Bowling Ball Bag

My friend Claire, one of the 3 bowlers on my bowling team, is also quite the seamstress. She made this bowling ball bag for me, I think it is pretty AWESOME!



It is so cool for the following reasons:
1. Somebody can take a pile of fabric, or a roll, or whatever and turn it into a usable thing.
2. It has a skull with bones made out of bowling pins,I think it strikes fear into the hearts of the 80 year old women I bowl against on Wednesday mornings.
3. Retro glitter styling, sort of pimps out the whole bag.
4. Bowling pin zipper pulls, c'mon that is too cool for school.

Sometimes I make myself laugh

Last week sometime Travis Henry, a former Denver Broncos running back, was arrested in some drug trafficking scheme. Anyway, they released him from jail today and put him on house arrest with an ankle monitor. I was reading about this on espn.com and I came up with a pretty witty comment, I said:

"Why did they put him on an ankle monitor? If they didn't want him to run they should have just told him it was 3rd and 1!"

I crack myself up

Weight Loss Update

About a month ago I blogged about my weight loss plans and set a goal for myself. Check it out here if you don't believe me! Unfortunately since that post we went on vacation for a week, this hurt my plan...but didn't kill it totally. I had to re-adjust my numbers a bit since I gained weight on that vacation to my parents house.

I am down 8 pounds since that vacation, and have 5 weeks to lose 21 more pounds. That comes down to 4.2 pounds per week, which is more than I would like to shoot for...but it is doable....maybe not enjoyable, but doable.

So like I said in that original post, I'll keep you posted on my progress since that creates a little bit of accountability on my part. And hopefully my post on November 12th will read 100 pounds lost!!!

Nothing to say

I was trying to think up something clever to write about today, but I got nothin'. So I thought I'd just write about nothing, and fill some space as an experiment to see if you would read it all the way to the end. Well, did you?

Sometimes you just don't know....

Sometimes you just don't know how nasty something is until you actually get around to cleaning it! Let me explain, I use my car almost everyday to haul the kids and get around. I finally couldn't take the mess in the back seat, the kids toys and wrappers from crackers, and God knows what else. I started by taking out all of the toys, there was some real interesting stuff back there. I found 1 whole chicken nugget, I think it was from Sonic because it was ring shaped (don't know what part of the chicken is a ring...but that is for a different blog on a different day!). I also learned that Aiden must not like Craisens, because there were a ton of them on the floor in front of his seat. Then there was layer upon layer of cracker crumbs. Our portable snack of choice are crackers, convenient, tasty, and the kids will always eat them.

After the trash and toys were gone I went to work with the vacuum. It seemed to take forever but I finally vacuumed the whole car....the amount of dog hair in the cargo area was unreal, it looked like one of those small yippie chihuahua dogs exploded. Then there was the smell in the car. Kinda like a mix between sweaty feet and really bad cologne! I busted out the Fabreeze, shot every inch of fabric and then closed all of the doors and let it bake in the sun for a while. I don't know why I did that, it just seemed like the thing to do! After an hour or so we were ready to roll and the car was great! It looked good, smelled good, and I had a clear conscience that there wasn't some sort of a cracker wrapper monster coming to life in the back seat!