Date night! + Weekend

So this past Friday, Amy and I decided that we were gonna do a "date night" since we really don't go out on dates much anymore. We were gonna go to this place called the Chateau and eat there but there were cars lined up on the side of the road for probably about a 1/4 mile! So we just ended up going to Ruby Tuesday where I got steak and Parmesan fries while Amy got this Southwestern Pasta dish which was pretty yummy! After that we just went home and kinda relaxed after long days at work.

As for the rest of the weekend, we decided to join Amy's parent in the pellet craze! Originally we were just going to split a 1/2 ton of pellets (25 40 lb bags) then we were convinced to get another ton! So all together now we got 95 40 lb bags of pellets sitting in our garage. Did we mention that we cleaned out the garage too! So essentially half the garage now is pellets LOL. Then we entertained my Gramma, all before noon! Then that night we decided to rock out with Rock Band 2 and it's mad addicting!

Sunday watched the Pats get blown out of the water 38-13 by Miami and the Sox clinched a tie for the wild card. So all in all it was a pretty interesting weekend!

Aye, talk like a pirate day, gar!

Well, today is the international day of pirate speak so the rest of my blog will be all pirate speak!

Arrr, well, today is Friday and I'm so ready for the weekend. Today Amy and Me be goin' out t' eat for a "date night" and gonna pick between a couple places and then probably plop our butts down on the couch and just relax for the rest o' the eve. So happy t' have the weekend off, it just seems like its been such a long week, argh! And this weekend we'll be gettin' Rock Band 2 so I'm sure we'll be playin' that probably 30 out o' the 48 hours that's Saturday and Sunday.

Rock n roll, argh!

Never Forget

So today and pretty much every year on this date, a few very kind citizens of the town bring in pizza and snacks for the PD/FD. Always find that nice that there are people out there that are thankful for what we do. Not everyone out there realizes it but those that do definitely share their kindness. Still weird to think this happened 7 years ago :(

So on September 10th 2001, the day before, I had gotten off work (worked at South Station, a train station in Boston as a cell phone rep) and Amy had come up from her school to visit me. So some of her friends and I walked around the city that night for a lil bit. Odd thinking that was the last normal day that we would have. Thankfully I didn't work the next day cuz it would have been chaos! I had school and was commuting down to school and had heard on the radio what had happened and then had to go to class. When I got out of class they had giant screens up in the cafeteria showing the buildings collapsing. At that point, they told everyone that the campus was being shut down and those that didn't have to stay, to go home. So I went home, worried about Amy and how she went to school near the city then went to pick her up that afternoon. We came home and just watched footage all night about it and we were just awestruck at how every channel had coverage of this horrible disaster.

May those that perished never be forgotten.




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Foosball!

Time for some Patriots football! Although it's not too encouraging when your star player, Mr Gisele Bunchen (aka Tom Brady) goes out with a serious injury in the first quarter in the first game of the season! Eek!

Oh, and Hanna? Pfft lol...we got a few inches of rain, no apparent wind damage from her. What a wussy storm lol.

So here I sit, counting down the minutes til my days off and hoping the Pats can somehow pull off a crazy win with Matt Cassel. Yay?

Hanna-bo-banna

She's a comin! Not gonna be severe or anything. Expecting here in my area 40-60mph wind gusts. More of the rain that I'm worried about. They're expecting 3-6" here. So we'll see.

According to Ollie the Weatherman:


After Hanna it's Ike. Looks like it could hit LA/MS who's just getting over Gustav. It's path has it going over Cuba so let's hope it just weakens and ends up being nothing

Get outta my head!

So I've this one song stuck in my head:

As soon as I get it unstuck out of my head I see the commercial again so hence it gets stuck in my head. It's a video for the game Mercenaries 2



Now, I just watched this video and I'm sure I'll have this stuck in my head all day:



So ya, enjoy, and I hope you get them stuck in your head too! :P

Oops!

Forgot to post a link to the gallery :P

D.C. Trip!

Back to work!

So D.C. was a great time. Saw all the tourist-y sites and probably did about 45 miles of walking (or so it seems). Totalled probably about 19 hrs worth of driving which wasn't too too bad. The trip was definitely worth it though. Felt good to get away from work for awhile and wish I was still there.

Here's a gallery of the 400+ pix we took.