What I Like About Nebraska

Welcome to North Central Nebraska...

And the Sandhills of Nebraska.

True to it's name, there are a lot of hills...

But, otherwise, it's pretty quiet.

Some might say desolate.

Most of the time, you don't see a soul out here.

Well, except for her.

And them.

And them.

Favorite!

New favorite show: Rizzoli and Isles on TNT.

I love it for these reasons:

• I want Angie Harmon's (Rizzoli) voice. If I had that, I wouldn't need to be skinny because I'd be freakin' irresistable.
• Isles is played by Kate from NCIS. YAY! I love her.
• Rizzoli's ringtones are hilarious.

And, finally, for this:

Isles:  "I'm not seeing him."
Rizzoli:  "Yet."
Isles:  "Well, don't you think someone should be?"
Rizzoli:  "Yep."
Isles:  "You think we should draw straws?"
Rizzoli:  "Can't we just show him our tits and let him choose?"

Shocking even for a cable station like TNT? Yes. Hilarious? Yes.

The End.

Rachel and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week.

I had every intention of posting my Fourth of July pictures early last week. That was until it became a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week.

Well, maybe I'm being a little dramatic. But still, my week was no fun. No fun at all.

1. David and I got home pretty late Monday after dropping Tracie and Neil off at their place in Des Moines. It had already been a long weekend and that made it longer. That last hour before we got into Lincoln was torture. Pure torture.
2. I woke up sick Tuesday. All plugged up and scratchy. Fun. I stayed that way for the rest of the week.
3. I got sunburned over the long, holiday weekend.
4. My head - where I part my hair - got sunburned, too. It started peeling in the middle of the week and it made me look like I had some nasty dandruff. Ugh.
5. Work came through the door faster than I could finish it. I still have 5,758,392 press releases to write.
6. David left on another work trip Sunday morning.
7. Please see no. 6.
8. I had a doctor's appointment Saturday. I would rather do almost anything than go to the doctor.
9. The apartment was a disaster for most of the week because I was too tired and sick to clean it up.
10. After a nearly two-year hiatus, I had to put up a rack load of hay because we thought it was going to rain. I'm not really sure if it ended up raining or not - the sweat running down my face made it hard to tell the difference.  
11. Fireworks sucked.
12. So did the mosquitoes.

In all seriousness, though, there were some high points.

1. Family. I got to see a lot of them.
2. The 4-H Horse Show was going on while I was home and it was way fun to catch up with so many people I hadn't seen in a long time.
3. I got 3rd in the alumni class at the horse show.
4. My endocrinologist told me I kicked my diabetes' ass because my A1C went down again. Because I'm awesome.
5. I love my husband.

So, anyway. That's the scoop. And, here's the photographic evidence:

Geez, Creepy McCreeperton...

I cannot wait to have children with this man.