March 31, 2006
Scrubs. One of the best shows ever.
March 30, 2006
I don’t know if I should think it is cool or if I should be a little embarrasssed about it, but the other day, I realized that I have been wearing the same pair of shoes for 9 years. And it’s not like, “I have had this pair of shoes for 9 years” it’s like, “I have worn these shoes on a regular basis for 9 years.”
I think I am embarrassed.
It’s not like they even look too worn. They are brown leather Doc Martens. They have a heel and a buckle. I don’t even think I really like them that much anymore, I just haven’t found a good replacement. They probably cost me like, $90. I think I got my money’s worth.
So, I have been thinking I would like to get some new brown shoes. I am sure this makes Shane cringe since he thinks I have way too many shoes already. (This is not true at all and he would come to understand that it is true if he had the chance to look in any other women’s closet and count her shoes.)
I love my Dansko work shoes and have considered getting a brown pair for at home, but the look might be too casual and they are pricey.
I just can’t decide and can’t afford anything right now. My Doc’s will probably last me many years into the future anyway. So, until I find the perfect shoe and can afford them, they will have to do.
I still think nine years is too long.
March 29, 2006
Shane, upon walking into the bathroom after Bible study tonight and finding the toilet seat up:
“Come on, people? What…were you born in a barn?”
Unfortunately, I was the only one to hear it.
Totally awesome.
March 28, 2006
Shane and I just finished watching the first season of Lost. We had once again been renting the DVDs from Netflix (which is totally awesome). The show is cool and it has drawn us in and I cannot wait to somehow figure out how to watch the next season as soon as possible. (The second season is happening right now, but we have missed a few episodes. Shane says we can buy them online to watch, but should we spend $2 an episode to do so? I’m not sure…)
So, anyway, the reason I am even mentioning all this is that I can’t believe how many times while watching the first season I have been around someone or seen something that referred to a future occurrence on the show that would have totally spoiled it for me had I let the person continue/not averted my eyes. Prior to being sucked in, I had heard a few people mention how good it was, but little more than that. Twice at church, Lost was brought up in two separate occasions while the pastor was talking (just in reference to being somewhere and the show being on and what they thought about the show…not a sermon based on Lost or anything….) There is a guy with a blog that writes little reviews the day after the episode that I just stumbled upon and almost read. Magazine articles with lines on the cover like, “Why Shannon?” What? What about Shannon? Does something happen to Shannon?
Anyway, I like the show a lot. It’s a very entertaining show and I hope it continues to be as intriguing and interesting as it has been and doesn’t turn dumb. Like the OC. But I guess the OC has always been kind of dumb. I also hope that I can continue to avoid all that is Lost until we are able to catch up.
March 16, 2006
This last Christmas, while shopping for stocking stuffers for Shane, I happened upon “Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans.” For those of you who do not read Harry Potter, these beans are exactly what they say they are…every falvor. They are made by Jelly Belly. I didn’t really think much about it. I thought they would be regular old jelly belly’s maybe with funny names or something. Not so. Here is a list of the delicious flavors:
bacon, black pepper, blueberry, booger, buttered popcorn, cherry, cinnamon, dirt, earthworm, earwax, grape jelly, grass, green apple, lemon drop, rotten egg, sardine, soap, toasted marshmallow, tutti-frutti, vomit.
Yum.
In January on Shane’s birthday, Matt, Shane, and I cracked them open. We played a very low key game of “pick a jelly bean and eat it, regarless of how disgusting it might be.” It was enough to convince us that yes, these are nasty, but it was fun at the same time.
I don’t know why I did it, but I bought more. I guess it was mostly because they were way cheap (I wonder why) and we were going to visit Andrew and I thought he would appreciate them.
So in Tennessee, the every flavor bean game gets hard core. We are going through this bowl of nasty nasty jelly beans and it is awful. Vomit is awful, Rotten egg is possibly worse. Soap almost tastes ok compared to the others. I was kind of on a lucky streak, picking mostly green apples and blueberries and so on (I didn’t mention we were picking without looking). And then it happened. I picked sardine. It was the most awful taste I have ever tasted. I gagged, I seriously thought I was going to throw up. It was so bad. According to our “rules,” we had to swallow them. I couldn’t do it. I tried, but I couldn’t and ended spitting it out. Andrew and Shane laughed so hard. I felt like I had a sardine in my mouth for the rest of the day. It was bad but also funny. The game ended there but the bowl of Bertie Bott’s every flavor beans sat on the table the entire week of our stay.
I don’t know why on earth anyone would make that candy. It is so awful. Awful. I don’t know if I will ever like jelly belly’s again.
The sickest thing of all is that we have another unopened box of the things. I think they will be unopened for a long long time. I guess they are a good gag gift. I know I am not going to have anything to do with them.
March 10, 2006
Put your glasses on him, which seems cute at the time, but results in irreversible eye problems later in life, originally uploaded by damnweather.
One year ago.
So I may have strep throat. I went to the doctor yesterday and she cultured my throat juices and is supposed to call me today to let me know. In the meantime, I am taking “Penicillin vic” as my doctor called it just in case. I am usually such a healthy person! I have had a rough two weeks! I worked both Tuesday and Wednesday of this week and around noon on Wednesday, I started feeling like I had the flu. My temperature went up to 101.2 (I checked it about a million times throughout the day…there are thermometers everywhere at my work…) and I just felt like crap. My throat was super red and my tonsils and glands were swollen. Then came the white patches. I finished the work day and luckily had two days off to recuperate. I felt terrible yesterday. Today I feel a ton better. Still not “normal”, but way better. I think the antibiotics might be working. It is obvious poor Ethan feels like crap. He is very tired and clingier than usual. Luckily, my mom was able to help out a bit yesterday with him and give me time to go to the doctor and rest a bit. Today is the first day I have been able to really see him in three days due to work and being sick. He has a cold and a cough and his grabbing the back of his head (a headache?). I don’t think he has throat issues or I would take him to the doctor. I hate when he is under the weather. Poor little chap.
March 6, 2006
We have been home a week now and I am still missing Andrew and Pam as much as I was when we left them. I keep trying to think of ways we can go visit them again or somehow be closer to them. It is hard to be away from loved ones, but I think it makes you appreciate them more. I keep thinking about how years ago (like, in Little House on the Prairie time), people would move away from their families and many would never see them again. They didn’t really have many options for communicating either, other than writing letters. We are blessed to be able to email and blog and to be able to talk whenever we want to.
Things have not been right with my digetsive system since we returned. I keep thinking it has to be getting better, but it still isn’t quite right. It is a bummer. I almost would say I would take a cold over feeling like this, but I am not sure. I am feeling a lot better than I was a week ago, but I am still not quite right. The only good thing about it is that I have lost all of my acquired Cracker Barrell and other crazy Southern food weight. The food of the south is crazy. (Crazy, but also very good).
Bedtime. Work in the morning.
March 1, 2006
We had such a great trip, I don’t even know where to begin.
I guess that I should mention how wonderful our hosts were. I was so thankful for them and the time they took out of their lives to entertain us, feed us, house us, and show us around their stomping grounds. The Klickas and the Fadelys are great.
The Knoxville area was beautiful. A lot of open, spacious land with a picture perfect view each way you looked. We drove around a lot and just relaxed. It was so great to see Andrew and Pamela. I miss them so much. I got teary eyed thinking about them today. I wish they were closer. Andrew and Ethan had a lot of time to play together and I think Ethan had as good of a time as we did. It was wonderful. On our last day there, it was very warm and we were able to go walk around a big park while Shane and Andrew played Andrew’s new found hobby, Frisbee golf. It was so nice to be outside and surrounded by trees and nature. I think that last day may have been one of my favorites there.
Nashville was also very cool. Not too big of a city, but big enough for us to get lost in several times. Tisra and Eric have a lovely home, which they shared with us. We had fun with them and their kids, touring various sites like Centennial Parl, the Parthenon, and a mall or two. One evening, Tisra and I were able to sneak out to the Opryland Hotel (I am not even sure if that is what it is called). It was beautiful! The whole middle section is an atrium and you can smell the plants when you walk in. They have four river walks and it was just breathtaking. We had some coffee and were able to sit and talk.
We had a fairly uneventful flight home. It went so much quicker and Ethan was perfect on both flights. He was a very good kid the whole trip. Thank goodness.
It is nice to be home and to get back into the swing of things. It is always hard to leave people you love, but we hope to be able to visit again soon. We had such fun visiting and joking and playing. It was great. Fond memories were made on Ethan’s first vacation!
