First of all, today is my little sister's birthday. So happy birthday punk. She is 16 today, so yes, she is a punk. She is, however, the apple of my parents' eye and my favorite of all of my little sisters.

Second of all, Jason emailed me earlier today and told me that I should blog about how awesome he is. (You might want to read that sentence twice. And keep in mind- I didn't make it up.) In his defense, he probably needs it after the Rip on Jason Day that was last Friday (check out the comments on his site). He is awesome, but I don't know how much gushing is really warranted. Afterall, the only things he has said about how great I am are a couple of sentences here and there- no where near adequate to fully express the sheer magnitude of my greatness. Oh, AND he called his friends jerks for them basically telling him to appreciate me (I might have paraphrased that idea).

But, sometimes he is kinda swell I suppose. He did give me the best room in the house. Well, it's virtually the best room of any rooms in all of the houses in the whole world, so that's pretty good. He is now, however, trying to reclaim part of it after I did all of the work- the painting and cleaning and organizing and vacuuming of boxelder bugs. So, now he's kinda half swell, but still also half poophead. He's trying to ruin the perfect room that I had going. I had it all masterfully organized into separate stations- painting station, scrapbooking station, sewing station, and computer work station. Not to mention, the lounge area complete with tv and comfy furniture. Yes, I might be a dork but I will be a dork hanging out in my own arts and crafts eden.

I am also still very excited about being an aunt.

   I just found out yesterday- I'm going to be an aunt!!! And I am very, very excited about that! So, way to go Sami, if I were you I might have waited until I was 16 to start in on the babies, but oh well. Kidding. My (older) sister Jen and Her Sam (not to be confused with Our Sam, my little sister) are having a baby!! I am not allowed to tell anyone yet, however, so this post will have been published awhile after I actually found out. My secret-keeping abilities leave something to be desired, so hopefully I don't let it slip before I'm officially allowed. Okay, well I already did let it slip, but I had to tell Michelle!

So- big gigantic congratulations to Jen & Sam!!!!

I am now going to start a Jenny-and-Sam-have-to-move-to-North-Dakota petition so I can see little Jenny Jr all the time.

I have something that I would really, really, really like to say something about, but I don't have permission yet. So I'll have to wait until I get the go-ahead. Needless to say, I am very excited about this.

So, I guess I'll attempt to distract myself- I bought a new laptop the other day and I was very disappointed in Best Buy because I had bought 1GB extra RAM to have them install for a total of 1.5GB, but when I picked it up I found a 256mb stick in the box. I was slightly angry since they didn't mention that they had to take this out and now I wasn't at what I thought was my computer's maximum of 1.5GB. Anyway, I first called the store and got some condescending jerk who asked me why I even needed that much anyway. I bet he wouldn't have asked that if I were a guy. I had done a lot of research and I wanted a computer with the specs I expected it to have. So I took it back in and talked to a manager and he immediately said that he would take care of it. And he did. When I picked it up this time they told me that they had actually put in a total of 2GB. So, I am very happy with the Best Buy people today. Way to go Best Buy.

Oh, and Michelle and I made her a page on theknot.com last night, so check that out. I am heading out to Fargo with her today to hang out with her for the weekend since someone is going to be out of town AGAIN.

I applaud you Paul Matthews. I like this attacking from all sides stuff. Unfortunately I don't think it will work. And by unfortunately I mean unfortunate for Jason because I am perfect.

I am very happy to say Jason is finally catching on. If any of you remember last Valentines Day it was marred by the fact that Jason didn't get me a card. That's all I had wanted, and he didn't get me one. He did of course get me flowers and take me out to dinner, but no card. This year, though, he got me a perfect card and even wrote some nice stuff in it in addition to flowers and dinner. So, a little redemption for Jason, way to go. And just so you don't think I'm the kind of person who thinks he should do all this stuff for me and I don't have to do anything- he got 3 paintings from me for his Valentines Day gift. So there.

I think I deserved all of that and much much more, though, because as you know, it is the middle of February, and that means we have been in full basketball swing for nearly 6 months. SIX MONTHS! Six months of not having a boyfriend is pretty much what it amounts to. This is what I have decided: basketball does not belong in February! Like I have told him, though, I don't mind the games, I even kind of like watching them minus a couple of ugly ones when all I wanted to do was get up and walk out of the gym. What I don't like is him not being home EVER. Practice every day, away games, boo to all of that. Boo I say.

Well, it finally happened, my best friend since 7th grade soccer is getting married! Michelle and Kenny got engaged on Michelle's birthday on Thursday, so CONGRATULATIONS to them. She asked me to be maid of honor, which is no surprise, but I am very excited about that too. I always thought I would be her matron of honor, but I've hit a little impediment as far as that goes. I'm not going to say exactly what that impediment is but it rhymes with Jason is a poophead. That's fine, though, I'll just continue to live vicariously through all of my friends.

But anyway... : )  I am very sad that since Michelle now lives in Fargo we weren't able to go dress shopping immediately after it happened like we were supposed to. It's a good thing she'll be home this weekend, so we'll get plenty of shopping in then. She cannot pick out a dress without me there. Did you hear that Michelle?!?

Here's a pic of the happy couple. Congratulations again!

One of the big stories in the news today:

Black hole puts dent in space-time

Scientists deduce its existence from X-ray frequencies

the real question here is what are the implications of these findings? What I would like to infer as the only possible conclusion is that it would indeed be possible for Marty McFly to travel back (and forward) in time. I always knew it was a plausible theory. Doc will be so happy.

Due to its sheer brilliance, these guys deserve credit for their lego creation, so here is the link to the site that I got that pic from

Well, my prediction was correct, no one had to go to the emergency room. Afterall, we're not amateurs....

The trip was great. They had the best snow we've seen in years with tons of powder. Everyone is progressing nicely, although I still wasn't able to talk them into snowboarding down from neither the tram nor the challenger chair. Not for lack of trying, though. Maybe next year. I suppose that might be best considering some of the spills they took on the other runs. One of the highlights was Jen running into a tree, falling, getting up, and then finishing off with a summersault. Good stuff.

We decided to ride all 3 days at Big Sky so we still haven't had a chance to check out Moonlight Basin. Oh well, Big Sky deserved at least 3 days this year. The snow was that great.

I will get some of the pictures posted soon.