David Classics

Today is the 10 year anniversary of a good friend of David's from college. I personally just met Neda and Kypp end of last year but David has know them since college and was privileged to be in their wedding. Neda posted some pictures on her blog so I took the liberty of "borrowing" some with David. Funny how much guys change! Both David and Kypp look so young in the wedding pictures and so much more grown up now! Not old, mind you - just more... mature.


Congratulations to Neda and Kypp on 10 years!


Kypp and David



All the men in the wedding party...



And here's David now...

How I spent my Memorial Day

David and I decided to take the dogs to a State Forest for a light hike. It was a place we'd never been before but we have directions!! Interestingly, the Garmin didn't recognize the address... that tells you that you are truly out in BFE...

David went to a NY website and there was a link to get a map from mapquest to our destination. He printed them out. He also printed out the blurb about the forest itself - just for some fun info.

We drove and drove, turned around a few times, and finally consulted my NY state map book. Needless to say the mapquest directions were WRONG! Luckily the blurb about the forest included general directions at the end. We had to backtrack and follow those directions to get us where we needed to be.

However, the detour did provide us with a great drive through the country. We passed many fields of cows - or Moos - in our house. David and I were commenting on the cows when we came across yet another field of cows the follow exchange occurred:

me: Look, they're Amish!

D: how do you know??

me: because there's a plow hooked to two horses ( I said in a confused voice...)

D: OH! I thought you meant the cows were Amish!

really???

Orlando - and the reasons you might want to skip alcohol

Last week I was in Orlando for work. I know, I know, tough life... Not only was I in Orlando but our trade show was at the Coronado Springs hotel at Disney World. It was just me and one of coolest sales reps, the RV queen!

On the last night at the show RVQ and I went to dinner with some of RVQs friends - so it was super casual... For the record I was in khaki shorts, a "Life is Good" t and my Keen sandals. (you know, the ones that look hideous because they cover your toes, but are very comfy!!)

Let's say adult beverages were enjoyed by ALL before and throughout dinner. Then one guy with us suggested going to a night club, conveniently located in our hotel! Why not?! While at the "night club" I drank lots of water but was livin' it up dancing. Sometimes people in my group would dance with me... sometimes not. Although not trashed, I looked like the poor drunk girl dancing by herself on the floor a few times. It's just because everyone else wasn't participating! There were other people at the club that would get up some. (a gaggle of girls would hop out every once in a while.) And apparently I got a few strangers to get up and dance too. ("You look like you're having so much fun and you're out here practically by yourself! We decided to dance with you!")

BTW - I had a LOVELY BBQ stain on my T from dinner. I was one classy broad, lemme tell ya!

It just so happened that on this trip some bonding on one of my front teeth broke off. Make me one REAL CLASSY, TRASHY broad!! So I had already called the dentist before I even got home to schedule a repair.

Monday morning I show up early at the dentist. One of the hygienists looks at me and says "You were in Florida this weekend!"

Um... how'd she know???

She continued "you were at Rix night club on Friday night!!!"

Holy shit! How'd she know that? And oh my god!! I was probably making an ass of myself!!

How's this for interesting... she was in Orlando for a friend's wedding and all the gals (the gaggle of girls I saw) went out to the night club! She saw me and didn't know my name but knew she recognized me some how. Then totally by coincidence I happened to have an appointment at her office Monday morning and she put it all together!!

WEIRD!!!

Never assume you're somewhere where no one knows you.... especially if alcohol is involved!!!!

New neighbors

It just so happens that we no longer have a nest-o-Robbin eggs in our bush anymore. (see previous post.)

We now have new neighbors!!!! Little birdie babies!!!

Entertainment

Like my friend Neda, we have some "friends" living in our yard. We thought we had a bunny or two living under our shed since we moved in almost 5 years ago. It used to be our form of entertainment to watch the dogs bark at them through the sliding glass door - or better, let the dogs out and watch them go leaping off the deck to chase them.


I was never worried - those bunnies are MUCH faster than our dogs - even speedy Nikki.


However both dogs are getting up there in age and aren't so amused with the bunnies anymore. Or maybe they're so used to getting outrun that they aren't as interested the in game...


But alas - David called me the other day to inform me we, in fact, do not have 2 bunnies living under the shed. We have FOUR! He happened to see them all out at the same time. About the same time he noticed one of our holly bushes was DEAD... I hope the bunnies had a good feast...


And then the other day he sent me this:



We've been wondering why we hear birds chirping so loudly lately, even when the windows are closed! This nest is in our bush in the front yard. I just hope the neighborhood kitties don't bother it!! I'm temped to have D put some snow fencing around it to allow the birds access but keep out cats. (side note - our cats are all indoor, but we do have "Ace" that belongs to an unknown neighbor and roams the neighborhood.)

More of Corporate America

In the latest of corporate whining...

my boss walks in this morning giving me feedback of a few changes he thinks needs to be made to piece of sales literature for a new product we're launching....

...never mind he's reviewed this piece a few times already over the past 3 weeks (or so, probably longer...)

...never mind he approved the final version for printing...

... never mind he just signed the purchase requisition to get 3,500 of them printed...

... and never mind they are probably on the printing press as we speak...

And as he's told me before (although he didn't say it now - but I like to think of it as how he operates...)

"I don't want to hear about the labor I just want to see the baby."