What to do?

I feel like a kid in a candy shop right now.

I got some photography equipment in the mail today.  I am trying to give my photography hobby more of a go and I bought a some more knickknacks to help me in that quest.

And I got the last Hunger Games book: Mockingjay from the library.  I am so excited to read it!

Do I read or do I do photos?  I love having fun dilemmas like this.  My plans to clean the house have been thrown out the window that's for sure.

I think I will take some photos, if I start reading now, nothing will get done.  And I have too much going on right now to do that.  I hope I can resist picking the book up, it's gonna be hard now.

Wordless Wednesday

gotta love the crazy photo booth pictures on the apple computer!

Having Fun, Finding Joy

I have the day off today and it is glorious.  I decided today I was going to have some fun on my day off.  I got some sleep, woke up, poked around the internet, and then remembered that I had a declared war on my muffin top and that I better get out and exercise.  I was glad I did.

The weather outside was great, so I decided to go on a bike ride.  As I rode my bike I felt like a little kid.  I was listening to some of my favorite tunes: I'm Yours by Jason Miraz and Viva la Vida by Coldplay.   I felt the wind on my face, I was smiling, and singing at the top of my lungs.  I was riding  with no hands and waving at cars.  It was ridiculous, but I felt so free and full of life.

This is a old picture pre-muffin top, but it shows how I felt today. 

I read this post this morning by my new favorite and talented blogger at http://funininfertility.blogspot.com/.  She reminded me to find 

beauty in the "in between" stage of life.  So I did just that.

Don't forget to vote for me (JRS #7) in the Limerick Contest.  See the button on the side bar to get over there.
Click on this link for my limerick
and this is the voting booth link

Limerick Chick Contest

I entered a limerick contest, here is my masterpiece:

No I'm not pregnant just fat
Would love to have a child named Matt
I hope stirrup socks
don't bring her hard knocks
or else she might adopt a childlike cat

How the contest works:

The person with the most votes will win

And while we're not kin

If you vote for me

So happy I'll be

And we'll all celebrate by drinking some gin 

Apparently the whole list will be divided into thirds and I'm in the first group. Start voting for me today through Friday! The three finalists will compete in the days before St Patrick's Day.  Wish me luck!

Voting starts March 2nd-March 16th!
Click this link to vote for me. JRS limerick #7

Let the Games Begin!

Taco Champions of the World

Today we had a good friend over for dinner and we were declared the "Taco Champions of the World".

Our friend, is so great.  He always asks my husband, "how is your beautiful wife?"  and when holidays are coming around he encourages my hubby to buy me a scented candle.  He is so fun.

Anyhow, whenever we have him over to dinner we compare our food vs his mom's.  And so far we are doing pretty good.  He has declared our BBQ chicken pizza to be better than his mom's.  (But we can never tell her).  She has us beat on the banana bread.  But, we have now added another winning food to the list.  Our corn tortilla tacos with spanish rice was a winner tonight.

Our friend these last few weeks has been sampling the cuisine of a few of our other friends in the neighborhood and so we asked him who the best cooks are.  He was smart, and wouldn't answer that question.  So we rephrased it:  What has been one of his favorite meals that he has eaten in his friends' homes.  And guess what he said?!  Our tacos!!  We were ecstatic.  Mr. R and I were cheering, and hooting and hollering!  It was great.

Then we broke into song.  R started playing "We are the Champions" on his guitar and we changed the words to "We are the taco champions of the world".  It was so fun.

You can see Mr. R playing the guitar, and our friend started playing the drums using the pitcher and serving utensils.  

What a great night.  Loved it. 

I married a ham sandwich

Sometimes I really think I married 2 pieces of white bread w/ some ham and cheese in between.  My hubby can be so ridiculously funny sometimes.

We had a ton of snow the other day and now it's all melting.  Yesterday we were going to a church function and we were driving 2 other ladies to it.  On the way my hubby said, "have you guys seen the waterfall?"  We replied, "no",  and so he began to talk about how beautiful it was, etc.  Then as we were driving through a portion of the street that is under construction he said, "Look, there it is".

And, what a site it was.  In the middle of the street there really was a waterfall.  A beautiful 6 inches high waterfall was churning brown melted snow.  I wish I had brought a picnic lunch so we could spend the whole afternoon there.

It was hilarious.  The other ladies and I had a good laugh about it.  And of course, we had to pass by it again on the way home because I think this may quickly become one of the 7 natural wonders of our city.  And my ridiculous ham sandwich will be credited with discovering it.  I am so proud of him.

Snow Much Fun

 

It's a winter wonderland out there.  

Record Snow fall: 12.5 inches of snow!  

Gotta get out there and have some fun.