Snow Ball 2007

Suzy is here so of course we had to get together and see her. Sorry we missed you Becca. Here are some photos from the evening. First we had dinner at Marrakesh. Kim met me at my house and drove up with us, she was only 10 minutes late! Go Kim! Very exciting. Suzy's sister Lisa and her husband Tom brought Suzy and John so there were 9 of us at dinner. It was a lot of fun. When the belly dancer came by we told her it was Lisa's birthday so she had to get up for the lesson. Here is a picture of that.

Pic of Suzy, John and I. Suzy is wearing her napkin/towel as a bib so she doesn't get her white top messy.

Then we went to a club that just so happened to have an 80s night when Suzy was here. It was way crowded which I was totally not expecting. The first place we tried to find to dance there was no room, so I dragged Suzy up onto the stage for a song. Beth told us later that we pissed off some scary girl and she was glaring at us for the whole song. It was "boys Don't Cry" by the Cure for anyone who wants to know. If I had known that she thought she owned that stage, I think we would have stayed up there!!



Several minutes after that Beth said "Hey, it's Kristen"! So we went over to hang out with her. Apparently she goes to this 80s night every month with some friends. Everyone cancelled so she was there with her husband. As soon as we came over he said hello to everyone then he said "Good, you have friends here now so I'm leaving" and he did! But here she is...looks the same as ever.

Now, for all of you who read this, (ok, Becca and Heather) I have to share this story...Beth and I have had conversations, me teasing and saying that my friends here are lame and won't go out dancing and I have to go to Florida to go out dancing with Stacy and Cynthia and Beth says "Yeah, that's not my thing". However, she is a big fat liar and had as good a time as Suzy and I and here is the proof! And I know you will hate this picture Beth, but who looks here except the four of us??

Oh! I forgot to mention, check out what Lisa is wearing.  She was planning on going home after dinner and skipping the club because she was not feeling well the night before.  However, she was feeling much better and  we were having a great time so she wanted to go to the club but she was wearing work clothes.  So Suzy says "Let's go to the stripper store" we were on South Street after all.  So we did and Lisa got that corset to wear. And then announced "man, that's a lot of tits I have"!  LOL!  She looks really good and consider that she is the first of us to be 40! 

 We are hoping that Heather is out of the boot by February so that we can go back for the Mute Records anniversary party. A celebration of Depeche Mode and Erasure so there is some incentive for you! As if you can do anything about it. Finally, here are a couple of random pictures. If you want to see any more there are some on my MySpace page and Suzy's. Becca, you can't look at mine because only 'friends' can see my pictures. I have to have it that way because of my job.

Life Lessons

So here is the story of what happened yesterday. Aly wanted some boy named Cody to come over on Saturday. I said no because we had to go to my grandmother's funeral. She wanted him to come over later in the evening but he needed a ride home and I did not feel like doing that so the answer was still no. I was feeling generous and was was going to tell her that he could come over Sunday because she got a bum deal the rest of the weekend. She has to stay home with her brother on Fridays and then Saturday she had to go to a funeral. So we are eating breakfast at noon (teehee) on Sunday and this kid just shows up. Rob was mad and wanted to send him home but I was going to let her invite him over so I said let him stay and we will discuss this with her later. The end result of that was she never told him that we said it was ok for him to come over.

So he comes in, Aly is not even dressed. He introduces himself, obviously, I sent Aly to gt dressed, and I had Brandon show him where the PlayStation was. When Aly came down I asked her who brought him, she said his dad, and then I asked if his dad smokes or if it is him that smokes. She tells me she asked him and he said he does not smoke, so she guesses his dad.

She calls Sheila to come over, then they all went to Sheila's to decorate the Christmas tree. When they came back, Rob and I were cleaning the garage. Rob went in the house for something, came out and told me "teen drama unfolding". A few minutes later, Aly, Shelby and Sheila come into the garage and Aly is crying. I ask her what's wrong. She's upset because he lied. He does smoke. She doesn't understand why he lied about it. I said, "What have I told you? This is your lesson for the day, I know what I am talking about, BOYS LIE."

After we took him home I asked her if she asked him why he lied. He said because he knew that both she and Sheila didn't like it and he thought they wouldn't like him if they knew. (So why he went out and smoked when he was at Sheila's-no idea, whatever.) But anyway, that just proves my point that boys will say whatever if they think it will get them what they want. Is it wrong to teach my daughter that? I think not!

Today she came home and told me that "everyone" at school said Cody is also on drugs. So I think we're done with Cody. He seemed like a nice enough kid and didn't look like he was on drugs, but who knows.

Are You Kidding Me

What is with this weather?! Of course, I have wonderful bus duty starting tomorrow. Supposed to be freezing and wet. Just one more reason to hate my job.