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I had a lot of fun last night! I felt bad for my friend Sabrina though. She invited over 40 some people including various family members. She knew that 6 of her 7 aunties probably wouldn't come but one auntie w/ 2 cousin's RSVPd. Her ex-sister in law (long story not going in on that!) was going to come because she had my other pampered chef items but understood that her nephews had a basketball tourny and couldn't make it. So only her mother and I showed up! For some reason the one auntie with the cousin's didn't show up!
I got to love on my boy T (her son) and finally meet A (her daughter) and give my honey (her hubby) a big ol hug and kiss on the check (even if he was covered w/ grit, grease, and nasty stuff from his work-part owner of his family's business that constructs steel buildings, owns summer hill cabins, insulation operation, and other things).
But we had a blast even if it was just the three of us. Four if you count lil three year old A:D Pampered Chef lady said she actually perfers small parties like last nights because she can visit also! Sabrina made a cheese ball w/ crackers (low sodium) for me and the Pampered Chef lady made a decadant choco trifle (Sabrina got as many sugar free ingredients as possible!). Sabrina also ran to an up and coming local vineyard and got 2 excellant bottles of Red Wine! Sabrina knows NOTHING about wine and didn't releaze that she needed a cork screw to open the wine with! It was funny as hell when I walked in the door to help set up!
Bree hadn't chilled the wine because she didn't know she had to and when I grabbed it out of the bags and put it in the freezer on it's side she flipped! "IT'S GOING TO FREEZE". I told her no that is champagne silly! And that is because it is carbanated! We went to open the wine to have a glass with the trifle and she had no corck screw! She was about in tears and her mom was going calm down silly we will get it open! I asked if her hubby had a unused drill bit. Yes but she didn't know where. So I asked if she had any left over dry wall screws. Yes. Okay get me a screw driver and a pair of pliers. So I taught her to get a cork out with a dry wall screw and a pair of pliers. This was her first bottle of wine ever and she isn't sure what she thinks about it but let me tell you all something! That was some of the best wine I have ever had! For a small vineyard in North Eastern NE that wine tasted better then some of the wines I tasted when I was in Sonoma and Napa Valley's in Cali! This is the second vineyard/winerary in Northeastern NE that I know of.
So Sabrina and I have made plans to kidnap our hubbys, drop our kids off at one of the grandparental units houses and make a day of going to the two vineyards and having fun in their tasting rooms. The one she bought the wine from is actually only 15 minutes or so from her house in the boondocks!:D The other one we will have to travel 2 hours to get too so since it is more of a day for us we are going to make the guys drive so we can do the majority of the tasting! They are beer drinkers anyway!:D
After the Pampered Chef lady left w/ $61 dollars of my money and a parital guest list for my party next month, Sabrina's mom, Sabrina, and I went outside w/ a glass of wine, our cigs, and sat down looking at the stars and visiting. A and T came over and joined us from where ever they were at and T went inside and had to show off how he is firing off his own fireworks by himself now. Then Bree's mom left and A, Bree, and I stayed outside just chatting and wishing that I would have brought Randy and the kids with me so we could have just spent the night. I looked at the time and said oh shit and had to leave. I didn't leave out of their place till 11pm! Got home by 11: 35 or 40 so due to the suicidal deer. And then promptly stayed up watching John Doe on Sci Fi to drool over the main star John Doe, who by the way played Dracula in Blade III!:D Lovely looking man with a nice body if you ask me! Tried going to bed and Randy was sprawled and I couldn't move him so I got to sleep on the couch.
Randy woke me up at 6 this morning because he has to work today cleaning up a foreman's mess over in Wakefeild, where two more of my uncles live. He has massive amounts of automation prints to finish and panels to build for this coming week's jobs but he has to put them off to get this other foreman's crew caught up and cleaned out today so needless to say once he gets done over in Wakefield, grabs a fast lunch from one of my aunties he has to go into the shop and work some more! And this coming weeks check is going to be nice again! I love having money again so I can get all my bills paid off, I am a quarter of the way there and my pay check hasn't even been touched yet! Duel income is nice!:D
I strongly encourage you all to have a Pampered Chef party even if you don't have a lot of money to spend! It is just a nice way to go visit folks you haven't seen in a while, meet new people, and have a girl's night out! My Pampered Chef Party will be on April 13th, which by the way is Friday the 13th! The Pampered Chef lady really wants me to do a "scary theme" party!:D I know for sure that I will have more ppl then Sabrina! My mom, Sabrina and her mom, Dana (Bree's ex sister in law), and at least one auntie and one of my cousin's! I can also take orders from my friends across the US via the Pampered Chef Lady's website under my name! Not to mention catalog orders from friends and co workers who don't want to drive down to the boondocks where I live!:D So once my name is set up in my Pampered Chef Lady's website, I will post the link here for those of you who want to buy a lil something yourselves or host your own party! Even if your in a different state you can still sign up to host a party under me because my host can get another host to cover for her and/or you can hold a catalog party only! And once you hold a party, you receive 10% discount on all your orders for the rest of the year! That means if you book a party under my party and all your friends book one after that you can get 10% off at their parties! Not counting the lil bounes off of what you earned having your party and for having a party booked under your party! Which is great because Pampered Chef can be spendy but the items are great!
Okay I think I am done rambling for now!:D Look for my Pampered Chef Lady's site link soon!
I am off shopping in Omaha with my sister and mom in about 15 minutes here!
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The woman in tourist information took one look at us and said "Cheap cheap cheap?" and we said yes, we needed a place to stay for two people, one night at the cheapest possible rate. She smiled and nodded and made a lot of phonecalls in rapid sucession, speaking in breathless Italian, and finally after several tries found us two hostel beds for the night. We thanked her, and received the map she gave us and made our way through some very unpleasant and unseasonable rain to our hotel room. With the room taken care of, we decided to brave the wet in order to do some sight seeing, and found ourselves outside Saint Croce Church, the church where the hero and heroine of A Room With A View have their first real conversation. We planned to duck our heads in and take a quick peak, but we soon found out that that was impossible.
The church turned out to be the burial sight of Galileo, Machiavelli, Micheangelo and others, though not, interestingly enough of Dante. Dante is buried in Ravenna, but that didn't stop Saint Croce from building a huge garrish monument in honor of the Florentine poet. I've never been a big Dante fan despite slogging my way through three different translations of the Inferno. When I saw his monument I think I understood why. He always looks incredibly dour, as if he was having bad indigestion; I think it comes out in his writing.
The next day we had to move to our hostel that Lindsay had also booked from Mali (the deal was that she would book Florence and Sienna, I would book Venice and Pisa). Rather than head straight to our Hostel, however, we decided to do some early sight seeing, and made it to the Duomo in time to be first in line when it opened. The guidebook was not too enthusiastic about the church, claiming it was "chilly and austere" on the inside, but I enjoyed it immensely. The inside doesn't feel cluttered the way some of these churches can be. After the Duomo we headed across the way to the Baptistry to gaze at Ghiberti's "Gates of Paradise," which was obscured by a sea of tourists. I'm short enough, however, that I eventually wrangled my way to the front, and I'm glad I did, the doors are truly breathtaking.
The Piazza was beginning to get absolutely swamped with tour groups, so we headed back to our hostel to collect our bags and carried them through the wet and cold to the hostel we had booked for the next five nights.
The hostel looked amazing, it was up a steep flight of stairs, but had large windows and wooden floors as well as offering free internet. There were signs all over in broken English reminding guests that "The waisting of the energy was a crime against the enviroment" and other helpful hostel hints. When we got there, however, the woman couldn't find our booking. There was much sturm und drang, and the management was called, while we nervously looked over the reservation and tried to decipher the rapid Italian the receptionist was shouting into the phone. Eventually we realized that the reservation was for May, and we were here in June. The hostel was booked solid all five nights, and we had nowhere to stay. We asked the receptionist if she had any suggestions of places to stay, and she said that as far as she knew the entire city was booked solid. It turns out that the next day, the second of June, was a national holiday, and meaning it was a popular time to visit. She wouldn't let us use the phone, but she was nice enough to let us store our bags while we found a place to stay.
We returned to the street with absolutely no idea of what to do. We found a phone and began to call all of the hostels in the guidebook. All of them were booked solid for the next two nights, but we finally found a place that will take us for the last three nights of our stay. Lindsay went off to find an internet cafe where she could confirm the booking, and I headed in the other direction to find us a bed for the night. My plan was to head to the tourist office, but I realized that the streets on the way to the train station seemed to be lined with wall to wall hotels. I stopped into a few of the cheaper looking ones, all of which seemed to be booked solid for the next two nights (I even encountered a panicky couple whose reservations had also fallen through screaming at an unfortunate receptionist) Finally I found a one star hotel with a single room left. It was little more than a broom cubbard, but breakfast was included, and the room had a TV. Grateful to have a place to stay I headed back to collect both Lindsay and the luggage. I've learned two things from the whole experience--the first is never have anybody make a hotel booking from Mali, and the second is that commercials are more entertaining in Italian.
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