My life after the 15 minutes…

 My long term readers will know that when I get obsessed about something, I get truly obsessed. My latest obsession is the fact that I will have a family member moving close to me here in a matter of weeks. I have called my brother at least 3 times today, which has been about how much I've been calling him every day since I found out there was a good chance of him really moving to Yuma. In my head, all of these calls are justified, to him I'm bugging the crap out of him. Sorry buddy, get over it.  Today he and Evie were driving from our neighborhood back to Austin. I was super annoyed at Brian because it would have been the first time I would have been able to see the entire family on facetime since we moved and he insisted on acting like a little brat and wouldn't hop on the call with my sisters and mom. He told me I could call him when they were on their way back but when I did, he answered and said something about me me so freaking annoying. I could heard a minor scuffle...

So for those of you who aren't in my family, this will probably seem a little anti-climatic but to me...it's so exciting. My beloved husband's take is that I am "without a doubt" one of the luckiest people he's ever met because I just always get what I want without even really having to ask. Ok smartass, please tell me how I ended up marrying a man who wakes up at 4:30 in the mornings to run up hills? You realize that some husbands actually want to stay in bed with their warm, willing and available wives? But here goes...so I've mentioned that my little brother Brian is getting his Phd in Agriculture and Economics. And not only that, Brian is now a package deal with his lovely fiancé, Genevieve. Who I will now and forever take credit for hooking them up. Without us knowing, Brian and his advisor had put together a grant proposal for him to spend 18 months in Yuma, AZ to work on his dissertation. Of course Brian had told Bubs because he started working on t...

I always love you guys comments and there were a couple from yesterday's blog that really made me laugh. Yes, I agree it's probably easier for my little brother to text back his best friend. Or to put it another way the guy that Brian has known nearly his whole life, who really was his only "brother" growing up and didn't take plenty of opportunities to beat the crap out of him. Yes, I get it...Bubs and Brian have some sort of weird man bond where they don't actually have to communicate to stay best friends.  Bubs read yesterday's blog and claims he had no idea we had scared the crap out of Brian then sat on him for 20 minutes to "protect" him. I don't see how as that's one of our stories that have become a family legend. I suppose to be fair, the infamous night where Bubs came over and charmed me with his math skills was a few weeks in the future. Dumbass, imagine if we hadn't have done that to Brian...I may have actually had the opp...

I often struggle with starting these posts and today is no different. But for sure one thing I need to address is that my blog about the sibling fight got about 10 times the traffic that my blogs usually do. After a day up, I'll usually have about 50 views. This morning when I checked the post from yesterday was getting really close to 500. That's almost my most popular blog post but even then, the couple of posts with more views have been up for several months now. I don't know how blogger posts get seen by people but for whatever reason, a story about siblings torturing each other made it to a lot more readers than usual. I know in the grand scheme of things its a tiny amount but I still thought that was kind of cool.  One thing I learned this week is that Tucson has a Rodeo Break. Yup, for however many years, the city of Tucson takes off two work days to attend the rodeo. It's not like everything is shut down but my kids are off school, my Ob/Gyn office is closed and...

 Hello everyone...I'm sorry about my little meltdown last week. I still haven't quite had the courage to check the comments either here or reddit (or vice versa, wherever you are reading this) and this is the first time I'm logging into these accounts in over a week.   I had a great time with my sisters but I'm still not totally feeling myself. I know that my hormones are a disaster right now but I also know that some other things are going on but with some effort, they will be worked out in due time. It was a little over a two hour drive to Scottsdale last weekend and my two sisters spent the entire drive talking to me about how worried they are about me, how I need to chill out when it comes to my husband and reminded me that I am incredibly fortunate but I don't act like it sometimes. It's hard to hear two of the people you love the most be so direct but I know they were doing it out of love.  I need to gather some thoughts before I write about all of that, m...

 After all this time, I am an absolute amateur at my life in the public sphere. Having said that, I feel like whenever people say that they are taking a break from social media, blogging, reddit, message boards, etc., its actually an attention seeking device. I myself said it a couple of time over the summer, mostly because I wanted my "friend with 1000 accounts" (or friends) to leave me alone--but if I'm being honest, t the part of me that's still a little 10 year old drama queen wanted people to ask me where I was going.   Now that is not what this post is for at all, I'm not leaving but I just got an insanely sweet email from one of you that I just don't know how to answer. But that made me think that maybe I am doing all of this as an attention seeking device and I'm not keeping up my end of the bargain. I don't know if I'm making sense here. But it kind of made me think if I'm flummoxed at the thought of responding to some very kind words,...

 For all of non-American friends, today is Super Bowl Sunday.  I am very curious to see what it's like in Arizona but in Texas it is actually a very serious holiday. In our little city (or big town) the roads would pretty much be abandoned by about 12 o'clock and it seemed the only people who would be out were the ones who were having to make second and third trips to the grocery store or pizza place. After all this time of basically living in a place where football is a literal religion, I still know almost nothing about the game. I understand the downs and what field goal range is but that's it. I have no idea what the positions are (other than quarter back, that ones easy), I have no idea why they throw the ball and some times give to someone else and I don't understand why time outs are so important (because the clock is always stopped anyways). I do however love Super Bowl Sunday--it was a time for me to get together with other girls and women and yap my little hea...

 So once again my amazing followers have given me food for thought and a reason to sit down and write (again, this will be posted on reddit and blogger so if you chose to comment, please do so where ever works for you!)  but first I have to admit that I'm sooooo much cooler than my husband, we'll at the very least I have more game than he does.  Last night Bubs and I had our first date night in Arizona. We finally met some other neighbors and they had a 16 year old daughter who was looking to make some money. Sunday night isn't ideal for a date night but it was when she was available so we decided why not. Yesterday was a gorgeous day so we decided to head up to the outdoor mall, look around for a bit and then get dinner.  One of the silly little games Bubs and have played for the last couple of years is to go into bars and restaurants separately and try to hit on each other. It's so stupid but its such a fun safety valve for us because we really never had the opport...