Little Smiles

Its days like today that Im sad Im not living in the Northeast and able to just jump in my car and within an or so, can be hang out with my favorite little people and make Gingerbread Houses.  Not sure how I was ever able to move away from these little smiles and little hugs.  

Here are a few of the pics from my phone from their visit over Thanksgiving break.  

Little Luke, the Cali Baby!, enjoying the slide.  He seriously wouldnt leave that slide. 

Melia and Jack enjoying the book statues outside of the library.

Taylor and Melia.  Taylor was trying to get her to smile for the camera. 

I have way too many of these lovely shots from the years. 

Little girls are silly!

Crazy Dude

Is it to hard to ask for a normal dude to date?  Someone that I can enjoy life with, and who can make me laugh.  I really dont think Im asking for to much.  But with my recent interactions, Im starting to see that I just might be.

The latest.  I ventured onto the online dating world for about 2 weeks before I got off.  Ugh.  Depressing. Dudes didnt know how to interact.  And the ones that did interact where ones I had no interest in.   Well.  One dude from a different state mentioned that he was coming to mine for a job interview, and wanted to know if I would like to meet up.  Sure.  What ever.  Not like anything else is going on. And he seemed half way normal, at least compared to the others.   After a bit of back and forth about timing and what not, phone numbers were exchanged last night.  And this is the text conversation that ensued today. And to protect the weirdo guy, Im referring to him as Dude or rather the intial D.

D: Hey Lisa it's XXX!
Me: Morning!
D: What's up!
Me: Not too much. Just plugging along at work. You?
D: Haha sounds familiar :) What you do for work?
Me: I work at Time Warner Cable doing Database Marketing. And if you know what that is, can you tell me?!
D: Haha. Nice! If we get married do I get free cable??
....  [UGH,  What am I suppose to say to that?!  Awfully presumptuous.  After a definite lag time, and conferring with a few dudes ....)Me: Haha. Something like that. What do you do? And will it give me any good perks, that is if we do get married!
D: Haha. I'm a marketer in hospice. So u can hook you up when you get really old and ready to die :)
Me: Oh fabulous. I was worried about that.
D: Well worry no more :)
D: So remind me. Any kids?
Me: Nope.
D: So we are going to have to pump out a few then eigh :)
... [Another UGH.  What?!  Is that suppose to be an Eh?  or an eight?  Again, Presumptuous.  You pump out 8 children and let me know how that goes! .. You dont even know me dude.  Maybe I cant have kids, maybe I dont want kids, or maybe I dont want to think about at the moment. . .  Seriously.  This conversation is going no where FAST.  I dont want to continue, and Im really thinking twice about this getting together/date thing. ...] Me: Yeah. Something like that.
D: Haha. Something like huh.
D: How do you feel about potentially moving to Utah?
... [3rd Ugh in a short while. Im done.   .....]Me: You are rather presumptuous! Let's start with less dramatic questions like what is your favorite color, what is your middle name, and where did you grow up.
D: Haha. Whatever you want to tell me :)

At least I have my free cable to snuggle up with on the cold winter nights!


PS.  I changed the title of his blog from Presumptuous Dude to crazy dude.  If it was a girl that was saying these things, she would definitely gotten defined as crazy.  So, he deserves the same consideration.

Ho Hey

Most every work day, I listen to Josh Ritter's Pandora station when I have my earbuds in.  I love Josh. I love his lyrics. I love his sound.  I love the smile you can hear through his music. I also love the similar songs that Pandora pipes through his station. Ahh, I simply love Josh. (There is alittle bit of home I feel considering he has been around for years and I have been able to see him perform in my last three cities.)  

But I feel like Im cheating as I recently found something that has overtaken my listening pleasure.  I totally have regret while I have my new music on. But I think Josh will be ok with it, that is when he hears this new band. He is great like that.  Just meet him. (Yes, Im such a  groupie, I have!)   ...

The Lumineers.  They make my heart happy.  And here is one of my favorites from them, Ho Hey.

Oh yeah.  You might have heard them after Hart of Dixie. (Decent new CW show.)  It pretty much made my heart sail when I heard them on my big screen.  

Thanksgiving

Im really slow at posting.  And partly because I dont have many pictures to show for the week.  But I was luckily enough to host my family in Charlotte for Thanksgiving.  I had my parents, four brothers and the associated spouses and children, totaling 13 of us.  My dad rented a house down on one of the lakes and it worked out perfectly for feeding us all for Thanksgiving dinner and all the other functions.  A few of my highlights:

• Spending time with my siblings in my town. 
• Making cupcakes with my niece (and baby nephew). 
• Dance competition with my older nephew.
• Making s'mores out by the lake. 
• Sleepover with my favorite little people.
• Playing games with the family.
• A little friendly competition during Minute-to-Win-it. 
• Trying to help with 2000 piece puzzle.

Thanks for coming!