Sunday, January 3, 2010



Number of Blog Ideas Stolen From Adam: 1

Number of times I lost my keys: 5

Number of times I lost my phone: 30

Number of times I lost my mind: 2

Number of Polar Bear Plunges completed: 1



Number of Times My Sister and I Performed Acroyoga at a Party: 1



States Lived In: 1

Times Moved: 1

Places of Abode: 2

Number of Roommates: 3 (35 is the current grand total)

Number of Times I Taught Max the Fine Art of Cooking: 2



(Once I found a battery that he slipped into banana bread. Here I left him to open the brownie bag...)



Number of Times Max Beat Me at a Water Fight: Once too many





Number of Gardens Planted: 1


Number of Times I Tried to Pass My Dad's Garden Off as Mine: 1

Number of People Who Believed Me: 0

Number of Gardens I Killed Due to Lack of Watering: 1



Number of Times I went Kayaking Under the Stars: 1

(Picture taken the next day. Kayaking under the stars was amazingly beautiful.)



Visitors from out of State: 7 (Nate, Cindy, Zack, Suz, Nancy, Tom, Jamie)











Number of Times I Visited the Arch: 2

Out of State Trips Taken: 6 (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Washington D.C., Nantucket, Tennessee, Utah, New Hampshire)













States seen in Person: 13

State Capitals Memorized: 50

State Capitals remembered: 14

Foreign Countries Visited: 0

Number of Passports Expired: 1 (sniff, sniff)

Boyfriends: 0

Number of car accidents: 0

Number of speeding tickets: 2 (So much for my perfectly clean driving records from three different states that I had when I graduated law school!!)

Number of times my car wouldn't start: 2

Number of times my car ran out of gas: 0

Number of Times people didn't recognize me on Halloween: Quite a few



Thanksgiving dinners: 2

Bungee jumps: 1



Sky dive: 0

Half Marathon Trained for: 1

Half Marathons Run: 0

Number of Awesome Women I got to Know in the Process: 6



Five Mile Run: 1



Football Games Watched: 1

Number of times I convinced people that I was living with a man: At least 2 (He is five, therefore not a man :)



Number of engagements faked: 0 (a record low)

Number of actual proposals: 0

Number of rings my mother had to bite into because she wasn't convinced I was actually engaged: 0

Number of rings my mother considered biting into: 1 (my brother is engaged. She believed him.)

Times I got to visit my K.L.E.B.: 3

Number of members of my family returning from a mission: 1

Number of members of my family: 7

Number of members who are returned missionaries as of 2009: 7



Number of Confederate Flags spotted in NH in 2009: 1



Number of Confederate Flags spotted in NH in all of my previous years of existence: 0

Wedding invitations received: 15

Weddings Attended: 2





Number of Great Wedding Dances seen: 1



Number of visits to the doctor: 0

Number of scars from Raymond: 0

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

2010 New Year's Resolutions



My New Year's Resolutions for 2010 are:

(1) Do Less.

(2) Be more superficial.

(3) Play more.

I'll let you know how it goes.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Things I Loved Today

Talking with my sister Colette:



Reading this blog entry:

Kisses From Katie

Going here:



- Too bad I can't put a link to a delicious smell, because my roommate discovered my new crock pot (which matches with our red sink, i.e. super cute) and the house smells so amazing.

I am happy.

It was a great day.

Saturday, November 28, 2009

What a Thoughtful Guy

On my way to my bedroom tonight, I stopped by to say hi to my housemate.

"Did you know, tonight you weren't in yet, and Max turned on the lamp for you so you would have light when you got in."

The soft sound of Max's snoring wafted over from his bed as we chatted, when this caught my eye:



"Did Max do this?" I asked.

"Yes," she replied. "He tucked them all in. He wakes them all up in the morning with an alarm clock and sings to them."

My favorite is the transformer snuggled in with the stuffed animals.