1 2 3 Goodbye

This weekend has brought two tragedies to two communities. One the Olympic community losing a 21 year old luger from Georgia. I've watching the video a few times of his crash and the only thing I can think is that he was doing something that he loved. Georgia was lucky to have him representing them and I can't believe that something like that could happen at the winter games. The second loss is a girl from Marquette, she was very involved in the Hospitality program at Northern. She had a certain vibe about her and there is an energy that seems to be missing yet still alive. She was in a few of my classes and was a great person, from what I know. Today's class is very tough with the news just starting to spread and all my prayers go out to her friend's and family. The hospitality industry missed out on a great person in the field but now has an angel to watch over.

December, 1963 (oh, what a night)

Updates from previous post:

Elsa's Wedding was AMAZING! It was beautiful and tons of fun! I think my favorite part is that she had a red wedding dress, I can't wait to see how she alters it to wear again (cut shorter to dance). The day was long and exhausting and yet so short. The part that annoyed a lot of us was that the photographer kept taking pictures of us between the church and reception. We just wanted to pick up some champagne and drive around. The reception was great with a pretty cool DJ and a MARIACHI band!!! To start, the bride and groom were introduced, Mr and Mrs. Scardino (I'm going to miss Gonzalez). Then they went right into the speeches! This was pretty good, except that there wasn't much of a toast. So... me being the way I am when the mariachi came in I decided to follow that. HOW DO YOU FOLLOW A MARIACHI?!?!?! I might be able to answer that! Just make a fool of yourself, I focused on a few main points, how do you follow a mariachi, knowing Elsa, un-officially thanking Target for the un-official sponsor, and maybe another point that I can't remember. Anyways, I rocked it and then had tons of fun dancing the night away. The groom's step-dad told me throughout the night that I was the life of the party. Sad to say, I left around 11:30pm because I was tired and I had to wake up early to drive back to the UP. I said my goodbyes and crashed as soon as I got home... well after I chatted with Doc.

The next day I trekked back to the UP and stopped in Green Bay for lunch with my Grandparents. I think that I'm going to try to spend more time with them while I'm in the Midwest. The plan right now is to move down to New Orleans with Doc over the summer and stay there. I'll probably miss the random dinners with my Grandparents when they're in Milwaukee. Back on topic, the hockey game that night was fun, except that the Puckhead section was minimal, meaning 4-ish. I took over the drum cheers and eventually the fraternity boys showed up. One of the boys wanted the drum I had and I just gave him a look like, "HELL NO." It's interesting playing a drum with the Puckheads, being a percussionist as well. When you hand off a cowbell to any of them they look at it like, "how's it work?" Some of them DO have rhythm and know what they're doing. My favorite part is when you know how to do a cheer and you spice it up.. then you get looks! I feed off of those looks of, "stop ruining the cheer" which I'm not, and you would know that if you knew rhythms. So the team won, I can't remember by what but it was weird being at a game without Doc.

That diet thing I mentioned last time... not happening really. My weekends are really screwy so I skip those days and then I lose momentum. I feel like I'm eating healthier and I'm really trying!

On to new business. I forgot to mention that my car decided to have problems when I was home for the wedding so I had a soccer mom van for a week. This was okay, other than paying for gas. Having the van was cool because then I got to go back home the following week to get my car back. Umm... the week was uneventful. No, wait, my best friend is now single, I was scared for the first week of what she was going to do, like crazy stuff. It was okay, she just drank (almost like her birth week, but not, because I wasn't there).

The weekend was EPIC! The Lacee and I drove down to Milwaukee for a weekend errand. When we got to South Milw there was a city water main break that affected the whole city of SM. This was just great, no drinking, no boiling the water. So, all of the grocery stores stocked up on water, like CRAZY! They fixed the break by noon the next day. That night my parents had ticket to a show Downtown so we went to Rudy's for dinner, 2 margarita pitchers and a meal later we were out the door. Lacee and I started at Bar Louie and had a Dirty CEO (olives stuffed with blue cheese). We got a free martini to test out for the Valentine's specialties, it tasted like a cherry tootsie pop! After that we went to Water Street Brewery and I had a beer, Lacee had two. We chatted with some guys at the bar and then went next door to Rosie's. We got a pitcher of Spotted Cow, delish! My parents called me and said they were at Egan's and something about my Grandparents. At this point Lacee and I are pretty gone. We went to Egan's and my parents were sitting there with my Grandparents. So Lacee met Grandma and Grandpa when she was drunk. ALWAYS FUN! The next day I took Lacee around town, shopping, Kopps, Grandparent's old condo, and all the fun things. That night we volunteered at the theatre in town and saw the community players show for free. The shows were okay. After the show me, Lacee and Becky went out downtown to The Safe House. It was tons of fun! We found a spot at the end of the bar and chatted with one of the bar-backs throughout the night, Agent Smith. Lacee had several free drinks, on account of her being so HOT... and the guys swarming around her. Agent Smith mixed a NA drink for Becky and then made an AMAZING drink! Damn Girl, Slap Me Again! It was such a great drink! I got the recipe and I am going to attempt to get it in the UP.

I think I'm going to end this insanely long update at that.

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