Ethan colored his hair in rainbow colors and mine is chocolate brown (below).  Both of us look kind of cool.  

Its the new Doctor with rainbow colored hair

Mine is chocolate brown.  I love it!

Swirl! He is our naughty cat. We got him a few months after our wedding (8 years ago). We aren’t really sure where he came from. Byron rescued him from Eric’s mom’s car when he was a very young kitten. Judy could tell you the whole story. Juanita, our niece, took very good care of him for the month before we got him. He made an amazing journey to join our family. He went on a long car ride from Rapid City, SD to Huron, SD (for the SD State Cross Country Meet) where he was picked up by DJ. I think he spent the night at Dan and Libby's in Mitchell, SD before going to Mankato where we picked him up. What an adventure for a little kitten.

He is a weird cat. He is a very long lanky cat with beautiful swirls on his sides (hence the name). Actually I credit Carrie with the name because she told me that he had swirls like a cinnamon roll. 

He loves me, tolerates Eric and despises everybody else, especially Greg and pizza delivery guys…he growls like a dog at them. He enjoys sitting in the window mimicking the birds that eat at our bird feeder. Strangely, he is afraid of birds and being outside in general. 

Besides his regular diet, he loves peas, string cheese and turkey sandwich meat. He will only drink water if it is flowing like a waterfall. If we shut off his water fountain he won’t drink. 

He has many other odd characteristics.

Ugh, Disney.  I’m not a huge fan of Disney. Eric told me to pick Grumpy since it matches my mood. Thanks Honey! I think Goofy is a good representation of me.  He is normally characterized as extremely clumsy (which I am…just ask my volleyball team or former Clippers coworkers (Sandy Flash Filla)) and having little intelligence, yet this interpretation isn't always definitive; occasionally Goofy is shown as intuitive and clever, albeit in his own unique, eccentric way.  I think that fits me to a T.

I have many favorite movies. It seems like most of them star Judi Dench or Colin Firth.  I love both of them. I have some old-time favorites like Animal House, Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Caddyshack.  But my most favorite movie that I could watch over and over again and it actually made me consider being a truck driver as a child is Smokey and the Bandit.  It is silly I know but that is it. I love the movie’s song Eastbound and Down by Jerry Reed. It is the first song I listen to when I go running (followed by Convoy another great trucker song).   Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, a Trans Am, an adorable basset hound and a big rig full of bootleg brew.  What is there not to like?