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There are times when things show up on the news that remind me of my childhood. That happened today when I saw that Evel Knievel died. Instantly my brain started to provide memories of my childhood.


I can remember being a kid and watching Evel on the Wide World Of Sports jumping some outrageous amount of cars or buses lined up in a row. All my brothers and sisters and I would crowd around the TV to see if he would make it or if it would be one of his crazy crashes. I'm sure a few of us were hoping that he'd crash to see him tumble on the asphalt. I also remember when he tried to jump the Snake River Canyon in 1974. I was only ten years old but remember it well. They build up to that jump was a big waste of time for a 30 second jump. Of course he didn't make it.

Anyway, it's sad to see him go but his death does bring back some fond childhood memories.

I just finished watching "A Charlie Brown Christmas." I'm not religious or anything but that show always brings back great memories of childhood and Christmast time. Things were simpler back then. Too bad we can't go back and enjoy those great times. I think the message is a good one even though I'm not religious. I do enjoy the show. And I don't have to always catch it when it's on TV, the boyfriend has it on DVD.

Today Al Gore, Nobel Prize winner, met with Bushie for 40 minutes. Bush was meeting and congratulating the Nobel Prize winners. I wonder what the two of them talked about during their time together. I hope Al said, "Nah, Nah, I won a Nobel Prize!"


AP Photo

The four day holiday weekend has ended. I hate going back to work after having time off. I get so used to having the time to do things that I need to do. Getting up on Monday morning is going to kill me.

I did take advantage of the time though. The boyfriend's parents were in town so we weren't together. That gives me time to do things that I normally don't have time to do. I got a lot done in the last 4 days. But at the same time I think I've developed a sinus infection. My nose is all clogged and my throat is gross with sinus stuff running down it. I started to lose my voice on Friday but now it's almost back to normal. Anyway, besides completely updating my website, which took a long time, I was able to get a lot school work done that I brought home this weekend. I also did lots of laundry and cleaned my house.

I feel pretty good about all the things I got done. However, I've been missing the boyfriend terribly. As you know, we always get together on the weekends. When we don't, I really start to miss him. I really miss the snuggle time we have. We'll be back at it next weekend so I have something to look forward to.

I hope you enjoyed your holiday weekend and got lots of things done!

Today is my 4th Blogoversary! Four years ago today I started this blog. I know there are many others who have been blogging longer but four years is a long time. This is post 981. That number would have been a lot higher if I had not taken breaks a long the way. I've never completely stopped but there have been months that I have only posted two or three times.

Like my podcast, I like to think this blog is like a little history of my life. I've written about all kinds of things and posted hundreds of photos. That's one thing I think the blog is good for...posting some of my favorite photos. Of course I also like sharing with you what the boyfriend and I are up to.

With the recent update to the look of my blog, I'm inspired to keep blogging and keep recording pieces of my life to share with you. Oh, and the naked photos will continue as well. :)

I forgot to mention in the last post that my mother and I went to the boyfriend's house to have Thanksgiving dinner with his parents and him. He spent several days working on the meal and cooked all day on Thursday. He worked so hard and it turned out so well. The food was delicious!


As you can see the boyfriend cooked a big turkey and like a surgeon, he carved that turkey beautifully. Of course I ate turkey, mashed potatoes, rolls, and cranberry sauce...the kind out of the can.


We had a great time catching up and talking about all kinds of things. I'm not sure why no one is smiling in this picture, but we were all happy and having a nice time together. I hope this becomes a yearly tradition for the boyfriend and I. Thanks sweetie, for having us over and cooking all day! I love ya!

I don't know what I was thinking this morning. I decided to be part of the black Friday shopping madness. I thought I wouldn't be there right when the stores open but I would arrive like 30 minutes later and the crowds would be less. Well, I was totally wrong. I got there and the doors were open. There were no carts. The lines to checkout were amazingly long. I grabbed one of those small baskets and started doing some shopping. I didn't get far before I realized I was nuts. I put everything back and got the hell out of the store. I came right home and decided to buy most of my big ticket items online. I was trying to avoid the shipping costs but with the money I'd spend in gas going to the stores, I could afford the shipping.

I must have been crazy to think the crowds wouldn't be very bad this morning. I don't know what I was thinking. I don't think I'll ever attempt that again. It's crazy!

On another note, you may have noticed things have changed a bit on the blog. I decided that since tomorrow is my 4 year blogoversary I would change things up a bit. I've always wanted a picture in my header so I worked on creating that. I decided to get rid of the other pages and just keep this a blog for the time being. I might add the pages back in the future but right now I want this to be a blog. Also, I wanted to be able to change the theme with the seasons so for now we are in the fall theme. When I have winter break from work, I'll change it to a winter theme. I hope you like the changes!

The boyfriend and I went to my friend Bob's house this past weekend to visit him and his wife. We went to a few wineries and had a good time catching up. While we were there we took advantage of Bob's indoor heated pool. Of course we didn't have our suits with us so we did some skinny dipping. I was trying to take some pictures of the boyfriend but Bob took the camera and took some pics of us. This is the only picture that I can post...if you know what I mean.

I got this from Omar.

Here is a math trick so unbelievable that it will stump you. Grab a calculator (you won't be able to do this one in your head).

1. Key in the first three digits of your phone number (NOT the Area Code)
2. Multiply by 80
3. Add 1
4. Multiply by 250
5. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number
6. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number again.
7. Subtract 250
8. Divide number by 2

Do you recognize the answer?

Over the weekend the boyfriend and I had friends over for dinner. The boyfriend made an amazing meal. One of his courses was butternut squash soup. He made it from scratch! For everyone else, the bowls looked like this:


My bowl looked like this. He knows I don't care for butternut squash soup. I'm sure it was delicious though.

After we went horseback riding on Saturday afternoon, we went to a Reserve Cabernet dinner at Gray Ghost Vineyards. We got all dressed up. We met some friends and had a great time. I hate getting dressed up but the boyfriend loves to get dressed up. Here he is with our friends. However, below that picture you can see the boyfriend in my jeans. I call him my hip hop boyfriend because my jeans are way too big for him and they were hanging in his hips like those hip hoppers. He was being so funny I just had to take a picture.

The boyfriend and I went horseback riding on Saturday afternoon. We went to the Marriott Ranch to go on a trail ride with about 20 other people. We didn't know them, they had just signed up to ride at the same time we had. It wasn't too cold and the sun was out. We did get to see some fall color but it was mostly muted or the leaves had already fallen from the trees. Here are two pictures from the ride.

The boyfriend riding his horse.

Here's a shadow of me riding my horse.