Charles Barkley - The Love of My Life

1.  Charles Barkley is one of the commentators for the NCAA Tournament on CBS.  He cracks me up like no other.  Someone asked him today what he thought of the Temple vs. Penn State game and he started with, "Well, I'm the kind of guy who likes to take an afternoon nap..." Um.  What?

2.  Louisville is stupid.  That is all.

3.  I ran all the way to the church and back today.  And by "ran" I mean "shuffled" and by "all the way" I mean 3/4 of the way.  This is mostly because I ran all the way there and when I got  there, I threw my hands in the air and yelled, "AHHHH!!!  I did it!"  There was no one there to cheer for me.  I guess that's why it's called a "personal victory".  Then I realized I had to turn around and run all the way back home.  It seemed pretty much impossible.  Either way, I'm almost sure the entire round trip is only two miles.  The Old Erin would have seen Current Erin loping along and thought, "Um, that girl isn't even barely running.  And she's totally not running very far.  She needs to try harder."  However, Current Erin is pretty damn proud of herself.

4.  There's this school crossing guard who works the corner of Dowlen and Westlake every morning.  He smiles and waves at every car that passes.  It makes my day.  So, I've decided to become the waving runner.  I try to wave at every car that I pass.  The only problem is that I was too tired on the way home today to even lift my hand high enough to simulate a wave.  Have I mentioned how sore I am?  Like an old lady.

5.  Carolyn has finally started to crawl properly within the last 2-3 days.  She's slower that way than when she army crawls.  She has also started climbing things.  Like boxes.  While I was stretching outside after my "run", she crawled off the back step, but found the concrete was not to her liking.  Instead, she bear crawled all the way too me, after which, she go a hold of a giant clump of dead grass and stuck it in her mouth. 

6.  Anyone who buys diapers that hasn't signed up for Amazon Mom is officially an idiot.  A girl from church told me about it two days ago, I bought diapers for like $10 less (maybe $12...I have to check tomorrow) than I buy them for at the grocery store, and guess what?  They were delivered today.  That's less than 48 hours after I'd ordered them.  Guh.  Can I please tell everyone how much I love shopping online?

7.  As I was watering my pot garden today, I tried to move my Topsy Turvy only to break the entire tomato plant off at the neck.  Crap.  Here's hoping it'll grow out again.

8.  I just love The Brother of the Owner.  Yesterday he walked straight up to me and said, "Man!  I'm tellin' you!"  I said, "What are you telling me, Henry?"  He just looked at me and repeated, "MAN!  I'm tellin' you!"  I said, "Amen, Henry, amen!"  Then we high fived.  We high five at the end of every day, too.

9.  Just as Husband will never understand my love for Thai Green Curry, I will never understand his love for corned beef (from a can) sandwiches.  Blech.  I guess that's his way of celebrating St. Patty's Day.

10.  We put some apple juice in a sippy cup for Carolyn today.  I've been trying to get her to drink out of it for at least three weeks and she wasn't having it.  Apparently all she wanted was a little juice.  She slammed the couple of ounces I'd given her and then screamed when it was gone.  Then, she kicked her legs up and knocked the cup into her forehead.