I admit it!

Well, I admit it! I watched the world premiere new Brittney Spears video. Yep, there she was in all her glory repeating "Womanizer" (in song of course) and chasing around a quite handsome young man. Showing her roots (and other parts of her body). Interesting. Catchy tune. Now (according to 20/20) the most looked up person on the internet thus upsetting Paris Hilton. What are we thinking? At least I don't look her up.

Kind of reminds me of my husband watching a movie and then comes home, looks up the actors/actresses in the movie and finding out all sorts of information about them (on the internet). Does the same thing for those based on "true stories". Then can even quote the cost of the movie and for the next few weeks gives me a running total of whether the movie broke even or not and what was #1 at the box office last weekend. (We all have to have hobbies and this just happens to be one of his.)

What would be one of YOUR more interesting hobbies?

Yay for Fall!

Well, summer is over and I have officially welcomed Fall by removing my spring/summer flowers on my porch and putting out my fall leaves. Finally, the weather will cool off . My pool will be cold and the spa will be hot. What an interesting life I lead.

I just found out that I'm a bigot. With this Proposition 8 thing all around us Californians, I am in favor of passing it and leaving marriage to heterosexual couples. This doesn't mean gay people have no rights, just that they aren't legally married. So I was listening to young radio station last week and this DJ does a commentary on the news and his last comment was on those backing Prop 8 and something about those bigots. Hmmm.

Still reading a book on autism written by an autistic adult woman. It is very interesting and informative but I'm almost on information OVERLOAD and I'm only half done. I think it is so good information wise that I think I'll get one for everyone to read so they can know what makes Braden tick. He is so cute and he needs so much help/loving. I pray for him each day (seriously).

Well, Maren's cheer is progressing, but I don't know into what. She knows her motions but when she actually performs sidelines her motions are all over the place. Joanna (and I guess a few other "cheer moms") mentioned this to the instructors last week and they asked her what they should do. She told them to practice the sidelines. What a novel idea! Here are samples of the sidelines (that no cheerleader in her right mind would do): Boom! Boom! (we did that one TEN years ago); Shake that skirt (how stereotypical); Bounce, bounce (something or other and they jump up and down with each time they say bounce); Explode! (but not ignite, our team is dynamite -- something else equally dumb); Rowdy! (again old school); and the list goes on. Seriously, Joanna (the cheer mom) needs to get on them. haha

I am seriously having problems at night -- not enough quality of things to do. I worked one night last week, watched the grandkids 3 nights (kids were sick) went to movie two nights. Seem to be in kind of a rut. So I'm trying to widen my horizons and get back to finishing Craig's scrapbook and working on my genealogy stuff, and ..... any ideas?

BUT then again as I was leaving to go to work at 10:30 AM on Wednesday I was thinkings "Hmmmmm, life is good when YOU get to make the work schedule and no one cares if you work early or late." And it is. Good, that is.

Spring was fantastic!

Well, no cheer this year -- just the stupid bookkeeping part! Ugh! But the best thing this year was my visit (short as it was -- 9 days) to Scotland with Julie. Yep! We actually had a great time together (driving on the wrong side of the road etc) and saw LOTS of the countryside, castles and way too many abbeys! I stayed in my first hostel with a rude English woman. Whatever! The country is beautiful and it was just long enough to relax. The problem with overseas vacations is that you want to SEE EVERYTHING there is to see, so it's not really too relaxing. But I kind of count on that. So here's the very best thing to ever happen in my life (OK, maybe my wedding day, and OK maybe the birth of my kids) -- the flight from JFK to Edinburgh was overbooked and they UPGRADED ME TO FIRST CLASS!!!!!! Can I tell you how wonderful this was/is??????? Wow! I wish I could do that every time I go overseas.

Dave stayed home to work (and miss me). Now he knows how tax season was with no one home most days and the other days sometimes I wished I was alone. Too much talk or no talk!

It seems I live just to go on mini-vacations. But my just is such that I can do it and as long as we can afford it, we will continue to do these each year. I'm hoping for a big vacation/cruise next year though.

Cheer has started

Well, cheer has started for my 12th and LAST year. I am really tired (and hot). If I hadn't made the commitment, I wouldn't go anymore. Kind of boring -- the day to day stuff. I love the competitions. Now, I don't even miss coaching. My girls aren't here/there...... Just not the same without my long time friends, either. But Maren's there 2 days a week and that's great. I feel the Fechter family has given a LOT to this organization and it's time to let go and move on. To what, I'm just not sure, but I'm moving on. I made a lot of friends and worked with a LOT of girls. That was fun! I wouldn't have traded it for the world -- getting to know my own girls and working with them closely all these years. That's the reason I did it. (Of course, I like winning too. I didn't know I was that competitive.)

My life

Well, my daughter wanted/wants me to write stuff here about my life. It's just not that interesting -- not that I'm bored all the time, but that's life. I try to work only 4 days per week (I'm self-employed) and spend the other days doing -- I don't even know. I have a cleaner. My husband does the laundry. So what do I do? Read. Visit the kids/grandkids. VP for cheer. Watch HGTV. Use the computer to do whatever. Bug Dave. Hmmmmmmmmmm. That's my life.

Sue's First Post!

This is by Julie for her mom Sue. She's going to write in a blog now. Her life might not be too exciting, but that's okay!