Hey cool, it worked this time....and no one is sitting reading over my shoulder...or from my left. Anyway, Grandma's waiting in the car, so I'm just going to post this really quickly and run. Love y'all! *hugs*
How long have I been gone now? It seems like a really long time. I guess it's reall only been a couple of weeks though. I'm already a little homesick...I miss Callie, my dad, my friends, and my unlimited internet access. Phooey! I tried to knit some today, but I just found myself getting tired and wanting to talk to Cassi and Andrea. I was ecstatic to get the news that my best friend (one of several) Bryn is pregnant! WooHoo!!! I'm so happy for her!!! I know she was trying to preggers, so the fact that it happened relatively easily is a blessing for her. I had a really good time up at my sister's in Columbus (well, actually Gahanna but who really knows the difference?) I like hanging out with my sis and I got to try a bunch of new, yummy restaraunts. Plus, I got to go along to a scrapbooking class with her. Being the loser I am, I ran late and we stayed like 30-45 minutes after everyone else had left, but I made some cute things (which I'm am considering sending to a couple of my friends). My Grandma got me a nice, warm Ohio State sweatshirt that I love and of course OSU's been kicking major ass all season. I'm spending the rest of this week here at my Grandma's house in Logan and next week, I'm going to spend at my Aunt Maria and Uncle Steve's house. I can't wait to see all the kitties and sneeze up a(nother) storm! LOL I'll undoubtedly take 20,000,000 pictures which I'll post one place or another once I get home. I'm also really looking forward to seeing Chrisonna's little ones, Kensi and Cade. They are SO adorable!!! And I[m very interested to see what their Halloween costumes will look like. I'm sure they'll be nauseatingly cute. I'll take pictures so that you can experience the nausea as well. I think I'm going to have to get more single use cameras, come to think of it. I also have to take pics of my mom's birthday dinner party (which may or may not be a surprise) and, of course there will be lots of picture taking at Christmas cookie making day at Steve and Ria's, our family reunion style Thanksgiving get together. Not to mention Christmas Eve and Christmas! Plus Sara, Beth and I are planning to make a trip to Cleveland (yes, Cleveland!) to go out on the town. The three of us went to a little bar/club thing in Lancaster, which was fun. Sara and Beth got pretty much shit faced and I was the DD. Cause I rock like that. We didn't take any pictures that night, but I must take some the next time we go out. I already used up 27 exposures (1 disposable camera) at the Li'l Hover Dam. I'll tell y'all more about that when I get around to developing/posting the pics from said excursion. You'd probably think that the last thing I need is more pictures, but NO! In fact, I've already raided my Grandma's photo albums for pictures I want to make copies of. Technically, I did it for mom, but I had ulterior motives. hehehe Newswise from here, there are quite a few things going on...I'm fairly sure no one gives a rat's ass, but I can't really think of anything else right now so y'all get to hear about all my cousins and stuff. Lucky you.Adam and Ian both have girlfriends and have inherited kiddos. Adam's new family includes Summer and Connor (not sure about spelling) and Ian's girlfriend is named Nikki. She has two sons: Taylor and Justin, I believe. I'm not certain of the spelling of Nikki's name either, and I haven't met Summer, Nikki, Taylor, or Justin. I DID however get to meet Connor and he is an absolute doll. Bryce seems to be single, but I imagine he'll bring Misty or someone to Thanksgiving dinner. Of course Chrisonna's married to Scott and Scott (her brother, not her husband) is married to Andrea. Erick has a girlfriend whose name is Allison, I think (he apparently only dates girls named) Allison and Gregg is still dating Jenna, if I'm correctly informed. Kate is of course, married to John and Haley's doing well playing in the Logan High Marching band and I went out to the Logan High School football game on Friday to see her play. It was actually quite fun, but I have a bit of a scratchy throat now. Oh well, I'll live(on a side note, I think I'm going to frog her scarf and start over, just doing a garter stitch). Last I heard Blake was sick. Poor Blakey...hopefully he's feeling better by now. Sara's best friend Beth has a couple of her own as well. They are both precious and are named Matthew and Alex. Matthew goes by Matt or Matt-Matt despite his pleas to be referred to as "li'l bitch". Yeah, I don' t know. I do know however that he seems to think that I am a jungle gym. He does a lot of "interesting" things as I would assume do most 4 year olds. Sara refers to him as Creaton or the Hellion fairly regularly, but he's really a cool little kid. I think that he and Adrian would probably have a good time together although I might worry about some of the words he may try to teach Adrian. As for Alex, he's 11 years old and very well behaved (esp compared with Matt-Matt) he can be quite hyper (which is exaccerbated by my mom giving him candy in disturbingly large amounts) but overall and in general, he is just a little sweetie. And of course, both of them are absolutely gorgeous.
The other day, I went out and got the new Evanescence CD and it's really awesome imhop. Yesterday, my mom and I drove up to Gahanna to see Sara. We went to On the Border (which was really yummy!) and then Sara headed out to a Halloween party with a friend of hers while mom and I headed to Columbus with much confusion. Impossible as it is to believe we got a bit lost. I know...it's unbelievable! I'll give you a minute to recuperate from the shock of it.......
Okay time's up. So yeah...Columbus - High Street to be precise. It was remeniscent of Austin, especially since we (the OSU Bucks, that is) had just kicked ass in our/their/whatever home game. Yayness! We ended up going to a small-ish tattoo shop that REALLY reminded me of something on 6th Street (though it was on 5th Avenue - close enough, right?) and my mom actually got a tattoo. NOW THAT'S A SURPRISE!!! I'll take a picture of it and post it ASAP. I was actually quite proud of her. She (and this is the TRULY amazing part) didn't whine the WHOLE time! It is pretty small, but still...tattoos do hurt. She got a butterfly that she insists is "gothic". I just think it's pretty. Actually, it's a simplified version of the one in my pics on MySpace. Anyway, I'll post a picture soon. Isn't reundancy fun?! After her tattoo, mom and I headed home and got all turned around again when we missed our exit (which, I feel the need to say, I pointed out to her and she freaked out for some reason and went the wrong way) In the process of turning around, mom spotted a Mejer's (sort of like a WalFart thought they have those too) so obviously we had to go inside. Duh! Plus it was time for her to tend to the new tat, and she needed soap and lotion, etc. I found this spiffy Halloween costume that I really liked and was going to get it, but then discovered that it had been fucked with and was messed up. Poopy! Oh well, it's not like I'm going to go anywhere anyway. *shrugs* Anyway, after that, we stopped at an Arby's for "dinner" at midnight. Then we managed to find the right highway and headed home, listening to Evanescence all the way.I was amazed that I actually had quite a fun time with my mom. She cna be really cool, when she's not having a freak attack every two seconds. In any case, I enjoyed myself and we learned some interesting homeopathic remedies from the tattoo artist at Sweet Baby Octane.
Good times, good times. Hope everything's well back home...I know that my Dad and Callie are doing wonderfully. Everyone else needs to update me! I'll try to check back as soon as I can. I'm headed up to Tiffin to see my aunt Maria and uncle Steve tomorrow, and staying for a week, so it's likely that I won't check e-mail or anything for the next week or so. I'd love to have some info when I get back though. *hint, hint* Oh, and I don't know if my cell will work up there, since it's kind of in the boondocks, but if it does, I'll call people. Y'all know who ya' are. Take care everyone!!!!
