Things Trinity Says and Does

I found my husband in the guest room the other day, "trying to get warm." In his haste to warm himself, he decided to lynch Elizabeth. He hung her from my necklaces.

Quote of the day:

"Betsy, I know your favorite actor is Lima Bean Nelson."

That would be my beloved Liam Neeson.

Devour Downtown

Indy hosts a downtown dining smorgasbord every summer and winter called Devour Downtown. Lots of pricy restaurants downtown offer 3 course meals for $30. In honor of a full Friday of work sans vomit and diarrhea, we decided to go to Adobo Grill. I love this place. Their deal included an 1800 margarita and fresh guacamole. Tequila and lots of mono saturated fats for my first real meal in days?

Of course! Why would I even hesitate?

T, T, take a picture commemorating my first post flu outing!

Bets, you're kind of hard to see out here in the dark.

Reader challenge: find Betsy

I'm there, I promise.

Trinity is unaware of the newfangled concept of a "flash" when taking a photo in the dark.

Hello tiny magic maker.

Our dinner was divine, and I did devour it.

I lost some weight, hence my puzzlement about appearing preggers here. I assure all readers (mostly my mother) that this is not the case.

Influenza is Evil

Oh, Emily Blunt, you were so right. After several days of the stomach flu, I have reached my goal weight. This is the only silver lining in a really crummy cloud.

I've dropped about 6 pounds in 2 days, according to the scale at the doctor's office.

Awesome! You know what's not awesome? Feeling like this. Other things that are awesome?

A husband who loves me and is willing to take care of my sickly needs.

He's not really an object, rather a person. Even in my sickened state I am objectifying him. He must feel so cheap-

Other awesome things when one can't keep anything in her system for longer than 30 minutes:

• Gatorade
• Saltines
• an iPad
• the newest issue of Indianapolis Monthly
• Tamiflu
• Promethazine (med that keeps you from throwing up-bulimics beware)
• Scrabble Slam (made for 2-4 players. I may be playing myself)
• my Kindle in a darling Great Gatsby cover courtesy of my sister and brother in law
• finishing "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand-such an incredible story of survival. No matter how yucky I feel, Louie Zamperini's ordeal makes my illness so trivial.

My nest of nastiness

My very inattentive daytime companion

2 Hour Delay!!!!

I just received a call from our superintendent that we have a 2 hour delay. Me loves the 2 hour delay. No make up day is necessary, but we get a little reprieve from our normal schedule. It is colder than Siberia here today. The wind chill is 16 below. We had snow yesterday, but I think the delay is more due to chill than snow accumulation. I think I may just have to bundle up and go here

to do this

and this.

I like yoga in the morning, but don't get to go often other than Saturdays and the summer.

This is how I feel when I'm at yoga.

This is how my sister feels doing yoga.

Then a little of this-

and then to school.

The Weekend

I started the long weekend with martinis and Bang Bang shrimp with two of my besties, Marinda and Karen. It had been a long week at school and we were due for a drink. I love, love, love this picture of K&M. Whitney couldn't go.

I headed to Crate and Barrel and finally used all of my gift cards from the wedding. I love these leaning bookshelves. T was a master carpenter putting them together. He still has to drill them to the wall, but I had fun putting some fun tchotchkes and photos up just to get an idea of how things will look. I still have lots of photos to print out, but things are coming along. I will have to enlist the help of Allison to put things in a way that looks decent. I am excited that our living room has a whole new look, and I'm finally able to display some of our beautiful wedding gifts.

Robeghan, my mother and I went to see this fabulous movie.

I can't say enough how great it was. Colin Firth was amazing and the movie portrayed him and the Queen Mum (Helena Bonham Carter) as very doting and loving parents to Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. We had a lively discussion in the car trying to figure out how Queen Elizabeth turned out to be such a cold fish to her own children.

I went to my pilates studio for the Barre Effect class. I have been to it countless times, but still find it to be incredibly challenging. It takes me back to my Nancy Sauer School of Dance lessons, when I first discovered that ballet dancing was not in my future. My one advantage over the other petite cuties in my class is the ease with which I can hoist my ankles up over the barre. This is where my height is an advantage. I'm sure the others watch me with awe and are reminded of Natalie Portman, no?

Trinity and I hit up an Indy establishment that has long been on our list to try. It's only open on weekdays from 11-4. Thanks to Martin Luther King Jr, we were able to check it out. I had a chicken dog. Something about that sounds wrong, but it was good!

The highlight of the weekend was celebrating Tyler's birthday. I love that man. He's one of my favorite people. Allison, Jamie, Meg and I enjoyed some beverages.

Here's the birthday stud himself with Rob. I love this evolution of events.

Photo #1-very calm looking fellows.

Photo #2-shots of God knows what

Photo #3 The sleeper hold

All men in their 30s participate in such foolishness, right?

What a great weekend with family and friends!

An Awkward Little Camper

Back in the summers of 1988, 1989, and 1990 I attended a little summer camp called Gnaw Bone. It was a two week long adventure in southern Indiana where I said goodbye to most modern amenities and roughed it. We watched no TV, we took showers outdoors and slept in open air cabins. I swam in a pond with snakes, went hiking, created macrame bracelets and participated in numerous other un-Betsy activities.

I was a slightly awkward girl, as I have mentioned before. So I ask, what says "rustic" better than denim shorts and Eastland shoes?

That is me. In all of my grade school glory.

Court doesn't look as bad, and neither does Robby.

I remember wondering why the boys didn't like me. I wonder no more, my friends.

That is the face of one cluelessly confident girl. Despite adversity regarding my looks, I remained fairly secure in myself and who I was. One had to have a good combo of perseverance and ignorance to go around sporting that look.

Now please turn your puter screen. I couldn't get this photo to rotate. I promise it will be worth the muscle effort.

Here is the Betsy, Courtney, Allison, Katie crew.

A&K were far older and cooler than the more openly affectionate duo of B&C.

Check out their demure stances and bangs. They were the epitome of sass and style.

*Thanks to Allison for bringing these out on Saturday night, making my night a little better.

Looky What I Bought!

My husband and I are no different from the millions of others who have enjoyed the now ubiquitous video of Antoine Dodson on Youtube. Trinity uses his iPad at least three times a week to play "The Bed Intruder Song" aloud. We laugh and cackle, and it never seems to get old. I was beyond thrilled when I discovered a link to Furbish Studio after my daily reading of

The Love List.

I immediately ordered these hilarious notecards. I can't wait to send them out to my snarky friends in true traditional correspondence style!