Wow... 23 days.. Sorry..

Well, a lot has gone on since my last post, which I didn't have time for then.... Still don't seem to have much time to devote to this, sorry guys!
The Weekend of the 6th, Scott, Traci and I went out to Geneva and that area to hit up some wineries.. guess, what, just happened to be Thunder on the Strip too, LOTS of bikes. Traci and I had fun trying a bunch of wines and finding ones we really liked!
The 11th, we left for Indy and MOTOGP... they were calling for RAIN all weekend, so I was nervous about that. Thursday we got there, it was beautiful and we had a great time. Friday it just POURED.. it was just miserable and WET. But still MotoGP bikes were on the track and that itself was COOL! Wow, those bikes rock. Saturday, was just beautiful, the weather perfect, the bikes great. Wow, did they sound AWESOME at full speed on a dry track. Sunday, we woke up to no rain, but it was in the forecast. They managed to get practices off, the Red Bull Rookies Cup Race off, the 125 CC Race off.. but it started raining, so the 250 was delayed till after the big race, since they are showing that live in network TV *(except in stupid Cleveland). The rain had let up, but the winds had picked up, but about lap 17, the winds were just horrible. Let me tell you first, that our seats, yeah they were awesome, and awesome high and the stairs we had to take, even if you aren't afraid of heights, you will be even without the wind or rains after walking up these stairs. Anyway... They finally called the race at lap 20. Nicky led in the beginning and was looking the like Nicky we all have grown to love, but Rossi took over the lead and never looked back. I do have to say Indy has getting traffic out of the track down to a science and I couldn't be more impressed! It was really a great weekend, I don't care how much rain, I was around some of the most powerful bikes I have ever seen in my life. I only took appox 2600 pictures, still sorting, down to about 2100 and a lot to go. I honestly really had a good time watching the races there and learned a lot about the track, I hope I can talk Scott into going next year!
So we headed home.. got to about Dayton, decided Dinner was a great idea, so we planned on stopping at our favorite O'charley's in Columbus... Got off the exit. because Scott is used to me driving, he didn't realize that there were lights out, so we almost blew the intersection. Every almost every place had lost power.... O'charleys was still open, 20 minute wait.. fine, we were all HUNGRY and from talking with the other diners, a lot of people had lost power. Oh did I mention that this rain and wind, was thanks to Hurricane IKE. Hello, we are in OHIO... whats that about. Anyway.. ate, headed home... Noticed most of the exits were DARK the whole way home. Never thought it would be an issue at home... Yeah, I guess I was wrong, we got home to NO POWER!!!! lovely. You know when we finally got it back??? Wednesday. Three days of the generators, running my contents of our deep freezer to the ice cream stand for storage, and just plain a sucky time. I guess I should be thankful that it wasn't longer. Once again, I realized we have WAY too much frozen food for two people! LOL...I'm not even going to promise to not stock up.
So last week, we wanted to go to the Hot Air Balloon Fest in Ravenna, but really had nothing else planned. We were looking forward to relaxing. We got a lot of house stuff done and a lot of cleaning done that hasn't been done in a while, it was great, we didn't make it to see the hot air balloons, but we did make it to Sonic that finally opened in Streetsboro... YEAH!!!! the place is still crazy busy, but they are running it perfect !!!
Scott left Monday morning for a business trip and was expected to be home Tuesday night, he was... I guess this is the new normal. He leaves Thursday for a day trip to Hillard, Ohio. I don't have a problem with the travel, I just hope he is getting used to it! This weekend is Lenny & Kristi's reception, Scott gets to dress in another tux and I get to take the pictures!
Here's a couple of pictures to leave you with from the last couple of weeks!

The end of Summer....

We had a great weekend this weekend.. Just real quick, we went to Lenny & Kristis for a picnic on Saturday. Sunday we went downtown to see the tall ships and the air show. Yesterday I just totally vegged out and got ready for work today.
I'll post more later and some pictures... Just thought I'd say yep.. still alive... Happy all the shows are starting back up.. means I wont get much else done.. LOL!

Tag... I was tagged, so here is mine!

A Attached or Single? well, I'm attached to my laptop, tilt, my friends and family. but seriously.... Attached, very 15+ wonderful years!

B. Best Friend? Well honestly, its what I am doing at the moment which friend fits that doing. But mostly, its Scott, who basically is willing to stick around me and put up with me ALL the time!

C. Cake or pie? Cake.. No frosting either, please! And if Mom made it, I'm not sharing!

D. Day of choice? Wednesday of course, its my 'day off'

E. Essential item? Wow... has to be a "thing"? My Camera.

F. Favorite color? Red or Yellow....

G. Gummy bears or worms? doesn't matter as long as I get the pineapple ones

H. Hometown? That's up for debate, but I guess Bedford.

I. Favorite indulgence? Wow, I guess wine... nope, I'll drink the 2 buck chuck... heck I prefer that... indulgence... I don't know that I have one. Do I?

J. January or July? well that depends on the weather we are having, but usually July, there is some kind of racing going on then, that I can enjoy!

K. Kids? Wasn't in our cards, love them, but just never happened.

L. Life isn’t complete without? love, music, family, good food and wine, and laughter - lots of laughter!

M. Marriage date? May 21st!!!!!!

N. Number of brothers and sisters? none :(

O. Oranges or Apples? BOTH

P. Phobias? Creepy looking bugs

Q. Quotes? there isnt enough space here to tell you how many quotes I love... but my favorite this week is > The World is a book and those who don't travel are only reading one page.

R. Reasons to smile? The fact, that after 15 years, I am still on my honeymoon. That we both enjoying doing a lot of the same things, we love to vacation together

S. Season of choice? i like them all for different reasons. i really get excited for the next season, whatever it may be.

T. Tag 5 people: not even sure who is reading this, but Lynn, Diana, & Scott & any one who is glad the holiday weekend is upon us, even if it marks the end of SUMMER

U. Unknown fact about me? I think I'm pretty much an open book.. So I don't think there is much unknown about me

V. Vegetable? home grown heirloom tomatoes

W. Worst habit? being lazy

X. X-ray or Ultrasound? x-ray... just because

Y. Your favorite food? at this point in my life, it seems to be EVERYTHING

Z. Zodiac sign? Sagittarius

Well... it is what it is...

So today, Scott headed off on what is kind of his first service call. Him and Chris went to Tallmadge last week and that was a very quick trip. Today, they were off to Erie, PA. Its now almost 7 PM and I haven't heard from him, so I am going to assume they are still working on the robot. (how cool is that, you get play with and repair robots... as a kid growing up.. Robots were just becoming real, so I am sure lots of geeks in our time, dreamed of playing with Robots....) Anyway.. back to my thoughts. It feels weird for him to not be home or to know when to expect him. But its a quiet evening here and I kind of like that.

I cant believe this is the last week of "summer". The kids went back to school today. It just all went by way to quick. I didn't get done what I wanted to get done and there is really so much more planned for the fall months.

Scott's mom had her Knee Replacement Surgery yesterday... It went well (as I expected!) she'll be running laps around all of us here soon. She will be happy that she had it done.

This past weekend, we really didn't do a whole heck of a lot. Friday night, we just kind of relaxed and watched a movie. Saturday, we got up, did some running around. Hit the Geauga Farmers Market. But since I had just cleaned out moms garden of tomatoes & eggplants and picked up corn from the Twinsburg Farmers Market the night before. We really didn't need much. So we headed over to Joeys in Chargin Falls for lunch, we both ordered different pizzas. I wasn't in the mood for your typical red sauce, pepperoni/sausage pizza... I get so tired of that! I ordered one with artichokes, tomatoes, chicken and a white garlic sauce. Actually the crust was the best part of their pizza.. it wasn't overly thick and it wasn't a thin crust, just perfect and real. It looked like it was made in grandmas oven, that was the best!
After that, Scott decided he wanted to reread The Little Prince, so we started a hunt for it. I remember my Aunt Elaine giving me that book and I remember how much I loved it (what ever happened to that book). Anyway, after two off the wall book stores we weren't having much luck... so I'll probably just get it on the net.

We decided we were going to go see the Matinee of Death Race. Its a remake of a movie with Sylvester Stallone & David Carradine. The only thing in this remake that even resembled the original, is the names of two of the cast (Frankenstein & Joe). If you go to see it, just don't expect a remake and its not a bad movie then. Its not one of my top 10 movies or even the top 25, but its worth a peak... The best part was the previews, looks like Paul Walker and Vin Diesel are coming back with another Fast & Furious. I don't care how bad it is... Paul Walker is in it. I am there! There was another preview, but since I am horrible with movies, its escaping me right now.
Saturday evening we jumped on the bike for a little evening ride. Started out going to Hudson for Coffee at Starbucks. Not quite sure why I ordered two talls for us. It was still hot out and we couldn't take them with us... DUMB!!! after there we headed the long way to downtown. By long way, I mean, we headed to Peninsula, Bath, Breaksville and then to the East 9Th Street Pier and headed back home, It was a nice 70 mile trip out for the evening.
All & all the weekend was what weekends should be for us. But they don't come around to often, with so much other stuff going on.
This weekend, I have high hopes for doing a lot of things. I hope we get to take the bike down to the Barn in Smithville for dinner.. Saturday I hope we make it out to see Logan, Stuff around the house that needs to be done. I hope we get to visit some other friends too, but we will see. Honestly, I wish we had the time and & money to make the trip to Birmingham for the weekend, just to see everyone and say hey!
But that will have to be saved for another day!

Scott wonders why I tell him he needs his own blog

So of course. I've been at work almost 3 hours when I received this email from Scott. I thought it was just the best. and daily I tell him with his writing he really needs to a blog of his own! This is of course also why I love him so! Another thing. His Katana is now called Staypuff. The bike just got a new tire and it was a Michelin tire. So when we were at Mid-Ohio he asked the Michelin tire guys if they had any stickers. So now the Michelin man is on the front of the bike. (cute...lol)

Staypuff's first adventure

I left the house and the skies were blue and just a few puffy clouds.
I get gas and head to 271. I notice that smell you get after was washing
the car, or water drying on pavement. I as I get closer to Chagrin road,
i can see dark patches and light patches of gray on the roads. It had
just rained. As I approach Mayfiled, i see everybody going southbound
with their lights on and black skies ahead. So at this point, i can
either turn around
and avoid what appears to be rain or just keep going. I continue on.
As I
round the curve to rte 2, the sky is totally black, but so far no rain.
I exit and I am at about 20 vehicles from the light. Still no rain. just
as I roll into the parking lot, it starts to sprinkle.
I thank the powers that be for safe passage.
Note to self, I suppose isolated showers means isolated showers, check
weather before leaving.

This past weekend

Had a great time at Twandas & Pats party.. it was nice to see a lot of people I haven't seen in a long time!
Here is a picture with three of my dearest friends.. yeah, tell me whats wrong with this picture... I am the drinker of the group and there is not a drink to be found in my hands!!!!! Anyway...
Just thought I'd get this picture out there. Its sure to get under Lynn's skin!!! LOL.
After that party we headed out to Northfield to meet up with Melissa and Danny to chat for a bit.
Sunday Scott went for a bit of a motorcycle ride with Dave and Steve. I stayed back and did some running around and to return some clothes to the store (don't know why, I came home with like 7 more items). Worked on some overtime... its crunch time for MotoGP... I'm hoping to get 30 hours of overtime in this pay period. That will give me a NICE chunk of change to take to Indy with us.
Looks like our trip to Charlotte & Rockingham has been cancelled. They cancelled the race. Now we are just seeing what can be done about the airline tickets and trying to figure that out. At this point, I would be happy if Bobby could get a refund and we just wont go anywhere that weekend...If not, it would be great if we used the tickets for a quick little jaunt out to Sedona. *(yeah I'm dreaming, I'm a rock star.. that wont happen.) But if we have to use them and cant get down to Birmingham to race with the boys, maybe we can hit Cape Coral to see the Cira Family or maybe to Savannah...

Some pics of the kids

Just thought I'd post a couple pictures of the kids... not much going on.. I worked a bit of overtime this morning, came home, wasnt feeling the feast or the car show... so I am doing laundry, waiting to take a shower, to then head to Twanda's house....