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**This was started Monday on the airplane……need to time to finish later.

I’m back! =) It has been a fun if tiring weekend.

I flew out to Indiana on Friday & dad picked me up at the airport. Jammed out to that Alamaba cd on the plane…..dang, I forgot how much I enjoyed those songs…… Luckily Harold didn’t have jury duty that day so he was actually able to take me to Orlando instead of me having to get a rent-a-car. It wouldn’t have been the same if we weren’t able to do our goodbyes.

I spent that afternoon just visiting with mom, dad & the kids (in between their playing). And spent it convincing dad that I could take off with his car to head up to the wedding on my own since I want to stop in Lafayette to get the present I wanted to get Amanda & Jason & of course, I wanted to stop and see Sandi on the way up…..grin He should be happy, I left him a filled up car (it only had half a tank when I grabbed it) and took it through the car wash. =)

I showed mom how to upload her pics from Tahiti to her pc from cd and then I started organizing my copies of them. I have them renamed with # with has close as them being in order as I can get them without me being there & working with 248 of them…..lol But for some reason my photoshop will put them out of order when I want to make a gallery of them for the family…….I was looking at that today while killing time in the airport and saw that I could rank them. So when I have time I may play around with that later this week.

Saturday I had a good 2hr visit with Sandi (even if that is never enough), found what I want in Lafayette….and then headed to the wedding. It was at the park in Lowell. They had a few arches leading up to where the ceremony was going to take place, in front of the pond. It was beautiful. The day was a warm one, so my hair went up. =)

It was a beautiful ceremony, the preacher had them stand under wedding arch and face the family & friends and he stood about 20 ft away and did the ceremony from there. It was very different on how he conducted it (from the standard) and he gave it with a great flair of humor thrown in.

Amanda and bridal party looked great. Mom and I took as many pics as we could. Mom thought a head and brought a cd down so we could down load them and give them to Aunt Shelia that day (the bride’s mom), but me being the space case left my wire for downloading from the camera here in Florida, partly cuz in my subconscious, I know that mom has the same one and I could just use hers. But she hadn’t the wire up to the wedding thinking that I had mine……..lol Luckily Cousin Bill (so weird calling him that since he is my dad’s 1st cousin and I’m use to referring to that generation in the terms of aunts & uncles……..lol) had the download wire that we needed, and it worked out even better cuz he had forgot his power cord for his laptop and his battery died. So he borrowed mine & I borrowed his. =) Then the cd that mom brought for putting the pics on won’t write, luckily I had the one where I put the pics on from Tahiti on & was able to add the wedding ones……grin So Aunt Shelia & Uncle Dave have a copy of the wedding and the mom & dad’s trip.

I merged the pics that mom & I took and got them in pretty good order of how the events happened. And this time photoshop didn’t goof them. =) But doesn’t she look gorgeous?

Wedding Pics

Here is the Bridal Shower I missed.

It was a great time. My Great-Aunt Evelyn was there (Cousin Bill’s mom) and a good portion of her side of the family. They are fun to visit with, but then I love visiting with family. =)

**Will be continued………

It was my 1st real day off of work since I got back from Indiana. We got the house cleaned and basically just spent the rest of the day chilling and enjoying our selves in the pool.

When we weren’t in the pool we were on the porch reading, until Harold spotted a few black widows. One was fine, he sprayed it with poison but when he found a few more…..the poison got everywhere so we went inside after that.

Pic of Black Widow

Harold had started on the latest Harry Potter, so I had only been able to read the 1st 100 pages…..so I tried to read other things, but I was on my Potter kick. So I went digging in the garage and found book 5 and did some rereading of that. Good thing he finished book 6…….a few characters in book 5 were pissing me off (I really get into my books………..lol).

I just wanted to stop in and give you a quick update cause I’m really itching to get back to my book. I will have it done tomorrow (my other day off for the week). I know I haven’t done much on keeping up…..but I’m taking some time to be selfish. =)

It was great to see Harold when I finally got past security at the airport. He had a cute stuffed white tiger for me…..grin…I have it on one of our computer towers watching me.

We stopped for a quick dinner & when we got home jumped into the pool for a little while just to spend some time together.

I did get all unpacked and got myself set up for going to work…….in fact, I stayed up a little too late & didn’t get all the sleep that I should have. But that is okay, makes it easier for me around the house on the things I need to get done.

I spent the day at work, so it is back to the grind. =)

I’m going to attempt to do a few emails & I have started on a journal entry about my trip, but it will take a day or two. =)

Here is a link to a few of the pics I took : Mom & Dad’s

It has been extremely hot & humid here. =( My least favorite weather. We just had a huge down pour. More like a waterfall then a rainfall.

My neck still hurts, but no way near as bad as it did, thankfully. Keeping busy at work really helped.

It was a late night at work, didn’t get out until an hour later then nomal. We really did some extra cleaning. It was my day off today but I went in just to be there for part of our DM’svisit. It went very well. She was impressed on what we’ve done with the store Some of the things we got marked down for were areas that we had no control of. But now that our DM knows, they may get taken care of like they should.

She was happy with what our merchandising specialist did with the misc. gift area (the one spot in our store that DMs want to avoid……..lol) I’m so happy & proud how everyone pulled together for this visit, we even had a few employees volunteer to come in a do a little extra the night before.

We went and looked at the house today. (Here is the pics) It looks a lot better with the new title. Still a bit of work to go………..and I will say with this horrible heat, that pool looked great & tempting!

The property manager seemed to like the idea of us sodding up the yard & will reburse us for the pallets of sod. The rest of the yards in the neighborhood look really nice and we don’t like not having a nice one ourselves. But he would only let us do a 1yr lease with option to renewal. =(

He will reimburse up to 10gals of paint, but white type colors only. If we wanted color we would either have to repaint it before we leave & they would remove it from the deposit, standard stuff.

What I do like, is that I can actually fit my truck into the garage during a hurricane. =) Makes me feel alittle bit better.

That was my day as it was………grin