Surprise!

Another update!

Here are some photos from September and October I haven't posted yet.

I Don't Remember Where These Came From! :-)

A night out at Hemingway's with 7Sharp9

Sherry, Michelle and Moi on our way to....?

A Night With the Braves!

In the last week of the Braves baseball season, Bryan and I saw three of the four final homegames. I saw my first fireworks game, and we made it out for the very last game of the season as well.

Gotta love those foam fingers!

Fireworks at Turner Field

Bryan's cousin Tracy and her cousin Caitlyn met us there

A Birthday in Athens

Bryan and his Grammy, who turned 85 last month!

Chowin' down on some BBQ and brunswick stew... yum!

A birthday cake for a birthday girl!

Be on the lookout for another (yes, another!) post on our trip to see my future husband! :-)

Stuck Inside

I've hit that point in the semester where I only have 5 or 6 weeks to go, but I feel completely overwhelmed. When I look at my "To Do" lists and try to figure out what to do first, I just want to crawl into a hole and hide.

So today I'm hiding from my grad school work by updating my blog with a few photos and a good story. That's what you people really want to see anyway... right? :-)

Last weekend, my friends and I went to a Halloween/ Going Away Shindig hosted by our favorite groupies - Jon and Spencer!

Jon (Juan Schwab-e)

Spencer (Rico Schwab-e)

The morning after is when the adventure began. My girls Katie and Michelle spent the night with me, and on our way out the next day, we saw a couple of kittens run into a drain. I was unable to fight my "cat lady" urges and we decided to try to coax them out a find them a good home.

Note: I was not going to keep them! I was going to find them a home. Somewhere else!

I went back inside my apartment to get some "bait" (cat food) and on my way back outside, I found that I could not open my own door!!

That's right. The doorknob was broken. Busted. And I was stuck inside my own apartment. It took a few minutes, but when Katie and Michelle realized I wasn't coming back out, they came to find me. After we were finished laughing hysterically, we started trying to figure a way out. We started here:

No fun, no fun, being locked in is no fun.

After a few pushes and pulls...

Success! With a few escapees right behind me as well.

(Yes, K - that large orange monstrosity I'm holding is Charlie.)

It took about an hour for the weekend maintenance man to show up, but he very quickly managed to take the old doorknob off and...

Ta-Da! :-) Stuck no more!

You Never Know What You'll See...

On the way to Athens!

I was on my way to class last week when I happened upon this interesting fellow traveler. Of course, when I saw the award-winning mural on the back of his truck, I had to stop and grab my camera. Aren't you glad I did?

Let me walk you through this lovely little bit of artwork.

First and on the left, we have Juana. Juana Humpalot. She is sporting her Kmart bra, Wrangler jeans, Payless hooker heels and Lee Press On Nails. Her friend Ima Givusum added the fabulous highlights and helped her with the press on nails.

The second half of this pimped out ride brings us to Rico. Rico Rodriguez -note the smoke enhanced thought bubble that helps us read his last name. He is sporting a black tobaggan pulled down over his eyeballs... makes me wonder how he manages to walk, drive and basically function on a daily basis. For some reason, his nose is completely black. Like a very dark Rudolph. Or that guy from the game Operation - maybe his lightbulb burned out!!

Either way, I had to share this. Nobody would have believed me if I'd just called to tell you about it!

Catching Up...

I should definitely be doing work for graduate school, but that just doesn't seem appealing right now. I've been on another one of my blog "hiatuses" (that word looks weird!), so I thought I post another belated update....

We kicked off our Back to School Weekend with a night at Hemingway's with 7Sharp9. I think we are the cutest, most fun groupies ever.

Well, at least we're his favorite groupies!

L to R: Claudine, Chris, ME, Nikki, Sherry and Michelle (in the front)

One of the best parts of the night was getting Megan (my Mo!) and her hubby to come out and play. We actually had a lot of new mommies and new teachers become part of our Hemingway's crew that night! We all had a BUNCH of fun! :-)

Auntie Cha and Mommy Mo

Vulgar Voicemail. If you haven't heard mine, you should really ask about it.

Boone-Dawg and My Trimble!

Summer Gal Pals gettin' down!

Justin Timberlake turned out to be the best summer surprise EVER. Michelle and I were listening to the radio when the DJ announced that extra tickets had been released for that night so we JUMPED on the computer and snatched up three!

He came on an hour late after we had waited in the rain for an hour and a half to get inside but oh baby, he was worth it!

Messin' with Sherry while she played with her phone

Superfly Sexy Mamas

Who got the Sexy Back? We got the Sexy Back!

More! More! More!

Upon leaving dinner on Day One, we found ourselves at the Acme Cantina - a local bar within walking distance of our beach apartment. We also found ourselves there every night for the next four days. If we didn't have to leave on Friday, we might have ended up staying and working there! :-)

While I will spare you most of the pictures from our first night, (I have to. Really.) I will share some of my favorites with you...

This is what you call a "before" picture.

Sherry and Michelle gettin' gangsta with Adam, our favorite bartender.



Look! It's our favorite drunk dialers!

We got to the beach ASAP (which wasn't very early) on Tuesday. We only stayed out for a couple of hours because the whitey-white people (Abby and Sherry) began to roast. While I do have a rule about not going into any water I can't see my feet in (Did that make sense?), I did do some "sitting" nearby and I even waded in - a little bit - for a Fair Oaks Hottie beach picture.

Abby, Nikki and Sherry

Who knew that sitting on the beach could make my butt look this good?!

Claudine, Michelle, Nikki, Abby and Sherry

Night Two started here! :)

Blogger Makes Me CRAZY!!

We're going to have to do this a little bit at a time I guess....

Pictures from Day One!


Sherry in the car getting gangsta!

Vanna Abigail and Vanna Claudine in front of the Ocean Inn where we stayed.

Ooh! Oooh! Let me in!

As soon as we dumped our bags... we were off to the beach!

Shortly after arriving, we made our way to a local restaurant. The Dirty Banana Daquiris have since erased its name from my memory. However, when we were leaving, we decided to make a "pit stop." Never have I ever seen such a unique potty setup.....

It's a good thing we're friends! :-)

Whew!

The update is here! You people really know how to harrass a girl!!

Charleston was so much fun!


I have been spinning in circles since going back to work last Monday, and it doesn't look like life will be slowing down any time soon. Our school underwent a MAJOR renovation over the summer, but it left the classrooms really dirty and messy.

We also have some really sketchy construction workers who have managed to "pinch" quite a few items from various classrooms - including mine. I have to remind myself that the "stuff" is not what makes my classroom an awesome place to be - it's the kids inside that make me want to come to work. Come Monday morning, I won't be thinking about the missing "stuff" - I'll be focused on my kiddos who are just as ready to come back and be together as I am!

I'm afraid my pictures won't be in any particular order. Evidently when you save a draft of a post, Blogger doesn't want to let you add any new pictures to it.

On our first night in Charleston we discovered the Acme Cantina, which was in WALKING distance of our beach apartment. Danger, Danger, Danger! We met a group of guys who worked at The Boathouse, a restaurant on the Isle of Palms (where we were staying). They invited us to come out for a night and have dinner.

Hot Mamas Sherry and Abby getting ready to go to dinner!

Me, Nikki and Claudine eatin' good at The Boathouse

We also did quite a bit of shopping as well --- in The Market in Charleston, and in the fun beach shops along the boardwalk on the Isle of Palms.

Claudine the pirate looking for a bathing suit!

Michelle the Mad and Abigail the Anxious --- ARRRRR!

Sorry, no pirate hats were purchased. They didn't come with eyepatches - which, we clearly needed to pass as "authentic" pirates. I did find a cute new bathing suit! :-)

Be back Friday!

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Tim McGraw and Faith Hill!

Sherry had to go home for her big sister's baby shower, so I invited my sister Jennie to come see Tim McGraw and Faith Hill with Michelle and I on July 8th. It was SO much fun!!

Boone Bunnies @ Phillips Arena

Summer Gal Pals!

See? There's an itsy-bitsy-teeny-weenie Faith hill in the middle of that stage - which was really cool by the way!

Circle of Death continued...

So, "The Blogger" is being difficult. It doesn't want to upload all my pictures! I digress.

After one of our Circle of Death rounds, Spencer found a permanent marker in the kitchen. He proceeded to draw a handlebar moustache on himself.

Spencer thought he would give me a matching moustache. I politely declined.

I tried to tell him....

No really means no!

Don't worry. No groupies were harmed in the making of these photos.