Vacation is nigh! Huzzah! It has been such a long week at work, primarily due to tight staffing, that I cannot wait until the end of the day on Friday.
Tonight is our last day to run silly errands -- we're looking for new backpacks at Eddie Bauer which was having a sale last Friday. I hope it's still going on -- $20 off each backpack is pretty good! I don't really need anything else, and I am hoping to do some shopping with Mom and Jenny while in Wisconsin.
It seems like such a long time since we were last on vacation, although it was just in July that we went camping. I guess since this will be an extended vacation -- 12 days -- it feels extra special. And I'll get to go the fair, a Brewer's game, Door County, and Chicago. We've got a pretty packed schedule planned for Chicago -- seeing the Art Institute and the Field Museum, going to Fronterra Grill for a fancy dinner, eating deep dish pizza and Chicago-style hot dogs, riding the ferris wheel at Navy Pier, and seeing "No Country for Old Men" at The Second City. Should be awesome and jam-packed!
Jenny will also be in Wisconsin for the first few days of our vacation. Initially she wasn't sure if she would be able to stay in Plymouth that long after getting back from Ireland, but I guess it will work out. So the whole Immich family and us Sullivans will hang out and do something next Monday. I assume it will also include a birthday celebration for Jenny -- her birthday is August 28.
Can't wait! I hope to also have some fun pics to share, either here or on Facebook.
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Blargh.
It's THURSDAY! The happiest day of the week! YAY! Post from me!
Okay, excessive use of exclamation points is over. It's Thursday. I'm pretty stoked because I got a free(ish) Southern chicken biscuit sandwich from McDonalds today. It was pretty darn tasty, although not as good as Chick-fill-A. Chicken should've been a little crunchier. I also got a surprisingly good coffee -- it was buy a medium/large drink, get a chicken biscuit free! But I ended up overpaying for my sandwich. I confused the poor girl by giving her 50 cents after she'd rung up my coffee and she forgot to give me an extra dollar back. So instead of spending $1.50 on my breakfast, I spent $2.50. Not too shabby. Today is also free iced coffee at Dunkin' Donuts, so stop by if you get a chance. I'm not a huge fan of the DD's iced coffee, so I'm going to pass.
Today I will also get reflexology done by a friend. She took a class this spring and is now working on getting 100 pairs of feet to be certified. She did my hands a month or so ago and it was sooo relaxing. I hear that it might hurt at first especially when she is working on the toe joints, but that it will be worth it afterwards. We'll see. Trip and I made dinner for her as our payment. It's actually leftover homemade mac 'n' cheese. Normally I make mac 'n' cheese with ham in it, but I had forgotten to take out the ham to defrost. So I thought we'd just have plain mac 'n' cheese. Trip remembered that we had some bacon left -- so he cooked it up (took FOREVER it was sooo fatty) and we put it in the casserole. Soooooo tasty! Of course bacon makes everything better, but it is so fabulous in gooey cheese and noodles. Yum yum yum yum! I will definitely do it again. The thing is that we didn't even cook that much bacon -- just 5 pieces for around 6 servings of macaroni!
So I can't believe that Memorial Day is coming up next weekend. Trip and I will be in the Twin Cities next Friday for his family reunion! I'm really excited for it -- I think it will be lots of fun and it'll be good to see my family too. I just can't believe that it is coming up so soon. The downside is that we are flying out of Philadelphia so we are driving up on Thursday night to stay with Trip's aunt and uncle. Guess what is next Thursday? The big LOST finale! So yes, wah-wah, we might not be able to watch the LOST finale live. :( Oh well! Minnesota, land of no sales tax! Woot, woot!
Summer/fall travel plans have also been taking up a lot of my thinking time...mostly budgeting for them. Trip's cousin Amy is getting married in New Mexico and it seems that flights are just getting totally crazy. And we're driving out to Wisconsin in late August. My parents will be working during the week, so we need to figure out what we want to do to entertain ourselves. I'm hoping we can work out a day or two in Chicago (hotel stay!). The original plan was to visit Jenny and see the Minnesota State Fair, but I'm not sure that will work any more since her housing will be more temporary at the time. But who knows? Any suggestions as to what we should do in the Wisconsin area in late August? We are definitely going to the Sheboygan County Fair over Labor Day weekend -- it will be awesome and we'll eat cowpies and corndogs and other super tasty fried things. Yum yum!
It's THURSDAY! The happiest day of the week! YAY! Post from me!
Okay, excessive use of exclamation points is over. It's Thursday. I'm pretty stoked because I got a free(ish) Southern chicken biscuit sandwich from McDonalds today. It was pretty darn tasty, although not as good as Chick-fill-A. Chicken should've been a little crunchier. I also got a surprisingly good coffee -- it was buy a medium/large drink, get a chicken biscuit free! But I ended up overpaying for my sandwich. I confused the poor girl by giving her 50 cents after she'd rung up my coffee and she forgot to give me an extra dollar back. So instead of spending $1.50 on my breakfast, I spent $2.50. Not too shabby. Today is also free iced coffee at Dunkin' Donuts, so stop by if you get a chance. I'm not a huge fan of the DD's iced coffee, so I'm going to pass.
Today I will also get reflexology done by a friend. She took a class this spring and is now working on getting 100 pairs of feet to be certified. She did my hands a month or so ago and it was sooo relaxing. I hear that it might hurt at first especially when she is working on the toe joints, but that it will be worth it afterwards. We'll see. Trip and I made dinner for her as our payment. It's actually leftover homemade mac 'n' cheese. Normally I make mac 'n' cheese with ham in it, but I had forgotten to take out the ham to defrost. So I thought we'd just have plain mac 'n' cheese. Trip remembered that we had some bacon left -- so he cooked it up (took FOREVER it was sooo fatty) and we put it in the casserole. Soooooo tasty! Of course bacon makes everything better, but it is so fabulous in gooey cheese and noodles. Yum yum yum yum! I will definitely do it again. The thing is that we didn't even cook that much bacon -- just 5 pieces for around 6 servings of macaroni!
So I can't believe that Memorial Day is coming up next weekend. Trip and I will be in the Twin Cities next Friday for his family reunion! I'm really excited for it -- I think it will be lots of fun and it'll be good to see my family too. I just can't believe that it is coming up so soon. The downside is that we are flying out of Philadelphia so we are driving up on Thursday night to stay with Trip's aunt and uncle. Guess what is next Thursday? The big LOST finale! So yes, wah-wah, we might not be able to watch the LOST finale live. :( Oh well! Minnesota, land of no sales tax! Woot, woot!
Summer/fall travel plans have also been taking up a lot of my thinking time...mostly budgeting for them. Trip's cousin Amy is getting married in New Mexico and it seems that flights are just getting totally crazy. And we're driving out to Wisconsin in late August. My parents will be working during the week, so we need to figure out what we want to do to entertain ourselves. I'm hoping we can work out a day or two in Chicago (hotel stay!). The original plan was to visit Jenny and see the Minnesota State Fair, but I'm not sure that will work any more since her housing will be more temporary at the time. But who knows? Any suggestions as to what we should do in the Wisconsin area in late August? We are definitely going to the Sheboygan County Fair over Labor Day weekend -- it will be awesome and we'll eat cowpies and corndogs and other super tasty fried things. Yum yum!
Monday, April 21, 2008
Wow! A month between postings. I am a blog slacker.
My excuse is mostly that I was away from work for a week at the Public Library Association Conference in the Twin Cities and then I spent a week visiting family in MN and WI. But really, that only accounts for a few weeks. I guess the last weeks have been busy at work and whatnot. I'll pretend they have been!
Lately there has been a lot of planning for wedding travel. I'm in Jenny's wedding this fall. Trip will not be attending the shindig in Boston -- two of his college friends are getting married the same day in Hanover, PA. So we're splitting up to celebrate the nuptials of college buddies. But we've got four weddings planned so far -- Jenny's and Kate and Jason's wedding in September, church friends in July, and the latest one, Amy and Ana's in New Mexico in October. I wasn't anticipating going to New Mexico, but Trip has determined that the only major price difference is with the flight -- and since Southwest flies there, it looks like we could travel fairly inexpensively. So! I get to cross New Mexico and Texas off of my list of states to visit!
Today I tried some of the Pike's Place Coffee at Starbucks. I thought it was supposed to be smoother or lighter or something than their normal dark brew. But yikes, was it acidic! My stomach feels all weird now and I didn't even finish the cup! Not recommended.
I also started reading a book today -- The Fiction Class. It's about a woman who teaches a fiction writing class and is having difficulties with her mother. I am quite enjoying the chapters about her class. She is making me wish that I could take the time to write on a regular basis -- the real solution to becoming a writer. But I think I might look into a class next year. I think having assignments and whatnot might be a good prod to get started.
But lately I've decided to become more crafty -- partially for wedding gifts, but also for something to distract me from work. Work has become more routine and it's difficult to do new stuff with the smaller staff. So I have decided that I need to have outside interests -- other than new TV shows! -- to keep me busy. With four weddings coming up, I definitely have a lot of opportunities to be crafty! I like crocheting people afghans as presents -- they have been a hit the three times that I gave them as gifts. And I have a really neat pattern for Kate and Jason -- it's solid colored granny squares arranged to form the colors on the television test pattern screen. It's pretty cool looking and the fact that the granny squares are solid colored should make it crochet pretty quickly!
Well, work calls. Lots of questions about the economic stimulus payment. Woot, woot.
My excuse is mostly that I was away from work for a week at the Public Library Association Conference in the Twin Cities and then I spent a week visiting family in MN and WI. But really, that only accounts for a few weeks. I guess the last weeks have been busy at work and whatnot. I'll pretend they have been!
Lately there has been a lot of planning for wedding travel. I'm in Jenny's wedding this fall. Trip will not be attending the shindig in Boston -- two of his college friends are getting married the same day in Hanover, PA. So we're splitting up to celebrate the nuptials of college buddies. But we've got four weddings planned so far -- Jenny's and Kate and Jason's wedding in September, church friends in July, and the latest one, Amy and Ana's in New Mexico in October. I wasn't anticipating going to New Mexico, but Trip has determined that the only major price difference is with the flight -- and since Southwest flies there, it looks like we could travel fairly inexpensively. So! I get to cross New Mexico and Texas off of my list of states to visit!
Today I tried some of the Pike's Place Coffee at Starbucks. I thought it was supposed to be smoother or lighter or something than their normal dark brew. But yikes, was it acidic! My stomach feels all weird now and I didn't even finish the cup! Not recommended.
I also started reading a book today -- The Fiction Class. It's about a woman who teaches a fiction writing class and is having difficulties with her mother. I am quite enjoying the chapters about her class. She is making me wish that I could take the time to write on a regular basis -- the real solution to becoming a writer. But I think I might look into a class next year. I think having assignments and whatnot might be a good prod to get started.
But lately I've decided to become more crafty -- partially for wedding gifts, but also for something to distract me from work. Work has become more routine and it's difficult to do new stuff with the smaller staff. So I have decided that I need to have outside interests -- other than new TV shows! -- to keep me busy. With four weddings coming up, I definitely have a lot of opportunities to be crafty! I like crocheting people afghans as presents -- they have been a hit the three times that I gave them as gifts. And I have a really neat pattern for Kate and Jason -- it's solid colored granny squares arranged to form the colors on the television test pattern screen. It's pretty cool looking and the fact that the granny squares are solid colored should make it crochet pretty quickly!
Well, work calls. Lots of questions about the economic stimulus payment. Woot, woot.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
9 out of 10 Pirates like Ice-Bat
Originally uploaded by rebeccasue17.
There's me, lookin' fly in my big ole shades with Ice-Bat. We like pirates.
Colonial Chic
Originally uploaded by rebeccasue17.
Ice-Bat had fun in Boston too. He even got to try on clothes!
It's been a busy couple of weeks for me! I got back on Sunday from a trip to Boston for a work conference. The conference was really fun, albeit small. So there wasn't really the opportunity to sneak out and explore Boston. Luckily, I've been to Boston a few times before and didn't feel like I missed out on a whole lot. Plus it was pretty cold on Wednesday and Thursday, which didn't make me want to go exploring! I did end up going to this fabulous Italian restaraunt near Fenway. I had a delicious dish with shrimp, scallops, and mussels in a tomato and garlic sauce with angel hair pasta. The seafood was spectacular!
I also got to spend some time with Jenny H. She met me on Wednesday night for dinner at a fancy French bistro -- very, very tasty as well! We saw Kiki and Herb: Alive on Broadway -- a very funny cabaret-esque show. It was even nominated for the Special Event Tony. Unfortunately, it lost out to a ventriloquist. After the conference, Jenny and Jon picked me up and we went to Salem, MA for the day. It was quite entertaining seeing all the witches and seafarers stuff. I've got photographic proof up on my Flickr page. Then we went back to their new apartment and Jon cooked up a super delicious lasagna. I also got introduced to the joys of I <3 has said, Katamari is totally addicting. It took me a little while to be able to pick things up (and I'm not quite optimizing my abilities either), but it was quite entertaining. Can't go wrong with Japanese video games!
We also saw a really, really good movie in Boston called Once. It's an Irish movie musical about a busker who meets a girl and ends up recording music. It's mostly about the music -- super beautiful songer-songwriter stuff -- but has a tiny plot too. It's really hard to describe, but it was a really innovative and entertaining movie. I liked it so much that I bought the soundtrack on Monday. I'm planning to take Trip to see it sometime in the future.
As for upcoming plans, tonight I'm planning to make some cherry jam. I successfully made freezer strawberry jam a few weeks ago (super tasty). This time I am planning to make regular jam that involves cooking! Must be more jam-like and not so runny!
I had Monday as my day off, so I get to work both Friday and Saturday (huzzah!). But it's okay. Sunday is the big 5K which I hope I am ready for. I'm planning a long run tonight to make sure that I can do 3.1 miles without making a total fool of myself. Trust me, I feel like it could happen! But I'll be running with my friend Angela, so at least I'll have company. I just hope I don't slow her down too much. And maybe I can get Trip to take pictures of us! That would be fun.
I also got to spend some time with Jenny H. She met me on Wednesday night for dinner at a fancy French bistro -- very, very tasty as well! We saw Kiki and Herb: Alive on Broadway -- a very funny cabaret-esque show. It was even nominated for the Special Event Tony. Unfortunately, it lost out to a ventriloquist. After the conference, Jenny and Jon picked me up and we went to Salem, MA for the day. It was quite entertaining seeing all the witches and seafarers stuff. I've got photographic proof up on my Flickr page. Then we went back to their new apartment and Jon cooked up a super delicious lasagna. I also got introduced to the joys of I <3 has said, Katamari is totally addicting. It took me a little while to be able to pick things up (and I'm not quite optimizing my abilities either), but it was quite entertaining. Can't go wrong with Japanese video games!
We also saw a really, really good movie in Boston called Once. It's an Irish movie musical about a busker who meets a girl and ends up recording music. It's mostly about the music -- super beautiful songer-songwriter stuff -- but has a tiny plot too. It's really hard to describe, but it was a really innovative and entertaining movie. I liked it so much that I bought the soundtrack on Monday. I'm planning to take Trip to see it sometime in the future.
As for upcoming plans, tonight I'm planning to make some cherry jam. I successfully made freezer strawberry jam a few weeks ago (super tasty). This time I am planning to make regular jam that involves cooking! Must be more jam-like and not so runny!
I had Monday as my day off, so I get to work both Friday and Saturday (huzzah!). But it's okay. Sunday is the big 5K which I hope I am ready for. I'm planning a long run tonight to make sure that I can do 3.1 miles without making a total fool of myself. Trust me, I feel like it could happen! But I'll be running with my friend Angela, so at least I'll have company. I just hope I don't slow her down too much. And maybe I can get Trip to take pictures of us! That would be fun.
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Sleepiness at work continues, but since today is Sunday and normal people aren't working, I think it's okay. I kept waking up last night, despite having fallen totally asleeping during an episode of Monk and part of Iron Chef America. (The secret ingredient was peanuts and Bobby Flay made this awesome looking peanut butter French toast topped with pinot grecio and concord grape reduction. Out of curiousity, do you think they know the secret ingredient before the episode actually commences?) And I woke up at 7 am and could not fall back asleep. Until I got to church and got sleepy again. Argh!
I had a friend over for dinner on Friday night and made Hawaiian pizza and sausage-mushroom-pepper pizza. It was quite tasty and I've got quite a bit left, so guess what I'm having for dinner tonight? Trip, Angela, Cupcake and I all played Trivial Pursuit VI afterwards and I won! It was quite a good time. But I couldn't come up with the last question -- When asked to describe her role in this movie, Rachel Leigh Cook said that she was "just a girl who saved the entire world." Any guesses? The answer will be at the end of the post.
This upcoming weekend will be bridesmaid dress shopping ahoy! I am quite excited -- plus I'll get to see my sister's apartment and go out for German food with her! There is also a lot of snow in MN, so that should be quite a change from the warmish weather we've had here in Maryland. I am also getting to stay with my friend Kelly on Friday night, so it should be a fun evening of girly fun. Then it's off to bridesmaid dress shop!
I'm really hoping that I can find a wedding dress in Wisconsin. I know it'll be fun even if I don't find THE dress, but I'd really like to. I'm not even quite sure what THE dress should look like. Mostly what I know is what it shouldn't look like -- patriotic (yes, "Jon," I'm not in the market for a patriotic wedding dress -- I'm not a Republican!), poofy, princess-y, or with an enormous train. I guess I'm looking for something a little more simple without lots of lace or beading.
Today has been crazy busy, but right now it seems to have slowed down quite a bit. Usually it's just the opposite -- everyone comes in at 4 pm to look for their homework answers, but it seems like people made it to the library early today. Thank goodness, I have faded pretty fast and don't really feel like trekking up and down the stairs!
ANSWER: Josie and the Pussycats! I guessed Starship Troopers, but mostly because I didn't know any of her movies other than She's All That.
I had a friend over for dinner on Friday night and made Hawaiian pizza and sausage-mushroom-pepper pizza. It was quite tasty and I've got quite a bit left, so guess what I'm having for dinner tonight? Trip, Angela, Cupcake and I all played Trivial Pursuit VI afterwards and I won! It was quite a good time. But I couldn't come up with the last question -- When asked to describe her role in this movie, Rachel Leigh Cook said that she was "just a girl who saved the entire world." Any guesses? The answer will be at the end of the post.
This upcoming weekend will be bridesmaid dress shopping ahoy! I am quite excited -- plus I'll get to see my sister's apartment and go out for German food with her! There is also a lot of snow in MN, so that should be quite a change from the warmish weather we've had here in Maryland. I am also getting to stay with my friend Kelly on Friday night, so it should be a fun evening of girly fun. Then it's off to bridesmaid dress shop!
I'm really hoping that I can find a wedding dress in Wisconsin. I know it'll be fun even if I don't find THE dress, but I'd really like to. I'm not even quite sure what THE dress should look like. Mostly what I know is what it shouldn't look like -- patriotic (yes, "Jon," I'm not in the market for a patriotic wedding dress -- I'm not a Republican!), poofy, princess-y, or with an enormous train. I guess I'm looking for something a little more simple without lots of lace or beading.
Today has been crazy busy, but right now it seems to have slowed down quite a bit. Usually it's just the opposite -- everyone comes in at 4 pm to look for their homework answers, but it seems like people made it to the library early today. Thank goodness, I have faded pretty fast and don't really feel like trekking up and down the stairs!
ANSWER: Josie and the Pussycats! I guessed Starship Troopers, but mostly because I didn't know any of her movies other than She's All That.
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