I've spent the week with the intention of posting a blog about last weekend, complete with an overabundance of pictures, but then my camera battery died, so I couldn't upload the pictures. Then I kept forgetting to charge the battery. Then I remembered last night, but forgot to grab my camera off of the charger on my way out the door this morning. But I did remember my milk! Yeah!
Anyhoo. I've decided since I won't be at work again until Monday and will by then have a new crop of pictures and stories, I will just tell you about my weekend without the pictures, and let everyone use their imaginations to picture what it looked like.
Friday night, my mom conned me into going with her and her neighbor Judy to watch the Bedford fireworks. And by "conned", I mean she called me, e-mailed me, and asked me in person to go to the fireworks for about 2 weeks beforehand. Then we got there, and the fireworks had been cancelled. And in typical Bedford fashion, they did not inform anyone, nor did they put a sign up to let people know. So there were tons of people there, all passing the cancellation news along by word of mouth. The guy we talked to was already drunk, so at least his day wasn't all disappointment.
Since there were no fireworks, the three of us decided to go out for drinks. My parents have lived in the same neighborhood for 25 years now, and Judy (and her hilarious husband John) has been their neighbor for all of those 25 years. So over drinks, the three of us reminisced and swapped ridiculous and ridiculously funny neighborhood stories. Including two of the three times my best friend Holly's house caught on fire, the time a friend of Judy's son passed out in the wrong house, lots of antics of the people who live across the street from my parents, and different parties in the neighborhood that went awry, one way or another. Good times. I will definitely share some of those stories one day soon...and I'm really glad we ended up at the bar and not at the fireworks, cause it was a helluva good time.
On Saturday, I went shopping with Cory's sister, Dawn, and came home with a supply of lotion from the Victoria's Secret Semi-Annual Sale to last me at least until the next Semi-Annual Sale, if not till the next-next Semi-Annual. Dawn's boyfriend Scott also came to town on Saturday, so the four of us went to see "Get Smart" and ended up running into our awesome neighbors (and my favorite ice cream scoopers), Amy and Buck. "Get Smart" was SOOO good, I recommend it very highly. It was very funny, well done, and who doesn't love Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway? After the movie, I picked up Bobby and then Stuart and Sara both came over, and we all drank beers and played drinking games. P.S. Stuart's cast, which was supposed to come off twice now, is now bigger than ever and all the way past his elbow. Everytime I look at him, I want to bend and stretch my arms. Cause he can't.
On Sunday, Cory and I went to church and there was a bunch of food cause it was one of the pastor's last day. While we were snacking on the food, we ran into an old friend of mine from high school, Alicia, and ended up catching up with her and missing most of the service. But Alicia is SUCH a sweetheart, it was really nice to sit and chat with her. Afterwards, I went to a graduation party with my mom for my godmother's daughter. They live way out in the country and on the way home, we saw a bunch of buzzards eating road kill. Buzzards have giant, pokey beaks and beady eyes and one of them made eye contact with me, so I made Lauren swear that if I ever die in a field, she will make sure my body gets cleaned up before buzzards can get me.
Anyhoo. The party was fun and I can't believe how grown up my godmother's daughters are! It's crazy. After the grad party, I grabbed Cory and Bobby and we went to my parent's for a Kyle Birthday BBQ. Stu and Nev also came over, and Nev and I invented a new game called "Boat Ride!!" This consists of sitting in my dad's canoe, in the grass, and pretending to paddle, with me shaking the canoe every once in awhile to simulate waves, while Nevaeh yells, "BOAT RIDE!! BOAT RIDE!!"
So that was my weekend. It was very good times and I'll probably eventually post a couple of the pictures, cause the ones of Nev and Lauren in the canoe are just adorable. Even if Lauren does blame herself for Nev falling in the canoe, because she chose to eat a cheeseburger rather than catch her. But really, it happened so suddenly, and Nev got right back in the boat, so no harm, no foul.
Last night while Cory and I were at the movie theater in Maumee, the tornado warning siren went off. All of these people went running out of the theater, but Cory and I kept watching the movie. The theater teenagers came in and told us there was no immediate danger so they would keep the movie running, and would let us know if the weather got worse. We could hear the torrential rain on the roof for the rest of the time we were there, which made me really anxious because Toledo tends to flood. A lot. After the movie, we found Bobby and Dustin and drove home, and made it almost home when all of a sudden, we were in the middle of what could only be described as a large pond. In the middle of Alexis Road. We managed to get through it, without my catalytic convertor falling off (which is amazing, cause it's really just hanging on by a thread and I thought FOR SURE it was a goner), but today, I realized my headlight, which I just replaced about a month ago, is out. Stupid water.
Joke's on the headlight, though, cause it'll have to get the fuck in line behind all of the other things wrong with my car. So THERE!
I'm hoping the rain stays away today cause there's a BBQ at Tim and Dani's today, and you can see the Maumee fireworks from their front yard, so we're supposed to do that, too. Then tomorrow I'm supposed to go to the zoo with Holly and her son Johnny, then later is the Annual Neighborhood Party in my parent's neighborhood, then Saturday is supposed to be a big outdoor party at Mike and Stephanie's. So if the rain could hold out till at least Sunday, if not Monday, that'd be great. Thanks.
Happy 4th of July, everybody!!
Thursday, July 3, 2008
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