hmmm, where did i leave off...

havent blogged in about a week; now seemed like a good time to post something new :)  i applied to happiness is pets about 2 weeks ago & got a call back last thursday and they wanted to interview me. so i went for the interview on friday morning & i think she really liked me, so i start my first day of training on wednesday, and if i dont like the 3 training days, she wont put me on the schedule, so i guess technically i have a job lol :)  then friday night i went to anna's house for a little bit then headed to elmwood park to spend the night at stephanie's house. saturday we woke up at 6am to get ready to go to the brookfield zoo to meet blackhawks forward dave bolland. we got there at about 6:50 but they werent letting people into the parking lot so we went to mcdonalds to get some breakfast, wihle we were there we got hit on by old men (kinda creepy). we went back to the zoo & waited in the riverside/brookfield high school parking lot for the zoo to open. we were watching the very attractive freshman soccer team practice before their 9am game (cougarville). at 9:30 the zoo gates opened and we parked the car. we waited in line for about 30 minutes until the zoo itself opened. when it did, we ran to where the meet & greet was going to take place. we were about 10th in line, so id say getting up at 6 & waiting was definitely worth it. the people that were behind us in line were really nice & had 3 adorable little kids who were so well-behaved (thankfully). they saved our spot while we went to the bathroom & went to check out what games & activities were set up; we got free 2011-2012 blackhawks regular game schedules, $5 tickets for blackhawks training camp, free posters of joel quinnville, took pictures with carboard cut outs of patrick kane & jonathan toews & one picture with a head cut out of a hawks player holding the stanley cup, we met 4 girls from the ice crew (2 of them we had already met when we met brent seabrook & the 1 girl, talia, remembered us), and we played shoot the puck (i went 3-3 & got a rally towel & steph went 2-3 & got a patrick sharp poster). we got back in line & they started handing out wristbands about 20 minutes later. after we got ours, the people behind us asked us to save their spot so they could look around at the games & activities as well. they came back about an hour later & then it was only 20 minutes left until Dave Bolland showed up. everyone started cheering when he pulled up & he is way cuter in person ;)  such a sweet guy. they didnt have any action-shot posters of just him, so luckily i brought my blackhawks stanley cup champions poster for him to sign. steph had him sign her "ONE GOAL< ACHEIVED" book. he was so sweet & so chill. he asked me how my summer was & asked if i was gearing up for the season & i told him thank you & he told me to enjoy the rest of my day & i think i shook his hand but i honestly dont remember because i was so excited lol. they didnt cut off our wristbands when we left, so that was good, because then we could keep them. we were standing by the rail so we could take more picture of bolland from the side when we saw his assistant dude open a box of action-shot posters! ughhh. so we called him over and asked if we could each have a poster. he brought us a stack of like 12 (a little unnecessary) and we asked if we could get them signed, but unfortunately we couldnt. we handed some of the posters out to people who didnt have wristbands so they could at least get something out of the experience. we walked back to the car & steph was really upset because she didnt want to have to prop open her book on her hawks shelf because there would be no room. so we went back to the car & put all our stuff back then steph decided that we should get back in line & have him sign the posters.....so we did. we walked ot the back of the wristband line (in front of the line of 100 or so people who didnt get there in time for them) and waited, once again to meet dave bolland hahahaha. we were acting like we got our wristbands & got out of line, and now we were getting in line to get our pictures signed. we got up there and, so it didnt seem too obvious, stephanie asked for her poster to be personalized & made out to Beth & i asked for mine, also to be personalized, but to be made out to Stephanie...so he wouldnt really notice, well, that totally failed, because he looked at me when i spelled out steph's name but he just smiled :)  this time, they were cutting off the wristbands but we got to keep them. we walked away with huge smiles on our faces then went back to the car to put the posters away. we cmae back into the zoo, wanting to look at some of the animals, but wound up just going to the dolphin show :)  it was so fun. we sat 3rd row (in the spash zone), watched all the tricks they could do & got splashed 3 times. i got some really cool pictures & videos from the show. after the zoo, we went back to steph's house. sheila & ted made brats, italian sausage, potatoes, velveeta mac & cheese & salad for dinner....YUM!!! :D  mr. jim came over straight from work then we went to his son joey's baseball game. (btw, joey is very very cute) ;)  anyway, joey's team won by like 17 runs. we went out for ice cream then went home. i decided to sleep over again at their house, so steph & i fell asleep, yet again, to ghost adventures. we woke up this morning at around 9:30, took showers then waited for her boyfriend CJ to get there. he was really nice, so im happy that steph found a good guy. we walked to bacci's for pizza & met up with steph's friend amanda & their boss's daughter mariah. after lunch, we took mariah to HIP mall to see her mom then she wanted to go to windor's & try on dresses then go to claire's then to kohls to try on more dresses. we took her for ice cream then back home then amanda dropped me, steph & CJ off back at steph's house. i stayed there for about20 minutes before i decided i wanted to head back home. it was such an amazing weekend and im so happy i get to go back there in 3 weeks for blackhawks training camp :)  tonight, the VMAs are on MTV. lady gaga is the opening performance, jared leto is presenting an award & 30 seconds to mars is nominated for 3 awards: best cinemetography for "hurricane", bes editing for "hurricane" & best direction for "hurrincane". i seriously hope they win all 3 because they very much deserve them. so now i leave you. im going to hang up my poster again & the rest of my blackhawks posters are going to go on the back of my bedroom door replacing my robert pattinson shrine :)