Grey's Anatomy Tonight!!

If you were Meredith would you really have let Derek go "tell Rose" . . . I think not! I mean think about it, do you how long it would have taken to light all those lanterns? I can barely light candles on a cake let alone 2500 square feet of pretend house!

The Apple of My Eye . . .

I took this before school this morning, CUTE . . . except she wouldn't wear the rainboots!

Spring Hill Ryder Cup

BJ on his way to day 2 (day 3.5 if you count the vacation day he "needed" before the tournament) of Spring Hill's Ryder Cup. I thought this was a cute picture plus he had just brought me starbucks, so I was especially excited : ) Go Team Raschko!

eBaying all Morning . . .

I've been eBaying all morning and I'm pooped, if I have to describe one more top, pants, hair bow or STAIN . . . man I don't know how she gets so dirty??

For Traci & Kristi . . .

This was last year on Christmas Day . . . do you see what's sitting right by us??

Yum-O!!

For Kelly . . .

I stole this from Tracye & Vic's MySpace, thought it was cute. Maybe a Corona add in your future??

CAPTACHA This!!

OK enough already with the word verification thing-a-ma-gigs, they make me feel dumb and blind because I can never get them on the first try!

Nighty, Nighty

It was a long day and I was beat. I actually went to bed at about 7pm. BJ bathed, jammied, brushed teeth & hair and even read Junie B. Jones to Maya. I felt a sneaker mosey her way under my covers, being real quiet so she didn't wake me up. She held both my hands real tight and then whispers "Mommy I love you, but BJ stinks at reading Junie B. Jones"! It was all I could do not to laugh!

My Office Space

Favorite Broker moments . . . .

Broker says: When my email comes into my inbox and I read it, it then disappears. There's something seriously wrong here.
Kristy says: Let me take a look at it.
(Broker continues to complain about everything else in life)
Kristy says: Ah yes, I see the problem now. When a new email comes into your UNREAD inbox and then you read it, yes it does disappear . . . to your INBOX!

Broker: Walks out of the work center, down the hall, around the corner and back down the hall. "Kristy the water bottle needs changing"
Kristy: Seriously? "Uh OK, I'll get right on that!"

Broker: The printer is broke! Kristy come help me . . .
Kristy: Oh yeah, see this flashing read light with the words "OUT OF PAPER"?

Broker: There's no toilet paper in the mens room.
Kristy: I jump up and prepare to take action and save the day, only to be face head on with the nastiest fowlest smell on earth. I never learn! Respirator check, candles check, lysol spray check, yellow kitchen gloves check, 15 minutes of "the loudest fan on the planet" check . . . only to see there is an unopened roll placed on the back of the toilet lid. Hmmpff

Broker: "Kristy can I get garbage bag, I had onions for lunch in my office need to take this bag away it's awful bad"
Kristy: Sure do, I'll put it in your office. As I go to the supplies, I've noticed the "relocated onions are now in my trash can right INSIDE the door. Two feet more and door pull . . . the outside garbage would have been a Happily Ever After Ending . . . as she walked by the rolling garbage cart to get into her car!!

To Be Continued . . .

Dan's the Man on Big Brother

Dan Gheesling kept his balance on a biplane and now he has posturing rights.
The 25-year-old Catholic school teacher from Dearborn, Mich., was named the winner of Big Brother 10, which was heralded as a "back to basics" edition of the aging CBS reality series, with live audiences sitting in on weekly eviction shows for the first time since season one and all 13 HouseGuests starting off the summer as strangers.
Meaning, no gimmicks here. All contestants had to build alliances—and, subsequently, tear 'em down—from scratch.
After 71 days of physical challenges, brainteasers, fence-mending and the usual dose of strategic trickery (all accomplished, seemingly, while either sitting down or reclining), Dan beat out mixologist and fellow Renegade Memphis Garrett, 25, for the $500,000 jackpot.
After spending a week as America's Player earlier this season, Dan swept the jury vote, 7-0.
Memphis gets $50,000 for his efforts, while 30-year-old Keesha Smith will pocket $25,000 as the winner of the Favorite Juror Prize.

Now what am I going to do with Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday nights???

On the news this eveing, Maya caught an interesting tidbit of old age!!

Vinyl records on the rise as CD sales plummet

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:55p.m.
The Beatles' Abbey Road is a top seller on vinyl


It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail chain.
This spring, an employee intending to order a special CD-DVD edition of R.E.M.'s latest release Accelerate inadvertently entered the LP code instead. Soon boxes of the big, vinyl discs showed up at several stores.
Some sent them back. But a handful put them on the shelves, and 20 LPs sold the first day.
The Portland-based company, owned by The Kroger Co, realised the error might not be so bad after all. Fred Meyer is now testing vinyl sales at 60 of its stores in Oregon, Washington and Alaska. The company says, based on the response so far, it plans to roll out vinyl in July in all its stores that sell music.

• Maya: "Mommy why is that CD big & black?"
• Mommy: "That's called a record album."
• Maya: "What does it do?"
• BJ: ((Snort, Snicker, Laughs . . . and lets me answer alone))
• Mommy: "Well years ago a needle read the grooves on the record album and produced music."
• Maya: "Like Grandma's sewing machine, it has a needle only I've never heard any music."

OSU vs Hawaii

We had a great time with friends and family at the Beaver Game. The weather was perfect, great tailgating (we made jello shots & teriyaki sticks) and oh yeah "Beavs Win"! I did confirm my fear of heights and will not be returning to club seating (unless of course we stay inside for the festivities -ie. food & drinks).


BJ and Kristy
(dang it! I lost that earring!)

Maya & Mommy

Quite an Armload

My little Beaver Girl

Maya & Erica

"Girls Night Out"

Maya and I have a weekly date on Thursday evenings
while BJ's golfing, we go to Spring Hill to swim and eat dinner.

Just isn't the same when the pool is closed . . . .

First Day of 2nd Grade

Maya: Mommy 2nd graders get to pick out their own clothes you know
Me: Oh Do they? (thinking doubtful at this house!)

And this is what I get on the first day of school.


All Smiles Here

(notice the Hannah Montana outfit size 10)
(notice the leggings are supposed to be tight . . . she hates them tight!)



With the Jacket this time . . . I've created
a monster~ And I really thought we were
going to pass the HM stage!

Lafayette Elementary
Mrs. Moorvartian
2nd Grade

Remember making forts when you were little?

Our Fort 2008




Our Spying Window



87 degrees outside . .
a lot hotter under 10 blankets!


Getting out of the tightly constricted
fort. No, of course there weren't any
of me . . . that survived anyway ; )

Yes . . . I got out and took a picture!

So, I'm driving today near campus and this sign caught my eye . . . Don't you just love having a "Beaver" mascot!

Hump Day

Aren't we all excited for "Hump Day"? An English language idiom for Wednesday is "hump day", a reference to making it through the middle of the work week as getting "over the hump". It is also unofficially (and with some irony) referred to as "the peak of the week".

So my next question, when did the word Hump become bad? And why does it make me laugh when I say it outloud??