TGIFF!

TGIFF stands for Thank God its F*#cking Friday!  I am always so excited to wake up Friday morning and realize that the weekend is almost here.  I am not a morning person and I look forward to sleeping past 7am and possibly taking a nap at some point.  I am a sucker for a 2pm snooze on Sunday afternoon.  Before I had Nate I slept well and often.  It drives Love crazy that I like to sleep so much since he is up at 6am even on weekends.  He has always been a morning person and I am a night owl.  He gets so happy when I wake up early on the weekend and decide to get out and do stuff early.  Nate is a total morning person like his daddy and it drives me crazy.  At 6am this morning he came in and woke me up and then instead of lying down with me he insisted I turn on the TV.  I wouldn’t have minded so much if he wasn’t up late last night because he was busy riding his Buzz Lightyear trike around my house.  I told him to stop and put it away and he replied, “I can’t find a parking spot!”  Gotta love him.  At least I know I can go home and rest tonight and sleep in tomorrow if I feel like it J

My ride to work helped me ease into Friday.  I car pool with my friend Aimee.  We have known each other since the 4^th grade when we had Mrs. Graviano.  She lived on the next block over and her sister and brother-in-law, my brother, my husband and her boyfriend all graduated together four years before us.  They have all also been friends forever.  We have a very strange group of friends in that we have all remained very close over the years and see each other regularly.  A lot of people find it strange but to us it’s normal.  Why wouldn’t you want to hang out with your friends from High School…that is if you still like them.  I have been at my current job for 7 ½ years and this summer one of the girls in my office quit.  We needed to replace her quick with someone I could train easily and I immediately thought of Aimee.  She has a teaching degree but finding a teaching job on Long Island isn’t so easy.  She’s been working at vineyards on and off for years but I knew she was tired of working weekends so I asked her if she was interested.  Everyone in my office loved her immediately and she fits in very well.  We’re all very sarcastic and find that humor helps ease the stress of our job.

Aimee and I

Who are those crazy people behind us?!?

Getting back to our ride this morning…to say that the last 8 months of driving together has been an adventure is an understatement.  We have broken down 3 times, been towed twice and did I mention we both suffer from road rage?  It’s nice to have someone in the car to chat with and make the time pass quickly since it’s roughly a 45 minute drive from where we meet to get to Southampton.  So this morning I was driving behind a very large truck which was very far away but rocks were still flying towards us.  Aimee then remembered a day this summer when she drove.  We had the windows open and all of a sudden she grabbed her left ear and said, “Ow, what the hell just hit me?”  She thought it was a rock and we laughed.  When we got to work she came in to my office and I noticed something on her neck.  When I pointed it out she flung it to the ground as if it were a giant spider but it was actually a piece of asphalt.  She still had black tar on her neck from where it was stuck to her.  Even now I am giggling while I type this!

In the car she recounted another story of her being hit in the head by a flying object.  She used to work for a local environmental company that tests water.  She was taking samples from a well one day in front of a house and the old man who lived there came out to mow his lawn.  As he mowed under a pine tree a pine cone (the long skinny kind – I asked) came flying out from under the tree and smacked her in the face.  I so wish I had been there.  We were crying in the car when she told me because we were laughing so hard.  I could just picture the wide-eyed look of fear in her eyes and the pine cone was flying towards her in slow motion.  I’m dying.

I just took a good look at the photo of Aimee and I and was horrified at how many chins I have.  I actually joked to my friend Mike that this blog was going to be titled Couple O'Chins - a play on my sister-in-laws blog she writes with her sister Couple O'Cuties.  They're cute - I'm not - but I do have several chins J

Hopefully today will pass quickly and I can get home to my two favorite men and a glass of wine.  Have a wonderful weekend!

CC