Celtic Festival & Big Swords

My friend Nick and I with our BIG swords after winning Male and Female Athlete of the Day at the Niagara Celtic Festival in September : ) Long day, good times! My dad and Mr. & Mrs. Meehan came out to watch the festivities! The sword is on one of my windows in my apartment... I can only imagine what my landlord thinks ; ) What's not to love about a man in a kilt?The manly men throwing VERRRY high. Its a cool festival because we are part of the entertainment, and they treat us good!!

H-A-LL-O-W-EE-N!

My most vivid memory of primary school is Halloween time with Mrs. Few in music class. (a close 2nd is the huge paper mache dinosaur...) Singing halloween songs and making shadows behind the curtain. The famous Halloween song (and what I sing to myself every time I write the word...) "H, A, double L, O, W, double E, N, spells Halloween!" Yes I'm a loser.

Anyways, now that I have the day off I can finally upload pictures to my computer, while Norman sits above me on the couch and takes a nap : )


We were supposed to be from the 1920's and they were Vikings. Mike and I before we left my apt and Katy and Laslo at our first stop- Wally's; on the bar tour my landlord took us on :)And the journey back to my apartment at the end of the night... With my landlord leading the way back with his light... ; )

My New Man

Meet Norman. I adopted him today at Lollypop Farm (http://www.lollypop.org/) in Fairport. : ) He is about 6 and 1/2 months old, and was just brought to the shelter yesterday. Apparently his mommy and daddy got a divorce, and he was sent packing as a result. He was a little scared when we met him this morning, but it had to do with the fact that his mom abandoned him and then one of the cats he was sharing a cage with decided to pick on him and beat him up a little this morning. He looked like he had potential to be a sweetheart, and he proved it. He slept on my lap the whole ride home : ) He's a cutie. And he came from a home where he lived and got along well with other cats, a dog, and kids! More pictures to come*

(His name when he came to the shelter was Norman. I think I like it though, and it fits him... There is a possibility it will still change though...)

Summer Memories

Since I've been incredibly motivated to clean, organize, and do laundry since I got home from work, I still have yet to load all of my new pictures onto my computer... So I'm posting a few nice ones from the summer : ) I could say, "man, I wish it was still summer," but lets be honest, with days like we're having this week (70 degrees in November), we CANNOT complain. I also can't complain too much because November is an awesome month for teachers... Awesome because it is so broken up, but in my life that might make the kids act out, so we'll see how I feel when the month is over ; )

Picture 1... A random Sunday at the Meehan's... Lol. Shannon, Davis, and I passed out in the middle of the day... I think it might have been the day after Nick & JoAnna's wedding... But still, it makes me happy that I can just fall asleep there like I would if I was at Grandma's on a Sunday... : )

Throwing the flaming hammer at Brockport... Best tradition ever : )

After a walk around Durand Eastman, we went for a drive... cant remember why, and we ended up driving into a horrible thunderstorm, but when the rain stopped the lightning was awesome!

Finally Pictures!!

Last weekend, Melissa and her friend Wheeler came to stay with me because they had a wedding in Canandaigua. Their reception was down in Bristol, so Mike and I took them down and on the way back there was a huge double rainbow! (Mind you it was a miserable morning and afternoon, so I guess the bride and groom really deserved some rainbows for their pictures.


Next picture... Just a funny one when Mike caught me off guard on a picture pitstop. And then one of my favorite buildings in Canandaigua. 2 blocks from my apartment, the Ontario County Courthouse.

Thats all for now, then lots to come!

No wonder why I never "blogged" before...

Since it's been more than 10 days since my last blog, I guess it explains why I've never done this before, and why I haven't consistently written in a journal since I was in middle school. Anyways, lots has been going on since I last posted... Right now, I'm riding in the car from Slippery Rock, PA back to Canandaigua. Mike and I went down for the weekend to watch Laura's last band/dance performance of the year, and lucky for me he has a wireless card thing so I can do school work, grades, and email stuff the whole ride home : ) Right now we're about to drive past the Galleria mall... Having to drive past all of my "home" exits, makes me homesick. Really homesick. So close, but so far from home. Anyways, lots of pictures from all sorts of things will be coming: Pumpkin carving, Mike's cousin's wedding, Bristol when Melissa and sweaty friend Wheeler visited, Halloween, Slippery rock (Laura dancing & our road trip to Pittsburgh today!)

For now, some pictures from Bristol... Ok nevermind.. it takes too long to upload pictures from the Airport thing.. I'll do it later : )