Even since Connie made a post about going to Red Lobster and eating crab legs dripping in butter I have been wanting to go. So guess where we went for dinner last night? We figured we'd better go before the girls came home, they really do NOT like seafood. Even though they have other stuff there for kids that isn't seafood, I just don't enjoy my crab as much with the girls looking at me telling me how disgusting it looks. lol When we walked in Anthony was sleeping in John's arms. We sat down next to the lobster tank and it didn't take him long to wake up. John showed him the lobsters and Anthony looks and looks. Finally he says, "Oh, those are big bugs!" All night I had to convince him that I wasn't eating bugs. lol He wouldn't even try it and I know he would have liked it because he eats smoked salmon with Bill all the time. We ate way too much and as we were leaving Anthony points to the Red Lobster sign and says..... "Look, Crab Legs!" John tells him that it is Red Lobster and Anthony says, "Oh....Red Monster!" ROFL What a goof.

We went shopping for school supplies last night. The girls are almost home and I was going to wait until they got here but we were in Target and I actually found their school supply list there! You know how they post all of the local school supply lists right in front of all the school stuff? Every year I look for a list for our small town school and every year it is never there. There are lists for every small town in the area but ours is always missing. It was always annoyed me. So, when I saw it there last night I was so excited I just had to shop! ROFL It seems like these lists get longer every year although Brittany didn't seem to need much. She didn't even have crayons on her list! That really bothered me. She is going into 6th grade not high school. I am not ready for crayons to not be on her list! So of course I bought her a box anyway. lol I found an awesome Tony Hawk notebook so I had to buy it for John's nephew. The weird thing on Brittany's list is that she needed 5 bottles of glue! 2 tacky glues, 2 rubber cement jars, and 1 huge glue stick. What in the hell are they going to be doing with all that glue?! Another weird supply is baggies. I had to buy snack size, sandwich size and gallon size bags. This is the third year or so they've been on the list and I STILL have no idea what they use them for. Of course the whole time we are shopping John is loudly muttering that when HE went to school all he needed was one pencil and one notebook. He had all of the mom's laughing. Where were the dad's? I have no idea. There were only mom's there. They must have been smart and left their husband's at home so they didn't have to listen to the same muttering! ROFL

We didn't get to watch the fireworks for the pyrotechnic convention because we had a huge rain storm. They rescheduled it for tonight but guess where I will be? An hour and a half away at the casino on a limo run. Oh well, they usually come every other year so hopefully I'll be able to see it next time.

OMG, that was a long post I made earlier this morning! ROFL I think I was delirious from lack of sleep and kept rambling and rambling! hehe Well, since I'm more awake now, somewhat, here is my Friday Five.

1. Do you have a car?If so, what kind of car is it?
I have a 1995 Chrysler Town & Country Minivan. Wow.....isn't that sexy! ROFL

2. Do you drive very often?
Yeah, mostly hauling the kids around to one thing or another. Although when we go places as a family John always drives.

3. What's your dream car?
A '65 Mustang, although I did once have a '77 Firebird that I loved. I really miss that car. I wouldn't mind having it back.

4. Have you ever received a ticket?
Yep, two of them. Once for speeding plus I was fined for not wearing a seat belt and another time I was driving Bill's truck and got pulled over for having expired tags and although the tags turned out to be in the glove box, I got another fine for not wearing a seat belt. Can you say stupid? Sheesh.

5. Have you ever been in an accident?
Not while I was driving although I was in two accidents with my mom when I was a kid. Once we were driving with a friend of hers and she rear ended somebody, that wasn't too scary but another time my mom was going through an intersection and somebody ran a red light and hit us. Luckily she always drives those great big granny cars, I think it was an LTD, and although there was some damage to the car we were ok. Nobody really wore seat belts then and I remember my head crashing against the frame of the door, luckily the window was all the way rolled down but I had a headache for days. I did once hit a deer though...does that count? The deer ran off but I was driving a crappy astrovan and my radiator cracked along with a few other vital car parts. I felt bad about the deer until I found out how much it was going to cost to fix my van then I was pissed.

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

I finished my ad last night. It's not one of my best ones, but considering I had less than 24hours notice I guess it's not too bad. Today I have just been trying to get some laundry done, seeing as how I won't be home tonight. I am driving a group to the casino and won't be home until 3am and early tomorrow morning I have an all day run driving a bunch of people up to Otter Tail to go tubing. At least I don't have to wear the tux tomorrow because it is supposed to be really, really hot.

I got a letter from Danielle today. They went to the beach over the weekend. She isn't a real beach person, she is afraid of the waves, but she said it was fun. I am so anxious for them to come home, only five more days left! I still haven't bought any school supplies. Hopefully I will have time on Friday.

Well, so much for my boring day. I talked to my mom shortly after I posted last and was told that a limo ad for the Bridal Fantasy's newest publication needs to be finished by tomorrow morning. Of course, nobody thought to tell ME about it, even though I am the person who does the ads! So I have been scrambling for pictures and such but just can't seem to come up with anything I really like. It has to be weddingish and to be honest I must have wedding burnout because I just can't get in the mood! lol So I will probably be at it all night although I think I might go sit outside and listen to the loud, rumbling, boom of the Pyrotechnic Convention taking place not too far from here. I had forgotten it was coming to town. Their shows are beyond awesome. I have to drive tomorrow night and the night after is Jessica's 21st bday party so hopefully we will be able to go to the show on Friday night. Watching from the front porch just isn't the same.

Not much going on today. I have been trying to motivate myself into cleaning out the kids' closets and boxing up clothes/toys they no longer use. My mom had a call from my grandmother and I guess my Uncle Jessie (he is a few weeks younger than me) and his wife and five kids have moved in with her because they have no where else to go. I'm sure they could use the clothes and the toys would hopefully keep them out of my grandma's way. She's not a real kid type grandmother and I'm sure she's driving them nuts. My mom said she would pay for me to ship the stuff to Colorado, so now all I need to do is get it together. Unfortunately, I really can't seem to motiviate myself to do anything. I did find this at LaLa's and figured it would at least fill up empty space. You need to describe each item with a two word phrase:

Your home - Country Chaos
Your car - Minivan Extrordinaire
Your job - Fulltime Mommy
Your Significant Other - Sexy Workaholic
Your Family - Cherished Crazily
Your Friends - Select Few
The Internet - Unbelievably Slow
Television - Cable Free
Books - Escape Routes
Today - Muggy Boredom

Thanks Irma for the book recommendation. :-) I went and bought another Marian Keyes book since I finished "Watermelon" a few days ago and really enjoed it. After dinner, we went out to eat Chinese food with my mom, and then we headed over to Barnes and Noble and I bought two new books, one of them being "Last Chance Saloon". This should keep me busy for at least a few days. lol

Oh, I also cleaned up a few of my inactive blog links. If your blog is no longer listed it's probably because the last link I had for you is no longer working. If you are still blogging and I just didn't catch your new URL please send me an email and I'll be sure to add you. :-)

Yesterday was our "one month" anniversary which of course neither one of us thought about until half way through the day! John did surprise me with breakfast in bed. Isn't he sweet? lol....but of course don't tell him I told you so. hehe We had a very lazy Sunday, we did absolutely nothing. We watched tv, played with Anthony and read. It was really nice especially after my limo run from hell on Saturday!

The people I had were really nice (it was a wedding) but there were too many of them and they were too big! The air suspension in the car gave out halfway to our destination and the drive shaft started dragging. Next thing I knew, the back of the limo was filling up with smoke from all of the friction. I had to have John meet me at the bar where we were going (they were doing a bar hop before their reception) to see if he could fix it. The people were not very happy and I don't blame them. Unfortunately, there was just too much weight in the car. So we had to put one guy in front with me and a few drove with John in our van. These guys were huge, like football player huge and I had 9 guys and the bride. She was very sweet about it, actually they all were nice considering. But I was majorly stressed and was so happy when Nathan came to my rescue (again) and took the late part of the run in our largest limo to make up for it.

Not much going on today. I guess I should get something done considering I didn't do much of anything yesterday. The girls will be home in a week! Which is a good thing because Anthony is driving me nuts asking where his sisters are. Have a great day and Happy Monday!