BLESSING OF THE BEASTS!

On Sunday I volunteered at Bide-a-wee to help out at St John's Cathedral for the blessing of the animals. It was quite the turn out with all sorts of animals there, from mice to camels and rabbits to parrots. We took two dogs from the shelter, Jackie a terrier mix and my girl Pearl a visually impaired cocker spaniel mix. If any two needed a blessing it was them. I hope they find homes soon!









http://gothamist.com/2007/10/08/pet_blessing.php

http://www.stjohndivine.org/

Reunion Pool Party

I haven't seen him in 18 years now I can't get rid of him! As you may have read I ran into an old friend the other night in Penn Station. On Saturday Bean, Ifer, Fitz and families came over to MJ & Davey's for a reunion pool party. Eileen came with Tommy and Matty. Jen came with John, Emma & lil' Big Jack and Fitz came with 2 of his 4 daughters, Sara and Erin, as well as Colby his niece. I brought myself, mainly because I had the keys to the house and someone had to let all these freeloaders in!

Not much has changed since we all hung out oh so long ago. That is if you don't count the 7 children, three spouses and four mortgages we all have between us.
I broke out some old pictures from High School and our proms. This is basically how the conversations went when looking at them:

"I can't believe the stuff we got away with"
"Look how thin I was"
"Who is that guy?"
"That's a lot of Budweiser"
"Is that me?"
and our over all favorite " It's amazing any of us amounted to anything!"

Love ya Fitz and don't leave us again!


The next generation...

Erin



Matty



Lil' Big Jack




Sara, Colby and Emma too



First Dates...



And yes, we are responsible adults...



Hey, where is everbody?

Not your normal Wednesday

As some of you know I usually go to Bide-a-wee shelter on Wednesdays after work to walk some dogs. Today I did the same but after I went to meet my friend Sherri who is in from Seattle. I met up with her for a couple beers before heading home. I stopped in the Duane Reade to pick up a soda and a bag of chips. I took about 10 steps out of the store, cracked open my Diet Coke and took a sip. Yuck, it was flat! Normally I would just keep going especially since I had a train to catch but this time I turned around and went back in to get a new one. As I was talking with the manager getting yet another flat soda out of the cooler I hear someone behind me say "Don't I know you"? I turn around only to find a blast from the past from my high school days, Dan Fitzgerald! "Holy Shit Fitz" is about all I can say.

It turns out we were both running to catch a train that was leaving in about 3 minutes, fortunately for us it was the same train. So for about 10 minutes we had time to catch up on the past 18 years.

Its pretty scary how fast time goes by. It seems like only yesterday we were cruisin' around in Fitz's bitchin Camaro listening to Pink Floyd going to get beer to drink in my basement with the gang. I immediately called Eileen because Dan and her were pretty close back then. You see Dan's girlfriend Jen was sleeping with Eileen's boyfriend Mike back then so they had that in common...

The basement:

In junior high we hung out in my detached two car garage. We painted the walls with names of punk rock bands and painted the floor with Karen's snow tires. Some time in high school Karen decided to finally let us in the house and gave us the basement. Topher built a "wall" around the toilet and we had a fridge for beer. What else did we need? Ash trays! Fitz had bags of sand in the back of his bitchin camaro because it fish tailed in the snow so we filled old pots with it in the spring and viola, ashtrays!

I sit here now 18 years later and about 50 pounds heavier drinkin a beer I don't really need and smokin a cigarette I don't really want but with a smile on my face remembering "the good ole days"!

I want to thank the friends from that time that I still keep in touch with and to the friends, like Fitz, that I run in to every once in awhile. Thanks for some of the best times, that is the ones I can remember...

Love Aimee

Aren't They Cute!!

So, I haven't "blogged" in awhile because there hasn't been much going on. So for now I will just make you look at more pictures of my nephews & nieces!

DON'T YOU JUST LOVE THEM?

p.s. GO YANKEES!!!