Happy 6th of July

Normally I do Wordless Wednesdays.
Today, I’m not because it is my 26th birthday.

Wow. That’s really hard to believe.
I’ve been wondering to myself lately, “When did this happen? When did I become a grown-up?”
I’ll be getting married next week, I picked up the license yesterday, we got the judge and picked the park.

I don’t think I should have any more birthdays. I think last years’ birthday was my last. Nothing exciting planned. Probably go to the gym and the man make me dinner.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my most memorable birthday. It was my 5th birthday. I woke up everyday for a week before and would tell myself “I’m 5 now. I won’t cry anymore.” Then something that day would make me cry and I would tell myself the same thing the next day. That birthday I got Hungry, Hungry Hippos and we went to St. Louis.

We get these ideas in our heads that we have to have accomplished something or be a certain way by a certain age. Like a professor I had once said “Normal should only be a setting on a dryer.”

Happy 4th

Hope everybody has a wonderful 4th of July!
I painted my nails as flags.
We grilled some burgers. And watched movies.
I got a little sunburn!

I went to the gym to run my virtual 5k! I did it on the treadmill so much fun!

It was nice to have another 5k to do. I tried to find one in the area with no luck. I finished it in 38minutes 12seconds!

Friday Facts

-          According to my calendar and Canadian peeps, today is Canada. K and I are very disappointed that we are at work today. We feel we should get the day off. (Even though we're in US)

-          So I still haven't gotten around to looking at the pictures I took on vacation. Hopefully this weekend so I can blog about it.

 

-          Wednesday was K's birthday, so we went to a Japanese steak house for dinner to celebrate.

 

-          My birthday is on Wednesday.

 

-          Im getting married in just under two weeks. I can't believe it's finally happening. We've been engaged for 2 ½ years because of reasons I won't get into. We're just having a small wedding at the courthouse.

 

-          I'm working on potty training the cat. It's going pretty well, we are on step 2. Though I didn't clean out the pan enough in the first step so she pooped in some clothes. Not cool.

 

-          July is a crazy month. We have 3 birthdays in a row in my family. Me on the 6^th, my man on the 7^th, and my sister in law's on the 8^th. Then my brother's on the 19^th.

 

 

Inspirational Thursday

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

-          Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), Volume III, p. 274.

 

The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato,—the only good belonging to him is under ground.

-          Sir Thomas Overbury, Characters

 

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.

-          Ovid, Metamorphoses, XIII. 140.

 

Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I know people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.

-          John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar (1968)

 

Not to know what happened before you were born is to remain forever a child.

-          Cicero, M. Tulli Ciceronis Orator Ad M. Brutum (46 B.C.)

 

Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it's gossip with some point to it. That's why I like history. History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

-          Gore Vidal, Interview in: Butt, Nr. 20, Special Summer 2007, S. 63.

 

If you don't know history, it's as if you were born yesterday. If you were born yesterday, then any leader can tell you anything.

-          Howard Zinn, War and Social Justice, speech at Binghamton University on 8 November 2008.

Wordless Wednesday

Genealogy

So recently I have become very interested in my genealogy.
Mainly, I wanted to find the royalty in my family to have evidence that I really
am better than everyone else. I know my family had at least two castles.

Dunster castle in England and Luttrellstown Castle in Dublin, Ireland.

Sunday, I signed up with ancestory.com, I gotta say, it's pretty much amazing.
I love the images of war registration and all of the other historical documents.My sister mentioned the DAR (Daughters of American Revultion) I am now interested in being in it. I know on my dad's side I qualify. I want to find someone on my mom's side
so she can join too.

Moronic Monday

So I had a morning that was too interesting not to share. And make you seem a little smarter.

 

So this morning I had a doctor's appointment so I decided I would go to the gym before going.
So I get dressed and pack clothes to change into and head off to the gym.

I jump on the treadmill, spend five minutes untangling my headphones.

Then start running.

 

After a couple of minutes a thought pops into my head.

Underwear.

I forgot to bring new underwear to change into. Crap!

Ok, no big deal. I'll just make sure I'm done in time to go to Wal-Mart first to buy some,

and put them on in the bathroom. I needed a couple other things too.

Problem solved.

 

So I finish working out and take my shower.

As I am getting dressed, this lady makes a comment about hating going places

after the gym and having to bring clothes to change into cause she always forgets something, like her underwear.

Now, I'm a little uneasy cause I don't know if she said that cause she noticed I didn't have any or what.

So I gave a little nervous laugh, "Oh yea I hate it too. I normally come after work so I don't have to worry about it."

I finish getting dressed and book it out of there.

 

So, I get to Wal-Mart. I wonder around trying to figure out where they keep the protein shakes.

I finally find them and have everything I need and head to the register.

Pay for my things and then it hits me.

Most Wal-Marts have a bathroom in the front of the store and one at the back.

Not this one.

This one only has one at the back of the store.

So I have to walk clear across the store to make the change.

As I'm doing this, they are having a staff meeting up front doing their Wal-Mart cheer and stuff.

I felt so weird doing so, cause I felt everyone's eyes on me like they knew what I was doing.

I'm sure they didn't just that mind set when this kind of thing happens.

Maybe the cashier, since instead of walking out the front door to leave, I turned around and headed to the back.

 

So that was my fun start to the week.

Wordless Wednesday

Herro

Hello Everyone!!

I've been away for a while. We went on vacation to see my nephew graduate high school.

I had originally planned to still have posts everyday,

then I didn't get to it before I left, and wasn't really on the computer

while on vacation.

We went to Boston. While it was a ton of fun, I'm glad to be home. The best part was seeing my sister, since the last time I saw her was dad's funeral, almost 3 years ago. Now driving around here, drivers seem to be good drivers compared to how bad they are there.

I will post more about my vacation later.

Guest

Hi! My name is Angela, and I blog over at Craving Cupcakes. Andi and I go way back…to the days of Live Journal! We’ve known each other for years ( at least 5 or 6), so I definitely count her as one of my best blogging friends!

I’ve definitely become known as a baker among my friends and family. If you stop by my blog, you’ll even see that I post recipes every week (along with other things). Baking is just what I do. I’m good at it. Funny thing is, I’m not much of a cook. Before my boyfriend came along, I couldn’t cook anything. Here’s something you should know about me: I don’t like math or science. I hate numbers. Baking is supposed to be some sort of a science, where you have to get the measurements exactly right in order to churn out a delicious master piece. Cooking is a little more generous in that you can just toss in whatever you like and it’ll still turn out to be tasty. No exact measurements there. You’d think that cooking would be more my thing, but it’s baking that I love. I love the fact that there’s a set recipe, in fact, I need that. I can’t cook if there’s no recipe. I don’t know why I’m like this when it comes to baking and cooking, but I don’t think my friends and family are complaining too much. I shower them with freshly baked goods! Besides, I’m dating an excellent cook.

If you want to read about my life as a nanny, and check out some of my recipes, please be sure to stop by my blog. 
Thanks for letting me guest post today Andi!