The latest playlist

I really like music.

And, I'm really liking the latest playlist that I've put together, so I'm going to share.

1 Careful With That Mic- Clutch
2 Beat That My Heart Skipped- dan le sac
3 People C'mon- Delta Spirit
4 Skin On Skin- Queens of the Stone Age
5 Your Beauty Is A Knife I Turn On My Throat- Eagle*Seagull
6 Bang Bang To The Rock'N'Roll- Gabin
7 Mr. Hurricane- Beast
8 Candy- Martin Sexton (the version from The American)
9 Ice Cream- New Young Pony Club
10 Sinnerman- Nina Simone
11 Take a Bow- Muse
12 Burn the Witch- Queens of the Stone Age
13 Revelate- The Frames (live version from Set List)
14 Hatari- tUne-yArDs
15 You Are A Runner and I Am My Father's Son- Wolf Parade
16 Out of Control- Beast
17 Phenomena- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
18 Peggy Sussed- Underworld
19 Gigantic (live)- The Swell Season

I was just driving along.....

And this is what I saw

You might think that this was the batmobile, but you'd be wrong..... unless Batman drives a saturn.

It took me a while to figure out what was going on here, and to maneuver behind this car (for once in my life, I was mad that I had ended up in the lane that was going faster than everyone else).

Anyway, this man had somehow affixed a giant fan onto the back of his car. One suggestion that I've heard that it was for paragliding, but I'm a little dubious because the license plate had actually been moved to the top of the fan, indicating that it was a permanent fixture on the bumper.

Once again I say, people are wierd.

Take Me Out To The Ball Game

I have a friend who broke his leg just a few days after me (running after a cab and falling off the curb- I'm sorry, but my story is sooooo much cooler). He left the house sans walking boot this weekend and his broken leg gave out, and he fell once again..... this time breaking his arm.



This got me to thinking "how often does one injury lead directly to another?"



Then, this led me to recall one of my favorite Bees/Buzz/Whatever that baseball team in SLC is called, game memories. At some point in the game, (this was some years ago, so the details are just a tad hazy) a fly ball flew into the stands just over our heads. Excitement spread through our section at the thought of catching the ball, but then a bit of commotion arose as we realized that a boy a few rows back had been hit in the face by said ball.



I'm not sure exactly what happened to him, but they left the game pretty soon after. The girl next to me seemed to know him, (I'm guessing she was in 5th or 6th grade) so I asked her about him. He was in her class at school and the reason that he could not catch the ball that was hurtling towards his face was that he had fallen out of a tree a few weeks earlier.....................



and broken both of his arms.





Moral of the story, only go to baseball games if you have at least one mobile arm to protect your face.

8 am is early

It's a new year, and that means that we switch church times- we've gone from 3pm to 8am. Which then means that I have to get up at 7 (or start hitting the snooze button at 7), that's earlier than I get up for work, that just seems wrong to me.

On the upside, I have a very long afternoon for napping.

The list

I've gotten to 55 on my list for 2010, but I need 45 more things to do.



Suggestions are welcomed.

Happy New Year!

Well, it's the 6th already, so 2010 is old hat- now if I could just remember that when I'm writing down the date.

Here are the highlights from the holidays:

days spent at the cabin wearing pj's: 4
movies seen: 9
babies held: 3
good ol' friends visited with: 5
rides on the little electric cars in the Dallas airport: 6
shopping trips with dad: 1
hats made: 7
morgan marathon: 1
games of speed scrabble: 3
people taught to crochet: 1.5
days requiring to wake up before 4am: 1
days waking up after 10am: 4
Crawley's carrot cake slices: 3
casts removed!:1

I didn't believe it was possible

But it really does snow in Virginia.... a lot.

We had to brave the snow this morning for Marci and Alan's wedding up at the temple in Maryland. So not only did we have to leave the house, we had to cross two state lines. The temple was actually closed, except for the few people there for weddings. It was actually really nice and even more peaceful than usual.

Louise and I are now firmly planted indoors and are watching Jane Austen movies. And here is a picture of the snow from a few hours ago, and there's even more now.

Out the front door. That's Louise's car after we carved in a little nook to park. And can you see my car? Nope, that's because it's covered in snow.
The view out on the back porch. There used to be a table out there.