Meeting Evelyn

I can't beleave it took so long but I have finally met my niece. She is so wonderful (slept the whole time). Beautiful too. Lillie does have a bit of a sharing problem (she fully admits it) but did a good job sharing with me. I think she knew I wouldn't take no as an answer.

Hopefully I'll get to spend more time with her over Christmas!

Photo's coming soon!

Shopping Part 1

Gingerbread waffles are normally a Christmas fare but they were requested one holiday early. Breakfast today was the waffles and they were delicious, I will definitely make them for more then just Christmas. After waffles Pat made a break for it and we went shopping (mom and I). we took allot of junk with us hoping to be called over to see the baby but it didn't happen until 3ish.

Unfortunately for my exhausted sister (who wanted us to bring dinner) we were on the way to an appointment and would still have to make the dinner but let her know we would call her after it was made to see if she still wanted to come up. The snow started up as we were cooking dinner. By the time we were done we chose to stay home because the roads were bad.

Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to meet her.

It feels like thanksgiving

How does it feel like Thanksgiving?

I spent the morning shopping with my Mother in Law. It was fun though I didn't buy much. I'm borrowing a purple shirt for the family photo and while i did find a few that were ok none were worth the price they were asking, ( I can be very cheep when it comes to clothing). I did get our yearly ornament and I found a cute one for Dylan.

Having Marks for lunch is the only thing that will always make me feel like I'm home. (aside from the snow in the winter). So I had a slice for lunch with Pat (who got wings, in case you were interested) and mom R (also wings).

After Lunch I got the biggest treat so far. I went out to see Dylan my first and oldest nephew. Once he got over his fear of me and stopped screaming we had a good time. He ate lunch and I made funny noises at him making him laugh so hard I was afraid he would throw up. Don't worry Doug (his Daddy) says he won't. I wonder if he ever did get that nap in.

Pat drove down for Dinner at my parents house (he couldn't resist salmon), I on the other hand enjoyed the left over Pork. As always we had a roaring hot fire going. I took a good hours nap after all that food. Luckily for me it was late so when I did wake up I pretty much went strait to bed. It was a great day.

Another day on the road

I think I travel too much. It seems every few weeks I have a blog traveled on the road. I just can't name it anything else as it usually wipes out my day. Today we left for Rochester early. I was hoping to meet my new niece but that's not going to happen as they got out of the hospital just as I got into town.

I did get to spend lots of time with mom and dad. Dad even cooked me an excellent Pork Roast, Mom and I did a fabulous job on the salad, corn bread and sweet Potatoes. It has been probably almost a full year but I realized that I should definitely try to eat them more often.

A little snow greeted us on the way up (luckily not enough to make it scary). Pat and I were like little kids driving up watching the accumulated snow piles get bigger as we drove further north. Even the little bit we saw falling couldn't deter out excitement. It's nice to see snow.

Chins

Today I went to the store with a friend to buy a chin cage, None of them were really great but one looked like it would do. It was more then I would like to spend but I can't put them in a small cage. they need room to bounce (literally).

Lucky for me the breeder ended up adopting 2 rescues leaving a cage open for my girls. That ment as long as it was big enough I could return the other cage. Thank goodness!

We dropped them off the cage was not ideal but they will be comfertable for the time we are gone. I do like going over to the breeders house I get to see all of the other chins, they are such cool animals! They enjoy doing what Pat and I dubbed 'Wall Runs', and it's very funny to watch. They essentially run up to a wall and bounce off of it they will bounce off of up to 3 walls in one jump. Tonight her's were showing us their moves. we had a few standard walruns, but one chin took the cake she was jumping from the top shelf of her cage bouncing off the front of the cage in a way that it was a neat looking flip. I wish I had a video, I can't do it justice.

We went out to dinner so we would not have to clean the kitchen tonight, great reason, no? It was great but we didn't get home until 9:30 and still had to pack.

Stress

I had a rental go a little awry today. I ended up spending my early afternoon trying to clean up a mess that was already fixed by the branch. Unfortunitly I was told about the complaint after the branch and customer had come to a resolution that worked for everyone. So I was calling all parties involved to make sure the resolution was good and see what went wrong. After I went to lunch the rental went from being needed at any time to needed right away. FUN!

Then I got home to work off the day's bad rental I got a phone call. I had left the breeder that is taking care of Gizmo and Pinky to make sure she had a cage available as the cage we have is too big to be moved. She called back 30 minutes into the workout to say she did not have an available cage. All of a sudden my vacation plans went south. Traveling with the chins would stress them out too much and they couldn't stay at my in-laws house because of the cat and dog, but my parents would be less then thrilled with the furry addition to the week.

We decided to buy a new (extra) cage because the extra cage we had was in NY (something I will have to rectify this weekend).

TMI

I called a customer to make a reservation. Shortly after the start of the conversation she decided to share with me that she had just found out that she's pregnant. Assuming she was telling me because she was so happy she had to tell someone, I gave an enthusiastic congratulations.

She was not sure how she felt about it, it was an accident. Um I'm sure it will work out just fine i replied.

It will I'm sure I'll be happy in a little while, she said. It's just that she had a 12 year old and her fiancee had a 2 year old and she didn't want to start over.

thanks for sharing. If it was simply that she was so happy that she could not keep her mouth shut, It would make sense to tell someone you don't know over the phone, excitement makes you want to tell everyone. But telling someone that it was all an accident and you weren't even happy about it that is silly.

Sorry about your luck lady.

What Financial Diet?

My Christmas Shopping is almost done, 3 more people to go. I have them all budgeted for so that's not a big deal, I'm just proud to have so much of it done.

Anyway I went shopping at lunch for a few baby gifts as there seems to be a never ending baby boom with in the office as well as friends and family. I went to get a family friend a gift as well as Poor Zach (who is nearly 2 months old) gifts. I went in for 2-3 outfits and ended up spending well more then I planned. The problem is that I LOVE Carters cloths they are so darn cute. As I told my mom It's just another of many good reasons to not have children, I'd go broke before it turned a year.

At least for the foreseeable future I can stay away from Carters as I can't imagine too many more baby's being born around me (not literally).

Financial diet back on.

Anne's Weddings

Today we was Anne and Tom's wedding. It was beautiful The Ceremony was at 10 AM which gave me plenty of time to go to the hotel gym and eat breakfast first. We arrived at the church It was very pretty. That's when I got my camera out to get ready to use it. Nothing. My battery was dead, I reached for the backup and they had fallen out of my bag. . . Grrr.

I had promised many photos of Anne's wedding to Lillie and Mom. I realized how much I take photo's at weddings and how much I missed it with out my camera. Also that I really want to get a nice new camera. Which is funny because I don't foresee too many more weddings. But their are many other photo opportunities.

The Ceremony was nice and because I did not have a camera, Pat and I went to the reception site as soon as it was done instead of lingering for photo's. On the way we were stopped at a red arrow waiting to turn left. A guy came over to us and started talking to us. Apparently he thought we were 'Looking'. Pat had his hand resting funny on his chest and the guy was worried he had a gun. UM WHAT?!?! no gun Pat said. It was at that point I told pat to run the red light. Yes you read that correct. The goody two shoes told her husband to risk a ticket to get us the hell out of there. The guy left so Pat didn't have to but if i was driving I would have left a few minutes before the guy left.

The 2nd best part of the wedding is that it was a BRUNCH reception. That's right I had french toast (among many other delicious choices). I ate brunch with one of her college sweetmates and Father (I think the other couple was her aunt on her fathers side). I wish I had photo's to post.

I'm going to read that later and realize how little of the wedding I actually wrote about. I just think I can't put weddings into words.

NJ gets something right

Driving to NY when we go to Rochester is so routine that I missed out on a key observation that a coworker made when we drove to the ski outing a few years ago. Tonight I fully appreciated that observation and realized NJ does do something correct. You see they number the exits by mile so you always know about how far you have to go. I hate having to remember how far we have gone and it is nice to be able to do some simple math and know how far we have left on the highway.

It was late and pat was grumpy and I had no way of knowing how far we had to go. We could have gotten an earlier start if Pat and I had done a through packing job this week but I had charged the batteries to the camera and placed a backup in the bag so all I had to do was pack the gift and camera, some how it took forever and Pat wasn't exactly ready either.

I made this same mistake with Sean's wedding but this time I had the essentials, medication, contacts and shoes that matched a decent looking outfit.