she's much cooler

My sister, always trying stuff that I was too chicken to try:

• pierced her ears like in 3rd grade with a safety pin and some ice from her juice,


• snowboards,


• went on a mission trip to Haiti,


• gauged her ears (I'm not even sure if I'm using the right verbage),

and now, she got an AWESOME tattoo.

Too much TV

Michael went to get the pizza out of the freezer for dinner. As he was decending the stairs, he was singing, "Free credit report dot com, free credit report dot com"

Too good to last...

Things were kind of quiet and I was able to catch this great picture of them snuggling and watching TV.

Less than a minute after this peaceful picture, the familiar sound of arguing and picking on each other returned.

Cold Walk

I took the kids for a walk up the road this morning.
It was pretty chilly.
They had fun walking on the snow bank along the side of the road. Then they broke up the ice on the potholes.

There was some evidence of spring: buds on one tree and turkey foot prints. I CAN'T WAIT FOR SPRING

Exercised again

I did it! I got back on the treadmill today. After a 2 hour nap (I know a little lavish), I jumped on for a full 30 minutes. I sweat quite a bit more than the other day. Then I did a Fitness on Demand exercise of squats and leg lifts (OUCH!).

You might be thinking, WHY?! Well here it is... my scale says I'm 144. And, my scale is close to 10 pounds lighter than the Dr.'s scale. So, that's a little bulgey and jiggley for me to wear a swim suit, a dress without some slimming spandex, and maybe even shorts depending on length.

We have a wedding to go to at the end of May. That's my deadline. (thanks for the motivation Sarah and Ryan)

opposites

So I found out today that the opposite of a genius is a "don't knower." For example, when SpongeBob said to his cousin Stanley Squarepants that Patrick was a genius, Michael said, "He's lying, Patrick is a don't knower."

Pearl of Wisdom

My sorority has a thing we do for seniors when they are inducted as alumnae. We gather pearls of wisdom from alumnae, read and present them to the new inductees. Here's mine:

Laugh a lot,
Give and don't expect to get,
Love unconditionally,
Forgive and really mean it,
Cry at goodbyes,
Remember your sisters and keep in touch.