It's The Simple Things

It doesn't take much to amuse me. I just learned how to get new, free, cute templates for my blog. It was so easy! Now I kind of feel like a scrapbooker. Just wait till we get back from our cruise next month and I add a slideshow, too!

I think this one is pretty. There were something like 375 free templates to choose from so I may change backgrounds everytime I post. That alone will make you want to check back in on a daily basis!

Now, for a quick update:

• I had Kelly, Angela & Addison, and Kimberly & Hayden over for dinner last night. We had such a good time. It was nice to have the "Liberty Ladies" together again--we don't do it nearly often enough. And, if I do say so myself, the peach crisp I made was pretty kick-ass.
• Our school carnival is tomorrow. I know, on a Saturday! I am trying to be positive about the whole thing but it is going to be so HOT.
• I am so proud of myself because I am going to give up sleeping in tomorrow morning (at least by my definition of sleeping in) to go to my class at the gym at 8:00 a.m. Liz won't be there on Monday so this is a make-up class before the fact. If I could just stop eating so much crap, I would probably be in pretty good shape by now. But I love brownies, nachos, bread, pasta, food in general.
• We split classes today. I now have only 18 students! But saying good-bye to a couple of them was as hard as the last day of school--even though I will still see them everyday.
• I need to learn not to hit "something" on my laptop while I am typing. I keep wiping out entire paragraphs. I don't know what it is, but it is frustrating to keep starting over.
• Gramps finished his first week of chemo and all is well. He gets the weekend off.

That wasn't really a quick update. Off to warm up leftovers--you probably all wish you could live this glamorous, single life that I have.

If you have no plans tomorrow you can always join us at the carnival. We'll have nachos!

Gramps

I love my Gramps! He has been very sick for the past 6 months. We already knew he had congestive heart failure, pulmonary hypertenstion, and kidney disease but now we find out he also has colon cancer. He has been in and out of the hospital every few weeks.

But throughout it all, his attitude has never turned ugly. He is just so nice to everyone, even when they are coming at him with needles!

Here is a picture of Gramps after he got his hair buzzed so that he would "look like all of his boys".

Gramps started radiation last week and he goes for his first dose of chemo tomorrow so if you feel led, please say a prayer for him that he handles it well and doesn't have a lot of side effects.

Random Thoughts

Alright, it has been almost a month since I've posted. Would you believe that I have such an incredibly busy life that I don't have a spare moment to blog? I didn't think so. Here's a quick update on my life in general.

• I have a Facebook page. I just set it up today and it has no bells and whistles (unlike this blog that is just soooo fancy!) but it is an addicting thing. It is not user-friendly so I am just clicking on things to see what they do. If you have a Facebook, let me be your friend . . . please!!!!


• I think this is going to be a really long school year. Just when I thought things were settling down, I got my new student. He is "interesting". We started his first day with an hour and fifteen minute fit--not because he was sad or scared, but because he was pissed off! There was not a single tear on his part but I think I shed a few. I was told that he hated me and then after he ran out of the room and I caught him he threatened to bite me. I let him go----biting is not part of my job description.


• Qwest is not my friend. I called to set up service and they weren't sure that they could do it but they would call me the next day . . . Hello---that was 2 weeks ago. I wanted to go with Qwest over Cox because they had a great deal going but apparently I am in a "Cox Community".


• All of my friends are having or just had babies. I have the fever! However, I am missing that one key component to have said baby. My next post is going to be about asking for your help in this quest . . . no you don't have to be the father of my baby but surely someone knows of someone who is not so young anymore and wants to meet a really nice girl! :-)


• I am addicted to Reality TV . . . I need to see who wins Big Brother tonight . . . I'm going with Dan but I think it will really be Memphis. And, finally, The Biggest Loser starts on Tuesday and The Amazing Race starts soon. Yay!!!

Enough randomness for now.