P.S.

Reactions to our engagement:



Dad: "Wasn't he supposed to ask me for your hand and like, slip me a check under the table?"



Stu: "So are you gonna have an open bar at your wedding?"



Holly: "I thought you were gonna tell me you were pregnant!"


Angel: "I talked to Erin, guess what?" Angel's Mom: "Is she pregnant?"



Everyone's reactions upon seeing me in person when we got home from Hawai'i: "Hey! You aren't sunburnt!"

I'm so responsible.....

Aloha!

Cory and I are back from our trip to Hawai'i! We had SOO much fun! And...we're engaged!! Cory proposed to me on top of Diamond Head! We haven't made many wedding plans just yet, but it'll be sometime within the next year! I'm super excited!!

Anyway, back to the trip. It sounds cliche, but Hawai'i seriously is paradise! Everything is so beautiful! And there's tons to do...which means, here are some pictures... :)

Inside the Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor...

A Hawaiian rainbow at the beach...(see, paradise!)

The view from the top of Diamond Head...where Cory asked me to marry him! :)

Another view from the top of Diamond Head...

Kualoa Ranch...

Me at the Kualoa Ranch, on Hurley's Golf Course (as seen on LOST!)

Me on a dinner cruise, going past Diamond Head...

Cory and I at the Polynesian Cultural Center Luau...

Most delicious smoothies ever!!

Now we're back home, and of course it was raining and cold as soon as we got off the plane in Detroit. But, such is the Midwest! And it is beautiful outside today...and now we get to plan our wedding!

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Waiting for a Star to Fall...

Only one week to go before Cory and I are outta here and on our way to Hawaii!! I seriously can't wait!! But to help me pass the time during my Countdown to Hawaii, 2 of my cousins from PA and one of their girlfriends are coming to visit this weekend! So I will have lots of family fun and then off I go for sunshine beach time!!

We visited our PA cousins last month for my cousin David's high school graduation party. I LOVE my PA cousins, they are awesome. There are 6 of them. The two who are coming to visit are Johnny and Stevie. They are tons of fun.

Johnny and Stevie with Kyle in the middle...

They build bonfires this big for celebrations...

Good times.

Other than vacations and visits, not too much has been going on, except that I started my new position last week. I am in the stage where I don't know how to do anything and that's always frustrating to me cause I like to know everything about whatever job I happen to be doing. But that won't last forever...

Oh, and my mom and I went to the fair last weekend and a llama stole an ice cream cone out of my hand. And when I took it back, he spit on me. Then I saw a kangaroo.

Have a great week, everyone!

P.S. There is a meteor shower tonight, keep your eyes to the skies!

P.S.S. Cookie Monster's body was finally hauled away during the night, but the culprits haven't been caught and prosecuted. And one of them set a fence on fire in our parking lot a couple of days later. Maybe as a warning to me to keep my mouth shut... Sesame Street just ain't what it used to be....

Neighborhood Watch, Failed Again...

There was a serious crime committed in the parking lot of my apartment complex...

I know who did it, but I'm a little nervous about coming forward...

What if they come after me next??

P.S. Dibs on the leftover cookies...

Yay!

This will be a quick one cause I'm on the iPod touch and it's tedious to type this way but so many good things are happening, I had to share! First, cory and I booked our vacation for next month. Destination? Hawaii!!!

Second, I sold my car!! The grand am, not my new one. I sold it to a really sweet teenage boy who was super excited about it so that made me happy.

Third, I interviewed for a promotion this week and found out Friday that I got it! And I got so many work-related compliments on Friday, I'm still blushing a bit.

And yesterday, me, cory, lauren, Kyle, my mom, and my grandma headed out to Pennsylvania for my cousins grad party. Right now we're at our hotel and we are being lazy but we need to check out so more later!

You Knock Me Off'a My Feet

To: Anyone who has seen as many episodes of Scrubs as I have,

Do you remember that episode after the one where Dr. Cox punched Dr. Kelso in the nose? And Dr. Kelso is walking around for most of the episode making a loud squeaky noise through his nose? And everyone at the hospital can hear him coming so no one does any work till they hear him coming, then they all start working really hard right as he walks by? Then Dr. Cox gets annoyed by the squeaking he created and re-centers his nose in the elevator?

Well, there's a lady at the library right now whose nose is making that exact same noise, and it's not comedically funny, it's gross and annoying. Actually, the squeaking part is just annoying. The gross part is that she keeps hacking things up out of her throat and coughing all over the movie shelves.

Also, I was behind her on the way into the library and there was a dog barking who had to be at least a mile away, yet she still found it necessary to yell, "Shut up, you stupid fucking dog!" as she opened the door. Now she's in the kids' book section, telling a teenager all about how much she hates kids. Which begs the question, why is she in the kids' book section, then?

Anyhoo. Had tons o' fun yesterday. Lauren, her friend Micah, Stu & Bri, and Kyle came over to Cory's mom's and we all had a BBQ and swam. We made a killer whirlpool whilst holding beers above the water. Running out of beer and trying to get a new one from the edge of the deck was dangerous. It usually took me 1 or 2 tries to grab one before the water swept me away and back around the circle of the pool.

Now let's talk about Michael Jackson for a minute. So there I am at work on Thursday, reading all about Farrah Fawcett's death. Then I leave work, am in the car for about an hour and a half (Ann Arbor rush hour traffic, combined with a thunderstorm and very heavy rains, equals fun-sized traffic jam). During this hour and a half, I listened to a book on CD. Also during this hour and a half, Michael Jackson dies and I am completely unaware. So I get home and start to hurriedly change clothes and get ready to meet my parents, Kyle & Lauren for Kyle's birthday dinner. Then Bobby texts me and says, "I just heard from a kid at work that Michael Jackson died." And I text back, "What? No, no...Farrah Fawcett died, not Michael Jackson." I'm pretty much like, "Duh, Bobby, get your shit straight, dawg!" Then I get a text from Bri, "OMFG! Michael Jackson is dead at 50!" And my immediate thought is, "Oh, I didn't believe Bobby's little joke so now he's getting Bri in on it and having her text me his lies." But then I remember, with Bobby, you never know what you're getting, truth or fiction-wise, so I turned on the BBC and low and behold...they were right. And Cory was napping on the couch so I ran out and said, "CORY! You have to get up, so many things are happening!" Then we all spent Kyle's birthday dinner getting text after text that said, "Did you hear that Michael Jackson died?" I'm surprised the whole cellular community didn't just crash from exhaustion. I heard the internet almost did...

I've always been a very big fan of Michael Jackson's music- my sisters and I always request it so we can dance to it at weddings, I grew up watching the videos (including the ones that debuted after In Living Color, remember that?) and Kyle may or may not have a video floating around the internet of me and Stuart attempting the Thriller dance. I even got into that newer song he made that featured Chris Tucker, and used to listen to it so loudly while dance-cleaning my first apartment that I had my first angry neighbor run-in with a guy who didn't think it was necessary for me to listen to Michael Jackson quite so loud at midnight on a weeknight. As far as his personal eccentricities go- well, I think his upbringing, non-stop superstardom and media intrustion from the age of 6, and we, the ridiculing American public, are mostly to blame for that, although I am in no way condoning anything tawdry that may or may not have happened with children. All of those things aside, you can't deny those songs, or that dancing. Which is to say that I did fully enjoi all of the Michael Jackson song marathons on the radio this weekend, and I was pretty excited about the music video marathon VH1 ran on Saturday, although I didn't manage to stay awake for all of it.

My point is this...I have a Michael Jackson cassette tape and I will sell it to you for $175.

No, I'm just kidding. That's not my point at all.

Especially cause that tape has The Way You Make Me Feel on it and what else am I gonna listen to while wearing my black mini-dress and being pursued through the streets while simultaneously being serenaded by a dancing man?

I mean, jeez, a girl's gotta have her hobbies.

That Baby Don't Even Look Like Me

My weekend has been spent first going out for Kyle's birthday on Friday, beers and dancing with my sisters and our friends; out to eat with Cory's sister Dawn and her boyfriend Scott; swimming; rummage sale-ing with Sara; BBQ'ing with friends and lounging around in the sun, enjoying the weather; fireworks in Point Place; outdoor nighttime lounging with friends; hovering between sleep and consciousness while watching a Michael Jackson music video marathon; and today more swimming, BBQ'ing, and lazing around in the sun with my sisters, Cory, and our friends.

Up next for this week: Darren will be in town on Thursday, I have the day off on Friday and 2 BBQ's scheduled (and more fireworks), neighborhood 4th of July party...

Man, I loves me some summertime...