My Elite Eight

I stole this/ was tagged from Lori's blog, and who doesn't love some good list-making?


8 Favorite TV shows...
1. The Office
2. True Blood
3. The Simpsons
4. Entourage
5. Mad Men
6. House Hunters
7. Big Love (I hope it comes back!)
8. The Daily Show

8 Favorite Restaurants...
1. Chevy's
2. Big Bowl
3. Taco Gringo (local thing)
4. Culvers
5. Noodles, Etc.
6. Mariah's
7. Chipotle
8. Bella Milano

8 things that happened yesterday...
1. Taught my HRM class
2. Went to Target
3. Skipped the workout
4. Tapped with Ainslie--worked on Irish
5. Spent too much time on the phone with BCBS for a client
6. Read most of my new Real Simple
7. Watched the debate
8. Ate an ice cream cone

8 things to look forward to...
1. Jack'o'lantern Spectacular this weekend
2. Carving a pumpkin
3. the Twilight movie
4. Christmas shopping
5. The pumpkin pie that is in my oven right now
6. Girls' night on the 20th
7. Trick or Treating with my Little Witch
8. Election Day!

8 things I love about Fall...
1. The beautiful leaves
2. cool nights
3. no heat or a/c bill
4. tights
5. not shaving my legs so often!
6. chili
7. Halloween
8. pumpkin and apple desserts

8 things on my wish list...
1. An Obama victory
2. To love the new preschool teacher as much as I loved the old one
3. Family Holiday planning where nobody gets their feelings hurt
4. new brown boots
5. A massage
6. A Belle dress for Ainslie
7. An aversion to sweets
8. Some new, funky necklaces

If you are reading this, consider yourself tagged now too. Let us see your 8!

Sexy Fictional Teenage Vampires

I am completely obsessed. I started reading the Twilight series about a month ago. You know--the vampire love-story series targeted to teenage girls? It is so addictive! Thankfully, most of the other Edward-obsessed readers I know are also adults, wives and mothers. The exception is my 12-yr old babysitter...
To learn more, here is the author's website: http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/

I am having trouble concentrating on anything other than these books, which I have now read 4 or 5 times each, for any length of time. It's the same way for many of us. It's Harry Potter all over again, only this time, there's...Edward. And it's sick. Really sick. I'm 36 years old, for Pete's sake. I have a husband, a child, a house, jobs... and Edward.

Really. You have to read it. The movie comes out in November and you'll want to be an expert before seeing it.