Rock of Love

Bret Michaels will be performing at the Iowa State Fair this year. I admit it, I'm addicted to Rock of Love on VH1. I secretly wish I was 21 again, had a fake tan/boobs/lips/hair, and was aboard the Rock of Love bus with Bret Michaels. Snap... back to reality. I guess I'll have to settle for seeing Bret at the Iowa State fair, in 97 degree weather, standing in a field, corndog in hand, with my husband.

See the resemblance?

Mike........ Will Ferrell......... Leprechaun....... See the resemblance?

I decided to change the web address of my blog. I didn't like the fact that any random person could Google my name and find my blog. Now it's more secretive... hee hee. I thought long and hard about my new name. I think this is perfect. Mike said my blog name should be "I sleep til noon." Whatever! Doesn't he see this is posted at ?

This picture of Mike is from St. Patrick's Day a few years ago. Yes, that is a perm you see. He grew out his hair for months and permed it the night before St. Paddy's... and shaved it off the day after. This picture is famous. My sister made buttons out of it that we wore at my bachelorette party. Last summer for one of Mike's triathlons, Mike's friend made t-shirts with this picture on it. The shirt said, "My Hero." It's hilarious.
This year for St. Patrick's Day we are going to Kansas City where Mike's brother lives. They have a big celebration. Mike says that someone gets shot at the parade every year. We'll see. I bought green tights with shamrocks on them. It's fun pretending to be Irish.

Sticker madness

A pet peeve that my husband and I share: registration stickers on license plates. Apparently everyone does not know that you are supposed to put this year's sticker on top of last year's sticker. This license plate comes from one of the fine folks in Polk County (Des Moines). Exhibit A:
Or there is this one... He tried so hard to put the tan sticker perfectly over last year's orange sticker but fell short. Come on now, really? Is it that hard to line up the edges of a square? Exhibit B:

The only logical explanation to the sticker madness is that people are proud of how many years they own their car. But why? Look Pa! I have ten different colored stickers all over my license plate! Whoopee... you're driving a 1990's Buick, big deal.

New blog address

I will be changing the web address of my blog (i.e. www.beckamcginn.blogspot.com) to something different. Please leave me a comment or email me so I can tell you the new site name. Thanks!

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Our first date... March 8, 2002. Yes, seven years ago today. I still remember what I wore on our first date (joked that I looked like a Target employee because I wore khaki pants and a red shirt). We were so young! I was just 19 and Mike was 21. I went out and got my nose pierced an hour before Mike picked me up for dinner - seemed like a good idea at the time? I remember not bringing a purse but tucking my debit card in my back pocket in case this guy turned out to be a dud and made me pay for dinner (he didn't). I ordered cheese ravioli. Mike tried to nicely dump me a year later when he wanted to move to Spain and work for the US Embassy (he denies this dump-attempt... anyways, I didn't let him). Here we are... seven years later... married... house... dog... Life is good!

*This is one of our engagement pictures from Target (we also got engagement pictures taken at JCPenny's - why, you ask? I'll save that story for another blog). Mike begged me not to kick my leg up like that. The picture reminds me of something from a high school dance.

I'm baaack!

Hello friends. I'm back after a month of not blogging. I couldn't find the USB cord to get the pictures from my camera onto my computer. I have found it, and I have lots of blogs to write.

Valentine's Day was lovely. Mike sent me tulips (my favorite flower) and this huge balloon to my work:
After I got off work, we went out for supper at Gino's - the best Italian restaurant in Des Moines. They were not taking reservations so we had to wait a while to be seated... but the yummy food was worth the wait!

Here's my boys relaxing on the couch:
More blogs to follow...

Not much new here

Not much new here in the McGinn household. Mike is taking a weekend class for his MBA so that keeps him busy. I like to work when he's at school on the weekend so he doesn't feel like he is missing out on anything. Mike is training for his IronMan, which is in September. Once he sets his mind to something... he follows through. I love that about him.

I have been working a lot, as usual. Days, evenings, nights. I do it all. I prefer evenings because it's more fun and less drama (from staff, not patients). I am going to start going to the YMCA again tomorrow. Exercising helps my mood and I feel so great after I work out. Getting there is the problem... it's so easy just to crawl back into bed. I went to Babies R Us last weekend to get a gift for a friend - Boy do I need a baby! So many cute things these days. I think Mike was scared to death by all the screaming babies and running toddlers. Maybe next year we'll add another to the family...

Darrell is still Darrell. Cute and funny. Loveable and snuggly. I don't know what I did before Darrell. I would bring him everywhere I go if I could. He is disturbed by the raccoon mating that is going on at night in our front yard. Yes, I said mating. (Mike saw two coons doing it the other night). It sounds like a screaming two year old. Gross.

My rock star Mom came through and found me the mellowcremes I was lusting for. She sent me a huge bag of them in the mail. Thanks Momma! Love you!

Check out a picture of my guys at Christmas: