It's all good

This weekend was indeed a lovely one. I went camping and played in the King's Dominion theme park all weekend. Alex and Chris came up for a visit Friday night, and left Sun night.

It was quite a herd with Curren's parents, Curren, Me, Alex and Chris, Curren's brother Jason, his wife Sandy, their kids Colby, Dylan, Eva, Sandy's sister Wendy and her friend Wayne... *phew* How did we all ever fit in one car?!

Friday night, C and I met mom and dad in Emporia, VA for dinner and the boy swap. We took them back the campground after fighting for fries at Shoney's.

Saturday, C took the boys to an event called Sapphire Joust so they could get a feel for the medieval fighting world. They had a pretty good time, but weren't able to put any armor on and beat each other like they were hoping. Meanwhile, I went with the fam to KD for the day. I made golabek for dinner that night, and they were pretty decent. Not as good an mom and Babci, but passable :o)

Sunday, we all loaded up and trooped over to KD for the day, which was a blast. We did nearly all of the rides, including Alex, who rode a record 7 rollercoasters! For those who don't know, Alex is not the biggest fan of coasters, but he was a complete star and rode them without much complaint! Mom and dad drove up to Williamsburg and hung out there for the day, before heading up to the campsite to pick up the boys.

Monday we packed up in the morning and parked the RV's and cars in the lot and played in KD for a few hours before heading home to collapse early into bed.

All in all, it was a good weekend. Good food, good company, good fun, amazing weather... I miss it already!

Mother Nature... what a jerk.

So, remember that part of my life when I was saying, "Oh, I can't wait to leave Riverside! I'm so excited to be done with that place!!"...?

Yeah... I worked there three nights last week, lol! Thursday I went in as a tech backstage for one of the guys who was on a trip... Friday, I worked the Micheal Hoover concert (he's an Elvis impersonator. Hilarious)... Saturday I ran lights for the show... Not only that, but the Saturday girl called in (at 3:45pm on friday) to say she had a family emergency (her third one in the 6 weeks she's been working here) so I went into work at the apt complex for a few hours Saturday...

The good thing is that all three nights I had waiting shifts, so I made some good money this weekend. Too bad I spent it all on shoes.

Kidding! Really, I put it in my savings like a good girl.

So much for my "free" weekends!

The weather has been horrible here the past few days, too. I don't know if you've been watching the news, but we had a few tornado touchdowns last Wednesday night. One of them hit the house of a good friend of mine. Luckily, she and her 2 brothers were on a road trip at the time. Her parents, who were home, hunkered down in the basement during the storm. The tornado took out two walls of their second story, where all the bedrooms are (were). Most of the family's clothes were sucked out into the storm, but luckily, the kids took their favorite clothes on the trip and insurance will cover everything.

Unfortunately, the house can't be saved. They have to move out. The roof shifted during the storm, which shifted the load bearing walls throughout the house and they are now forced to move.



We've gotten like 8 inches of rain since Wednesday, and it's still coming down... yikes. Lucky me, I still had to go to work today. Bummer.

Oh well, the day is almost over!!

Yay!!

I'm wireless bound!

So, it's a gloomy day at work and I decided to blog about the new love of my life...

my new Laptop!!

It pretty much rocks. It's a Sony Vaio, 14.1" screen, 3GB of memory, 250GB hard drive with a built in web cam, wireless, bluetooth, Windows Vista and an Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 processor. It's a pretty badass machine. The lid is a dark indigo blue, and the rest of it is silver... ooooh!

I've been researching laptops for a little while now, and finally decided on a Vaio. I went to Circuit City for it bc they had the best prices.

Actually, when I went, I was looking at a different laptop with a little less memory, bigger screen and a different processor. I made sure to take Curren with me to coach me on the finer points of techno-geek stuff. After about an hour of asking questions and walking back and forth around the laptop section 87 times, I decided on the smaller Vaio with more memory and a slightly better processor.

Here it is, complete with a background of a real life Harvey!