I am so so tired. I really have no idea why I am even out of bed. Well, except for I had this horrible dream that something happened to Anthony and he was really hurt and I couldn't get help. The dream in reality was really stupid and could never happen but I woke up with my heart pounding and freaking out because it of course seemed so real! Isn't that the worst? A dream that one of your kids or a loved one has been hurt or has died? I thankfully can't remember many dreams that someone has died but my mom has called me before in tears because she had a dream like that about one of the kids and had to tell me so that I could tell her that the kids are all ok.

Anyway, now I'm awake so I thought I'd write about my very long day yesterday. It actually started at 3am when I finally got home from my casino run the night before. I knew I had to be up by at least 8am because I had an early morning run but of course that made it even harder for me to fall asleep. By the time I fell asleep it was about 4:30 and when John was getting ready for work at 7:30am I jumped out of bed because I thought I was late. Anyway, I was up and ready to face an all day run. It wasn't until we picked them up that I realized it was for the owners of my favorite restaurant. They were treating most of their employees to an entire day of fun. We picked them up at 10am and drove them down to Detroit Lakes where they ate at Zorbas and then we took them to the Otter Tail River so that they could go tubing. I was following Joe (he had the 24pass. coach). When we got to the place where you rent the inner tubes we found out that we had about 3 hours to kill before they were done. So we headed back to Detroit Lakes and sat in Perkins for a few hours while we had lunch and talked.

Guess what? Joe got married last weekend! He met a woman in Canada on the internet and has been going up there often to see her. It was actually only a small ceremony with her family and his children, but it wasn't legal because they have to go through all the paperwork to get permission for her and her children to move here to get legally married. Looking at how happy he was, I guess the legal crap doesn't matter, in his heart he is married and was proudly showing off his gold band. :-) He hasn't really told anyone because he wants to keep it fairly quiet until it is official. But I warned him that I can't keep secrets! lol and besides, you're not gonna tell anyone, right? lol

We finally headed back to the river to pick up our party. At this time it was about 4pm and I was looking forward to my 5:30 drop off because due to lack of sleep and the heat and humidity I was exhausted! And I still had Jessica's 21st Birthday to go to. I figured I'd be home by 6pm in time to shower and have the limo pick me up at 7pm. It was at this point that I heard the owner talking about taking everyone for ice cream. I don't think I mentioned the real fun of tubing down the river. You take coolers and coolers of alcohol and just lazily float down the river getting as intoxicated as possible. I think our group had more coolers than people. They were definitely having fun. So it turns out that I had the owners in my limo plus the employee's that had been with them the longest and they wanted it for the rest of the night. I explained that one of my best friends was having her 21st bday party but that I would do my best to find a driver to take the rest of the run. They were really nice people and having so much fun I didn't want to ruin their party, so I drove until 7:30 taking them bar hopping until another driver showed up to take over. At this point I was tired, hot, stressed and just wanted to go home and go to bed. But of course I couldn't because it was Jessica's birthday!

I don't think I've blogged much about Jessica. She has been best friends with my little brother since they were in 4th grade. I can't even begin to describe their friendship. There is a love between them that is so obvious but they love each other too much to ever date. John thinks they will get married someday, I don't think so but it doesn't matter because she is already like my sister. She is the cutest, sweetest thing, although I guess she can be a bitch if you piss her off, which of course means she fits in well with my family. ROFL Her mom lives down the street from my mom and lately we have all been spending a lot of time together. Her mom was a lifesaver again and again as we planned for the wedding. I'm telling you, if John turns out to be right and someday they get married we will have the perfect inlaws! So we hung out at Granite City where Jessica works and drank with her friends there and had something to eat. Jessica was upset because she hadn't heard from her two sisters. They live out of town and have new babies and husbands and are planning to be here tonight to celebrate but she still felt bad. After hanging out for awhile we headed in the limo over to Playmakers where my friend Dave's band was playing. It always amazes me when I see all of the girls going wild over him. We worked together about 5 years ago and became really good friends. Even after not seeing him very often he waves at me from on stage as soon as he sees me walk in. He is such a sweetie.

Jessica knows him because they work together at Granite City. I of course had to tell him it was Jessica's bday and after she was pretty well plastered he got her up on stage to sing Happy Birthday to her. It was hilarious. She kept putting his hand on her ass and he was so embarrassed he kept moving it. After the song she told him to announce that she was looking for a hottie which he of course did. Half the guys had their hands up in the air yelling and those that didn't probably only didn't because their girlfriends would have killed them! lol One guy jumped up on stage and started dancing with her. It was quite a fun night. I must have danced all night, although most of it was dancing in front of John while he sat in his bar stool because the dance floor was too crowded and everyone was taking their drinks up there and of course spilling them everywhere. I'm surprised no one slipped and cracked their head! lol.....is that the mom in me coming out? hehe At one point Jessica almost made me cry when she was hugging me on the dance floor. She told me that I was the only sister she had that showed up for her birthday. I told her not to feel bad because she is the only sister I have right now. I'm so glad she had such a wonderful birthday. I won't even spoil it by telling you how shitty she felt on the limo ride as we took her home. :-) Hopefully she won't remember that part! ROFL