Nicole’s Blog

Today I was walking to a ribbon cutting down the street from my office.  Two of our volunteers were a short distance behind me. 

My heel got stuck in the sidewalk and as I pulled it out of the crack it caught the cuff of my pants leg and well from there it just wasn’t a pretty sight.  When my heel snagged my cuff I lost my balance and with both my feet entangled my sunglasses flew off my face and I went crashing into the sidewalk with my hands and both my knee caps as the only thing to break my fall!  As if the sharp burning in my knees and my hands wasn’t bad enough I hear my volunteers call out "oh my gosh Nicole are you ok" as they come over to pick me up off the ground!

I examined my quickly bruising knees as they made a few jokes about how I should sue for workers comp or complain to the city about the upkeep of the sidewalks.  I looked at one of our volunteers who is always joking with me and said "go ahead laugh I know you are dying to" he smiled and said "well that looked like it hurt pretty bad so i will wait until tomorrow to laugh at you!" 

I turned around to head back to work because my right knee was starting to bleed and I didn’t want it to ruin my dangerous and overly cuffed pants! 

By the time I got back to the office I already had a voicemail and an email.  The vmail was from a friend at the ribbon cutting saying he heard I took a fall and wanted to make sure I was alright.  The other was from Lana Banana saying "geez some people will do anything to get out of a ribbon cutting". 

Oh the life and times of Nicole… never a dull moment!  All afternoon I whined about my sore knees. 

Miss Lara belle and Vanessa who normally pick me up when I fall both told me they were sad they were there to get me off the ground.  Lara said she would have jerked me up out of there and hugged me to shield me from the embarassment… which is so true considering she has done it before! 

clutzy

As you already know our little group is always ready to dress up and act silly so you know that of course the one day of year that this is actually acceptable and encouraged we were out in full force!  

We spent Friday night at a new restaurant in town that had a band downstairs and to Wendy’s delight an 80’s DJ on the second level. 

You know this crew we….danced danced danced the night away. 

Ray Ray and I were an Octoberfest German Couple!  Isn’t he adorable in those suspenders!  Oh the things I can talk that boy into..haha.

Wendy was a roaring 20’s Flapper girl and came complete with her own gansta Gerb!

Lara was our Braves player sexy socks and all!

 Nick and Celsea came as Macho Man Randy Savage and his foxy wife.  Here he is showing off his macho man skills!

Wayne was flying high as our aviator friend!

And no political season halloween would be complete without Palin and her secret service agent Diesel!

To feed the pop culture need for Ms. Spears we have preggers Britney &  and her former hubby KFed!  Oops she did it again kiddos!

Brother also came and dressed up, but for fear of him threating my life I won’t put his costume on this blog.. although if you look closely enough you will see it!  It was classic!

And as if Halloween wasn’t enough fun for one night.. Charlies Angels and crew made a trip to the nursery where the stork delivered the beautiful Ms. Kaitlyn Birchfield halloween day.  Michael and Christy have a beautiful baby girl weighing in at 6 lbs and 2 ounces.  Momma, baby and proud poppa are all doing well! 

Hope your halloween was as fun as ours was!  Pics are posted.

little german girl!

Last night Ray and I settled in to watch one of my favorite show Private Practice.  Which like all of our other favs we have set to DIVO on the high def channels.  When I turned to watch it about 5 minutes into the show the HD channel was completely out so we flipped to the regular ABC channel where we could see our favorite characters, but they were speaking SPANISH.. yes I said Espanol!!!! 

My mind immediately went back to a few months back when we could see ABC, but all we could hear was some radio station coming through!  We never figured out what the problem was back then so i was mad!  I was ready to call Charter or ABC themselves to see what was happening.  Of course Ray was not nearly as angry as I was.  He was just laughing about it all.  I called our neighbors to see if theirs was working while their HD channel was out too their regualar ABC were not speaking spanish.  It was then that Ray adjusted one of the settings and realized for some reason that channel was set to SAP! 

So all was fixed, but we missed about 20 minutes of the show.. oh well the tricks on me!

Happy HULLAWEEENIEE everyone!  Hope you have a safe and happy weekend filled with lots of chocolate goodness!

Feliz Halloween,

BOO bear

Today is the birthday of someone very very special in my life my momma!  If you read this blog you already know what a big part of my life she is.  She is the first person to read & comment on here each and everyday (at least when i used to blog everyday she did… i know i know i need to do better) because she has an interest in my life.  She feels like she knows my friends through my stories on here and frequently asks how each of you are doing.    She is my best friend, the person I strive to be more like, my biggest supporter and the one I turn to when things go wrong. 

She is one of the kindest, sweetest people I have ever known.  She is a friend to all our furry friends and there are so many animals that have found good homes and love thanks to her generosity.  She is friend to those in need, a shoulder to cry and the one person who always tries to see the best in us all.

Thanks for being the best mother a girl could ever ask for.  I hope your day is filled with love, friends, family and happiness. 

I wish i could be there with you today, but since I can’t i’m sending hugs and kisses to Clintwood!

Remember age is only a number and you momma Wanda grow more beautiful inside and out with each passing year.

I miss you mommasone!

kisses,

your baby girl

 Friday afternoon as Lara and I were headed back to work we saw the building of a local radio station was covered in bras!  My mom had told me about their campaign throughout the month of October to collect bras for breast cancer awareness month. 

So just for fun Lara and I had to stop and get our picture taken with them! 

You can’t really see clearly from this pic, but all the stuff hanging off the building are bras! 

  Saturday night Lara and headed to cage fight.. yes i said a cage fight and it was scary and awful.  These guys get in a ring and literally beat each other.. its kinda like a boxing/wrestling combo.  We stayed for three fights and couldn’t handle the blood, the noises and the roughness of it.  Literally a guy was knocked out for about 2 minutes during the first fight.  Our nerves were shot so we headed to JC for some good times with some friends.. much more chill than watching two guys beat each other to a pulp!

 Today was the race for the cure 5k and guess who ran it… MY GIRLS and GERB.  This was Wendy’s first race and i’m so very proud of her!  She has worked really hard for this day and she did it… SEE WENDY WE ALL KNEW YOU COULD! 

Lara and Gerb ran it too and finished with Wendy.  I just wish I could have ran it with you guys.. darn knee… grrrrr!  Oh well maybe next year. 

Cancer touches all of our lives.  Breast cancer in particular has changed our family.  Please get regular checks ups, do self exams and remember early detection is the key.. we are the cure. 

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.

cage fighter