My car likes to pretend it is an SUV....

but it's not.

What I drive:

A Toyota Celica

What my car thinks it is:

Some sort of SUV type car that has 4 wheel drive.

I love my little car.  We had had some great times together.  Some of those times included being stuck in the snow.  See how low it is to the ground? So imagine, if you will, when it snows a good 5 inches, and then add the lovely piles the plows make.  

My car sees those piles and says, 

"Watch this, Jenny. I'm going to go right through that pile!"

"VVVRRROOOOMMMM!  VVRRoooommm.....wrroom....

um I'm stuck." 

Car remember, you're not an SUV. 

"Oh, yeah....oops"

Last night on the way home it started snowing.  Big ginormous flakes.  It was actually.....kinda pretty, but you didn't hear that from me.  Only once did my car try to convince me it was an SUV on the way home.  Thankfully there wasn't enough snow on the ground to cause problems, but she was ready to pave the way for the other cars.  

Who knew Celica's could be so delusional.  ;)

Odds and Ends

Hello there friends!  I was going through my phone and found a couple of pictures that you need to see.

Remember my story about my shovel and umbrella?  Here is a picture of my sad broken free umbrella.  sniff...sniff. RIP umbrella...ella...ella.

Not sure if you can see, but trust me it is wabber jawed and broken. :(

When I came home from Florida, I went to the Professional Bull Riders competition downtown.  Why did I go?? One word. Cowboys.  Ahhhh  it was wonderful.

It was really cool.  It takes a special kind of person to say, "When I grow up, I want to ride a bull, possibly get stepped on, and most likely thrown off."  My neck hurt just watching them.

Speaking of Florida.....

On my way to Sanibel Island...where I got my picture taken for a magazine.  No really I did.  I always knew I would be a model.  I was modeling the Sanibel Stoop.  Basically I'm bending over looking for shells. My Floridians know what I'm talking about. :) And boy can you tell I don't live there!  I'm just a little on the bright white side.  Ha ha ha. 

Knitting Pro

Ok, maybe not quite a pro, but I did finish my scarf!

Isn't it beautiful! It's not perfect, but it's not half bad either.  

Unfortunately, I'm not sure where to go from here.  Is there another easy project I can do to get more experience with different uh knits stitches you know...techniques? 

Any knitters out there, some advice would be awesome right about now. 

I'm almost tempted to try this project...

using this yarn....

It looks a little complicated and I don't really understand half of what they say.  I need a knitting mentor or translator. I'm serious!!! It is a different language or a secret code.  

What have I gotten myself into?

I survived!!!!

I think I will like tennis.  I wasn't amazing or anything, but I managed to hit the ball a few times and not completely embarrass myself.  Here I am with my friend Hannah (hi, Hannah!) and our two instructors. We had an hour lesson and went over some basic swings.  I now know how to properly backhand and um front ways front hand forehand swing.  (I'm still working on the lingo.)

My fun moments:

1. After missing the ball and seeing my frustration, the one instructor said "Don't worry your swing was almost good." LOL!
2. I hit the ball into the light fixture....an easy15-20 feet high.  oops.
3. I hit the ball into the next court...where people were playing an actual game.
4. I did one of these numbers...just not with two rackets, I don't know why he has two rackets.

 Do you see how the ball would be out if he just let it go....yeah me too. What can I say, I felt like I needed to hit everything.

So I go back next week for lesson 2 of 2 and then maybe I'll sign up for some more.  I think I need to marry a rich guy if I want to keep this up.  Tennis was meant to play outdoors (for free), I think I feel another bout of Belongitis Southernexia coming on.  When I was in Florida there were tennis courts in the neighborhood just waiting to be used.

Ok I feel better.

So there is my mini-adventure with tennis.  I don't feel that I can cross it off my bucket list yet.  Maybe after a few more lessons.

January 2012 Reading list!

We are a month in to the new year!  Crazy how fast time flies.  Here are the books I read this month:

  Juliet by Anne Fortier
We all know the classic play written by Shakespeare. Boy meets girl. Boy and girl can't be together. Boy and girl end up dying.  End of story.  Or is it?  That is the exact question Julie Jacobs finds herself asking after her aunt's dying wish lands her in Italy searching for answers from events that happened centuries before. Her search leads her to the realization of a curse, murder and mystery.  The story bounces between the present day adventure and the original story of Romeo and Juliet.  Quite a few twists and turns await you in this book.  I thoroughly enjoyed it!



The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

I wanted to read the book before I went to see the movie, which I still haven't seen actually.  Wow!  This book was right up my alley with my love of mysteries.  What happened to Harriet Vanger? That is what it all boils down to.  She disappears suddenly from the family island and is presumed dead.  Her great uncle Henrik thinks someone in the family killed her, but a body was never found.  Enter Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist who was just found guilty of libel and is looking to get away.  Blomkvist is hired to look into Harriet's strange disappearance.  Meanwhile we are closely following the work of a girl with a dragon tattoo, Lisbeth.  She works for a PI company that did some preliminary work on Blomkvist for Vanger.  Eventually their paths collide.  Do they solve the mystery in time? Violence against women is the major theme for this story.  Be prepared for some gruesome scenes.  

 Not sure if these books are quite what you are looking for? Check out the previous Reading Lists

2011:

September- Water for Elephants, Sarah's Key, If You Could See Me Now, A Child Called It

October-Eat, Pray, Love; The Wedding; Nights in Rodanthe, 51/50 The Magical Adventures of a Single Life, The Hunger Games

November- Can you Keep a Secret?, Twenties Girl

December- Inheritance, Thorn in my Heart, Fair is the Rose