Liam James

Is this the cutest baby you've ever seen, or what?!

Welcome to the world, Liam James!

I Hate the Cold Weather

To all you crazies out there who are all like, "Yay! It's getting colder!" I just want you to know that I'm NOT with you on this one. All summer long in St Louis while everyone complains about how 89 degrees is SO HOT (come to Texas, bitches, we'll show you hot!), I have the Avenue Q song "Schadenfreude" playing in my head. To everyone on the elevator, I just smile and nod as if agreeing with them, while secretly thinking, "It's payback time! This is how I feel all winter!" And it makes me so happy! Well, now it's my turn to be miserable. It's not just the cold weather that I hate (though no good can come out of a day below 75 degrees unless there is a mountain, a chair lift, and enough snow to ski on), I also hate that the days are shorter and the sky seems to stay a permanent shade of dreary grey.

In the spirit of making this a more optimistic blog post, here are ten things that ARE good about winter:

1. You can order a hot coffee drink from Starbucks without getting a weird look
2. Pumpkin spice is in season at Starbucks
3. Baileys and marshmallows in hot chocolate
4. Time off around the holidays
5. New Year's Eve parties
6. Scarves
7. Hoodies!
8. Soup at Panera? I'm really reaching here.
9. It's hilarious to go to Austin and see college students in pea coats, hats, scarves, gloves, and... flip flops
10. Year 5 with my favorite boots!

10 Dangerous Things I Do While Driving

1) talk on the phone - almost always
2) text - a lot
3) update status - a lot
4) read emails - a lot
5) send emails - sometimes
6) talk to passengers - always, if they're there
7) read maps / directions from my phone - a lot
8) look up things on the internet - sometimes
9) try to get things out of the backseat or off the front passenger floorboard - a lot
10) change my pants - today! but not a first!

Please don't send this to my insurance company.