Let the Games Begin...

As of Friday I started my mini vaca. The kids & I got up early, loaded the car, and headed to Perry, Oklahoma. They're spending the week at their Dad's in Texas for Spring Break. Yay! The best part of the trip is the Sooners Corner Restaurant's fried pickles. It's like a piece of heaven & an awesome reward for the 4 hour drive to get there.

After the exchange, I headed back to Kansas to get myself packed to head to the Ozarks with Hawks to celebrate his Grandma's 90th Birthday. I love that woman so much. She is an amazing woman and always has a funny story to tell. Before we went though, I had a surprise for Hawks when he got home from work - NERF GUNS! I won't go into it but I will say that he has a better aim than I have and apparently there are no rules.

I love going up to the cabin. It's so peaceful. Hawks' Mom always feeds us tons of food & the weather is usually great to just sit on the deck & watch wildlife on the creek. Certain times of the year you can hear bullfrogs & other loud critters. We've seen snakes, turtles, fish & birds down there that you normally just don't see in Kansas.

All of his siblings were there & set up a ping pong tournament in the basement. I'm not good at ping pong, not at all. I'd love to think that had I not been in so much pain (thighs & back) from my Personal Trainer workout the Thursday prior, that I would have played better. Excuses excuses excuses, but really I was in major pain.

We came home yesterday and each took small naps up til time to go find somewhere to watch the KU game last night. I'm not going to get into all that because that could be a blog post on it's own and most likely will be. Hah. Anyroo... Happy Vaca to me!

Oh and one last thing - A big thank you to Josh for babysitting our doggie Astrid for us while we were away. We cannot thank you enough.

Spring Break 11' - Playlist

On road trips I love having a set playlist and this Spring Break traveling is no different other than the fact that I'm sharing it on my bloggity blog with you.

I use to be a DJ, for 6 years in fact. True story. Okay so I wasn't on an actual FM/AM radio station nor did I go to local clubs & spin on expensive equipment with a crate of records next to my feet - I was an online radio DJ. I started with a station called "Liquid Dreams" then moved on to "Inferno Radio" and finally my best friend & I decided after a few years that we didn't need/want to be managed anymore and bought our own station. It started out as "Minx Radio" & was a mix of everything. Later it evolved into "Dirty Monkey Radio" & became more of a hobby rather than the almost full time gig it use to be in the beginning. I was the 80s/New Wave 80's DJ and of course, the SKA DJ. I miss it sometimes and I was really good at it, if I do say so myself.

Full of 80-90's goodness, I give you my Spring Break 11' Playlist:

1. The Cure - Close to Me
2. Haircut 100 - Love Plus One
3. Duran Duran - The Reflex
4. Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
5. The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
6. Devo - Girl U Want
7. Squeeze - Tempted
8. Erasure - Who Needs Love
9. Love & Rockets - No New Tale to Tell
10. Morrissey - November Spawned a Monster
11. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax
12. INXS - Never Tear Us Apart
13. Jane's Addiction - Jane Says
14. Violent Femmes - Add It Up
15. Devo - Whip It
16. Stray Cats - Rock This Town
17. Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
18. Squeeze - Hour Glass
19. Peter Gabriel - Shock the Monkey
20. Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
21. The Smiths - Girlfriend in a Coma
22. Erasure - A Little Respect
23. The Pretenders - Don't Get Me Wrong
24. Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now?
25. Scandal - Goodbye to You
26. Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
27. The B-52's - Love Shack
28. Elvis Costello - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
29. General Public - Tenderness
30. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
31. The Clash - I Fought the Law
32. 'Til Tuesday - Voices Carry
33. Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
34. Erasure - Oh L'Amour
35. Modern English - I Melt With You
36. OMD - Live and Die

Apparently you cannot put 36 songs  on CD, so load the iPod baby!

No New Tale to Tell

For the life of me I'll never understand people who capture the flag, run off to another and leave the flags captured completely defenseless. Seems it's an Alliance thing mostly. Hey Alliance, that's why you almost always lose battlegrounds, you derps!

Blood & Honor or something! FOR THE HORDE!

Anyyyyyrooo...

Not much going on 'round here. Bunky's first swim meet is today in Emporia. Sadly I can't go. I'm at work until 4, then I have to hit the gym - hard. Hawks is hoping to go to the meet if he gets off work early enough & I *did* buy her flowers this morning as a "Hey G'Luck you Queen of the Butterfly Stroke!" Wooooo Go LHS Lions!

Tomorrow starts my mini vaca & the kids' Spring Break. Huzzah! They'll be off to their dad's first thing in the morning which is currently stressing me out for reasons I won't go into. My vacation is Fri-Thurs & I have fun stuffs planned for Hawks & I. Mostly my vaca was going to just be me being lazy which also sounds great, but then I had to go & get some great ideas in my head. I'll definitely blog about them next week but for now they are surprises for Hawks.

See? Not much going on. Oh completely unrelated but earlier when I went outside I could close my eyes & feel like I was standing on the beach at Newport early in the morning. Sounds of seagulls, cool breeze & everything. It was awesome & slightly weird but overall pretty damn cool.