Save the Date People! That's right...the big event will be happening in March! Perry will be turning 30 on Friday, March 27th and I am throwing him a party to celebrate! And you all thought we were getting married or something...weirdos. Since it is already half way through January, I thought it wouldn't hurt to through this event out there so you can get a heads up. We will be celebrating Perry's-Good-Bye-to-his-20s at the Hitchin' Rail Bar in beautiful downtown Arnott, Wisconsin. (You can laugh at those last four words...I know I did the first time I read them...on the drink chip from the Hitchin' Rail...because there is only one road that goes through Arnott...it's sort of how I grin each time I see the sign for Mullins Cheese...in downtown Knowlton. HA!)
We will have a DJ/Music, a chicken wing bar, appetizers galore...and beer. Of course. There is only one tapper at the Hitchin' Rail, so I am going to let the birthday boy choose. It will probably be Miller Lite or Point Pale Ale. I haven't decided on a theme for this event yet...but my wheels are turning. He does know about this party, so you can feel free to discuss it with him if you like...I'm just not going to tell him about the theme (well, once I think of it).
Other than that announcement, things have been good. In case you don't live in Wisconsin and read this...we are just emerging from an arctic deep freeze last week. Which cancelled Perry's first class at Northcentral Technical College...he was so funny, he said, "I've waited 10 years to go back to school and then they cancel it. They are making it difficult for me." But he did get to go to his class on Saturday morning, so at least he does have his first biology class out of the way (And a hilarious story of introductions with the "Oh my God Girls!").
I mention the weather for two reasons (the above mentioned cancelled class) and our evening without power. Last Thursday, during -45 wind chill temps, our power went out around 7:45PM. Now two nights before that we had a power surge that killed our power, but that lasted less than a minute (and fried our microwave...and if you know us at all, it will probably be weeks before we get a new one...kind of like our burnt out lightbulb in our fridge...it's been burnt out for almost two months...still haven't changed it.) We didn't freak out, we had places to go if it got too cold, but I just couldn't believe we would lose power on one of the coldest nights of winter so far. (They were replacing a power line pole in case you were wondering what caused it. We think someone hit the pole two nights prior and that caused the surge and they had to fix it). We layered up, I grabbed my flashlight, and I read a book for most of the night. Perry watched Napoleon Dynamite on his PSP...then finally we cuddled up and went to sleep. The power came back on around 12:30AM (scared the beejeezus out of me...we had had the TV on)...and all was right in our little world once again. But we did worry for awhile when we weren't sure when it would come back on. We did NOT want our pipes freezing...well, no one does...but we just didn't want to deal with fixing that. So after almost five hours of no heat, no light...we were back in business...and, yes, us two frugal people cranked the heat up to 68 to warm the house back up. But it went back down to 64 the next morning.
We also celebrated two dear friends of ours birthdays...Miss Cernak-o-witz-in-Training had her birthday on Jan. 14th and Miss Da had hers on Jan. 18th. We had wine, sang to the Mamma Mia! Sing-A-Long version, ate delicious sushi at Matsu Ya's (Check them out at http://www.matsuysushi.net/), hit up Partner's Pub (where I had a disgruntled moment...their jukebox now charges 50 cents a song! Are you kidding me? 50 cents!...but don't worry, I am fully gruntled now...I got over it once we went to Cedar Haus and I monopolized the jukebox with Lady GaGa and New Kids on the Block). And we were smart cookies and got a cab ride home, but not before we ordered Toppers Breadsticks and pizza to the bar and I had an in depth conversation with a kid in dreadlocks. It truly was a memorable weekend!
Happy Martin Luther King, Jr Day Everyone! And enjoy the Inauguration tomorrow...unless you have to work like I do and will only get to see the highlights.
We will have a DJ/Music, a chicken wing bar, appetizers galore...and beer. Of course. There is only one tapper at the Hitchin' Rail, so I am going to let the birthday boy choose. It will probably be Miller Lite or Point Pale Ale. I haven't decided on a theme for this event yet...but my wheels are turning. He does know about this party, so you can feel free to discuss it with him if you like...I'm just not going to tell him about the theme (well, once I think of it).
Other than that announcement, things have been good. In case you don't live in Wisconsin and read this...we are just emerging from an arctic deep freeze last week. Which cancelled Perry's first class at Northcentral Technical College...he was so funny, he said, "I've waited 10 years to go back to school and then they cancel it. They are making it difficult for me." But he did get to go to his class on Saturday morning, so at least he does have his first biology class out of the way (And a hilarious story of introductions with the "Oh my God Girls!").
I mention the weather for two reasons (the above mentioned cancelled class) and our evening without power. Last Thursday, during -45 wind chill temps, our power went out around 7:45PM. Now two nights before that we had a power surge that killed our power, but that lasted less than a minute (and fried our microwave...and if you know us at all, it will probably be weeks before we get a new one...kind of like our burnt out lightbulb in our fridge...it's been burnt out for almost two months...still haven't changed it.) We didn't freak out, we had places to go if it got too cold, but I just couldn't believe we would lose power on one of the coldest nights of winter so far. (They were replacing a power line pole in case you were wondering what caused it. We think someone hit the pole two nights prior and that caused the surge and they had to fix it). We layered up, I grabbed my flashlight, and I read a book for most of the night. Perry watched Napoleon Dynamite on his PSP...then finally we cuddled up and went to sleep. The power came back on around 12:30AM (scared the beejeezus out of me...we had had the TV on)...and all was right in our little world once again. But we did worry for awhile when we weren't sure when it would come back on. We did NOT want our pipes freezing...well, no one does...but we just didn't want to deal with fixing that. So after almost five hours of no heat, no light...we were back in business...and, yes, us two frugal people cranked the heat up to 68 to warm the house back up. But it went back down to 64 the next morning.
We also celebrated two dear friends of ours birthdays...Miss Cernak-o-witz-in-Training had her birthday on Jan. 14th and Miss Da had hers on Jan. 18th. We had wine, sang to the Mamma Mia! Sing-A-Long version, ate delicious sushi at Matsu Ya's (Check them out at http://www.matsuysushi.net/), hit up Partner's Pub (where I had a disgruntled moment...their jukebox now charges 50 cents a song! Are you kidding me? 50 cents!...but don't worry, I am fully gruntled now...I got over it once we went to Cedar Haus and I monopolized the jukebox with Lady GaGa and New Kids on the Block). And we were smart cookies and got a cab ride home, but not before we ordered Toppers Breadsticks and pizza to the bar and I had an in depth conversation with a kid in dreadlocks. It truly was a memorable weekend!
Happy Martin Luther King, Jr Day Everyone! And enjoy the Inauguration tomorrow...unless you have to work like I do and will only get to see the highlights.
1 comment:
Highlights?
Post a Comment