Monday night

Monday night blogging... kind of like my Sunday night blogging since it's a long holiday weekend with Memorial Day. Last week and this weekend was really busy... Wednesday we had Dog Day at the White Sox game, which was fun as always. We had a great time with Toby and it was a beautiful night for a baseball game... perfect weather. Then Thursday we had a big fancy-schmancy fund raiser for work and that was great. A huge turn-out, we raised a lot of money, and had another beautiful evening weather-wise and a good time. Then Friday we headed up to Lake Geneva to hang out with Jen and Andy at Andy's parent's vacation home up there. We stopped first at the Brat Stop up in Kenosha, which is pretty, um, white-trashy but also AWESOME and yummy food. We watched the Hawks game there that they won!!!!:) Then we headed to the house and hung out for awhile by the fire. On Saturday Andy and Seth went golfing and Jen wanted to go garage-saling so we did that. We had some great weather! Then we went out for a nice dinner and played board games Saturday night. On Sunday we left early to head to the Blackhawks game! I was so excited to be going and it was GREAT... until the game started. It was a horrible, awful game :( Very sad. Then after that we went to Glenn's BBQ, which is pretty fun. Today we just did some things around the house and went to Dad's to pick up Toby and have a yummy dinner.

Anyway, it's getting late and I kinda just want to relax.

Watching Hawks again...

Hello... Tuesday evening and watching the Blackhawks again... they made it to the next round -- Conference Finals! Hooray:) Which means, not only is it great for the team and exciting, but Seth and I get to go to a game Sunday!

I had a good weekend but a very busy next few weeks... Seth is done with his exam so I've had him around more, which is nice:) The weather has been really nice here -- it's very warm today. On Friday night, Seth and I went to the Potowatomi Casino in Milwaukee. We got this surprise $250 refund check from some Cook County Home tax exemption thing so, being responsible adults, we decided to go gambling:) We had fun, although we didn't do very well. The on Saturday, we went to Home Depot to get my flowers and I did most of my planting. I really enjoy my little container garden and it's looking really good this year ... then Saturday night we had Prom for my school... that was fun:) On Sunday I did chores and some more planting. Monday and today have been relatively un-busy but Wednesday I have the Dog Day White Sox game (hooray! It';s so much fun:), then Thursday I have a fancy fund-raiser thing for work, then Friday we leave to go up to Lake Geneva with Jen and Andy to Andy's parents' house up there. We'll be up there until Sunday when we have the Blackhawks game in the afternoon!!!

Well, we're going to eat dinner and then take Toby for a walk. More soon....

Watching Blackhawks

Hello... I'm watching the Blackhawks game. I WAS really enjoying it when they were up 3-1 like 10 minutes ago, but now it's tied... I really, really want them to win. At first, I thought it would just be great if they made it to the second round of the playoffs since they're a young team and haven';t been in the playoffs in years... but now that they're so close, I want them to win! Plus Seth and I have tickets for the next round! So I really want to go to a game:)

Anyway, this weekend, as all my weekends coming up, was busy. I had Maria's other shower on Saturday and then Mother's Day on Sunday, so I had to drive to the burbs twice this weekend. Plus this past week I had a conference for work, which was good and informative, but was in Itasca which should be about a 45 minute drive from me. Going in the morning was fine --- it was only about 50 minutes. But coming home it was raining and early rush hour and it took me TWO HOURS to get home. I am so grateful I live close to work. I could never do that every day.

At least things at work continue to be a little more reasonable... I won't say calm, but at least it's not like I have a million more things on my to do list than I can ever get to.

Seth's exam is tomorrow... he's studying now. As always, I'll be glad when he's done with the exam and I actually get to see him again. He generally stays after work to study and doesn't get home until about 11:00 and then on weekends he studies from about 11:00 AM until about 8:00 or 9:00 PM. I honestly have no idea how he does it. I admire him for going through it. Hopefully, hopefully he will pass this one and the one in the fall and be done!

Anyway, I want to watch the game... more next week!

Sunday Evening Blog

Sunday evening blogging.... I had a busy, but fun, weekend. On Saturday I had Karen & Shawna's party at Big Bar downtown, which was fun... they have VER big drinks and we just had a nice time. Then today I went to brunch and to see A Chorus Line with Mom, for her Mother's Day gift. We had a great time... it was a beautiful day out and so we were able to eat outside for brunch... the show was also very good; I really like that show... I've liked it even before I was born -- my mom saw it when she was very pregnant with me (like a week or so before I was born) and evidently I was kicking and moving the whole time. It was the start of my love of musical theatre:)

Things are slowing down at work, which is good. But I'm still busy with all the end of the year events like award nights and whatnot. Seth is still super busy with studying... I feel like I never get to see him. I will be SO GLAD when he's done with his exams.. I can't wait. Hopefully by the end of this year!!!

Anyway, that's about all to report. The next few weekend will be equally busy with different things so I have to take my few relaxing evenings (like tonight) when I can!

Anyway, Seth is home with our dinner and I'm hungry!