Oooh, wedding!

And it's not mine!! =) My best friend is getting married on Saturday (She used to be in my profile pic with me until I changed it). And I'm her maid of honor. Go figure.

So Friday I get to go get a mani and pedi with her and then we're heading to El Rodeo for some fajitas and kick ass margaritas. Woo hoo! Then we're up bright and early on Saturday to head to get our hair and makeup done, head down to Indianapolis for her wedding and dinner, then head back up here for a night out at our favorite bar. In our pretty dresses (I'm not much of a dress person. It's rare when I wear one) It's gonna be a blast.

And to top it off, Myles (who is the best man) and I get to make a pit stop for drinks after the wedding and see some of our friends who live in Indy. Eric and Nicole and their one year old. Eric's in the wedding and Nicole is currently pregnant with twin boys...she's due two days after our wedding. Could be a conflict of interest there. =P

But anyways, I'm blabbering. I'm excited for Friday and Saturday to be here. =)

Oops

I know, I've been a horrible, neglectful blogger.

I was all caught up with everything this past weekend, so I spent the whole weekend working on the yard with Myles. I didn't get any of the Spring cleaning done that I wanted to, but the yard looks really good. =) I'll post pictures of it later. I'm a proud mama. Or something like that.

I'm also taking Friday through Sunday afternoon/evening off and heading to my parents' house for the weekend. I'm looking forward to not even having the option of cracking open my laptop. Myles and just about every single one of my friends tell me I work to much. And to be honest, I was feeling a little burnt out a few weeks ago. But I'm feeling good now.

Just offered a contract on a really good book by Rita Oberlies that I'm excited to start working on. Plus, it's got baseball in it. Woo hoo! I come from a MAJOR baseball family. There's nothing better than taking the South Shore from South Bend to Chicago and catching a Cubs game. I used to do that a lot back in the day. It was a great excuse to skip school. =)

Hope everyone else is doing just peachyfied (my new word.)

So, I'm back in Indiana

I'm back from vacation now. Today was a crappy day of traveling, but then again, flying always sucks. =) I got home to find that the front room smells like cat piss....obviously the kitties were not very happy with us being gone for two weeks. I'll have to spend some major time on my hands and knees cleaning that rug and the rest of the house tomorrow. Yeah, and I also need to take the Christmas stuff down this weekend, too. =) Hopefully the jet lag isn't too horribly bad, but it's 11:18 and I'm WIDE awake. =P So, we'll just have to wait and see.
Now that I'm back, there's soooo much to be done. More editing to do, more submissions to read, housework to do, laundry to do from vacation, grocery shopping, and oh, let us not forget, the wedding to plan. Yes indeedy. I've got to kick into high gear to get that going now. Man. So much to do!!! It's daunting, but it'll get done. I always manage. =)

My last day in Hawaii

So, today is my last day in Hawaii. Myles and I skipped out on the tour to the Kona coffee stuff that was planned and decided to do our own thing today. We went out and sat at the pool and drank for a little while. First drink at 10:30 am. Hey, it's our last day, we have to make the most of it. :) We sat out there until it got too windy and we got too annoyed and came up to our room and chill out up here in out oceanfront room. I've been getting caught up on emails and such and he's been sleeping. :) Works for me. LOL At about 5:30 we have to go to the farewell cocktail reception and then we go to dinner. Our flight leaves tomorrow at 1:45 and then we stay the night in San Francisco. We'll be home Monday night at about 10:00 p.m. And it'll be about 2o degrees when we land in Indiana. Yes! No, not really. At least I'll be coming back with a tan, though. LOL I'll be posting pics on here sometime within the week about everything we've done and stuff like that. It's easier to post explanations and show/tell everyone what we did when I have the pics to go with it. =)

And on a note that makes for a not so very happy Tera, my cell phone was ruined the other night. We had to take a Zodiac (sp?) out to the catamaran we took a sunset booze/whale whatching cruise on and on the way back to shore, the "captain" of the little thing was screwing around and we took a wave, which got me SOAKED from head to toe. I'll post pics of it later in the week (Thanks, Myles!). Needless to say, thank God my camera was saved, but my phone was ruined. Salt water and electronics don't mix. So I'll be getting a new one once we get home. But meanwhile, it's KILLING me.

Hawaii!

Okay, so I haven't had the internet for a few days now and it has been killing me. The Royal Hawaiian on Waikiki Beach is nice, but it's a bit outdated. You have to pay for internet access and it ain't cheap, so I only bought like an hour, which wasn't enough to do much. We left Oahu this morning and flew to Kauai and I'm sitting on the bed in our hotel room with the patio door open, listening to the ocean (oceanfront room), and drinking a glass of free champagne. Someone told the conceirge that Myles and I are on our honeymoon (mind you, we're not getting married until October) and they gave us a free bottle. =) Works for me. We spent a lot of time sitting at the Mai Tai Bar in the Royal Hawaiian, right on the beach, drinking. Tonight, I think we'll go to whatever bar this hotel has on the beach and drink. =) While on Oahu we got to go see Pearl Harbor, which was very humbling, and I got to see one of my REALLY good friends, Stephanie, who lives in Kaneohe, where her husband is stationed in the Marines. It was sooooooooooo wonderful to see her. And, here are some pics above. =) And by the way, the pink sarong I turned into a shirt is as close as I'm coming to a damn muumuu for those of you who kept saying for me to get one.

Leaving tomorrow!

Yup, at 10:42 a.m. my plane will be taking off from Indianapolis to take me far far away from here. Though, it wasn't so bad today, actually. It was in the 60s and we even had tornado watches...still do. Yeah, In January. Talk about weird. If this is global warming, I can't handle this. I don't dig the 0 degree weather we usually have this time of year.

And on a totally different note, I'm ticked off because we only have one country radio station that I can get in now. This blows. Yes, I'm hick, hillbilly, redneck, whatever you want to call me. Hell, Myles makes fun of me because we'll drive down the road and I'll say, "Damn, that's a nice deer stand. With the pond there it makes it perfect for duck hunting, too." Considering that he's from just outside Boston, he then will then laugh at me and call me a redneck. Honest to god, this exact situation happened a couple of days before Christmas driving up to my mom and dad's.

All right, I'm off to get the last teeny bit of packing done so I can chill on the couch, eat my Dairy Queen and watch some TV. No editing...I'll get plenty of that done on my plane rides the next two days. =) I'll blog and post pics as I have time.

Ah, getting ready.

So I'm getting ready and starting to get packed for Hawaii. And it sucks. LOL I hate packing. I invariably forget something even with all of my lists. I'm going to get as much done tonight as I can and then pack the last minute stuff tomorrow. =) I have to remember to put pills and cell phone chargers in my purse instead of in the luggage. We've gotten screwed on that before. I've never been on a trip for this long, so I'm having to pack much more than usual. Blech. And it's going to be even worse to come home and unpack all of it. Oh well. Just one of those things you kind of have to do it you want to travel. The neightbors are supposed to be over here any minute now to go over feeding the cats and watching the house while we're gone. I hope they pet the cats while we're gone. They're going to feel so unloved and lonely. =( I'm gonna miss them so much! I wish we could take them with us, dammit. But, alas, we can't.

So, I'm off to pack again. Hopefully I can get it all in two big suitcases...but since I'll be able to wear my cute sandals and stuff, I'm going to be tempted to bring about ten pairs with me. LOL