spent like 4 hours at the Er last night as dale has some inner ear vertigo thingy which makes him really really dizzy and stuff. remind me that when you are 8 months pregnant, 4 hours in the er on a stool in a hot room really sucks....no, really it does, since dale is sick we have done nothing this weekend, i went to the market and got food, went to the pool and floated the kids and spent the rest of the day getting my stomach kicked from here to kentucky by these kick boxing maniacs.

check out my new carLEGACY WAGON

May I say that I love the new Google toolbar from Blogger! It blocks pop-ups, fills in my email address etc in forms online and I can blog from anywhere on the web, mucho mucho gusto!

Busy weekend. Dale and I had a date nite and went to Sticks & Stones in Brookfield on Friday night. It was very very tasty-very. Then we went to look at cars. We are going to test drive a Subaru Legacy Wagon at the Acura dealership Tonight. It's pretty sweet, and darker blue, and stick (thank god)!

Saturday spent time with Dan who is here from Texas, was at Jeffs then went to the Pond to cook out and swim and play a crazy game of bocci (which turned into Sand Bocci and toss the ball 7000 feet bocci thanks to Muench).

Sunday we gamed here at our place and ate Yummy food from the deli (thanks mikey). Now this week I (Thankfully) have very little to do, no doctors appointments, no baseball games, and all I need to do is head into the office on Friday to go to a 1 hour meeting (and lets hope I feel shitty enough to just call in for it!)

Sprechen of that, I actually feel pretty crappy. Have a cold (gotta be from the pond), Im achy pretty much everywhere from the waste down (except my back doesnt hurt, go figure?) My boss is gone all week in CT so I'm not sure how much real work (new) I will get this week, looks like another week of updating the manual for training, yippie skippy!

bah, what a bust yesterday. We didnt get to get the 4d ultrasound, just a normal 3d ultrasound (albet with the new logiq 9's). We have a Cd rom of pictures, (if you want to see a few, email me and I will send you some) but they arent as cool as the 4d would have been.) Plus my nerve was acting up during the scan so I was in alot of pain on my back :(

We saw the girls fighting however. Apparantly my kid (baby "b") was kicking dales kid "baby a" in the crotch. Now this isnt really what was happening as they have a pretty thick membrane between them, but on the scan it looks like shes pushing the membranes and her foot was in the other girls crotch. and baby a had her hands up by her face, which was funny...i think we have it on the vcr tape of the scan.

the plummer is here now fixing our sink (we have a new one and a new faucet) and the cat is freaked.

Today will be super busy! 9am doctors appt, 11am carpet guy here, 3:30 ultrasound (4D whoo hoo), after that my dad is taking out our sink as we get a new one tomorrow, so tomorrow the plummer comes at 8:30 then i have mechwarrior at 6pm. one of these days i need a break. its getting pretty hard to move around, it tired me out to walk around sams last nite, bah!

busy weekend this weekend! Saturday went to the dump, the dentist, the kmart for a cooler, the grocery store (2x), and the booze store (the looks that I got being pregnant and carrying booze out were funny), and my parents house (2x) to pick up a grill and a cooler.

we got pulled over 2 seconds outside of my parents house for not having a front plate on my truck (i havent had a front plate since I bought it 2 years ago) and were let off with a "warning" to "fix" that.

we then had everyone over for the worlds largest BBQ/babyshower. Had many sausages this weekend, also some yummy spinich dip (thanks robin) and brownies (thanks robin and carol!). Played a rousing game of bocci in the backyard (the anti-reynolds beat the reynolds 12-10 thanks to my stunning 2 point last round)....then Muench, Mike, Dale, Jeff and I stayed at our place LATE to play munchkin and illuminati. Jeff brought over Papa Murphys-yum.

sunday mikey got a free 1/2 barrel (about 1/2 of it was left) from his bosses boss who had party on saturday and no one drank. sooo, dan, julie, mike, muench, jeff, jim, crystal, jake, nikki, me and dale went down to the pond to eat the leftover food from saturday and help finish the keg (except for me, I didnt help down warm MGD). I left around 4pmish and came back at around 7:30ish to find dale very very drunk in the pond with jake and mikey. went back home, got my suit and drove in to swim me and the girls out to the far raft to watch over said drunk hubbie.

around 8:30ish took my drunk hubbie home and make him mac and cheeze since he hadnt eaten anything but chips all afternoon.

2:am drunk hubbie proceeded to wake all of us up by throwing up in the bathroom. On a good note he did toss out the garbage can he puked in before coming back to bed.

3am drunk hubbie finally took some asprin like I told him too 4 hours before.

and now its 8am and I am working today.

plan on hitting the BB game to watch bucko coach in a few hours.

Bah its raining again and the kids are kicking me and I'm tired and sore from sleeping.
Im going back to bed.

So next week I am getting a GE 3d ultrasound Click here to see what they look like The cool thing is they can video tape the ultrasound and also put pictures on a blank CD-R for you. So next week I can email everyone pictures of the kids. The ultrasound is so detailed that you can see their faces, fingers, eyelashes etc..

Some of the people at work who were pregnant did'nt want to get the scan because they thought it would be too creepy to see what their kids looked like before they were born, which may or may not bother me, I don't know...

I know my mother in law is excited about seeing them, Dale's cousin had a 4d scan done with her first baby (and maybe the 2nd one, Im not sure....) and it is really amazing. So if you would like to purchase a lovely Voluson 730/Logiq 7 or Logiq 9 let me know, I can hook you up with a nice sales rep!

SAW T3 TODAY WITH DALE AND MUENCH, I MUST SAY, IT WAS BETTER THAN I EXPECTED. THE GIRLS EITHER REALLY LIKED IT OR REALLY HATED IT BECAUSE THEY KICKED THE HELL OUT OF ME DURING THE WHOLE FILM AND ARE STILL KICKING NOW...MAYBE THEY LIKE AH-NOLD OR MAYBE THEY THINK HES AN AUSTRIAN-UW STOUT GRAD-HAS BEEN, WHO KNOWS. VOTE IN THE COMMENTS SECTION!

BLOOD PRESSURE BACK UP NOW ITS 138/70, DAMN, THEY MAY STOP ME FROM WORKING. THANKS TO NANCY AND BREEZY FOR THE SWING WE GOT TODAY, SO CUTE, YOU TWO ROCK! HAVING GRILLED STEAK AND POTATOES FOR DINNER-YUM YUM.

Yet another lazy work filled day at home. Its now the end of the day so its very sunny in the kids room (where I work) so the cat is doped out on the floor in the sun and I'm pretty doped out here. Have spent most of the day working or resting, the kids are moving alot and I get tired easily....Dale coming home early this week due to July 4th so we may get to eat dinner early and hit the gym...!

Hello again. Had baby shower today, had a nice time, only downfall is my aunt doesnt have AC and I was hot....No biggie. We had alot of nice things given to us, which makes me realize how much more stuff we''ll need to buy eventually!

hello...today and last nite were busy nites...went to Johnson Creek with jeff and dale to play mechwarrior (dale won) which was good since he lost today at Hobbytown (woo hoo muench!) and was cheated at AGP tonite. I guess Eric decided to play a bigger army than allowed and Tim, Andy, and Dale were screwed. personally I wouldnt play with him anymore if I were them... I would just boycott him as a player. Now dale is at Steves on Bluemound with everyone drinking and (I assume) bitching.

News for everyone. Our Babyshower with all our friends is on July 12th, 2003, our place, I think 3pm, check with robin for details...if you didnt get an invite or an email invite, come anyways...bring lawn chairs, bring lawn games, bring sunscreen. We are registered at Target & Babies R Us hoorah.

tomorrow is visiting the kitty at the baumers, going to my aunts for the family baby shower and coming home with 100000 baby thingys which need to be put away. According to Jeff we will get more blankets than we know what to do with.

Tonight I was locked out of the house so I spent a few hours at Jeff and Kristys eating dinner, playing with Kieran etc...Went to the family house and lay down and finally dale picked me up to come home where I have been watching "seven" on tv. That was pretty stupid because now I am wired and cant sleep. ergo, I am blogging at 12:24am.

I also found a new sign of the end of the world, I guess Dennis Miller is now in Bush's corner for reelection, Click Here what has the world come to?

Hello! You can now leave comments for me on the webpage...Click on the comment link to leave a comment etc...Its been pretty crazy around our house the past few weeks. I'm pretty much on house arrest, working from home, trying not to walk around too much, laying down all the time...Its getting harder to get up off of things when im sitting or lying down....Ive been missing phone calls because I cant get to the phone in time (you would think i would just keep the phone with me...that would be too simple.)

Cleaning has become really hard too. I tried to clean the bathtub last nite (well I did clean it) it just was impossible to bend the right way to get it done quickly...I think thats the last time I clean the tub for awhile.

Ive set up shop in the babies room for my home office for the time being. Im on the big green comfy chair and the printer is next to the changing thingy and I have shit all over the crib and floors, its pretty humerous. The cat seems pretty pissed off that I'm in here since she has decided to claim this room as her own.

Speaking of cats, dales parents have a new kitten who is named squeeks. We are going over to see him on Sunday. Sunday is also the day of the 1st babyshower (relatives only)...Which means loading up the car with stuff.

Robin is throwing us a babyshower/BBQ at our place on JULY 12TH 2003!Come one come all, bring your lawnchairs, grab something off the babies gift list from target or babies r us and come eat brats and burgers and whatnot....We hope to play croquet or bocci in the backyard (hopefully mike can come and can bring his set), hang out, eat food, drink beer (for those of us who can drink) and generally be lazy with our friends!

Big good bye to Derek who is leaving for Japan in a month!

BLOOD PRESSURE IS REALLY REALLY HIGH, I HAD TO DO SOME BLOOD WORK AND WHATNOT AND I HAVE TO GO IN TUESDAY TO CHECK MY PRESSURE. I COULD HAVE TO GO ON BEDREST OR STOP WORKING SO MUCH OR SOMETHING, DONT KNOW YET. YIPPIE.

tomorow MW in the am, resting in the PM, maybe hit the gym.

dale is gone on his trip with our friend gary, his brother Mike and mikes friend. They left last nite around 5pm and should have made it to Michigan last night. havent been able to reach him on the cellphone yet, oh well.

today I went to westwood to swim this morning, which was nice, now im kind of achy, which is not nice because im busy at work (home).

tonight for dinner going into milwaukee to go to Oakland Trattoria with vanessa. Yum, then plan on coming home and going to sleep...no plans for tomorrow night, maybe get a pizza and rent a dvd or watch one of my own, maybe simpsons season 2? who knows....saturday we have mechwarrior in the am, nothing at nite...sunday gaming over here? with Jeff and co....hopefully dale comes home by then...

happy memorial day.

today we plan on hitting the gym (pool), heading down to mikeys pond for the annual dan and mike happy birthday/memorial day BBQ (looking forward to my cheddar brats), vanessa is coming over with josh around 2:30 (i think) to drop off my candles, see the cat, see the house...then dale wants to mow the lawn before he leaves for his trip to PA.

yesterday we did yard work. i edged the new flower beds, dale trimmed all the bushes (we now have a pile of branches all over the place.), and we decided to grill out BBQ chicken on our new miniweber grill (yummy and BBQ-y). repainted one of the new dressers and attached knobs, planning on painting the 2nd one today. watched the mavs lose to the spurs (which should make the pedens happy), went to bed.

back hurts a lot and dale says i am walking like a pregnant lady, which i think means i waddle.

we have girls names picked out, which is cool...i am almost done making the baby blanket, next thing to work on, bibs.

:) today i went to the doctor, have gained 20 lbs...interesting.. the babies are girls and we have picked names which are a secret....shhhh you cant know!.

kids are doing fine. we have finished the nursery (mostly) and are working on finishing the rest of the house...my dad in law said we may get new siding for free (yea!) and we get a new roof soon too (yea!).

im lazy and huge. i have no energy. im hungry. i find out the sex of the babies on tuesday the 13th. more then

HAPPY EARTH DAY EVERYONE! In the spirit of earth day, go outside, plant a tree, recycle your cans, take your bike to work, carpool with a friend, turn off your heat and open those windows! :)

IM HAVING TWINS. ONCE THE SHOCK OF THIS WEARS OFF ILL POST MORE

Doctors appointment went well in Thursday. I guess I have a large womb. I am not sure if that was bad news or not because the OB is a very wierd lady. Have an ultrasound next week Friday. I dont know if thats when we can find out if its a boy or not...whatever....

Puked this morning right out of the shower, very pleasant. Treat day at work, made cookies and taco pie and brought in candy and chips...all seemed to go over well. Alan brought in bagels. No plans as such for this weekend, maybe doing the D&D thing on Sunday...my guess is mr. dont call dont write wont show up, which isnt a big loss really, mikey may be paintballing so he may be out as well and I think muench is visiting Vic in Indiana this weekend....more later.

busy week, kind of....my fatherinlaw and his buddy are coming over to determine if we are eligible for free siding in which case we will do the house in white. then tonight dale is going down to agp waukesha to play robots with jeff and "kick his pansy ass all over the place" *evil laugh*. Ive been trying to find a decient feat to take all week. i guess we may (or may not) be gaming on sunday, but we will get together anyways and board game it. alans going to opening day tomorrow so i have to deal with no one to talk to at work about the goldfish...sigh

south park create a character THIS IS THE BEST WEBPAGE EVER!

went to doctor yesterday, heard the babys heartbeat for the 1st time, 160 beats per minute, i am giving birth to a rabbit or a bumble bee, as dale said "the smaller the animal the faster the heartbeat." and i think the animal in my belly is about the size of a very small mouse. i guess i am healthyer than normal, which is good, i have this huge iron count so that means i dont have to chow down on these icky prenatal vitimins as much (yeah!) i got some antibiotics for this awful cough which makes me puke more than i should. yuck. lets see, oh, im losing weight (wierd?!) yet my pants dont fit which i guess is also good. so thats all the news thats fit to print about the babykid.

tonight dale and i will be grocery shopping or cleaning or buying paint, fun

AND SO, I GO TO THE DOCTOR AND SHES GOT AN EMERGENCY AND SO I HAVE TO RESCHEDULE FOR TOMORROW AT 11---"IT GOES UP TO ELEVEN."
BAH.
HAD A NICE CHAT WITH THE TALKING DOCTOR THE OTHER DAY, HAVE A GOOD STRATEGY TO APPROACH THE KING GORILLA ABOUT THE KING OF GOLDFISH, MY BUDDY AL IS GOING TO GO AS WELL TO PRESENT A UNIFIED FRONT-WHOO HOO.

NEW ANGEL TONIGHT WITH THE DELIGHTFUL (HA HA) GWEN RAIDEN

today is the second doctors appointment....i think today they check the heartbeat and stuff and weigh you in and tell you to eat more veggies and fruit etc....i am wondering when they do an ultrasound? I guess there are no units in the office so you have to make an appt downstairs in the hospital...and according to jeff who knows all things baby (and even things you dont want to know about babies) dale should be there for the 1st U/S, ill try to email the pictures around if we get some....

check out my new favorite website, THE DAILY WAV.COM I hope laura is having a blast in San Diego!

busy weekend, green bay, appleton, brookfield, too much mechwarrior. Dale won in Appleton and Janesville so we have both toys...The BM in appleton had 2 fellowship awards and traded dale on the spot. Nice.

Lets see, Candle Party at V's on Sunday, saw Betsy and her mom, Josh, and The new kitties and Ali (who is huge!)-bought some candles (yum) and chatted with V for awhile...we havent seen each other in months!!! arg..her two cats, plus the dog decided i was a pillow-both cats were asleep on my belly (which is getting bigger) and the dog decided by thigh needed to be slept on...since when do animals like me that much?

sunday nite was eating homemade lasanga and doing the new puzzle and watching the oscars, it was nice that adrien brody and nicole kidman won...i absolutely loathe renee whatsherface so rockon nicole., my ankle is still swollen and hurted, i really miss advil.

sprained my ankle and ha ha, i cant take any drugs to make it hurt less...life without advil is no life at all.

Congrats to Kieran Reynolds! She now weighs in at 4lbs! You go Girl!

shitcanned on my ems review, joy....puked all day yesterday, more joy-get lunch with my old boss today at noodles and company (that actually will be fun!, loooooove noodles and co-mmmm penne pasta with sundried tomatoes and spinich and garlic!), almost all done moving in, need to take a trip out to oconomowoc tonight I hope!

had a fun happy time meeting with HR this am. the gist of it is all the managers hate me, but im such a good employee and im only a paper pusher anyways...i was so ticked i could scream.

was in florida for the week, came back on Thurs. aft noon. It was 80 degrees and no humidity down there. had a sun tan, had a massage, had a room with an ocean view. feel yucky due to being "off" all the time...Jeff and kristy had the baby on Thursday AM, little girl, 3 lbs 14 inches long....nickname of Kira...awwww

spent time at mechwarrior last night, played dale-won, played another guy who was the A #1 ass hole of the western world. Im boycotting him from all future games. yechK!

forgot one thing, we were woken up at 5:45 this am by the cat puking outside our door. nice job zazimonster

another busy day again, taking my lunch hour to visit the insurance agent in brookfield, then going home, then going back to brookfield for the campaign and cousins subs for dinner (yum) and in between all that working hard on stuff. i am in florida again next week and not excited about it....last night read a few chapters with dale of "wtewye" fasinating stuff, except for all the parts that are awful and freak you out...

busy day! back and forth between work and home, had ring bolonga for lunch (no katchup, what the hell!!!) dale is home sick with a headache :(

had a fun anniversary, a yum yum meal at Eddie Martini's< with some amazing steak and amazing cheesecake. I even discovered I like crab cakes-who knew??? Came home early and watched TV, fell asleep early, cat attacked my feet, work up at 5:15 am and couldnt sleep...Bah. Told everyone else about the baby and had to tell Robin via email, because she wouldnt pick up the phone.

now im in class for 2 days...bah

im pregnant, we expect to be expecting in late sept/early oct.
:)

Kristy back in hospital, I guess my huge pillow didnt help. Jeff says her back is pretty insane with the pain...feel better soon!!

told dale the big news last night, nothings more funny than the look on his face and the meatball sub dripping down his beard. I beat him at my first ever mechwarrior sealed box tourney-woo-hoo! Its his first lost ever. I kick ass. Dinner with the in-laws tonight, gaming tomorrow, dinner and a movie tomorrow, sunday-eddie martinis!!

Had a fun time over at the Reynolds'-Kristy isnt feeling well and its possible she may go back into the hospital until the baby is born :( Im dropping off a big pillow for her afterwork. I seemed to have developed a yucky rash on my right arm that can not be explained, it must want to match the one on my chest and the reddish burning dry skin thing on my face, all in all I must be a medical marvel.

hmm busy weekend again...mechwarrior last night, dale won...(again) today, dale at hobby town with mark playing mechwarrior (im sure he will win) while I stay home and show the apt to someone (hopefully they rent it) and then go to westwood to workout, then go look at appliances and hopefully go to a movie tonight. tomorrow at jeff and kristys for superbowl sunday...(as long as she is out of the hospital)

i have experienced a moment of total joy. his royal lameness no longer works at GE! whoo hoo. whole weekend of mechwarrioring, packing, looking at washers and dryers and superbowl partying is ahead of me

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tacos for dinner tonight. day off from work...had a nice day, anyone out there want to rent our apt? call me !!!

note to self; if you have the stomach flu, dont eat a bananna, drink a pint of Vitimin D milk, attempt to fly to florida. You will puke and It will come out your nose.

Long weekend....Thursday, Robots, went out for a drink. Friday Robots, went out for a drink at TGI FRidays at County Stadium, worst service ever.

Saturday, house inspection. Everything is A-OK and a go. We found a problem with the fuse box and reduced our price to $182k, we will see if they accept today....I must call our realtor! Saturday night we did something....oh yeah, we went and saw Marquette beat the snot out of Southern Florida state. A boring game till the last 16 min of Q2 when almost the whole team either fouled out or was injured. Funny. Then we went home to bed.

Sunday over to J&K's where we played board games and ate chineese. Went home with a migraine.

today got to work and had no desk. Waited around an hour for a desk and now have moved into my new office...which doesnt suck too much.

tomorrow, flying to Florida for 4 days for work (oh how HARD that will be to go there when its 11 degrees here)

Also a good vibes shout goes out to Kristy and Jeff.....Keep that baby girl inside you K, she dont wanna pop out just yet!

My parents kick ass, Dales parents kick ass. Dales parents are giving us a 10k check for our house as a gift and my folks will be loaning us the remaining money we need to put down 20% on the house. What a fantastic day!

Last night i won the campaign by beating up on a 10 year old. FUN FUN

this is the donkey quote of the day: "Time is meaningless and yet it is all that exists. –Very Morrissey." – [John Bach and Ben Browder from Farscape] which is from my new favorite website the daily wav.com

put up Muench's mechs for sale on Ebay....you can view my auctions on ebay, buy some of my old crap!

Dale and I bought a house last night....Heres our new address (sometime in March I think...)
You can view the house online (only an outside picture) at shorewest.com just search for this address...
2609 Algoma Terr, Waukesha, WI 53188-4635

Im pretty psyched we placed the offer at like 6:30 last night and by 9:30 our realtor called and said we had the house...Whoopie! I then proceeded to call my parents, dales parents and I woke up Jeff and Kristy (good one Mare, wake up the pregnant lady!)...

our lease is up at the end of April so I need to get someone to take over our apt....Anyone want to move in?

WE DIDNT GET THE HOUSE ON GONEHOME.COM, IM UPSET BECAUSE I JUST WANT TO BUY A HOUSE AND GET IT OVER WITH. BUMMER BIG BUMMER, I COULD CRY.

LONG TIME NO POST! BUSY WEEKEND, FRIDAY NITE DID SOMETHING ALONE AT HOME (WATCHED TV) DALE PLAYED WITH ROBOTS AND WON. SATURDAY DID ERRANDS, DENTIST ETC...AND WATCHED THE HORRIBLE PACKERGAME. SUNDAY TO JEFFS FOR GAMING AND YUMMY PIZZA ALA MARK FROM PAPA MURPHYS (IT WAS YUMMY, DID I MENTION THAT?) TODAY WORK WORK, NEXT WEEK, FLORIDA MAN!!!

FIRST POST OF THE NEW YEAR! had a fun time last night with Jeff and kristy. Played Munchkin and Trivial pursuit. Went to bed and slept till 9:30 then went back to bed at 10:30 and slept till 10 minutes ago when dale woke me up. I have no plans today except lounging around!

at home making turkey and stuff, waiting for the friends and the man, wanted to wish everyone a most happy new year!

Today I go to get my offer letter and put in an offer on a house. I am nervous and excited.

I am about to eat free chineese for lunch!

LONG WEEKEND, AN EVEN LONGER WORK WEEK AS DALE IS GETTING US UP AT 5AM NOW. I WORKED OUT THIS AM, WENT TO WORK EARLY, DRANK MY COFFEE (YUM) AND SPENT HOURS AT WORK PANDERING TO "HE WHO MUST BE CODDLED AT ALL COSTS." BLAH.

PUT IN AN OFFER ON THE HOUSE, YOU CAN SEE IT AT GONEHOME.COM SEARCH FOR CRESTWOOD HOUSE!!

LISTENING TO RASPUTINA, SIGH...LOVE THEM. ROSEK IS MY MOST FAVORITE SONG OF THIS ALBUM " HOW WE QUIT THE FOREST."

BACK TO THE GRIND!

Once again leave it to laura to give me a blog, I need to sum up my year in 20 words or less as per the Mayfly Project here goes nothing....

Married to my pal, worked, tripped to many places, saw the pedens (yea!). Excited for next year-new house.

thats 19, best I can do!

Back at work. I had a nice xmas with the Baumers, wearing my new striped sweater today :) Spent last night watching 2 episodes of Band of Brothers which is the BEST DVD that we own. Tonight we watch the last episode.

Had a great Xmas Eve, some nice gifts from my parents and brother. A nice check from my mom and dad for the house. Everyone seemed to like their gifts as well. Dale got me a puzzle, a calandar (the yearly standard!), a gift certificate for a water massage (YES!) and a puzzle. He LOVED his freakazoid picture! I RULE!

HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY! HAVE A GREAT HOLIDAY!!

Long Time no post! Had a busy weekend, Friday night met with our realator to go over house stuff, Saturday in Whitewater for family Xmas. Thanks to Robin for the Starbucks thermos (which keeps coffee flaming hot for over 10 hours, NUTS!) and the new Trival Pursuit game. Sunday we gamed at Jeffs-made dinner, yum. Thank goodness for the pampered chef cookbook, that Pecan carmel ring is YUM!. I think I lost at Fantasy Football to Mark (stupid Drew Bledsoe!).

Saw LOTR The Two Towers last night and it was GREAT! Spent 3 hours in line with Jim and Muench (cool), ate Nachos (Yum) and watched movie. Movie was SUPER!! Had a nice time with everyone....Jim had issues with the Faramir character, but what can you do....

Used my Amazon Gift Certificate. I bought the simpsons season 2 dvd, the austin powers dvd 3 pack, the fifth element dvd, and a book. A good shopping trip was had by all!

Today I am going to see LOTR: The Two Towers with everyone. Matt said Rockwell bought 100 tickets so I guess most of Rockwell will be there as well! I am leaving work at 3pm, heading to Oscars for a "early" dinner (or 2nd breakfast) and then to West Towne Ultrascreen to sit in line. I have a book, a crossword, and my cross sitch, also brought jeans and a sweater to change into so I am set. From what I have seen this movie is super cool.

Pretty rainy and yucky today. They better not have people waiting outside for the movie, there will be riots!!

hAPPY tUESDAY!

Today I got a 100.00 Amazon.com giftcertificate! This is so cool! I had chineese at Ching-Hwa with Alan (10.00 for the both of us, Quick and cheep!) and Dale is getting an X-Ray tonight! Fun!

No posts this weekend, it was a long and busy one. Friday night I went to my parents house, had a snack, helped make x-mas cookies, came home and was surprized to find my husband! He begged off Napoleons and stayed home. We ended up watching Band of Brothers on DVD and playing Warcraft 3.

Saturday we went to Madison to visit Robin! Ate lunch at Pedros (pedros pedros making Mex-ee-can!), went shopping for used books at The Frugal Muse bought the xmas gift for my in-laws, went home.....Mark and Muench came over and we had dinner (thanks to Harry and Davids for the ham) and played Munchkin Munchkin till the wee hours.

Gaming at Jeffs sunday and I lost in the playoffs to LeMarbre.

Happy Monday

WHAT A SWELL DAY!!! Today I got a gift basket from Harry and Davids from my friends at Pitney. It has a freakin' turkey in it plus a very cool Jazz Classics CD which I am listening to as we speak. It has coffee, chocolates, yummy fruit (and if you have never had a Harry and David pear you havent lived!) and god knows what else. It is now sitting in my truck being cold.

The disease is not getting better for either Baumer. Dale was dizzy and sick in the shower this morning, Mary is coughing and sneezing up a lung over here! I am really tired although I got alot of sleep last night...maybe sleeping with my cat is making me sleepier. She certainly seems to love to sleep with us!

I'm going to take my lunch break....Have a nice day everybody!

Back at work although Dale stayed home again today. Spent yesterday working from home, sleeping, blowing nose, being miserable. At work today in my new suit (whoo hoo) trying to catch up and not collapse from exaustion.

Dale and I are sick. really bloody sick. Both stayed home from work, both slept till 11amish...both waiting for the drug man (ie dr mcavoy) to call in with our magical drugs ( the zithromax 5 day pack!)

Long weekend and now I am sick not planning on going to work tomorrow as I think I have the flu or something.

Dale won on Friday, I took fellowship on Saturday AM, Dale took 2nd (another LE) on saturday afternoon and was creamed on Sat Nite at AGP. They (Jeff, Gary and Dale) went to The HOG and had drinks. We were supposed to see Robin Sunday but we didnt play anymore and both of us are sick :(

I need sleep. I won my fantasy game. The packers are down by 2.

Off to play with Robots today. Dale WON last night in Appleton, WI...and is now ranked 5th in the state!

Last night I used my new Pampered Chef Stone and Garlic Press to make a Herb Lemon Chicken Ring which Dale 100% approved of and I ate as well for lunch today. Damn, its tasty!!! Work today, sucked, I am busy. I don't see me being able to post very much in December.

I have the whole night to myself tomorrow, I am planning on seeing a show...Anyone want to come with me?

SOOOO BUSY AT WORK! I don't even have time to post anymore! I went to RSNAyesterday it was fun, my feet hurt and I had a headache but I got to take the train down to chicago, which is always fun, had a blast hanging out with Mary, Marika and Michelle. Tonight I plan on just chilling at home. Hoipefully working on Robin's Christmas gift. Happy december everyone

Back from Texas-Busy as heck. Quick recap: Friday made it home-Saturday Happy Birthday Dale! and visited with Bryce and family in Madison went to Mickeys for a Scrambler. Saturday Night, The Safehouse for Tim and Dale's birthday. Sunday, shopping for food, laundry, gaming (welcome Matt) and sleep. At work today at 5:30am. Yuck

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Last day in Texas. Got up, watched football, went to Joanne's house for Thanksgiving. They have a great tradition of signing the tablecloth at dinners and then Joanne embroiders the signatures! So cool. Flying tomorrow, I am so excited to be going home even though I have had a wonderful time!

Day Before Thanksgiving:

Today Dan and I kept it on the DL. Dan worked this AM, Dylan and I played computer games and chilled. Dan, Lizzie and I went to "Quicksands" for lunch (different),went to Berings for coffee and hammers, then the three of us went to the Spurs vs. Nuggets (a slaughter). Visted Dylan at Stonewerks (packed with a good rock-a-billy band) and went home for more AOE 2. Off to bed and to read my new Enders Game Book (thanks Dan!).

Finished American Psyco last night. That is one twisted ass book~

Today Dylan and I went to Austin, TX to walk around 6th street. We went and saw an installation at an Art Museum, saw the capital building (taller than DC by 1 foot) and ate buffalo wings at BW3 (thirty cent tues...). It was fucking rainy and cold 45 degrees so we stayed in, ate pizza from Romes and are wating the Spurs/Nuggets game. Dylan is playing GTA-Vice City and Alice. We also played Chez Geek. Tomorrow more Spurs vs Nuggets at the SBC center.

Birthday dinner, went and ate sushi, not as good as Nobu (thanks Craig, Mitch, Conrad and Matt) but tasty. Had Dairy Queen. Watching football.
Going to Austin tomorrow!
Mary

Today we chilled out at home. I woke up at 10am after sleeping 12 hours. Dylan and I went and ate mexican for breakfast at 1:30pm and then we played Space Munchkin and read books. Went out and bought a new video and playstation game for Dylan and have been chilling at home ever since.

Tonight we go out to dinner with everyone (either Sushi or Italian) for my birthday and tomorrow Dylan and I drive to Austin to see the clocktower and the campus.

I am pretty much ready to go home, I miss my cat.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME PART 2:

Went to a play with Art and Paula this afternoon called "Last Train to Nabloc" which was good. Even better because I had breakfast with the actors and the director. I plan on watching football tonight. Jeff is winning by 5 points Fuck Fuck Fuck

Day 4 or 5 in Texas. Today I woke up around 10:30am. Dylan worked till like 3:30 last night and he woke up shortly after that. Dan brought home breakfast tacos (a purely southwest-y thing) and I had a sausage one.

A breakfast taco (for those not in the know) is basically a gordita bread thing with eggs and meat and I think maybe some onion? All wrapped up and eaten with hot sauce. It was tasty.

Dylan and I then decided to go to Sea World as Fiesta Texas (which is Great America only in Texas) was closed for the season. (even though it was 75 degrees today?!) The 410 highway was moving as fast as the cars in the REM “Everybody Hurts” video (which is to say not at all) so it took us like 600 hours to get there.

We saw three shows, a Dolphin/Manatee/Diving Humans show (rad), a Sea Lion/Walrus/Otter show (very rad), and (of course) the Shamu The Killer Whale (read: Asshole of the Ocean) show.

Dylan was picked beforehand to be the volunteer in the show and he actually got this || close to the whale (I have this on video) and he got SOAKED!! It was very cool. We also went on the 2 roller coasters there, very cool.

Then we went home, had dinner (which Dylan made-yum) and then decided to go out for Saturday night.

We first went to Broadway Bar (nice, had a bunch of leather chairs and a big screen) played darts with Jason and Lesley (Dylans coworkers), got some free Schmirnoff Swag and then decided to hit the Riverwalk and go to Howl at the Moon which is a rowdy Piano Bar Howl at the Moon

This place was nuts, NVTS Nuts. Dylan and co. closed the place and we went home. Dylan and I stayed up till like 4:30am talking about um, stuff. It was also my birthday at midnight so Dylan bought me a shot.

Today I had brunch with Art, Paula and three actor friends of theirs. I am going to a play with Art and Paula that the actors are in this afternoon. Happy Birthday to me, more later.

day 4 in texas? I am losing track. Today was a wierd day. I slept till 11 am because I didnt go to sleep till 4am, too many cups of joe and pepsis at the bar and too much munchkin. Today Dan and Dylan and I went to pick up Dan's check from Burlington (which look like 30 min, what the fuck?) then went to the bank then went to IHOP (whoo hoo) for breakfast )(ate some odd mexican egg and steak thing, which sucked..but we had a hot waitress named Joi...) then we went to Burlington (just Dan and I) so I could buy clothes with his 20% off discount...Got some nice shite..

We then went to some gaming store so dan could buy Space Munchkin Check out Steve Jackson Gamesand some other game....Went back to Casa de Peden to play it, cool as hell. We then went with Paula to the new SBC center in San Antonio SPURSto watch the Spurs beat the Grizzlies. Had super great seats (Thanks to Univision 41 and Paula!)

After the game Dan and I went to see Dylan where he works Stonewerks caffe and Bar ate some Nachos and Mozz sticks, drank a nice Gray Goose and it was all compped (thanks Dylan and his boss!) went home and here I am.

Dylan gets off at 3am, we might go to either Austin or Fiesta Texas tomorrow. No idea which. I am off to bed, Love you dale.

Today is technically day three in texas as it is 3:14am. Dylan and Dan and I are playing "Munchkin" endless games of that...

I woke up at 10 am today and had salad for breakfast and talked with Art about The Alamo and his play and their cool house. Dylan did not come home last night as his girlfriend shipped (flew?) out for some place in Europe today (err yesterday)

Today Dan and I went out to lunch with his mom Paula and dad, Art. We went to Metropolitan (psudo french) outside in a shopping area in what used to be a Quary. I had Pumpkin soup (laura would have loved it! and this samich thingy which I picked at. We also saw the San Antonio Univision station where Paula works. We drove in an area of the city with these HUGE old houses (very New Orleans feel, one had a TOWER dale!) and then we went shopping in a artist area next to the Alamo. I bought a picture and talked with a potter about her craft. Saw the business cat, it looked like Zazi. Then we went to the Alamo. The Alamo is one big room, you cant take pictures inside, you cant wear your hat, you cant touch the walls. There is no basement of the Alamo.

Then we walked along the Riverwalk and into a Mall. It was a mall and it was loud.

That brings us up to 4 pm when my feet hurt and I got crabby and we walked back to the car. Went home-rested-played AOE 2. Met Tim, Tim is cool. Ate pizza, pizza is good.

Tonight went to a bar in a mall (much like La Tigre) listened to a bunch of people play Irish music, then Dan's friend Vanessa (her dad is the Mexican Consulate to the USA and she is from Equidor (she has Diplomatic plates which allow her to run over old ladies with impunity) and her friends Josh and someone else showed up. I ripped on them all night and they didnt get it, very sad.

Came back here at like i dunno, midnight and played endless games of Munchkin which I must buy. It is now like 3:30am and so I should sleep. No plans as yet for tomorrow.

Day two in Texas! yesterday I flew in and was late coming out of Atlanta (no big suprise) and Dylan picked me up. Dylan DROVE me back to his house but first we visited Dan at work and I bough shoes on his discount (cool sketchers only 12 bucks!) They have a beautiful house with a pool (which is normal cause everyone here has a pool!) We went to dinner theatre last night and saw Arts play, "Twigs" where he played an abusive ex-Army husband. It was very well done! Then Dylan, his date Amy, Dan and I went out to a bar called "swig" on the riverwalk had a glass of port (fontanseca bin no 27 no less!) then we walked past the Alamo at night (we couldnt get near it, guarded and all) I slept until 10am today and it doesnt appear Dylan came home last night! Dan is at class. As soon as I get on cable modem will upload pictures from last night!

This is the world's best webpage for sports, seriously!

Steve Czaben

I spend many a lunch hour at work reading this!

Hello world! Busy ass weekend! Didnt get to see Goran :( because Dale and I had a date night saturday (since Ill be gone for 2 weeks) watched The Lord of The Rings special edition very cool, made an Apple Pie (with ice cream-Yummy!) Today we gamed at jeffs, Mark is no longer blind but we are stuck in an alternate dimension (terrific).

Many congrats go out to Matt as he is getting married to Pat. No more news other than I lost at Fantasy Football.

Busy weekend ahead of me: Tonight I go to see Harry Potter! Harry Potter I am going to the4:30 show right after work. Yippie! Then I think I'll head home, do some cleaning and packing for TEXAS!! (T minus 4 days!) maybe eat dinner...Tomorrow is the Goran Show at Shank HallGoran Show and Im planning on going to see him, its only $10.00 so please come on down!

Sunday is gaming at Jeff's where luck willing Jeff will throw another Green Dragon at us (cause you know we love those!) -**mary

I am sitting in my hotel room in Pontiac, MI drinking tea and listening to Norah Jones. The detroit airport is fucking huge, they have trains in the airport zipping around over your head (will try to get a picture of that when I leave tomorrow) I had dinner (steak-mmm beef) in the hotel restaurant (impressive wine list, had to restrain myself from ordering a $165.00 bottle of Stags Leap {If Craig was here we would have had that bottle I tell you}) and went back to the room to find that Buffy had been preempted by fucking Redwings Hockey (fucking Michigan), I went up to the Concierge Floor (swanky) gazed at the "Honor Bar" which has more alcohol than is right, grabbed some free tea and cheeze and this little finger cookie thingy with raspberry Jelly in it....

I watched some of "The Professional" on the plane ride here. That is one of Dale's Holy Trinity of movies. Good plane fare.

Only 8 days till TEXAS AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!, so excited I could freak! Here I come Dylan and Dan!

Court hearing tomorrow early, then another car ride back to the airport, hop the plane, get into Milw before rush hour and go home. OH! The OT that i will clock this week!!

I am off to Detroit for work. "Shoot someone and tell them you're from detroit."-Wally Pleasant

Here is my snap of the xmas tree

I am trying to figure alt. ways to post pictures (so they dont take up so much space.)
Here is a link to the webpage i set up to view pictrues, if it works you should see the elusive boo-berry
MaryPage

Morning, happy Friday!

I'm planning on having some "me" time this Friday night. Dale is going down to play Robots at Napoleon's and Mary plans on doing the following:
1.Returning overdue movies to blockbuster (paying fine)

2. Going to see Sweet Home Alabama

3. Going to Target to buy a Christmas Tree (or if all else fails going to Walmart to buy said tree)

4. Putting up said tree

5. Keeping cat away from the aforementioned tree

6. Finishing Robin's Xmas Present

7. Cleaning stuff (like kitchen and toilets and floors and dusting)

My one best buddy is away from work today which will make the day LONGGGG and painful. Fridays at work are always LONGGG and painful since no one else in the business world seems to want to do anything either.

More Later

-**mary

Which Founding Father Are You?

Just back from having a nice lunch with my dad at Applebeas (which I hate but he loves their oriental chicken salad). He picked me up in his vette which just got waxed. They plan on waxing it again this weekend. My dad is a nut. Its freezing outside so I came in from the cold to go back to work and listen to Norah Jones on my laptop. This is an excellent CD. Seriously. If you have the means I highly recommend picking one up.

Back at work, mailbox not as full as I would have thought for being out for a whole day. Eating my bagel and waiting to start work. Have lunch with my dad today, which is like the 500th free lunch of the year (if you count work and work and lunches with dad and work) which means I am sick of eating out. How I long for Chef Boy R Dee out of the can, a nice homemade Peanut Butter and Jelly, with possibly crackers on the side, or mmmm leftover and reheated whatever I had for dinner last night.

These endless lunches out are killing me, food is no longer tasty and delish when I go out, its simply a chore. And that is sad.

on the good side I get to see my dad for the first time in like 3 weeks, thats always a bonus mouse.

Back to the grind!

Ok gang, here goes, my first attempt at posting a picture to the blog. If this works you should see Zazi, our cat.
I plan on posting pictures as often as I can (and as often as space allows) to share them. With my digital camera its too tempting to take 1000s of pictures.

any pictures you would want to see? Email me!
Mail me!

Halftime during the big Sunday D&D thingy....I lost my fantasy game :( but it is to mikey so thats ok, plus my big gun, Priest Holmes is out this week so its all good. In the middle to killing Drow somewhere in some cave somewhere north of Shadowdale. The boys are eating Jimmys Grotto (ponza's) and I had a sammich so I guess I get to sit down in Jeff's basement while every ones eats.

Happy Weekend everybody!

This has been a busy one for the Baumer Family. We had dinner out on Friday Night with Mark @ Oakland Tratoria (very yummy bread) after MechWarrior (Dale took 3rd, Mark took 1st), had dinner out last night (and lunch too! WTF?) with Mark S and Mikey at "The Pub" in Oconomowoc (very tasty steak) and today we are heading over to Jeff and Kristy's house to RP and eat pizza (maybe)?

I am trying to get over this cold I seemed to have picked up (again) and also working on making a Rooster in Cross Stitch for *someone* for christmas...

Yesterday Dale and I did some clothes shopping for Dale. He got a bunch of new sweaters and pants and shirts and underwears. I also got new underwears. I would have gotten new pants but the line at Lane Bryant was fucking stupid. I stood in it for 25 min, 7 people in front of me and 10 behind and it didnt move once. I didnt need those pants that bad.

-**mary

Lunchtime again back to the bottom 50 of the Top 100:

51. I like honey in my tea.

52. I dont vote Republican

53. I have never been to New Hampshire

54. I can name all the states in the USA in alphabetical order

55. I am easily frustrated when stuff does'nt work

56. I do not like Microwave popcorn

57. I am in 1st place in both my fantasy football leagues this year (knock wood).

58. I shut my finger in my dad's car door in the 4th grade and passed out from the blood loss

59. I love throwing bowls and pots on the wheel, ceramics is my thing.

60. I can center 5 lbs of clay to make a pot (a pretty big deal!)

61. I have a friend who is running in the NYC Marathon on Sunday-Go Craig!

62. I hate microwave popcorn

63. I have a lousy shortterm memory.

64. My favorite Tom Hanks movie is "Joe vs. The Volcano

65.My work has paid to send me on Trips to New York City and Pitsburgh, PA. They will also have to pay to send me to Florida, Philly and Michigan later this year!

66. I have testified in court.

67. I have only gotten one speeding ticket in my life.

68. I do not own a garlic press (much as I need one!)

69. I have a mailing list for my favorite band "The Gufs" which has over 10,000 people on it.

70. My favorite Iron Chef is Chen Kenichi

71. I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them Sam I am.

72. My dad knows how to braid hair & cook!

73. My family lives next door to an ex-governor of Wisconsin

74. I know Ron Dayne personally, he once bought (ie: got for free) me a pair of birkenstocks.

75. I am always sick

only 25 more to go whoo hoo!

Morning Morning time, its time to rise and shine so get your sleepy head out of your dirty bed.

Today will suck at work. Today is report day. I hate report day. Report day always provides me with at least one headache and 4-5 papercuts. last night dale and I went out to dinner with my in-laws to the Water Street Brewery in Delefield, WI Waterstreetbrewery Usually I enjoy eating there (they have fab homemade rootbeer) last night my meal was just, blah. It was a blackened chicken taco salad and for some reason, it just wasnt appitizing. I'm glad we ordered the 'bloomin' onion as an appitizer.

I think I am not enjoying the eating out thing because I eat out so much that all the menu items just kind of look the same and seem to blend into one another....

Today is "treat day" at work and the treats arent here yet..Hunger calls I need to go scrounge up breakfast.

-**mary