Last weekend we went to the zoo. It was rather chilly, but we had a lot of fun and took lots of pictures. I've got to make a new photo album somewhere to add all of our Nascar and Zoo pictures. But until then here's a meerkat.
Today I was hopped up on a caffeine rush from Mt. Dew. Not only did I clean the apartment (minus vacuuming) but I also redecorated the dining table for thanksgiving.
And, I fancied up our goblets with some copper wire.
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After:
I got a haircut! YAY! Unfortunately, I didn't wait long enough (10" of ponytail) to give my hair to Locks of Love. I just couldn't stand the shedding anymore!
Grandpa is still in the hospital, but his surgery went fine and fixed what they were hoping it would fix. He just happened to develop some new problems after recovery that made the doctors keep him in the hospital a while longer (like 14 days and counting). Mom and Mema are hoping to have him home soon since at least one of his problems has cleared up.
We survived our first NASCAR Weekend together, even though neither of us felt very good the entire four days of being in Charlotte. Mom and Aunt Gloria had lots of fun while Jamie and I hung out at the hotel most of the time. I added some of the pictures from the Friday night race to our Flickr account. I would add more, but who knew Flickr's free account had a limit of just 200 pictures! Argh. Oh well. The year-long Flickr subscription is only $25 and as soon as we scrape together a few extra bucks we're going to get one. I canceled my NASCAR member's club membership because it was $50 a year and I really didn't get much out of it (plus, it was outrageously expensive!). This year we didn't even go near the club member's area, much less attend any of the members-only events.
Jamie's Canon camera took wonderful pictures and the new 2 GB memory card came just in time to take with us. I especially like the feature on the Canon that takes 3 pictures, one right after the other. That's perfect for taking pictures of cars going 200+ mph. The cars are still a bit blurry, but not as much as trying to take one picture at a time. I just wish the zoom could get to things further out. One you zoom past a certain point the picture gets all fuzzy.
This is our new dining table! My grandparents bought it for us and my grandma found it at K-mart for just $200! It really doesn't look like a $200, K-mart brand set. And, it was relatively easy to put together. There are four padded-bottom chairs, but only three are around the table. The fourth chair is the one I use when I sit at the computer desk to watch Jamie play games. We ate dinner at the table together tonight and last night. It was great! I can't wait to decorate the table for Christmas. I have gold chargers to go under my ivy rimmed Christmas plates and chair-back covers that look like Santa hats.
This weekend we're dogsitting my co-worker's shitzu. Fun times! I'll take more pictures. Snickers is pretty photogenic as you can see from my Old Yahoo (now a Flickr) photo album. I took pictures of Snick when I kept him at the other townhouse.
Oh, and I'm sending good vibes to my Grandpa who had his spleen removed today. Poor Grandpa. Hope he feels better soon!
Happy beginning-of- the-decorating-season!
I decorated our little place with the remnants of my Halloween decorations from college. The stuff looks a little shabby after several years of use. Hopefully next year we can afford to buy some new stuff. My favorite places for decorations are AC Moore (craft store) and the Dollar Tree. Both have really nifty things at very reasonable prices.
There are more pictures of the Halloween decorations in our Flickr album. I just posted pictures of Jamie's new computer and new printer too. Thanks to the WA for helping him build his new machine!!
In just a week's time my mom and Aunt Gloria will be in town and then we'll be off to Charlotte for the races! I'm glad Jamie has such a nice digital camera. My lil Kodak is ok, but his Canon is much nicer. We do need to buy a larger memory card for it though. It's only 128MB and only holds about 100 pictures. Definitely not enough for a whole day's worth of pictures. I will take my laptop for unloading pictures from the card though.
I have one little red tomato still hanging on and I noticed a couple of the green ones had an orange tint to them. YAY! My basil is no more. The squirrels completely devoured it. There isn't even a stalk left. I was able to get a few leaves dried and I did manage to use some fresh basil in a pasta dish a few weeks ago. So, all was not completely for waste. At least the squirrels had basil-y fresh breath!Count down to Charlotte
T-minus 13 days
Well, we're only two weeks away from something my mom, aunt, and I have been looking forward to since October 15, 2006 -- our return to the 1.5 mile track at Lowe's Motor Speedway.
I remember getting moderately interested in NASCAR sometime during my junior year in college, and it grew during my senior year. I consider myself a New-Generation, Post-Dale Earnhardt fan. I can't remember watching many races before Dale Sr. died. ANd when I first started to watch, it was merely to have something on the tv for a long stretch of time without having to turn the channel while I played EverQuest on the computer. It was one of those tv programs that I didn't have to actively watch to know what was going on.
In the spring of 2003, I graduated from college and moved into an apartment with my college buddy who was originally from Arkansas and definitely had a bit more red on her neck than I did. Near the end of 2003, she said her dad and brother wanted to go to the Memorial Day weekend race at Charlotte, the 2004 Coca Cola 600, and asked if I wanted to order a ticket too. By this time my interested in NASCAR had risen to the point where actually being at the race would be really cool.
My first NASCAR race was awesome, even though Lowe's poster boy Jimmie Johnson (who is definitely not a favorite of mine even if he is Dale Jr.'s new teammate) won. The dirt, the drit, the grim, the smell, the sweaty-no-shirt-half-drunk rednecks, the overpowering roar of thousands of horses charging around the oval track. It was the best symphony I'd ever been too.
By this time, my mom and grandma had also gotten into watching the races and picking out their favorite drivers. My grandma has been a die-hard Jeff Gordon fan ever since she started watching. He drives the Dupont Chevrolet and her kids were all brought up on Dupont money. Grandpa retired from Dupont after over 40 years of working at the Kinston plant. Even I grew up on Dupont money. Mom worked there for 16 years. But I just don't like Jeff Gordon. Hehe.
In January of 2005, roomie and I went to a new NASCAR event in town. It was called the Fitness 500, and it was really neat. The event was sponsored by WFU Baptist Medical Center. It's main draw was a fitness competition between several teams of NASCAR folks. There were drivers and drivers' wives and crew members and other folks involved. And here is where we first met Carl Edwards. Bre and I were very enamored with the handsome new driver of the #99 Roush Ford. We even got our pictures taken with him and he signed not only our Fitness 500 posters we bought (I lost mine! How sad!), but also signed copies of his Craftsman Truck Series driver sheet from the 2004 season. That's when I picked my favorite driver.
I was tooling around the internet one day in the summer of 2005 and happened upon the Lowe's Motor Speedway site where I happened to learn that Busch series tickets are WAY cheaper than Nextel Cup series tickets. Mom and I went to her first race in October 2005. We just went to the Friday night Busch race (tickets were only $20!), but that got her hooked and before we left that night she said she wanted to do the entire weekend of races. By this time we had learned that our aunt Gloria was a dyed-in-the-wool Dale Junior fan and wanted to go to a race too. So, we all bought tickets for both the Busch and Nextel races for October 2006.
The October 2006 races were our first experience of being immersed in NASCAR for an entire weekend. We drove down to Charlotte on Thursday afternoon, and on the way down surprised Aunt Gloria with a stop at Dale Earnhardt, INC. DEI has the MOST AMAZING gift store I've ever seen. If they could put a #3 or a #8 on something, then they had it for sale. There were dog leashes and collars, tv remotes, glass bottles of fancy water, tire pressure gauges, scrap booking stuff, flags, coasters, earrings, wallets, not to mention t-shirts, hats, jackets, and glasses. We got great pictures of one of the #8 cars parked outside. On Friday morning, we headed off to Roush racing to see Carl related stuff. Roush's gift shop was nice, but had to represent more drivers and so just had standard stuff like shirts, hats, stickers, and lanyards. We stopped by the big Outdoor World, home to the Bass Pro Shop, on Saturday and even saw Kasey Kahne at an event in the big mall's parking lot. Plus, there's tons of stuff to see at the race track. Every driver has a merchandise hauler selling stuff outside the track. Even Ricky Bobby from Talladega Nights had a hauler. On the way back to Winston-Salem, I realized I'd forgotten to stop back by there to pick up a Ricky Bobby shirt...they were just $5!
As soon as tickets for the 2007 Lowes races went on sale, I snapped up four tickets. This year Jamie is coming with us! He started to get interested in NASCAR while we were chatting online, since I usually talked about it on Sundays during races. Then when he flew over in November, he watched all the races with me. Now, he even has his favorite NASCAR websites that he likes to look out regularly. His favorite driver at the moment is Dale Junior (for Christmas last year I bought him a Junior shirt and toboggan), which puts him in Aunt Gloria's good graces. We'll have two Junior fans and two Edwards fans at the race this year. He also likes to pull for the Busch brothers and Juan Pablo Montoya just because it irks me. Hehe.
So, we're looking forward to this year's races. I hope their good. I'm really pulling for Junior to win, though I wouldn't be too bummed out if Carl won. :)
Well, I finally did get rid of my cold for all of you who might have been wondering about that. But this morning I woke up with a sty in my eye. Dunno which is worse, a cold or a sty, but at least I can breathe with the sty.
Not much has gone on in the great month of September. Jamie and I enjoyed a very lazy Labor Day. It was nice to have a holiday during my sick time for more lounging in the recliner.
We're gearing up to have my mom and aunt over in a couple of weeks for going to the races at Lowes Motor Speedway in Charlotte. I hope the races are spectacular. It would be the most awesome thing ever if Junior won.
Jamie just built a new computer yesterday. It's up and running a-ok today. I really like Windows Vista. It's very pretty and has all sorts of nifty thingies here and there. Currently Jamie has widgets (little side thingies that are neat) on the right side of the screen. One is a calendar, one shows what the weather is like in town, and one scrolls through pictures in the picture folder. Right now the pictures are just of the sample images that came pre-installed with Vista, but they're all gorgeous!
This weekend I have a rehearsal and a recording session with the orchestra and choir who are performing for the MMF's next CD, a CD of Moravian Christmas music. Moravians are known for how they celebrate Christmas and every so many months I always talk to someone on the phone who wants to know if we have a CD of Moravian Christmas music. We will this Christmas!! And, my name will be listed in the violin section of the liner notes! YAY!
The weather has improved greatly over the past couple of weeks, though it has been in the upper 80s to near 90 degrees for the past few days. The air isn't so hot anymore, just the sun. The mornings and nights have cooled down considerably. I'm hoping for sweater weather soon.
Tomato plant update: There are quite a few green tomatoes on the vine. I even plucked a little red tomato yesterday afternoon and ate it on a sandwich with a fried egg and a slice of cheddar. There's one more little red tomato still left. I don't know if the other greenies will ripen anytime soon. The poor plant got too big for itself and started falling over on itself. Next year I'll have to be vigilant about tying up any branches that look like they'll fall over and bend.
Oh, and if anybody is looking for someone to design a very simple website for a business or for personal reasons, I've recently become a Dreamweaver addict. I looooove designing small websites. I can't do overly fancy stuff, but if you're in need of a "first website" I can certainly help out. And, I'm cheap! :)
Ugh. There's not much worse than a summer time head cold. It's hot and miserable outside (though finally the temperature has dropped to the high 80s from the low 100s) and I feel absolutely wretched.
It all started Tuesday morning when I woke up feeling a funny tickle in my throat. There was really no build up to the feeling bad, no little warning headache or anything. In the hour between getting up and sitting down at my desk on Tuesday morning I felt horrible. Needless to say I called in sick on Wednesday morning, and I left work around 2:45pm on Thursday.
Last night around 9:30pm, I climbed in bed to burrow under blankets (I was cold...in August...when it's been 90+ for the past 4 weeks) and mindlessly watch tv. Jamie came up an hour or so later and took my blankets away from me! He said I was too hot and needed to cool down. I was cooooold! Meh. I did have a teeny fever of about 99, but that's more than just a .3 degree fever for me. I'm like my grandpa in that my normal temperature is usually less than 98.7 degrees.
I did stay at work all day today, but didn't scoff in the least bit when the boss lady said I could go anytime I wanted to (it was 4:15pm at the time). I finished up my work on the website and scooted home to dope myself up on more Sudafed.
I've probably had seven doses of Sudafed (the real stuff...the stuff you have to go up to the pharmacy counter and sign for) and I can't tell a difference yet. And for the past two days I've had awful cases of the sneezes.....
Anyway, at least I have a three day weekend over which to recouperate. Was I the only one who didn't realize Monday was a holiday until Tuesday of this week? We didn't make any plans, but that's probably a good thing since I'm sick. If I'm better by Monday and if the weather is pleasant, a trip to the zoo would be a lot of fun.
Well, the right side of my nose is completely stopped up yet I can feel the snot starting to trickle towards my nostril in a fruitless bid for freedom. Best go lay/sit somewhere to get the stuff to slide over to my left sinus. Meh.
Oh, by the way, Jamie and I now have a lovely black and white poster of the Eiffel Tower (how romantic!) in a black frame on the wall over the yellow chair in our bedroom. I should take a picture sometime. And, I should also take a picture of the Nascar wall going up the staircase. Hehe. I'm such a lil redneck!
It's hot. I haven't seen NC this hot for this long in a while. Jamie's about to die. After day 7 of 90+ degrees, I'm about to die too. Everybody is walking around wilted and without energy, just like the poor flowers. Jamie waters ours every day because within just 24 they start looking puny.
Check out our photo album! Our upstairs bathroom and our bedroom are finally picture worthy. I found pictures to go in the bathroom and we finally bought matching bedside (Walmart, just $35 each!) tables for the bedroom. So the bedroom looks mostly finished now. I'd still like to find another picture or two to go in the corner over the chair on Jamie's side of the bed. I'm not a huge fan of plain undecorated walls.
Our bedroom colors right now are very...unique. The curtains are dark navy blue, perfect for blocking out the sun. The little runner rugs beside the bed are sky blue. The comforter on the bed is tan and the sheets are orange. One set of pillowcases (we have four pillows to sleep with) are deep dark red. The cushion in the yellow whicker chair is blue and the the throw pillow is orange. It's a strange color combo, but not all together unpleasant. Some of the furniture is black (the platform bed, the bedside tables, the trunk, and the tv stand) and some of the furniture is wood colored (the dresser and the bookcase).
Last week we spent a lot of time on the road between here and Bethlehem, PA in a Pontiac Vibe (nice little vehicle). It was a working vacation of sorts, perhaps even a working honeymoon. I was sent to Bethlehem by my boss to straighten out the office up there after our assistant director retired. She knew that with my OCD tendencies, I'd have the office neat and orderly in no time. I even got to do one of my favorite things of all time -- buy new office supplies! Our assistant director didn't have much of anything in the way of basic office supplies.
I uploaded some pictures to our Flickr account -- the office after I finished organizing it and our time at the New Market Battlefield in the Shenandoah Valley. We stopped at a local zoo in near Natural Bridge, VA on the way to Bethlehem, but we left the camera in the car. Dumb us. The zoo was MUCH fun. We got to pet camels and goats and llamas, and we came up close and personal with giraffes! Sadly, we didn't buy any food for the animals. There were lots of different animals (kookaburas, zebras, big camels, baby camels, bears, tigers, mountain lions, exotic birds, alligators, little deer, monkeys, etc). Most of the animals were in big cages or big fenced areas so you could get up relatively close to see them. We can't wait to go to the NC zoo now!
We spent four days on the road (4 hours each on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday) and only one day (Wednesday) not traveling. We both agreed that it really wasn't worth all the driving to be somewhere for just one day. Since work was paying for it though, it was nice to be out and about together.
We got back home on Friday afternoon, and on Saturday afternoon my copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows arrived! HOORAH! I read it all by mid-afternoon on Sunday. I won't spoil the ending but I was very sad by the deaths of several characters.
This weekend we're going to my mom's to see my family from Oklahoma. Jamie's not too thrilled about the 3 hours there and the 3 hours back riding in the car after all the riding we just did last week. But I'd be disinherited by my dear uncle Duck (his name's Don, but he called himself Don Duck when he was younger because people asked him if he was Donald Duck) who wants to size up my new husband. Hehe.
Tomato Update: My little tomato finally ripened and I ate it. It was very good. However, his brothers and sisters did not survive. Two of them suffered a broken branch and died on the vine. Another fell off prematurely (probably helped by a furry critter) and a third was being happily eaten by a chipmunk the day we left for Bethlehem. Now I just have a tomato plant....just leaves and stems, no tomatoes. Sigh!We also spent our Linens n' Things gift card (just got another one on Saturday) : big round spatula for using in the new electric skillet, a nifty pizza cutter, a cooling rack for baked stuff, a 7" Santok knife by Farberware, and an orange pillow to go in the wicker chair in our room.
We spent the Walmart gift card mostly on groceries, but also bought some new shirts for Jamie, a new shirt for me, and a new cedar birdfeeder that will hopefully last longer against the squirrels than the plastic one we had. The squirrels completely chewed through most of the old plastic feeder. We got $50 Walmart card this weekend. There's not really much else we want (that we can actually buy cheaply at Walmart), so we'll probably put it towards groceries too.
The new crockpot and electric skillet have already been put to the test. Both work fabulously. I used the skillet to brown up 6 pounds of hamburger at once and then we made chili (using some of that hamburger) in the crockpot. YAY!
We also splurged and bought Jamie a new espresso machine from Starbucks. His old Krups machine died in route to NC for the second time (he had shipped it back to WA the day before he was supposed to fly back in January, so we had to ship it back to NC when we flew out to WA a few weeks later). He's had to go since January without a machine, and making several trips to Starbucks for a $4 mocha every week is kinda expensive especially since I usually get something too and the bill is closer to $8 or $10.
By luck, I got some free tickets to the zoo. We've been wanting to go for a long time and now we have no excuse not to go. I hope we can go this weekend, but the weather forecast isn't looking very promising for an outdoor activity. We'll make a decision Saturday morning. Luckily the zoo is only about an hour away!
June 17, 2007
Last Sunday we celebrated our wedding reception with the folks back in my hometown. My mom, the ladies of her church, and my grandparents threw us a nice little party. We had about 40 guests, and even my friend Shelly came!
We had cake, peanuts, veggies and dip, crackers and a cheeseball, cheese cubes, M&Ms, little pickles and olives, mini ham and cheese sandwiches, sausage balls, mints, and punch.
And, we got a ton of STUFF! We got:
Lots of kitchen stuff -- gadgets, spoons, baking pans, dish towels, casserole dishes, drinking glasses, tupperware, tablecloth, placemats, roasting pan, trash can, dish detergent, cleaning cloths, colander, cutting board, apron
Two lamps and shades
Two matching vases
An answering machine
$160 in cash
$65 in Walmart Cards
$380 in Target Cards
Plus we got a few checks before and after the party, and a few other gift cards beforehand too. Plus Mom framed a picture of us on our wedding day at the courthouse, a copy of our reception invitation, and a photo of us in our nice party clothes. We're going to hang those in our bedroom.
The party and hanging out with my folks was great, except that I had pulled something in my lower back on Friday afternoon before the party on Sunday and was in a LOT of pain all weekend. The backache took all week to finally ease off. Today isn't so bad.
Yesterday we braved the rain and thunderstorms to spend our $50 Belk's gift card and some of our Target money. Our "booty" from yesterday included:
A crystal egg tray, a 4 cup slanted measuring cup, a big spoon and slotted spoon, a whisk, and a manual can opener from Belks; and 2 pillows, a 300ct sheet set in orange, 2 250ct pillowcases in red, a silicone baking mat, a 40" fan, a 4qt crock pot, a 16" electric skillet, and a fire safe box from Target.
And we STILL have money to burn at Target. I think we've got all the kitchen stuff we have room for at the moment, so we might spend the rest of the gift cards on clothes for Jamie.
I hope to have pictures soon. Mom's going to burn them to a CD if Mema's computer will be nice and let them. We took "wedding" photos in Mema's yard on Saturday. Luckily, we took them before my back had me crying in pain.
Oohh, for the record, we went to IHOP for our one month anniversary and partook in delicious (though horribly bad for us) country fried steak. Jamie got the steak and eggs plate with pancakes and hasbrowns, and I got the regular dinner plate with a salad, mashed potatoes and onion rings. Mmmm so good!
We're trying to figure out what to do for dinner. Since it is a sorta special day, I don't think leftovers will do the evening justice.
Our wedding reception is this weekend at my mom's church. All of the church ladies are super-excited and very eager to help out in anyway. I'm so glad other people are handling all the preparations. I love event planning, but it is very nice to just sit back and let others do the work. Hey, what can I say? I'm a tad lazy. (Ok, more than a tad!) I'll post pictures ASAP.
I watched some episodes of Bridezillas this weekend. Jamie and I wonder if any of those couples are actually still married to each other. With the way some of those brides acted, it's a wonder they had any friends left after the ceremony. I definitely was NOT a bridezilla. My only demands for the reception were: must have cake, punch, peanuts, mints, and a veggie tray. Of course there will be more than that, but that was the bare minimum I wanted. Luckily, one of mom's church ladies has offered to make one of my all-time favorite munchies -- little ham and cheese sandwiches. YUM!
Jamie is having a bit of trouble getting used to the weather in NC. About the time he gets used to the hot and humid, the weather turns chilly. We had about an inch of much needed rain yesterday. It rained all day long. A nice slow and steady rain. Sadly, it wasn't enough to put much of a dent in the drought. At least it was a little help though. Flowers always do better with a bit of rain. The tomato is bigger, but it's still the only one. Hopefully more will come soon!
Man is it hot. For the past few days we've had 80+ degree temperatures with little breeze and absolutely no rain.
Over Memorial Day weekend we contributed to the $139.8 million that Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End took in. It was a really good movie. Pirate movies are really good in the theater what with all the action and swashbuckling and Arrrrr! Very few people stayed all the way through the credits to see the easter egg scene at the end. I wondered if they'd seen the ending scenes in the previous two movies. Eh. Their loss.
We also scoped out a nearby park. It was blazingly hot but a nice walk since it seemed to be one of the few places around here that's actually pretty level. Halfway back to the car I realized I was supposed to be at a rehearsal (honestly, who schedules a rehearsal for a holiday afternoon?!). But luckily, I remembered it just in time and we ended up being at rehearsal 30 minutes before I needed to be on stage. The rehearsal is the Academy's choir concert this Friday. I'm playing in a quartet, which is accompanying the singers for Vivaldi's Beatus Vir. I have no idea what Beatus Vir means, but the piece is pretty easy and very Vivaldi-sque. I like Vivaldi. He's very Baroque, and the earlier the music is (history-wise) the more I like it!
We celebrated our one week anniversary on Friday with a trip to our favorite Mexican restaurant, which happens to be only about 100 yards away. Unfortunately we didn't walk to dinner because the sky was very rumbly and we didn't want to get rained on....even though it never did rain. Then we headed to Costco to cash-in our gift membership (Thanks Nana J!).
We enjoyed our first weekend together as a married couple, and didn't do much besides play video games, watch the race at Darlington, watch movies, and just be lazy. It was perfect! We're hoping to be lazy again this weekend.
I told Jamie the other day that no matter what we're doing, even if he is on the computer and I'm in the living room watching tv or playing a video game, I'm never bored with him around. One of my favorite things to do is to watch him play games either on one of the game consoles or on the computer. My absolute favorite game to watch (and one of my favorites to play) is Age of Empires 3. Soooo fun!
We officially have two chipmunks. Soon after we'd moved in, we saw a chunky little chipmunk. Then just a few days ago we noticed the chipmunk looked tiny. We finally saw both of them out at the same time this afternoon. They're so cute!!! I've discovered a new past time---laying on the floor by the back door and watching the birds, squirrels (we usually have 3), and the chipmunks. So much fun!
I'm going to start archiving old posts on the front page of our website to our blog. I'll keep the three most recent posts on this page, and the rest will go to the blog. You can click on the link to the left to get to our blog. I may occasionally still post to my Yahoo 360 blog, but most of my random writings will be here.
We have been married for a whole five days! Eeee! So exciting!
We're enjoying married life, though it isn't really too much different from life these past six months. We just have pretty jewelry to wear now. Poor Jamie...his ring is too big! We had to order a smaller size when we ordered it from Marks and Morgan, but now his smaller sized ring is too big. It slips off his finger VERY easily. We'll have to look into getting some plastic ring sizers for him. His ring is made of tungsten carbide, so it can't be resized like gold or silver. It has to be cast for the correct size, which is what we did the first time. Oh well. Hopefully his fingers will swell up a bit when the humid NC summer kicks in.
Welcome to our new website! We figured we needed something to keep our friends and family up-to-date on what we're doing.
Like the masthead on top of the page? Yeah, I made that. All by myself! Cool, huh. One of the best parts about marrying Jamie is all the stuff that he brings, like his 52" HD tv, his XBox 360, his Playstation 2, and his monster computer which has the coolest software (including Photoshop CS2 that I used to make the masthead). If anybody out there needs some cool website artwork, just give me a holler!
Oh and just for your information, we're registered at the following places (gift cards welcome!):
Linens N' Things