The Word of the Day: Siesta!

No no, it's true.  The word of the day really is Siesta!  And yes, that is Bob Ross as my background.  Also just bought the first Christmas gift of the year, I'll give you 6 guesses as to what it is. Ok,
It's a collection of Bob Ross's "The Joy of Painting" on DVD.  Get excited!  I'm not telling you who it's for ;)

I feel like Bob Ross is underrated.  Probably because he's dead and his show is no longer on PBS.  But many artists become more famous in their death.  Hmm, thoughts to ponder as I fall asleep later.

Sooo, it's Sunday.  And Sunday is definitely a day of rest in this house.  Minus when I get bursts of energy to do dishes (ugh) and simultaneously have a desire for fresh sheets on the bed.  [Spelled simultaneously correct on the first try, I know I know...you're in the presence of greatness.]  Fun fact, I love fresh sheets.  I would change them 3 times a week if that didn't mean I also had to wash them that many times.

So when Chad and I were engaged he mentioned this program that his church had for the local cadets (kids that go to VMI)  It's called Adopt a Rat.  Rats, or the equivalent of freshmen at other universities are tweeners.  They're not quite 4th years (it's backwards at VMI-4th:Freshmen, 3rd: Sophomores, 2nd: Juniors and 1st years: Seniors) but they're also no longer common citizens of this great country.  Until they earn the right to become 4th years (super secret stuff happens, I would include it on this here blog, but I value my life) they are rats.  Forced to (as much as I understand it) march for long periods of time, have "sweat parties," (I'll let your mind wander) and get yelled at incessantly.  They also aren't allowed off post (campus)...unlesssss it's Sunday.  And then they're allowed Religious Liberties.  I'm not sure why I capitalized that.  Except that I think it's a big deal.  Soooo, Adopt a Rat.  Different churches in Lexington participate and if you so choose, you get to...Adopt a rat!  On Sundays, from the time your church service starts to like 8:30ish pm.  You get to take a rat home with you and..really just give them lunch and dinner and most likely a couch to sleep on.  Poor things, they're always so tired. Anyway, when Chad mentioned he'd been wanting to do this for a few years, I was all for it!  And we agreed we would wait until this fall, because Chad doing it by himself would be kinda weird...much more "within social norms" to do it as a married couple.  And much more fun!  So we signed up.  And we. hit. the. jackpot!  Hahaha, no pun intended.  Seriously.  Wait, that doesn't make sense to you yet.  So we hit the jackpot with our rat-he's awesome!  Such a cool guy, so sweet and genuine.  Oh, and his name is Jack.  Hence the ridiculously early laughter a few sentences back.  So we adopted Jack back in September and it's been love ever since.  He's the best adopted son we could ask for. (tear)  We're already stoked for graduation in 4 years.  We look forward to Sundays when he can come over...when he's not in trouble ;)  There's a lot of couch lounging, Kenney's eating and football watching.  Speaking of...did anyone else just watch that 60 minutes with Aaron Rodgers?  Rawr.  So handsome.

This afternoon I was in the front bedroom, engrossed in another season of White Collar while the boys (minus Charlie...teehee) were watching football in the living room.  I got up for another go at the leftover halloween candy and came across this:

Like father, like son ;)  Just had to share this photo!  And a little about Jack, since I haven't mentioned him here yet.

Anyway, I'm just (still) recovering from Chemo last week.  Dang, it kinda kicked my butt hard this time.  Friday and Saturday were super rough...just feeling blah, overall.  I know that doesn't accurately describe it, but it's difficult.  The words don't quite do it right.  Anyway, on the up and up now!  Just keep swimming, right Nemo?

Here, check out this picture of a bunny on our street!  Bold, my friend.  And did you also leave that trash in my yard?  Bad form, bunny.  bad form.

xoxo Happy Sunday!