, screaming for you. I have a hard enough time when I leave and the dogs give me that sad face. But he did fine at the sitter's and we went back to their house for a great dinner. Now it's the week and it's back to school. I made it into my room yesterday and got everything all arranged the way I want it this year. I always my appreciate my 2 advanced degrees when I'm in my room shoving desks, tables and bookcases around to get them the way they were when I left in June. After 5 hours of sweating there, I came home and relaxed for a while before I had to go pick up my parents at the airport. It was a full day. Mom brought me a nice new wardrobe to go back to school! Who loves fun, loud, printed skirts?!? I DO! I DO!! Tomorrow mom and I take off for Chicago for more WICKED! This will be our 3rd time seeing it. It's soooooooooooooooo amazing. I can't wait!

Wedding!

This weekend M and V got married! :) It was a deliciously fun time. Friday night was rehearsal and everything went very smoothly. Then off to Beggar's Banquet we went! Yum yum yum! It was a perfect weekend for walking around East Lansing. T was so happy we were there that after we stuffed ourselves at beggar's, we had to take him to Melting Moments for ice cream. Saturday was a whirlwind of a day. M and I got our hair done in the morning, then it was back to the hotel to get ready to go to the church! M and V had rented a cargo van to schlep all of us attendants around. It was a great time in the van! Pictures went well - my mom had a fab time being the photographer (with all of her "equipment"!). The pics turned out very well. I'm hoping to post a bunch to my shutterfly site, but I have to do it at school - my dialup connection at home would take a year and half. The ceremony went very well. I had no idea that I would bawl like a baby when M made her grand entrance. She looked just beautiful and I guess the finality of it all hit me when she came in with her dad and gene. All the months of planning and all the work they did were so worth it. The ceremony seemed to fly by then suddenly we were all back in the van on the way to the reception. More good fun!! I stupidly immediately went to the bar when I got there, and then realized I still needed to be coherent for my toast. Luckily, M and V gave us notepads and sharpies so I could jot a few things down so I wouldn't forget anything important. Anyway, it was so wonderful to see all those people there for M and V and to celebrate the night away. It was a great party!! Sunday I was beat!! I just couldn't seem to get going. Therefore, today my plan is to get unpacked and start our mountain of laundry. Why did I pack 8 pairs of shoes?!? Right now M and V are on a plane headed for Vegas- I hope they have the best time and are able to relax after all the hard work of planning an event of this magnitude. Fun Fun Weekend!! :)