Sheridan Trails

So I have this bad( ish ) habit of talking stuff to death. It can be anything really. Recently it has been this trip to London. I am sorry, but I can't stop thinking about it. I am BEYOND excited for it. Here is a small list of things I will be doing/want to do but may run out of time/money for: Go to the Tower of London (mom bought tickets, so this is a guarantee) See Joe's football game (main reason for the trip) See platform 9 3/4 and take about a hundred picks of me running into it (I never said I wasn't going to be a cheesy tourist) See more Harry Potter stuff Go to the Globe Theater Go on the London Eye Shop a lot Go to Piccadilly Circus Take a cheesy picture on Abbey Road Go to a Halloween parade with friend Courtney Go to a gum factory (somehow this got into the mix) Go to a pub or two Make a friend with a local Go to Notting Hill and pretend to be Julia Roberts ("I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her" And about a million...

'nuff said see you on the flip side

Andrea has asked me to write something for her blog and I thank her for her gracious offer. I , like most of you, have enjoyed reading her funny takes about life in Sheridan and just about her life in general. Am not sure that I can match her wit and wisdom with what I am going to write but I will try my best so, here goes. In the very near future our family is going on a trip to London. What is special about this trip for me is that all of us as a family will be together. Now this is a rare occurrence because all of my children live in different parts of the country so you can imagine my joy at us being together. We have taken many trips as a family and on these trips we always seem to have a great time and things go smooth for the most part. But, there will come a time in the trip when my loving children accuse their dad of being “in the zone”, and believe me this is not a compliment. I think “ in the zone” for them means that I am determined, by any means necessary to have a g...

I know this blog is supposed to be about my adventures in Wyoming. I think I only write about my Wyoming adventures 45% of the time. Most other posts are about funny/weird stories from years past. But whatever. This is my blog. I can make it confusing if I want to. But today I will write about my adventures in Wyoming. I have been pretty busy with work, so when I finally leave work, I want to relax. My idea of relaxing is hanging out with friends. I am alone all day in my office, so after work, I crave human interaction. Last night, I worked late. My friend Carrie and I had made plans to play tennis after work, but both of us didn't get off work until after dusk/dark (around 6:30.....I do not like how short the days are becoming). So I just went over and had dinner at her house. She had just gone on vacation and needed to buy a thank you present for her brother for watching her dogs. (I know I am adding an unnecessary amount of detail, but I can't stop myself). So she was getti...

This picture is of me in middle school. I have a number of questions about it. All of them will not be able to be answered. But here they are. Why am I eating a caramel apple pop with braces? Why is my hair pulled back in a ridiculously tight pony tail? Was I really this much taller than all my friends? Puca shell necklace....why? Weird button down t-shirt....why? Ugh. those braces. Did you know I used to have a spacer on my upper jaw? I had to crank it everyday. It worked. I could fit 2 quarters side-by-side in between my front teeth. There's some awkward middle school truth for you.

I went to "Friday Fight Night" ....on Friday. It is like amateur UFC fighting. WAY WAY amateur. I know nothing about UFC fighting. Other than they are in a cage. And they fight. I think I last watched any sort of fighting on TV, it was of Hulk Hogan. And his shirt ripping. I went with my friend Lucas. And met up with Michelle and others. I felt bad because Lucas had to explain everything to me. This drawing sucks....but I didn't feel like adding tons of detail. Basically they are in this cage and they wrestle around. It goes on for 3 rounds. and each round is 90 seconds long. Some of the matches took up all the time and the winner won based off points. Other rounds were over in 2 punches. Either way it was awesome. All of it was. My favorite part of the whole night was people watching. I am a people watching freak. This is the basic uniform of every single male in attendance. They all looked like they have been injecting steroids into their eyeballs for far too long. It w...

So I was just joking about the dad post. He will be writing something soon, just not today. Sorry for the tease. I work in a church. They have donated an office for me to work out of. It is in the back corner, it's like a dungeon, but I like it. The church building is super old, so I can hear just about everything from my little office. There is a lot of pipe creakage, sometimes it sounds like someone is dragging a huge metal bomb across a metal floor. I have kind of tuned that one out, it freaks me out a little bit. I hear choir practice. Remember the hallelujah chorus post? Well every Friday afternoon a man comes to one of the rooms in the basement and does music lessons. It's usually for middle school kids and younger. And it is adorable. They do everything. Some play the sax, some sing, some play the piano. They all pretty much suck, but I still love Fridays because of them. I get to eavesdrop on little kids squeaking out notes on a violin or trumpet. They try so hard. It...