Welcome to the randomness of my brain.

Okay, here are some random thoughts.  Don't say I didn't warn you.

*We did super good this year and got our taxes done and e-filed about 2 weeks ago.  Then we heard back from them and they had been rejected because the employer ID number was wrong.  We double and triple checked it and it's correct.  So, what does the fabulous IRS advise to do?  SNAIL MAIL them in!  That's right, we had to pay (again!) to do them and print them out to send them in the old fashioned way.  That means we won't get our refund for 7-10 weeks.  Not happy about that, but we'll survive. 

*I have decided to commit to doing P90X this summer.  I really don't have the kind of time right now that it needs so I will wait til school's out this summer.  I am really looking forward to working out hard. 

*Aaron ate his first salad last night.  Yep, you read that right.  FYI- Aaron is my husband, who is almost 31 years old.

*My house is a perpetual disaster...I think I need a maid.  If I had the money I would pay for one, just to at least do my dishes and laundry.  And vacuum. 

* My friend Pami and I have started a book club.  She's the better bookclub member.  She's actually read the books.  I took 2 months to get a copy of "Water for Elephants".  I was too cheap to buy the book, the public library didn't have it, but luckily I carpool with the high school librarian who ordered it and loaned it to me :)  Our book club has strict guidelines (HA!) to join.  Our requirement is that you must live very far away from each other.  heeheee.  At least that's how we justified it.  You see, I live in New Mexico and she lives just a few miles away in Hawaii.  Anyone else like to join?  Illinois?  Australia?  Georgia?  You know who you are ;)  Any book suggestions?

* I love to collect magnets.  I'm not sure how many of them I have, but I do know that only about half of them fit on my fridge.  I am working on getting pictures to share with you.  I gather magnets from all the places I visit and I also shamelessly ask anyone I know who is going somewhere to bring me back a magnet.  I've collect many foreign magnets from places like Denmark, Guam, Australia, New Zealand, Morocco, and some unpronouncable town in South America to name a few. 

* Next weekend we are going to Albuquerque to celebrate my niece's 2nd birthday!!  Such a beautiful, miraculous, tough little girl. 

* I love full moons.  Must be my inner werewolf.  Go Team Jacob!!

Goodnight ya'll.

This blog post is going to be titleless because I can't think of a good title.

I have a problem.

I really need to learn to blog what's on my mind, not what's in my camera.  Everytime I check my blog (which is ALL the time, because I'm always logging on to read other blogs), I feel totally guilty because I know I need to write something, but I don't.  I keep thinking that since I don't have any pictures to share, then I don't have anything to share at all. 

Well, pthhht to that.  So I will start writing more of what's on my mind. 

I know you guys all want to read my random thoughts, right?  RIGHT?

Humor me.

State of Emergency

What a week it's been!!  Below 0 temperatures are not normal for us down here in the Southwestern deserty areas of New Mexico.  Although we can get pretty cold since we are close to the mountains.

However, this week brought the coldest temps to Silver City that I've ever seen.  All over the state we were setting record lows.  When we got the big snowstorm over New Years it was 0 degrees, but this past Thursday was even colder than that.  It was 10 below zero (F)!!! 

It was so cold Thursday and Friday mornings that we had ice on the INSIDE of our windows. 

We were very blessed during this time because we rely primarily on wood heat for our house.  Our little woodstove is great and keeps our house nice and cozy.  We also have 2 infrared heaters that we use as supplemental heat when we need it.

However, others is Silver City and around New Mexico weren't so lucky.  New Mexico had a natural gas and power shortage this past week when the temps dipped so low.  Here in Silver City about 300 people lost their natural gas due to no pressure in the lines. 

Schools have been closed for 3 days, one for weather and the other 2 days for not having any gas for heat.  Our governor declared NM to be in a state of emergency and urged all schools to close.  (Of course my school didn't cancel :( 

On Thursday the high during the day was around 20 degrees and we had water when we got up that morning, but by that afternoon one of our pipes had frozen and burst.  It froze during the DAY!!! Isn't that just crazy?  Luckily Aaron was able to get it fixed pretty easily and it wasn't a critical line, it was just the pipe that goes to the yard water. 

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In other news:  Ole Punxsatawny Phil did not see his shadow, so winter shall soon be over.  :)

District Champs!!!

Congratulations to the La Plata Lady Broncos for winning the District Tournament!!!!!

You guys played awesome and I can't wait to watch you play at Silver High next year!!!

The Nutcracker performance was a resounding success!  I have lots of pictures that I will share later as soon as I can find the time to upload them. 

My darling little Krysten mouse made the front page of our local newspaper. 

Check it out!  Here's the full article, complete with their names :)
On the right hand side, click on 'Back Issues' and select 1/14/11.  You'll find the article there. 

Krysten is the mouse on the far right. 

You can see Kylee's head way in the back behind the big mouse.

The Nutcracker

Everyone is invited to come see the Conservatory of Dance present:

The Nutcracker

School performance is Thursday morning at 10am.  All seats are sold out, but many, many of our local schools are attending! 

Public performance will be Friday night at 7pm at the Fine Arts Center Theater.  Tickets are $5.00.

Both Kylee and Krysten will be performing in the ballet.

Winter Fun

We had a fabulous snow storm during the Christmas break.  Well, I guess fabulous depends on how you look at it.  It wasn't too fab when I was out driving in it.  But when you're home by the fire, drinking hot cocoa and watching it snow...then it's fabulous!

At my house we got about 8 inches, plus another 1.5 inches the next day. 

Aaron and Kylee spent a lot of time outside playing in the snow while I stayed inside with Krysten.  It was her turn to be sick :(  Aaron and Kylee built an igloo that was big enuf for Kylee to climb inside of!  Part of it is still in our yard a week later.

One of Aaron's traditions with the girls is to go outside in your barefoot in the snow and see who can stay the longest.  Usually Tracey is the one up for the challenge but she wasn't here so he got the little ones to try it.  Krysten was NOT happy with it, but Kylee enjoyed it...briefly.  I even went outside too, but I cheated since I had snowboots on.  But I was wearing shorts so that should count for partial points right?