Wednesday, November 26, 2008

happy thanksgiving

ya the tatto post was me, sorry for not signing lol

but susan and trip takers! i hope you took lots and lots of pictures!!!
cause i wanna see them my friend went to paris and took over a thousand pictures which it took awhile to look at them all but i still wanna see all of yours!


anyways thanksgiving is tomoro so i wish everyone the bestest

love all
olivia

Hi!!

Hello! How is everyone? Pretty good here, just working...kind of...this day is dragging, and I just need it to be done already!! Well we just got good news, we are ordering La Nova, and then closing the office at 2. Unfortunately, we do not get to go home, we are going to check out the new office (where we are moving in 2 weeks), and then we are doing a happy hour. I know, I know, it's not working so I should be happier, but I would really like to just go relax at home instead you know? haha I really shouldn't conplain. So I am only working Monday and Tuesday next week, and then i am having my ankle surgery on Wednesday. I am excited to not have to work for a few weeks, but I think I might get pretty bored on the couch, especially with Sarah working a lot lately, I will be all alone! But once again, I should not complain because I will not be working!! Yah!!

Ok, so our trip was absolutely amazing!!! Rome was awesome, the Colosseum and St. Peter's Basilica (in Vatican City where the pope says mass) were breath-taking. The ruins, Trevi Fountain, the Eiffel Tower were all amazing...Spain was beautiful; we stayed on the Mediterranean the first night in Spain and the Atlantic coast the next night. The cities were gorgeous, we got taken onto a mountain trail by our GPS, which was terrifying (picture a tiny road, pitch-black, on the side of a cliff, with no barriers...) Lauren did awesome driving! We spent the whole last night in a salsa bar in Madrid, staying up all night and went right to the airport....it was just an awesome awesome trip!! So that is it in a nut shell!! haha
Today is the first day that I actually don't feel super exhausted or jet-lagged!!

Alright, well I have to get back to "work" hahah Everybody have a great Thanksgiving!!!! And I will see some of you tomorrow!

Love you,
Susan

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Hello all!

Who wrote that last post? Was that you, Olivia?

Nothing too exciting here. I just made homemade chicken soup and chicken pot pie for dinner tonight and tomorrow. We'll be eating at my parent's house on Thursday so no cooking for me until Friday. And if we're lucky we may get some leftovers to bring home so I may not have to cook until Sunday!

Susan, Mark, Lauren--how was your trip?

What is everyone else up to?

Hope all is well!
Tricia

Ah, another week without a blog!!!



omg!~!




we really need to update lol how is everybody? anything new?




something is new to me.


has anybody ever seen the movie Dead Poets Society?


well its amazing and you should




so in my pyschology class we were watching it and this really sad part happened and in the middle of class i just started bawling because i was remembering something and its hard to say cause i dont want to ruin the movie you should def see but throughout the movie these kids live by the words Carpe Diem and in the end... its amazing




anyway i got a tattoo of it

because throughout the rest of the day that i was tearing up i was just remembering aunt debbie

and i wanted to get something out of that movie that would remind me of her

so i got this





it means seize the day





Sunday, November 16, 2008

Busy bees

so... b4 i go to work on my project thats due tomoro im gonna blog, so since im typing faster than normal please excuse misspellde words lol

sarah my ankle still hurts super bad, i think im gonna get it rechecked cause i can only move it up and down

other than that today was my last day at the petsmart ive worked at for the past 10 months im going to a different one for bigger and betyter things lol and i start tomoro so im excited about that by the time i graduate highs school i think im gonna be manager =]
but the petsmart i have been working at is basically with 3 of my best friends so they and a couple other people got a big cake that said good luck and pop and cookies and it was really cute <3 i love them

but ya soo i have a project in anatomy due tomoro that i have been working on with my group and i feel i have been the only one working on it and one of the girls just called me to say her computer crashed so now i have to do even more =s so ya...

anyways i hope everybpdy is doing goopd cant wait to see you all agian, ps i already need a new bills m and t magnet cause someone stole it off my car

love all
olivia

Friday, November 14, 2008

good morning cousins!

hey! where is everyone??? (including myself tho!) wow! it has been very slow on the blog this week. i hope everyone is doing well, and i hope that there will be great stories to share when everyone gets back on here. i just wanted to say that it was wonderful seeing all of you last week! and i miss all of you! whats been going on with everyone?

well- mark, susan, lauren and susan's friend amanda leave for spain tomorrow! so when they get back next week there will be some fun stories!

its just me and cooper, although hes been sleeping since susan left for work at about 20 to 8. well ive just been working alot lately. kohls is going really well actually. i like it, its been busy so the time is just flying by! and kyoto is as good as ever, so my jobs r good for right now. yesterday i got grandma, grandpa and myself lunch from kyoto. they really enjoyed it and grandma came to pick it up with me and got to meet some of my coworkers. so that was nice!

tricia- give daniel a hug and a kiss from me! i miss him, andrew too of course! how did your 2nd trip go? it must have been a fun 7 hrs back! (i think u said 7 hrs...)

jenn- give the girls a hug and i kiss from me! how is mia doing with school? and how gianna?, getting better at the wii?

olivia- hows your ankle? and how is work and school? get on here and start keeping us posted!

bernadette- hows work going? is it really busy still?

well love and miss you all! hopefully someone else gets on here soon!
sarah

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

I voted for the first time!!

it was exciting
i guess everybody went to early voting
cause i walked in the building waited for the guy in front of me filled out my ballot and then left
not even ten minutes, pretty sweet

We're leaving tomorrow!!!!!!
im super excited
cant wait to see everybody


love all
olivia



ps i applied to UF wish me luck!

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

To describe...

I said Lauren's flight comes in at 10:30pm, but didn't say what day she comes in...... Friday.

Hello!

Hi everyone!! How's it going? Thanks to everyone for your congrats messages on here and by phone....I actually did not send out a mass cousin text, which I really should have..sorry!

Lauren will definitely be in for Uncle Dave's wedding. When she bought her ticket to Colombia 3 weeks ago, she had bought a round trip ticket, not one way. Her flight comes in at like 10:30 at night though.

This day is dragging unfortunately....I have stuff to do, but am not incredibly busy, so I think that is why. Bern, your days must be flying by, sounds like you are super busy! Work has been kind of crazy lately, not busy, just crazy....the one partner flipped out on Friday about some job that didn't get done on time (which was the client's fault, not any of ours), but he went crazy and was swearing at everyone (like every single person that was in the building got yelled at). It was not how a professional should act, and especially not a boss....so a lot of people here are really mad. The one manager I think is going to quit, one staff accountant has been looking for a new job for awhile now, and the one bookkeeper keeps telling me she doesn't think this place is for her....so we just hired 2 new people, but that doesn't help us out at all because it doesn't even make up for the people who are quitting! And now we will still have to work a ton of hours during tax season because there will be even less people than last year (and last year we were under-staffed). What the heck!! haha

Alright, well I gotta get back to work now....they are trying to be more strict with us now (probably won't work how they like though). But I will see everyone this weekend, can't wait!!!!!

Susan

Voting!

I'm going momentarily to vote. The rumor is that lines in many places are an hour to two long. My dad went at 7 AM and had only a 20 minute wait but he is in a very small town.

We are looking forward to seeing everyone this weekend!

Bernadette--how sad about those children. I have been meaning to ask you what color the bridesmaids are wearing.

Mark--great to see you here, twice! Thanks for not leaving me out of your first post! :-)

I don't know about you, but I will be happy when the election is over. I am sick of all the fighting about it.

See everyone this weekend! I'm heading out to vote!

Love,
Tricia

I agree

With Mark- VOTE! Anybody vote yet? What was your experience like? Was your voting place busy? I am going after work. I heard on the radio that some woman went to vote at 5:45am and that two of the works (two elderly women) were already fighting about something. LOL. Should be a fun day.

So I just read on WGRZ that 3 young boys died in a fire in our town last night. They are unsure how the fire started but only one person (the boys' grandmother) got out. How terribly sad. That poor family. I don't know them but Bob might. they have not released names yet...

Susan- CONGRATS to you and Jeff!! I did not know until I read the blog last week. Where was the text to all cousins?!?! Are you still planning to get married in June? How exciting!!

Erin got engaged on saturday. A lot of you know her since we have been BFF's since we were young. She is soooo happy. She wants to get married this May.

well, work is stressful. i am so glad i took off friday. kind of had to to get to the rehearsal by 4:30. I actually had enough comp time from doing night presentations and trainings to i do not even have to take a PD or vacation day. If things were less hectic here, I would have taken thursday off or at least part of it but given the state of a lot of my clients, I can not justify that.

So has anyone talked to Lauren? Is she definitely coming in for the wedding? I hope so.

Amber and Kristy fly in today in about an hour. I think Joey is picking them up.

Well, I need to prepare for my next client. See everyone in a few days if not before!!

Bernadette

VOTE!!!!

FIRST OF ALL VOTE!!!! I'M NOT GOING TO TELL YOU WHO TO VOTE FOR BUT YOUR VOTE IS YOUR WAY TO SPEAK UP! THIS IS THE ONLY VOICE WE HAVE AND WE HAVE TO USE IT.

the wedding is less then a week away I am getting pretty excited to see everyone...Not sure when all of the out of town family is coming in, but slumber party at my place thursday night...!! I am off from all work thursday-tuesday so i will be able to hang with my out of town fam quite a bit....hooray!!!

well i gotta jet
I Love All Of You,
Mark