wine tour....

alright, alright, here is the blog abt the wine tour...

the tour was great. we hit 7 wineries in about 5 hours. we definitely had fun with each other, and met some intersting characters along the way. here is a little bit about each one...

"john".. john was a 50-60 year old man that "found" us at the first tasting. he took to calling me ruby begonia (attempting to guess what my initials stood for)there are some scary pictures of him in the photo album at the end of this posting.. he tried to make us go to the "swingers" house at the end of the tour. we declined!

"pam".. pam had bells palsy. i didn't even notice till i saw the pics. (i must have been drunker then i thought) she was the first woman in her 40's to take off her top. she also "couldn't wait till her kids were old enough to drink with". (i could make a portville joke here, but i won't). cathy, and i hear will too, do a GREAT impression of her. there are some great pics of her in her green top simulating sex with the lady in purple, in the photo album.

"the swingers".. there was a rough older looking woman who got into the shirtless act, who invited us to go back to her house where she had "Plenty of room" for the whole bus of 45 people to stay there.

im sure there were others, but those are the ones that come to mind...

i bought abt 9 bottles of wine and they are just as good here in my house as they were in the winery... yummmmmmm. hanging out with peg and mike was soooo much fun too. i'm really hoping peg can go with us to vegas!

here are my pics, and emily has some good ones too, and peg has them posted with her run down on her blog...

so many things i love....

i was thinking in the shower this am that i LOVE aussie hair conditioner. no matter how tangly and ratty my hair feels when i'm done shampooing, the aussie conditioner gets it all out silky and smooth!

i also love to order things online and get them in the mail. my cd's arrived right on schedule this am... so nice!

i also love my new cell phone. although i prob won't recognize my new ring for a month or so, so be sure to leave messages. another thing i love about sprint in general is that they were able to transfer my phone book off my old phone into my new one, and the numbers that didn't make it, they printed out for me.

i also love my cubemate, he offered out of the blue to get me lunch cause i was so stressing this am, then he went and got it and everything..

i also love dropping my laundry off at the laundromat so they can wash it while i work today. only $15 for 20 lbs of laundry. woot! what i am going to love more though, is the way they fold it, and hang my delicates.

then when i get home tonight, i am going to love some magic hat #9 for dinner, and love watching survivor and csi.

houston we have a problem...

so it's nearing midnight and i'm giving flora a tour of the house and we get to the kitchen, and it looks like we've been ransacked. i quickly realize that the shelf the housed our extra wine glasses and the irreplacable extra pieces of my purple set of dishes has finally fallen off the wall smashing every single item to smithereens. i don't think there is one salvagable piece in the lot. :(

so, don't come over and into the kitchen barefoot till tomorrow.

i learned so much from keith last night. she told me all about seizures and how they are VERY closely linked to migraines. well, actually its the other way around, migraines are related to seizures.

she also said that there is a theroy that family members tend to all respond well to the same medication, so if one of your family members responds well to a certain type of anti depressant the chances are pretty great that you will too. interesting..

peg sent the itinerary for the wine tour today, i'll be passing that on to the affected parties, can someone send it on to will?

no "balls deep" last night. but the minions were there. i think the dj has a thing for one of "the minions". he talked to her on the mic more then once in the night. thanks KT, hoper, and flora for coming! the new waitress is WAY better, but the regular bartender wasn't there, it was the irish guy, and he made my chocolate martini with kaluha! it was so gross. flora made me send it back. the waitress then had to make it herself. much better...

one thing i forgot...

i bought 2.5 cd's today that should get here just in time to take on the road trip with us. i bought mdoughty's new cd, and his double older one. i have one of the older ones, but i think i might give it to SB since i know she likes it so much, even though its signed and everything....

mdoughty will always be syracuse travel music to me, it reminds me soooo much of when SB and i used to drive home and sing at the top of our lungs over and over till we both could sing the lyrics without screwing them up...

blogger sux at home

for some reason i can only get into my blogger dashboard from work. it takes too long from home. grrrrr. it also takes too long to even really check the blogs from home. i hate that!

so i got the cutest pair of shoes for the wedding. really cute.. Lk go thte same pair, we can be twins!

well, part of my "plan of attack" is to make plans for after the wedding, and i checked the invite and it's a morning wedding, since i won't be drinking there, harpoonfest is looking even more and more attractive. even though i "retired" from h-fest. i might have to come out of retirement just this once! :)

i'll post the links to the wineries we are going to tomorrow so you winos can preview them and get your wine list ready.

wine tour 7 days and counting!

the wine tour is a mere 7 days away. i can hardly contain my excitement!

there has been a request for a "line up" of sorts of confirmed attendees. i'm a visual person, so i threw together a little "guide". enjoy!

yum.

so the pulled pork turned out well. i can't believe how easy it was. i guess you can make pulled chicken too. maybe someday i will do that.

LM got off his chest all the things he wanted to tell me about JT's wedding. i am getting a little bit better picture of what to expect in october, but what i was not expecting was "choose your own seat".. wtf? who does weddings like that? :(. but i'm starting to feel more at peace with the whole NS situation, his g-f is not american either. phew, for some reason that makes me feel better. i think that now my anxiety is directed a little more towards seeing, possibly talking, to JT. to be honest, i'm not even sure how i feel about that guy. but i do know that i've been writing about him in my journal for years now. i'll have to tell this mini break-thru to keith so we can focus our attention that way.

survivor starts tonight. wooot! i am not sure i lost this week. i was having a "challenging week" to begin with, and then throw the growler of real beer i drank last night into the mix and i'm praying for "stay the same"...