That's Pinteresting....

NOT EVERYTHING ON PINTEREST IS AWESOME

So this oatmeal looks really good right?  I made it in the crock pot and it smelled like heaven 

it tasted like mush. Even the granny smith apples somehow took on the taste of mush. Because it was on pinterest it should have tasted good. That is what my brain tells me. But humankind has fallen for these pitfalls since the dawn of time. Examples, you ask? Gladly. "I know its true because it was on TV" or more specifically, "Its TRUE! It was on PBS!" or even more specifically, "Its TRUE. I KNOW IT IS BECAUSE CAPTAIN PICARD SAID SO". Don't believe the lies, America. 

WE HAVE A ROOF RAT.

I'm pretty sure (if you dont' know what a roof rat is, you've clearly never lived in metro Phoenix. They live in your attic and eat the unpicked fruit off your trees). Every week or so, we wake up to a little pile of weird dusty junk underneath the AC vent in the kitchen. Adam said "there might be something alive up there knocking it down". I was in denial. Well this last time the junk on the counter showed up, there was definitely rat "presents" in it. As much as I enjoy small pets *sarcastic eye flutter* I think we're going to have to set some traps in the attic. Till' we go to the Home Despot to get some, Roofie can keep on enjoying the bounty of figs in the backyard in ignorance. This image comes courtesy of the City of Tempe's roof rat jihad website.  

ADAM STARTED OT SCHOOL

He loves it so far. Apparently, it's like elementary school because you have the same 30 people in class all day and you eat together and everything. Oh and our student loans came through so I'm in debt for the first time in my life. Feels so good......

I VISITED TUCSON

On the wrong night... The party I meant to go to got moved to another date but, probably due to the fact that I turned off almost all notifications on facebook, i didn't notice. It was still bomb though. We had a little mini-party at a friend's house and I got my toes painted and had some quality girl-talk. In the morning, I got to go for a walk along the Rillito and went to Frank's/Francisco's for breakfast (Tucson's only split-personality themed restaurant: http://franksrestaurant.com/). It was lovely. I definitely consider it more like visiting family than friends down there.

 

Time to get crack-a-lackin'!

SO WE MOVED

This whole year has been a pretty crazy run to the finish line- the finish line being the end of our life in Tucson and the beginning of, well, a lot! A year ago I had just started my job with the school district knowing that it would only be for one year because we were definitely moving to wherever Adam got into OT school come summer.  I didn't know where we were going to end up, I didn't know that when we DID move I would be 7 months pregnant. I also had no idea that I would finally know what I've been craving to know since I started college; that I am actually good at something I feel is worth-while. More than good. I'm pretty great. I hope everyone gets to experience that in their lives. Tucson was good to me. 

Goodbye...

the good:

the bad:

might as well admit the ugly:

THE COUNTDOWN CONTINUES

Only 3 1/2 weeks till baby girl's due date.  Her room isn't completely ready, but it's getting there! 

ADAM STARTS SCHOOL TOMORROW

He and I had kind of a lazy week (after a few weeks of really hard work, trying to get our house all settled) and it feels good to finally be starting up routines again.  I will miss getting to spend so much time with him though. 

One of my favorite things that Adam does is he will recount to me the entire plot of a classic novel when we are in the car or just sitting around (below is his new "reading" chair he found at goodwill). I am serious. Its like having an abridged audiobook on.  

  

One of my least favorite things that Adam does? He listens to baseball on the radio. Ugh. 

I dont' know who this guy is but I hate him. 

"Rodrigo McDillypuddy steps up to the plate and let me go on for 5 minutes about something while the players are busy doing absolutely nothing at all because its BASEBALL and nothing EVER HAPPENS IN BASEBALL... ok now something happened and I'm using my annoyingly nasal voice to describe it and ok now back to pretentiously quoting statistics at you for another 10 minutes..." 

day off

1. I TOOK THE DAY OFF

It has been AIMS week and at the middle school that means no therapy... and our office being used as a testing room. So... it was either sit and stare at the wall all day or take a sick day.  I took the sick day and went home and hung out with Adam until he had class at 3.  Then I watched "Sarah's Key" which was sad but beautiful. 

2. ADAM's WEIRD QUESTIONS:

My husband is a deep thinker. Very deep. Check out this profound question he came up with today: "In other countries, do they eat the green tops of the strawberries along with the berry part? I mean, are we just spoiled westerners? I bet it doesn't bother some people to just pop the whole thing in your mouth"  I told him to eat one with the top on and see how it tasted. He ate part of one. He said it tasted like a leaf. In a snobby english accent, I said, "tonight our salad consists of strawberry tops, mango leaves, and pecan shells". 

Delicious.

Sorry if that was a boring story. 

3. I WANT TO KNOW WHAT I'M HAVING RIGHT...NOW....

I just think that when I find out if its a boy or a girl that it will actually hit me that I have a baby in there. Right now I just sort of feel fat. 

4. I LIKE LEARNING RANDOM THINGS

this week in randomness, I was looking at map of canada and noticed a lake that was almost a perfect outline of a circle. Turns out the lake is called Lake Manicouagan and is known as the "eye of quebec" and is a perfect circle because it was formed by a meteor impact. Its actually a reservoir- not a natural lake, but its pretty darn awesome.  

I love geography. 

5. THERE WASN't REALLY ANY POINT TO THIS BLOG ENTRY.

oh well.

type b?

Weekends are lovely things, but today I slept in until 10:37 without even realizing it. I did wake up a few times in the morning and thought, "maybe I should get up and not be a bum". If I had looked at the time I probably would have gotten out of bed and taken my thyroid pill and done something completely unproductive until Adam woke up.  I did all those things in that order, but I did them at 10:37 and that is just too late to be sleeping in.  

My little sister was in town the past few days. I admit I spent most of the time admiring her 1 1/2 year-old, my darling nephew.  He is extremely entertaining. Also very cute.  Alright alright, I enjoyed having my sister there too. Nanners as-i-like-to-call-her and I are very different in a lot of ways but we get along splendidly and are very close.  I would say she's very type A about most things whereas I am very not-type-A about most things. For example, I missed classes regularly in college. In fact, I only went to my gen-ed Classics class five whole times. Nanners would have a heart attack if she missed a class. literally. 

When we were kids, we were either two peas in a pod or tearing each-others' hair out. I guess that's how great relationships are formed, right? 

I am staying up late, hoping that this weekend will somehow just keep going right into monday...

Lovely lovely love my family

2011 Highlights: Flood! Baby Amelia Blythe Girls Camp New job Sweet Baby James says words! OT School Applications moved... And tons of good times with friends and family fave movies of this year- 3 were super hero movies....1 was a harry potter movie, 2 had ties to JJ Abrahms. song of the year: Who Knows Who Cares by Local Natives (Thanks Phil) book of the year: popcorn- Hunger Games non-popcorn.. well I guess I didn't really read any oops. besides my scriptures. Adam informs me that this a leap year. Very cool. Now he wonders why February is so short? Why not make it an even 30 and take some days off of the 31 months? There must be some explanation for this... He and I had a lot of fun getting presents for people this year. We are also very thankful for everything we received. The best part was being with family so much. I haven't spent 2 weeks with family since I got married 3 years ago. I can't believe that in 6 months we'll be moving somewhere else. It will probably be either Phoenix, Albuquerque, or St. Louis. It will be weird leaving Tucson. I've lived here since high school! That feels like a long time ago. When I first came here it felt pretty weird, being so much like Phoenix and yet not at the same time. I remember explaining to all my east coast friends that not all of AZ was this ugly. But I've come to love it here. I remember the first time I went up Mt Lemmon on a field trip. I was in complete awe. And I remember the first time I really felt like I belonged here, thanks to a few ladies (Mandy, Meagan, Brittany, and Shanae). I love that we can get back together and still feel like best friends (like we did a few weeks ago). Good thing the boys we married get along with each other too!

Anyways, I am kind of sad that christmas vacation is over but I'm excited for what the rest of the year will bring. A lot of changes ahead! I'm so glad Adam is here to go through it together with me. Its hard to remember what it was like back when we were just friends. Or back when we didn't even know each other. It feels like we've always known each other. He's my best friend. I mean who else would get me fudgecicles for our anniversary? Some more pics:

ThankSGiving

woot I love it. 1. Familia That's what it's all about. We made tons of food and I ate half of what was on my plate before passing out on the couch while everyone else finished the feast. That turkey really got to me! We watched a bond a thon that was on, well, just parts of the Roger Moore era; a view to a kill, for your eyes only, actually I passed out at the end of a view to a kill and woke up at the beginning of octopussy but I knew it right away from that teeny tiny jetplane. We took a walk in the evening across the new ped bridge by the fairly new Tempe Center for the Arts next to the not really new Tempe Town Lake (STILL a dumb name).

2. Blau My nephew calls all stringed instruments "blau"s. I decided to bring my uke up and give it to him since it broke in the intense humidity of my apartment this summer. He started playing it as soon as he got it, but he didn't strum, no no. Being the child of my sister and her husband, both cellists, one professionaly, he found a stick (actually it's a harry potter wand), sat down, put it to his left shoulder and started to bow it. THE CUTEST THING EVER.

3. TREES we set up adam's family's tree the next day. Some of my favorite ornaments: Baby Adams:

The only time the braves one in recent history:

and the two best, Phil's finest hour and Raskolnikov, the Angel-attacking christmas clown

We ate turkey soup and watched Captain America. Sunday night we went home, turkeyless but happy.

1. SUPRISE! WE HAVE TO MOVE NEXT WEEKEND Yep. The dreaded thing happend. Our apartment building was foreclosed on and we had two options- either take 1500 bucks and move or stay here and have to pay whatever rent they decide to charge us. The decision is obvious. So we're moving into the same casita where my sister Anna used to live. From the 14th we have 2 weeks to leave and since the weekend after next is Thankgiving and we're going to San Diego, it's gotta be next Saturday. Things I will miss about this apartment: How cheap it was for a 2 bedroom apartment with a washer and dryer. Things I will NOT miss: being cold, the smell of pot, and my neighbors yelling at me to come look at UFOs.

2. LIZARD AND MOMO I can't call my big sister Elizabeth anything but Lizard recently. She and my mom drove down yesterday from the valley and we went to El Guero Canelo, saw the Secret Garden at U of A, talked really late, and then had pumpkin pancakes before they took of this morning. I took Lizard to the secret slide inn the music building:

The musical was.... ok I wasn't wowed by it. I was expecting to be wowed because it's one of my most favorite scores in all of musical-dom. There were come critical errors: * Colin was played by a man and it didn't work to have a duet between a counter tenor and a soprano i'm sorry. they should have cast a woman as colin. * all the actors playing kids were overacting waaaaay too much * I wished they would have had a better set for the outdoor scenes than just a few topiaries. Poor adam was either cringing or bored to death. I admit I cringed a few times too. 3. ITS STARTING TO FEEL LIKE CHRISTMAS I made my first giant paper snowflake yesterday and I spent some time making a mini christmas carol book for my primary kiddoos. Last Sunday, we did "Still Still Still" and I had the little ones pretend snow was falling with their fingers. You know, I think most kids in arizona grow up pretty confused about this winter thing. I KNOW I DID. All this christmas stuff is making me miss my old co workers a lot because we had a pretty dang cool christmas last year. I call it: CHRISTMAS TROLL DOLL VILLAGE!

isn't it beautiful

4. THE GREAT PURGE HAS BEGUN As i type adam is packing all his books in boxes for the move. He's already filled up 6 of them and has a bunch more books to go. Some things are NOT going into boxes for the move because we are going to a much smaller place (it's only going to be till June, we figure). FOR EXAMPLE, adam's beloved Dee DEE and Stripes are not going in a box. they are going in a dumpster. But not before they are immortalized on BLogger. According to Adam, stripes could fly using his tail as a propeller and dee dee was known to use fart attacks on the all-female kingdom "Lovebug City". Sometimes I feel bad for my poor brother-less brother.