A Week of Firsts for Meg

Thursday, my wonderful pumpkin started her first day of her senior year and Friday was her first football game where she got to "paint up" and not sit in the marching band section. A great first week as you can see from her smiles!

These Times They Are a Changin'

While at Ohio University on Saturday, we made a quick trip to Meg's old Elementary school. She loved this place and I credit it for making her an open-minded individual. For two weeks during Kindergarten, they studied about diversity. To learn the alphabet, they had a different food each day starting with the day's letter. She ate hummus, turnips, and kimbop (korean). Amazing school. At my insistence and her excitement, we took a picture of her in the same spot as her first day of kindergarten. Wow - time is flying way too fast!

Today's guilty pleasure: Party of Five. Neve Campbell is on the cover of Health magazine and it reminded me how much I loved that depressing, brooding show. Even after Matthew Fox was on Lost, I still called him Charlie (drove my husband nuts). And because Jennifer Love Hewitt (Sarah) was such a bitch to Bailey, I cannot stand watching her on TV to this day. I loved Claudia in Mean Girls. But whatever happened to Owen?

Did you have a favorite 90s show that was your guilty pleasure?

Race Photos

It's as if school pictures weren't enough to stress about growing up, but now I've entered a new dimension of hell...race photos. I got that dreaded link announcing that my recent half marathon race photos were available for viewing. You know, I secretly hope that this batch will be different. I realize race photogs can't make my photo 20 pounds lighter, but seriously is sitting on a curb really the most flattering angle for anyone???!!! I seem to have this bizarre stride that requires one side of my shorts to hike up high enough to be saying hello to my hip. And because I'm chronicling my races in all the states, I end up buying the least bad photo each time...for the bargain basement price of $15.95 for a 4x6. I almost think that those little black combs they used to pass out in the school pictures line should be included in the racer's goody bags...and maybe disposable (and biodegradable) lipstick. A girl can dream!