Evil Dead...the musical (really!)

How cool was your xmas break? last night Randy, Derek & I saw "Evil Dead, the musical" (nahhhhhh-nahhhhh).

presents RULE!

i love presents...i love giving them & i love getting them (which more? my lips are zipped...but I can say that i LUV my new canon SD700!!!!)
me with my new BLUETOOTH HEADSET (yeah!!!!!!!!!!!)
Derek showing off Clerks & Clerks II to chewie
Randy with his lottery tix * PS2 games (how did he make out with the tix? Back to work after the 1st explains it all)
Bill did ALL RIGHT with his christmas present to me.....a SPA package - SWEET!
That evening I spent at Jade Island eating too much chinese food like a good jewish girl with randy, bill, my parents & my cousins (Jack & Beth from MD)

Chanukkah / Xmas Party

What can I say...I love having parties & having one the day after chanukkah / the day before xmas is awesome!. Had a ton of people over, had a ton of food (although not too many leftovers). I think the highlight was playing "secret stealer santa" (where everyone picks a number & in order picks a present from the pile. If they like it, they keep it....but if they like someone else's better, they can steal it before they pick. But watch out.......the pile was loaded with booby prizes). By the end of the night, some people had grand prizes (like pez dispensers, lottery tix, etch-a-sketch), and some wacko prizes (like a outlet adapter) and then some were just obnoxoius (like a can of sloppy joe).........sorry tom!!!!!

my backyard
Danielle, Stacey & Matt
Tom, Randy, Bill & Dad
Me & Randy
Sherri & NeilJessica & Tom
Derek plays "toss the dreidel with Maddie"

Derek's Friends (I must have served some awesome potato latkes?!?!?!)

Andy & Maddie (who is getting soooooooooooooooooooooo big!)

i luv days off

i needed a day off - and what better way to spend the day then get a facial with my sis. Went to the Hoboken spa, "SpaH". It was "ohkay". Nothing special, but at least it wasnt as bad as sherri's. Her facialist spoke to her the entrire time. In spa terms, that's a nono!

Then we went shopping - first time to the paramus park mall. Been to Garden State Plaza a bunch of times (which is down the road), but never to this one. It was ok. Smaller then Garden State, but we found what we were looking for. Especially Sherri - she was looking for some more maternity clothes. That girl got BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG. She looks so healthy!!!

Got the rest of my xmas/chanukkkah shopping done.

Now I just need to clean the house for the party on saturday......

cant parties EVER be spread out????

i work my butt of for weeks & weeks & weeks and when Dec comes around I look forward to parties, just not all in the same week!!!!
12-05....gotta celebrate Shannon's b-day (she's getting older, although not as old as me me) at Stout
12-06....company big blowout party at Club Eugene(see pics below)
12-07....dept dinner at BLT Fish (food was ehhhhhhhhh)
12-08....celebrate my 2 year anniversay at Rolf's...see prior entry

shannon, me, bob & lorena

never too much to drink to do the Y...M...C...A!!!

german's really know how to decorate

If you ever want to see a million xmas lights and have german food (kinda cool combo, dont ya think????) you have to head over to Rolf's on 22nd. The restaurant is about the size of my living room and is decorated with milllions of xmas lights EVERWHERE. It's breathtaking the first time you open the front door. I was warned, but didnt expect it to be that beautiful.

AND WE GOT LUCKY!!!!

Since it's xmas season, if you show up with larger then a party of TWO (yes 2), you better expect to wait over an hour & then when you get seated, you are going to wind up sitting with other people. Not a few inches away....i mean at the same table. Randy ran an hour late to begin with and when he showed up - we were seated in less then 5 minutes.

And since it was just the two of us & we were treated wonderfully. We had tushy room, the food was great & so were the drinks.

Awesome celebration of randy's birthday. Sorry it had to be one day late...I had to attend a corportate dinner the night before :(

Reunion after the Reunion

Standing: Melissa, Sandra, Me & Stacey

Sitting: Barbara & Joanne
the reunion party on Nov 4th was a lot of fun...in fact, I didnt even wait a full month to meet up with some of my reunion committee buddies to go over the eveing. This time "non-THS" spouses were invited to our "meeting" at Real Madrid. It was Joanne, Melissa & John, Barb & Andy, Stacey & Matt (wait...he is an alumni), Sandra & Joe and Randy & me. Later on in the night we headed over to Bernie's bar in NJ for his grand opening.

Look at these chubby cheeks!!!

i cant get over how AMAZING sonogram photography is nowadays....Sherri's next set of pictures will have video movement!!!!