So long to the visitor, giving blood & halloween

Thursday night was another evening with the nephew - we met up with SB & MS for dinner again at Cheeburger, Cheeburger.  Where VJ proceeded to eat the 1lb burger (I knew he'd be able to), got his picture taken for the wall, and got the promo pack of a t-shirt & extra picture.

He left about 10 pm for home.  It was a short visit, but worth every minute.  Even though we didn't do much together, it was so worth it.

Saturday morning was the Capitals blood drive at Kettler Ice Arena.  Something about either the Caps blood drives or having Dan with me is a bad omen for me.  The girl who poked me with the needle didn't get it in there correctly and the blood did NOT flow AND it was hurting!  I've NEVER had issue giving blood (either for tests or donations).  Needless to say, I basically immediately bruised up and boy is it big now.  I've never had a bruise this big from blood being drawn.  Dan was the man though - he gave double blood cells!  I had never heard of that before.  It took a little bit longer and he was FREEZING afterwards (the blood gets put back in the body cold) and a little light-headed.  Then yesterday he was exhausted - not sure if it was from the blood donation or not.

Halloween went well.  We handed out all of the candy - probably a little too fast - but we handed out for 2 hours.  Kids were still coming to the door after we turned off the light.  It was cold out and Dan was trying to get dinner for us, but it wasn't done before the doorbell started ringing.  We sat outside for awhile with the pups (Zed was shivering, he was so cold).  Esa had on her bat collar and Zed had on his wizard costume.  We just weren't really into halloween this year (my reason is because of the job being in limbo).

Yesterday, I took Zed up to visit the shelter.  One of the employees, who fell for Zed as much as I did, hadn't seen him since we took him home.  She was so impressed on how good he looked.

Work is still in limbo.  The new company, Marketplace Development, and the Airport Authority are working towards bringing in the new company.  Everyday, I feel the contract coming to an end and it's hard to stay motivated and positive.  I have sent in my resume to Marketplace, but have yet to hear from them to set up an appointment.  I did get an email saying that they would like to speak with me, but nothing else.  In the meantime, I'm sticking with Westfield until the end.

What we got in the mail yesterday!

Free magazine!
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

Excitement in the neighborhood & time with the nephew

I guess I should start with the excitement - come to find out, we have a potential terrorist in our neighborhood.  He was arrested yesterday morning.  By yesterday afternoon it was all over the news.  So the neighborhood was a buzz yesterday while I was at work.

Last night, VJ and I went to dinner and decided on Glory Days - somewhere new for him and so we could watch the Caps game.  As we got out of the car, who's walking into the restaurant, but my good friend, SB and her boyfriend, MS.  So we had dinner with them.  VJ & MS got along great because of their obsessions with cars, while SB & I got to chat.

We finally got home probably about 9 pm, then VJ decided he wanted to start a fire in the firepit.  How many Clarks does it take to start a fire - more than two plus a firestarter block.  I kept on saying, "I'm not taking you on Survivor" & "I don't know how Dan starts the fire", "Check on the internet", "we're still going to be trying to start the fire when Dan gets home".  Just not something either one of us learned growing up (of course, I DON'T camp, so no need to know how to start a fire).  I was impressed that VJ stayed calm and kept trying.

Needless to say, last night was a late night, but worth it.  If it wasn't for work, I would have stayed up later.

1:50 pm - another link regarding the terrorist in the neighborhood.