Summer job

Well, I'll still be working my usual full-time job at the library but I've also got a summer job (part-time). I'll be working for Gatorade at the sports camps held here at MS. State University. I (and the others) will be passing out Gatorade to all the kids at the various camps and making sure that they stay well hydrated during our HOT Ms summer! Ought to be fun and a learning experience. MSU as a whole is a Coke site (thus, its relatively easy to find Powerade on campus) but the Athletic Dept. is Gatorade, thus this program.

Graduation cake

drewcake21, originally uploaded by tkdgirlms.

Its a typical Andrew act! He graduated high school this past Friday.

Graduation cake

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This past Fri, Andrew graduated high school. On Sat was his graduation party. This is the best pic of him but as usual, I've got a couple 'Andrew' type pics and will load one on here as well.

August 31, 2006

This is a big day indeed. Its the 1st day of MSU BullDawg football!! We are playing host to South Carolina and will be the first televised game of the season (ESPN). Ought to be a good game indeed. :) GO DAWGS!!!!!

World record breaking attempt

This past week-end was the Market Street Festival over in Columbus. This usually takes place around the time of my birthday so that I've only made it to 1 event. My parents are out of town this week-end, so I took advantage of it. :)At this year's Market Street Festival, Tim Derby of Columbus is a 10th degree black belt in American Te-Jitsu Karate and he attempted a world record concrete break. His best claim to fame (from what I can tell) is that he is a Christian! He broke 75 concrete blocks - not all at once, they were stacked 3 in a stack for a total of 25 stacks. It was interesting to watch but was over very quickly. Here's one picture I took of him:

computer

I'm finally (cross those fingers) back with a new computer! Still installing and set stuff up but I'm here!

Cotton District Arts Festival

This coming week-end (22nd) is the annual Cotton District Arts Festival here in Starkville. Oh, and at 12:30 in front of BullDog Deli, the Starkville Martial Arts Academy will be hosting a demo. If any of you are around and looking for something to do, come check it out. There will be lots of food and fun to be had by all. Ya'll Magazine is sponsoring a sweet-tea competition - that ought to be interesting. And the festivities are going to be filmed for a national travel show to be featured at a later time!

A weekend in Birmingham

This past week-end was spent in Birmingham, Alabama visiting my brother and his wife and daughter. I also got to visit an old college buddy and roomie from Southern Ms. Today we visited the Botanical Gardens and I've loaded my pictures from the trip. Isn't Naomi cute??? :)
Flickr Pics

Visit

 

Guess Naomi wasn't too happy to see me! :) 

Vacation countdown

Caribbean Trip Reviews

Tiredness

Whew doggie! I'm still tired from my all day JuJitSu clinic yesterday. We had Mark Barlow and some of his instructors come to Starkville to teach a Akyama JuJitSu clinic yesterday and it lasted from 9-4 (stopping for an hour to eat). We learned lots of new techniques and one that I could do without. The last technique we learned, I, of course, got hurt (pulled a muscle in my tricep and jammed my shoulder, nothing major). This technique required Uke and Tori to fall together. Uke attacks Tori and Tori counters and does a sacrifice fall, forcing Uke to fall as well to keep from getting injured. As they roll forward, Tori must maintain a hold on Uke and as they finish the fall, roll onto their stomach and put Uke in an arm lock. This was when I did something and hurt my arm - Ouch! All in all it was a good day!

I'm Baaaaaaack

Finally have a computer to use till I get the parts (this week) to fix mine - YEAH!!!
Well, BullDawg baseball is still goin strong! We are still undefeated - WooHoo!! Go Dawgs Go!!!

Baseball

Thank goodness for MSU baseball - we are thus far in the season undefeated! At last! An MSU team that is doing well!! GO DAWGS!!!

Wah! No computer!

Withdrawal pains now that i have no computer working at home;(

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Library blog humour

I have to pass this one on - Blogga

Some librarian doesn't have enough books to order, catalog, or shelve :)

I admit that I'm late

How 'bout them Bull-Dawgs!!!! Ok, ok, so the big game was on Sat and I do mean BIG game. It was against our in state rivals, the OLD Miss Rebels and we kicked butt! How about 84-55?? Wow! Where has this team been this season? However, Ole Miss did have its emotional issues - the starting center lost his brother the night before the game and decided to play anyway. Wow! That must have been really hard for him to do!
MSU
I'll say it again How 'Bout Them Bull-Dawgs!!!!

Fun stuff

Birthday Hits
So what was the hit song when you were born? Or how about your life song at the age of 18? My hit song when I was born was Tie a yellow ribbon round the ole oak tree - Dawn and my 18th bday hit song was Baby baby - Amy Grant. Aren't my songs just sad??? :)

SuperBowl XL

WAY TO GO STEELERS!!
I must admit, though, that the Steelers won because the Seahawks couldn't make plays. I mean, how can a team (Steelers) win a game when their quarterback has the lowest game percentage in SuperBowl history? All in all, though, it was a good game and a great win!! And how about the way the Bus got to retire? Wow! What an ending for him and what a way to go, in your own hometown.
How about the Steelers last touchdown? Wow! Randle El threw a bullet to Hines Ward. He became the first Wide Receiver to throw a touchdown pass in the Super Bowl!

hoops

Well, the Dawgs played a good game against Bama tonight but it wasn't enough - they lost by 6. They have only won 1 SEC game thus far this season and not much hope of winning others (but we'll still root them on). They're just too young and inexperienced. Maybe next year will be better!
Speaking of next year, I think our football team will improve A LOT!!!

Loss

Here's a topic I haven't delved into at all - weight loss. I gained a fair amount of weight after my knee surgery 6 years ago and then summer '04, my bro and his wife lived with me and we cooked lots of good stuff. Well, mid-year last year, I decided to change all that. I lost about 25 pounds in 3 months but then regained 15 after I hurt my knee and couldn't work out at all. In October, I started really working on it again and have lost a total of 35 pounds (including the 10 I didn't gain back earlier) -WooHoo!! I'm on a roll now and hope to lose about 60 more to be back at my 'good' weight. I can do this!!