February 09. 08

HAPPY 40th BIRTHDAY BOB-BO!!

That's right today was my brother's 4oth birthday. He is 15 1/2 years older than me, and he is the sibling I am closest to age to. My brother was really surprised to see that everyone came to celebrate his birthday. It was really nice to see my brother, my sisters, my bro-in-laws, my nieces and all the Spice clan. We all shared our 'Bob' stories. Since we almost lost my brother 18 years ago, we shared a lot of tears of joy that he is still alive and doing far better than any medical doctor thought he would. My brother and I also had a moment about how I have taught him a lot about what he knows about being a father. I will admit, he is a very protective brother. Matt was more afraid of him than he was my dad. :) Bob was happy to hear that. We shared a lot of laughs and a lot of tears. It was just good to be together. Matt missed out on the fun though. He was stuck at home with a fever. :( Luckily he is feeling much better now. (Just in time to clean the house for our visitor!!! YAY!! Eva comes Thursday!)

BTW, I LOVE MY NIECES!!! This picture has a bit of motion blur, but we were having so much fun and it is so cute.... :)

February 08. 08

Today I put together my brother's birthday board. Tomorrow is the big surprise party. My brother is only suspecting that my mom and I are coming along with my sister-in-law's parents. Lori and Rick, Cheryl and Mr. Matt (her boyfriend) and my sister-in-law's family also came.

catch up... again...

February 6, 08:


This photo was taken yesterday afternoon at around 4pm. Ottawa Park is flooded like crazy. The whole golf course is like completely covered in water. There is a bridge that goes over the little river on the golf course that was completely covered. The problem is, there is too much snow and rain, and the ground is too saturated and cannot absorb any more. So that leads to NW Ohio being a big lake basically. So anyway, an hour after all this rain it was blizzard like and the whole ground was covered in at least an inch or two of snow in 30 minutes. Mind you, it was like 42 degrees and raining an hour before that. The weather patterns are just becoming a bit too strange for my liking.

So the fun for the day was going downtown to the library. I got 9 books out on artists like Degas, Jasper Johns, Van Gogh and the Dada movement. Also got the movie Factory Girl and a Tegan and Sara cd, IF IT WAS YOU. I really like the cd a lot.

February 7, 08

Today started with me getting up 10 minutes before I needed to be at class. I jumped out of bed and went to school all skanky in my sweatpants. Got to class, took some photos, ate a banana and drank some chai tea. All things made me happy. I enjoy my photography class. Then I went to campus and had some Phoenicia's. It was delicious. German class was a bowl full of excitement. Which reminds me, I have a bunch of questions to answer auf Deutsch. I then came home and was immediately put into this awful mood. Matt was not very chipper and I am/was just worn out. I haven't been doing much lately other than going to work and school. Matt and I also found out today that our trip is going to be a lot harder to fund than we originally thought. That is a whole other story. I won't even get into it because we are ironing out the kinks as we speak. So amidst my grumpiness my dear ol' friend Elizabeth Cottle calls me to have some dinner. It was perfect timing too. I just needed a night out with a great friend. I love me some Cottle. We both understand one another so well, and we have been through so many things together. I will never forget the first thing she said to me (besides "Hi, I am Elizabeth.") " So are you still a virgin? Sorry if that was too strong of a question to ask..." Still to this day, we are always that up front and honest. So anyway, she knows my love for all things delicious and healthy to eat. She took me downtown Perrysburg to a little place called Zingo's Mediterranean. There food was amazing, PLUS they had healthy fresh juices and vegan desserts. I had the falafel wrap (mmmm... i love falafel!), veggie grape leaves, carrot-apple-ginger juice and the vegan chocolate cupcake. I am still stuffed. After dinner we went back to her house and hung out with her hubby Ryan. I always enjoy conversation with Ryan. We totally ripped apart the new tv show Lipstick Jungle (not worth watching). It was just so nice being able to spend time with great friends. I cannot stress that enough.
Pictured below: The Zingo's coffee cup. I did not take the photo it is off of their website. (I did not take a camera with me) Awesome food. The other photo is Mrs. (Cottle) McCarthy. This was the day she got married. I would have taken a picture of us today (with Ryan even), but again no camera on my person.





ALSO!!!! (One last thing!) ONLY ONE WEEK UNTIL EVA ARRIVES!!! YAY!!!!

So I have a lot of photo posting to do...

Lucky for you, as a loyal blog reader, I carry around a handy dandy cell phone with a camera on it, otherwise you would see a lot of pictures of me taken at 11:59 every night to make the deadline. So here are the photos for the last three days and today:

February 2, 2008:



This is Kristy, Liz and me at the CCHS Sadie Hawkins Dance. All the best professional equipment at my disposal, and of course I use a cell phone.

February 3, 2008:



This is me at the Super-dee-dooper Super Bowl party. So, I had a few glasses of wine... Matt took this one because he thought it wsa funny. I was sleeping on a couch. So what?

February 4, 2008:



I have to draw this hallway. So I took a pic with my phone so I could work on it at home too. Not really anything exciting as far as a photo goes, but it was taken yesterday so it works.

February 5, 2008 (today):



This is the new water purifier/ionizer that we had installed at work! It is fricken awesome.

Now for news:

Yesterday I was at the dentist for 2 hours. It was supposed to take 30 minutes but it took two hours because they almost took my wisdom teeth out yesterday. Neat. So instead, I get to go to an oral surgeon and get them taken out because my top two wisdom teeth have three roots instead of one. I also got measured for my mouth guard to prevent me from grinding my teeth at night. This should also lessen my overall jaw pain and reduce the loud clicking noise I make when I chew.

Still have yet to put together my brother's birthday board. I will probably work on it tomorrow and Thursday.

Hmmm... I am going to go eat a vegan cookie now and do my homework. I have to sketch a Degas, do a crap ton of Deutsch and photograph something (for school, not this).

edit from feb1

oh and a side note: there is a reason I do not go for the junk food and milkshakes.... they hate me. when i did my food allergy test at work, they told me to stay away from ice cream and heavy creams because they did not agree with my system. so instead of staying away, I decide I want a milkshake. Let me tell you, I paid for it. Matt wanted me to sleep on the couch it was so bad. Stupid milkshake. Apparently, my milkshake scares all the boys in the yard.... :P

February 2, 2008

My picture for last night will be up in a minute. I am at work right now so I cannot load it in. Yesterday was a busy day. I worked from 7am - 3pm at the doctor's office and then I worked 6pm-11pm for PKS shooting the Sadie Hawkin's dance at CCHS. It was really sad to see the low turn out of high school students that came to the dance. I only took about 40 pictures too. Apparently groups of students were throwing "anti-Sadies" parties and getting trashed. Good thing these kids still have their innocence... Even though the dance had a low turn out, it was really nice getting to hang out with Liz and Kristy. We had a lot more fun than we should have... but that is a-okay. It was really nice being able to catch up with both of them too. Since being back in school, that's the most fun I have had! Haha, and it was at a high school dance!

So I am counting down the minutes until I get to go home! I am off at 3pm today. Then Matt and I are heading to Elmore to Rebecca and Kevin's for a Super-dee-dooper Super Bowl party. I don't even like NFL, so I am obviously going for the beer. Should be fun. I am sure I will take a picture or two. Will post later.

yummtastic milkshake!

So I did not have school today because it looked like this outside:


At 9am the main roads still had not been plowed. LAME! The snow has let up so far. I am not sure if we are supposed to get more or not. The snow kept my mom from coming to make my brother's picture board, so we are working on it tomorrow in between work and the dance.



Matt took me to Steak and Shake for a milkshake tonight because I wanted a sweet treat.