I am out of things - google trends

I was looking at the hot trends for internet searches today and I don't know what any of it is!  Here they are:

• Stephen Green (who?)
• Reggie Bush (who?)
• Kellen Moore (who?)
• Google dots (what?)
• Charley Hoffman (who?)
• Google Balls (what?)
• Erin Gray (who?)

Am I out of the loop or what?  I don't know who or what any of this is! 

Maybe now that the kids are back in school, I'll have more time to actually read some online papers instead of separating fighting kids, chauffeuring kids around, and trying to veg out in front of facebook to give my brain some time to not have to think about anything.

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Monogrammed Baby Gifts on Sale at Baby Stuff Gifts

Baby Stuff Gifts is having a really great sale right now.  If you order now through September 15, 2010, you can get 15% off your entire order!  That's a really good discount for personalized baby gifts.  I love the monogrammed baby gifts, like the monogrammed receiving blankets.  The little monogrammed hooded towel for after baby's bath would look so cute too!

I just love babies - baby smell (well, the good after bath smell, not the dirty diaper smell), cuddling the little babies, watching their little fingers curl around your own, the tiny clothes and gifts.  I LOVE babies.  I was just telling my husband this past week that I needed to hold a newborn baby again.  He about freaked out because he thought I meant I wanted another baby.  I had to carefully explain to my almost 45-year-old husband of six kids that I meant I needed to hold someone ELSE's newborn baby for a little while to get the baby fix in and then give him or her back.  Geez!  Almost gave my old man a heart attack. 

Though when I start shopping for other people's babies, and seeing all the tiny clothes and personalized toys, the baby urge hits.  It goes away...but then it comes back.  It always comes back.

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Might Be Relocating

We are thinking about relocating to another state from where we live now, back to our home state.  We are in the process of job hunting and finding a house to lease.  You'd think finding a four bedroom plus house, in the country, that allows horses and dogs would be easy, right?  It's not like I'm asking for gourmet kitchens (wouldn't know what to do with one anyway), hot tubs (somebody would have to show me how to even open hot tub covers), and pools.  Kidding.

Well, not kidding about what we need, just that it would be easy.

If my husband finds a job, everything will move very fast from that point on in terms of needing a house, changing schools, etc.  Should be interesting.

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Nurse? Vet? Auto-Mechanic? What to be when she grows up.

My 8th grade daughter has to write a paper on what she wants to be when she grows up.  Are they already supposed to have it narrowed down by now?  Right now, she either wants to be a vet, a nurse, or an auto mechanic.  My husband is trying to talk her out of the auto mechanic but I told him to leave her alone.  One, because all of these will likely change in the next four years, and 2) if it's something she really wants to do, I'd rather she be doing what she wants to do, rather than what she doesn't want to do for the rest of her life, even if she ends up with permanently dirty fingernails.

My personal hope is that she'll go to nursing school.  She can become a RN in a couple years and have a career.  From that point, she'll be able to go to school for whatever if she wants to change career paths throughout her life while still making a good income from nursing.  I think it'll give her more options and security since there will always be a need for health care jobs.  I didn't tell her that though.  It's her choice.

Hubby wants her to try out for an orchestra.  Yes, she has natural musical talent.  HOWEVER, she doesn't LOVE to play her flute.  If it is going to be a career, I want her to love it.  Dad lost his own chance at a musical career when he got in trouble with the law his last year of high school and lost his scholarships to a great music school.  He's not allowed to push his dreams on the kids because he messed up.

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