OH am I procrastinating.  I have a bunch of work to do but I haven’t posted in a while.  I even watched some Wiggles with Cooper to get out of doing this(balancing the books).  I will get right on it as soon as I am done here.

Well it is a hot one here today.  Suppose to get up to 100 degrees.  I love it love it love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!  That’s not to say that it isn’t hot but it feels good.  It’s still spring so we get nice cooler nights.  The kids have been having fun in the pool that Aunt Jan bought them.  I think we are going to be playing in it again today!

While in Michigan we traded in our minivan early.  We were already over on miles and weren’t due to turn it in til November.  Well they had some great deals and we got a new car for the same price.  I didn’t really get to drive it much til we got back here.  What a great car.  It is much better than the last model.  WE got the same Walter P Town and Country but it has so many more options.  I like the layout and Gregg loves the touch screen radio.  He loved being able to plug his Ipod into the stereo and download his stuff into the car.  It was nice for him when he had to drive home.  I LOVE the autostart.  I knew it would pay off.  Yesterday we went grocery shopping and we were able to cool down the car before we got to it and put in the kids and groceries.  Perfect!

I have a bunch to say aobut Lost.  I finally watched all 4-5 episodes in one sitting.  I have some thoughts but will share them later.  I still have thoughts on Aaron but we will share those later.

OK well I should get back to work.  I can find nothing to say all day here.  The JJ is moving right along.  I bet they are sanding the drywall as we speak.  We need to get up there.  We go once in the am and once in the pm.

OK gotta get to work.  

We had a nice Easter here on the path.  We all went to Carol’s house for a casual brunch.  The Sippel boys have taught me a new game, Blokus.  Fun game but I need to play more.  We also had a nice Easter egg fight in the street.  Love those confetti eggs.

We canceled our trip to Houston this weekend.  We were going to see the Tigers play but Noah bean has his first flag football game.  Woo hoo

I don’t know what made me think of this but last week I was thinking about some great music that I used to listen to.  I would jam out.  Then I realized that was the 90’s.  I went on amazon and found it super cheap.  Gregg is too funny.  Yes I have a zune but sometimes I just want the actual CD.  He doesn’t understand that.  Guess I won’t let go.  Anyway I was thinking of Afghan Whigs

God I loved this song

Dinosaur Junior  Ugh I loved to jump around to this song and freak out.  What a great beat.  This was a great dance song(by my standards).  I dated a drummer once and my cousin is a drummer they love these kind of songs.

Now I loved this guy so much, Mark Curry.  Most might remember him from Sorry About the Weather.  THat was his big top ten song.  This video is fromt he second album I have.  It is a great song.  I don’t think the video is complete but there isn’t much on him.  I saw him once in Ann Arbor and once in Detroit.  Boy did he look like he had a lot of fun in those two years.  He was absolutely fabulous live.  This video has that Kiefer Sutherland guy in it.

OK so this song is from the first album I have.  Not bad on the eyes.

I will have more to write later today.  There is so much to talk about and I have more pics.  Plus I have a big write up on Lost if you are interested.  I have been thinking about some theories the last few nights.

Oh I love Fridays!!!!!!!!!!  For one I have the day off and secondly the kids go to school.  That leaves the rest of the day for me, Lost, and Jungle Java.  We put a desk in our master bedroom and I have turned it into my office.  I have my little desk in my bay window cubby so I can look out.  I have one GREAT view from my office.  When I look up I see beautiful Egrets drying their wings on the side of the lake on hole 7.  Sometimes I see some cute little duck butts wailing around as they try to get to something at the bottom of the lake.  Oh and then I get back to work.  The view is a big distraction.  I might have to draw the blinds soon before I notice that it is sunny and 70 and I will want to skip out on my JJ duties.

I went to my first Pampered Chef party last night.  I know hard to believe.  I love cooking so much but any one I knew that did Pampered Chef stopped doing it when I met them.  It w as lots of fun and I bought a few pieces.  I got to meet some other people from the neighborhood too.  Shannon of course went and was a big help as she had sold Pampered Chef before and this was Katie’s first time.  I also met a ballerina from the Austin Ballet.  Oh and I also met 3 babysitters yesterday.  Two girls I caught getting off the high school bus in the neighborhood. and one girl from last night.  I will have to have these girls come over and meet the boys.  Noah already liked the older girls from the bus stop.

Wow so we made our reservations to come back to Michigan for our JJ training.  We will be back April 21-May8th.  This is nice as it is also at Cooper’s birthday so we can have a big family get together.  I know Gregg and Michelle wanted to have a big get together for all the listeners also when we come back.  He was thinking one West side and one East side.  Perhaps Novi the 26th and Royal Oakish the 3rd.  If you have any ideas of places of cities by all means respond here or email gregg.  After all we want the party to be where you will want to come(ps. I love Duggan’s in RO)

So we should get our final MEP plans back by Monday and off to the Permit process then.  In worker time I am thinking we will start construction March 12th ish(2 1/2 weeks).  Which puts us finishing June 1-15th window.  Noah’s bday is the 12 so I am hoping we can have a party for him on the 14th.  In the mean time there is so much to do so I should really get off this computer and get working.  I will post a new Lost blog entry later.

Oh and I am also going to a meeting tonight about a charter school opening here in Round Rock that will have the IB program.  Is there anyone here from Michigan who goes to Country Day, Cranbrook, Andover, IA or even Lone Pine Elementary?  How about anyone involved in it in Round Rock at Westwood, Grisham, Anderson Mill.  I know nothing but good things about the program in Michigan so I am very excited about this meeting.  It is all the buzz in the school that I am tutoring in.

OH and a bigggggggggg HUG to Curly.  I saw on Carol’s Blog that Colin took a header into a wall/basketball pole.  Hey but blue stitches are really cool and you have to love that the ER waiting time is only 7 minutes here!  Take care sweetie!!

Man it is cold here.  The high is 45.  Not much of a Friday Family Fun night tomorrow.  Last week we played in my house.  It is cold but it is cute how the people here over react to it.  It’s funny because everyone who is here moved in when we did.  Only we moved away for a year to only come back.  Now they are all accustomed to the heat and their blood has thinned.  It’s funny because even Tiffany who came from CA is chilly whenever there is a dip in temp.

Even our friends in Atlatnta are a bit chilly now.  Oh I can’t wait til it lifts.  Our friends in Philly were having a hard time.  OUr old street was shutting down because no one could get up the hill. 

Oh Philly was so cute with all the elevation.  I don’t think anyone knew that there was such an elevation.  But oh my I always said whenever we went up and down our sub my ears popped.  today I read on our local message board that people could not get up the hill.  This is so steep that they had to park down where the townhomes were and crawl(almost crawl up) to our houses.  This is a VERY steep slope so I am sure peolpe had a hard time.  The horrible thing is that one of the  Street Sweepers actually ran into one of the cars that were stranded on the street.  It still is such a beautiful sight but I must agree that I prefer the warmer temps. and all that go with it>

Oh what a meal.  The dinner was as perfect as was the conversation.  We have plenty of leftovers!!  I sickened Carol and Shannon with my turkey deconstruction technique.  They eventually took the bird from me.  My mom would have been so disappointed with the amount of meat they made me leave on the bone.

We had such fun today, always silly when Jessica is around.  It’s gold when Gregg and Jess go at each other.  Everyone had a great sense of humor and lots of double intendres were flying.  At one point my side hurt.  The kids were a dream.  We didn’t have one single episode all day.  It is so nice when they ll get along and no one get hurts.

We are suppose to walk over to the outlet mall later tonight.  The Polo store is open at midnight.  We were thinking of taking our Baileys and hitting the Starbucks at the mall and ”pub crawling” for some deals.  Yeah, right now Jess and I are the only ones ready but we still have 2 1/2 hours to go.  Our party is dwindling, or is passing out the more PC thing to say? 

So far the deals I have seen in the circulars are not that great.  Please if anyone finds any great deals tomorrow please tell us.  I almost think this is an urban legend.  Now I can vouch for the day after Xmas sales.  Neimans and Saks are some places that you can get SERIOUS sales the day after xmas.  Of course I was always shopping for baby clothes.  I can’t remember the last time I bought something for myself that wasn’t for attending a wedding.  Can I get an Amen from the other new mothers!

I hope everyone had a GREAT thanksgiving.  We just want to say we are so thankful to be back in Texas and back with great friends(not that any friends in Detroit sucked but hey come visit us already!).

Hey here we are!  Shannon is cooking away LOL!  Carol is watching and I am trying to find my drink.  Jessica is along for moral support.  We are having a blast here talking and cooking.  I think the Lions are losing but we are really ready for the Cowboy game.

The kids have been a dream.  They are soo good and quiet ahhhh.  And the guys aren’t bad either.

It is nice and chilly.  Of course I say that tongue in cheek(hate the cold).  We had a cold front come in last night.  At 2 it was 84 degrees and at 5 it was 50 degrees.  BRRRRRR

I hope all is well in Detroit.  I miss the Wednesday night at Union Street and watching the parade set up.  I especially miss running around the parade course and climbing on the floats.  Amatuer night downtown was one of my most favorite memories.

OK This is my first time with my own blog.  This is going to be a work in progress.  Sometimes I will just come on here to ramble about the latest going ons in my mind.  LIKE>>>>>

I know Gregg thinks I am crazy but I am truly mad.  I hate what my Court TV has become.  I use to watch that channel all day long.  Sure I had kids to tend to but I could leave it on through out the day and catch pieces here and catch up on cases by listening to the commentators talk.  Plus some of those people were down right hilarious(Vinnie Politan, Ashleigh Banfield and Nancy Grace).  Now here I am in Central time and all live coverage is over by 2:00.  That means any cases that are taking place in CA.  don’t even start until 11 CST.  Don’t even get me started on this Star Jones show.  OHHHHH and I am so sick of their programming to lowest common idiot.  How many “most shocking” shows are they going to put on.  There is already another channel that caters to the mindless Cops drivel and that is FOX.  I have written many letters to the station, especially during the Phil Spector Trial. 

So I saw that they are rebranding the station starting Jan. 1, 2008.  Wow they finally heard me.  Others must have been complaining too.  They are slowly teasing me with this new “true television programming” that will start Jan. 1, 2008.  The anticiapation was killing me.  Finally they are going back to their roots and show more trial coverage.  I saw the first big commercial for their “true tv” and I am about to erase the preset from my remote.  As if it isn’t bad enough that they are going to show more “true” COPS and such but they are branding it by saying……. now get ready for this because I’m sure some big ad firm on Madison Avenue came up with this line…..”it’s not reality tv,(pause for dramatic effect) it’s acutality tv.”  Yea that is really it.

Court TV has taught me a lot.  I will still watch the Forensic Files and Investigators but I think I am going to have to switch over to Discovery and watch Dr. G Medical Examiner now.

Oh and Court TV has also taught me never to befriend nor allow any of my other friends date any man with the last name Peterson.  Yeah, they like to kill their wives.  Heck, two out of the top three famous Petersons thought they were so good at it that they killed two wives!!

PS  MOM I don’t have time to spel check so stop it.  I am lucky if I can rip one of these off before the kids wake.

Woo Hoo I am on the internet and ready to burn up this site!  Stay tuned.