TWIT Notes (This Week In Tennessee)

Not one of my better titles, I know, but I'm lacking a certain creativity at the moment, so you'll have to forgive me. So let's see, what has happened this past week or so here in Tennessee?

We had our first celebrity sighting the other night when we went to Macaroni Grill for our anniversary dinner (for those of you who sent us cards, phone calls, etc., thanks!). Actually, I'm not sure you'd really consider him a celebrity, considering I don't know if he's going to release an album or not. Anyway, Chris Sligh was there. For those of you who don't know who he is, he was one of the finalists on last season's American Idol. We liked him, but he was around longer than I think he should have been. Anyway, that was our run-in with pseudo-celebrity this week. One of my student's father is Toby Mac's keyboardist, and I've met him a couple of times...does that count?

Our Wii was delivered last week, and I can comfortably say that we are completely addicted to it, Lisa moreso than I, I think. The Sports game wasn't working properly when we got it, so I had to call Nintendo and have them send us a new one, which we haven't yet received. But our favorite game is currently Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree. It's an awesome game that helps you with memory and other brain-related activities. It's highly addictive, as evidenced by our recent late bedtime. Hey, I figure there are worse things to which one can be addicted, right?

The weather has been nuts here. One day, it's 45 degrees, the next 65, the next 50, and now on Sunday it's supposed to be 72! I don't miss the snowfall those of you in Michigan are getting, but I miss the consistent weather. Hopefully it'll get cold and just stay there soon!

I can't blog today and not mention the huge baseball news that took place today, news about which I'm extremely excited! The Tigers traded six prospects (including Cameron Maybin and Andrew Miller) to the Florida Marlins for Dontrelle Willis and Miguel Cabrera. I think Major League Baseball can go ahead and print those World Series tickets right now, baby! I'm going to try to talk Lisa into going to Florida for Spring Break and perhaps catching some Tigers games in Lakeland.

No new news on the house-hunting front. We're shopping for a realtor now, and have a few houses in mind that we really like. We'll keep you all updated on that.

Right now I'm totally procrastinating on getting the work done that I need to get done for my third and final classroom observation on Friday. Now that I've actually written those words of admittance, I think it's time I get back to doing it. Love you all!