Wasting Time

I'm just trying to kill a little time until I can leave early. I love holiday weekends!

On Wednesday, I went to the fireworks in Detroit with my parents, my brother & his wife and the two boys. My dad is one of those guys who always has a connection. Well, he helps this one woman get baseball tickets for her members, ever heard of the Detroit Society? - me either... Anyway, because he helps her get tickets, she invites him and our family to their fireworks party every year. The rent two floors of a parking garage right next to the RenCen and they have games for the kids and a band and DJ and a ton of food and drinks. It was really nice - until we left to go home. My brother made us wait 45 minutes after the fireworks eded to leave because he wanted traffic to be less. BUT, waiting 45 minutes only allowed the traffic to pile up. We tried to go around the busy roads, with no luck of course. Then at one point when we were almost to the freeway, my brother missed that the road turned and we ended up driving right back into downtown!! I was rather annoyed at this point. The fireworks ended at 10:40 or so, we got home to my parents' house at 12:45. I ended up driving home because I didn't want to drive from Southgate to Auburn Hills the next morning.

Yesterday Sarah and I went shopping. We tried to look for rain coats, but apparently Target doesn't sell rain coats...how odd. We ended up buying a few things for our camping weekend and then headed to Home Depot to buy a Weed Whacker. The stupid city gave a notice that our "grass and/or other weeds" have exceeded the city's 6" height rule. How annoying is that. Well, we let someone borrow our lawn mower so we thought a weed whacker would help. Sarah ended up borrowing a lawn mower from our neighbor. I'm so glad she's the husband in our relationship :-) hahahaha

Tonight is full of packing and checklists (after I find rain coats...). And tomorrow morning we are off. I'm very exciting for our camping. It will be fun. I just hope the weather holds out and doesn't make it miserable...

I pooted.

While driving to the wedding on Saturday, we saw a billboard that said 'I pooted." That's all it said. We giggled and wondered what it could be. Then I saw a billboard yesterday that said "Look! I have a meat beard." Well, Ryan did a little detective work and found out theyare quotes from "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy" which is on Cartoon Network. I guess there are a few others, per Ryan:

Clowns hate tangelos.
I'm a hot toe picker.
My boogers itch.
Shiny shiny. Pretty pretty.

Anyway, I'm also including a few pictures from the weekend. A couple from the wedding and one of the pups that I think is cute.

ice cream the the Dairy-Go-Round
at the reception
cute pups

Stormy Weather

Well, it's just one of those days. So much stuff going on, it's hard to stay focused on work.

One of the big things being, I found out today my brother sold his house. We had nno idea. See, my brother lost his job last June for a really stupid reason. He spent 7 months going through a union arbitration to get his job back. In Februday/March he found out that he lost his case. He has been on unemployment, but that pays him nothing close to what he made. And with the market, he's having a very hard time finding a job. His wife is working at a car dealership and she just started back at Ford's two weeks ago for part time work. Unfortunately, they were financially strained and couldn't make all the bills. They finally were too far over their heads and had to get rid of the house. And the even bigger blows, they didn't even make money on the house. Simply broke even. I am heartbroken for them. They have 3 kids and everythings seems to be getting worse and worse. There is no way to help them. That's the worst, when you can't help the people you love. I truly hope there are better things coming. For my brother's sake, I hope the sun comes out soon.

:(

New Job

Well, I have accepted a new position. I will be doing the same thing (Admin. Assist.) but for a different manager. I will not officially change for about a month since there will be transition that has to happen to L's new assistant who has not yet been named. I'm a a little bummed that I can't jump right over, but as least I know the end is in sight!! :) I will continue to work in Auburn Hills. And I'm still going back to school in the fall (my new manager is very supportive of that). Yippee! TGIF

7 years & 2 months

That's how long I have lasted, to the day. April 5, 1999. I have worked here much longer than I thought I actually would. And I have at least one more year to go. I now have two potential positions available to me, both of them are administrative assistant roles. I have one interview at 4:30 today and the other on Thursday. I'm very happy to be moving on. I think a new, more laid-back manager will make me happy. Especially if my manager is remote, meaning not in Michigan, then I could work from home more - bonus. The other manager is not remote, but I would be on the GM account, therefore get GM holidays (which is 6 more days off per year) - bonus.

My orientation is on July 12 for school. I'm so excited to sign up for classes. I wish I was able to take a summer class, but financially I need to wait. Hope I get the loans I need!

In my spare time lately I really haven't done much. I've actaully been watching the Tigers on TV. I have found baseball is actually fun to watch when you're watching a good team. For those of you who don't know, the Tigers are in first place - yay.

Anyway, I went to Royal Oak on Saturday night with Beckie and Sarah. Jessica had to babysit. It was a nice time, I was just glad to be off the couch on a weekend night for a change. Well, that was until I got sick... I only had three drinks and a shot. I've had much more than that before and not gotten sick, so it was very strange. I wasn't drunk the whole night, then when we were walking back to the car, it hit me. I was dizzy and ready to pass out, but made it home before getting sick and passing out for good. I slept on the couch and felt like crap Sunday morning. Again, it was very strange... I did feel better by the afternoon, so I went to my parents' house and we went to Applebee's for dinner. I had an Oreo shake - yum.

I have nothing planned this week. Just some Wheel of Fortune and walks with Louie. I have to spoil him this week because he's going to the vet to get fixed on Friday. I hope that helps with his humping problem (those of you at Mike's bbq know what I mean) :) And I'll be going to Ryan's shindig on Saturday in Toledo - and ready to par-tay!