Wandering through E-Space

Yes!  I'm still here!  Man, I haven't posted since January!  Yikes!  Well, alot has happened.  Sports-wise, in football the Pack went 15-1, but lost in the first round of the playoffs. (boo.)  That's ok-they did pretty well in the draft-I can't wait to see what happens in the fall!  Baseball...eh...wah.  As of this moment, we are 8-23.  Gah!  I can only hope we will get better.  I refuse to be a fair-weather fan, and will stand behind my team-WIN TWINS!!!! Hmmm...let's see, what else has been going on?  Lots of stuff-a week from Sunday I will become a godmother again!!  :)  Stormy is sooooo cute!!! He's such a sweetheart.  Perspeh and Paul are very lucky parents! My sister finally has a new house-woo!!! Also, I have a new camera!!!  I decided I'd finally get a DSLR.   It's a Pentax K2000.  An older model, entry-level DSLR, but it's in great condition-already took some fantastic pictu...

Holy smokes! It's the last day of September, and I haven't written anything in this blog all month! Wow, and I thought only 2 posts a month were bad... I've just been busy, I guess. It's not like I have nothing to write about-I think of entries all the time-just don't have the time to write them all out! I have quite a few things I've starred in my rss-reader that I'd like to write about. *sigh* Let's see, what has happened this month? Well, St. Rocco's for Italian Band, the Tippit reunion. I actually went to the movies (btw, 9 is pretty awesome!) Worked on cleaning my Dad's telescope (the mirror really needs to be re-silvered-but that's another story that I didn't get to this month...perhaps I'll write more about that later). Hmm...what else? I participated in Case for Community Day again (7 years running!), love my tv shows (well, duh), my flowers on my porch are still blooming-my petunias have taken over my marigolds!! ...

Yes, I've been back for what, 2 weeks now? I just haven't had time to update this blog. I got back late Tuesday, then the following weekend was Mt. Carmel-so this past weekend was the first chance I've had to rest since I got back, and I didn't really do a lot of resting. ;) Anyhoo, since I'm terrible at breaking my trips/events into multiple posts, I thought I'd give a breakdown of my trip: Things We Did: (in no particular order) -overnight camping trip to Snake River, first day I was there -played disc golf at Inner Grove Heights (first time a tornado siren has ever been a hazard. ;) ) -had a Doctor Who marathon (well, duh-we try to have one everytime I visit) -campfire/bonfire (to go with the S'Mores) -made S'Mores! (to go with the fires) -Ladies Starbucks run (me, my sis, Shan, and Angelz-the kids thought we were going to a bar. LOL) -went 4-wheeling (at Snake River and Willow River-rode from Willow River to Sturgeon Lake) -became a God-Mother (y...

D.W. Quote: "There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish, sometimes." -the Fourth Docotor No, I'm not quite ready to talk about the whole Brett Favre thing, so instead, I bring you...a long over due update from my vacation! I know, it's been over a month, but now I'm finally getting around to posting some things. So, the first day I was there, it rained! Did that stop us from having fun? NO! Ally still fired up the grill, and me and Mellon were sitting in the garage-well, sort of-Mellon was all giggly, and I'd chase her and try to tickle her. *hee* I started to run outside in the rain-and began dancing in circles, just like a little kid. Mellon laughed and ran out with me. Even big sister Tia (formerly known on this blog as T) decided to join us. :) It was fun, but we had to stop once the lighting hit. You know what you see alot of after a rain shower? FROGS. Lots of frogs-there is a pond in my sister's back yard, which is full of ...

D.W.Q.M.: "When everything is new, can anything be a surprise?" -Cho-je (from the Third Doctor story, Planet of the Spiders Happy Summer! (well, almost.) ;) I can't believe it's summer (partly because, well-it's been quite chilly the past couple of days-even for me!! It is supposed to warm up, though) This past Thursday was the summer debut of the annual Coventry Street Fair (or is it the art fair? Geez, I should know better) Anyhoo-every third Thursday of the month during the summer, Coventry Village closes off the streets for the fair. In the past, I've only passed on through-my apartment was far enough away that once I was home, I didn't hear or see any of it. This year, I'm quite a bit closer! There was a cop at the corner of my street, directing traffic away from the fair, and, of course, people were parking up and down my street-I sat on my porch Thursday evening and watching families come and go. Next month I'm going to try to mosey on over...

D.W.Q.M.: Sarah: "Oh, I could murder a cup of tea. You're serious, aren't you?" the Third Doctor: "About what I do, yes. Not necessarily the way I do it." My Mommy came for a visit!! Well, actually, she went to D.C. to see the Pope, but she stopped by on her way there, and on her way back! So we had a short visit, 2 weekends in a row. ;) This was the first time she's seen my new place. :) Even though our time was short, we still managed to have fun. The first weekend she was here, the Sarah Jane Adventures premiered on SciFi, so we watched that together. :) (Have I mentioned she's partly responsible for my Doctor Who addiction?) This was an extremely short visit, though-she had to leave the next morning for D.C., and I was headed for Cincinatti that weekend. This past weekend, she came on Saturday. I had just bought the Time Warrior and Planet of Evil on dvd, so we sat down and watched the Time Warrior (which was my very first Doctor Who story) S...