A Likely Story!

Gotta LOVE 3 Day Weekends

Had a perfectly wonderful 3 day weekend!

Hung out with buddies Friday and Sunday, got a ton of errands done on Saturday, spent waaaay too much time online as well as writing in my journal (am going thru a huge decision-making process right now) and also spent time missing my Boca Buddies from last weekend.

Finalized plans for my cousin and his daughter to visit next Saturday, for one of my client/buddies (and his dog) to visit mid-June and for my parents to visit at the end of June. We here at Kathyland LOVE visitors almost as much as we love 3 day weekends!

And what's not to love about Steve Nash, Amare Stoudamire and team winning when it counted...Game 5 in Phoenix, baby!

Last but not least, spiffed up the blog with a fresh coat of pixels. I can't see the new version in Firefox, but others can. Sorry Jillian, I know you don't like purple :-)

Ok possums, hope you all had a very nice weekend...I know I did.

NNSD :-)

I Have Internet :-)

Wheeeeeeeeee!

Blogging Hiatus

Internet is out...AGAIN!

Urgg......

Have a great Memorial Day weekend and I'll catch up when I can ie- whenever I stop by Panera -or- whenever Adelphia decides to fix my internet issues.

Cya :-)

Weiner Surprise

That's what I named my grilled concoction for this evening's din-din.

Take 2 Kosher hot dogs, cut them into chunks, skewer with red,green and yellow bell peppers, add a cherry tomato or two and baste with BBQ sauce...then grill. The grilling is the surprise part...cause aren't you 'Surprised' I finally grilled on my own with no one to watch over me?

Was smooth sailing at first until the BBQ started sputtering (BIG! LITTLE!? WHERE ARE YOU GUYS WHEN I NEED YOU??) then conked out. Yikes. But I remained calm, turned off the other burner and closed off the tank. The weiner-bobs were cooked anyway.

After eating and talking to Little (who bought a new Murano today...YAY!) and Jillian (canvass, Jillian, canvass) i turned my phone to silent, headed upstairs to clean the bathroom and now I'm catching up on email before I call it a night.

Better mood today than yesterday...that's a good thing.

NNSD :-)

Oh Baby!

Seems there are more tangible types of hurricane memories than reliving our three days of 'Truth or Dare' during Hurricane Frances.

MSNBC reports about the Florida phenomenon of 'Hurricane Babies'.

The clip featured new parents at Boca Community telling tales of 'what we did during the hurricane' as well as my OB/GYN Dr. David Lubetkin offering his viewpoint on the baby boom.

Hmmm....babies or fond memories of being drunk and silly for 3 days?

No brainer choice as far as I'm concerned.

Jager, anyone?

Not A Good Day (aka Whinefest)

Woke up early without having to. Laid in bed wishing it was the weekend once more.  Missed my Boca Buddies and really didn't feel like going to work.

But I did.

Reviewed the 586 emails that had piled up in my Outlook. Some things that I had specifically asked to be handled a certain way were either not handled in the way I requested or else not handled at all.  Took an early lunch just to get out of work and drove around Delray convincing myself that going back to work and giving notice would not be a good thing.

Had Steak 'N' Shake at the Intracoastal...nice view that somewhat improved my mood.

2nd part of the afternoon was fucking NUTS. THANK GOODNESS three of my funniest clients called in to break up the  monotony and sadness.  Thanks Rich, Travis and Bill...I owe you guys big-time.

After work, wanted to come home to have 3 or 4 or 8 beers. Didn't, but wanted to. Wound up talking to my buddy Howard for venting purposes...that helped too.

The first day back from vacation is never easy, at least not for me.

Glad today is almost over. Tomorrow will be better, I know.

Thanks for listening to my Whinefest. Next time, I'll serve cheese to go with my whine!

BBBBBB*

Buh-Bye Boca BBQ Bash Buddies.  What else did you think it meant?

By now, the Scotts should be touching down any minute and Jillian isn't far from home either.

I am only just now starting towel laundry and the kitchen floor is drying from the first Swiffering of the day. Can you believe I waited this long? Me neither!

Was gonna grill, but the more I thought about it, the sadder it made me feel since I would be grilling ALL BY MYSELF. No Big or Little helping, no Jillian laughing, no Il Divo music playing...so I decided that for tonite I would pass on grilling. Maybe tomorrow.

Had a BLAST this weekend.  It was wonderful to meet Scott Little and Scott Big. After talking to Little all this time, the second I met him I felt that I'd known him all my life. Same for Big. And Jillian!  She returned!  The hurricanes and sidetracked campaigns did nothing to deter her love of all things FL.

Lots of fun was had, alcohol consumed, food, food and more food was eaten, and almost non-stop laughter the entire time they were here.

Important discoveries were made this weekend...I'll go first :

* It's never too early (or too late) to eat chocolate

* Anything that puts a little hop in your step is always a good thing

* Do not under ANY circumstances use Coconut Rum as a mixer unless you really really love the taste of cough syrup

* Ursula stories make us laugh

* Target trips are always a good thing

* Cook eggs on a grill? Really???

* Sea lice ARE NOT our friends

And the last thing I'll add is this.... if you want to have an incredibly kick-ass weekend, you'll just have to invite Scott, Scott and Jillian for a visit.

Just don't forget the M&M's!

A Blog is Born!

Big has a blog!

The Boca Bash continues...

AWAKE!

Little texted me at the ungodly hour of crack of dawn (5:41) to say they got upgraded to First Class. And just now sent phone-cam pix to prove it.

Called Jillian at 6:13 to talk to her while she drove to the airport...except she was still sleeping. Oops!

As for me, I'm doing a load of laundry and then headed downstairs to wash the library windows and swiffer the floors. Meant to do the swiffering part right before I went to bed, but ran out of steam around 2.

Finally, being the uber anal-retentive control freak that I am, my Outlook from work is not forwarding to my home computer, so I need to pop into work and fix that problem before I get the truck washed and leave for FLL for Jillian. Scott and Scott are flying into WPB.

Which just so happens to be right around the corner from the WPB Cheesecake Factory.

No telling when I'll post next!

The Boca Bash is underway :-)

Happy Bruce and Brian Day!

Today is my buddy Bruce's birthday...the Big 50!  Called Bruce at midnite to wish him a happy...his answsering machine was full.  Bruce doesn't have email, or a cell phone, so I'll have to wait until he either clears his answering machine or is home when I call again.

As for Brian, texted him happy birthday at midnite. Initially a client and now a buddy,  Brian does have email and a cell, but doesn't have a link to my blog. He knows I have one, but we haven't gone there yet. One of these days. Brian turns 30 today. He splurged by getting a racing bike (he does triathalons) and is off kayaking for the weekend. Nice!

In honor of my birthday buddies, Raspberry Martini's will be consumed at lunch. Vodka-based cocktails for dinner. And after that, who knows?

Happy Birthday, Bruce and Brian. 

Enjoy your special day :-)