Life in Bryan according to Lil' Kelly

For those of you who may be wondering, I have not fallen off the face of the earth! I've officially been here in Texas for two weeks and I must say.....I'm home!! I'm amongst my people and I love it. Everyone here is so nice. Exhibit A: I was standing in Home Depot staring at the screw & wall mount display completely exasperated because I had no idea what I needed. The nice man standing next to me (not employed by Home Depot) asked if he could help me and he did! And that sort of thing happens everywhere...people talk to you just because you're there...it's great!! I love it! And I do not have the thickest accent here by far...YEA ME!!

So in the past two weeks I've spent a large part of my time SLEEPING!! I had no idea I was so tiered. I swear, if I sat still for more than 10 minutes I was out. The dark circles under my eyes are greatly improved. I've been letting myself sleep because I figure I needed it....good bye stress...hello bright eyes!!

I've also been searching for a job...I'll let you know when that turns into anything. I've been practicing my Nanny gig which will start officially next Friday I think. I watch my friend's 4 month old. Easily the coolest baby I've ever met. She so easy going it's insane. She makes really funny faces at me when I do something wrong (Taking baby clothes off is hard ya'll) but that's it. She hardly ever cries...so easy. I tell her all the time "thank you for being so easy" I think it will be fun to hang out with her a couple of mornings a week. Her older sister is AWESOME!!! Nowhere near as easy, but she is very smart and dramatic....I think she's an artist in the making. She sings a lot too so of course I immediatly loved her!

So when I'm not sleeping,nanning, or job hunting, I've been getting back in touch with the artist in me! I've discovered a couple of things I want to share with you all... (you know how I love to get people addicted to the same stuff I'm addicted to!) In random order:

New Favorite Band: Breaking Benjamin....love their sound!!! I'm back in a rock phase and I stumbled upon them on You Tube of all things. Their song "Dance with the Devil" is great!!

New Obsession: The Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer...and I do mean obsessed. I bought the first book in the series for my drive here....It was AWESOME!!! She's kinda like J.K. Rowling in that the story is in the fantasy world and it's about younger people. But just like Harry Potter, it's so well done that adults can really enjoy the books too and she has been very successful in the crossover. All I can say is I have NEVER (and this is someone who is at B&N at midnight on Harry Potter release night) been so enraptured by two charecters in my life. I went through the entire series is a little over a week....and that is 4 very long novels. So PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, if you enjoy fiction at all, try out Twilight. Granted, it's an easy read, it won't inspire you to greatness but it is soooooooo good!!

Interesting Movies I've found: I think Michael & Tamara will really enjoy these, so let that be a warning to those of you who know them. 1st place- Smart People. It has Sara Jessica Parker and the girl from Juno in it. It's great. I loved it.

2nd- Gosford Park (spelling?) It is also great. It has a huge cast including Clive Owen...swoon.

3rd/4th tie- Everything is Illuminated and Little Miss Sunshine. These I actually found while living with Matt & Tamara...Thank you for the introduction guys!

Good gracious this is turning into a novel itself. I'll bring you more of my discoveries soon!

Just Checking In

Hey Guys!!!!

I just wanted to let everyone know that I got here...I'm in Texas!!! The drive was pretty uneventful, minus the rain that started in Santa Rosa & didn't stop until I was almost in Waco!! Oh, and I left so eary Saturday morning that Starbucks wasn't opened & I didn't come across another one until 1:00pm...that's right, I didn't get my get my coffee until 1:00!!!

I really love my apartment. I'll post pics later, I'm still trying to get it all put together. But it has rained here almost four days straight. I've seen more rain here in 4 days than I did in 4 years in Albuquerque. So I'm a little stir crazy....however, I discovered a series of audio books so I'm keeping myself busy with them.

Well I must go for now...more boxes to unpack!

Celebrity Collage by MyHeritage

HA! Can I just say, I WISH!!! But still it was fun and I thought you guys might enjoy it....still laughing......

Jason is in the Royal Family of Nerds!!!

Blame the test, not me!!! Here is Jason's Nerd Test score. We had a huge laugh over this and again, he gave me permission to post this! Let us know where you are on the Nerd paradigm. (If you click on my test below, it will link you to the online test)

Are You a Nerd?

I stumbled upon this on Tamara's blog....This is one of many reason I married a computer engineer! (I scored higher than only 1% of the test takers in the area of computer/technology knowledge) Now, someone find me a fashion quiz!!

WARNING: DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME!!!!!

For those of you who might be tempted to go see WANTED because it looks like it might be good....don't fall for the lie...it's horrible! I know it has Angelina Jolie in it (Hey, I'm a huge fan) and Morgan Freeman (huge fan again) and the previews show really awesome scenes with curving bullets and drifting Dodge Vipers (Could not be a bigger fan if I tried) I cannot emphasize how AWFUL this movie is. Warning: Movie details discussed....read no further if you plan to see it. First, it goes into disgusting detail when people are shot in the head and I'll leave that to your imagination. I guarantee the movie is still worse. Second, it has all these scenes with hug slabs of meat hanging in the background...GROSS (just affirmed my move toward vegetarianism) and in one scene you wish it was just an animal hanging there. Second, the language is atrocious. And this is coming from someone who isn't toooooo terribly prudish about that kind of thing. If I brave a rated R action movie, I figure I've asked for it. But this one was just full of stupid and unnecessary cussing. (Not that I'm suggesting any cussing is smart or necessary but there is a line where it just becomes ridiculous and this movie flies right past it.) Oh yea, and it's just dumb. Sure there is a nice plot twist or two, but the overall premise is just DUMB. These assassins get their "hit" orders from THE LOOM OF FATE.....Yes I said LOOM OF FATE. (Your best haunted house voice cannot make this any dumber than it is) And yes I mean a loom like a weaving loom. Who controls the loom?.... We are never told. It certainly isn't God and I don't think Satan is much of a weaver...maybe it's the Free Masons....I'm open for suggestions!

Anyway, spending 2 hours sticking your head into a bath tub full of water practicing to improve how long you can hold your breath under water would be a 100% better use of your time than seeing this movie.

My New Kitchen

I can't sleep tonight. I've got a million things on my mind that I HAVE to get done at work tomorrow, HAVE to get done at work before I leave for good and several bazillion (yes, I know I said bazillion) details to get worked out before our move....not the least of which is what am I going to do with my dog?
Anyway, since I'm up I thought I'd share with you a picture or two of our new place, specifically my new kitchen! Here is my current kitchen.....

Now admittedly, I have some fond memories in this kitchen but it is soooo tiny and the burners don't heat evenly and the cabinet doors don't shut all the way. Here are some pics of my new kitchen.




(Good grief, I just spent 2o mins trying to figure out how to get these stupid pictures to stand side by side) Anyway, as you can see, I'm going to have a much larger kitchen. YEA ME!!! I'm very excited and can't wait to try out my new oven.

I'm going to try to get some sleep now. I hope you all have a wonderful week.


ps....After the 20 minutes, I still can't get the stupid things to stand side by side on the actual blog, although that's how they look to me as I'm writing the post. So if someone can help me out with that I'd greatly appreciate it....I am most definitely a severe amateur at all of this