Super Hero powers

Your Superpower Should Be Mind Reading

You are brilliant, insightful, and intuitive. You understand people better than they would like to be understood. Highly sensitive, you are good at putting together seemingly irrelevant details. You figure out what's going on before anyone knows that anything is going on! Why you would be a good superhero: You don't care what people think, and you'd do whatever needed to be done Your biggest problem as a superhero: Feeling even more isolated than you do now

What Should Your Superpower Be?

Rain...Lots o Rain

It has pretty much been raining here non-stop. Dramatic thunder and lightening showers and quick steady afternoon showers. However it comes, it has just been raining a lot. I get excited when I see a peek of sun; only to have a giant grey cloud cover it up an hour later. With the rain, comes a refreshing cool that is highly unusual for a South Texas July, so in that sense its awesome.

fun quiz

You Belong in Barcelona

When it comes to Europe, you don't want to decide between culture and fun. You want art by day and a big party by night. Barcelona is ideal for you. You can check out some Picasso, eat some tapas, take a siesta, and then dance all night!

What European City Do You Belong In?

I really did love Barcelona!

We found a house!

We officially own a house now. It is in Oxbow. The same neighborhood as my Aunt and Grandma. Grandma has recruited me for the Neighborhood Association. I guess it is kinda small and they are looking for people so I would not mind volunteering. It could be cool and you get to see the issues going on like rezoning, graffiti, and possible flood planes. Anyway, it sounds cool. So we will probably not really move in until after my brother's wedding in August. Sam and I sometimes go over there and just stand in it because we are so excited. It has 3 bedrooms, a two car garage and a fireplace. I will send pictures as soon as I upload them.

Travels and Adventures

So mom and Dad are in Africa. They got there minus the bags. Mom is actually going to a conference and Dad is coming..well...because Mom's conference is in Africa. Need I say more? I always wanted to go to Africa. I will go one day. I don't know when, but one day.

Sam and I are once again looking for houses. We are waiting to see if they will accept our offer. So this could be our house:


http://homes.realtor.com/search/listingdetail.aspx?zp=78249&ml=3&mnp=16&mxp=17&bd=4&bth=4&typ=1&sid=
11b74710d5b1491092c31e025ca40f4b&lid=1084133479&
lsn=3&srcnt=18#Photo

I know you should not fall in love with houses because this whole house buying business is fickle, as Sam and I have experienced first hand. I am emotional and I can't help it. I love this house! Ahhhh. so hopefully we can get it.

Showers

Well my brother is getting married and this weekend we are having a shower for he and his wife to be. It is going to be at Dave and Busters and should be really fun. I am excited for Steve and Claire and thier adventures together. I really like Claire.
The shower is a moment to be with the siblings again this month! We were together a couple of weekends ago for our cousin's high school graduation. I love it when we are all together and can hang out. Of course, when we all leave to go our sepereate ways, I really miss them. I don't think I realized how much I would miss my siblings until we all starting living in different cities. However, I am glad that we all make time to see each other regularly.

New Job

So May 7, I start a new job in Academic Advising. Specifically, I will be advising Freshmen. I am excited to embark on this new adventure. I also found out I know a lot of people that work in the office through various endeavors in my life. Of course, I will miss my students in Student Activities. I really enjoy interacting with them and watching them grow into wonderful human beings. I have been there for essentially seven years in the same position, so I have a lot of memories in that place.

Book Club

Just wanted to share that I joined a book club recently and it completly rocks. I had wanted to be part of one for a while, but just had not found one that worked until now. I have met new, interesting, intellegent people that I really enjoy hanging out with. It is just refreshing to meet new and interesteing people. I am glad I found them.
Today we talked about Wicked. Kelly made a gingerbread house with the Wicked Witch of the East's feet underneath it. It rocked.

Scrapbook Design Team

Evidently, scrapbook stores and scrapbook clubs have design team members that rotate. You send in pages or altered items for people to see and be inspired from, write articles for newsletters, give advice to other scrappers, create scrapbook challenges, etc. Anyway, I belong to the Kit n Kaboodles Scrapbook Club and decided to apply to be on their design team. I should know by next week.

http://www.knkclub.com/

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Cutest Kid ever!

Today was the Kickoff for Latino Heritage month. A Folklorico group came out. Before they started dancing, their was this little guy dancing to the rhythm on the stage.
So cute!

WTF

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,20349534-952,00.htmlhttp://beta.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifIrwin


THE Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, is dead. He was killed in a freak accident in Cairns, police sources said. It appeared that he was killed by a sting-ray barb that went through his chest, Queensland Police Inspector Russell Rhodes said.

Reflect on this....

Driving by St.George Maronite Catholic Church, thier church kiosk that you can see from the road read:

" Do the math, count your blessings"

Scrapbook Convention

Well Saturday Sara and I jetted downtown to the Great American Scrapbook Convention at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. There was booth after booth of merchandise and yes Sara and I brought home stuff. To get on the show floor was $7. The workshops you paid for individually. They went into depth about various techniques. You could also go to crops in the evening until midnight. Sara and I just walked around the show room floor. Just for going to the convention we got a free scrapbook magazine subscription. We also discovered a new scrapbook place in San Antonio we had not gone to by the airport. I got a supply tote and Sara bought a wheel tote like the one I got for Christmas. It was actually a folded cart, so it can be used for more than just scrapbook. I found two vendors I really liked Rusy Pickle
and My Mind's Eye. Rusty pickle was run by all guys so I don't what the means but it was refreshing. That right guys you can scrap, too. I also got a pink shirt that says "Live. Love.Scrap" on the front. I think that pretty much sums it up. I got this awesome circus paper from Rustry Pickle. (Steve all I am saying is buttons!) Overall, the day rocked.

Interesting note: There were two other conventions going on in the generally vicinity of the scrapping area. They were the Towing Convention, as in tow trucks and then the Entreprenial Bootcamp for Christian Families. Yea the people watching alone for those two groups was priceless. The fact that they had to mix and mingle to get to thier rooms was classic. You couldn't have two more different groups.

www.greatamericanscrapbook.com
www.homepage.mac.com/rustypickle/
www.mymindseye.com/

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Oaxaca

So the family just got back from Oaxaca, Mexico. It was awesome! The whole family went: Mom, Dad, Steve, Von, Neal, Aunt Neat, Grandma, Uncle Robert, Aunt Debbie, Sam and I.
Oaxaca was beautiful the climate was temperate, so not too hot or cold. It rained some, but it was more like showers.
We saw ruins and we got to go to different villages. Each village had its own craft that the whole done more or less was skilled in. The techniques have been handed down through generations. Each place was new and intersting and beautiful. It just made me think what am I creating in my life? How can I see my world more creatively?
The place we stayed was Villa Maria. Maria was awesome and helpful and everyone there was so nice. In fact, everyone in Oaxaca is nice and happy it just gave me a good vibe.
Oaxaca is made up of different indigenous groups each with there own cultures and ways of living. I loved learning about Mitla and Monte Alban and the socities that once lived there.
I pretty much immediately fell in love with Oaxaca City and I know I will be back.
More picture at lifewiththeslocums.shutterfly.com

small world

So a while back my Dad told me this story about how he was walking in the neighborhood and ran into a guy who had moved back to Tnaglewood. Evidently he grew up in Tanglewood as a kid and then moved back as an adult. He moved in across the street from Natalie Lund's house. Anyway, the other day I went to the alumni association to pledge my money for lifetime membership and Jeanne at the front was the one that sold the house to the guy that grew up in Tanglewood. It turns out her family lived there for 27 years so I grew up just down the street from thier house. Crazy we were on the same street most of our lives.

Kinetic Sculptrue

My brother sent me this. Another cool link:

http://www.vectorpark.com/levers.html

birthdays and anniversaries

Well this weekend we all went to Olive Garden to eat dinner. We were celebrating that grandma is 80 years old and that mom and dad have been married for 39 years.

website

Well this is cool:

http://interact10ways.com/usa/information_interactive.htm