Things I'm excited about today...

In no particular order:

1. Finally, it's starting to feel like fall here in Nashville. Today is the first day in about 2 weeks where it hasn't been around 85 degrees, muggy, and raining. Bring on the 60 and 70 degree weather- I'm ready to bust out my sweaters!


2. My girlfriends just got back from a weeklong trip to Ireland (and I'm jealous I wasn't able to join them!) They visited several of the same spots that Will and I went to on our trip, so I'm reliving our vacation through their stories and pictures. What a beautiful country- I can't wait to go back!


3. I can't believe my brother gets married in less than 2 weeks! I am sooo excited to get to Houston and see my family. I have gone far too long without a visit, and I am ready to party with them! I am not excited about the amount of stuff I need to get done in the next 9 days before I leave. So much to do, so little time to do it...


4. I am also extremely excited to see Ale, Francisco, Ale's Mom, and to finally meet my little Chilean niece Isadora. She is cute as a button in the pictures I've seen of her and I can't wait to hold her and squeeze her chubby little cheeks! Look at how precious she is!


5. The Titans, not great so far. Da Bears, doing well. Football season, always awesome.


6. Spray tanning. Look like a golden goddess, but without the nasty side effect of skin cancer. OK, not gonna lie, I've never done it, so I don't think excited is the right word to use here. Apprehensive is better. Has anyone done this before? I have some leftover tan lines that won't exactly match my strapless bridesmaid dress, and I think spray tanning would be the quickest, most effective way to deal with the problem. But with my luck, I'll end up looking like Ross in that episode of Friends. No good. If anyone has any advice/words of wisdom about this area I'd love to hear from you!

Blogger's block

I haven't been in the mood to blog lately. Have any other fellow bloggers shared that sentiment? It's not that we haven't been up to fun and exciting things. As a matter of fact, we've been doing lots of fun and exciting things, here in Nashville and out of town. I just haven't had the urge to sit down and write about them.

And today, I fear, isn't the day to write about them, either. I had every intention of filling in my eager followers with grand stories of, among other things, all things sports-related. Stories like going hiking in one of Tennesse's many state parks, returning to the city where my love of stadium nachos began and taking in a Cardinals game in St. Louis, cheering on the Predators at their first pre-season game of the hockey season, catching the Bears games at our new neighborhood watering hole (and where other Bears fans seem to congregate as well, making the atmosphere that much more fun to watch the game), and attending the first (official) home game of the Titans season.

I was also going to tell the blogging world about Mom, Molly, and Ella's trip to "Nashvittal" to go dress shopping for Molly's wedding, and about Ella's first honky tonking experience.

I was going to share the stresses of getting ready for Andy's wedding, which is just 19 short days from now. And let you know that Molly and Kelsey moved their wedding date up to January 2nd. Apparently the Wingard kids like to fire out weddings in rapid succession.

I planned on letting you know that zumba is still my exercise drug of choice, even if I have somewhat failed to attend classes as often the past couple weeks. (All the above-mentioned sporting events seem to fall on zumba days. Replacing exercise with stadium nachos and beer is a good trade-off, no?)

On the home-front, I was going to share with everyone the fact that that stupid smoke detector is STILL beeping!!! And that I'm starting to feel like Tom Hanks in Castaway. (You know how he turned that volleyball into a person and talked to it, and then freaked out when he thought he lost it? The smoke detector and I have a similar relationship. It chirps and chirps and chirps at me all day long and drives me crazy. But sometimes, when I haven't heard it chirp for awhile, I start to freak out that maybe it officially died on me. Inevitably, the chirping returns. Anndddd, we are back to square one.)

I would probably also let everyone know that we are hunting for the perfect entertainment center to house the 56 inch television (that we don't have) so we can watch endless amounts of movies (since we don't have cable.)

Yup, I was going to tell great stories about all those things, but I'm just not in the mood. Maybe sometime later this week.