Drinking Opportunities.......Thanks to the Packers

Last Friday was a busy day with the business.....it was nice and refreshing to keep hopping all day long with freight. Thanks Sheldini for your part :) After a busy day, I welcomed by beloved husband home after not seeing him for 5 days. It is such a long time, but with the cost of fuel raising....we have no choice.

Saturday, Joel & I were going to do some snowmobiling, but Big Joe & Jim decided they were going to go to upper Prairie Lake to do some fishing. So we just decided to do our errands in Rice Lake and true to form.....we blew off the whole day by shopping, lunching and bumming around. Saturday evening Joel spent time lounging while I proceeded to drink a bottle of Sangria all by myself while doing a little Face booking & backgammon. I love quiet evenings.......until 11:45 pm when we received a call from our son stating he had hit a patch of ice on his way home from work, hit the curb and into the snow he went. He got himself out, but felt something was wrong with his car. He drove to the Shopko parking lot and called Joel. So we get out of bed, get dressed and hopped in a COLD car at midnight! It sucked! After Joel looked at the car it appears he did something to the suspension, bent the tire rim and screwed up the steering. As of right now we are waiting to see what the estimate is before we decide to turn it into insurance.

Sunday morning we decide we are going to do a little snowmobiling. We gas em' up, get us bundled up and head out towards Gilligan's......needless to say that is far as we got. Tailgating, friends and beers at 11:00 am in the morning for a 2:00 pm Packer Football game.......nice! We had a delightful afternoon filled with beers, shots and touchdowns. After it was determined the Pack was going to the Super Bowl, as if we hadn't had enough beers.....we decide to do a little SWI (snowmobiling under the influence) and go bar hopping. Quick stop at Lynda's Lakeshore for a bucket of beers and then onto Red's for a Bailey's & coffee and a quick bite to eat. Home by 8:30 pm

Today it is a quick clean of the house, laundry and business paperwork before Joel comes home with Grandma Waage. She will be here for just a couple of days.

Now we prepare for another drinking opportunity on Sunday, February 6th as the Pack take on the Steelers.....if you have nothing to do, please join us at Gilligan's.....guarantee it is an experience nothing like you have ever experienced before :)

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Life has been a tad hectic!

It has been over a month since I updated the Waage's life up in the northwoods. I'll try to to give the quick version......but you know I can be...blah blah and more blah!

December 6th I started school/training program at Xcel Energy. Life as I knew it was gone! School was from 3:00 pm - 11:30 pm and with the 1 hr commute on the front & back side....it made for a very long day/night. At first I was running the business in the morning but as the lack of sleep caught up with me, Big Joe stepped in to watched e-mail and answered the phone while he let me sleep in.

Christmas was the most memorable Christmas we had have in many years. We started Christmas Eve day out by celebrating the 1 year anniversary of Joel & I permanently moving to the lake. Then it was time to pack up the truck and head to the cities for Christmas festivities. Jonathan was unable to come along as he needed to work, so Joel & I went alone. We started by picking up our adopted family members, John Young & Rita Koch and headed to Old Country Buffet to meet up with Grandma Waage, John, Joanne and Courtney for dinner. After a lovely dinner we all went back to Grandma Waage's party room for dessert and present opening. John & Joanne were behind us with Grandma W & Courtney in their car and once we dropped off John & Rita, Grandma W & Courtney got into our truck and we headed to the lake for more Christmas. It has always been a tradition in our home for everyone to get into their Christmas jammies before opening Christmas presents. Well, Courtney didn't have jammies, so when we opened presents earlier we had given some to her. Once we all got our Christmas jammies on we opened presents. On Christmas morning the kids awoke to find out Santa came and left presents for them. With dinner in the oven we waited for John & Joanne to arrive for dinner. Later in the evening we sent Grandma W back with John & Joanne. Once they were off safely, we all suited up to do a little snowmobiling........ the end to a perfect day! The following day we loaded up Courtney and off we went to return her back to her apartment.

New Year's Eve was slated to be a blast with my classmates Susan & Diana and their spouses coming for the weekend until we learned of the ice storm coming then they needed to cancel. So the evening was filled with doing errands while Jonathan headed up to his Chickie's house in Shell Lake. When the ice came....it hit hard & fast and as fast as it came....it was gone! I think Joel & I were in bed by 10:00 pm! Whoopied Do!!!!

January 10th Joel & I celebrated our 26th anniversary.......he in Minneapolis and me still in training in Eau Claire! With the price of fuel steadily rising, Joel has been staying in Mpls during the work week and just coming home for the weekends. On the weekends he & I have had the opportunity to do a shit load of snowmobiling on the trails! Loving every bit of it!!!

Big Joe got a job and will start trucking driving school with Roehl out of Marshfield, WI. Due to unforeseen circumstances I turned in the notice at Xcel Energy....they left out a little detail such as we are expected to work until midnight and weekends.........screw that!

So that is pretty much everything in a nut shell!

Take Care all
Joel, Amy & Jonathan