Have you ever had such a busy weekend that you say, I need a vacation!!- that just wasn’t long enough and I had no time to rest!? Well folks… I’m going to get my wish! I’m going on Vacation tomorrow! YEA! Not before putting in some major work today on a busy busy day…

This weekend I feel like I didn’t stop. We went to the mall- what a nightmare that was! I get a little anxious in crowds sometimes and people down here in S. FL are SOOOO RUDE! Much more then any other place I’ve ever been. It’s a huge mall too, always busy. We had lunch out at a resturant (because the foodcourt was a ZOO), which never happens, we’re poor! (we had a gift certificate lol) Well, we did rest for a little to watch 2 of the “Left Behind” series movies with Kirk Cameron. Then… we set up the Christmas stuff!! EARLY I KNOW! But C wanted to set it up this weekend so it would already be set up when we returned from our vacation. We usually set it up right after Thanksgiving or Dec 1st, and we wont be getting home until Dec 2nd, a Tuesday, so most likely wouldn’t set it up til the next weekend. So, I humored him and agreed to set everything up. And I’m glad I did becuase it did put me in a rather cheery mood!  So that was all just Saturday! Sunday I was slow moving because I couldn’t sleep Saturday night. We stayed up way too late setting up the decorations and I was up early as usual. We had to finish setting up the decorations we didn’t get a chance the night before. Then I painted the dresser knobs!! What a process. First I had to paint them white, 2 coats. And then I practiced what I was going to paint on paper before I tried it on the knobs. It’s for the babys room so I was painting within our Frog and Duck theme. I thought about doing some butterflies and dragonflies too, but I was having fun with the frogs so I did 4 frogs and 4 ducks… to actually paint on the knobs it took me 4 hours!! that is not including all that prep time! Crazy. But I think they turned out rather well if I do say so myself!!

After the painting and brief break, I had to go to the store and then I tried to pack after dinner. I pulled out all my winter clothes about a month ago to see what would fit me over my pregnant belly! Well, it has grown conciderably since then so I had to re-try everything on and I could only fit into 1/2 of what I previously took out!! fun stuff… so instead of having things to chose from, I have just enough to last me the 8 days we’ll be in Michigan! And that includes the dress clothes I wear to work lol so i can’t be casual the whole time… owell… And that was my weekend, it’s usually not so event filled, and that was after a busy busy week. Normally during the week I dont do much after work, but Tues-Thurs I wasn’t home at night. I’m just glad I have the next week off work! It will be SOOO NICE!

 

(pictures coming soon)

ha ha, this is great. I found it on ria’s page. I wouldn’t say it was completely true!! haha, but it did make me giggle! I would say, less energy… oh more wisdom OF COURSE HA, and definitely more than a Splash of SENSITIVITY!!

The Recipe For Michelle

3 parts Energy 2 parts Elegance 1 part Wisdom Splash of Sensitivity Limit yourself to one serving. This cocktail is strong!

What’s the Recipe for Your Personality?

and for a little extra fun, I used my screenname:

The Recipe For IrishCailin

3 parts Tolerance 2 parts Ingenuity 1 part Class Splash of Desire Finish off with a little umbrella and straw

What’s the Recipe for Your Personality?

OOOHWWWEE Would you look at that? Desire, class, oh yeah thats me HA!

Busy Busy week, so glad it’s over. and I’m still trying to kick this cold!! It’s tough to get over a cold when you have no rest!

Let start from the beginning… this major bug is plaguing my office, everyone is sick! I was off for a day and a half at the end of last week. I would have called in Monday too if it weren’t for payroll and my boss being out on vacation… which is a headache in itself because i have to cover for her being out as well as my own work, plus our receptionist was just fired so i have to help out up there too. Basically i’m doing 3 ppls jobs last week which brings the stress level up a bit… so anyway…

My hubby was bugging me to go see The Dark Knight with him, he’s been talking about it for months. he wanted to go opening day but I was sick and stayed home from work and everything, i wasn’t up to going. He didn’t bother me to go too much but kinda got mad by Sunday when I still turned him down. Monday asked and I said no again and Tuesday comes around and he’s getting really antsy because everyone at work is talking about it now so I finally give in. and do you know how long that movie is?? We were out until 1030, way too late when you’re sick and need your rest. But that was one kick ass movie!! It was awesome! if you haven’t seen it you’re missing out!

Wednesday I could actually rest up a little. Thursday was our quarterly office outing. We went bowling. And I kinda had to go since I’ve missed the past 2 outings… plus I had all the money because the boss left early for a minor emergency before i could hand over the money so I couldn’t back out even though I was feeling awful. But I am glad I went! It was fun, I hadn’t bowled in a long time. but this place was in the middle of, and I quote “the gayest city around here.” GREAT. now this is as controversial as I am going to get on here probably, and please don’t hate me for it, but that is one lifestyle I am no ok with. I dont discriminate, and I’m not necessarily going to think any less of you if you are, but I just don’t associate with those people. I can’t say I wouldn’t be friends with someone if they were gay, and if one of my friends told me they were gay it’s not like I would stop being friends with them because of it, but I am kind of picky with who i assoicate with and let get close to me and I dont think I attract that type of personality. and yes i could be more politically correct and say “homosexual” instead of gay, but gay is just shorter to type… haha. disclaimers aside, and back on topic… everyone in the bowling alley besides the people I worked with were gay (well i dont know of any that are in my work group but the guy who set us up there is friends with the owners of the place so who knows, but i’m not speculating…) Oh and if you would like to witness the grand scheme of things, here is what we found… I did not take this pic, one of the girls took my camera because she thought it was the funniest “couple” there…

Back to the bowling!… it always takes me a game to warm up. I only got 75 my first game! but I was not in last place either! haha. 2nd game I was on a hot streak at first but then slowed down and ended up in the high 80’s. and the 3rd game just blew up and broke 100! I got a 102 haha. I was excited, ok. Then afterwards I even got sucked into to going and getting food with a small group of people. But this pushed us getting home at 11pm and not sleeping til after 12! Crazy. And I had a dinner to go to after work so I couldn’t even go home and chill…

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Friday night was great and worth it even though I had a rough week and was tired from the night before. I had never been to a Brazilian Steakhouse before! Let me tell you, it was an awesome experience and one of a kind! First, they have a dress code! I’ve never been to a restaurant with a dresscode before! -which is an experience all in it’s own. And the best part was it was free for me lol. One of my account managers said once he reached his sales goal he’d take the team out, and I was included which was really nice because I don’t contribute the way the others do to reach that goal since I’m not a “producer.” But I am extremely honored to be included with them.

So off we go to this Brazlian Steakhouse. If you’ve never been to one, here’s how it works. It’s basically an all you can eat type of place. They have a small salad bar with salads, pastas, bread, veggies. Then they bring out small dishes to the table like mashed potatoes (which were really creamy and good, almost soupy though) and some kind of weird things I wasn’t familiar with haha, and then the “gauchos” would come around with these sticks full of meat and carve some off for you right there at the table. Now the trick is the little chips you have on your table. Each person has a chip that is orange on one side and black on the other. The gauchos will only offer you meat if you have your chip on orange. Otherwise they just stay away. But if you have it up they will come back and back and back again offering you more and more choices. And on each stick goes from rare to well done, you can still choose how you want it cooked. You really can pig out a place like that, you just want to try a little of everything!

so another late night last night! And today we went to see The Dark Knight for a 2nd time!! No idea why the hubby wanted to see it again! He never wants to go to the movies but he wants to go see one we’ve just seen less than a week ago?? So I obliged… but he had to really talk me into it!

and this is officially the longest blog I’ve ever written… haha. Hope some of you are still hanging on at least!

So not only did my husband and I go on a “date” finally but we had 2 date nights in a row!! OOOOOO. lol. We never go out anymore, never to the movies (we’d rather rent and eat in and watch it, cheaper and more comfy) and we never go out to eat at restaurants (too expensive and we’d rather just grab fast food and go home and watch the movies we rented lol). But the hubby had to take his car in to get fixed this weekend and they didn’t fix it right away so he had to go back Monday to pick it up. There’s a mall by the dealership so we were going to go there and just eat at the food court. BUT it wasn’t fixed… another story for another time… so I think he was really disappointed so he wanted to go out anyway but not to the mall since we had to go that way the next day. So, we decided to try this place that I’ve been wanting to go to since we moved here A Year Ago! Everyone raves about it, its right on the beach, it’s called Aruba. and you have a great view of the beach from inside. It was actually really good too! The bread is delicious! it has some honey glaze on it. yumyum. so anyway… it was really nice to get out and do something, especially on a work night! Then tonight we go to pick his car up because it’s finally done and we were going to just eat in the food court (totally not like us  to eat out so much btw!) but nothing looked good, so driving home we found this little pizza joint that we thought we’d try out. it was a cute little pizzeria and very yummy pizza and cheese bread! 2 thumbs up! and also 2 thumbs up to 2 date nights! Yea!

So my hubby is leaving for me a week… well almost a week. It’s a “guys trip.” Two of his friends just flew in today and they’re going to go to Key West. I’m kinda jealous cuz I really want to go there! I’ve only been to Key Largo, we didn’t go any further. Then they’re going to Orlando. I think they’re going to Adventure Island but not sure which park. Then on the way back as long as it isn’t stormy, which it might be, they will stop somewhere in between Orlando and here and go golfing. Sounds like a good time. But It’s going to be weird having the place to myself. Coming home from work to  a quiet house is the norm since I usually get home first, but then when it stays quiet… I’m going to go crazy. I’ll have to leave the tv on 24/7 for background noise or something haha. I have nothing planned out either, other than a lunch with a friend on Saturday. I need to find something to do… But I am pretty stoked about having the quiet time and time to relax. Even though I am somewhat relaxed still from my “girls trip” I just got back from on Sunday. We had the best time in Northern Michigan! AHHH HOME! I really felt like I was home when we were driving farther and farther north, even though I’ve never lived that far north. But it just has this calming effect and welcomes you in to the beauty of the nature and the land. Here are a pics of my trip!

Sunrise over lake Huron…

Overlook of the treetops…

During our Morning stroll on the beach…

The start of a trail we used to hike, had to do it one more time for good measure… (i can’t believe we actually found it again)

And the best for last… the true meaning of FRIENDSHIP