The Sanborns

So this is being written as I watch the game and right now, we’re losing 0 to 7. I’m pretty bored and probably going to bed to read instead of watching. I now, I’m not a good fan sometimes, but games played at night start entirely too late and go past my bedtime. I’d rather not watch the train wreck that I think is coming, happen.

All I have to say is that there is only 1 day left until I will be at home in McEwen, fully ready to take on two Thanksgiving dinners! YEAH!

Edited to Add: We Won!

What a week! I guess the biggest news this week was that I turned in my nursing school application and Gray got picked to join “Google Voice.” Basically, that means that we now have a home phone line, sort of. He has it setup right now so that if you dial that number, it rings to both of our cell phones. It’s pretty sweet so far but we haven’t tried it out too much.

I started getting back tests this week. While I wasn’t very happy with my Micro test (passed it, but did about average) I was thrilled to learn that I did great on my Professionalism in Nursing exam, got an A! I also had another Accounting exam on Friday which I’m pretty sure I got an A on as well, but who knows.

I’ve done a good job so far of keeping ahead of my schedule. I’ve been able to do well in classes so far because I’m on top of my game. Also, I bought an app. for my ipod touch that is a cool study program.

As you can see, the more you “study” a card, the percentage you got it correct will go up and down. It was very helpful for when I was studying for Nursing because it would remember the cards I needed to work on.

We have no big plans this weekend. I plan on spending the day studying, working on my Nursing paper, and probably doing some grocery shopping. Gray was interested in going to watch a football game this afternoon, we’ll see if it actually happens. Tomorrow shall be pretty busy with church, the Titans game, and the start of bible study.

Oh that’s right! I was asked to lead a sophomore/junior girls bible study and we’ll be meeting Sunday nights at 6pm.

I’ve realized that I actually am starting to enjoy the week more than the weekend. Probably because weekends go by too fast!

My friends and I like to do murder mystery parties. It all started when I saw pictures of Lory at a murder mystery party and I really wanted to try one. One day wall at Wal-mart, I discovered a box in the board game section, a murder mystery party! I bought it and immediately Trina and I put together the shindig. We liked it a lot but didn’t do another one for over six months. Then this year, a whole year later, Trina put together another party during July. Afterwards I realized how much I really like doing them and decided to throw one this fall.

I’ve decided to host one for Halloween and I’ve picked one that happens to have a lot of “monster” type characters, I figured those would be the easiest to get cheap costumes around Halloween.

So far things are going well, the hardest part is getting people’s schedules lined up, thank goodness I have a lot of friends because I am having to go down a list.

I’m also trying to make my Halloween costume. That’s right, make. I’ve wanted to be Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz for years but the costume was so expensive! Of course making it will be pretty close, but I think I’ll end up saving some money in the long run. Gray and I went to Hobby Lobby tonight to find a pattern and I got lucky! It actually came in a set of five Halloween costumes for girls, both little and big. I sure hope I have a daughter someday to put some of these others into good use.

This week has been going by fast, probably because it’s only a four day week. Today turned out to be much better than I thought it would be. Although Steve Jobs did not announce a new iPod touch with camera (bummer), I did win a 4GB flash drive and I did my gram +/gram – stains perfectly in lab! Last week’s lab was pretty awful, I sucked at what I was doing, but today I got it right! Yes! I also had to call my old pediatrician today to try and get my immunizations records for nursing school. I can’t believe that in three months I will know whether or not I got in for the spring semester!

On a sad note, a co-worker has the H1N1 virus which means it’s probably a matter of days before I get infected. Maybe there will be mercy on me because I’ve already had the flu once this year… maybe. Of course there was the one time when everyone got sick at Encounter except for Lory and I, basically. I remember that we covered ourselves in hand sanitizer because Gray and Meghan were both sick. haha The good old days.

This weekend I plan on working on my costume and going to the state fair, hooray! We went ahead and bought cheap tickets and the ride wristband from Kroger. Last year we only spent a hour at the fair because we ran out of money… it was a bummer because the rides are so much fun! We’re going either Friday night or Saturday during the day, depending on the weather. We’re also planning on going to the football game… MTSU vs Memphis. Not to mention, we’re signed up for A-Team (sets up church and tears it down) this Sunday.

When did I get such a busy social life? I don’t ever remember being this busy in the spring. Oh well, I like it when the weeks fly by.

Last night Gray and I went to a playoff party for the Titans. We were hoping to win some tickets for the game tomorrow. I’ve never been to a game before and would love to go. I guess we’ll be waiting for next season because we didn’t win.

Regardless, I am excited to watch the game tomorrow and we WILL go to the Superbowl, I predict it!

I am exhausted. Wednesday night Gray and I drove to my parent’s house to get ready for Thanksgiving day. 

We woke up yesterday morning and my mom decided to go to Shoney’s for breakfast/lunch. We were like, “Sure.” We came home and watched the Titans wipe the floor with the Lions. For all of the people who dissed the Titans because they lose ONE game, screw you!

Anyway, we also watched the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade before heading to my cousin Carol’s house for dinner. It was interesting to say the least. I spent the time playing with their Laspa/Jack terrier mixed dog and eating, of course. 

When we got home my brother, his wife, and kids came over to see us. It was a lot of fun and the kids tired me out. I can’t wait to see them all again for Christmas.

Today Gray and I are driving to Bell, TN (near Jackson) to eat lunch with his side before going on to his parent’s house in Memphis.
 

So, because I have nothing else to talk about, lets talk Titans.

I first became a fan in 1999 when I was a freshman in high school. That year, my friends, the Titans went to the Superbowl and it was AMAZING, even if they lost.

This year, they remain the only undefeated team in the NFL. 10-0. As I watched the game yesterday online I felt my frustrating rising when they were SUCKING and was very excited at the end when they won.

I guess it’s a love/hate relationship with them for me. All I can say, is that we better be going to the Superbowl this year… however, I hope we win it a well. Last year, the guys who lost the Superbowl were undefeated and I smugly said,”There is no such thing as perfection, they must lose!” So I think I already screwed the Titans over for the Superbowl, but we’ll see.

GO TITANS!

So I was going to take today and upload pictures from Thursday night and make them into a post. That is not going to happen..

I’m so far behind on my NaNoWriMo deal.. like two days.. I thought this weekend I would storm ahead, but yeah, NOT HAPPENING.

We did grocery shopping today that will last us through Thanksgiving. WHY IS FOOD SO EXPENSIVE?

I don’t think we’ll ever get to the point of buying fresh veggies when we have 15 cans of green beans in the pantry. 15 cans!

I bought a canteloupe today. I’m turning into my mother.  

The Titans play tomorrow and we have Church family pictures. 

This has turned into a longer post than I originally expected. Now I must go tackle my novel.

The weekend turned out to be ‘Becca is sick again.” This time it was complete with a head ache and some awesome sinus crud. I’m beginning to wonder when it’s leaving me for good.

Yesterday was MTSU’s Homecoming but we opted to not participate. Instead, we ran some errands and hung out at the apartment.

So here is to a boring entry because I need to catch up on my word count for NaNoWriMo and there is a Titans football game on today, Go Titans!

I’m actually not that amazed I’ve made it this far. See, in the past I could have posted every day, but I’ve restrained myself.

Today marks the beginning of week two for NaNoWriMo. I’m actually on target with my word count and will hopefully use the weekend to get ahead. Right now it’s beginning to feel like a chore to write, so hopefully I can get past that feeling and just write! My story has added in some characters I’ve never thought about. It’s interesting how that can happen.

I know I posted about the chinchilla the other day but he did something interesting that night. I woke up in the middle of the night and could hear him in his cage. I got up to inspect and found he was stuck in the plastic ball that holds his hay. He had been pulling on it and got stuck and tore it from the cage. So yesterday we went to Petco and bought him another, bigger, basketball cage for his hay. We also bought him some treats to chew on. He’s been biting me a lot lately. I can’t tell if he does it when he’s angry at me or just hungry.

Today is Homecoming for our college team. I think we’ll be staying home. The only football that really interests me these days is the Titans!

Now I’m off to clean house and make a grocery list!

I’m always sad when I wake up Monday morning alone. It means the weekend is over and I must go back to doing chores and working.

This weekend went by so fast. After Friday night’s hang out with Chad and Trina, we spent Saturday grocery shopping. I know, it’s not exactly exciting.

Last month I planned out all our meals for a month, wrote them down, and then we went shopping for the whole month. This month I opted to try and do weekly meals only, so I planned out the meals for this week.

Shopping on Saturday took us three hours and about five stores. I looked through all the specials in the papers and determined what we’d be buying. There were also many necessary items that weren’t groceries to purchase such as: paper towels: dish soap, and a few other random items. We were out of a lot of staples. I don’t know about you, but when I add these to my grocery list, it adds up a lot.

So, we spent a good part of Saturday shopping and I spent the rest of it writing. I got up and did my blog posting first and then I wrote my novel.

After the mail came, we watched A Nightmare on Elm Street 6 and called it a night. Seriously, I don’t recall what we did Saturday night at all.

Sunday we got up and went to church (thanks extra hour of sleep). After church it was more novel and blog writing for me. I spent hours trying to find a free mac photo edit program, to no avail.

I want to upload pictures to flickr to include them in the blog and it finally worked.

I watched the Titans game online yesterday. Really, it was just a live graphic of the field where it showed their lineup. We’re totally 8-0 now and I fully believe we’re going to the Superbowl. We went in 1999 and I feel this is the year to make a comeback.

Last night I found myself catching up on Gossip Girl and writing more of the novel at the same time. I actually passed 5,000 words on the novel, so I am a day ahead. I wouldn’t mind writing more ahead today, it will help for Thanksgiving deadness that will probably occur.

I took some Sudafed medicine last night so I’d be able to go to sleep.

Chile decided last night to ring his bells ALL NIGHT LONG. So yeah, very sleepy and drugged Becca got up at 4 this morning to move his cage further away from our room.

I still feel very drugged, but perhaps I will have more interesting blogs this week. We’ll see.