I went for the ball game but instead got attacked by small humans

Some you may remember that Alicia & I went to school together.  She was (ahem) a few years younger than me, but whatever...  Daniel played for the basketball team & the alumni game was this past weekend.  All the proceeds went toward the Relay for Life team!

When she realized that she was gonna have to drive all.the.way.back.home.to.the.country to a ball game, she knew who lived not too far away!  Me!  (Isn't it funny that she had to drive about 30-40 minutes to get there & I had to drive like 10?  That doesn't happen often!)

When I got there, it took the kids a minute to really warm up to me...but once they did...oh, it was on...

They decided to fix my hair... 

 (Tracey - this is the purple tank top I was telling you about...under a black sweater.  Genius!)

Jake kept saying, "cut, cut, cut, cut" & acting like he was cutting my hair.

Please notice how their mother is paying NO attention to what they're doing to me.  Really?

Nora's bow fell into her eyes. Poor thing...

Sam wanted to do a major close self portrait...

And Jake was all about it too...

Again, check out their mother...doesn't see a thing...

   See my hand holding him back from the camera?  I was afraid the flash would blind him!

Nora was pretty unhappy at first.  She's such a momma's girl.  Hmph.   Eventually since I kept holding her even when though she cried she was content sitting on my lap.

Yes, B-rad was there.  If you look to the left of me you can see his cousin, Chad's, leg.  We saw him & B-rad was all about catching up with him.  That's why the kids were attacking me...usually that's his job...

Oh, by the way - Daniel DID play in the alumni game!  My advice before he hit the court: "Be sure to stretch really well.  I don't want you breaking a hip..."

When Alicia left to get the kids snacks, I said, "Ok, kids - I'M in charge!"   Sam thought that was hilarious (& negotiable...)  Lucky for them she came back quickly so no corporal punishment was inflicted.

They were eating their snacks & I was trying to keep Nora from crying...& someone else in the crowd (not me nor their mother) realized Jake had his finger in his sprite can & it.was.stuck.  He had a horrified look on his face.  Alicia jumped over & got his finger out...& it was cut.  Man I'm glad that didn't happen while I was in charge...

I let Nora play with my pretty bracelet.  I tried to take a pic...but the bow got in the way.  Sheesh...

Ah, there it is.  I had to hold the camera out just a bit further to bypass the massiveness of that bow...

Ok-look at this.  Seriously?  Just making a bottle right in your lap, huh?    Look at the mess this made.  Reason #4562 not to have kids...  

Happy baby & happy baby holder...

This caught my eye from across the court.  Alicia said, "What are you taking a picture of?"  I replied, "You know EXACTLY what I'm taking a picture of..."  Yea, she saw them too.  How could you miss this?  

Get a room.  Geez...

Things that make my face turn red

This blog off installment is all about our most embarrassing moments.  I had a hard time with this one!  The guys at work LOVE to embarrass me because my face turns bright red immediately!   Then they like to laugh at me so I always tell them, "I'm easily embarrassed, not easily offended."  (Which is true...because if I wasn't, they'd all be in jail for sexual harassment!)

SO, when I try to think of a super embarrassing moments it's tough because I get embarrassed all.the.time.  Sigh.  

The ones that stick out most in my mind are:

When I was young I saw shy.  I've told ya'll this.  But I was also smart.  (I've probably told ya'll that too!) We had a spelling bee in like 2nd grade & while all the class was up there with me, I was just fine spelling my words.  But one by one the crowd watching got bigger than the crowd on the stage with me.  Gulp.  And when it got down to me & 2 other kids, I spelled my word wrong...on purpose...because I didn't want to be in the school spelling bee in front of the whole school by myself with 9000 sets of eyes on me.  Shiver...

The other one was in my adult life.  Like I said, we have some jokesters at work.  And they like to play tricks like we're in the 3rd grade.  (which irritates me.)  Sometimes they like to put tape or stickers on your back.  UGH.  One day I noticed everyone smiling real big at me & looking stupid but I couldn't figure out why.  When I got home, B-rad said, "WHY do you have a UPS label on your back?"  Oh, those bastards....

Are you ready for a blog off?

I have been called out by Kiersten about me slacking in my 'blog off boss' duties!  She's right it's bad & I'm glad she set me straight!

So, I went searching through old posts to find out what else was on the list!  Next up is all about our most embarrassing moments.  Egads....

I must warn you, we only have a couple more topics we have thought of to date:  our favorite music/radio stations & what's in your purse?!  So ya'll better put on your thinking caps...or maybe prowl Pinterest for ideas?!

Let have 'em done by Friday mmmm kay?!

Challenge extended - challenge accepted

(I somehow screwed up again & made the background white on the next couple of paragraphs.  Hmph...)

I recently chastised my so-called 'loyal blog stalkers' when a post I wrote had no comments.  Now, do I think every post deserves a comment?  Yes.  The politically correct answer is, 'no, of course not.'  But that would be a lie.  I love comments.  And if I don't get any I'm afraid you may have missed something funny I wrote.  

And that is just a travesty...for you.  See, you're always on my mind...

So in Ginmommy's way, she tried to make me feel better & talk me out of jumping off the bridge I drove over Friday night.  She made the comment:

 We've all had a post with ZERO comments...it happens!!!

Uhm, excuse me?  No comments?  Surely not...

And it got me thinking...she's right...I don't always have to have comments.  (sniff, sniff...)  But I KNEW that I normally heard from the lbs' (that's loyal blog stalkers...not pounds...).  I mean - that's why you get the name - because you're LOYAL, people!  And...you always have something to say!

I'm sure some of you technologically & 'change' challenged people won't recognize these pics, but I use the NEW blog interface & this is my post list.  Please notice the very LARGE black box & very LARGE black arrow.  (I added the box & arrow.  Never fear you will not see that if you use the new interface...someday...when the new interface will be old...)

Yea, those are comments....on my posts... 

 and if you look closely...there are NO zero's.  Not a one...

This is just the first page of blog posts on my screen.  I couldn't find one zero.  (And that makes me happy...)

So I stopped before she proved me wrong.  

Please - feel free to continue to comment.  Because if you don't - I will call you out...in public...& next time, I will try to make you cry...

Who knew crossing a bridge could be so much fun?

If any of you read my post on Friday - you would've been riveted by the story about how I was supposed to go see a movie Friday night & then plans got changed.  (Humph...) Well, plans got changed back at the last minute & I did go see 'The Vow' Friday night with Shauna.

We had had a whole evening of excellent adventures, but the last adventure was by far the most fun! We went to the 9:30 movie on Charlestown Road.  We were on our way home & the clock said 11:45.  I said, "Oh, the bridge is opening in 15 minutes!"  Shauna said, "Wanna drive down there to see?"  And before I had a chance to say, "UH YEA!" she exclaimed, "We're going down there to see it!" 

And out of two girls who were in the right place at the right time was born a blog post...

We drove to the New Albany exit.  The barrels were still up so we pulled over & talked to the news crews & workers.  Yea-we're crazy like that!  They were really nice & said, "no" when Shauna asked if we could be the first ones to drive over it.

 We got off at the New Albany exit & wound our way back through town to get back on the interstate to make another attempt.  We are not quitters.  We saw a ton of cars waiting in line to go across the bridge.  It was hilarious!  

 As we came back down the interstate, we could see all the cars going across from the New Albany exit.  And we drove suuuuper slow & got up to the barrels just as they were moving them outta the way & off we went.  We were screaming & laughing!  (And no...we weren't drinking...)

 We had our fun & conquered our Everest, so we did what any normal Hoosier would do & took the first exit to get back outta Kentucky.  (Sorry, Gretchen...)

 Uhm....apparently we weren't the only ones doing that either.  This was the line in front of us...

 This was the line on the ramp behind us.  

 So we sat & talked & laughed some more & wondered out loud if the less than quarter tank of gas Shauna had in her car was going to last?  What we didn't realize was that while they had opened the bridge from Indiana to Kentucky - they had NOT opened from Kentucky to Indiana.  FAIL!!!  While we sat we saw several trucks coming up our ramp to move barrels.  I bet those guys didn't think it was as funny as we did...

 If you look directly in the middle of the picture, that area that looks like lights on a pole is someone letting off fireworks.  We thought that was funny too!

 They finally opened up the Kentucky side & we were off!  Shauna yelled at channel 41 as we blew by them!  Then she honked her horn all.the.way.across.the.bridge.  Yea-it was annoying.

I tell you it was one of the most fun things I've ever done.  (Yes, I've lived a sheltered life...)  We just so happened to be there at the right time & it sounded like something fun to do!  Good clean fun ya know?  Some of my friends on facebook were complaining about it but I say BLAH to them!  It was freaking midnight on a Friday night.  We weren't hurting anyone & we weren't causing any trouble.  It was an exciting thing to happen around here in boring ole' Indiana!  Calm down!  

Did ya'll miss something?

UHM, I'm wondering if any of you supposed 'loyal blog stalkers' read my post entitled, "Consider Yourself Warned"?  I mean, I had some really funny stuff in there.  But all I got from ya'll was crickets....!

I even had a picture of a super hot boy toy & I heard nothing!  Boo!!!  What is WRONG with you people?!

So, if you missed it - read it - it's good stuff if I do say so myself.  And if you did read it & you didn't comment, you should be ashamed of yourselves for making me sad.  Ya'll know I need your affirmations that I'm hilarious.     Pssssh....

Valentine's day massacre

I have a funny story (or sad, depending on your outlook of my life...) about Valentine's Day.  

On Facebook last Friday night (before V day) I saw Rhonda (Butterflies girlfriend) post a pic of this:

Please notice the following:  #1.  Rhonda's name is spelled correctly.  #2.  This is to her....from MY dad.  

(That's where the 'from Alvin' part comes in.)

This really didn't bother me.  I don't really care if dad gets Rhonda chocolates.  (Lets be honest, she could handle putting a little meat on her bones.  Geesh.)  Anyway, I am used to dad doing nice things for people who aren't directly related to him.  It's just what he does.

I got to their house Monday for lunch & there was a box of chocolates on the table...for me...from dad.  "Hi Honey", he says, "I got you some candy."  Of course I was polite & said, "Ok, thanks!"

After we ate mom said to me, "There's a reason it's not wrapped."  I said, "Oh, I hadn't even noticed."  She said, "He wrote your name on it.... & he spelled it wrong.  I told him you weren't going to be very happy about that!  He was going to mark it out & fix it but that would've looked awful so I just took the plastic off."  (God Bless my mother for trying to keep me from getting pissed off.  Does she know me or what?!)

And she's exactly right.  I wouldn't have been happy about that.  But that's what I've come to expect from my dad.  I tried to make her feel better for me by saying, "Well, I would've totally taken a pic & posted it to make fun of myself."   And I totally would've...

Then I thought for a moment & said, "Who doesn't know how to spell their own DAUGHTERS name?  Really?"   Sigh...  

Funny or sad.  You decide...

Consider yourself warned

I'm irritable...I'm sad...I'm feeling sorry for myself.  (AND I'm not even pmsing.)  Oh, the humanity...

I consider myself a 'glass half full' kinda gal.  I try not to concentrate on the negative.  I am the FIRST person to laugh at myself.  You can't take yourself (or life) too seriously. I like change when I feel it's a 'good' change & of course, can make my life easier or better.  It's all about me....duh....

ANYWAY.... here's what's up with us.  Nothing.  Nada.  Zilch.

Sigh.

We didn't do anything for Valentine's Day.  Are you completely shocked?  B-rad went to the barn to do a little work & I laid on the couch & napped.  He did surprise me with a card, Reese hearts & an iTunes gift card.  I got him...nothing.  Yea, yea - he's nice, I'm mean.  I don't deserve it.  Blah, blah, blah.  But I am enjoying those hearts...

The farmers super bowl is happening this weekend over in Louisville.  The National Farm Machinery show, people!  B-rad took off work today to go waste spend his day.  Blah.  How boring.  I used to go with him, but I got mad because there are SO many people there & I'm inquisitive & all so I ask questions & B-rad ignores me.  Who doesn't deserve who now, huh?!

I had plans to go see "The Vow" movie tonight with Shauna.  I'm not sure where Channing Tatum has been all my life, but he's super yummy.   (Google him.  You will NOT be disappointed...)

 In anticipation of seeing the movie, I knew it was 'inspired by true events' so I downloaded a book by the guy Channing Tatum plays.  It was very interesting & very inspiring at the same time.  Their faith is the ONLY thing that got them through their accident.  Sadly, our plans fell through so I won't be seeing it tonight.  I'm not sure what to be more upset about?  Sitting at home or NOT seeing Channing Tatum?  (Who am I kidding?  I love being at home...)

B-rad always gets tractor pull tickets from Lora for his birthday & that occurs on the last day of the superbowl farm show.  He will be gone tomorrow night for that.  I have BIG plans to finally watch Breaking Dawn part 1.  Channing Tatum AND Edward in one weekend?  Yea, I probably couldn't have handled all that anyway...

I have a jewelry bunco Sunday afternoon that I'm excited about.  I was also supposed to have a leadership meeting with some local leaders in Premier.  I scheduled my show before they put out the meeting schedule. They also didn't announce a time then but I just figured 7ish.  It's going to be in Shepherdsville, KY right off the interstate.  Greaaaaat, gotta cross that stupid bridge...  The bunco starts at 2.  They normally play 2 rounds which is about 2 hours.  Then I let them shop for 45 minutes, give my hostess her free total, pack my stuff & I'm out the door.  If the meeting started at 7, I would've had time for all of this.  But noooooo, I got an email a couple of days ago that it's starting at 6.  Really?  It will take an hour & a half for me to get there from my show.  Which means I would have to leave my show by 4:30.  Uhm, yea - that ain't gonna happen.  It's not fair to my hostess or her friends for me to rush the bunco just so I can go to some dumb meeting.  So, I emailed them all back & said, "I'll catch ya'll next time."  I'm super irritated about this as well.  Me & a couple of my jewelry sisters were going to be going & we're the ONLY ones that live in Indiana.  I just think they are not giving us much consideration.  I know that's not nice, but I'm SOOOOO in not a nice place right now.

Like I said, I just feel blah.  I feel sad, I feel pouty & I'm not sure why?  Sure, little things happen here & there but usually I blow them off.  I think the dreary winter days are messing with my head.  Boo...

OH, & another thing.  My stupid battery in my stupid phone keeps going dead realllly fast!  I'm not doing anything different than normal.  I don't really talk on it during the day, I play 9000 games 'with friends' & look at my calendar 9 zillion times day.  It's really getting on my last nerve.  At 6 am I had 100% battery, then at noon I had like 27%.  Seriously?

My calendar brings me to a another topic.  (Scared yet?)  Calendars.  Planners.  We've all got 'em, right?  I mean, how else do you keep your life straight?!  I used to carry a planner with me & it was all color coded with highlighters.  VERY not me.  Well, I get tired of carrying 'stuff'.  It gets on my nerves.  So my super sleuth internet brain just KNEW that the geniuses in internet Heaven had to have created something for me.  And boy, was I right.  Google calendar.  Have it.  Love it.  Can't live without it.

Since I have a Google account because I'm a super cool blogger, all I had to do was customize the calendar the way I wanted it.  I picked out pretty colors for everything & downloaded the app for my super cool phone (did you notice I just called it stupid 2 paragraphs ago?!) & even super cooler iPad & it.was.on.  No more extra stuff for me to carry around.

Here's what it looks like on my phone.  (please note it was 10:49am & I had 44% battery.  That's total bs!)  Yellow is official jewelry business, Blue is personal business & purple are my tasks.  I cannot stress to you just how much I love this thing.  It's awesome because it syncs to all my devices when I make changes.  I can even share it with people.  Like if I want B-rad to know when I have jewelry stuff going on, I can email it all to him.  Heaven, I tell ya...

   I also got tired of using a paper calendar at work, but I need to remember stuff.  Bummer... So, I started using my Windows Live calendar for that.  (Yes, I have too many calendars...but I didn't want pesky work stuff clogging up my pretty, colorful personal calendar!)  I have my stuff to remember in purple (duh) & the things my boss needs to remember in blue.  I like it because it's right inside my email application.  I can even tell it to remind me before hand & send me an email.  (UHM I had an 'uh oh' moment at the beginning of the year because one of my lovely job duties is to schedule the mechanics for service schools.  I make their hotel reservations too.  Well, uhm, we had a couple of guys scheduled to go to Iowa in early January & since I don't procrastinate, I forgot to make a room reservation.  One day before they were supposed to leave my boss says, "Aren't such & such supposed to go to Kinze school?'  GULP.  (It's not like he remembered or anything, one of our other locations called him.)  Whoopsie!  So now I have those things on my windows live calendar so that embarrassing predicament doesn't happen again...  (notice on March 2 guys going to Kubota school in blue?  Told ya...)

Again, my super sleuth techie brain got to thinking.  You know how the newer version of Windows have those little gadget thingies on the side bar?  I had the weather, a pretty flower clock & a calendar that I never.ever.looked at.  So I wondered if I could sync my windows calendar with that calendar gadget thingie so I can see it right on my desktop?  Well, Lordy Be, turns out I could...so after 3 hours of researching, I finally figured it out.  Shew.  That one was exhausting...

   

Now the little useless calendar thingie serves a purpose.  It warns me at the bottom when I have stuff coming up.  Love...

Sigh, that's all I got for now.  If I think of something else to complain about, I'll do another post.  I'll also see if B-rad will take pics at the superbowl tractor pull tomorrow to bore you with share...

I have been chastised...

Hey ya'll, it's me - Jaime Mac!  Remember me?  Huh?  Do ya?  Bueller.... Bueller?   

I'm still around & kicking....just kicking a bit slower lately.  Last week I was still getting over my cough from my sickness & then B-rad got super sick.  He doesn't get sick often, but when he does, it's ba-ad.  

I had a jewelry show with a lot of familiar faces Saturday night.  Jami was kind enough to let me come & get her some free bling!   I had hecklers & everything & I loved every.single.second.of.it!  Keeps me on my toes!!!!  (I do NOT like doing shows where everyone is just blankly staring at me with drool coming outta their mouths!  Boring!)  

Premier is really big on recognizing jewelers' hard work & in the past, they gave us pins for our accomplishments.  But they've updated them & decided to give us a charm bracelet with charms for all our accomplishments to date...for free.  How awesome is that?!  We got our bracelets at Rally & I didn't blog about my bracelet because a) I was feeling sick & just wanted to get through the rally post & b) I was feeling sick & for some reason didn't wanna brag.  Oh.the.humanity!

But I'm over my sickness now & I decided to show it off share with my friends Saturday night.  I was quickly chastised by blog stalkers that I had not blogged about this bracelet.  Like I said - hecklers!  But they were absolutely correct - this deserves blog attention.

So-here's my charm bracelet with everything I've done so far with Premier.  Strangely for me who pays no attention to details, I put them in chronological order...

Starting from left to right.  The first charm is the 'We Will Remember' charm for our co-founder, Joan, who passed away.  Next I got my Quick start 6 (worth $200 in free jewelry), if we did 3 more shows in the same time frame as the 6, that's the Quick Start 9 (I got another $100 in free jewelry for that!), next was the 25 home show club (no bling for that, shows just start accumulating to get that free stuff!).  Then the amethyst level of the crown jewel ($200 free), then the Queens Court last May (I got a free ensemble & a special charm bracelet).  The last 3 are the ones that made up my most recent free jewelry.  100 home show club, Builder & Sapphire level of crown jewel.

Ain't it purdy? 

 I've also changed up a few things at my shows.  I like to keep it fun & fresh.  Look at what I came up with?  I found these tags online.  I had some zebra ribbon so I got the bright idea of offering 'featured items' for booking a show.  I put the featured pieces on these stands & explain they get to pick one for free if they book a show.  Look at me...

 Saturday afternoon I high tailed it into Target to pick up this little gem right here.  Swoon.  I haven't watched it yet which I know is total insanity...  Butterfly got me a gift card to Target for Christmas & I used that to buy it.  Merry Christmas to me!

Also at the show Saturday night - I got a gift given to me!  I'm not used to that!  I was telling Tracey about my purchase & she said, "OH, I have something for you & Jami!"  Score!  Thanks again, Tracey! 

 And in other boring news, I am WWF (that's words with friends, NOT World wrestling federation) fan & today for Valentine's day (I'm assuming?) they've updated their notification.  Imagine the giggles when I saw this pop up on my phone?!  Tee hee...

 Lastly, I decided to do my nails Sunday.  I get bored...  (Please, don't be blinded by my wedding ring bling...focus on the nails.)  Are you amazed?  Can you believe I did this all by myself?  (Here's a secret - they're press on.  Yea, baby!  A pack of nails costs like $4 & you can get a huge thing of glue for them.  Call me ghetto, but I think they look great.  They last about a week & then you can take them off.  No nail salon, no $15 fill in fee, no Asian nail tech grinding your nails & cuticles down to the quick & no real commitment, just a week!)  However, I only had enough 'alike' nails from previous packs to piece together 9 fingers.  Whoops.  Eh, my lack of attention to detail thingie kicked in so I just got one nail from a different pack.  Can you spot which one of these isn't like the others?    

This is why I don't cook...

Today was the day I decided that no matter what - I HAD to get our tax stuff done.  Farm tax stuff.  Jewelry tax stuff.  Personal tax stuff.  No, I have done nothing towards organizing anything all year.  Yes, I am a procrastinator.  Bleh.  I did have enough forethought to stop & buy some stuff for a crockpot dinner. I knew I wouldn't wanna stop to make supper (oh, the humanity) so I started dinner around 9 am. 

I also needed to make a dish for a Superbowl party we're going to.  I really wanted to use my new pan from Christmas.  (Remember the 'baked from a box in Jaime's kitchen'?)  I had just the yummy boxed dessert - cookie brownie bars.  Heaven.  I followed the directions to the letter.  Afterall, I am an avid detail payer-attention-toer....

 I don't know how in the world THIS little detail evaded me until I was searching frantically for the directions for how long to bake it.  My 13x9 pan was not listed in that chart... so I read the fine print, "For 13x9 pan, use 2 boxes for best results.'  Sigh...

  THIS is how it turned out.  I mean, really?  I can't take this with me.  B-rad said, "Don't worry about it-we'll eat that & just make cookies!"  (Of which I have 2 rolls of in the fridge...)  Oh, how I love him...

Martha Mac strikes again

I had bought some super cute purple ribbon with annoying silver glittery thingies on it.  I was going to incorporate it into the purpley, silvery masterpiece but I didn't have enough.  I decided to have my friend, Nancy, make a bow for me.  I wasn't quite sure what I was gonna do with the bow once I had it...details schemtails...

So on Nancy's last day of work before retirement (lucky bish...) I brought in my ribbon & she whipped me up a bow...

I swear she makes THE best bows...ever...

 All the annoying silver glittery pieces were all.over.my.desk.

 And eventually were all.over.my.floor.

 Voila, the finished product!  Isn't it bee-u-ti-ful?!

Ok, so what to do with this bow?  Remember how I told ya'll I always, always wanted to be married?  When B-rad & I got engaged, I got so excited to buy stuff for our house.  And the Christmas before we got married, I made a wreath for our house.  Shocking, I know.  I just bought an evergreen wreath, some gold (yuck) ribbon, some white poinsettias & some other little thingies & started stuffing.  I used old bread package ties (no lie) to hold everything in place. 

So, I thought since I'd had a cleansing of all my Christmas stuff, the wreath should get the next makeover.  I'm mad at myself  because I didn't take a picture of it for you, but once I got the energy to do it, I just started ripping stuff off of it to get it done.

I put the bow Nancy made me on the bottom & then took the left over ribbon & wrapped it around.  I had several silver ornaments left over to I was going to put those on it - the trick was figuring out how.  Shauna suggested that I drill holes in the ornaments to put my wire through to attach them.  UHM, she's the one with the penis, not me...so B-rad drilled my holes for me.  (In the spirit of full disclosure, I did ask him to bring me the drill so I could do it.  However, he knows me better than I know myself & said, 'no, just tell me what you want done & I'll do the drilling...')  I had some old wire from my ill-fated jewelry making days but it wasn't rigid enough to get through the holes.  So, I had to wait for a trip somewhere to get that floral wire stuff.   While I procrastinated waited for a trip in town to get some, the wreath hung on the door...with the purple bow, ribbon & the only 3 ornaments I could get the flimsy wire through.  Ghetto, I know...

I was finally forced to go to Walmart a couple of weeks ago & they had the floral wire.  Just this past weekend when I started feeling better I decided to get the wreath done.   

Here is the final product:  (wow, the sun has really yellowed the door.  Ick!)

I fully realize it only took me a month after Christmas to finish it.  And yes, it's still hanging on our front door. I gotta get some mileage out of it before I put it away!  Pssssh!

Game night, church, lost keys, dinner, lost keys, movies, lost keys, car alarm, drinks, lost keys, mucinex, stolen car & birthday cake (all in that order)

(Wow, I must say - I have outdone myself with that title.  But just you wait, you're gonna hear allll about it...)  (AND I have somehow made the back of the text a color...I can't turn it off...hmph...)

Some of the boys in the motorcycle gang had another game night Saturday at Brian & Shauna's.   This really is the craziest thing I have ever seen.  They are NOT playing around.

 And what chick in her right mind wants to hang out with that all night?  Not this chick.  Shauna & I tried to plan a girls night last time the boys had game night but it all fell apart.  We said to hell with it this time - her & I will just hang out.  Much simplier...plus we know we like each other...  (Up until Saturday afternoon I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to even go.  I was really, really sick.  But sleeping 11 hours the night before & 3 hours after work on Friday helped tremendously!)  One of the guys comes from Illinois (!) & he brought his wifey this time.  Since Shauna & I are sooo nice, we let her hang out with us.

Here's how our night went:

Shauna has recently started going to church on Saturday nights at Northside.  She hated to get out of that habit so she asked Joni & I to join her.   We went to church on Charlestown Road at 4 pm.  It was interesting & different.  (Good for me I'm not a gal who can't handle change (love you Ginmommy & Tracey...)) so I just kinda went with the flow.  It was different than any church I'd been too.  Eh, different isn't always a bad thing...it's just different.  When we left church, Shauna couldn't find her keys.  She digs frantically through her bag & shrieks, "I can't find my keys!"  I ignore her because I'm used to this behavior from her.  She always finds them...

Shauna loves TGI Fridays but her hubby won't go there with her so she we decided we'd go over to Fourth Street to eat dinner.  (Mind you, this was 6:00 on a Saturday evening.  It was dead there...)  We had a fun dinner & decided to see a movie.  I want to see the new Tom Cruise Mission Impossible movie but the time it was showing didn't fit into our schedule.  We decided to see a tough chick flick.  We left Fourth street & headed back to right across the street from where we started our night at church.  We saw Haywire.  Awful.  I don't recommend it.  We left the movies around 9:30 (after Shauna 'lost her keys' & searched frantically for them...).  As we got into the car, she said, "Hurry up!  Shut your doors."  UHM, okay?  There were some people walking towards us with hooded sweatshirts on with the hoods up.  She said, "You just never know!"  Which is totally true.  Then I smarted off, "My door's not even locked!"  She informed me it was.  Of course, I didn't believe her so I reached up & unlocked it.  Turns out, she was right.  And turns out, it set off the car alarm.  The lights started flashing & the horn started honking.  And we couldn't figure out how to make it stop.  Talk about drawing attention from the hooded sweatshirt people.  They hurriedly got into their vehicle & left.  (I'm sure they thought we were the crazy ones...)

We decided to run over to Tumbleweed to have a drink. (Yes, we realize the irony that we started in church & ended up at the bar.  No worries, we googled 'what the bible says about alcohol'.  (God Bless the internet.)  It basically says that drunkiness is bad...we did NOT get drunk...) That place was uber dead, but all the servers walking past us were really nice & friendly.  We sat there long enough for them to start washing everything around us so we took the hint & decided to leave.

 We headed BACK across the street to Meijer (after Shauna found her keys) to get B-rad a birthday cake & me some Mucinex.  I still had my cough, & I knew there was stuff in my chest but I just couldn't get it out.  Gag.  

I had started teasing Shauna about losing her keys.  I kept chastising her by saying, "If you would put the keys in the same spot every time, you wouldn't have this problem!"  As she had her bag laying on the ground searching she screamed at me, "I DO!"  My response, "Obviously you don't or you wouldn't have this problem."  She only took her keys into Meijer so she was sure not to lose them.  Smart move... 

We stopped at the gas station to get Shauna cigarettes.  I also barked at her to get me some water so I could take my Mucinex horse pill.  Joni was riding up front & said, "Wouldn't it be funny if we drove off in her car?"  I said, "Uh YEA it would!"  So Joni climbed over the console & we waited for Shauna to turn around to see us...& we backed out.  She ran out the door screaming, "YOU WHORES!" but we just laughed & rode around the parking lot.  Juvenile, maybe...funny, yes!

Shauna wrote on B-rad's cake when we got back to her house.

And look at the candles Joni found for him at Meijer.  Nothing is too good for my Princess.

 There were only 6 (I wasn't buying 6 packs!) & they looked like little magic wands.

We lit the candles & started singing.  And all the guys looked at us like we were crazy.  They were pernonin noobs so no one really paid us any attention.  Punks.