To Someone Special

Just recently it was the birthday of someone pretty special. Someone I can always count on for a listening ear or a good laugh. Happy birthday to my favorite shopping partner, crafter and friend!



Happy Birthday Mom! All of us wish you happiness throughout the year!

Life is Good.

I am pretty excited tonight.

Two good things happened. First, that I just finished a paper that I thought I would be up until the wee hours of the morning working on but no, it's 10:30. Yeah! And it's actually pretty good. Heber, my best proofreader, said that it was interesting. Whoa. You just let me know if you want to read about podcasting in higher education.

The second is that I am going to be joining the Irish dance performing group at my Irish school for four performances in March. I had to audition and everything. But I made it! This is big folks.

Add Thanksgiving, being just a week away, and who knows if I'll be able to sleep tonight.

What are you excited about?

Confession

So, I have a confession to make.

I really like watching hockey. Really. Completely unexpected, I know.

Hebs and I went to our first USU hockey game of the year on Friday and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Ah, the fights, grunge punk music played at full blast and primo people watching (big hair and I mean big). Hockey is one of those fast paced sports that something big could happen at any moment, whether it be a good pounding on the ice or a goal. When watching soccer, nothing really exciting could happen during the whole game or golf, don't even get me started on that. No other sport remotely compares.

I'm not sure why but when I go to a hockey game it's like this deep down aggressive person emerges that likes the loud music ringing in my ears, facial hair and players duking it out. I think it's the same person that comes out when we go to demolition derbies but we can't be sure.

We still talk about the first hockey game we went to together seven years ago. We were playing Weber and there were so many fights that multiple people got ejected from the game. It was awesome!

I think one of the best ways to spend a Friday evening is at the stinky ice rink watching hairy men in full padding chase after a small puck. Get out and see a game, I highly recommend it. What else is there to do in this frozen tundra we call home?

Is it just me or is every picture of Hebs and I just like this one. I guess we need to start hanging out with friends who won't mind snapping a picture of us.

Moments of Insanity

So, I think I may have gone a little crazy and done something drastic. I don't know what came over me.

I went from this...


To this.


I cut my hair off. All of it. It has never been this short. I wanted a change and I think I'm liking it, so far.

100

This is post 100. My goodness, what great wisdom do I share for post 100? When I think of all that has happened in these 100 posts.

To all of you out there, thank you for reading and for writing comments. I've so enjoyed writing and sharing with each of you.

And as far as great wisdom goes,
I'll just say this,

it's been good.

Halloween Hauntings

So, Halloween is not my favorite holiday. I love Christmas, Thanksgiving, fourth of July, any but just not Halloween. Really, what is so great about decorating with skulls, oozing items, scary faces? I'm just not a huge fan.

As I was thinking about this, I thought of a Halloween that may have impacted this. I was in kindergarten and I remember it fairly vividly for how long ago that was. That year I dressed up as the tooth fairy. My mom made this great costume complete with an "I love clean teeth" pin and a flowy skirt made up of many panels of shiny fabric. We got to wear our costumes to school and I was so excited. Sitting in the lunchroom, I was worried about my skirt getting dirty so I untied it and set it to the side. I had nothing to worry about, I was wearing tights and shorts, or so I thought. Halfway through lunch I look down and I realize that I can see my patterned undies through my tights. I was mortified. I quickly wrapped my skirt back around me. You don't easily get over an experience like that.

But Halloween this year was a pretty good time. We attended a party or two, saw my nephews in the cutest costumes and went to see Sweeney Todd on campus. What a great show!



Have you ever seen a cuter rodeo clown? Didn't think so.

Heb and I, in traditional fashion, had a hard time deciding what to be for Halloween. I decided to go for the Medusa look with lots of snakes and he fell back on an old classic, the Nerd. Back when we were dating, Heb dressed up as a nerd the first Halloween. I tease him that it doesn't really count if you dress up as what you already are. :)

This year


Here we are back in the day with some friends.

A Photo Project

I recently completed a project that I have wanted to put together for a long time. Are any of you like me with lists of project ideas that you are wanting to get to? This was a special one because it is a collection of photos of some of the women in my life.

My mom and grandma are some of the most amazing women I have ever met. I was never able to meet my great-grandma but I have heard the stories and come to love the person she was. It is so important to remember where you came from. These are the people who helped to shape me into the person I am today. I am thankful to be part of this line of women.

So here is the finished product. Something to remind me about this heritage. It took a little extra time and effort to find pictures of each of us at about the same age and get them to all look similar, with different backgrounds and lighting but I am really happy with how it turned out.