adventure 101

The blogoshere is interesting. It's a place where you can read updates about poeple's lives, food they've eaten, diseased cats, adventures in Mexico, anything really. Although there is one catch the whole process: updating.

I have a writing class this semester that has an assignment to write a blog post and comment on someone else's blog each week. This seemed like a simple task when I first started the class, but I have quickly started seeing blogging as "an assignment" rather than a release from assigned work. This is depressing. VERY depressing. This "assignment" feeling flowed over into this blog too.

So I need to think of a way to make blogging into the fun time again. Originally it was a girl who got me into the whole thing. Girls come and go, but blogs shouldn't have to. I really want to make sure to update this puppy as much as possible. I think that's why I started the blog with the theme of being thankful. It gave me something to write about.

Hence, Adventure 101.

I'm going to try and give as many examples of the adventures of my life as possible. I'm thinking once a week is going to be much easier than daily or sporadically.

Piper.

We watched a cute 7 year old at our house this week. She stayed with us for two nights and she slept in the basement (scary for a 7 year old) next to my room. The best part? My father decided that Coraline would be a good fun movie to watch right before bed. Tim Burton movies always set the mood for a delightful and restful evening.

3:30 am: "Morgan... Morgan... I had a bad dream. It was about spiders."

She's adorable. We went back into her room, talked for a second, and then she went back to bed.

All-in-all, it was pretty fun with her. She's totally cute and has enough energy to power most of Europe for 6 months.

don juan

Don't you readers worry. I successfully averted the tragedy of completing my homework tonight. You can all breathe a little easier. It's just a little reading that I need to do before class, so I'll just do it before class tomorrow. I know. Children's Lit is going to be some HEAVY reading.

I spent the night with my main honey. It was fun. Pizza, TV, video games, reading, playing with her new doll house. Yeah. Totally hot.

I spent the evening with my, what can best be described as, niece/godsister Piper (age 6). An adorable redhead with enough energy to power a small country for 3 days. We played with the dollhouse she made at school, and read books. She read me one about Santa. I think my favorite line that was "read" was, "Mom said to the girl, 'You are getting ready for Santa.' Feel his beard. Is it soft or squishy? I'd say soft."

All-in-all, a good day.

PS - I might want to be careful. If Madison found out I was hanging around other girls, I don't know what she would do. I mean, she has, on occasion, mistakenly called me dad... and she is the younger woman at age 2.