Of course, there wouldn't be if I did this a bit more regularly.
The highlights:
I got to go home for Thanksgiving this year, which was awesome. Iris and I went on the Christmas Train in Dry Gulch USA. It was awesome fun, then religious creepy. But Iris had a great time and I highly recommend it.
I planned a trip to Sapulpa in December for the annual Sontag Christmas Party, but went home a bit early for a job interview in OKC. Had a marathon interview, but got the job!
Yes, I got a job, a super cool job in OKC which I start in 1 month. I have a lot of packing to do.
Here are some of the things I will miss about Houston:
1. My awesome friends here
2. Swanky grocery stores - no harsh overhead lighting or cheap floors. All kinds of cheese and wine, whole foods sections.
3. Wine in grocery stores
4. All my familiar haunts (this deserves its own list)
5. Free stuff at the Miller Outdoor Theater
6. Bus system
7. Warm weather all the time (most of the time)
8. Awesome live music
9. The districts - Museum, Theater, Gay
My haunts:
1. Under the Volcano - I shall never meet such a perfect mojito again
2. Silver Dragon Chinese Buffet
3. Miller Outdoor Theater and Hermann Park
4. The Village
5. After bar Tapatia
6. The Big Easy
7. Cool grocery stores
sigh. Change is good, right?
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Catching up
My intention was to follow up on that last post rather quickly. As you may have noticed, I did not. We're halfway through November already. Here's some quick photos as I really have not a lot to say.
OU FAN
TuTu Fan
Yogurt fan
Awesome Aunt Erin had a birthday party for Iris!
Iris was an OU princess.
I dressed her in the Black pants and Halloween shirt (thanks Aunt Erin).
Iris added the riot hat, red skirt and lipstick.
With her friend Isaac at the zoo yesterday. I love her hat!
Thursday, October 27, 2011
OCTOBER
October! I think this is my favorite month. And this one has been quite exciting. A few weeks ago, a friend and I ran an "adventure" race in Dallas. We had an awesome road trip up there and a fun evening with her 90-something year-old grandfather-in-law. The race was a 6.7 mile course with 5 legs and 6 obstacles. We alternated running and biking. I loved the biking, although the course was a bit hillier than I am used to. I did okay on the obstacles. reference www.muddybuddy.competitor.com for some examples of the obstacles. you can even see my pics (Dallas 2011). We came in dead last in our age group, which did not set well with my buddy (we had to enter as a team) as she had to wait at least 20 minutes for me, but I thought we did great doing the course in an hour and a half. We also got to crawl through 30 feet of mud.
I took a trip to Oklahoma last weekend. So much fun. Miss Iris is quite the traveller, but developed an attitude on this trip. We were picked up and whisked to the pumpkin patch in Bixby. We saw the lady whi sat in front of us on the plane there. Small world.
They let the kids climb on the pumpkins. Crazy. Iris and her cousins had a great time, though. I see that you can't tell by the picture, but it's true. The baby, Addison's doll, caused quite a few raised eyebrows and whispered discussions about us letting the little girl take care of the "baby".
We also met cousin Ramsey and her mommy, Megan, there.
More to come...
I took a trip to Oklahoma last weekend. So much fun. Miss Iris is quite the traveller, but developed an attitude on this trip. We were picked up and whisked to the pumpkin patch in Bixby. We saw the lady whi sat in front of us on the plane there. Small world.
We also met cousin Ramsey and her mommy, Megan, there.
This was the closest I came to capturing a smile from this precious baby.
There was goat feeding. I missed it, but Addison said Iris danced with joy when the goat took the food from her hand.
More to come...
Friday, September 30, 2011
29 and 30!!!!
29. Someone's Facebook account you can always count on to annoy you.
I am on a break from Facebook. While I desperately missed it at first, I have found it to be liberating overall. Then I read about all the info Facebook links and steals and I am kind of glad to off for now. When I did check every hour or so, there was no one's posts that annoyed me. I had over 300 friends (how do I know that many people?), and different poeple's posts popped up each day, so no one really got the chance to annoy me.
I do miss seeing the fun updates and the family news and interesting photos that were posted.
30. List what's in your purse.
Goodness.
1. 2 diapers
2. Baby wipes
3. My Baylor badge/building pass/parking card
4. wallet with credit/debit cards, grocery cards, and insurance cards
5. $23 dollars in bills
6. $14.28 dollars in change (mostly Sacajawea dollars)
7. Coupons
8. Enterprise Rent-a-car voucher
9. Kindle
10. hairbrush
11. 3 lip balms (2 bURT'S Bees and 1 Chapstick)
12. Lipstick
13. 2 flash drives
14. 4 hair bands and 3 barrettes
15. Blood pressure pills
16. Pocket Poch Logic
17. Chili's Gift Cards I need to mail
18. Blush brush
19. 4 pens
20. Some recipes I printed out today (pumpkin chocolate chip cookies
21. Band-Aids
22. Lotion
23. Checkbook
24. 2 albuterol inhalers
25. old receipts
26. Pledge to Muscular Dystrophy Association I need to mail
27. Keys to something?
28. 5 crayons
29. a highlighter (green)
And There you have it.
Thanks, Hazel, for letting me tag along on this adventure. I know I will not keep up daily entries as I could not for this month, but I had a good time.
I am on a break from Facebook. While I desperately missed it at first, I have found it to be liberating overall. Then I read about all the info Facebook links and steals and I am kind of glad to off for now. When I did check every hour or so, there was no one's posts that annoyed me. I had over 300 friends (how do I know that many people?), and different poeple's posts popped up each day, so no one really got the chance to annoy me.
I do miss seeing the fun updates and the family news and interesting photos that were posted.
30. List what's in your purse.
Goodness.
1. 2 diapers
2. Baby wipes
3. My Baylor badge/building pass/parking card
4. wallet with credit/debit cards, grocery cards, and insurance cards
5. $23 dollars in bills
6. $14.28 dollars in change (mostly Sacajawea dollars)
7. Coupons
8. Enterprise Rent-a-car voucher
9. Kindle
10. hairbrush
11. 3 lip balms (2 bURT'S Bees and 1 Chapstick)
12. Lipstick
13. 2 flash drives
14. 4 hair bands and 3 barrettes
15. Blood pressure pills
16. Pocket Poch Logic
17. Chili's Gift Cards I need to mail
18. Blush brush
19. 4 pens
20. Some recipes I printed out today (pumpkin chocolate chip cookies
21. Band-Aids
22. Lotion
23. Checkbook
24. 2 albuterol inhalers
25. old receipts
26. Pledge to Muscular Dystrophy Association I need to mail
27. Keys to something?
28. 5 crayons
29. a highlighter (green)
And There you have it.
Thanks, Hazel, for letting me tag along on this adventure. I know I will not keep up daily entries as I could not for this month, but I had a good time.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Wow I have some catching up to do - 24-28
24. My favorite movie and what it's about.
I have to say, despite what i have told most of you, my favorite movie is not Grease. Although, I dearly love Grease. Dearly. It is The Shawshank Redemption. Not only is it well-written, well-cast, and well-directed, it is a story about REDEMPTION. And couldn't we all use a little of that? Plus, I love Morgan Freeman.
25. Talk about your siblings.
I have an older brother (barely). When I was very little, I wanted to do everything he did. When I was a bit older, we were great playmates. By middle school, he did little but tease me and we fought a lot in high school, but I always know he has my back. He is a supervisor at the same job he's had for years (I admire this). He likes to hunt and fish and is quite knowledgable about guns.
We were in the same grade. In high school, I was often known just as his sister. At a recent reunion, the teachers asked about him and told me funny stories about him and weren't much interested in me. I guess he was friendlier than I was. Definitely more memorable.
I also have a younger by 5 years sister. I was so very happy to get her, even after I found out we couldn't be twins. She taught me sacrifice. Well, my mom did when she encouraged me to sacrifice the front seat of the car or the red popsicle for my baby sister. I am really not as bitter as this sounds. She works for a children's shelter and is tireless there, which I really admire. I also think it's pretty cool that she got a Master's when she had a toddler and was pregnant. I also really love her kids and am so glad she had them.
26. My first celebrity crush.
Easy. Ernie. I wanted to marry him. Then I moved on to Kenny Rogers. Had a big poster of Kenny. Enough about that.
27. The last person who texted you.
My aunt just a few hours ago asking me to call her about some ancestry stuff I was working on. It was a good chat.
28. 5 things within touching distance of me right now.
1. Steve the cat
2. Boo the cat
3. Winnie the Pooh
4. Throw pillow
5. My wallet, if I stretch a bit
There ya go.
I have to say, despite what i have told most of you, my favorite movie is not Grease. Although, I dearly love Grease. Dearly. It is The Shawshank Redemption. Not only is it well-written, well-cast, and well-directed, it is a story about REDEMPTION. And couldn't we all use a little of that? Plus, I love Morgan Freeman.
25. Talk about your siblings.
I have an older brother (barely). When I was very little, I wanted to do everything he did. When I was a bit older, we were great playmates. By middle school, he did little but tease me and we fought a lot in high school, but I always know he has my back. He is a supervisor at the same job he's had for years (I admire this). He likes to hunt and fish and is quite knowledgable about guns.
We were in the same grade. In high school, I was often known just as his sister. At a recent reunion, the teachers asked about him and told me funny stories about him and weren't much interested in me. I guess he was friendlier than I was. Definitely more memorable.
I also have a younger by 5 years sister. I was so very happy to get her, even after I found out we couldn't be twins. She taught me sacrifice. Well, my mom did when she encouraged me to sacrifice the front seat of the car or the red popsicle for my baby sister. I am really not as bitter as this sounds. She works for a children's shelter and is tireless there, which I really admire. I also think it's pretty cool that she got a Master's when she had a toddler and was pregnant. I also really love her kids and am so glad she had them.
26. My first celebrity crush.
Easy. Ernie. I wanted to marry him. Then I moved on to Kenny Rogers. Had a big poster of Kenny. Enough about that.
27. The last person who texted you.
My aunt just a few hours ago asking me to call her about some ancestry stuff I was working on. It was a good chat.
28. 5 things within touching distance of me right now.
1. Steve the cat
2. Boo the cat
3. Winnie the Pooh
4. Throw pillow
5. My wallet, if I stretch a bit
There ya go.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Day 23!
23. Give pictures of five famous dudes you find attractive.
Yes, I do.
Even when he's dressed like a white man
Even with the hat.
This Val
Not this one.
Hubba Hubba.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
21 and 22
21. TV.
I watch too much. I like the talent shows. Music and dancing, mostly. Maybe because I have no talent in either area. I especially like "So You Think You Can Dance", not for the drama or competition, but because there's rarley an opportunity to see such wonderful choreography and talent on television.
I also like/hate Toddlers and Tiaras for a weekly dose of outrage, although I don't have cable anymore so I haven't seen the recent controversial ones and I am pretty sure the Toddler in the hooker garb will turn me off it forever.
22. The last movie I saw in a theater. Oddly enough, like Hazel, it was Avatar. Saw it in 3-D and I really liked it, except for the story but it wasn't terrible. I like going to the movies and should really try to more often. I think I left Iris in daycare to go see that and felt tremendous guilt over that. I still can't bring myself to get a sitter for a movie. I do regret not seeing the last Harry Potter in 3-D, dork that I am.
I watch too much. I like the talent shows. Music and dancing, mostly. Maybe because I have no talent in either area. I especially like "So You Think You Can Dance", not for the drama or competition, but because there's rarley an opportunity to see such wonderful choreography and talent on television.
I also like/hate Toddlers and Tiaras for a weekly dose of outrage, although I don't have cable anymore so I haven't seen the recent controversial ones and I am pretty sure the Toddler in the hooker garb will turn me off it forever.
22. The last movie I saw in a theater. Oddly enough, like Hazel, it was Avatar. Saw it in 3-D and I really liked it, except for the story but it wasn't terrible. I like going to the movies and should really try to more often. I think I left Iris in daycare to go see that and felt tremendous guilt over that. I still can't bring myself to get a sitter for a movie. I do regret not seeing the last Harry Potter in 3-D, dork that I am.
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