The Great Eight

Best friend tagged me on this and now that I have some time off, I'll give it a whirl. By the way--I have the entire week of Thanksgiving off (definitely something to be thankful for!) and will try to do a bit of catching up on the blog.

8 Favorite TV Shows (certainly not all current)
1. Law and Order
2. Law and Order SVU
3. Law and Order Criminal Intent (are you seeing a pattern here? I guess I like these so much because there is always a puzzle to solve and they make me think. Sometimes their liberal politics DRIVE ME BATTY, but I mostly I enjoy them, so I keep watching).
4. Hannity's America (here comes politics again....)
5. Rick Steves' Europe
6. Samantha Brown's Passport to: Europe, Latin America, China, anywhere....I love to travel!
7. The Antiques Roadshow (probably my only often-watched reality show)
8. Most everything on The Food Network. (I also love to eat)

8 Things I Did Since Friday
1. Babysat the twins so Julie could go with friends to see "Twlight."
2. Watched a very strange movie, "3000 Miles to Graceland," with Mike when we were insomniacs in the middle of the night
3. delivered stuff to the stake library
4. Went to church
5. Bragged on Kara --she got a 32 on the ACT. If you're not familiar with the scoring system for the American College Test, that's amazingly good. (ask me more about it; I'll be happy to brag some more)
6. Fed the missionaries and enjoyed their company
7. Took a lovely nap
8. Read the Sunday paper--although the local paper is steadily decreasing in quality, I still enjoy reading it.

8 Things to Look Forward to
1. Thanksgiving Dinner on Thursday--family and friends filling up the house (For it to really be Thanksgiving we'd need 30 people at least--like we used to have at Nannie and Papa's house. But I'll be happy with about 10)
2. Having the week off
3. Accomplishing some things around the house during my week off
4. the upcoming Christmas season--Deck The Halls!
5. our trip to Europe next summer--London, Paris, Berlin, Prague, Budapest, and Vienna!
6. Lauren graduating from BYU
7. Lauren moving back to Texas
8. Kara getting a great scholarship to BYU (we hope, hope, hope!)


8 Favorite Restaurants (or five I like and three I'd like to try)
1. Texas Roadhouse (delicious steaks, not too pricey)
2. La Madeline (French--need I say more?)
3. The Brass Bean (a delightful sandwich shop near my school)
4. The Black-eyed Pea
5. Rockfish
6. Grace --a new place in Fort Worth--sounds really expensive but delicious
7. Nagoya Japan--I want to learn more about Japanese cuisine
8. Estellas (a local mexican place I've been wanting to try out)


8 Things on My Wish List (in no particular order)
1. Much love and happiness for me and my family--and for everyone else.
2. Somebody needs to open a great gelateria in Arlington!--and they also need to sell Leonidas chocolate
3. More time at the temple and more quiet time to reflect
4. More time to spend with wonderful family and friends
5. Success for all my students--on the TAKS test, SAT, ACT, AP and in Life!
6. A summer in Great Britain
7. Another summer in France and Italy
8. A master's degree in Humanities

Cute Monster

I went to this site from bestest friend's page and since I'm not as clever as her and have no clue how to put the picture in here, I'll just give you the web site and you can go find out what kind of monster you are.
http://www.blogthings.com/thecutemonstertest/

I'm the blue one and here's their take on me:

What Your Cute Monster Says About You

You are both a realist and an idealist. You're able to see the world as it is - and how it could be.
You dream big, and you never give up on your beliefs. You have big plans.

Your inner demon is depression. Sometimes you build things up in your head.
People think you're cute because you're determined. You're a fighter, and that's charming.



All in all, a fairly accurate evaluation of yours truly. I'm afraid I've been feeling pretty down and worthless lately, and so haven't posted much. However our church services today were wonderful and I'm feeling more inspired to try to do better. I'll give it a go.