This Sure As Hell Ain't Normal, But We Deal, We Deal... -PANIC! At The Disco

This week just seemed to fly by. The end of the Florida trip went well. We basically relaxed and socialized Wednesday, cleaned house Thursday morning, and were in transit home Thursday afternoon and evening. While we were all sitting around on Wednesday the family was swapping some pretty interesting stories. This particular story was about my grandma:

Yes, she's really as sweet as she looks. Anyway, apparently she was watching Erin Brockovich a while back. I guess there's a part in the movie where Erin produces an enormous number of signatures or something along those lines. A co-worker asked how she got all of those, and Erin says "I gave 200 blow jobs today." So dear, sweet, soft-spoken grandma was recapping this story on a car ride with daughters Mary and Kathy and their husbands, and grandma follows up, "doesn't that just sound like our Kathy?" Dear, sweet grandma had no idea what a blow job was. From what we can tell it was supposed to be a compliment, like "our Kathy, what a go-getter." Not quite the same effect...

Home has been nice so far. Friday afternoon before I had to work we went out slalom skiing for the first time this summer. It was a great time, but I'm clearly out of shape: my body STILL hurts and it's Sunday. Even little things like walking up stairs makes my legs ache, and shifting my car into 6th and reverse has become a pretty tough task for my wimpy little arm muscles. Long story short, I'm pathetic.

Last night I went to boyfriend's football game. They lost terribly. LIke, 25-0 terribly. Ouch. What do you say to that? It was their first game of the season, so I'm chalking it up to "working the bugs out." If anyone has free Saturday nights and wants to keep my company at the games, that'd be super.

Off to work. A+ for me for finally getting this out while it's still Sunday!
Rebecca~

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAPLAN!!

Miss you!!

The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful! - Jimmy Buffett

Greetings from Florida! This is the first access to internet I've had since Sunday, so I thought I might as well send out a mid-trip update while I was managing all of my other messages.

Last Tuesday was a great farewell to Wisconsin. I got to spend the afternoon on the lake just enjoying the weather and my company (Brian), then went out the dinner and spent the evening with the boy as well. Wednesday the rain ruined my lake plans as usual and I spent the day inside cleaning instead. I of course put off packing for our trip until about 10 PM.

We got up bright an early to get to the airport. Usually 4 AM is closer to my bed time than my wake-up alarm, but apparently today I have to run on the rest of the world's clock. We had what I would consider one of my best-timed trips to the airport in all of my travels: we arrived, parked, walked to check-in, checked in, made our way through security, and arrived at our gate, and we only had to wait about 5 minutes before they started boarding. For some that's too close for comfort, but for ME it's confirmation that I wasn't needlessly awake when I could have spent more time sleeping.

Most of our time down here has been spent at my Aunt Kathy and Uncle Ralph's home, in and around their lovely saline pool. I've been here 6 days and I'm way past spoiled. A few trip highlights: Saturday night my Uncle Tony's band was playing at this restaurant/bar place in Daytona Beach. I have photos (many) if anyone is interested. Monday we rented a pontoon for the day and spent 8 hours on the water in the sun looking for gators and manatees. The quest produced lots of gators and suntan, but no manatees. Again, I have plenty of pictures. Today we putzed around at a few of the local establishments, hit up the beach, and spent more time at Aunt Kathy's. Tomorrow we're heading into Daytona, and we're flying back Thursday evening.

I hear my Wisconsin readers are enduring hotter and more humid weather than we are down here in Florida. Overall it's been in the mid 80's to mid 90's and less humid than I remember. It's only really rained once while we've been here. Overall it's been great.

Until next week,
Perkalicious~


(Sorry, no time for links and whatnot!)

"These Days, These Nights, Are So Ordinary" -Lucky Boys Confusion

Thursday I finally got to go get my oil changed, and rather than sit around and wait for them to do it, I decided to test drive some cars at the dealership. Just for fun I asked if I could take the 2006 edition of my car out for a spin. If you have a spare 30 minutes or so, I highly recommend test driving one for yourself. Lovely.

Thursday night we had sand volleyball again. Just like every week so far there were some new additions to our line-up, but at least we had 6. A narrow 26-28 loss in the second game, but we took the match in game three. Every week we play I see more and more people I knew from high school. Don't get me wrong, it's nice seeing people I know, just a little weird since I'd never seen anyone I knew the past two years playing there.

Once again on Friday I have big plans to go out on the lake and get some sun, but the sun was less that cooperative. Instead I cleaned my room. Fuuun. (not)

Saturday was our first concert of the season at Alpine. Jimmy Buffett put on a great show, I think, although I was all near the top of the hill and working through the performance. I work at the Import Station where we have 25 different beers for sale, most of which are imported and not twist-off tops. About halfway through the show somebody decides that they need my bottle opener more than I do and walks off with it. THAT made the night interesting. The stage looked pretty festive, but not as much as previous years I didn't think.


The other interesting thing was that we weren't allowed to give out ANY bottles, even if they were plastic, which meant we had to pour everything into cups and throw the bottles away, We had one garbage can. That filled up around 7 PM. The best part was that we kept asking for things that would help us do our job (change the garbage, another garbage, LIGHTS), but nothing ever got done. Here's Jamie (the girl I work with) and I with our semi-cleaned stand at the end of the night.



Yesterday night I was at Roma's again. The remodeling is looking really nice. The main bar is at the point where we can no longer serve from it, though, so we're transferring shop to the banquet room bar. The old flooring has all been ripped out of the main bar, and they are laying the new tile. Rumor has it they will be able to be back in and operating on Thursday. Too bad I won't be able to see it for it's big debut: I'll be in florida with my mom visiting family.

I'll try to send out another update while I'm there, but we'll see what internet options I have. Have a great week! I hope everyone (in this area) enjoys this great weather we should be having!

Rebecca~

Hey baby, you like fine cooking? Cuz you know what? I've got a Swanson dinner in the freezer...with your name on it!

Oops, what do you know? It's Wednesday already (Friday by the time this made it to my blog). The beginning of last week was slow. As far as I knew the whole week would be slow, just out on the beverage cart on Thursday. When I got into work, I found out I also had to be at 7 AM on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Always nice to know. That made Sunday a nice long day, working from 7 AM, then driving straight to Roma's and working until close there. I also worked last night, which is why I don't think I remembered to write this until today.

We WON in sand volleyball this week. It musta been all the great fan support we had. Thanks to Jamie and to Katie & Co. for coming out. We play again this Thursday -- er tomorrow -- (in Wind Lake at Kelly's Bleachers II) at 8:30 if anyone is free.

Monday was a pleasant surprise from Steph: she stopped to visit me on her way up to her apartment in Ripon from her home in IL. We went to Sauce in Milwaukee for dinner Monday night. By dinner I mean food at 9:50 PM, which in our case was dinner. If you've never been there, I highly recommend it. We had great plans to go out on the lake Tuesday, but did the weather cooperate? Of course not. Rained until about 10 or so and was sunny for a little while, and as soon as we got out on the water it was overcast with a chilly wind. Figures.

Saturday night I went to the Troy Center street dance, and that was quite the high school reunion. I saw one girl there, Lindsey, with whom I went to the same preschool in Lake Geneva and we both coincidentally to move to East Troy in second grade. So we catch up a little; she's married now. Another girl from my high school class who I saw is as good as married. When did all of this happen?! I have to admit I felt kind of behind...

Our first Alpine Valley concert is this Saturday: Jimmy Buffett. That should be a pretty good crowd for everyone to get in the swing of things. Since my stand is the only one that sells Corona, we always hope this show will be a good one for us, but it fluctuates. Wish us luck!

Rebecca~

P.S. Happy Birthday to Mary (uh, Wednesday)!