Sure is a keeper

With Christmas coming up i'v been scrambling to find something for the boyfriend. Racking my brain......trying so darn hard to think of anything, something that would give him at "AHHHH " Christmas morning surprise. So far NOTHING!!! However, He has not had that trouble.

Two weeks ago he told me that he planned something for us to do on December 4th that could only been on that day. Oh my surprises, I love surprises. Actually I love finding out surprises. So when he handed me an envelope with a slip of paper inside i tore that thing apart. inside a paper that said STEELERS GAME!!!!!

WHAT!!!!! STEELERS GAME!!! Me at HEINZ FIELD. ME. Me. ME! Well, US, of course i meant US. I cried. Cried like a little baby. and hugged him, and cried. And repeated for real. for real!!!

Fast forward----Saturday we drove to Pittsburgh and stayed over night. got to the stadium at 11 a.m. (2 hours early) and took in all the sights. it was GREAT! GREAT! GREAT!! I couldn't believe how exciting it was. All the black and gold pride, the towels waving. Jumping to my feet every time they ran for more then 15 yards. SCREAMING my head off....surrounded by 63,000+ people SCREAMING THEIR HEADS OFF. It was freaking great. here are some pics.

Me and the BF

Fast Forward to halftime------While everyone else was standing in line to use the bathroom and buy a $9 soda (pop), I sat in my seat in the 530 section just smiling away. Checking out the stadium, looking at the city, pointing out the mushroom on Mt. Washington, the inlcine, station square, explaining about the gate way clipper, and just watching everything..........He PROPOSED! Right there. In section 530 seats 9&10 with about 4 minutes to go till the game started back up. HE ASKED ME TO MARRY HIM!!!! My response "Is this real"

my AWESOME ring!

After congratulating us the nice girl sitting in front of me offered to take our picture.

BEST DAY EVER!!!!!!

I Love Halloween

We take Halloween very SERIOUS at my job!

my homemade Cheshire cat
our mad hatter

Alice

Queen of Hearts

Our whole group

I worked really hard on my costume this year.

HOWEVER.................................... We didn't win for best group.....we didn't win for anything.

IT won for best group this year and i do have to say that is one fine Mystery Machine

Weekend get-a-way

Last weekend the Boyfriend and i went to the Poconos. We went for my friends wedding and were able, thanks to her parents timeshare, to stay in a nice condo for the whole weekend for.....$50!!! AWESOME

our condo we shared with another friend

the view from our room


Shawnnee Inn, site of the wedding

Jeremy and I at the wedding

Pam, Julie and I

us by the waterfall

the cool stone bridge to the waterfall.

Just a little down

I've been sad lately. And I'm not sure how to put that on paper.....or a blog. I've been missing my Dad a lot lately. A LOT. I've tried to write a blog to express my feelings. Actually I just wrote a long blog but deleted it ALL. I cry in the car while driving to work. I cry in the car while driving home. I cry in the shower. I cry all the time. Sometimes it just comes out of no where. Sometimes it's because I'm looking at a picture or thinking of a memory.

Maybe it's the upcoming holidays. I don't know. I'm just tired of being sad.

What IN the WORLD

I live in Pennsylvania. I'm considered "East Coast" but I'm not along the coast. the largest body of water to me is the Susquehanna River.

So why? Why? Why? Are we dealing with HURRICANE damage. WHY?

We have no ceiling in our bathroom......no insulation....can't use it..........and of course we are in the middle of a cold spell! AWESOME

The BF has had a MILD leak in the master bath for awhile........since forever......and once I moved in he finally called a roofer to fix the leak. Which is another run around story. no sooner had we had the "original" leak fixed. BAMN!!! Hurricane Ignorant IRENE. And suddenly the little leak we had fixed was back FULL throttle. After much debating the BF called his insurance company to look at the damage.

But since everybody within 100 billion miles of us was also calling it took over a week for them to get someone out to look at the issue. At which point the small leak we had contained to a small area had.........expanded. Soon water was leaking inside the wall down tot he first floor and dripping out of the archway (directly under neath). So Insurance guy shows up on Tuesday, says "we will give you X amount to fix all the drywall and fix the shingles on the roof, as we had a pile to show him that blew off. Ok Great.

WEDNESDAY (the very next day) we get roughly 6 inches of rain. 6 inches....mass flooding. Mass LEAKING. Suddenly the ceiling is leaking in about 6 places. it's leaking downstairs through the walls, the water is traveling through the ceiling and making water marks out into the bedroom. the water is pouring in around the trim at the windows on the first floor (directly under the majority of the leak upstairs). After much yelling and arguing about the POS house he bought, we hear BAMN!!! And this is what we find...only slightly messier.

So now we are again waiting for the insurance company to come out and let us know if they will us any more money. We've had three different roofers out and all 3 said "A whole new roof" is what we need. It rained no stop for 3 days. 3 days of dripping, bucket dumping, and the nasty smell of wet drywall, insulation, and just disgusted. If you know the smell you could pick up the strong stench of HATRED. We had the roof tarped to try and stop the leaking....it helped but it still leaks

oh and the insurance lady told the BF when he called the second time it was OUR JOB to make sure the damage didn't get worst. OK. Thanks.