Monday, March 10, 2008

House Updates

Rosie's house is coming along nicely. The insulation was put in last week, a dry wall person is coming by this week to finish the attic and then he will finish the hardwood floors. We spent yesterday doing odds and ends. The bathroom looks awesome. Rosie and Tony cleared out the rooms for the floor refinsher guy. I just kinda bummed around helping dad with the bathroom faucet and moving some things. I was very productive! :) Hopefully in two to three weeks she will be moving in and her kitties will be moving out! Here are some pics:



Mom trying to figure out how to place the last little piece of trim.

Dad trying to figure out why the whirlpool tub was not working.

Rosie and Tony hanging blinds up.

Sunday, March 9, 2008

I see you!

Saturday, March 8, 2008

Blah

I have report card grades to finalize and comments to make for all of the lovely darlings. How do you give a comment to a student who rolls their eyes at you constantly and goes on a tirade about hating school and teachers daily? Plus on top of all that I believe I am getting sick or the weather is taking a turn because my throat is strarting to ache and my nose is stuffy. Blah!

Thursday, March 6, 2008

And the winner is....

ME!!! Let me back up and start from the beginning....I heard a couple of weeks ago about this contest that Sunny 101.5 and the CW 25 had partnered up together to do a contest offering a day at the spa for a person and up to 10 guests. The only thing was that you had to do was watch Friends during the 7:00 hour and then answer a trivia question about that night's show and e-mail to the tv station. So for a week straight I e-mailed my daily answer, I think I even forgot a day.

Now fast forward to Tuesday (which was the day from hell at school), I get home and there is a message on my machine telling me that she hoped that I got my flier in the mail because I was one qualifer for the contest and the drawing was being held this Thursday. What!???!!! I didn't receive anything in the mail and then I started to wonder did I delete it when I emptied my e-mail trash or did I actually throw away a very important piece of mail! Frantically I call back the person and get an answering machine. So I left all of the vital information. Lucky enough for me the person sent me an email yesterday morning explaining what I needed to do. I had to show up at the broadcast between 4 and 6 PM and I would need to be present to win. There was also the chance to win prizes before the final drawing.

So today I breeze out of Plymouth at 3:15 only to make it up past the mall area into Granger at a place called Wine Down. This is a very posh kind of place and not one I would go to because I am not a wine drinker. So I arrive around 4 and tell the main person that I was there and then I proceed to grade my stack of papers. The tv person goes around and has everyone enter for the prizes before the main prize. The first name they draw out of the fish bowl is me! I won a $25 gift certificate to the wine place. I thought okay that is my winning streak for the day. I might as well finish grading these papers and then go home because there is no way in heck I would win a second time.

Needless to say when the drawing happened at 5:30, and guess whose name gets called a second time from the other 24 names in the fish bowl...ME!!!!!!!!!!!! I was estactic!!!! I now have in my possession a $1500 Spa Retreat package for me and up to 10 friends!! How awesome is that! I can select the day and we will have lunch catered in!! Yummy!!

The best part is that I can plan any day that I would like. So I am thinking about June. It would be a great relief to have the school year over and a great way to kick off the summer season!

My sisters have already told me that I am taking them!

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Look out San Antonio!

We have finally booked our flight for my cousin's wedding over the 4th of July weekend. The plus side is that we found tickets for $180 roundtrip! How awesome is that! The even best part is that we leave straight out of South Bend and then switch in Detroit. We leave Thursday afternoon and arrive in San Antonio around 11 at night. Then we have the fourth of July to wander around San Antonio. Then the wedding is on Saturday. Then a quick second later it will be Sunday and we fly out in the afternoon. Now we just have the hotel rooms to book!