Shout out from Amsterdam!

Hi!  I’m Bethany and I’m guest blogging today, from beautiful Amsterdam.  Unfortunately, not Amsterdam Holland, but Amsterdam, New York…but it’s a beautiful and sunny day, so although there’s no legal marijuana here, it’s pretty okay.

Anyway, I managed to snag a guest-blog slot today because Andromeda and I are both members at Offrsprung.  In any event, although I rarely have anything of value to say, she was looking for guest bloggers, and I volunteered, and even after checking out my blog ( http://betsyboothhill.blogspot.com ) she agreed to let me do it.  I have to say that Wordpress has a WAY better blogging format; I would not have had any idea how to hyperlink my blog, but Wordpress did it automatically!

Hmmm.  I’ve never guest blogged before, and really don’t know where to begin.

My husband and I received an awesome package from China yesterday:

Olympic gear

(also have to quickly comment that Wordpress uploads pictures WAY better than blogger)  Anyway, back to the blog…our college friend Bill works for Yahoo.  His job title is actually “Senior Yahoo” or something very similar and every bit as cool as that.  Anyway, he was recently in Beijing, and sent us some goodies, hats, magnets and pins.  The pins are track and field events, shotput and discus (which my hubby used to throw in college) as well as soccer (which I played in college).  It’s an all around cool gift, although I have to confess that I’ve seen only about 4 minutes of actual olympic events so far!

The one thing I noticed about Andromeda’s blog is that she likes to use a lot of pictures, so I will add a few of my own.

Evil 3d baby

This is my baby.  He’s almost 23 weeks old.  I don’t really know the gender because he wouldn’t cooperate at the 20 week ultrasound, but I’ve decided its a boy.  You may have heard of his dad, Lon Cheney.  We decided that it would be fun to have little dracula babies.  As you can see, even in the womb my baby is fightin’ fierce with his fists clenched and his cool hairline!  Can’t wait to meet this little cutie, due the first week of December.

I can’t guess whether there will be any readers who are fans, but if so: note the 86 jersey–Booker.  It’s actually a funny story how I ended up with it.  Hubby and I met in college (University of Chicago), dated in college, went our separate ways after college.  Always stayed in touch, close, etc.  Fast forward 7 years, he’s in Michigan and I’m in NY.  He comes to visit.  Sparks fly.  Commence long distance relationship.  At that point, he’s a detective with the Grand Rapids PD.  He has a cool schedule with lots of Fridays off, so does the Michigan to NY drive via Canada pretty regularly.  Football season ‘03 begins, and I decide I need to get a Bears jersey for his trip so I can surprise him by putting it on before we are going to watch the game.  So, I go online, knowing nothing about the Bears or who is actually on the team, and am so psyched to find a jersey for only $19.99!  What a freakin’ deal, especially when all the rest of them were like $50!  So, I order number 86, some guy named Booker.  Hubby (except that he wasn’t hubby yet, or even fiance) comes to town, and on Sunday, I shower and put on my 86 jersey.  I walk downstairs to join him to watch the game, and he says, “Nice jersey Doll.  Booker got traded to the Dolphins last year.”  Clearly, that was the reason for the bargain price.  In any event, five seasons later its still my favorite jersey, and it was the only 86 I saw at Soldier Field when we went in ‘06.  Flash forward to this season: Dolphins traded Booker back to the Bears, and he’s got his old number, so my jersey is again current!

Anyway readers, I’m sure you’ve heard enough from me!  Feel free to check out my blog if you like.

Andromeda, hope you are enjoying Canada!

I’m out.