Swine. Flu.

If I hear these words one more time in the next 15 minutes, I WILL scream!!!!

I'm sure its serious, but OMG the media latches on to something and does not let go.

Since I have no memory, and this IS my blog, I like to use it to remember things I would otherwise forget within moments of it happening.

Like conversations I have with my kids.

OMG.

Some of them are hillarious.

Like the time I overheard Dominic & Doug talking about school cafeteria food (specifically, meatloaf). I had to go write it down verbatim so I wouldn't forget the details. To this day, that conversation ranks at the top of my "Best Conversations of ALL TIME" lists. Too. Funny.

Anyways...I digress.

Sunday morning I met up with Dominic for breakfast.

He recently went and had a "Prospective Student" visit with the college he is interested in attending.

He was telling me all about it and the things he did while he was there.

But a few of the "Bullet Points" for that conversation are these:

- EVERYONE in college is "bi".

- Because of the above, he thinks while attending college, you should be given a colored wristband so that you know who you can safely "flirt with" so as not to get yourself into a "awkward" situation, or offend someone.

- EVERYONE has facial hair. So he was contemplating how he would work this. He doesn't like sideburns, and he's not really feeling the "billy goat goatee". One of the guys that had one, was eating soup, and apparantly not all the soup ended up in his mouth. The goatee worked as kind of a catch all for his meals. So he's still trying to figure out how to work this in. Any ideas?

- EVERYONE is a protester.

All in all, it sounds like he had a good time. He is looking VERY forward to starting this next chapter of his life.

It should make for some VERY good conversations.

Hiking

I have lived in Arizona for going on 40 years (yikes!!!!) and this weekend was the FIRST TIME that I have ever been to the Superstition Mountains.

Isn't that crazy?

Especially since we live 10 minutes away and we have driven by them hundreds of times going to the lake. Anyways....

It was a memorial hike for brothers that went to Emmy's school that were killed by a drunk driver recently. The family was coming home from the boys Little League game, two teenagers in another car were drunk and ran a stop sign. The whole situation is very sad.

Back to the hike -

I thought I was in pretty good shape...

Well, I would be WRONG.

It was about 5 miles, and it kicked my butt, or maybe it was the HORRIBLE allergies I had all weekend. But between the two, I was pretty much out of commission by Saturday night.

The hike was fun, and the view was pretty. We could see downtown Phoenix from the top, and it's at least 40 miles away. I thought that was cool.

Dog & Beth

Yeah, we are on a first name basis around here.

Let me back up a bit-

A few weeks ago, we were out somewhere (can't remember where) and we came across a lady who looked IDENTICAL to Beth (she was even scarfing/slurping up NACHOS), she's Dog the Bounty Hunter's wife.

I made this observation out loud to the girls, who gave me a completely blank look.

"Who's Beth?" they asked.

So me OBVIOUSLY having dropped my mothering/mentoring somewhere along the way, took the opportunity to school them in all things Dog.

They were STILL not impressed or intrigued to find out more.

UNTIL....

a few days later, I was looking for something to watch on a late Saturday afternoon, and its like the TV Universe had heard my pleas for help.

There was a Dog the Bounty Hunter MARATHON!!!!!!!

Holy. Crappola.

I called to the girls to "come quick" so I could show them who I had been talking about.

They could not look away.

Bill was gone for the weekend, so we all parked ourselves on the couch and watched the whole thing.

Hours and hours of Dog and his clan.

Awesomeness.

So when I hopped on over to AZCentral this morning, and saw this, I had to stop and have a moment of silence for him.

Please Dog...be safe.