Thursday, June 26, 2008

What a Day. What a Week. What a MONTH!

I'm apologizing now for my absence in the last month, but after you hear what's been going on, you'll understand!

The end of May kicked off wedding season for the summer of '08. Alex and I have attended 2 weddings so far and still have about 3, maybe 4, weddings to go! I guess we are at the point in our lives where everyone is getting married. Huh, what a concept.

Well, Alex's cute little house that he originally put an offer on finally got nixed. He has, though, found another house very close by that he apparently put in an offer in on Tuesday and just found out today that he GOT IT! He should be closing by the end of July and all moved in. It needs about a weekend's worth of renovations and a good crew of family to help out :) But it does have a 2-car garage and a wonderfully fenced in back yard. It's in a cute little neighborhood, actually a couple houses down from a nurse-friend of mine. So this really is a good deal.

My car is so close to its wit's end that I can taste it going bad. I had to add a full quart and another half of oil the other day just to keep the poor thing a-runnin. By the end of July I HAVE to be in possession of another car. I can't hardly stand it anymore!

We did just get back from New Orleans this last weekend and it was wonderful! I'll post pictures soon, but I don't have the energy right now to do that. We spent a fair amount of time down on Bourbon Street since Alex's brother, Aaron, is a manager of a bar called Razzoo down there, which in fact is one of the busiest bars on the strip. So that was quite the experience. And besides that, we spent time in the French Quarter, we attended the New Orleans Aquarium and watched a cool Imax film on the hurricane, and ate LOTS of fresh, oh-so-delicious seafood. I loved it! But coming back to work after a week off has been pretty rough this week, to say the least.

The weekend before our New Orleans trip, we went back home to McPherson for a quaint little wedding in Lyons, Kansas. It was Eric Duerksen and Cora Coleman's wedding-two people which we are really good friends with. Cora used to be my neighbor and Eric is one of my really good friends from high school. We used to eat "family dinner" together with them every Thursday and watch Grey's Anatomy. They now live in Wichita and we are very sad to see them go, but extremely happy for their marriage!

I have one more day this week and then I have the weekend off, and then yet another wedding to attend the weekend of the 4th, so our busyness will only continue.

Things with work are fine, still ready for a change and actively looking for "it."

Anyway, I'm on my own for dinner tonight. Think I'm gonna go whip up a Spinach and Asiago pasta dish. I know, sounds good, doesn't it. I'll post pictures sometime very soon, I promise!

Hope everyone has a good rest of the week!

3 comments:

Hannah said...

Sounds like you have been a busy gal! I understand the whole wedding thing, we are in the same boat...weddings and babies, it's just that time in our lives.

The new job is going well. I wish it was 9-5 every day. Unfortunately it isn't. I didn't get home until 10:00 tonight (worked 1 to close). Scott and I have weird work schedules now. Hopefully we can see each other sometimes ;).

Hope we can see each other soon!

Anonymous said...

It was so good to see you Emily! Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to come see us!

Unknown said...

Sounds like you're having a great summer. Still saddened that you didn't make it to Wamego. I have some pics to show you from our weekend. Was a gr8 time. Next time, you drive alone!!! *huggies* p.s. think i might be getting a job. waiting for the call from the atty. will keep you posted.