This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.

Ah ... Groundhog Day. The mother of non-holidays. However, even though Phil decided to see his shadow today there is still always one fabulous thing about Groundhog Day - it reminds me to watch this:

And really it's one of the most fabulous movies ever. So here's to six more weeks of winter snuggled up in the house watching great movies (except for Jed - Jed doesn't' get to watch movies on weekdays because he studies - feel free to mock him).

A Long and Winding Road to Nowhere

On Saturday at 7 my parents called to say hi on their way to their Stake Conference (a church meeting we have twice a year) this is when I remembered that Jed and I also had Stake Conference that night and it had started 5 minutes ago. We hurried and got ready found the address and got in the car but to no avail. After getting lost in spite of attempting to follow the directions on our GPS (we saw this picture a lot) we finally got to the parking lot about 15 minutes before the meeting was supposed to end. So we turned around and went back home ... it was a long hour of driving AND we missed the meeting.

But don't worry the weekend wasn't all sad misdirections - on Friday we went out to dinner with some friends and saw Sherlock Holmes and had a great time. And while driving around on Saturday we were listening to James Taylor which made me want to watch Remember the Titans and when you end up watching a fun movie like that even an otherwise useless drive is worth it.

MLK Day

As my Mom pointed out over New Years it has been quite awhile since I updated this blog and what better day to update then MLK Day. MLK Day is great because 1. I have the day off, and 2. the Freedom Museum in Cincinnati is free instead of $15.* So in honor of this we went with a few friends to the Freedom Museum, which is all about the underground railroad. It was a very interesting and I'm sure we didn't read even a 1/4 of the information they had in the museum - there was lots (and we only went for a couple of hours because Jed has a test tomorrow). Now unfortunately the rest of my day off has to be devoted to laundry and homework ... sadly just because there is no school today does not mean that there is no homework.





*I don't mean to trivialize all of the great things that Martin Luther King did - in fact we were celebrating black history at the museum see.

Happy Thanksgiving

Have a Wonderful Turkey Day!

Sick ... Again!

Yuck! This last weekend I was sick for the second time in a month. I'm not dying of swine flu or anything - just a nasty cold - but it's still so frustrating to be sick multiple times in a row. Off course the advantage of being sick was that I basically just spent the weekend sitting on the couch reading, and watching tv on my computer. The bad part about that was that I started watching this show and basically became obsessed:


I could not explain why the show is so compelling, but I spent a large portion of my weekend watching this show and literally sobbing through every episode. Pathetic: yes. But also very much true. Now I'll have to watch through the end of the season ... it's inevitable at this point.

Law Student's Syndrome?

Have you ever heard of medical student's syndrome? It's basically where medical student's feel like they have the diseases that they are studying. (Jed doesn't seem to have contacted this yet) I think they need something similar for law students. Not because there is anything you learn about that would lead you to believe people will sue you constantly, but because when reading about cases you read about so many freak accidents. For example in torts we read a case a couple of weeks ago about a woman who was walking through an airport terminal and a light fell out of the ceiling, hit her on the head, and killed her. Seriously. I've also read cases about people being killed by their lawnmowers, brutally injured by their coffee machines, and basically terrorized by a host of other ordinary seeming items. All of the sudden there are all kinds of previously unheard of dangers all around. I haven't changed anything yet, but I am looking at household appliances, and light fixtures especially, a little more warily.

Some Good News and Some Bad News

So a couple of weeks ago our check engine light came on and we finally decided that we better take it in. We dropped it off at the dealership and then they called us a little later with some good news and some bad news.

The good news: the only thing wrong with our car was that our gas cap wasn't sealing properly.

The bad news: they charged us $45 to tell us that. And no ... that $45 did not include a new gas cap.