Happy Random Tuesday!!!

Okay, can you all believe that it is Tuesday all over AGAIN? How do my days and weeks just run together these days? It seems like the summer just started and here it is August already! (and not just the beginning of August, but already to the middle of the month!) I think it's just me getting old (I will be one year shy of 40 at the end of this month!! yikes!)!

I know I've already done this tag once or twice, but it's a really good one because it gives me the chance to share more of my life with you--and learn more about all of you! And, besides, my sweet husband tagged me with it so I guess I better do it! (Gary doesn't blog too often--he's not quite addicted like me, although he did get me started on the whole thing--but he does have some really great posts once softball season is going on. His blog is a great place to keep track of all of our family sporting updates!)

So, with Gary's prodding, here are 8 (More!) Random Facts About Me...

(1) I really love to cook, and especially love to BAKE! For some reason, I've become the designated dessert maker for family get-togethers and when it's birthday time I really love to get creative! I don't know how to decorate cakes (I have no clue how to do those fancy frostings and roses and stuff), but I love to make up my own creations. Over the years, for all three girls' birthdays and also for my niece and nephew, I have made a Butterfly, Blue's Clues, Princess Castle, Hot Air Balloons, Sunshine, Guitar, Hello Kitty, and Barbie Doll Cake!!! I love celebrating birthdays, so I totally enjoy making these cakes! (I may try and drag out some pics of some of these someday and share on here!)

(2) My very favorite t-shirt (in fact, I have it on right now!) is my Rolling Stones Steel Wheels Concert Tour t-shirt. You know the kind? It's been worn and washed so many times that it's almost transparent. It just feels SO good!! I also love this shirt because it's from one of my favorite concert-going experiences--all the way back in 1989! A bunch of us from college went and it's the only time I've ever camped out for tickets. We all had lawn chairs and a big ole party in the mall parking lot before they went on sale. I have to say that I would encourage everyone to camp out at least once in your life for concert tickets. (In fact, if you do this meme I think you should include as one of your facts the details of your camping out for tickets if you've done it!! lol)

(3) I mentioned (I think!) a few days ago that I have some fun writing projects coming up. One of them is that I'm working on a second edition of a book I did MANY years ago. It was a book that was really so much fun to work on because it totally utitilized my love for sports. Called College Nicknames, it tells all about the history of the nicknames and mascots of college teams across the country. It was written back in 1993 and we've decided to do a second edition. There is a lot of updating to do and I have to get permissions from Sports Information Directors to use logos and such (which will be a pretty big task!), but it will be really fun to get done and I think it will sell pretty well! (So, if any of you need to know why Texas' live mascot is named Bevo, just let me know!! lol)

(4) Because I am a total geek (or a Would-Be Drama Queen; not sure which one!), I CANNOT WAIT to see the premiere of "High School Musical 2" this Friday night on Disney Channel. I loved the first one as much as my girls and know pretty much all the songs, so we're (I'm!!) excited about the sequel!

(5) I think I already revealed that I'm a sports fanatic (just a TINY bit!! lol), and it's not just about college football and my beloved Crimson Tide! I'm also a huge Atlanta Braves baseball fan and Delaney and I watch every game that comes on television. We love this time of year because the pennant race is in full swing! I also love to watch tennis, ice skating, basketball (March Madness is great!!), and don't even get me started on the Olympics. I am the idiot you can hear yelling very loudly for such sports as water polo and luge! LOL The only two sports I don't really like are Nascar (I know, I know...I live in the South, so I'm supposed to be a huge Nascar nut but I just can't consider that a sport!) and Hockey (sorry, Jeff! I'm totally blaming this on my geography; if I had been raised up North, I'm sure I'd be a hockey freak!)

(6) Remember when I told you about us getting my niece Lori 16 different little gifts for her 16th birthday? (We got her earrings, necklaces, nail polish, journals, stuff like that.). Well, it gave me serious flashbacks because I had moved to Alabama from Arkansas when I was 15 and was still making friends; my two best friends from Arkansas sent me a big box full of 16 separate gifts when I turned 16 and it just made my day! In fact, I still have one of the gifts--a stuffed frog named Fleegle--sitting on my bedroom dresser! AND...I'm lucky enough to still keep in touch with my two friends even though I had lost track with them for many years. My friend Margie lives in Nebraska and just got remarried; I so wanted to go to the wedding, but it was in the middle of our World Series trip to the beach, but I would love to see her someday soon. And my other friend, Debby, lives in Texas and is currently battling cervical cancer so I keep in touch with her pretty regularly to see how she's doing. Pretty cool--to have such great memories of friends and still know them more than 25 years later!

(7) If I could be anything (you know, have one of those DREAM jobs), I would have to pick one of these two--Either to be a sports broadcaster for a major network (I can totally see myself working the sidelines at college football games!) or to be a star for the Food Network or Travel Channel. I can only imagine how awesome it would be to travel around the States and the world simply to EAT!!

(8) You call have seen my girls and you know how slim and petite they all are. Well, they didn't start out that way! I had HUGE babies. My smallest was Delaney at 8 pounds, 14 ounces. McKenna was 8 pounds, 15 ounces; and Sydney was 9 pounds, 9 ounces. I gained 5o pounds with each of them and kinda took advantage of the "eating for two" idea. I also just think that God knew I was scared of tiny babies. I couldn't imagine holding a little 6 or 7 pound baby, so instead He gave me full-sized ones!

Okay..there you have it and you know what to do next!!

Your challenge--should you accept it!!!--is to post 8 random facts about yourself either here in my comments section or on your own blog (and tell us you're posting it so we can all go read it!). If you don't have that much energy, give us all at least ONE new fact about yourself!

And now I'm off to get busy with my Tuesday!! Can't wait to hear from you all!!