So Embarrassing

When I was younger I had embarrassing moments quite often (like the time I walked to high school with my dress tucked into my underwear). As an adult I don't really have embarrassing moments anymore. I have awkward and uncomfortable moments pretty often but nothing that I feel "embarrassed" about. Well, yesterday I had egg on my face (literally).

I took eggs to school for our Science lesson. If you put an egg (without cracks in it) in the center of the palm of your hand and squeeze as hard as you can, the egg won't break. I did it for my kids, they all did it, my principal did it. The eggs were fine and everyone was amazed.

When I was leaving for the day I was walking out with one of our custodians. I felt like amazing him too. I said, "Hey Alfred, check out this trick." I put the egg in my hand, squeezed as hard as I could and the egg EXPLODED. The yolk went everywhere-on the sidewalk, my face, my hair and on my jacket.

He looked shocked at first. I don't think he knew how to react. I was completely embarrassed but I started to laugh. He laughed too and said, "Mary, I don't think I'll be trying that trick".

Oh well, at least I gave him a funny story to share with his family.

Friday

John and I spent our Friday after Thanksgiving not fighting the crowds. We decided that we would have a day of fun. Sometimes on these days we'll each write down 3 to 4 activities on a slip of paper and fold them up. Then we'll open them up and we have to do anything that the papers say to do. This always elicits fun had by both of us.

I decided to document Friday's day of fun activities. Number one was going on a bike ride. I brought the camera with us. Just when I decided that we needed to stop for some pictures, a cat decided to come attack us. It was sprinting toward us so I decided the best thing to do was to keep moving. Cats aren't very fast.

While I was doing circles on the street to avoid the attack cat, John let it get close to him.




John let it get really, really close to him. I guess he wants rabies. After the cat decided that it rather lay on the ground and lick itself than to claw our eyes out, we rode passed the goats. They weren't interested in us at all.





Here's an action shot of me on our way home from the bike ride. We saw this one house where this man was putting out their Christmas lights. It looked like an insane amount of lights. I must go back at night to snap some photos.




Our day of fun then led us to the mall. I know, the mall. We had an agenda though. I needed some bare necessities and a book. John needed some cigars. We also needed some appetizers from Majerley's.






Our day of fun ended at our very favorite place around here, Farelli's Cinema Supper Club. We LOVE it. What's not to love? You can eat meals, drink adult beverages and watch cinema all at the same time. Even bad movies are fun to watch when we watch them here. If it ever closes I think we'll cry.

This mini break has been fabulous. I'm getting more and more excited for the big break next month. Bring on the winter holidays.

Thanksgiving

Our Thanksgiving was a small but wonderful celebration with John, Kita and our great friend Lauren. I knew this year needed to be a low key Thanksgiving because I knew I would be in need of a break right about now. I was so right.

So that's what yesterday was, a break from hoop la. Everything about yesterday was 100% fuss free. We enjoyed a delicious and relaxed meal. Here was our menu: Paula Deen's Cheesy Mac, green bean casserole, cous cous (prepared by Lauren), and a spinach and cranberry salad.

Here's our Thanksgiving turkeys:



John's turkey was chocolate chip cookie dough. Lauren's was mint chocolate chip and mine was chocolate chip. Our turkeys were delicious and free of the sleepy stuff. They were lovingly prepared for us by the good people of Baskin Robbins.

Thanksgiving was fantastic. Today will be wonderful too. We're going to have a day of fun. I hope your day is full of fun too.

Happy Thanksgiving

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More Cousin Pictures

This last week has been crazy (as most of my weeks have been lately). I'm all for the education thing but I'll be so crazy happy when this hoop la is over. I have soooooo many stories of frustration that I could share with you about this experience. However, it's a public blog. You never know who could be reading so I'll just leave it at that.

I'm back on my own computer so here's some more pictures from dinner with the cousins.

Here's a normal picture of my cousins and cousin in law.




Here's a normal picture of John. I told him that I was going to make this our Christmas card picture. That would sure teach him. Don't worry, that's just a joke. Who has time to make Christmas cards this year?




This is a surprise shot of C. I was hoping to get a funny picture of her but she still looks adorable.




I hope you all have a fantastic Thanksgiving tomorrow.

One Picture

I have updates for you guys but I'm on John's computer. All of my updated pictures are on my computer. So I went to my facebook and copied a picture to share with you. When I get back on my itty bitty computer I'll post some more.




These two are my cousins both on my mom's side of the family. C is my aunt's daughter and T is my uncle's son. C lives in the valley as well but we couldn't live further from each other. So, we don't get to see each other very often. We try but things like to get in the way.

T lives many, many states away but work brings him to town every now and then. On Wednesday we all met up for dinner. John joined us. So did C's husband. I'll include their pictures when I'm on my computer as well.

Our dinner was so much fun. I love all of my cousins because they're the type of people that I would want to be friends with even without our family relation.

Retreating to Hermit Life Once Again

I sighed a big sigh of relief last week when the thesis defense was finished. Then this weekend I had a few moments of panic when I looked at the schedule of my online course. There's still so much to do and so quickly. Blogging will have to take a back seat once again. How sad.

I wanted to say,"See you later skaters" with a cute picture. I decided that I would show you the first picture on my computer that was cutie pie and you hadn't seen yet. Kita is definitely a cutie pie.




She was my shadow while I was making roast beef sliders back in October. In this picture she was staring at the treat she was about to get. For you veggies we can pretend it's tofu or something like that.

More Details

Last night marked the last major task that my cohort and I had to complete for our Masters. We did our thesis defenses. We still have one more class with some extensive work to finish and we'll need to do corrections to our thesis's. However, I think we all feel like everything left will be no problem compared to yesterday.

For me, the preparation for my thesis defense and then the anxiety I always feel before public speaking are the most difficult aspects of the entire thing. Actually doing the defense wasn't hard at all. As soon as I started speaking I felt like I was just speaking about my experiences throughout my program with friends. I felt very supported.

My awesome co-teacher was there to support us as well. She took pictures (very discreetly) during our presentations. Here's some action shots.










Afterward we went to dinner with everyone in our cohort and our Defense committee. We could bring a guest so I brought John. When our program director came to our table one of my friend's introduced her to her husband. I introduced her to John. Instead of being a normal person and saying something like,"Dr. K, this is my husband John", I said, "Dr. K, this is John. I met him on my way into the restaurant." Ay Caramba. At least she went with the joke. She told him that he did indeed look like a streetwalker.




I was very happy to have my streetwalker there to celebrate with us.

Consider me Defended

Tonight I did my defense of my thesis. All I can say is woo hoo, woo hoo, woohoooooooo!!!!!!!!

Here I am in the morning before my big day. (I wanted documentation).





Here I am right afterward...




Much more relaxed don't you think? What a difference being done with public speaking makes.

It's not quite over...

Last week I met my rough draft deadline...yay. Now I'm making corrections to it and preparing for my defense which is next Wednesday.

I think this process has taught me a lot. Besides the obvious educational value, it's taught me that I will stop here. No doctorate for me. Unless I start taking the crack.