Facebook

So I created a facebook page a while ago.  I just started using it within the last month or so.  There are some parts of it that are incredibly addictive.  There is this program Hatchlings.  It had previously been called Easter Egg Hunt.  Anyone that has added the Hatchlings application gets a basket.  Easter Eggs are randomly placed in the basket.  Your mission to collect the eggs.  It is really addicting trying to find eggs.  I am currently in 5th place in the Pittsburgh network with I think 398 eggs found.  And the eggs that you find can hatch into these cute little animals that you then can feed other eggs to (they each need something like 9 eggs to be completely happy, if they go to zero they run away).  I have a slight problem though.  I find too many eggs that all of my hatchlings are completely happy and so are all the hatchlings of all of my friends.  

I try my best not to send Applications to my friends that don't have them on there, because I know some people like them and some don't, but if anyone does join I'll be sure and send some cool eggs your way.  

The pizza song/dance from the wedding

The pizza song
Originally uploaded by Bowlergirl81

I forgot to talk about the other wedding I had gone to earlier in the month. I had so much fun. I saw several of my college friends there which I hadn't seen since I graduated in 2003. My last two roommates, my one suitemate, two coworkers/friends and a couple people that I never really talked to much, but liked. It was so great to reconnect with them! As you can see by the video, I have an interesting group of friends, who I have a great time with. We're all a little weird, but that makes life so much more fun.
The wedding ceremony was a long one, but it was to be expected. The bride recently became an ordained Lutheran minister. So I expected (and received) a long ceremony, but it was beautiful and very well done, so it didn't seem long at all. We also had a 10 page program/booklet on exactly what would be happening at all times during the ceremony which was extremely helpful to us non-Lutherans.
The reception was at Tara. For any of you who don't know, this Tara was modeled after the Gone with the Wind Tara. I had never been there before, so we were following the directions that were given to us. The directions told us to go 2.1 miles down this one road. Right as we turned onto this road, we saw a sign that said "Tara, A Country Inn" or something like that. We looked at that and said, that's too small that can't possibly be it, plus the directions say 2.1 miles. So we kept driving. The funny thing is there is another road at 2.1 miles but it wasn't leading to Tara. So we eventually realized that was the place right when we turned onto that road. We turned around and went back and looked again and saw that it looked so small because the part of the building that was facing the road was a side, not the front like I expected. Oops. We got there though and we were still early, so everything was OK in the end.

Fun and not so fun

It's been one of those weeks.  

Wednesday was fun.  We went

 to Kennywood for the day.  The day had started of with the weather looking so bad, we were thinking everyone was going to cancel and not go to the park.  When we got there though, it was slightly overcast and the lines were pretty short.  Not too shabby.  As I mentioned in a previous post, I'm not a roller coaster person.  In reality I'm not much of a ride person.  Tilt-a-Whirl and the Merry go Round are my kind of rides. My nephew was having fun with the rides though.  This is him riding the lil Phantom with his daddy.  He'd been not too close to the ride and saw it going around the track and let out a big squeal and took off running for it.  Fun, fun.  

Thursday I ended up staying home from work, because every time I got up I was almost falling over I was so dizzy.  I've never, ever been dizzy like that.  I get that little bit of lightheadedness when you stand up to quickly sometimes, but that is about it.  By the end of the day it wasn't too bad.  So Friday morning we went to work.  We were only there for about half an hour before I had my husband come pick me up ad take me to the ER because the dizziness had started again.  Turns out that I had an "inner ear kaflooey."  Yes, that is what the doctor actually said.  I can handle an ear infection.  I was just worried that it could be something much, much more serious, but didn't know what.  

Saturday I ended up being mostly OK.  It was pretty much just the right after you get better you don't feel 100% kind of thing.  The wedding was nice (longer than we expected, but it was OK.)  It was at the UPJ chapel, but was I think a Catholic ceremony.  There was a lot of up, down, up, down, kneeling for good measure.  That was a bit much for me to handle after the ear infection.  Just started getting a little lightheaded.  Then the reception was really nice.  The food was good, this might seem weird, but the corn was realllly good.  I like corn a lot, but usually at weddings (around here anyway) you just get the corn that tastes like it came from a can and nothing was done to it.  This actually tasted fresh and had seasoning on it.  There was assigned seating, we were seated right next to one of the speakers.  That definitely would not have been my choice if seating wasn't assigned.  By the end of the night my ears were bothering me.  Anyway.   The picture here is of my husband (the one on the left with his eyes closed) with some of his college friends.  Except for the guy beside him, he had no idea who that was.  That guy did know the other ones in the picture quite well though.  This wedding was for Isaac's college roommate.  (He only roomed with him one year, but he had an apartment the rest of his years at UPJ so technically didn't room with anyone, just shared an apartment.)

Sunday was a nice rest at home day.  Monday I was back at work.  It is not fun trying to catch up on missing three days of work when your boss only half-heartedly did the things that needed to be done while you were gone.  Ed (aforementioned boss and also my father-in-law) had to my sister-in-law Bronwyn, that he would watch her son Apollo for the day so she could do whatever it was she needed to do.  Which was great, I love my nephew dearly.  The only drawback was, on top of catching up on work, guess who was really watching Apollo?  Yep, you guessed right me.  Ed was just letting him have free reign over the building while he continued to work at his desk.  Keep in mind, my nephew is only 14 months old.  Granted, he was closed off from everything major and was basically only running around in the big lobby, but still.  I ended up putting the little guy down for his nap, he hadn't liked Grandpa's solution.  Then Ed asked if I wanted to go to lunch with them.  I said "no thanks" figuring I'd let him handle that adventure.  

Today was a mostly normal day.  The only bad part about it was we found out that Isaac's uncle has a cancerous lump and has to undergo chemotherapy and then surgery to have the lump removed.  If that seems vague and sketchy, that is because that is pretty much everything that Ed told us.  

Tomorrow will hopefully be a good day.  My mom turns 60 tomorrow.  It seems weird to think that my mom is going to be 60.  Unfortunately I have to work so I can't spend any time with her tomorrow, but I will be sure to give her a call.

The Wedding

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originally uploaded by Bowlergirl81.

This is a picture of me (third from the left, right beside the bride) and some of my friends from school. I just wanted to share a quick picture. I'll post more later I promise, but let me just say...I had a blast. :)

weddings

Isaac and I have five weddings to go to this year.  We've already gone to two of the five.  

One was for one of Zaq's friends.  That one was out near Philadelphia.  It was a nice weekend away.  

The second was Isaac's uncle.  We rode together with Isaac's sister and her son to that one (that would be the previously mentioned adorable 13 month old).  Since we rode with them we ended up leaving earlier than we normally would have.  But when the ceremony and the reception are in the same place which is a room with relatively no move around space, keeping a 1 year old in his seat the entire time is rather difficult.  He just wanted to go, go. go but there just wasn't the space for it.  That plus no naps made for a rather unhappy baby with how things were.

The third is this Saturday for one of my college roommates.  During my 4 years at Thiel I believe I had 7 roommates.  The wedding we are going to this weekend is for one of my favorite roommates, Emilie.  I haven't seen her since I graduated in 2003.  

The fourth is next Saturday for Isaac's college roommate.  I've only met him once or twice, one of the times being at our wedding, but that should be a good weekend.

The fifth is in October for one of Isaac's former coworkers.  There is one bad thing about that one though.  Last year Isaac and I got to go to Showeast which is the theatre convention in Florida that is similar to the one we go to in Las Vegas.  Well, Ed said we could go to that again this year, but it is the week leading up to the wedding and we had already been planning that and a weekend at Disney before we found out about the wedding.  We still haven't figured out what we are going to do.  That week is looking like it will be our only vacation this year.  And trust me when I say Mon-Thurs is not a vacation.  Yes, we aren't at work, but we are there for work, and this is a convention that has you moving all over the place one thing right after another.  So we'll have to wait and see what we come up with.

I just can't believe that we have five weddings this year!  Last year we had three (I thought we maybe would have four, one of my suitemates in college was getting married and I had invited her to my wedding).  Two of the weddings were July 7 and the other two were both on the same day in September.  That is really rough.  I had to choose between one of my bridesmaids or a cousin for the July 7th weddings.  (I ended up going to the bridesmaid's wedding because I had known about her wedding since before my wedding.  I didn't even know my cousin was engaged until I got the wedding invitation!)  Isn't weird how things always seem to go in spurts?

no more freedom

It really isn't bad though.  Other than hearing him tell his brother, yesterday's manager, yesterday's staff, bookers (no, not bookies bookers are a legitimate movie business term for the people who book the movies into the theatres...well that is a pretty rough description but I think you get the idea), the mailman, his son and me of course.  

My week of freedom was very peaceful and a nice change.  It was nice not hearing the Buffy theme song every time he received a text.  It is amazing how much more you can get done when you are by yourself with no interruptions.  While the boss was gone, I managed to clean our office up some (we just don't have enough space for everything we keep on hand so it tends to get a little bit messy) and rearranged my desk some.  I brought pictures of two of my adorable little nephews in and put on my desk.  You might think that I'm a bad aunt for saying I only have pictures of two of my nephews instead of all three and my niece.  To be honest, I don't have any recent professional pictures of the other two, and I don't get to see them very often to take any good pictures of them myself.  So for now, I have a picture of my adorable 13 month old nephew and my adorable 23 month old nephew.  The two I don't have pictures of are my 15 year old nephew (well next Tuesday he'll be 16...that makes me feel old!) and his little sister who is 5 and a half.   You know how kids get as they get older, my 15yo nephew hates having his picture taken.