Soon to be Mr. & Mrs. Jana Severson!

Congratulations on your engagement Jana & Tyler! We have all been waiting so long to hear the good news and I am so thrilled for you guys! You are a perfect match! It will be a Spring 2009 wedding and yours truly will be the Matron of Honor! Free chiropractic care for life! Happy day!

Speaking of stalkers...

and I was, I can't remember if I ever posted about my stalker? Have I? If not, let me fill you. I'm proud of him.

Sorry if this is redundant but here’s the story…

Dawn (my roommate junior/senior years in college) and I kind of had a stalker. He was a professor at UNI who taught this basic Intro to Computers class we took. He was goofy, addicted the Ghostbusters movie the same way a 7-year-old in 1984 would have been. He liked to use the expression “churn the butter” to refer to how he thought we would dance. Our friend Schmitty was also in the class and we got the Prof to use embarrassing Schmitty pictures when demonstrating the many features of Photoshop. We sensed another opportunity when we talked him into letting the class watch Ghostbusters instead of taking a final. Things started to get really weird when one day he saw me in the lab but I snuck out without saying hi to him. He chased me down the stairs and across campus just to say “hi”. Mainly, he was harmless and provided much entertainment. Somehow he was invited to my graduation party. I distinctly remember him still being there with only my 3 roommates and Jana after all the guests had left. He wrote me a letter later saying how excited he was to come to my wedding. Huh?!! While he pestered Dawn and my other roommates for awhile, he eventually faded away. Oh except for that one time we met him for pizza at the OP.

Where's Joey?

Speaking of that show Blossom (and I was), I stumbled across this article about Mayim Bialik. Turns out she had baby recently, just like me. In fact, I pretty much look exactly like her. Notice the bum foot, granny shoes, outdated wardrobe and sassy hair. In case we have never met in real life, just look at this photo and picture me.

I'm a souper cook!

Every fall I get on a soup kick. This year I have already made chicken tortilla, turkey black bean chili, butternut squash and yesterday I made creamy chicken wild rice. Tonight bro Casey & sis Ellen will join us for soup, salsa bread and homemade apple crisp. I had a Martha Stewart (pre-jail) weekend, what with the cooking, organizing (I made a toy closet and re-did our pillow/blanket closet...yes, we have one of those) and general homemaking joy I exuded. We also took a long family walk yesterday, see my baby catatonic in her snowsuit & blindness inducing hat.


I also had coffee with my friend Angela at this little coffee shop we call "The Goodwill Place" because it looks the owner made a quick run to Goodwill and picked up whatever tables & knickknacks were there. It's called Polly's Coffee Cove and it's a real hot spot for community on the East side. Polly the bird is also entertaining. So, Angela's oldest son has a form of autism called PPD and she was telling me about the wonderful free services for families. Every Thursday night, the whole family can walk up to the local school (which her son attends for pre-K programs for children with autism spectrum disorders to help prepare them for Kindergarten) for dinner, play for the kids and a parent group for moms & dads to support each other and discuss their childrens' issues. Isn't it cool that they have amazing support & services within walking distance of their home? Programs like this not only help kids be ready for school despite special needs but help keep the parents engaged and healthy, too.

We still watch...

...90210 is finally getting good! They are cutting the major family drama and getting back to the basics: house parties and make-out scenes. Jake has a prediction that the main teacher Mr. Ryan Mathews will turn out to be Annie & Dixon's dad's long lost son. I think he's right...

Hot Foot Day

So what's new? Oh yeah, other than that?!!!

Me? I am having a hot foot day. It is some kind of weird side-effect of my foot maladies where my feet overheat and hurt. I have been having more of them lately because I have been overdoing it in my Spinning classes and my feet just never seem to cool off. I walk around the office barefoot and wonder why I never get that promotion (that a lie actually, I just got promoted despite by uber-unprofessionalism). So, back to the pool for cold water workouts it is. I am tempted to flush my feet in the toilet as my aunt Tracy once did when preggo with Fluffy. At least parts of me are looking forward to a cold winter.

Gloria says "VOTE for my guy"!

Oh my, it's finally election day. I just voted and the line wasn't too bad. I wonder if we will know anything by tonight (like in the old days) or it will takes days/weeks to find a winner? By the by, I have started calling Norelle "Gloria" like in the song "Gloria, Gloria.... calling Gloriaaaaaaaaaaaa" and I think she likes it. She also answers to Ma'am and Tootie.

In other news, it's summer again which is great for me because I can break out one of my three pair of identical MBT sandals. Did you know I only have one pair of winter shoes? It's sad but true. And they don't even have backs so snowy feet are the norm. See how hard it is being tender-footed? If you think this is a travesty, email my husband at jakeseltz@comcast.net and tell him his wife needs more than one pair of winter shoes, no matter how ridiculously expensive they are. Anyway, there are some new $tyle$ of MBT's out there and I hope to buy a new pair, in the brown family, one of these days. Not a great selection but here are my front runners...

Real boots but very clunky and $390 !

Cute style but not very brown?

Brown and kinda cute, all things considered...