King of Pop

It seems weird that Michael Jackson is dead. He's been a pop star as long as I've been alive. How is it possible that he was 50? When did he get so old? I remember getting his Thriller album (yes, the vinyl kind) as a gift....must have been in 1982. How did I get so old? In elementary school I had a purse with his picture on it, I think I bought it at a gas station. Hot!

White socks with rolled up pants, one gloved hand, hair catching on fire, marriage to Elvis' daughter, sliver of a nose, the Thriller zombie dance, moon walk, sketchy relationship with Macaulay Culkin, sketchy relationship with children in general. Odd duck, but a musical legend nonetheless. What "memories" did I forget?

Family Night Out

I've been trying to get some household chores done during the week so that I don't spend my entire weekend running errands and catching up with housework. Thursday nights are now grocery shopping nights and they've turned in to our family night out. We eat at the Hy-Vee buffett and then do our grocery shopping. I'm actually looking forward to the outing tonight. If you would have told me a year ago that one day I would look forward to eating at the Hy-Vee buffett and grocery shopping I would have thought you were nuts! But, I would have also thought you were nuts if you would have told me that baby poop and vomit wouldn't bother me....oh, the glamour of parenthood.

8 Years

Happy anniversary to me. I have been at my current place of employement for 8 years. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

On The Move

Evy became a professional crawler over the weekend. She's already moved on to trying to pull herself up. On the docket for this weekend: baby proofing the house.

This is my first attempt at video on the blog. I hope it works!

Like Mother...

Like daughter. Except that Evy's earphones plug into an iPod and mine plug into an eight-track player. Oh, and Evy is much cuter.

Food For Thought...

Before Evy arrived I brought my lunch to work almost every day. Now, I rarely make (find) the time to pack my lunch and this leaves me grasping for a quick and healthy option each day at noon. I've been going the sub route on most days, thinking it's one of the healthier options available on the run. However, I just looked up the nutritional information for my sandwich of choice (The Beach Club from Jimmy John's..wheat bread, turkey, avocado, tomato, lettuce) and found that it packs 838 calories! A Quarter Pounder with double cheese from McDonalds is 510 calories. And I wondered why the scale just keeps inching upwards.

Luscious Locks

Finally, something that keeps Evy's hair out of her face!