Happy Halloween!

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Happy Halloween everyone. Have fun and be safe tonight!

Glory Days

Tonight I had dinner with my dear friend Kevin. It was nice to go out and just spend time with him talking about things. On the way back to his house we were listening to Totally 80's on the satellite radio. It got us talking about when we were teenagers and how we dressed in the 80's. Before long we were calling one of my brothers to laugh and reminisce. It was fun and I haven't laughed that hard in awhile. I hope we don't wait too long to do something like that again.

You know how much I like my new car . . .

I love my new car! It is averaging 31 miles per gallon . . . pretty impressive for an SUV! I've also started enjoying the satellite radio. It's nice to not hear a bunch of commercials and bs.

Happy Birthday Chad!

Happy 4-0 to my bro! I hope you had a great day!


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Where did October go?

I can't believe it is almost the end of October. The only thing that doesn't make it feel like the end of the month is we didn't do the time change.

On a nice note, last week was actually tolerable at work. I think things are starting to calm down. Finally! It probably helps that I don't have to stress about school anymore.

Not much else going on. Just trying to do projects around the house.

Simple . . . Not!

So with all this "spare time" I have after finishing school, I decide to start tackling projects I've put off for the last two years. One being, painting a hallway. Sounds simple right? Wrong! There's taping the ceiling and the base boards, sanding bumps, filling in holes, etc. I've been working on it since 9 a.m. this morning and still am not ready to paint. Ugh! To think I want to paint two bathrooms, a kitchen, and two bedrooms by Christmas. Yeah right!

Hybrid Baby!

Yesterday my new car came in! I couldn't resist and went an snatched it up right away. It feels good to drive a Hybrid. I feel like I'm doing something good. I have to admit it was a little harder giving up the Jeep than I thought. I never was a big fan of it, but it was Gary's car and he loved it. I didn't think it would bother me, but it is weird.

Go Green (Hybrid I mean)!

My Sweet Boy

Last night there was a terrible accident on the freeway close to our house. It was so bad, that at first we were told the freeway would be closed for 2 hours and it ended up being 5 hours. I found some footage of the investigation online on one our our local news channel's website. Elijah happened to see a picture of one of the cars and asked me what happened. When I told him there was an accident and people got hurt, he said that we need to pray for those people. I thought that was so sweet. We did. I haven't heard anything else about the accident since. I hope the prayer helped.

Hallowe'en

Last night we went to Hallowe'en in Greenfield Village. It was fun. They had it all laid out where you walk a certain path and from time to time there was a stop for trick or treat. We walked out with some candy, some Beanie Babies, some chips, and a lot of fun. I highly recommend it. The best part was an encounter with the headless horseman!

The Joys of Traveling

I had to go to Minneapolis for a business trip. Funny thing about that. There is a certain airline carrier that is the hub in Detroit and the hub in Minneapolis. So you would think that the airfare would be pretty reasonable right? WRONG. So wrong that I had to not only fly with another carrier, but I also had to connect in O'Hare.

So I get to the airport on Sunday to find out that my connecting flight in Chicago has been canceled. Nice. The bumped me to a flight two hours later. You would think that wouldn't be too bad, but since I was there such a short time, my schedule was planned to a tee, even on a Sunday. That meant now we were off schedule.

Needless to say we had to scrap some tours of the competitor hotels and go right to dinner. It was nice and I was more than ready to go back to the hotel for some sleep. I was scheduled for a tour at 7 a.m. the next morning.

By the time I had to leave Minneapolis, I had logged 30+ hours over 2 1/2 days. The town is fabulous and really had a good time.

Coming home was another joyful venture. It was discovered at check in that we were scheduled with a different carrier than the one we flew in on. Then they didn't mention to us that they bumped up our connecting flight by one hour. Add to that the fact that we sat on the runway for 30 minutes waiting for approval for take off thanks to wind in Chicago (I thought that was the windy city). So, we didn't realize that our connecting plane was about to leave until we were in Chicago and saw on the screen "final boarding." WTF. Do you know how big O'Hare is? Did I mention that we seriously walked about 10 miles in downtown Minneapolis earlier that day, touring the competition? Needless to say at one point while trying to hustle it to the gate, I wanted to say just put me on the next flight. But we made it. So close that they shut the cabin door as soon as we walked on. That was close.

I'm Done!

I officially finished school! Yippee! Everything was due Monday, but since I was traveling, I finished on Saturday night. It feels weird to be done. I still feel like I'm on break. I just don't know what to do on the weekends now. Maybe I can get a life again . . .

Two Days . . .

Two days and I am done! I can't believe it is almost here. Now I just have to buckle down and finish some stuff. The only thing that puts the pressure on is that I'm going on a business trip again. Today is my key day to wrap up because tomorrow and Monday will be tight. Wish me luck!

Happy Anniversary!

Happy 20 year anniversary to my mom and stepfather. I can't believe it has been 20 years! Time goes too fast!

The Last Week

It's official - my last week of school. I can't believe that two years ago I was just starting my program and here I am finishing. I'm so excited, but I'm also so unmotivated!

Happy Birthday to my cousin Marc. I hope you had a great day!

Cleveland Rocks

I'm writing this from my hotel room in Cleveland. It is the third hotel I've been to today and I've only been here for five and half hours! Tomorrow I have a meeting and lunch appointment and I'm out of here! Nothing like a quick trip. I won't even be here 24 hours!