This weekend

Happy Mother's day ladies! Hope you all had great days yesterday.

I went to Faith's wedding on Sat. It was a beautiful ceremony and Faith looked amazing. Beri rode down with me and I drove Brandon home since he was part of the wedding party. (He NEEDED a driver.) It was a good day, yet an awful day. Beri and I were pretty much the only people our age there other than the wedding party. After the wedding, we sat around for an hour and a half waiting for the food to be served. It was a fantastic meal, but Beri had to leave right after that, so I was left alone. Then came the toasts. They were awful! Three bridesmaids gave speeches and they were all of those little inside stories and no one from the crowd got them. The drunkest girl talked for nearly ten minutes just reminiscing. Brandon's started off bad and didn't really get better. I mean, I love the guy, but he started off with: "Fornication, I mean for an occasion...such as this."
You've got to be kidding me.

Then, we sat around for another hour waiting for the dance to start. About two and a half hours into it, I sprained my foot, BAD. I sat out and iced it for the next two hours and then we finally got to go home.

When things were going on, it was great, but the down time sucked. Well, we aren't all meant to be wedding planners and speech writers.

Sat around yesterday and tried to take it easy on the foot. I can walk on it, but I have a pretty bad limp. Katie laughed at my swollen toes. The highlight of yesterday was when I called Angie to wish her a happy mother's day. She said that she and Brett are calling it her Half Mother's Day. Alaina got on the phone and said "Hi Angie" and "Hi baby" to her. It was sweet.

Stacey, party of one

So, yesterday one of the social planning ladies asked me what "immediate family" meant to me. I said since I am single, I would include my parents, siblings and sig others. In response to this she said that she wanted to use a phrase that would imply only members of the employees household were invited.
"For example, John would only bring his wife, not his wife, kids and grandkids. You would only bring you."

You're kidding, right? So, I get an invitation for the family picnic that says "associate plus members of their household" and she wants me to come? I don't think so. No offense, but my coworkers are becoming less and less like family, so I am not going by myself.

Stupid women and their stupid "invite only" ideas...

busy ladies

Okay, so perhaps putting it as the final line of a long blog was not advisable. OM and Nik, what are your plans for next week and this weekend? I was thinking we could get together. I'm not doing anything for mother's day since mom and dad are out of town. And do you want to get together the kids or just the ladies??

Any ideas?

weekend with katie

I am getting used to a new keyboard, so if the spell check misses anything, it is my excuse. Had a good time with Katie. She arrived on Wed night and we headed out to a club. Danced and had a few drinks (while also avoided some creepy guy that didn't get the hint even when I said "I don't need to write it down, I'll remember it." for his phone number.

Thursday we got up early and headed to Disney. Too bad I got about 20 minutes into the drive and then realized that I forgot my phone, so we headed back to the apartment. As we drove, Katie kept saying my tagline of "I can't believe I'm in Florida." We started off the day with the Finding Nemo musical check out some of the puppets:


Next, we jumped onto the Everest roller coaster. You head through the mountain pass and then a yeti jumps out at you. He's huge! Walked the park, saw some exotic animals, and then ended with the "it's tough to be a bug" show. On the way out we stopped and got birthday buttons so every cast member would wish us a happy birthday and then got our pics taken with Pocahontas. I think Katie loved it.


Off to Epcot.

This was our favorite park. The guy a France wished us a happy birthday in French and at Morocco they printed out our names in Arabic. It was neat!!
We ran into Mulan and Mushu at China and then headed off for one of my favorite rides: Soarin.
Katie was a little disappointed since I had built it up so much, but it was still fun.


The evening ended with Hollywood Studios. We went on the Tower of Terror and a movie action ride (that was totally lame). Then, we ended with another fave: Fantasmics. This was followed by a good night's sleep and then off to Downtown Disney for some shopping. There are lots of fun photo ops there too.


Had lunch at my favorite restaurant, Seasons 52, and then did some shopping. We didn't really need anything, so it was cut short when E offered for us to come see her house! She closed on it today and it has so much potential! The lady that lived there must have gone to some sort of peach paint discount store because literally 3/4 of the house was the same peach color! Even the gutters matched! I'm excited to get to helping redo it, even though she thinks that it is going to be a chore.

We made it back in time to see the sun set over the water (actually, it set on the way there), but Katie got to dip her toes in the sand.


We headed off in the car and I found out that Jeff was leaving on Sunday at 1 pm, not Monday morning like I thought. So, we drove all night and got home at 5 am so Katie could see him a little before he headed out for Michigan for training. Mom and dad swung by too with Alaina. She's grown so much! I was also excited that when she saw me before mom, she knew I was SeeShee. Well, that's all for now.

OM and Nik, What are you doing for Mother's day? Do you think we could do coffee? We were going to go back to the farm, but Mom and dad have a graduation in McCook. Let me know what works for you. I'm not sure what schedules look like or if you want to get the kids together too. Heck, we could meet at a McDonald's playland for all I care. talk to you soon!