My website is moving from a wordpress.com site to a self-hosted site. I am very excited about this change! This has been more complicated than I thought it would be. Picking a webhost just might be harder than picking out new paint or furniture! Anyway, the only reason I am telling you this is because I will not be able to write again on here until the transfer is complete in 24-72 hours. (That’s a LONG labor!) Hopefully I will be up in time to do my give away tomorrow! If not, I will be back as soon as possible!
For now, ponder calming effect of the feature image … Don’t you want to just go to Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center with a picnic basket and a good book or two? I do. But as my kids are about to wake up, I am thinking this will not be happening!
Since all of this computer stuff has stressed me out a bit. I was definitely in need of a laugh. Someone posted this on the internet from an e-mail that was circulating awhile ago. Normally I would just link you to the page, but I am not sure that I trust that site. So, instead I am going to copy and paste. Hope you enjoy the list! And that you enjoy that I am moving to my own site.
YOU MIGHT BE FROM NEBRASKA IF …
1) You’ve never met any celebrities.
2) Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.
3) “Vacation” means driving to the Henry Doorly Zoo or going to the State Fair.
4) You’ve seen all the biggest bands ten years after they were popular.
5) You measure distance in minutes.
6) Down south to you means Kansas.
7) You know several people who have hit a deer.
8) You have no problem spelling or pronouncing “Kearney” and “Beatrice”.
9) You know the answer to the question, “Is this Heaven?”
10) Your school classes were canceled because of cold.
11) Your school classes were canceled because of heat.
12) You know what Huskers are.
13) You’ve ridden the school bus for an hour each way.
14) You’ve ever had to switch from “heat” to “A/C” in the same day.
15) You think ethanol makes your truck “run a lot better.”
16) You know what “knee-high by the Fourth of July” refers too.
17) Stores don’t have bags, they have sacks.
18) You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it no matter what time of the year.
19) You end your sentences with an unnecessary preposition. Example: “Where’s my coat at?” or “If you go to the mall I wanna go with.”
20) You can locate Nebraska on the United States map.
21) Detassling was your first job.
22) Your idea of a really great Burger is when the meat is twice as big as the bun and accompanied only by ketchup and a dill pickle slice.
23) You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
24) You think of the major four food groups as beef, pork, casserole, and Jell-O salad with marshmallows.
25) When asked how your trip was to any foreign, exotic place, you say, “It was different.”
26) You carry jumper cables in your car.
27) You drink “pop.”
28) You know what the numbers I-80, 275 and 2 mean.
29) You know what “cow tipping” is.
30) You know what a “Runza” is.
Aw, man. Although some of those make us sound a bit backwards, we were hit by a deer (really, it hit us), and my husband detassled. 😉
When our oldest was three months old, we hit a deer on the interstate. Now that was scary!
Although I’m from Iowa, I can cop to most of the list, but I walked beans instead of detassling! 🙂
Gotta love the Midwest !
I love this post. Except there are some bands I saw before they were popular. The Plain White T’s for example. 🙂
I am not familiar with this group. Obviously I am a Nebraskan !
I grew up in Central Illinois, but some of these relate to me too (and some I totally don’t get). I grew up drinking pop, but usually drink “soda” now due to all the stares I get when saying “pop.” Detasseling was definitely a popular first job, although my mom wouldn’t let me do it (she grew up on a farm and knew how awful it was). Hilariously, my husband is always giving me a hard time about all the casseroles and jello we eat when we visit my family.
And like Risa said above, I actually saw some bands before they “made it.” Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood were both at our County Fair years before playing the big venues.
I still cannot say “soda,” and when I do, my kids cannot figure out what I am talking about. I would have enjoyed seeing Garth & Trisha – saw him on a live tv show, and he definitely is a fine entertainer!