Blog Award

I was recently nominated for a blog award by Kati over at The Ivey League. Thanks, Kati! As an "award winner" I get to share 7 random facts about myself. I'm not nominating anybody else only because those I would probably nominate have already posted, so feel free to join in if you want to and say I awarded you.


1. I was never really scared of snakes or spiders until we moved into our new home. I love our house but there is still a lot of undeveloped land right around us and we get quite a few uninvited visitors. A week ago we had a snake in our garage. No thank you!

2. Most people who get rid of cable say that once you get rid of it you don't really miss it. Umm, false. I am not even a huge TV watcher, but I do miss it. I mostly miss the convenience of DVR. We do Hulu Plus now and it's just not the same. I do like saving the money we would have paid for a cable bill.

3. We find out on Monday if we are having a boy or girl. Probably by the time this is posted I will already know, but we aren't telling our family until the weekend. I honestly go back and forth so much about what I think the baby might be. If you look at all the old wives' tales my symptoms are generally split 50/50 between boy or girl. What if it's twins? I'm pretty sure there is only one baby in there....

4. We've started playing the game Tensie at our house lately. We don't have the official set, we just took every set of dice we could find around the house. It's funny how entertaining it is to roll dice over and over again.

5. When I was about ten years old I ate some gerbil food and my throat closed up. My friends did it because it had sunflower seeds, but I guess whatever part I ate wasn't made for humans? I had to go to the hospital and everything. So now under allergies I can always list, "gerbil food." Just kidding. I don't write that on forms.

6. Last week Eva and I started watching The Sound of Music together. We mostly like to watch the scenes where the kids are singing, but even then it is still a long movie. I can act out every part of the gazebo scene between Rolph and Liesl. Eva thinks this is awesome, I'm not sure if Ryan enjoys it or slightly judges me for pretending to be 16 again.

7. There is still a box of brown moving/wrapping paper on top of our refrigerator. I'm sure it just got placed there on move in day (3 months ago....) and every time I realize it's still there I am not sure what else to do with it. I could probably give it away to somebody that is moving, or at least stick it in the attic..but what if the snakes take over our home and we need to pack and move quickly? It could happen. I better leave it there.