With Mom in Hawaii, I got to babysit Maeve yesterday!

She was not too excited about the rice cereal and applesauce breakfast, but all-in-all we had a great day that ended with cuddling on the couch for a short nap before her mommy got home. It was heavenly. I get to play with her again tomorrow, and I'll remember my camera, so I can post more pictures then.

I'm taking an anatomy class. It's very interesting, and I'm enjoying it. I thought I was a little ahead of the class, though, when the prof held up an x-ray of someones head and described what an x-ray was. Then he asked if anyone had ever seen a CAT scan or MRI. I said I had, and told him about the scanner at Dad's office. He was very excited that I had seen CAT scans before and asked all about them. Then he went back to the x-ray and asked if anyone could see anything wrong with it. It was a side view of the person, and the only thing I could see wrong was that their wisdom tooth was way up in their sinus, so that's what I said. The prof frowned, looked back at the screen, and said, "Well, maybe, but I was referring to the fact that the top of his skull is missing..."

That wisdom tooth, though, is really going to cause him problems...

One Word

Katie posted this on myspace. I'm doing it here. With my words, of course.


You.
Can.
Only.
Type.
One.
Word.
Not as easy as you might think.
1. Where is your cell phone?
table
2. Your boyfriend/girlfriend?
Chair
3 Your Hair?
head...
4. Your mother?
wonderful
5. Your father?
Amazing
6. Your favorite thing?
cuddling
7. Your dream last night?
scary
8. Your favorite drink?
diet
9. Your dream car?
new
10. The room you are in?
livingroom
11. Your ex?
Friendly
12. Your fear?
sad
13. What do you want to be in 10 years?
here
14. Who did you hang out with last night?
Amy
16. Muffins?
Please!
17. One of your wish list items.
muffins
19. The last thing you did?
myspace
20. What are you wearing?
nothing :)
21. Your tv?
Big
22. Your pet?
sleeping
23. Your computer?
working
24. Your life?
Wonderful
25. Your mood?
Good
27. What are you thinking about right now?
twenty-six?
28. Your car?
Old
29. Your work?
awesome
30. Your summer?
Busy
31. Your relationship status?
perfect
32. Your favorite color:
green
33. When is the last time you laughed?
now
34. Last time you cried?
yesterday
35. School?
hard

Damn you, Extreme Makeover Home Edition!

Amy and I went to Mom and Dad's house for dinner tonight. We had both saved enough points for the wonderful dinner of smoked turkey breast, squash, and salad (maybe not enough for the wine I drank, the bacon I picked on, or the pistachios I ate while watching mom cook, but, that's what the flex points are for, right?). Anyway, basically out of points for the day, we came home in time for the Simpson, Family Guy, American Dad, etc. BUT NONE OF THOSE SHOWS ARE ON! 24 is. So our choices (despite having 8000 channels) were Bush on 60 Minutes, football, an episode of Monk we've seen a few times, or Extreme Makeover Home Edition. We went with Extreme Makeover. It made me cry. A lot. And crying makes me want to eat. A lot. So we made popcorn. And I ate a lot of it. Then I was over-salted and wanted something sweet. So i ate oreo's. I don't think I've lost any weight this week. I blame Ty Pennington.

I know I said I was going to post pictures of the new rooms to compare with the old ones, but, that means I'd have to take pictures of the painted rooms, upload said pictures onto the desktop, then onto snapfish, then save them to the desktop of my laptop so I can put them on my blog from there...because I don't like to write on The Shortbus at the desk. I'm much more creative on the couch. So I'll get to it.

Until I do, I'll entertain you all with stories of WeightWatchers. I joined last week. Or re-joined. I had been a member a few years ago. It was much easier to lose weight then, since I also has gall bladder-itis and tended to vomit after I ate. Since I had my gall bladder removed I no longer puke, but I've gained a lot of weight. This past week, though? I lost 1.8 lbs.

Today when we went to get weighed in, the woman made Amy put her sweatshirt on the scale. Did you know sweatshirts weigh 1.2 lbs? I think I'll go to W.W. nekkid next week.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN!

Game Room

This is the dining room of our house before we moved in. We don't have a dining room table - just a kitchen table - so we decided to change it from a dining room to a game room:

Our friend Megan painted the top of the walls "peanut butter" and Amy, her dad, and I took down the wallpaper, put up the wainscot, and painted. I helped with the wallpaper part (it was surprisingly easy), slept through most of the wainscotting part, and then was given a tiny little brush to make sure that the primer and paint got into all the little grooves in the wainscot. I also managed to step in primer with my socks on, without knowing it, and walk all over the house, leaving little white spots all over the floor. Amy got them all up, though.

Busy!

I know I haven't posted in FOR-EV-ER, but I've really been busy. Seriously, this time. Not like when I normally say I've been busy but really I've just been laying around, watching a lot of daytime TV and occationally going to class. The holidays went WAY to fast. So fast I hardly have any pictures. In fact, the only really good picture I have is from when I had the family over to the house for sushi.

I'm not sure exactly what Mary was doing, but, it makes me laugh.

I'm working for Dad again, which, YAY! makes me very happy, but both offices are further away from the new house (boo!) so I spend a lot more time than I used to in the car, in traffic, normally on Sheridan Dr. On top of that, we're redoing 5 rooms in the house. Well, "we" as in "our friend," mostly. She's doing all the painting, but we have to do all the moving of furniture, which is a lot of work. And we did part of one room all by ourselves. "We," here, means Amy and her dad, mostly. I've driven to Home Depot a lot, though, and taken the dogs out and kept them out of the wet paint (mostly,) and all of that stuff. So, the next few posts will be pictures of the rooms - before and after, so you can compare.