MIZ - ZOU!

Good old Helane went to a Chinese restaurant for lunch today and brought me back a fortune cookie:

Switch out the words "desert sands" with "Highway 70" and this thing is scary accurate!

The University of Missouri - Columbia is celebrating their 100th Homecoming this fall, and I'm making the journey down to CoMo to partake in the festivities! Whether or not you believe that MU invented Homecoming, it has to be said that we do it pretty darn well!!

Mizzou Columns

If you haven't read of my love for the city that is Columbia, you can delve further into that relationship here.

So tomorrow I'm leaving work early, and the lovely Lacy and I will be roadtripping it down to Mizzou to stay with the also lovely Betsy.

(sorry for the sick "paint" handwriting - I'm a lefty and used my righty)

If this fortune cookie is any sign of things to come, I think this weekend will be one for the books. Just the emails we've been sending back and forth trying to get some sort of a plan together have been making my sides hurt.

I'm excited y'all.

GPOYW - 10/12

FREDBIRRRRRD!!!!

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Wine Glasses

Ever been at someone's house for a dinner party and you're afraid to set your wine glass down because you're afraid you'll get it mixed up with someone else's?

Fear no more! Just found this cute idea from this great website.

A must do before the next dinner party I throw!

Of course there are other alternatives, like the little wire things you put around the stem that come in different shapes and colors, but I always forget what mine looks like anyway!

And, AND... I see myself doodling on my glass with the chalk even when I'm alone drinking wine at my house... which is often.

Too, too often.

This.

I just want this...

http://www.snippetandink.com/paul-newman-joanne-woodward.html/

Click the link to take a look at Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward's love story in pictures.

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Halloween 2011 - update

So since SOME people (you know who you are) are being lame... it looks like the 3 Stooges idea has gone out the window. I'm on my own for a costume.

But here's the thing - I'm not okay with dressing up like a tramp on Halloween. I'm not cool with it the other 364 days a year, why would I suddenly be okay with it on a made-up holiday? Sure I might wear a lower cut top or a short dress/skirt... but that's about as floosy as I get. I don't understand why Halloween makes ladies think it's okay to wear their underwear out in public. But that's just me. Maybe I'm too conservative.

So I went online and found something festive, yet modest:

TA-DAAAA....

Jack O'lantern

I'm gonna wear it with black skinny jeans and black pumps. I'm not sure why it's yellow in the picture, but in the description it says it's orange - so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it isn't this neon color when I get it in the mail!

It was either this or I was going to dress in all black and wear cat ears - but I just know how much I'd be made fun of if I did that so I decided to save myself the trouble.

Halloween is usually a disappointment anyway... it's never as fun as you think it's going to be. But I'm trying to stay optimistic about it this year.

What about you all - what are your costume ideas? Or are you going to be dressing up at all this year? I think this year might be my last...

'Offensive' Line



Phil Dunphy

Brilliant. They deserved every single one of those Emmys.

Mystery Solved

Thursday night I went to get my hair cut and when I tried to pay for it, my debit card was missing from my wallet. I spent all Thursday night and all morning Friday searching for it to no avail, then went to Bank of America and just got a new one... but I think I may have just figured out where it went!

There have been reports of mice running around our office building, stealing snacks out of desks. Joy had a granola bar in her desk that looked like a little mouse had taken a few bites out of it, and Kristi had a bag of almonds that had a hole chewed through it.

I think one of these little mice found my debit card on the floor Thursday afternoon and walked next door to Imo's Pizza and ordered himself a nice cheese pizza and some cheesey garlic bread.



Ratatouille

It's okay little man - I'm not even mad.