Crazy Daze!

Okay so the Cards beat us at Home...that sux! Thankfully it wasn't a ass beater! Anyway it was one of the weirdest games with the Pujols Derosa out at 1st...then the crazy WWE Henry Blanco beating at the base for a triple play but later changes to an out...to the crazy ball stolen base out over running of 2nd base! Seriously do we feel like the waveland addison clark is the Bermuda Triangle? Just a thought! Let's hope today is a better game...I am very hopeful as we actually show signs of an actually 5 man pitching team if Zambrano could get his act together. Now we need to get some runs.
I won't be able to watch the game as I get to go to my nieces tea party birthday party and then I have to work for a bit and then I will be at The Peoria Jaycees International BeerFest at Expo Gardens. I will be the way pregnant person selling beer tix!

LAAAAAAZY DAZE~~~~~

Why Cub fans get put in insane insylums!

Saturday-- Cubs beat Reds 7-0
Sunday --Cubs fall to the Reds 1-2
Monday -- Cubs beat Padres 12-4
Prediction for game on Tuesday...
Cubs score negative 3 to lose to the padres who score 39! ( Maddox is pitching!)

Don't forget to be nice and come visit me behind my glass cage at the crazy farm!

Opening Day!

Okay so it's Monday April 9th and the Cubs are having their home opener today at 1:20. It's weird in a couple ways this year! 1) I won't be at Wrigley...Since I am about ready to pop I unfortunately can not be there. But don't worry I took the day off work and I am going to bundle up and open my windows and watch it on TV! 2) It's on a Monday which is just weird. They usually open on a Friday but Monday it is.

Cubs VS Astros...Well the good thing is Houston plays in a dome and hopefully will wilt under the icebox like conditions at Wrigley...
On a side note...The Chicago White Sox cancelled a game because of the...COLD? Seriously could they be more wimpy. Just because you are on the South side it doesn't mean it is going to be warmer!

Also in our help for a win on opening day? The Astro have been SUCKY!!! Which unfortunately as a Cubs fan means they will beat us!
We do have Ted Lilly on the mound which hopefully will be a good thing...his last outing was astounding so lets keep the good times rolling!

Right now we are tied for 3rd with Milwaukee 3-3.

In the words of Harry Carrey "Let's score some runs!"
I didn't know how to type out drunken slurs or I would of posted those!

Let me at least have this!

Okay so I promise to rave about this in detail but I just want to have on record...
The World Series Champions got swept...AT HOME...on opening weekend!
For a Cubs fan that is like winning the World Series!

(Also to have Pittsburgh sweep Houston too!)
That's like having your cake and eating it too!

PLAY BALL!!!!

Baby mania!!!

Today is now just 4 weeks until this thing that has been inside of me for 8 months makes a decision to come out! Okay so I have baby on the brain or bladder to be more truthful!

So all of you will have to bear with me while I blab about that for a jiffy!

He has turned head down so we aren't worrying about breach anymore. Also he has dropped so I really wasn't kidding about the bladder thing! If any of you have been around since the beginning of my blog existence then you might have read up on my problem with peeing! (Well holding my pee would be more exact!) So this 5 lb ish thing heavily weighing on my bladder is really getting to be a constant reminder that I have NO bladder control!

Okay so following is some fun things we have for Baby Hank!

Plus we have had fun decorating too! We tried to go with a decor that we wouldn't have to change for awhile!

This is our wall color with the border. When it's done it will have a vintage garage service station look...think American Graffiti movie or ole Route 66 Service Station!

This is all the crazy stuff we have collected so far and right now is piled in our breakfast nook. (UGH I just realized how un Rock n Roll me saying Breakfast nook is!!!)

Also these are all the baby blankets we have received as gifts! Man our friends and family ROCK!!!

And last but not least these are fun little binkies for the baby to show his true colors!!

You are now free to go back to your regularly schedule program!

ROCK ON!!!

Pics from St. Patty's!

My Homemade t-shirt for the day!

Shawn in his kilt for the holiday!

Kriss and Niece Caroline at Kellehers!

Steph (Sis in Law) Caroline and Will at parade.

Julie and Roxy at Lucky's... PS I didn't do Roxy's hair!

Gordo and Shane at Lucky's...

Super Vic, Shawn, Russ and Ward (Brother) at Tavern finishing off the night!

Fun on St Patty's!

7:45 am Okay so the day started at Kellehers for breakfast!
Yummy ! Had a virgin Bloody Mary! Roxy enjoyed the regular version!

Brother and family came down and Shawn made it down before he had to be at work!

11:00am Made our way to the corner of Main and Jefferson for the parade. Great times!

1:00pm Went to Tavern on the Water to eat my husbands Corned Beef....Way tooooo awesome!

3:00pm Back to Kellehers but it was WAAAAYYYY to crowded for this pregnant lady so we opted for Rhodells! Much better choice. Nothing like enjoying St. Patty's day at a bar owned by a Scottish lad!

5:30pm Went to Rizzi's on State for Corned Beef again with some friends!

7:30pm Off to Lucky's Bar and Grill to see friends brothers band play.

11:30pm Jim getting off work and met him at Tavern along with Brother and Sister in law and friends and stepson Shawn!

12:45am Drove drunk friends home!

Luck O the Y'know!

Rockin Dropkicks!

Alright so last weekend was my last hooray before the baby gets here! Off to Chicago for the Dropkick Murphy's show at the house of Blues! Okay so It was to be ME (Of Course) and Shawn (Stepson 17 yrs old) and my cousins son Nels (15 yrs old). Since they put an extra show on later that night they actually made ours earlier and it started at 6:30. So being the positive roll model of a parent that I am I took the kids out of school early so we could get there on time! I know I am going to win Mother of the Year!
So off we go and when we get to Metamora my cars starts acting up! So we drive back to Peoria to trade cars with my mom and an hour late we get going again. We are staying at the W hotel on LSD. Pretty nice place. But off to House of Blues. We get inside while the first band was playing.
Okay so the line up was to be Aggrolites, Sick of it All and then Dropkicks!
Well Lead singer for Sick of it All was out because of back problems so The Briggs started off the show and the Aggrolites went on second. Nothing really fun to report on the opening bands.
So I found a safe spot on the stairs with the banister protecting half of me and I could actually see over the pit. So told the guys to meet me downstairs after the concert.
Finally dropkicks came on and as planned they did not disappoint!
Highlights:
**Sang Forever &Good Rats! They usually don't play these songs!
** Commended us for being true fans who bought there tickets months ago before the movie Departed!
**Shawn got up on stage for the last song...Skinheads on the MTBA. Got to sing with Ken Casey!

Lowlights:
**Being Pregnant at the show didn't allow me to get on stage for Spicy McHagggis Jig or Kiss Me I'm Shitfaced!

BIGGEST HIGHLIGHT!!!!
they never play my favorite song "Dirty Glass" because they have a guest singer named Stephanie Dougherty. Surprise she was there and they sang it!!! KICK ASS!!!

So we survived the trip and all is well!

Rock on!

OH PETEY!!!

Okay so it is such a long story I will try to give you the readers digest condensed version but at work one day I am doing a clients hair and when she is under the dryer she notices on the cover of one of our magazines a pictured of Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy. She tells me how she is at her aunts house and she was looking thru her xmas picture cards and mentions how the guy in this one picture has hair like the lead singer of Fall Out Boy. (She meant the lyricists and guitar player but she was close.) So her aunt says " No that is just one of the boys of a couple we knew when we lived in Chicago...Little Petey Wentz." My client didn't know his name then but recognizes it when she sees his pic. So she goes to her Aunts house and get s the picture and tells her Yes it is him. Okay so I do her Aunts hair too so I tell her she must bring the pic in so I can see it. She also brings in the card too which actually states that Pete is very successful with his band touring the country...BLAH BLAH BLAH. She has no idea that the little boy her daughter used to play with is now a member of the IT band of the moment! So I actually got a copy of the picture card but I wasn't able to get the other card but for fun here it is!

Big Boy Howie!

Okay in a previous post I put up an image of my friend getting to meet Howie from Big Brother. He was seeing the movie Rocky at Rave theaters. Well the other day she comes in and gives me an envelope and inside is a signed head shot of Howie that he autographed for me. Hopefully when I have time I will scan it in so you all can enjoy! HEHE!! The funny little part is the fact that the headshot is an actually computer copy not a real life headshot. Poor Howie he can't even afford real Headshots...or possibly only could afford them once and now he just copies them off himself!

Chowder!

Pics from LA

So here are some pics from the trip to LA!



This is Mike Ness' motorcycle from his company Black Kat Kustoms.



Jim and I in front of the SoCal customs truck.


Our Anniversary pic...before going out to dinner.

I'm BAAAACK!

Okay so I know it's not like it's a great big loss but I realize my life of just posting whenever I want to is over. Life has been pretty crazy. Things I want to touch on.
1. Trip to LA
2.Getting signed Headshot from Howie of BB
3. Getting to see Pete from Fall Out Boy's family xmas card!

Oh BTW...Happy Valentine's day to all you suckers!

Okay so we went out to LA.

Day 1
Went shopping in Santa Monica and visited EXILE cycles. They were amazing people who work there. We also saw Russell in working on his computer. (If you are a fan of build or Bust y'know what I am talking about.) We saw some great motorcycles and bought some t-shirts and stuff. Then we drove to my cousins and of course got stuck in traffic but it was worth the wait cause we ate at Lucille's BBQ. Let me just tell you...I kept thinking seriously what kinda BBQ is this going to be in CA! OMG is was awesome! I now know why they have a 2 hour wait to get a table!

Day 2
Went to Ontario Mills and spent some coin at Virgin Record Stores! and we of course at lunch at In and Out burger. Jim ate 2 Double Doubles! We also learned about getting our fries done animal style!
Animal Style = Fresh French Fries + Melted Cheese+ grilled onions+ thousand Island dressing!

The rest of the day we spent at The Pomona Fairgrounds for the 58th Grand National Roadster Car show. It was amazing!

Day 3
Went to our friends house in Woodland Hills. Enjoyed dinner that evening at Joe's a great restaurant in Santa Monica.

Day 4
OUR ANNIVERSARY!
Got up really freaken' early to go get in line for The Price is Right! When we got there we were astounded to see people had been camping out since 7 the night before! Seriously!!!
So we did not get into the theater at all. They gave out 600 tickets and then even 300 people in front of us didn't get in! It was crazy!!!! I am all for waiting in line for an awesome concert but for The Price is Right?! What to do...went and had breakfast and decided to go to Universal Studios! Had a great time... We saw them taping desperate Housewives and also saw the actor Justin Long(Dodgeball...Waiting...Accepted...iMac Commercials) He was on his way into a sound stage taping Live free or Die Hard...The new Die Hard movie!
So then we had an amazing dinner at Border Grille in Santa Monica for our anniversary.

Day 5
Got up and made our way to the airport...Let me just tell you that LAX has no idea how to run security smoothly! It was a bumblefck. But we did see Scoot Weiland the ex lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots / Velvet Revolver also trying to get thru security!

Okay so I will post some pics of our trip!

Don't worry I'll be back!

Do you know the way to San Jose...Er I mean LA!

Okay so Jim and I have finally planned our LAST getaway before Hank shows up and reeks havoc on the life I have lived for... Well... My whole life! We decided to go to LA. It is always a favorite spot since we have hoards of family and friends to stay with and we know our way around. Also it definitely feeds my love of celebrities and music and such mindless stuff! I Love it! Now the only downfall is the fact that I am unable to attend Disneyland while in LA. It's not that I have been banned from the most wonderful place on earth.

*** (I don't know that I have posted much on this subject but I am insanely addicted to Disneyland. The original in Orange County...Set in the middle of a busy city. I have never been and am not quite sure I want to go to Disneyworld as I am just a little old school in the fact as I have amazing childhood memories of going to Disneyland as vacation. When you grow up in LA you usually can't afford an actual vacation so you either go to the beach or Disneyland. Well you can add in Knott's berry farm and Universal studios too! So I LOVE to go to Disneyland. Jim calls me the amusement park NAZI as I won't allow him to navigate the park at all! I must go on every ride...even the little kid ones and we have to go early to make sure we are in as soon as the park opens and we can not leave until we have gone on every ride and had our picture taken with every character we can find. Oh and I will only go thru the week when it is off season as I don't like to SHARE the park with too many other attendees!) ***

Sorry for the interlude but I felt I must explain my fascination! So as I stated we are unable to go to Disneyland because I am pregnant and I am unable to go on most of the rides. It would be torture to actually go to Disneyland and not be able to go on any rides! So we are going to see friends and eat some good food...go shopping and celebrity sightseeing at the Groves shopping center.

Well as it turns out they are taping The Price is Right on the Monday we are going to be in town so I scored some tixs so we can go! Y'know its BOB's last year and if you really want to know about my Price is Right legacy then you need to go way back to my first blog! So I am really excited about going to the show! I so need to come up with a great t-shirt to wear!
I keep you posted!
Catch later Gator!

Here's Howie

Okay so here is my friend Stephanie with Howie from Big Brother. He was right here in lovely little ole P-Town!

Jedi Force!

Okay so let me quickly blog about a celebreality sighting in Peoria...1 of my friends was a the movies (The new Rocky movie) and as they were waiting for the movie to start a guy comes in and low and behold it's Howie from Big Brother 6 and All-Stars. She talked to him for awhile and he said he was going to be a Club Reign the next night but Jim said when he was at work at 4play no one knew anything about it! That is all!

Holiday Ass Kickin'

Okay so the Holiday time is kicking my tired butt! With my job being in the hair Biz...I tend to get a bit swamped at this time. So I promise to start posting again as soon as I have a minute to breathe!

Anyone have anything fun for the New Year coming up? Is anyone lucky enough to get to go to the Bears game against the Packers on 12/31? See you in 007!
Gotta Go!

Here is a pic of Jim and I at the Jaycees Christmas Party...

Add another Dropkick to the list

So we just got our tickets to another Dropkick Murphy's show. Yet again at the House of Blues in Chicago. New venue for the Dropkicks as I haven't ever seen them here. It is one of my favorite venues to see a live show. It's a great line up...Dropkicks, Sick of it All and the Aggrolites. So I was trying to remember the times I have seen the Dropkicks and I thought I had seen them 5 times already but once I did some checking it was actually 4.
July 2005 Warped Tour Chicago
October 2005 Rave Milwaukee opened with Gang Green, Dark Buster and Lost City Angels
November 2005 Vic Chicago opened with Big D and The Kids Table
March 2006 Mississippi Nights St. Louis opened w/ Sick of it All, Horrorpops and The Tossers

So now it's a great line up because you get to enjoy The Aggrolites (SKA) with Sick of it All (Old School Hard Core Punk) and the Dropkicks (Irish Punk).

The downfall of course is the fact that I will be in the far back since I will be about 8 months pregnant! I wouldn't be suprised if hank came out yelling OIW!

I did think about something the other day...I hear bout people who put earphones on the pregnant belly and play Mozart and other soothing classical like music...and then there's me. I sit at insanely loud rock concerts. So if my son comes out and he looks like he's been the the mosh already I guess I can only blame myself.

I guess I need to get him the t-shirt that says "My Mom Rocks!"

Rock ON!

The Boys are Back in Town!

Well not literally but y'know I was amped up last year when Jody Davis signed on as Manager of our single A Peoria Chiefs. He did a great job and it gave us (As season Ticket holders) an amazing ability to be close to an American legend! Having seats on the 3rd base side it was awesome because Jody always worked as 3rd base coach. He did an awesome job which is why he was promoted up to Florida. Sad as it is to lose Jody Davis to a higher league...I was FLOORED of course to learn that Ryne (HOF) Sanberg was coming in to take over the Newly opened managers position! UNBELIEVABLE!!!! Jim and I and friends were lucky enough to be at the game LAST August when they retired his number at Wrigley Field. Front and center in the Bleachers...What an amazing day at Wrigley. So of course my season tickets are renewed for this year...my hope is Ryne decides to work 3rd base like Jody. Oh... these are the reasons I can make it through the winter. Only 3 months to Spring training and 4 months to Opening Day.
Obviously I didn't quite plan this pregnancy just right as I won't be able to go to opening day. I am however still taking the day off work and watching the game on TV. I'll wait out my time by watching the Bears squeak out some wins and by the grace of god try to make it to the Superbowl. If our defense keeps getting hurt our offense is going to HAVE to start scoring more points to win. Hopefully Rex can step up his play. Monday night here we come...Bring on the Rams!

LOVE and other sports scores!

No School Again Today?

Well can anyone believe it...District 150 cancelled school again today! 3 school days in a row...this has to be a record.
Crazy Daze!

The snow a cometh...

So it looks like we all survived ..."The Storm of 2006"!
I think most people are shoveled...plowed...scrapped out of their abodes!
So I of course have to add my stories form the snow out we all experiences here in the lovely town of Peoria.
First--- I was utterly surprised that the weather people were actually right for once and we DID get all the snow they had called for!

Second---I did find it humorous that so much was prematurely cancelled...although it did all need to get cancelled...I find it interesting that just the thought that we might get bad weather sends some into a freakfest frenzy.

Okay so my stepson comes home from his kickboxing classes and he is talking about the possibility of a snow day on Friday and I'm telling him...you should just plan on being at school tomorrow as you are in district 150 and they NEVER have snow days. My husband who is a RHS graduate can live to tell as when he was in school his superintendent lived in Florida. Great place to be when deciding if it is safe for students to be in school! Well low and behold as I awoke at 5 in the morning and realized my husband wasn't home from work yet from Downtown. I call his cell and he is running down our street as it was easier to run through the drifts than try to walk. His car was stuck on main street in front of the 4play complex. His friend Matt gave him a ride home but couldn't turn down our street off of Knoxville so Jim jumped out and started down the 4 blocks to home. Stopping briefly to help a couple who attempted to drive to work and were stuck so he got them back into they spot in front of their house. So he continues on down and decides to go to our house we moved out of and get our snow shovel and gloves and finally shows up at our house. Since I am now awake I turn on the local news and see amazingly that Shawn doesn't have school. So I go down to his room and give him the good news.

The day of shoveling began at about 11 am . Jim took a bit of a nap since he was working all night and He and Shawn began the great digout! I unfortunately couldn't help since I am pregnant. I did however have to miss 2 doctors appointments and so stayed in and baked cookies and put up all of my Christmas decorations...I felt very Martha Stewart like...without the orange jumpsuit and shackles but y'know what I mean. Don't worry I had some sweet Rockin' music on at the time!
Okay so enough of my boring stories of the BLIZZARD that hit Peoria!
I will jot later about my friend Tracy's experience driving for the first time in horrid weather conditions. (She has lived her whole like in AZ and this is her first winter in IL)
Also I will tell about our neighbor...his garage collapsed after the weight of the snow on his roof!

Hope all stayed snuggled in!