Saturday Randomness!

Last night my son and his roommate came over to wash their mountain of laundry. They brought their new girlfriends with them. It was fun and interesting. My son, who is 26, is dating a 20 year old. She is quite pretty but somewhat immature. I can only hope and pray that he knows what he is doing! We had fun talking about random things and each had their turn on the internet because the boys don't have it at their apartment. They brought some beer called 'black & tan'. I had never had it. I had one and it was very good! My son's roommate and I got into a very indepth conversation about good food and good wine. He works at an Italian restaurant. We talked about wine and I was surprised that he knew so much about it, even more than I do! And we talked about alfredo, real alfredo made fresh with cream and parm. He promised me that he would bring me some good alfredo and a good bottle of merlot in exchange for letting him wash his dirty underwear in my machine LOL. He also complimented my spaghetti. I had sent some over with Michael a couple of weeks ago and he mentioned how good it was! I felt honored considering he was comparing it to something made in an italian restaurant.

So I had to get to the bank this morning before noon to do some 'inside' banking. The only branch that is open on Saturday is about 20 minutes away. I timed it perfectly and slept as long as I could, especially since that beer gave me a pounding headache!

Hailey was planning to go visit Jeremy while I was at work. I got up and got ready and had a small meltdown over my hair (PMS for sure) and then went to the bank while she finished getting ready.

When I got back home I felt a little nauseated so I ate a can of reduced sodium tomato soup. It was very good and not too salty at all. Then we headed out around 12:15. I took Hailey to Jeremy's house and went to work.

I work in a beautiful building with beautiful grounds. There is a pool and huge waterfall but, due to the drought both have been empty and dormant for some time. But even the drought couldn't keep the beautiful fall foliage from taking my breath away. Every day when I go outside to smoke I look at all this beauty and wish I had my camera with me, so today I took my camera to work!

When I went outside to smoke I took my camera and attempted to capture some of the beauty on film...here's what I got:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was a little overcast but I thought the pics turned out pretty good.

So when I went back upstairs I kind of had the photog bug and took some more random shots.

There is this guy that works in our office who is sort of a 'jack of all trades'. I don't know his official title but he works in the Office Services department. They basically take care of all things pertaining to the office. This guy does everything from taking pictures for employee badges to controlling the thermostat in the building to building and tearing down cubes and running the appropriate wires to driving things back and forth to the warehouse in the company jeeps to monitoring parking....he's all over the place with his keys jingling and his Blackberry ringing...

THIS is his desk:

 

and this...not sure exactly what he uses this for!

 

 

Next is the cutest cube decoration I have ever seen! I spotted it a couple of weeks ago in one of my co-workers cube! I have GOT to get me one of these!

 

Didn't get much work done. In fact, there was only myself and one other person there. We spent about the last 45 minutes talking about our kids and football and Nascar. Then Hailey called wanting me to pick her up so we left around 5:15pm.

I went and picked Hailey up and we went to the grocery store. I bought fruit and veggies, milk and cereal, chicken and salad for tonight and the makings for chili for tomorrow. I also bought the fixins for green bean casserole and sausage balls which I have to make for work on Monday. Yes, the holiday potlucks at work have officially begun!

I also bought two essentials that I had run out of. I don't know how anyone cooks without these two items:

 

Finally, while strolling through the section where they have all of the candy and stocking stuffers I found something that made my heart feel a little full.

 

The time is winding down.

The clock is literally ticking.

The end of the #8 Budweiser Chevy as we know it is near, it is tangible, it is TOMORROW!

Maybe I will put this with all of my other Dale Jr #8 stuff and keep it as a collectible...

Maybe I will keep this and wait and see if there becomes a demand for Dale Jr #8 stuff once it is no longer available from the retailers (I might sell it, I might not)...

Maybe I will hang this stocking up on Christmas Eve along with my kid's stockings in hopes that Santa brings Dale Jr something good for Christmas...God knows he deserves it!

My hopes for the race tomorrow:

Jr wins the race and Jeffy takes the cup!

We will see...