photo-tastic!

farmville post #3 - sorry this is soooo late, but better late than never right? anyways, after kicking field goals behind chris and katie's house, we ran around taking lots of fabulous photos...these are the golden times! enjoy!

move over robbie gould!

farmville post #2: saturday afternoon we went out to a field behind chris and katie's house to kick some field goals! everyone got at least one through the uprights, although it took several tries...thankfully, this gave us some excellent opportunities for action photos :)

i chose the "i wish i was square dancing over enthusiastically" dance approach:


katie chose to be more scientific, focusing on incorporating the word "fulcrum" into her description of this technique:

stina went with the ever-reliable high kick follow through...seriously, she could be a rockett!



jennie abandoned her foot all together and went in with her shin instead:

Farmville USA!

this weekend stina, jennie, and i traveled to farmville to visit katie and chris in their new hometown! this is the first of several posts from the weekend (we took LOTS of pictures)...this one is dedicated to sites around town :)

when we drove into town, jennie spotted this burger king sign advertising "funnel cake fries"...we didn't go in for a sample, so i still have no idea what a funnel cake fry actually is. then, katie showed us a bit of the local flavor: Captain America. apparently, Captain America struts up and down the side of the street most days waving this flag to passers-by (he doesn't like getting his picture taken though, so we had to sneak this one from the back). we also went to see hampden-sydney college, where both chris and katie work, so here are a few shots of the basketball court/stands, katie in her very official-looking office, and the group outside of katie's building. enjoy...lots more to come!

baaaad hair day

this morning while i was walking leonidas (lots of weird things happen when i walk leonidas), a bumble bee flew into my hair and got trapped! i immediately freaked out, flipped my head over, and started shaking my head and swatting at my hair to try and get it out. i was successful, but it was terrifying. thanks to all of the tussling and frantic mussing with my hair, on top of the humid weather, i had to show up at work with hair like jennifer grey in dirty dancing...it was so frizzed out i had a good 3 inches of hair reaching out from my head in all directions. here's a picture to help you visualize:

needless to say, i switched to a ponytail as soon as i could find the hair tie in my bag :)

two weird things happened to me today

first, i was walking leonidas before work, heading down chris and katie's old street when all of a sudden i noticed it was raining on just one part of the sidewalk. then i realized it was actually a car backed in to a parking spot that was spraying his wiper fluid...on the front end of his car. this means that his wiper fluid dispenser is powerful enough to blast it across the whole length of the car, over the grassy patch on the curb, and onto the sidewalk. it was like a super soaker, i kid you not.

second, i was in the bathroom washing my hands when another woman came out of a stall with her pants still undone, just buttoning them up in front of the sink. why on earth would any one do this?? it's not like she didn't know i was in there because i was running water...add that to the list unprofessional things people do in office bathrooms. ugh.

brian urlacher and obstacle courses

so i just remembered a dream i had last night...in it, brian urlacher and i were really good friends, hanging out with a group of our other friends doing a timed obstacle course. in case you were curious, i won.

for those of you who don't know, brian urlacher is a chicago icon...he was the bears starting middle linebacker until he broke his wrist in the season opener last week (i was crushed and i don't want to talk about it). anyways, apparently in my dreams i am faster than a 9 year NFL veteran...this is the real reason i should get more sleep :)

sneeze much?

yesterday at work one of the women i share an office with sneezed 9 times in a row! i thought this was pretty intense, since the most i've ever done is 4. well, this got me thinking about the record for most sneezes in a row, and thanks to google, i have discovered it is FAR more than i ever even thought possible. check out just one of the articles about this little record setter here.

977 DAYS?!?!? that is more than 2.5 years of sneezing every 1-5 minutes...can you imagine the day she finally stopped sneezing??? i mean seriously, after that had to be a weird day.