The "First day of School" feeling

My fabulous month (well, really a month and 1 week) off from work and the world of insurance will be over in 48 hours. I am starting my new job as a Producer for Berends, Hendricks, Stuit on Monday. I'm not sure if it's because there is a hint of fall in the evening air, or if it's because Target has their full "Back to School" display out, but I seriously feel like the summer is over and I'm about to start my first day at a new school.

I have found myself doing all of the same things that I did when planning for my first day of school growing up. I have my first day outfit all planned (and day 2, 3 and 4) and I've even packed my bag already. I have new pens, fresh pads of paper and my favorite pictures of me and my friends from this summer. (The pictures will be on my desk instead of a locker of course)

The nervous/excited butterflies have officially taken over and all I can think about is my first day. Let's hope I can find my way around and am not late for anything! Hey, maybe if I'm lucky, a cute boy will even wink at me in the hallway.

Slydial

Have any of you head of Slydial? They were talking about it on Fox News this morning and I think it's brilliant! I think we've all had those moments where you have to call someone but are praying you just get their voice mail so you can leave your message and not have to get stuck talking to them. Whether you want to cancel on a date, call in sick to work, or decline an invite to something. Well, now if you call 276-Slydial from any land line or mobile phone, you just have to listen to a quick advertisement and then it connects you to the person's voice mail. The funniest part to me is, you can add different background noises. So, if you want to pretend like you are going to be late because you are stuck in traffic, you can leave traffic background noise. And it's all free!

Here is the web site. I may have to try this out on someone later just to see if it really works!

http://www.slydial.com

I love Lobster

Lobster dinner #1:



Lobster dinner #2:


And lobster dinner #3:





I love lobster :-)

Michigan woman killed by lightning in Maine

I have received a few e-mails asking if I'm still alive so I thought I'd ease the mind of everyone. I'm OK! This is a really sad story though....

STANDISH, Maine (AP) -- Authorities in Maine say one of two people killed by lightning late last week was a wife and mother of three from mid-Michigan.

Detective Sgt. James Estabrook of the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office says the victims have been identified as 28-year-old Krysta Bearor of Clare, Mich., and 22-year-old Anthony Clarke of Standish.

Estabrook says Bearor, her husband and their children were visiting her parents in Vassalboro and were at a home in Standish, 80 miles north of Boston, when powerful bands of thunderstorms were sweeping across Maine on Friday evening.

He says Bearor and Clarke had gone outside to retrieve a pair of eyeglasses the family dog had taken from one of the children when they were struck.

Fort Knox and Penobscot Narrows Observatory

We did a little site seeing on Sunday and decided to go to Fort Knox. Fort Knox is located on the west bank of the Penobscot River in Prospect, ME. It was established in 1844 to protect the Penobscot River valley against possible future British naval incursion. Here is us being the typical dorks we are outside the entrance....




After visiting Fort Knox I convinced my father to go to the top of the Observatory with me. The observation tower is 420' above sea level! Both being afraid of heights, we were a bit nervous after we got off the 50 second elevator ride to the top. The view was amazing though.

Pictures of the Coast

Here are some pictures from our time in Camden, ME this week. More to come soon!

Idea for Wine Nite...

I had the most amazing dinner tonight and believe it or not, it was not lobster.

We went to a resturant right on the ocean that had a Sunday Night Pizza buffet. As we sit at our table facing the ocean, ordering bottles of wine, servers would come around with different gourmet pizzas. They had everything from clam chowder pizza, to nacho pizza, macaroni pizza, loaded stuffed potatoe pizza, blonde porsciutto pizza with fontina cheese, and much more. It was such a fun dinner and so delicious. I thought something like this would be perfect for our Wine Night resturant!

Unfortunately the cord for to upload pictures from the camera onto the laptop is about 250 miles away. You will have to wait and see pictures from tonight, along with other events from the past few days, on Tuesday.

Wish you could all be here!!!