Shipyard Pumpkinhead

"Shipyard Pumpkinhead Ale is a crisp and refreshing wheat ale with delightful aromatics and subtle spiced flavor. Hints of cinnamon and nutmeg make this fall brew a flavor sensation. Avaiable September - October. 4.5% alcohol by volume."
MMMM... it's so good. My friend Trish's birthday was tonight so some of her friends (yes, I'm one of those) went to the SeaDog for awhile. I had a great time!!! Everybody was so funny! I got her a gift - some "finger fun" - a sex toy shaped like a finger that vibrates and is water proof which turned out to be a hit. Anyway, I'm home now with a slight "happy" buzz on and I'll be ready for bed shortly!

Fun Weekend

Saturday I went to Fort Knox with a friend of mine. That wasn't really the plan, but that's what ended up happening. Tim and I did a little grocery shopping and just hung out together.

Venom came crawling out during the Patriots game on Sunday. I couldn't help but crack up laughing. You'd think the whole thing was predetermined.

Venom strikes an intimidating pose for us.

The Patriot's won - of course! I'm excited they're doing well this year!

Tim and his new Patriots cozy! I don't know why his mouth is open like that though ... ??

Sunday night Tim and I went bowling with Leigh and Jared. We had a good time (that means I won) and then they came over here afterwards. We hung out for awhile, watched some tv, chatted...they left around 10:00.

Good Evening All

What's been going on? I guess not much. To quickly touch base on work: the bank knows I am looking for a new job and are okay with me staying until I find one. Although, I do feel my boss would prefer I move on sooner rather than later. I've had a couple of interviews, 1 went well, 1 didn't. the "went well" 1 I haven't heard back from yet... not sure if I even want it because it's a guaranteed OT job - all the time! I don't mind occasional OT, but not 50 hrs a week every week!!! (and it's salary) Other than work things have been good. Tim's still riding his bike to work even though the mornings have been pretty chilly. I'm guessing once this month is over we'll have to figure out a "commuting" plan. Tomorrow I have a "lunch date" with the executive director of Keep Bangor Beautiful (Bangor's non-profit recycling organization). I'll be signing up to be a member, possibly be a part of the board. I'm excited about it. Recycling is important to me so I think getting involved with KBB will be fun. Saturday I'm going hiking with my friend Trish. We're going to Acadia, I haven't been in forever!! Sunday the Pats play the Bills! I'm still pumped from the last game!! =)

"We should know better than to make the Pats mad"

I read an article today at work on ESPN.com about the Patriots win over the Chargers last night. Seriously, I thought I was going to cry. It's a great article!! It makes me proud to be a New England Patriots fan. The article ends with Bruschi saying "He didn't have to say anything in here this week. We all knew what we had to do. He's a big part of our family, and we're like his extended family. And we did what good families do when one of their own is affected." How could you possibly NOT respect this team? "it was obvious Belichick's team had his back." Despite Colleen's dislike for NFL Sunday's I'd go as far as to say even she respects the Patriots!

"Had the Patriots played with much more focus or emotion -- or, hey, been allowed to steal the San Diego defensive signals -- there is no telling how bad a beat-down New England would have administered." Can I get an AMEN!?
ESPN ARTICLE
Colleen -- How do I change the name of the link????

I love Fairies!

I've been in the mood to take pictures lately, but not much to take pictures of... so I'm trying to "create" picture opportunities. A couple of my friends bought this fairy for me one Christmas while we were in College. It's my biggest fairy and one of my favorites. I've been collecting fairies for about 8 years, mainly ones made by Dezine Collectibles. I usually just get them as gifts and stuff.

This last one is my favorite.

Sluggish

I don't know what the hell this thing is, but I'm guessing a GIANT slug!!! Just as Tim was off the steps this morning he saw this big ass thing! He took a picture of it with his phone and made me come out to see it. I figured if it was still there when I left I would grab some pic's of it with my camera. They didn't come out that great.


You can kinda see a reference of how big it is compared to the nail head in the porch. It looks kinda like a mini snake! I've never seen a slug with black spots like this.

robot dance

The simple things....

Tim outside having a smoke. I'm so happy he doesn't smoke inside!

This is your brain on drugs.

Today is laundry day. We did our laundry in Brewer today and we came home while it was drying. Tim wanted to watch the US Open so I went and picked it up. On my way to get it I realized Wilson Street was completely out of power. (I mean traffic lights, stores, the entire mini mall that our laundry mat is in). So, I was worried our laundry wasn't dry... well mine for some reason was dry, but Tim's was damp - very damp!

Luckily he didn't have much laundry this week because as you can see we had to hang it around the apartment!

Tim thinks our apartment stinks when the windows stay shut all day so we bought some cheap smelly stuff. Hopefully it works.. if not it was only 94 cents!!

And I am so unhappy with my job. I am desperatly trying to find a new one. I had an interview the other day at an attorney's office, but I was so not impressed. Even if they decide to offer me the job I can not see myself working in that office. I look in the paper every day and I look at a handful of websites each week - no luck so far. I think I'm going to just start mailing out my resume to different places.

FoOtBaLl

Welcome to football season ladies and gentlemen! Hope this season turns out to be a good one (a.k.a Pat's spank all y'all's BUTTS!!) I've been giving it some SERIOUS thought as to whether I'm going to buy tickets to a Pat's game for myself and my dad for Christmas (Karen, you're welcome to buy a ticket too if you want to come along). He WOULD crap his pants. I'd want to get good seats because I know it won't be something I do all that often... the "good" seats are about $125 per seat. YIKES! I think it would be worth the experience and who else would I go with, but my Dad! I'm not really sure what game I would pick for us to go see. I tried to trick my Dad into telling me who he would want to see play the Pat's this year, but I didn't get anywhere.
Alright Rick, got any good/positive reason why I should go with the expensive tickets?

Babysitting and Swimming

Once and awhile I babysit for a lady I work with. She has a 7 year old daughter named Emily. They live in Glenburn in a cute little subdivision. So, tonight I went over, we got Governor's for dinner watched a little Kim Possible and then went SWIMMING in their pool. Yes, it was beyond "chilly", but I figure it'll probably be my last chance to swim this year so I took advantage of the situation. We swam for probably 20 minutes and froze the rest of the night. We played with paper dolls, watched some of Aristocats and then headed up for bed (bedtime = 7:30). She's pretty easy kid and time tends to go by quickly (I only watched her from 5:00-8:30). Although, she seems to take advantage of me. She likes me to wait on her hand and foot. She is nice about it, but eventually starts to push it a little and I start to laugh and say no.

US Open - Dunn vs Licata

Last night Tim picked up a tennis racket in hopes of discovering the sport he'll make it big in. =) ... So tonight after work we went out to the courts outside of Mansfield Stadium and served up a few balls. It was fun!! At first we were practically running from one of the courts to the other just chasing the balls down. Eventually, we got things under control and played a couple of sets. It's not fair to say I won (even though I did), but I have played before I just hadn't played in a couple of years. I think we're going to start playing a little more, but I guess not for long because before you know it it'll be too cold!! It was a beautiful night to play, a little breezy, but nice. I was surprised when I realized we had played for about an hour. I'm glad nobody else had shown up because it would have been embarrassing. At least a quarter of the balls ended up on the other court and few OUTSIDE of the court. =) Good times!!

Interesting?

We went to Border's and just browsed for awhile. Than we headed to Best Buy and did the same over there. Otherwise, it was kind of a boring day so I took a few pictures of some things.

Chris bought these wire musicians for Tim and we had never lit the candles on them so today I did. I liked the way they looked so I took some pictures.

I made some cupcakes, but not from scratch. Cake is the one thing I tend to buy a box mix for. I think the box stuff is always way more moist!!! Tim was in the mood for spice cake so we got that and some of his favorite funfetti frosting. Cake is cake to me so I was up for whatever. Cake is definitely HANDS DOWN my favorite food!

And them some greasy pizza to go with those delicious cupcakes!!! I guess I can't complain about this day after all. =o)