Welcome to My New Blog

Hello, everyone! Friends, invited family members, random people searching the internet for witty banter about a single, 30 year-old Southern transplant living in Eugene, OR - land of the political bumper sticker, Track Town USA, and where hippies come to die.

It's hard to introduce the wonder that is me in one simple blog post. Things you can expect in this space include commentary about television, complaints about things that bother me, and little tidbit stories from the interesting things that happen to me.

I am from Alabama; I went to KU for undergrad, so I am a Jayhawk for sure. However, after I went to KU I came back to Tuscaloosa, where I received a law degree from U of Alabama, a top 30 law school in the country...that's not bragging because after practicing law for 2 and a half years, I threw in the towel. I packed up my stuff (well, everything but that towel I threw), and I drove my 1997 Montero across country for a new job in Oregon that was not lawyering. Since I now work in Oregon, I cheer for the Ducks when they play, for the Crimson Tide from a distance, and the Jayhawks with all my heart and soul! I like really bad televison- my DVR is littered with shows like RW/RR Challenge: The Duel and The Cougar (It's on TVLand people!).

I love cheese grits, sweet tea, and anything that comes off of the grill at the Jordan household (you will meet them, they are my lifesavers!). I enjoy a good verbal joust, Charles Barkley interviews, and watching people fall down. My dislikes include people that drive slowly in the left lane, asparagus, the exclamation point, and World's Strongest Man contests (Seriously, who needs to pull a semi-truck by a rope with their teeth? This should not be a marketable skill. I propose they all become Sumo wrestlers- now that's entertainment!)

At this moment, I am incredibly out of shape, and that point was driven home when I played in an outdoor volleyball tournament at Autzen Stadium this past Saturday...I am now sore, sunburnt, and feeling older than I should. I would like to say that this will turn into motivation to work out, but I am not inclined to lie to you, internet.

I will say that the whole day was fun, though. Being the competitive group that we were, we played "poorly but with enthusiasm" as Kent would say. I am pretty sure that overall, we set the sport of volleyball back at least 30 years, but we had a good time, and made it to the semi-finals before losing to the U of Oregon basketball team, who had also picked up the DS of the year in the Pac-10 to play for them. I wanted to call "Bollocks" on that because they drafted her from a losing team, but really I was just mad that we didn't think of it first.

All in all, it was a pretty day to play, and even though I spent the last day of my weekend praying for death because of the dreaded triple S: Soreness, sunburn, and Sunday Blahs, it was a great day. I also achieved my "base burn" so now I can be my patented summer medium rare.

Busy afternoon because I am picking up the Jordan girls from daycare for the first time, so we will see if they are crazy enough to let a couple of toddlers go home with me...Hee Hee!

I am now going to send out the URL to this blog to my friends and (selected) family. I will be monitoring the number of people who visit constantly because I like to see the number of views as an ego boost (or deflator), you can decide.