What's the longest you've ever waited in line?
I think that would have to be the line to get into the Obama rally in Española in September 2008.
And I forgot to wear sunscreen. That sunburn literally scarred me for life.
What was your favorite class in high school? (And no, lunch doesn't count.)
French. Super-easy but also interesting, and the class size was always so small that we were able to have a lot of fun with it.
When Michelle & I went to the Outer Banks of NC in September, we stopped by a really nice store called Sandy Bay Gallery. After making our jewelry purchases and chatting with the owner, we walked back outside and stopped to admire the hippo pottery. But oh look! Hippo Mouth has a resident!
Is that the blurpiest little frog ever? The shop owner saw us looking and came out and said he lives in there, and that sometimes there is another one that hangs out close by. But before I could get more photos inside the hippo, she coaxed him out onto the wall:
and that is about half of my vacation photos right there....
So, I've been using my Typepad account instead of VOX, and whenever I come back over this way I have shit loads of spam comments to delete. Surely, VOX, if you delete a spam account, it should automatically delete all of the spam comments they've left as well?
Get your free download of this most excellent boppy fun song.
Includes lines like "others try topping us, keep coming up short like Webster Papadopolis"
You can get the "unwashed version" which I think includes Chase Utley's parade F-bomb.
Well, here it is, let's see:
Thanks for the free download and the great song!!
Also, thanks to Arbed for alerting me to this awesomeness from someecards:
Okay, it's anti-cat but it's still funny. I liked the part where he was talking about what would happen if there were seeing-eye-cats.
I know, "Cats for Clunkers" doesn't really make sense for this, but don't give me grief about it, I didn't make it up.
Hello Vox! I've missed the neighborhood feel of Vox over on my WordPress blog, but keeping up with you all in my Google Reader is working quite well. In case you are interested, here's what I've been up to and what you're missing since I'm posting at bookishlyfabulous.wordpress.com now. If you missed my last post about moving over there, add me to your Google Reader (or whatever RSS reader you use) if you miss me. :)
I've started running, and I'm planning to run a 10K on Thanksgiving Day. I ran the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure last Saturday in my grandmother's memory.
I've posted book reviews of:
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
And I gushed about the movie Bright Star.
What a week this past week has been!! Here's a short recap..
Tuesday I took another PTO mom with me to Sam's Club to do shopping for our Fall Festival. PTO was providing and serving all of the concessions. We were planning on serving Nachos, Hot dogs, Popcorn, Cotton Candy and various drinks as well as having some candy on hand. Since I'm the only one on PTO that has a Sam's Club membership I had to do the bulk of the work. Of course it didn't help that the one PTO mom that offered to go with me is our Raging Alcoholic PTO mom..so I'm not sure she was entirely useful that day. We got what we thought we needed purchased and I took it all home to store it until Saturday.
Thursday I got a call from PTO president that apparently we hadn't purchased enough food. So off she and I went on Friday to Sam's Club again. You ever known someone that you just can't take shopping with you because they want to buy everything in the store? That would be PTO President. We went in there for more Hot Dogs and Buns and came out with Hot dogs, buns, chili, more candy, a coffee machine, and a cash register..LOL.
In all honesty the Cash register wound up being a great purchase..it's small and light and very easy to use. It also makes my job as treasurer easier since the journal feature automatically tallies all of our sales and tells us exactly how much should be in there after it's all over. It was good to have for the Fall Festival and we'll get a LOT of use out of it in the years to come.
Saturday was our Fall Festival. I arrived at the school with all of our food, every crock pot I own, and other various items at 8:30 am sharp. The festival was scheduled to begin promptly at 10 and I knew that if we were using crock pots to heat up the nacho cheese and chili that would take at least an hour. Unfortunately NOBODY was at the school at 9am. I had to call the principal to let me in so that I could start setting up concessions. The other ladies arrived about 30 minutes later.
We had some serious electrical issues with all of our crockpots and one of the PTO ladies had brought two large electric roasters for cooking the hot dogs in. We didn't realize that you couldn't plug all of that into one surge protector. Even after splitting them into two different surge protectors we still blew breakers and melted one of the cords.. Eventually we got it all worked out and going.
Fall Festival was a success. We sold out completely on Nachos an hour before the festival was over. Bart brought the boys and they had a blast.
After I got home from Fall Festival I collapsed into bed to take a power nap. Bart woke me up at 5:30ish and told me that he had just gotten tickets to see Widespread Panic and The Allman Brothers Band at the Woodlands Pavilion.
Initially I was cranky and tired and not prepared to get straight into the car, then I remembered most of the people there would be unwashed hippies so I just ran a comb through my hair, threw on some sweatpants and a tie dye and grabbed my hippie sweater. I fit right in and the show was great.
The funniest part was that when Widespread Panic went off stage and The Allman Brothers came on the cloud of Marijuana Smoke could have been seen from space. I seriously think we all got stoned just from sitting there.
This morning I made a trip to the grocery store, and immediately went back to bed, which is where I still am now. I am literally just wiped out today. I have slept most of the day or dozed or just laid here....Tomorrow begins yet another crazy week... At least I have all of my meals planned for the week....two days this week the Crockpot will be doing all the work. LOVE the fall!!
I'm off to make some dinner and make sure the kids clothes are ready for school tomorrow.
Hope everyone had an awesome weekend!!
I know it's only October, but everytime that dreaded year end listmaking comes up I draw a blank. Every year WXPN asks you to send them their list and then have a drawing for something, usually a bunch of the top CDs, maybe an iPod.
So here are MY FAVORITE (that means no arguing that I'm wrong, because I'm right) of 2009 so far. Subject to change depending on if anything I like better comes out in the next 2.5 months, or if I get into something I hadn't heard that came out before, of course.
They aren't going to be in order excpet the ones I like best and listened to the most will be at the top, lesser listened to toward the bottom. The top 2 are my runaway favorites of the year.
Illinois--The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe
Mexican Institute of Sound--Soy Sauce
Kinky--Barracuda
Empire of the Sun--Walking on a Dream
Art Brut--Art Brut vs. Satan
Gomez--A New Tide
Sondre Lerche--Heartbeat Radio
Andrew Bird--Noble Beast
The Church--Untitled #23
Okay, that's 9. I scrolled back through my music and couldn't find much else. I hate the top 10 of the year because I rarely find albums the year they come out unless it's an artist I already know and love. And sometimes I just put them on the list because even though I don't think it's their best effort (see Kings of Leon Only by the Night and Ryan Adams Cardinology...) I put them on the list because I know it's still better than half the shit out there. Sometimes I just put stuff on the list because I've heard a few songs off the album. Anyway, the only reason I'm doing this is so I have it for later and also because I am procrastinating doing housework.
I heard about NaNoWriMo(National Novel Writing Month) about three years ago. My initial thought was, "Who in the hell would want to write 50,000 words in a month?" I would see all the stuff on Twitter from writer friends who were trying to make the deadline and secretly wish I was doing it too. I have always wanted to write a book, it would be a fictional story but would include a lot of autobiographical stuff from my own life story. So I picked this year to do it.
That's right.. I actually signed up for NaNoWriMo. If you don't know what that is I'll explain a little.(or you can click the link)
You have 30 days during the month of November to write 50,000 words. It's really not about putting out a perfectly edited body of work, it's about getting 50,000 words down and editing later.
I haven't decided yet how I'm going to go about doing this. I have no plot outline down on paper, nor do I have any of my characters dreamed up. I think when the day comes I'll just open Word and start typing. I think that over-planning ahead of time squashes the creative process. Of course I may be kicking myself later on for not planning ahead a little more.
Initially when I signed up for NaNoWriMo I was filled with a lot of emotions. I was terrified of failing to make the 50,000 word mark by the deadline, scared that I would get 10,000 words in and get writer's block, excited that I was finally going to work on this book that's been in my head for the past several years, and nervous that maybe I would get the book down on the computer and then hate it. I think that these are all very normal reactions.
My goal is to write 2,000 words per day. By the end of 30 days that should put me at 60,000 words. This also puts me in a position where I can take 5 of those days off out of the 30 and still meet the 50,000 word goal. If you are also doing NaNoWriMo you should add me on the site! You can view my profile here.
Good luck and Happy Writing!!
