Odds and Sods

• In England, the word "sod" is used for a myriad of different things (you can't even imagine how diverse this word is there!), so after being around my husband for a few years now, that is the word that came to mind for this post! I have a few other blogs to make but I'm charging my camera batteries right now so can't get the pictures off of there just yet, and the things I was going to tell ya are just odd and ends as we here in America would say...or odds and sods as my husband's countrymen would call them! So let's update you on what's going on in our life a little bit--just the "odds and sods" of it. :) Here goes!
  
• I told Corey we would go to Escanaba State Fair this year. We don't do enough of those type of things together because money is always tight (like for so many people not just us!), but I decided we're just doing it like Nike says! :) He lovesssssssssss the fair and starts talking about it WAY early every year, so we're doing it twice this year. We are going to the Escanaba fair (about an hour drive for us) on August 15 and then we will go to our normal "hometown" fair in Norway, MI (about 25 miles away) in early September as usual. It will be a great time and he's really looking forward to them, especially the Eskie fair now, as one of his favorite bands will be in the grandstand. I can't think of the name just now....
• Another fun thing I decided we will do together this summer: probably on Monday or Tuesday during the first week of August (Bruce, Crystal and the gang will be here that week as well), I am going to let him invite about 25 friends (probably 15 will show; you know how that goes) and we will all meet up at Lake Antoine and "party!" :) We will provide the food and grill burgers and brats, I will make potato and pasta salad,get some chips and soda, and I bet Mom will make a chocolate cake for their contribution...and the kids can swim, play soccer and volleyball in the park and we could probably even hang out at Bruce and Crystals campsite for an hour or two around the fire if any kids choose to stay that late. It's all up in the air right now as far as the details, but we're going to do it for sure. I don't let Corey have kids over to the house very often, so this will be a way he can have friends without them being here at home. (various reasons as far as why they aren't normally allowed to come to the house much....) All we will have to provide is the food and they will probably have a great time!
• Today Corey is heading out to my friend Gayla's cottage on Lake Emily (their old house) and his friend Autumn's with a group of kids. There will probably be about 10 or 12 of them and they are going swimming, tubing and having a meal there. He is really looking forward to it. When he gets home, we may head out to Mom & Dad's to visit for an hour or two. The three of us went to Peking for Chinese food for supper yesterday and it was YUMMY. Why does it fill you up SOOO fast though?? We were really enjoying it and after one plate we were full! Ate another one though...maybe that's why the weight problem???
• As already mentioned in a previous post, soccer playoffs July 12 & 13. Go team! :)
• We don't have any plans for the 4th of July, but I work all day 9am to 6pm and Craig works that evening. I also work the surrounding days, so we can't really make any plans. We always get situated and watch the Florence fireworks, though--they put on a pretty great show for being a tiny town. Since I get home about 6:45 that night, I will probably let Corey grill some burgers or something if it's nice out. He loves to cook and he likes to grill, so....yay for me not having to cook! :)
• I am a bit too nervous to start the patches just yet, so my doctor prescribed 10mg pain pills for me now. He also gave me 10 more per month> I really need 120 per month to do much good (4 a day as I take them 2 at a time or they do nothing at all for me) but I will take what I can get. So far they are working alright. Not phenomenal, but they *are* better and help keep it controlled, so we'll work with it.
• Craig is enjoying his job at Subway a lot more now that he's been working *with* someone again during the week. Unfortunately, he still has to work Saturday and Sunday shifts alone (don't understand why THAT is as it can get pretty busy and he runs constantly all night) but at least he has help Monday thru Friday on the days he works. For many months he didn't and it was tough to do it all alone every night....aside from the fact that there would be *no one* to talk to all night aside from whoever came in.
• It's not birthday time yet (and believe me, nowdays I'm feeling like they can take JUST as long as they like to get here!!!), but I have my eye on a Canon camera that I'm getting myself this year. It's 25.00 less online than it is in our store for the same item, and I can get my 10% off online too...and then ship it to the store free with site to store shipping...so I'm going to do that. It was inspired by the Kodak (I think) that Stacy and Damon have....I loved it when they were up here visiting. This one is very similar but I liked it just a bit better when I looked at both of them in the store and it has great reviews and takes terrific pics supposedly. It's the same price as the Kodak I was looking at; I can't wait to get it!!! (I will be blogging SO much more after I get that thing...you just watch me!) ;)
• I miss my In laws in England (and I know Craig does too!!!) I don't keep in contact with them nearly well enough, so I'm going to try to improve on that. We think of them SO, so often, but how are they to know that??? We love them lots....... same goes for a lot of my family that I don't see very often.
• I have today off, so I'm going to R-E-L-A-X! (oh yeah..and clean a little bit too! ugh. and to that end.............)
• Lastly for now, I have a big mess in the middle of my livingroom floor right now. It's going to take me about an hour to sort it out and I need to get it picked up before Craig gets up for the day, so I had better stop procrastinating! (a biggie for me!) I found a set of 12 really heavy cardboard boxes (the type you put together yourself) on clearance for 2 bucks at Walmart (they were 12 or 13) and Corey and I put them together tonight and I am organizing my armoire a bit. It was pretty messy. It gets that way because it becomes a dumping ground for whatever "odd and sod" ;) is lying around, sooooo... time to clean it up a bit!