Today's Theme Song

Ok, La Ti Da is now my personal theme song. http://www.theicicles.com/pages/listen.html
It is amazing what a good night's sleep will do for you!!


Things are lookin alright today
The sun is shining I'm feeling okay
My chin is up , my spirit is high
Pretty sure that I could fly

So I sing la ti da ti da

Things are finally right for me
The sun is shining, I'm feeling free
My heart is whole and I can finally breath
The horizon I can finally see

Things are finally going swell
The sun is shining, I'm feeling well
My mind is totally clear
I can feel the happy coming back to me

Things are looking brighter and I'm feeling better

la ti da

i LOVE the target comercials with the song that goes la ti da. it is sung by the icicles. google taught me that one. i LOVE the song. it makes me want to party!

the house is looking hot. the closets are white instead of the icky yellowed almond originally painted in 1979. now it is just a mattter of slowly replacing the clothes in them and hanging a million things on the wall.

i'm also amused by this new show "samantha who?". it is cute. christina applegate and barry watson from seventh heaven are on it. i like the concept of waking up ahd having to figure out who you are. it seems cute.

finis

last night. trim finished.
tonight. moving in.
yay.
'nuff said.

there is still tons of work to do, but my bed calls my name. i will post pics once the room is put back together.

The dukes of vicksburg

when i woke up this morning, i had no idea that today would wind up quitethe way it did. i figured it would be like an other columbus d. Nothing big to report. i was wrong.
this morning i worked around the house, big surprise there. i got the first coat of paint onto the trim and the vanity. it looks nice. it needs one more coat, but it is starting to look good. then, i went over to jackson. all was well, i went to the new mall, which isthe nice part of town. it was a little rainy, but all was loking good. I droped a bunch of money at the petsmart buying dog food a new dog bd and toys (how spoiled is she). The good news,I shouldn't have to go buy food until t-giving if not christmas. i wnt to the car, and it woulnd' turn on. arg. what the hey. so, i thought i needed a jump. i walked over to target, did my target shopping and got a set of jumper cables. a nice guy helped me out, and we jmped my car. it started up and all seemed well. i'm a dumb girl when it comes to my car, but i know to keep it running for 15-20 minutes. so, i went over to hobby loby (my last stop) and sat in the parking lot with the car running. it just stopped 5 minutes after being jumped. so, i went into hobby lobby to find out where the nearest auto zone was and to get scurity to jump me again. well, this strip mall had no security. but, a nice woman heped me out. we jumped it and i was about to head out. i put the car in gar and it just DIED. so, we tried again. disaster ensued. it wouln't start up. it kept making this bad noise, and not the type of noise i associated with trying to turn over. so, i wound up haning out at the strip mall for a whlie longer while my friend kirk came to pick me up. he and his roomate brought a trailer and we brought my car back to vicksburg. right now it is sitting at the shop. it may just be the battery, but i want to get it checked out since it went from having no problems to being unable to take a charge.

the best part of the story
we had to jump it to get it on the trailer. then, when we got back to vicksburg, it was dead again. so, we had to uhook the truck from the trailer and re-jump it. note that the car is about 12 inches smaller than the trailer, so kirk had to do the dukes of hazard thing to get in and out of the car. we jumped the car. then they started to re-hook up the trailer so we could get the car off. as soon as the trailer got hooked up the car died AGAIN!!! so, we were going to have to unhook the trailer, pull the truck around and d it again. we wound up "engineering" it and hooking my jumpers and their jumpers and getting the car started. what a disaster!!!! i feel like only me.....
OK, hopefully that gave y'all your laugh for the day.

Tuesday's Update: My car is fixed. It was just the battery. We so could have just gone and bought a new battery and not gone through all of the trailer issues. But seriously folks, that MADE the story.

the corn and the cheese part 2

this weekend was a double battle of the corn and the cheese.

bears 27 the pack 20

'nuff said

The Corn and The Cheese

Hi ho the Dairy Oh, The Corn and the Cheese. Corn 31, Cheese 26. And, I watched it from the comfort of my own home. Granted, i would have LOVED to ahve been at memorial stadium on Saturday, but if I couldn't be there, at least I could watch it. It is great to see the Illini finally getting a chance. They aren't just winning, but they are beating teams who are in Division 1!!! I must say, I do enjoy listening to the announcers. They drive me crazy. They talk about these players and how they are so great but no one has heard of them until today. They imply that these guys sucked for the last several years. For instance, Rashard Mendenhall is the running back no one has heard of - hello, in Champaing we are VERY familiar with his name. This isn't something new. Same with J. Lehman. You are just finally giving us a speck of attention. Ron Zook, you did us proud. Thanks for all the hard work to you and your boys.

I will admit, I look forward to stoppin by the office of the one Badger fan I work with an needling him a little. I wouldn't be doing it, except when I saw him Thursday he decided to give me a hard time :-)

I also need to add this one to the pot. this is the Second time this type of thing has happened. During undergrad we were a part of the 0-11 years. The year after I left we went to the Sugar Bowl. Likewise, it is looking like a repeat. Last year was full of losses and we are practically bowl bound already!!! Also, congrats to them on joining the AP top 25. Once again, first time back in there 2001. So, I think what this says is that if I start spending every other year as a student of the U of I, they will have really good seasons every other year!!

In other football news, I watched the LSU game Saturday night. It was absolutely AMAZING. If you didn't see it and you are like me and don't watch Sportscenter, you need to read about it. The last quarter was so great. Talk about a fatal combination of talent and luck. Les Miles made 5 or 6 huge gambles, and every single one paid off. It was the type of game that made it worth your while to watch. I can't immagine being a tiger or gator fan and watching it though. i would have made myself sick!

The rest of my saturday night was spent giving Daisy a bath to try to de-blue her butt. Some girls stay in and wash their hair on Saturday nights. Me, i stay in and wash my dog's hair. What that says about me, I'm not sure. For one thing it definitely says I'm lame. But, i'm OK with thtat. Note taht the blue got out. Then she got some white on her whiskers yesterday. We just can't win!!! :c)

Attack of the Blue Butt

It's been a while since i've posted, so i thought i should put out a little update. Things are crazy here, as usual. I honestly could not tell you what keeps me busy, but something does.

I've been continuing work on the house, as always. My latest project continues to be my bedroom. Saturday afternoon was spent painting my ceiling. It is amazing how gross and not white the ceiling gets over several years time! In fact, gross is a good word for it. Just refereshing the ceiling alone was a great step. Sunday night I moved on to working on the actual walls. Since then i've been trying to do a wall a night. it has kept me busy. it is amazing how long it takes to get each wall properly taped and then painted. or, perhaps i am just my father's child and i'm anal and want it done right, so it takes forever. last night i finished getting the first coat on the last wall in the bedroom. meanwhile the vanity area has two coats on it already! This weekend we'll finish getting the paint on, thank goodness! I'm tired of sleeping in the living room. I miss my bed. Actually, i tried sleeping in the spare room one night. i quit after that. it was HORRIBLE. i don't know where my parents got the matressses for kate's bed, but i pity the fool who gets stuck sleeping on them!

Speaking of painting, we had an incident the other night. Daisy Dogg had done a GREAT job. She was just keeping out of the paint, just sitting in the closet watching what was going on. Well, the other night she decided to be a little more proactive and help her mama out. She decided the best way to help was to use her butt and her little tail to spread paint. She backed herself up on the wall and got a blue butt! I tried to take a picture, but she stay still long enough for me to take a picture from behind. I guess she is enough of a lady to know that the camera adds ten pounds, and she didn't want phots of her butt circulating the internet!

I'll say it again. Thank you Big Ten Network! I got to watch the IL-Penn State game while i painted Saturday. Go Illini! Keep up the good work!