December 2008
16 posts
geography.
Alright, so here's the premise: My cousin has to fill out a survey-type questionnaire that will be posted for her fellow future soccer teammates when she goes to play at the U of M next year. They are asked the typical thought-provoking, does that person really think angelina jolie would play them in a movie? questions. The following friendly banter took place as she explained her answer to the question: What is one of your most crazy ambitions?
Cousin O: So, I answered, 'to climb mount everest.'
Cousin M: Oh really, O?! Do you even know where mount everest is?
O: Yeah, it's in Iraq.
Me: FALSE!
O: Well, they have a lot of mountains there, don't they?!
The sense of humor gene.
The scenario: My parentals and I are in the car on the way to the wedding of a church friend in blizzard conditions with an ever-plummeting temperature and snow blowing across the windshield.
My mother (Madge): J, note to self: don't plan your wedding in the winter.
Me: Uh, not a problem, I'm more of a summer/fall kind of girl anyway. Oh wait, problem...I should probably find a man first before the planning commences.
My father (Padge): Don't worry I won't plan one in the winter either.
Madge: Well, I guess not considering you only have two children and the other is getting married in June.
Padge: Oh that's what you meant by that?
Madge: I don't find that humerous.
Me: (Laughing outloud in the backseat because I can't help it, while at the sametime fearing for my life. My mother's death glare has been known to cause just that, death.)
Padge: Honey, don't worry. You've ruined me because I've already had the best. You are the best wife I could ever ask for.
Can I get a collective "awwwwww.....", even though it was a semi-backhanded compliment? I think? At least it's enough to keep him out of the doghouse for tonight!
Something old, something new, something borrowed,...
I attended a simple, semi-sparse (partially due to the weather) wedding this evening with a beautiful blushing bride and an adorable head-over-heels groom. The ceremony was short and sweet, and the decorations were fantastically crafted and woven with the Christmas/winter spirit, which was certainly fitting due to the blizzard conditions and ever-plummeting temperature. Baby, it’s cold...
Santa baby...
Dear santa,
If you could give me a 5:52 mile time that would be fantastic. No? Ok, I’d even settle for 5:57? FINE! I guess I’ll just settle for my already-accomplished 6:03. Well, while we’re on the subject, I could use a great dress for New Years Eve, and I finally found the one of choice. Here’s a picture:
Oh really?! It’s expensive and one-of-a-kind? Not a big...
“No one can make you feel inferior, without your consent.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the...”
– Robert Goddard
apparently my sense of humor picks up during...
Question from my anatomy professor: What is the densest part of the human body?
My smart aleck response because we all knew I'd have one: The Y chromosome. Some boys just don't seem to get it.
Let me just tell you, I even got a little extra credit on that one. Seems to me as though plenty of other people are either dealing with heartbreak, getting back on the horse, or are suffering from an acute or chronic case of SSAD (Singleness Seasonal Affect Disorder). Although, doesn't it always feel as though everyone else but you has a significant other to keep warm with under the silent, romantic snowfalls, and someone to bring home in order to show them off like a glossy, freshly-purchased car to your family in hopes for the highest approval around the holidays? Then again, maybe it's just me...
“Some say the world will end in fire; some say ice. From what I’ve tasted...”
– Robert Frost
a typical SALT company gathering...couples, more...
JB (this is a girl, mind you!): I'm so glad I have you here as my date again!
Me: I love being your date haha! That way we never feel like third wheels with these two over here.
JB (looks forlorn): Yeah....(she contemplates for a bit)...why is it always just us?!
Me: Hey now! I'm a good date! Low cost and hassle free is my guarantee! Don't look so disgruntled.
JB: Oh, I'm not. Don't worry; you're a hot date!
elation.
My Florida Gators just defeated #1 alabama (31-20) even without Percy Harvin!!!!! So, you’ll have to excuse my enthusiasm because I feel as though I’m the QB floating on the team’s shoulders after a huge victory (that wasn’t even mine!)! Speaking of quarterbacks, my vote is for Tim Tebow obtaining the heisman for the second year in a row!! Enough said.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the commencement...
Hello, library. You don’t know it yet, but we’re about to become best friends for the next two weeks, and no, you don’t have a say in the matter.
“I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is,...”
– Bob Dylan
the infamous christmas catalogue.
Oh, yes. It’s that fantastic time of year again. The holiday season has fallen upon us, which means it’s perfectly legal for me to be taking a study break in order to make my Christmas list a.k.a. The Infamous Christmas catalogue. I’m thinking 2008 should be done completely in water colors. Be jealous.
rivalries tend to come with the competative gene,...
If the saints don’t beat the lions (Which, by the way, while we’re on the subject, I would like to know how they still hold the rights to playing on Thanksgiving day every year, even with a record like 0-11. 0-11…i mean, let’s be serious here. Everyone and their brother could have made the right choice in the wager books when playing a team like the Titans who were 10-1.)...