Corpse Flower

About a month ago, The Houston Museum of Natural Science had a huge (6 ft) Corpse Flower nicknamed "Lois". When it bloomed, it was going to let off a not-so-pleasant scent!

My (Hilarious) friend Danny played at a wedding, which was held in the HMNS, during the week the (stinky) flower was supposed to bloom! Here's the song he wrote:



Or go to -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRI32KEqJa4

You're welcome,
Danny's Fan Club President, #1, Orginator, Creator, and CEO

Quotes from Thursday

On Thursday morning (8am), I went to a birthday party for an 87 year old guy at the gym!

Every morning at 7:00, Bob walks in with his little cane and his wife. He climbs up on the treadmill and sets it for like .14 MPH (approximately) and grips the handles real tight and puts one foot in front of another...when he is done exercising, he visits, with EVERYONE and ANYONE!

Evidently, they have been having birthday parties for 11 years for him at the gym. It was hilarious... cake, muffins, singing, dancing, many toasts (with our OJ) and lots of quotes.

Bob had some advice:

-- "Be nice to old guys" :)

-- "Always greet others with their name" -- Which I loved! My dad always says that "Your favorite word is your own name!" Who doesn't like it when you remember their name? You know?!


Finally, this other women proposed a few quotes for Bob, I am not sure how this one fits with the 87 year old birthday party theme, but I was slightly offended...

"Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses." - Dorothy Parker

I took off my glasses and winked in Bob's direction......and then put them right back on because I couldn't see worth a darn without them!

Summer Time!

a long overdue update...

Since my last post, I have...
celebrated easter
gone to a wedding or two
had a birthday
won a church BBQ cook off with my bible study
won a softball league championship (mostly due to my AWESOME sftbl skills)
lost a roommate to Calgary :(
moved to a garage apartment
played, danced, sang and laughed with friends
Oh yeah, and I WENT TO THE LAAAAAAKE!!!!!










Sal-- Guilty confession: I do cheat on "Blogger" with "FB" and visa-versa. Sad face.
Liz-- Pleeeeeeease don't take me off your favorites! Okay, thanks!

Small update

- bought an olympics shirt on monday from target ($12.99 and super cute!)
- bought 3 boxes of girl scout cookies (thin mints, of course!)
- Wore the olympic shirt 4 times since monday
- ate a sleeve and a half of girl scout cookies (by myself! oops!)
- watched LOTS and LOTS of Olympics!!
- wish I had something super exciting to tell you about...sorry!

Time for some Work Stories

On Friday, I was wearing a shirt that was a *little* old...like early college; maybe late high school... the styles back then were a little shorter or maybe my jeans were a little lower or maybe the shirt has shrunk after alot of washes...I don’t know what the cause was, but the problem was: when I sat on the floor about 3486 inches of my back was showing (For the record: no underwear or crack was showing).

On Friday mornings I have a group of 3&4 y.o. language boys who work on using their words in sentences, social skills, answer questions, etc. Remember, they are LANGUAGE disordered!

Anyways, one little boy said out of the blue: "oh no miss mmammy!!" (that's me) "oh no! no shirt!" and proceeded to put his cold little hand on the small of my back. I guess he thought I was naked until I pulled my shirt down; which I proceeded to do.

I think it's time to get rid of that shirt. When a 3 y.o. language kid-o tells you he thinks you're naked = time. Also, for the record it's a black 3/4 length shirt, with a pink "A" on the shoulder; not THAT out of style. Well, I guess the initial shirts are little out of style, but I don’t care, I like that shirt. Maybe I could layer it with a tank??

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This morning I was working with one of my favorite little artic/language boys. He did really well with "F" last time, so today we moved onto "V" (which is made in the exact same spot; just with your voice or "turn your motor ON"...try it!) Anyways, he was doing pretty well until we got to "volcano"...

me: Volcano
A: Volkawon

me: Try again, Volcano
A: Volkawon

me: Vol-kay-no
A: vol-kawon

me: vol
A: vol
me: kay
A: kay
me: no
A: (puzzled look)

(tried a few more times, same results, then up-ed the enthusiasm)

me: Vol! (point to my lip)
A: vol
me: Kay! (point to my neck)
A: kay
me: No! (made the sign for "no)
A: Tears; lots of tears...Cute little hands covering his face and big crocodile tears coming down his cheeks
me: ??? huh ??? wha??? *realization* Oh Buddy!! I am not sad at you...

Of course I had to pull my favorite little boy into my lap and cuddle with him for a minute...

me: Volcano has the word "no" in it. I am not sad at you at all. I was trying to practice the word. Just like "nose" has the word "no" in it... ... ... Pretty sure the session was over by then; he thought I was screaming "No!" at every attempt he made...poor baby!! :(

Facebook Help!

I love when people randomly say things to me or say they were thinking about me etc. So I want to make a point of doing more of that this year...When I think something nice about someone, I want to make it a point to verbalize it (or type it).

However, I have posted on several ppls FB walls in the last week and I just realized that EVERY single thing I have written on other ppl's wall shows up on my home page and on the "news feeds" -- HOW DO I GET RID OF THAT!?! Not only is annoying for me to look at...It's annoying for you to get those constant streams of updates on your News Feeds...plus it feels borderline invasive/stalker-ish...

What do you do?
What do you change?

It didn't used to be this way...I guess the last set of changes on FB changed my original settings!!

2009 Christmas Pictures - a little late!

it snowed on christmas eve...this was what was left christmas morning!


my family...(and yes trish - i am wearing heels)


siblings, no heels, doesn't rachel look gorgeous!!


with our favorite austin cousin andrea


and my youngest cousins...
(side note, on christmas day, Courtney the 6 y.o. told me her favorite song was "Islands in the Stream" the duet by Kenny and Dolly...isn't that hilarious!?)

why do i look so awesome in the morning!!

Santa went across the street to visit with the neighbor whose family was still asleep, so mrs. clause made us wait. We waited under the covers. Much warmer!!

Santa brought us matching dresses...well really over thanksgiving Rachel found a dress that we all loved and it fit us all, so we called it the "cousin-hood of the traveling dress" and then santa found some more for andrea and me!!



Merry Christmas to All
And to All a good 2010!