-Mike bought Radiohead tickets this week and can’t wait for March 5th to get here!!!  Merry Christmas…

-Speaking of Christmas, Anna Kate will not be sitting in Santa’s lap this year!  She is adamant about that, and we told her that she does not have to if she does not want to.  I’m sure she won’t change her mind, so that’s that.  She requested for Noelle to tell him what she wants for her, so that’s the way that will go down.

-I have carpal tunnel syndrome in my right hand and can’t feel my fingers very well, so it’s impossible for me to text on a cell phone.  Mike sees me struggling to type on his phone and always takes over for me because writing one sentence takes me forever.  The good news is he set up the iPad for me so that I can text.  Since the screen is so much bigger than a cell phone, my fingers can find the keys a little bit more easily.  SO… if you have an iPhone, and you have run all the updates, you can text me, I’m not even kidding.  Text me through your text messaging app to my email address.  Yay!

-Noelle got her first sticker change from green to yellow this week!  Ah man!  She was SO sorry, and it’s just one of those things.  One of her friends told her to color green over the yellow dot so that I wouldn’t find out about it.  I saw a little green spot in the middle of the yellow dot, but she changed her mind and made a good choice about that.  I was really proud of her for being honest!

-Mike loves fashion blogs (he even won a $250 Visa gift card on one of them last year)!  He decided a couple of years ago that he wanted to be stylish and know what the trends are.  I didn’t know dressing in style is something you can learn, but he’s proof that it is.  I used to buy him all of his clothes but now I’m too intimidated.  It’s awesome… one less thing for me to do!  I even ask him fashion advice now because he totally knows what’s cool.  For instance, if skinny jeans can bunch up at the bottom a little if you wear flats or if they should just be straight with no extra bunching. 

-Speaking of fashion, the other day, Mike said, “I like your skinny jeans!”  As a joke, trying to sound up on my fashions, I said, “Um, they are totally not skinny jeans, they’re like jeggings!”  Then he pulled up a bit Conan did on his show where he wore jeggings, and it was SO funny!  Mike and I always have fun like that together.  He’s my BFF… totally!

-I heard a song on the way home from the doctor yesterday that said, “What if your blessings come through rain drops, what if your healing comes through tears?”  I like that a lot.  Wow, I just went from goofy to serious like that – bam!

-My dad (Poppa) had a parrot named Salvador after John went to college.  Then we found out people with TMJ/joint problems can’t be around birds, so he had to get rid of Salvador for me.  Then, God brought him Jax… and the rest is history!

-That girl Drew, on the X Factor, wow!  I’m impressed.  She’s 14, and I guarantee you right here and right now that she’s going to be around for a while.  Mark my words.  With that being said, I’m really behind on my X Factors, so she could already be kicked off at this point… but I’m telling you, she’s GREAT!

-Oh this is random, Mike times himself solving a Rubik’s Cube twice a week.  He says it keeps his mind active.  I’ll just find him randomly working one in the closet while he’s changing clothes or whatever.  My sweet computer programmer hubby!  He’s such a dork in the coolest ways!  And, he’s definitely the smartest person I’ve ever personally met, hands down.  Friends call him all the time to ask him random things they are too lazy to look up.  He always knows the answer to everything… I couldn’t even trip him up when I asked him what a tine is.  I really thought that would stump him, but oh no, he’s the king of defining the word tine!

-I LOVE the new song, Stereo Heart.  I wrote down the lyrics in the car on the way to the doctor so that I could buy it when I got home.  After I had lunch up at the school with Mike and the girls, I pulled out my little spiral notepad and said, “Oh Mike, I’ve got to tell you something!”  (I was about to sing him the lyrics to the song and ask him if he’d heard it)  Before I started, he said, “It would be really funny if you wrote down a song on the way to the doctor and just started busting out singing it to me right now!”  I just stared and him and started laughing so hard I started crying.  When he realized what was unfolding, he was like, “Oh, this is so good!  Now you have to sing it to me…” but I couldn’t breathe I was laughing so hard.  He wouldn’t leave until I sang it to him.  I tried so hard, but I couldn’t make out a tune I was laughing/crying too hard.  I was so embarrassed in a dorky funny way.  He said, “T.W.I.L.Y.!” which we say when something the other one is doing reminds us of why we love them so much.  It stands for, “That’s why I love you!” but it’s not cute or romantic in any way because it reminds him of a man he knew in high school named “Twily Carl Twiley,” which makes it even that much more perfect for us.  Okay, so then he came to my side of the car, and we said good bye and kissed.  And then we wondered if we would get in trouble for PDA on school grounds, because we are dorky like that. 

-And I’ll leave you with the lyrics to Stereo Heart… try to sing this the next time you are laughing out loud – it’s hard: “My hearts a stereo, it beats for you so listen close.  Make me your radio, turn me up when you feel low.  This melody was meant for you, so sing along to my stereo!”  I have a feeling I am going to hate this song in a couple of weeks.  Please don’t wear it out pop radio stations (you ALWAYS do that to Maroon 5 songs).  It’s really cute and catchy… and sweet!

Told you this was going to be random!  Have a happy weekend!