Life [The Good, The Bad & The Ugly]

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Sunday, July 30, 2006

Jen's Birthday Party! (Brace yourself, this could take a while!)

Yesterday afternoon, when Amy got into town, she called and asked if I wanted to meet them at the beach for a while before we got together to go uptown. I was pumped, and said I would meet them there because I wanted to finish making a birthday bag, and card to go with Jen's present. After I was done I decided I needed some food in my stomach, just trying to be prepared for a long night of drinking. So I set the present on the table and headed for Subway. After I ate and was getting ready to go to the beach I realized Jen's present was gone. There could only be one shithead in the house to steal the present, Frankie, and sure enough, I looked under the couch (her favorite hiding place) and there was Jen's present, the bag and the card I had made, chewed to bits. I was not impressed to say the least! Instead of relaxin at the beach before the party I ended up having to remake the card and the bag before the party :(
Amy, Jen, and Brooke picked me up at about 6:30. From there is was off to get Ange, then the liquor store. We decided on Cosmos, Chocolate martinis, grasshoppers and peppermint paddies! Next obvious stop, Sobeys, we needed mix! While paying for the liquor though Amy realized that in her rush out of the house she grabbed the wrong ID and we were going to have to go back and get it! Just a little side adventure, no big deal, and completely normal when it comes to us planning a night out! So, back to Amy's, the back to Subway for Amy and Jen, the off to NG. We also had to make a stop at Walmart, I couldn't find my Twister game so we had to stop and buy a new one. So, Jen stops outside of Walmart and 4 of the 5 of us pile out the car and head in to the store. Not without a smartass comment from some stranger about how many hot girls can fit in a neon, just 5? Anyway, got the game and finally made it to Jen's sister Jill's by about 8:30. Two hours after leaving the house, not too bad! We started off first with a little cake for Jen. Then got right into a drinking game "F**k the dealer" and of course Jen was the dealer! So, by the time Amy and I were on our third cosmo Jen was somewhere around 8 or 9!



This just got her in the mood for a little Twister! I opted out of Twister since I was wearing a dress and was the official spinner instead, and photographer! This is the only pic I thought was appropriate to put on the page. For some reason, during the entire two games everyone had their asses in my direction and it didn't make for the most flattering pics! Champion of game number one...Jen the birthday girl!, and game number two...Amy, but it was a close on between her and Jill! We also found out during the second game that it is impossible to play Twister while drinking a beer. It makes it difficult when you are suppose to have left hand yellow and right hand green!
Now, I'm still not quite sure how the next few pics got started but I think they are some of the funniest of the night. For some reason all the girls laid on the bed with our heads together trying to get pics of ourselves. In the first one you can kinda see 2 arms in the air, Amy's and Brooke's, I don't know why you can't see mine considering I actually took this one, we all had our own cameras trying to get the pics. At one point Amy and I were stuck there because her earring ended up getting tangled up in my hair!

This one happened because Amy, Jen and I were laughing to hard to get up, so of course I had to snap another one!

By this point everyone was obviously feeling pretty good...But not as good as Jen! We had switched from drinking Cosmos to drinking grasshoppers, and that was only because we ran out of Cherry Brandy! Jen thought it was time to show off some of her acrobatics! (the pic below). Later Jill joined in and well lets just say it led to some hilarious pics of the two of them attempting hand stands...Maybe?

Amy, Jen and I just got bored of regular pics of the three of us so we decided to do something different!

Finally, 1:00 am, and we make it the the bar! Straight to the bar for Jen's first shooter of the night, tequila, of course! After that we completely lost track of how many she had. The three of use had porn stars a little later, but there were so many times we would lose Jen, the social butterfly she is, and find her once again, at the bar doing shooters with someone different!

Just a group pic of the girls at the bar!Thanks to the bartender who took it for us!

And then it was finally time to get our groove on. We mainly stayed on the dance floor the rest of the night, with the exception of going to find Jen at the bar every now and then. Good times, and there was a DJ instead of a live band so it worked out even better for us, much better dance music!

3:00 am, and Jen is still on the go, but myself, Amy and Brooke were exhausted, and our feet were starting to get a little sore from all the dancing, and they had just called last call. Now, just to find Jen and convince her it was time to go home. Not such an easy challenge. Amy laid down the law and gave her 5 minutes to say good-bye to everyone before we left. Lucky for us, before I left to go out Mom offered to pick us up after the bar and drive us all home! So, where is the only place to be at about 3:30 in the morning on a Saturday night? Acropole of course. We walked up there to meet Mom, we went in, got a few slices, and then sat on the curb to eat and wait! By the time we dropped everyone off, with breakfast plans already made, Mom and I finally got home at 5:00 this morning.

Got a few hours sleep, got up, and got the heartbreaking news that my little shithead decided my favorite shoes tasted good and she had field day on one of them :( What will I do with her? Anyway, we all made it for breakfast today, some of us in better shape than others.....Jen! Breakfast at Sharon's fixed her up though.

Excluding the shoe incident from this morning it was an awesome night!

Friday, July 28, 2006

Beautiful Night on the Water!

I got home from work last night at about 6:30, and got a call from Mom and Dad asking me if I wanted to go out on the boat. Me being the smartass I am said, "what do you want me to do, swim out?" And of course they replied with "yes". There were 7 boats tied together out at Sandy's Cove, and earlier that night Erin went out to meet them. She swam out half way and Steven took the row boat in to get her. So off I went, I parked at Amy's cottage, and by the time I got there Dad was already at shore with the row boat! Thank God, because I didn't want to swim it at all! It was an awesome night out there. After I had supper out there I decided to

go for a swim. It was about 7:30 by this time so I figured the water would be a little cool, but it wasn't at all. It was actually pretty warm! We finally decided to head back, so we all just sat on the wheelhouse of Steven's boat for the sail in, which I think was the best sail home ever. The night was so calm! From there we went to the Pressroom, and then of course the Tav, and somehow Chandra and I even ended up in New Glasgow. Overall a good night!

2 days until the Stones tickets go on sale!


Thursday, July 27, 2006

JEN'S BIRTHDAY!

It's Jen's b-day today, HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEN! We are not actually celebrating until Saturday though. I don't know what we are doing yet, but I'm sure the pre-drink menu will include cosmos! It should be a good night.

I got some new projects finished up for the store today. The journal is my favorite, it was inspired by my blog! This is the front and the back of it. I just couldn't resist the stamp on the back. It is one of my favorites!

I also found out today that a good friend of mine, Toni, is 3 months pregnant. She is really excited, and I'm happy for her. She teaches in Corner Brook, NFLD, and is planning on tying the knot next summer. This list of weddings for next summer is getting way too long. At one point I had a friend in Fredericton who was complaining because all of her friends were getting married and I was like, "Oh, I'm not going to have to worry about that for a long time" Was I wrong! I think I'm up to about 5 or 6 for next summer now. My sisters included. Missy did pick out her wedding cake though, which I absolutly love. The only difference is that hers will be blue and brown instead of pink and brown.

Oh yeah, 3 more days til the Rolling Stones tickets go on sale! Can't wait! Hopefully with 60,000 tickets for sale my friends and I will be able to get a few!

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

My day off! (Extremely uneventful)

Ahhh, a day off, and nothing going on! Well, it wasn't too bad. I got up and took Frankie for a walk. As usual she had to stop in to Shiretown Auto to visit everyone, but this morning she made a new friend [finally a dog smaller than her that she didn't bark at]. Frankie met Shiloh this morning, a tiny, white, 6 week old, part chihuahua - part toy poodle mix! It was seriously like 2 pounds and that's pushing it. Other than that I went to shop for Jen's b-day present; which I must say is pretty damn good, and then it was off to the dentist! Once again all clear, not one single cavity in my entire life [knock on wood]! But my hygenist and I did have fun playing with the new digital camera in the office. Everytime it's used they put a new piece of plastic over it [my hygenist likes to call it the condom] and they just take pics of your teeth to show you. It was actually pretty cool, the highlight of my day even [that was for you Missy]! Anyway, off to make a bag for Jen's present and to do some scrapbooking!

Sunday, July 23, 2006

I Finally Did It!

Ok, so I finally jumped on this oh so popular band wagon, aka, blogging; with a little encouragement from my sister. I have decided not to thank her just yet though due to the fact that I am now on hour 3 of trying to get this all set up and get a post up there. I think once the set up is all done I will have a lot of fun with it, but for now it's driving me completely crazy. Also because I had my first post finished and managed to lose it some how and had to start again. But, I'm

over it now, deep breaths, and I'm on my
way! (By the way, thanks Missy!). Oh yeah, here's another good one. I just realized that for the majority, people don't usually start a blog unless something interesting happens that day they can share....me, not so much! Although, I guess the past week has been entertaining. See normally Sunday is a day to relax, which I am doing, but not for the normal reasons. I'll normally get together with friends on Saturday night and use that as an excuse to do nothing the next day. For the past week or so more of my friends have been home than usual, some expected and some unexpected. This has made the past week somewhat of a blur. A collage of unexpected pleasures, hilarious stories, poker, and the odd nasty hangover [The Good, The Bad & The Ugly]! Which brings me to my accomplishment today of starting my blog, since I couldn't bring myself to go out last night!