Weddings

Since I have graduated from college numerous friends have gotten married. They say to expect at least three weddings a year for the first couple of years you are out of college. It has now been four years since I graduated college and there are four weddings this year that I am either involoved in or hope to be attending. Here are the dates, the ones in bold are the ones I am in the wedding party.

April 22 – Easton, Maryland – Seagrass Girl and BJ
June 24 – Westfield, Massachusets – JJO and PJP
July 1 – King George, Virginia – LJH and BMA
September 23 – Danville, Virginia – Dr. P and EMS

Congratulations to all of you and we look forward to spending your special day with you!

What I got for Christmas

We are back from North Carolina and I figured I would go ahead and blog about what I got for Christmas because when people ask I forget half the stuff. Christmas with the in-laws (Friday, December 23, 2005):
-Pair of jeans
-CSI puzzle
-Season 4 of E.R.
-Gift card to Starbucks
-Norman Rockwell puzzle
-Seal-a-meal vacuum sealer with bags (very excited about this it was on our wedding registry)
-Pistachios, Dr. Pepper and Poly-o String Cheese

Christmas with my family:

-Odyssey putter
-Season 2 of E.R.
-Long sleeve t-shirt with a beer logo on it
-”I ‘m picking out your Christmas present” t-shirt with a guy picking his nose
-”How to out run a cop” t-shirt with directions 1. Get cop’s attention 2. Drop some donuts 3. Run like hell
-Packman t-shirt
-Two, yes count them two, “Made in Ireland” t-shirts
-”I’m right, You’re wrong, Any questions?” t-shirt
-Thinsulate shirt
-Lots of fun socks
-Black pair of dress boots
-Turbie Twist hair towels
-Wallet
-Business card holder and matching briefcase
-Deception Point by Dan Brown
-Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
-1000 Best Bartenders recipes
-As an added bonus, Beanie Babies that my parents picked up at an auction.I hope everyone had a great Christmas!

I’m baaaack

It has been quite a while since I blogged mostly because I have been super busy at work this week. At the end of Wednesday I had put in 31.5 hours of work time and the earliest I had got home was 8 pm. Needless to say I didn’t have time to blog at work and I didn’t feel like doing it when I got home, all I wanted to do was collapse and go to sleep. I guess I will walk you through my week.

Monday I worked the same spill that occurred the previous Friday. I got home a little after nine, did my blog complaining of my day, took a shower and went to sleep.

Tuesday I had to go back to the same facility and finish the clean-up. It should have been a two hour job but it turned into a pain in my butt because our intern left the ignition engaged on the backhoe and its battery was dead. So, we had to jump the backhoe before we could load the truck with the contaminated soil. I then had to go to a site where a spill occurred a year ago and re-route the blower that we had set up there. Why did I have to re-route the blower you ask? Because petroleum vapors were back in the house for like the third time. We didn’t get to the house until 3ish and we had to dig a six foot hole, drill a hole in the house and then route PVC through the hole to pull from under the slab. Needless to say we did most of the work in the dark with flashlights and I didn’t get home until 9:30. You can guess what I did once I got home.

Wednesday I had a geoprobing job in Warrenton. I had to geoprobe to find a place where the groundwater isn’t contaminated with MTBE so that we can drill the homeowners a new well (their current one is contaminated with MTBE). Overall the day went well but geoprobing in itself is a slow process. On my way back to the office I found out that a client was going to be coming to the office to sign the VPSTF papers and get them notarized and he wouldn’t be there until about 6. Guess who the notary in the office is…you guessed it, me! So, I had to wait around for him to notarize the papers. That night I got home around 8, ate, took a shower and went to bed. Wednesday was also the one year memorial for Nick Mason a soldier in the Army National Guard that was killed last year in the Mosul attack. Nick was a good friend and fellow HS wrestler of my brother-in-law and the son of one of Boo-Boo’s former co-workers.

Thursday I was supposed to have another geoprobing job but this time at a home built on a mountain in Madison County. We got to the site and saw that not only do they have a beautiful view of “Old Rag Mountain” but that same mountain keeps their yard from getting sun. Their entire yard was a sheet of ice and it just wasn’t safe to have the geoprobe rig on the ice so we called the job off. I came back to the office and worked on some reports and actually got to leave at the normal time. When I got home I was able to wrap the rest of the presents, including Boo-Boo’s, and cook dinner all before Boo-Boo got home. Boo-Boo was working in WV with our friends that started their own medical billing company about a year ago. They have expanded so much that they have started to hire outside help and offered both of us a job. I had to turn them down but Boo-Boo accepted, we figured that he can still help them out even when he becomes a police officer because he gets multiple days off in a row.Today has been uneventful work wise but I have put in 42 hours already this week and no matter how much I work I only get paid for 40, the beauty of being a salaried employee. The exciting thing that happened today was that our photgrapher

called and said that our wedding album, printable CD and DVD were done. When I got there she had made us an additional smaller album with pictures other than the ones we chose for our big album and she also couldn’t decide which picture to make an 11 x 14 so she gave us four at no extra cost. Now I am just sitting here waiting for Boo-Boo to get back and for the Explorer to get its oil change and then I can go home. We are celebrating Christmas with Boo-Boo’s family tonight, which I have never done, so it should be an interesting experience. Tomorrow we leave for NC to celebrate Christmas with my family and we will be back on Tuesday. I will do my best to blog while I am at my parent’s house but no promises, otherwise check back on Wednesday. Merry Christmas to everyone!

Things in Three

In college when someone got pregnant everyone always said that pregnancy comes in threes. A friend of mine from college is pregnant and due in April, so that is one. My mother-in-law is pregnant (with her eleventh) and due in May, so that is two. I have been waiting for the third and praying it wouldn’t be me, not that I don’t want children just not right now. My prayer has been answered, I found my third pregnancy this weekend. A good friend of mine, also from college, is due in July. She got married seven, count them, seven days before I did. Congratulations to all three of you and lets see if we can make it a trio of boys. It is up to the person due in July to complete that trio.