Well, just got an e-mail from my mom saying that she wants to take all of us kids on an Alaskan Cruse! I have never been on a large ship before, or even near a cruse ship. (I have walked by the Queen Mary but never been on it.) But I am so excited. This could be so fun. She wants to go in May after school is out and take all of my siblings and our significant others.

It will be one huge party! I have always dreamed of my family doing something like this. I am so excited! A 7 day cruse to Alaska!!!! OMG!

Just as my previous blog states, I am so very fortunate! Everything is going so well for me. it is a wonderful blessing. I am thanking what ever god/goddess is behind all this.

*squee*

So as some of you may or may not know, I play Dungeons and Dragons. 4th edition came out a short while ago and they also created some little cartoons to discuss some of the new changes. Well if you have seen the New 4th edition books and the cartoons, then you shall under stand my use of the phrase, "I'm a monster, RWAR!"

I just wanted to post that life has been wonderful and going along smoothly. It is very thrilling to be able to look at the events and situations placed before me and smile knowing that I can handle it. It truly is a marvelous feeling to see something happen that you would normally think the world will end from, but smile and know that it happened, you can not change it, and only good can come from the situation.

Nothing has happened to Chris or I in the past month or so to where it should be feared that bad things are happening, but simply the little things, like larger electric bills with the summer and us not being able to go places together all the time because of both our work schedules. It is great to look at those little things and not care. Because something great can come of them. Karma goes both ways. One good thing leads to a bad and one bad thing leads to a good.

I am very happy and healthy and well, I just wanted to share the news.

Well, Scarborough has come to an end, this weekend is the last for the 2008 season with three days left to see all of my friends and family and grow closer even still with some of them.

This season has been amazing with its ups and downs but I really don't see any of the downs as all that bad. This season has been wonderful and amazing.

I have been trying to take care of all of the life situations that always come to pass everyday. All of them seem to be working out wonderfully. I have had some issues with people and things but I have had even better situations with new friends!

I am so happy to be able to see everyone for three more days and hope that I can spend as much time with them as possible.

I hope that the next day goes well and that everyone takes care and has a great Memorial Weekend.

The pictures documenting the expressions of O'Riley when he received the guitar. I chose the best ones out of the bunch.

The SHOCK!

The Almost weeping

This past weekend of Scarborough Ren Fest , I had thought and expected to be full of stress and drama. I was expecting such and was getting ready to defend myself against such situations. 

During the fair however everything ran as best i could. The Saturday sales were low but The day itself was marvelous. I took my mid afternoon break and walked around the air speaking with all of my friends and doing some window shopping. I took a friend of mine to a shop selling opouches to hep her choose one and the same shop sells has etched guitars that my boyfriend has been fauning over for the past two years.

In fact, that morning he has asked me in a very excited manner out of the blue if I remember the shop with the guitars from the year prior when we found them. I had and we walked over as he swooned over a very beautiful redwood acoustic with beautiful celtic knot work engraved onto it. 

So as I am at the shop later that day looking at pouches I made a very unwise financial desicion. I was going to get that guitar and asked them to hold it for me till after cannon that day. I wanted to suprise him with it. Speaking with Hanna, who was looking at the pouches, I was trying to determine the best way to give it to him. During the process I began to regret putting my name on the piece. His exact reaction to the gift would be wonder and love and excitement, but also frustration for he knows we could not afford it and might make me take it back. 

During this one sided discussion with myself and Hanna listening to my crazy antics, i thought about all of the friends that we have at fair and how nice it would be to make the guitar a gift from all of us.

For the nest two hours I was running from one side of the fair to the other asking every one of our friends if they wanted to pitch in for the surprise as well as telling them to meat at the shop at cannon shop that he may receive the gift in front of every one.

I was able to get everyone and everything planned perfectly and as the cannon went off for the closing of fair, all of the friend began to gather. He saw that most of them were hanging around with no reason to be there and most of them did not know one another. He though nothing of it and chalked it up to the day simply being as good as it was.

I approached with the gift behind a friends back and called his name holding it out to him saying that it was from all of our Friends at Fair. There were people involved who he never would have thought felt he was a friend. His jaw dropped to the grass and he stated that for the first time in his life he had nothing to say. He became very flushed and almost started weeping.

The plot that had been in the making for only 3 hours prior had been a perfect success. Everything was perfect. This weekend was the best that there was and everything was truly amazing. O'Riley got his guitar, there was no drama, we were relaxed the entire weekend, the weather was the best it could have been, and everyone was happy.

Fair is perfect!