Top Ten Simple Pleasures

Well, I've been tagged by Desert Songbird, so here I go with my Top Ten...

1. My husband and son (and soon to join us daughter)
2. Playing my flute
3. Watching a monsoon move in. (I live in a beautiful but deadly desert!)
4. Iron Chef (the original from Japan!)
5. Singing horribly off key to my son
6. Watching the D-backs.
7. Valle Luna
8. Watching Deadliest Catch
9. Playing with my first graders
10. Chips and Salsa

I hope you enjoy!

What Kind of English Do You Speak

Well, considering I've never lived east of Arizona...

Your Linguistic Profile:

60% General American English

20% Dixie

10% Yankee

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

My Celebrity Look-alike

Tee hee... Saw this one on Desert Songbird's page and had to try. Wow! Kate Hudson huh? Watch out boys, here I come...

ASU Prevails

Final Score:

ASU 28 - UofA 14

Devil Pride!

I'm sitting and watching the "BIG" rivalry here in AZ - the Arizona State vs. Arizona game. While I am a proud graduate (twice over) of Northern Arizona Univ., I was raised on Saturday afternoon Sun Devil Football. While my parents were married they had season tickets and occasionally we got to go with them to games. SO although I have no real ties to ASU, I am a huge ASU fan. And lets be honest here, ASU has SUCKED so far this year. I don't think Coach Koetter made the right move in letting Sam Keller go in favor of Rudy Carpenter. I've been cringing thinking about this game in the last couple of weeks. UofA is on a roll, and ASU isn't. So with trepidation I turned on the game at 4, and imagine my surprise when on our first drive we SCORED! Now I know that plenty can happen, and I'm watching with baited breath. However, with 6 minutes left in the first half, we are leading.

So....

GO DEVILS!

Pregnancy Sucks

I am five and a half months pregnant. I can't wait to have this baby, because I can't do JACK anymore. We did our regular Wal-Mart and Fry's shopping this morning, and it laid me out for 4 friggin hours. What I don't understand is how I can teach for six hours and just be mildly tired but go out shopping for two hours and be utterly exhausted to the point of passing out? Thank God my son is at the age that he can entertain himself with minimal supervision.

This pregnancy also found me throwing up for the first three months, something that I did not have with my first. I was eating in the morning just to have something to throw up ten minutes later. Needless to say, I was not a happy camper for the first couple of months. Don't get me wrong, we are absolutely delighted to be having another baby. We want this and my husband is already getting wrapped around her little unborn finger. But if the pregnancy of my son had been this miserable, he may have wound up being an only child!

I'm Taking the Plunge...

Here I go... after being introduced to blogging by a high school friend more than a year ago, I've played around with the idea of creating my own blog.

The funny thing about all of this is that when my friend told me she had a blog, I had to ask my husband what a blog was. He was astonished to find out I did not know what it was. I'm not exactly a computer nerd, but I worked in the Computer Lab in my dorm when I was in college and since moving into the work force, have been the go to girl for just about all things computer. If I didn't know the answer, I could find it. However, the all things computer just covered basic computer knowledge. How to save, how to import files, how to recover stuff you thought was lost. Microsoft Word and Excel applications and an occasional Power Point presentation. When it come to the internet, I could shop, do email and surf with the best of them. But... put together a web page, or even think about hosting a blog? Nope, no way, out of my scope of things. Besides, who would want to read about what I do?

Besides, reading the blogs are much more fun. I get to live vicariously through other people. Then it hit me one night as I was waiting for my husband to get home and reading through the regular list of blogs I enjoy to see what was happening... the people that I am reading about really are no different than I am. Just people who want to share with other people what is going on in their life. I look at it as kinda a living diary. Only with people who don't hesitate to give it back to you!

So, gradually the idea has grown and as I sit here the day after Thanksgiving with my son at Grandma's, my husband at work and time on my hands, I decided to take the plunge. Here is my shot to ramble on and to see if someone else thinks I have a life to live vicariously through.