How to tell if you are truly a Geek:

You finished Harry Potter 7 within 48 hours of it's release when you had no intention of picking it up and reading it...

AND...

...so did your 9 year old.

Friday, we all volunteered for 89.3 and we went to the Saints game and I got a massage from a nun. Because, that's what you do at a Saints game.

I had a giant pickle, Todd had a hot dog, 3 beers (ok, I may have tasted some of them) a pulled chicken sandwich, sold two extra tickets someone gave us for $10, and Jack bought a root beer and a plastic bat and tried to hit balls at a target:



And, we sang karoke to the "YMCA".


(the sun made it hard to see the screen)
"IT'S FUN TO STAY AT THE YMCA!!"

Be frightened, be very frightened.

So, we were babysitting a 14 month old and who plays with his toys?

Yes, it would be Jack. He spent a good hour playing with Beckham's car simulator.

And Beckham spent the whole time playing with my plastic curlers.

Go figure.

Oscar's New PetIt's a hamster Oscar, do you want to see it?

Sniff the hamster...isn't it cute?
No! No tasting the hamster!
You can't eat the hamster, it's not yours to devour, it is the class hamster.
That's better, if I hold your mouth shut, you can't taste her.

Unfortunately, there were 2 hamsters and one (thankfully not this one, or I would have thought I killed it from fear) died.

Todd gave her the circular funeral usually reserved for fish, but since it was a dwarf hamster, we figured it wouldn't clog the pipes.

I was the lucky one that found it all stiff and curled up in the shavings. Way gross!

Girls Night Out Volume 2...

I love Jacky...4 bloody Mary's later and she's up on the stage playing an inflatable guitar pretending it's her birthday.


She describes herself as "fun in a box!" Like a Jacky in the box! Fun contained and ready to be let loose at anytime...

I met Jacky and Sharon at the Blue Fox in Shoreview last night. The crowd was interesting, to say the least.
I was walking out the door at 7:40 last night and Todd says to me, "Go put some clothes on!"
Yeah, whatever, I was wearing this really cute summer top and wasn't about to change. I said, "Don't worry honey, it's the Blue Fox, like I'm going to be picking up old men in Shoreview...Puleeze!! And I'm wearing my leash, aka wedding ring." Wiggling my fingers in front of him, I trot across the lawn into the truck before he can chase me down.
And, um, yeah, the pickens were non-existent...laughably so! Worse than my imagination could have conjured. But, we still had a great time, Jacky and Sharon are hilarious, and between laughing at the people who were shaking their things at some mysterious song that must have been playing in their own head (because they certainly were not matching the rhythm of the songs we were hearing) to the overly done up Shoreview local cougars, it was a great girls night out.
We'll have to do it again next month!
And I'll have more pictures if my email ever receives them...Jacky had on camouflage shoes to match her outfit...and dog tags to complete the ensemble.

Tres Chic!

So, I started this whacko health diet about a week ago.

Little to NO carbs. No bread, no white stuff (ie, sugar, flour, starch) and no wine (Dear GOD!)

I want to get down to 16% body fat.

Why? Why Amy, why?

Because...I am a crazy woman.

This morning:

Amy: Oooo, Jack look at this runner...I want to look like that...

Jack: Old, wrinkly, and with big muscles?

Amy: Ok, maybe not exactly like that...

No lie, that was verbatim...she did have an awesome six pack, but she also had about 15 years on me, and no, I don't want her wrinkles.

There is a new appreciation I have for food since my early morning breakfast shake consists of Greens+, Chocolate Whey Protein, and flax seed meal mixed with juice and water. It's so gross, it's comical.

Fruit and grape nuts are cheats. I never appreciated a bowl of grape nuts with berries so much as I did last night after doing 30 minutes of interval training on the elliptical on level 14.

Todd is about to have me committed.