Need help procrastinating...

Ok...sure I did the dishes, watered the plants, organized my bathroom cupboards...but then I found this....a flickr stream of famous basketball players with random people

In honor of my favorite holiday...please enjoy this break before the madness starts tomorrow morning. I'll be holding holiday festivities at home with tiger with some visits from the regular crowd.

Oh, some of the highlights of the flickr stream...the chrish duhon lapdance and cherokee parks...you kind of wondered what happened to him didn't you. Oh the comedy....I remember when we were in school...he was a poser then too.

New Sports Blog that I love

Ok....maybe it wouldn't be to everyone's liking...but Ladies... is the kind of sports blog I would have if I had a bunch of my ladies friends help me out. For example I have been loving their panty raid feature, which gives you the lowdown (not the down low) on each conference tourney, but also picks an all-hottie team. Now this is the kind of information I like. Quality analysis of the teams, and someone spent the time looking at all of the rosters to see who was hot.....this will save me so much time as I am watching games/writing my dissertation....It all makes sense my friends. So check it out. And if you get bored of that and want to dress up your favorite athletes or celebrities go to stardoll I had fun with tom brady...but who hasn't...he is a ho.

The most wonderful time of the year

For some people it is the winter holidays....for me...it is march basketball. I havve fully gotten into the spirit by watching some little conference tourney games, and the ACC women's tourney. Yeah, I have a dissertation to write....I'm working on it as I watch games.

Congrats to Penn being teh first team to make it to the big dance. Yup for them it is just nice to be invited....the poor ivy league...they just never make it that far. We'll see who else gets invited today as a few automatic bids are determined. For some reason I am tranfixed by the VMI vs Winthrop game. I am pulling for Winthrop.

Marcus Matthew

So we have confirmation that this is the name of Sir GB's nephew....and we finally got a picture!

I'm in love

no, i haven't dumped sir gb, but i have found a puppy so damn cute I don't know what to do. Check him/her out....given my previous dog named spike (who was a girl) I won't make gender assumptions....hmmm...what will it take to make sir gb and tiger agree this would be a good idea.

Puppy Bowl vs the Super Bowl

I was pretty into the puppy bowl....the cutest golden puppy ever, named jackson....

but then I changed to cbs as Tiger was getting kind of jealous of all of the puppies (but I told her we would watch the kitty bowl at half time) I saw a former classmate of mine is one of the captains of the bears...Pat Mannelly he is the long snapper

all i'll say so far is the colts look like crap. the bears returned the kickoff for a td, and then intercepted payton. i might go back to the puppies if this game doesn't get more competitive, but rex hasn't been oout on the field to mess it up for the bears yet.

Sir GB rocks

So some of you know I have been kind of down about this job search thing. I have gotten more sleep in the past few weeks than I have in a long time. But to cheer me up, Sir GB is taking me to Kauai in April. Yup that is Hawaii.

If you want to find out some information you can click here

So now I have something to look forward to...and maybe this will help our gym routine...got to get in shape for the beach!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARISA

Here is a little crazy pup also celebrating his birthday!

Hope you have a great day!

Sir GB is now Uncle GB

those of you who have been keeping track of my infrequent posts may know that Sir GB's nephew is a bit early. Actually he is really early. Poor little Marcus (Sir GB thinks that is his name) weighs 3 lbs and will be in the hospital for awhile. That is all I know right now. So keep this little gu n your thoughts and hope he gets bigger soon!

Who would believe a scuba diving cat

Well apparently it is true....check it out here

Pictures are up

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I think you all will enjoy them!

We are back!

So we have returned!

I am in the midst of uploading over 300 pictures, which I will post links to once they are all uploaded.

I have to say I had a wonderful time! But just a few quick notes, as I mentioned before--Paris is the city of stairs...but as I discovered, do not go to England without your wellies (aka rubber boots), I love it there, but it is a wee bit rainy and muddy and if you want to save your pants and your shoes, get some wellies, I will have a pair for my return voyage some day. Also much to my consternation, England does not have street signs, yes they have speed limit and stop signs, but hardly any of the streets are marked...let's just say this causes some confusion

Now Madrid on the other hand was not wet or muddy and in fact has lovely street signs, all hand painted tiles, that are really lovely, but it is a hot bed of mullets. I haven't seen so many mullets since I don't know when...strange.....

Upon our arrival home yesterday we discovered that Sir GB is going to be uncle GB, of course we had christmas dinner with his brother and sister in law, and no mention....but c'est la vie. So he will be an uncle in April.

Nothing else really exciting to report...but I'll be posting photos soon...it takes a long time to upload 300 pictures....and never fear some of your favorite (ok...my favorite) areas of my photography will be there....there are sheep, birds, plants (but not so many ferns), but you will also find gargoyles (I love them and I got to see them up close at the top of Notre Dame), and lots of architecture (I am also a big fan).....

by the way! Happy New Year!

Greetings from Merry Old England

So we have been in England since Christmas Eve, but I haven't had email until now at Sir GB's dad's house. We have been having a grand time, but the weather is in fact horrible. The sun was out for a whopping 25 minutes today, and then of course it began to rain....poop on that. We went to Cambridge yesterday, and have also been to York, and visited some wonderful towns with names like cockermouth (yeah, it makes me giggle too), then at one intersection...one way was giggleswick and the other was wigglesworth, so I have named my sheep souviner Sir Giggleswick Wigglesworth the third duke of Cumberland. Yes he is a very pretentious sheep.

We are having fun and enjoying staying with the various parts of Sir GB's clan...who are of course all very nice. So if I don't catch up with you before then....happy new year. We are off to Madrid on Tuesday and there for a few days.....so we'll see what I can do on posting there....

huggles and happy new years!

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

Some people call Paris the city of lights, I personally view it as the city of stairs. I do not know the last time I climbed this many stairs. But we have been to many fabulous museums in the past few days, the museum d orssey, the centre pampideu, the picasso museum, and today the louvre (before heading to england). We also went to the catacombs, which I thought were really cool, but Sir GB said they gave him bad dreams. What can I say, aside from the overwhelming number of stairs, Paris is a fabulous city that I would gladly return to any day. We are off today to Otley England, home to Sir GBs mom for christmas, and she does not have interwebs, I know how can this be, so I will wish those of you out there that celebrate christmas a happy one, and I will be back in touch when we reach Sir GBs dads house where there are interwebs.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS

We are in Paris

We are having a lovely time in Paris! Sir GB and I have been to Sacre Couer; Eiffel Tower; Notre Dame (we climbed to the top and saw gargoyles up close); then the pantheon and the latin quarter. We have had great food and lots of wine!

A-team is headed to europe

So Sir Grizzly Bear and I take off for Europe on tuesday morning....such adventures we will have...I think we might do the catacomb tour of Paris. I will go searching for sheep in Yorkshire, and in Madrid I will try to avoid pig. So be expecting many photos when we return, most likely no ferns this time, as I have been informed they are in low supply where we will be. Lame, but I guess I will survive as long as there will be some sheep.

Other goings on in Wellseley

Joss had her first moo juice...which she enjoys!
And I saw the inflatable house...this place had a ton of crazy inflatable ornaments I have never seen....crazy

Daisy and Me!

Meet my new canine best friend Daisy....she is such a sweetie....she is well loved by everyone she knows.....even her "sister" Joss, well, except for when Joss has food.

Me and Joss

Here we are, two cuties. I had much fun hanging out with my niece. She is very delightful, especially if you sleep with earplugs. I'll put up more pics soon....including me with my new best friend Daisy, and the inflatable house....very scary that place...who knew you could get so many enormous inflatable christmas ornaments.

who is the MVP of Joss' birthday

You guessed it....ME! I came back from burns on four of my five fingers on my right hand! And a sliced left thumb....Yup back from the injured reserve or the disabled list (choose your preference) to save the day! And I helped with play group today! So if you want to see pictures of the party click here

But here are some highlights!