28 Day Challenge

My Church issued a 28 day challenge - starting yesterday. There are 28 days til Easter, and 28 Chapters in Matthew - read a chapter a day til Easter.

Great for accountability!

Also for those wondering my birthday falls on Easter - so 28 days left to shop, but no shopping til you've read your chapter in Matthew :)

My babies (but not MINE)

My youngest baby just turned one last Wed - Mr. Brady Dean

(my best friend Jamie's little boy)

He's giving my niece Ava a ride - I told him he is too young to be picking up girls!!

Then my baby girls - both born in August 2007

The blur is Annabelle, my cousin's dog doing a drive by for scraps

aren't the girls cute eating together!??

Isabelle Marie McCaleb - age 18 months (2 weeks younger than Ava)

She is my cousin Nicki's little girl
and sometimes she looks at you like you are crazy (so cute!)

Next is my niece Ava Grace Martin

showing my Mom her "if you're happy and you know it then your face will surely show it"

Little things that make my day

I am easily amused and I think life is more fun when you stop and enjoy or laugh at the little things!

• Silly conversations:

Conversation Friday with a co-workers (an attorney and another legal assistant)

Rita: When I was little my mom used to say "You poor persecuted thing."


Max: Oh, how funny, was that when you decided you wanted to work in the legal field when you grew up?

Rita: No! When I was little I wanted to be PAT BENATAR!!


(she said this with such seriousness - I laughed til I cried)

• Shout outs in other people's Blogs:

(so I return the favor - Thanks Natalie!!)

I would like to introduce you to one of the MANY talented artists I have met in Nashville:

Natalie Stovall

I met Natalie when I worked at 2 Doors Down, a sports bar that used to be on Demonbreun. Natalie & her band played there almost every weekend. If you have never heard her - please please go to her site now and check her out. SUPER TALENTED!

At her shows she does an awesome mix of her stuff & fun covers (my favorite - her version of CRAZY) and is truly a great entertainer! I have had the privelege of seeing her play MANY nights at the sports bar, the Jack Daniels Saloon at Opry Mills, and even at a Predators Game.

Natalie provided me with a new football good luck charm/recipe - go to her blog to check it out!

• I'm going to a Predators Game tonight
• and last but not least - things to make my day:

Getting to have lunch with my Mom!

Brittany and Jamie's Day of Fun

If you are a FRIENDS addict

(then insert Janis voice and remember "Joey & Janis's Day of Fun!")

If this is not funny to you then you should go rent (or borrow from me) all ten seasons of Friends right now!! (Sorry everything can be a FRIENDS quote in my head :) )

Last Sat was GORGEOUS and very "un-February" (temp in 60's)

So, Jamie (my best friend) and I took my favorite little man to the park

Brady (Age 11.5 months)

Highlights:

Seriously cutest little boy ever!!

Allergic Reaction

It all started with a little stomache ache. For 2 days I thought I had a touch of food poisoning.

Next day itchy splotchy wrists - this only lasted an hour.

Next night itchy splotchy arms - 2 hours later - itchy red eyes - legs - back - from the neck down covered in HIVES :(

Look how purple and swollen my eyelids are!

any my neck was very red and itchy!

After 2 hours 2 benedryls I drove myself to the ER and had the best ER experience imaginable.
(except for the $80 co-pay)
They got me back right away and within 20-30 minutes they had an IV in me pumping me with Super benedryl, pepcid (who know that would help?) and steriods.
30 minutes later I was feeling WAY better and the red was now a faint pink and the welps and hives were fading!

Today feeling brand new!

What's your worst/ or best ER experience?

25 Random Things

1. I am in my 2nd year of law school.
2. I have a small birthmark in the shape of a thumb print under my right butt cheek.
3. There are 4 very important kids in my life and none of them are mine.
4. I have a pretty good memory.
5. I read very fast. I've read 4 books in January already.
6. I attend Cross Point Church and LOVE it.
7. Kids impress me more than adults.
8. I am an Aries, and fairly stubborn.
9. My middle name is Michelle, after my mom, and my dad use to swear I was cloned.
10. I have an awesome boss!

11. I am training for the Country Music Half Marathon.
12. I love ice cream, usually varieties that include some form of chocolate.
13. I love sushi.
14. My co-workers are my 2nd family, and I am very grateful!
15. Some of the most talented artists I've ever heard haven't made it big yet!
16. I am fiercely loyal.
17. I love to read.
18. I love cruises.
19. I lost my dad 3 months before I turned 17.
20. My mom is one of my best friends.

21. One of the smartest people I've ever known is my uncle, who can't function normally because he suffers from alcoholism and social phobias. It's truly a tragedy.
22. I don't always believe things are coincidences - when things go according to God's plan - they aren't accidental.
23. My favorite colors are all shades of BLUE.
24.My favorite seasons are summer and fall.
25. I love football, especially the Titans.

Good Monday

Normally I am not a fan of the Mondays... But I had a very lazy weekend, so this one is not so bad. Plus it is a half day for me. Woo hoo!

I love half days at work! Especially when they are before or after a weekend. The attorney I work for thought the office was closed today for MLK day so he took the day off. So he said I could work half a day "if I wanted." If I wanted??? Who wouldn't want half a day!?

And also great news - one of my dear sweet co-workers is loaning me the books I need this semester for law school. Yea again!! That saves me $700 - had I bought them new! What a blessing! :)

And this morning I found a reasonably priced cruise to go on this summer.

Also - my best friend and mother to this cute baby boy - has an interview with my law firm - for a legal assistant position.

Monday - not looking too bad so far!!