Happy Halloween!

13 things that bug me

1) folks who don’t use their blinkers when driving
2) getting information second hand that pertains to you
3) waking up at 4am for any reason really
4) things that are supposed to be fun that turn into stress fests
5) Christmas decorations out in stores in September
6) laundry in piles that look like they could attack you
7) the volume going up during commercials
8) reruns—we’re less than a month into the new seasons, why are we on reruns already?
9) students who don’t read instructions
10) people who believe that people are not generally good…and people who aren’t generally good
11) campaign ads
12)never being able to fit the ice cube trays in the freezer…I want ice in my drinks dang it
13) folks who stay out of the turning lane or fail to merge when a lane is closing so that they can speed ahead of everyone else taking their turn and force their way in to the line

$1.99 Gas!

Gas has now dropped below the 2 dollar mark in the Des Moines Metro. It's pretty incredible how quickly the prices have fallen--I'm a little worried about a price rebound.

Weekend of Gaming

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This weekend Rob and I made the slow trek across Iowa to visit some awesome friends of his from college. We got together because his friend Sarah is moving to England in January and his friend Beth is moving to Arkansas next week. Casey is also graduating and will hopefully be headed somewhere interesting :)...Rob and I aren't going anywhere...not that we know of anyhow :).

So after an interesting lunch at a local chinese restaurant in Carroll, IA that looked like a fancy pancake house (very odd juxtaposition) and four plus hours in the car, we finally made it to Sibley. We hung out and played games and ate good food and had a grand old time!

It was great to see everyone! I wish you all the best of luck with the next chapters in your life.

More Time Warpiness

Feeling like Fall

It's 50 degrees here and windy and rainy....I forgot to grab my coat on the way out the door, fortunately I didn't have to walk too far to get inside today. When I got home, I decided it was time to try out my new tea pot. My shiney new purple teapot. This teapot called me by name when we were in the store..."Sarah," it said, "Sarah, you know you want to take me home. I am shiney and purple and heat up water for a variety of hot beverages." And that was that, I took my shiney purple teapot home. Today I used it to make a cup of hot chocolate--the first of the year. It is delicious and the teapot whistled right on cue. It's the small things in life I tell ya.

Fall Family Reunion

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This weekend Rob and I spent 14 hours in the car to attend the 18th Annual Setnes family gathering in Elbow Lake, MN. We traveled as far as Bloomington and rode the rest of the trip with Kris and Marie (which made an impossibly long trip much more possible :). The weekend was filled with relaxing and chatting and playing a couple games....oh and eating. We always do lots of eating. We started this gathering over Thanksgiving in 1990, but after a couple of snowy drives, the decision was made to move it back to October--but we still have our Thanksgiving dinner. It was great to see everyone and I look forward to gathering again next fall (even though it will be for Kayla's wedding and won't include turkey and stuffing...at least I don't think it will).

For more photos:

Fall Family Reunion Photos on Flickr

Time Warp

Last night Bones was interupted by the Baseball playoffs, so we decided to leave the Discovery Channel on before Mythbusters and caught the new tv show called Time Warp. It is a pretty simple premise--they shoot interesting things with super high speed cameras. Last night they videoed the following: breaking bricks/boards, juggling chainsaws, dogs catching frisbees, mentos and diet coke fountains, and Blendtec Blenders. It was far more fascinating than I expected. The following is the slow motion video of a Blendtec Blender (famous for the "Will it Blend?" videos) blending a hefty handful of bic lighters. The blender kept blending and was relatively unscathed. I was impressed--I'm starting to think that blender is worth 300 bucks :).

Breakfasts....

Today I was thinking about what I used to eat for breakfast in college: a large soda that was a mixture of Hi-C fruit punch and Mellow Yellow (my wake-up juice of choice) and a large chocolate-chocolate chip muffin. If I didn't eat at the cafe I would have a Pepsi and a raw brown sugar and cinnamon pop tart...and a multivitamin...cuz that makes all the difference.

Thinking about this has helped me relate more to my students. :)

What do you remember eating for breakfast in college?

Mordacious Moving?

Well, my livejournal blog now includes advertisements and, since I don't pay for a subscription, has very limited format opportunites....so I'm testing out using blogger as a new home. I already have a blogger blog and like it very much. So testing...testing...anyone out there?