I just ordered Allison this Kids Travel Journal from Amazon. I had to pay for the fast delivery because I can seriously not believe she will be leaving for two weeks in Europe in eight days from today! I am trying not too freak out about it or at least show her that I am freaking out. 

Want to know what soft drink I tried over the weekend that has me saying OMG this is so flippin’ good ! ?
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Yesterday I spent the day with my step sister and her daughter. They live a good distance away so we don’t see each other very often. So when we do I really enjoy it. First all three of us sisters went to noon mass with the kids and their husbands. Mine is the only one who wants nothing to do with that. Then my step sister and I took our daughters out for a little shopping, hair cuts and late lunch. The girls hair cuts didn’t go as well as we had hoped. Note - lesson learned about a walk in cheap hair place! I believe both girls will be getting a touch up cut real soon. We had lunch at Allison’s favorite local place, The Crazy Parrot where the girls were able to eat their lunch and drink their chocolate milk from a coconut shell and then dance like crazy on the dance floor. It was such a good time.

We are hanging out at my sister’s house tonight. Enjoying a few cocktails and good company. The men are in the “man cave” playing their PS3’s, the kids are in the basement watching movies and my sister and I are hanging in the kitchen on line and chatting. It’s a much needed night of laughing and stress relief for me. 

It’s really quiet and slow again today. Most Friday’s have been like this for the past six months. It’s really very sad. I work for a third generation small auto supply company. They have been in business over 65 years. This once was a booming place. Even when I started a few years ago, we had more then four times the orders coming in daily then we do now. These days the big auto makers would rather place their orders with an over seas company at less then a third the price we can make the part for even over ordering their parts by hundreds and then just weeding out the “not so good” parts. Instead of ordering here, where we make it right the first time and stand behind it for years of use. Note, we have held the same prices for the “big three” auto makers for years.
I have decided to ride this job out the best I can. Out of the dozen employees that are here my job of answering the phone and quoting and processing jobs would be one of the very last to go. I am also very fortunate to be working with some pretty great people. I feel for the owner, as he watches all the auto disappear from our state. He is in his late 70’s. In his time, Detroit was the Motor City. I bet he never thought he would see the day we lose all of auto jobs.
Some people say we are headed for or even already going through a recession. I don’t know. I can tell you as a surf the hundreds of homes in foreclosure in my area that this is a sad time here in Michigan. Maybe the whole country? Just wondering, how is your state doing?

I can always count on my blogging friends to get me through !
It’s after 2:00pm ! My good friend Uncle Vito is on!