Weather

While at work:
69F = 12:30 p.m. temperature at lunch.
67F = 2:30 p.m. temperature when dark clouds rolled in.
47F = 2:50 p.m. temperature when my coworkers stopped watching the wind outside.
30F = 4:30 p.m. temperature when I left work (and snowing..YEAH!!)

Thursday Morning Madness

This morning, I was getting ready to leave for work and Kelli asked if I could finish dressing Allie (5 months old) while she finished getting ready for work. I obliged, and when I was through Allie stated coughing as if she was going to spit up.
I threw a burp cloth over my shoulder and we walked out of her bedroom into the living room when her coughing became increasingly worse. At the moment I was getting the most concerned, she suddenly shot some projectile spit up from her mouth straight over my back and missing the burp cloth altogether! The first think I did next was call for Kelli incase more was to come, however Allie looked at me with her big eyes and just smiled.
I then looked down to see what mess we would need to clean up and found that Allie and shot the spit up straight into her mom’s shoe.

Hooley, Hooley, Hooley!!!

We went to Castletown Geoghegan for Jackie Rose 30th Birthday Party. It was also a celebration because Kelli had turned 30 the week before. As it turned out the Irish X-Iles were playing and did a fantastic job yet again.

The Irish X-Iles continue to gather more and more of a following so our group no longer had the bar to ourselves. We enjoyed the evening and even Kelly T. who had second thoughts of going because of a late evening and work the next day, ended up going.

The evening events are a little sketchy but at one point Jackie, My friend Justin, and I were in a group talking when Justin randomly said “Have you ever squeezed your butt cheeks together so hard you popped your back.”

I thought this was hilarious, because it was a random comment that really doesn’t happen and said “No, but I have squeezed so hard that I pulled a hamstring.”

We laughed again and Jackie who was smiling sheepishly said “Are you guys making fun of me?”

Justin and I laughed again and I said “No, Justin is making things up.”

Justin replied to Jackie “Why should we?”

Jackie said “Well, I had my back to the wall but thought you knew I was doing that.” It wasn’t that exact wording, because I was laughing to hard to remember exact quotes but it was something similar.

Later that night, 2 a.m., Kelli was hammered and needed to pump and dump but couldn’t because she needed AA batteries for the pump. I purchased some from a gas station and when I hopped back in the truck the George’s and Kelli were laughing at me and had my “Learn to Speak Italian” CD blaring.

We then headed to Taco Bell for Melissa and Kelli, then to White Castle for Mike and I. While at White Castle drive thru, Melissa sprayed my cologne in my mouth and I really did feel like the scene from Elf where the Lady asks Buddy if you would like a free sample and he sprays it in is mouth and runs away screaming.

The next morning at 8:15, Kelli woke me up so we could go get Allie from Grandma’s. I asked Kelli how she felt and she didn’t remember the drive home and didn’t feel to bad, but was still a little spiny. Really she was still drunk and the hangover was yet to come. The hangover eventually lasted for 2 days.

Well, that was our wonderful night out without the kid. I can’t wait for the next outing.

Lunch

Lunch time, litterally. A co-worker and I headed out for lunch. We were leaving the Business Park area where we work when I notice a hawk sitting on a power line. Hanging from Hawks claw was a little mouse. That'll make you hungry.

ummm...lunch....

Milk

I like milk. No suprise there if you know me.

However what I don't like about milk is a scenario such as what just happened: I was playing with Allie this evening while she was laying on her back and I kissed her check and felt warm liquid in my mouth. It turned out to be spit up breast milk that happened at exactly the wrong moment. ewww...

What is kind of funny though is that milk was technically in three people that evening...well maybe not funny haha...

USPS vending machines

I love the USPS vending machines. Last year, at the Sand Diego USPS plant I put my money in the vending machine to get some tasty peanut M&M’s in the yellow bag. I entered the lot number and down falls the M&M’s.

However they fall short of entering the bottom of the chute. This was very unfortunate. Fortunately the machine recognized no M&M’s were dispensed and down fell another package. Same thing again, the M&M’s fall and get stuck on top of the M&M’s already stuck. Another set is dispensed and gets stuck. This happens one more time and the weight dislodges the M&M’s and they all fall. 4 for the price of 1.

Today in Phoenix I put in money for a water bottle. The water was dispensed and suddenly the machine gives me back my money. Weird. So then I decided to get a Snicker Bar. I put the money in and the Snicker didn’t fall. The machine didn’t automatically dispense a Snicker however and the machine wouldn’t move. So I pushed the return money and out came my money. Well, I figured I might as well put in the money again and push a Snicker out. I do this and down falls the Snicker that got caught, and then the new Snicker I selected. Wow…2 Snickers and a water bottle for the price of a water bottle.

Phoenix Arizona

Today I, along with a co-worker, left for Phoenix from the sunny shores of St. Louis at 9:40 a.m. STL time. Actually, our flight was delayed by 20 minutes for a passenger that got sick prior to leaving and the stewardesses were trying to find his traveling partner.

This caused us to be late to our connecting flight in Dallas Fort Worth. As we were landing our connecting flight was boarding. As soon as we got off we had to bypass lunch and head straight to our next gate. We boarded which was now 12:25 STL time.

Now we are on our way to Phoenix when the pilot switches on the intercom and informs us there is bad whether in Phoenix and planes in our in a holding pattern. He also mentions we do not have enough gas to do this and we need to land in Tucson to get more fuel.

This delays us by 1hr 20 min. I am now completely famished now as we take off for Phoenix…again. Once we land after the holding pattern…in Phoenix we get in the rental vehicle and head to the hotel. We are now about 2hurs behind schedule and check into the hotel. We were supposed to go to the Post Office but decide we need to eat. It’s 5:45 STL time but we decide to first contact the sales guy we work with and are meeting. He has other plans and informs us that the Post office is dire need of us. We do our job leave and finally eat at Applebee’s 8p.m STL time.

Thank you company for 14.5 hours of work.

Airplane

Allie has such a fun time doing Airplane. We will go "One, Two, Three, Airplane! Weeeee!" She starts getting a big smile on her face when we say one.

As we hold her in the air to simulate an airplane she holds her mouth open. Consequently the child has quite a bit of drool, and the drool has a mind of it's own and lands where it wants. Mostly in the places you don't want it...the facial region.

New Years Resolution: Nap Diversification

Happy new year everyone! May it bring you prosperity, good health, and good cheer.

For New Years eve we went to our good friend’s house, Justin and Jody, to ring in the new year. As always the combination of dynamic people created a fun and entertaining night. We brought Allie along and she did just fine although evidently it didn’t start very well. Kelli had to work so Allie and I met her their. Justin said we could bring Sable, Kelli’s dog, with us since we were spending the night, so I gave her a bath. Then I went to change Allie and she crapped in her pants and got it all over her clothes so I had to give her a bath. Then I changed her into a clothing selection that wasn’t quite in tune with being cute. A white shirt with green John Deere logo and white pants with pink strips down the side…who knew that wouldn’t fly? Allie didn’t think that was a good selection either even and crapped through that outfit as well.

On to the party, Kelly T was politically correct and made an appearance which isn’t an easy thing to do for her since it’s a one way 45 minute drive out of the way for her. We were happy to see her before she had to go make appearances at other party’s. Mike and Melissa showed up late…as usual now that they have been late one times in a row. Justin and I hit the shots along with another Police buddy of his, had mixed drinks and generally tied on a dirty one. Our friends the Jackie and Ed our back in the area and fortunately came over. Jackie who was the driver turned out to be the passenger.


After we toasted the New Year with some Hermannohof Champagne Jackie and Ed brought…good stuff. She started with her Jackie-isims. I don’t know what to call them but there random bits of funniness. For instance at one point she had glitter on her face and after Ed unsuccessfully licked it off, she smiled and said “I’m a Disco Ball.”




This is the point of the night I grab the closest thing and try to write as fast as I can because here comes the Jackie-isims. Normally I break my wrist trying to write and the next morning I realize…while I may have been writing my spelling utterly sucks. As it turns out a lot of people had their own –isims and the plate I grabbed was filled in a hurry.

Jackie R. – “I think I got my Headboard Head…I can find it!”
Jackie R. – “Shut your mouth Ed. You need whitening and a dental fix up.
Jackie R. – Some guy thought I was Italian and Greek….He was wrong…I was Italian and German.”
Mike G. – “I’ll be a bubble.”
Melissa G. – “Guys couldn’t go that way…they have to go from that way”
Melissa G. – “I saw my eye going out right there”

p.s. Jackie ended up leaving her cell and their side dish plate at the party.


After a night light that there is only on thing to do and that is sleep.


And when you wake up from that nap, it’s time to get up and go to a different couch and sleep. It’s a great day to diversify your sleeping