Jeopardy

I took the Jeopardy test tonight...trust me, I have no illusions that I would be on the show ....I'd freeze up like a deer in headlights in front of the camera or I'd get out of view of the camera like I did when they tried to interview us after the Friends finale aired.....oh well, its always fun to take the test and test my knowledge...pop culture - ok, history and geography - not great...

too bad they don't let people do pairs for the game like Wheel of Fortune does.

I haven't forgotten about you little blog!    Just been busy busy with work (so don't want to get BACK on computer when I get home) and K is still adjusting to full-time teaching, seems like he has to grade each weekend, and last weekend he even reprised his teaching demo as part of an event to help adjuncts know what to expect in the application/interview process for the school.    Great idea, I know he could've benefited from it when he went through the process.    Trust me, he's loving it just still trying to work out how to fit everything in.

This weekend is my birthday so we hope to have some fun but remnants of Hurricane Patricia seem to have other plans, even saw an article with a quote from the mayor telling everyone to stay in Saturday and Sunday.....sad face.....so many events around town have been cancelled already I need to see if places are even open we were going to go to.   better to be safe and dry, so if i have to postpone I will, just bummed.....

Houston street art

I'm finally learning to call the art near my house 'street art' as opposed to 'graffiti'.  it really is art, and takes some serious talent.   look at the most recent addition to the wall.  makes every walk with Smokey more interesting.


Just recently I saw that we now have an entire festival devoted to it!

new office

I received the best phone call this week...Kevin was calling me from his brand new office phone!  

His office is definitely coming together in little pieces (he still doesn't have computer - he had it, but it has to get worked on so they had to take it away), but it will get there.  

He got some lamps for it this week (my hubby LOVES lamps!) and took advantage of a great deal on a printer.    We may go ahead and get him a fridge for his office too.

We planned to go work on getting it all set up this weekend, but realized its closed for the holiday weekend...oh well, another day.....

I cannot wait to see it (and have so many of his books have a proper home)

Baby Shower

I had a great time showering my sis-in-law yesterday in preparation of our new nephew's arrival.

The theme and cake were really cute -- giraffes -- and they had to get creative with the cake since the name isn't finalized, "lil Tuck", may have to keep using that nickname.

I helped with the shower by putting together the games.  I like to 'keep it simple' and do fairly easy games, and this way the games are always optional, if everyone is visiting/eating you can just skip one or more of the games and it won't be missed.  Here are the games we played, the first two were ones I'd played before, the third was a new to me one that we found online and thought would be easy and fun (and it was):

1) baby word scramble - give everyone the forms and they all start at the same time, set a time limit and first person to finish or person to get the most at the time limit wins.

2) who take after?  -  list of traits and you select whether mommy-to-be wants baby to take after mommy or daddy (prep work:  have mommy-to-be fill out ahead of time).  I just put this together in Excel.

3) baby price is right -- saw several variations, for ours a bunch of baby items were bought and put in a basket everyone could see.   Everyone makes a guess of how much the total bill is for the items, after everyone guesses then you look at guesses and choose winner based on closest without going over (and guest of honor gets the basket full of baby items).  This is a nice one to play as people come in, everyone can play at different time, just write their guess and put into basket.   Our 6-year old niece ALMOST won this one!    

Splitting the duties is the best way to do a shower, I just did games, others did decorations and food.  I know that mommy-to-be enjoyed it, and it was first time i saw her since she has had her bump, she truly is glowing!   Cannot believe the little guy will be here within a month!

They are totally set with baby stuff now --- stroller system, boppy, tons of cute clothes.