Are you ready for this?

(How many of you are singing the song now?) ;)

I'm posting AGAIN! Two days in a row, baby! All thanks to a little thing I like to call free time. Ah...it's wonderful. Wanna hear what I did today? Slept in, had lunch with Tay, watched Raiders of the Lost Ark (I love Indiana Jones! Can't wait till the movie this summer!), and went to the eye doctor. My eyes are still dilated (yuck), but they're a little better than they were a few hours ago. I'm fixing to be at the Files's playing cards (Hearts, no doubt). I love Spring Break!!!

Hi!

It's Spring Break! And I haven't posted since Christmas Break. Oh well.

I just wanted to update those of you who might have been wondering what's happened in the past three months of my life. Actually, not that much. More of the same old stuff. But it's all good! Let's see...how about one of my beloved lists? Oh, alright, you convinced me.

Lee's favorite things from the past three months (in totally random order...except for #1...):

1. Definitely number one - the SNOW!!! 9 Days ago (a little over a week? And two days ago it was 80 degrees?) it snowed about 6 inches. It snowed all day long. It was beautiful and fun and exciting and on the weekend, so no school was missed (aka, no school has to be made up at the end of the year). Yipee!

2. Friends - lots of hanging out with friends has happened over the past three months, and man have I enjoyed it! Game nights, dinner dates, good ole hangouts...so much fun! Also, two of my best friends from college just got engaged. One of them was proposed to in her classroom (she's a kindergarden teacher). Her fiance made t-shirts for all her students to wear with a letter on each shirt. They were all lined up to spell out "Miss Brittany, will you marry me?" And he was wearing the question mark. How sweet!

3. American Idol - I'm addicted. Even though I have no cable or satellite, I have somehow managed to watch every episode since the auditions. (Well, the performances. I miss the results shows most weeks.) Some weeks I went to my parents in Warren to watch it, a couple of times I went to Taylor's dad and grandma's house, and recently I've been going to Jeff and Caroline's (my pastor and his wife's) house to watch it. My faves? Jason Castro (he's so dreamy...sigh...;)) , Lil' David Archuleta (I don't know why, but every time I say his name, I have to put the "lil" on there. He's so little and cute! And great voice!), Brooke White (she's cool), and Carly (she's like a pro already.) Yea American Idol!

4. Books! I've been reading like crazy since Christmas, and I've read some really good books. A lot of the books I've read have been adolescent literature (you know, books for my classroom), but I've read some really good "grown-up" books too. I love reading!

5. Family - We've gotten to spend a lot of time with family in the past few months. We went to Little Rock last weekend to spend the day with Taylor's family, and we had a lot of fun there. Also, for the past couple of months, Taylor and I have gone over to my parents' house once a week and made dinner for them before watching American Idol or Lost. I've really enjoyed hanging out with them, and I'm thinking of keeping it going even after American Idol is over. I forget how much I like those people! ;) And last but not least, this week I get to see Rosie and Phillip! I'm so excited! Tay, my mom, my sister Suzanne, her son Josh, and I are all going down to Camden, AL Thursday to see them. I'm sure I'll have plenty of pictures and stories from that trip!

I guess those are the highlights. I'm sure I'm forgetting some stuff, but it's too late to worry about that now!

I'm Ba-ack!

So, I'm a liar. I didn't post sooner rather than later like I said I was going to. Oh, well. The important thing is that I'm posting now, right? Right.

The Christmas season came and went in a blur, like always. I can't believe it's over already. I whizzed through the week in a flurry of holiday get-togethers and family gatherings, all of which consisted of much fun and much more food. I'm still full! I got to see family that I haven't seen in some time...Rosie and Phillip, Taylor's mom and sister, etc. And I got some pretty cool gifts (a digital camera! a comforter! earrings! books!) All in all, it was another great Christmas.

And...today is my birthday. I am a quarter of a century old. I had a wonderful day of basically doing nothing, which is exactly what constitutes a perfect day in my book. This morning I got up (with a runny nose and a baritone voice) at 5:00 and couldn't go back to sleep. So I did what any other insomniac would do...I went to WalMart. There were a grand total of four other cars in the parking lot and about 15 people in the store, including the employees. I bought some cold medicine (I love you, Theraflu!), chicken noodle ABCs soup, cat food, and two movies for $5 each, Clue and The Italian Job. I was home by 5:30! When I got home, I realized I hadn't put my key back on the ring from the weekend of family members using it to get in to the house, so I had to call and wake up my poor hubbie to let me in. I got back in bed, drank my Theraflu, watched Clue, and slept till 10:00. Then I ate some soup, watched another movie, read some of my new book, and took a nap. Then Taylor took me out to eat for my b-day and we went to see National Treasure. (It was pretty good, but the first one was better, of course.) It was a great day!

My plans for tomorrow? Dentist appointment in the morning. (yuck) Then I'm going to spend a couple of hours at the school. Hopefully I can come back home, wash clothes, do dishes, and then do a little more of nothing. We'll see how that goes.

I posted! Yeah!

A few questions...

-When did I become a bad blogger? It's been a LONG time since I last posted, and it was just a video. That's a cop out for a post if I've ever seen one.

-What does one do who is stuck at the house without a car for 48 hours? Here are some of the things I've already done - cooked a GREAT dinner for myself last night (I knew I was a good cook!), watched "Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves" (one of my favorite movies of all time...so romantic! My favorite Robin Hood movie moment - When Maid Marian desperately screams in her English accent,"RO-BIN!" and he goes running to her rescue. Sigh.), watched "Hitch" (also a good movie), slept and slept some more, read some of my book, checked email and caught up on blogs, washed, dried, and folded four loads of clothes. Some things I'm still planning on doing - cooking another amazing dinner tonight, giving myself a pedicure, cleaning the bathroom, doing the dishes left over from my fabulous meals, watching another movie or two, finishing my book, and oh, sleeping some more. (Can't forget that one)

-How do you tell whether your stuffy nose, headache, watering eyes, and ears that won't pop are a cold or allergies...or a nasty combination of both?

-Why is it that every time this time of year rolls around and a BEAUTIFUL day like today comes along, I want to hop in my car, roll the windows down, open the sunroof, blare the radio, and drive to Lake DeGray?

-How long do I have to wait for Thanksgiving and Christmas to happen? I love the holiday season!

-How many people are there who haven't given up on me and will still read this blog?

The world may never know...

William Tell Overture

I'm not a mom, but I know a lot of them! So this is for you, all my friends and family who are moms. Enjoy!

Ah, weekends

I love them, don't you? I've always loved weekends, but they took on a whole new meaning once I actually got a real job. I mean, I love my job and I enjoy the weekdays, but I always look forward to the weekends. Who doesn't? Right now, it's 11:30, and I don't have to get up at 6 tomorrow morning! In fact, I can sleep as late as I want to. I love it! Taylor's in the kitchen making us some tea, and we're going to drink it while watching Monk, one of our new favorite shows to watch together.

I must apologize for slacking off on the blogging recently. I've been slacking off on the blogging for about 6 or 7 months, now that I think about it. I don't know what happened to me! There are no excuses, no good ones anyway. I just haven't had the time or the urge to blog a bunch. Also, work and sleep are pretty much my life, and I don't really wanna talk about work a lot while I'm at home. And talking about sleep would just be boring. I'll see what I can do, though.

Time for tea and Monk...have a great weekend!

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Join us for lunch tomorrow after church! (around 12) Gumbo prepared by our own Donald Teater. (and it's GOOD!) See you there!