In Search of Myself

See through the advertising rouse

Jake and I were at a gas station the other day and I let him pick out some Sprite . . . Jake looked at the wrapper thing and saw a basketball player on it. 

He said "Mom, is Sprite for really big tall boys?" 

I said "Yes, and they drink it before they play basketball . . . Or so they'd like you to believe." 

ha ha ha. 

ok, only I thought it was funny.

More from Jake's camera

:: Jake following me down the stairs -- look how short my hair is!  This is after a MONTH of growth!
:: Jake's first self-portrait. LOL.  Riding in the car.

:: extreme close-up of Sadie
:: the second picture is actually pretty good!

Me, though Jake's eyes

I uploaded the pictures from Jake's camera to the computer the other day, and this one was on it:

I actually like it!  Gotta get the lil' man a REAL camera before too long!
(forgive the shiny-ness.  It's the camera, not my skin -- honest!)

Work day funny

One of the guys stopped by my desk this morning, to ask me to do something for him.  He asked me how I was doing this morning, and I said "eh."  I am STILL coughing and nothing is helping it -- but the campus nurse last week said it was just allergy drainage and that my lungs sound fine.  So whatever.

Anyway, when I said "eh," he said "Yeah, I know how you feel.  I almost called out this morning for lack of interest."

HA HA.

That made me laugh, which almost made me choke because of the coughing.  But damn, it was funny.

I always miss the fun

So Kathy took some time off work this past weekend and hopped down to Atlanta WITHOUT EVEN TELLING ME SHE WAS GOING, to spend some time with our big sis Sheri.  And Sheri put up some pics on her blog yesterday, and now I'm just jealous.  I need a kid-free, sister weekend.  (I mean, ALL of Kathy's weekends and weekdays are kid-free, but still.)

But some good DID come out of it for me . . . Kathy found a HUGE toy Pug dog (a "stuffed up toy," as Jake would say) for Jake, and it's SO cute.  She found it while out "junkin'" with Sheri at Goodwill, but it looks brand new, and it still has the FAO Schwartz tag on it.  (And random funniness: my mom was like "Fay-oh Schwartz?"  Seriously, mom.  Get with the program.  F. A. O.  DUH.)

Hooray!!!

Here's a screenshot from OfficeTally.com today (well, from like Friday):

FREAKING AWESOME!  (And how great does everyone look?!!!!!)

P.S.  Oh, and Grey's won, too . . . which I'm also really excited about . . . but I'm actually more into the Office lately than Grey's.  How crazy is THAT?

New pics of Jake and Zoe

Since I've been sick pretty much the entire month, I've been really bad so far this year about taking pictures.  But luckily my MOM has a digital camera, and she's taken a few recently.  This layout is just a hodge-podge of my favorite pics from the month.

 

One year and three weeks later

. . . I have made a page about LAST YEAR'S birthday!  (Hey, I haven't even UPLOADED the pictures from this year's birthday!  I'm so far behind right now.)  This page was a TOTAL scraplift of this page.

Good morning sunshine. (Or not.)

I'm pretty random in the mornings.  I mean, I'm ALWAYS tired anyway.  And I hate getting up before the crack-ass of dawn.  You'd think after almost 5 years in this job I'd adjust, but it just hasn't happened.  Add to this that last night I had some cough syrup with codeine in it before bed (nice), and I was OUT of it this morning.

Lou is always awake before the crack-ass of dawn, and he always tries to get me to wake up (after like the 6th time I've hit snooze.)  Sometimes he shakes my feet, and for someone reason anyone touching my feet so early makes me crazy.  So this morning, I muttered:

me: New rule.  No touching my feet  before 9 a.m.
Lou: why?
me: so I don't kick you
Lou: why would you kick me
me: cause and effect

It made perfect sense to me.  But I think he thinks I'm crazy.

I know her!

Hooray, another Belmont person on American Idol!

You are going to be amazed by Melinda Doolittle.  She is such a great person, and can sing like you wouldn't believe.  (I think she was two years ahead of me in school?)  Belmont has a clip on their website that you can watch from her American Idol audition -- she's going to HOLLYWOOD.  I guarantee you she'll be in the top 10.

Click here to watch her audition.

She has a GREAT story, which you'll probably hear eventually, about how when she was younger she was tone-deaf and she wanted SO badly to be able to sing, so she prayed to God to give her the voice and a good ear, and she said it just totally happened.  She's awesome.  :)