Good things
Stupid people made me make this friends only
So there have been a lot of good things going on in my life recently
Let's do a play by play action of the last few days first then talk about the future
This whole past week was fun. We had a retreat on Monday and Tuesday of this past week and though we all had to present an analysis of our territory (which I still have to send to my boss whoops) it was fun. Monday night we went bowling which was a lot of fun as well.
Our team won!!! We were named "Bowling Balls of Steele" haha but we were actually all pretty decent. I found out that my knees didn't support the sport of bowling lol which was great. Something "twinged" lol in my knee. That was great. Afterwards I don't remember
Tuesday was lots of fun (that's sarcastic) but afterwards was fun. We all went to Chili's or Friday's or someplace like that, got drinks and sat around and talked. I didn't feel like sitting at the adult table so me and Tara sat at the kiddie table and talked. Later Shannon joined us and we talked about Road trips etc (since they both have signed a contract guaranteeing me that they will come to OHIO)
Then Maxine came to the table and we all had a great conversation about politics, the world, religion, books, life etc etc Lots of fun at the kiddie table.
Wednesday I went to the Doctor... here's the only bad news of the week. Something is wrong with my knees. No ligament damage but it could be a number of things. I got X-Rays on Thursday in hopes of finding out. I go back to the doctor this wednesday. However, no strenuous (I keep thinking I spelled that wrong... someone help me out, I'm too lazy to type www.dictionary.com in the url box at the top of the browser) activity for awhile. I can't run anymore (so no marathon)
Anyway Wednesday night we were all supposed to go out after work, so I texted Shannon to find out what the plans were. Apparently everyone backed out at work, but I was determined to do something so I get ahold of John Gray and we decided to go get dinner. Went to Johnny Carino's... Country Italian place... definitely not my favorite place. Anyway during dinner we starting talking about spontaneous trips and activities. Well John said he doesn't do anything so on the spur of the moment we went to the movies lol.
Now I know that that doesn't sound like much.... oooo what spontaniety... going to the movies unexpectedly! lol and I agree, but it's a start for him. I'm almost always up for spontaneous trips like the Ohio trip that almost happened last weekend. (That is forgiven though, pending a future trip lol)
Regardless, Oceans 13 was a good movie. Much better than "12" and better than most of the threequels of this summer. They sucked
Thursday was a really fun day. X-Rays in the morning, then I came back to SHU only to go out to lunch right away to Panera with the crew. Lots of fun there. Haha then Paul Maxine and I went to "Coldstone" when we really went to Hallmark to get a card for Shannon's last day (which was friday) It was so much fun inside that store. Maxine and I had a big fight about what stuffed animal to get her. Then we fought about what card to get her. Luckily Paul came through with the card idea.
It was a lot of fun over the rest of the afternoon and next morning getting everyone to sign it and not let Shannon in on anything. I mean we got her an obnoxiously large card, so we had to assign people to "Shannon duty".
Also on Thursday I learned that Marie (one of the new people) knows every word to every song ever created. It was a lot of fun. She won the "Newcomer of the week award"
Thursday night Shannon Scottie Tara and I went out to this fun Mini golf place. It rained when we first got there, but it let up enough for us to play and we all had a lot fun!! I'm going to miss our fun social activities now that Shannon is gone. Who else is going to plan them with me. Almost everyone else has class or a fiance or wife/husband or a life.
After mini golf I went to Outback with Katie Reczek.... I hadn't seen her in awhile and we both had plans to go to outback before but had to reschedule, so it worked out.
I love outback, I had a great dinner, their salmon is awesome!
So Friday was Shannon's last day and we definitely surprised her. Well first we had a few last minute things to do, so we had people on Shannon duty while I went and got everyone to sign the card. Then once that was taken care of, we needed lunch so we decided on getting some California Pizza Kitchen but we had to go pick it up. So I took Shannon with me to go get the pizzas while we had Santino and Kacie go to Coldstone to get an ice cream cake. Though Coldstone was out of cakes, so they had to get a Carvel cake.
A sidenote here before I finish: I think Jesus doesn't want me to have a Coldstone cake. I asked everyone for one on my birthday in November and I didn't get one and well it seems every time I want to get one, I can't :-(
We get back from the Short Hills mall where California Pizza Kitchen is located with bags of food. It was funny, but then we had our Shannon Celebration. We gave her the big card and then the presents. We got her a Whole Foods gift card and then the stuffed dog that comes with a real star lol... yes a star in the sky. We named it Shining Shannon. It was really nice and fun. It will be sad without her in the office.
However our Shannon adventure was not over yet. After work we decided to go to Legal Seafood back at the Short Hills Mall. It was me Shannon Scottie Maxine and John Chang. We walked around the mall first and I must go on a sidenote here too. Did you all know that the Discovery Channel stores are closing!?!?!?!? I'm very sad about this which means that I went and bought stuff
Needless to say we all learned a lot about each other at dinner. However luckily, the point of focus never came by me too much hahaha, however even if it did, it would be boring. My life has been fun and exciting to me... but I don't know how many people would agree lol
So after dinner it was back to Montclair for drinks at a bar however it was only Shannon and me and Andrea there. We had some fun there and that was it
ok wow this is taking me a long time so I'm going to speed things up
Saturday was moving day for some of my friends, or at least part moving day. I helped Shannon in the afternoon for a long time, though she wouldn't let me do a lot of things haha. It was fun though, watching the Office and baseball lol
Saturday night was helping Kristen Williamson move. Again I didn't do much there but watch Baseball and Finding Nemo. However I did buy her KFC so it should all be taken care of lol. Kristen did make me work a lot more than Shannon lol but then again I was volunteering to help....
That was pretty much my whole day.
Today I woke up, read the first harry potter book in like 2 hours and then John Gray and I went to see Katie Reczek in Bye Bye Birdie at a community theater. We had a lot of fun and went out for pizza afterwards...
ok well I'm really getting bored of this so here's a quick rundown of exciting things to come
Tuesday - Game Night Returns!!!! WITH ICE CREAM! haha
Wednesday - Going to see "Inherit the Wind" on Broadway with Tara and Shannon
Friday - Work BBQ at my house!
Saturday through next Saturday - VACATION WITH FAMILY IN MARYLAND and D.C and a bit of NYC lol
things are going well... let's hope they continue
So there have been a lot of good things going on in my life recently
Let's do a play by play action of the last few days first then talk about the future
This whole past week was fun. We had a retreat on Monday and Tuesday of this past week and though we all had to present an analysis of our territory (which I still have to send to my boss whoops) it was fun. Monday night we went bowling which was a lot of fun as well.
Our team won!!! We were named "Bowling Balls of Steele" haha but we were actually all pretty decent. I found out that my knees didn't support the sport of bowling lol which was great. Something "twinged" lol in my knee. That was great. Afterwards I don't remember
Tuesday was lots of fun (that's sarcastic) but afterwards was fun. We all went to Chili's or Friday's or someplace like that, got drinks and sat around and talked. I didn't feel like sitting at the adult table so me and Tara sat at the kiddie table and talked. Later Shannon joined us and we talked about Road trips etc (since they both have signed a contract guaranteeing me that they will come to OHIO)
Then Maxine came to the table and we all had a great conversation about politics, the world, religion, books, life etc etc Lots of fun at the kiddie table.
Wednesday I went to the Doctor... here's the only bad news of the week. Something is wrong with my knees. No ligament damage but it could be a number of things. I got X-Rays on Thursday in hopes of finding out. I go back to the doctor this wednesday. However, no strenuous (I keep thinking I spelled that wrong... someone help me out, I'm too lazy to type www.dictionary.com in the url box at the top of the browser) activity for awhile. I can't run anymore (so no marathon)
Anyway Wednesday night we were all supposed to go out after work, so I texted Shannon to find out what the plans were. Apparently everyone backed out at work, but I was determined to do something so I get ahold of John Gray and we decided to go get dinner. Went to Johnny Carino's... Country Italian place... definitely not my favorite place. Anyway during dinner we starting talking about spontaneous trips and activities. Well John said he doesn't do anything so on the spur of the moment we went to the movies lol.
Now I know that that doesn't sound like much.... oooo what spontaniety... going to the movies unexpectedly! lol and I agree, but it's a start for him. I'm almost always up for spontaneous trips like the Ohio trip that almost happened last weekend. (That is forgiven though, pending a future trip lol)
Regardless, Oceans 13 was a good movie. Much better than "12" and better than most of the threequels of this summer. They sucked
Thursday was a really fun day. X-Rays in the morning, then I came back to SHU only to go out to lunch right away to Panera with the crew. Lots of fun there. Haha then Paul Maxine and I went to "Coldstone" when we really went to Hallmark to get a card for Shannon's last day (which was friday) It was so much fun inside that store. Maxine and I had a big fight about what stuffed animal to get her. Then we fought about what card to get her. Luckily Paul came through with the card idea.
It was a lot of fun over the rest of the afternoon and next morning getting everyone to sign it and not let Shannon in on anything. I mean we got her an obnoxiously large card, so we had to assign people to "Shannon duty".
Also on Thursday I learned that Marie (one of the new people) knows every word to every song ever created. It was a lot of fun. She won the "Newcomer of the week award"
Thursday night Shannon Scottie Tara and I went out to this fun Mini golf place. It rained when we first got there, but it let up enough for us to play and we all had a lot fun!! I'm going to miss our fun social activities now that Shannon is gone. Who else is going to plan them with me. Almost everyone else has class or a fiance or wife/husband or a life.
After mini golf I went to Outback with Katie Reczek.... I hadn't seen her in awhile and we both had plans to go to outback before but had to reschedule, so it worked out.
I love outback, I had a great dinner, their salmon is awesome!
So Friday was Shannon's last day and we definitely surprised her. Well first we had a few last minute things to do, so we had people on Shannon duty while I went and got everyone to sign the card. Then once that was taken care of, we needed lunch so we decided on getting some California Pizza Kitchen but we had to go pick it up. So I took Shannon with me to go get the pizzas while we had Santino and Kacie go to Coldstone to get an ice cream cake. Though Coldstone was out of cakes, so they had to get a Carvel cake.
A sidenote here before I finish: I think Jesus doesn't want me to have a Coldstone cake. I asked everyone for one on my birthday in November and I didn't get one and well it seems every time I want to get one, I can't :-(
We get back from the Short Hills mall where California Pizza Kitchen is located with bags of food. It was funny, but then we had our Shannon Celebration. We gave her the big card and then the presents. We got her a Whole Foods gift card and then the stuffed dog that comes with a real star lol... yes a star in the sky. We named it Shining Shannon. It was really nice and fun. It will be sad without her in the office.
However our Shannon adventure was not over yet. After work we decided to go to Legal Seafood back at the Short Hills Mall. It was me Shannon Scottie Maxine and John Chang. We walked around the mall first and I must go on a sidenote here too. Did you all know that the Discovery Channel stores are closing!?!?!?!? I'm very sad about this which means that I went and bought stuff
Needless to say we all learned a lot about each other at dinner. However luckily, the point of focus never came by me too much hahaha, however even if it did, it would be boring. My life has been fun and exciting to me... but I don't know how many people would agree lol
So after dinner it was back to Montclair for drinks at a bar however it was only Shannon and me and Andrea there. We had some fun there and that was it
ok wow this is taking me a long time so I'm going to speed things up
Saturday was moving day for some of my friends, or at least part moving day. I helped Shannon in the afternoon for a long time, though she wouldn't let me do a lot of things haha. It was fun though, watching the Office and baseball lol
Saturday night was helping Kristen Williamson move. Again I didn't do much there but watch Baseball and Finding Nemo. However I did buy her KFC so it should all be taken care of lol. Kristen did make me work a lot more than Shannon lol but then again I was volunteering to help....
That was pretty much my whole day.
Today I woke up, read the first harry potter book in like 2 hours and then John Gray and I went to see Katie Reczek in Bye Bye Birdie at a community theater. We had a lot of fun and went out for pizza afterwards...
ok well I'm really getting bored of this so here's a quick rundown of exciting things to come
Tuesday - Game Night Returns!!!! WITH ICE CREAM! haha
Wednesday - Going to see "Inherit the Wind" on Broadway with Tara and Shannon
Friday - Work BBQ at my house!
Saturday through next Saturday - VACATION WITH FAMILY IN MARYLAND and D.C and a bit of NYC lol
things are going well... let's hope they continue