Happy Days ...

Ahhh, the sites and sounds of Christmas ... wait isnt this OCTOBER?? I was confused for just a moment by all of the holiday decorations up in the department stores. Seriously, I was at Wal-Mart and in one isle Halloween costumes and in the next Christmas trees. Now everyone that knows me knows my favorite holidays in this order are ... Christmas, my birthday, and then the rest but isnt this a bit pushy??

Tweedle-doh and Tweedle-dee are very excited for Halloween. Tweedle-dee is going as a Cat and Tweedle-doh is going as Buzz Lightyear. I am busy in school and after just taking my midterms I am acheiving A's and B's in all of my classes. I recently recieved a letter and certificate for making the Dean's and Presidents lists here at school so I am pretty stoked about that. The bronco is doing well and is looking forward to the World Series as the Colorado Rockies made it this year. He made mention the other day that since the Denver Broncos are having a bad year (to put it nicely) that he is going to watch the Series. He usually doesn't get to as I am death on watching Baseball and I can be a pain when I want to be :) (who knew!) Tommorrow is his Birthday so Happy Birthday Baby! and that means I am getting that much older .. 6 months to 33!

Gateway to Where??

When I was a little girl Grandma and Grandpa would drive down to Iowa for two weeks every summer, I couldn't wait to see the Capitol building. It was like the gateway to family, friends and fun. I knew then that our trip would soon be over, I could stretch my legs and would see family and friends that I had missed so much. I also remember years of watching the scaffolding cling to the sides of the dome while they worked to get the gold leaf fixed. But I never noticed the surrounding neighborhoods, until the other day when I was driving to the southside. Now sadly the Capitol has lost its "magic" for me. I dont know, am I the only one that noticed that most of the houses around our Capitol are broken down, and the people are low-income? Instead of the Capitol being the "gateway" to Des Moines, it looks more like the "gateway" to skid row. Honestly I would rather have a plain old concrete and steel building serving as our home office and those peoples homes and lives helped, than the gaudy "Tage Mahal" we have now. I also have to wander what person in their right mind was standing around one day and said "AH-HA, a gold-leafed domed building is just what this city needs." Were we so well off back then that it didn't seem extravagant? Iowans at heart are simple farming family folk so how did this happen? Of course these are retorical questions as I don't believe any answers I would find would make it seem ok to me.

Hello World!

This is the first installment of the "Days of our Lives". Everyone keeps telling me I should start a blog so I finally did. In my blog you find updates on my family -the Bronco, tweedle-dee, tweedle-doh and myself- and my "deep" thoughts for the day, and maybe some not so deep.

Enjoy! Love you all,

Shann