Like millions of others, I have an addiction.

I admit that I am powerless and that my life has become unmanageable. I’ve become fixated on obtaining my drug of choice.

Specifically between the hours of 2 and 4pm.

I’m not proud of being caught searching the couches for loose change to sustain my habit. I’m ashamed that I’ve involved my husband and Twitter friends in the desperation and despair associated with my illness.

I’m addicted to half priced Sonic Cranberry Limeades.

In other news, I have the healthiest urinary tract in Central Texas!

I got an A in statistics my junior year of college, so I feel confident in my statistical analysis when I say that the probability of two good-looking people having an ugly kid is much higher than two ugly people having an ugly kid.

Case in point:

And before you think to yourself she thinks her and her husband are two good-looking people? Yes. Yes I do.

One of my biggest qualms with pregnancy is that there would be something with hair, teeth, and fingernails growing inside a me. Two of those things having the ability to facilitate boring through flesh to freedom – so imagine my horror at seeing that our baby has teeth!

A full set of pearly whites.

Ones that will inevitably need braces, by the looks of it.

If that isn’t a solid argument in favor of birth control, I don’t know what is.

No offense to the parents of babies born with teeth. Just my deepest sympathies. I once worked with a guy who had a baby that was born with teeth (fine – technically his wife had a baby that was born with teeth) and even he didn’t seem exactly thrilled. It truly is something only a mother could love.

Son of a biscuit.

I’ve been obsessed with Camera Obscura the past few weeks and have totally been meaning to share a song/video with all of you, and then Girl’s Gone Child goes and beats me to it and I look like the copy cat.

Enjoy a different song from Camera Obscura.

Because I’m original like that.

We’ve officially been Texas residents for…save the zero, carry the 1…7 days. 7 whole days. We’re practically natives. Born and bred Texans. Which means it’s high time we get our fannies to a rodeo.

But not just any rodeo.

Oh no.

We’re doing things big now that we’re in Texas. As is evident by my newfound love of the Bumpit.

The National Finals Rodeo, sponsored by Wrangler Jeans, is the premier rodeo experience. It’s the World Series of rodeo. The Grand Slam. The Superbowl. The Stanley Cup. But with clowns, livestock, and holsters.

The National Finals Rodeo takes place the first week of December every year, and NFR Tickets eBay are already going fast for 2010! Not only do tickets sell out months in advance, but hotels are booked and dinner reservations are scarce.

Especially at steak houses.

10 days worth of bareback riding, steer wrestling, roping, bull riding, barrel racing, tight jeans, ten gallon hats, and snakeskin boots turn the Thomas & Mack Center at UNLV, just off the Vegas Strip, into the wild west. Add a few slot machines and free drink service, and it’s the perfect place to experience our first rodeo.

Now, I wonder if I still have those cowboy boots somewhere?

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I love Mike dearly, but he gets fixated on the smallest things.

Lately, it’s been his all encompassing need to buy a watch. A nice watch. An expensive watch. A watch he’d never wear except on special occasions (re: weddings of funerals). Because a grown man cannot show up at a job interview without a decent watch!

I offered to lend him my watch, which may or may not have a Minnie Mouse face, but he declined.

On some level, I agree with Mike. He’s got some big job interviews coming up, and a nice watch shows that a man is polished and punctual. That he pays attention to the details and (hopefully) has exceptional taste. But I won’t let on that I agree with him, because that would ruin a perfectly good Valentine’s Day present!

Bluedial has those pricey men’s watches that Mike can’t help but be fixated on for up to 70% off. Seiko, Movado, and Citizen Eco Drive Men’s Watches are all within budget at Bluedial.

At the very least, whoever interviews Mike will know that he has a wife with exceptional taste that pays attention to the details.

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