Happy Birthday Boo!

My niece, Boo, turns 2 today. We got to celebrate with her a couple weekends ago.

The 30 - Topic #9 - A Day Late

30 Bad Habits That I've Developed That I'd Like to Change

1. Procrastinating 2. Going to bed too late 3. Getting up too late 4. Being late just about everywhere I go 5. Not pushing myself to work out harder 6. Putting too much on my plate (both literally and figuratively) 7. Not caring as much at work as I need to 8. Not finishing craft/scrapbook projects after I've started them 9. Falling asleep to the TV at night 10. Not reading my Bible consistently 11. Not being a dependable friend 12. Eating out way too much 13. Being more concerned about me instead of others 14. Seeking a plan instead of the Lord 15. Driving like a maniac 16. Complaining 17. Judging others 18. Becoming apathetic about life sometimes 19. Not taking control of my thoughts 20. Not being quick to listen and slow to speak 21. Taking lots of pictures but never doing anything with them 22. Wasting time on the Internet 23. Not serving while I'm waiting 24. Not standing up for my beliefs 25. Making a goal for myself, but then not doing anything to meet that goal 26. Getting behind on my Bible Study homework 27. Being indecisive about the future 28. Not getting up most days early enough to put on my make up 29. Not seeming to ever cross things off my to-do lists 30. Not coming up with enough pranks to pull on my co-workers (okay, come on, one of them had to be funny!)

Fall-Winter Reading

I have high hopes for reading all these books in the next few months. I'll try to report on each of them as I finish. I'm excited to read them, but making time is the hard part. Wish me luck!

September Retreat

Even though I failed to make sure I got into one of the pictures, here's some of the ladies that I went to a retreat with a few weekends ago. Some scrapbooked, some quilted and some (like me) just sat and talked all weekend! :)

Constitution Square Festival

Shannon and I made a short visit to my grandparents this past weekend in Danville. While we were there, we went to the Constitution Square Festival. This is the same festival we attended last year....it's become an annual thing.

Goodbye Little Cavalier!

I am no longer the owner of a Chevy Cavalier, as of last week I now drive a truck! I was going to trade in my car and my cousin Jamie heard about it. He came up with a plan in which we would both come out happy in the end. He wanted something with better gas mileage and I just wanted something with a good trade-in value, so he took my car and I took his truck. I'll be trading the truck in eventually, for something that I really want, but for now I'm having fun being a tom boy!

The 30 - Topic #8

30 Things That I Dream of Doing if I Didn't Work at an Architectural Firm

1. Professional Scrapbooking 2. Drive cross-country in an RV selling handmade items to pay my way 3. Open a Bed and Breakfast 4. Become a Missionary 5. Work with Alisha at her bakery 6. Travel Agent 7. Full Time Camp Director 8. Become a Habitat for Humanity RV-Care-a-Vanner 9. Work for Passion 10. Work at IKEA 11. Marry a Christian artist and go on concert tours with him 12. Professional Photographer 13. Renovate and flip houses 14. Travel and write freelance articles for travel magazines 15. Event Planning 16. Volunteer all my time to worthy causes 17. Be a Flight Attendant 18. Work on a Cruise Line 19. Usher at Fenway Park 20. Professional Organizing 21. Open a Nursery (the plant kind) 22. Work for Google 23. Go back to school 24. Be a Roadie for a band (this corresponds with #11) 25. Buy a secluded cabin in Colorado and write a book 26. Be a Hospitality Director at a five-star hotel 27. Make and sell clothes 28. Taste Tester for any restaurant that would want my opinion 29. Personal; Shopper (this depends on who and what I am shopping for though) 30. Marry a rich man - and I can do all of the above!

The 30 - Topic #7

Baseball and the Number 30

Fun Facts about my favorite sport and the number of the age I will be turning all too soon.

If you add the number of teams in the American League to the number of teams in the National League, there are exactly 30 Major League Baseball Teams

The Number 30 Uniform has been retired by the following teams for the following players:

Giants - Orlando Cepeda Angels - Nolan Ryan

Expos - Tim Raines

30 years ago in 1979 (the glorious year I was born), the following baseball happenings occurred:

-Willie Mays, Warren Giles, and Hack Wilson were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame -Gary Roenicke hits into Orioles 13th triple play -Phillies beat Cubs, 23-22 (an almost unheard of score for a baseball game!), on 50 hits with 11 home runs (11 HR's in one game??) -Phillies wear burgundy uniforms for 1st and last time -Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra base hits, hits his 400th HR & is 15th to get 3,000 hits -Rickey Henderson debuts for Oakland and steals his 1st base -"Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park, causes fans to go wild and causes White Sox to forfeit 2nd game of a doubleheader to Tigers -KC's Willie Wilson hits 5th inside-the-park HR (most since 1925). -St. Louis legend Lou Brock steals 938th and final base of his career -Pete Rose reaches 200 hits in a season for 10th time -Billy Martin, manager for the Yankees, is involved in a barroom altercation in which he punches a Minnesota Marshmallow Salesman, Joseph Cooper. Cooper requires 15 stitches, Billy Martin is fired as Yankee manager (for the 2nd time).