"Congratualtions Cassie Brodsky! You've won a 4 day, 3 night cruise to the Bahamas!!!....."

It was too good to be true... Oh well. I got that message yesterday only to find out that it was basically a scam. They get you to the Bahamas and they drop you off for 3 days and make you stay in a really, really crappy hotel and tell you that "for a small fee" you can upgrade. And there are all these other fees and hidden charges that come along with it. Whatever...

Besides almost winning a cruise, a lot of other things are going on. Im getting ready to leave for Arizona on Monday. Ill be gone till the 28th. Ill be visiting an Aunt and Uncle on one side of the family and grandparents on the other side. And both sides are having more family fly in. We leave out of Atlanta Tuesday morning.  Sure, Im excited, but I will miss Tristan so much... I guess there will be many more Christmas' with him, but its still depressing when you dont have the one you love with you on that day.

My grandmother on my mom's side is very Italian. Shes gonna be there visiting the Aunt and Uncle mentioned earlier. We're gonna have the big italian dinners... and the italian tradition of fish on Christmas.  Plus while Im there Ill hopefully get to spend time with one of my cousins, who I think if we lived closer to eachother, we'd be closer. Shes only a year older than me.

My aunt and uncle who I always visit in NC are gonna visit the grandparents on my dad's side of the family. And of course, there will be a ton of food there. The interesting thing about that side of the family is that they are Jewish. So we'll be celebrating Christmas and Hanukkah there. Potato latkes, driedles, menorahs.... if you have no clue what all that is- you're totally missing out.

Well, I hope you all have a Merry Christmas!!! Ill be home for new Years, but I probably wont write till after that, so Happy New Year too!!!

((Hey, this is the last entry of the year!!!!!!! Thinking back to life exactly one year ago, I remember that things were very, very different. Different in an awesome way, of course))

 

Heya peeps!
Im gonna be busy this week. My mom's friend from NY, ANgela is in town and we are gonna be taking her all over the place! Downtown, to a comedy show, the light show, the aquarium, some symphony thing.... So dont be suprised if I dont write for a while! Ive got some sad news:

Sam, crowned the 'World's Ugliest Dog' for three years in a row at the Sonoma-Marin Fair, is shown in Santa Barbara, Calif., on June 28, 2005. The pooch with the hairless body, crooked teeth and sparse tuft of hair atop his knobby head died Friday, Nov. 18, 2005, just short of his 15th birthday, according to his owner, Susie Lockheed.

 

(AP Photo/Santa Barbara News-Press, Rafael Maldonado, File)

 

Let us all take a moment of silence in loving memory of Sam, the World's Ugliest Dog.

Well, Thanksgiving was really great.... There were a few things that couldve made it better, but for the most part, it was sooo much fun. My Grandmother adores Tristan and says that he can come out to AZ any time he wants. Hahaha...
This week has been CRAZY. Kimberly probably has it crazier, but those IM practices are so time consuming! Every day there is something going on, plus practice at night. I like doing it, but Im scared to death to be on that stage. Wish me luck this weekend.
Next week my moms friend from NY is coming down to visit for a week. We are going to be doing something or going somewhere every single day. Downtown, to a comedy show, to see a symphony, to the aquarium, to the festival of lights....blah blah blah... Ill be t-i-r-e-d.

Hey...
I know that things are about to get crazy again and who knows when Ill write.
Tomorrow Im going down to the Aquarium to watch the old bride get blown up from their balcony. Then Ill get my raspberry mocha latte from Wholly Cow...MMMMM.
This weekend will be nuts too. Im too lazy to go into detail with all that.
Then next Tuesday Im leaving for NC to visit my Aunt and Uncles for Thanksgiving. Tristan is coming!! He'll get to meet some more of my family! He's already been with my Aunt and Uncle and their family a bajillion times...
So Im thinking that sometime after Thanksgiving, Ill get to write again.

tumbleweed... tumbleweed....

Yep, I know. I havent written in FOREVER. Soooorrrrrryyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!
Things have been pretty great! Heres some stuff that has happened since I last wrote:

I went camping-

Camping was SO much fun!!!!!! Im really tired right now (could be from the benadryl- long story), so Im gonna write a real entry tomorrow.
Goodnight!!!

I had a pretty good weekend. I taught facepainting at the conference at the church on saturday.
Then later that night I got to spend time with Melissa for the first time in about three weeks! (Amazing, I know.) We went to Marble Slab, and this girl Chelsea was working. I knew she looked familiar but I didnt know where from. She was asking about me and my family...blah blah blah, and the whole time Im like "I know this girl....". She even gave me and Melissa a fully stamped card for a free ice cream!!! It wasnt until after I left and askem Melissa where I know her from that I remembered that she worked in Awana a couple of years ago and had this HUGE crush on Ed. Ha!!! So thats why she asked about him... lol
Well, after Marble Slad we went to Gahagen Park just to sit and talk. It was getting dark... but there were lights n stuff, so I wasnt really worried. Here's kinda how a conversation between us went:

C: Hey, look! Is that a diaper bag? (It was just sitting on a bench with noone around. It was closed and there were some toys around it.)
M: Yeah, does it look like it belongs to anyone here?
C: Well, lets wait and see. If noone gets it by the time we leave we'll look to see who it belongs to.
---We hung around for about 45 minutes... a car came to the parking lot near us and parked. They stayed in the car. My guess is that there was a little bit of hanky panky going on...---

I had a pretty good weekend. On saturday I went and volunteered at Water Missions International. They are an organization that makes water filters for countries that dont have clean water, and they were making some for the Katrina victims. So I went there with my mom and brother and I helped stuff about 2,000 envelopes asking for donations. Then I had McAllisters for dinner and ran into an old friend there. That was kinda cool.
Sunday was church. And after church, my family and the Ford family went out to lunch. There was no inner mission... so I took a nap. Then yesterday I was with Tristan most of the day. We watched some of Gone With the Wind (!!!!HA!!!!), had lunch, sat outside..... just spent time together. Then he came back over here after dinner and we watched some more of the movie, looked at pictures, went for a walk.... I just love being around him. He's one of those kinds of people that radiate happiness. And once you've been around that happiness- you're addicted to it. Im addic- Im addicted to youuu...  =P
Well, Im talking to that boy on the phone right now, so Im gonna go.
Buh byes!!

PS- there's a new fave...