The Peters Grandchildren

Son of a B*tch

2009-09-16T19:43:00.002-04:00

Well its been 3 1/2 months since anyone logged on so i guess son of a bitch...well tomorrow night i am finally giving those i exchange Christmas Gifts with their present tomorrow night. I'm really excited about it, but am disappointed it took me soo long to do so. In fairness i needed everyone to be available. So i'm taking my siblings, parents, uncle dave and grace, and grandma out to dinner. We're going to the Sahara Grill which is a delicious Mediterranean food. They don't serve alcohol, but allow you to BYOB, so i'm heading off to the store to pick up some wine for dinner. the place has hookahs and such so i'm thinking about hitting up a nice apple hookah before dinner until everyone gets there. Well i hope the next person to read this is less then 3 1/2 months away so take care and i love all of you,
-Mark

1 month later...

2009-06-04T16:23:00.002-04:00

Haha so the last post was from Sarah at the beginning of May? Guys we are all slackers!!

Well, since I have been in no mood to work today, I figured I'd check out the blog..too bad there is nothing to read!!

Today at work was super exciting. One of our clients started a partnership with Paul Gaustad (not sure if anybody knows him besides the Buffalo folk, but he plays for the Sabres). Well, he has always been my favorite player, not only is he good, but he is super cute!! haha Well anyways, my boss told me Tuesday that our client along with Gaustad was coming in today for a meeting at 10:30. So I of course went up by the secretary at 10:15 and waited there for him to come in!! Let me tell you, he is even cuter in person!! I didn't want to be too obviously staring at him, so I stole some looks here in there, but that definitely made my day!! haha

Well just an update, I haven't heard fromm Lauren in a couple weeks, but last I heard she and Alex were looking for plane tickets for Australia around June 15. Not sure if she got any yet, but I will keep you all posted as I hear info!! If she knows what is good for her, she better be in the process of writing back to me!! haha I am strict!!

Oh, and for those of you who haven't heard, we have an official wedding date!!! It will be July 17 (2010 of course), so everybody mark your calendars!!! The place we wanted did not have the date we wanted available, but I come to find out that July 17 is my Buscia and DziaDzia's anniversary....I am very excited about that!!! My Buscia would be very happy to share it with me!!

Alright, well I am going to pretend to work for the next 30 minutes before I leave!! Talk to you all soon, hopefully!!!!

Love and miss you all!!!!

Good Morning Cousins!

2009-05-08T10:41:00.002-04:00

hey everyone! well here i am with cooper and bitters (susans cat) watching tv and drinking coffee. i love my mornings! whats new with me... well i was just offered a part-time position at m&t bank! so i start there at the end of the month! which is exciting news...im super excited about going to pa with jeff and susan! one week from today we will be on the road!... thats all the new news i have...

how is everyone doing? whats new with everyone else? as mark said where have we all been!?!?!?!

well hopefully someone else will write soon....
love and miss you all
sarah!

What in the heck is going on?

2009-05-05T10:53:00.001-04:00

Hey how could i have been the last one to blog on MARCH 27.....!!!!@$#%&@*#&&#%
iTS BEEN OVER A MONTH GUYS...LETS GET THIS THING GOING AGAIN!

Why do i love Hooters?

2009-03-27T17:00:00.002-04:00

...Um, I'll give you two reasons: the boobs and the hot wings! -Michael Scott

The office is soo funny! It was on last night and it had me cracking up! The show consistently gets better every week which is one of my favorite parts about it. Its a regular laugh fest! If you haven't watched it i'd have to say get out from under the rock you lived. Every Thursday night on NBC. Don't be a fool, just watch it and enjoy!

I'm glad we had such a good turnout for Grandma's BDay! She was so happy we were all there and we all had a great time! Including G-Ma...

Well i don't have much to say, just wanted to check everything out and say whats up...Hope all is well...

-Mark

Mark your calendars....

2009-03-23T13:28:00.001-04:00

I know it is 6 months away but I just received this email so thought I would pass it along.

http://campaign.constantcontact.com/render?v=001wyGceUOSNjBcdm-FmV5yYuYObChpnZZTTqa63TismYCob3bi7iM73dKOrLoTZacDq2h9a_5GdnQ1m7hbi2S7Bp24Z-fzRoiji7Z3urercBX_pJ2ormQ2VhhVzTD9ESnu6seQLXbIfxA%3D

I plan to do this again if anyone wants to join me.

Bernadette

Hello!

2009-03-13T14:03:00.002-04:00

Hello to all cousins!

I'm at work so I will keep this short. I am not sure about Grandma's birthday...I think I may wait and come out next month. I am finishing up with teaching three classes and since I started working full time, the only time I can do teaching stuff is on the weekends and a little in the evenings. I am also trying to juggle time with the boys in there since they are at daycare all day now. At the end of March, the three classes will be over and my nights and weekends will be free. Dave has a Saturday off later in the month so I think we will all come out then. I may change my mind but I think that will make for the best plan.

Sarah--hope Cooper is ok! I'm not a big fan of cats...sshhh, don't tell Susan! :-)

What is everyone else up to? I'm just perfecting my juggling act and looking forward to when its over in just two or three more weeks!

Talk to you all soon!
Tricia

Good Morning Cousins!

2009-03-12T10:03:00.002-04:00

well here i am, watching tv, drinking coffee and hanging out with cooper... and bitters. bitters is susans cat thats been living with us for a few weeks now. im very nervous for coopers safety, being that bitters isnt used to him. right now the cat is sitting up on top of a cabinet, just watching cooper. as soon as she jumps down tho, she is being locked in the basement until cooper is put away. just a little nervous about what she may do.

well, i have been working alot lately and thats why i have not been on the blog. sorry for that. actually i worked the last 10 days in a row, either just at kohls or both jobs... hectic week. and i wont have a day off until next thursday... so ill be working 17 days in a row!

jenn- i will def be working at kyoto on grams b-day. have to be there by 4. i dont know if i will be working at kohls tho. ill know on monday.

well i hope everyone is doing well and i cant wait to see everyone!
love and miss you all!
sarah

Ideas for Grandma's Birthday

2009-03-11T21:59:00.004-04:00

Hi All!
I'm going to try and keep this quick because I'm so tired tonight, but I want to post this in hopes of getting some replies.
I was talking with Mark this afternoon about Grandma's birthday and we decided to ask everyone if they had any ideas of what we can do to celebrate with her. We've all tossed around the idea of going out to dinner, which we're keeping in mind, but we thought we'd see if anyone had anything else. We were considering which restaurants, or having something at a family members house, or even getting something catered to Grandma's. Our plans don't have to be big, we mainly want to make sure Grandma has a nice time and is comfortable. So, if anyone has an idea or restaurant idea, please post here or text me/call me. Let me know and I'll pass things along to everyone.
Here's another thing: I would like to get a count of how many people are planning on joining us. With such a large group, we will need a head count. I know Bernadette is out of town and Kristy, Amber and Aunt Donna are in town, but we would like to know about others. I'd like to know by Sunday (march 15, Aunt Deb's birthday, R.I.P.) which cousins, boy/girlfriends, Aunts & Uncles are available Saturday, March 21st. As far as the time, we want to try and accomodate everyone. I know Sarah has work that night, so we may be able to start things during the early afternoon.
Okay, to wrap this up, I need names of those who can or can't make it. If you're working that day, fill me in on your schedule so we can try to plan for everyone to come along. Ask other cousins (and your parents) that don't read the blog if they can come. If we can decide where we're going and reservations are needed, I will definitely need a total by mid-week.
I think that covers everything. Oh, if you text my cell, be patient with my return since I just got a new phone and have yet to perfect using it :o)
Love to you all!! Grandma will love having everyone together no matter what we do or where we are. Talk with everyone soon!
~jenn

Hey Everyone

2009-03-09T14:36:00.001-04:00

Just dropping by for a quick hello. We will be seeing everyone soon. Next week we will be in I can't wait for the festivities!! Well not much going on here just at mom's house and we are having dinner tonight our normal Monday night dinner. I hope all is well and I will talk to you all soon. Oh Bernadette the blog on face book is Tweeter it is an application you can add, I assume you can just go to tweeter.com but I am not sure. Love and Miss you all.

Love Always,

Kristy

Morning

2009-03-09T10:17:00.002-04:00

Hi All.

Kristy- i did not even know you could blog on facebook. Where are they? Under profile somewhere? I am still getting used to the transition from myspace.

Jenn- sorry to hear everone has been sick. I was sick on and off all winter, which is unlike me. It seems everyone has been more sick than usual, and the school should know that. I can't believe they sent a letter for a kindergartner... like you would want to keep her home all day if she were able to go to school!

Bob and I could do Sunday night dinner, so long as we make it back in time. Its a 6 hour drive from Lake Placid. I imagine we will get home by 5pm. If we do monday, he can't come, but I would be able to. Let me know what the plans are.

Got to go!

Bernadette

Is it Friday, yet?

2009-03-05T20:26:00.003-05:00

Hey All!
Sorry it's been so long since posting! Everyone here has been sick and we've been running to the doctors so much! Last week, I was at the girl's pediatrician 4 times! That makes up for Mike who's been sick and won't go to the doctor. (stubborn as a mule!) I've been dodging all sorts of sicknesses since being in Buffalo a month ago and I hope to keep my immune system fighting strong!! Just don't sneeze, cough, or breathe heavily in my direction or I may lose control! (it's the germ freak in me.)
As for Grandma's birthday, we won't be able to stay much longer than the weekend itself. I'd like to drive out Friday night, but I'm not sure if we can. We definitely have to drive back Sunday by lunchtime since we can't have Mia missing any more school when she isn't sick. She was out all last week with bronchitis and I got a note from the school because she's already been out 14 days this year. Can you believe it?!? The stinkin' school sends me a note for her absences and she's only in Kindergarten! Do they think she's hanging out at her friend's house after I drop her off? Maybe they think she goes shopping with her little Kindergarten friends instead of going to class. Geeze, it's been a rough year with illnesses. They can eat their stinkin' letter!! Anyway, we will be there for sure Saturday night. That works best for us. My mom would like to make the trip with us, too. I talked to Tricia and she's trying to work things out with all her jobs. She's juggling full-time during the week plus a few classes and using her weekends to catch up on correct papers. I talked to her last night for the first time in 2 weeks!
Okay, so what is in mind for Grandma's birthday? Does she know everyone will be in town? Is it only the cousins or will most Aunts and Uncles be around to join in? Does she have a favorite restaurant? or a special place that she would enjoy all of us sharing? If anything needs to be planned, I can help.

Susan: I will bring the wedding purse and remember to show it to you this time :o)
How's Lauren this week?
Sarah & Mark: I can't wait to see Gma's appartment! That's awesome!
Kristy: I totally could've used a trip to Ted's tonight! Not only am I hungry, but the girls drove me nuts tonight. All the damn meds they've been on have them strung out. I'll take a foot-long & some onion rings :o)
Bernadette: I guess we will miss you this trip. Have to see you next time. Oh, still trying to find that book I emailed about. I don't think anyone believes me since it's no where to be heard of :o)
Olivia: A commercial for Dead Poet's Society came on about a week ago. Ever since I saw it in the movies back in the '80's, I've LOVED it. I'll always remember "Captain, my Captain." Great, great movie.
Well, Mike just called and is on his way home. I had an appointment tonight so he came home after work and made dinner with the girls. He had a job to do and had to leave after he ate. I'm SO glad tomorrow is Friday!!! It's been crazy-hectic here!!
Love you all...Can't wait to see everyone!
love~jenn

Grandma's Birthday

2009-03-05T11:17:00.002-05:00

Hey Everyone whats up? Hey mark I think that is a great idea about going out Saturday and Sunday with grandma or doing something for her both nights so everyone gets a chance to see her for her birthday. Also we need to get a definite head count for both nights so we can make definite plans. I know that on Saturday me amber my mom mark Joe Stephanie and Chris Jenn and Mike and the girls will defiantly be there we need to find out from everyone else who can come and everyone needs to inform the parents and uncle David and Grace so everyone can come out. That is about it for now. Hope everyone is good and text me when you know you can make it out for grandmas birthday. Love you all and see you soon March 19th we come in.

Love always
Kristy

p.s. Ask Olivia about the really "nice" message she wrote about Aunt Donna on her face book blog!!! She is such a wonderful, appreciative, respectful child. I think everyone needs to know that!

Hi cousins

2009-03-04T10:25:00.003-05:00

Olivia- what do you need the picture for? You can go to google images and see a lot of different backgammon boards. Would that work? The link is below.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=backgammon&gbv=2

Mark- Sunday or monday would work better for Bob and I too since we will be out of town until late sunday afternoon.

What a wonderful idea to paint Gma's apartment. She got in around 11pm last night with my parents and was shocked (in a good way) I hear. I can't wait to see it!

Got to run. Hope everyone is well.

Where to go?

2009-03-03T14:42:00.002-05:00

How'z everything going cuz's? All is well with me. Just kinda rockin out at work. I miss tyou all so much i just needed to pop on and say hey to you all! I spoke with Grandma before she left and was excited about the idea of us taking her out. I asked if she wanted to do something for her birthday and she was kinda ho-hum about it, but then i suggested the cousins taking her out to dinner and she got pretty excited. Sarah wants to be involved, but works Friday and Saturday nights, so if we were to do something it would have to be a sunday, which limits the menu. I'm down with taking her out saturday and sunday, not sure what other peoples plans or $$$ situations look like, but keep me posted.

You all have to keep a secret but my parents, uncle dave and grace, joe, sarah, and myself painted grandma's apartment. It looks really good and she is gonna be soo happy! I can't wait for everyone to see it. but its a secret so don't tell ANYONE!!!!!

Well i may need some help figuring out a big vacation this year so i'm gonna throw out a few ideas and let you give your suggestions:
1. Visiting Lauren in Columbia, which would be sweet and i'd get to visit South America
2. Going to the Carribbean, I've never been there and can find sweet all inclusive deals including airfare for like 5 or 6 nights and airfare for under $700
3. Back to Europe, I had such a great time last year that i'm itching to go back.
4. Any other ideas i'd gladly entertain.
I'm picking up another job so that i can afford to head somewhere, lol.

I Love All Of You,
Mark

Backgammon

2009-02-26T14:44:00.002-05:00

i was wondering if someone could do me a favor, and if possible take a picture of granpas backgammon set? like the arrows part i just wanted a picture of the details, it would be mostly aprreciated

how is lauren doing? i hope better

gotta go to work

love all
olivia

Lauren

2009-02-18T16:00:00.003-05:00

Hi all. any more news on lauren? was she treated in colombia, or was she somewhere else when her appendix burst?

Susan/mark- I sent a card to your parent's house addressed to Susan. It should be there tomorrow. If you could send it to Lauren in your care package, that would be great. Thanks.

Mark- I got your text re: taking gma out for her bday. i am not 100% sure we are going out of town, but most likely, so count Bob and I out, unless its sunday night. we will be gone friday morning through sunday afternoon. Would we be able to do it sunday or monday night? Kristy will be in til tuesday. i would love to be there if most people can get together one of those nights. Please let me know. Thanks.

Got to get back to work!

Bernadette

Plans

2009-02-17T16:46:00.003-05:00

OK so definately gonna be going to Sabta Fe and its not like i can live at home cuz its a good two hours away lol

But.... I graduate in June and i've been trying to save up money for school and a car and stuff so thats going ok. I graduated June 3rd and idk when the semester starts at SFCC but i would probably kinda want to be there at least like a month earlier to get to know where everything is, get my job transferred and see how thats going. And look for everything really
but othere than that not much else in the know

Im getting an award for being the student of the month at my school!! im excited this will look really good on college and scholarship stuff too! And i start yet ANOTHER volunteering place soon, so besides me working at PetSmart, volunteering at the Chimp Farm, and school i will be volunteering at a spay/neuter clinic that someone i know is starting, it opens soon and they need all the help they can get!

ok well im off to do homework on an off day!

love all
olivia

For Grandma's Birthday

2009-02-16T18:44:00.002-05:00

Hi Everyone! Hope y'all are doing well. Olivia, it totally stinks about UF. Keep in mind that everything happens for a reason, even when you don't know why. So, keep your chin up!
About Grandma's birthday- I think everyone being together (sorry you're out of town, Bernadette) will cheer her up. Even if she doesn't feel like going out for dinner, we can have something nice at her house as a surprise! Or wherever as a surprise! She'd love that. She may want to be home on her birthday, but I think all of us being with her would make her happy. Kristy, great idea and let us know if you can definitely make the trip.
Man, I miss everyone so much! Can't wait to see you all again!
Susan- I've been meaning to tell you that I had the "wedding purse" with me last week and meant to show it to you. I will bring it next time. It's just a simple, white beaded purse that I've been lending to close friends and family to use as their something borrowed when they got married. I'll show it to you and if you like it, you can borrow it. If you don't like it, no problem. Just so you know it's yours if you want. My mom bought it for me and it's been fun lending it out.
Well, I wanted to get in a quick hello tonight. Talk with you all soon. Love to everyone!!!
~jenn

Gmas bday

2009-02-16T10:02:00.001-05:00

Hi Kristy. I forgot to respond to you earlier. I will be out of town that weekend, but still think its a great idea for anyone that can make it.

Bernadette

UF

2009-02-16T09:31:00.002-05:00

Sorry Olivia... but who knows, you might like Sante Fe better than you would UF! I think its easier for a lot of students to begin at a smaller community school and then transfer to a bigger one. So what are your plans? When will you move?

Bernadette

Uf

2009-02-15T16:28:00.001-05:00

didnt accept me =[=[

thats ok
that means im going to santa fe community college
and i still have moreeee time for scholarships
maybe next year =]

hope everyone is doing good

love all
olivia

Hi All

2009-02-13T15:21:00.002-05:00

Hey guys It's me Kristy I know you are all wondering Kristy who cause I have not been on here in forever but yes it is me!! Hahahaha!!!

I am posting to run an idea by everyone. I wanted to see if you all wanted to do something nice for grandma on her birthday this year!! I was thinking we could all get together and take her out for dinner or something like that!! I am going to fly in that day which is a saturday march 21st and maybe we can all get together for dinner that night!! If anyone has any other ideas let me know, I would love it if the P.A. peeps could make it too!!! Well nothing else is going on here. I hope you are all doing ok, I love you and will talk to you soon!! I promise I will post more.

Love Always,

Kristy

Hallelujah

2009-02-08T10:26:00.003-05:00

This is the link to Alexandra Burke's "Hallelujah." I don't know who she is but her voice and the song are beautiful. I have heard this song recently on the radio and caught the end of it on the way to my parents house thursday afternoon after grandpa died, so just wanted to share.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvJzvAsO20

See everyone later. May Grandpa rest in peace and be having a blast being healthy and happy up in heaven with Aunt Debbie!

Love,
Bernadette

nevermind

2009-02-04T20:02:00.001-05:00

parents dont want me missing a lot of school

so idk when
but it'll be soon

mom is still going tomoro

love all
olivia

Flying

2009-02-04T19:37:00.001-05:00

out tomorrow morning

me and mom

hopefully

love all
olivia

Hunger Walk

2009-02-04T15:54:00.001-05:00

Hey everybody

hows it going?

So me and my friends are doing a hunger walk you can go to cropwalkonline.com

my teams goal is 500 dollars!! im so excited. Just thought i'd share with everybody, besides that i've just been up to scholarships and work, thanks for voting for me

love all
olivia

A quick hello to everyone...

2009-02-03T15:46:00.002-05:00

Hi Cousins! I just wanted to say hello this afternoon. We've had a bunch of things going on here, but nothing major or bad...just enough to keep me busy. A bunch of appointments, some snow delays and still people around helping out with work for our basement.
Hoping all is well with everyone. Anytime someone has news to fill us in with Grandpa, I'd appreciate it. Then I won't have to bug Susan :o) ...although, I enjoy talking with her. I heard about Grandpa possibly having MRSA and being moved back to rehab this afternoon. Has he been eating better today? I hope he's feeling better and stronger.
Well, I just wanted to give a little hello and quickly post. Big hug to you all! love, ~jenn

Updating voting...

2009-01-28T15:46:00.003-05:00

Woo! cousins!

2009-01-27T21:07:00.002-05:00

Thank you guys for the updates =] Mom has probably just said what she has been seeing without looking to much into the good side... Everybody's praying for gpa =]

So tonight my dad got inductted into the Basketball Hall of Fame for Clearwater High School. i'm so proud to have him as a dad. Our family was a little peeved though because we found out that after telling everybody that he was next, they took back saying that to induct some guy named bryan johnson who nobody even knows (apparently he was an ex player that hasnt returned since he graduated, 30 some odd years ago, but is starting some basketball camp and wanted the political attention) So when the board of whatever voted for this guys EVERYBODY was mad and teachers and other faculty went up to the board members and told them this and that about my dad, so this year they had two people into the hall of fame. My dad was announced first and an amazing speech was read about him and the ENTIRE gymnasium stood up, applauded, and screamed and he made a cute speech, and then the announcer announced his family (us lol) and then it was the other guys turn only the people on the opposing teams side stoop up, and a rare few clapped for this guy, compared to the acknowledgement my dad got it sounded like a cricket for this guy. And there were reporters there that took pics of my dad non stop and like two of this guys (they even took pics of dad with the fam) it was a good night, everybody is very proud of him =]

Just wanted to thank you all for voting i can tell becuase my pics are going higher and higher in ranking =] hopefully i win something lol =]

Hopefully soon a couple of us might go fly up, i know mom is gonna soon so maybe ill convince her to let me skip school and go with

ok well i have lots of english homework, gonna hop to it

love all
olivia

good morning all!

2009-01-27T11:16:00.002-05:00

well here i am, my usual morning, some coffee, tv and cooper! i wrote earlier but my computer messed up before i sent it so i am going to try to rewrite everything! arrrgh! stupid computer!

grandpa news: on friday when grandma and i got there uncle joe and aunt maryellen were there, he was eating lunch and doing well! when they left uncle tom and aunt verna came in. (he loves having visitors!) later, when he went down to therapy grandma and i went with him. he did very well! he got up, (with help, he still cant stand up by himself) and walked three different times about 15 steps each time! which is wonderful! on saturday he had to go to the er only for the blood transfusion. he was there all day but only because thats how long it takes... uncle bobby stayed with grandpa until he got back to the rehab center. on sunday susan and i took grandma out to lunch! we then went to visit grandpa, he had alot of visitors! but he had mentioned that his left knee hurt. yesterday when i went to see him after work he was saying that he wasnt going to go to rehab that afternoon (he normally goes twice a day for an hour each time.) because of his knee. there is a doctor that comes in on wed, so if it still bothers him tomorrow im sure he will say something. :) aunt lori came to visit yesterday! grandpas doing good tho, still plays solitare all the time and jokes with everyone! olivia- (or anyone else) if you ever want to know how grandpa is doing, im there pretty much everyday. you can call or text me anytime and i will let you know how everyone is doing! ... olivia sorry you were upset on saturday! dont worry tho, grandpa is ok!

otherwise with me, nothing new is going on, both jobs are still kinda slow, but its still january, so what can you do... susan is in watertown on an audit this week. she left yesterday and will be back saturday. which i think she would prefer doing, rather than be in the office. she still cant walk that well, and her foot still swells up to 2x's the size, everyday! but she has a docs appt next thursday, so we will see what he says!

thats about it for me tho! i hope we keep up on blogging everyone!
love and miss you all!
sarah

Hello!!

2009-01-27T11:10:00.003-05:00

Hi all!! How is everyone doing?? It's been a long time since I posted on my own; while I was on the couch and off of work (def miss those days!), Sarah normally posted for both of us! Well, now I am on my own, literally actually, cuz I am posting from Watertown. It is not too bad here, except for the snow. I think they get more snow here than in Buffalo, probably cuz it's more north but still gets the lake effect because it is next to Lake Ontario. I don't mind it as much I thought I would though, I definitely think I will catch up on my sleep while I am here. I don't have to get to the dealership until 9, so I don't have to wake up until 8!! Last night I went to bed at 9:30!! haha

Bern -- Congratulations!!! That is awesome that you passed, what a relief right? Will they give you a promotion at work for it??

Jenn, Tricia -- Well, I thought I would be able to find a way to meet up with you guys while I am here (since it is only 3 hours from you), but looking at the weather, it is supposed to snow every day. I get bad anxiety driving in the snow, so I really don't think I will be able to make the trip. Tomorrow 5-8 inches are supposed to drop just in the afternoon! But after tax season, I am definitely going to plan a trip down there!

Olivia -- I am very jealous that Mark got to visit you guys, I have never been to your house before!! Well, even if every one down there can't make it in the summer, hopefully you will find a way to come visit!

Sarah -- I miss you!!! This is the longest I haven't seen you in almost 2 months!! haha Hope you are making tons at Kyoto!! Oh wait i shouldn't say that, I jinx you every time I do....sorry!!

Well, my ankle is not doing as well as I would like. I would expect it to be improving, but unfortunately, its status does not change much day to day! I am hoping that when I see my surgeon next week, he doesn't think I am a slacker for not being about to walk. I also hope he will figure out why it swells up like a balloon every day!! Maybe after next week it will start doing better!

Well, I brought some work to get done while I am here (since we don't have like any work to do dealing with the dealership we are at), so I better get started on it. Talk to everyone soon.

Love you!!
Susan

So happy

2009-01-27T09:47:00.002-05:00

Hi everyone. Just wanted to tell you that I got my results back last night from my EPPP (examination for professional practice of psychology) and I passed! So this means I am now licensed in the state of NY as a psychologist. Who-hoo!

Bernadette :)

PS- Olivia- I saw gpa sunday and he looked great- good color, happy mood, eating well, talkative... his usual self! The day before he had to have a transfusion because he was not doing so good... but that seemed to help a lot!

Coming home next weekend hopefully...

2009-01-26T06:46:00.004-05:00

Olivia, from what i was told, things are okay. Sunday he did really well and everyone was visiting. On Saturday, he had another blood transfusion, but all went fine. Next Sunday, (Superbowl Sunday,) he possibly will come home. I was even told that Grandma has a countdown up for him to see so he works really hard to get his strength up. ~jenn

How's Grandpa??

2009-01-25T19:43:00.001-05:00

Just want an update, i called my mom cause she's up there but she started crying...

I heard that he was rushed to the emergencvcy room and isnt doing to good, just want an update

love all
olivia

i dont mean to blog so much

2009-01-23T19:59:00.000-05:00

http://www.brickfish.com/Pages/PhotosAlbums/PhotoView.aspx?picid=799206_22192369&=ecc_issues_PPIMEMAIL_PPIMEMAIL&isep=1&pbapi=161171&pbvi=5547260&pdi=2366

but heres another one, last one of the night, im tired and going to bed

when i do more im gonna seperate the links and make one blog instead of continuous ones lol
love all
olivia

This is how i spent this friday night

2009-01-23T19:46:00.001-05:00

Valentine or Vendetta
Brickfish
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still working on scholarships, i put this together
thanks for the votes
love all
olivia

Thanks guysss =] well girls

2009-01-23T15:01:00.002-05:00

Thanks for voting for me, i started off in like 6000th place lol now im at 700ish so its going good so far, i vote every 8 hours which is the limit on an individual computer, but in school i go to the library and loggin to thirty different computers and vote from each one!!

I watched the inauguration! it was good, nice speech, some people were surprised that he put his hand on the bible, otheres were relieved.

Santa Fe CC is in gainesville, its really close to UF, its where a lot of kids that dont get into UF go to. Its one of three colleges in the US that has a zoo!! And i hear back from UF February 13th!!!!!!!
I hope i get in!

Well, it feels like Mark was down here for a day but it was a lot of fun having him here with us, the hockey game was sooo much funnn, it was awesome, Let's go Buffalo!!! lol

My mom is flying up there this weekend so some of you will be able to see her, she's really cant wait to go. I hope to come up there sometime, i told the non bloggers about the possibility of a picnic in June and they just dont know right now if that would be possible for us to get there, financially, but wishing is still here!

ok well im off to do more scholarships stuff, vote for me whenever you feel!! thanks again

love all
olivia

Good morning!

2009-01-23T08:16:00.002-05:00

Hello cousins!

It is nice to see so many posts since the last time I was here.

Olivia--I voted for you!!! Twice actually, once on two different days.

Jenn/Bernadette--I watched the inauguration and I thought it was great. I loved his speech and I loved Michele's dresses as well as Aretha's hat. :-)

Susan--how is your ankle? Is it getting better?

Sarah--I thought of you the other day when I was shopping in Kohl's. I got two great sweaters that were $60 each and I paid $12 for each of them. Can't beat that!!!

I'm trying to think of what is new here. Last weekend we went to Pittsburgh for a family law conference and to visit. We had a great time. I wish I could move back there, it is truly a great city. Other than that, I have been working a lot. I am in court anywhere from 1 to 3 days a week, I have 5 online classes and one class at the college and another one starting in February that I have to prepare the syllabus for.
Yesterday my friend and I went to see Bride Wars. It was so good. Has anyone seen it yet?

That's about it, I think. I need to go vacuum up all the dog hair. Bye for now!

Tricia

Happy Thursday!

2009-01-22T13:27:00.003-05:00

Hello All! How about this....3 days in a row I'm here!! That was me that posted "Dancing with myself." I came back after my first post to see if anyone blogged and no one did. I was the lone blogger! Oh well, we've got some bloggers here today!
Bernadette: I did see that during the inauguration!! The 2 girls realized they were on national t.v. and started going nuts!! Wasn't it funny!! During the National Anthem of all things! I laughed at that, too.
Olivia: I'm going to go to that website and vote for you. I will do it later for sure when I get more time than now.
Hope everyone is having a good day. I just took a little break from a few things I was doing to check in. Catch y'all later! Love to everyone! ~jennifer

PS

2009-01-22T10:58:00.003-05:00

Yes, I watched the inauguration. Was that Tricia's post? I laughed when the camera went to two young girls in NYC during the singing of the anthem. When they realized they were on TV, they were jumping up and down and screaming. I forget what channel I had on...

Bernadette

Olivia for Scholarship Money!

2009-01-22T10:55:00.002-05:00

I voted for you, Olivia. Hope you win! Have you heard from UF yet? Where is Sante Fe C.C. located?

Bernadette

Vote for me!!

2009-01-21T15:44:00.000-05:00

lol who posted that last blog??
That was funny.

Ok Cousins! I'm a member of this scholarship thing called Brickfish where you put up pics and stuff and people vote and whoever wins gets small prizes like 500 dollars or something like that. So every now and again I am going to post a link to one of my entries, could you guys please vote for them?? Thank you so much, It helps a lot. I need a lot of scholarships lol

Ok heres the first one =]

http://www.brickfish.com/Pages/PhotosAlbums/PhotoView.aspx?picid=795950_68606858&=ecc_issues_PPIMEMAIL&isep=1&pbapi=161171&pbvi=5547260

love all
olivia

Dancing with myself...oh, oh, uh-oh (Billy Idol song)

2009-01-21T13:55:00.003-05:00

I finally came to visit and no one is here! Hellooooo!! Anybody out there???!!!??? Just here to say "hi!" to all. Hope your days are going well. Anyone watch the Inauguration yesterday?

Hello Cousins! Long time, no blog!

2009-01-19T06:38:00.004-05:00

Good morning everyone! Wow, it's been a long time that I've blogged! Sorry about that. Hoping everyone can take a little time to check in soon. I planned on getting here last night, but we had some unexpected family still here at 7:00 and by the time things settled down, I was ready to collapse! We're having some work done in our basement (finally!) by Mike's brother, and he was here getting some of the lowdown on the whole thing. Mike's dad was here, too, since he helped the whole weekend taking supplies downstairs. This weekend was out of the norm, so the girls were pretty pumped up. There's no school today, either so that made things exciting, too. We love extended weekends!!!
Well, I know Mark is in Florida and Tricia was in Pittsburgh this weekend, what did everyone else do? Don't they all go by wayyyy too fast?!
Susan: How's your ankle? I hope the swelling is down and you're more comfortable without your cast. How's Jeff?
Sarah: I'm betting you worked this weekend. Were there lots of people out Sunday while the football games were on?
Olivia: While I was catching up reading, I laughed how you said you were blogging all by yourself. Keep it up! We all used to get on so much more when we started. It's nice to see someone letting us know what's going on. During the holidays, I totally slacked off, but hope to get on here much more now.
Bernadette: How's the bronchitis? Feeling better? Let us know how you did on your test. I hope all goes well.
Kristy & Amber: Hey girls, hope y'all can visit the blog and fill us in on how things are!! Kristy, still training for NYC or will you stay with local races? I will be there if you do NYC, when is it this year? I stayed in a great Marriot if you're looking for places to stay if u go.
Mark: It not only was cold here all weekend, but we had the heat way down for a lot of Sunday afternoon since supplies were being brought in the back door for our basement. The girls were watching t.v. and playing games with sweatshirts and blankets on while I thought of you vacationing in sunny Florida, probably sweating your ass off on the beach! Hope you're having fun! Thanks for the text!
Tricia: How was the weekend? Were they classes you attended or meetings? I know you told me, but I can't remember. When Mike asked why you went, I couldn't remember.

One of the things keeping me busy lately is the planning of my high school reunion. A small group of us have been making plans and I did a lot of phone calling in the past month or so trying to work on a budget. We're hoping things happen sometime next Thanksgiving. We had a class of 243 kids!
So, how about our family reunion? I think we should definitely plan one. I didn't mind having it in June last year. It wasn't too hot yet and everyone seemed to make it. What does everyone think?
Anyone watch the Pittsburgh/Baltimore football game last night? (Tricia, I know Dave did!) Two players collided toward the end of the game and the player from Baltimore seemed really hurt. He could move his arms and legs, but he had severe neck pain. I was thinking about him this morning and am going to check on if he's okay. It was quite a collision.
Well, I'm off to to have breakfast round 1 with Mia. She's in her room doing pretend homework. Gianna will sleep at least another hour. Then, we'll have breakfast round 2!
Hope you all have a great day and keep visiting. I will get back here during the week to check in. Love to you all!!
Jennifer

Thanks Sarah!

2009-01-15T14:24:00.002-05:00

Sarah thank you so much for texting all of us about Grandpa. I figured he would know we were all thinking of him, but never thought to send a get well card. Thanks!

Wooo!!! Some Bloggins are goin down!

2009-01-15T11:29:00.002-05:00

Lol so good to hear from everybody

Susan i Do hope you feel better, that really sucks, unless you still want to sit home of course, but i hope you get better.

Bern- I'm pretty sure The Florida Crew is all up to a family picnic my household is, Mom's always looking for a reason to go up there (Me Too!!)

Can't wait to see mark on saturday!!

College college college. So far i have 75 percent tuition from a scholarship thats only for florida schools so if i hear badly from UF which im hoping that i get in Im gonna go to Santa Fe community college
Those are my plans for sure.

Ok well its good to see SOME people posting lol
hopefully the others come on again too!

Love all
olivia

Sarah

2009-01-15T09:14:00.003-05:00

I love you, but please don't text me after 9:30. I am usually in bed and Bob and I were fast asleep yesterday when you texted at 10:30. I can't turn my ringer off because I am always on call for emergencies.

Thanks!

back on the couch...

2009-01-14T21:31:00.002-05:00

well at least for the night! here we are, susan and myself, i have my coffee! but no cooper. its been a long day for the both of us. susans foot didnt hold up too well on her first day back. her foot and ankle swelled up really bad by 10am. so shes gonna have to call the doctor tomorrow and make sure that her ankle is ok. also she starts therapy on monday. but her foot is so swollen by the end of the day that she wont be able to get her foot in a sneaker for therapy.. so we will just have to wait and see what happens. other than that susan has been laying on the couch for the last month and a half, her dream life! so thats it for sue...

well this morning i had an appointment with the priest at the school where my parents work. i needed a letter to be kaylee's godmother and since i dont go to church i needed to talk with him to get the letter, which thankfully i got! so that was exciting! then i went and hung out with ron for a couple of hours before he went to work.

once i left rons, i went to visit grandpa and grandma at the hospital. on friday when grandpa got to the hospital he was diagnosed with having pneumonia. he was weak from that and that is why he fell on thursday, twice. at therapy today, both grandpa and grandma realized that he was not strong enough to be able to go home. he is not able to walk to the point in which he was walking before. so they made a decision to have him go to rehab to get his strength up so he will be able to at least walk from room to room. they are not sure which rehab facility yet, but the social worker was going to talk to grandma about it tomorrow. hopefully they will have a rehab facility to take him to tomorrow. he also was given a blood transfusion today, which will hopefully make him stronger as well. i took grandma home today, and when we arrived there was a package waiting there for her from jenn. she was very excited about that, she enjoyed the pictures from the girls and said she would bring those and a get well card that grandpa received from uncle joe and aunt mary ellen to the hospital tomorrow. grandpa will be very happy to have gotten a get well card, he had asked grandma the other day if he had received any get well cards. calling all cousins! - if you have any time, maybe you could send him a get well card to the house, grandma will make sure he gets it. it will be very appreciated, and his spirit will be lifted.

both of my jobs are slower right now, all the part-timers were cut down to just friday and staurday at kyoto. and im getting about 20 hrs at kohls and trying to pick up extra shifts that people are giving up. thats about it for me!

uncle david had asked me about 2 weeks ago to blog his new number for all of u. i am sorry but i forgot, and by the time i remembered i lost the paper with the number. when visiting grandpa today i had him write me out a new one.... uncle davids cell number- 716-206-9312. (aunt) grace- 646-703-1105. and their house number 716- 580-3594

also just wanted to say thanks to jenn! this blog weekend was a great idea!
love and miss you all!
sarah and susan!

PICNIC ANYONE?

2009-01-14T09:23:00.003-05:00

Hi Cousins.

That is great that Grandpa has been making improvements. I heard he is supposed to come home today... I hope they are able to determine what caused him to fall twice...

As for me...let's see. I went back to work yesterday after 3 weeks. Part of that time I was off because the university was closed, then when I was supposed to go back on the 5th I got sick for a few days with high fever, congestion, aches... then it turned into bronchitis which is the second time I have had it in a month, and I usually do not get sick so I do not know what is going on. I wanted to visit grandpa but did not want to get him sicker or gma sick. I am not 100% yet but almost. Then I had taken 3 vacation days to study and then recup from my licensing exam which I took saturday. It was the worst exam I have ever taken and I have no idea if I passed and won't know for a few weeks. Its a national exam but it for my license in NYS. I think my immune system was down because of the stress of the exam, so hopefully it is back to normal and I won't get sick anytime soon.

Let's see... what else. Oh, I got a new entrance door in our kitchen which I am very happy about. A present to myself since Bob was fine with the big window door... lol. We also got a new stove. You may remember from the picnic in June that our stove was from the 70s. His parents had gotten us a generous Sears gc last Christmas that we finally used this year to buy the new one. In the spring we will get two of our three porches remodeled since they are literally falling apart and not safe. So its pretty exciting.

So, how do we feel about another Peters' Picnic in the summer at my house? Bob was asking me if we were going to do it again so I thought I would post and poll the cousins. We should set the date within the next month or so so that the out of towners can plan vacation time, etc.

I am at work but the students just moved back in yesterday and begin classes today so its not busy yet. I think I will sit in the sauna for a bit after my lunchtime workout because it is so bitter cold out today.

I walked in my office this morning to find my fridge open. We have nosy cleaning people who are notorious for leaving their presence behind (writing on post its left on desks, writing on wall calendars, stealing candy, etc... ) I was mad because I have string cheese, yogurt, and some condiments in there. They were still cold when I came in so I think they are OK.

Well, I should get back to work and catch up on my reading. Hope everyone is healthy and happy.

Bernadette

its a sad, sad day for susan (tomorrow will be worse tho)

2009-01-13T11:16:00.004-05:00

well good morning cousins! here i am with cooper and susan on her last day of freedom. we just finished watching er and were getting ready to go out to lunch with jeff. after we have to go shopping for zip up, no heel boots for susan to wear to work tomorrow... talk about last minute! we havent found anything as of yet! wish us luck! then of course we will be visiting grandma and grandpa at the hospital. poor grandma looks so tired sitting there all day! but those of us who visit them, have seen grandpas improvements and are hopeful that he will be allowed to go home within the next couple of days.

were very jealous of mark who gets to visit our flordia family on saturday! hope u have fun marky!

somebody better get on here and update us on their lives, not that we dont love hearing from olivia, but we have nothing else to talk about!

love and miss you all!
sarah and susan

=] HI!!!!!!

2009-01-09T15:08:00.001-05:00

i felt like i was talking to myself! lol

How are you guys i hope you're doing better !!!!

I think i'm gonna decide to go to Santa Fe community college in Gainesville if i dont get into UF...
It just seems like the best carrer path for now, but idk for sure

Now that somebody posted i dont know what to say lol

hope everybody is doing good

love all
olivia

poor olivia!

2009-01-09T11:16:00.002-05:00

good morning cousins! its sarah and susan here (with cooper of course!) olivia dear we are sorry that you had to talk to yourself on here for awhile, we will try to do better! well merry christmas and happy new year to all! jenn- we are so happy that you came to visit! we are def going to plan a trip down there soon!

so susans dream life is slowly coming to an end...she has to return to work on wed, just in time for tax season of course! i will get my couch back tho!

dont have alot of time to blog now, so i will be back soon!
love and miss you all!
sarah and susan!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-01-01T12:18:00.002-05:00

WOOOO!!!! 2009!

2008 was a really good year.

I ended it by going to this club called the coliseum and swing dancing
It was sooo much fun, there was a balloon drop at midnight and my friend who is really big into swing dancing won the prize for being the best vintage dressed and she got a free photoshoot which she needs cuz those are expensive. Anyways we were there from 8-1 and then we went to dennys and stayed there for awhile and we were gonna go to the beach and watch the sunrise but a couple people were feeling tired! lol
But my friend who i was gonna stay at her house got sick and i got home at 4 in the morning and i seriously wasnt even tired.
Last night was soooo much funn

How was everybody elses new year?
i feel like im the only one blogging!!!

love all
olivia

One more thing

2008-12-24T19:44:00.001-05:00

love all
olivia

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-12-24T17:46:00.002-05:00

So i wont be on the comp at all tomoro so just wanted to wish everybody a very
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope all is doing well
love all

olivia <3

Vacation's all i ever wanted!

2008-12-21T16:47:00.002-05:00

So winter break has started!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am so excited, I have done all my xmas shopping it is just a matter of wrapping it =]

I got mom and dad snowglobes that you can put pictures inside of and i got some pics of the family that they like and have to cut them to size still, its really cute, and i also got this really cute glass thing that says love and it sits on a mirror and says i love you always!

Of course i am working this break

I LOVE MY JOB SOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!

The people are awesome and everything about it is really cool and fun

I worked today 6-230 and i was constantly busy until about 215 i love staying busy and rushing and having a million things to do and that basically descriebd my day!

Other than that i work monday and tuesday but im off wed, thurs, and fri. Friday im going to Busch gardens (an amusement park)

Other than that just hanging out with friends

I got into Santa Fe community college!!!!!!! which is in gainseville its near UF
other than that i havent heard back from UF

And i have been looking for scholarships so if anybody knows any good websites HOLLA! lol

Umm, so ya.. I wish it snowed in Florida!

And almost all of my bruises from the car accident are gone, im surprised they lasted this long, my friend is in a rental, and she's sueing the lady cause insurance only offered like 3000 i think and she wants a little more for whatever her new car is gonna be, the one she totaled which she bought 2 days before the accident was 4000 so i think its fair
The insurance companies have benen calling me like crazy! they keep asking if im fine and if i have seen any medical professional, and i keep saying NO!! lol

ok well im gonna peace out so ill ttyl

love all
olivia

Let it snow!

2008-12-21T10:58:00.002-05:00

Hello cousins!

We got a nice storm on Friday. It snowed all day and left us with about 8 inches. It is snowing again today too. They say 4-8 inches but it doesn't seem like we are going to get that.

Daniel has had a stomach flu since very early yesterday morning so we have all just been hanging out. I baked cookies and I want to wrap gifts but have not figured out how to do it without Daniel finding me. Right now, I am watching A Christmas Story. Did you know that the kid that played Ralphie is now a director and often has small roles in the films he directs? He is in Elf, The Break Up and in Four Christmases. He directed (or maybe produced?) all of them.

How is everyone?

Susan--how are you feeling?

Sarah--what have you been up to when you are not caring for Susan?

Bernadette--that website is very nice. Coleman passed away early Saturday morning and the words his father left on the site are extremely moving.

Olivia--how is winter break?

Kristy--are you still running? I need to start doing something...all the cookies I ate are not helping me maintain my weight!

Mark--where are ya?

Well, if anyone wants to send me a Christmas gift...I guess I'd just like some tinker toys...lol..

Love,
Tricia

Winter Storm

2008-12-19T17:47:00.002-05:00

How did all the locals fare in the storm? I chose not to drive into work today because 1) the weather and 2) i had little to do today work-related since the students are gone for the break. NU finally closed at 1:30, but I am guessing many did not drive in due to the road conditions. All the Niagara County schools except for Lew-Port closed early this morning, so I figured if they were all closed, it was not a good idea to drive! Plus, Bob was not working today because he was giving a presentation 10 minutes away so we go to spend the rest of the day together, and its his bday, so that was nice. Only 2 ppl showed up for his presentation anyway, so they ended up postponing it until April and briefly spoke about his company to the two poor souls that came.

Tricia and Jenn- how is your weather there?

Tricia- what a nice blog for Coleman. So many people have visited that sight! I hope he improves.

Well, we are considering going out to eat for Bob's bday since the snow stopped. gotta run!

Bernadette

If you get a minute...

2008-12-17T14:06:00.001-05:00

I am posting a link to a blog. The guy mentioned, Coleman, is a friend of my friends. He was serving in Iraq when he became sick and it doesn't look too good for him. He can use some prayers if you have the time.

http://www.rootingforcoleman.blogspot.com/

I don't mean to be a downer but there isn't much else to do to help him.

Thanks,
Tricia

PS--I hope you are all doing well!

Do No Harm

2008-12-15T13:23:00.002-05:00

is part of the hippocratic oath. That is ridiculous. My dad used the same one as me and went in around 20 minutes to closing and got right in and out. The one you went to sounds like they closed early and did not want to admit it. I would file a complaint with the BBB, or the medical board if you know the doctor's name. Do you have any others around you?

I am, thankfully, feeling much better. I still have a slight residual cough and a runny nose at times, but otherwise back to the gym and back to normal!

Has anyone else heard of "Feed it Forward" through restuarant.com. It is a great way to give gifts to people who you otherwise wouldn't or could not afford to. Its free! Check it out at www.restaurant.com/FeedItForward I have given to 9 people so far :)

Not much going on at work. The students are done and for the most part, out of the dorms (they kick em out on the 13th) except for the live in RA staff and the students that live in the apartments, and some of the athletes. So I have on average one appointment a day and sometimes a meeting here and there. Our work Christmas party is tomorrow afternoon so we all get together to eat, drink (alcohol too), and be merry. And it is during work hours! Friday our department along with the one next to us (we're close like that) are having our own Christmas potluck. I am making the same meatballs I made for thanksgiving, for those of you who were there. Nice and easy! I work next monday and tuesday too, then have off until the 5th. Not bad. Bob will have off some of the same days as me,which is nice.

Josh and I are going for sushi tonight. we have serioulsy been planning to go now for a year i think, or at least since he got his job at lowes, which was last february. we are finally going tonight! I got a $50 gc for $25 for O reestaurant through one of the local radio stations, which is a sweet deal. I can eat A LOT of sushi, so we will have no problem spending $50! Bob does not like it so it is nice to go with someone who likes it. Last time Bob went to that restuarant he ordered one of the only non-sushi menu items- a cooked whole tilapia fish, which did not fill him up, so then he ordered tempura.... lol...

ok, back to work. Happy almost Christmas to all.

Bernadette

Hello to all!

2008-12-15T08:17:00.002-05:00

Hi everyone!

How are you all doing? Ready for Christmas? 10 days left! I am just about done. The kids are done but I still have to get something for my parents. I have a few ideas but I don't know for sure yet. Oh, the doggies are done too! Of course Santa brings them a present too.

Good morning Susan and Sarah! How is the patient? How is the caregiver? Sarah--I told Daniel that you said hello and he said to tell you "Merry Christmas and Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Christmas". He said to tell you too, that "it is almost summer time". So there you go!

Bernadette-how are you feeling? Here's a story for you...I am starting to feel better (thanks to the large doses of Vitamin C, I believe) but I still get tired pretty easy. So, yesterday I was out and I went to stop at this CareWorks place that is similar to what you went to when you were sick. The sign says they are open until four and it was 3:35-3:40. The sign also says to sign in but I can't find anywhere to sign in so I just sit down and wait. I can hear people talking behind the door. Well, after a little while, I know on the door and the doctor comes out and I tell her that I don't see where I am supposed to sign in so I just wanted them to know I was waiting. She said "Oh, I'm sorry but we see our last patient at 3:45 and its 3:48 right now." I said "well, I have been sitting out here for about 5 or 10 minutes." She said to me "that is not possible because I was just out here 5 minutes ago." I just looked at her and said "forget it" and I walked away. I was so pissed! Don't doctors take an oath to treat people? Apparently not if its after 3:45! Bah humbug to her!

Anywho, we took the boys to see Santa on Friday. Andrew wanted nothing to do with him. Daniel was really scared at first too but I got him to talk to Santa and then he warmed right up. He got his picture taken but Andrew did not get in it. It came out cute though.

Ok, well that is all for now! Talk to you soon.

Tricia

Rain drops keep fallin on my head

2008-12-11T14:27:00.002-05:00

lol its rainy and sunny in florida today

about the acciedent the driver of the other car was ok too im assuming
my friend, the driver, said that she was told that she wasnt drunk or anything like we assumed from her being such an idiot, but now she owes a lot of money and maybe her insurance will cover it cause the accident was 100% her fault, and we were told we were lucky we didnt swerve even more than we did cause our car could have flipped. i counted my bruises today lol i have 9 and some scratches they're all sore but getting better =]

anyways so i transferred to a different petsmart and ive been working at this one for about a week and i LOVE it lol all the people are awesome and funny and cool and i really like it there.

anyways today is my day off so im applying for scholarships and maybe a school or two

talk to everybody later

loveall
olivia

ps. tricia- the tattoo was my first and it didnt hurt, and hopefully im getting another one soon =]

still on the couch...

2008-12-11T11:12:00.003-05:00

hello all! well its just me and susan and cooper again. we are going out to lunch with jeff today, so susan is excited to get out of the house! yesterday i took her to the doctor to get her soft cast taken off and the actual cast put on. and also we stopped at grams for a few hours too!

olivia- we are so happy that you and your friends are ok! was the other driver ok too? how are school and work going?

kristy- so glad that you are back on the blog! its nice to have new posts to read! how was ur budweiser party? anything else going on?

lauren- where are you? we are supposed to be blogging back and forth together!... hope everything is well! tell alex we say hola! lol

where is the pa crew? how is everyone doing there. tricia- tell daniel i say hi! and give him a hug from me, i miss you guys! (andrew too, of course!) jenn- give the girls a hug and kiss from me as well! how is school going for mia?

well thats about all we have!
love and miss you all!
sarah and susan! (aka susarella!!!)

Hello All

2008-12-08T17:27:00.002-05:00

Glad to hear susan is doing alright!!!

Bernadette that is awesome about the walk there is one in the clearwater area too in November I think, but I just thought the overnight one sounded like it could be fun for all of us to do together and I guess it is 20 miles and goes all through New York City, so I thought it would be cool. We will see though I am still not sure when it is.

Well I am getting ready to go Amber some friends and I are going to Tampa Stadium for a Budweiser party to watch the Monday night game, so I will talk to you all soon.

Love and Miss you,
Kristy

Accidentally...

2008-12-08T14:18:00.005-05:00

So yesterday was Next Big Thing which is a concert held by a local radio station that has around 15 to 20 bands performing annually, this year they had bands like Shinedown, Flogging Molly, Atreyu, Avenged Sevenfold, Flobots, Shiny Toy Guns, 3oh!3, and a lot more. and i always get Pit tickets which is like where you can crowdsurf and mosh and stuff and its an all day event, about 13 hours, and starts at 10am. So after about 13 hours of moshing and crowdsurfing and having one of the greatest nights ever lol me and my three friends that went in the same car as me left at about 1130pm. It was one of my friends car and first on the way home we stopped and she filled up her gas tank and then we went to taco bell because we were starvingggg. and by now its midnight and we're in the very right hand lane and literally out of nowhere a lady pulls right in front of us when we were going 50 miles an hour (the speed limit) and we had about 10 feet to brake and we swerved almost completely in the next lane but we still hit her at about 40 miles an hour, quite the impact i might say, right on the lady's driver side door. It all happened so fast but basically we hurried out of the car after i told 2 of my friends to not freak out and just unlock their doors cause our car was smoking. so we got out and i went to check on the other drvier and told my friend who was driving not to come and when i went to her passenger side door were she was flung she was unconscious which scared the crap out of me. But anyway me and my three friends are fine with just a little cuts and bruises and my friends new car totally totaled, she got it on friday. and so far they think the lady that we hit was either drunk or had passed out and let her foot off the brake. so mom and dad came to pick me up and i had to fill out a few thing and we went home which took us about 30 minutes and got back at 2am and i took a shower and had some tea and ended up going to bed at like 3am THEN 2 hours later i woke up to go to school Ugh and i worked 3-10. so i cant wait to go to bed tonight, which i think right now im gonna go take my shower and go to bed

love all
olivia

just sitting around on the couch....

2008-12-08T11:16:00.002-05:00

good morning everyone! well its me, cooper and susan here now.... susan is doing ok. she is in alot of pain, until she gives in and takes her pills, (she doesnt like to take them unless she has too.) she gets a little goofy when she does. on wed we get to take a trip to the doctor to get susan a cast, so we will have more of an update on her condition then. (how long she will be off of work (yay!) and stuff like that.) and unfortunatly, susan is on the couch i normally sit on in the mornings while i enjoy my coffee but it hasnt been too bad, shes very entertaining.

well other than that, we dont have much going on here....
love and miss you all!
sarah

Still sick

2008-12-08T09:37:00.002-05:00

Hi everyone. Almost everyone at my office is sick. Blah. I went to an immediate care yesterday morning because I was not getting any better and no longer thought I had just a cold. It is like an ER but for non-life threatening conditions. So much better than waiting in my doc's office for 3 hours, plus, the centers are open til 10pm on weekdays and 8pm on weekends. So I was in and out in a little over an hour and came out with a diagnosis (Bronchitis) and an antiobiotic script. So hopefully I am on the mend...

Kristy- there are Out of Darkness Walks all over the nation. I had posted on the blog all about it and did one here in September. It was a day walk and the Buffalo area had the most walkers in WNY! I invited all the cousins to do it but only my parents, Uncle David, and Grace came. Oh well, maybe next year. The overnight one sounds neat. I purchase materials for use at work from American foundation for suicide prevention. It is a great organization.

I am almost done with my christmas shopping...yay! How is everyone else coming along?

We went out and got our tree yesterday. It is a tall (probably 9 feet) blue spruce and smells amazing! Bob and I will decorate it tonight. His parents got a similar one.

This is my last busy week at work until mid-January. It is finals week so I anticipate we might be extra busy with students not coping well with grades and academic pressure and going home for the holidays. So many go home to dysfuctional families... I don't blame them for not wanting to go.

Well, I should go and do something productive (not that blogging isn't productive) before my client arrives. I hope everyone is doing well and is healthy!

Bernadette

So happy...

2008-12-05T10:40:00.002-05:00

...to see so many posts here!!!

Hi everyone!!

Susan--how are you? How did the surgery go? Everything ok? I hope you are feeling ok.

Kristy--congrats to your team! They have a good coach. ;-)

Bernadette--how are you feeling? I have the exact same thing as you and so did both of my kids, and my mom, Mike and Mia too! Guess it really is going around.

Olivia--that was you with the tattoo! I really like it. Did it hurt much? Was it your first tattoo?

Sarah--are you taking good care of Susan? Is she hogging the couch in the mornings when you are trying to have coffee? lol... :-)

Today I am working from home. The boys are at school and Dave is working overtime so I am here getting caught up on my work. My goal is get everything corrected as well as to post a few things on ebay that I want to sell. If I get that done, then I want to make peanut butter cookies (the ones with the hershey kisses on them...I must say I make the best ones! lol...)

Did I tell you I have a home office now? We moved Andrew into Daniel's room and then converted his room into my office. I have a nice desk and a chair and my computers. His room also has a big bookshelf built into the wall so I have all my stuff there. I am much more organized and I can get work done in peace and quiet even if the boys and Dave are downstairs. But, we just did all this about 2 weeks ago and last night Andrew learned to climb out of his crib. So now we have to get him a bed. We were hoping to wait another 6 months or so because we wanted to get them bunk beds but they are not ready for that yet. I guess we'll have to buy another toddler bed for Andrew until they are big enough for bunk beds and this way we can save up a little too.

That's about all here. I hope you all have a good weekend. Do you have snow? We haven't had any here except a few flurries and a dusting. I wish it would snow so I could be more in the spirit of Christmas. Dave said I must sick because I don't want to put our tree up yet. Usually I start asking to put it up in July!

Bye for now!
Love ya's,
Tricia

OMG!!! I'M BACK

2008-12-02T17:25:00.003-05:00

Hey all it's me Kristy, yes I know some of you are thinking Who? but yes I am still here!!! lol!! Well not much to say but I am glad to be back on the Blog, oh I updated the photo on our profile so it is a picture of all of us!!! I want to let everyone know about something I have been researching and think would be awesome for us all to do together. It is called The Out Of The Darkness Overnight Walk, it is affiliated with the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention. It is held once a year in Seattle and New York City. I am waiting for an email back from the organization, so when I get all the info I will update you. The 2008 walk was in June, so I hope this year's is around the same time. Well not much else to say, oh my Basketball teams last game is tomorrow and if we win our record will be 9-3 to end the season, not bad for a bunch of soccer and volleyball players!!! :-)

Well I am going to say goodbye for now and I love and Miss you all,

Kristy

Hello!

2008-12-02T14:06:00.003-05:00

Hi everyone!! How's it going? Pretty good here, it's my last day at work for a month...I am a little sad because I really like my co-workers and will probably miss them, but hopefully laying on the couch all day will help me get over that! haha

So Lauren did go back to Colombia on Saturday. She had a layover in Miami for like 6 hours, which ironically Katy was there visiting her boyfriend's family for Thanksgiving. So Katy and Chris picked Lauren up at the airport for a few hours to hang out!

Hahah Bern that is so funny about Bob's niece, thinking you resembled a black person....know what else? Lauren's nephews on her other side call her Uncle Lauren....that's funny you get called Uncle as well!

Alright, well back to finish up work, I have to pack up my desk and get all of my away messages ready.

Love you,
Susan

Howdy cousins

2008-12-02T11:57:00.002-05:00

Hi all.

I am at work on my lunch break eating soup, which I almost never eat but I am sick so it helps my throat feel better. My boss is cute- he told me to take care of myself and stay home, but it is the last week of classes so it may be the last time I meet with my clients until next semester unless they come in next week which is finals (so a lot cancel because they are so stressed), so it is a bad week to be sick in this business. I left an hour early yesterday and will today, but will see all my scheduled clients. If I felt worse I would stay home but right now I have a dry cough, sore throat, a bit achy, and a runny nose/sneezing. Could be worse. One of my clients cancelled today because he had been throwing up all night. That would be worse!

Anyway... the pics of Uncle David's wedding are beautiful. I was all set to order a bunch until i realized the cheapest (4 by 6) costs $10 each! Forget it.

So, where is Lauren now? I read in Sarah's post that she went back, so I am assuming Colombia, but there was mention of Katy? Did she have a layover in Tampa?

How was everyone's thanksgiving. I was happy that Bob and I had dinner at G'mas then dessert at his family's. I like the food at G'mas better, of course. His little cousin who is usually very active laid on the couch with a headache the whole time that I was there. Later we found out she has strep (spelling?) throat. I hope that is not what I have.

So cute story- little Annaleha (now 3.5 years but cognitive functions at a year earlier) was watching a show with a Black choir and she looks at the one soloist that they did a close up on and said- Uncle Det!! (which is what she calls me) So she thinks I resemble a Black person- too cute. I had just washed my hair and it was curly and a bit unruly, so I could see the resemblance. Bob's family thought it was hysterical. She calls me uncle Det because, I think, she is so used to saying Uncle Bob and knows we go together so naturally, I would be Uncle too. Another funny story- I went to the bathroom during dinner Sunday and she tries to follow me in and open the door (lucky I had locked it) and screamed "BERNADETTE!" So sometimes, she gets my name right. She has an obsession of shutting herself in a room such as the bathroom and turning off the light (brave kid) and knocking on the door. Don't think she understands yet what the rest of us use the bathroom for :)

Anyway, got to finish my lunch and get back to work.

Hope this finds everyone healthy, happy, and loved.

Bernadette

good morning cousins!

2008-12-02T09:53:00.002-05:00

well here i am, hanging out with cooper, drinking some coffe and watching tv...it really is the perfect morning! well life with me has been pretty boring, just alot of working...

how was everyones thanksgiving??? mine was good! i had to cut it short tho, cuz i had to be to work by 345am on black friday! so i tried to go to sleep early, but ended up not being able to fall asleep anyways... black friday at my store was not so bad, didnt mind it at all! did everybody hear about the poor employee at the walmart in manhattan... its sad how people can act towards others. or the two fathers who shot each other at toys r us in front of their wives and children. absolutley rididculous!

olivia- i like the new tatoo! good for you! what did aunt donna say?

lauren- where r u? we r supposed to be blogging together! lol i hope ur trip back was wonderful! did u get to hang out with katy? we miss you!

well uncle dave wanted me to let you all know that you can view the pics from the wedding online. the website is www.saksphotography.com -go to view and order. and then to the nov 8th date it says Lacanilao & Peters. the password to get in is - saks30

well i hope everyone is doing well! love and miss you all!
sarah

happy thanksgiving

2008-11-26T13:32:00.001-05:00

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!!

2008-11-26T11:27:00.002-05:00

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

Hello all!

2008-11-25T13:11:00.002-05:00

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!!!

2008-11-25T10:34:00.003-05:00

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

Busy bees

2008-11-16T16:51:00.002-05:00

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

good morning cousins!

2008-11-14T11:02:00.003-05:00

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

I voted for the first time!!

2008-11-05T20:48:00.001-05:00

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!

To describe...

2008-11-04T15:48:00.001-05:00

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

Hello!

2008-11-04T15:38:00.002-05:00

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!

2008-11-04T14:15:00.002-05:00

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

2008-11-04T10:49:00.002-05:00

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!!!!

2008-11-04T07:52:00.002-05:00

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

Congratulations!

2008-10-30T11:43:00.001-04:00

Just a quick post because I am running out the door. I wanted to post here a big CONGRATULATIONS to Susan and Jeff!! I am so excited and happy for you guys!

I'll post more later once I get back from my meeting.

Love ya's,
Tricia

Goodmorning!!

2008-10-30T08:44:00.002-04:00

Hi!! How is everyone?? Great here.....so in case word hasn't gotten around yet (which I am sure it has), Jeff proposed yesterday!!! I am engaged!! I am very excited, and he wanted to do it before everyone came in for the wedding so I can show everyone my ring (thoughtful right?!)!!! So I have to get to work now, since I have only been talking and smiling since I got here and definitely not working! But I cannot wait to see everyone next week!

Love you all,
Susan

Work it make it do it Makes us harder better faster Stronger

2008-10-29T15:26:00.003-04:00

So I work at PetSmart and a few weeks ago we got a new manager, i loved my old one, he was the best but this new one is really cool too just some people dont like her cause she follows the rules to the tee lol. at petsmart each store is given a certain amount of hours to give to their employees and our old manager Sam just gave hours out the wazoo lol like he would give me 30 hours a week or so, which i asked for cause i like my job and its more money but he was going over on hours and everything so the first thing our new manager is doing is fixing the hours by cutting everybody back some last week i had four hours!!!!! so i talked to her and was like i cant live off 4 hours a week blah blah blah and she felt bad but there was nothing she could do and then she got an email from one of our sister stores that said they needed help and can give lots of hours. Basically its only an extra three miles so im transferring their next week, i went in for an interview on monday and it seems like a step up so... yay! lol and every manager that has moved to a different store says it looks good on your petsmart file so thats good too.

sorry that took so long

Halloweens coming! i was invited to go trick or treating with 2 different groups and to 2 parties and a haunted house but i have to work til 10! which sux cause who's gonna go to petsmart on halloween? so im just gonna go to one of the parties with people i work with cause its a sleepover and starts later

what about everybody else?

susan- when is your surgery?

im off my cast but there are certain ways if i move my ankle it hurts really bad and the other day i misstepped and twisted it that hurt really bad lol

also i got new classes i still have anatomy and physics but now i have art and psychology, i kinda dont like art but i love psych! but other than that juust chillin wit friends, going to panera bread in a little bit to study with some friends, physics test tomorrow!

love all
olivia

where the hell is everyone?!?!?

2008-10-29T10:09:00.001-04:00

i know me too, but i hope someone will write soon! i hope everyone is doing ok.

here i am hanging with cooper, watching er and drinking coffee! im doing good, busy week.... both thursday and friday this week ill be working 8am until about 9:30 or 10:30pm. both jobs, both days. so thats what im going to be doing for halloween. what is everyone else doing? jenn, tricia- what are the kids dressing up as? do u go trick or treating together?

susan and i got to spend monday together, shopping for chirstmas bcuz she wont be able to after her surgery. and then she took me out for lunch! it was a fun day!

olivia- how is ur ankle? anything fun happen at school or work?

well hopefully somebody writes soon. hope all is well!
love and miss you all!
sarah

Who The Hell Is This?

2008-10-21T19:18:00.003-04:00

I know, I know...i haven't been on in forever, i spent like 2 hours catching up on everyone...and i spent a good portion yesterday with a whole bunch of responses, but my dummy butt forgot to bring all of them in so i just have afew for now....

First and foremost thank you all for your anti-Mazz's sentiment...they are in a downward spiral and i cannot wait to stand over the burniong ashes of the building and urinate all over them....lol... The manager is a jerk and he is literally turning the cool hip place into a drab unexciting place for young professionals to hang out. they are trying to cater to an older crowd, but guess what the older crowd doesn't come out with 8 people on a saturday night, order 8 filet dinners and stay for 3 hours and drink themselves stupid, spending hundreds of dollars. He decided that opera music on a saturday night was a good way to bring in the people...they had the balls to insinuate that i didn't charge anyone for any drinks. they were like, you used to have the crowds bumping till like 4 am did you stop giving stuff out for free. I was like hell no, and f* you for saying that. no one wants to come in and talk to your manager that interjects himself into every conversation held in the restaurant, and more over who would want to go out and hang at a place playing italian tribal music or w/e bs music he listened to. it was horrible, i went from making 300-600 a week cash to making less than 150 in 2 nights. I took myself off of the schedule for saturdays and only worked wednesdays, they then called me up and told me it was pointless for me to be on the schedule for one day a week and that they wanted me more or nothing, so i told them to F* off...

well thanks for listening to that rant.
so my tux for uncle dave's wedding cost $160....to rent, they told me i'd get to keep the socks, but if they're used socks then i'll prolly slap them in the face with them,.....lol....

olivia- i'm so excited you made it to the blog! my cell number is 716-480-2420. Get your brother on here and remind your sisters to pop in and say hello, we miss them, and you all...
It def sux that you're missing your homecoming, but Uncle Daves wedding is gonna be alot of fun...i'll smuggle you drinks like i did for joe at tricia's wedding, which was a riot might i add!

bernadette- i'm sorry i totally forgot abotu the walk until i saw you guys come in from it and grandma's andwas like, how come i didn't get a reminder....but duh....idiot....i didn't check the blog, there were like 8 of them....
with your tire situatuion, you can put air in a tire with a slow leak. my back tire had a slow leak for like 6 months before i got a replacement on, and i'm sure by now its already replaced, but for future reference.
Sorry about Sammy, he was a cool pooch, but i think you did the right thing for him, and as hard as it was he's better off for it. have you guys thought abotu a kitten? they really don't need as much attentionas a dog. i never had one, but i couldn't imagine living without little Zink...she is a cutie.

susan- you're fitting an awful lot into the week after you get back, i say maybe get a little bit taken care of before you go, perhaps try and work out a deal with the dealer before we go, that way when its time to turn it in you already know what you're gonna do. just a suggestion, take it with a grain of salt if you want...i'm, also gonna suggest buying a car thats like 2 or 3 years old, you'll get it for half price, AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT MILEAGE, and even better when your term is up you get to keep it, now you have an asset, and of course it depreciatedin value from the time you bought it, but you're not just giving it away when the term is up. you could sell it after a year and sometimes get more than you paid for it leaving you the ability to buy more of a car with your next purchase.

sarah- hope you liek Kohl's, hopefully i'll be able to get you into M&T. have you heard from them? i hope so, you would love the branch i want you to go to, everyone is really nice there, plus i know like half the bank, so you'd be a superstar rightaway...! lol...

jen- i hope you're doing well with Mia in school....she's gotta be a trip there, i can't even imagine how much the teacher loves her in the class...Mia is a celebrity! 100% I can't wait to see you guys in a few weeks

trisha- WE'VE BEEN CHATTING ON E-MAIL, BUT I DIDN'T WANT YOU TO FEEL LEFT OUT HERE! LOVE YA

Well i gotta jet
I Love All Of You,
Mark

just talking

2008-10-21T17:10:00.002-04:00

since there hasnt been a post in awhile i just thought id say whats up? lol

so i found out my homecoming is uncle davids wedding and im not going, which kinda sucks but i cant wait for the wedding. this week i dont work at all except for yesterday so today im going to heaths football game. not much planned for this week, exams thursday and friday fun no lol. going on a double date bowling on saturday that should be fun nothing else really except i hope to have my air cast for my ankle off by thursday!

anyways
so hows everybody?
sarah- hows kohls? where else are you looking?
tricia-hows the vaccuum? lol new windows?

just keeping from being bored and catching up

love all
olivia

Hello!

2008-10-15T16:44:00.002-04:00

Hi! How is everyone? Pretty good here....today is our extension deadline at work, and guess what....we just finished our last tax returns 15 minutes ago! We are leaving on time! I am very excited. I am going to go home, shower, and Sarah is going to cut my hair after she gets back from dinner at Grandma's. Ok, so I have some news for everyone....since Lauren doesn't get on here much, I'm breaking the news for her...Alex did not get approved for his visa, so lauren is actually going back to Columbia on Saturday. She is going for 3 weeks and then coming back here the day before Uncle Dave's wedding, staying for the wedding, going to Spain with us, and sticking around for Thanksgiving, and then going back to Columbia. So, that's the situation....we are sad she is leaving, but at least she'll be back in 3 weeks! Oh and Olivia, take care of your ankle...ice it, elevate it, wrap it. What you did was my first injury, and I didn't take care of it good enough, so I kept re-injuring it, and 9 years later..surgery! Oh so my surgery, they are cutting the tendons in half, 'welding them' on top of eachother to make them tighter, removing a bone spur, and he said I have ligament damage on the side and back (?) and cartilage damage on top, so basically surgery on the entire ankle!! hahah off of work for at least 3 weeks tho!!! Alright, I am going home now (yah!) Have a great night everyone.
Love you,
Susan

birthdays again

2008-10-15T14:47:00.000-04:00

how many in each month?

good morning

2008-10-15T10:43:00.003-04:00

good morning cousins! well sorry i havent posted in awhile, nothing is really going on. its just cooper and i right now watching tv and drinking coffee!

bernadette- i wont be able to take another saturday off of work to go with you all. i dont think susan can either. sounds like alot of fun tho! im really happy for sam that he got adopted!

tricia- i got the job at kohls! my first day was last week... not really getting too many hours tho, so i may be looking for a different second job, havent decided yet.

olivia- that sucks about your ankle darling! how is school and everything going?

well thats about all i have to write about. talk to you all later
love and miss you
sarah

Ankles Ankles Ankles

2008-10-13T14:44:00.002-04:00

lol
bern-yay for sam!!!!!!

tricia- cool sounding vaccuum i love vaccuums but not as much as my teacher who just spent like 500 dollars on one

so yesterday i was scheduled to work 930-6 and we close at 6 on sundays and every three months we have floor people come to wax and what not and yesterday we were moving everything into the back of the store and i was walking out and over a hand jack and my coworker didnt see me and started moving it so i hoped over it so she wouldnt roll my foot over and i landed right on my ankle and my ligament went across the bone and my coworker who was like five feet away heard it pop so corporate policy says we had to go to the er and i got x rays and thank god nothings broken but its a really bad sprain and its ugly bruised and swollen and i have to use crutches that hurt my armpits really bad lol

love all
olivia

Adopted

2008-10-13T08:43:00.002-04:00

Sam got adopted this past friday. It is good to know that someone else is loving him and taking care of him now. I hope he is happy and that the family is happy with him.

Tricia- I have a HEPA filter too but something is wrong with my vacuum. It leaves chunks of fuzz all over. Same color as the carpet. I have the setting on the thickest carpet and it still does not seem to pick up right. I have to stop every minute or two and scoop out the fuzz stuck in the bottom. Any suggestions?

I can't remember if I posted on here about Grace's bachelorette, in case some of you out of towners can make it. It will be saturday, November 1st. We plan to go to a bunch of the wineries on the niagara wine trail by me, go out for dinner, then go to the casino. I think Uncle David has agreed to drive us. So far there is Grace, me, her aunt, my mom, Lauren, and Stephanie (depending on a babysitter). Susan and Sarah- are you both working? Two of Grace's bridesmaids are coming in town but I don't think until sunday. The one just got mugged and hurt pretty bad (I think she was pushed into the cement sidewalk) so Grace does not think they would want to go to all the festivities we have planned... so saturday seemed to work better for most of us.

So I need all new tires on my car before winter and especially now that I learned I have a slow leak from a nail. I went saturday (I had an appointment) to a local guy near me that knows Bob's family (and has a weird fascination with Connie, who is 25 years younger than him). Anyway, I get there and he tells me the tires are not in yet. So now I go tomorrow and miss an hour of work. The tires had better be there! I am afraid to drive with the one with the leak much longer. At least tomorrow will not be busy with work. The students have off. They have off today too, and the university is closed so I have off but I am finishing an editing project due tonight. The customer requesting the editing speaks something other than English as her first language and writes so poorly that I have made literally thousands of changes. It has taken me a long time to do this paper. I can't wait to be done with it!

Ok, that about all I have to say for now ;)

See everyone in less than a month for the wedding!!

Bernadette

Sunday

2008-10-12T09:27:00.002-04:00

Olivia--We have at least one birthday in every month. That's cool!

Sarah--when will you know if you will be working at Kohl's? That would be great. Perfect time to start getting a store discount, since the holidays are coming.

Susan--Getting a new car is so exciting! Have you seen the new Ford Fusions? I like them and I love the ice blue color it comes in. Your trip sounds awesome! Be sure to take lots of pictures and more importantly, eat lots of great food! Why are you having ankle surgery? What are they going to do?

Let's see, what is new here? The weather is beautiful. Oh, and I got a new vacuum cleaner. I know, that isn't too exciting but for me it is. Duke sheds terribly and for some reason our old vacuum didn't pick up his dog hair. The new one works great and it has a HEPA filter and this cool feature where it sucks from the side too so it gets everything along the edges of the walls. Its the little things in life that excite me, really. :-)

I'm off to get Dave out of bed. Daniel has tried unsuccessfully so its my turn!

Love,
Tricia

how many months

2008-10-11T12:39:00.001-04:00

does the cousins cover with birthdays?

its not that i dont know most birthdays but im doing something really cool and need the months we cover

love all
olivia

car

2008-10-09T14:28:00.003-04:00

Well, I am already over on my miles for my car now (it's a lease, up at the end of December). So if Volkswagen gives me a good deal on a new car, and wipes out what I owe in miles, I will probabaly just get another Passat (I really do love my car). But, if they don't make it worth it, I saw a commercial for the new Mazda 6 that came out (they changed the body style), so I was going to go look at them too. Whatever is cheaper is really what I am going to get!
Susan

pushing daisies

2008-10-09T14:19:00.002-04:00

the post about phone numbers was me =] (olivia)
lol sorry i didnt sign it

spain sounds super exciting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what kind of car are you looking for??

love all
olivia