Today's the Day!

I'm off to see The Other Boleyn Girl later today. I can hardly wait! I'll post a review later.

Thought for the Day

"There's a skinny girl inside of me just trying to get out but I can usually shut her up with cookies."

I saw this on a sign at Hobby Lobby today and I laughed my head off. I can totally relate!!

Boys!

The Drapes

Bedroom

Study
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Dining

Guess the Book

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

Woo Hoo!

Drapes (window treatments, curtains, whatever you want to call them) are being installed right now. I can hardly wait!! I hope they look good. I'll post pics later.


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Now playing: The Moldy Peaches - Anyone Else But You
via FoxyTunes

Love this Song

It just makes me happy! Love Song by Sara Bareilles
You can listen to it here.

If You've Got Time to Spare

Go to ABC and start watching all their tv shows online for free. Amazing! All 4 seasons of Lost. I may never get another thing done. Must pry self away from the computer. If you don't have time to spare, do not go to ABC. LOL!

Ten Things I Like This Week

1. San Antonio - Great city with lots to do and great weather!
2. Maroon 5 - Love their first album and their second album
3. Being Well!
4. Steak Dinner
5. Love Song by Sara Bareilles - Love this song!
6. Thin socks
7. Fajitas at Chili's
8. Payday!
9. Coffee with cream and sugar
10. Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark

Two Things I Don't Like This Week
1. Rain
2. Cold Weather



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Now playing: Rihanna - Don't Stop the Music
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This Blog Interrupted for Stomach Virus

I was doing so well posting almost everyday and then WHAM! I got hit by the stomach bug. Nasty stuff! I'm finally out of bed today and on the computer. You know it's bad when I don't even feel like checking my email. I'm back among the living today although the queasiness and a headache are hanging on. Hopefully, we'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming tomorrow.

Guess the Book

Will I be able to stump Jan this week? ;)

I spend five days a week teaching English at East Bennington High and two nights a week teaching English at Attica State Prison. Which is to say, I spend my time conjugating verbs for delinquents and dangling participles for convicts. One class feeling like they're in prison and the other class actually being in one.

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Now playing: Maroon 5 - Won't Go Home Without You
via FoxyTunes

Great Commercial!

Meant to post this right after the Super Bowl, but forgot. I was just reminded of it from the Aaugh Blog. If you like Peanuts, you'll love this commercial. Be sure to watch until the end.

Jackpot!

Just ran across this Peanuts blog and website. Yes!

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Now playing: Lisa Loeb - Fools Like Me
via FoxyTunes

Parking Lot Blog

I am typing this post while sitting in the back of my car in a parking lot. Isn't technology amazing?! Even more amazing is the fact that I found an accessible wifi signal here in the middle of a parking lot. The weather is beautiful in San Antonio today. It is also my nephew's birthday. He is 7 today. Just got back from celebrating at Chuck E. Cheese. Totally fun! I started playing Super Mario Kart 2 and couldn't stop since I kept winning each and every race. Playing Nintendo at home is now paying off. I was quite the star at Chuck E. Anyhoo, just waiting out here in the parking lot while everone else is inside watching wrestling. I'm out here with all the little guys and you can tell that I'm keeping them under close adult supervision. Actually, my mom is watching them in the trailer while I sit outside in the peace and quiet. What could be better than 80 degrees and sunshine and a wifi signal? Ahhh....
Had a little trouble posting when I lost the wifi signal. I'll just go ahead and post it now from the cheap hotel...but it was actually composed in a parking lot.

They're Coming to Take Me Away

Typing this from a cheap hotel in San Antonio. I will have to say that the hotel does have wifi so it's not all bad. Traveling with my mom is always an interesting and fun experience. She just put neosporin on her toothbrush. And no I'm not making this up. This then led to a conversation about all the uses of nupercainal...I'm not quite sure how we made the leap from neosporin to nupercainal, but this is not unusual in our family. We randomly jump from one topic to another and the only ones who can follow the conversation are us. I mean we don't know how to think any other way. We were raised to think totally random thoughts and just blurt them out. Anyway, it seems that nupercainal can be used for a variety of purposes besides hemorrhoids. Apparently it can be used to reduce the bags under your eyes as well as heal dry, cracked hands. People, I repeat, I am not making this stuff up. It doesn't get any better than this!

This and That

I just received the earliest books in The Complete Peanuts Series thus completing my collection until the new books come out. Yahoo!! I'm going to sit right down and read every Peanuts strip in order. (And yes I'm weird like that. Drives me nuts to read a series of books out of order. Must read each and every book IN ORDER.)

I tried the new Sammy sandwich at Quiznos. Good, but small. I mean they tell you to order 2 but really you should order 4 or maybe even 6.

I'm headed to San Antonio tomorrow afternoon for a big high school wrestling tournament. We are going to watch my nephew wrestle. Go Josh!

I'm busily trying to finish a big project for work while simulateously trying to compile a "Road Trip Playlist." Any suggestions for songs or albums would be greatly appreciated.

I hope it is warm in San Antonio because I am sick of the cold weather and wind in Oklahoma.

Why do they pack stuff in those stupid styrofoam flat peanuts. The stuff gets everywhere. OK, maybe I should open packages neater. I was just trying to get my new Peanuts books out of the box asap!

Guess the Book

The first sentence from one of my favorites. Now that I've cracked open the book, I may have to reread it. Soooo good! (I know Kristen will get this one. She's the one who gave me the book!)

In 1980, a year after my wife leapt to her death from the Silas Pearlman Bridge in Charleston, South Carolina, I moved to Italy to begin life anew taking our small daughter with me.

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Now playing: Barry Manilow - Even Now
via FoxyTunes

Ten Things I Like This Week

1. The Ten Tenors - Great show!
2. Clipboards
3. Goodreads
4. College Basketball
5. Sourpatch Kids Candy
6. Shopping at Office Depot
7. DVR (digital video recorder like tivo. Put this on your "must-have" list)
8. Real coke in a real glass on crushed ice
9. The new "original" Pearls - Get the shrimp en brochette and a caesar salad. YUM!
10. Born Shoes

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Now playing: Barry Manilow - Even Now
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