Hawaii....

was great!! I must have been having so much fun I didn't have time to blog. :-) Can't believe it's been a year ago!!

Blogspot and Blackberry do not get along and I was usually blogging from my phone, especially while traveling. So no blogs about my cool trip to Chicago last summer with Amy and Carrie, two of the best friends a girl could have (I mean it Amy, not just saying it because you are the only one that reads my blog!!)! ;-)

You've also missed out on any blogs involving Charlotte (Carrie and Dan's baby)! So many pictures, so little time...

Next trip is Florida for my cousin Laura's wedding...stay tuned maybe I'll blog again before next year!

Facebook

I don't like Facebook photos...it might be because i have dial-up. It takes forever to upload pictures...if I can even get it to load the photo page!!! Oh well, I guess no one will ever see Savannah pictures.

I can't believe it is already 9:30pm. I loose track of time on the Internet! I should be balancing my checkbook, wrapping Ren's baptism gift, or sleeping. Instead I'm researching phones, uploading pictures to dress up my blog, checking email, and listening to music. Oh well, tomorrow is another day!

Only 27 days till Hawaii!!!! Aloha!

Savannah!!

Friday- Roadtrip...Savannah! Big Huskie Bucket (whatever that is...we passed it & it sounded interesting)...Tamarack (art gallery, theater, restaurant, & more in the Appalachian Mountains...we had lunch here & shopped)...West Virginia Reggae (whatever that is! it was a song on the radio that sounded 'interesting'!)...Charlotte layover!
Saturday- Tybee Island Irish Parade...Sting Ray's for seafood...City Market for shopping, sightseeing, & music
Sunday-
St John the Baptist for Celtic mass...Clary's for a late breakfast (character in 'Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil' ate here...don't remember name since I still have to read the book & watch the movie)...The Bookshop for window shopping (themed 'Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil')...Old Trolly Historical tour (saw many squares...Chippewa Square I believe was the one where Forrest ate his 'box of chocolates'; also saw the church steeple where the feather was released from; saw the bar from 'Something to Talk About' where Julia Robert's character wears her nightgown & catches charcter husband Dennis Quaid cheating on her...saw lots & lots of more important historical stuff like girl scout founder's birthplace, but I can't remember it all!)...City Market, Tappas by Ann for dinner, window shopping, & dessert! River walk (lots of St. Patrick's Day festivities going on here...bars, drinking, drinking, & more drinking...)
Monday- Slept late...got reservations for Lady & Sons restaurant for dinner then went to lunch @ Fuddruckers...took the Old Trolley historical ride off & on today...went on a steamboat historical tour...shopped @ riverfront stores then went to Lady & Sons for dinner...food was wonderful!!! Best mac & cheese I've ever had! Fried chicken, collard greens, green beans, sweet potatoes, pork chops, pepper steak over rice, galic biscuits, hoecakes, and chocolate chip brownie for dessert...Paula Deen sure knows her food! yum!!
Tuesday- St. Patrick's Day!
Parade day...sitting on Broughton & Abercorn in Irish attire waiting for parade to start...heading home after the parade.

Beautiful city, great weather, relaxing time...do we have to go home?!

Wednesday- Stopped in Princeton, WV last night. Heading for home home now.

POP Sunday

Well, nothing too exciting today. Working in POP...doing a lot of phone number lookups and transfers. Circ sounds like they're having fun...heard music? and laughter (dm) earlier. I'm just jealous, Kathy and I don't want to be here...it looks nice outside! Home and Garden show is going on at the Knight Center. I'm so pathetic that the highlight of my Sunday is that one of the regular patrons (with major issues) said I "did good" while I was answering his reference question (which consisted of looking up the tv schedule that he had in front of him; wanted me to give him more information...like read to him the tv episode summary). Last time he said I was "lazy", hence why I was happy that this time I got a "did good". :-) To defend myself, I was trying to cut the conversation short last time, because the tv show that he was asking the summary of scares him so I was trying to avoid describing the shows to him...public libraries you gotta love them!

Oh...I guess the music was a recital going on in the auditorium...maybe circ isn't having any fun either today! :-(

Chicken Soup moment

While I was walking @ lunch earlier this week I saw a serviceman in military fatigues and it reminded me of a Chicken Soup (book reference) moment I had a few months ago. Mom and I were driving to Toledo for my cousins' baptisms and we stopped at a turnpike rest stop to go to Panera's (I love turnpike restops...much more fun than they used to be!). There were 2 servicemen in line and my mom started to approach them and the cashier even though we had already paid. I wasn't sure what she was doing as she took out money from her wallet. Here she was going to pay for their meals. I hadn't ever thought of doing this (or heard of anyone else doing it)...but leave it to my mom to think of it (she's one of the kindest people you will ever meet). But before she could complete her random act of kindness, some other kind soul had already paid the the servicemen's meals. Moments like these make me happy and sad @ the same time...sad because I tear up and happy to know that kind people still exist in the world. Oh and also proud to be an American where people appreciate the miltary and the sacrifices they make for our country's safety.