My Birthday Weekend, or Joining Anal Painters Anonymous...

This morning, I can hardly move! I 'm sitting here sipping coffee and eating chocolate covered sunflower seeds! OMG, mmmmm.... Mary, where on earth did you find them?!

This was the best birthday weekend ever!!!!

It all started with another fun Kurth night ;)... Tessa! as you can see, the chili dip was a BIG hit and the Buckeyes are only a distant memory... mmm.... THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH! Click here to see Tessa's pirate kitty in the brig (my favorite pic of Lil Cap'n Jack, still makes me cry)

Hi Jenny! For some reason I hardly took any pics at the Kurth. Must have been having tooo much fun. The ones I did take didn't turn out so well. Except for this one I took on Vicky's camera for Sir Jack... *pirating from Vicky's blog*

BIG fun as had by all as Vicky, and Osh and Evan decide whether or not to DRIVE TO CHICAGO after the Kurth to see some filming!!! They were sooo funny, sadly the Whoosey's and Caralea weren't allowed to tag along (dreaded curfew laws...) Click on the links above to hear the experience in their own words....... Suz and I were lucky enough to get a visitation immediately after the road trip, actually Suz was still sleeping and they were excitedly whispering all about it to me on the Stretch Limo of a couch at Suz's place. After which of course Suz says, "Why didn't you wake me?!?!" oops...

Evan did snap this great shot of Caralea for me before they took off! Thanks Evan...

The next mroning, Suz and I had a leisurely breakfast of BACON, (we were too tired to make anything else!) before heading over to the Painting Party at the Amtrack Station. While others went to get paint, I had to get more coffee over at Julies Java House, mmmm... Loved the signage over there! ; )

Liked this one best of all!!!

Suz got to hand Caralea her autographed Pirates handbag that Evan soooo graciously got Johnny to sign for her in Chicago. She couldn't resist setting her up a little though... he he! She was like, "Oh, Caralea, I'm sooo sorry long prenant pause but you are gonna be the most popular girl at school!!!" Here you go! You should have seen her smile ; )

Oh wait, here it is!

Krisx and Left hand Louie saved the day with getting us tinted paint rather than plain white! Awesome color choices Kris! And great eye for detail... Kris and I share the Anal Painter Gene neither one of us is able to stop touching up!!!! ; ) Actually it's a trait I love in another painter. In myself, not so much... I told myself on the way over to the station, "Self, you are not going to cut in today!, On account of your hand you are going to use your shoulder muscles instead of your hands to ROLL on paint today!" Did I listen to myself, NO!!! I stood on a ladder and cut in ALL DAY LONG!!! I was unable to resist the pull of making straight lines where there are none and compulsively TOUCHING UP! Am I paying for it today, of course I am! There shoudl be a 12 step program for anal painters... Not only is my hand swollen and hurting again, but my legs are like RUBBER, why did I have to do it on a ladder?????? OMG!

Left Hand Louie plots his next attempt to scare 10 years off my life...

Jordy and Caralea working hard!

Darling!

Some of the gang at work... Hi DJ! Finally dj and I got to have a nice long chat, we've been staring at each other over heads at the Kurth for several weeks now. I've missed her, so close but yet sooo far... ; ) We laughed sooo hard at Jenny telling us ghost stories... My tummy hurts a little today from laughing sooo hard, but it's a good hurt! The only thing I wish I'd donr differently this weekend is eat more CAKE!!! I think I need that recipe too DJ!! (I'm also agreeing with whoever asked Rod if his noodle recipe was a state secret or available to the masses... Is it?, Is it?)

So sorry I didn't take more pics, or better ones. Luckily, you can find the better ones at Michelle's place! or Rod's! I also think Jenny/ took down all the names of those who helped out, I think there were like 20 people there!

This is the state of affairs with my laptop. Still spread out all over my kitchen table, grrr... I hope I can make some time later to day to ge back to it. There will be no cooking in my house until it's done! For now though, got to go get ready to go have lunch at my Aunties...

Thanks all for making my birthday sooo very special! Especially BIG thanks to Suz who always welcomes me and makes me feel at home... You are sooo special to me, girl!!!!! (Thanks for putting up with all the kitty drama!)

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