AW Jen - too bad I didn't get to read your post pre-editing. Noticed you had to come on in and edit at 8 am. Hmmmmmm...... wonder what it said prior to that??????
Pat - I totaly know. I have no idea what they would gain - my sister said, maybe it was a gang thing - I said, well that is one pansy type of gang then because it takes no cohanas to run up to a car and stick a knife into its tire and run off again in the middle of the night. I grew up in a smallish town and getting tires slashed in a neighborhood would have been all over the newspaper and the kids would have been caught - I think. It freaks me out that someone was that close to my house with a knife in hand, though.
It's OK for us because we needed to replace the tires that got hit, but I tell you, if they had hit my new car I would have been BS to the point of craziness. As it was, I was crazy yesterday - I caught some kids stashing something under the bushes of my neighbors in the afternoon - I came running out of my house screaming that I saw them do that and they had best go and pick that stuff up. The kids looked sick scared and started crying that they were only taking their jacket off that their mother made them wear as it was too hot and they would be back to pick it up - swear it. Man, I felt like a raving lunatic - felt like I needed a sign that said, "I am not a freak, I just had my tires slashed so look out anyone acting suspicious in my neighborhood".
My neighbor said it was good that I did that, though, because she finds beer stashed in that little nook in her bushes all the time - so if those kids knew about that hiding place, then they may be the ones stashing beer and pinging out her street light too. Now they know someone watches.
Sounds like we live in a scary neighborhood, but we actually just live in a middle class neighborhood on a very good side of the city - but it's a big city with big city issues.
Most of our friends have moved to the burbs - but I like living in the city because of the convenience of everything and the community atmosphere - plus it's the one area that I am fairly green about. I like that we don't add to the sprawl issues taking place in our state by living in the city (said by the woman who works for a big box retailer in real estate
).
Well, that was an awfully long post about nothing cruise related.
P.S. Pat - I LOVE the Rolling Stones - but man, halfway through "Satisfaction" I was like, "enough already" They were soooo off key and the jam session was a little ridiculous and discordant. But it was good to see them again as I missed this last tour.
We also just steamed our rugs last Sunday night. My husband does it after I do the pickup. It's pretty OK. Our friends think we are nuts to do it ourselves as they hire Stanley Steamer or something like that but we find it to be fine and a little fun to do - plus you know you are doing the spots you really need to do really well.
Suzie - take care of her - I think she is just entering that stage when she just needs a little more help, not dire stage of life, just a little more help. See if you guys should start discussing something like visiting nurses. No matter how much you love someone or want to be there for them, you really can't do the round the clock vigil stuff for an extended peroid of time - just think about maybe getting someone like a nurse to check on her often during the day or stay with her through the night.
So Stacy if your out there, we're waiting 
Take the plunge, join in on the fun
for the packet you sent. How cool are you to think of me on your vacation. It was a wealth of information that I wouldn't have found on my on ahead of time. 
HGP calls me the Queen of Big Ideas(I guess Queen of anything isn't a bad gig huh!)....but i have a difficult time translating those down to daily tasks. I am working on a promotion around the 3 day Breast Cancer walk in October but I can't wrap my mind around it and it is driving me crazy! I need a "working vacation" someplace warm! All alone-just sitting on a lounger somewhere thinking!! Tough to think at home with Mt. Laundry glaring at me from the hallway! Yes....I moved it into the hall this morning right by the front door so I wouldn't ignore it for one more day!
I don't know if the American Girls are coming. It will depend on the size of the luggage load cause honestly I don't want to have to carry them thru the airport- and you kNOW that will happen after about 5 minutes! They are both Hannah's. She has Molly and Elizabeth. Katie isn't 5 yet so she has to wait. I think we are going to get her Jess for her birthday(LOVE Jess' outfit!) and she will probably want to bring her so yeah-I guess so. Molly has a snow white costume someone made so that would be neat! 
In fact Tom thought it was so funny that he yelled to me in the kitchen (I was making school lunches) to get in here and read about PhillyJen hurling. Lindsey, in her most innocent voice, says "who threw up?" to which Tom replies "no honey, I said hurled the football"!!! Priceless!!!! 
Saturday night), Super Bowl party at the neighbors house Sunday night...so basically our whole weekend consisted of Soccer & Drinking, Drinking & Soccer...though not at the same time!!!
I was so excited because it was the castlegazer one again - they had taken that one off the air and replaced it with those silly ones touting the $1500 deal. 
(by the way, this is castlegazer = 
