Bloggie Number 2!!
OK, so I am only getting around to putting up this blog now, and I am at the airport waiting to check in for my flight back home!!! Go figure!!!! Anyways, its written so I may aswell put it up!!! Notice the part I wrote about time flying!!! Enjoy!!
Hi guys!!
So my internet is limited, so these will be few and far between unfortunately, so I hope you are eating them up!!
OK, so last blog I was about to go out to the lake. We headed out and had a lovely meal, Fish Tacos with hicama salad (I don’t think that’s how you spell it but that’s how it sounds) and mango salsa, followed by smores!! YUM!! We were hanging out with Barbs friends, and I met another “Cathy Ann” there! I was delighted, but she only goes by “Cathy” so my joy didn’t last that long!! We sat out till about 10 and even though I had pants AND bug spray on, I still got mosquito bites really bad. I get a really bad reaction to mosquito bites so one mosquito could give me 10 or more big itchy hives L so I have been lathering on the cortisone all week! It stinks!! I’m soooo glad we don’t have those little bastards back home!
So the next morning we went to a place called “Treasure Mart” I was in heaven! It’s this store that has antiques and really cool old stuff for really cheap!! I got some cute stuff, mostly for my kitchen table (for those of you that don’t know, I LOVE having people over for dinner, and I am collecting things to make the spread really nice!!!) Barb, my friend that I was staying with got some really cool stuff, but she was decorating her house, so she was looking for specific stuff! We found a really cool old gynaecologists lamp, with the tool table attached and all! Very Barb!! She also got a really hilarious bird feeder with glitter and gems, and pictures of the Virgin Mary all over it!! I have pictures so I will put them on FB!!
So after treasure mart, I walked around Ann Arbour and did some shopping! I ended up walking into this festival with tonnes of stalls and music and food! It was the “Annual Ann Arbour African American Appreciation” festival!!! I was probably one of about 3 white people there, but everyone was really friendly, plus they had a petting zoo!!!
I stopped by a yard sale on my way home, and then when I got back to the house I ironed Barbs linen curtains that she was gonna put up on her bedroom windows!!! Then her friend Jeff put up some of her photos and we moved around the furniture for a while, and then it was cocktail hour!! I had a gin Gimlet, yum!! But I only had half of it, cos we realised that we had to go to the shop for some stuff for dinner!! We had steak salad and rosemary roast potatoes, and then I made Banoffee for dessert! It was so good! We watched the next 2 episodes of “Tru Blood” during dinner. It’s pretty good!! So it’s about this tiny village somewhere in the very south of USA and for those of you that are Home & Away fans, Vinnie is one of the main characters in it! He has a really hot body, but he’s a total man-whore in it. Basically these vampires live in society, away from the rest of the community, but when people start dying, everyone turns to the vampires, as all the dead people have vampire bite marks. It’s kinda strange, and it’s most definitely not for the squeamish, but for those of you that love a good porno, it’s perfect! Tonnes of sex scenes, actually the whole show is just one big sex scene!! I’m guessing I just lost any of my male friends that are reading this, as they search for it online! Haha!! Predictable!!!
So on Sunday I packed up my stuff and hit the road around 3pm for Cincinnati! I had been in email contact with my friend Becca, who is Emily’s sister. She had organised to meet me at their parent’s house and bring me over to a family graduation party where Emily was. It was really funny, I was walking up the garden and Emily’s dad asked her who was with Becca........Emily looked so confused!! It was hilarious!! So we hugged and cried and hugged some more!! And then I met her beautiful baby girl Carson for the first time! For those of you that don’t know, Emily used to work at my sisters restaurant in Cinci and that’s how we met! She is an angel and even though we live 3000 miles away from each other I would say she is one of my closest friends! So it was really great to hang out with her and all of her family, including Becca (younger sis) Karl (Younger bro) who also used to work at the restaurant and are very good friends as well!! So then I stayed at Emily & Scott’s (her hubby) and of course we chatted for hours! We had 3 and a half years to catch up on, I think we did well!! The next morning then she had to go to work, so I skipped off to buy a phone and went to visit The Hopkins’s! They were my sisters next door neighbours when she lived there and I used to baby sit the kids, who are all growd up now! I can’t believe it! Hannah is starting high school in sept and Casey will be finishing next year! And Chris is moving in with his girlfriend!! OMG! Of course this means nothing to most of you, but it was pretty big for me!!!!
That evening I made my way out to Batavia to my aunt’s farm where I will be staying for the next 3 weeks or so. It’s this big old farmhouse that my family spent a summer renovating and a new extension that we built (I made the tea, so I played a part!!) and they have tonnes of animals, 5 dogs, 2 cats, a pig, some hens, turkeys, peacocks, goats, sheep, and a Llama named Leroy!!! He’s hilarious!!! I am in heaven! The dogs are great, 2 pugs; Yoda and Rowley, a great Dane/bull mastiff; Cuchulainn (he’s MASSIVE!!!!), Mimi, a great white Pyrenees and Guinness the chocolate lab! I brought Guinness for a long walk this evening and it was so funny, he got so tired after about 20 mins and every puddle he saw (which was not that many, it’s been 90 degrees here all week!) he had to drink and lay down in! I thought I was unfit!! Haha!!!
I was assigned my jobs today and thankfully they are not too stressful, mostly cleaning and organising which I am really good at!! I am hopefully gonna meet my friends this weekend for a BBQ and I’m gonna see if I can borrow my cousins spare car while I am here too!! So time is really flying! Before I know it I will be blogging about how I miss it and wish I was going back again! Haha!
Anyways, hope you enjoyed it! Still no juicy gossip to report back! I do hope to meet the gay contingency at some point (Troy, Steve, Brady, Douglas....if you are reading this.....call me!!) and can imagine that there will be some debauchery to write about! There always is with them lot!!
Hope everything is going good at home! I still haven’t gotten any emails from any of my so-called friends back home!!! Obviously not missing me at all.....sniff sniff............No pressie for anyone that doesn’t email me at least once!!! Haha!! And I will do my best to put up my photos ASAP!!
Miss you all terribly
Xxxxxx ca
