Update: Bucket List

Bungy jumping... Check!

Homeward Bound

Wow! Has it been two weeks already?!?! I'm in the Sydney airport awaiting my flight to LAX. By this time in the States, I will have been in the States for over an hour. Weird, huh? The trip to New Zealand was great and too quick! More blog posting accompanied by pictures will *hopefully* be up by the end of the weekend. Happy Halloween everyone!

This Is the Life

I'm currently sitting in the Admirals Club in LAX drinking free wine and eating free cheese and crackers and cookies, counting down the seconds (well, hours) until I embark for New Zealand. We might even work in some Monopoly Deal! (Don't worry, Amy and Chad, I didn't take your Monopoly Deal, I bought another deck today!) The game plan was to stay awake for the first six or so hours of the flight (which would be until about 6am CST), but that plan may be foiled by the time we're done with free drinks! Oh well, I guess that's what the no jet lag pills from REI are for (ironically, produced in New Zealand). Farrah and I spent the first flight (well, my first and her second) chatting and reading different copies of the same book... Much to the amusement of the guy sitting next to us (though he tried to pretend like he wasn't listening). Anyway, enough rambling, this free wine is calling my name! Adieu, friends!

Oh yeah, and...
HOOK 'EM HORNS!!!
(or gig 'em Horns as my Aggie aunt would say)
:-)

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.

Speaking of Dorsal Fins

The long-awaited pictures of the shark cupcakes that Amy and I made for Tim's birthday: