pointless facts

My mind is full of pointless facts. Seriously, I remember the oddest things. It would be helpful if the random facts were about something useful, like math or science or history, but no. I can't tell you what the plural of a radius is (ha! I looked that up so I would look smart that I at least knew a mathematical term! Wait. Probably shouldn't have said that, now I don't look so smart anymore! I hate math by the way, just putting that out there), what the scientific symbol of mercury is, or the exact dates the Revolutionary War started.

So what are the pointless facts I remember? Things about people lives that I will probably never need to use in my life. For instance one day, after my sister and brother-in-law had been married for a few years, she was trying to think about her hubby's first girlfriends name. I knew the name. I had only heard the name one time like 1-2 years prior, but I remembered.

I can also tell you exactly what a hitch hiker my parents picked up was wearing when I was 5 years old and what day of the year it was. I can remember the month, if not the day, that most people that I know were born. Ok, maybe not most people, maybe like 65%. I can tell you what my uncle was putting together in his office the one time we visited when I was one or two years old... and the color of his carpet. I can tell you the license plate number of a car that I was following the other day, and not because it was some funny license plate number, really it was just all numbers, 720-952. Why? I don't know. I just saw it, so I remembered it. I just hear things or see things, and they stick... FOREVER! Once it's in my head, it normally doesn't leave.

And why am I thinking about this on this particular morning? Because I'm going to to go into town today and I will drive past one of my doctors offices and all that comes to mind right now is that doctors favorite breakfast food. Creepy? I think so too.

I'm like one of those nerds in high school that can pump out tons of information that no one cares about and they have no idea where in the brain of the nerd it came from. Yep. I'm a nerd.

What can I say? I'm my fathers daughter sometimes, Mr. knows-the-world's-exact-population-in-1970something-or other.

my mom shot a bear...

So my mom shot a teddy bear. Actually she shot it a few weeks ago but I haven't got around to showing you pictures. Here they are...

See, it's just a extremely large black bear.

We may or may not be giving her a hard time about shooting Winnie the Pooh this particular bear. *Wink Wink*

So there it is! My mom shot a bear!

FYI. My mom refused to be in any of the pictures with her new stuffed animal ;)

tid bits...

I finally got around to setting up my blog a little more to my taste as you may have noticed. I found it befitting to have a fall like theme since we are in that season after all. The header picture is actually of my brother and my two boys taking a walk. You may have recognized it from the original...

I needed to crop it though, to make it work, and I got this...

It happens to have my favorite tree in it, along my favorite path, with some of my favorite people!

This week has been crazy busy with homework but thankfully most of it is done. I'm stretched thin though. Eli has been making it difficult to get any good sleep. I feel like I've been a walking zombie the last few days, and I probably look like one too! I'm looking forward to bed tonight :)

Autumn

Autumn is here, and is sadly, almost gone. Soon, maybe even as soon as Tuesday, it's going to snow and the cold winter months are going to settle in. I'm not looking forward to it, and that's coming from a girl whom loves snow. The older my kids get, the longer I want summer to last. So we've been soaking up the last few warm days while they last!

Gabriel fell out of his first tree. He fell out shortly after taking this picture. He loves to climb trees though, so I'm sure it's not going to be the last tree he will fall out of. 

best pictures ever

I got the best pictures of Gabriel the other night and I had to share!

Isn't he great?!?! I think so!