Oh, to be cultured..

I haven't written for awhile, but with good reason. Okay, not really. I just haven't had time. I've been really busy with work and trying to be simple and a community with my housies. It takes a lot of work to be simple, lemme tell ya. Kinda sucks that way.

Work is pretty good...I'm almost to the point where I can draw blood by myself..still learning. So watch out....cover your veins when you see me coming (I may need to practice on you...)!!!!

I went to a house party in Kenosha with one of my roommies last weekend (her boss had a party), and it was pretty fun. Lots of strange people, however...my fav costumes had to the the 6'6" drag queen and the homemade Transformer (woot!!) I went dressed as a dead girl...borrowed some props from the clinic where i work: a hospital gown, some bandages, and iv tubing....nifty place for halloween accessories ;) I had fake blood, bruises, the works...I'll have to post a pic on here. I'll get right on that. Perhaps. Then we came back to Milwaukee and went to this bar/bowling alley/arcade called the Landmark. It was a pretty rockin' place, although the showing of Rocky Horror Picture Show next door kinda took the cake. AND we had our first "big city" celebrity sighting: Amos Lee was bowling at the Landmark!! Now, for those of you who have no clue, Amos Lee is a singer and he's a pretty darn good bowler ;) One of the gals I was with is a huge fan and just had to go up and say hi; he was super nice about it and seemed genuinely appreciative of our "crazed fan" status..lol.

On Sunday, I got to go trick-or-treating with my nephew, Steven...he was Curious George and my brother, Ben, was the man in the yellow hat...sooo cute!! I had a really good time. Aunt Embly (as he calls me) got props for bringing along glow sticks...woot woot. I dressed up as a cat (figured the whole dead girl bit wouldn't go over so well with a two-year old) and was quite unsure how to dress up and NOT get candy..hmm...

I went to a Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra/Symphony Chorus concert this afternoon. My boss had an extra ticket and invited me along, so it was fun to 'go out on the town'! The concert was awesome...they performed The Song of the Nightingale, which had a narrator and was quite whimsical, and after the intermission they did Carmina Burana!!! Hurray! The opening note is just awesome and the whole movement just makes you wanna go out and kick some major rear.. whoop whoop!! I had a grand time! Downtown Milwaukee is pretty cool :)

Anyway, work is work and life is life. Just keepin' on. We have an LVC midwest retreat we have to go to this weekend, so there's a lot of prep for that. I'm just afraid it will be a lot of sitting around and talking about how we feel...ugh! How droll. I hate that.

I realize that I miss you all and life isn't the same without the craziness...soo..you RoCK!!!!! I'll write more later.