wordle

I found this like to wordle.net and was thoroughly entertained for most of one of my classes. Be careful, this is kind of addicting :)

Ducks in a row

I love this expression. Getting your ducks in a row. It's ridiculous to think about. What if you don't have ducks? And even if you had ducks I feel like they would be difficult to get in a row. Unless it's a mom duck with her baby ducks, in which case it happens naturally, so you wouldn't have to do anything to get the ducks in a row.

Anyways...I'm trying to get my ducks in a row for this weekend and it's a little challenging considering I've got about 20 to organize....

Things I would rather do today...

...than write my paper.
1) Go to Barnes and Noble and wander around the store for several hours. Maybe buy a book
2) Take said book to some cute coffee shop and read it for another several hours
3) Sit in the sun at a park with a friend
4) Watch a movie, like Out of Africa
5) Make cards
6) Bake Peanut Butter Jelly Cookies
7) Organize something, vacuum, clean
8) pretty much ANYTHING else but write my paper for the rest of the day...

just call me Annie Oakley

I spent most of last week in Texas.
I learned to shoot a gun...at least this Colt Pistol and a 22 rifle
I ate lots of food...homemade mac and cheese at every meal! Chocolate pie! Freshly shelled pecans! oh my
I slept in
I watched some movies (Henry Poole Is Here for one...I recommend it)
I saw an old friend, he showed us around his news studio and got to watch a live taping of the local news! which is very cool
I saw lots of oil rigs, spent lots of time in the car, saw some cows.
It was a very satisfying spring break.

New Music, part 2

A couple weeks ago I went to the Eric Hutchinson concert at The Rock, in Tucson. We met him and took a picture (as you can see, obviously)

Let me just say, he puts on a great concert! His rendition of R Kelly's Ignition and My Girl may be one of my new favorites.

New Music

Eric Hutchinson is God's gift to my iPod. I'm quite infatuated with his music.

Check it out.

childhood

I really like talking about my childhood. Probably 65% of my conversations have at least something related to my past mentioned.

For example, today at lunch my friends and I started talking about discipline. Whether or not spanking is ok, grounding, timeouts...you get the idea. Now, I was never grounded. Thank goodness. Although I definitely think that would have been a really effective punishment for me.

Also, we had a very animated discussion about childhood TV shows. For example, Wishbone. Who the heck came up with that idea? a little dog, that transports himself into classic literature and becomes a part of that. Do you remember the Rip van Winkle episode? Wishbone had a beard and interacted with humans. Such a weird show. I also loved Recess, Dark Wing Duck, Reading Rainbow (c'mon, who doesn't love LaVar Burton?).

Bottom line, I love talking about my childhood; my memories, the ugly years, the laughter. In my mind, it was all good.