funday friday

since my birthday (and thus megan and phil's) was on thursday and i had to be at school for 8 hours, i had my fun on friday. first, mom and i went to the state fair. i love the fair! we saw some attractions (by the way, no amount of money could ever get me to climb to the top of a sway pole and do a handstand), ate unhealthy food, and did pretty much whatever we wanted. however, there are no pictures since my camera is at ry's house and i keep forgetting to get it.



then, lindsey came into town from okc so maria/jayme had a little get together and we went and karaoked . tons of fun: i love my friends!! i stole a few pics from maria so this post wouldn't be totally boring.




i'm not sure why this picture is so small



some of the girls: lindsey, becky, kamini, maria, me



maria and me




maria and bill.. i promise there were boys than bill there

lindsey, jayme, me... we try to see how many faces we can squeeze in a picture

lindsey and me... luv her!

group shot minus boys

maria, becky, me cheesin'

yoda (the dog) likes to have fun too

someday...

someday when i have some guts, i want my hair to look like this:






however, i have a feeling it wouldn't look like this on me.

btw, i love her new song. if you haven't heard it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgJly74APRE

seriously??

i was teaching texas history on wednesday and had the following conversation with a seventh grader...

me: "just so you know, native americans are from america and indians are from india."
student: "then why did columbus name them indians?"
me: "because columbus thought he was in india."
student: "but columbus discovered america."
me: "yes, but columbus discovered america by accident. he was searching for the west indies when he got lost and landed in america."
student:"how did columbus get lost? he had a map"

ummmm....no.... i don't know who in elementary school failed you child, but columbus did not have a map

tri two

on sunday mom and i did the prairiman sprint triathlon. i took the camera in my transition bag but never got around to taking pictures, mostly because before the tri it was dark and afterwards i looked pretty nasty. i'm debating whether or not to put the link to the official race pictures on here because if i do you get to see all of them, not just the one that looks half-way athletic. anyway, i got first in my division and mom got third in hers. not too bad! i think my time was faster than the last tri i did, but i didn't write down my times last time so i don't know for sure.

this is the first time since high school that i haven't had a job and not only is my bank account rapidly shrinking, i think i may go out of my mind with boredom. i thought i could be one of those people who sits at home all day alternating between watching tv and reading, but come to find out, i'm not. i'm finally starting to fill up my calendar with some things so hopefullly time won't go so slow.