Merry Christmas

It seems these days that I only post on holidays. Nevertheless, I hope everyone has a joyous Christmas and that you get to spend the day with the ones you love.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I know I haven't been on here in forever--details on that another day--but for today, I'm thinking of all the blessings in my life, all of the things (and most importantly, people) I am thankful for and of course, pecan pie! Hope your holiday is filled with blessings, good food and good people.

Doggone crazy

What the...?

Sorry for the lack of blog posts of late. Honestly, I haven't had much to say. My well of creativity for blogging has apparently dried up. Here are random thoughts I have today:

--Kanye West is an ass. It's kinda redundant to say this since that's what everyone is talking about right now so I'm just throwing my hat in there, too.

--I had no idea Beyonce was such a class act. I know nothing about her, really, so her invitation to Taylor Swift was such a wonderful gesture.

--I get to spend time with little B today, who isn't so little anymore. He will be 1 in 24 days. I love spending time with little fellers. There's just no way you can NOT be in the present moment when you are with little ones.

--Planning a long trip is a pain.

--Getting a business started is hard, especially when you have to deal with the government.

--Naps are good.

--Dogs who eat their poo are disgusting, especially when you have one in your own family.

--Why is getting motivated to get healthy and start exercising so difficult?

--I feel sad today because Patrick Swayze died. I'm thinking of his wife today. He was her whole life.

Only on the west coast

Check out the video of this weatherman in California that Becker posted on his blog. Our only claim to fame in this area was a weatherman who could write backwards. Now, if he could've done that while dancing to "Pimp Juice", that would've been entertainment.

Science Experiment

Mr and I have been gone a week. When we left, I forgot to ask anyone to water my plant for me. What was once a beautiful, full, bright pink impatien now looked like this.


Since I had nothing to lose, I decided to drench it with water. What's the worst that could happen? I mean, look at what I was working with! A whole day after I watered it, it looked like this.

There was only a small part of it that didn't come back to life. Amazing, huh?

Much ado over nothing

This week I'm travelling with Mr while he works out of town--for his 4th week in a row. That means a lot of time on my hands while he's working during the day. Thankfully, we were able to have an extra laptop for me to cruise the internet.

This morning, while I was enjoying the complementary breakfast at the hotel, I was watching the Today show. I couldn't believe that they were doing a whole segment...with "expert" commentary and everything...about Michelle Obama wearing shorts while they were on vacation to the Grand Canyon. I mean, seriously, this is news? I just can't believe how much her wardrobe choices are scrutinized. With all that's going on in the world, this is what they devote time to on the Today show??? Just crazy.

Funny Video

An added bonus...the song is by AC/DC.

Nature is so cool

This spider is on the shrub right by our front porch. I've been fascinated by it. The video is a little grainy, but focus on the pink petal and hopefully you can see it okay.

Looking Back--Final Edition

I really debated about what song to end my look back at songs that have been important to me throughout my life. It's a hard thing to do when you're someone like me who loves so many types of music and songs. I thought about going the sentimental route and ending with the song Mr and I danced our first dance to at our wedding. After all, the first time I heard the song I knew it would be played at my wedding. Of course, at the time, I wasn't sure if there would ever be a wedding in my future and I certainly didn't plan on Mr being the one I'd be dancing with. However, this look back is about my whole life, not just my time with Mr so with that in mind, there was really no question what I would end on.

I was a late bloomer in finding AC/DC. In fact, I've been a late bloomer in most things in my life; however, we'll save that for another post! Anyway, as a "good girl" in high school, I didn't listen to heavy metal. "Good girls" don't listen to music like that. They stick with nice, safe artists. At the time, that meant Prince, Madonna, Michael Jackson, etc. However, when I went to college, all those "rules" went out the window and lo and behold, enter AC/DC and whatever other heavy metal group at the time that rocked it out. However, AC/DC is my favorite band in the entire world.

New groups come, new groups go, but AC/DC remains a constant. I can't hear this song without thinking of all the times that I've sung this song at the top of my lungs--sometimes playing air guitar, sometimes playing a broom, and that one time in Ft. Worth when I actually sang it with a live band--again, a story for another post. To me AC/DC = happiness, good times, good friends, good memories, the quintessential "me".