19 posts tagged “billy”

It was a great week-end!

On Friday, we were at MomG's for Billy's birthday dinner. Halia helped Billy open gifts... she is so good for that...

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We then ventured to the Lion's Head, as it was also one of Billy's friends' birthday's. We were only planning on staying for about an hour, but it ended up being pretty fun, so we were there for about 3 hours. Because it was Billy's birthday too, he was bought about a *dozen* shots. People like to buy him shots just to see the look on his face. It's impossible for him to control his facial expressions. Here's the show:

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That's pretty typical.

It was a good time, and although part of me was dreading going, everyone was behaving well.... so....

On Saturday we lounged then went to the new Golf Town to look at clubs for Billy. He had hoarded and saved almost $1000 worth of gift certificates and after playing in the simulator for a while, he decided that the Calloway clubs were the best fit for him. He also added 2 wedges to the set. Awesome. Sweet. 

We then went to On The Green, the indoor golf place, where we met a couple of friends, and played 9 holes. It was great. If you can't be outside and golf, then this is the next best thing! Billy and I played pretty well, so of course that makes me even more excited about the upcoming golf season.

We went to the Keg and had a fantastic dinner, and a ton of laughs. What a perfect day!

Sunday I scabbed out on helping at SuperT's house *guilt* and was splayed on the couch until it was time for dinner at MomG's.

All in all, it was a fantastic week-end. This coming Easter week-end should be good as well! Life's good! 

Today is Billy's birthday, so happy birthday husband! It should be fun...

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Last night there was a pile of us girls at TOL's house. She has a new puppy named Schmeichel, and he's pretty damned cute. I actually wanted to steal him, but I didn't think that would be nice, and I'm all about the nice. So anyway, it was nice to see everyone, the apps and wine was great too. Very good.

Last week-end at the golf show, (I haven't really talked about it, due to my overwhelming guilt...) I bought myself a new golf bag. It is by far the sweetest bag I've ever seen... and the price was great at $80. It's black with some silver on it, has separate 'helix' designed club and iron compartments, (which I haven't really liked in the past... but it's great...) wheels, (although the short wheel base means that the ground has to be completely level to work well...) tons of storage including a waterproof pocket, and best of all: a built in cooler! It even has little drainage holes. Man oh man, I'm lovin it!

I cleaned my clubs and organized the bag, (so much fun...) added my new Tattoo Golf gear, (putter cover and towel... to match 'Skully') and am now just waiting for the snow to melt and the club to open... Meanwhile, the bag is too good for the garage and is resting nicely in the front bedroom.

Oh, I also should mention that although I was not looking for a bag, Kiki was for herself as well as her husband... so... we hauled 3 identical bags across the border! Aren't we going to look cute at couple's league. Billy will be the odd one out with his (although super sweet...) Nike bag. ... but his is yellow and black...

So anyway...

Life's good.

Since my last post... who knew? Time flies when you're... hm, I don't really have an answer to that.

Tomorrow is Billy's 42nd birthday, so happy birthday William, it should be a good week-end. His 3 day celebration starts tonight - he's going to the indoor golf place with some friends...

That's all for now.

Last night a couple three girls came over to eat at Grady's Steakhouse and Wine Bar.

Here was the menu in case you care...

Nachos and Salsa (our own recipe)

Homemade Focaccia Bread

Roasted Seasoned vegetables

Peppery Mushrooms

New York Strip Steaks with three topping options: Warm, creamy blue cheese, black olive vinaigrette, and chimichurri  sauce.

Homemade Cleveland Creme Pie for dessert

Wine was Riesling from Sprucewood (for the Nachos) and Pinor Noir with the steak.... yummmm

I think the dinner turned out pretty well, and it was fairly simple to make... the conversation was great, and it's always nice to be with friends.

Entertainment was me bustin a move to Dance Dance Revolution, and yes, me dancing is quite entertaining...

Tonight? Pizza and maybe a few cocktails with the husband. He's had a hella week at work, (including today) and could use a nice mellow night...

Life's good...

Today started much as any day would... coffee with my mom, a little cleaning, some time on the computer... then, I heard the date... February 13th.

Of course, it's the day before Valentine's day... yes, yes, I'm pretty sure to be dining tonight with a couple of girlfriends in Essex... hmm, what else?

Oh yeah! It's Halia's 3rd birthday!

I called Billy to let him know, and he didn't feel too guilty about it, "she doesn't really understand you know, Liz." he said, "you did just give her a prime rib bone, so that's a pretty good gift."

We decided that Billy should call his mom and lay on the guilt. Well, she was practically crying! Seriously! That pooch is like her grandchild!

A couple of hours later, there's a very small senior in our front yard struggling to bring in the recycle boxes... MomG had stopped by to give Halia a gift. A wrapped gift... Doggie style beef jerky.

So happy birthday Halia, as Roger Caras said, "Dog's aren't our whole life, but they make our lives whole."

Occasionally, I like to look back in my blog to see what I was doing a year ago... I remember a year ago very well, lots of action around SuperBowl...

Here's my post from January 30th, 2007 for your reading pleasure...

Hot Tub Action Figure

Last night Billy and I decided to brave the hot tub. It was a great night for it - it was snowing big, fat flakes, not too windy and cold! Very nice experience, here's pretty much our hot tub conversation, (excuse me if it is not exact):

Me: It's nice out here.
Billy: Yeah.
Me: The tub could be warmer...
Billy: It's 101*
Me: Hmm... We could pretend we're in Whistler or somewhere like that...
Billy: Yeah.
Me: Why don't you go roll in the snow, then jump back in the hot tub?
Billy: Why don't you?
Me: It was my idea, so you have to.
Billy: I don't think so...
Me: What you should do is get out, take 3 big steps, throw your arms out in front of you like a super hero and slide headfirst down the hill.
Billy: I don't think so.
Me: C'mon!
Billy: Why don't you?
Me: It was my idea, so you have to.
Billy: Umm, no.
Me: You'd do it for your friends.
Billy: With a couple of cocktails, I probably would.
Me: I'm not as good as your friends?
Billy: Yes you are.
Me: Then you obviously don't love me then, or else you would slide headfirst, naked in the snow down that hill.
Billy: I would do it if I had shorts on.
Me: What difference does that make?
Billy: I don't want to get 'it' caught on anything.
Me: Like a rogue stick?
Billy: Yes
Me: Or poo?
Billy: I'm not doing it if there is poo out there.
Me: There's no poo there, she poops further out, she's smart like that.
Billy: I'm not doing it.
Me: Just cup yourself with one hand and shoot your other hand out and slide down the hill.

This is when Billy looked at me briefly, jumped out of the tub, cupped himself, put his arm forward and did a downward dive in the snow down the hill. It was one of the funniest things I've ever seen, and I'm sure every neighbor could hear me laughing. Needless to say he hot-footed it back in the tub.

Billy: Are you happy now?
Me: Yep!
Billy: I have rugburn on my shoulder and hip.
Me: From the snow?
Billy: No from the ground.
Me: Next time you should be more careful!
Billy: Hmm!
Me: Well it was worth it!

We pretty much then just relaxed, then got out. What a great night. I wish I had it on video! That memory will last forever! I just wish I could show it to other people. Maybe he'll do a repeat performance on Superbowl - with shorts. Hahahaha!

So funny! I will never forget it!

Just a few quick notes of interest...

1) My sister-in-law is now recovering from her thyroid surgery. All went well, and she is now without thyroid.

2) I am tagging along with TOL on little trip to San Diego. She is going for work related schooling, I am going for something to do. Should be oodles of fun as long as I can keep my OCD-ed-ness under control. It's fun hanging out with someone with the same name as yourself. Most people can't forget that... Have to email friend in SD for fun advice and etc.

3) Had a great night out in Detroit on Saturday, and we successfully celebrated 2 friends' birthdays. If someone could email me pics, I would post them... (hint)

4) Completed painting the ceiling, sills, doors and trim in both bathrooms. I will do the wall paint on Wednesday if life goes acoording to plan.

5) Long awaited, slightly overdue eye doctor's appointment tomorrow. Have to borrow TOL's expert fashion-ista advice regarding new specs. (How can one be expected to choose new eyewear When One Requires Glasses To See? It's a conundrum... or some literary thing...)

6) Anxiously awaiting SuperBowl (no, I'm not officially licensed to use that word, but I'm sure nobody will notice). We're having a select few over for chow, booze games oh, and to watch football.... and I hope to make it to BMW's... especially since I'm fairly certain that the Mayor of CrazyTown won't be there... one can only hope...

And now for the weather...

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I've been a little busy, meaning that my days of late have held some small purpose for me. This week, I painted our bedroom. Unless you've undertaken such a feat, you may not fully understand and appreciate the enormity of the project, especially when you are a tad OCD... so I'll elaborate....

DAY 1

- Removed everything except 2 dressers, the bed and the bedside table, including eveything from the closet, and light fixtures

- Vacuumed and swiffer dusted the ceiling

- Painted the ceiling

DAY 2

- Vacuumed and swiffer dusted the walls and baseboards, putty-ed cracks and marks in the wall

- Taped the carpet, and all the shelving in the closet, the window, and doors. I tried to tape the French Doors, and gave up after one of 60 window panels

- Painted the trim, and French Doors

- Removed the tape 

Day 3

- Sanded the putty-ed areas, then had to re-vacuum and swiffer dust said areas. Opps, will remember that one...

- Taped the ceiling and the baseboards, (not easy in case you don't know....)

- Painted the walls including the entire closet 2 coats.

- Removed tape, (with Billy's help)

Later Day 3

- Scraped the paint off the window panels from the French Doors. It takes 1 hour to do one door...

- Moved back furniture, (with Billy's help)

- Hung pictures, and moved most items back into the bedroom

Day 4

- Moved the clothes back into the closet

- Organized mine and Billy's clothes according to most frequently worn.

- Went to Hardware store to purchase more painter's tape and supplies for the next painting adventure, and additional shelving for the closet

- Put together a shelving unit for out shoes, (okay 8 are mine, 1 pair is Billy's...)

- Put together a 7 foot high tower for hats

Day 5

- Billy cuts out the bottam bit of the tower so it can be flush against the wall

- I a) attach the thing to the wall in 4 places, b) attach a rod c) admire my handiwork, d) consider a possible future in closet organization (this by the way used, 2 screw drivers, a drill, a hammer, a little saw thing, the name escapes me right now, and a measuring tape.

- I declare to myself that I have skills.

- Use ceiling paint and trim paint to correct the few mistakes I made, (I'm good, Billy says that I'm too hard on myself, I bite my tongue re: OCD)

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I have done more this week as well, and I'll elaborate, for your reading pleasure, later... (that was sarcasm btw) 

The week-end has seemed to have escaped me. Where did it go? Let's review:

Friday: Billy had the boys over and I hung about, not really wanting to sleep at my mom's, (no heat upstairs), so I ended up in our room with the TV on... Billy had fun.

Saturday Billy took his mom out to shop for cars and she ended up ordering a new Ford Edge. Sweet. I'm trying to think of excuses to borrow it. So far I haven't come up with any.

I finished painting the office on Saturday, and it looks nice, it's a little darker than what we have, and *greener*. A little too green I think to do the entire house in... I think it would like nice in the bathrooms, we'll see I guess. I estimate to paint am 11 X 12 room from beginning to the end takes me 14 hours. There are only 2 touch ups, and then a few spots I need to fix with primer when the tape pulled the paint off. Super. So all in all worth it, and I'm planning my next room this week...

Last night our camping friends ventured our way and took us out to dinner in Essex. Who knew that Essex has a nice restaurant? DiVino was awesome and we had great food, conversation, wine and dinner, oh and they treated! How cool is that? They came back to our house after with their daughter and we had a few drinks and laughs. It was a great night.

Did I mention that it's frickin' freezin' outside? According to MSN, right now it is 10*F. That's cold. The wind chill makes it feel like -8*F. Brr. I haven't been outside yet today, (Billy did a coffee run, good man) but I have to go to (crinch) church later for Jake's confirmation, then over to MomG's for dinner.

Right now in Green Bay the actual temperature is -6*F and the wind chill makes it feel like -27*F. That's going to be one damned cold football game today! Brr!

Life is great, really!

It's Friday, and the week flew by.

Yesterday I painted the ceiling, doors and trim of our office. So far, so good. We're trying a colour in here first to see if we like it enough to continue it throughout our house. There is one, possibly 2 more colours we'd like to try, we'll see how this colour works out. It goes on tomorrow while Billy is taking his mom out to test drive some Fords... I hope she buys the Edge and gives it to me, (just kidding, really I have a practically brand new Fusion... but those Edges are pretty sweet....)

Today I cleaned the house, which worked out great because:

1) I would have wanted to paint otherwise, and it's better if the trim and ceiling sit for an extra day before I tape everything up...

2) Billy is having the guys over tonight.

3) I think our camping friends are coming over tomorrow, as we're all going out to dinner for JB's birthday, can't wait, should be fun!

So, good to have a clean house.

Tonight I'm having dinner with Billy, Davey and BW. I'm going to have a couple of drinks then meander over to my mom's house and stay the night. I may try to sneak home later as we have the TV in our bedroom now to A) keep me entertained and B) block out the noisy boys. We'll see, did I mention that my mom has not turned her heat on upstairs yet? Did I mention that is supposed to be 12*F tonight? Yeah, I might sneak home...

It should be a great week-end!