lunch

One of the worst things about my diet is the fact that I am screwed if there's no food in the fridge and I forgot about lunch the next day. I can't just run across the street and buy something from Starbucks or Food! Food! Normally there's something in there that I can throw together to make something for lunch. Apparently today my luck ran out. Below is today's lunch. And no, there is nothing on that 1/3 cup of rice. When school was out I thought I was going to pass out from hunger.

thanksgiving

Crissy, if you're reading this, stop now. I don't want to hear your complaints about how this is just a reposting of Rebecca's Thanksgiving post. Everyone else, you may continue.

After leaving Houston from the baby shower, I had to drive back to Austin to work for 2 days. It was pretty annoying, but whatever. We (mom, dad, Rebecca, Michael and I) were going to drive to Shreveport from Houston, and then to Austin. Because of this I flew to Houston on Tuesday night. I made sure to get there early enough so I wouldn't have to wait in the long security line. It took me less than 5 minutes to get through. No problem, I'd rather be early than running through the terminal like in Home Alone. So everyone boards and we are at the end of the runway ready to take off when they say they're doing construction at the Houston airport (perfect timing bozos) so we had to wait on the runway for almost an hour. By the time I finally got to my parents house I could have driven to Houston and back. 

The drive to Shreveport was fine, nothing too exciting to note other than the fact that Michael continues to amaze me with the amount of candy he can eat in a 4 hour time span. It was great seeing everyone, and the food was delish. Especially the separate meal my awesome parents made for me so I could still eat. I even had a real pie with crust that tasted real! Everyone thought it was hilarious I kept saying it tasted like a real pie...but it did! Any gluten free, dairy free people know how rare that is! (Below are pictures taken from Rebecca. My camera officially died so I'm stealing from her.)

Here's out cousin who willingly locked himself in the dog crate. The best was he had a hard time unlocking it, and he kept asking people to open it and no one did. At one point he had a rubber chicken in there with him.

When we got back to Austin my running group had our unofficial 10 mile run up to Mount Bonnell. The 10 miles would have been...bearable... except the run UP the hill to get to Mount Bonnell almost killed me! Our coach said before we got to the hill that she wanted us to run up it as best as we could. At one point I started walking and I was walking faster than I was running up it. It was crazy steep! We then ran up the stairs to see the view before running back down and finishing our run. I didn't have my camera with me (obviously) but here's a picture of what I saw. It was great! But sad that I was only halfway through my run.

We spent Sunday hanging out and eating. It was a pretty great end to a fun weekend with the family!

 This last picture cracks me up! I can't wait to see Rebecca and how big her belly has gotten! Only 2 more weeks!

rebecca's having a baby!

The weekend before Thanksgiving my mom and I threw Rebecca a baby shower in Houston. Rebecca's baby room theme is classic books, so I figured why not take that and make the shower around books? It all started with these super cute invites that I found which Amira was able to change using photoshop. I think pictures will do the shower more justice than my writing about it, so this post will be a picture post. Enjoy!

 Mom and I.

 Everyone sitting down to the lunch that was all book themed. (Of course!)

Some of the books lunch was based on.

 We had a party crasher! Yes, that is King, and yes he is wearing an adult diaper!

 It fits!

We played a really fun game. Below are some of Becca's hilarious answers.

We had rubber duckies floating in the pool.

Here's what was inside of the boxes. Each person had their own bookmark originally created from the most awesome person on etsy.com! I think mom and I did a pretty awesome job on the shower if I do say so myself!

have you seen this cat?

People have been asking about Luna, so I thought I would give an update. Unfortunately she hasn't made her way back home. I put up lost cat flyers all around and in doors around my apartment, I've called the microchip people, vets around my complex, and continue to walk around my complex daily looking and calling for her. One of the maintenance guys that pick up trash found her collar yesterday near my apartment. It was a break-away collar so I'm hoping she's ok. 

Rebecca asked if I was going to get a new cat, and I think the best thing to do is wait until I move. As long as I live here, she still knows where home is, and she might show up. But when/if I move, I guess that's the end of that. Hopefully she shows up soon though, it sure is quiet and lonely around my apartment without her. It was sad, the other day when I was grading papers I looked over ready to pet Luna (she always sits right next to me) and then I realized she wasn't there to pet. I'll let you know if there are any other developments!

the face on the milk carton

Luna has been missing since Thursday. I'm not quite sure what to do at this point. I have walked around my apartment building yelling her name, looking into bushes (I'm sure my neighbors at this point think I'm a peeping tom), and shaking her food bowl. She usually comes when I shake her food bowl., so I don't know what to do. Here are the possibilities of where Luna is:

1. She is on a grand adventure killing birds, and enjoying being outside.
2. She froze to death like a cat popsicle since it has been freezing here the past few nights.
3. She was killed and/or eaten by one of the animals living in the Greenbelt which is behind my complex
4. She is over me, and found a new home to live in.

Either way, I'm sad, lonely, and worried about her. I would ask everyone who reads to be on the lookout, but the only people that read this don't live in Austin. When I got back from my long run this morning I thought I saw her in the bushes and I got so excited and sat down and said, "Luna! Come here!" The cat walked over, and it was a fat, ugly cat. I turned my nose up at it and walked away. It was a really mean trick. In case you forgot what my lovely Luna looks like, here she is.

I guess my afternoon will now consist of making and hanging fliers around my complex. Come home Luna!

halloween

Wes and I are fans of game shows. Two years ago we were Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly from Match Game.

 

This year we decided that we needed to bring back contestants from an awesome gameshow known as Supermarket Sweep.

The house party we were going to go to ended up being a bust, so we decided to go to Ego's, our favorite karaoke bar. It was a great decision! The crazies were out in full force. Surprisingly no one but Wes sang any Halloween songs. Knowing our history of Halloween together (the Match Game picture ended with Wes getting hit by a car...for real. We then had a city bus drive just the two of us home since he wouldn't be able to drive his car because his wheel chair was so busted up.) this was by far the most successful! Here are a few pictures from last night.

i'm quitting my job...

And joining the circus! For Angie's bachelorette party we went trapezing! (Is that even a word?) So we got to the trapeze place and first practiced doing our trick on a bar close to the ground. After that we got our belts on for the safety line and we started! The first time I climbed up the tiny ladder I was terrified! My legs were shaking so badly while I was holding the bar waiting to go. (Angie had to be pushed off on her first time.) So I couldn't get my legs up over the bar the first time and I was pretty mad. One of the guys started telling me what I did wrong and pushing my body into the position I should have done. The second time I was awesome!

After that one someone said I should quit my day job and join the circus. So I got to go 3 times and then it got serious. It was then time for the catch! So for the catch we do all of the same things, except at the end when we have our hands out we have to grab the girls hands. So when I saw this girl I was worried. She was pretty little, definitely smaller than me. How is she going to catch, and hold on to me? I had strict instructions from Angie's mom not to break any bones for the wedding. The first few people that went didn't catch her. One lady even let go WAY to early and literally face planted into the other lady! Luckily she had a harness on and there was a net, otherwise she would have totally died falling from that high. Pat did something similar on her catch...

Finally it was my turn and I was so worried I was going to do something wrong, and not get to do the catching part. Would I not get my knees up again? Would I let go to early and knock that girl off her bar? There were a lot of things going through my mind. Here's what happened.

I was totally awesome! I really should join the circus. I can't wait to go back and do new tricks!