Trivia and Capris

If you know me very well, you will know that I love trivia. I love the games that ask you questions, like Jeopardy. Ok, well I guess Jeopardy doesn't really ask questions, they give you the answers and you have to give the question, but anyways, you get my point. :) Today I found my Brain Quest decks! They are 7th grade questions, so they are really fun. Mostly because I can actually answer them. I remember we used these decks to practice for Academic Challenge and some of the questions during the Challenge were word for word off these decks. Hilarious. Especially when JT got too cocky and tried to answer a question before all the answer choices were given and they had tweaked the question. I think they were catching on by that point. :) But anywho, I, by the way, did not ever hit my buzzer the two years that I was in Academic Challenge... I was just too shy and not confident enough. I think I was in 6th and 7th grade years. I remember Matt was in the one year, because I remember he always wore this camouflage watch.. :-D Anyways, I will give you the Are you as Smart as a 7th grader quiz after 2 more ranting paragraphs.

First I would just like to say, relating to my love of trivia, that I now have three different versions of Trivial Pursuit. The regular, 90s version, and my most recent garage sale purchase, Book Lover's version! I would sooo totally love to throw a Book Lover's Trivial Pursuit party, but I don't know that anyone would show. Most of the time when I mention Trivial pursuit playing people roll their eyes. But I thought maybe because it was a book version I might be able to convince Brittany and Lacey to play, and possibly Erin if she were in the state. :) But anyways, maybe some day I will convince someone to play along. OOOO maybe I could mix up all the cards and have one huge Trivial pursuit extravaganza with all 3 boards going at once... I'm such a freaking nerd. :)

Next rant. Capris. I remember when these first came out a few years ago. I declared my dislike for them and swore I would never wear them. WHY? Why do I say these things, why do I make myself become a hypocrite? WHY??? I mean really why did I hate them so much? Ok, so I still don't think I like them on men, I mean honestly can you see Jonathan frolicking around in a pair of manpris. Hehe, I was just picturing him frolicking wearing his regular clothes and it made me giggle. :-D Anyways, back to the original point. I wore some last summer when I was pregnant, and they were a nice change from jeans and I better option for me than shorts. Now I have the perfect length of the capris I want, but I can never find them.. Oh well, I will continue my search until I find them.

And now for your trivia questions. The answers will be right below the questions, just highlight to see them. :)

1. Which is correct? 1. "Let go of my arm." 2. "Leave go of my arm."
1

2. How many pockets does a regular pool table have?
six

3. All colonies forbade teaching slaves to read or write. True or False?
false (Only some Southern colonies did.)

4. Is the frequency of sound waves measured in watts, hertz or curies?
hertz

5. What Greek letter symbolizes the ratio of circumference to diameter?
pi

6. From what country did Egypt gain its independence in 1923?
Great Britain

7. What device tells the direction of the wind?
a wind vane or weather vane

8. Which has a higher rate of population growth: the U.S. or India?
India

9. How musicians does a Bach trio require?
three

Weekend Fun

Well this past weekend was great. It started Friday night when I got to go see Garaway put on High School Musical. They did an excellent job! The only thing that was wrong was that I couldn't see a thing. :( I was 3 rows from the back and everyone in front of me was craning their necks to see, which meant everytime there was an opening and I could see, someone stuck their head in that opening... So that was rather frustrating! It's too bad they can't build an auditorium. I know that they probably don't have the money for it and all, but maybe the drama club and stuff could start saving now... But anyways it was a fun musical nonetheless.

Then Saturday Laura, Ohlen, and I headed to Mayfield Heights to spend the weekend with Lana Peterson! Ryan, her husband, and Jonathan (they are old college roomies and we are all friends :)) went on a fishing trip to PA with Ryan's dad. So, we went up to keep her company and have a fun girls and baby weekend. :) First she fed us some excellent lunch, then we traveled to Chardon for their Maple Festival. None of us had ever been there before, so it was quite the adventure. It was so much like the Swiss Festival except more crowded and more food stands. There were like 4 funnel cake stands and 2, yes 2!, fried Swiss cheese stands! Craziness. Anyways, their big thing is this Maple Stir, which is fresh made maple syrup that you stir with a tongue depressor until it gets to a frosting like consistency. Very sugary and good. It was a great time. We watched most of the parade. We were disappointed that they didn't throw candy to adults... Just to the kids sitting right on the curb. We saw the Swiss Festival queen in the parade which was exciting. :) Oh and a little boy threw a small rock at us, great times. :) So then we walked around and Lana bought a funnel cake, Laura bought a bloomin onion and I bought a HUGE lemonaide and we sat and ate/drank it all. bad idea. We all didn't feel so hot, especially with the sun. Then we went back to Lana's, made a Target run, ate a wholesome dinner, and went to bed ridiculously early. Sunday we went to their church, which was great, then ate lunch at Olive Garden. Then Laura and I headed back to Tusc county. And I got to see Nate and Aubyn at mom and dad's when I got back so that was a huge plus. :) Just a great weekend!

So I didn't mention Ohlen at all up there. That's because I was saving it for here. :) He was such a trooper!! He had some major firsts! It was the longest he has been outside at one time ever! So weird to think about. The first time he got to lay in the grass. First time in a strange nursery. He gave his first high five!!! Laura worked with him. He doesn't do it very well, but it is adorable. He basically just flails his arms and maybe will hit your hand. Although when Laura was working with him he would grab her hand with his right hand and then hit her hand with his left. :) I wish I pictures of him from the weekend, but Jonathan took the camera to PA. But that's ok, he got some good pictures there. OH, I will take this moment to thank the town of Chardon for having a Baby changing station available! That was completely awesome! You don't realize how nice that is until you have to change your babies diaper on the floor of a bathroom somewhere, gross.

So anyways, it was a great fun filled weekend. I hope you all had good ones as well. :) Looks like summer is finally approaching and I can plant all these wonderful seeds I have. :)

My Hero

The other day I was giving Ohlen a bath. And like always, sits on the backs of my calves as I'm kneeling at the tub. Well, on this day he kept whining, and it was getting obnoxious. So I looked back and Kaiser is staring at something up anKaiser came in to join us. He usuallyd to the right. After further investigation I noticed that there was a spider hiding in the shower curtain, so I squished it. Kaiser was quite happy about this and I thanked him for saving me from discovering the spider in an inopportune way later. Then last night as I was reading I noticed something out of the corner of my eye. It was a huge bug on the wall! About 2ft up. I was like, Jonathan, what is THAT! Because it was a rather large winged bug. So Kaiser, my knight in shining armor, comes romping over, spots the bug, and attacks. I think the bug was officially nosed to death. So once again I was saved from certain insect scariness by my hero, Kaiser. :)

Oh, and Murphy's Oil Soap is my favorite cleaner of all time! And, does anyone else get tight chested, head ache, slight difficulty breathing when using bleach, or is it just me? (See cleaning kills ;))

Have a great rest of the week. A more serious blog will follow later. Maybe tonight even, not sure.

Blog Purpose?

I was thinking today about why I want to have a Blog. I thought up 3 reasons, though I'm sure there are more.
1. Keep in touch with friends
2. Keep record of events/thoughts that I don't keep in my diary
3. To be entertaining...
Ok so #3 might be a tad pretentious. To think that this might actually be entertaining to someone that does even know me, but I thought it was a fun goal to have. The only reason I know that I can claim this purpose is that I know how much I am entertained by reading other people's blogs, people who, like me, are not that "important" or hilarious or brilliant. Just normal everyday people. Sometimes I will open up all the myspaces/blogs that I have bookmarked, check all for updates (which I do way too much, sorry for those that have trackers, as I probably show up all too much, it's like a really bad habit, sit at computer - open all myspaces - oh look no one updated since I checked about 2 hours ago... sorry for the slight ocd.) SOOOO anyways... I'll open them all up then just for fun I will click on one of their friends, someone I may or may not know. And then from that person's site I will click on another random person. It's all in good fun. And sometimes a new person gets added to the bookmarks list if they have a particularly fun site. This is especially true if said person is pregnant because I have found that I am drawn like a magnet to pregnant women since I was pregnant. It is just really interesting to me to hear other people's thoughts/feelings and pictures about pregnancy and their new babies. I hope this doesn't make me some crazy stalker type person, but I figure that if the site isn't protected that it is ok for strangers to check it out. Although now I'm thinking that you all think that I am a strange stalker crazy person... input on this would be great. From my point of view, everyone is welcome here, so pull up a chair and stay a while. :)
I know this one is really long today but I have a few different things to talk about since it's been awhile, just two more topics though, and I'm done; I promise.

So last night I stayed up until I finished the book I was reading: Eldest. It's the 2nd book in a trilogy so, of course, the characters are left in a situation that is seemingly impossible to escape. I really enjoyed this book. Such a bittersweet thing though, to finish a book. I was really enjoying reading it, and now it's over. I also had to return it to my friend, the Library, so I can't reread it over and over. That is the great thing about owning books, you can reread the great ones as much as you want. I had one book Last of the Breed, that I read so much the spine split in three places and I had to buy another copy. Jonathan thinks I'm crazy for being able to reread books over and over, but hey, what can I say, I really (I mean really) appreciate what I feel is an entertaining read. Oh and one last thing about Eldest... Just for the record - I soooo called it! I mean the foreshadowing was pretty heavy handed I thought, but still it felt good when my hunch actually became reality. :-D


Ok last but definitely not least, is my little guy. He just recently got over the bad sickies, as I mentioned in previous posts, only to catch a bug from me. :( We both have had the sniffles for almost a week. I actually took him to the doctor yesterday just to be sure it hadn't gone into his lungs because he had quite the pack a day smokers hack going on. But, it hasn't, so it is just a cold, which means there really isn't anything to do for him, except keeping his little nose suctioned out, which he loves... Hopefully he will be %100 soon. Oh, and all newspapers are unsafe on the floor of our house. Ohlen can definitely get to where ever he wants on the floor now. Not officially crawling, but close. Pray for us... :-D

Have a great weekend everyone!!