Fun Family Photo of the Week

Ahhh, family. Nothing like my family, especially nieces and nephews who love to have their picture taken!! I think I will start posting random family photos each week. Kind of like Randy's version of "80's Amy Picture Night"...but in cyberspace for all to see.


So, without further ado...the first random family photo is....drum roll......

ALLI WITH THE NAKED COWBOY! From June 2oo6, Times Square.

If I remember correctly, this was taken the day before we left NYC to come back to Memphis. This is probably one of my favorite pictures from that vacation, just because of the sheer glee (and surprise) on Alli's face. I don't think she expected him to grab her bootie quite like that! For those of you who may not recognize her photo partner, that is non other than the Naked Cowboy (if you couldn't read the writing on his tighty whities...and I know some of you were looking!), who has been a Times Square fixture for several years now. He literally stands in the middle of the median on Broadway, and women shove money at him to have their bootie grabbed- er - their picture taken with him. What a gig.

And, as an added bonus since this is just the beginning of much fabulous family photo fun, one more picture of Alli, from the same vacation, but with a different photo partner....

what is up with me and this new infatuation for all things birdy?

Ok. What the heck? When did I suddenly decide that I must have anything with a bird on it? I'm not a bird watcher, and I don't ever want a pet bird. But for some reason, all of my decorating strategies (whether the house or my blog or stuff I painted at Seize the Clay) now revolve around creatures of the feathered kind. So that is what I would like to know today. (I think I did warn everyone that this blog would be really random, right??)

New name!

I decided a new blog name was in order. I still love the Cubs, I still adore my cat Cubbie, and I'll be a Harry Potter fan for life, but....sometimes it was just too difficult to explain "CubbiePotter". Or maybe painful - after all, does everyone REALLY have to know what a nerd I am? In any case, after much thought and deliberation and begging of friends and family for suggestions (and Courtney S. takes the cake for some truly original ones), I came up with this one all on my own! Driving home from work today, I kept trying to brainstorm up a name. Here's something you may or may not know about me...as much as I want to think I am a creative soul....I STINK at brainstorming. Never could do it. My brain simply does not react to command performances of a creative nature. Anyway, miraculously, I had the thought of using something I often say for the blog name. After some trial and error (and gnashing of teeth - this was ALSO the first one that was available on blogspot),we have www.whatidliketoknow.blogspot.com!

So this is it! I promise to TRY to post more often,because I'm sure none of you get enough of my randomness and nerdiness and gooberness (not sure those last two are actually words) in your everyday dealings with me! :)