Summer!!!!!

I am so happy summer is here! i think I have seasonal affective disorder because in summer I am always in an ultra good mood. In contrast my two least favorite days of the year are LaborDay and the the day I take the Christmas tree down, respectively. Warm weather inspires fun for some reason.

So Happy Summer all!

Florida Fun... Holiday Chaos

We're back from Florida and man did we have fun. Three weeks of sunny and eighty five degrees and we come home to a blizzard. Don't get me wrong, I love to ski but it would be nice if it could at least be balmy for the ride of the chairlift.
So above are some of our vacation highlights. Obviously we spent a lot of time in the ocean and one day we found about forty sanddollars. We also went fishing with my Dad and I got lucky. You can see my catch in the picture. It was a monster! At least three a half inches. My son was so impressed he wanted to put in in the tank at home so his gold fish would have a friend.
It would have fit.
So anyway, now we are home and I am sad because I have to shop and I have to shovel my driveway. Oh and we are expecting a foot of snow overnight.

Happy Freakin' Halloween!

I posted a totally Halloween worthy clip in honor of the occasion. So classic!

Halloween is one of my fav holidays. We go all out. That said, I am too tired to type and be witty so I will just show you our Halloween in pictures. FYI: The frequently pictured redhead girls are my nieces Courtney and Lindsay. The boys are my five year old and two year olds Tanner (The Skeleton) and Kellan ( The Witch) however if you ask my husband he is a Warlock. Most of the pics are at my mom's house.

Oh yeah and the scary lady with my kids is my Mother in Law.

I didn't mean it that way.

What's With Me?

I'm so unmotivated. Its fall, almost ski season. I have a story I'm working on that I'm just not feeling. I'm so not creative. The characters are totally not speaking to me.

Not that I try to have a conversation with them. If we did, we wouldn't have much to say. Like a relative who lives away and you have a conversation every few months thats just obligitory like hows the weather, kids. Alls good? Great, talk to you in another few months so we can have the same stupid conversation. I feel like my characters live in Peoria and here am in Rochester and not only do I not want to waste time talking with them on the phone, but I don't care if they even come home for Thanksgiving.

I feel I have extended this metaphore a little too far.

Anyway, I feel sorta disoriented, like Dwight on the Office when Jim hid his desk.

Check out the clip, you'll see what I mean.

I'm Sick

I have a cold. This makes me angry.

I am not a good sick person. I'm grumpy and once I get past the anger of actually being sick, I spend the rest of the time until I am well hunting down the person who made me that way. Was it the dumb woman sho sneezed on me in the Grocery store? Were the germs on the pen that stupid guy handed me to use at the bank? Damn public restrooms and door knobs! Damn you all to hell!

I actually don't mind colds as much as a sore throat. Sore throats suck because I can't talk and I can't not talk. But the thing I hate the most is vomiting. The whole experience of it is horrible. I can't stand other people doing it either. I lived in a sorority house in college where we had some pretty serious drinkers. Back then it was sorta funny. Now not so much, largely because its usually my kids and I'm the one who now has to clean it up.

Sickness annoys me (mine or anyone elses) but injury I find facinating. I love a good bloody wound. THe might need a tournequette needing stitches kind. I could totally handle stitching someone up. Broken bones can be fun, too. I saw a ski accident once where a bone stuck right out from the skin. Dislocations are creepy. But to see them pop back into the socket is interesting.

So anyway, thats my rant. I'm off to blow my nose and hack up some phlem.

More Summer Fun!

So Now thats its mid September, I am nostalgic for July. Sun, fun, swimming, golf, good friends, daylight until 10pm. Ugg. I hate fall. Even the word"fall" sounds tragic. For example, "They fall to the ground after slitting their writs when waking up Monday morning and discovered it was Labor Day." This sentence has tense issues and is struturally incorrect but you get the picture.

Speaking of pictures, I have some.

Kellan digging at the beach.

Dylan and I went to the US Open Tennis in New York. It deserves it own post.

Tanner jumping off the diving board at the Pool.

Me with my Synchronized Swimming girls.

Tanner with Spikes at the Rochester Red Wings Game. Boxes are relly the way to go. Great cheesecake.

Me in a sand trap during the club championship. Dylan is in the left corner as my caddie.

Us losing the club champoinship. I refer you to the previous sand trap.

So that was some of my summer. I miss it already!

What I did On My Summer Vacation Part One: THE BOOKSIGNING

People came! Isn't that exciting? Even total strangers came up to me and wanted to buy my book.! Family, friends, some creepy guy wth a lazy eye ( a fan perhaps?) and of course my Fly Girls, two of which drove their asses all the way from Syracuse to Rochester for the occasion.

It was fun.

I made sure I dressed so I "matched" my book. It takes place in South Florida, very tropical so I wore a cute little beachy outfit. Also, its about professional tennis so my neices who are tournament tennis players came looking very sporty. As for the sex aspect of my book, I had obscene candies that were a hit. I also signed with a playboy pen.

Here are some pics! Hope you like! And if you haven't already get my book LOVE GAME.